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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Benny | Benjamin Kubelsky | 1894 | 1974 | American | entertainer, who evolved from a modest success playing violin on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with a highly popular comedic career in radio, television, and film | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Benny |
| Kenny Hotz | Kenneth "Kenny" Joel Hotz | 1967 | n/a | Canadian | entertainer, South Park staff writer, "Kenny" of the Comedy Central television series Kenny vs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Hotz |
| Phil Silvers | Phil Silvers | 1911 | 1985 | American | entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Silvers |
| Tom Bosley | Thomas Edward Bosley | 1927 | 2010 | American | actor, television personality and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bosley |
| Shari Lewis | Shari Lewis | 1933 | 1998 | American | ventriloquist, puppeteer, children's entertainer, and television show host | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shari_Lewis |
| Joey Bishop | Joseph Abraham Gottlieb | 1918 | 2007 | American | entertainer who appeared on television as early as 1948 and eventually starred in his own weekly comedy series playing a talk/variety show host, then later hosted a late night talk show with Regis Philbin as his young sidekick on ABC. He also was a member of the "Rat Pack" with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Bishop |
| Werner Klemperer | Werner Klemperer | 1920 | 2000 | German | actor, stage entertainer, and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Klemperer |
| Jennifer Miller | Jennifer Miller | 1961 | n/a | American | circus entertainer, writer, and professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She has lived with a beard for most of her life | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Miller |
| Georgia Gibbs | Georgia Gibbs | 1918 | 2006 | American | popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Gibbs |
| Avraham Fried | Avraham Shabsi Hakohen Friedman | 1959 | n/a | null | popular musical entertainer in the Orthodox Jewish community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Fried |
| Bud Flanagan | Bud Flanagan | 1896 | 1968 | British | popular music hall and vaudeville entertainer and comedian, and later a television and film actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Flanagan |
| Neil Kaplan | Neil Kaplan | null | null | American | voice actor, audiobook narrator, entertainer, and comedian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kaplan |
| Arthur Marx | Arthur Julius Marx | 1921 | 2011 | American | author, a nationally ranked amateur tennis player, and son of entertainer Groucho Marx and his first wife, Ruth Johnson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Marx |
| Yardena Arazi | Yardena Shulamit Arazi | 1951 | n/a | Israeli | singer and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yardena_Arazi |
| Candye Kane | Candice Caleb | 1961 | 2016 | American | adult film star, and later a blues singer and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candye_Kane |
| Sam Costa | Samuel Gabriel Costa | 1910 | 1981 | English | singer, entertainer and broadcaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Costa |
| Aki Avni | Yitzhak "Aki" Avni | null | null | Israeli | actor, entertainer and television host | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Avni |
| Eddie Carmel | Eddie Carmel | 1936 | 1972 | Israeli | entertainer with gigantism and subsequent acromegaly resulting from a pituitary adenoma | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Carmel |
| Charles Kelman | Charles David Kelman | 1930 | 2004 | American | ophthalmologist, surgeon, inventor, jazz musician, entertainer, and Broadway producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kelman |
| Orna Banai | Orna Banai | 1966 | n/a | Israeli | actress, comedian, entertainer and past member of the Tel Aviv-Yafo city Council | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orna_Banai |
| Rivka Michaeli | Rivka Michaeli | 1938 | n/a | Israeli | actress, comedian, television hostess, and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivka_Michaeli |
| Davy Kaye | Davy Kaye MBE | 1916 | 1998 | English | comedy actor and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Kaye |
| Lipa Schmeltzer | Lipa Schmeltzer | 1978 | n/a | American | singer, entertainer, and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipa_Schmeltzer |
| Tuvia Tzafir | Tuvia Tzafir | 1945 | n/a | Israeli | actor, comedian, television presenter and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvia_Tzafir |
| Ruth Aarons | Ruth Hughes Aarons | 1918 | 1980 | null | US table tennis player, vaudeville entertainer, and talent manager | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Aarons |
| Craig Taro Gold | Craig Taro Gold | 1969 | n/a | American | author, entertainer, singer-songwriter, and entrepreneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Taro_Gold |
| Abie Rotenberg | Abie Rotenberg | null | null | null | prolific Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abie_Rotenberg |
| Tzipi Shavit | Tzipi Shavit | 1947 | n/a | Israeli | actress, comedian entertainer, who is best known as a children's entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzipi_Shavit |
| Amador Bendayán | Amador Jacobo Bendayán Bendayán [ben-dah-IAN] | 1920 | 1989 | Venezuelan | actor and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amador_Bendayán |
| Lew Bedell | Lewis Joseph Bedell | 1919 | 2000 | American | music business executive and comic entertainer who founded Era Records and then Doré Records in Los Angeles, California in the 1950s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Bedell |
