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Since immigration began in the late 19th century, the Jewish population of Latin America has risen to more than 500,000 — more than half of whom live in Argentina, with large communities also present in Brazil and Mexico. Here is a list of some prominent Latin American Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Argentina
- Hector Babenco, film director (Argentinian-born)
- Daniel Barenboim, conductor & pianist
- Laszlo Biro, inventor of the biro
- Andrés Calamaro, singer/songwriter
- Gregory Chaitin, mathematician (Argentinian parents)
- Mario Davidovsky, composer
- Ariel Dorfman, playwright (Argentinian-born)
- Giora Feidman, klezmer musician
- Alberto Gerchunoff, writer
- Osvaldo Golijov, classical composer
- Mauricio Kagel, classical composer
- Daniela Krukower, judo world champion
- César Milstein, immunologist, Nobel prize (1984)
- Miguel Najdorf, chess player
- Alejandra Pizarnik, poet
- Cecilia Roth, actress
- Lalo Schifrin, composer
- Ana María Shua, writer
- Juan Pablo Sorin, football player
- Alicia Steimberg, writer
- Jacobo Timerman, journalist
- Horacio Verbitsky, journalist
Brazil
- Hector Babenco, film director
- Adriana Behar, beach volleyball player
- Daniel Benzali, TV actor
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, literary critic
- Vilém Flusser, philosopher
- Ithamara Koorax, jazz singer
- Jaime Lerner, Paraná governor, urban planner
- Clarice Lispector, writer
- Ivo Perelman, jazz saxophonist
- Flora Purim, jazz singer
- Bernard Rajzman, volleyball player
- Edmond Safra, banker
- Silvio Santos, TV show host
- Moacyr Scliar, author
- Lasar Segall, artist
Chile
Colombia
- Jorge Isaacs, poet
- Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, entrepeneur
Cuba
- Ruth Behar, writer
- Jamie-Lynn DiScala, actress (converted Cuban mother)
- Fabio Grobart, communist party co-founder
- Brett Ratner, film director (Cuban mother)
El Salvador
- Juan Lindo, president (1841) (Jewish father)
Guatemala
- Francisco Goldman, author (Jewish father)
Honduras
- Juan Lindo, president (1847) (Jewish father)
- Ricardo Maduro, president (2002)
- Salvador Moncada, pharmacologist (Jewish mother)
Mexico
- Jacob Bekenstein, physicist
- Sabina Berman, playwright
- Jorge Castañeda, foreign minister (Jewish mother)
- Daniel Catán, composer
- Tito Fuentes, member of Molotov
- Margo Glantz, writer & critic
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, director
- Frida Kahlo, painter (Jewish father)
- Alejandro Marcovich, member of Caifanes
- Marcos Moshinsky, physicist
- Fernando Schwartz, sports comentator
- Ilan Stavans, literary critic
- Henryk Szeryng, violinist
- Ari Telch, actor
- Leon Trotsky, revolutionary (Mexican exile)
- Jacobo Zabludovsky, tv journalist
Panama
- Eric Arturo Delvalle, president (1987)
- Ricardo Maduro, Honduran president (Panamanian-born)
Peru
- Isaac Goldemberg, poet
- Meredith Monk, performance artist
- Alex Perez, artist
- David Waisman, second vice-president
Uruguay
- Gisele Ben-Dor, conductor
- Jose Gurvich, painter
- Teresa Porzecanski, writer
Venezuela
- Manuel Blum, computer scientist, Turing Award (1995)
- Andres Levin, keyboardist in Yerba Buena
- Moisés Kaufman, founder of NY's Tectonic Theater Project
- Reynaldo Hahn, composer (Jewish father)
- Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel prize (1980)
See also
- List of Jews, Argentines, Brazilians, Chileans, Colombians, Cubans, Guatemalans, Mexicans, Panamanians, Peruvians, Uruguayans, Venezuelans
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