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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Kirby | Jack Kirby | 1917 | 1994 | American | comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby |
| David Ricardo | David Ricardo | 1772 | 1823 | British | political economist, one of the most influential of the classical economists along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ricardo |
| Neve Campbell | Neve Adrianne Campbell | 1973 | n/a | Canadian | actress, who has become an influential figure in popular culture, and is recognized for her work in the drama and horror genres | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neve_Campbell |
| Harlan Ellison | Harlan Jay Ellison | 1934 | 2018 | American | writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison |
| Heinrich Marx | Heinrich Marx | 1777 | 1838 | null | lawyer and the father of the revolutionary leader and influential socialist thinker Karl Marx | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Marx |
| Konrad Heiden | Konrad Heiden | 1901 | 1966 | German | journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi eras, most noted for the first influential biographies of Adolf Hitler | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Heiden |
| Thomas Kuhn | Thomas Samuel Kuhn | 1922 | 1996 | American | philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn |
| Maimonides | Moses ben Maimon ; | 1138 | 1204 | null | medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides |
| Anatoly Chubais | Anatoly Borisovich Chubais | 1955 | n/a | Russian | business oligarch who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Chubais |
| Jankiel Wiernik | Jankiel (Yankel, Yaakov | 1889 | 1972 | Polish | Jewish Holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp resistance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankiel_Wiernik |
| Clement Greenberg | Clement Greenberg | 1909 | 1994 | American | essayist known mainly as a very influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century and a Formalist aesthetician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Greenberg |
| Lew Wasserman | Lewis Robert Wasserman | 1913 | 2002 | American | talent agent and studio executive, described as "the last of the legendary movie moguls" and "arguably the most powerful and influential Hollywood titan in the four decades after World War II." His career spanned the nine decades from the 1920s to the 2000s; he started working as a cinema usher before dropping out of high school, rose to becoming the president of MCA and led its takeover of Universal, during which time Wasserman “brought about changes in virtually every aspect of show business | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Wasserman |
| Piero Sraffa | Piero Sraffa | 1898 | 1983 | null | influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Sraffa |
| Alexander Bittelman | Alexander "Alex" Bittelman | 1890 | 1982 | Russian | Jewish-American communist political activist, Marxist theorist, influential theoretician of the Communist Party USA and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bittelman |
| Erving Goffman | Erving Goffman | 1922 | 1982 | Canadian | sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erving_Goffman |
| David Galula | David Galula | 1919 | 1967 | French | military officer and scholar who was influential in developing the theory and practice of counterinsurgency warfare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Galula |
| Karl Abraham | Karl Abraham | 1877 | 1925 | null | influential German psychoanalyst, and a collaborator of Sigmund Freud, who called him his 'best pupil' | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Abraham |
| Habibollah Asgaroladi | Habibollah Asgaroladi Mosalman | 1932 | 2013 | null | leading senior Iranian conservative and principlist politician who was the leader of Islamic Coalition Party, a highly influential conservative political party in Iran | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habibollah_Asgaroladi |
| Siegbert Tarrasch | Siegbert Tarrasch | 1862 | 1934 | German | chess player, considered to have been among the strongest ones, and one of the most influential chess theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegbert_Tarrasch |
| Karl Mannheim | Karl Mannheim | 1893 | 1947 | null | influential German sociologist during the first half of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Mannheim |
| 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 |
| Heinz Kohut | Heinz Kohut | 1913 | 1981 | Austrian | psychoanalyst best known for his development of self psychology, an influential school of thought within psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory which helped transform the modern practice of analytic and dynamic treatment approaches | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Kohut |
| Oscar Zariski | Oscar Zariski | 1899 | 1986 | Russian | mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Zariski |
