The following is a list of Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

A list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry: Sephardim (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew Səfardi, Tiberian Hebrew ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Sfaradim, Tiberian Hebrew ) are a subgroup of Jews, generally defined in contrast to Ashkenazim and/or . ...

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.

A

• Paula Abdul (1962 - ) American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer, and television personality^[1] (Sephardic father)
• Abravanel family
  • Maurice Abravanel, conductor
  • Senor Abravanel (Sílvio Santos), TV show host in Brazil and owner of SBT (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão), the second biggest Brazilian television network.
• Uriel Acosta, rationalist
• Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza, son of conversa Inês Pires.^[2].
• Grace Aguilar, Sephardic poet, Daughter of Emmanuelle and Sara Aguilar
• Moshe Raphael d'Aguilar, Portuguese Rabbi, helped establish Jewish Community in Brazil after the Inquisition.
• George Allen, American politician (Sephardic grandparents)
• Shlomo Moshe Amar, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Born in Morocco
• Matt Amar, American Film Actor. Mother is Sephardic.
• Albert Jean Amateau, rabbi
• Franck Amsallem, Algerian-born French-American jazz pianist
• Ronni Ancona, impressionist
• Edward Andrade, physicist
• Marc D. Angel, rabbi
• Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain ^[3]
• Samuel Avital, founder of Le Centre du Silence Mime School
• Hank Azaria, actor
• Max Azria, fashion designer, founder of BCBG

Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American multi-platinum selling Grammy Award-winning singer, dancer, television personality, jewelry designer, and Emmy Award-winning choreographer. ... The Abravanel family (also Abarbanel or Abrabanel) is one of the oldest and most distinguished Jewish Iberian families; they trace their origin from the biblical King David. ... Maurice Abravanel, (January 6, 1903 – September 22, 1993), was a Greek-born Swiss conductor. ... Silvio Santos Senor Abravanel (born on December 12, 1930 and widely known as Silvio Santos) is a TV show host in Brazil and owner of SBT (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão), the second biggest Brazillian television network. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... SBT, standing for Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (Brazilian Television System), is a television network in Brazil. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... Uriel Acosta (1585–1640) was a philosopher from Portugal. ... Afonso I, Duke of Braganza (1377-1461; pron. ... Grace Aguilar (1816 - 1847), a novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion, was born at Hackney of Jewish parents of Spanish descent. ... George Felix Allen (born March 8, 1952) is a former Republican United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the son of former NFL head coach George Allen. ... Matt Amar- Born. ... Albert Jean Amateau (April 20, 1889 - February 9, 1996) was a rabbi, businessman, lawyer and social activist. ... Franck Amsallem (born 1961, Oran, Algeria) is a French musician. ... Ronni Ancona (born 1968) is a Scottish impressionist and actress of Italian/Jewish ancestry who won the Best TV Comedy Actress award at the British Comedy Awards for her work in Big Impression. ... Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade (December 27, 1887 - June 6, 1971), was an English physicist, writer and poet. ... Marc D.Angel is Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, the historic Spanish and Portuguese synagogue in New York City. ... Rabbi Benjamin Artom (1835-1879) was the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain. ... Hakham or Chacham (Hebrew חכם lit. ... Samuel Avital is a mime artist, performer, teacher, mentor, creative consultant, coach, and author. ... Hank Albert Azaria (born April 25, 1964 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States) is an American actor, director, comedian and voice artist. ... Max Azria is a Jewish American fashion designer who founded the popular midscale women clothing line BCBG in 1989. ... BCBG could refer to: the French acronym bon chic bon genre or (good style, good class); see Parisian chic. ...

