# List of Hebrew-language poets

List of Hebrew language poets (year links are to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article):

## Biblical

* Moses
* King David
* King Solomon
* Jeremiah

## Early Middle Ages

* Eleazar ha-Kalir
* Jose b. Jose
* Yannai

## Golden Age in Spain

* Joseph ibn Abitur
* Abraham Abulafia
* Meir Halevi Abulafia
* Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia
* Samuel he-Hasid
* Todros Abulafia
* Yehuda Alharizi (1190-1240)
* Judah Ben Samuel Halevi (born c. 1086)
* Dunash ben Labrat (10th century)
* Santob De Carrion (late 14th century), also a proverb writer
* Abraham ibn Ezra, also known as Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1088-1167), known mainly for Biblical commentaries and grammar works
* Moses ibn Ezra (1070-1139)
* Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058)
* Isaac ibn Ghiyyat
* Solomon ibn Zakbel (fl. 12th century
* Yehuda Halevi
* Joseph Kimhi (1105-1170), born in Spain, he fled to Narbonne, Provence, where he became known as a grammarian, exegete, poet, and translator.
* Shmuel haNagid, also known as Samuel ibn Naghrela or Samuel Ha-Naggid (992-1055)
* Menahem ibn Saruq
* Joseph ben Jacob ibn Zaddik (died 1149)

## Medieval Germany

* Baruch of Worms (early 13th century), liturgical poet and commentator
* Meir ben Baruch, known as Ma'aram of Rothenburg (1215-1293), a Talmudist, Tosafist and liturgical poet
* Judah he-Hasid
* Eleazer ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms (1176-1238), a Talmudist, Cabalist, moralist, scientist and poet

## Medieval France

* David Hakohen (late 13th century), composer of piyyutim from Avignon
* Isaac Gorni (late 13th century), troubadour from Aire-sur-l'Adour
* Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (1270-1340), poet, philosopher and physician born in Béziers
* Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor (12th century), Tosafist, exegete and poet from Orléans

## Safed Cabalists

* Solomon Alkabetz (16th century)
* Israel ben Moses Najara (c. 1555-c. 1625)

## Italian Renaissance

* Deborah Ascarelli (17th century)
* Immanuel Frances
* Immanuel the Roman also known as Immanuel ben Solomon and Immanuel of Rome (1270-1330), a satirical poet and scholar
* Daniel ben Judah (late 14th century), liturgical poet
* Moses Judah Abbas (17th century)
* Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, also known as Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (1707-1747)
* Judah Leone Modena, also known as: Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena (1571-1648), a rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and poet
* Sara Copia Sullam (died 1641)

## North Africa and Yemen

* Shalom Shabazi
* David Buzaglo

## Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah)

* Isaac Erter (1792-1851) satirist and poet
* Judah Leib Gordon (1831-1892), also known as "Judah Löb ben Asher Gordon" or "Leon Gordon"
* Abraham Baer Gottlober (1811-1899)
* Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn (1789-1878)
* Micah Joseph Lebensohn (1828-1852)
* Meir Halevi Letteris (1800-1871)
* Isaac Baer Levinsohn (1788-1860)
* Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865)
* Rahel Luzzatto Morpurgo (1790-1871)
* Süsskind Raschkow
* Constantin Shapiro (1841-1900)
* Hermann Wassertrilling
* Naphtali Hirz Wessely (1725-1805)

## Modern Hebrew
### A

* Shimon Adaf (born 1972), Israeli poet and author
* Shmuel Yosef Agnon
* Ada Aharoni
* Lea Aini
* Nathan Alterman, also known as Natan Alterman (1910-1970), Israeli journalist, translator and popular poet
* Ronen Altman Kaydar (born 1972)
* Yehudah Amichai (1924-2000), Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
* Aharon Amir
* Aharon Appelfeld
* Roy Arad
* Dan Armon
* David Avidan (1934–1995), Israeli poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist and playwright

### B

* Simon Bacher
* Yocheved Bat-Miriam (1901–1979), German-born Israeli
* Menahem Ben (Braun)
* Itamar Ben Canaan
* Yakir Ben Moshe
* Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
* Reuven Ben-Yosef
* Fania Bergstein
* Haim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934)
* Ya'qub Bilbul
* Erez Biton

### C

* Ya'akov Cahan (1881-1960)
* T. Carmi
* Miriam Chalfi (writing as Miriam Barukh)
* Rahel Chalfi
* Sami Shalom Chetrit
* Amichai Chasson

