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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jared Polis | Jared Schutz Polis | 1975 | n/a | American | politician, entrepreneur, and businessman, serving as the 43rd governor of Colorado since January 2019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Polis |
| Eric Greitens | Eric Robert Greitens | 1974 | n/a | American | politician, author, and former Navy SEAL who was the 56th governor of Missouri from January 2017 until his resignation in June 2018 amid sexual misconduct and campaign finance allegations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Greitens |
| Stanley Fischer | Stanley Fischer | 1943 | n/a | Israeli | economist and government official who served as the 20th Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017 and 8th governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 to 2013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Fischer |
| Claudia Sheinbaum | Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo | 1962 | n/a | Mexican | scientist, politician, and head of government of Mexico City, a position equivalent to a state governor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Sheinbaum |
| Linda Lingle | Linda Lingle | 1953 | n/a | American | politician, who was the sixth governor of Hawaii from 2002 until 2010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lingle |
| Juan de Oñate | Juan de Oñate y Salazar | 1550 | 1626 | Spanish | conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and colonial governor of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Oñate |
| J. B. Pritzker | Jay Robert "J. B." Pritzker | 1965 | n/a | American | businessman, philanthropist, and politician serving as the 43rd governor of Illinois | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Pritzker |
| Tiberius Julius Alexander | Tiberius Julius Alexander | null | null | null | equestrian governor and general in the Roman Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Julius_Alexander |
| Zerubbabel | According to the biblical narrative, Zerubbabel | null | null | null | governor of the Achaemenid Empire's province Yehud Medinata and the grandson of Jeconiah,King David Dynasty [see number 22] penultimate king of Judah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerubbabel |
| Marlon Reis | Marlon Reis | 1981 | n/a | American | animal rights advocate, writer, and first gentleman of Colorado as the husband of 43rd governor of Colorado Jared Polis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Reis |
| Jerry Abramson | Jerry Edwin Abramson | 1946 | n/a | American | Democratic politician who was the 55th lieutenant governor of Kentucky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Abramson |
| José Alperovich | José Jorge Alperovich | 1955 | n/a | Argentine | politician and who was governor of Tucumán Province from 2003 to 2015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Alperovich |
| Milton Shapp | Milton Jerrold Shapp | 1912 | 1994 | null | 40th governor of the Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1979 and the first Jewish governor of Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Shapp |
| Linda Dessau | Linda Marion Dessau | 1953 | n/a | Australian | jurist, barrister, and the 29th and current governor of Victoria since 1 July 2015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Dessau |
| Solomon Bibo | Solomon Bibo | 1853 | 1934 | null | Jewish trader in the American Old West who became governor of Acoma Pueblo, equivalent of the tribal chief | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Bibo |
| Diego de Montemayor | Diego de Montemayor | none | 1611 | Spanish | conquistador, explorer, officer, and the governor of Nuevo Reino de León | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Montemayor |
| Josel of Rosheim | Josel of Rosheim | 1480 | 1554 | null | great advocate ("shtadlan") of the German Jews during the reigns of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Charles V. Maximilian I appointed him as governor of all Jews of Germany, a position which was confirmed after his death by his grandson, Charles V. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josel_of_Rosheim |
| Harriett Woods | Ruth Harriett Woods | 1927 | 2007 | American | politician and activist, two-time Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from Missouri, and the 42nd lieutenant governor of Missouri | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriett_Woods |
| Washington Bartlett | Washington Montgomery Bartlett | 1824 | 1887 | American | politician who served as the 16th governor of California from January 1887 until his death in September of that year, as well as the 20th mayor of San Francisco from 1883 to 1887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Bartlett |
| Bruce Sundlun | Bruce George Sundlun | 1920 | 2011 | American | politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as 71st governor of Rhode Island between 1991 and 1995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sundlun |
| Alexander Khloponin | Alexander Gennadyevich Khloponin | 1965 | n/a | Russian | politician who was the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia, Russia, from October 2002 until January 2010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Khloponin |
| Susan Turnbull | Susan "Susie" Wolf Turnbull | 1952 | n/a | American | politician who was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in the Maryland gubernatorial election, 2018 alongside candidate for governor Ben Jealous | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Turnbull |