B

• Washington Bartlett, mayor of San Francisco, California
• Shoshana Bean, Broadway actress (mother is half Sephardic, half Ashkenazic; grandmother's family is from the Ottoman Empire)
• David Belasco, playwright
• Frieda Belinfante, cellist, conductor
• Yossi Benayoun, Footballer
• Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
• Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israeli diplomat
• Menasseh Ben Israel, rabbi, scholar, printer and diplomat
• Judah P. Benjamin, politician and lawyer
• Émile Benveniste, linguist
• David Benvenisti, writer, historian and geographer
• Jacques Benveniste, French immunologist
• Meron Benvenisti, vice-mayor of Jerusalem around 1980, researcher on the occupation of the West Bank
• J. D. Bernal, scientist, Marxist writer (Sephadic father and non-Jewish mother)^[4]
• Bernays family
  • Edward Bernays, father of public relations
• Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records (English father and Sephardic mother)
• Niels Bohr, Nobel physicist (Danish father and Sephardic mother)
• Aage Bohr, Nobel physicist, son of Niels
• Lili Boniche, Algerian singer
• Jorge Luis Borges, author (descendant of Isidoro Suárez, Argentinian Colonel of possible Sephardic origins - disputed)^{[citation needed]}.
• Michel Boujenah, comedian
• Caryl Brahms, writer ^[5]
• Tony Bullimore^[6], British yachtsman

Washington Montgomery Bartlett (February 29, 1824 – September 12, 1887) was Mayor of San Francisco, California from 1883–1887 and was Californias only Jewish governor. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... David Belasco, between 1898 and 1916. ... Frieda Belinfante (1905?-1995) Frieda Belinfante was a Dutch Jewish woman who gained fame as a cellist and conductor, and as a member of the Dutch Resistance during the second world war. ... Yosef Shai Yossi Benayoun (‎, sometimes spelled Benayun, born ‎ on May 5, 1980 in Dimona, Israel) is an Israeli football player with Liverpool FC of the English Premier League. ... Baruj Benacerraf, M.D. Baruj Benacerraf (born 29 October 1920) is a Venezuelan-American immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune systems distinction between self and non... Shlomo Ben-Ami (born July 17, 1943) is an Israeli diplomat, politician and author. ... Menasseh Ben Israel (1604-1657), Jewish rabbi, scholar, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam in 1626. ... Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. ... Emile Benveniste (1902 - 1976) was a French linguist best known for his work on Indo-European languages and his work expanding the linguistic paradigm established by Ferdinand de Saussure. ... French immunologist Jacques Benveniste (March 12, 1935 - October 3, 2004) gained international notoriety in 1988 when he published a paper in the prestigious scientific journal Nature that claimed to have found valid evidence for homeopathy. ... Meron Benvenisti is an Israeli political scientist who was Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem under Teddy Kollek from 1971 to 1978 and administered East Jerusalem and its largely Arab neighbourhoods[1]. He has long been a critic of Israels policies towards Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and... John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) was an Irish-born scientist (from Nenagh, County Tipperary), known for pioneering X-ray crystallography. ... Edward Bernays, the most famous Bernays. ... Cover of Bernays 1928 book, Propaganda. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1922. ... Aage Niels Bohr (born in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 19, 1922) is the son of Margrethe and Niels Bohr. ... Alger Alger album cover Amir El Gheram album cover Dziri album cover Lili Boniche (1921 - ), born to a Sephardic Jewish family in the Kasbah region of Algeria, is a singer of Andalucian-Arab music. ... Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer. ... Caryl Brahms, born Doris Caroline Abrahams (1901 – 1982) was an English writer. ... Tony Bullimore is a British sailor from Bristol most famous for his rescue during the 1996 Vendee Globe single handed around the world race. ...

C

• Neve Campbell (1973 - ) Canadian film and television actress (Scream)^[2]
• Elias Canetti, author, Nobel Prize winner in literature
• Veza Canetti, author (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
• Aaron Nissim Cantor ( 1967 - ) Canadian literacy advocate, public servant and NGO director, mother and father are sephardic
• Georg Cantor, mathematician (mother and father are of a family of converted Sephardi Jews)
• Isaac & Daniel Carasso, founders of Danone [3]
• Benjamin Cardozo, United States Supreme Court justice
• Sem Tob de Carrión, Spanish poet
• Anthony Caro, sculptor
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer
• David Charvet, actor
• Emmanuelle Chriqui, actress
• Hélène Cixous, feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher and literary critic (Ashkenazic mother and Sephardic father)
• Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss writer
• Arlette and Edwin Cohen, Egyptian
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Nobel Prize winner in physics
• Ronald Cohen, businessman and political figure
• Isaac da Costa, poet
• Michael Costa, conductor and composer
• Sam Costa, singer and comedian
• Peter Coyote, actor (Sephardic father)

