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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Breitbart | Andrew James Breitbart | 1969 | 2012 | American | conservative journalist, writer, and political commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart |
| Sigmund Freud | Sigmund Freud | 1856 | 1939 | Austrian | neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies in the psyche through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud |
| Herbert Marcus | Herbert Marcus | 1878 | 1950 | null | one of the co-founders of Neiman Marcus, and later became its chief executive officer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcus |
| Dave Mustaine | David Scott Mustaine | 1961 | n/a | American | musician best known as the co-founder, vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of thrash metal band Megadeth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Mustaine |
| Sally Kohn | Sally Rebecca Kohn | 1977 | n/a | American | liberal political commentator, community organizer, and founder and chief executive officer of the Movement Vision Lab, a grassroots think tank that focuses on liberal and progressive ideas and positions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Kohn |
| Menachem Begin | Menachem Begin | 1931 | 1937 | Israeli | politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin |
| Casey Neistat | Casey Owen Neistat | 1981 | n/a | American | YouTube personality, filmmaker, vlogger, and co-founder of the multimedia company Beme, which was later acquired by CNN. In 2018, he founded 368, a creative space for creators to collaborate with each other | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Neistat |
| David Ben-Gurion | David Ben-Gurion | 1886 | 1973 | null | primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ben-Gurion |
| Les Wexner | Leslie Herbert Wexner | 1937 | n/a | American | billionaire businessman, the founder and chairman emeritus of L Brands (formerly Limited Brands) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Wexner |
| Rita Katz | Rita Katz | 1963 | n/a | null | terrorism analyst and the co-founder of the Search International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Intelligence Group, a private intelligence firm based in Washington, DC. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Katz |
| Mayer Amschel Rothschild | Mayer Amschel Rothschild | 1744 | 1812 | null | successful banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_Amschel_Rothschild |
| Larry Ellison | Lawrence Joseph Ellison | 1944 | n/a | American | businessman and investor who is the co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer (CTO) and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Oracle Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison |
| Ovadia Yosef | Ovadia Yosef | 1920 | 2013 | Iraqi | Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovadia_Yosef |
| Rose Friedman | Rose Director Friedman | 1910 | 2009 | null | free-market economist and co-founder of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Friedman |
| Herman Kahn | Herman Kahn | 1922 | 1983 | null | founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Kahn |
| Lars Ulrich | Lars Ulrich R | 1963 | n/a | Danish | musician best known as the drummer and co-founder of American heavy metal band Metallica | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Ulrich |
| Paul Singer (businessman) | Paul Elliott Singer | 1944 | n/a | American | hedge fund manager, activist investor, philanthropist, and the founder, president and Co-CEO of Elliott Management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Singer_(businessman) |
| Marvin Minsky | Marvin Lee Minsky | 1927 | 2016 | American | cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky |
| Fabian Thylmann | Fabian Thylmann | 1978 | n/a | null | businessman from Germany who was founder and managing partner of the Internet pornography conglomerate Manwin (now MindGeek) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Thylmann |
| Dan Gertler | Dan Gertler | 1973 | n/a | Israeli | billionaire businessman in natural resources and the founder and President of the DGI (Dan Gertler International) Group of Companies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Gertler |
| Nick Denton | Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton | 1966 | n/a | British | Internet entrepreneur, journalist and blogger, the founder and former proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and was the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker, until a lawsuit by Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) bankrupted the company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Denton |
| Yigal Carmon | Yigal Carmon | 1946 | n/a | null | president and cofounder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Persian publications; radio and TV broadcasts; and religious sermons into many languages and circulates them over the Internet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigal_Carmon |
| Leon Black | Leon David Black | 1951 | n/a | American | investor, best known as the co-founder, and former-CEO of private equity firm Apollo Global Management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Black |
| Paul Stanley | Paul Stanley | 1952 | n/a | American | musician who is the co-founder, frontman, rhythm guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Kiss | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stanley |
| Jann Wenner | Jann Simon Wenner | 1947 | n/a | American | magazine magnate who is the co-founder and publisher of the popular culture magazine Rolling Stone, and former owner of Men's Journal magazine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jann_Wenner |
| Daniel Lubetzky | Daniel Lubetzky | 1968 | n/a | Mexican | billionaire businessman, philanthropist, author, and founder and executive chairman of snack company Kind LLC. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lubetzky |
| Jim Cramer | James Joseph Cramer | 1955 | n/a | American | television personality and host of Mad Money on CNBC. He was a hedge fund manager and is an author and a co-founder of TheStreet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cramer |
| Travis Kalanick | Travis Cordell Kalanick | 1976 | n/a | American | businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Uber | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Kalanick |
| Antipater the Idumaean | Antipater I the Idumaean | 113 | 114 BCE | null | founder of the Herodian Dynasty and father of Herod the Great | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipater_the_Idumaean |
| Mark Pincus | Mark Jonathan Pincus | 1966 | n/a | American | Internet entrepreneur known as the founder of Zynga, a mobile social gaming company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pincus |
| Ezra Levin | Ezra Levin | null | null | American | political activist and co-founder of the progressive non-profit organization, Indivisible | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Levin |
| Joe Strummer | John Graham Mellor | 1952 | 2002 | British | musician who was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and co-lead vocalist of punk rock band the Clash, formed in 1976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Strummer |
| Baal Shem Tov | Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer | 1698 | 1760 | null | Jewish mystic and healer from Poland who is regarded as the founder of Hasidic Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_Shem_Tov |
| Israel Horovitz | Israel Horovitz | 1939 | 2020 | American | playwright, director, actor and co-founder of the Gloucester Stage Company in 1979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Horovitz |
| Scott Ian | Scott Ian | 1963 | n/a | American | musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the thrash metal band Anthrax | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ian |
| Luciana Genro | Luciana Krebs Genro | 1971 | n/a | Brazilian | lawyer and politician, state deputy and one of the founders of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciana_Genro |
| Ze'ev Jabotinsky | Ze'ev Jabotinsky | null | null | Russian | Jewish Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze'ev_Jabotinsky |
| Louis B. Mayer | Louis Burt Mayer | 1884 | 1957 | Canadian | film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_B._Mayer |
| Arthur Blank | Arthur M. Blank | 1942 | n/a | American | businessman and a co-founder of the home improvement retailer The Home Depot | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Blank |
| Ben Goertzel | Ben Goertzel | null | null | null | artificial intelligence researcher, and CEO and founder of SingularityNET. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Goertzel |
| Adolph Zukor | Adolph Zukor | 1873 | 1976 | Hungarian | film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Zukor |
| Donald Fagen | Donald Jay Fagen | 1948 | n/a | American | musician best known as the co-founder, lead singer, co-songwriter, and keyboardist of the band Steely Dan, formed in the early 1970s with musical partner Walter Becker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Fagen |
| Morris Hillquit | Morris Hillquit | 1869 | 1933 | null | founder and leader of the Socialist Party of America and prominent labor lawyer in New York City's Lower East Side | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Hillquit |
| Steven Roth | Steven Roth | 1941 | n/a | null | real estate investor, the founder and chairman of Vornado Realty Trust, the largest commercial landlord in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Roth |
| James Mayer de Rothschild | James Mayer de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild | 1792 | 1868 | German | banker and the founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mayer_de_Rothschild |
| Leah Greenberg | Leah Greenberg | null | null | American | political activist and co-founder of the progressive non-profit organization, Indivisible | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Greenberg |
| Jonah Peretti | Jonah H. Peretti | 1974 | n/a | null | Internet entrepreneur, a co-founder and the CEO of BuzzFeed, co-founder of The Huffington Post, and developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Peretti |
| Carl Laemmle | Carl Laemmle | 1867 | 1939 | German | film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Laemmle |
| Avi Arad | Avi Arad | 1948 | n/a | Israeli | businessman and film producer who became the CEO of the company Toy Biz in the 1990s and soon afterward became the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, a Marvel director, and the chairman, CEO, and founder of Marvel Studios | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Arad |
| Alfred Adler | Alfred Adler | 1870 | 1937 | Austrian | medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Adler |
| Charles Saatchi | Charles Saatchi | 1943 | n/a | Iraqi | businessman and the co-founder, with his brother Maurice, of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Saatchi |
| Larry Solov | Laurence Gregory Solov | 1968 | n/a | American | attorney best known as the co-founder and CEO of Breitbart News | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Solov |
| Carl Mayer von Rothschild | Carl Mayer Freiherr von Rothschild | 1788 | 1855 | German | banker in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Mayer_von_Rothschild |
| Max Fleischer | Max Fleischer | 1883 | 1972 | American | animator, inventor, film director and producer, and studio founder and owner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Fleischer |
| Daryl Hall | Daryl Franklin Hohl | 1946 | n/a | American | rock, R&B and soul singer and musician, best known as the co-founder and principal lead vocalist of Hall & Oates (with guitarist and songwriter John Oates) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Hall |
| Jonathan Soros | Jonathan Tivadar Soros | 1970 | n/a | null | founder and chief executive officer of JS Capital Management LLC, a private investment firm | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Soros |
| David Berlin | David Zafrir Berlin | 1951 | n/a | Canadian | editor, writer, politician, educator best known for being the co-founder and first editor of The Walrus from 2003 to 2004 and former editor and owner of the Literary Review of Canada from 1998 to 2001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berlin |
| Cesare Lombroso | Cesare Lombroso | 1835 | 1909 | Italian | criminologist, phrenologist, physician, and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso |
| Howard Jonas | Howard S. Jonas | 1956 | n/a | null | businessman and telecom entrepreneur and the founder of IDT Corporation and Genie Energy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Jonas |
| Christine Maxwell | Christine Yvonne Malina-Maxwell | 1950 | n/a | British | Internet content pioneer and educator, best known as the creator and co-founder of Magellan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Maxwell |
| Mike Portnoy | Michael Stephen Portnoy | 1967 | n/a | American | musician and songwriter who is primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and a co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Portnoy |
| Henri Tajfel | Henri Tajfel | 1919 | 1982 | Polish | social psychologist, best known for his pioneering work on the cognitive aspects of prejudice and social identity theory, as well as being one of the founders of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Tajfel |
| Alex Karp | Alexander Caedmon Karp | 1967 | n/a | American | billionaire businessman, and the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp |
| Józef Unszlicht | Józef Unszlicht or Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht | 1879 | 1938 | Polish | revolutionary activist, a Soviet government official and one of the founders of the Cheka | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Unszlicht |
| James L. Brooks | James Lawrence Brooks | 1940 | n/a | American | director, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of Gracie Films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Brooks |
| Harry Cohn | Harry Cohn | 1891 | 1958 | null | co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Cohn |
| Marvin Hier | Marvin (Moshe Chaim) Hier | 1939 | n/a | null | dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, its Museum of Tolerance and of Moriah, the center's film division | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Hier |
| Ronald Segal | Ronald Michael Segal | 1932 | 2008 | South African | activist, writer and editor, founder of the anti-apartheid magazine Africa South and the Penguin African Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Segal |
| Tovia Singer | Tovia Singer | 1960 | n/a | American | Orthodox rabbi and the founder and director of Outreach Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tovia_Singer |
| Carl Djerassi | Carl Djerassi | 1923 | 2015 | Austrian | chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Djerassi |
| Alan Ginsburg | Alan Ginsburg | 1939 | n/a | American | real estate developer, philanthropist, and the founder of The CED Companies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ginsburg |
| David Gelb | David Gelb | 1983 | n/a | American | film director and co-founder of Supper Club, a production company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gelb |
| Teddy Rosen | Edward (Teddy) Ezra Rosen | 1898 | 1966 | null | founder of Ultra Electronics, one of the United Kingdom's largest electronics manufacturers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Rosen |
| Henrietta Szold | Henrietta Szold | 1860 | 1945 | null | U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Szold |
| Jesse L. Lasky | Jesse Louis Lasky | 1880 | 1958 | American | pioneer motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_L._Lasky |
| Isidore Singer | Isidore Singer | 1859 | 1939 | American | encyclopedist and editor of The Jewish Encyclopedia and founder of the American League for the Rights of Man | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_Singer |
| Hillel the Elder | Hillel ( Hīllēl; variously called Hillel HaGadol, Hillel HaZaken, Hillel HaBavli | 110 | n/a | null | born according to tradition in Babylon c. 110 BCE, died 10 CE in Jerusalem) was a Jewish religious leader, sage and scholar associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud and the founder of the House of Hillel school of tannaim | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder |
| Uri Avnery | Uri Avnery | 1923 | 2018 | Israeli | writer, politician, and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Avnery |
| Misha Mansoor | Misha Mansoor | 1984 | n/a | American | guitarist, businessman, entrepreneur, composer, songwriter, and music producer, best known as the founder of and one of the three guitarists in the progressive metal band Periphery | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Mansoor |
| Martin Abern | Martin "Marty" Abern | 1898 | 1949 | null | Marxist politician who was an important leader of the Communist youth movement of the 1920s as well as a founder of the American Trotskyist movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Abern |
| Steven Hirsch | Steven Hirsch | 1961 | n/a | null | founder and co-chairman of the adult entertainment company Vivid Entertainment,"Vivid Entertainment LLC: CEOs and Executives", BusinessWeek | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hirsch |
| Mark Spiegler | Mark Spiegler | null | null | American | talent agent for pornographic actresses and founder of Spiegler Girls, which is often regarded as being among the adult film industry's top agencies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Spiegler |
| Teddy Kollek | Theodor "Teddy" Kollek | 1911 | 2007 | Israeli | politician who served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Kollek |
| Chris Blackwell | Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell | 1937 | n/a | English | businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Blackwell |
| Solomon Schechter | Solomon Schechter | 1847 | 1915 | Moldavian | rabbi, academic scholar and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of American Conservative Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Schechter |
| David Heyman | David Jonathan Heyman | 1961 | n/a | English | film producer and the founder of Heyday Films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heyman |
| Ralph J. Roberts | Ralph Joel Roberts | 1920 | 2015 | American | businessman who was the founder of Comcast, serving as its chief executive officer for 46 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_J._Roberts |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti | 1919 | 2021 | American | poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti |
| Martin Sorrell | Sir Martin Stuart Sorrell | 1945 | n/a | British | businessman and the founder of WPP plc, the world's largest advertising and PR group, both by revenue and the number of staff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sorrell |
| Stacey Bendet | Stacey Bendet | 1978 | n/a | American | fashion designer who is the founder, chief executive officer and creative director of Alice + Olivia, a contemporary clothing company based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Bendet |
| Jemima Goldsmith | Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith | 1974 | n/a | British | screenwriter, television, film and documentary producer and the founder of Instinct Productions, a television production company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemima_Goldsmith |
| Joe Kubert | Joseph Kubert | 1926 | 2012 | Polish | comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kubert |
| Paul Krassner | Paul Krassner | 1932 | 2019 | American | author, journalist, comedian, and the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krassner |
| Tzvi Avisar | Tzvi (Tziki) Avisar | null | null | null | founder and the chairman of Over The Rainbow – the Zionist movement, a World Zionist Congress faction | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzvi_Avisar |
| Menasseh Ben Israel | Manoel Dias Soeiro | 1604 | 1657 | Portuguese | rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer, publisher, and founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Meerets Titsma`h) in Amsterdam in 1626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menasseh_Ben_Israel |
| Robert Earl | Robert Earl | 1951 | n/a | English | businessman who is the founder and CEO of Planet Hollywood, Chairman of the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, and host of Robert Earl's Be My Guest television program which airs weekly on the Cooking Channel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Earl |
| Felix Hausdorff | Felix Hausdorff | 1868 | 1942 | German | mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, and functional analysis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Hausdorff |
| William Heinemann | William Henry Heinemann | 1863 | 1920 | English | publisher of Jewish descent and the founder of the Heinemann publishing house in London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heinemann |
| Harry Rosen | Harry Rosen, CM | 1931 | n/a | null | founder and executive chairman of the Canadian luxury men's wear store Harry Rosen Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Rosen |
| Semyon Dimanstein | Semyon (Shimen) Markovich Dimanshtein | 1886 | 1938 | Soviet | state official, publisher, and leading theorist of national issues in the USSR, and one of the founders of the Soviet Oriental studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Dimanstein |
| Paul Mann | Paul Mann | 1913 | 1985 | Canadian | film and theater actor, as well as founder of the Paul Mann Actor's Workshop | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mann |
| Peter Benenson | Peter Benenson | 1921 | 2005 | British | lawyer, human rights activist and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International (AI) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benenson |
| Samson Raphael Hirsch | Samson Raphael Hirsch | 1808 | 1888 | German | Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Raphael_Hirsch |
| Bertha Pappenheim | Bertha Pappenheim | 1859 | 1936 | Austrian | Jewish feminist, a social pioneer, and the founder of the Jewish Women's Association ('') | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Pappenheim |
| Medea Benjamin | Medea Benjamin | 1952 | n/a | American | political activist who was the co-founder of Code Pink with Jodie Evans and others | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_Benjamin |
| Thomas Secunda | Thomas "Tom" Secunda | 1954 | n/a | American | business executive, best known as one of the original four co-founders of Bloomberg L.P. and current vice chairman of the company's board | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Secunda |
| Mordechai Levy | Mark "Mordechai" Levy | null | null | null | U.S.-based political activist and founder of the militant Jewish Defense Organization (JDO), a breakaway faction of the Jewish Defense League | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Levy |
| Charles Zegar | Charlie Zegar | 1948 | n/a | American | businessman and computer programmer known for being one of the four co-founders of Bloomberg L.P. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Zegar |
| Chris Stein | Christopher Stein | 1950 | n/a | null | co-founder and guitarist of the new wave band Blondie | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Stein |
| Jim Breyer | James W. Breyer | 1961 | n/a | American | venture capitalist, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, an investment and venture philanthropy firm, and a former managing partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Breyer |
| Mia Freedman | Mia Freedman | 1971 | n/a | null | co-founder of women’s digital media company Mamamia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Freedman |
| Judith Levine | Judith Levine | 1952 | n/a | American | author, journalist, civil libertarian and co-founder of the National Writers Union, a trade union of contract and freelance writers, and No More Nice Girls, a group dedicated to promoting abortion rights through street theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Levine |
| Noam Gottesman | Noam Gottesman | 1961 | n/a | null | New York City-based, British-American businessman, former hedge fund manager, and co-founder of GLG Partners | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Gottesman |
| Isabel Maxwell | Isabel Sylvia Margaret Maxwell | 1950 | n/a | French | entrepreneur and the co-founder of Magellan, an early search engine that was acquired by Excite | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Maxwell |
| Rick Doblin | Richard Elliot Doblin | 1953 | n/a | American | drug activist and executive who is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Doblin |
| Benjamin Brafman | Benjamin Brafman | 1948 | n/a | American | prominent criminal defense attorney and founder of the Manhattan-based firm Brafman & Associates, P.C.Amanda Mayo, Local High-Profile Defense Attorney Ben Brafman: "If you do Great Work, People will Start to Take Notice | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Brafman |
| Gidon Kremer | Gidon Kremer | 1947 | n/a | Latvian | classical violinist, artistic director, and founder of Kremerata Baltica | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gidon_Kremer |
| Leonard Chess | Lejzor Szmuel Czyż | 1917 | 1969 | Polish | record company executive and the co-founder of Chess Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Chess |
| Mike Medavoy | Morris Mike Medavoy | 1941 | n/a | American | film producer and business executive, as well as the co-founder of Orion Pictures (1978), former chairman of TriStar Pictures, former head of production for United Artists (1974–1978), and the current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Medavoy |
| Shneur Zalman of Liadi | Shneur Zalman of Liadi | 1745 | 1812 | null | influential rabbi and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism, then based in Liadi in the Russian Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shneur_Zalman_of_Liadi |
| Bennett Cerf | Bennett Alfred Cerf | 1898 | 1971 | American | writer, publisher and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_Cerf |
| Robert Greenwald | Robert Greenwald | 1945 | n/a | null | founder of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film and advocacy organization whose work is distributed for free in concert with nonprofit partners and movements in order to educate and mobilize for progressive causes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Greenwald |
| Frank Oppenheimer | Frank Friedman Oppenheimer | 1912 | 1985 | American | particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Oppenheimer |
| Ron Popeil | Ronald Martin Popeil | 1935 | 2021 | American | inventor and marketing personality, and founder of the direct response marketing company Ronco | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Popeil |
| Ian Maxwell | Ian Maxwell | 1956 | n/a | British | businessman and co-founder of the think tank Combating Jihadist Terrorism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Maxwell |
| Seth Warshavsky | Seth Warshavsky | 1973 | n/a | American | pornographer and the founder of Internet Entertainment Group (IEG) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Warshavsky |
| Jeremy Heimans | Jeremy Heimans | null | null | null | co-founder and CEO of Purpose and the co-author of New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make It Work for You | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Heimans |
| Harry Warner | Harry Morris Warner | 1881 | 1958 | American | studio executive, one of the founders of Warner Bros | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Warner |
| Gale Anne Hurd | Gale Anne Hurd | 1955 | n/a | American | film and television producer, the founder of Valhalla Entertainment (formerly Pacific Western Productions), and a former recording secretary for the Producers Guild of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Anne_Hurd |
| Leopold Zunz | Leopold Zunz | 1794 | 1886 | null | founder of academic Judaic Studies (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Zunz |
| Craig Newmark | Craig Alexander Newmark | 1952 | n/a | American | internet entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the classifieds website Craigslist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Newmark |
