- Leo Rosten - author
- Steven Seagal - American action movie actor, producer, writer, director and singer
- Harrison Ford - Academy Award-nominated American actor
- Walter Koenig - American actor, writer, teacher and director (Star Trek)
- Jamie Lee Curtis - Golden Globe-winning American film actress, successful writer of books for children
- Natalie Portman - Actress from Israel
- Aaron Klug - chemist, Nobel Prize (1982)
- Isaac Mizrahi - fashion designer
- Richard Feynman - physicist, text book writer
- Leonard Nimoy - actor
- Irving Berlin - composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history (ironically his compositions included "White Christmas" and "Easter Parade")
- Max Perutz - molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (1962)
- Nell Carter - actress & singer
- Daniel Radcliffe - British actor (best known for his portrayal of Harry Potter)
- Benjamin Disraeli - 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime minister of Great Britain.
- Sir Ernst Chain - co-developer of penicillin, Nobel Prize (1945)
- Howie Mandel - actor & comedian
- Sarah Bernhardt - world-famous stage actress
- René Dreyfus - racing driver
- Joseph Weizenbaum - Artificial Intelligence critic, ELIZA programmer
- Barbara Tuchman - U.S. journalist, author and historian
- Alfred Dreyfus - Jewish French army officer who was falsely convicted of treason
- Uriah P. Levy - (War of 1812) First Jewish U.S. Admiral; ended the Practice of Flogging; bought, restored, and gave Montecello (Jefferson's home) as a gift to the American people. First Jewish Chapel at the United States Naval Academy named for him.
- Golda Meir - one of the founders and a prime minister of Israel
- Karl Marx - philosopher
- Isaac Newton - famous physicist, co-discoverer of Calculus and discoverer of Gravitation Law.
- Albert Einstein - famous physicist, Zionist, Nobel Prize winner
- Harlan Ellison - writer, especially Science Fiction
- Judith Steinberg Dean - physician, wife of Howard Dean, First Lady of Vermont (1991-2003)
- Hank Greenberg - professional baseball player
- Isaac Bashevis Singer - writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1978)
- Sol Rosenberg - First Nationally Syndicated Computer Radio Show, Publishing Expert
- Shia LaBeouf - Movie and TV actor
- Jake Gyllenhaal - Movie actor
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