Neve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973) is a Canadian actress. ... Elias Canetti, Nobel Laureate in Literature Canettis tomb-stone in Zürich, Switzerland Elias Canetti (Rousse, Bulgaria, 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994, Zurich) was a Bulgaria-born novelist of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. ... Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3, 1845[1] – January 6, 1918) was a German mathematician. ... Isaac Carasso was an olive oil merchant of Jewish Greek origin. ... Daniel Carasso, a member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founded the United States Dannon company and built up the Groupe Danone into a multinational business. ... Groupe Danone SA is an international food products company with its central headquarters in France, specializing in dairy products, especially famous for its yoghurt. ... Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870–July 9, 1938) was a distinguished American jurist who is remembered not only for his landmark decisions on negligence but also his modesty and philosophy. ... Sir Anthony Caro, OM, CBE, (born 8 March 1924 in New Malden, Surrey) is an English, abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblies of metal using found industrial objects. ... Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (April 3, 1895 – March 16, 1968) was an Italian Jewish composer. ... Charvet in Baywatch David Charvet (born David Faranck Guez on May 15, 1972 in Lyon, France) is an actor. ... Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui (born December 10, 1977) is a Canadian actress with a moderate list of acting credits on both television and the big screen. ... Hélène Cixous, (born June 5, 1937), is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. ... Albert Cohen (August 16, 1895 - October 7, 1981) was a Greek-born Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French. ... Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 1933) is a French physicist working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has also studied physics. ... Sir Ronald Cohen (1945- ) is an Egyptian-born British businessman and political figure, known as the father of British venture capital.[1] // Cohen was born in Egypt; his paternal family were Sephardi Jews, originally from Aleppo, Syria, though his mother, Sonia Douek, was English. ... Isaac da Costa (born January 14, 1798 in Amsterdam; died April 28, 1860 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands) was a Dutch language poet. ... Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa (February 14, 1808 - April 29, 1884) was an Italian-born conductor and composer. ... Sam Costa was a singer and a voice actor on the show Much Binding In The Marsh. ... Peter Coyote (born October 10, 1941) is an American actor and author, and has narrated many documentaries and audio books. ...

D

• Moses da Costa, English financier
• Moïse de Camondo
• Béatrice de Camondo
• Nissim de Camondo
• Lorenzo da Ponte, librettist
• Daniel De Leon, socialist
• Cecil B. DeMille, film director (mother Sephardic)
• Jacques Derrida, philosopher
• Benjamin Disraeli, British politician
• Joseph Duveen, art dealer
• Bob Dylan,musician-Sephardic father, Ashkenazic mother. The name 'Zimmerman'(very Ashkenazic)adopted recently.

Moses da Costa, also called Anthony da Costa, was an 18th century English banker. ... As a child, the Count Moïse de Camondo moved with his family, from their home in Turkey, to Paris where he grew up and continued his fathers career as a banker. ... Béatrice and brother Nissim de Camondo in 1916 Béatrice de Camondo (1894 – 1944) was a French socialite and a Holocaust victim. ... Béatrice de Camondo and brother Lieutenant Nissim de Camondo in 1916 Nissim de Camondo (1892 - 1917) was a French banker. ... Lorenzo da Ponte Lorenzo Da Ponte (March 10, 1749–August 17, 1838) was an Italian librettist born in Ceneda (now Vittorio Veneto). ... Daniel de Leon Daniel De Leon (December 14, 1852 – May 11, 1914) was a Curaçao-born American socialist and Syndicalism-influenced trade unionist of Jewish origin. ... Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was one of the most successful filmmakers during the first half of the 20th century. ... Jacques Derrida (IPA: [1]) (July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. ... Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author. ... Joseph Duveen (1869 – 1939), later made Baron Duveen of Millbank, was one of the most influential art dealers of all time. ... This article is about the recording artist. ... Ashkenazi (אַשְׁכֲּנָזִי, Standard Hebrew Aškanazi, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAškănāzî) Jews or Ashkenazic Jews, also called Ashkenazim (אַשְׁכֲּנָזִי&#1501...

