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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judah P. Benjamin | Judah Philip Benjamin, QC | 1811 | 1884 | null | United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_P._Benjamin |
| Afua Hirsch | Afua Hirsch | 1981 | n/a | British | writer, broadcaster and former barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afua_Hirsch |
| Leon Brittan | Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne | 1939 | 2015 | British | Conservative politician and barrister who served as a European Commissioner from 1989 to 1999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Brittan |
| Richard Quest | Richard Austin Quest | 1962 | n/a | British | journalist and non-practising barrister working as a news anchor for CNN International | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Quest |
| Greville Janner | Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, QC | 1928 | 2015 | British | politician, barrister and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greville_Janner |
| Ed Vaizey | Edward Henry Butler Vaizey, Baron Vaizey of Didcot | 1968 | n/a | British | politician, media columnist, political commentator and former barrister who served as Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries from 2010 to 2016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Vaizey |
| Keith Joseph | Keith Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph | 1918 | 1994 | British | politician, intellectual and barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Joseph |
| Alan Rose | Sir Alan Edward Percival Rose | null | null | British | barrister and colonial judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Rose |
| Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith | Peter Henry Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith | 1950 | n/a | British | barrister and a former Attorney General for England and Wales and for Northern Ireland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Goldsmith,_Baron_Goldsmith |
| Leo Genn | Leopold John "Leo" Genn | 1905 | 1978 | English | actor and barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Genn |
| Ron Castan | Aaron Ronald Castan | 1939 | 1999 | Australian | barrister and human rights advocate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Castan |
| Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf | Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf | 1933 | n/a | British | life peer and retired barrister and judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Woolf,_Baron_Woolf |
| Anthony Shaffer (writer) | Anthony Joshua Shaffer | 1926 | 2001 | English | playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister, and advertising executive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Shaffer_(writer) |
| Robert Rinder | Robert Michael Rinder | 1978 | n/a | British | criminal barrister and television personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rinder |
| Linda Dessau | Linda Marion Dessau | 1953 | n/a | Australian | jurist, barrister, and the 29th and current governor of Victoria since 1 July 2015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Dessau |
| Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester | Norman Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, PC | 1914 | 1995 | British | barrister and Labour Party politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lever,_Baron_Lever_of_Manchester |
| Michael Ellis (British politician) | Michael Tyrone Ellis | 1967 | n/a | British | politician and barrister serving as Minister for the Cabinet Office since 2022 and Paymaster General since 2021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ellis_(British_politician) |
| Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree | Andrew Simon Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree | 1966 | n/a | British | barrister, businessman and Conservative fundraiser and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Feldman,_Baron_Feldman_of_Elstree |
| Elliot Perlman | Elliot Perlman | 1964 | n/a | Australian | author and barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Perlman |
| Ron Hoenig | Ron Hoenig | 1953 | n/a | Australian | barrister who served as Mayor of the City of Botany Bay in New South Wales from 1981 to 2012, a record 31 years, before standing down and winning the 25 August Heffron by-election in the state parliament for the Labor Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Hoenig |
| Peter Millett, Baron Millett | Peter Julian Millett, Baron Millett | 1932 | 2021 | British | barrister and judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Millett,_Baron_Millett |
| David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons | Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2nd Baronet | 1851 | 1925 | British | scientific author, barrister and pioneer of road transport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lionel_Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons |
| David Pannick, Baron Pannick | David Philip Pannick, Baron Pannick, QC | 1956 | n/a | British | barrister and a crossbencher in the House of Lords | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pannick,_Baron_Pannick |
| Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading | Gerald Rufus Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading | 1889 | 1960 | British | barrister and Liberal then Conservative politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Isaacs,_2nd_Marquess_of_Reading |
| Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood | Simon Denis Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, PC | 1937 | n/a | British | barrister and former Law Lord and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, from 2009 to 2012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Brown,_Baron_Brown_of_Eaton-under-Heywood |
| Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner | Anthony Stephen Grabiner, Baron Grabiner, QC | 1945 | n/a | British | barrister, academic administrator, and life peer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Grabiner,_Baron_Grabiner |
| Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew | Alexander Charles Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew | 1948 | n/a | British | barrister and crossbench member of the House of Lords | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Carlile,_Baron_Carlile_of_Berriew |
| Maurice Alexander | Maurice Alexander | 1889 | 1945 | Canadian | barrister and soldier who later moved to England and had careers in the Diplomatic Service, English law and politics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Alexander |
| Anthony Steen | Anthony David Steen CBE | 1939 | n/a | British | former Conservative Party politician and barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Steen |
| Robert Plumer Ward | Robert Ward, or from 1828 Robert Plumer Ward | 1765 | 1846 | English | barrister, politician, and novelist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Plumer_Ward |
| Rose Heilbron | Dame Rose Heilbron DBE | 1914 | 2005 | British | barrister who served as a High Court judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Heilbron |
| Philip Guedalla | Philip Guedalla | 1889 | 1944 | English | barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Guedalla |
| Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill | Anthony Paul Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, QC | 1936 | 2020 | British | barrister and member of the House of Lords | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Lester,_Baron_Lester_of_Herne_Hill |
| Henry Slesser | Sir Herman Henry Slesser | 1883 | 1979 | English | barrister and British Labour Party politician who served as Solicitor-General and Lord Justice of Appeal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Slesser |
| Norman Bentwich | Norman de Mattos Bentwich | 1883 | 1971 | British | barrister and legal academic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bentwich |
| Ivan Lawrence | Sir Ivan John Lawrence | 1936 | n/a | British | former Conservative Member of Parliament and criminal barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Lawrence |
| Arthur Cohen (politician) | Arthur Cohen | 1830 | 1914 | English | barrister and Liberal Party politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cohen_(politician) |
| Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen | Lionel Leonard Cohen, Baron Cohen, PC | 1888 | 1973 | British | barrister and judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Cohen,_Baron_Cohen |
| Julian Salomons | Sir Julian Emanuel Salomons | 1835 | 1909 | null | barrister, royal commissioner, Solicitor General, Chief Justice and member of parliament | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Salomons |
| Francis Goldsmid | Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet | 1808 | 1878 | null | Anglo-Jewish barrister and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Goldsmid |
| Herbert Raphael | Major Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Baronet | 1859 | 1924 | British | barrister and Liberal Party politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Raphael |
| Felix Cassel | Sir Felix Maximilian Schoenbrunn Cassel, 1st Baronet, PC, QC, JP | 1869 | 1953 | German | barrister and politician who served as Judge Advocate-General, the senior civilian lawyer of the War Office (and later also the Air Ministry) responsible for the administration of courts-martial, from 1915 to 1934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Cassel |
| Jack Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale | Jocelyn Edward Salis Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale | 1911 | 2006 | null | Law Lord in the United Kingdom, having been, by turns, a barrister, a commissioned officer in the British Army, a barrister again, a Conservative Party politician, a government minister, and a judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Simon,_Baron_Simon_of_Glaisdale |
| Henry Cohen (politician) | Henry Isaac Cohen | 1872 | 1942 | Australian | barrister and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cohen_(politician) |
| Max Julius | Max Nordau Julius | 1916 | 1963 | Australian | barrister and communist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Julius |
| David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Tredegar | David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Tredegar QC | 1968 | n/a | British | politician, barrister and life peer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wolfson,_Baron_Wolfson_of_Tredegar |
| David Bennett (barrister) | David Michael John Bennett AC, QC | 1941 | n/a | Australian | barrister and former Solicitor-General of Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bennett_(barrister) |
