List of Jews born in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

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:''This List of Jews contains individuals who, in accordance with Wikipedia's verifiability and no original research policies, have been identified as Jews by reliable sources.'' The following is a list of Jews born in the territory of the former Russian Empire. It is geographically defined, so it also includes people born after the dissolution of the Russian Empire in 1922 and its successor the Soviet Union in 1991.

A few years before the Holocaust, the Jewish population of the Soviet Union (excluding Western Ukraine and the Baltic states that were not part of the Soviet Union then) stood at over 5 million, most of whom were Ashkenazic as opposed to Sephardic, with some Karaite minorities. It is estimated that more than half died directly as a result of the Holocaust.

==Politics and military==

===Politicians=== * Georgy Arbatov, Soviet politician, academic and political advisor<ref name="ERJ_A">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_a.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Aizik Aronchik, attempted to assassinate the Tsar Alexander II<ref name="Chronos">{{cite web |title=Арончик, Айзик Борисович |url=https://www.hrono.info/biograf/bio_a/aronchik.html |website=Chronos}}</ref><ref name=jebe>Aronchik, Aizik Borisovich on Brokhaus and Efron Jewish Encyclopedia in 16 volumes, Moscow 1908-1913</ref> * Dimitri Bogrov, Soviet politician<ref name=autogenerated28>{{cite web |url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSjews.htm |title=Russian Jews |publisher=Spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk |date=1918-07-10 |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109043640/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSjews.htm |archive-date=2012-01-09 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> * Anatoly Chubais, Deputy Prime Minister, now Chairman of UES<ref name=ERJ_C>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_c.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Mikhail Fradkov, Russian Prime Minister (half-Jewish)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/030104Fradkov.shtml |title=NCSJ - Putin Appoints New Prime Minister |accessdate=2007-04-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216162949/http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/030104Fradkov.shtml |archive-date=2007-02-16 }}: "Russian Jew named prime minister … If approved, Fradkov would be the first identified Jew to serve as Russia's prime minister".</ref> * Volodymyr Groysman, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2016–2019) * Adolph Joffe, Bolshevik diplomat<ref name=autogenerated28 /><ref>Albert S. Lindemann. ''Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews'', Cambridge University Press, 1997, {{ISBN|0-521-79538-9}} (pbk), p.430</ref><ref name=autogenerated16>{{Cite web |url=http://www.judaica.com.br/materias/020_04a10.htm |title=Revista JUDAICA - No. 020 |access-date=2007-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411033121/http://www.judaica.com.br/materias/020_04a10.htm |archive-date=2007-04-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Lazar Kaganovich, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union and one of the principal architects of the Ukrainian famine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9044306/Lazar-Moiseyevich-Kaganovich |title=Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=Britannica.com |date=1991-07-25 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref><ref name="ERJ_K">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_k.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJBH5pxzSyMC&q=%22Lazar+Kaganovich%22+JEW&pg=PA193 |title=Jews and Jewish life in Russia and … – Yaacov Ro'i – Google Boeken |accessdate=2012-01-04|isbn=9780714646190 |last1=Ro'i |first1=Yaacov |last2=Roʾi |first2=Yaʿaḳov |year=1995 |publisher=Psychology Press }}</ref> * Lev Kamenev, Bolshevik leader<ref name=autogenerated30>{{cite web|url=http://www.fjc.ru/news/newsArticle.asp?AID=276745 |title=FJC | News | A Jewish Renaissance in Russia |publisher=Fjc.ru |date=2005-05-03 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> (Jewish father) * Maxim Litvinov, Soviet ambassador and Minister of Foreign Affairs<ref name=autogenerated28 /><ref name=autogenerated16 /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=69 |title=Churchill and the Baltics – The Churchill Centre |access-date=2007-04-04 |archive-date=2007-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070603082708/http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=69 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Julius Martov, Menshevik leader<ref name=autogenerated16 /><ref name="ERJ_M">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_m.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> *Mikhail Mishustin, incumbent Prime Minister<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eurasiareview.com/17012020-meet-mikhail-mishustin-russias-new-prime-minister-oped/|title = Meet Mikhail Mishustin, Russia's New Prime Minister – OpEd|date = 17 January 2020}}</ref> * Boris Nemtsov, Deputy Prime Minister<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/5753/edition_id/107/format/html/displaystory.html |title=j. – Russian Jewish reformist moves up Kremlin ladder |publisher=Jewishsf.com |date=1997-03-21 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group private military company. Led a rebellion against Russian President Vladimir Putin (Jewish father)<ref>{{Cite web|title= Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian warlord presumed dead in plane crash, was of Jewish descent|url= https://forward.com/fast-forward/558592/prigozhin-russian-warlord-dead-plane-crash-jewish-wagner/|website=The Forward|date=23 August 2023|last=Golden|first=Zach|access-date=1 March 2026}}</ref> * Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999. * Karl Radek, Soviet politician<ref name=autogenerated28 /><ref name=autogenerated16 /><ref name="autogenerated9" /> * Yevgeny Roizman, deputy of the Russian State Duma, mayor of Yekaterinburg (Jewish father) * Grigory Sokolnikov, Bolshevik politician<ref name="ERJ_S">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_s.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> *Vladimir Solovyov, Russian TV presenter and propagandist * Yakov Sverdlov, Bolshevik leader, the first head of state of the Russian SFSR<ref name=autogenerated28 /><ref name="ERJ_S" /> * Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik politician, the founder of the Red Army<ref name=autogenerated30 /><ref name="Russian Jewish Encyclopedia">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_t.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref><ref>"Trotsky was born of Jewish parents in the S Ukraine." [http://www.bartleby.com/65/tr/Trotsky.html "Trotsky, Leon"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314102048/http://www.bartleby.com/65/tr/Trotsky.html |date=2009-03-14 }}, The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001–05.</ref><ref>"His father was a prosperous Jewish farmer. After attending a Jewish primary school, Trotsky became a student at a state school in the city of Odesa (Odessa) in 1888..." [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557000/Trotsky.html "Leon Trotsky"], Encarta, 2007. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091028201203/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557000/Trotsky.html Archived] 2009-10-31.</ref> * Moisei Uritsky, Soviet politician<ref name=autogenerated28 /><ref name="jewishgen.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_u.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> *Leonid Volkov, Russian opposition leader. Alexei Navalny's campaign manager * Genrikh Yagoda, head of Secret Police in the Stalin era (1934–1936)<ref>Zvi Gitelman. A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present, 2nd expanded edition, Indiana University Press, 1988, 2001, {{ISBN|0-253-21418-1}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated29>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_y.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Yakov Yurovsky, Bolshevik commander, was in charge of imprisonment and execution of Tsar Nicolas II of Russia and his family (under Vladimir Lenin's orders) * Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine * Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician<ref name=autogenerated16 /><ref name=autogenerated30 /><ref>Encyclopædia Britannica: Zinovyev was born to lower middle-class Jewish parents"</ref> * Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician; leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR); Vice-chairman of the State Duma; member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"<ref name="antisemitism">[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1446759.stm Zhirinovsky admits Jewish roots] BBC News</ref>

===Israeli politicians=== * Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, Nobel Prize (1978)<ref name=autogenerated6>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_b.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/begin.html |title=Menachem Begin |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |date=1992-03-09 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel (1952–63)<ref name=autogenerated6 /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ben-zvi.html |title=Yitzhak BenZvi |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |date=1963-04-23 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Shmuel Dayan, Zionist activist, Israeli politician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Sdayan.html |title=Shemuel Dayan |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Levi Eshkol, Israeli Prime Minister (1963–69)<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_e.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/eshkol.html |title=Levi Eshkol |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |date=1969-02-26 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Ephraim Katzir, fourth President of Israel (1973–78)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_k.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/government/branches%20of%20government/executive/office%20of%20the%20president |title=Office of the President |publisher=Mfa.gov.il |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs (2006–2008)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=214 |title=Knesset Member, Avigdor Liberman |publisher=Knesset.gov.il |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister (1969–74)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_m.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/meir.html |title=Golda Meir |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |date=1973-10-06 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister (1983–84, 1986–92)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/shamir.html |title=Yitzhak Shamir |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Natan Sharansky, Israeli politician<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec97/sharansky_7-22.html |title=Online NewsHour: Natan Sharansky – July 22, 1997 |publisher=Pbs.org |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-date=2013-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030032528/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec97/sharansky_7-22.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Moshe Sharett, Israeli Prime Minister (1954–55)<ref name="ERJ_S" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/sharett.html |title=Moshe Sharett |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Zalman Shazar, third President of Israel (1963–73)<ref name="ERJ_S" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/shazar.html |title=Zalman Shazar |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (1949–52)<ref name="ERJ_V">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_v.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/people/bios/weiz.html |title=Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952) |publisher=Jafi.org.il |date=2005-05-15 |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011104612/http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/people/BIOS/weiz.html |archive-date=2007-10-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Israeli military persons=== * Yaakov Dori, first Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (1948–1949); President of Technion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kurenets/k_pages/stories_pintov_dori.html |title=The Pintov/ Dori Family |publisher=Eilatgordinlevitan.com |date=1949-11-09 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of British Jewish Legion<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_z.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/jabotinsky.html |title=Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |date=1940-08-04 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Haim Laskov, fifth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1958–1961)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Laskov.html |title=Haim Laskov |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Yitzhak Sadeh, Palmach commander and one of the IDF founders<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/sadeh.html |title=Born in Lublin, Poland, Sadeh began his military career in the Russian army during the First World War. He was decorated for bravery and rose to be a battalion commander. He emigrated to Erez Israel in 1920, upon hearing of the death of Joseph Trumpeldor, whom he had met three years earlier |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Joseph Trumpeldor, founder of British Jewish Legion and early pioneer-settler in Israel (born in Pyatigorsk)<ref>{{cite EJ|last=Slutsky|first=Yehuda|title=Trumpeldor, Joseph|volume=20|pages=159–160}}</ref> * Tzvi Tzur, sixth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1961–1964)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=588 |title=Knesset Member, Zvi Tsur |publisher=Knesset.gov.il |date=1965-12-08 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref>