| Neshama Carlebach | Neshama Carlebach | 1974 | n/a | American | teacher, entertainer, singer, and the protégé of her late father, Shlomo Carlebach | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neshama_Carlebach |
| Barnett Nathan | Barnett Nathan | 1793 | 1856 | English | impresario, entertainer, and dancing master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Nathan |
| Irving Fein | Irving Fein | 1911 | 2012 | American | television and film producer, and the manager of entertainers Jack Benny and George Burns | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Fein |
| Richard Rubin (TV personality) | Richard Rubin | 1983 | n/a | American | television personality and entertainer best known for starring on the first season of the Ashton Kutcher-produced reality TV series Beauty and the Geek, as well as for his work in Latin America on Spanish-language television programs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rubin_(TV_personality) |
| Roman Kartsev | Roman Andreyevich Kartsev | null | null | Russian | entertainer of stage, theater and cinema | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Kartsev |
| Rick Lax | Rick Lax | null | null | American | author, entertainer and magician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Lax |
| Mordechai Shapiro | Mordechai Shapiro | 1989 | n/a | American | singer, songwriter and entertainer in the Orthodox pop industry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Shapiro |
| Jeff Dunas | Jeff Dunas | 1954 | n/a | American | photographer known for his portraits of musicians and entertainers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dunas |
| Shwekey | Yaakov Choueka, better known by his stage name Yaakov Shwekey | null | null | null | Orthodox Jewish recording artist and musical entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwekey |
| Moshe Yess | Moshe Aaron Yess | 1945 | 2011 | null | Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Yess |
| Aderet (singer) | Hadar Babayof | null | null | Israeli | singer-songwriter, DJ, producer and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aderet_(singer) |
| Eitan Bernath | Eitan Bernath | 2002 | n/a | American | celebrity chef, entertainer, author, social media influencer, TV personality, and entrepreneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eitan_Bernath |
| Al Ritz | Al Ritz (born Albert "Al" Joachim; August 27, 1901 – December 22, 1965) | 1901 | 1965 | American | comedian, actor and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Ritz |
| Shmueli Ungar | Shmueli Ungar | null | null | American | singer, songwriter and entertainer in the contemporary Jewish religious music industry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmueli_Ungar |
| Spivy | Bertha Levine | 1906 | 1971 | American | entertainer, nightclub owner, and actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivy |
| Frank Seiden | Frank Seiden | 1860 | 1931 | null | professional magician, Badchen, vaudeville entertainer, barber, and Yiddish-language recording artist of the late 1800s and early 1900s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Seiden |
| Simcha Leiner | Simcha Leiner | 1989 | n/a | American | singer, composer and entertainer in the Contemporary Jewish religious music industry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcha_Leiner |
| Pearl Williams | Pearl Williams | 1914 | 1991 | American | entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Williams |
| Franz Polgar | Dr. Franz Polgar | 1900 | 1979 | null | renowned psychologist, hypnotist, lecturer and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Polgar |
| Yoni Z | Yoni Zigelboum | 1991 | n/a | American | recording artist, songwriter, and entertainer from Brooklyn, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoni_Z |
| Yom-Tov Ehrlich | Rabbi Yom-Tov Ehrlich | 1914 | 1990 | null | renowned Hasidic musician, composer, lyricist, recording artist, and popular entertainer known for his popular Yiddish music albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom-Tov_Ehrlich |
| Lenn Redman | Lenn Redman | 1912 | 1987 | null | artist, caricaturist, animator, author, poet, illustrator, entertainer, cartoonist and civil rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenn_Redman |
| Nir Jacob Kaplan | Nir Jacob Kaplan | 1989 | n/a | Israeli | actor, entertainer and a Radio Presenter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir_Jacob_Kaplan |
| Yan Arlazorov | Yan Mayorovich Arlazorov | 1947 | 2009 | Soviet | theater actor, comedian and entertainer, Honored Artist of Russia (1997), winner of the All-Russian Competition of Variety Artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Arlazorov |
| Emil Cohen (comedian) | Emil Cohen | 1911 | 2000 | American | comedian, humorist and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Cohen_(comedian) |
| Dave Cash (Yiddish comedian) | Dave Cash | null | null | French | Yiddish-language comedian, composer, musician and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cash_(Yiddish_comedian) |
| Lion Izmailov | Lion Izmailov , real name Lion Moiseevich Polyak ; born 5 May 1940, Moscow) | null | null | Soviet | satirist writer, screenwriter and entertainer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Izmailov |
| Sam Yuchtman | Sam Yuchtman | 1910 | 1979 | null | Toronto broadcaster, entertainer and cantorGottlieb, Sheila, "Zelda Young: Giving it voice", Lifestyles Magazine, undated best known for hosting radio shows in Yiddish and English oriented towards the Jewish community in the city | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Yuchtman |