| Alan King-Hamilton | Myer Alan Barry King-Hamilton QC | 1904 | 2010 | British | barrister and judge who was best known for hearing numerous high-profile cases at the Old Bailey during the 1960s and 1970s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_King-Hamilton |
| Gerald Abrahams | Gerald Abrahams | 1907 | 1980 | English | chess player, author, and barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Abrahams |
| Sam Cohen (Australian politician) | Samuel Herbert Cohen QC | 1918 | 1969 | Australian | politician and barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cohen_(Australian_politician) |
| Maurice Ashkanasy | Maurice Ashkanasy CMG | 1901 | 1971 | Australian | barrister and Jewish community leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ashkanasy |
| Alexander Goldberg | Alexander Barnett Goldberg | 1974 | n/a | null | Dean of Religious Life and Belief, Coordinating and the Jewish Chaplain to the University of Surrey, England, a rabbi, barrister, and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldberg |
| Leonard Franklin | Sir Leonard Benjamin Franklin OBE | 1862 | 1944 | English | barrister, banker and Liberal Party politician, of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Franklin |
| David Lindo Alexander | David Lindo Alexander | 1842 | 1922 | English | barrister and Jewish community leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lindo_Alexander |
| Charles Jessel | Sir Charles James Jessel, 1st Baronet DL, JP | 1860 | 1928 | British | barrister, magistrate and businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Jessel |
| Bernard Sugerman | Sir Bernard "Bernie" Sugerman | 1904 | 1976 | Australian | barrister, legal scholar, and judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Sugerman |
| Ernest Bohr | Ernest David Bohr | 1924 | 2018 | Danish | lawyer, former barrister, and field hockey player who played for Denmark in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Bohr |
| Henry Lopes, 2nd Baron Ludlow | Henry Ludlow Lopes, 2nd Baron Ludlow | 1865 | 1922 | British | barrister and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lopes,_2nd_Baron_Ludlow |
| Leonard Stein (Liberal politician) | Leonard Jacques Stein OBE | 1887 | 1973 | British | political candidate, writer, barrister, Zionist activist, and President of the Anglo-Jewish Association | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Stein_(Liberal_politician) |
| Harry Ognall | Sir Harry Henry Ognall | 1934 | 2021 | English | High Court justice, barrister and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Ognall |
| Gershon Ellenbogen | Gershon Ellenbogen | 1917 | 2003 | British | barrister, author and a Liberal Party politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershon_Ellenbogen |
| Alexander Cameron (barrister) | Alexander Allan Cameron QC | 1963 | n/a | English | barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Cameron_(barrister) |
| Anthony Abrahams | Anthony Claud Walter Abrahams | 1923 | 2011 | British | barrister and educationalist who established CfBT Education Trust, one of the most important educational charities to be founded in post-World War II Britain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Abrahams |
| Eldred Tabachnik | Eldred Tabachnik, QC | 1943 | 2020 | South African | barrister, recorder and a former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_Tabachnik |
| Yvonne Green | Yvonne Green | 1957 | n/a | English | poet, translator, writer and barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Green |
| George Engle | Sir George Lawrence Jose Engle | 1926 | 2016 | British | barrister and First Parliamentary Counsel between 1981 and 1987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Engle |
| Chester Porter | Chester Alexander Porter QC | 1926 | 2021 | Australian | prominent barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Porter |
| Harold Lightman | Harold Lightman QC | 1906 | 1998 | English | barrister, who was awarded the unique honour of a dinner at Lincoln's Inn to celebrate his 90th birthday | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lightman |
| Bettina Banoun | Bettina Banoun | 1972 | n/a | Norwegian | barrister with a doctorate in tax law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettina_Banoun |
| Sebag Shaw | Sir Sebag Shaw | 1906 | 1982 | British | barrister and judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebag_Shaw |
| Jeremy Dein | Jeremy Dein, QC | 1960 | n/a | English | barrister specialising in criminal defence | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Dein |
| Daniel Greenberg (author) | Daniel Isaac Greenberg | 1965 | n/a | British | barrister, Parliamentary counsel, and legal writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Greenberg_(author) |
| Brian Green (barrister) | Brian Green QC | 1956 | n/a | English | barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Green_(barrister) |
| Jonathan Cohen (judge) | Sir Jonathan Lionel Cohen QC | 1951 | n/a | British | retired barrister and High Court judge (Family Division) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Cohen_(judge) |
| George Bean (judge) | Sir George Joseph Bean, OBE | 1915 | 1973 | British | barrister and High Court judge who sat in the Queen’s Bench Division from 1969 until his death four years later | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bean_(judge) |
| Dag Steinfeld | Dag Steinfeld | 1955 | n/a | Norwegian | barrister | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Steinfeld |