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List of Sephardic Jews
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The following is a list of Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews.
A list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry:
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Moses da Costa, English financier
- Moïse de Camondo
- Béatrice de Camondo
- Nissim de Camondo
- Lorenzo da Ponte, librettist
- James R. Davila,Lecturer in Early Jewish Studies
- Daniel De Leon, socialist
- Cecil B. DeMille, film director (mother Sephardic)
- Jacques Derrida, philosopher
- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician
- Joseph Duveen, art dealer
- Eleanor of Guzman, mistress of King Alfonso XI of Castile. Mother of King Henry II of Castile Ancestress of Spanish and many of European royalty and nobility.[7]
- 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)
- Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer [8]
- Eydie Gorme, singer
- Hélène Grimaud, pianist
- Philip Guedalla, biographer [9]
- Yehuda Halevy, poet
- Harari Family, prominent Egyptian family
- Sidney Hart, British trade unionist
- Dan Hedaya, American actor
- Sir Basil Henriques [10], philanthropist
- Henry II of Castile, King of Castile, founder of Trastamara dynasty, son of Eleanor of Guzman.[11]
- Henriette Herz, the first Jewish woman to host a salon (nee de Lemos)
- Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister
- 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.[12]
- Ivan Illich, polymath, polemicist (Sephardic mother)
- Isaac d'Israeli, British writer, father of Benjamin Disraeli
- Edmond Jabès, author
- Lainie Kazan, singer and actress (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
- Otto Klemperer, conductor (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
- 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 Levy, 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
- 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?
- Maria de Padilla the mistress of the King Pedro I of Castile, ancestress of most of European royalty, large number of nobility and many North American colonists. [13]
- Raphael Meldola (Sephardic Rabbi)
- Raphael Meldola (chemist and first president of the Maccabaeans) [14]
- Benjamin Melendez, broker for the gang truce
- Albert Memmi, author
- Catulle Mendès, poet
- Frederick de Sola Mendes, 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
- Patrick Modiano, author (Sephardic-Italian father and Flemish mother)
- Amedeo Modigliani, painter
- Michel de Montaigne, writer (His mother, Antoinette de Louppes, came from a rich Spanish Jewish family)
- Moses Montefiore, Jewish leader
- Dario Moreno, singer
- Shelley Morrison, Actress
- Georges Moustaki, Greek-french singer
- Sir Gerald Nabarro, British MP
- Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi
- Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician
- Yechiel Nahari, among the greatest Sephardic cantors of all time
- Vicky Nizri, Writer
- Mordecai Manuel Noah, playwright, diplomat, journalist and utopian
- Danny Nucci, actor
- Achy Obejas, writer
- Jerry Orbach, actor (father was a German Jew of Sephardic origin)
- Rodrigues Ottolengui, writer
- 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
- Georges de Porto-Riche, playwright
- David Ricardo, economist
- Edouard Roditi, author
- 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
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Writer
- 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
- Chaim Aharon Valero, banker, Jerusalem
- Aaron Valero, physician
- Mordechai Vanunu, nuclear technician
- Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter .[15]
- Warburg family (Italian origin, Bologna)
- Aby Warburg, art critic
- Avrham B. Yehoshua, author
- David Levi Yulee, politician
- Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, of Iraqi Descent
- Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer (maternal Sephardic grandfather)
- List of Iberian Jews
- List of Ashkenazi Jews
- Sephardi Jews
- Lists of Jews
- List of Portuguese
- List of Spaniards
- Spanish Inquisition
- Portuguese Inquisition
- ^ Eichner, Itamar. "Israeli minister, American Idol", YNetNew.com, 2006-11-17. Retrieved on 2006-11-17.
- ^ Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica, art. "Bernal": "BERNAL, Sephardi family of Marrano extraction. ... The physicist JOHN DESMOND BERNAL (1901–) is also descended from this family."
- ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle Dec 10, 1982 p.12
- ^ "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
- ^ Peggy K. Liss, "Isabel the Queen," New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 165 - disputed, however.
- ^ 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"
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
- ^ Peggy K. Liss, "Isabel the Queen," New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 165 - disputed, however.
- ^ Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001.
- ^ Peggy K. Liss, "Isabel the Queen," New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 165; James Reston, Jr. "Dogs of God," New York: Doubleday, 2005, p. 18.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290
- ^ Otaka, Yasujiro: An Aspiration Sealed. [1] Retrieved on March 10, 2007.
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