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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Lopez | Aaron Lopez | 1731 | 1782 | null | merchant, slave trader, and philanthropist in colonial Rhode Island | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Lopez |
| The Merchant of Venice | The Merchant of Venice | null | null | null | 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice |
| Nathan Straus | Nathan Straus | 1848 | 1931 | null | German-born, American merchant and philanthropist who co-owned two of New York City's biggest department stores, R. H. Macy & Company and Abraham & Straus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Straus |
| Ernest Cassel | Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel | 1852 | 1921 | British | merchant banker and capitalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Cassel |
| Elias Canetti | Elias Canetti | 1905 | 1994 | null | German-language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a merchant family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Canetti |
| Monsanto family | The Monsanto family | null | null | null | historical Sephardic Jewish merchant, banking and various business dealing with the government | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_family |
| Victor Sassoon | Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet | 1881 | 1961 | null | businessman and hotelier from the wealthy Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon merchant and banking family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Sassoon |
| Ibrahim ibn Yaqub | Ibrahim ibn Yaqub | 961 | none | null | tenth-century Hispano-Arabic, Sephardi Jewish traveller, probably a merchant, who may have also engaged in diplomacy and espionage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_ibn_Yaqub |
| Edward Cohen | Edward Aaron Cohen | 1822 | 1877 | Australian | merchant and a Victorian colonial politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Cohen |
| Ludwig Loewe | Ludwig Loewe | 1837 | 1886 | German | merchant, manufacturer, philanthropist and a member of the Reichstag | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Loewe |
| Mordecai Sheftall | Mordecai Sheftall | 1735 | 1797 | null | Georgia merchant who served as a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and was the highest ranking Jewish officer of the Colonial forces | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Sheftall |
| Karl Amson Joel | Karl Amson Joel | 1889 | 1982 | German | Jewish textile merchant and manufacturer with Joel Macht Fabrik | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Amson_Joel |
| Samuel Pallache | Samuel Pallache | 1550 | 1616 | Moroccan | Jewish-born merchant, diplomat, and pirate of the Pallache family, who, as envoy, concluded a treaty with the Dutch Republic in 1608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pallache |
| 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 |
| Maurice Tempelsman | Maurice Tempelsman | 1929 | n/a | Belgian | businessman and diamond merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Tempelsman |
| Jonas Phillips | Jonas Phillips | 1736 | n/a | American | veteran of the American Revolutionary War and an American merchant in New York City and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Phillips |
| Judah Cohen | Judah Mordechai Cohen | 1768 | 1838 | Dutch | London-based Jewish merchant and slave plantation owner with interests in Jamaica | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Cohen |
| Richard Friedländer | Richard Friedländer | 1881 | 1939 | German | Jewish merchant, stepfather of Magda Goebbels, prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp and victim of the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Friedländer |
| Joseph de la Vega | José or Joseph Penso de la Vega | 1650 | 1692 | null | Sephardi Jewish merchant in diamonds, financial expert, moral philosopher and poet, residing in 17th century Amsterdam | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_de_la_Vega |
| 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 |
| David Triesman, Baron Triesman | David Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman | 1943 | n/a | British | politician, merchant banker and former trade union leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Triesman,_Baron_Triesman |
| Jacob Ezekiel | Jacob Ezekiel | 1812 | 1899 | American | merchant and leader of the Jewish community in antebellum Richmond, Virginia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Ezekiel |