| Joseph Nasi | Joseph Nasi | 1524 | 1579 | Portuguese | Sephardi diplomat and administrator, member of the House of Mendes/Benveniste, nephew of Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi, and an influential figure in the Ottoman Empire during the rules of both Sultan Suleiman I and his son Selim II. He was a great benefactor of the Jewish people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nasi |
| Theodor Wolff | Theodor Wolff | 1868 | 1943 | German | writer who was influential as a journalist, critic and newspaper editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Wolff |
| Ignatz Bubis | Ignatz Bubis | 1927 | 1999 | null | influential chairman (and later president) of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) from 1992 to 1999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatz_Bubis |
| Naum Gabo | Naum Gabo | 1977 | n/a | null | influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde and the subsequent development of twentieth-century sculpture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum_Gabo |
| Judith Merril | Judith Josephine Grossman | 1923 | 1997 | American | and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the first women to be widely influential in those roles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Merril |
| Yisrael Meir Kagan | Rabbi Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan | 1838 | 1933 | null | also well known for the Mishna Berurah, his book on ritual law, was an influential rabbi, Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works continue to be widely influential in Jewish life | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yisrael_Meir_Kagan |
| Frederick Herzberg | Frederick Irving Herzberg | 1923 | 2000 | American | psychologist who became one of the most influential names in business management | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Herzberg |
| Alfred Kerr | Alfred Kerr | 1867 | 1948 | null | influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the Kulturpapst ("Culture Pope") | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kerr |
| Benjamin Gitlow | Benjamin "Ben" Gitlow | 1891 | 1965 | American | prominent socialist politician of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Communist Party USA. During the end of the 1930s, Gitlow turned to conservatism and wrote two sensational exposés of American Communism, books which were very influential during the McCarthy period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Gitlow |
| Saul Solomon | Saul Solomon | 1817 | 1892 | null | influential liberal politician of the Cape Colony, a British colony in what is now South Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Solomon |
| Erskine Childers (author) | Robert Erskine Childers DSC | 1870 | 1922 | English | writer, whose works included the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Childers_(author) |
| Louis Hartz | Louis Hartz | 1919 | 1986 | American | political scientist and influential liberal proponent of the idea of American exceptionalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Hartz |
| Irving Klaw | Irving Klaw | 1910 | 1966 | null | influential American merchant of sexploitation, fetish, and Hollywood glamour pin-up photographs and films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Klaw |
| Henrik Galeen | Henrik Galeen | 1881 | 1949 | Austrian | actor, screenwriter and film director considered an influential figure in the development of German Expressionist cinema during the silent era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Galeen |
| Jacob ben Asher | Jacob ben Asher | 1269 | 1343 | null | influential Medieval rabbinic authority | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_ben_Asher |
| Akiva Eger | Rabbi Akiva Eger | 1761 | n/a | null | outstanding Talmudic scholar, influential halakhic decisor and foremost leader of European Jewry during the early 19th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiva_Eger |
| Murray the K | Murray Kaufman | 1922 | 1982 | null | influential New York City rock and roll impresario and disc jockey of the 1950s, '60s and '70s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_the_K |
| Lucky Lehrer | Lucky Lehrer | null | null | null | drummer from Los Angeles, California associated with several influential LA punk rock bands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Lehrer |
| Samuel ibn Naghrillah | Samuel ibn Naghrillah | 993 | 1056 | Spanish | medieval Talmudic scholar, grammarian, philologist, soldier, merchant, politician, and an influential poet who lived in Iberia at the time of the Moorish rule | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_ibn_Naghrillah |
| Moysey Fishbein | Moysey (Moses) Abramovich Fishbein | 1946 | 2020 | null | influential Ukrainian poet and translator of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moysey_Fishbein |
| Zellig Harris | Zellig Sabbettai Harris | 1909 | 1992 | null | influential American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zellig_Harris |
| Nissim of Gerona | Nissim ben Reuven | 1320 | 1376 | null | influential talmudist and authority on Jewish law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissim_of_Gerona |
| Luis Saslavsky | Luis Saslavsky | 1903 | 1995 | Argentine | film director, screenwriter and film producer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Saslavsky |