| Marty Balin | Martyn Jerel Buchwald | 1942 | 2018 | American | singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the founder/leader and one of the lead singers and songwriters of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Balin |
| David Ellison | David Ellison | 1983 | n/a | American | film producer and the founder and CEO of Skydance Media | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ellison |
| John Popper | John Popper | 1967 | n/a | American | musician and songwriter known as the co-founder, lead vocalist, and frontman of rock band Blues Traveler | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Popper |
| Tuli Kupferberg | Naphtali "Tuli" Kupferberg | 1923 | 2010 | American | counterculture poet, author, singer, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher, and co-founder of the band The Fugs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuli_Kupferberg |
| Alexander Trachtenberg | Alexander "Alex" Trachtenberg | 1884 | 1966 | American | publisher of radical political books and pamphlets, founder and manager of International Publishers of New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Trachtenberg |
| Lloyd Goldman | Lloyd Goldman | null | null | null | New York real estate developer and founder of BLDG Management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Goldman |
| Louise Sunshine | Louise Mintz Sunshine | 1940 | n/a | American | real estate professional and founder of the Sunshine Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Sunshine |
| Zalman Schachter-Shalomi | Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi | 1924 | 2014 | null | one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement and an innovator in ecumenical dialogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalman_Schachter-Shalomi |
| Leonard Goldenson | Leonard H. Goldenson | 1905 | 1999 | null | founder and president of the United States-based television network American Broadcasting Company (ABC), from 1953 to 1986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Goldenson |
| Isaac Larian | Isaac Larian | 1954 | n/a | Iranian | billionaire businessman, founder and the chief executive officer (CEO) of MGA Entertainment, the world's largest privately owned toy company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Larian |
| Brian Leiter | Brian Leiter | 1963 | n/a | American | philosopher and legal scholar who is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Leiter |
| Jac Holzman | Jac Holzman | 1931 | n/a | American | music businessman, best known as the founder, chief executive officer and head of record label Elektra Records and Nonesuch Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jac_Holzman |
| Nancy Brinker | Nancy Goodman Brinker | 1946 | n/a | null | founder of The Promise Fund and Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization named after her only sister, Susan, who died from breast cancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker |
| William Labov | William Labov | 1927 | n/a | American | linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Labov |
| George Gerbner | George Gerbner | 1919 | 2005 | null | professor of communication and the founder of cultivation theory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gerbner |
| Raya Dunayevskaya | Raya Dunayevskaya | 1910 | 1987 | American | founder of the philosophy of Marxist humanism in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raya_Dunayevskaya |
| Paul Jay | Paul Jay | 1951 | n/a | null | journalist, filmmaker, is the founder and host of theAnalysis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jay |
| Moishe Rosen | Martin "Moishe" Rosen | 1932 | 2010 | American | minister and the founder and former Executive Director of Jews for Jesus, a Christian missionary organization that focuses on evangelism to Jews | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moishe_Rosen |
| Jaclyn Friedman | Jaclyn Friedman | 1971 | n/a | American | feminist writer and activist known as the co-editor (with Jessica Valenti) of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Sexual Power and a World Without Rape and Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World, the writer of Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All and What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide To Sex and Safety, a campus speaker on issues of feminism, sexual freedom and anti-rape activism, and the founder and former executive director of Women, Action & The Media | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaclyn_Friedman |
| Daniel Miller (music producer) | Daniel Otto Joachim Miller | 1951 | n/a | English | music producer and founder of Mute Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Miller_(music_producer) |
| Max Wertheimer | Max Wertheimer | 1880 | 1943 | Austrian | psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Wertheimer |
| Steve Golin | Steven Aaron Golin | 1955 | 2019 | American | film and television producer and the founder and CEO of Anonymous Content LLP, a multimedia development, production and talent management company and co-founder and CEO of Propaganda Films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Golin |
| Nathan Handwerker | Nathan Handwerker | 1892 | 1974 | null | founder of an iconic hot dog stand that evolved into Nathan's Famous restaurants and related Nathan's retail product line | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Handwerker |
| Stephen Marks | Stephen Anthony Solomon Marks | 1946 | n/a | British | fashion retailer and founder, chairman and chief executive of the French Connection brand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marks |
| John Davis (producer) | John Andrew Davis | 1954 | n/a | American | film producer and founder of Davis Entertainment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davis_(producer) |
| Lou Scheimer | Louis Scheimer | 1928 | 2013 | American | producer and voice actor who was one of the original founders of Filmation, and also credited as an executive producer of many of its cartoons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Scheimer |
| Bobbi Brown | Bobbi Brown | 1957 | n/a | American | professional makeup artist, author, and the founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbi_Brown |
| Orin Kramer | Orin Stuart Kramer | null | null | American | hedge fund manager and founder of Boston Provident LP. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orin_Kramer |
| Vito Volterra | Vito Volterra | 1860 | 1940 | Italian | mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations, being one of the founders of functional analysis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Volterra |
| Aaron Dessner | Aaron Brooking Dessner | 1976 | n/a | American | musician, songwriter, record producer, and record label founder | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Dessner |
| Neal H. Moritz | Neal H. Moritz | 1959 | n/a | American | film producer and founder of Original Film | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_H._Moritz |
| Hermann Cohen | Hermann Cohen | 1842 | 1918 | German | Jewish philosopher, one of the founders of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Cohen |
| Gus Greenbaum | Gus Greenbaum | 1893 | 1958 | American | gangster in the casino industry, best known for taking over management of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas after the murder of co-founder Bugsy Siegel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Greenbaum |
| Arthur Seldon | Arthur Seldon | 1916 | 2005 | null | joint founder president, with Ralph Harris, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, where he directed editorial affairs and publishing for more than thirty years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Seldon |
| Phil Chess | Philip Chess | 1921 | 2016 | Polish | record producer and company executive, the co-founder with his brother of Chess Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Chess |
| Sol Price | Sol Price | 1916 | 2009 | null | founder of FedMart, Price Club (which ultimately merged into Costco) and PriceSmart | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Price |
| Abraham Abulafia | Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia | null | null | null | founder of the school of "Prophetic Kabbalah" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Abulafia |
| Lincoln Kirstein | Lincoln Edward Kirstein | 1907 | 1996 | American | writer, impresario, art connoisseur, philanthropist, and cultural figure in New York City, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Kirstein |
| Herb Abramson | Herbert C. Abramson | 1916 | 1999 | American | record company executive, record producer, and co-founder of Atlantic Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Abramson |
| Eric Eisner | Eric Eisner | null | null | null | founder and CEO of Double E Pictures, and partner at The Tornante Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Eisner |
| Karen Berg | Karen Berg | 1942 | 2020 | null | author and the founder of the Kabbalah Centre International | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Berg |
| Avraham Tehomi | Avraham Tehomi | 1903 | 1990 | null | Jewish militant who served as a Haganah commander, and was one of the founders and first commander of the Irgun | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Tehomi |
| Bruno Hussar | Father Bruno Hussar | 1911 | 1996 | null | founder of Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam, which means "Oasis of Peace," an Arab/Jewish village dedicated to coexistence | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Hussar |
| Richard Davidson | Richard J. Davidson | 1951 | n/a | null | professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as well as founder and chair of the Center for Healthy Minds and the affiliated non-profit Healthy Minds Innovations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davidson |
| Philippe Karsenty | Philippe Karsenty | 1966 | n/a | French | politician and founder of Media-Ratings, a company monitoring the French media for bias | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Karsenty |
| Lori Alhadeff | Lori Alhadeff | 1975 | n/a | American | activist, member of the Broward County School Board, and founder of school-safety organization Make Our Schools Safe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Alhadeff |
| Ed Sabol | Edwin Milton Sabol | 1916 | 2015 | American | filmmaker and the founder (with his son Steve Sabol, among others) of NFL Films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Sabol |
| David Margolese | David Margolese | 1957 | n/a | Israeli | entrepreneur, philanthropist, and co-founder of Sirius XM Radio, serving as chairman and CEO from 1993 to 2002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Margolese |
| Jacob Birnbaum | Jacob (Yaakov) Birnbaum | 1926 | 2014 | German | founder of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) and other human rights organizations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Birnbaum |
| Dan Vávra | Daniel Vávra | 1975 | n/a | Czech | video game writer, director, designer and co-founder of Warhorse Studios | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Vávra |
| Sam Ash | Sam Ash (born Samuel Ashkynase) | null | null | null | violinist, teacher, and entrepreneur, best known as the founder of the Sam Ash Music Store | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Ash |
| Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist) | Michael Geoffrey Jones | 1955 | n/a | British | musician, singer and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, co-founder and songwriter for The Clash until 1983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jones_(The_Clash_guitarist) |
| Ilene Chaiken | Ilene Chaiken | 1957 | n/a | American | television producer, director, writer, and founder of Little Chicken Productions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilene_Chaiken |
| Stefan Kisielewski | Stefan Kisielewski | 1911 | 1991 | Polish | writer, publicist, composer and politician, and one of the members of Znak, one of the founders of the Unia Polityki Realnej, the Polish libertarian and conservative political party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Kisielewski |
| Solomon Passy | Solomon Isaac Passy | 1956 | n/a | Bulgarian | scientist, politician, and innovator, founder and President of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria (since 1990), Foreign Minister in the Government of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (2001-2005), Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Passy |
| Chaim Ben Pesach | Victor Vancier | 1956 | n/a | American | political activist and the founder and director of the United States-based Kahanist organization, Jewish Task Force (JTF) and the former National Chairman of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in the United | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Ben_Pesach |
| Hillel Schwartz | Hillel Schwartz | 1923 | 2007 | null | founder of the Iskra ('al-Sharara') party, a small Communist political party which was one of the Egyptian political groupings advocating full independence from Great Britain before the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Schwartz |
| Louis Rothman | Louis Rothman | 1869 | 1926 | null | founder of Rothmans International, one of the United Kingdom's largest tobacco businesses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rothman |
| Tom Rosenberg | Tom B. Rosenberg | 1947 | 1948 | American | film producer, co-founder of Beacon Pictures; and founder and chairman of Lakeshore Entertainment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rosenberg |
| Leon Hess | Leon Hess | 1914 | 1999 | American | businessman, the founder of the Hess Corporation and the owner of the New York Jets | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Hess |
| Stuart Weitzman | Stuart A. Weitzman | 1941 | n/a | American | shoe designer, entrepreneur, and founder of the shoe company Stuart Weitzman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Weitzman |
| David Portnoy | David Scott Portnoy | 1977 | n/a | American | internet celebrity, blogger, and founder of the sports and pop culture blog Barstool Sports | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Portnoy |
| Edwin H. Land | Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI | 1909 | 1991 | American | scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Land |
| André Citroën | André-Gustave Citroën | 1878 | 1935 | French | industrialist and the founder of French automaker Citroën | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Citroën |
| David Hoberman | David Elliot Hoberman | 1952 | n/a | American | film and television producer, best known as the co-creator and executive producer of the USA Network television series Monk, and the founder and co-owner of Mandeville Films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hoberman |
| Arthur Ruppin | Arthur Ruppin | 1876 | 1943 | null | Zionist thinker and leader, and was one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ruppin |
| Robert Sarver | Robert Sarver | 1961 | n/a | American | businessman, co-founder of Southwest Value Partners, a real estate development company, and the owner of the Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Mercury, and RCD Mallorca | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sarver |
| Henry Lehman | Henry Lehman | 1822 | 1855 | German | businessman and the founder of Lehman Brothers, which grew from a cotton and fabrics shop during his life to become a large finance firm under his brothers' descendents | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lehman |
| Jack Cohn | Jacob Cohn | 1889 | 1956 | null | co-founder of Columbia Pictures Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cohn |
| Lewis Rosenstiel | Lewis "Lew" Solon Rosenstiel | 1891 | 1976 | American | founder of Schenley Industries, an American liquor company, and a philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Rosenstiel |
| Richard Attias | Richard Attias | 1959 | n/a | Moroccan | Justine Boivin, Richard Attias, Un Prince charmant très influent, Gala, March 6, 2008 events producer, founder and former chairman of PublicisLive and currently the executive chairman of Richard Attias and Associates | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Attias |
| Moisés Kaufman | Moisés Kaufman | 1963 | n/a | Venezuelan | theater director, filmmaker, playwright, founder of Tectonic Theater Project, based in New York City, and co-founder of Miami New Drama at the Colony Theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisés_Kaufman |
| Rob Glaser | Robert Denis Glaser | 1962 | n/a | null | founder of RealNetworks, which produces RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, and Helix, among other products and services | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Glaser |
| Hélène Grimaud | Hélène Grimaud | 1969 | n/a | French | classical pianist and the founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hélène_Grimaud |
| Alex Hershaft | Alex Hershaft | null | null | American | animal rights activist, Holocaust survivor, and co-founder and president of the Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), the nation's oldest (1976) organization devoted exclusively to promoting the rights of animals not to be raised for food | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Hershaft |
| Geoff Travis | Geoff Travis | 1952 | n/a | null | founder of both Rough Trade Records and the Rough Trade chain of record shops | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Travis |
| Edward R. Pressman | Edward R. Pressman | 1943 | n/a | American | film producer and founder of the production company Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Pressman |
| Jon Oringer | Jon Oringer | 1974 | n/a | American | programmer, photographer, and billionaire businessman, best known as the founder and CEO of Shutterstock, a stock media company headquartered in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Oringer |
| Leila Steinberg | Leila Steinberg | 1961 | n/a | American | manager, business woman, educator, writer, poet, and founder of AIM4TheHeART, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to helping at-risk youth find their voice using an emotional literacy curriculum and writing workshops | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Steinberg |
| Yitzhak Sadeh | Yitzhak Sadeh | 1890 | 1952 | null | commander of the Palmach and one of the founders of the Israel Defense Forces at the time of the establishment of the State of Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Sadeh |
| Sam Warner | Samuel Louis Warner | 1887 | 1927 | American | film producer who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of Warner Bros | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Warner |
| George Schlatter | George Schlatter | 1932 | n/a | American | television producer and director, best known for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and founder of the American Comedy Awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Schlatter |
| Thomas John Barnardo | Thomas John Barnardo | 1845 | 1905 | Irish | philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor and deprived children | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_John_Barnardo |
| David Lehman | David Lehman | 1948 | n/a | American | poet, non-fiction writer, and literary critic, and the founder and series editor for The Best American Poetry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lehman |
| Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein | Sidney Lewis Bernstein, Baron Bernstein | 1899 | 1993 | British | businessman and media executive who was the founding chairman of the London-based Granada Group and the founder of the Manchester-based Granada Television in 1954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Bernstein,_Baron_Bernstein |
| Amy Weiss | Amy Weiss | null | null | American | Reform rabbi, and the founder and executive director of the Houston-based non-profit Undies for Everyone | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Weiss |
| Abe Saperstein | Abraham Michael Saperstein | 1902 | 1966 | null | founder, owner and earliest coach of the Harlem Globetrotters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Saperstein |
| Leonard Baskin | Leonard Baskin | 1922 | 2000 | American | sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist, as well as founder of the Gehenna Press (1942–2000) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Baskin |
| Mendele Mocher Sforim | Mendele Mocher Sforim | 1836 | 1917 | null | Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendele_Mocher_Sforim |
| David Isay | David Avram "Dave" Isay | 1965 | n/a | American | radio producer and founder of Sound Portraits Productions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Isay |
| Gerard Philips | Gerard Leonard Frederik Philips | 1858 | 1942 | Dutch | industrialist and co-founder, with his father Frederik Philips, of Philips as a family business in 1891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Philips |
| David Wallechinsky | David Wallechinsky | 1948 | n/a | American | populist historian and television commentator, the president of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) and the founder and editor-in-chief of AllGov | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wallechinsky |
| Byrne Piven | Bernard Piven | 1929 | 2002 | American | stage actor, director, and co-founder of the Playwrights Theatre Club, a forerunner of The Second City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrne_Piven |
| Ernst Fuchs (artist) | Ernst Fuchs | 1930 | 2015 | Austrian | painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Fuchs_(artist) |
| Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild | Baron Edmond Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild | 1926 | 1997 | French | banker, the founder of the Edmond de Rothschild Group in 1953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Adolphe_de_Rothschild |
| Nyanaponika Thera | The Ven. Nyanaponika Thera | 1901 | 1994 | German | Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar who, after ordaining in Sri Lanka, later became the co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society and author of numerous seminal books and articles on Theravada Buddhism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyanaponika_Thera |
| Olga Kennard | Olga Kennard, née Weisz | 1924 | n/a | British | scientist specialising in crystallography, and founder of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Kennard |
| Franz Alexander | Franz Gabriel Alexander | 1891 | 1964 | Hungarian | psychoanalyst and physician, who is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Alexander |
| Herbert Needleman | Herbert Leroy Needleman | 1927 | 2017 | null | pediatrician, child psychiatrist, researcher and professor at the University of Pittsburgh, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, and the founder of the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning (later known as the Alliance for Healthy Homes, it has since merged with the National Center for Healthy Housing) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Needleman |
| Charles Bettelheim | Charles Bettelheim | 1913 | 2006 | French | Marxian economist and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization (CEMI : Centre pour l'Étude des Modes d'Industrialisation) at the EHESS, economic advisor to the governments of several developing countries during the period of decolonization | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bettelheim |
| Joel Kovel | Joel Stephen Kovel | 1936 | 2018 | American | scholar and author known as a founder of eco-socialism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Kovel |
| Dave Rubinstein | David Rubinstein | 1964 | 1993 | American | singer and co-founder of the New York-based hardcore punk band Reagan Youth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Rubinstein |
| Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet | Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet | 1906 | 1996 | French | entrepreneur and advertising magnate best known as the founder of Publicis Groupe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Bleustein-Blanchet |
| Boaz Weinstein | Boaz Weinstein | 1973 | n/a | American | hedge fund manager and founder of Saba Capital Management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz_Weinstein |
| Léopold Louis-Dreyfus | Léopold Louis-Dreyfus | 1833 | 1915 | French | investor and businessman, founder of the Louis Dreyfus Group, and patriarch of the Louis-Dreyfus family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léopold_Louis-Dreyfus |
| Stefan Grossman | Stefan Grossman | 1945 | n/a | American | acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and singer, music producer and educator, and co-founder of Kicking Mule records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Grossman |
| Albert Warner | Abraham "Albert" Warner | 1884 | 1967 | American | film executive who was one of the founders of Warner Bros | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Warner |
| Richard Goldman | Richard N. Goldman | 1920 | 2010 | American | billionaire philanthropist who was the co-founder of the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1990 with his wife, Rhoda Goldman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Goldman |
| Christian von Ehrenfels | Christian von Ehrenfels | 1859 | 1932 | Austrian | philosopher, and is known as one of the founders and precursors of Gestalt psychology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_von_Ehrenfels |
| Roger Williams Straus Jr. | Roger Williams Straus Jr. | 1917 | 2004 | null | co-founder and chairman of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a New York book publishing company, and member of the Guggenheim family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_Straus_Jr. |
| Raymond G. Perelman | Raymond G. Perelman | 1917 | 2019 | American | businessman and philanthropist who served as the founder, chairman and CEO of RGP Holdings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_G._Perelman |
| Gershon Kingsley | Gershon Kingsley | 1922 | 2019 | German | composer, a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, founder of the First Moog Quartet, and writer of rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious ceremonies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershon_Kingsley |
| Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted | Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted | 1853 | 1927 | null | Lord Mayor of London and the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which was later restructured including a Holland-based company commonly referred to as Royal Dutch Shell | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Samuel,_1st_Viscount_Bearsted |
| Toni Packer | Toni Packer | 1927 | 2013 | null | teacher of "meditative inquiry", and the founder of Springwater Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Packer |
| Michael Gordon (composer) | Michael Gordon | 1956 | n/a | American | composer and co-founder of the Bang on a Can music collective and festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gordon_(composer) |
| Yosef Abramowitz | Yosef Abramowitz | null | null | Israeli | entrepreneur, president and CEO of Energiya Global Capital as well as co-founder of the Arava Power Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Abramowitz |
| Bernard H. Mendik | Bernard Hyman Mendik | 1929 | 2001 | American | real estate developer, founder of the Mendik Company, and chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_H._Mendik |
| Shifty Shellshock | Seth Brooks Binzer | 1974 | n/a | American | musician, best known for being a co-founder and front man of the rap rock band Crazy Town, known for their hit song "Butterfly" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifty_Shellshock |
| Nitsana Darshan-Leitner | Nitsana Darshan-Leitner | null | null | Israeli | attorney, human rights activist, and the founder of Shurat HaDin Israeli Law Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitsana_Darshan-Leitner |
| Anna Hutsol | Anna HutsolAnna Hutsol uses the Russian version | null | null | Ukrainian | activist and one of the founders of the radical feminist activist group FEMEN. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Hutsol |
| Julian A. Brodsky | Julian A. Brodsky | 1933 | n/a | American | businessman the co-founder of Comcast Corporation and served as its chief financial officer and vice chairman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_A._Brodsky |