| Guido Jung | Guido Jung | 1876 | 1949 | null | successful Jewish-born Italian banker and merchant from Sicily, who later converted to Catholicism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Jung |
| Moses Michael Hays | Moses Michael Hays | 1739 | 1805 | American | banker, merchant, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Michael_Hays |
| Saul Samuel | Sir Saul Samuel, 1st Baronet | 1820 | 1900 | Australian | colonial merchant, member of parliament, pastoralist, and prominent Jew | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Samuel |
| Antonio Fernandez Carvajal | Antonio Fernandez Carvajal | 1590 | 1659 | Portuguese | Jewish merchant, who became the first endenizened English Jew | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Fernandez_Carvajal |
| Fernão de Loronha | Fernão de Loronha | null | null | null | often corrupted to Fernando de Noronha or Fernando della Rogna, was a prominent 16th-century Portuguese merchant of Lisbon, of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernão_de_Loronha |
| Joseph Nathan | Joseph Edward Nathan | 1835 | 1912 | null | London-born New Zealand merchant, dairy manufacturer and exporter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nathan |
| Greg Rosenbaum | Greg A. Rosenbaum | 1952 | n/a | American | merchant banker based in Bethesda, Maryland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Rosenbaum |
| Lion Philips | Lion Philips | 1794 | 1866 | Dutch | tobacco merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Philips |
| Jocelyn Hambro | Major Jocelyn Olaf Hambro MC | 1919 | 1994 | British | merchant banker, horsebreeder and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Hambro |
| Cyrus Leopold Sulzberger | Cyrus Leopold "Leo" Sulzberger | 1858 | 1932 | American | merchant and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Leopold_Sulzberger |
| Joseph Joanovici | Joseph Joanovici | 1905 | 1965 | French | Jewish merchant of scrap metal who supplied both Nazi Germany and the French Resistance during the German occupation of France in World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Joanovici |
| Max Frauenthal | Max Frauenthal | 1836 | 1914 | null | leading merchant in post-bellum Arkansas, and was a founding father of Conway, Arkansas; Heber Springs, Arkansas; and Cleburne County, Arkansas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Frauenthal |
| David Pacifico | David Pacifico | 1784 | 1854 | Portuguese | Jewish merchant and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pacifico |
| Francis John Nugan | Francis John Nugan | 1942 | 1980 | Australian | lawyer and merchant banker known for co-founding the Nugan Hand Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_John_Nugan |
| Samuel Hart | Samuel Hart | 1747 | 1810 | American | merchant and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hart |
| Samson Levy | Samson Levy | 1722 | 1781 | null | prominent Jewish merchant in Philadelphia during the Colonial America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Levy |
| Isaac Moses | Isaac Moses | 1742 | 1818 | null | Jewish merchant who helped establish the Bank of North America in 1781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Moses |
| Goldsmid family | Goldsmid | 1782 | n/a | null | name of a family of Anglo-Jewish bankers who sprang from Aaron Goldsmid (died 1782), a Dutch merchant who settled in England around 1763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmid_family |
| 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 |
| Charles Jocelyn Hambro | Air Commodore Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro | 1897 | 1963 | British | merchant banker and intelligence officer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Jocelyn_Hambro |
| Isaac de Pinto | Isaac de Pinto | 1717 | 1787 | Dutch | Jew of Portuguese Sefardim origin, a merchant/banker, one of the main investors in the Dutch East India Company, a scholar, and a philosophe who concentrated on Jewish emancipation and National Debt | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_de_Pinto |
| Issachar Berend Lehmann | Issachar Berend Lehmann, Berend Lehmann, Yissakhar Bermann Segal, Yissakhar ben Yehuda haLevi, Berman Halberstadt | 1661 | 1730 | German | banker, merchant, diplomatic agent as well as army and mint contractor working as a court Jew for Elector Augustus II the Strong of Saxony, King of Poland, and other German princes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issachar_Berend_Lehmann |
| Saul Goldsmith | Abraham Saul Goldsmith | 1911 | 1988 | null | importer and merchant from Wellington, New Zealand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Goldsmith |
| Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal | Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal | 1759 | n/a | Austrian | merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Löw_Hofmann,_Edler_von_Hofmannsthal |
| Eldad ha-Dani | Eldad ben Maḥli ha-Dani | null | null | null | ninth-century Jewish merchant, traveller, and philologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldad_ha-Dani |
| William Levin | William Hort (Willie) Levin | 1845 | 1893 | null | 19th-century merchant, philanthropist and politician who lived in Wellington, New Zealand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Levin |
| Bendix Hallenstein | Bendix Hallenstein | 1835 | 1905 | German | Jewish merchant, statesman, and manufacturer from Dunedin, New Zealand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendix_Hallenstein |
| Edward Strauss | Edward Anthony Strauss | 1862 | 1939 | English | corn, grain and hop merchant of German-Jewish background | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Strauss |
| Charles Hambro, Baron Hambro | Charles Hambro, Baron Hambro | 1930 | 2002 | British | merchant banker and political fundraiser | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hambro,_Baron_Hambro |
| Joseph Rabban | Joseph Rabban | 800 | 1124 | null | prominent Jewish merchant-cum-aristocrat in the entrepôt of Kodungallur (Muyirikkottu) on the Malabar Coast, India in early 11th century CE. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rabban |
| Elkan Naumburg | Elkan Naumburg | 1835 | 1924 | null | New York City merchant, banker, philanthropist and musicologist, best remembered for his sponsorship of the arts in Manhattan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkan_Naumburg |
| Solomon Levey | Solomon Levey | 1794 | 1833 | null | convict transported to Australia in 1815 for theft who became a highly successful merchant and financier, at one time issuing his own banknotes in New South Wales | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Levey |
| Pontus Fürstenberg | Pontus Fürstenberg | 1827 | 1902 | Swedish | art collector and merchant from a Jewish family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontus_Fürstenberg |
| Jewish copper plates of Cochin | Jewish copper plates of Cochin | null | null | null | royal charter issued by the Chera/Perumal king of Kerala, south India to Joseph Rabban, a Jewish merchant magnate of Kodungallur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_copper_plates_of_Cochin |
| Paul Fromm (philanthropist) | Paul Fromm | 1906 | 1987 | null | Jewish Chicago wine merchant and performing arts patron through the Fromm Music Foundation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fromm_(philanthropist) |
| Leonhard Tietz | Leonhard Tietz | null | null | German | merchant of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Tietz |
| 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 |
| Ignatz Kolisch | Baron Ignatz von Kolisch | 1837 | 1889 | null | merchant, journalist and chess master with Jewish roots | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatz_Kolisch |
| Salomon Heine | Salomon Heine | 1767 | 1844 | null | merchant and banker in Hamburg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Heine |
| Levy Solomons | Lucius Levy Solomons | 1730 | 1792 | Canadian | Jewish merchant and fur trader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levy_Solomons |
| Joseph Pardo (rabbi) | Joseph Pardo | 1561 | 1619 | Italian | rabbi and merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pardo_(rabbi) |
| Barnett Levey | Barnett Levey | 1798 | 1837 | English | Jewish–Australian merchant and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Levey |
| Jacob Curiel | Dom Jacob Curiel | 1587 | 1664 | null | Sephardi Jewish merchant, diplomat, and nobleman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Curiel |
| Gustav Christian Schwabe | Gustav Christian Schwabe | 1813 | 1897 | German | merchant and financier who funded companies such as John Bibby & Sons, Harland and Wolff and the White Star Line | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Christian_Schwabe |
| Simon F. Rothschild | Simon Frank Rothschild | 1861 | 1936 | American | merchant and philanthropist who served as president and chairman of the board at Abraham & Straus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_F._Rothschild |
| Leonard Lewisohn (philanthropist) | Leonard Lewisohn | 1847 | 1902 | American | merchant and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Lewisohn_(philanthropist) |
