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This List of Jews contains individuals who, in accordance with Wikipedia's
verifiability and
no original research policies, have been identified as Jews by
reliable sources .
The following is a list of Jews born in the territory of the former
Russian Empire . It is geographically defined, so it also includes people born after the
dissolution of the Russian Empire in 1922 and its successor the
Soviet Union in 1991.
A few years before
the Holocaust , the Jewish population of the Soviet Union (excluding
Western Ukraine and the
Baltic states that were not part of the Soviet Union then) stood at over 5 million, most of whom were
Ashkenazic as opposed to
Sephardic , with some
Karaite minorities. It is estimated that more than half died directly as a result of the Holocaust.
Georgy Arbatov , Soviet politician, academic and political advisor
[1]
Aizik Aronchik , attempted to assassinate the
Tsar
Alexander II
[2]
[3]
Dimitri Bogrov , Soviet politician
[4]
Anatoly Chubais , Deputy Prime Minister, now Chairman of
UES
[5]
Mikhail Fradkov , Russian Prime Minister (half-Jewish)
[6]
Volodymyr Groysman , Prime Minister of Ukraine (2016–2019)
Adolph Joffe , Bolshevik diplomat
[4]
[7]
[8]
Lazar Kaganovich ,
First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union and one of the principal architects of the
Ukrainian famine .
[9]
[10]
[11]
Lev Kamenev , Bolshevik leader
[12] (Jewish father)
Maxim Litvinov , Soviet ambassador and Minister of Foreign Affairs
[4]
[8]
[13]
Julius Martov , Menshevik leader
[8]
[14]
Mikhail Mishustin , incumbent Prime Minister
[15]
Boris Nemtsov , Deputy Prime Minister
[16]
Yevgeny Prigozhin , head of the
Wagner Group private military company. Led a
rebellion against Russian President
Vladimir Putin (Jewish father)
Yevgeny Primakov , Russian politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999.
Karl Radek , Soviet politician
[4]
[8]
[17]
Yevgeny Roizman , deputy of the Russian State Duma, mayor of Yekaterinburg (Jewish father)
Grigory Sokolnikov , Bolshevik politician
[18]
Vladimir Solovyov , Russian TV presenter and propagandist
Yakov Sverdlov , Bolshevik leader, the first head of state of the
Russian SFSR
[4]
[18]
Leon Trotsky , Bolshevik politician, the founder of the
Red Army
[12]
[19]
[20]
[21]
Moisei Uritsky , Soviet politician
[4]
[22]
Leonid Volkov , Russian opposition leader.
Alexei Navalny 's campaign manager
Genrikh Yagoda , head of Secret Police in the Stalin era (1934–1936)
[23]
[24]
Yakov Yurovsky , Bolshevik commander, was in charge of imprisonment and execution of Tsar
Nicolas II of Russia and his family (under
Vladimir Lenin 's orders)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy , President of Ukraine
Grigory Zinoviev , Soviet politician
[8]
[12]
[25]
Vladimir Zhirinovsky , Russian politician; leader of the
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR); Vice-chairman of the State Duma; member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"
[26]
Menachem Begin , Israeli Prime Minister, Nobel Prize (1978)
[27]
[28]
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi , second President of Israel (1952–63)
[27]
[29]
Shmuel Dayan , Zionist activist, Israeli politician
[30]
Levi Eshkol , Israeli Prime Minister (1963–69)
[31]
[32]
Ephraim Katzir , fourth President of Israel (1973–78)
[33]
[34]
Avigdor Lieberman , Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs (2006–2008)
[35]
Golda Meir , Israeli Prime Minister (1969–74)
[36]
[37]
Yitzhak Shamir , Israeli Prime Minister (1983–84, 1986–92)
[38]
Natan Sharansky , Israeli politician
[39]
Moshe Sharett , Israeli Prime Minister (1954–55)
[18]
[40]
Zalman Shazar , third President of Israel (1963–73)
[18]
[41]
Chaim Weizmann , first President of Israel (1949–52)
[42]
[43]
Soviet soldiers and revolutionaries
Osip Aptekman , revolutionary
[51]
Pavel Axelrod , Menshevik, Marxist revolutionary
[8]
[52]
Yevno Azef , revolutionary
[1]
Tuvia Bielski , Belarusian partisan
[53]
Yakov Blumkin , Soviet spy
[53]
Ivan Chernyakhovsky , Soviet Front Commander, WWII
[54]
Fedor Dan , revolutionary
[55]
Leo Deutsch , revolutionary
[56]
David Dragunsky , Soviet tank brigade commander, WWII
[55]
Raya Dunayevskaya , founder of
Marxist humanism in the U.S.