===Soviet soldiers and revolutionaries=== * Osip Aptekman, revolutionary<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ditext.com/yarmolinsky/yar12.html |title=Road to Revolution |publisher=Ditext.com |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Pavel Axelrod, Menshevik, Marxist revolutionary<ref name=autogenerated16 /><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?q=%22Pavel+Axelrod%22+JEWish |title=Pavel Axelrod JEWish – My library – Google Books |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Yevno Azef, revolutionary<ref name="ERJ_A" /> * Tuvia Bielski, Belarusian partisan<ref name="ERJ_B">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_b.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Yakov Blumkin, Soviet spy<ref name="ERJ_B" /> * Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Soviet Front Commander, WWII<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885592,00.html?promoid=googlep | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930105730/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885592,00.html?promoid=googlep | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 30, 2007 | magazine=Time | title=World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Stage Wait | date=1944-08-28 | accessdate=2010-05-08}}</ref> * Fedor Dan, revolutionary<ref name=autogenerated15>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_d.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Leo Deutsch, revolutionary<ref>"Deutsch, Leo" Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 5</ref> * David Dragunsky, Soviet tank brigade commander, WWII<ref name=autogenerated15 /> * Raya Dunayevskaya, founder of Marxist humanism in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newsandletters.org/Issues/2003/Jan-Feb/RDSRL_Jan03.htm |title=Review: German scholar's view of Dunayevskaya's Luxemburg |publisher=Newsandletters.org |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205082118/http://www.newsandletters.org/Issues/2003/Jan-Feb/RDSRL_Jan03.htm |archive-date=2012-02-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Hesya Helfman, revolutionary<ref name=ERJ_G>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_g.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Grigory Gershuni, revolutionary<ref name=ERJ_G /> * Moshe Gildenman, known as Dyadya ("Uncle") Misha, partisan commander<ref>{{Cite web| title=Gildenman, Moshe | url=http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206288.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812022325/http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206288.pdf | archive-date=2007-08-12}}</ref> * Mordechai Schlein, partisan and violinist.{{Cite web |last=Tzvi |date=2020-08-17 |title=12-Year-Old Jewish Hero of WWII {{!}} Aish |url=https://aish.com/12-year-old-jewish-hero-of-wwii/ |access-date=2024-10-27 |website=Aish.com |language=en-US}} * Grigory Goldenberg, revolutionary<ref name=ERJ_G /> * Olga Kameneva, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician (sister of Leon Trotsky)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/harrison/archive/persa/041.pdf |title=Microsoft Word – 041cover.doc |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Walter Krivitsky, Soviet spy<ref name="ERJ_K" /> * Semyon Krivoshein, Soviet mechanized corps commander, WWII<ref name="ERJ_K" />  * Rodion Malinovsky, Soviet front commander, WWII, Minister of Defence<ref name="ERJ_M" /> (Jewish origin is disputed) * Mark Natanson, revolutionary<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_n.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Alexander Parvus, revolutionary<ref name=autogenerated16 /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://maviboncuk.blogspot.com/2006/12/alexander-parvus-1867-1924.html |title=Mavi Boncuk |publisher=Maviboncuk.blogspot.com |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Grigoriy Plaskov, Soviet artillery lieutenant * Sidney Reilly (born Shlomo Rosenblum), Ukrainian-born adventurer and Secret Intelligence Service agent<ref>Andrew Cook, ''M: Mi5's First Spymaster (Revealing History)'', 2004, Tempus Publishing, {{ISBN|0-7524-2896-9}}.</ref> * Theodore Rothstein, Russian-British communist<ref name=autogenerated9>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_r.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Pinhas Rutenberg, Zionist, Social revolutionary<ref name=autogenerated9 /> * Israel and Manya Shochat, founders of the Hashomer movement * Moisei Uritsky, communist revolutionary<ref name="jewishgen.org" /> * Volin (Vsevolod Eikhenbaum), leading Russian Anarchist. Senior member of Nestor Makhno's movement (1918–1921) * V. Volodarsky, communist revolutionary<ref name=autogenerated11>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_v.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Iona Yakir, Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II<ref name="autogenerated29" />

===Others=== * Murray Bookchin, important American anarchist * Michael Dorfman, Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist * David Dubinsky, American labor leader * Yisroel ben Eliezer (The Baal Shem Tov), rabbi, founder of Hasidic Judaism * Shlomo Ganzfried, rabbi * Fanny Kaplan, would-be assassin of Lenin * Nathan Mileikowsky, Zionist political activist, rabbi and writer<ref>{{Cite web|date=17 December 2015|title= Arab MK quotes Netanyahu's grandfather at him|url= https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-mk-quotes-netanyahus-grandfather-at-him/|website=The Times of Israel|access-date=1 March 2026|quote= Mileikowsky, Netanyahu’s grandfather, was born in 1879 in the Russian Empire, became a Zionist activist in his teens and gave traveling lectures promoting a return to the Land of Israel and the establishment of a Jewish state.}}</ref> * Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism * Boris Volynov, Soviet astronaut; the first Jew in space (Jewish mother)

==Business figures==

* Roman Abramovich, businessman, former owner of Chelsea F.C.<ref name=autogenerated17>{{cite web |last=Salpeter |first=Eliahu |url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=324066&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y |title=TheMarker.com |publisher=Haaretz.com |date=2008-04-02 |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-date=2009-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711172130/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=324066&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Pyotr Aven, businessman<ref name=autogenerated17 /> * Leon Bagrit, pioneer of automation<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940215,00.html?promoid=googlep |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930043328/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940215,00.html?promoid=googlep |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=Time Magazine |publisher=Time |date=1963-01-25 |access-date=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Bernhard Baron, cigarette maker and philanthropist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/Brightonh.htm |title=JCR-UK – Paper on Brighton Jewish Community |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302041522/http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/Brightonh.htm |archive-date=2012-03-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Boris Berezovsky, businessman, politician * Zino Davidoff (born Sussele-Meier Davidoff), former tobacco manufacturer, known as "King of Cigars"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-17-mn-12681-story.html|title=Zino Davidoff; 'King of Cigars'|work=Los Angeles Times|date=Jan 17, 1994|quote=Zino Davidoff, the flamboyant Jewish emigre who made Havana cigars world famous, has died at the age of 87.}}</ref> * Bernard Delfont, impresario<ref>[http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/bernard%20delfont.htm East End history, London history, End End of London, Bernard Delfont, london vacation, Lew Grade, Spitalfields] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225093203/http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/bernard%20delfont.htm |date=February 25, 2008 }}</ref> * Mikhail Fridman, businessman<ref name=autogenerated17 /> * Arcadi Gaydamak, owner of Portsmouth F.C., AJ Auxerre, and Bnei Sakhnin F.C.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/062805JTA_Gaydamak.shtml |title=Profile: Russian Jewish Leader Arcadi Gaydamak |publisher=NCSJ |date=2005-06-28 |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205193824/http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/062805JTA_Gaydamak.shtml |archive-date=2012-02-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Leslie Grade, executive<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/236393.stm | work=BBC News | title=Celebrities say farewell to Grade | date=1998-12-16 | access-date=2010-05-08}}</ref> * Lew Grade, impresario, Chairman of ATV from 1962<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/crguide/vcp.html |title=Producers |publisher=Space1999.net |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805134428/http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/crguide/vcp.html |archive-date=2012-08-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Vladimir Gusinsky, exile, former media tycoon<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/moscow/gusinsky.html |title=FRONTLINE/WORLD . Moscow – Rich in Russia . How to Make a Billion Dollars – Vladimir Gusinsky |publisher=PBS |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Boris Khait, businessman and vice-president of the Russian Jewish Congress<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp414.htm |title=The Role of Politics in Contemporary Russian Antisemitism by Betsy Gidwitz |publisher=Jcpa.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * German Khan, businessman * Mikhail Khodorkovsky, businessman, politician (Jewish father) * Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Ukrainian businessman * Max Levchin (born Maksymilian Levchin), co-founder of PayPal<ref>{{cite news| url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/26/BUGHIHDT5N1.DTL&hw=max+levchin&sn=001&sc=1000 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103130345/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/26/BUGHIHDT5N1.DTL&hw=max+levchin&sn=001&sc=1000 | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 3, 2007 | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | title=Max Levchin likes the edge / Starting another company was the natural thing to do for PayPal co-founder | first=Dan | last=Fost | date=2006-02-28}}</ref> * Morris Markin, founder of Checker Cab<ref>{{cite web|author=Lane Darnton |url=http://www.darnton.ws/~lane/Checker_story.html |title=Checker Origin & History |publisher=Darnton.ws |date=1977-05-02 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Michael Marks, co-founder of Marks & Spencer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dbs.bh.org.il/luminary/marks-michael |title=Michael Marks |publisher=The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot |access-date=2018-06-12 |archive-date=2018-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142453/https://dbs.bh.org.il/luminary/marks-michael |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Alexander Mashkevitch, businessman<ref>[http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/030702Russia.shtml Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Jews of Former Soviet Countries Create International Council] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216075631/http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/030702Russia.shtml |date=December 16, 2008 }}</ref> * Louis B. Mayer, co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Louis_Mayer.html |title=Louis B. Mayer |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Leonid Mikhelson, businessman, CEO, chairman and major shareholder of the Russian gas company Novatek * Yuri Milner, entrepreneur, venture capitalist * Boris Mints, co-founder of Otkritie FC Bank * Vadim Moshkovich, businessman, founder of Rusagro * Leonid Nevzlin, businessman<ref>[http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Home/About/Board+of+Governors/Members+of+the+BOG/Nevzlin.htm Nevzlin] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216133015/http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Home/About/Board%2Bof%2BGovernors/Members%2Bof%2Bthe%2BBOG/Nevzlin.htm |date=December 16, 2008 }}</ref> * Mikhail Prokhorov, businessman * Ida Rosenthal, founder of Maidenform Brassieres<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/rosenthal_lo.html |title=Who Made America? | Innovators | Ida Rosenthal |publisher=Pbs.org |date=2004-06-30 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Arkady Rotenberg, businessman, Vladimir Putin's childhoods friend * Boris Rotenberg, businessman, Vladimir Putin's childhood friend * David Sarnoff (born Schwirnofsky), former head of RCA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/sarnoff.html |title=David Sarnoff |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |date=1912-04-14 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Viktor Vekselberg, businessman (Jewish father) * Leo Wainstein, textile industrialist * Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner, founders of Warner Bros.<ref>Harry Warner</ref>{{Circular reference|date=November 2019}} * Sergey Brin, is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google. * Jan Koum, is an American billionaire businessman and computer programmer.