| Bernard Krigstein | Bernard Krigstein | 1919 | 1990 | American | illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art, notably in EC Comics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Krigstein |
| Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen | Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen | 1869 | 1939 | British | art dealer who was considered one of the most influential art dealers of all time | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Duveen,_1st_Baron_Duveen |
| Lou Fine | Louis Kenneth Fine | 1914 | 1971 | American | comic book artist known for his work during the 1940s Golden Age of comic books, where his draftsmanship became an influential model to a generation of fellow comics artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Fine |
| Léonce Rosenberg | Léonce Rosenberg | 1879 | 1947 | null | art collector, writer, publisher, and one of the most influential French art dealers of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léonce_Rosenberg |
| Yechezkel Landau | Yechezkel ben Yehuda HaLevi Landau | 1713 | 1793 | null | influential authority in halakha (Jewish law) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yechezkel_Landau |
| Judah Alkalai | Judah ben Solomon Chai Alkalai | 1798 | 1878 | null | Sephardic Jewish rabbi, and one of the influential precursors of modern Zionism along with the Prussian Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Alkalai |
| David Tabor | David Tabor | 1913 | 2005 | British | physicist who was an early pioneer of tribology, the study of frictional interaction between surfaces, and well known for his influential undergraduate textbook "Gases, Liquids and Solids" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tabor |
| Felix Adler (professor) | Felix Adler | 1851 | 1933 | German | professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Adler_(professor) |
| André Gedalge | André Gedalge | 1856 | 1926 | null | influential French composer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Gedalge |
| Donald Meltzer | Donald Meltzer | 1922 | 2004 | null | Kleinian psychoanalyst whose teaching made him influential in many countries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Meltzer |
| Bernard Rimland | Bernard Rimland | 1928 | 2006 | American | research psychologist, writer, lecturer, and influential person in the field of developmental disorders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Rimland |
| Vladislav Khodasevich | Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich | 1886 | 1939 | null | influential Russian poet and literary critic who presided over the Berlin circle of Russian emigre litterateurs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Khodasevich |
| Joseph Wolpe | Joseph Wolpe | 1915 | 1997 | South African | psychiatrist and one of the most influential figures in behavior therapy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wolpe |
| Sylvain Lévi | Sylvain Lévi | 1863 | 1935 | null | influential French orientalist and indologist who taught Sanskrit and Indian religion at the École pratique des hautes études | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Lévi |
| Frank Heart | Frank Evans Heart | 1929 | 2018 | American | computer engineer influential in computer networking | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Heart |
| Yehezkel Abramsky | Yehezkel Abramsky | 1886 | 1976 | null | prominent and influential Lithuanian Jewish Orthodox rabbi and scholar, born and raised in the Russian Empire, who later headed the London Beth Din rabbinical court for 17 years, before retiring to Jerusalem in 1951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehezkel_Abramsky |
| Carl Einstein | Carl Einstein | 1885 | 1940 | null | influential German Jewish writer, art historian, anarchist and critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Einstein |
| Edward Shils | Edward Albert Shils | 1910 | 1995 | null | Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and an influential sociologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Shils |
| Marie-Laure de Noailles | Marie-Laure de Noailles, Vicomtesse de Noailles | 1902 | 1970 | French | artist, regarded one of the 20th century's most daring and influential patrons of the arts, noted for her associations with Salvador Dalí, Balthus, Jean Cocteau, Ned Rorem, Man Ray, Luis Buñuel, Francis Poulenc, Wolfgang Paalen, Jean Hugo, Jean-Michel Frank and others as well as her tempestuous life and eccentric personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Laure_de_Noailles |
| Eden ahbez | George Alexander Aberle | 1908 | 1995 | American | songwriter and recording artist of the 1940s to 1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential in the hippie movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_ahbez |
| Leo Spitzer | Leo Spitzer | 1887 | 1960 | Austrian | Romanist and Hispanist, and an influential and prolific literary critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Spitzer |
