Famous Jews

* 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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