==Scientists==

===Natural scientists=== * Anatole Abragam, physicist * Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, physicist, Nobel Prize (2003)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hightech-mag.com/index.php/vip/2005/06/alexei-alexeyevich-abrikosov-2003-nobel-prize-in-physics/ |accessdate=April 13, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061031013347/http://www.hightech-mag.com/index.php/vip/2005/06/alexei-alexeyevich-abrikosov-2003-nobel-prize-in-physics/ |archive-date=October 31, 2006 |title=Israel High Tech MAG.com - Business & Technology News » Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov - 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics }}</ref> * Zhores Alferov, physicist, Nobel Prize (2000)<ref>{{cite web|author=JINFO |url=https://www.jinfo.org/Nobels_Physics.html |title=Jewish Nobel Prize Winners in Physics |publisher=Jinfo.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Aleksander Akhiezer, physicist<ref name="ERJ_A" />  * Semen Altshuler, physicist<ref name="ERJ_A" /> * Lev Artsimovich, physicist (Jewish mother) * Varvara Brilliant-Lerman, plant physiologist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Varvara Alexandrovna Brilliant-Lerman|encyclopedia=Jewish Women Archive|last=Aronova|first=Elena |url=https://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/brilliant-lerman-varvara-aleksandrovna|access-date=2 January 2025}}</ref> * Matvei Bronstein, theoretical physicist<ref name="ERJ_B" />  * Gersh Budker, nuclear physicist<ref>The Russian Scientist Today – William Shelton</ref> * Ilya Frank, physicist, Nobel Prize (1958)<ref>The Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry, Biographies A-I, edited by Herman Branover (Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ, 1998, pp. 351–352)</ref> * Yakov Frenkel, physicist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/sciencenet/poronet/frenkel-bio.pdf |title=Microsoft Word – frenkel-bio.doc |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref>  * Vitaly Ginzburg, physicist, Nobel Prize (2003)<ref>[https://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/ScientistandRussia.html Russian Jew wins physics Nobel – JTA, Jewish & Israel News] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927190450/http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/ScientistandRussia.html |date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref>  * Emanuel Goldberg (1881–1970), pioneered Microdots and microfilm retrieval technology<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/goldberg.html |title=Emanuel Goldberg Page |publisher=People.ischool.berkeley.edu |date=2009-03-09 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Alexander Gorodnitsky, geologist and oceanographer, Soviet and Russian bard and poet * Vladimir Gribov, physicist<ref>{{Cite arXiv |eprint = physics/9801025|last1 = Dokshitzer|first1 = Yu. L.|title = Vladimir Gribov (BH)|year = 1998}}</ref>  * Mikhail Gurevich, co-founder of the Mikoyan Gurevich (MiG) aircraft design bureau<ref name=autogenerated10>[http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=91 The Jewish Quarterly] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131121742/http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=91 |date=January 31, 2009 }}</ref> * Waldemar Haffkine, biologist, vaccine against cholera and plague<ref>[http://www.asm.org/ASM/files/CCLIBRARYFILES/FILENAME/0000000248/530787p366.pdf Unknown] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409163356/http://www.asm.org/ASM/files/CCLIBRARYFILES/FILENAME/0000000248/530787p366.pdf |date=April 9, 2008 }}</ref> * Boris Hessen, physicist<ref>{{cite journal|title=CJO – Abstract – The dilemmas of seditious men: the Crowther–Hessen correspondence in the 1930s |journal=The British Journal for the History of Science |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=417–435 |doi=10.1017/S0007087403005156 |publisher=Journals.cambridge.org |date=2004-01-05 |last1=Chilvers |first1=C. a. J. }}</ref> * Naum Idelson, astronomer<ref name="ERJ_I" /> * Abram Ioffe, nuclear scientist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/opb/citizenk/secrets/ioffe.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000816180938/http://www.pbs.org/opb/citizenk/secrets/ioffe.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 16, 2000 |title=Citizen Kurchatov – Ioffe |publisher=Pbs.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref>   * Vladimir Keilis-Borok, physicist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12485 |title=JewishJournal.com |publisher=JewishJournal.com |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220065555/http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12485 |archive-date=2012-02-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Isaak Khalatnikov, physicist<ref name="ERJ_K" /> * Yuli Khariton, physicist<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19961223/ai_n14072795 |title=Obituary: Yuli Khariton |work=Independent, The (London) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103232827/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19961223/ai_n14072795 |archive-date=2007-11-03 }}</ref>  * Semyon Kosberg, engineer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/Kosberg.htm |title=Belarus Newsletter |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Lev Landau, physicist, Nobel Prize (1962)<ref>[http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-57/iss-2/p53.html Family Lines Sketched in the Portrait of Lev Landau – Physics Today February 2004] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216123548/http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-57/iss-2/p53.html |date=December 16, 2008 }}</ref> * Grigory Landsberg, physicist<ref name="ERJ_L">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_l.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Semyon Lavochkin, engineer<ref name=autogenerated10 /><ref name="ERJ_L" /> * Veniamin Levich, electrochemist<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20021020030537/http://www.geocities.com/bioelectrochemistry/levich.htm Levich]</ref>  * Evgeny Lifshitz, physicist<ref name="ERJ_L" /> * Leonid Mandelstam, physicist * Alexander Migdal, physicist<ref name="ERJ_M" /> * Arkady Migdal, physicist<ref name="ERJ_M" />  * Lev Pitaevskii, physicist<ref name="ERJ_P">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_p.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Boris Podolsky, physicist<ref name="ERJ_P" /> * Alexander Polyakov, physicist<ref name="ERJ_P" /> * Isaak Pomeranchuk, physicist<ref name="ERJ_P" />  * Grigory Abramovich Shajn, astronomer<ref name="ERJ_S" /> * Mikhail Shifman, physicist * Iosif Shklovsky, astrophysicist, astronomer, biologist<ref name="ERJ_S" /> * Alexander Tropsha, chemist  * Vladimir Veksler, physicist<ref name="ERJ_V" /> * Alexander Vilenkin, cosmologist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.templeton.org/humble_approach_initiative/Multiverse_and_String_Theory/vilenkin.htm |title=John Templeton Foundation |publisher=Templeton.org |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212011437/http://www.templeton.org/humble_approach_initiative/Multiverse_and_String_Theory/vilenkin.htm |archive-date=2009-12-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  * Selman Waksman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://waksman.rutgers.edu/Waks/Waksman/DrWaksman.html |title=Dr. Selman Waksman |access-date=2007-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418134324/http://waksman.rutgers.edu/Waks/Waksman/DrWaksman.html |archive-date=2008-04-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Grigoriy Yablonsky, chemical engineer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gregory Yablonsky (GS Yablonskii, ГС Яблонский) |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z4bORCYAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2026-02-08 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref> *Sorojon Yusufova, geologist<ref>{{Cite web|last=Israel|first=Asia|date=2020-03-21|title=Первая Бухарская еврейка академик|url=https://www.asia-israel.co.il/post/первая-бухарская-еврейка-академик|access-date=2020-11-27|website=asia-israel|language=en}}</ref> * Yakov Zel'dovich, astrophysicist<ref name="Haaretz">{{cite web |work=Haaretz|url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/features/this-day-in-jewish-history/this-day-in-jewish-history-a-self-taught-nuclear-physicist-is-born-1.508640/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315001712/http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/this-day-in-jewish-history/this-day-in-jewish-history-a-self-taught-nuclear-physicist-is-born-1.508640|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 15, 2013|title=This day in Jewish history / A self-taught nuclear physicist is born|date= 8 March 2013 |accessdate=8 November 2013}}</ref>