| Irving Green | Irving B. Green | 1916 | 2006 | American | record industry executive, and founder and president of Mercury Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Green |
| Leonard Abramson | Leonard Abramson | 1932 | n/a | null | philanthropist and the founder and former CEO of U.S. Healthcare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Abramson |
| Jules Thorn | Sir Jules Thorn | 1899 | 1980 | null | founder of Thorn Electrical Industries, one of the United Kingdom's largest electrical businesses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Thorn |
| Victor Goldschmidt | Victor Moritz Goldschmidt | 1888 | 1947 | Norwegian | mineralogist considered (together with Vladimir Vernadsky) to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Goldschmidt |
| Arlene Klasky | Arlene Klasky Csupo | 1949 | n/a | American | animator, graphic designer, producer and co-founder of Klasky Csupo with Gábor Csupó | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene_Klasky |
| Burton Blumert | Burton S. Blumert | 1929 | 2009 | null | president of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, California, co-founder and chairman of the Mises Institute, and the publisher of LewRockwell | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Blumert |
| Jay Cohen | Jay Cohen | 1968 | n/a | null | co-founder and former CEO of World Sports Exchange (WSEX), an online gambling company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cohen |
| Philippe Kahn | Philippe Kahn | 1952 | n/a | null | engineer, entrepreneur and founder of four technology companies: Borland, Starfish Software, LightSurf Technologies, and Fullpower Technologies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn |
| Andy Dunn | Andy Dunn | 1979 | n/a | American | entrepreneur and the co-founder of Bonobos Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Dunn |
| Henry Swieca | Henry Alexander Swieca | 1957 | n/a | null | co-founder and former Chief Investment Officer of Highbridge Capital Management and the founder of Talpion Fund Management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Swieca |
| Kurt Jooss | Kurt Jooss | 1901 | 1979 | null | famous German ballet dancer and choreographer mixing classical ballet with theatre; he is also widely regarded as the founder of Tanztheater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Jooss |
| Pierre Chambon | Pierre Chambon | 1931 | n/a | null | founder of the in Strasbourg, France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Chambon |
| Leonard Schleifer | Leonard S. Schleifer | 1953 | n/a | null | co-founder and chief executive of the biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Schleifer |
| Carol Weiss King | Carol Weiss King | 1895 | 1952 | null | well-known immigration lawyer, key founder of the International Juridical Association, and a founding member of the National Lawyers Guild in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Weiss_King |
| Cheryl Shuman | Cheryl Shuman | null | null | null | founder of the Beverly Hills Cannabis Club | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Shuman |
| Michael Kulich | Michael Kulich | 1986 | 2016 | null | founder and chairman of the adult entertainment company Monarchy Distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kulich |
| Solomon Goldstein | Solomon Lazarov Goldstein | 1884 | 1968 | Bulgarian | Jewish politician, one of the founders of the Bulgarian Metal Workers’ Union and of the Swiss Communist Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Goldstein |
| Ezra Dangoor | Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor | 1848 | 1930 | null | Chief Rabbi of Baghdad from 1923 to 1926, and the founder of the first publishing company in Baghdad | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Dangoor |
| Anne Klein | Anne Klein | 1923 | 1974 | American | fashion designer and businesswoman, the founder and namesake of Anne Klein & Company (owned by WHP Global as of July 2019) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Klein |
| Yoni Wolf | Jonathan Avram "Yoni" Wolf | 1979 | n/a | American | alternative hip hop and indie rock musician and co-founder of the record label Anticon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoni_Wolf |
| Aaron S. Zelman | Aaron S. Zelman | 1946 | 2010 | American | gun rights advocate, author, and founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S._Zelman |
| Juan del Encina | Juan del Encina | 1468 | 1529 | null | composer, poet, and playwright, often called the founder, along with Gil Vicente, of Iberian drama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_del_Encina |
| Ruth Fischer | Ruth Fischer | 1895 | 1961 | Austrian | Communist and a co-founder of the Austrian Communist Party in 1918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Fischer |
| Daniel Greer | Daniel Greer | 1940 | n/a | null | attorney and Orthodox rabbi and the founder of the Yeshiva of New Haven and a one time candidate for the Democratic nomination for a New York State Assembly District who in 2017 was found liable of sexually abusing and raping one of his male students while the latter was a teenager in Greer's yeshiva | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Greer |
| Jay Beckenstein | Jay Barnet Beckenstein | 1951 | n/a | American | saxophonist, composer, producer, and the co-founder of the band Spyro Gyra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Beckenstein |
| Hilla von Rebay | Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Freiin Rebay von Ehrenwiesen | 1890 | 1967 | null | abstract artist in the early 20th century and co-founder and first director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilla_von_Rebay |
| Geoffrey Bindman | Sir Geoffrey Lionel Bindman QC | 1933 | n/a | British | solicitor specialising in human rights law, and founder of the human rights law firm Bindman & Partners | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Bindman |
| David Raziel | David Raziel | 1910 | 1941 | null | leader of the Zionist underground in British Mandatory Palestine and one of the founders of the Irgun | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Raziel |
| Jacob L. Moreno | Jacob Levy Moreno | 1889 | 1974 | Romanian | psychiatrist, psychosociologist, and educator, the founder of psychodrama, and the foremost pioneer of group psychotherapy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_L._Moreno |
| Eugene Garfield | Eugene Eli Garfield | 1925 | 2017 | American | linguist and businessman, one of the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Garfield |
| Brent Hoberman | Brent Shawzin Hoberman | 1968 | n/a | British | entrepreneur, investor and multi-unicorn founder | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Hoberman |
| Gerry Schwartz | Gerald W. Schwartz, OC | 1941 | n/a | null | founder, chairman and CEO of Onex Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Schwartz |
| Larry Weinberg | Larry Weinberg | 1926 | 2019 | American | real estate developer who was one of the founders of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Weinberg |
| Cliff Asness | Clifford Scott Asness | 1966 | n/a | American | hedge fund manager and the co-founder of AQR Capital Management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Asness |
| Kenneth Cole (designer) | Kenneth D. Cole | 1954 | n/a | American | fashion clothing designer, entrepreneur and founder of the eponymous company and brand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Cole_(designer) |
| Ethan Nadelmann | Ethan A. Nadelmann | 1957 | n/a | null | founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Nadelmann |
| Anders Koppel | Anders Koppel | 1947 | n/a | null | co-founder in 1967 of the rock group Savage Rose | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Koppel |
| Salman Schocken | Salman Schocken or Shlomo Zalman Schocken | 1877 | 1959 | German | Jewish publisher, and co-founder of the large Kaufhaus Schocken chain of department stores in Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Schocken |
| Ze'ev Raban | Ze’ev Raban | 1890 | 1970 | null | leading painter, decorative artist, and industrial designer of the Bezalel school style, and was one of the founders of the Israeli art world | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze'ev_Raban |
| Milt Okun | Milton Theodore Okun | 1923 | 2016 | American | arranger, record producer, conductor, singer and founder of Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company, Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Okun |
| Joseph Goldstein (writer) | Joseph Goldstein | 1944 | n/a | null | one of the first American vipassana teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, contemporary author of numerous popular books on Buddhism (see publications below), resident guiding teacher at IMS, and leader of retreats worldwide on insight (vipassana) and lovingkindness (metta) meditation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goldstein_(writer) |
| John Frieda | John Frieda | 1951 | n/a | British | celebrity hairstylist and founder of hair salon and hair product businesses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frieda |
| David Wildstein | David Wildstein | 1961 | n/a | American | businessman, Republican Party politician, political blogger, and the founder of the New Jersey political news website Politicker Network | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wildstein |
| Fanny Waterman | Dame Fanny Waterman | 1920 | 2020 | British | pianist and academic piano teacher, who is particularly known as the founder, chair and artistic director of the Leeds International Piano Competition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Waterman |
| Elliot Handler | Elliot Handler | 1916 | 2011 | American | inventor, businessman, and co-founder of Mattel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Handler |
| Anan ben David | Anan Ben David | 715 | 795 | null | widely considered to be a major founder of the Karaite movement of Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anan_ben_David |
| Ira Kaplan | Ira Kaplan | 1957 | n/a | null | co-founder, vocalist, guitarist and songwriter in the American indie rock band Yo La Tengo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Kaplan |
| Andrei Cherny | Andrei Hugo Cherny | 1975 | n/a | American | lawyer, author, former government official, and the founder and President of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Cherny |
| Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi | Maurice Nathan Saatchi, Baron Saatchi | 1946 | n/a | British | businessman, and with his brother, Charles, co-founder of the advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Saatchi,_Baron_Saatchi |
| Michael Lucas (director) | Michael Lucas | null | null | null | Russian–Israeli-American businessman and the founder and CEO of Lucas Entertainment, Manhattan's largest gay-adult-film company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lucas_(director) |
| J. I. Rodale | Jerome Irving Rodale | 1898 | 1971 | null | publisher, editor, author, playwright and founder of Rodale, Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._I._Rodale |
| Dick Price | Richard Price | 1930 | 1985 | null | co-founder of the Esalen Institute in 1962 and a veteran of the Beat Generation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Price |
| David Hirsh | David Hirsh | 1967 | n/a | null | lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and co-founder of Engage, a campaign against the academic boycott of Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hirsh |
| Jon Zazula | Jonathan Zazula | 1952 | 2022 | American | music industry executive who was the owner of New Jersey's Rock'n Roll Heaven record store and founder of record label Megaforce Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Zazula |
| George Cohon | George Alan Cohon | 1937 | n/a | American | businessman who is the founder and senior chairman of McDonald's Canada and McDonald's of Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cohon |
| Jonathan Rosenblum | Jonathan (Yonason) Rosenblum | 1951 | n/a | null | director, spokesperson, and founder of Jewish Media Resources, an organization which attempts to clarify journalists' understanding of Haredi Jewish society | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Rosenblum |
| Charles-Louis Havas | Charles-Louis Havas | 1783 | 1858 | French | writer, translator, and founder of the first news agency Agence Havas (whose descendants are the Agence France-Presse (AFP) and the advertising firm Havas) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Louis_Havas |
| Ralph Rinzler | Ralph Rinzler | 1934 | 1994 | American | mandolin player, folksinger, and the co-founder of the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the Mall every summer in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a curator for American art, music, and folk culture at the Smithsonian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Rinzler |
| Andrey Makarevich | Andrey Vadimovich Makarevich PAR | 1953 | n/a | Soviet | rock musician and the founder of Russia's oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Makarevich |
| Ed Cassidy | Edward Claude Cassidy | 1923 | 2012 | American | jazz and rock drummer who was one of the founders of the rock group Spirit in 1967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Cassidy |
| Mark Segal | Mark Allan Segal | 1951 | n/a | null | one of the original founders of the Gay Liberation Front where he created its Gay Youth program | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Segal |
| Samuel D. Waksal | Samuel D. Waksal | 1947 | n/a | null | founder and former CEO of the biopharmaceutical company ImClone Systems | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_D._Waksal |
| Meir Dizengoff | Meir Dizengoff | 1861 | 1936 | null | Zionist leader and politician and the founder and first mayor of Tel Aviv (1911-1922 as head of town planning, 1922-1936 as mayor) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Dizengoff |
| Claude Montefiore | Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore | 1858 | 1938 | null | intellectual founder of Anglo-Liberal Judaism and the founding president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic literature and New Testament | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Montefiore |
| Daniel Carasso | Daniel Carasso | 1905 | 2009 | French | member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founder of the (now) multinational Danone | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Carasso |
| Steve Witkoff | Steven Charles Witkoff | 1957 | n/a | American | real estate investor and landlord based in New York City, and founder of the Witkoff Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Witkoff |
| Nelson Morris | Nelson Morris | 1838 | 1907 | null | founder of Morris & Company, one of the three main meat-packing companies in Chicago along with Armour & Company and Swift & Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Morris |
| Pier Leoni | Pier Leoni (or Pierleone) | null | null | null | son of the Jewish convert Leo de Benedicto and founder of the great and important medieval Roman family of the Pierleoni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Leoni |
| Berl Katznelson | Berl Katznelson | 1887 | 1944 | null | one of the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to the establishment of the modern state of Israel, and the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper of the workers' movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berl_Katznelson |
| Celia Franca | Celia Franca | 1921 | 2007 | null | co-founder of The National Ballet of Canada (1951) and its artistic director for 24 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Franca |
| Nathan of Breslov | Nathan of Breslov | 1780 | 1844 | null | chief disciple and scribe of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, founder of the Breslov Hasidic dynasty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_of_Breslov |
| Morris Frank | Morris Frank | 1908 | 1980 | null | co-founder of The Seeing Eye, the first guide-dog school in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Frank |
| David Mays | David Mays | null | null | null | founder of The Source Magazine and co-founder of Hip Hop Weekly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mays |
| Chaim Sheba | Chaim Sheba | 1908 | 1971 | Israeli | physician, notable for being the founder of Sheba Medical Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Sheba |
| Ilya Segalovich | Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich | 1964 | n/a | null | co-founder of Russian company Yandex | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Segalovich |
| Amotz Zahavi | Amotz Zahavi | 1928 | 2017 | Israeli | evolutionary biologist, a Professor in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amotz_Zahavi |
| Emerik Blum | Emerik Blum | 1911 | 1984 | Bosnian | Jewish businessman, philanthropist and the founder and first director of one of Southeast Europe's largest conglomerates, Energoinvest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerik_Blum |
| Salomon Oppenheim | Salomon Oppenheim, Jr. | 1772 | 1828 | German | Jewish banker, and the founder of the Sal. Oppenheim private bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Oppenheim |
| Joan Nestle | Joan Nestle | 1940 | n/a | null | Lambda Award winning writer and editor and a founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which holds, among other things, everything she has ever written | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Nestle |
| Jeff Yass | Jeffrey S. Yass | 1956 | n/a | American | options trader, and a co-founder and managing director of the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna International Group (SIG) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Yass |
| Abraham Abraham | Abraham Abraham | 1843 | 1911 | American | businessman and the founder of the Brooklyn department store Abraham & Straus, founded 1865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Abraham |
| Michael Redstone | Michael "Mickey" Redstone | 1902 | 1987 | null | founder of the Northeast Theater Corporation, now National Amusements, Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Redstone |
| H. Bert Mack | H. Bert Mack | 1912 | 1992 | American | real estate developer, founder of the Mack Company, and patriarch of the Mack family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Bert_Mack |
| Maxwell Dane | Maxwell "Mac" Dane | 1906 | 2004 | American | advertising executive and co-founder of the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency, known as DDB, that was established in Manhattan in 1949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Dane |
| Shula Keshet | Shula Kehset | 1959 | n/a | Israeli | social and political activist and entrepreneur, Mizrahi feminist, artist, curator, writer, educator, and publisher; one of the founders and the executive director of the MIzrahi feminism movement, "Ahoti – for Women in Israel" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shula_Keshet |
| Joseph Nakash | Yosef/Joseph "Joe" Nakash | 1942 | n/a | Israeli | businessman, real estate investor, and co-founder of Jordache Enterprises | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nakash |
| Adam Dell | Adam R. Dell | 1970 | n/a | American | venture capitalist and is the brother of Michael Dell, the founder of computer manufacturing company Dell Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Dell |
| Arnold Aronson | Arnold Aronson | 1911 | 1998 | null | founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and served as its executive secretary from 1950 to 1980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Aronson |
| Felix Zandman | Felix Zandman | 1928 | 2011 | Polish | entrepreneur and founder of Vishay Intertechnology – one of the world's largest manufacturers of electronic components | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Zandman |
| Seth Lipsky | Seth Lipsky | 1946 | n/a | null | founder and editor of the New York Sun, an independent conservative daily in New York City that ceased its print edition on September 30, 2008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Lipsky |
| Mark Dratch | Rabbi Mark Dratch | null | null | null | founder of JSafe (The Jewish Institute Supporting an Abuse-Free Environment) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dratch |
| Jerome Schottenstein | Ya'akov Meir Hayyim Jerome Schottenstein | 1926 | 1992 | American | entrepreneur and philanthropist, co-founder of Schottenstein Stores Corp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Schottenstein |
| Ken Grossman | Ken Grossman | 1954 | n/a | American | billionaire businessman, founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Grossman |
| Selma James | Selma James | 1930 | n/a | American | writer, and feminist and social activist who is co-author of the women's movement book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (with Mariarosa Dalla Costa), co-founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and coordinator of the Global Women's Strike | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_James |
| Montague Burton | Sir Montague Maurice Burton | 1885 | 1952 | null | founder of Burton Menswear, one of Britain's largest chains of clothes shops | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_Burton |
| Albert Glotzer | Albert Glotzer | 1908 | 1999 | null | professional stenographer and founder of the Trotskyist movement in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Glotzer |
| Hyman Golden | Hyman Golden | 1923 | 2008 | null | one of the co-founders of the Snapple Beverage Corporation (now part of the Dr Pepper Snapple Group) and was the company's chairman when the firm's juice drinks and teas attained national attention in the late 1980s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Golden |
| Maxim Katz | Maxim Yevgenievich Katz | 1984 | n/a | Russian | political and public figure, co-founder of the Urban Projects Foundation, author of the YouTube channel of the same name, Russian champion in sports poker, wikipedian, former deputy of the municipal assembly of the Moscow region Schukino (III convocation 2012–2016) from Party "Yabloko" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Katz |
| Richard Grossinger | Richard Grossinger | 1944 | n/a | American | writer and founder of North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grossinger |
| Joel Schreiber | Joel Schreiber | null | null | British | real estate developer, investor, and founder of Waterbridge Capital | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Schreiber |
| Isak Andic | Isak Andic Ermay | 1953 | n/a | Spanish | billionaire businessman, the founder and largest shareholder in the clothing retail chain Mango | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isak_Andic |
| Leon Godchaux | Leon Godchaux | 1824 | 1899 | French | businessman, planter, sugar plantation owner and the founder of the Leon Godchaux Clothing Co. department store and Godchaux Sugars Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Godchaux |
| Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel | Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel | 1892 | 1985 | German | Jewish microbiologist and a founder of mycoplasma bacterial research | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Klieneberger-Nobel |
| Marius Nacht | Marius Nacht | 1962 | none | null | one of Israel's leading serial entrepreneurs, founders and investors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Nacht |
| Ronn Torossian | Ronn D. Torossian | null | null | American | public relations executive, founder of New York City-based 5W Public Relations (5WPR), and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronn_Torossian |
| Benjamin Winter | Benjamin Winter Sr. | 1881 | 1944 | null | real estate developer in New York City and founder of Winter Incorporated | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Winter |
| Daniel Machover | Daniel Machover | null | null | null | head of civil litigation for Hickman & Rose Solicitors in London, UK and was the co-founder of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights in 1988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Machover |
| Josh Greenberg | Josh Greenberg | 1987 | 2015 | American | entrepreneur and one of the co-founders of music streaming service Grooveshark | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Greenberg |
| Jay Levin | Jay Levin | null | null | American | journalist who was founder, editor and CEO of the LA Weekly, one of the seminal newspapers of the weekly alternative press in the United States, until 1992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Levin |
| Edmund Moster | Edmund Moster | 1873 | 1942 | Croatian | Jewish entrepreneur, industrialist, inventor and co-founder of the "Penkala-Moster Company" (now TOZ) in Zagreb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Moster |
| Maurício Grabois | Maurício Grabois | 1912 | 1973 | Brazilian | politician of Jewish descent, founder of the modern Communist Party of Brazil and one of its leaders until his death in 1973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurício_Grabois |
| Thubten Chodron | Thubten Chodron | null | null | American | Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, the only Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and monks in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thubten_Chodron |
| Mark Natanson | Mark Andreyevich Natanson | 1850 | 1851 | Russian | revolutionary who was one of the founders of the Circle of Tchaikovsky, Land and Liberty and the Socialist-Revolutionary Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Natanson |
| Si Kahn | Si Kahn (born April 23, 1944) | 1944 | n/a | American | singer-songwriter, activist, and founder and former executive director of Grassroots Leadership | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_Kahn |
| Gino Fano | Gino Fano | 1871 | 1952 | Italian | mathematician, best known as the founder of finite geometry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Fano |
| James Schneider | James Gerald Hylton Schneider | 1987 | n/a | null | co-founder of the left wing grassroots movement Momentum | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Schneider |
| John Bucksbaum | John Bucksbaum | 1957 | n/a | null | founder and chairman of Bucksbaum Retail Properties, LLC. He was formerly chairman and chief executive officer of GGP Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bucksbaum |
| Fritz Saxl | Friedrich "Fritz" Saxl | 1890 | 1948 | null | art historian who was the guiding light of the Warburg Institute, especially during the long mental breakdown of its founder, Aby Warburg, whom he succeeded as director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Saxl |
| Johann Kremenezky | Johann Kremenezky | null | null | null | Zionist industrialist, electrical engineer, founder of the Jewish National Fund, and personal secretary and adviser to Theodor Herzl | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Kremenezky |
| Lance Sterling | Lance Sterling | null | null | American | entrepreneur and live entertainment venue owner who partnered early on with the House of Blues and its co-founder, Issac Tigrett | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Sterling |
| Leopold Freund | Leopold Freund | 1868 | 1943 | Austrian | Jewish radiologist, considered the founder of medical radiology and radiotherapy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Freund |
| Sabato Morais | Sabato Morais | 1823 | 1897 | Italian | rabbi, leader of Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia, pioneer of Italian Jewish Studies in America, and founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary, which initially acted as a center of education for Orthodox Rabbis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabato_Morais |
| Szymon Askenazy | Szymon Askenazy | 1865 | 1935 | Polish | Jewish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_Askenazy |
| David Hartman (rabbi) | David Hartman | 1931 | 2013 | American | leader and philosopher of contemporary Judaism, founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel, and a Jewish author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hartman_(rabbi) |
| Moshé Feldenkrais | Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais | 1904 | 1984 | Ukrainian | engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais Method, a system of physical exercise that aims to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshé_Feldenkrais |
