Here’s a curated list of 100 famous Jewish figures across various fields: musicians, actors, painters, writers, scientists, and inventors. These individuals have made significant contributions to their respective fields and beyond.

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Musicians

  1. Leonard Bernstein – Composer and conductor

  2. George Gershwin – Composer

  3. Bob Dylan – Singer-songwriter, Nobel laureate

  4. Barbra Streisand – Singer and actress

  5. Leonard Cohen – Singer-songwriter and poet

  6. Billy Joel – Singer-songwriter

  7. Itzhak Perlman – Violinist

  8. Gustav Mahler – Composer and conductor

  9. Aaron Copland – Composer

  10. Yehudi Menuhin – Violinist and conductor

  11. Art Garfunkel – Singer (Simon & Garfunkel)

  12. Marc Bolan – Musician (T. Rex)

  13. Regina Spektor – Singer-songwriter

  14. David Helfgott – Pianist

  15. Max Bruch – Composer

  16. Matisyahu – Reggae artist

  17. Steven Tyler – Lead singer of Aerosmith

  18. Benny Goodman – Jazz musician

  19. Gene Simmons – Bassist, KISS

  20. Carole King – Singer-songwriter

Actors and Filmmakers

  1. Natalie Portman – Actress

  2. Scarlett Johansson – Actress

  3. Steven Spielberg – Filmmaker

  4. Woody Allen – Filmmaker and actor

  5. Gal Gadot – Actress

  6. Mel Brooks – Comedian and filmmaker

  7. Dustin Hoffman – Actor

  8. Adam Sandler – Actor and comedian

  9. Mila Kunis – Actress

  10. Seth Rogen – Actor and writer

  11. James Franco – Actor and artist

  12. Sarah Silverman – Comedian and actress

  13. Jake Gyllenhaal – Actor

  14. Maggie Gyllenhaal – Actress

  15. Kirk Douglas – Actor

  16. Michael Douglas – Actor

  17. Daniel Radcliffe – Actor (Harry Potter)

  18. Liev Schreiber – Actor

  19. Paul Rudd – Actor

  20. Jonah Hill – Actor and filmmaker

Painters and Visual Artists

  1. Marc Chagall – Painter

  2. Amedeo Modigliani – Painter and sculptor

  3. Camille Pissarro – Impressionist painter

  4. Barnett Newman – Abstract expressionist

  5. Mark Rothko – Abstract painter

  6. Lee Krasner – Abstract expressionist

  7. Louise Nevelson – Sculptor

  8. Man Ray – Photographer and artist

  9. Lucian Freud – Painter

  10. Max Liebermann – Impressionist painter

  11. Eva Hesse – Sculptor

  12. Sonia Delaunay – Abstract artist

  13. Jules Pascin – Expressionist painter

  14. El Lissitzky – Avant-garde artist and architect

  15. Ben Shahn – Painter and muralist

  16. Hans Hofmann – Painter

  17. R.B. Kitaj – Painter

  18. Anni Albers – Textile artist

  19. Amram Ebgi – Painter

  20. Yaacov Agam – Kinetic artist

Writers and Poets

  1. Franz Kafka – Author

  2. Philip Roth – Author

  3. Saul Bellow – Nobel laureate author

  4. Isaac Bashevis Singer – Yiddish writer, Nobel laureate

  5. Sholem Aleichem – Yiddish writer (inspiration for Fiddler on the Roof)

  6. Elie Wiesel – Holocaust survivor and author (Night)

  7. Hannah Arendt – Political theorist and author

  8. Emma Lazarus – Poet ("The New Colossus")

  9. Allen Ginsberg – Beat poet

  10. Amos Oz – Israeli author

  11. David Grossman – Israeli author

  12. Etgar Keret – Israeli author

  13. Yehuda Amichai – Israeli poet

  14. Arthur Miller – Playwright (Death of a Salesman)

  15. Cynthia Ozick – Novelist

  16. Norman Mailer – Novelist

  17. Gertrude Stein – Modernist writer

  18. Judith Kerr – Author (The Tiger Who Came to Tea)

  19. Chaim Potok – Novelist (The Chosen)

  20. Paul Auster – Novelist

Scientists and Thinkers

  1. Albert Einstein – Physicist, Nobel laureate

  2. Jonas Salk – Inventor of the polio vaccine

  3. Sigmund Freud – Father of psychoanalysis

  4. Niels Bohr – Physicist, Nobel laureate

  5. Richard Feynman – Physicist, Nobel laureate

  6. Rosalind Franklin – Chemist who contributed to DNA structure discovery

  7. Rita Levi-Montalcini – Neurobiologist, Nobel laureate

  8. Carl Sagan – Astronomer and science communicator

  9. Henri Bergson – Philosopher, Nobel laureate

  10. Daniel Kahneman – Psychologist, Nobel laureate in economics

  11. Baruch Spinoza – Philosopher

  12. Jacques Derrida – Philosopher

  13. Judah Folkman – Cancer researcher

  14. David Bohm – Physicist and philosopher

  15. Abraham Maslow – Psychologist (Maslow's hierarchy of needs)

  16. Noam Chomsky – Linguist and cognitive scientist

  17. Steven Weinberg – Physicist, Nobel laureate

  18. Leon Lederman – Physicist, Nobel laureate

  19. Selman Waksman – Biochemist, Nobel laureate

  20. Ada Yonath – Crystallographer, Nobel laureate

This list showcases the incredible breadth of contributions from Jewish individuals in the arts, sciences, and humanities.