[57]
Hesya Helfman , revolutionary
[58]
Grigory Gershuni , revolutionary
[58]
Moshe Gildenman, known as Dyadya ("Uncle") Misha, partisan commander
[59]
Grigory Goldenberg , revolutionary
[58]
Olga Kameneva , Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician (sister of
Leon Trotsky )
[60]
Walter Krivitsky , Soviet spy
[10]
Semyon Krivoshein , Soviet mechanized corps commander, WWII
[10]
Rodion Malinovsky , Soviet front commander, WWII, Minister of Defence
[14] (Jewish origin is disputed)
Mark Natanson , revolutionary
[61]
Alexander Parvus , revolutionary
[8]
[62]
Grigoriy Plaskov , Soviet artillery lieutenant
Sidney Reilly (born Shlomo Rosenblum), Ukrainian-born adventurer and Secret Intelligence Service agent
[63]
Theodore Rothstein , Russian-British communist
[17]
Pinhas Rutenberg , Zionist, Social revolutionary
[17]
Israel and
Manya Shochat , founders of the
Hashomer movement
Moisei Uritsky , communist revolutionary
[22]
Volin (Vsevolod Eikhenbaum), leading Russian Anarchist. Senior member of
Nestor Makhno 's movement (1918–1921)
V. Volodarsky , communist revolutionary
[64]
Iona Yakir , Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II
[24]
Murray Bookchin , important American anarchist
Michael Dorfman , Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist
David Dubinsky , American labor leader
Yisroel ben Eliezer (The Baal Shem Tov) , rabbi, founder of
Hasidic Judaism
Natasha Epstein , beauty queen; graduate of Harvard University
Shlomo Ganzfried , rabbi
Fanny Kaplan , would-be assassin of Lenin
Menachem Mendel Schneerson ,
Rebbe of the
Chabad -Lubavitch branch of
Hasidic Judaism
Dov Sudak , rabbi of Krijopol before the war
Boris Volynov , Soviet astronaut; the first Jew in space (Jewish mother)
Roman Abramovich , businessman, former owner of
Chelsea F.C.
[65]
Pyotr Aven , businessman
[65]
Leon Bagrit , pioneer of automation
[66]
Bernhard Baron , cigarette maker and philanthropist
[67]
Boris Berezovsky , businessman, politician
Zino Davidoff (born Sussele-Meier Davidoff), former tobacco manufacturer, known as "King of Cigars"
[68]
Bernard Delfont , impresario
[69]
Mikhail Fridman , businessman
[65]
Arcadi Gaydamak , owner of
Portsmouth F.C. ,
AJ Auxerre , and
Bnei Sakhnin F.C.
[70]
Leslie Grade , executive
[71]
Lew Grade , impresario, Chairman of
ATV from 1962
[72]
Vladimir Gusinsky , exile, former media tycoon
[73]
Boris Khait , businessman and vice-president of the Russian Jewish Congress
[74]
German Khan , businessman
Mikhail Khodorkovsky , businessman, politician (Jewish father)
Ihor Kolomoyskyi , Ukrainian businessman
Max Levchin (born Maksymilian Levchin), co-founder of
PayPal
[75]
Morris Markin , founder of
Checker Cab
[76]
Michael Marks , co-founder of
Marks & Spencer
[77]
Alexander Mashkevitch , businessman
[78]
Louis B. Mayer , co-founder of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
[79]
Leonid Mikhelson , businessman, CEO, chairman and major shareholder of the Russian gas company
Novatek
Yuri Milner , entrepreneur, venture capitalist
Boris Mints , co-founder of Otkritie FC Bank
Vadim Moshkovich , businessman, founder of
Rusagro
Leonid Nevzlin , businessman
[80]
Mikhail Prokhorov , businessman
Ida Rosenthal , founder of
Maidenform Brassieres
[81]
Arkady Rotenberg , businessman,
Vladimir Putin 's childhoods friend
Boris Rotenberg , businessman,
Vladimir Putin 's childhood friend
David Sarnoff (born Schwirnofsky), former head of
RCA
[82]
Viktor Vekselberg , businessman (Jewish father)
Leo Wainstein , textile industrialist
Harry ,
Albert ,
Sam , and
Jack Warner , founders of Warner Bros.