| Jack Kapp | Jack Kapp | 1901 | 1949 | null | record company executive with Brunswick Records who founded the American Decca Records in 1934 along with British Decca founder Edward Lewis and later American Decca head Milton Rackmil | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kapp |
| George Devereux | Georges Devereux | 1908 | 1985 | Hungarian | ethnologist and psychoanalyst, often considered the founder of ethnopsychiatry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Devereux |
| Emile Zuckerkandl | Émile Zuckerkandl | 1922 | 2013 | Austrian | biologist considered one of the founders of the field of molecular evolution | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Zuckerkandl |
| Hermann Tietz | Hermann Tietz | 1837 | n/a | German | merchant of Jewish origin, co-founder of the Tietz Department Store | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Tietz |
| Mordechai Yosef Leiner | Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbica | null | null | null | rabbinic Hasidic thinker and founder of the Izhbitza-Radzyn dynasty of Hasidic Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Yosef_Leiner |
| Henry Schultz | Henry Schultz | 1893 | 1938 | American | economist, statistician, and one of the founders of econometrics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Schultz |
| David Ascalon | David Ascalon | 1945 | n/a | Israeli | contemporary sculptor and stained glass artist, and co-founder of Ascalon Studios | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ascalon |
| Alfred Hermann Fried | Alfred Hermann Fried | 1864 | 1921 | Austrian | Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner (with Tobias Asser) of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hermann_Fried |
| Ludwig Traube (physician) | Ludwig Traube | 1818 | 1876 | German | physician and co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Traube_(physician) |
| Chuck Greenberg (businessman) | Charles M. "Chuck" Greenberg | 1961 | n/a | American | sports attorney, chairman and founder of the Greenberg Sports Group, and owner of three minor league baseball teams | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Greenberg_(businessman) |
| Alfred A. Knopf Sr. | Alfred Abraham Knopf Sr. | 1892 | 1984 | American | publisher of the 20th century, and founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_A._Knopf_Sr. |
| Bernard Stollman | Bernard Stollman | 1929 | 2015 | American | lawyer and the founder of the ESP-Disk record label | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Stollman |
| Hy Weiss | Hyman Y. "Hy" Weiss | 1923 | 2007 | American | record producer of pop and rhythm and blues music in the 1950s and 1960s, and the founder of Old Town Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy_Weiss |
| Uri Lupolianski | Uri Lupolianski | 1951 | n/a | null | mayor of Jerusalem from 2003 to 2008 and founder of Yad Sarah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Lupolianski |
| Robert Sainsbury | Sir Robert James Sainsbury | 1906 | 2000 | null | son of John Benjamin Sainsbury (the eldest son of Sainsbury's supermarkets founder John James Sainsbury), and along with his wife Lisa began the collection of modern and tribal art housed at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sainsbury |
| Shlomo Halberstam (first Bobover rebbe) | Shlomo Halberstam | 1847 | 1905 | null | Hasidic Rebbe, founder of the Hasidic dynasty of Bobov | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Halberstam_(first_Bobover_rebbe) |
| Oxxxymiron | Miron Yanovich Fyodorov | 1985 | n/a | Russian | hip-hop artist and former executive director of the Booking Machine booking agency, as well as a co-founder and former member of the record label Vagabund | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxxxymiron |
| Barry Sternlicht | Barry Stuart Sternlicht | 1960 | n/a | American | billionaire and the co-founder (with Bob Faith), chairman, and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, an investment fund with over $60 billion in assets under management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Sternlicht |
| Peter Schwartz (futurist) | Peter Schwartz | 1946 | n/a | American | futurist, innovator, author, and co-founder of the Global Business Network (GBN), a corporate strategy firm, specializing in future-think and scenario planning | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schwartz_(futurist) |
| Fred Lebow | Fred Lebow | 1932 | 1994 | null | runner, race director, and founder of the New York City Marathon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lebow |
| Jeff Smulyan | Jeffrey Howard Smulyan | 1947 | n/a | null | founder and chief executive officer of Emmis Communications | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Smulyan |
| Warren Hellman | F. Warren Hellman | 1934 | 2011 | American | private equity investor and co-founder of Hellman & Friedman, a multibillion-dollar private equity firm | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Hellman |
| Francesca Hilton | Constance Francesca Gabor Hilton | 1947 | 2015 | null | actress and comedian who was the only child of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton and his second wife, actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Hilton |
| Nachman Syrkin | Nachman Syrkin | 1868 | 1924 | null | political theorist, founder of Labor Zionism and a prolific writer in the Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, German languages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachman_Syrkin |
| Julius Sachs | Julius Sachs | 1849 | 1934 | American | educator, founder of the Sachs Collegiate Institute who belongs to the Goldman–Sachs family of bankers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Sachs |
| Richard Gilder | Richard Gilder Jr. | 1932 | 2020 | American | philanthropist and co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gilder |
| Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz | Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz | 1886 | 1948 | null | leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such as Torah U'Mesorah, an outreach and educational organization | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shraga_Feivel_Mendlowitz |
| Alexander Frumkin | Alexander Naumovich Frumkin | 1895 | 1976 | null | Russian/Soviet electrochemist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1932, founder of the Russian Journal of Electrochemistry ElektrokhimiyaRussian Journal of Electrochemistry and receiver of the Hero of Socialist Labor award | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Frumkin |
| Joseph Chetrit | Joseph Chetrit | null | null | American | real estate investor and developer and founder of the Chetrit Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Chetrit |
| Jacob De Cordova | Jacob Raphael De Cordova | 1808 | 1868 | null | founder of the Jamaica Gleaner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_De_Cordova |
| Maximilian Berlitz | Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz (or Maximilien Berlitz | 1852 | 1921 | null | linguist and the founder of the Berlitz Language Schools, the first of which he established in 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Berlitz |
| Joseph Solman | Joseph Solman | 1909 | 2008 | American | painter, a founder of The Ten, a group of New York City Expressionist painters in the 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Solman |
| Aza Raskin | Aza Raskin | 1984 | n/a | null | co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and of the Earth Species Project | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza_Raskin |
| Lowell Milken | Lowell Jay Milken | 1948 | n/a | American | businessman, philanthropist, and the co-founder and chairman of the Milken Family Foundation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Milken |
| Alexander Tatarsky | Alexander Mikhailovich Tatarsky | 1950 | 2007 | Soviet | animation director, screenwriter, animator, producer, artist, co-founder and artistic director of the Pilot studio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tatarsky |
| Leonid Volkov (politician) | Leonid Mikhailovich Volkov | 1980 | n/a | Russian | politician and public figure, IT specialist, chief of staff for Alexei Navalny's campaign for the 2018 presidential election and subsequently the campaign of the "voter strike", co-founder of the Society for the Protection of the Internet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Volkov_(politician) |
| Deborah Meier | Deborah Meier | 1931 | n/a | American | educator often considered the founder of the modern small schools movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Meier |
| B. Gerald Cantor | Bernard Gerald Cantor | 1916 | 1996 | null | founder and chairman of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Gerald_Cantor |
| Ernst Marcus (zoologist) | Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus | 1893 | 1968 | German | zoologist, former occupant of the chair of zoology at the University of São Paulo from 1936 to 1963, and co-founder of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Marcus_(zoologist) |
| Carla Laemmle | Rebekah Isabelle Laemmle | 1909 | 2014 | American | actress and dancer, and the niece of Universal Pictures studio founder Carl Laemmle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Laemmle |
| Victor Smorgon | Victor Smorgon | 1913 | 2009 | Australian | industrialist, arts patron and benefactor, who was founder and former head of the Victor Smorgon Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Smorgon |
| Aharon Dolgopolsky | Aharon Dolgopolsky | 1930 | 2012 | Russian | linguist who is known as one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Dolgopolsky |
| Joshua Lionel Cowen | Joshua Lionel Cowen | 1877 | 1965 | American | inventor and the co-founder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Lionel_Cowen |
| Paul Citroen | Roelof Paul Citroen | 1896 | 1983 | German | artist, art educator and co-founder of the New Art Academy in Amsterdam | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Citroen |
| Mark Breslin | Mark Breslin | null | null | Canadian | entrepreneur, stand-up comedian and actor best known for being the co-founder (along with Joel Axler) of Yuk Yuk's, the largest chain of comedy clubs in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Breslin |
| Menachem Nachum Twersky | Menachem Nochum Twersky of Chernobyl | 1730 | 1787 | Ukrainian | rabbi, and the founder of the Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Nachum_Twersky |
| Jami Bernard | Jami Bernard | 1956 | n/a | American | author and media consultant, an award-winning film critic for The New York Post and The New York Daily News, and the founder of Barncat Publishing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami_Bernard |
| Barbara Myerhoff | Barbara Myerhoff | 1935 | 1985 | American | anthropologist, filmmaker, and founder of the Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Myerhoff |
| Barbara Seaman | Barbara Seaman | 1935 | 2008 | American | author, activist, and journalist, and a principal founder of the women's health feminism movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Seaman |
| Joseph Spiegel | Joseph Spiegel | 1840 | 1918 | null | founder of the Spiegel catalog, a Civil War veteran, the younger brother of Union Army Colonel Marcus M. Spiegel, and patriarch of the Spiegel family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Spiegel |
| Moshe ha-Darshan | Moshe haDarshan | null | null | null | chief of the yeshiva of Narbonne, and perhaps the founder of Jewish exegetical studies in France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_ha-Darshan |
| Theresa Helburn | Theresa Helburn | 1887 | 1959 | American | playwright and theatrical producer best known for her work as a co-founder and producer of New York's Theatre Guild from 1919 to the 1950s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Helburn |
| Ben Hatskin | Benjamin Hatskin | 1917 | 1990 | Canadian | businessman and the founder of the Winnipeg Jets | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hatskin |
| Joseph Lateiner | Joseph Lateiner | 1853 | 1935 | null | playwright in the early years of Yiddish theater, first in Bucharest, Romania and later in New York City, where he was a co-founder in 1903 with Sophia Karp of the Grand Theater, New York's first purpose-built Yiddish language theater building | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lateiner |
| Peter Neufeld | Peter J. Neufeld | 1950 | n/a | American | lawyer, cofounder, with Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project, and a founding partner in the civil rights law firm Neufeld Scheck & Brustin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Neufeld |
| Walter Levin | Walter Levin | 1924 | 2017 | null | founder, first violinist, and guiding spirit of the LaSalle Quartet (active 1947–1987), which was known for its championing of contemporary composers, for its recordings of the Second Viennese School (Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern), as well as for its intellectually penetrating interpretations of the classical and romantic quartet repertory, in particular the late quartets of Beethoven | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Levin |
| Ruth Dayan | Ruth Dayan | 1917 | 2021 | Israeli | social activist who was the founder of the Maskit fashion house | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Dayan |
| David Yellin | David Yellin | 1864 | 1941 | null | educator, a researcher of the Hebrew language and literature, a politician, one of the leaders of the Yishuv, the founder of the first Hebrew College for Teachers, one of the founders of the Hebrew Language Committee and the Israel Teachers Union, and the Zikhron Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yellin |
| Sam Sniderman | Sam Sniderman | 1920 | 2012 | Canadian | businessman best known as the founder of the Canadian record shop chain Sam the Record Man | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Sniderman |
| Azriel of Gerona | Azriel ibn Menahem ibn Ibrahim al-Tarās | null | null | null | founder of speculative Kabbalah and the Gironian Kabbalist school | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azriel_of_Gerona |
| Julia Galef | Julia Galef | 1983 | n/a | null | co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Galef |
| M. Lincoln Schuster | Max Lincoln Schuster | 1897 | 1970 | American | book publisher and the co-founder of the publishing company Simon & Schuster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Lincoln_Schuster |
| Amir Drori | Amir Drori | 1937 | 2005 | Israeli | general, founder and the first director general of the Israel Antiquities Authority | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Drori |
| Isaac Hellmuth | Isaac Hellmuth | 1819 | 1901 | null | founder of Huron University College and the University of Western Ontario, one of Canada's leading universities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hellmuth |
| David James (actor, born 1839) | David James | 1839 | 1893 | English | comic actor and one of the founders of London's Vaudeville Theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_James_(actor,_born_1839) |
| Irene Greif | Irene Greif | null | null | American | computer scientist and a founder of the field of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Greif |
| Leopold Ullstein | Leopold Ullstein | 1826 | 1899 | null | founder and publisher of several successful German newspapers, including B.Z. am Mittag and Berliner Morgenpost | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Ullstein |
| Jamie Patricof | Jamie Patricof | null | null | null | movie and television producer and co-founder of Electric City Entertainment and Hunting Lane Films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Patricof |
| William Leidesdorff | William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. | 1810 | 1848 | null | one of the earliest biracial-black U.S. citizens in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leidesdorff |
| Leroy F. Aarons | Leroy "Roy" F. Aarons | 1933 | 2004 | American | journalist, editor, author, playwright, founder of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), and founding member of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_F._Aarons |
| Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch | Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch | 1907 | 2007 | German | U.S. geneticist and co-founder of the field of developmental genetics, which investigates the genetic mechanisms of development | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_Gluecksohn-Waelsch |
| Adam Gimbel | Adam Gimbel | 1817 | 1896 | null | founder of the Gimbel Brothers Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Gimbel |
| Michael Zilkha | Michael Zilkha | 1954 | n/a | British | entrepreneur, the co-founder of ZE Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Zilkha |
| Grigory Gershuni | Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni | null | null | Russian | revolutionary and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Gershuni |
| Mendel Rosenblum | Mendel Rosenblum | 1962 | n/a | null | professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and co-founder of VMware | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendel_Rosenblum |
| Móric Fischer de Farkasházy | Móric Fischer de Farkasházy | 1799 | 1880 | Hungarian | porcelain-manufacturer; was one of the founders of the Herend porcelain manufactory in 1839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Móric_Fischer_de_Farkasházy |
| Bernie Glassman | Bernie Glassman | 1939 | 2018 | American | Zen Buddhist roshi and founder of the Zen Peacemakers (previously the Zen Community of New York), an organization established in 1980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Glassman |
| David Hilberman | David Hilberman | 1911 | 2007 | American | animator and one of the founders of classic 1940s animation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilberman |
| Edmund Ansin | Edmund N. Ansin | 1936 | 2020 | American | billionaire and co-founder of Sunbeam Television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Ansin |
| Richard H. Schwartz | Richard H. Schwartz | null | null | null | professor emeritus of mathematics at the College of Staten Island; president emeritus of the Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA); and co-founder and coordinator of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Schwartz |
| Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse | Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse | 1902 | 1992 | English | socialite and one of the founders of The Victorian Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Parsons,_Countess_of_Rosse |
| Simon Jacobson | Simon Jacobson | 1956 | n/a | null | author of Toward a Meaningful Life (William Morrow, 2002), founder of The Meaningful Life Center and publisher of the Yiddish English weekly, The Algemeiner Journal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Jacobson |
| Gideon Gartner | Gideon Isaiah Gartner | 1935 | 2020 | null | founder of Gartner, Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Gartner |
| Solomon Lazard | Solomon Lazard | 1827 | 1916 | null | entrepreneur in 19th century Los Angeles, California, a member of the city council there in 1854, and founder of S. Lazard & Co (later the City of Paris department store) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Lazard |
| Daveed Gartenstein-Ross | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross | 1976 | n/a | null | author and the founder and chief executive officer of Valens Global | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daveed_Gartenstein-Ross |
| Albert Boni | Albert Boni | 1892 | 1981 | null | co-founder of the publishing company Boni & Liveright and a pioneering publisher in paperbacks and book clubs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Boni |
| Israel Belkind | Israel Belkind | 1861 | 1929 | null | Jewish educator, author, writer, historian and founder of the Bilu movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Belkind |
| Diane Hamilton | Diane Hamilton | 1924 | 1991 | American | pseudonym of Diane Guggenheim (1924 – 1991), an American mining heiress, folksong patron and founder of Tradition Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Hamilton |
| Julio Kaplan | Julio Argentino Kaplan Pera | 1950 | n/a | Puerto Rican | chess player, former world junior chess champion as well as software developer and founder of Heuristic Software | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Kaplan |
| Alexander Zaïd | Alexander Zaïd | 1886 | 1938 | null | one of the founders of the Jewish defense organizations Bar Giora and Hashomer, and a prominent figure of the Second Aliyah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Zaïd |
| Jean Nidetch | Jean Evelyn Nidetch | 1923 | 2015 | American | business entrepreneur who was the founder of the Weight Watchers organization | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Nidetch |
| Peter Schidlof | Peter Schidlof | 1922 | 1987 | Austrian | violist and co-founder of the Amadeus Quartet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schidlof |
| Dov Hoz | Dov Hoz (, September 19, 1894 - December 29, 1940) | 1894 | 1940 | null | leader of the Labor Zionism movement, one of the founders of the Haganah organization, and a pioneer of Israeli aviation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Hoz |
| Zeev Suraski | Zeev Suraski | null | null | Israeli | programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeev_Suraski |
| Shaul Avigur | Shaul Avigur | 1899 | 1978 | null | founder of the Israeli Intelligence Community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaul_Avigur |
| Samuel von Fischer | Samuel Fischer, later Samuel von Fischer | 1859 | 1934 | Hungarian | publisher, the founder of S. Fischer Verlag | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_von_Fischer |
| Yitzchak Dovid Grossman | Yitzchak Dovid Grossman | 1946 | n/a | null | Chief Rabbi of Migdal HaEmek, founder and dean of Migdal Ohr educational institutions, and a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council of Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzchak_Dovid_Grossman |
| Yoel Bin-Nun | Yoel Bin-Nun | 1946 | 5766 | Israeli | religious Zionist rabbi and one of the founders of Yeshivat Har Etzion, Gush Emunim, Michlelet Herzog and the settlements of Alon Shevut and Ofra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoel_Bin-Nun |
| Reed Slatkin | Reed Eliot Slatkin | 1949 | 2015 | null | initial investor and co-founder of EarthLink and the perpetrator of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in the United States since that conducted by Charles Ponzi himself | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Slatkin |
| Matthew Winkler (journalist) | Matthew Winkler | 1955 | n/a | American | journalist who is a co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, part of Bloomberg L.P. He is also co-author of Bloomberg by Bloomberg and the author of The Bloomberg Way: A Guide for Reporters and Editors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Winkler_(journalist) |
| Douglas Jemal | Douglas Jemal | 1942 | n/a | null | real estate developer, convicted felon, landlord, and the founder of Douglas Development | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Jemal |
| Ádám Politzer | Ádám Politzer | 1835 | 1920 | Hungarian | physician and one of the pioneers and founders of otology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ádám_Politzer |
| Yitzchok Friedman | Yitzchok Friedman | 1850 | 1917 | null | founder and first Rebbe of the Boyan Hasidic dynasty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzchok_Friedman |
| Peggy Charren | Peggy Sundelle Charren | 1928 | 2015 | American | activist, known as the founder of Action for Children's Television (ACT), a national child advocacy organization, in 1968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Charren |
| Grigory Kaminsky | Grigory Naumovich Kaminsky | 1895 | 1938 | Soviet | politician who was the 2nd First Secretary of Azerbaijan Communist Party, and one of founders of the health care system in the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Kaminsky |
| Alexander Eig | Alexander Eig | 1894 | 1938 | null | botanist, one of the first plant researchers in Israel, head of the department of Botany at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and co-founder of the National Botanic Garden of Israel on Mount Scopus campus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Eig |
| Nathan Joseph | Nathan Joseph | 1939 | 2005 | British | record company founder, theatrical producer and talent agent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Joseph |
| Israel Shochat | Israel Shochat | 1886 | 1962 | null | founder of and a key figure in Bar-Giora and Hashomer, two of the precursors of the Israel Defense Forces | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Shochat |
| Faith Popcorn | Faith Popcorn | null | null | null | futurist, author, and founder and CEO of marketing consulting firm BrainReserve | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Popcorn |
| Naum Koen | Naum Koen | null | null | null | UAE-based Israeli-Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist who is the founder and CEO of NY Koen Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum_Koen |
| George Streisinger | George Streisinger | 1927 | 1984 | American | molecular biologist and co-founder of the Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Oregon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Streisinger |
| Rudolf Nelson | Rudolf Nelson | 1878 | 1960 | German | composer of hit songs, film music, operetta and vaudeville, and the founder and director of the Nelson Revue, a significant cabaret troupe on the 1930s Berlin nightlife scene | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Nelson |
| Alexander Goldstein | Alexander Goldstein | 1948 | n/a | Russian | music composer, conductor, songwriter, record producer, film producer, director, editor and is the founder of ABG World and SportMusic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldstein |
| Hildegard Burjan | Hildegard Lea Burjan | 1883 | 1933 | German | Roman Catholic convert from Judaism and the founder of the Sisterhood of Caritas Socialis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_Burjan |
| Raphy Leavitt | Raphy Leavitt | 1948 | 2015 | Puerto Rican | composer and founder of the salsa orchestra, La Selecta | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphy_Leavitt |
| Carrie Marcus Neiman | Carrie Marcus Neiman | 1883 | 1953 | American | businesswoman and one of the co-founders of Neiman Marcus, a luxury department store | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Marcus_Neiman |
| Emanuel Querido | Emanuel Querido | 1871 | 1943 | null | successful Dutch publisher as the founder and owner of N.V. Em. Querido Uitgeversmaatschappij, which published Dutch titles, and of , which published titles of German writers in exile from Nazi Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Querido |
| Yohai Ben-Nun | Yohai Ben-Nun | 1924 | 1994 | null | sixth commander of the Israeli Navy and one of the founders of the Israeli Special Forces | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohai_Ben-Nun |
| Irving Stowe | Irving Harold Stowe | 1915 | 1974 | null | Yale lawyer, activist, and a founder of Greenpeace | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Stowe |
| Enzo Sereni | Enzo Sereni | 1905 | 1944 | Italian | Socialist Zionist, co-founder of kibbutz Givat Brenner, celebrated intellectual, advocate of Jewish-Arab co-existence and a Jewish Brigade officer who was parachuted into Nazi-occupied Italy in World War II, captured by the Germans and executed in Dachau concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo_Sereni |
| Jerry Blaine | Jerry Blaine | 1910 | 1973 | null | bandleader, co-founder of Jubilee Records, record distributor, and singer who recorded 18 sides for the Master and Bluebird labels from 1937 to 1938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Blaine |
| Frieda Rapoport Caplan | Frieda Rapoport Caplan | 1923 | 2020 | American | businesswoman who was the founder of Frieda's Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_Rapoport_Caplan |
| Bob Haas | Robert D. Haas | 1942 | n/a | null | Chairman Emeritus of Levi Strauss & Co., son of Walter A. Haas Jr., and the great-great-grandnephew of the company's founder, Levi Strauss | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Haas |