===Mathematicians=== * Georgy Adelson-Velsky, mathematician<ref>[http://www.municipal.co.il/pm/more.php?id=M116_0_1_0_M Ашдод: лента ежедневных событий] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826042451/http://www.municipal.co.il/pm/more.php?id=M116_0_1_0_M |date=2011-08-26 }}</ref> * Naum Akhiezer, mathematician<ref name="ERJ_A" /> * Vladimir Arnold, mathematician<ref>[http://www.hightech-mag.com/index.php/people/science-technology-nobels/jewish-turing-mathematics-prizes-fields-medal-and-others/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061031020235/http://www.hightech-mag.com/index.php/people/science-technology-nobels/jewish-turing-mathematics-prizes-fields-medal-and-others/|date=2006-10-31}}: "Following is a list of Jewish or Israeli recipients of Turing Prize, Fields Medal and other Mathematical Prizes to date:" Accessed 8 Apr 2007</ref> * Grigory Barenblatt, mathematician<ref name="ERJ_B" />  * Joseph Bernstein, mathematician<ref>{{cite web |last=Abramowitz |first=Michael J. |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=234218 |title=The Harvard Crimson :: News :: A Refugee at Harvard |publisher=Thecrimson.com |date=1983-02-25 |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-date=2009-07-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710041416/http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=234218 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  * Alexander Brudno, mathematician<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe49333 |title=Brudno in Moscow |publisher=Computerhistory.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Chudnovsky brothers, amateur mathematicians * Vladimir Drinfeld, mathematician, Fields Medal (1990) * Eugene Dynkin, mathematician * Paul Sophus Epstein, mathematician * Felix Gantmacher, mathematician<ref name="ERJ_G" /> * Israel Gelfand, mathematician<ref name="ERJ_G" /> * Alexander Gelfond, mathematician<ref name="ERJ_G" /> * Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin, mathematician * Victor Kac, mathematician * David Kazhdan, mathematician * Aleksandr Khinchin, mathematician * Mark Krasnoselsky, mathematician * Mark Krein, mathematician, * Alexander Kronrod, mathematician * Yevgeniy Landis, mathematician * Solomon Lefschetz, mathematician * Vladimir Levenshtein, mathematician * Leonid Levin, mathematician, computational complexity theory * Jacob Levitzki, Ukrainian-Israeli mathematician * Grigory Margulis, mathematician, Fields Medal (1978) * David Milman, mathematician * Hermann Minkowski, mathematician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Minkowski.html|title=Hermann Minkowski biography}}</ref> * Mark Naimark, mathematician * Grigori Perelman, mathematician * Vladimir Rokhlin, mathematician * Jakob Rosanes, mathematician * Lev Schnirelmann, mathematician * Zvi Hermann Schapira, mathematician * Moses Schönfinkel, logician * Samuil Shatunovsky, mathematician * Yakov G. Sinai, applied mathematician * Boris Tsirelson, mathematician * Pavel Urysohn, mathematician * Boris Weisfeiler, mathematician * Victor Zalgaller, mathematician * Oscar Zariski, mathematician * Efim Zelmanov, mathematician, Fields Medal (1994)

===Social scientists and philosophers=== * Urie Bronfenbrenner, developmental psychologist * Solomon Buber, Hebraist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1546&letter=B&search=Buber |title=Buber, Solomon |publisher=JewishEncyclopedia.com |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Ariel Durant, historian * Boris Eichenbaum, historian * Mikhail Epstein, literary theorist * Moshe Feldenkrais, inventor of the Feldenkrais method * Alexander Gerschenkron, economic historian * Jean Gottmann, geographer<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Kharkov, Ukraine … the only child of prosperous Jewish parents"</ref> * Lazar Gulkowitsch, Jewish Studies scholar * Abraham Harkavy, historian * Zellig Harris, linguist * Roman Jakobson, Russian/American linguist * Naum Krasner, economist * Leonid Hurwicz, economist, Nobel Prize (2007) * Simon Kuznets, economist, Nobel Prize (1971)<ref name=autogenerated4>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html |title=Virtual Jewish Library, list of Nobel Prizewinners |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Juri Lotman, prominent semiotician and historian of culture * Seymour Lubetzky, cataloging theorist * Jacob Marschak, economist<ref>{{cite web|author=JINFO |url=https://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html |title=Jewish Economists |publisher=Jinfo.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Alexander Luria, neuropsychologist * Benzion Netanyahu, encyclopedist, historian and father of Benjamin Netanyahu<ref>{{Cite web|title= Benzion Netanyahu obituary|url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/01/benzion-netanyahu|website=The Guardian|date=1 May 2012|last=Joffe|first=Lawrence|access-date=1 March 2026}}</ref> * Alexander Nove, economist<ref>Jewish Year Book, 1990, p. 202</ref> * Jacob Rabinow, inventor * Ayn Rand, philosopher * Anatol Rapoport, game theorist * Dietmar Rosenthal, linguist * Leonid Roshal, pediatrician, negotiator * Isaak Russman, historian * Max Seligsohn, Orientalist * Lev Shestov, philosopher * Elye Spivak, linguist

==Medical scientists and physicians==

* Isaac Andreyevich Chatzkin, physician * Yevsey Gindes, pediatrician * Gavriil Ilizarov, orthopaedic surgeon * Isaac Trachtenberg, hygienist * Mikhail Varshavski, family medicine physician and YouTuber, known online as Doctor Mike<ref>{{cite web|date=1 July 2019|title= NY’s hot, Jewish Doctor Mike pays Israel a house call|url= https://www.timesofisrael.com/nys-hot-single-jewish-doctor-mike-pays-israel-a-house-call/|website=The Times of Israel|last=Steinberg|first=Jessica|access-date=26 September 2025}}</ref>

==Cultural figures==

===Fine artists=== * Michael Matusevitch (1929–2007), painter * Eugene Abeshaus, painter * Meer Akselrod, painter * Benish Mininberg, painter * Nathan Altman, painter and stage designer from Vinnytsia * Boris Anisfeld, painter, theatre * Mark Antokolsky, sculptor * Boris Aronson, painter and designer * Isaak Asknaziy, painter * Mordechai Avniel, painter * Léon Bakst, painter and costume designer * Abraham Berline, painter * Eugène Berman, painter * Leonid Berman, painter * Mikhail Bernshtein, painter * Isaak Brodskiy, painter * Marc Chagall, painter from Vitebsk * Bella Chagall, wife of Marc Chagall * Joseph Chaikov, sculptor * Ilya Chashnik, painter * Nudie Cohn, fashion designer * Sonia Delaunay, painter * Robert Falk, painter * Naum Gabo, sculptor * Moisei Ginzburg, architect * Michail Grobman, painter * Michel Kikoine, painter * Boris Iofan, architect * Ilya Kabakov, conceptual artist (Jewish father) * Komar and Melamid, art-duo * Jacob Kramer, painter<ref>H. Read, S. Thorndike, and others, Jacob Kramer: a memorial volume (1969)</ref> * Pinchus Kremegne, painter * {{ill|Jankieĺ Kruhier|be|Янкель Мордухавіч Кругер}}, painter * Morris Lapidus, architect * Felix Lembersky painter * Isaac Levitan, painter * El Lissitzky, designer * Louise Nevelson, sculptor * Ernst Neizvestny, sculptor<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rogallery.com/Neizvestny_Ernst/Neizvestny_bio.htm |title=Ernst Neizvestny |publisher=Rogallery.com |date=1945-04-22 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Solomon Nikritin, painter * Jules Olitski, painter * Leonid Pasternak, painter * Antoine Pevsner, sculptor * Issachar Rybak, painter from Yelizavetgrad<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jewisheritage.blogspot.com/search/label/Peinture |title=JEWISHERITAGE Peinture |publisher=Jewisheritage.blogspot.com |date=2004-02-26 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Semion Rotnitsky, painter * David Shterenberg, painter from Zhitomir * Chaïm Soutine, painter from Minsk * Raphael Soyer, American painter * Israel Tsvaygenbaum, Russian-American painter * Joseph Tepper, painter * Vladimir Weisberg, painter * Josephinne Yaroshevich, painter * Lazar Yazgur, painter * Valentin Yudashkin, fashion designer * Ossip Zadkine, sculptor<ref>{{cite web|author=John F. Canu |url=http://www.safran-arts.com/42day/art/art4jul/art0714.html |title=ART / 4 / 2DAY |publisher=Safran-arts.com |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> (Jewish father) * Saveliy Moiseyevich Zeydenberg, painter