| Roland Franklin | Sir Roland Arthur Ellis Franklin | 1926 | n/a | British | Antigua and Barbuda-based merchant banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Franklin |
| Bernard Oppenheimer | Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, 1st Baronet | 1866 | 1921 | South African | diamond merchant and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Oppenheimer |
| Joseph Hambro | Joseph Hambro | 1780 | 1848 | Danish | merchant, banker and political advisor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hambro |
| Joseph Pallache | Joseph Pallache | 1637 | 1638 | Moroccan | Jewish-born merchant and diplomat of the Pallache family, who, as envoy, helped his brother conclude a treaty with the Dutch Republic in 1608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pallache |
| Joseph Athias | Joseph Athias | 1635 | 1700 | null | merchant, bookprinter and the publisher of a famous Hebrew Bible which was approved by States-General of the Dutch Republic and both Jewish and Christian theologians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Athias |
| David Lewis (English merchant) | David Lewis | 1823 | 1885 | British | merchant and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lewis_(English_merchant) |
| 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 Gottesman | David Samuel Gottesman | 1884 | 1956 | null | Hungarian-born, American pulp-paper merchant, financier and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gottesman |
| Benjamin Mendes da Costa | Benjamin Mendes da Costa | 1803 | 1868 | English | merchant and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Mendes_da_Costa |
| Sir Charles Henry, 1st Baronet | Sir Charles Solomon Henry, 1st Baronet | 1860 | 1919 | Australian | merchant and businessman who lived mostly in Britain and sat as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1906 until his death | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Henry,_1st_Baronet |
| Alexander Salmon | Alexander Salmon | 1820 | 1866 | English | merchant who was the first Jew to reside in Tahiti | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Salmon |
| Ezekiel Saleh Manasseh | Ezekiel Saleh Manasseh | 1944 | n/a | Singaporean | rice and opium merchant and hotelier of Iraqi-Jewish descent, who co-founded Singapore's Goodwood Park Hotel with his brothers Morris and Ellis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel_Saleh_Manasseh |
| Abraham Kuhn (banker) | Abraham Kuhn | 1819 | 1892 | American | merchant and banker of German-Jewish origins, a founding partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of New York City, one of the great US investment banking firms of the 19th and 20th centuries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Kuhn_(banker) |
| Frederick David Sassoon | Frederick David Sassoon | 1853 | 1917 | null | Anglo-Jewish merchant and banker in Hong Kong and China | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_David_Sassoon |
| Moritz Rabinowitz | Moritz Moses Rabinowitz | 1887 | 1942 | null | retail merchant based in the city of Haugesund, Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Rabinowitz |
| Willi Fels | Willi Fels | 1858 | 1946 | New Zealand | merchant, collector and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Fels |
| Calmer Hambro | Calmer Hambro | 1747 | 1806 | Danish | merchant and banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calmer_Hambro |
| Jacob Behrens | Sir Jacob Behrens | 1806 | 1889 | null | Anglo–German textile merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Behrens |
| 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 |
| Leo Schuster | Leopold Schuster | 1791 | 1871 | German | cotton trader turned merchant banker, best known as the Chairman of the London and Brighton Railway and then the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and part of the consortia which bought The Crystal Palace | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Schuster |
| Ellis Arthur Franklin | Ellis Arthur Franklin | 1894 | 1964 | English | merchant banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Arthur_Franklin |
| Jonas Phillips Levy | Jonas Phillips Levy | 1807 | 1883 | American | merchant and sea captain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Phillips_Levy |
| Nathaniel Levin | Nathaniel William Levin | 1818 | 1903 | null | merchant and politician in New Zealand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Levin |
| Marcus Julius Alexander | Marcus Julius Alexander | null | null | null | distinguished and wealthy Alexandrian Jewish merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Julius_Alexander |