| Leo Seltzer | Leo A. Seltzer | 1903 | 1978 | null | generally credited as the creator of the sport of roller derby, and was the founder and head of the original Roller Derby league from 1935 until his son Jerry Seltzer took over the business in 1958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Seltzer |
| Ken Moelis | Kenneth D. Moelis | 1958 | n/a | American | billionaire investment banker, and founder of Moelis & Company, an investment banking firm | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Moelis |
| Franciszka Siedliska | Maria Franciszka Siedliska | 1842 | 1902 | Polish | Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszka_Siedliska |
| David May (merchant) | David May | 1848 | 1927 | American | businessman and founder of the May Company department store | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_May_(merchant) |
| Eugen Mittwoch | Eugen Mittwoch | 1876 | 1942 | null | founder of Modern Islamic Studies in Germany, and at the same time an eminent Jewish scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Mittwoch |
| Irene Lewisohn | Irene Lewisohn | 1886 | 1944 | null | founder of the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Museum of Costume Art | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Lewisohn |
| Piotr Skrzynecki | Piotr Cezary Skrzynecki | 1930 | 1997 | Polish | choreographer, director and cabaret impresario, known for his involvement with the cabaret Piwnica pod Baranami (The Cellar under the Rams), of which he was the founder | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Skrzynecki |
| Hannah G. Solomon | Hannah Greenebaum Solomon | 1858 | 1942 | null | social reformer and the founder of the National Council of Jewish Women, the first national association of Jewish women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_G._Solomon |
| Mel Weitsman | Hakuryu Sojun Mel Weitsman | 1929 | 2021 | American | Buddhist who was the founder, abbot and guiding teacher of Berkeley Zen Center located in Berkeley, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Weitsman |
| György Szabad | György Szabad | 1924 | 2015 | Hungarian | politician and historian, founder member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/György_Szabad |
| Isaac Herbert Kempner | Isaac Herbert Kempner | 1873 | 1967 | null | founder of the Imperial Sugar Corporation and mayor of Galveston, Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Herbert_Kempner |
| Henry Taub | Henry Taub | 1927 | 2011 | American | businessman and philanthropist of Hungarian-Jewish descent who was a co-founder of ADP. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Taub |
| Elliot E. Cohen | Elliot E. Cohen | 1899 | 1959 | null | founder and first editor of Commentary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_E._Cohen |
| Hugo Sigman | Hugo Sigman | 1944 | n/a | Argentine | businessman who is the founder, CEO and –jointly with his wife, Biochemist Silvia Gold— the only shareholder of Grupo Insud, a business group with presence in the fields of pharmaceuticals, agroforestry, cinema, nature and design | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Sigman |
| Jill Sinclair | Jill Sinclair | 1952 | 2014 | English | businesswoman and former record company director, a founder of ZTT Records and one of the most influential women in pop music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Sinclair |
| Mina F. Miller | Mina Florence Miller | 1949 | n/a | American | classical pianist, writer, and founder and artistic director of Music of Remembrance in Seattle, Washington | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_F._Miller |
| Dan Mirvish | Dan Mirvish | null | null | American | filmmaker and author, best known as the co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival and co-creator of the Martin Eisenstadt hoax during the 2008 Presidential election | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Mirvish |
| Gaspar Castaño de Sosa | Gaspar Castaño de Sosa | 1550 | 1595 | Portuguese | settler, colonist, explorer, and reputed slaver who was among the founders of the towns of Saltillo and Monclova, in Coahuila, Mexico | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_Castaño_de_Sosa |
| Raymond Dwek | Raymond Allen Dwek CBE FRS FRSC | 1941 | n/a | null | scientist at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the biotechnology company Oxford GlycoSciences Ltd | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Dwek |
| Joseph Durst | Joseph Durst | 1882 | 1973 | American | real estate developer, founder of the Durst Organization, and patriarch of the Durst family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Durst |
| Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss | Shoshanna Lonstein-Gruss | 1975 | n/a | American | writer and fashion designer and the founder and creative director of the fashion label Shoshanna, which was launched in 1998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshanna_Lonstein_Gruss |
| Alex Kahn | Alex Kahn | 1967 | n/a | American | visual/performance artist and co-founder of the arts ensemble Processional Arts Workshop | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kahn |
| Elisabeth Bing | Elisabeth Dorothea Bing | 1914 | 2015 | German | physical therapist, co-founder of Lamaze International, and proponent of natural childbirth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Bing |
| Laurence Graff | Laurence Graff | 1938 | n/a | English | jeweller and billionaire businessman, best known as the founder of Graff Diamonds, supplier of jewellery and jewels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Graff |
| Georg Wertheim | Georg Wertheim | 1857 | 1939 | German | merchant and founder of the popular Wertheim chain of department stores | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wertheim |
| Frank Altschul | Frank Altschul | 1887 | 1981 | American | financier at General American Investors Company,New York Times: "FRANK ALTSCHUL, A BANKER AND NOTED PHILANTHROPIST" By ALBIN KREBS May 30, 1981 and founder of the Overbrook Management Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Altschul |
| Paul S. L. Johnson | Paul Samuel Leo | 1873 | 1950 | American | scholar and pastor, the founder of the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_S._L._Johnson |
| Simon Marks, 1st Baron Marks of Broughton | Simon Marks, 1st Baron Marks of Broughton | 1888 | 1964 | English | retail businessman and baron, the son of Michael Marks, the co-founder of major British multinational company Marks & Spencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Marks,_1st_Baron_Marks_of_Broughton |
| Saadia Marciano | Saadia Marciano | 1950 | 2007 | Israeli | social activist and politician, and founder of the Israeli Black Panthers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadia_Marciano |
| Morris Lichtenstein | Morris Lichtenstein | 1889 | 1938 | null | founder of the Society of Jewish Science | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Lichtenstein |
| Annie Buller | Annie Buller | 1895 | 1973 | null | union organizer as well as co-founder of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) and manager of many CPC publications | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Buller |
| Ron Yosef | Ron Yosef | null | null | null | founder of the Israeli organization Hod, which represents Israeli gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Yosef |
| Robert Mosbacher Jr. | Robert Adam Mosbacher Jr. | 1951 | n/a | American | businessman, founder of BizCorps, and the former head of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a U.S. government agency established to promote economic development by working with the private sector | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mosbacher_Jr. |
| Melville Shyer | Melville Jacob Shyer | 1895 | 1968 | American | film director, screenwriter and producer and one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Shyer |
| Alice Lewisohn | Alice Lewisohn | 1883 | 1972 | null | founder of the Neighborhood Playhouse with her sister Irene Lewisohn | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Lewisohn |
| Scott D. Malkin | Scott David Malkin | 1959 | n/a | null | founder of Value Retail PlcLeibensmittel Zeitung: "Talk with Value Retail Chairman Scott Malkin" by Mike Dawson April 22, 2010 and co-owner of the New York Islanders professional hockey team | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_D._Malkin |
| Julius Deutsch | Julius Deutsch | 1884 | 1968 | null | politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria, member of Parliament between 1920-1933 and co-founder and leader of the Social Democrat militia "Republikanischer Schutzbund" (Republican Defense Association) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Deutsch |
| Robert O. Swados | Robert Orville Swados | 1919 | 2012 | null | attorney and businessman from Buffalo, New York, best known for his involvement as an attorney for the US/Canadian National Hockey League and being one of the founders of the Buffalo Sabres | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_O._Swados |
| Wendy Diamond | Wendy E. Diamond | null | null | American | author, reality television personality, and founder of pet-related businesses, including Animal Fair magazine, Paws For Style, a pet fashion show, and Yappy Hour | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Diamond |
| Ranan Lurie | Ranan R. Lurie | 1932 | n/a | Israeli | political cartoonist and journalist, a senior associate at the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) since 1990, a member of the United Nation Correspondents Association, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Cartoonews, a current events educational magazine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranan_Lurie |
| Meir Balaban | Meir Balaban or Majer Samuel Bałaban | 637 | 1942 | null | one of the most outstanding historians of Polish Jews, and the founder of Polish Jewish historiography | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Balaban |
| Nora Gold | Nora Gold | null | null | Canadian | author and the founder and editor of Jewish Fiction | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Gold |
| Larry Schultz | Larry Schultz | 1950 | 2011 | American | yoga teacher who was a long-time student of the founder of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, K. Pattabhi Jois | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Schultz |
| Alan Howard (hedge fund manager) | Alan Howard | 1963 | n/a | British | billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP. In February 2013, Forbes listed him as one of the 40 highest-earning hedge fund managers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Howard_(hedge_fund_manager) |
| Carl M. Loeb | Carl Morris Loeb | null | null | German | businessman who served as the president of the American Metal Company and the founder of Carl M. Loeb & Co, which became Loeb, Rhoades & Co. in 1938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_M._Loeb |
| Terry Lenzner | Terry Falk Lenzner | 1939 | 2020 | American | attorney and founder of Investigative Group International | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Lenzner |
| Dave Dictor | Dave Dictor | 1956 | n/a | American | musician, founder and singer of the punk rock band MDC and the band's label, R Radical Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Dictor |
| Steve Belkin | Steve Belkin | null | null | American | businessman who is the founder of Trans National Group, travel and other services, especially to affinity groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Belkin |
| David Rosen (businessman) | David M. Rosen | 1930 | n/a | American | businessman and the co-founder of the Japanese video game company Sega | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rosen_(businessman) |
| Ben Sonnenberg | Benjamin "Ben" Sonnenberg, Jr. | 1936 | 2010 | American | publisher and the founder of the literary magazine Grand Street, which he began as a quarterly journal in 1981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Sonnenberg |
| Camillo Olivetti | Samuel David Camillo Olivetti known just as Camillo | 1868 | 1943 | Italian | electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti & Co., SpA | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo_Olivetti |
| Peter Mazur | Peter Mazur | 1922 | 2001 | null | Austrian-born, Dutch physicist and one of the founders of the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mazur |
| Moishe Broderzon | Moishe Broderzon | 1890 | 1956 | null | Yiddish poet, theatre director, and the founder of the Łódź literary group Yung-yidish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moishe_Broderzon |
| Veniamin Levich | Veniamin Grigorievich (Benjamin) Levich | 1917 | 1987 | Soviet | dissident, internationally prominent physical chemist, electrochemist and founder of the discipline of physico-chemical hydrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veniamin_Levich |
| Rich Melman | Rich Melman | 1942 | n/a | American | businessman, and the founder and chairman of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, a privately held restaurant company with more than 100 venues | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Melman |
| Vito Schnabel | Vito Schnabel | null | null | null | owner of Vito Schnabel Gallery, with two locations in New York and one in Switzerland, and the founder of ArtOfficial, the first independent online auction platform created by a gallery to offer NFT and digital works by internationally acclaimed artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Schnabel |
| Pierre Haski | Pierre Haski | 1953 | n/a | French | journalist, co-founder of Rue 89 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Haski |
| Peter Owen (publisher) | Peter Owen | 1927 | 2016 | British | publisher, the founder of Peter Owen Publishers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Owen_(publisher) |
| Georges Cravenne | Georges Cravenne | 1914 | 2009 | French | film producer, publicity agent and founder of the César Award | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Cravenne |
| Lizzie Black Kander | Elizabeth Black Kander | 1858 | 1940 | American | progressive reformer, philanthropist and author, founder of a settlement house in Milwaukee, where she originated her best-known work, The Settlement Cookbook | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Black_Kander |
| Shalom Arush | Shalom Arush | null | null | Israeli | Breslov rabbi and founder of the Chut Shel Chessed Institutions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom_Arush |
| Alan Gerry | Alan Gerry | 1929 | n/a | American | billionaire and founder of Cablevision Industries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gerry |
| Jonathan Klein (Getty Images) | Jonathan David Klein | 1960 | n/a | null | co-founder and Chairman of Getty Images, Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Klein_(Getty_Images) |
| Alan B. Slifka | Alan Bruce Slifka | 1929 | 2011 | null | New York investor and philanthropist, a co-founder of the Abraham Fund and founding chairman of the Big Apple Circus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_B._Slifka |
| Heimann Hariton Tiktin | Heimann Hariton Tiktin | 1850 | 1936 | Silesian | Jewish linguist and academic, one of the founders of modern Romanian linguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimann_Hariton_Tiktin |
| Lawrence Marcus | Lawrence Marcus | 1917 | 2013 | null | fourth and youngest child in a prominent Jewish family that includes his father Neiman Marcus Department Store cofounder Herbert Marcus, his mother Minnie Lichtenstein Marcus and also his eldest brother, Stanley Marcus, who went on to become the long-time Neiman Marcus CEO and Chairman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Marcus |
| Anselm Salomon von Rothschild | Anselm Salomon von Rothschild, baron | 1803 | 1874 | Austrian | banker, founder of the Creditanstalt, and a member of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Salomon_von_Rothschild |
| Samuel Liebmann | Samuel Liebmann | 1799 | 1872 | German | brewer and founder of S. Liebmann Brewery (later Rheingold Breweries) in Brooklyn, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Liebmann |
| Ernie Blake | Ernie Blake | 1913 | 1989 | null | founder, together with his wife Rhoda, of Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Blake |
| Milton S. Florsheim | Milton S. Florsheim | 1868 | 1936 | null | chairman of the board and founder of Florsheim Shoes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_S._Florsheim |
| Jacob Tirado | Jacob Tirado | 1540 | 1620 | null | one of the founders of the Spanish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Tirado |
| Berthold Hochschild | Berthold Hochschild | 1860 | 1928 | null | mining magnate, a founder of the American Metal Company, and a philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Hochschild |
| Joseph Sitt | Joseph J. Sitt | 1964 | n/a | American | real estate investor, founder of the retail chain Ashley Stewart, and founder of global real estate company Thor Equities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sitt |
| David Kabiller | David G. Kabiller, CFA | 1964 | n/a | null | founder, founding principal, and head of business development of AQR Capital Management, along with Cliff Asness, John M. Liew and Robert Krail | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kabiller |
| Robert René Kuczynski | Robert René ('René') Kuczynski | 1876 | 1947 | null | leftwing German economist and demographer and is said to be one of the founders of modern vital statistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_René_Kuczynski |
| Zvi Thau | Zvi Yisrael Thau | 1938 | n/a | null | Religious Zionist rabbi, a disciple of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, and co-founder and president of Yeshivat Har Hamor in Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvi_Thau |
| Vladimir Peniakoff | Lieutenant-Colonel Vladimir "Popski" Peniakoff | 1897 | 1951 | null | founder and commanding officer of No. 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA, colloquially known as "Popski's Private Army", during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Peniakoff |
| David Emmanuel (mathematician) | David Emmanuel | 1854 | 1941 | Romanian | Jewish mathematician and member of the Romanian Academy, considered to be the founder of the modern mathematics school in Romania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Emmanuel_(mathematician) |
| Samuel Instone | Sir Samuel Instone | 1878 | 1937 | British | shipping and aviation entrepreneur and the founder of the Instone Air Line | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Instone |
| Alex Rose (labor leader) | Alex Rose | 1898 | 1976 | null | labor leader in the United Hatters of North America (UHNA) and the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (UHCMW), a co-founder of the American Labor Party, and vice-chairman of the Liberal Party of New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Rose_(labor_leader) |
| Harry Morton (restaurateur) | Harry Morton | 1981 | 2019 | American | restaurateur and founder of the restaurant chain Pink Taco | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Morton_(restaurateur) |
| Isai Scheinberg | Isai Scheinberg | 1946 | 1947 | Lithuanian | Jewish founder of the PokerStars online poker site | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isai_Scheinberg |
| Gary E. Jacobs | Gary E. Jacobs | 1957 | n/a | American | businessman, founder of the Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High Charter School, and owner of the Lake Elsinore Storm | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_E._Jacobs |
| Michael S. Rosenfeld | Michael Stuart Rosenfeld | 1934 | 2010 | null | talent agent, movie producer, and co-founder of Creative Artists Agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Rosenfeld |
| Steven Kaplan (investor) | Steven Kaplan | null | null | American | businessman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, minority owner of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies,Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal: "Who is Steve Kaplan, the man who wants to buy into the Timberwolves?" By Nick Halter November 13, 2015 and co-owner of Wales-based football club Swansea City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Kaplan_(investor) |
| Gaetano Kanizsa | Gaetano Kanizsa | 1913 | 1993 | Italian | psychologist and artist of Slovenian Jewish Catholic descent who last served as a founder of the Institute of Psychology of Trieste | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Kanizsa |
| Isidore Gluckstein | Isidore Gluckstein | 1851 | 1920 | null | director of Salmon & Gluckstein tobacco merchants, and one of the founders of J. Lyons and Co., a restaurant chain, food manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate created in 1884 that dominated British mass-catering in the first half of the twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_Gluckstein |
| Samuel Polyakov | Samuel (Shmuel) Polyakov | null | null | Russian | businessman, informally known as the "most famous railroad king" of the Russian Empire, the senior member of the Polyakov business family, a philanthropist and a Jewish civil rights activist, co-founder of World ORT. Polyakov's business interests concentrated in southern Russia and Ukraine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Polyakov |
| Sidney Simon | Sidney A. Simon | 1917 | 1997 | American | painter, sculptor, muralist, art school co-founder, and American official war artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Simon |
| Meir Zlotowitz | Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz | 1943 | 2017 | null | Orthodox Jewish rabbi, author and founder of ArtScroll Publications | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Zlotowitz |
| Alexander Lion | Alexander Franz Anton Lion | 1870 | 1962 | null | co-founder of the German Scout Movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lion |
| Adam Shapiro (activist) | Adam Shapiro | 1972 | n/a | American | co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a pro-Palestinian organization, the stated mission of which is to bring civilians from around the world to resist nonviolently the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and previously the Gaza Strip | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Shapiro_(activist) |
| Dan Nichols | Daniel Nichols | 1969 | n/a | American | Jewish rock musician and founder of the band, E18hteen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Nichols |
| Dor Guez | Dor Guez | null | null | Israeli | artist of Christian Palestinian Jewish origin, founder of The Christian Palestinian Archive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor_Guez |
| Tom Franco | Thomas Andrew Franco | 1980 | n/a | American | actor, artist, and the founder of the Firehouse Art Collective in Berkeley, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Franco |
| Seth Farber | Seth Farber Hebrew name שאול פרבר | null | null | American | Modern Orthodox rabbi, historian, and founder and director of the Jewish life advocacy organization, ITIM. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Farber |
| Tehilla Lichtenstein | Tehilla Lichtenstein | 1893 | 1973 | null | cofounder and leader of Jewish Science, as well as an author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehilla_Lichtenstein |
| Bruce Rockowitz | Bruce Philip Rockowitz | 1958 | n/a | Canadian | businessman, the chairman of Rock Media International and co-founder of the Pure Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Rockowitz |
| Joseph Wilf | Joseph Wilf | 1925 | 2016 | Polish | businessman, Holocaust survivor, and the co-founder of Garden Homes, one of the largest real estate development companies in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wilf |
| Rob Mermin | Rob Mermin | null | null | null | founder of the award-winning international touring youth circus Circus Smirkus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Mermin |
| Joanna Olczak-Ronikier | Joanna Olczak-Roniker | 1934 | n/a | Polish | writer and scenarist, co-founder of the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret in Kraków | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Olczak-Ronikier |
| Arthur Frederick Hurst | Sir Arthur Frederick Hurst, aka Arthur Frederick Hertz FRCP | 1879 | 1944 | British | physician, and a cofounder of the British Society of Gastroenterology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Frederick_Hurst |
| Aaron Lansky | Aaron Lansky | 1955 | n/a | null | founder of the Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Lansky |
| Lazar Shatskin | Lazar Abramovich Shatskin | 1902 | n/a | Soviet | and Communist International functionary and one of the founders of Komsomol | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Shatskin |
| Amy Webb | Amy Lynn Webb | 1974 | n/a | American | futurist, author and founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Webb |
| Sara Horowitz | Sara Horowitz | 1963 | n/a | null | founder of the Freelancers Union and a proponent of mutualism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Horowitz |
| Matthew Hiltzik | Matthew Hiltzik | 1972 | n/a | American | attorney, public relations and communications consultant, and the founder of the strategic communications and consulting firm Hiltzik Strategies, which represents high-profile organizations and individuals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hiltzik |
| Sonia Gardner | Sonia Gardner | 1962 | n/a | American | businesswoman, hedge fund manager and the co-founder of Avenue Capital Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Gardner |
| Peter Osnos | Peter L.W. Osnos | 1943 | n/a | American | journalist who is the founder of PublicAffairs Books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Osnos |
| Simon Lazarus | Simon Lazarus | 1807 | 1877 | American | clothing retailer and the founder of the predecessor of what was to become The F&R Lazarus & Co., an operation which blossomed into what is today known as Macy's, Inc, a major retail holding company in the U.S. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lazarus |
| Gaby Aghion | Gabrielle Aghion | 1921 | 2014 | French | fashion designer and the founder of the French fashion house Chloé | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaby_Aghion |
| Harold K. Hochschild | Harold K. Hochschild | 1892 | 1981 | null | president of the American Metal Company, a conservationist, a philanthropist, and the founder of the Adirondack Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_K._Hochschild |
| Jindřich Waldes | Jindřich Waldes | 1876 | 1941 | null | leading industrialist, founder of the Waldes Koh-i-noor Company, Czech patriot of Jewish origin and art collector | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindřich_Waldes |
| Craig Karmazin | Craig Karmazin | 1975 | n/a | null | founder and Chief Executive Officer of Good Karma Brands (GKB), and the son of Mel Karmazin, former CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio and former CEO of Viacom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Karmazin |
| Alon Cohen | Alon Cohen | null | null | null | co-founder of VocalTec Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alon_Cohen |
| Mark Shevelev | Mark Ivanovich Shevelev | none | 1991 | Soviet | pilot during World War II and one of founders of Soviet polar aviation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shevelev |
| Léon Motchane | Léon Motchane | 1900 | 1990 | French | industrialist and mathematician and the founder of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Motchane |
| Amos Rapoport | Amos Rapoport | 1929 | n/a | null | architect and one of the founders of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Rapoport |
| Eliyahu Dobkin | Eliyahu Dobkin | 1898 | 1976 | null | leading figure of the Labor Zionism movement, a signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence and a founder of the Israel Museum | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliyahu_Dobkin |
| John Robert Porter | John Robert Camber Porter | 1953 | 2021 | English | businessman best known as the grandson of Sir Jack Cohen, founder of Tesco and son of Dame Shirley Porter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robert_Porter |
| Reuven Abergel | Reuven Abergel | 1943 | n/a | Moroccan | social and political activist and a co-founder and former leader of the Israeli Black Panthers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Abergel |
| Al Green (record producer) | Albert Green | null | null | American | record industry executive, and founder and president of National Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Green_(record_producer) |