### D

* Menahem Mendel Dolitzki (1858-1931)

### E

* Dror Elimelech
* Israel Eliraz

### F

* Jacob Fichman (1881-1958) a critic, essayist and poet
* Ezra Fleischer
* Simeon Samuel Frug (1860-1922), wrote in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew

### G

* Yehonatan Geffen
* Mordechai Geldman
* Amir Gilboa
* Simon Ginzburg (1890-1944)
* Haim Gouri
* Leah Goldberg (1911-1970), born in Lithuania, immigrated to Israel
* Uri Zvi Greenberg (Tur Malka)

### H

* Simon Halkin
* Avigdor Hameiri (1886-1970), born in Carpato-Russ and immigrated to Israel in 1921; also a novelist
* Hedva Harekhavi
* Shulamith Hareven
* Paul Hartal
* Galit Hasan-Rokem
* Roy Hasan
* Haim Hazaz
* Haim Hefer
* Dalia Hertz
* Amira Hess
* Ayin Hillel
* Yair Hurvitz

### I

* Naphtali Herz Imber (1856-1909), the author of Hatikvah ("The Hope"), called "the Jewish national hymn"

### K

* Yehudit Kafri
* Ben Kalman, see Abraham Reisen
* Itzhak Katzenelson (anglicized: Isaac Katzenelson; 1886-1944), murdered in Auschwitz
* Admiel Kosman
* Abba Kovner

### L

* Yitzhak Lamdan (1899-1954)
* Yitzhak Laor (born 1948) Israeli poet, author, and journalist
* Haim Lensky, also known as "Hayyim Lensky" (1905–1942 or 1943), Russian poet who wrote in Hebrew; imprisoned in Soviet labor camps after 1934, where he wrote most of his verse
* Giora Leshem
* Hezi Leskali
* Hanoch Levin
* Judah Lob Levin (1845-1925)
* Ephraim Lisitzky (1885-1962)

### M

* Meir Leibush Malbim (1809-1879), notable Russian Bible commentator who wrote some poetry in Hebrew
* Salomon Mandelkern (1846-1902), Ukrainian poet and scholar; author of the Hebrew concordance, Hekal Hakodesh
* Mordecai Zvi Mane (1859-1886)
* Reda Mansour
* Salman Masalha
* Margalit Matitiahu
* Rivka Miriam
* Agi Mishol (born 1947), Hungarian-born Israeli poet

### N

* Vaan Nguyen
* Tal Nitzán

### O

* Amir Or
* Ofra Offer Oren

### P

* Dan Pagis
* Alexander Penn
* Isaac Loeb Peretz (1851-1915), wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish
* Israel Pinkas
* Anda Pinkerfeld Amir
* Elisha Porat
* Daniel Preil (1911- )
* Gabriel Preil

### R

* Rachel (Hebrew: רחל) in English, sometimes transcribed as "Ra'hel" or "Rahel", also known as "Rachel the poetess" (Hebrew: רחל המשוררת), pen name of Rachel Bluwstein Sela (1890–1931), poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909
* Yonatan Ratosh
* Dahlia Ravikovitch
* Janice Rebibo
* Abraham Regelson
* Abraham Reisen (1870-1953), Russian native who immigrated to the United States; prolific poet and prose writer; pen name: Ben Kalman
* Tuvya Ruebner

### S

* Rami Saari
* Yossi Sarid
* Zalman Shneur (1887-1959), novelist and poet
* A. A. Schwartz (1846-1931)
* Amir Segal
* Aharon Shabtai
* Yaakov Shabtai
* Amnon Shamossh
* Zalman Shazar
* Naomi Shemer
* David Shimonowitz, also known as "David Shimoni" (1886-1956)
* Abraham Shlonsky
* Simha Siani
* Tal Slutzker
* Ronny Someck
* Jacob Steinberg (1887-1948)

### T

* Shaul Tchernichovsky, also known as Saul Tchernihowsky* (1875-1943)
* Yoram Taharlev, (1938-present)

### V

* David Vogel

### W

* Yona Wallach
* Meir Wieseltier

### Y

* Zvi Yair
* Miriam Yalan-Shteklis
* Avoth Yeshurun
* Natan Yonatan

### Z

* Nathan Zach
* Nurit Zarchi
* Zelda
* Eliezer Zvi Zweifel [he], also a Russian scholar, commentator and defender of Hassidism
* Stephan Zweig, (1836-1913), wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish
* Eliakum Zunser, (1881-1942), born in Vienna; also a biographer and dramatist