| Moses Pallache | Moses Pallache | 1650 | n/a | Moroccan | Jewish-born merchant and diplomat of the Pallache family, who emerged as leader of his second generation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Pallache |
| Eliot de Pass | Sir Eliot Arthur de Pass | 1851 | 1937 | English | merchant in the West Indies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_de_Pass |
| Jacob of Ancona | Jacob of Ancona (or Jacob d'Ancona) | null | null | null | name that has been given to the supposed author of a book of travels, purportedly made by a scholarly Jewish merchant who wrote in vernacular Italian, an account of a trading venture he made, in which he reached China in 1271, four years before Marco Polo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_of_Ancona |
| Eric Hambro | Sir Charles Eric Hambro | 1872 | 1947 | British | merchant banker and Conservative Party politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hambro |
| Abraham Curiel | Dr Abraham Curiel | 1545 | 1609 | null | physician and the son of the wealthy merchant Jacob Curiel of Coimbra of Coimbra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Curiel |
| Solomon Etting | Solomon Etting | 1764 | 1847 | null | Jewish merchant and politician in Baltimore, Maryland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Etting |
| Rahabi Ezekiel | Ezekiel Rahabi | 1694 | 1771 | null | chief Jewish merchant of the Dutch East India Company in Cochin, India for almost 50 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahabi_Ezekiel |
| Ephraim Hart | This page | null | null | null | about the New York City merchant, for the New York State Senator see Ephraim Hart (NY politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Hart |
| Arthur Frankau | Arthur Frankau | 1849 | 1904 | null | son of Bavarian-born Joseph Frankau (previously Frankenau), a Jewish merchant who moved to London from Frankfurt in 1837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Frankau |
| Moses Curiel | Don Moses Curiel | 1620 | 1697 | null | Sephardic Jewish nobleman, diplomat, and wealthy merchant, who traded in diamonds, sugar and tobacco | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Curiel |
| David Curiel | Don David Curiel | 1594 | 1666 | null | Sephardi Jewish merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Curiel |
| Aaron Isaac | Aaron Isaac | 1730 | 1817 | null | Jewish seal engraver and merchant in haberdashery | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Isaac |
| Ananias of Adiabene | Ananias of Adiabene | null | null | null | Jewish merchant and mendicant proselytizer, probably of Hellenistic origin, who, in the opening years of the common era, was prominent at the court of Abinergaos I (Abennerig), king of Characene | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananias_of_Adiabene |
| Benjamin D'Israeli (merchant) | Benjamin D'Israeli | 1730 | 1816 | Italian | merchant and financier, the grandfather of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_D'Israeli_(merchant) |
| Abraham Nordheimer | Abraham Nordheimer | 1816 | 1862 | German | Jewish-Canadian musician, merchant and music publisher who established Canada's first publishing house specializing in music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Nordheimer |
| 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 |
| Israel ben Josef | Israel (Isserl) ben Josef | 1500 | 1568 | null | wealthy Jewish merchant, banker, and Talmudist who settled in Kraków in 1519, following the expulsion of the Jews from the German city of Regensburg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_ben_Josef |
| Simon von Lämel | Simon Edler von Lämel | 1766 | 1845 | Austrian | Jewish merchant who devoted his life to bettering the lives of his fellow Jews | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_von_Lämel |
| Hirsch Lehren | Hirsch Lehren | 1784 | 1853 | Dutch | Jewish merchant and community worker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_Lehren |
| Samuel Isaac | Samuel Isaac | 1812 | 1886 | null | merchant and a projector of the Mersey Railway Tunnel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Isaac |
| Arthur Ellis Franklin | Arthur Ellis Franklin | 1857 | 1938 | British | merchant banker and senior partner of Keyser & Co. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ellis_Franklin |
| Jao de la Porta | João da Porta | null | null | Portuguese | Jewish merchant important in the early settlement of the Texan coast | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jao_de_la_Porta |