| Steven Marcus | Steven Paul Marcus | 1928 | 2018 | American | academic and literary critic who published influential psychoanalytic analyses of the novels of Charles Dickens and Victorian pornography | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Marcus |
| Jacob Berab | Jacob Berab | 1474 | 1546 | null | influential rabbi and talmudist best known for his attempt to reintroduce classical semikhah (ordination) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Berab |
| Roman Karmen | Roman Lazarevich Karmen | none | 1978 | Soviet | war camera-man and film director and one of the most influential figures in documentary film making | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Karmen |
| Asaf Messerer | Asaf Mikhailovich Messerer | 1903 | 1992 | null | highly influential Soviet ballet dancer and ballet teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asaf_Messerer |
| Oliver Zangwill | Oliver Louis Zangwill FRS | 1913 | 1987 | null | influential British neuropsychologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Zangwill |
| Mordechai Gebirtig | Mordechai Gebirtig | 1877 | 1942 | null | influential Yiddish poet and songwriter of the interwar period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Gebirtig |
| Peter Schmidt (artist) | Peter Schmidt | 1931 | 1980 | null | Berlin-born British artist, painter, theoretician of color and composition, pioneering multimedia exhibitor and an influential teacher at Watford College of Art | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schmidt_(artist) |
| Ida Rhodes | Ida Rhodes | 1900 | 1986 | American | mathematician who became a member of the clique of influential women at the heart of early computer development in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Rhodes |
| Saul Wahl | Saul Wahl Katzenellenbogen | 1541 | 1617 | null | wealthy and politically influential Polish Jew who is said to have briefly occupied the throne of Poland on 18 August 1587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Wahl |
| Harry Farjeon | Harry Farjeon | 1878 | 1948 | British | composer and an influential teacher of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music for more than 45 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Farjeon |
| Anne Wexler | Anne Levy Wexler | 1930 | 2009 | null | influential American Democratic political consultant, public policy advisor, and later the first woman to head a leading lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wexler |
| Eli Oberstein | Elliott Everett "Eli" Oberstein | 1901 | 1960 | American | record producer and music business executive who established the influential Bluebird record label in the 1930s and owned a succession of small labels in the 1940s and 1950s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Oberstein |
| Leib Gurwicz | Aryeh Ze'ev | 1906 | 1982 | null | influential Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leib_Gurwicz |
| Siegfried Jacobsohn | Siegfried Jacobsohn | 1881 | 1926 | German | writer and influential theatre critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Jacobsohn |
| Lipót Baumhorn | Lipót Baumhorn | 1860 | 1932 | Hungarian | architect of Jewish heritage, the most influential Hungarian synagogue architect in the first half of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipót_Baumhorn |
| Nissan Nativ | Nissan Nativ | 1922 | 2008 | null | influential Israeli director, actor and acting teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Nativ |
| Adolf Martin Schlesinger | Adolf Martin Schlesinger | 1769 | 1838 | German | music publisher whose firm became one of the most influential in Berlin in the early nineteenth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Martin_Schlesinger |
| John Bertram Oakes | John Bertram Oakes | 1913 | 2001 | null | iconoclastic and influential U.S. journalist known for his early commitment to the environment, civil rights, and opposition to the Vietnam War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bertram_Oakes |
| Bruno Bjelinski | Bruno Bjelinski | 1909 | 1992 | null | one of the most influential Croatian composers in the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bjelinski |
| Yuval Banay | Yuval Banay | 1962 | n/a | Israeli | musician, best known as the lead singer of the influential Israeli pop rock band Mashina | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Banay |
| Helmut Landsberg | Helmut Erich Landsberg | 1906 | 1985 | null | noted and influential climatologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Landsberg |
| Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro | Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro | 1420 | 1484 | Italian | Jewish dancer and dancing master at some of the most influential courts in Renaissance Italy, including Naples, Urbino, Milan, and Ferrara | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Ebreo_da_Pesaro |
| Helena Rosa Wright | Helena Rosa Wright | 1887 | 1982 | English | pioneer and influential figure in birth control and family planning both in Britain and internationally | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Rosa_Wright |
