List of Jews by country - Definition and Overview

The following is a list of prominent Jews from across the Jewish diaspora, with one example from each country and a link to a list for that country.

See also main article: List of Jews.

• Algeria (list) – Jacques Derrida, philosopher
• Antigua & Barbuda (list) – Jamaica Kincaid, writer (convert)
• Argentina (list) – Lalo Schifrin, composer
• Australia (list) – John Monash, WWI general
• Austria (list) – Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst
• Azerbaijan (list) – Lev Landau, physicist
• Belarus (list) – Marc Chagall, painter
• Belgium (list) – Ilya Prigogine, chemist
• Bosnia-Herzegovina (list) – Isak Samokovlija, writer
• Brazil (list) – Clarice Lispector, writer
• Bulgaria (list) – Elias Canetti, writer
• Cameroon (list) – Yaphet Kotto, actor (Cameroonian father)
• Canada (list) – Leonard Cohen, singer & poet
• Chile (list) – Ariel Dorfman, playwright
• China (list) – Michael Kadoorie, businessman
• Colombia (list) – Jorge Isaacs, poet
• Croatia (list) – Mira Furlan, actor
• Cuba (list) – Fabio Grobart, communist party founder
• Cyprus (list) – Mike Brant, French-based singer
• Czech Republic (list) – Franz Kafka, writer
• Denmark (list) – Arne Jacobsen, architect & designer
• DR Congo (list) – Olivier Strelli, fashion designer
• Egypt (list) – Sylvain Sylvain, musician
• El Salvador (list) – Juan Lindo, president (half-Jewish)
• Estonia (list) – Louis I. Kahn, architect
• Finland (list) – Moses Pergament, composer
• France (list) – Emile Durkheim, sociologist
• French Polynesia (list) – Alexander Salmon, Tahitian prince
• Georgia (list) – Melvin Calvin, chemist (Georgian mother)
• Germany (list) – Albert Einstein, physicist
• Greece (list) – Hank Azaria, actor (Greek grandparents)
• Guatemala (list) – Francisco Goldman, author (half Jewish)
• Guyana (list) – Janet Jagan, president
• Honduras (list) – Ricardo Maduro, president
• Hungary (list) – John Von Neumann, mathematician
• Iceland (list) – Dorrit Moussaieff, first lady
• India (list) – Nissim Ezekiel, poet
• Indonesia (list) – Xaviera Hollander, writer (half-Jewish)
• Iran (list) – Elie Tahari, fashion designer
• Iraq (list) – Maurice & Charles Saatchi, advertisers
• Ireland (list) – John Desmond Bernal, scientist (half-Jewish)
• Israel (list*) – Itzhak Perlman, violinist (*most are Jewish)
• Italy (list) – Amedeo Modigliani, artist
• Jamaica (list) – Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records (half Jewish)
• Japan (list) – David Rosen, founder of SEGA (unconfirmed)
• Kazakhstan (list) – Vladimir Zhirinovsky, poltician (half-Jewish)
• Kyrgyzstan (list) – Alexander Mashkevich, businessman
• Latvia (list) – Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
• Lebanon (list) – Edmond Safra, banker
• Lithuania (list) – Emma Goldman, anarchist
• Luxembourg (list) – Hugo Gernsback, science-fiction pioneer (unconfirmed)
• Macedonia (list) – Esma Redzepova, Romany singer (half-Jewish) (unconfirmed)
• Mali (list) – Marvin Pontiac, R&B singer (half-Jewish)
• Mexico (list) – Frida Kahlo, painter (half-Jewish)
• Moldova (list) – William F. Friedman, cryptologist
• Monaco (list) – Franz Schreker, composer (half Jewish)
• Morocco (list) – Natacha Atlas, singer (half-Jewish)
• Mozambique (list) – Ruth First, ANC activist
• Myanmar (list) – Ike Isaacs, jazz player
• Netherlands (list) – Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
• Netherlands Antilles (list) – Daniel De Leon, socialist leader
• New Zealand (list) – Julius Vogel, prime-minister
• Norway (list) – Jo Benkow, opposition leader
• Panama (list) – Eric Arturo Delvalle, president
• Peru (list) – Meredith Monk, performance artist
• Poland (list) – Roman Polanski, director
• Portugal (list) – Luis De Torres, explorer
• Romania (list) – Tristan Tzara, poet
• Russia (list) – Boris Pasternak, poet
• Serbia and Montenegro (list) – Danilo Kis, writer (half-Jewish)
• Singapore (list) – David Saul Marshall, Chief Minister
• Slovakia (list) – Ivan Reitman, film director
• Slovenia (list) – Alexander Beliavsky, chess player (unconfirmed)
• South Africa (list) – Nadine Gordimer, writer
• Spain (list) – Maimonides, philosopher
• Sudan (list) – Nessim Gaon, financier
• Sweden (list) – Oskar Klein, physicist
• Switzerland (list) – Felix Bloch, physicist
• Syria (list) – Jerry Seinfeld, actor (Syrian mother)
• Tajikistan (list) – Moses Znaimer, tv producer
• Trinidad and Tobago (list) – Nathaniel Nathan, chief justice
• Tunisia (list) – Alain Boublil, librettist
• Turkey (list) – Neil Sedaka, singer/songwriter (Turkish father)
• Ukraine (list) – Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
• United Kingdom (list) – Harold Pinter, playwright
• United States (list) – Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter
• Uruguay (list) – Gisele Ben-Dor, conductor
• Uzbekistan (list) – Yefim Bronfman, pianist
• Venezuela (list) – Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist
• Virgin Islands (UK) (list) – Camille Pissarro, artist
• Virgin Islands (US) (list) – Judah Benjamin, politician
• Yemen (list) – Ofra Haza, singer (Yemenite parents)
• Zambia (list) – Stanley Fischer, economist
• Zimbabwe (list) – Alexander Pines, chemist

See also: List of people by nationality