[83] [
circular reference ]
Anatole Abragam , physicist
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov , physicist,
Nobel Prize (2003)
[84]
Zhores Alferov , physicist, Nobel Prize (2000)
[85]
Aleksander Akhiezer , physicist
[1]
Semen Altshuler , physicist
[1]
Lev Artsimovich , physicist (Jewish mother)
Gersh Budker , nuclear physicist
[86]
Matvei Bronstein , theoretical physicist
[53]
Ilya Frank , physicist,
Nobel Prize (1958)
[87]
Yakov Frenkel , physicist
[88]
Vitaly Ginzburg , physicist,
Nobel Prize (2003)
[89]
Emanuel Goldberg (1881–1970), pioneered
Microdots and microfilm retrieval technology
[90]
Alexander Gorodnitsky , geologist and oceanographer, Soviet and Russian bard and poet
Vladimir Gribov , physicist
[91]
Mikhail Gurevich , co-founder of the
Mikoyan Gurevich (MiG) aircraft design bureau
[92]
Waldemar Haffkine , biologist, vaccine against cholera and plague
[93]
Boris Hessen , physicist
[94]
Naum Idelson , astronomer
[95]
Abram Ioffe , nuclear scientist
[96]
Vladimir Keilis-Borok , physicist
[97]
Isaak Khalatnikov , physicist
[10]
Yuli Khariton , physicist
[98]
Semyon Kosberg , engineer
[99]
Lev Landau , physicist,
Nobel Prize (1962)
[100]
Grigory Landsberg , physicist
[101]
Semyon Lavochkin , engineer
[92]
[101]
Veniamin Levich , electrochemist
[102]
Evgeny Lifshitz , physicist
[101]
Leonid Mandelstam , physicist
Alexander Migdal , physicist
[14]
Arkady Migdal , physicist
[14]
Lev Pitaevskii , physicist
[103]
Boris Podolsky , physicist
[103]
Alexander Polyakov , physicist
[103]
Isaak Pomeranchuk , physicist
[103]
Grigory Abramovich Shajn , astronomer
[18]
Mikhail Shifman , physicist
Iosif Shklovsky , astrophysicist, astronomer, biologist
[18]
Alexander Tropsha , chemist
Vladimir Veksler , physicist
[42]
Alexander Vilenkin , cosmologist
[104]
Selman Waksman , biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952)
[105]
Sorojon Yusufova , geologist
[106]
Yakov Zel'dovich , astrophysicist
[107]
Georgy Adelson-Velsky , mathematician
[108]
Naum Akhiezer , mathematician
[1]
Vladimir Arnold , mathematician
[109]
Grigory Barenblatt , mathematician
[53]
Joseph Bernstein , mathematician
[110]
Alexander Brudno , mathematician
[111]
Chudnovsky brothers , amateur mathematicians
Vladimir Drinfeld , mathematician,
Fields Medal (1990)
Eugene Dynkin , mathematician
Paul Sophus Epstein , mathematician
Felix Gantmacher , mathematician
[58]
Israel Gelfand , mathematician
[58]
Alexander Gelfond , mathematician
[58]
Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin , mathematician
Victor Kac , mathematician
David Kazhdan , mathematician
Aleksandr Khinchin , mathematician
Mark Krasnoselsky , mathematician
Mark Krein , mathematician,
Alexander Kronrod , mathematician
Yevgeniy Landis , mathematician
Solomon Lefschetz , mathematician
Vladimir Levenshtein , mathematician
Leonid Levin , mathematician, computational complexity theory
Jacob Levitzki , Ukrainian-Israeli mathematician
Grigory Margulis , mathematician,
Fields Medal (1978)
David Milman , mathematician
Hermann Minkowski , mathematician
[112]
Mark Naimark , mathematician
Grigori Perelman , mathematician
Vladimir Rokhlin , mathematician
Jakob Rosanes , mathematician
Lev Schnirelmann , mathematician
Zvi Hermann Schapira , mathematician
Moses Schönfinkel , logician
Samuil Shatunovsky , mathematician
Yakov G. Sinai , applied mathematician
Alexander Tetelbaum , applied mathematician
Boris Tsirelson , mathematician
Pavel Urysohn , mathematician
Boris Weisfeiler , mathematician