===Musicians=== [[File:Official portrait of Iosif Kobzon (1).jpg|thumb|upright|Joseph Kobzon, Russia's most decorated artist, often described as the "Russian Sinatra"]] *Sophia Agranovich, pianist * Leonid Agutin, singer-songwriter *Joseph Achron, composer * Modest Altschuler, cellist, conductor, and composer<ref name="ERJ_A" /> * Lera Auerbach, composer/pianist<ref>[http://www.leraauerbach.com/pages/profile_press.html "Lera Auerbach may have defected to the US in the dying days of the Cold War, but her music’s quixotic personality is shaped decisively by her Russian upbringing and Jewish heritage.”] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110225346/http://www.leraauerbach.com/pages/profile_press.html |date=November 10, 2007 }}</ref> * Vladimir Ashkenazi, pianist (Jewish father) * Sidor Belarsky, operatic vocalist and music educator<ref>[http://archives.lib.byu.edu/agents/people/2213 Brigham Young University Special Collections - Biography of Sidor Belarsky on lib.byu]</ref> * Nina Brodskaya, singer * Yefim Bronfman, pianist * Simon Barere, pianist * Rudolf Barshai, conductor * Dimitri Bashkirow, pianist * Yuri Bashmet, violist<ref name="ERJ_B" /> * Irving Berlin composer and lyricist<ref name="Tormé">{{cite web |last=Bloom|first=Nate|author-link=Nate Bloom|title=The Jews Who Wrote Christmas Songs| publisher =InterfaithFamily| date =December 19, 2006 | url =http://www.interfaithfamily.com/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ekLSK5MLIrG&b=297399&ct=3303147| accessdate =2006-12-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428181906/http://www.interfaithfamily.com/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ekLSK5MLIrG&b=297399&ct=3303147| archive-date=April 28, 2007 }}</ref> * Lazar Berman, pianist<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2005%2F02%2F14%2Fdb1402.xml |title=Lazar Naumovich Berman was born to Jewish parents in what was then Leningrad on February 26 1930. |access-date=2005-04-24 |archive-date=2005-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050424075027/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2005%2F02%2F14%2Fdb1402.xml |url-status=live }}</ref> * Mark Bernes, singer and actor * Matvei Blanter, composer, author of Katyusha * Shura Cherkassky, pianist *Vladimir Dashkevich, composer, wrote music for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson * Bella Davidovich, pianist * Issay Dobrowen, pianist and composer *Larisa Dolina, singer * Isaak Dunayevsky, composer * Mischa Elman, violinist<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id%3D16606 | title=Violinist Joshua Bell walks in the footsteps of masters | accessdate=October 13, 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018210259/http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16606 | archive-date=October 18, 2006}} "Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman... were all Jews, too"</ref> * Mark Ermler, conductor<ref name=autogenerated13>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_e.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> m I * Anthony Fedorov, singer, ''American Idol'' finalist<ref>[https://archive.today/20071103023316/http://www.kidzworld.com/features/americanidol4/chat_anthony_02.htm] "Anthony Federov: I'm like half Christian, half Jewish. I'm like a mix."</ref> * Samuil Feinberg, composer<ref>{{cite web|author=JINFO |url=https://www.jinfo.org/Pianists.html |title=Jewish Pianists |publisher=Jinfo.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.planettree.org/2000/crussian.html |title=Samuil Yevgen´yevich Feinberg (1890'1962) was regarded as one of the most gifted pianists of his day; his compositions, however, have only recently begun to be heard after many years of silence. His parents were of Jewish origin and in 1894 they moved to from Odessa to Moscow |publisher=Planettree.org |date=1915-04-02 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Mikhaïl Faerman, pianist * Vladimir Feltsman, pianist * Veniamin Fleishman, composer * Yakov Flier, pianist * Yan Frenkel, composer * Grigory Frid, songwriter * Artur Friedheim, composer * Kirill Gerstein, pianist * Josef Gingold (1909–1995) violinist<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id%3D16606 | title=Violinist Joshua Bell walks in the footsteps of masters | accessdate=October 13, 2006 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018210259/http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16606 | archive-date=October 18, 2006}} "His teacher was Joseph Gingold, and as Bell fondly recalled him, "He was a Russian Jewish violinist..."</ref> * Grigory Ginsburg, pianist * Emil Gilels, pianist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Gilels-Emil.htm |title=He was born Samuil Hilels in Odessa to a musical Jewish family; both his parents were musicians |publisher=Bach-cantatas.com |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Grigory Ginzburg, conductor * Mark Gorenstein, conductor * Emil Gorovets, singer * Maria Grinberg, pianist * Natalia Gutman, cellist *Tamara Gverdtsiteli, singer * Jascha Heifetz, violinist * Mordechai Hershman, chazzan * Jascha Horenstein, conductor * Vladimir Horowitz, pianist * Aleksey Igudesman, violinist * Oleg Kagan, violinist * Ilya Kaler, violinist * Tina Karol, singer<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717200226/http://www.juf.org/news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=6899] "Ukrainian Jewish singer is country's star" [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/29372/format/html/displaystory.html] "A Ukrainian Jewish woman, Tanya Liberman, who performs under the name Tina Karol, came in seventh."</ref> * Boris Khaykin, conductor<ref name="ERJ_K" /> * Evgeny Kissin, pianist * Alexander Knaifel, composer *Joseph Kobzon, singer * Leonid Kogan, violinist * Mikhail Kopelman, violinist * Yakov Kreizberg, conductor * Maya Kristalinskaya, singer *Igor Krutoy, composer, pianist * Josef Lhévinne, pianist * Alexander Lokshin, composer (Jewish father) * Arthur Lourié, composer *Andrey Makarevich, singer-songwriter * Oleg Maisenberg, pianist * Samuel Maykapar, composer/pianist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.library.taganrog.ru/res/book/bibliograficheskie_ukazateli/evrei.html |title=Евреи |website=www.library.taganrog.ru |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071115082600/http://www.library.taganrog.ru/res/book/bibliograficheskie_ukazateli/evrei.html |archive-date=15 November 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * Nathan Milstein, violinist *Lolita Milyavskaya, singer (Jewish father) * Shlomo Mintz, violinist * Boris Moiseev, dancer, showmaker * Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist * Larisa Mondrus, singer * Alexander Mordukhovich, composer * Vadim Mulerman, singer * David Oistrakh, violinist * Igor Oistrakh, violinist (Jewish father) * Leo Ornstein, composer * Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist * Pokrass brothers, composers * Mikhael Rauchverger, pianist and composer *Viktor Reznikov, composer, singer * Alexander Rosenbaum, singer-songwriter * Anton Rubinstein, pianist/composer * Nikolai Rubinstein, pianist/composer * Samuil Samosud, conductor * Alfred Schnittke, composer (Jewish father) * Eduard Schmieder, conductor * Joseph Schillinger, composer, music theorist, and composition teacher *Vladimir Shainsky, composer * Daniil Shafran, cellist *Mihail Shufutinskiy, singer, music producer * Leo Sirota, pianist<ref>[http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2001/gordon.html Fleeing revolution torn Russia, internationally known pianist Leo Sirota, a Russian Jew, settled in Vienna, where his only child, a daughter, was born.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905195740/http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2001/gordon.html |date=September 5, 2009 }}</ref> * Regina Spektor, singer-songwriter and pianist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/gig-23351811-details/Regina+Spektor/gigReview.do?reviewId=23364423 |title=Regina Spektor, the Brooklyn-based, classically trained Jewish émigré whose family fled the Soviet Union for the Brooklyn when she was nine |publisher=Thisislondon.co.uk |accessdate=2012-01-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216081618/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/gig-23351811-details/Regina%2BSpektor/gigReview.do?reviewId=23364423 |archive-date=2008-12-16 }}</ref> * Isaac Stern, violinist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amuseum.org/jahf/virtour/page31.html |title=Jewish-American Hall of Fame – Virtual Tour |publisher=Amuseum.org |date=2007-01-15 |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> *Yevgeny Sudbin, pianist<ref>[https://docs.kultureshock.net/0001/35-23421b3809ec624c4db859556aba2183.pdf Kleiner Chopin aus spandau]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bs_s0jQubVoC&pg=PA128 Caroline Benser. At the Piano: Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists]</ref> *Mikhail Tanich, songwriter * Alexander Tsfasman, jazz pianist, composer, conductor, arranger * Sophie Tucker, singer *Lyubov Uspenskaya, singer (Jewish father) * Leonid Utyosov, singer and actor * Anzhelika Varum, singer Aida Vedishcheva, singer * Maxim Vengerov, violinist * Alexander Veprik, composer * DJ Vlad, DJ, producer, interviewer, journalist, and YouTuber * Maria Yudina, pianist * Yakov Zak, pianist * Zedd, Russian-German DJ * Inna Zhvanetskaya, composer * Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-born American violinist

===Performing artists=== * Jacob Adler, actor * Anatoly Adoskin, actor (Jewish father)<ref>Solomon Volkov and Antonina Bouis, ''St. Petersburg: A Cultural History'' (Simon and Schuster, 1997). p. 454.</ref> * Alexander Alov, film director and screenwriter * Lev Arnshtam, film director * Dmitry Astrakhan, film director and actor * Abram Avdalimov, stage actor and theatre director * Leonid Bronevoy, actor * Elina Bystritskaya, actress * Grigori Chukhrai, film director and screenwriter,<ref name="Чухрай Григорий Наумович">{{cite web|url=http://www.sem40.ru/famous2/e247.shtml |title=Чухрай Григорий Наумович |publisher=Sem40.ru |accessdate=2012-01-30}}</ref> father of Pavel Chukhrai<ref name="rusfilm.pitt.edu">{{Cite web | url=http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/2005/pn/vera.htm |title = Russian Film Symposium 2005: Yellow House}}</ref> * Pavel Chukhrai, film director and screenwriter, son of Grigori Chukhrai<ref name="Чухрай Григорий Наумович" /><ref name="rusfilm.pitt.edu" /> * Maya Deren, filmmaker * Lev Dodin, theater director * Mark Donskoi, film director<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web | url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Cinema | title=YIVO | Cinema}}</ref> * Aleksandr Druz, longest-running contestant on the What? Where? When? game show. "Magister of the Game" * Boris Efimov, cartoonist * Sergei Eisenstein, film director (Jewish father) * Fridrikh Ermler, film director, actor, and screenwriter<ref name="ReferenceA" /> * Vladimir Etush, actor * Semyon Farada, actor * Aleksandr Faintsimmer, cinematographer * Maxim Galkin, comedian * Valentin Gaft, actor * Oleg Gazmanov, singer * Zinovy Gerdt, actor * Aleksei German, cinematographer * Vitaliy Ginzburg, director * Alexander Goldstein, director * Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1773 |title=All About Jewish Theatre – Abraham Goldfaden : A Theater Pioneer Gets His Due |publisher=Jewish-theatre.com |date=2011-05-27 |accessdate=2012-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207222104/http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1773 |archive-date=2012-02-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Yuli Gusman, director * Alexander Gutman, director * Roman Izyaev, stage actor and theatre director * Roman Abelevich Kachanov, animator * Aleksei Kapler, film artist * Roman Karmen, documentary filmmaker<ref>Hoberman, J. "Cinema." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. 2 August 2010.<http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Cinema>. Accessed 4 July 2012.</ref> * Roman Kartsev, comedian * Boris Kaufman, cinematographer * Mikhail Kaufman, cinematographer * Yevgeny Khaldei, photographer * Gennady Khazanov, comedian<ref>[http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/11687/edition_id/225/format/html/displaystory.html Jewish News Weekly]: "One of the country's best-known entertainers has become president (of the Moscow Jewish Community). Comedian Gennady Khazanov, known as "Russia's Bob Hope," said he understood only recently the importance of being personally involved in the Jewish community. … Last week, after the synagogue stabbing, Khazanov made several television appearances as president of the organization. Sporting a white silk kippah—something he had rarely done before—the comedian focused public attention on the incident. Khazanov isn't the only public figure who has been prompted by the stabbing incident to come out of the Jewish closet." Accessed 30 Oct 2006.</ref> * Iosif Kheifits, film director<ref name="ReferenceA" /> * Ilya Khrzhanovsky, film director<ref>{{cite web|title= Film director panned for plan to turn Ukraine museum into 'Holocaust Disneyland'|url= https://www.timesofisrael.com/film-director-panned-for-plan-to-turn-ukraine-museum-into-holocaust-disneyland/|website=The Times of Israel|date=4 May 2020|last=Liphshiz|first=Cnaan|access-date=5 December 2025}}</ref> * Yefim Kopelyan, actor * Mikhail Kozakov, actor * Grigori Kozintsev, theater and film director<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Kozintsev_Grigorii_Mikhailovich |title = YIVO | Kozintsev, Grigorii Mikhailovich}}</ref> * Savely Kramarov, actor * Mila Kunis, actress<ref>{{Citation|last=Aronofsky|first=Darren|title=Black Swan|date=2010-12-17|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/|type=Drama, Thriller|publisher=Fox Searchlight Pictures, Cross Creek Pictures, Protozoa Pictures|access-date=2021-12-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jvibe.com/popculture/mila_kunis.shtml |accessdate=June 23, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060603115539/http://www.jvibe.com/popculture/mila_kunis.shtml |archive-date=June 3, 2006 |title=JVibe -->pop culture }}</ref> * Yuri Levitan, radio announcer * Anatole Litvak, director * Solomon Mikhoels, actor and director * Andrei Mironov, actor and singer, Jewish father * Alexander Mitta, film director * Julius Nathanson, actor * Alla Nazimova, actress * Vladimir Naumov, director * Yuri Norstein, animator * Klara Novikova (born Herzer), comedian * Ilya Oleynikov (Klyaver), comedic actor * Maya Plisetskaya, ballerina * Iosif Prut, playwright * Yuli Raizman, film director and screenwriter<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-yuli-raizman-1569253.html | location=London | work=The Independent | title=Obituary: Yuli Raizman | date=1995-01-23}}</ref> * Elena Ralph, model<ref>[http://www.jafi.org.il/arts/2005/nov/3.htm The Jewish Agency For Israel: Mag-Net] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118150722/http://www.jafi.org.il/arts/2005/nov/3.htm |date=January 18, 2010 }}</ref> * Faina Ranevskaya, actress * Arkady Raikin, comedian * Konstantin Raikin, actor and theatre director * Mikhail Romm, film director, scriptwriter, and educator (Jewish father)<ref>Chernenko, Miron. "Romm, Mikhail Il’ich." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe 19 November 2010. <http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Romm_Mikhail_Ilich>. Accessed 4 July 2012.</ref> * Abram Room, film director<ref name="ReferenceA" /> * Grigori Roshal, film director and screenwriter<ref name="ReferenceA" /> * Hanna Rovina, actress * Ida Rubinstein, dancer *Lev Shekhtman, theater director and actor * Alexander Schirwindt, actor, director and screenwriter * Mikhail Schweitzer, screenwriter * Yefim Shifrin, comedian * Viktor Shenderovich, humorist * Esfir Shub, editor, director, and writer of documentary films<ref>Murray-Brown, Jeremy. "Esfir Il’inishna Shub." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive.<https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shub-esfir>. Accessed June 23, 2012.</ref> * Yakov Smirnoff, American comedian * Lee Strasberg, acting teacher * Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animation director * Leonid Trauberg, film director, scriptwriter, and educator<ref>Chernenko, Miron. "Trauberg, Leonid Zakharovich." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe 28 October 2010.<http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Trauberg_Leonid_Zakharovich>. Accessed 4 July 2012.</ref> * Ivan Urgant, actor, comedian, host of the Evening Urgant television show * Dziga Vertov, documentary film director and film theoretician<ref>Hoberman, J. "Vertov, Dziga." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe 2 November 2010. <http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Vertov_Dziga>. Accessed 4 July 2012.</ref> * Vladimir Vinokur, comedian (Jewish father) * Leonid Yakubovich, actor, host of the Pole Chudes television show * Leonid Yarmolnik, actor * Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American film/television actor * Sergei Yursky, actor * Sergei Yutkevich, film director and screenwriter