| Alice Kahn | Alice Joyce Kahn | 1943 | n/a | American | nurse practitioner and humorist who popularized the slang word "yuppie", describing young urban professionals, and also the term "Gourmet Ghetto", naming an influential retail neighborhood of Berkeley, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Kahn |
| 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 |
| Fedir Krychevsky | Fedir Krychevsky | 1879 | 1947 | null | influential Ukrainian early modernist painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedir_Krychevsky |
| Marvin Camras | Marvin Camras | 1916 | 1995 | null | electrical engineer and inventor who was widely influential in the field of magnetic recording | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Camras |
| Elie Azagury | Elie Azagury | 1918 | 2009 | null | influential Moroccan architect and director of the (GAMMA) after Moroccan independence in 1956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Azagury |
| Michael Shepherd (psychiatrist) | Michael Shepherd, CBE, FRCP, FRCPsych | 1923 | 1995 | null | one of the most influential and internationally respected psychiatrists of his time, formerly Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist, The Maudsley Hospital, London and author of a number of influential publications in the field of psychiatry, including the seminal work Psychiatric Illness in General Practice | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shepherd_(psychiatrist) |
| Harold Dobbs | Harold Stanley Dobbs | 1918 | 1994 | null | influential civic leader in San Francisco, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Dobbs |
| I. M. Rubinow | Isaac Max Rubinow | 1875 | 1936 | null | leading theorist on social insurance and one of the most influential writers on the subject | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Rubinow |
| William A. Robson | William Alexander Robson | 1895 | 1980 | British | academic who was an early and influential scholar of public administration while serving as a lecturer and professor at the London School of Economics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Robson |
| Graham Smorgon | Graham Smorgon | null | null | Australian | prominent businessman and a member of the Smorgon family – one of Australia's wealthiest and most powerful and influential families | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Smorgon |
| Qavam family | The Ghavam (Qavam) family | null | null | null | one of the most influential Iranian families in the Qajar era (1785–1925) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qavam_family |
| Emil Hertzka | Emil Hertzka | 1869 | 1932 | null | influential and pioneering music publisher who was responsible for printing and promoting some of the most important European musical works of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Hertzka |
| Valentine Thomson | Valentine Mathilde Amélie Thomson | 1881 | 1944 | null | influential French journalist, playwright and editor, who was active both in Europe and the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Thomson |
| Solomon Eger | Rabbi Solomon Eger | 1785 | 1786 | null | influential rabbi and successor of his father as the rabbi of Posen, then in Germany (now Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Eger |
| Milton J. Rosenau | Milton Joseph Rosenau | 1869 | 1946 | American | public health official and professor who was influential in the early twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_J._Rosenau |
| Miriam Bienstock | Miriam Bienstock | 1923 | 2015 | American | record company executive who was influential in the early days of Atlantic Records, becoming the company's vice president in 1958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Bienstock |
| David B. Goodstein | David B. Goodstein | 1932 | 1985 | null | publisher of The Advocate and an influential spokesperson on behalf of LGBT people and causes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B._Goodstein |
| Ernst Bernheim | Ernst Bernheim | 1850 | 1942 | German | historian who is best known for an influential Lehrbuch der historischen Methode (1889) on historical method | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Bernheim |
| Wilhelm Ralph Merton | Wilhelm Ralph Merton | 1848 | 1916 | null | prominent and influential German-born entrepreneur, social democrat, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Ralph_Merton |
| Suzanne Bloch | Suzanne Bloch | 1907 | 2002 | Swiss | musician and an influential pioneer of Early Music Revival during the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Bloch |
| 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 |
| Fred Gruen | Fred Henry George Gruen | 1921 | 1997 | Australian | economist, an early and influential voice in favour of free trade and tariff reductions in the 1960s and 1970s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Gruen |
| Ira Pauly | Ira Basil Pauly | 1930 | n/a | American | psychiatrist who was an All American college football player at UCLA, and is known for his influential work on transsexualism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Pauly |
| Carl R. Byoir | Carl Robert Byoir | 1886 | 1957 | null | influential practitioner in the field of public relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_R._Byoir |