Victor Zalgaller , mathematician
Oscar Zariski , mathematician
Efim Zelmanov , mathematician,
Fields Medal (1994)
Social scientists and philosophers
Urie Bronfenbrenner , developmental psychologist
Solomon Buber , Hebraist
[113]
Ariel Durant , historian
Boris Eichenbaum , historian
Mikhail Epstein , literary theorist
Moshe Feldenkrais , inventor of the
Feldenkrais method
Alexander Gerschenkron , economic historian
Jean Gottmann , geographer
[114]
Lazar Gulkowitsch , Jewish Studies scholar
Abraham Harkavy , historian
Zellig Harris , linguist
Roman Jakobson , Russian/American linguist
Naum Krasner , economist
Leonid Hurwicz , economist, Nobel Prize (2007)
Simon Kuznets , economist, Nobel Prize (1971)
[115]
Juri Lotman , prominent semiotician and historian of culture
Seymour Lubetzky , cataloging theorist
Jacob Marschak , economist
[116]
Alexander Luria , neuropsychologist
Alexander Nove , economist
[117]
Jacob Rabinow , inventor
Ayn Rand , philosopher
Anatol Rapoport , game theorist
Dietmar Rosenthal , linguist
Leonid Roshal , pediatrician, negotiator
Isaak Russman , historian
Max Seligsohn , Orientalist
Lev Shestov , philosopher
Elye Spivak , linguist
Medical scientists and physicians
Michael Matusevitch (1929–2007), painter
Eugene Abeshaus , painter
Meer Akselrod , painter
Benish Mininberg , painter
Nathan Altman , painter and stage designer from
Vinnytsia
Boris Anisfeld , painter, theatre
Mark Antokolsky , sculptor
Boris Aronson , painter and designer
Isaak Asknaziy , painter
Mordechai Avniel , painter
Léon Bakst , painter and costume designer
Abraham Berline , painter
Eugène Berman , painter
Leonid Berman , painter
Mikhail Bernshtein , painter
Isaak Brodskiy , painter
Marc Chagall , painter from
Vitebsk
Bella Chagall , wife of
Marc Chagall
Joseph Chaikov , sculptor
Ilya Chashnik , painter
Nudie Cohn , fashion designer
Sonia Delaunay , painter
Robert Falk , painter
Naum Gabo , sculptor
Moisei Ginzburg , architect
Michail Grobman , painter
Michel Kikoine , painter
Boris Iofan , architect
Ilya Kabakov , conceptual artist (Jewish father)
Komar and Melamid , art-duo
Jacob Kramer , painter
[118]
Pinchus Kremegne , painter
Jankieĺ Kruhier [
be ] , painter
Morris Lapidus , architect
Felix Lembersky painter
Isaac Levitan , painter
El Lissitzky , designer
Louise Nevelson , sculptor
Ernst Neizvestny , sculptor
[119]
Solomon Nikritin , painter
Jules Olitski , painter
Leonid Pasternak , painter
Antoine Pevsner , sculptor
Issachar Rybak , painter from
Yelizavetgrad
[120]
Semion Rotnitsky , painter
David Shterenberg , painter from
Zhitomir
Chaïm Soutine , painter from
Minsk
Raphael Soyer , American painter
Alexander Tetelbaum , Russian-American painter
Israel Tsvaygenbaum , Russian-American painter
Joseph Tepper , painter
Vladimir Weisberg , painter
Josephinne Yaroshevich , painter
Lazar Yazgur , painter
Valentin Yudashkin , fashion designer
Ossip Zadkine , sculptor
[121] (Jewish father)
Saveliy Moiseyevich Zeydenberg , painter
Joseph Kobzon , Russia's most decorated artist, often described as the "Russian
Sinatra "
Sophia Agranovich , pianist
Leonid Agutin , singer-songwriter
Joseph Achron , composer
Modest Altschuler , cellist, conductor, and composer
[1]
Lera Auerbach , composer/pianist
[122]
Vladimir Ashkenazi , pianist (Jewish father)
Sidor Belarsky , operatic vocalist and music educator
[123]
Nina Brodskaya , singer
Yefim Bronfman , pianist
Simon Barere , pianist
Rudolf Barshai , conductor
Dimitri Bashkirow , pianist
Yuri Bashmet , violist