| Steve Sarowitz | Steve Sarowitz | 1965 | 1966 | American | billionaire businessman, and the founder of Paylocity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sarowitz |
| Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche | Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche | 1870 | 1934 | null | one of the founders of Tel Aviv, an entrepreneur, businessman and industrialist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Eliyahu_Chelouche |
| David Rebibo | David Rebibo | null | null | null | Orthodox Jewish congregational rabbi, founder and dean of a K-8 Jewish day school, and founder and head of a kosher certification agency in Phoenix, Arizona | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rebibo |
| David Bistricer | David Bistricer | 1949 | n/a | null | New York-based real estate developer and the founder and principal of Clipper Equity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bistricer |
| Jerome Chazen | Jerome A. Chazen | 1927 | 2022 | American | businessman who was the founder and chairman of Chazen Capital Partners | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Chazen |
| Fred Hayman | Fred Jules Pollag | 1925 | 2016 | Swiss | fashion retailer and entrepreneur, founder of Giorgio Beverly Hills in 1961 in Beverly Hills, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hayman |
| Ian Bruce Eichner | Ian Bruce Eichner | 1945 | n/a | American | real estate developer and founder of The Continuum Company, LLC. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bruce_Eichner |
| Bernard Beryl Brodie | Bernard Beryl Brodie | 1907 | 1989 | null | considered by many to be the founder of modern pharmacology and brought the field to prominence in the 1940s and 1950s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Beryl_Brodie |
| Tim Steiner (businessman) | Tim Steiner | 1969 | n/a | null | co-founder and chief executive (CEO) of Ocado, the FTSE 100 online grocery and technology business | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Steiner_(businessman) |
| Olga Bernstein Kohlberg | Olga Bernstein Kohlberg | 1864 | 1935 | null | Jewish Texan philanthropist and founder of the first public kindergarten in Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Bernstein_Kohlberg |
| Marvin Sands | Marvin L. Sands | 1924 | 1999 | American | businessman, and the founder and CEO of Constellation Brands, a Fortune 500 beer, wine and spirits company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Sands |
| Isaac Heller | Isaac "Ike" Heller | 1926 | 2015 | American | toy manufacturer, the co-founder of Remco, with his cousin Saul Robbins | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Heller |
| Erich Geiringer | Erich Geiringer | 1917 | 1995 | New Zealand | writer, publisher, broadcaster, Fulbright scholar 1953, a leading member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and the founder of the New Zealand Medical Association | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Geiringer |
| Paul Eidelberg | Paul Eidelberg | 1928 | n/a | American | political scientist, author and lecturer, and is the founder and president of The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy, with offices in Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Eidelberg |
| Ralph Halpern | Sir Ralph Mark Halpern | 1938 | n/a | British | businessman, who was the founder of Top Shop and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Burton Group from 1979 to 1991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Halpern |
| Osip Aptekman | Osip Vasilyevich Aptekman | null | null | Russian | revolutionary, member of the Land and Liberty, and one of the founders of the Black Repartition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Aptekman |
| Andrew Saks | Andrew Saks | 1847 | 1912 | American | businessman known as the founder of Saks Fifth Avenue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Saks |
| David Horowitz (author) | David Horowitz | 1903 | 2002 | null | founder of the educational research organization United Israel World Union and one of eight children of Cantor Aaron and Bertha Horowitz whose family immigrated to the United States in 1914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz_(author) |
| Azaria Alon | Azaria Alon | 1918 | 2014 | null | Israel Prize-winning environmentalist, and a co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azaria_Alon |
| Yigal Arnon | Yigal Arnon | 1929 | 2014 | Israeli | lawyer and founder of Yigal Arnon & Co. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigal_Arnon |
| Spence Caldwell | Spencer "Spence" Wood Caldwell | 1909 | 1983 | Canadian | broadcasting pioneer and the founder of CTV. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spence_Caldwell |
| Harriet Samuel | Harriet Samuel | 1836 | 1908 | English | businesswoman and the founder of H. Samuel, one of the United Kingdom's best-known high street jewellery retailers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Samuel |
| Murray Cohl | Murray "Dusty" Cohl | 1929 | 2008 | Canadian | film producer and co-founder of Toronto International Film Festival and Canada's Walk of Fame | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Cohl |
| Montague Gluckstein | Montague Gluckstein | 1854 | 1922 | null | director of Salmon & Gluckstein tobacco merchants, and one of the founders of J. Lyons and Co., a restaurant chain, food manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate created in 1884 that dominated British mass-catering in the first half of the twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_Gluckstein |
| Joe Green (entrepreneur) | Joe Green | null | null | null | serial social entrepreneur and investor based in San Francisco, CA. He is the co-founder and President of the Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative, a nonprofit donor network that supports research on psychedelic medicine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Green_(entrepreneur) |
| Joseph Ettedgui | Joseph Ettedgui | 1936 | 2010 | null | influential London-based retailer and founder of the Joseph retail empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ettedgui |
| Etan Ilfeld | Etan Ilfeld | null | null | null | London-based entrepreneur and the founder of Tenderpixel gallery, Tenderbooks, Repeater Books, and the owner and managing director of Watkins Books, Watkins Media, and the Mind Sports Olympiad | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etan_Ilfeld |
| Rubin Schron | Rubin "Rubie" Schron | null | null | null | New York City real estate investor, landlord, and the founder of Cammeby's International Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Schron |
| Andrew Rosenfeld | Andrew Ian Rosenfeld | 1962 | 2015 | British | businessman who was co-founder, chief executive, and chairman of Minerva plc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Rosenfeld |
| Fraydun Manocherian | Fraydun "Fred" Manocherian | 1932 | n/a | American | real estate developer, author, founder of the National Road Safety Foundation,National Road Safety Foundation: "Our Founder" retrieved March 31, 2017 and founder of the New York Health & Racquet Club chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraydun_Manocherian |
| William Ungar | William Ungar | 1913 | 2013 | Polish | author, philanthropist, Holocaust survivor, and founder of the National Envelope Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ungar |
| Milton Rackmil | Milton R. Rackmil | 1906 | 1992 | null | co-founder of Decca Records and head of Universal Pictures and Vice-Charman of MCA Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Rackmil |
| Ivan Rikard Ivanović | Dr. Ivan Rikard Ivanović | 1880 | 1949 | Croatian | industrialist, politician and one of the founders of the Croatian National Progressive Party (NNS) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Rikard_Ivanović |
| Rudolf Goldscheid | Rudolf Goldscheid | 1870 | 1931 | Austrian | writer and sociologist, co-founder of the German Sociological Association, known for his theory of the human economy and for introducing the field of fiscal sociology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Goldscheid |
| Hanoch Kalai | Hanoch Kalai | 1910 | 1979 | null | co-founder of both Irgun and Lehi, and an expert on the Hebrew language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoch_Kalai |
| Simon Pullman | Simon Pullman | 1890 | 1942 | Polish | violinist, conductor, music teacher and founder and Director of the Pullman Ensemble and Orchestra, and a seminal figure in the evolution of chamber music performance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pullman |
| Liza Levy | Liza Levy | null | null | null | community activist in Washington, D.C. She is a past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, co-founder of the Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse, and co-founder of the Tikkun Olam Women's Foundation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liza_Levy |
| Victor Haghani | Victor Haghani | 1962 | n/a | Iranian | founder of Elm Wealth, a research-driven wealth advisor and manager | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Haghani |
| Isaac Abraham Euchel | Isaac Abraham Euchel | 1756 | 1804 | null | Hebrew author and founder of the "Haskalah-movement" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Abraham_Euchel |
| Itamar Marcus | Itamar Marcus | null | null | null | researcher and the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch,Brown, 2003, p. 296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Marcus |
| Richard Krygier | Henry Richard Krygier OBE | 1917 | 1986 | Polish | Jewish anti-communist publisher and journalist, and a founder of Quadrant magazine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Krygier |
| Mendel Portugali | Mendel Portugali | 1888 | 1917 | null | one of the leading figures in the Second Aliyah and a founder of the Hashomer movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendel_Portugali |
| Walther Bensemann | Walther Bensemann | 1873 | 1934 | German | pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Bensemann |
| Eliezer Adler | Eliezer Adler | 1866 | n/a | null | founder of the Jewish Community in Gateshead, England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Adler |
| Eliyahu Berligne | Eliyahu Berligne | 1866 | 1959 | null | founder of Tel Aviv, an important member of the Yishuv in Mandate Palestine and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliyahu_Berligne |
| Cy Leslie | Seymour Marvin "Cy" Leslie | 1922 | 2008 | American | businessman, the founder of Pickwick Records, and the first president and founder of MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Leslie |
| Henry Grunwald (barrister) | Henry Grunwald | 1949 | n/a | null | President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and a founder and first Chairman of the Jewish Leadership Council from 2003 until 2009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Grunwald_(barrister) |
| Lior Haramaty | Lior Haramaty | 1966 | n/a | null | co-founder of VocalTec Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lior_Haramaty |
| Martin Rapaport | Martin Rapaport | null | null | null | chairman of the Rapaport Group, founder of the Rapaport Diamond Report and the RapNet online diamond trading network | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Rapaport |
| Max Zaritsky | Max Zaritsky | 1885 | 1959 | American | union leader of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (UHCMW) as well as co-founder of both the American Labor Party and Liberal Party of New York State | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Zaritsky |
| Martin J. Whitman | Martin J. Whitman | 1924 | 1993 | American | investment adviser and a strong critic of the direction of recent changes in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in the U.S. He was founder and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Third Avenue Management, and Portfolio Manager of the Third Avenue Value Fund | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_J._Whitman |
| Yosl Cutler | Yosl Cutler | 1896 | 1935 | null | Yiddish-American cartoonist, poet, satirist and founder of the first Yiddish puppet theatre in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosl_Cutler |
| Henriette Dahan Kalev | Henriette Dahan Kalev | 1947 | n/a | Israeli | Senior Lecturer of political science and the founder of the Gender Studies Program at Ben Gurion University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_Dahan_Kalev |
| Ivor Tiefenbrun | Ivor Sigmund Tiefenbrun MBE | 1946 | n/a | null | founder and Chairman of Linn Products Ltd, Glasgow-based manufacturers of high fidelity audio equipment and home theatre equipment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Tiefenbrun |
| Ray Kelvin | Raymond Stuart Kelvin CBE | 1955 | n/a | null | founder and former chief executive of the retail clothing retail company Ted Baker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kelvin |
| Fred Ohebshalom | Fred Ohebshalom | 1952 | n/a | American | real estate developer and founder of Empire Management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ohebshalom |
| Paul Binder | Paul Binder | 1942 | n/a | null | founder, founding artistic director and former ringmaster of the Big Apple Circus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Binder |
| Barney Pressman | Barney Pressman | 1894 | 1991 | American | businessman and founder of Barneys New York retail store | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Pressman |
| Alfred A. Knopf Jr. | Alfred Abraham Knopf Jr. | 1918 | 2009 | null | one of the founders of Atheneum Publishers in 1959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_A._Knopf_Jr. |
| Eviatar Nevo | Eviatar Nevo | 1929 | n/a | null | Professor Emeritus, founder and director of the Institute of Evolution at University of Haifa, Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eviatar_Nevo |
| Philip Smith (theater owner) | Philip Smith | 1961 | n/a | American | businessman and founder of Midwest Drive-In Theaters (which later became General Drive-In Corporation and then General Cinema) who was one of the largest operators of drive-in movie theaters in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Smith_(theater_owner) |
| Józef Lewartowski | Józef Lewartowski | 1895 | 1942 | Polish | communist politician of Jewish origin, revolutionary, member of the KPP and PPR one of the first organizers of the Jewish resistance in Nazi occupied Poland, co-founder of the Anti-Fascist Bloc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Lewartowski |
| Vitka Kempner | Vitka Kempner | 1920 | 2012 | Polish | Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Rozka Korczak and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitka_Kempner |
| Eric Gleacher | Eric Gleacher | 1940 | n/a | American | investor and financier, and the founder and former chairman of the now defunct, Gleacher & Company, an independent investment banking firm based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gleacher |
| Adolphe Abrahams | Sir Adolphe Abrahams | 1883 | 1967 | British | medical doctor, and he is considered to be the founder of British sports science | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Abrahams |
| David Hindawi | David Hindawi | 1944 | n/a | null | Iraqi-born, American billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hindawi |
| Nicholas Cowell | Nicholas Andrew Cowell | 1961 | n/a | British | property developer, co-founder and director of Estate Office Property Consultants, and head of the Cowell Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Cowell |
| Jacob Freud | Jacob Koloman Freud | 1815 | 1896 | null | father of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Freud |
| Jerome Cutler | Jerome "Jerry" Cutler | null | null | American | Conservative rabbi and the founder of the Creative Arts Temple in West Los Angeles, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Cutler |
| Barnett Salmon | Barnett Salmon | 1829 | 1897 | British | tobacco manufacturer, co-founder of Salmon & Gluckstein, which by 1901 was the world's largest retail tobacconist, owning 140 retail outlets | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Salmon |
| Thomas Scherman | Thomas Kielty Scherman | 1917 | 1979 | American | conductor and the founder of the Little Orchestra Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Scherman |
| Yehoshua Stampfer | Yehoshua Stampfer | 1852 | 1908 | null | Zionist and one of the founders of the city of Petah Tikva in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehoshua_Stampfer |
| Anwar Chitayat | Anwar Chitayat | 1927 | n/a | null | founder and former CEO and chairman of Anorad Corp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Chitayat |
| Isaac Schneersohn | Isaac Schneersohn | 1879 | 18811969 | French | rabbi, industrialist, and the founder of the first Holocaust Archives and Memorial | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Schneersohn |
| Arthur Schüller | Arthur Schüller | 1874 | 1957 | Austrian | doctor who served as professor at Vienna University and was the founder of the discipline of neuroradiology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schüller |
| Lev Binzumovich Leviev | Lev Binzumovich Leviev | 1984 | n/a | Israeli | entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Russia's largest social network VK.com (originally VKontakte) and the Selectel data center network | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Binzumovich_Leviev |
| Ofer Berkovitch | Ofer Berkovitch | 1983 | n/a | null | founder and chairman of Jerusalem's “Hitorerut in Jerusalem” political movement, a member of the Jerusalem city council, and Hitorerut's current candidate for Mayor of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofer_Berkovitch |
| Jonathan Shecter | Jonathan Miles Shecter | 1968 | n/a | null | co-founder of the music and culture magazine The Source, former Director of Programming for the Wynn Las Vegas, and current Editor-In-Chief for Cuepoint at Medium | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Shecter |
| Léon Sultan | Léon Réne Sultan | 1905 | 1945 | French | lawyer and founder of the Communist Party of Morocco | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Sultan |
| Robert L. Stark | Robert L. Stark | 1951 | n/a | American | real estate developer and founder and chief executive officer of Stark Enterprises | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Stark |
| Roberto Bachi | Roberto Bachi | 1909 | 1995 | Italian | statistician and demographer, and founder of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Bachi |
| Eva Harris | Eva Harris | 1965 | n/a | null | professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Harris |
| Ashley Tabor-King | Ashley Daniel Tabor-King OBE | 1977 | n/a | British | businessman, the founder and president of Global, the Media & Entertainment Group, the largest commercial radio group in Europe and one of the leading outdoor (OOH) advertising companies in the UK. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Tabor-King |
| Jason Itzler | Jason Itzler | 1967 | n/a | American | entrepreneur, attorney, and the founder of New York Confidential LLC. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Itzler |
| Donald S. Klopfer | Donald Simon Klopfer | 1902 | 1986 | American | publisher, one of the founders of American publishing firm Random House, along with Bennett Cerf | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_S._Klopfer |
| Kurt Löwenstein | Kurt Löwenstein | 1885 | 1939 | German | USPD/SPD politician, socialist reform pedagogue and one of the founders of Socialist Youth of Germany - Falcons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Löwenstein |
| Larry Sloan | Lloyd Lawrence "Larry" Sloan | 1922 | 2012 | American | publisher of Mad Libs and co-founder of the Los Angeles publishing company, Price Stern Sloan, which opened in the early 1960s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sloan |
| Albert Laboz | Albert "Al" Laboz | null | null | null | New York real estate developer, landlord, and the founder of United American Land | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Laboz |
| Leslie Sacks | Leslie J. Sacks | 1952 | 2013 | null | Los Angeles-based art dealer and founder of Women's Voices Now | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Sacks |
| Jeff Sutton (real estate developer) | Jeff Sutton | 1960 | n/a | American | billionaire real estate developer and the founder of Wharton Properties (with partner Eliot Tawil) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sutton_(real_estate_developer) |
| Nili Lotan | Nili Lotan | null | null | Israeli | fashion designer best known as the founder of the Nili Lotan Design Studio, a designer clothing company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nili_Lotan |
| Mitchell Wolfson | Mitchell Wolfson Sr. | 1900 | 1983 | American | businessman, theatre owner, politician, and founder of Wometco Enterprises | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Wolfson |
| Margery Hurst | Margery Hurst | 1913 | 1989 | British | businesswoman, and the founder of the recruitment agency Brook Street Bureau, which when it went public in 1965, was the world's largest office employment agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Hurst |
| Ruth Zukerman | Ruth Zukerman | null | null | null | co-founder of indoor cycling businesses SoulCycle and Flywheel Sports | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Zukerman |
| Sherwood Schwarz | Sherwood Schwarz | 1930 | n/a | American | businessman and founder of Carnegie Associates Ltd and was the owner of the Toronto Argonauts from 1999 to 2003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Schwarz |
| Norma Lerner | Norma Lerner | 1935 | n/a | American | billionaire, the widow of Al Lerner, founder of the credit card company MBNA. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Lerner |
| Orion Hindawi | Orion Hindawi | 1980 | n/a | American | billionaire software entrepreneur, and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Tanium | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Hindawi |
| Siegfried Lehman | Siegfried Lehmann | 1892 | 1958 | Israeli | educator and founder and director of the Ben Shemen Youth Village | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Lehman |
| Charles Kalms | Charles Kalms | 1898 | 1978 | British | retailer and founder of the Dixons chains that expanded to become the UK's largest electrical retail chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kalms |
| Alois Kaiser | Alois Kaiser | 1840 | 1908 | American | chazzan and composer, considered to be the founder of American cantorate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Kaiser |
| Benjamin Abrams | Benjamin Abrams | 1893 | 1967 | Romanian | businessman and a founder of Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation after his purchase of Emerson Records in 1922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Abrams |
| Béla Horovitz | Béla Horovitz | 1898 | 1955 | Hungarian | publisher, and the co-founder in 1923, with Ludwig Goldscheider, of Phaidon Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béla_Horovitz |
| Michel Adam Lisowski | Michel Adam Lisowski | null | null | Polish | businessman and the founder and sole owner of Fashion TV. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Adam_Lisowski |
| David Yakobashvili | David Mikhaylovich Yakobashvili | null | null | null | one of the founders of the largest Russian companies – JSC Wimm-Bill-Dann – the manufacturer of dairy products, juices and beverages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yakobashvili |
| David Bruce Smith | David Bruce Smith | null | null | null | author, editor, publisher and business executive based in Washington, DC. He is the founder and president of The Grateful American Foundation, an organization dedicated to restoring enthusiasm in American history for kids and adults | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bruce_Smith |
| Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro | Gregory I. Piatetsky-Shapiro | 1958 | n/a | null | data scientist and the co-founder of the KDD conferences, and co-founder and past chair of the Association for Computing Machinery SIGKDD group for Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining and Data Science | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Piatetsky-Shapiro |
| Alexander Kugel | Alexander Rafailovich Kugel | 1864 | 1928 | Russian | theatre critic and editor, founder of the False Mirror (Krivoye Zerkalo), a popular theatre of parodies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kugel |
| Adi Keissar | Adi Keissar | 1980 | n/a | Israeli | poet, and founder of the cultural group Ars Poetica | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Keissar |
| Irena Bauman | Irena Bauman | 1955 | n/a | null | architect and co-founder and director of Bauman Lyons Architects | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Bauman |
| Stephen Norman | Stephen Norman | 1918 | 1946 | null | grandson of the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Norman |
| Henry Moskowitz (real estate investor) | Henry Moskowitz | 1905 | 2008 | null | New York-based real estate investor and founder of the real estate management company The Argo Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moskowitz_(real_estate_investor) |
| Bessie Abramowitz Hillman | Bessie Abramowitz Hillman | 1889 | 1970 | null | labor activist and founder of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Abramowitz_Hillman |
| Edmund Gutmann | Baron Edmund Gutmann von Gelse und Belišće | 1841 | 1918 | null | Croatian nobleman, industrialist and together with his family (father and brothers) founder of the settlement which became Belišće, Croatia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Gutmann |
| Nigel Grainge | Nigel Grainge | 1946 | 2017 | British | music executive, and the founder of Ensign Records in 1976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Grainge |
| Helen Valentine | Helen Valentine | 1893 | 1986 | null | founder and editor in chief of Seventeen and Charm magazines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Valentine |
| Henri Negresco | Henri Alexandre Negresco | 1870 | 1920 | Romanian | hotelier and founder of the Hotel Negresco in Nice, France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Negresco |
| Rosa Sonneschein | Rosa Sonneschein | 1847 | 1932 | null | founder and editor of The American Jewess magazine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Sonneschein |
| Stuart Lipton | Sir Stuart Anthony Lipton | 1942 | n/a | British | property developer, a founder of Stanhope plc, and the co-founder of the property company Chelsfield with Elliott Bernerd, and now a co-founder (with Peter Rogers) and partner in Lipton Rogers Developments LLP. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Lipton |
| Howard Michaels | Howard Lee Michaels | 1955 | 2018 | American | businessman who was the founder of the real estate investment advisory firm Carlton Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Michaels |
| Zerka T. Moreno | Zerka Toeman Moreno | 1917 | 2016 | Dutch | psychotherapist and co-founder of psychodrama | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerka_T._Moreno |
| Henry Engelhardt | Henry Allan Engelhardt | 1958 | n/a | American | businessman, and the founder and former chief executive of Admiral Group, a Welsh motor insurance company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Engelhardt |
| William A. Moses | William A. Moses | 1933 | 2002 | American | real estate developer, founder of the Community Housing Improvement Program, and an advocate against rent control | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Moses |
| Gary Kaplan | Gary Kaplan | 1959 | n/a | null | founder of BetonSports | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kaplan |
| Zachary Hochschild | Zachary Hochschild | 1854 | 1912 | German | businessman, metal trader, and co-founder of Metallgesellschaft AG. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Hochschild |
| David Werner (real estate investor) | David Werner | 1953 | n/a | American | real estate investor and founder of David Werner Real Estate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Werner_(real_estate_investor) |
| Samuel Rudin | Samuel Rudin | 1896 | 1975 | null | New York real estate developer and founder of the Rudin Management Company and patriarch of the Rudin family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rudin |