| Gabriel Milan | Gabriel Milan (or Gavrī'el Mil'ō | null | null | null | governor of the Danish West Indies (now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands) from 7 May 1684 to 27 February 1686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Milan |
| David Zuckerman (politician) | David E. Zuckerman | 1971 | n/a | American | politician who served two terms as the 82nd lieutenant governor of Vermont, from 2017 to 2021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zuckerman_(politician) |
| Ralph Moses Paiewonsky | Ralph Moses Paiewonsky | 1907 | 1991 | null | businessman and politician who served as the ninth civilian governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1961–1969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Moses_Paiewonsky |
| Moses Alexander | Moses Alexander | 1853 | 1932 | American | businessman and politician who served as the 11th governor of Idaho, the second elected Jewish governor of a U.S. state, and the first who actually practiced that religion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Alexander |
| Nancy Wyman | Nancy S. Wyman | 1946 | n/a | American | Democratic Party politician who was the 108th lieutenant governor of Connecticut, from 2011 to 2019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Wyman |
| Salome I | Salome I | null | null | null | sister of Herod the Great and the mother of Berenice by her husband Costobarus, governor of Idumea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_I |
| Mykhailo Dobkin | Mykhailo Markovych Dobkin | 1970 | n/a | Ukrainian | politician, former governor of Kharkiv Oblast, former mayor of Kharkiv, Short bio of Mykhailo Dobkin, LIGA and a former deputy of the Ukrainian parliament | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykhailo_Dobkin |
| Frank Licht | Frank R. Licht | 1916 | 1987 | American | politician and the 67th Governor of Rhode Island from 1969 to 1973, serving as the first Jewish governor in Rhode Island state history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Licht |
| Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva | Luis de Carvajal | none | 1591 | null | governor of the Spanish province of Nuevo León in present-day Mexico, slave trader, and the first Spanish subject known to have entered Texas from Mexico across the lower Rio Grande | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_Carvajal_y_de_la_Cueva |
| Haim Farhi | Haim Farhi | 1760 | 1820 | null | adviser to the governors of the Galilee in the days of the Ottoman Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Farhi |
| Ralph Perlman | Ralph R. Perlman | 1917 | 2013 | null | state budget director in his adopted U.S. state of Louisiana, having served under four governors of both parties from 1967 until 1988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Perlman |
| Ishmael son of Nethaniah | Ishmael (Hebrew: ישמעאל God shall hear) ben | null | null | null | member of the royal household of Judah who, according to biblical accounts in II Kings and Jeremiah, assassinated Gedaliah after he was appointed governor of Judah by king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_son_of_Nethaniah |
| Alexander Vinnikov | Alexander Aronovich Vinnikov | 1955 | n/a | Russian | politician and formerly the governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vinnikov |
| Sol Kanee | Sol Kanee | 1909 | 2007 | Canadian | lawyer, former President of Canadian Jewish Congress from 1971 to 1974, former Chairman of the World Jewish Congress Board of Governors, the longest-serving member, for 17 years, of the board of governors of the Bank of Canada, and chairman of the Federal Business Development Bank, 1975–78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Kanee |
| Kareah | Kareah or Careah | null | null | null | father of Johanan and Jonathan, who for a time were loyal to Gedaliah, the Babylonian governor of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kareah |
| Valery Solomonovich Gurevich | Valery Solomonovich Gurevich, a Russian politician | null | null | null | vice-governor of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Solomonovich_Gurevich |
| Abraham Schrameck | Abraham Schrameck | null | null | French | Jewish politician, senator, Minister of the Interior, and colonial governor of French Madagascar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Schrameck |
| Hjalmar Mehr | Hjalmar Leo Mehr | 1910 | 1979 | Swedish | Social Democratic politician, mayor of Stockholm (1958–1966, 1970–1971) and governor of Stockholm County (1971–1977) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Mehr |
| David Klein (economist) | David Klein | 1935 | 2021 | Israeli | economist who served as governor of the Bank of Israel from January 2000 to January 2005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Klein_(economist) |
| Léon Geismar | Léon Geismar | null | null | French | politician and colonial governor of French West Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Geismar |
| Jerry Jacobs Jr. | Jeremy Maurice Jacobs Jr. | 1962 | n/a | American | businessman who serves as the co-chief executive officer of Delaware North and an alternate governor for the Boston Bruins | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Jacobs_Jr. |
| Hezekiah (governor) | Yehezqiyah, also rendered in English as Hezekiah | null | null | null | governor of Judea - probably the last governor during the Persian period when the province was known as Yehud or Yehud Medinata, or possibly (also) during Ptolemaic rule at the beginning of the Hellenistic period in the region | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezekiah_(governor) |