| Mordecai Baruch Carvalho | Mordecai Baruch Carvalho (or Carvallo) | 1705 | 1785 | null | wealthy Tunisian merchant and rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Baruch_Carvalho |
| Chajim Fürst | Chajim Fürst, aka Heinrich Chajim Fürst | 1580 | 1653 | null | merchant and court agent as well as an elder of the Jewish community of Hamburg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chajim_Fürst |
| Adolph Walter Rich | Adolph Walter Rich | 1843 | 1917 | null | Milwaukee manufacturer, merchant and philanthropist best known for his work in founding the Jewish agricultural colony at Arpin, Wisconsin, United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Walter_Rich |
| Julius Garfinckel | Julius Garfinckel | 1872 | 1936 | American | prominent merchant, business executive and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Garfinckel |
| Berthold Kempinski | Berthold Kempinski | 1843 | 1910 | null | Polish, German wine merchant, restaurateur and hotelier | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Kempinski |
| Edward William Meyerstein | Edward William Meyerstein | 1863 | 1942 | British | merchant, stockbroker and philanthropist notable for donations to the Middlesex Hospital in Fitzrovia, London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_William_Meyerstein |
| 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) |
| Moses Israel Fürst | Moses Israel Fürst | 1692 | n/a | null | merchant and financier of Hamburg, Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Israel_Fürst |
| Manuel Rodrigues Lamego | Manuel Rodrigues de Lamego | 1590 | n/a | Portuguese | merchant and slave trader active in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rodrigues_Lamego |
| Jack V. Lunzer | Jack Valmadonna Lunzer | 1924 | 2016 | null | industrial diamond merchant and the custodian of the Valmadonna Trust Library | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_V._Lunzer |
| Henry Grunfeld | Henry Grunfeld | 1904 | 1999 | null | merchant banker who played a prominent role in the development of investment banking and the growth of London as a financial centre following the Second World War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Grunfeld |
| Abraham Ben Yiju | Abraham Ben Yijū | null | null | null | Jewish merchant and poet born in Ifriqiya, in what is now Tunisia, around 1100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Ben_Yiju |
| Luis de Almeida (missionary) | Luis de Almeida | 1525 | 1583 | Portuguese | surgeon, merchant and missionary of the Society of Jesus in Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_Almeida_(missionary) |
| Jacob ben Abraham Zaddiq | Jacob ben Abraham Zaddiq | null | null | Dutch | Jewish merchant of Portuguese descent who worked in Amsterdam in the early 17th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_ben_Abraham_Zaddiq |
| Alexander Bravo | Alexander Bravo | 1797 | 1868 | Jamaican | Sephardic Jewish merchant, politician, slave plantation owner and Auditor-General of Jamaica | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bravo |
| Ellis Abraham Franklin | Ellis Abraham Franklin | 1822 | 1909 | British | merchant banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Abraham_Franklin |
| Hieronima de Paiva | Hieronima de Paiva | null | null | Portuguese | Jewish diamond and coral merchant from Amsterdam belonging to Amsterdam Sephardic community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronima_de_Paiva |
| Manuel Bautista Pérez | Manuel Batista Perez | 1589 | 1639 | Spanish | merchant, and multi-millionaire active in Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Bautista_Pérez |
| David Joseph Ezra | David Joseph Ezra | 1882 | n/a | null | leading merchant, property developer and communal leader of the Baghdadi Jewish community in Kolkata, India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Joseph_Ezra |
| Hartvig Philip Rée | Hartvig Philip Rée | 1778 | 1859 | Danish | Jewish merchant and author who built a large shipping and trade business to become one of the wealthiest people of his time | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartvig_Philip_Rée |
| Olaf Hambro | Captain Ronald Olaf Hambro | 1885 | 1961 | British | merchant banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Hambro |
| David Moses Dyte | David Moses ben Meir Dyte | none | 1830 | English | Jewish quill merchant who distinguished himself by preventing the assassination attempt on George III by James Hadfield on 15 May 1800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moses_Dyte |