| Minnie Dessau Louis | Minnie Dessau Louis | 1841 | 1922 | American | educator, writer, and community leader, one of the founders of the National Council of Jewish Women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Dessau_Louis |
| Joseph da Costa | Fernando Joseph da Costa | 1683 | 1753 | null | member of a wealthy family of merchants in London of Portuguese-Jewish origins, and the son of Alvaro Jacob da Costa, sometimes considered the founder of the Anglo-Sephardi community in London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_da_Costa |
| Abraham Rabinovitch | Abraham Isaac Rabinovitch | 1889 | 1964 | Australian | property developer and well-respected pioneer of the Sydney Modern Orthodox Jewish community; in particular as a founder and philanthropist of Sydney's full-time Jewish educational institutions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Rabinovitch |
| Rozka Korczak | Rozka or Ruzka Korczak | 1921 | 1988 | Polish | Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Vitka Kempner and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim)--the only known undefeated ghetto uprising in the history of the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozka_Korczak |
| Seymour Fromer | Seymour Fromer | 1922 | 2009 | American | co-founder of the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Fromer |
| Harry Wilf | Harry Wilf | 1921 | 1992 | Polish | businessman, and the co-founder of Garden Homes, one of the largest real estate development companies in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Wilf |
| Peter Hambro | Peter Charles Percival Hambro | 1945 | n/a | null | one of the founders of Petropavlovsk plc, (formerly Peter Hambro Mining), a gold mining business in Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hambro |
| Cyrus Harvey Jr. | Cyrus Isadore Harvey Jr. | 1925 | 2011 | American | film distributor and business entrepreneur, he was the co-founder of Janus Films in 1956, and part-owner of the Brattle Theatre with his longtime business partner film producer and actor Bryant Haliday | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Harvey_Jr. |
| Manny Kimmel | Emmanuel Kimmel | 1896 | 1982 | null | notable underworld figure between the 1930s and 1960s and the founder of the Kinney Parking Company, a chain of parking lots and garages which evolved into the media conglomerate Warner Communications and ultimately the present day WarnerMedia media empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_Kimmel |
| J. M. Brunswick | John Moses Brunswick | 1819 | 1886 | null | founder of the J.M. Brunswick Manufacturing Company, one of the enterprises that merged to form today's Brunswick Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Brunswick |
| Sylvia Ettenberg | Sylvia Cutler Ettenberg | 1917 | 2012 | null | Jewish educator at the forefront of many Conservative Jewish educational initiatives and was one of the founders of the Camp Ramah camping movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Ettenberg |
| Beer Léon Fould | Beer Léon Fould | 1767 | 1855 | French | Jewish banker, and the founder of the Fould banking dynasty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Léon_Fould |
| Mordechai Sharabi | Mordechai Sharabi | 1908 | 1984 | null | rabbi and the founder and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Nahar Shalom, a yeshiva for the study of the Kabbalah of Shalom Sharabi, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mahane Yehuda | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Sharabi |
| Louis Rosenblum | Louis Rosenblum | 1923 | 2019 | null | pioneer in the movement for freedom of emigration for the Jews in the Soviet Union, was a founder of the first organization to advocate for the freedom of Soviet Jews, the Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism, founding president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, and a research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center (now known as the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rosenblum |
| Ruchama Marton | Ruchama Marton | 1937 | n/a | Israeli | psychotherapist, psychiatrist, and feminist, and the founder of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruchama_Marton |
| Leon Feingold | Leon Feingold | 1973 | n/a | null | baseball player, polyamory advocate, advice columnist, and co-founder of the House of Good Deeds, from Oceanside, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Feingold |
| Irving A. Fradkin | Irving A. Fradkin | 1921 | 2016 | null | optometrist and founder and president emeritus of Scholarship America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_A._Fradkin |
| Harvey Schlossberg | Harvey Schlossberg | 1936 | 2021 | null | officer with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), Freudian psychoanalyst, and the founder of modern crisis negotiation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Schlossberg |
| Leonard M. Tannenbaum | Leonard M. Tannenbaum | 1971 | 1972 | null | founder and chief executive officer of Advanced Flower Capital and AFC Gamma Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_M._Tannenbaum |
| Joseph Barry | Joseph Barry | 1940 | n/a | American | real estate developer and co-founder of the Applied Housing Companies and founder of the Hudson Reporter newspaper chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Barry |
| Leib Tropper | Rabbi Leib Tropper | 1950 | n/a | null | founder of the Kol Yaakov Torah Center, which was located in Monsey, New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leib_Tropper |
| Alan Leventhal | Alan M. Leventhal | null | null | null | founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Beacon Capital Partners | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Leventhal |
| Sonny Gindi | Samuel "Sonny" Gindi | 1924 | 2012 | null | co-founder of the Century 21 department store | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Gindi |
| Herbert Loebl | Dr Herbert Loebl | 1923 | 2013 | British | businessman, philanthropist and leading proponent of exporting, notable as a co-founder of Joyce, Loebl & Company, a manufacturer of scientific instruments | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Loebl |
| Leon L. Lewis | Leon Lawrence Lewis | 1888 | 1954 | American | attorney, the first national secretary of the Anti-Defamation League, the national director of B'nai B'rith, the founder and first executive director of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Relations Committee, and a key figure in the spy operations that infiltrated American Nazi organizations in the 1930s and early 1940s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_L._Lewis |
| Mitchell Wolfson Jr. | Mitchell "Micky" Wolfson Jr. | 1939 | n/a | American | businessman, collector, and the founder of the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, Florida, and Genoa–Nervi, Italy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Wolfson_Jr. |
| Warren Tartaglia | Warren Tartaglia | 1944 | 1965 | American | jazz musician, poet and one of the six founders of the Moorish Orthodox Church of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Tartaglia |
| Michael Rosen (rabbi) | Michael "Mickey" Rosen | 1945 | 2008 | British | rabbi and founder of Yakar, an innovative Jewish learning community and synagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rosen_(rabbi) |
| Scott Seligman | Scott Seligman | 1951 | n/a | American | real estate developer, the founder of the Sterling Bank and Trust FSB, and minority owner of the San Francisco Giants major league baseball team | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Seligman |
| Ana María Stekelman | Ana María Stekelman | null | null | null | one of Argentina’s leading choreographers and is the founder of the Tangokinesis dance troupe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_María_Stekelman |
| Kenneth D. Tuchman | Kenneth Darryl Tuchman | 1959 | n/a | American | billionaire who is the founder of global outsourcing company TeleTech | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_D._Tuchman |
| Benedict Gimbel Jr. | Benedict Gimbel Jr. | 1899 | 1971 | American | businessman, department store executive, and founder of one of the first radio stations in Philadelphia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Gimbel_Jr. |
| David Goldman (businessman) | Alan David Goldman | 1937 | 1999 | null | founder of the Sage Group, the United Kingdom's largest software business | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Goldman_(businessman) |
| Ilya Altman | Ilya Alexandrovich Altman | 1955 | n/a | Russian | historian and (next to Alla Gerber) founder and co-chairman of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center in Moscow | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Altman |
| Anthony Yadgaroff | Anthony H Yadgaroff | 1949 | n/a | null | founder of Allenbridge Group PLC, which is based in Old Jewry, London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Yadgaroff |
| Emil Starkenstein | Emil Starkenstein | 1884 | 1942 | Czech | Jewish pharmacologist and one of the founders of clinical pharmacology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Starkenstein |
| Jean Touitou | Jean Touitou | 1951 | n/a | Tunisian | creative director and founder of A.P.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Touitou |
| Fred Lazarus Jr. | Fred R. Lazarus Jr. | 1884 | 1973 | American | founder of Federated Department Stores, which became Macy's, Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lazarus_Jr. |
| Manuel G. Batshaw | Manuel Gilman Batshaw | 1915 | 2016 | Canadian | social worker and is best known for being the founder of Batshaw Youth and Family Centres | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_G._Batshaw |
| Bracha Peli | Bracha Peli | 1892 | 1986 | null | founder and owner of the Israeli publishing house, Massada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracha_Peli |
| Mieczysław Grydzewski | Mieczysław Grydzewski | 1894 | 1970 | Polish | historian and journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of Wiadomości Literackie ('The Literary News') weekly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczysław_Grydzewski |
| Leon Trilling | Leon Trilling | 1924 | 2018 | null | professor emeritus in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and co-founder of the Massachusetts Department of Education's statewide METCO (Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity) Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trilling |
| David S. Loeb | David S. Loeb | 1924 | 2003 | null | co-founder of both Countrywide Financial Corp and IndyMac Bank along with former protégé and longtime business partner Angelo Mozilo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Loeb |
| Milton E. Harris | Milton E. Harris | 1927 | 2005 | American | businessman and founder of Harris Steel Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_E._Harris |
| Hillel Zaks | Hillel Zaks | 1931 | 2015 | null | founder and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Knesses Hagedolah in Kiryat Sefer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Zaks |
| Sophus Berendsen | Sophus Berendsen | 1829 | 1884 | Danish | founder of Sophus Berendsen A/S (now Berendsen plc) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophus_Berendsen |
| Abraham Aboab (Hamburg) | Rabbi Abraham ben Menasseh Aboab | 1642 | n/a | null | Western Sephardic Portuguese philanthropist and Rabbi, who was an early founder of the Portuguese Jewish community in Hamburg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Aboab_(Hamburg) |
| Jacob Valero | Jacob Valero | 1813 | 1874 | null | founder of the first private bank in Palestine, Jacob Valero & Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Valero |
| Franz Mayer | Franz Mayer Traumann | 1882 | 1975 | German | financier, photographer and collector, and the founder of the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mayer |
| Eva Neurath | Eva Urvasi Neurath | 1908 | 1999 | British | publisher, the co-founder in 1949, with her husband, Walter Neurath, of Thames & Hudson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Neurath |
| Samuel Gluckstein (1821–1873) | Samuel Henry Gluckstein | 1821 | 1873 | null | founder of Salmon & Gluckstein tobacco merchants | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gluckstein_(1821–1873) |
| Max Samuel | Max Samuel | 1883 | 1942 | German | businessman and self-made man, founder and managing-director of the EMSA-Werke, chair of the Jewish congregation in Rostock and head deputy of the Israelite Upper Council of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (board of deputies of Mecklenburg Jews) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Samuel |
| Nehemiah Levanon | Nehemiah Levanon | 1915 | 2003 | Israeli | intelligence agent, diplomat, head of the aliyah program Nativ, and a founder of kibbutz Kfar Blum | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehemiah_Levanon |
| Hanna Klaus | Hanna Klaus | null | null | null | Obstetrics and gynaecology physician, a member of the Medical Mission Sisters, and best known as founder of the TeenSTAR adolescent sex education program | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Klaus |
| Wolfgang von Weisl | Wolfgang Johannes | 1896 | 1974 | null | one of the founders of the Revisionist movement and a leader in the Zionist struggle for establishing a Jewish state | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_von_Weisl |
| Illana Katz | Illana Katz | 1948 | n/a | null | author, lecturer, and founder of Real Life Storybooks, a publisher of special needs storybooks for children | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illana_Katz |
| Zuni Maud | Zuni Maud | 1891 | 1956 | null | Yiddish-American cartoonist, satirist, calligrapher and co-founder of the first Yiddish-language puppet theatre in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuni_Maud |
| Ira Jan | Ira Jan (Russian: И́ра Ян) | 1869 | 1919 | null | pseudonym of the painter and writer Esther Yoselevitch Slepyan (Эсфи́рь Иосиле́вич Слепя́н; 2 February 1869 – 24 April 1919), although primarily known as Haim Nahman Bialik's mistress, she was also a member of the commune at Bezalel and among the founders of Gymnasia Rehavia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Jan |
| Victor Hammer (businessman) | Victor J. Hammer | 1901 | 1985 | null | businessman, founder and owner of Hammer Galleries in New York City, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hammer_(businessman) |
| Aryeh Leib Baron | Rabbi Aryeh Leib Baron | 1912 | 2011 | Russian | Haredi Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Merkaz HaTorah and the rabbi of Beis Medrash Merkaz HaTalmud in Montréal, Canada, as well as the founder of Yeshiva Ahavas Torah Baranovich in Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryeh_Leib_Baron |
| Aharon Shulov | Professor Aharon Shulov | 1907 | 1997 | Israeli | entomologist and the founder of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Shulov |
| Daniel Lurie | Daniel Lurie | null | null | American | philanthropist who is the founder and president of Tipping Point Community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lurie |
| Ruti Zisser | Ruti Zisser | 1974 | n/a | Israeli | lifestyle designer, fashion designer, wardrobe stylist, and business woman, publicly known by her first name, Ruti Zisser is the founder of a fashion company manufacturing and distributing her designs, and showcasing Israeli fashion designers internationally | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruti_Zisser |
| Stanley Silverstein | Stanley Oscar Silverstein | 1924 | 2016 | Polish | entrepreneur who was co-founder with his brother Mike of Nina Footwear, a company that manufactures "fashionable but affordable shoes" for women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Silverstein |
| Denah Weinberg | Denah Weinberg | null | null | null | Orthodox Jewish Rebbetzin and founder and dean of EYAHT College of Jewish Studies for Women in Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denah_Weinberg |
| George Karfunkel | George Karfunkel | 1948 | 1949 | American | businessman, the co-founder of companies including AmTrust Financial Services, and a survivor of Operation Entebbe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Karfunkel |
| Glenn H. Greenberg | Glenn Hank Greenberg | 1947 | n/a | null | managing director and founder of Brave Warrior Advisors, a privately owned investment advisory firm | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_H._Greenberg |
| Isaac Goldemberg | Isaac Goldemberg | 1945 | n/a | Peruvian | author, founder of the Latin American Writers Institute, Brújula/Compass, and "Hostos Review," and a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Hostos Community College | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Goldemberg |
| Harry Solomon (businessman) | Sir Harry Solomon | 1937 | n/a | null | founder of Hillsdown Holdings, one of the United Kingdom's largest food businesses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Solomon_(businessman) |
| Rochelle Lee Shoretz | Rochelle Lee Shoretz | 1972 | 2015 | American | lawyer and founder and executive director of Sharsheret, an organization supporting young Jewish women with cancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochelle_Lee_Shoretz |
| Dragutin Wolf | Dragutin Wolf | 1866 | 1927 | Croatian | Jewish industrialist and founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragutin_Wolf |
| Sol Polk | Sol Polk | 1917 | 1988 | American | businessman and co-founder of appliance retailer Polk Brothers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Polk |
| Stanley G. Tate | Stanley G. Tate | 1928 | n/a | American | real estate developer, founder of Tate Enterprises, Republican party donor, and the creator of the Florida Prepaid College Tuition Program | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_G._Tate |
| Gerald Weisfeld | Gerald Weisfeld | 1940 | 2020 | British | businessman, and the founder of the What Every Woman Wants (WEWW) retail chain, which at one time had 130 stores in the UK. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weisfeld |
| Henry Moskowitz (activist) | Henry Moskowitz | 1880 | 1936 | null | civil rights activist, and one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moskowitz_(activist) |
| Brian Rosenworcel | Brian Rosenworcel | null | null | American | drummer and co-founder of the band Guster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Rosenworcel |
| Roz Rothstein | Roz Rothstein | 1952 | 1953 | American | activist who is the founder and CEO of StandWithUs. She has been recognized by both The Forward and The Jerusalem Post as one of the most influential Jews in the world | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roz_Rothstein |
| Herbert Felix | Herbert Felix | 1908 | 1973 | Swedish | entrepreneur of Austrian-Jewish descent and the founder of the food companies AB Felix and Felix Austria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Felix |
| Frank Russek | Frank Russek | 1875 | 1876 | American | businessman, and the co-founder of the Russeks department store chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Russek |
| Mark Weil | Mark Yakovlevich Weil | 1952 | 2007 | null | Sovietistani theatre director, and founder and art director of the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weil |
| Bernard Pears | Bernard Pears | null | null | Austrian | businessman, and the founder of the William Pears Group, one of Britain's largest property companies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Pears |
| Izsák Lőwy | Izsák Lőwy | 1793 | 1847 | Hungarian | industrialist and founder of the city Újpest, now a district of Budapest, Hungary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izsák_Lőwy |
| David ben Boaz | David ben Boaz | null | null | null | Karaite Jewish scholar who flourished in the tenth century CE. He is reported to have been the fifth in the line of descent from Anan ben David, the founder of Karaism (he was the son of Boaz ben Jehoshaphat, the son of Jehoshaphat ben Saul, the son of Saul ben Anan, the son of Anan ben David | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_ben_Boaz |
| Leo Flieg | Leo Flieg | 1893 | 1939 | German | politician, and a founder member of the Communist Party of Germany, regarded by some as an "Éminence grise" to the national leadership | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Flieg |
| Howard Hiatt | Howard Haym Hiatt | 1925 | n/a | null | medical researcher involved with the discovery of messenger RNA, past chair from 1963-1972 of the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, past dean from 1972–1984 of the Harvard School of Public Health, and co-founder and associate chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he also he helped to launch and for this past decade has been the Associate Chief of the hospital's Division of Global Health Equity,Brigham and Women's Hospital profile page for Howard Hiatt and a founding head of the cancer division of Beth Israel Hospital (now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hiatt |
| Eli Beer | Eli Beer | 1973 | n/a | null | founder of United Hatzalah of Israel, and President of the U.S.-based organization Friends of United Hatzalah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Beer |
| Ignacio Varchausky | Ignacio Varchausky | null | null | null | double bass player, music producer and founder of Orquesta El Arranque (1996) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Varchausky |
| Mildred Weisenfeld | Mildred Mosler Weisenfeld | 1921 | 1997 | null | Brooklyn-born founder of national not-for-profit foundation the National Council to Combat Blindness in 1946, now known as Fight for Sight, an organization based in New York City that provides initial funds to promising scientists early in their careers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Weisenfeld |
| David I. Saperstein | David I. Saperstein | 1941 | n/a | American | entrepreneur and founder of Metro Networks | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_I._Saperstein |
| Lou Walters | Lou Walters | 1896 | 1977 | British | booking agent, theatrical producer and the founder of the famed Latin Quarter nightclub in New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Walters |
| Gil Oved | Gil Oved | 1975 | n/a | South African | entrepreneur who is the co-founder and co-CEO of The Creative Counsel, South Africa's largest advertising agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Oved |
| Tibor Hollo | Tibor Hollo | 1927 | n/a | American | real estate developer and founder of Florida East Coast Realty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibor_Hollo |
| Nick Molnar | Nick Molnar | null | null | null | FinTech entrepreneur and is the co-founder of Afterpay | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Molnar |
| Israel Carmi | Israel (Yisrael) Carmi | null | null | null | founder of the Tilhas Tizig Gesheften (TTG Brigade) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Carmi |
| David Reiss (fashion retailer) | David Anthony Reiss | 1943 | n/a | null | founder of the British global fashion chain Reiss | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reiss_(fashion_retailer) |
| Jonathan Somen | Jonathan Somen | null | null | null | co-founder of Access Kenya Group alongside his brother, David Somen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Somen |
| Laurence Gluck | Laurence Gluck | 1953 | n/a | American | New York-based real estate investor, landlord, and the founder of the real estate company Stellar Management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Gluck |
| Marģers Vestermanis | Marģers Vestermanis | 1925 | n/a | Latvian | Holocaust survivor, historian, founder and former director of the museum "Jews in Latvia" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marģers_Vestermanis |
| Henry Siegel | Henry Siegel | 1852 | 1930 | American | businessman and co-founder of the Siegel-Cooper Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Siegel |
| Avi Weinroth | Avraham Weinroth | 1963 | n/a | null | owner and founder of Avi Weinroth & Co. Law firm which specializes in litigation, real estate and commercial law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Weinroth |
| Alvin Bronstein | Alvin J. Bronstein | 1928 | 2015 | American | lawyer, and founder and Director Emeritus of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Bronstein |
| David L. Paul | David L. Paul | 1939 | n/a | American | banker, real estate developer, philanthropist and founder of CenTrust Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Paul |
| Ori Murray | Ori Murray | 1983 | n/a | American | rapper, best known as the co-founder and rap vocalist of the band Shtar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ori_Murray |
| Sali Hochschild | Sali Hochschild | 1883 | 1965 | German | businessman, the founder of Compania Minera y Comercial Sali Hochschild S.A., once one of the largest mining and mineral processing companies in Chile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sali_Hochschild |
| Clive Lawton | Clive Allen Lawton | 1951 | n/a | British | Jewish educator, broadcaster and writer who was one of the founders, in 1980, of the educational charity Limmud | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Lawton |
| Henrietta Poynter | Henrietta Malkiel Poynter | 1901 | 1968 | American | journalist and businesswoman credited as the co-founder of Congressional Quarterly with her husband, Nelson Poynter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Poynter |
| Slavko Hirsch | Dr. Slavko Hirsch | 1893 | 1942 | Croatian | physician, founder and director of the Epidemiological Institute in Osijek | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavko_Hirsch |
| Sasson Dayan | Sasson Dayan | null | null | Lebanese | banker and co-founder of Banco Daycoval | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasson_Dayan |
| Sid Applebaum | Sidney "Sid" Applebaum | 1924 | 2016 | American | businessman, the cofounder of Rainbow Foods | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Applebaum |
| Morris J. Amitay | Morris J. "Morrie" Amitay | 1936 | n/a | null | former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) (1974–1980), former vice chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), and is the founder and treasurer of the Washington Political Action Committee | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_J._Amitay |
| Elliott Sanger | Elliot Sanger | 1897 | 1989 | null | co-founder of WQXR-FM and an early advocate of FM broadcasting | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Sanger |
| Zev Brenner | Zev J. Brenner | null | null | null | Orthodox Jewish radio host and president and founder of Talkline Communications - a Radio/TV network founded in 1981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zev_Brenner |
| Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs | Lady Natasha Rose Eleanor Finch | 1983 | n/a | English | aristocrat, socialite, and founder of Beulah London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Natasha_Rufus_Isaacs |
| Eliyahu Essas | Rabbi Eliyahu Essas | 1946 | n/a | null | former leader of Soviet Jewry and one of the founders of Baal Teshuva movement in the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliyahu_Essas |
| Ludwig von Stieglitz | Ludwig von Stieglitz | 1779 | n/a | German | Jewish businessman in Russia and founder of the banking house Stieglitz & Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Stieglitz |
| Nachum Zev Dessler | Nachum Zev (Velvel) Dessler | null | null | null | Orthodox Jewish rabbi as well as founder and dean of the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachum_Zev_Dessler |
| Werner Braun (photojournalist) | Werner Braun | 1918 | 2018 | Israeli | photographer, considered a founder of photojournalism in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Braun_(photojournalist) |
| Janusz Weiss | Janusz Alfred Weiss | 1948 | n/a | Polish | journalist, television personality and co-founder of the one of the most popular radio stations in Poland, Radio ZET. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Weiss |
| Yuval Tal | Yuval Tal | null | null | null | founder and president of Payoneer, an Internet-based payment company, and BorderFree, an e-commerce company owned by Pitney Bowes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Tal |
| Ignaz Glaser | Ignaz Glaser | 1853 | 1916 | Austrian | businessman from Prague and the founder of one of the biggest sheet glass factories in the k.u.k. monarchy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Glaser |