F

• Moris Farhi, Turkish-born British writer
• Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Prince of Maratra, Spanish General
• Karl Emil Franzos, author (Russian mother)
• Anna Freud, psychoanalyst (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
• Diane von Fürstenberg, fashion designer (Greek-Jewish Sephardic mother)

(Musa) Moris Farhi MBE (born 1935, Ankara, Turkey) has been vice-president of International PEN since 2001. ... Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Anna Freud (December 3, 1895 - October 9, 1982) was the sixth and last child of Sigmund and Martha Freud. ... Diane von Fürstenberg (born Diane Simone Michelle Halfin on December 31, 1946 in Brussels, Belgium) is an American fashion designer best known for her hallmark wrap dress. ...

G

• Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer ^[7]
• Eydie Gorme, singer
• Hélène Grimaud, pianist
• Philip Guedalla, biographer ^[8]

Lewis Goldsmith (c. ... Eydie Gorme (real name Edith Gormezano) (born August 16, 1931 in The Bronx, New York City, United States), is an American singer, and wife of Steve Lawrence. ... Hélène Grimaud (born November 7, 1969) is a French pianist. ... Philip Guedalla (March 12, 1889 – December 16, 1944) was a British barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer. ...

H

• Yehuda Halevy, poet
• Harari Family, prominent Egyptian family
• Sidney Hart, British trade unionist
• Dan Hedaya, American actor
• Sir Basil Henriques ^[9], philanthropist
• Henriette Herz, the first Jewish woman to host a salon (nee de Lemos)
• Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister

Judah Ha-Levi, also Yehudah Halevi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi (Hebrew רבי יהודה הלוי) (c. ... Sidney Hart (September 11, 1914 - February 26, 2005), universally known as Sid Hart or, in later life, Uncle Sid, was a British trade unionist and religious administrator. ... Dan Hedaya Dan Hedaya is a prolific character actor who was born on July 24, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York to a Sephardic Jewish family. ... Sir Basil Henriques Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques (1890-1961) was a Jewish philanthropist, concentrating his work in the East End of London during the first half of the 20th century. ... Henriette Herz. ... Isaac Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha (September 7, 1893 - February 16, 1957) was a British Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister who is remembered for his innovations in road transport and for being an alleged victim of anti-semitism. ...

I

• 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.^[10]
• Ivan Illich, polymath, polemicist (Sephardic mother)
• Isaac d'Israeli, British writer, father of Benjamin Disraeli

Joao I KG (Portugues: João, IPA pron. ... The Royal House of Braganza (Portuguese: Casa Real de Bragança, pron. ... This article is about the Austrian philosopher. ... Isaac DIsraeli in a portrait from 1797. ... Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author. ...

J

• Edmond Jabès, author

Edmond Jabes (Cairo, 1912–Paris, 1991) was a Jewish writer known for becoming of the best known literary figures to write in French after World War II. The son of a Jewish Italian family, he was raised in Egypt, where he received a classical French colonial education. ...

K

• Lainie Kazan, singer and actress (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
• Otto Klemperer, conductor (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)

Lainie Kazan (born Lainie Levine on May 15, 1940 in New York City) is an American actress and singer. ... Otto Klemperer (May 14, 1885 – July 6, 1973) was a German-born conductor and composer. ...