| Morris Zimmerman | Morris Zimmerman | 1876 | n/a | null | notable craftsman, merchant and businessman in Baltimore, Md. He founded Howard Luggage Company, a landmark Maryland business which closed in 2007, after trading for 93 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Zimmerman |
| Moses Hart (1675–1756) | Moses Hart | 1675 | 1756 | Prussian | merchant, financier, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Hart_(1675–1756) |
| Samuel Wynn | Samuel Wynn | 1891 | 1982 | Australian | Jewish community leader, restaurateur, wine and spirits merchant and Zionist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wynn |
| Edgar Weil | Edgar Weil | 1908 | 1941 | German | Germanist, dramaturge and merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Weil |
| Moses Bilsky | Moses Bilsky | 1829 | 1923 | Canadian | merchant and community leader who was believed to be the first Jewish settler in Ottawa, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Bilsky |
| Philip Heidelbach | Philip Heidelbach | 1814 | 1885 | American | businessman who co-founded dry goods merchant Heidelbach, Seasongood & Co. in Cincinnati and the private bank Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co. In New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Heidelbach |
| Jahacob Curiel | Don Jahacob Hisquiau Curiel | 1687 | 1747 | Dutch | merchant, who spent part of his life on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahacob_Curiel |
| Leó Lánczy | Leo Lánczy | 1852 | 1921 | Hungarian | Jewish banker, entrepreneur, merchant, financier and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leó_Lánczy |
| Herman Sachnowitz | Herman Sachnowitz | 1921 | 1978 | Norwegian | merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Sachnowitz |
| Luis Moises Gomez | Luis Moses Gomez | 1660 | 1740 | null | Spanish-Sephardic Jewish merchant and trader, whose Spanish Jewish ancestors fled to France and England to escape from the Spanish Inquisition for the New World | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Moises_Gomez |
| Louis Meyer (poet) | Louis Meyer | 1796 | 1869 | Polish | Jewish poet and merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Meyer_(poet) |
| Daniel Moszkowicz | Daniel Moszkowicz aka "Dawid Chone" and "Jerzy" | 1905 | 1943 | null | merchant, non-commissioned reserve officer of the Polish Army, communist and the co-leader of the Białystok Ghetto Uprising | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Moszkowicz |
| Abraham Pereyra | Abraham Pereyra | null | null | null | wealthy and Portuguese prominent Jewish merchant, who lived in Amsterdam from circa 1644 to his death in 1699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pereyra |
| António Fernandes de Elvas | António Fernandes de Elvas | 1623 | n/a | Portuguese | merchant, including investor in pepper tax farm and Asian spices | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_Fernandes_de_Elvas |
| Emanuel Lousada | Emanuel Lousada | 1783 | 1854 | null | London-born Jewish merchant, slave plantation owner and public office holder with interests in Jamaica and Barbados | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Lousada |
| Jacob Seasongood | Jacob Seasongood | 1812 | 1884 | American | businessman who co-founded dry goods merchants Heidelbach, Seasongood & Co. and J. & L. Seasongood & Co.; and banking firms Seasongood, Netter, & Co and Seasongood Sons & Co. in Cincinnati | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Seasongood |
| Josef Flesch | Josef Flesch | 1781 | 1839 | null | Moravian writer, translator, and merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Flesch |
| Samuel Bissinger | Sampson "Samuel" Bissinger | 1825 | 1897 | null | successful merchant, friend of President Andrew Johnson, and an uncle of newspaper publisher Adolph Simon Ochs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bissinger |
| Jacques de Paiva | Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva | null | null | Portuguese | Jewish diamond and coral merchant from Amsterdam belonging to the Amsterdam Sephardic community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Paiva |
| Jacob Curiel of Coimbra | Jacob Curiel of Coimbra | 1514 | 1576 | null | prosperous Portuguese cloth merchant and navy commander | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Curiel_of_Coimbra |
| Bartolomé de Medina (mining specialist) | Bartolomé de Medina | 1504 | n/a | Spanish | merchant known for his invention of the patio process | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomé_de_Medina_(mining_specialist) |
| Moses Melchior (1736–1817) | Moses Melchior | 1736 | 1817 | Danish | Jewish merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Melchior_(1736–1817) |
