List of Sephardic Jews
The following is a list of Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews.
This is a list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry.
A
- Abraham Amigo (1610-1683), Israeli rabbi of Sepharadi descent[1]
- Benjamin Artom (1835-1879), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain[2]
- Ben Ashkenazy (1968/69-), American billionaire real estate developer
- Moran Atias (1981-), an Israeli-American actress
- Jacques Attali (1943-), Algerian-born French economist, advisor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991
- Hank Azaria (1964-) American actor and known for voicing many characters in the long-running animated series The Simpsons.
B
- Yves Béhar (1967-), Swiss designer, entrepreneur and sustainability advocate[3]
- Aldo Bensadoun (1939-) founder of the ALDO Group
- Maurice Berger, cultural historian, art critic, curator (Sephardic mother; father Ashkenazi Jew)[4]
- John Berman, news anchor for CNN.
- Miri Bohadana (1977-), Israeli actress, model, and presenter
- Can Bonomo (1987-), Turkish singer
- Alain de Botton (1969-), Swiss writer and philosopher (Sephardi father, Ashkenazi mother)
- Alain Boublil (1941-), Tunisian lyricist of the musical Les Misérables
- Caryl Brahms (1901-1982), British writer[5]
- June Brown (1927-), British actress
- Tony Bullimore (1939-2018),[6] British yachtsman
C
- Neve Campbell (1973-), Canadian film and television actress (Scream)[7]
- David Samuel Carasso , 19th-century traveler and writer
- Isaac (1874-1939) and Daniel Carasso (1905-2009), founders of Danone[8]
- Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870-1938), Supreme Court Justice
- Omri Casspi (1988-), Israeli NBA player
- Jacob Castello, 17th-century poet
- Joseph Cayre (1941-), co-founder of record label Salsoul Records, video tape distributor and producer GoodTimes Entertainment, and video game publisher GT Interactive Software.
- Stanley Chera (1942-), American real estate developer
- Joseph Chetrit (1957-), an American real estate investor and developer and founder of the Chetrit Group.
- Emmanuelle Chriqui (1975-), Canadian actress
- Hélène Cixous (1937–), Algerian-born French feminist critic[9]
- Maurice Abraham Cohen (1851-1923), educator
- Jean-François Copé (1964-), French politician; former President of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) Group in the French National Assembly; Sephardic mother
D
- Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), Algerian-born French philosopher[10]
- Patrick Drahi (1963-), billionaire founder of international news channel i24news
- Solomon Dwek (1973-) former American real estate investor and convicted felon
G
- Sonia Gardner co-founder of hedge fund Avenue Capital Management
- Lewis Goldsmith (1763-1846), Anglo-French journalist and political writer[11]
- Julien Dray (1955-), Algerian-born French politician, member of the National Assembly for the Socialist Party (PS)
- Philip Guedalla (1889-1944), biographer[12]
H
- Gisèle Halimi (1927-), French civil rights advocate and feminist
- Serge Halimi (1955-), French journalist and newspaper editor
- Eli Harari, founder of SanDisk[13]
- Sir Joshua Hassan (1915-1997),[14] Gibraltarian politician, and first Mayor and Chief Minister of Gibraltar
- Jacob Hassan (1936-2006),[15][16] Spanish academic, writer, and university professor
- Daniel G. Hedaya (1940-) is an American actor
- Sir Basil Henriques (1890-1961),[17] philanthropist
- Serge Haroche physicist
K
- Moshe Kahlon (1960-), Israeli politician, Minister of Finance since 2015
- Paul Kodish (1965-), British professional drummer
L
- Albert Laboz, New York City real estate developer.