L

• Emma Lazarus, poet
• Primo Levi, author
• Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
• Yosi Saffi Levy, sephardic Israeli singer in Los Angeles
• Benny Lévy, author, secretary to Sartre
• Bernard-Henri Levy, philosopher
• David Levy, Israeli politician
• Uriah P. Levy, American Commodore
• Arthur Lourié, composer
• Isaac Luria, scholar and mystic (Ashkenazic father and Sephardic mother)
• Salvador Luria, Nobel Prize winner in medicine
• Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary
• Lol Levy, actor

Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American poet born in New York City. ... Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and novels. ... Rita Levi-Montalcini (born April 22, 1909) is an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of growth factors. ... Professor Benny Lévy (aka Pierre Victor: 28 August 1945 in Egypt – 2003) was, as a young Maoist, an active participant in the May 1968. ... Bernard-Henri L vy is a French philosopher and writer. ... David H. Levy is an American astronomer. ... Uriah Phillips Levy (April 22, 1792 – March 26, 1862). ... Arthur-Vincent Lourié, born Artur Sergeyevich Luriye (14 May 1892 in Saint Petersburg - 12 October 1966 in Princeton, New Jersey) was a significant Russian composer of French descent. ... The grave of Isaac Luria in Safed Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534 – July 25, 1572) was a Jewish mystic in Safed. ... Salvador Edward Luria (August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an Italian microbiologist whose pioneering work on phages helped open up molecular biology. ... Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (March 5, 1870 or 1871 – January 15, 1919, in Polish Róża Luksemburg) was a Jewish Polish-born Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. ...

M

• Moses Maimonides, physician and commentator
• David Malouf, writer (Lebanese-Christian father and English-Jewish mother of Portuguese descent)
• Georges, Paul, Armand, and Maurice Marciano, founders of Guess?
• Raphael Meldola (Sephardic Rabbi)
• Raphael Meldola (chemist and first president of the Maccabaeans) ^[11]
• Benjamin Melendez, broker for the gang truce
• Albert Memmi, author
• Catulle Mendès, poet
• Dia Mirza, actress and model
• Frederick de Sola Mendes, rabbi
• Menahen Ben Elhanan Rizzolo, French rabbi
• Jacob Mendes da Costa, physician
• Pierre Mendès-France, French politician
• Daniel Mendoza, boxer
• Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, painter
• Christian Julius De Meza, Danish General
• Darius Milhaud, composer (maternal Sephardic grandfather)
• Michael Mizrachi, poker player (Iraqi father)
• Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer
• Alan Mocatta, Judge
• Frederic Mocatta, philanthropist ^[12]
• Patrick Modiano, author (Sephardic-Italian father and Flemish mother)
• Amedeo Modigliani, painter
• Moses Montefiore, Jewish leader
• Dario Moreno, singer
• Shelley Morrison, Actress
• Georges Moustaki, Greek-french singer

Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Hebrew: רבי משה בן מיימון; Arabic: Mussa bin Maimun ibn Abdallah al-Kurtubi al-Israili; March 30, 1135—December 13, 1204), commonly known by his Greek name Maimonides, was a Jewish rabbi, physician, and philosopher. ... David Malouf David Malouf (born March 20, 1934) in Brisbane is an Australian writer whose themes encompass Australian history and the Australian landscape. ... Rocky Marciano was a boxer. ... This article is about the clothing line. ... Raphael Meldola, English Rabbi. ... Raphael Meldola was a British chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society. ... The Maccabaeans (in full, the Ancient Order of Maccabeans) is an Anglo-Jewish charity, founded in 1891. ... Benjamin Melendez (b. ... Albert Memmi (born December 15, 1920) is a Tunisian-born French writer and essayist. ... Catulle Mendès Catulle Mendès (22 May 1841 - 8 February 1909) was a French poet and man of letters. ... Diya Mirza Handrich[1] or Dia Mirza [2], nicknamed Dee, (born 9 December 1981 in Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh, India) is an Indian model and actress and Miss Asia Pacific for the year 2000. ... Frederick de Sola Mendes, rabbi, author, and editor; (born at Montego Bay, Jamaica, West Indies, July 8, 1850) He was the son of R. Abraham Pereira Mendes. ... Dr. Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas/São Tomé, U.S. Virgin Islands, Caribbean - September 12, 1900) was an American surgeon. ... Pierre Mendès France Pierre Mendès France (Paris, 11 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. ... Daniel Mendoza (5 July 1764 – 3 September 1836) was an English-Jewish prizefighter, who was heavy-weight boxing champion of England 1792-1795 and is considered the father of scientific boxing. Was well known for transforming the stereotypical image of a Jew at the time from a weak, indefensible person... Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (Amsterdam, June 6, 1868 - Auschwitz, ca. ... Christian Julius De Meza (14th January 1792 - 16th September 1865) was the commander of the Danish army during the Danish-Prussian war of 1864. ... Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (IPA: ) (September 4, 1892 – June 22, 1974) was a French composer and teacher. ... Michael The Grinder Mizrachi (born January 5, 1981 in Miami, Florida) is an American professional poker player. ... Isaac Mizrahi (born October 14, 1961) is an American fashion designer. ... Sir Alan Abraham Mocatta (27 June 1907-1 November 1990) was an English judge and an expert on restrictive practices. ... Frederic David Mocatta (1828-1905), tycoon and philanthropist of a noble and Anglo-Jewish family, was a member of the London financial firm, Mocatta & Goldsmid, but retired from business in 1874 and devoted himself to works of public and private benevolence, especially in the deprived East End of London. ... Patrick Modiano is a French language novelist born 30 July 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt of a father of Italian origins and a Belgian mother, Louisa Colpijn (actress). ... Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist, practicing both painting and sculpture, who pursued his career for the most part in France. ... Moshe Montefiori and his wind mill. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Shelley Morrison (born October 26, 1936 in New York City) is an American actress. ... Georges Moustaki album cover Yussef Mustacchi, known as Georges Moustaki, (born in Alexandria, Egypt May 3, 1934) is a singer and songwriter from France of Greek Sephardic origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, eloquent simplicity and his hundreds of romantic songs. ...

N

• Sir Gerald Nabarro, British MP
• Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi
• Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician
• Yechiel Nahari, among the greatest Sephardic cantors of all time
• David Nieto (1654-1728), English rabbi and scholar
• Vicky Nizri, Writer
• Mordecai Manuel Noah, playwright, diplomat, journalist and utopian
• Danny Nucci, actor

Sir Gerald Nabarro (June 29, 1913 - ?1973) was a wealthy and florid British Conservative politician of the 1960s. ... Gracia Mendes Nasi (Gracia is archaic Portuguese or Spanish for the Hebrew Hannah, also known by her Christianized name Beatrice de Luna Miques, 1510-1569) was one of the wealthiest Jewish women of Renaissance Europe. ... Yitzhak Navon (or Yitschak Navon) (born April 9, 1921) was an Israeli political figure. ... David Nieto was the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community in London; born at Venice 1654; died in London Jan. ... Vicky Nizri Shoenfeld (born November 25, 1954) is a Mexican novelist. ... Mordecai Manuel Noah was a Jewish American diplomat, journalist, and utopian born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 July 1785; he died in New York, 22 May 1851. ... Danny Nucci (born September 15, 1968 in Klagenfurt, Austria) is an American actor who is best known for playing characters who were unceremoniously killed off in short succession during three different 1990s blockbuster action films -- Eraser, The Rock, and Titanic -- all of which were released within twenty months of one...

O

• Achy Obejas, writer
• Rodrigues Ottolengui, writer

Achy Obejas (born 1956 in Havana, Cuba) is an American writer and journalist living in Chicago, Illinois. ... Rodrigues Ottolengui (1861 - July 11, 1937) was an American writer and dentist of Sephardic descent. ...

