{{Short description|English businessman (1905–1982)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} '''Joseph Edward Sieff''' (28 November 1905 – 4 November 1982),<ref>"England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZQ-WHC6 : 22 October 2021), Joseph Edward Sieff, 1982.</ref><ref>Associated Press (5 November 1982). [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114638931/ "Joseph Edward Sieff, 76"]. ''The Passaic Herald-News''. p. 31. Retrieved 14 December,. 2022.</ref> also known as '''Teddy Sieff''',<ref name="andrews"/> was an English businessman and Zionist. He was chairman of retailer Marks & Spencer and honorary vice-president of the British Zionist Federation.
Sieff worked at M&S for much of his career, as did his brother Israel Sieff. Teddy succeeded Israel as chairman in 1967, serving until 1972.<ref name="ms_people"/> He was succeeded as chairman by Israel's son Marcus Sieff.
In 1973, Teddy Sieff survived an assassination attempt by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. On 30 December, PFLP assassin Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (aka ''Carlos the Jackal'') called on Sieff's home on Queen's Grove in St John's Wood and ordered the maid to take him to Sieff.<ref name="demolition"/> Finding Sieff in the bathroom, in his bathtub, Carlos fired one bullet at Sieff from his Tokarev 7.62mm pistol, which bounced off Sieff just between his nose and upper lip and knocked him unconscious; the gun then jammed and Carlos fled.<ref name="andrews"/><ref name="demolition"/><ref name="eveningstandard"/> The assassination attempt is depicted in the 2010 miniseries/film, ''Carlos'' with an actor portraying Sieff. Archive footage of an interview with Sieff himself is also included in the miniseries/film.{{fact|date=June 2024}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="ms_people"> {{cite web |url=http://marksintime.marksandspencer.com/People |title=M&S Marks in time : people : founders and family }} </ref>
<ref name="andrews"><!-- details of shooting, says "teeth" --> {{cite book |title=The Defence of the Realm |author=Christopher Andrew |author-link=Christopher Andrew (historian) |isbn=978-0-14-102330-4 |page=616 |year=2009 |publisher=Penguin }} </ref>
<ref name="eveningstandard"><!-- says of shooting "dentures" --> {{cite news |url = https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/elizabeth-sieffs-mission-to-put-a-low-price-on-the-high-life-6734897.html |title = Elizabeth Sieff's mission to put a low price on the high life |newspaper = Evening Standard |author = William Cash |date = 8 January 2010 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120103105519/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23792075-elizabeth-sieffs-mission-to-put-a-low-price-on-the-high-life.do |archive-date = 3 January 2012 }} </ref>
<ref name="demolition"> {{cite news |url = https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/house-where-carlos-the-jackal-first-struck-faces-the-bulldozer-6630867.html |title = House where Carlos the Jackal first struck faces the bulldozer |newspaper = Evening Standard |author = Valentine Low |date = 12 February 2008 |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100112071742/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23437050-house-where-carlos-the-jackal-first-struck-faces-the-bulldozer.do |archive-date = 12 January 2010 }} </ref>
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