[53]
Irving Berlin composer and lyricist
[124]
Lazar Berman , pianist
[125]
Mark Bernes , singer and actor
Matvei Blanter , composer, author of
Katyusha
Shura Cherkassky , pianist
Vladimir Dashkevich , composer, wrote music for
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Bella Davidovich , pianist
Issay Dobrowen , pianist and composer
Larisa Dolina , singer
Isaak Dunayevsky , composer
Mischa Elman , violinist
[126]
Mark Ermler , conductor
[127] m I
Anthony Fedorov , singer,
American Idol finalist
[128]
Samuil Feinberg , composer
[129]
[130]
Mikhaïl Faerman , pianist
Vladimir Feltsman , pianist
Veniamin Fleishman , composer
Yakov Flier , pianist
Yan Frenkel , composer
Grigory Frid , songwriter
Artur Friedheim , composer
Kirill Gerstein , pianist
Josef Gingold (1909–1995) violinist
[131]
Grigory Ginsburg , pianist
Emil Gilels , pianist
[132]
Grigory Ginzburg , conductor
Mark Gorenstein , conductor
Riva Gorohovskaya , pianist
Emil Gorovets , singer
Maria Grinberg , pianist
Natalia Gutman , cellist
Tamara Gverdtsiteli , singer
Jascha Heifetz , violinist
Mordechai Hershman , chazzan
Jascha Horenstein , conductor
Vladimir Horowitz , pianist
Aleksey Igudesman , violinist
Oleg Kagan , violinist
Ilya Kaler , violinist
Tina Karol , singer
[133]
Boris Khaykin , conductor
[10]
Evgeny Kissin , pianist
Alexander Knaifel , composer
Joseph Kobzon , singer
Leonid Kogan , violinist
Mikhail Kopelman , violinist
Yakov Kreizberg , conductor
Maya Kristalinskaya , singer
Igor Krutoy , composer, pianist
Josef Lhévinne , pianist
Alexander Lokshin , composer (Jewish father)
Arthur Lourié , composer
Andrey Makarevich , singer-songwriter
Oleg Maisenberg , pianist
Samuel Maykapar , composer/pianist
[134]
Nathan Milstein , violinist
Lolita Milyavskaya , singer (Jewish father)
Shlomo Mintz , violinist
Boris Moiseev , dancer, showmaker
Benno Moiseiwitsch , pianist
Larisa Mondrus , singer
Alexander Mordukhovich , composer
Vadim Mulerman , singer
David Oistrakh , violinist
Igor Oistrakh , violinist (Jewish father)
Leo Ornstein , composer
Gregor Piatigorsky , cellist
Pokrass brothers , composers
Mikhael Rauchverger , pianist and composer
Viktor Reznikov , composer, singer
Alexander Rosenbaum , singer-songwriter
Anton Rubinstein , pianist/composer
Nikolai Rubinstein , pianist/composer
Samuil Samosud , conductor
Alfred Schnittke , composer (Jewish father)
Eduard Schmieder , conductor
Joseph Schillinger , composer, music theorist, and composition teacher
Vladimir Shainsky , composer
Daniil Shafran , cellist
Mihail Shufutinskiy , singer, music producer
Leo Sirota , pianist
[135]
Regina Spektor , singer-songwriter and pianist
[136]
Isaac Stern , violinist
[137]
Yevgeny Sudbin , pianist
[138]
[139]
Mikhail Tanich , songwriter
Alexander Tsfasman , jazz pianist, composer, conductor, arranger
Sophie Tucker , singer
Lyubov Uspenskaya , singer
Leonid Utyosov , singer and actor
Anzhelika Varum , singer
Aida Vedishcheva , singer
Maxim Vengerov , violinist
Alexander Veprik , composer
DJ Vlad , DJ, producer, interviewer, journalist, and YouTuber
Maria Yudina , pianist
Yakov Zak , pianist
Zedd , Russian-German DJ
Inna Zhvanetskaya , composer
Efrem Zimbalist , Russian-born American violinist
Jacob Adler , actor
Anatoly Adoskin , actor (Jewish father)
[140]
Alexander Alov , film director and screenwriter
Lev Arnshtam , film director
Dmitry Astrakhan , film director and actor
Abram Avdalimov , stage actor and theatre director
Leonid Bronevoy , actor
Elina Bystritskaya , actress