| Zankan Zorababeli | Zankan Zorababeli | null | null | null | 12th-century, Georgian Jewish merchant from Tbilisi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zankan_Zorababeli |
| Philipp Schey von Koromla | Philipp Schey Freiherr von Koromla | 1798 | 1881 | Austrian | merchant and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Schey_von_Koromla |
| David Theomin | David Edward Theomin | 1852 | 1933 | null | notable New Zealand merchant, philanthropist and collector | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Theomin |
| Joseph of Spain | Joseph of Spain | null | null | null | Jewish merchant of the ninth and tenth centuries CE and may have been a Radhanite | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Spain |
| Michael Cashmore (businessman) | Michael Cashmore | 1815 | 1886 | null | merchant, the first Jewish settler of Melbourne, Victoria, and remembered for his haberdashery business in Melbourne's first brick building, "Cashmore's Corner" at 1 Elizabeth Street | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cashmore_(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 |
| Vidal Astori | Vidal Astori | null | null | null | Sephardic silversmith and merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidal_Astori |
| Emile Beaumont d'Erlanger | Baron Emile Beaumont D'Erlanger | 1866 | 1939 | French | merchant banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Beaumont_d'Erlanger |
| Alonso Curiel | Alonso de Curiel | 1577 | 1603 | Spanish | merchant, diplomat in the Habsburg Netherlands, and member of the Sephardi Jewish Curiel family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_Curiel |
| Lavoslav Schwarz | Lavoslav Schwarz | 1837 | 1906 | null | Croatian merchant and a historically significant figure of the Jewish community in Zagreb | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavoslav_Schwarz |
| Aaron Solomon | Aaron Solomon | null | null | null | Jewish merchant of Philadelphia, who, about 1777, signed an agreement to take the colonial paper currency sanctioned by King George III in place of gold and silver | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Solomon |
| Moritz Geisenheimer | Moritz Geisenheimer | 1818 | 1878 | German | merchant, playwright, activist of Jewish Emancipation and the German Gymnastics and National Movement, one of the first sports officials in Düsseldorf, and a publicist and politician of the during the German revolutions of 1848–1849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Geisenheimer |
| Harry Manoy | Henry Manoy | 1879 | 1954 | New Zealand | merchant and sports administrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Manoy |
| Samuel Louis Mosinger | Samuel Louis Mosinger | 1804 | 1872 | null | Croatian prominent businessman, merchant and member of the "Varaždin charity society", the first and oldest such society in Croatia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Louis_Mosinger |
| Henikstein | Henikstein | 1740 | 1811 | Austrian | noble family that descended from a clan of Jewish merchants | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henikstein |
| Ruvins Vitenbergs | Ruvins Vitenbergs | 1868 | 1931 | Latvian | merchant and politician of a Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruvins_Vitenbergs |
| Phinehas Abraham | Phinehas Abraham | 1887 | n/a | null | West Indian merchant who was born in the island of Jamaica about the beginning of the nineteenth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phinehas_Abraham |
| Jacob Isaacs (merchant) | Jacob Isaacs | 1799 | 1870 | Jamaican | Jewish slave-owner who became a successful West Indies merchant in London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Isaacs_(merchant) |
| Daniel Joseph Jaffe (merchant) | Daniel Joseph Jaffe | 1809 | 1874 | German | merchant who came to Belfast in 1850 to establish a linen export business | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Joseph_Jaffe_(merchant) |
| Venguessone Nathan | Venguessone Nathan | 1424 | n/a | French | Jewish moneylender and merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venguessone_Nathan |
| Edmund Elend | Edmund Elend | 1881 | 1933 | German | merchant and department store owner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Elend |
| Bernard Semel | Bernard Semel | 1878 | 1959 | Galician | Jewish-American merchant and philanthropist from New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Semel |
| Raphael Peixotto | Raphael Peixotto | 1837 | 1905 | American | Jewish merchant from California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Peixotto |