==Writers and poets== * Grigory Adamov, writer * M. Ageyev, novelist * David Aizman, writer and playwright * Vasily Aksyonov, writer (Jewish mother) * Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish-language writer<ref name="ERJ_S" /> * Semyon Altov (born Altshuller), writer, comedian * Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer * Daniil Atnilov, poet * Hizgil Avshalumov, novelist, poet and playwright * Isaac Babel, writer<ref name=autogenerated6 /> * Eduard Bagritsky, poet<ref name=autogenerated6 /> * Grigory Baklanov, novelist * Mishi Bakhshiev, writer and poet * Devorah Baron, writer * Agniya Barto, writer * Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Hebrew-language writer * Isaac Dov Berkowitz, writer<ref name=autogenerated6 /> * Hayyim Nahman Bialik, poet<ref name=autogenerated6 /> * Rachel Bluwstein, poet * Yosef Haim Brenner, Hebrew-language writer<ref name=autogenerated6 /> * Osip Brik, author<ref name=autogenerated6 /> * Joseph Brodsky, Russian-language poet, Nobel Prize (1987)<ref name=autogenerated6 /> * Sasha Cherny, poet<ref name=autogenerated25>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_c.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Korney Chukovsky, writer (Jewish father) * Manuvakh Dadashev, poet * Yuli Daniel, writer * Michael Dorfman, journalist and essayist * Sergei Dovlatov, journalist and writer (Jewish father) * David Edelstadt, Yiddish-language anarchist poet * Ilya Ehrenburg, writer<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * Natan Eidelman, writer * Alter Esselin, poet, carpenter * Alexander Galich, playwright poet<ref name=autogenerated7>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_g.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Vladimir Galperin, journalist and writer, literature professor<ref>:ru:Владимир Гальперин{{Circular reference|date=September 2021}}</ref> * Boris Gavrilov, poet * Mikhail Gavrilov, writer and poet * Masha Gessen, writer and journalist<ref>{{cite web|title= Despite backlash, Masha Gessen says comparing Gaza to a Nazi-era ghetto is necessary|url= https://www.npr.org/2023/12/22/1221128897/masha-gessen-essay-israel-gaza-germany-hannah-arendt-prize|website=NPR|date=22 December 2023|last1=Treisman|first1=Rachel|last2=Fadel|first2=Leila|access-date=5 December 2025}}</ref> * Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'Am), Hebrew-language writer * Lydia Ginzburg, writer<ref name=autogenerated7 /> * Yevgenia Ginzburg, writer<ref name=autogenerated7 /> * Jacob Gordin, American playwright<ref name=autogenerated7 /> * Leon Gordon, writer<ref name=autogenerated7 /> * Grigori Gorin, playwright and writer * Vasily Grossman, writer<ref name=autogenerated7 /> * Igor Guberman, writer<ref name=autogenerated7 /> * Peretz Hirshbein, playwright<ref name=autogenerated7 /> * Ilya Ilf, writer<ref name="ERJ_I">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_i.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Vera Inber, poet<ref name="ERJ_I" /> * Sergey Izgiyayev, poet * Lev Kassil, writer * Veniamin Kaverin, writer (Jewish father){{Citation needed|date=February 2012}} * Arkady Khait, satirist and playwright ({{ill|Хайт, Аркадий Иосифович|ru|vertical-align=sup}}) * A.M. Klein, poet * Pavel Kogan, poet * Lev Kopelev, author and dissident * Lazar Lagin, writer * H. Leivick, dramatist * Clarice Lispector, writer that settled in Brazil fleeing from Ukraine Civil's War * Benedikt Livshits, writer * Nadezhda Mandelstam, writer * Osip Mandelstam, poet * Samuil Marshak, poet * Yunna Morits, poet * Semen Nadson, poet (Jewish father) * Seva Novgorodsev, musician and journalist (Jewish father) * Grigoriy Oster, author and scriptwriter * Yeremey Parnov, writer * Boris Pasternak, writer, Nobel Prize (1958) * Yakov Perelman, writer * Elizaveta Polonskaya, translator, poet * Vladimir Posner, writer * David Pinski, writer * Lev Razgon, writer, gulag inmate for 17 years * Yevgeny Rein, poet * Ayn Rand, writer (born Alisa Rosenbaum) * Ilya Reznik, poet and songwriter * Anatoli Rybakov, writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/BELARUS/rje_r.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * David Samoylov, poet * Genrikh Sapgir, poet * Natalya Sats, playwright (Jewish father) * Zoya Semenduyeva, poet * Mendele Mocher Sforim, founder of modern Yiddish and modern Hebrew literature * Viktor Shklovsky, writer and critic (Jewish father) * Ilia Shtemler, writer * Gary Shteyngart (Steinhart), writer * Yulian Semyonov, writer * Elena Shirman, poet * Boris Slutsky, war-time poet * Mikhail Slonimsky, writer (Jewish father) * Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, science fiction writers (Jewish father) * Mikhail Svetlov, poet * Leon Talmi, journalist, killed on the Night of the Murdered Poets * Shaul Tchernichovsky, poet and translator<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/tchernichovsky.html |title=Shaul Tchernichovsky was born in Mikhailovka, Russia, and grew up in a religious home that was open to the ideas of the Enlightenment and Zionism. He attended a modern Hebrew school, where he studied mainly Hebrew and Bible, and at ten entered a Russian school. |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Yuri Tynyanov, writer * Vladimir Voinovich, writer * Vladimir Vysotsky, poet, singer, actor (Jewish father) * Semen Yushkevich, writer and playwright * Boris Zakhoder, children's poet and writer * Mikhail Zhvanetsky, writer and comedian * Zinovy Zinik, writer * Valentin Zorin, Soviet and Russian political commentator, journalist, author, screenwriter and television presenter.