P

• Jules Pascin, painter (Sephardic father)
• Sean Paul, Jamaican musician, Dancehall singer (Sephardic Jewish father)
• Murray Perahia, American concert pianist
• Victor Perera, Guatemalan author
• Camille Pissarro, painter (Sephardic Jewish father)
• Georges de Porto-Riche, playwright

Julius Mordecai Pincas, (March 31, 1885 - June 5, 1930) aka Pascin, The Prince of Montparnasse, was a Jewish - Bulgarian painter. ... This article is about the Jamaican reggae artist. ... Murray Perahia (b. ... The garden of Pontoise, painted 1875. ... Georges de Porto-Riche (born May 20, 1849 in Bordeaux, France; died September 5, 1930 in Paris) was a French dramatist and novelist. ...

Q, R

• David Ricardo, economist
• Edouard Roditi, author

David Ricardo (18th April, 1772–11th September, 1823), a political economist, is often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith. ... Edouard Roditi (1910-1992) was an American poet, short-story writer and translator. ...

S, T

• Jacques Saada, Canadian Cabinet minister and politician
• Charles Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi
• Maurice Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi
• Haim Saban, media mogul
• Safra Family, prominent Syrian bankers
• Francis Salvador, first American Jew to be killed in the American Revolution
• Jacob Samuda, civil engineer
• Siegfried Sassoon, poet (Sephardic father)
• Victor Sassoon, hotelier
• Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist (Sephardic father)
• Neil Sedaka, singer
• Emilio G. Segrè, physicist, Nobel Prize winner in physics
• Peter Sellers, actor (descendant of Daniel Mendoza, a marrano boxer)
• Abraham Serfaty, Moroccan dissident
• Silvan Shalom, Foreign Minister of Israel
• Jamie-Lynn Sigler, actress (father Steve Sigler is Sephardic)
• Martial Solal, Algerian-born, French jazz pianist
• Raphael Soriano, modernist architect
• Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
• Matt Stone, animator (Sephardic mother)
• André Suarès, poet
• Adolph Sutro, mayor of San Francisco, California
• Ralph de Toledano, journalist

Jacques Saada, PC (born November 22, 1947) is a Canadian politician and former cabinet minister. ... Charles Saatchi Charles Saatchi (born June 9, 1943) was the co-founder with his brother Maurice of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, which became the worlds biggest before the brothers were forced out of their own company in 1995. ... Saatchi & Saatchi is an advertising agency founded by brothers Maurice (now Lord Saatchi) and art collector Charles, most famous for their campaign on behalf of the Conservative Party before the 1979 UK general election and for the adverts for British Airways and other state owned interests privatised by the Conservatives... Lord Saatchi Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi, born June 21, 1946 is the co-founder of advertising agencies Saatchi and Saatchi and M&C Saatchi. ... Saatchi & Saatchi is an advertising agency founded by brothers Maurice (now Lord Saatchi) and art collector Charles, most famous for their campaign on behalf of the Conservative Party before the 1979 UK general election and for the adverts for British Airways and other state owned interests privatised by the Conservatives... Haim Saban Haim Saban (born 15 October 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a television and media proprietor. ... Francis Salvador (1747-1776) was the first American Jew to be killed in the American Revolution. ... Jacob Samuda (August 24, 1811 - November 12, 1844 was a Jewish English civil engineer born in London. ... Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet and author. ... Victor Sassoon (1881 - 1961) was a famous hotelier and businessman. ... Vidal Sassoon (born January 17, 1928) is a hairdresser. ... Neil Sedaka 2005 Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American pop singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. ... Portrait of Emilio Segrè. Emilio Gino Segrè (February 1, 1905 – April 22, 1989) was an Italian American physicist who, with Owen Chamberlain, won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the antiproton. ... Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was a British comedian and actor best known for his three roles in Dr. Strangelove and as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther films. ... Daniel Mendoza (5 July 1764 – 3 September 1836) was an English-Jewish prizefighter, who was heavy-weight boxing champion of England 1792-1795 and is considered the father of scientific boxing. Was well known for transforming the stereotypical image of a Jew at the time from a weak, indefensible person... Abraham Serfaty is an internationally prominent Moroccan dissident, militant, and political activist, who has been imprisoned for years by King Hassan II of Morocco, for his political actions in favor of democracy and development’s regime, during the Years of Lead. ... Silvan Shalom Silvan Shalom ▶(?) (Hebrew סילבן שלום) (born 1958) is an Israeli politician and current Foreign Minister of Israel, having been appointed in 2003 by the current Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. ... Jamie-Lynn Sigler (born May 15, 1981), previously also known as Jamie-Lynn DiScala, is an American actress. ... Martial Solal (born August 23, 1927 in Algiers, Algeria) is a French jazz pianist and composer, who is probably most widely known for the music he wrote for Jean-Luc Godards debut feature film À bout de souffle (1960). ... Grossman House, All Aluminum, Studio City, California. ... Baruch de Spinoza (‎, Portuguese: , Latin: ) (November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. ... Matthew Richard Stone (born May 26, 1971) is an Emmy-winning American animator, film director, screenwriter, actor and voice actor. ... André Suarès was a French poet born in Marseille in 1868. ... Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (April 29, 1830 - August 8, 1898) was the 24th mayor and 1st Jewish mayor of San Francisco, California, serving in that office from 1894 until 1896. ... Ralph de Toledano (August 14, 1916 - February 3, 2007) was a major figure in the conservative movement in the United States throughout the second half of the 20th century. ...