| Lewis Golden | Lewis Lawrence Golden OBE | 1922 | 2017 | British | accountant, war veteran, and a founder of Everest Home Improvement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Golden |
| Mikhail Gots | Mikhail Rafailovich Gots | 1866 | 1906 | Russian | revolutionary, member of 'The People's Will' (Narodnaya Volya) and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party (PSR) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gots |
| Elijah Aboab Cardoso | Elijah Aboab Cardoso | null | null | null | philanthropist and founder of the Hamburg synagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Aboab_Cardoso |
| Mark Nordlicht | Mark (Meir) Nordlicht | 1968 | n/a | null | founder and former chief investment officer of (now defunct) Platinum Partners, a U.S. based hedge fund, which came to be known for its unusual investment strategies becoming the subject of a series of controversial criminal and legal actions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Nordlicht |
| Arthur Benni | Arthur William Benni | 1839 | 1867 | Polish | citizen, known in Russia (where his name was spelled Арту′р Ива′нович Бе′нни) as a journalist, Hertzen associate, Socialist activist and women liberation commune-founder | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Benni |
| Mark A. Meyer | Mark A. Meyer | 1946 | n/a | null | founder and President of the Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce (1990) and the Moldovan-American Chamber of Commerce (1993) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_A._Meyer |
| Chen Alon | Chen Alon | null | null | Israeli | lecturer, activist, and cofounder of Combatants for Peace | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Alon |
| Martin Nordegg | Martin Nordegg | 1868 | 1948 | German | entrepreneur, pioneer, and founder of the community of Nordegg, Alberta | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Nordegg |
| Adelaida Semyonovna Simonovitch | Adelaida Semyonovna Simonovitch | 1844 | 1933 | Russian | educator and the founder of the first kindergarten in Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaida_Semyonovna_Simonovitch |
| Adam Lisagor | Adam David Lisagor | 1978 | n/a | American | commercial director and the founder of Sandwich Video, an Internet and television commercial production company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Lisagor |
| Asher Hamburger | Asher Hamburger | 1821 | 1897 | null | founder of the A. Hamburger & Sons department store, at the beginning of the 20th century the largest department store in the Western United States, which would in 1923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asher_Hamburger |
| Harvey Soning | Harvey Murray Soning | 1944 | n/a | British | property consultant and developer, and the founder, chairman and CEO of James Andrew International Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Soning |
| Alberto Perlman | Alberto Perlman | 1977 | n/a | Colombian | businessman and co-founder of Zumba Fitness | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Perlman |
| Julien J. Studley | Julien J. Studley | 1927 | 2015 | American | real estate broker and the founder of Julien J. Studley Inc (now Savills Studley) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_J._Studley |
| Yvonne Jospa | Yvonne Jospa | 1910 | 2000 | null | cofounder and leading organizer of the Comité de Défense des Juifs in September 1942 with her husband Hertz Jospa, which saved over 3,000 Jewish children from deportation and death | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Jospa |
| Leon Rodal | Leon Rodal | 1913 | 1943 | Polish | journalist, Zionist-Revisionist party activist, co-founder and one of the commanders of the Jewish Military Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rodal |
| Lalchhanhima Sailo | Lalchhanhima Sailo | 1955 | 2007 | null | founder of Chhinlung Israel People Convention (CIPC) and a leader in the Bnei Menashe community in Mizoram, India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalchhanhima_Sailo |
| Samuel HaLevi | Samuel ben Meir Ha-Levi Abulafia | 1320 | 1360 | null | treasurer of king Pedro I "the Cruel" of Castile and founder of the Synagogue of El Transito in Toledo, Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_HaLevi |
| Maurice Goldblatt | Maurice Goldblatt | 1892 | 1984 | null | co-founder of the Goldblatt's department store | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Goldblatt |
| Eli Sadan | Rabbi Eliezer "Eli" Sadan | 1948 | n/a | Israeli | Orthodox rabbi, and the founder and head of the mechina "Bnei David", the first pre-military preparatory program in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Sadan |
| Felix Tikotin | Felix Tikotin | 1893 | 1986 | null | architect, art collector, and founder of the first Museum of Japanese Art in the Middle East | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Tikotin |
| Abraham Harry Blank | Abraham Harry Blank | 1879 | 1971 | null | founder of the Central States Theater Corporation and a major philanthropist in Des Moines, Iowa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Harry_Blank |
| Al Rosenbaum | Al Rosenbaum | 1926 | 2009 | American | artist and the co-founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Rosenbaum |
| David Granirer | David Granirer | null | null | null | counsellor, stand-up comic, the author of The Happy Neurotic: How Fear and Angst can lead to Happiness and Success, and the founder of Stand Up For Mental Health | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Granirer |
| Vitali Hakko | Vitali Hakko | 1913 | 2007 | Turkish | businessman, founder of the Vakko clothing business | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Hakko |
| George Davidsohn | George Davidsohn | 1936 | 2015 | null | founder of Davidsohn Computer Services / BTSI and Davidsohn Global Technologies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Davidsohn |
| Joseph Waldbaum | Joseph Waldbaum | null | null | null | founder of the Waldbaum supermarket chain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Waldbaum |
| Emanuel (Manny) Rosenfeld | Emanuel "Manny" Rosenfeld | 1898 | 1959 | null | one of the four founders of the Delaware Valley-based automotive parts retailer Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_(Manny)_Rosenfeld |
| Josef Sachs | Josef Ernst Sachs | null | null | Swedish | businessman and one of the two founders of the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in Stockholm | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Sachs |
| Nathan Hirsh | Nathan J. Hirsh | 1872 | 1956 | American | film producer, co-founder of Aywon Film Corporation and the Pioneer Film Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Hirsh |
| Mauriciu Blank | Mauriciu Blank | 1848 | 1929 | Romanian | banker, co-founder, alongside Iacob Marmorosch, of the Marmorosch Blank Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauriciu_Blank |
| Yehudit Harari | Yehudit Harari | 1885 | 1979 | null | educator, teacher, kindergarten teacher, and writer, one of the founders of Tel Aviv | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehudit_Harari |
| Alexander Aizenshtat | Alexander Aizenshtat | 1951 | n/a | Russian | artist known as the founder of a new movement in world fine arts - metaphysical expressionism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Aizenshtat |
| Yael Cohen Braun | Yael Cohen Braun | 1986 | n/a | South African | businesswoman, and a co-founder of Fuck Cancer, a health organization working for early detection and prevention of cancer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yael_Cohen_Braun |
| Robert A. Futterman | Robert Allen Futterman | 1928 | 1961 | American | real estate investor, developer, author, and founder of the Futterman Corporation – a publicly traded New York-based real-estate holding and development company, which he built into a $100 million nationwide enterprise prior to his sudden death in November 1961 at age 33 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Futterman |
| Yaacov Oved | Yaacov Oved | 1929 | n/a | null | historian and Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Tel Aviv University, member of Kibbutz Palmachim, research fellow at Yad Tabenkin: the institute of research and documentation of the kibbutz movement, researcher of the history of communes in the world and co- founder of the International Communal Studies Association | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaacov_Oved |
| Hans Schauder | Dr Hans Schauder | 1911 | 2001 | British | medical adviser and counsellor, co-founder of Camphill Community, founder of Garvald School & Training Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Schauder |
| Seymour Rossel | Rabbi Seymour Rossel | 1945 | n/a | American | author, publisher, editor, educator, and founder of Rossel Books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Rossel |
| Zev Birger | Zev Birger | 1926 | 2011 | null | founder of the Sons of Zion Organization that worked to preserve Hebrew culture and language during World War II. He was also active in Aliyah Bet (illegal immigration organization) that organized the immigration of Holocaust survivors to Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zev_Birger |
| Malke Bina | Malke Bina | null | null | null | founder and first teacher of Matan Women's Institute for Torah Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malke_Bina |
| Moses Uri HaLevi | Moses Uri ben Yoseph HaLevi | 1543 | 1621 | null | originally a German rabbi who become an instrumental figure and a key founder of the Spanish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Uri_HaLevi |
| Jozsef Wolfner | Jozsef Wolfner | 1856 | 1932 | Hungarian | publisher, founder of the publishing house Singer and Wolfner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jozsef_Wolfner |
| Charles Dayan (real estate developer) | Charles Ben Dayan | 1941 | n/a | American | real estate developer, the founder of Bonjour Capital and co-founder of Bonjour Jeans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dayan_(real_estate_developer) |
| Rodney Propp | Rodney Propp | null | null | null | New York-based real estate developer and co-founder of Tahl-Propp Equities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Propp |
| Elaine Feldman | Elaine Feldman | 1916 | 2006 | Irish | public figure and co-founder of the first secondary school for the Jewish community in Dublin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Feldman |
| Fred Blum | Fred Johannes Blum | 1914 | 1990 | German | social scientist and the founder of The New Era Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Blum |
| Herman Diamand | Herman Diamand | 1860 | 1931 | Polish | lawyer and socialist politician of Jewish origin, cofounder of Workers' Party of Galicia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Diamand |
| Anthony Goldbloom | Anthony John Goldbloom | 1983 | n/a | null | founder and CEO of Kaggle, a Silicon Valley start-up which has used predictive modelling competitions to solve problems for NASA, Wikipedia, Ford and Deloitte | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Goldbloom |
| Abraham S. Kay | Abraham S. Kay | 1899 | 1963 | null | Zionist from Russia, known for being a founder and member of the Kay Construction Company in the District of Columbia and Maryland area as well as being a philanthropic contributor to the Jewish community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_S._Kay |
| Paulus Moritz | Paulus Moritz | 1869 | 1942 | German | Roman Catholic cleric and founder of a minor branch of the Franciscan order | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulus_Moritz |
| Axel Robert Schönthal | Axel Robert Schönthal | 1858 | 1929 | Swedish | engineer, known for being the founder and first chairman of the sports club Hammarby IF in Stockholm | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Robert_Schönthal |
| Ruth Arion | Ruth Arion | 1912 | 1988 | German | painter and enamel artist and one of the founders of Ein Hod Artists’ Village | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Arion |
| Ivo Stern | Dr. Ivo Stern | 1889 | 1961 | null | Croatian lawyer, writer, journalist, director and founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation" (now Croatian Radiotelevision) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Stern |
| Matafia Šeinbergas | Matafia Šeinbergas | 1909 | 2002 | Lithuanian | chess player, medical scientist (immunologist, microbiologist, virologist), and the father of Isai Scheinberg, founder of PokerStars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matafia_Šeinbergas |
| Ruben Jaari | Ruben Jaari | 1936 | 1906 | Finnish | businessman and founder of the department store | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_Jaari |
| Paul Wallich | Paul Wallich | 1882 | 1938 | German | banker and son of the banker Hermann Wallich, one of the founders of Deutsche Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wallich |
| Julius Kayser | Julius Kayser | 1838 | 1920 | American | businessman and founder of The Julius Kayser Company (now Kayser-Roth) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Kayser |
| Haim Harari (educator) | Haim Harari | 1883 | 1940 | null | Hebrew teacher, writer, and publicist, member of the Second Assembly of Representatives, an amateur actor and director, one of the founders of the 'Hebrew Stage Lovers Association', and one of the founders of Tel Aviv | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Harari_(educator) |
| Adam Biro | Adam Biro | null | null | null | founder of the art book publishing house Biro Éditeur in Paris and the author of nine books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Biro |
| Myer Kangan | Myer Kangan | 1917 | 1991 | Australian | public servant and educationist, who is considered the founder of the technical and further education (TAFE) system after he conducted an inquiry into technical education in Australia on behalf of the Whitlam Government | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myer_Kangan |
| Osias Tager | Osias Tager | 1914 | 2005 | British | businessman who was one of the founders of the Ravenswood community, a residential community for adults with learning difficulties | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osias_Tager |
| Shlomo Deri | Shlomo Deri | null | null | Israeli | lawyer, businessman, politician, and founder of the Respect for Tradition Party (Kovod U’Mesoret Party) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Deri |
| Jonas Charles Hermann Freund | Jonas Charles Hermann Freund | 1808 | 1879 | Austrian | physician, known as the co-founder of the German Hospital in London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Charles_Hermann_Freund |
| Abraham Aboab | Rav Abraham Aboab | 1263 | n/a | null | 13th century Spanish Jewish aristocrat and founder of the Aboab family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Aboab |
| Edna Michell | Edna Michell | null | null | Israeli | violinist, pedagogue, and founder and director of music festivals, institutes, and concert series, known for her versatility and her efforts to expand the violin and chamber music repertoire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Michell |
| Ricardo Samuel Goldstein | Ricardo Samuel Goldstein | null | null | Brazilian | businessman and founder of a series of companies in most varied fields, such as Security Beverages Americas, and consulting and advisory companies Gold & Bell, and notedly one of Founders of Trump Realty Brazil, together with American billionaire Donald Trump | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Samuel_Goldstein |
| Maxine Cassin | Maxine Cassin | 1927 | 2010 | null | poet, editor, and publisher who influenced and published many New Orleans poets, most notably Everette Maddox, founder of the Maple Leaf Bar poetry reading series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Cassin |
| Albert Elay Shaltiel | Albert Elay Shaltiel | 1969 | n/a | null | founder and director of the ILAI Fund which assists children with disabilities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Elay_Shaltiel |
| Olga Murray | Olga Murray | null | null | null | retired lawyer and the founder and president of the Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF), a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that provides education, health care, human rights, and housing for disadvantaged children in Nepal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Murray |
| Oleksandr Rojtburd | Oleksandr Rojtburd | 1961 | 2021 | Ukrainian | artist of the Ukrainian New Wave and co-founder of the theory of the Ukrainian Transavantgard | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Rojtburd |
| Mavro Sachs | Mavro Sachs | 1817 | 1888 | null | Croatian physician, the first lecturer of the University of Zagreb, founder of the forensic medicine in Croatia and the first Jew who officially became citizen of Zagreb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavro_Sachs |
| Azriel Graeber | Azriel Graeber | null | null | null | freelance journalist, scholar, PhD and founder of the Jewish Scholarship Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azriel_Graeber |
| George Lichter | George Lichter | 1921 | 2013 | American | fighter pilot and one of the founders of the Israeli Air Force | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lichter |
| Tzipora Jochsberger | Tzipora Jochsberger | 1920 | 2017 | null | music teacher and founder of the Hebrew Arts School for Music and Dance, now known as the Kaufman Music Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzipora_Jochsberger |
| Herbert Fisher (businessman) | Herbert Fisher | 1922 | 1993 | American | businessman and the founder of discount retailer Jamesway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Fisher_(businessman) |
| Walter J. Gollin | Walter Josephson Gollin | 1854 | 1927 | null | businessman, co-founder of merchants Gollin & Co. of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_J._Gollin |
| Karlo Weissmann | Dr. Karlo Weissmann | 1890 | 1953 | null | Croatian physician and founder of the first sanatorium in Osijek | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlo_Weissmann |
| Frank Taffel | Frank Taffel | 1877 | 1947 | null | journalist, a founder of Congregation Beth Jacob (Atlanta), and an advocate of Jewish causes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Taffel |
| Preston Rabl | Preston Martin Charles Rabl | 1949 | n/a | British | investment banker, stockbroker and co-founder, with Martin Sorrell, of WPP, the world's largest advertising company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Rabl |
| Reuven Yudalevich | Reuven Yudalevich | 1862 | 1933 | null | funder and founder of the city of Rishon Le Zion, Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Yudalevich |
| Alexander Zuntz | Alexander Zuntz | 1742 | 1819 | null | Hessian Jew who was a noted figure in the early American Jewish community and was one of the founders of the Bank of New York in 1784 and the New York Stock Exchange | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Zuntz |
| Salamon Berger | Salamon Berger Ouz | 1858 | 1934 | Croatian | Jewish industrialist, textile trader, and founder and first director of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamon_Berger |
| Sigmund Mandl | Sigmund S. Mandl | 1898 | 1976 | null | founder of the Husky Wrench manufacturing company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Mandl |
| M. Gary Neuman | M. Gary Neuman | null | null | null | rabbi, licensed family counselor, Florida Supreme Court-certified family mediator and founder of the Sandcastles Program Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Gary_Neuman |
| Ephraim Alex | Ephraim Alex | null | null | English | Jewish philanthropist, founder of the Jewish Board of Guardians, London; born in Cheltenham, 1800; died in London, Nov | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Alex |
| Gerard Ettinger | Gerard Ettinger | 1909 | 2002 | null | founder of the British designer and manufacturer of luxury leather goods G Ettinger Ltd, as well as a German film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Ettinger |
| Lewis Hammerson | Lewis W. Hammerson | 1916 | 1958 | null | founder of Hammerson plc, one the United Kingdom's largest property businesses and a FTSE 100 company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hammerson |
| Robert Berman (banker) | Robert Berman | null | null | null | co-founder in 1939, along with Roy Neuberger, of the eponymous Neuberger Berman investment and financial services company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Berman_(banker) |
| Moshe Moskowitz | Moshe Moskowitz | 1925 | 2021 | Israeli | politician, head of the Shafir Regional Council (1952–1979), and founder of the Gush Etzion settlement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Moskowitz |
| Leslie Jacobson | Leslie Bravman Jacobson | null | null | null | George Washington University professor emeritus of theatre, playwright, director, and the founding artistic director of the longest-running women's theatre in the United States, Horizons: Theatre from a Woman's Perspective in Washington, D.C. She was also a founder and vice president of the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Bokamoso Youth Foundation, president of the League of Washington Theatres, and recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jacobson |
| Yaron Tsur | Yaron Tsur | 1948 | n/a | null | amongst the founders of the Open University of Israel, a professor in the department of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University and a former chairperson of its graduate school of | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaron_Tsur |
| Shoshana Borochov | Shoshana Borochov | 1912 | 2004 | null | daughter of Ber Borochov, one of the founders of socialist Zionism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Borochov |
| Joe Nahmad | Joseph Nahmad | 1990 | n/a | American | art dealer of Syrian Jewish descent, and the founder of the New York gallery Nahmad Contemporary located on 980 Madison Avenue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Nahmad |
| Michael Stern (zoologist) | Michael Stern | 1978 | n/a | American | zookeeper, conservationist, anthropologist and primatologist who serves as the Curator of Primates and Small Mammals at Philadelphia Zoo and is the co-founder of the New Nature Foundation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stern_(zoologist) |
| Aleksandar Licht | Dr. Aleksandar Licht | 1884 | 1948 | Croatian | Zionist leader and founder of the Zionist movement in Croatia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Licht |
| Mikhail Averbakh | Mikhail Iosifovich Averbakh | null | null | Russian | ophthalmologist, Doctor of Medicine (1900), Full Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939), founder and first director of the Helmholtz Central Institute of Ophthalmology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Averbakh |
| Norman Sturner | Norman Sturner | 1940 | n/a | American | real estate developer and co-founder and CEO of Murray Hill Properties | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Sturner |
| Samson Flexor | Samson Flexor | 1907 | 1971 | French | artist, and founder of the Brazilian abstract art | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Flexor |
| Zeʼev Lev | Ze'ev Lev | 1922 | 2004 | Israeli | physicist, Torah scholar, and founder of the Jerusalem College of Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeʼev_Lev |
| Joie Davidow | Joie Davidow | null | null | null | author and editor best known as co-founder of L.A. Weekly and L.A. Style magazines, and for her memoir Marked for Life | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joie_Davidow |
| Barak Cohen | Haim Barak Cohen, commonly known as Barak Cohen | null | null | Israeli | lawyer, one of the founders of the "Ba'im LaBanka'im" group, who is best known for his protests against public figures and economic bodies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barak_Cohen |
| Karl Landauer | Karl Landauer | 1887 | 1945 | German | psychoanalyst and co-founder of the first Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Landauer |
| Saul Elkin | Saul Elkin | null | null | null | actor and director in Buffalo, NY. He is the founder and artistic director of Shakespeare in Delaware Park, and a former chair of the University at Buffalo's Theatre Department | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Elkin |
| Yavilah McCoy | Yavilah McCoy | 1972 | n/a | null | founder of Ayecha, a nonprofit organization providing educational resources for Jewish Diversity and advocacy for Jews of Color in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yavilah_McCoy |
| Richard Samuel Elman | Richard Samuel Elman | 1940 | n/a | British | businessman, the founder and Chairman of Singapore-listed, Hong Kong-based, Noble Group Limited | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Samuel_Elman |
| Sally Gottesman | Sally Gottesman | null | null | null | founder and president of The Eleemosynary Group, consultants to non-profit organizations based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Gottesman |
| Shmuel Gogol | Shmuel Gogol | 1924 | 1993 | null | Holocaust survivor, musician, and founder of the Ramat Gan harmonica band | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_Gogol |
| Gershon Jacobson | Gershon Jacobson | 1934 | 2005 | null | founder, editor and publisher of Der Algemeiner Journal, one of the largest Yiddish-language weekly newspapers in North America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershon_Jacobson |
| Binyamin L. Jolkovsky | Binyamin L. Jolkovsky | null | null | null | founder and editor-in-chief of Jewish World Review, a conservative news website | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binyamin_L._Jolkovsky |
| Olivia Zemor | Olivia Zemor | 1948 | n/a | French | political activist who is the co-founder and leader of CAPJPO (Coordination des Appels pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient; Coordination Group Calling for a Just Peace in the Middle East), a group which is commonly known as CAPJO-Euro-Palestine, or just EuroPalestine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Zemor |
| Iftach Alony | Iftach Alony | 1955 | n/a | Israeli | writer, poet and architect; he is the founder and chief editor of The Short Story Project, and the founder and co-editor of Afik – Israeli Literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iftach_Alony |
| Jeffrey Talpins | Jeffrey Marc Talpins | null | null | null | founder and Chief Investment Officer of New York-based hedge fund, Element Capital Management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Talpins |
| Samantha Greenberg | Samantha Greenberg | null | null | null | founder, managing partner and chief investment officer (CIO) of Margate Capital Management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Greenberg |
| Jeff Morgan (vintner) | Jeff Morgan | 1953 | n/a | American | winemaker, writer, cookbook author, and co-founder of Covenant Wines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Morgan_(vintner) |
| Louis Ziskin | Louis Ziskin | 1969 | n/a | null | CEO and founder of DropIn, Inc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ziskin |
| Lili Cassel-Wronker | Lili Cassel-Wronker | 1924 | 2019 | null | Jewish children books illustrator and calligrapher and one of the founder of the Society of Scribes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Cassel-Wronker |
| Jim Berkus | Jim Berkus | null | null | American | entertainment industry executive who is co-founder and chairman of United Talent Agency (UTA) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Berkus |
| Esti Rosenberg | Esti Rosenberg | 1965 | n/a | American | Orthodox Rabbanit who is the founder and head of the Migdal Oz seminary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esti_Rosenberg |
| Ran Avni | Ran Avni | null | null | null | founder of the Jewish Repertory Theatre (JRT) and was its artistic director from 1974 till 2004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_Avni |
| Mikhail Murad | Mikhail Murad | 1906 | 1986 | Iraqi | Jewish poet, writer, journalist, academic, and one of the founders of Jewish-Arab literature in the twentieth century, both in poetry and prose | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Murad |
| Maurice "Moe" Strauss | Maurice "Moe" Strauss | 1897 | 1982 | null | one of the four founders of the Delaware Valley-based automotive parts retailer Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_"Moe"_Strauss |