==Religious figures== * Israel Isaac Kahanovitch, Orthodox Jewish rabbi * Raïssa Maritain, Catholic writer and philosopher * Alexander Men, Russian Orthodox priest, theologian, Biblical scholar and writer. * Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Anglican Bishop of Shanghai, China, from 1877 to 1884

==Sport figures==

===Chess=== * Lev Alburt<ref name="ERJ_A" /> * Yuri Averbakh<ref name="ERJ_A" /> * Alexander Beliavsky<ref name="ERJ_B" /> * Ossip Bernstein<ref name="ERJ_B" /> * Benjamin Blumenfeld<ref name="ERJ_B" /> * Isaac Boleslavsky<ref name="ERJ_B" /> * Mikhail Botvinnik, World Champion<ref name="ERJ_B" /> * David Bronstein, World Championship challenger<ref name="ERJ_B" /> * Mikhail Tal * Maxim Dlugy<ref name="autogenerated15" /> * Iossif Dorfman<ref name="autogenerated15" /> * Mark Dvoretsky<ref name="autogenerated15" /> * Louis Eisenberg * Yakov Estrin<ref name=autogenerated13 /> * Alexander Evensohn<ref name=autogenerated13 /> * Salo Flohr<ref name=autogenerated14>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_f.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Semen Furman<ref name=autogenerated14 /> * Boris Gelfand<ref name="ERJ_G" /> * Efim Geller<ref name="ERJ_G" /> * Eduard Gufeld<ref name="ERJ_G" /> * Boris Gulko<ref name="ERJ_G" /> * Dmitry Gurevich<ref name="ERJ_G" /> * Ilya Gurevich<ref name="ERJ_G" /> * Mikhail Gurevich<ref name="ERJ_G" /> * Nicolai Jasnogrodsky * Gregory Kaidanov<ref name="ERJ_K" /> * Ilya Kan<ref name="ERJ_K" /> * Garry Kasparov, World Champion<ref name="ERJ_K" /> * Alexander Khalifman, FIDE World Champion<ref name="ERJ_K" /> * Alexander Konstantinopolsky<ref name="ERJ_K" /> * Viktor Korchnoi, World Championship challenger<ref name="ERJ_K" /> * Ljuba Kristol<ref name="ERJ_K" /> * Alla Kushnir, Women's World Championship challenger<ref name="ERJ_K" /> * Anatoly Lein<ref name="ERJ_L" /> * Konstantin Lerner<ref name="ERJ_L" /> * Grigory Levenfish<ref name="ERJ_L" /> * Irina Levitina<ref name="ERJ_L" /> * Vladimir Liberzon<ref name="ERJ_L" /> * Andor Lilienthal<ref name="ERJ_L" /> * Moishe Lowtzky<ref name="ERJ_L" /> * Vladimir Malaniuk<ref name="ERJ_M" /> * Sam Palatnik<ref name="ERJ_P" /> * Ernest Pogosyants<ref name="ERJ_P" /> * Iosif Pogrebyssky<ref name="ERJ_P" /> * Lev Polugaevsky<ref name="ERJ_P" /> * Lev Psakhis<ref name="ERJ_P" /> * Abram Rabinovich<ref name=autogenerated9 /> * Ilya Rabinovich<ref name=autogenerated9 /> * Leonid Shamkovich<ref name=autogenerated18>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_s.htm |title=Russian Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=Jewishgen.org |accessdate=2012-01-04}}</ref> * Ilya Smirin<ref name=autogenerated18 /> * Gennadi Sosonko<ref name=autogenerated18 /> * Leonid Stein<ref name=autogenerated18 /> * Peter Svidler<ref name=autogenerated18 /> * Mark Taimanov<ref name="Russian Jewish Encyclopedia" /> * Boris Verlinsky<ref name=autogenerated11 /> * Yakov Vilner<ref name=autogenerated11 /> * Leonid Yudasin<ref name="autogenerated29" /> <!--

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===Boxing===

* Yuri Foreman, Belarusian-born Israeli US middleweight and World Boxing Association champion super welterweight<ref name="nytimes2003">{{cite news|last=Gray |first=Geoffrey |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/27/sports/boxing-jewish-boxers-are-looking-to-make-a-comeback.html?pagewanted=all |title= Jewish Boxers Are Looking to Make a Comeback |work=The New York Times |date=December 27, 2003 |accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref> * Louis Kaplan ("Kid Kaplan"), Russian-born US, world champion featherweight, Hall of Fame * Shamil Sabirov, Russia, Olympic champion light flyweight

===Canoeing===

* Leonid Geishtor, USSR (Belarus), sprint canoer, Olympic champion (Canadian pairs 1,000-meter) * Michael Kolganov, Soviet (Uzbek)-born Israeli, sprint canoer, world champion, Olympic bronze (K-1 500-meter) * Naum Prokupets, Moldovan-born Soviet, sprint canoer, Olympic bronze (C-2 1,000-meter), gold (C-2 10,000-meter) at ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

===Fencing=== [[File:Grigory Kriss.jpg|thumb|180px|Grigory Kriss]] * Yury Gelman (born 1955), Ukrainian-born American Olympic fencing coach * Vadim Gutzeit, Ukraine (saber), Olympic champion<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jcc.org/articlenav.php?id=584 |title=The 18th Maccabiah–Maccabiah Chai |publisher=JCC |accessdate=June 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420024035/http://www.jcc.org/articlenav.php?id=584 |archive-date=April 20, 2010 }}</ref> * Grigory Kriss, Soviet (épée), Olympic champion, 2x silver * Maria Mazina, Russia (épée), Olympic champion, bronze * Mark Midler, Soviet (foil), 2x Olympic champion * Mark Rakita, Soviet (saber), 2x Olympic champion, 2x silver * Yakov Rylsky, Soviet (saber), Olympic champion * Sergey Sharikov, Russia (saber), 2x Olympic champion, silver, bronze * David Tyshler, Soviet (saber), Olympic bronze * Eduard Vinokurov, Russia (saber), 2x Olympic champion, silver * Iosif Vitebskiy, Soviet (épée), Olympic silver, 10x national champion

===Figure skating=== [[File:Rus-nat-Slutskaya2.jpg|thumb|right|170px|Irina Slutskaya]]

* Ilya Averbukh, Russia, ice dancer, Olympic silver * Oksana Baiul, Ukraine, figure skater, Olympic gold, world champion<ref>{{cite news |url=http://njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/2005/060905/mwbaiul.html |title=Oksana Baiul, figure skating champion, embraces Jewish roots |publisher=New Jersey Jewish News |date=June 9, 2005 |author=Johanna Ginsberg |accessdate=July 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207150641/http://www.njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/2005/060905/mwbaiul.html |archive-date=February 7, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * Alexei Beletski, Ukrainian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian<ref>{{cite web|last=Elfman |first=Lois |url=http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2004/12/08/news/on_the_cover/news03.txt |title=Jewish Ice Skaters |work=The Jewish Ledger |date=December 8, 2004 |accessdate=July 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406184654/http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2004/12/08/news/on_the_cover/news03.txt |archive-date=April 6, 2012 }}</ref> * Sasha Cohen, figure skater (U.S. National Champion and silver medalist at the 2006 Winter Olympics) * Aleksandr Gorelik, Soviet, pair skater, Olympic silver, World Championship 2x silver, bronze * Natalia Gudina, Ukrainian-born Israeli, figure skater, Olympian<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79273055.html?refid=gnews_1108|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121209102959/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79273055.html?refid=gnews_1108|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 9, 2012|author=David Pollack |title=America's Hottest Jewish Olympic Hopefuls Are To Be Found on the Ice |work=The Forward|date=February 8, 2002 |accessdate=July 1, 2010}}</ref> * Gennadi Karponossov, Russia, ice dancer and coach, Olympic gold, World Championship 2x gold, silver, 2x bronze * Michael Shmerkin, Soviet-born Israeli, figure skater<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X5WAzo00SGgC&q=jewish+%22Michael+Shmerkin%22 |title=A Year in Figure Skating |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |author1=Beverley Smith |author2=Dan Diamond |year=1997|isbn=0-7710-2755-9 |accessdate=July 1, 2010}}</ref> * Irina Slutskaya, Russia, figure skater, Olympic silver, bronze, World Championship 2x gold, 3x silver, bronze * Maxim Staviski, Russian-born Bulgarian, ice dancer, World Championship gold, silver, bronze<ref name =asdf>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0206/bloom_olympics06.php3 |title=The Tribe goes to Torino: Sketches of Jewish Olympic-Bound Athletes|publisher=JWR |date=February 16, 2006 |accessdate=July 1, 2010}}</ref> * '''Alexandra Zaretski''', Belarusian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian * '''Roman Zaretski''', Belarusian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/28377/jewish-athletes-in-the-olympics-then-and-now/ |title=Jewish athletes in the Olympics—then and now |author1=Lionel Gaffen |author2=Joe Eskenazi |name-list-style=amp|newspaper=j. |date=February 9, 2006 |accessdate=July 1, 2010}}</ref>

===Football (American)===

* Joe Magidsohn, Russia, halfback * Igor Olshansky, Ukraine, defensive lineman (Miami Dolphins)

===Gymnastics===

* Evgeny (or Yevgeny) Babich, Soviet, Olympic champion, world and European champion, 2x runner-up * Yanina Batyrchina, Russia, Olympic silver (rhythmic gymnastics) * Maria Gorokhovskaya, USSR, Olympic 2x champion (all-around individual exercises, team combined exercises), 5x silver (vault, asymmetrical bars, balance beam, floor exercises, team exercises with portable apparatus) * Natalia Laschenova, USSR, Olympic champion (team) * Tatiana Lysenko, Soviet/Ukrainian, 2x Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises), bronze (horse vault) * Mikhail Perelman, USSR, Olympic champion (team combined exercises) * Vladimir Portnoi, USSR, Olympic silver (team combined exercises) and bronze (long horse vault) * Yulia Raskina, Belarus, Olympic silver (rhythmic gymnastics) * Alexander Shatilov, Uzbekistan/Israel, world bronze (artistic gymnast; floor exercises)<ref>{{cite news|last=Roiphe |first=Anne |url=https://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=148518 |title=Maccabiah opens with fanfare in Ramat Gan |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=July 13, 2009 |accessdate=July 2, 2011}}</ref> * Yelena Shushunova, USSR, Olympic 2x champion (all-around, team), silver (balance beam), bronze (uneven bars)

