page_title: History of the Jews in Greater Cleveland
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: History of the Jews in Greater Cleveland / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Dorothy Fuldheim in 1977
context_page_description: The Jewish community of the Greater Cleveland area comprises a significant ethnoreligious population of the U.S. State of Ohio. It began in 1839 by immigrants from Bavaria and its size has significantly grown in the decades since then. In the early 21st century, Ohio's census data reported nearly 150,000 Jews, with the Cleveland area being home to more than 50% of this population. As of 2018, Greater Cleveland is the 23rd largest Jewish community in the United States.
  In 2012, the Jewish Population in Greater Cleveland was estimated at 80,800.
context_section_description: The following list includes notable people from, who live, or who have lived in Greater Cleveland and are Jewish. This list also includes people who are not from Greater Cleveland but have lived or live in Greater Cleveland, and have made a significant impact in the Cleveland community.
  Koby Altman, Cleveland Cavaliers General Manager
  Vanessa Bayer, Saturday Night Live cast member, comedian
  William Bayer, author
  Arthur T. Benjamin, Mathematician
  David Mark Berger, Olympic weightlifter, killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany
  David Blatt, Former coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers
  Sara J. Bloomfield, Director of United States Holocaust Museum
  Stuart Blumberg, Writer and Director
  Andy Borowitz, creator of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, author
  Armond Budish, Executive of Cuyahoga County, 100th Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives.
  Judith Butler, philosopher and gender theorist, known for her harsh criticism of Israel
  Gary Cohn, former director of the National Economic Council, former COO of Goldman Sachs
  Marc Cohn, Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, known for his 1991 hit Walking in Memphis and other songs
  Rebecca Dallet, Supreme Court of Wisconsin Judge
  Grand Rebbe Shneur Zalman Dancyger, Grand Rebbe of the Aleksander Hasidic dynasty
  Marc Dann, former Attorney General of Ohio
  William Daroff, director of the Washington office of the Jewish Federations of North America
  Ted Deutch, US congressman from Florida since 2010, speaker at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
  Nachum Zev Dessler, rabbi, former head and dean of the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland
  Steven M. Dettelbach, lawyer, former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio
  Mickey Edwards, former US Representative from Oklahoma
  Eric Ehrmann, writer
  Harry Eisenstat, former baseball player for Cleveland Indians
  Eric Fingerhut, president of Hillel International, Former US Congressman from Ohio and unsuccessful US Senate candidate
  Judah Folkman, scientist
  Lee Fisher, former Lieutenant Governor of Ohio under Ted Strickland and unsuccessful US Senate candidate
  Dorothy Fuldheim, news anchor
  Alan Freed, Disc Jockey, known for coining the term Rock and Roll
  Benny Friedman, football player and coach
  Rabbi Mordechai Gifter, Rosh Yeshiva of Telz
  Donald A. Glaser, physicist, winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics
  Samuel Glazer, founder of Mr. Coffee
  Tamir Goodman, basketball player in Israel for Maccabi Tel Aviv
  Adele Goldberg, Computer Scientist
  Brad Goldberg, Chicago White Sox pitcher
  Joel Grey, actor
  Jerry Heller, rap group manager
  Joel Hyatt, businessman, entrepreneur, and politician; founder of Hyatt Legal Clinics. Ran unsuccessfully for US Senate. Son-in-law of Howard Metzenbaum
  Eliezer Jaffe, Israel Free Loan Association Founder
  Carol Kane, actress
  Mickey Katz, musician and comedian
  Allison Krause, Kent State Shooting Victim, Vietnam War Protester
  RB Kitaj, artist
  Ron Klein, former US congressman from Florida
  Hal Lebovitz, sportswriter
  Arthur Lelyveld, rabbi and noted social activist
  Joseph Lelyveld, New York Times Executive Editor
  Al Lerner, businessman, former owner of the Cleveland Browns
  Ari Lesser, Orthodox Jewish rapper
  D.A. Levy, poet
  Peter B. Lewis, philanthropist, former CEO of Progressive Corporation
  Roy Lichtenstein, Cartoonist
  Terri Libenson, creator of the comic, The Pajama Diaries
  Todd Lieberman, film producer
  Josh Mandel, former State Treasurer of Ohio, unsuccessful U.S. Senate candidate
  Morton Mandel, major philanthropist and businessman; his family is the namesake of several Jewish organizations and buildings around the community
  Howard Metzenbaum, Former US senator from Ohio in 1974 and 1976–1995
  Eric A. Meyer, web designer and author
  Aaron David Miller, Diplomat, CNN Analyst
  Sam Miller, noted businessman and philanthropist
  Paul Newman, actor and director
  Susan Orlean, journalist
  Paul Palnik, artist, writer, and teacher
  Harvey Pekar, cartoonist
  Dan Polster, federal judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
  Sally Priesand, first female Rabbi in the United States 
caption: Dorothy Fuldheim, news anchor
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