U, V

• Chaim Aharon Valero, banker, Jerusalem
• Aaron Valero, physician
• Mordechai Vanunu, nuclear technician
• Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter .^[13]

Haim (or Chaim) Aharon Valero (1846-1923) born in Jerusalem, Palestine. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Mordechai Vanunu in the garden of St. ... For others named Velázquez, see Velazquez (disambiguation). ...

W, X

• Warburg family (Italian origin, Bologna)
• Aby Warburg, art critic

Warburg can refer to: Warburg, a city in Germany the Battle of Warburg the Warburg family, a family of bankers and philanthropists, and a pedigree of Italian Sephardic origin: Moses Marcus Warburg (-1830), banker Moritz Warburg (1810-1886), jurist Max Warburg (1867-1946) Paul (Moritz) Warburg (1868-1932) Felix Warburg... Botticellis The Birth of Venus Botticellis Primavera Aby Moritz Warburg (Born: 13 June 1866 Hamburg, Germany Died: 26 October -1929 Hamburg, Germany) was an influential art historian. ...

Y

• Avrham B. Yehoshua, author
• David Levy Yulee, politician
• Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, of Iraqi Descent

David Levy Yulee was the first U.S. Senator to have practiced Judaism at one time. ... Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף) (b. ...

Z

• Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer (maternal Sephardic grandfather)

Alexander von Zemlinsky Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky, (October 14, 1871 – March 15, 1942) was an Austrian composer of classical music, conductor, and teacher. ...

See also

• List of Iberian Jews
• List of Ashkenazi Jews
• Sephardi Jews
• Lists of Jews
• List of Portuguese
• List of Spaniards
• Spanish Inquisition
• Portuguese Inquisition

This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Languages Hebrew, Ladino, Judæo-Portuguese, Catalanic, Shuadit, local languages Religions Judaism Related ethnic groups Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, other Jewish ethnic divisions, Spaniards, Portuguese. ... List of Jewish historians List of Jewish scientists and philosophers List of Jewish nobility List of Jewish inventors List of Jewish jurists List of Jews in literature and journalism List of Jews in the performing arts List of Jewish actors and actresses List of Jewish musicians List of Jews in... The following is a list of Portuguese people: Saints Santo António de Lisboa (or Anthony of Padua) (saint) Our Lady of Fatima (1917 aparitions) Rainha Santa Isabel de Portugal (saint) Navigators, explorers and related Diogo Cão (15th century explorer of African coast) Bartolomeu Dias (15th century explorer of... This is a list of notable people who either: are or were Spanish citizens during at least one period of their life, were born in Spain or in the territory of present-day Spain, but who were not or are not Spanish citizens (either because Spain did not exist at... This article is about one of the historical Inquisitions. ... An Inquisition - Auto-da-fe. ...

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