===Ice hockey===

* Max Birbraer, Russian from Kazakhstan; lived and played in Israel; 1st Israeli drafted by NHL team (New Jersey Devils)<ref name="jewishvirtuallibrary6">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hockeytoc.html |title=Jews in Sports: Hockey |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref> * Vitaly Davydov, Soviet, defenseman, 3x Olympic champion, world and European champion 1963–71, runner-up * Alfred Kuchevsky, Soviet, Olympic champion, bronze * Yuri Lyapkin, Soviet, defenceman, Olympic champion<ref name="books.google.com">{{cite book |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics – With a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medalists |author=Taylor, Paul |publisher=Sussex Academic Press |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+lyapkin&pg=PA254 |accessdate=2012-01-04|isbn=9781903900888 }}</ref> * Yuri Moiseev, Soviet, Olympic champion, world champion<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+moiseyev&pg=PA236 |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: the … – Paul Taylor – Google Books |accessdate=2012-01-04|isbn=9781903900871 |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |publisher=Sussex Academic Press }}</ref> * Vladimir Myshkin, Soviet, goaltender, Olympic champion, silver<ref name="books.google.com" /> * Ian Rubin, Ukraine/Australia, Russia national team<ref name="Bulldogs Rugby League Club">{{cite web|url=http://thebulldogs.com.au/main.php?page=archives&month=05&year=2007&type=List&num=7 |title=19-year-old Jewish Prodigy Bound for the NRL |publisher=Bulldogs Rugby League Club |date=May 9, 2007 |accessdate=September 28, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706112815/http://thebulldogs.com.au/main.php?page=archives&month=05&year=2007&type=List&num=7 |archive-date=July 6, 2011 }}</ref> * Yevgeni Zimin, Soviet, Olympic champion 1968–72, world and European champion 1968–69, 1971 * Viktor Zinger, Soviet, Olympic champion; world champion 1965–69

===Judo===

* Ārons Bogoļubovs, USSR, Olympic bronze (lightweight)

===Rugby league===

* Ian Rubin, Ukraine/Australia, Russia national team<ref name="Bulldogs Rugby League Club" />

===Sailing===

* Valentyn Mankin, Soviet/Ukraine, only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes (yachting: finn class, tempest class, and star class), silver (yachting, tempest class)

===Shooting===

* Lev Vainshtein, USSR (Russia), 3x team world champion (25 m and 50 m pistol) and Olympic bronze medalist (300 m rifle)<ref name="yivoencyclopedia.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR |title=YIVO | Sport: Jews in Sport in the USSR |publisher=Yivoencyclopedia.org |accessdate=2012-01-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429023935/http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR |archive-date=2015-04-29 }}</ref>

===Soccer (association football)===

* Leonid Buryak, USSR/Ukraine, midfielder, Olympic bronze * Yakov Ehrlich, Russia, striker * Andriy Oberemko, Ukraine, midfielder (Illichivets and U21 national team)<ref>{{cite news |first=Motti |last=Peshkhatzki |script-title=he:דינמו קייב לבית"ר: 220 אלף דולר על אנדריי אוברמקו |url=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/3/ART1/433/383.html |date=June 9, 2006 |accessdate=July 6, 2008 |language=he }}</ref> * Boris Razinsky, USSR/Russia, goalkeeper/striker, Olympic champion, manager * Boris Borisovich Rotenberg, Russia/Finland/Israel, defender * Mordechai Spiegler, Soviet Union/Israel, striker (Israel national team), manager

===Speed skating===

* Rafayel Grach, USSR, Olympic silver (500-meter), bronze (500-meter)

===Swimming===

* Vadim Alexeev, Kazakhstan-born Israeli, breaststroke<ref>[https://archive.today/20120713074930/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99769140.html?dids=99769140:99769140&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+02,+1993&author=JOEL+GORDIN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=POOLING+THEIR+TALENT&pqatl=google "Pooling their Talent"], Joel Gordin, ''The Jerusalem Post'', July 2, 1993, Retrieved January 1, 2011</ref> * Semyon Belits-Geiman, USSR, Olympic silver (400-m freestyle relay) and bronze (800-m freestyle relay); world record in men's 800-m freestyle * Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-born US, 4x Olympic champion (100-m backstroke, 200-m backstroke, twice 4x100-m medley relay); 3x world champion (100-m and 200-m backstroke, 4×100-m medley) and 2x silver (4×100-m medley, 50-m backstroke); 3 world records (50-, 100-, and 200-m backstroke)

===Table tennis===

* Marina Kravchenko, Ukrainian-born Israeli, Soviet and Israel national teams<ref name="jewishvirtuallibrary9">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/tabletennistoc.html |title=Jews in Sports: Table Tennis |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref>

===Tennis===

*Anna Smashnova (born 1976), Belarus-born Israeli tennis player

===Track and field=== * Aleksandr Averbukh, Russian-born Israeli, 2002 and 2006 European champion (pole vault)<ref name="jewishvirtuallibrary11">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/tracktoc.html |title=Jews in Sports: Track & Field |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library |accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref> * Maria Leontyavna Itkina, USSR, sprinter, world records (400-m & 220-yards, and 800-m relay) * Svetlana Krachevskaya, USSR, shot put, Olympic silver<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+krachevskaya&pg=PA234 |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: the … – Paul Taylor – Google Books |accessdate=2012-01-04|isbn=9781903900871 |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |publisher=Sussex Academic Press }}</ref> * Vera Krepkina, USSR, Olympic champion (long jump), world records (100-m dash and 4x100-m)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+krepkina&pg=PA234 |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: the … – Paul Taylor – Google Books |accessdate=2012-01-04|isbn=9781903900871 |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |publisher=Sussex Academic Press }}</ref> * Faina Melnik, Ukrainian-born USSR, 11 world records; Olympic discus throw champion * Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukraine, sprinter, world 100-m and 200-m champion * Irina Press, USSR, 2x Olympic champion (80-m hurdles and pentathlon) * Tamara Press, USSR, 6 world records (shot put and discus); 3x Olympic champion (2x shot put and discus) and silver (discus)

===Volleyball===

* Nelly Abramova, USSR, Olympic silver * Larisa Bergen, USSR, Olympic silver<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22++larysa&pg=PA225 |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: the … – Paul Taylor – Google Books |accessdate=2012-01-04|isbn=9781903900888 |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |publisher=Sussex Academic Press }}</ref> * Yefim Chulak, USSR, Olympic silver, bronze * Nataliya Kushnir, USSR, Olympic silver * Yevgeny Lapinsky, USSR, Olympic champion, bronze<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+lapinsky&pg=PA235 |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: the … – Paul Taylor – Google Books |accessdate=2012-01-04|isbn=9781903900888 |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |publisher=Sussex Academic Press }}</ref> * Georgy Mondzolevsky, USSR, 2x Olympic champion, 2x world champion * Vladimir Patkin, USSR, Olympic silver, bronze<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+patkin&pg=PA238 |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: the … – Paul Taylor – Google Books |accessdate=2012-01-04|isbn=9781903900888 |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |publisher=Sussex Academic Press }}</ref> * Yuriy Venherovsky, USSR, Olympic champion

===Water polo===

* Boris Goikhman, USSR, goalkeeper, Olympic silver, bronze * Nikolai Melnikov, USSR, Olympic champion<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+melnikov&pg=PA236 |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: the … – Paul Taylor – Google Books |accessdate=2012-01-04|isbn=9781903900871 |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |publisher=Sussex Academic Press }}</ref>

===Weightlifting===

* Moisei Kas’ianik, Ukrainian-born USSR, world champion<ref name="yivoencyclopedia.org" /> * Grigory Novak, Soviet, Olympic silver (middle-heavyweight); world champion * Rudolf Plyukfelder, Soviet, Olympic champion, 2x world champion (light heavyweight)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+plyukfelder&pg=PA238 |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: the … – Paul Taylor – Google Books |accessdate=2012-01-04|isbn=9781903900888 |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |publisher=Sussex Academic Press }}</ref> * David Rigert, Kazakh-born USSR, Olympic champion, 5x world champion (light-heavyweight and heavyweight), 68 world records<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0KzECrIQDQC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+rigert&pg=PA240 |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: the … – Paul Taylor – Google Books |accessdate=2012-01-04|isbn=9781903900888 |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |publisher=Sussex Academic Press }}</ref> * Igor Rybak, Ukrainian-born USSR, Olympic champion (lightweight) * Valery Shary, Byelorussian-born USSR, Olympic champion (light-heavyweight)

===Wrestling===

* Grigorii Gamarnik, USSR, world champion (Greco-Roman lightweight), world championship silver<ref name="yivoencyclopedia.org" /> * Samuel Gerson, Ukrainian-born US, Olympic silver (freestyle featherweight) * Boris Maksovich Gurevich, Soviet, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman flyweight), 2x world champion * Boris Michail Gurevitsch, USSR, Olympic champion (freestyle middleweight), 2x world champion * Oleg Karavaev, USSR, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman bantamweight), 2x world champion<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR |title=yivoencyclopedia.org |publisher=yivoencyclopedia.org |accessdate=2012-01-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429023935/http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR |archive-date=2015-04-29 }}</ref> * Yakov Punkin, Soviet, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman featherweight) * David Rudman, USSR, world championship bronze<ref name="yivoencyclopedia.org" />

===Other sports=== * Elena Altshul, Women's World Draughts Champion * Nikolay Epstein, Soviet hockey coach * Alexander Gomelsky, Soviet basketball coach * Andriy Oberemko, footballer * Grigory Surkis, chairman of the Football Federation of Ukraine

==Footnotes== {{Reflist|30em}}

==External links== * [http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_s.htm Prominent Jews based on the ''Russian Jewish Encyclopedia'']

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