| Nina Graboi | Nina Graboi | 1918 | 1999 | null | Holocaust survivor, artist, writer, spiritual seeker, philosopher, and influential figure in the sixties psychedelic movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Graboi |
| Walter Bor | Walter George Bor CBE | 1916 | 1999 | Austrian | town planner and architect who was influential in the development of new towns in the UK and elsewhere in the second half of the twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bor |
| Hirsch Bär Fassel | Hirsch Bär Fassel | 1802 | 1883 | null | influential rabbi and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_Bär_Fassel |
| Ben Weingart | Ben Weingart | 1888 | 1980 | American | real estate investor and developer, influential in the development of various areas of southern California, including Lakewood, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Weingart |
| Adam Wexler | Adam Wexler | null | null | American | musician, best known as the bassist for influential Jewish rock groups Diaspora Yeshiva Band and Reva L'Sheva | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Wexler |
| 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 |
| Robert Loewy | Robert Gustav Loewy | 1926 | n/a | null | aerospace engineer who has been influential in the development of rotary-wing vertical take-off and landing aircraft | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Loewy |
| Ho Sai-chuen | Dr. Ho Sai-chuen | 1891 | 1938 | Hong Kong | doctor from the influential Hotung family and member of the Sanitary Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Sai-chuen |
| Jeff Klepper | Jeff Klepper | null | null | null | cantor and influential figure within Contemporary Jewish religious music, particularly the "American nusach" scene | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Klepper |
| Ernest Fooks | Dr Ernest Fooks | 1906 | 1985 | null | influential European-trained architect who made a significant contribution to architecture, town planning, and design education in Australia and to the cultural life of Melbourne after emigrating to the city just before the Second World War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Fooks |
| David Josef Bach | David Josef Bach | 1874 | 1947 | null | important and influential figure in the cultural life of early twentieth-century Vienna | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Josef_Bach |
| Ezra Solomon | Ezra Solomon | 1920 | 2002 | null | influential US economist and professor of economics at Stanford University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Solomon |
| Arnold Fischel | Arnold Fischel | 1830 | 1894 | null | politically influential 19th-century Dutch rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Fischel |
| Mathilde Carmen Hertz | Mathilde Carmen Hertz | 1891 | 1975 | null | biologist, and was one of the first influential women scientists in the field of biology and a pioneer in the field of comparative psychology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathilde_Carmen_Hertz |
| Armin Schreiner | Armin Mordekhai Schreiner | 1874 | 1941 | null | influential Croatian industrialist, banker, Jewish activist and member of the first Freemasonry Jewish Lodge Zagreb No. 1090 independent order of B'nai B'rith | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Schreiner |
| Mikhail Rabinovich | Mikhail Izrailevich Rabinovich | null | null | Russian | influential physicist and neuroscientist working in the field of nonlinear dynamics and its applications | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Rabinovich |
| Oton Vinski | Oton Vinski | 1877 | 1942 | null | influential Croatian banker who was killed during the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oton_Vinski |
| János Komlós (writer) | János Komlós | 1922 | 1980 | null | influential Hungarian-Jewish writer, journalist, stand-up comedian under the Kádár political era in Hungary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/János_Komlós_(writer) |
| Martin Erich Philipp | Martin Erich Philipp | 1887 | 1978 | null | influential German Jewish Artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Erich_Philipp |
| Aldo Mieli | Aldo Mieli | 1879 | 1950 | null | influential historian of science, and a pioneer of gay rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Mieli |
| Sarah Powell | Sarah Gerau Powell | 1922 | 1941 | null | influential French poet of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Powell |
| Solomon Beyfus | Solomon Beyfus | 1820 | 1893 | null | trader in London's East End and the head of a family that became influential in both the theatres and courtrooms of Britain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Beyfus |
| Khaim Eidus | Khaim Tevelevich Eidus | 1896 | 1972 | Soviet | politician, orientalist, and Japanologist known for many influential publication on the history and economy of Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaim_Eidus |
| Nisson Shkarovsky | Nisson Adolfovich Shkarovsky | 1904 | 1964 | null | influential conductor and teacher in the Saratov Conservatory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisson_Shkarovsky |