- Marc Lasry (1959-), American Billionaire Financier
- Mélanie Laurent (1983-), French actress, singer, pianist, director, and screenwriter
- Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) U.S. poet, best remembered for her sonnet engraved on the Statue of Liberty
- Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012), Italian physician and neurobiologist
- Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948-), French philosopher
M
- Enrico Macias (1938-), Algerian-born French singer (born Gaston Ghrenassia)
- Shiri Maimon (1981-), Israeli singer, actress, and television personality
- Fred Melamed (1956-), American actor and writer
- Raphael Meldola (1849-1915), British chemist and first president of the Maccabaeans[18]
- Raphael Meldola (1754-1828), English rabbi
- Pierre Mendès France (1907-1982), French politician, Prime Minister 1954-55
- Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836), 19th-century English pugilist, prizefighter
- Frederic Mocatta (1828-1905), English philanthropist [19]
- Edgar Morin (1921-), French sociologist and philosopher (born Edgar Nahoum)
- Georges Moustaki (1934-2013), French singer-songwriter
N
- Géraldine Nakache (1980-), French actress, director, and screenwriter
O
- Jerry Orbach (1935-2004), actor best known for roles in Dirty Dancing and Law & Order
P
- Abraham Palacci (1809/10-1898), grand rabbi of Izmir
- Rahamim Nissim Palacci (1813-1907), grand rabbi of Izmir
- Joseph Palacci (1815-1896), rabbi of Izmir
- Charles Palache (1869-1954), American mineralogist
- Haim Palachi (1788-1868), grand rabbi of Izmir
- Samuel Pallache (1550-1616), Moroccan-Dutch envoy, corsair
- Murray Perahia (1947-), American concert pianist
- Victor Perez (1911-1945), Tunisian Boxer
- Azaria Piccio (1579–1647), Venetian rabbi
- Daniel Pinto (financier), British-French financier
- Inês Pires, Mistress of King John I of Portugal; ancestor of Dukes and Portuguese Kings of the House of Braganza and many of European royalty and nobility[20]
R
- Daniela Ruah (1983-), Portuguese-American actress
S
- Haim Saban (1944-), Israeli-American billionaire who founded Saban Entertainment
- Haym Salomon (1740-1785) was a Polish-born American businessman who helped finance the American Revolutionary War
- Silvio Santos (1930-), Brazilian entertainer and businessman; born Senor Abravanel, descendant of Don Isaac Abravanel
- Jerry Seinfeld (1954-) is an American stand-up comedian known for playing titular character in TV series Seinfeld
- Vic Seixas (1923-), American Hall of Fame former top-10 tennis player
- Peter Sellers (1925-1980), British comedian and actor; Knight of the Realm (Richard Henry Sellers)
- David Serero (1981-), French opera singer and actor; Sephardi descendant from Morocco
- Silvan Shalom (1958-), former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Israel
- Jamie-Lynn Sigler (1981-), American actress and singer
- Joseph Sitt (1964-), founder of global real estate company Thor Equities.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), Dutch philosopher of Sephardic Portuguese origin
- Henry Stern (California politician) (born 1982), California State Senator
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949–), French politician; Finance Minister, 1997–99; President of the International Monetary Fund, 2007–11; Sephardic mother
- Jeff Sutton (real estate developer) (1960-), American real estate developer and billionaire
T
- Yitzhak Tshuva (1948-), Israeli businessman and chairman of El-Ad Group
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1399-amigo-abraham
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ "The Maker's Mark". Smart Furniture. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Lee, Felicia. "Facing Down His Color as a Path to Privilege," The New York Times (5 May 1999), pp. E1, 10; reprinted as "A Writer Confronts His Color as A Path to Privilege," in The International Herald Tribune (6 May 1999)
- ↑ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle Dec 10, 1982 p.12
- ↑ "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2007-02-03.
- ↑ http://www.public-histoire.com/saga/yaourt/yaourt7.html
- ↑ "Helene Cixous".
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2007.
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son of David Guedalla, an almond broker in Mincing Lane, who came from a Spanish-Jewish family... He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
- ↑ "Leadership of Sephardic Community Alliance".
- ↑ independent.co.uk: Obituary: Sir Joshua Hassan
- ↑ Jacob M. Hassán
- ↑ El pueblo de Estella dedicará una de sus calles al ceutí Jacob Hassan Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "The Mocatta family were Jews driven from the Iberian peninsula in 1492"
- ↑ Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001. Notice that Inês Pires is only presently presented as a conversa, and that for centuries there was no known doubt regarding her non-Jewish Portuguese ethnicity (which, of course could have been hidden for religious and political reasons, her being the mother of Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza).
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