Grigori Chukhrai , film director and screenwriter,
[141] father of
Pavel Chukhrai
[142]
Pavel Chukhrai , film director and screenwriter, son of
Grigori Chukhrai
[141]
[142]
Maya Deren , filmmaker
Lev Dodin , theater director
Mark Donskoi , film director
[143]
Aleksandr Druz , longest-running contestant on the
What? Where? When? game show. "Magister of the Game"
Boris Efimov , cartoonist
Sergei Eisenstein , film director (Jewish father)
Fridrikh Ermler , film director, actor, and screenwriter
[143]
Vladimir Etush , actor
Semyon Farada , actor
Aleksandr Faintsimmer , cinematographer
Maxim Galkin , comedian
Valentin Gaft , actor
Oleg Gazmanov , singer
Zinovy Gerdt , actor
Aleksei German , cinematographer
Vitaliy Ginzburg , director
Alexander Goldstein , director
Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director
[144]
Yuli Gusman , director
Alexander Gutman , director
Roman Izyaev , stage actor and theatre director
Roman Abelevich Kachanov , animator
Aleksei Kapler , film artist
Roman Karmen , documentary filmmaker
[145]
Roman Kartsev , comedian
Boris Kaufman , cinematographer
Mikhail Kaufman , cinematographer*
Yevgeny Khaldei , photographer
Gennady Khazanov , comedian
[146]
Iosif Kheifits , film director
[143]
Yefim Kopelyan , actor
Mikhail Kozakov , actor
Grigori Kozintsev , theater and film director
[147]
Savely Kramarov , actor
Mila Kunis , actress
[148]
[149]
Yuri Levitan , radio announcer
Anatole Litvak , director
Solomon Mikhoels , actor and director
Lew Milinder , actor
Andrei Mironov , actor and singer, Jewish father
Alexander Mitta , film director
Julius Nathanson , actor
Alla Nazimova , actress
Vladimir Naumov , director
Yuri Norstein , animator
Klara Novikova (born Herzer), comedian
Ilya Oleynikov (Klyaver), comedic actor
Maya Plisetskaya , ballerina
Iosif Prut , playwright
Yuli Raizman , film director and screenwriter
[150]
Elena Ralph , model
[151]
Faina Ranevskaya , actress
Arkady Raikin , comedian
Konstantin Raikin , actor and theatre director
Mikhail Romm , film director, scriptwriter, and educator (Jewish father)
[152]
Abram Room , film director
[143]
Grigori Roshal , film director and screenwriter
[143]
Hanna Rovina , actress
Ida Rubinstein , dancer
Lev Shekhtman , theater director and actor
Alexander Schirwindt , actor, director and screenwriter
Mikhail Schweitzer , screenwriter
Yefim Shifrin , comedian
Viktor Shenderovich , humorist
Esfir Shub , editor, director, and writer of documentary films
[153]
Yakov Smirnoff , American comedian
Lee Strasberg , acting teacher
Genndy Tartakovsky , Russian-born American animation director
Leonid Trauberg , film director, scriptwriter, and educator
[154]
Ivan Urgant , actor, comedian, host of the
Evening Urgant television show
Dziga Vertov , documentary film director and film theoretician
[155]
Vladimir Vinokur , comedian (Jewish father)
Leonid Yakubovich , actor, host of the
Pole Chudes television show
Leonid Yarmolnik , actor
Anton Yelchin , Russian-born American film/television actor
Sergei Yursky , actor
Sergei Yutkevich , film director and screenwriter
Grigory Adamov , writer
M. Ageyev , novelist
David Aizman , writer and playwright
Vasily Aksyonov , writer (Jewish mother)
Sholom Aleichem , Yiddish-language writer
[18]
Semyon Altov (born Altshuller), writer, comedian
Isaac Asimov , science fiction writer
Daniil Atnilov , poet
Hizgil Avshalumov , novelist, poet and playwright
Isaac Babel , writer
[27]
Eduard Bagritsky , poet
[27]
Grigory Baklanov , novelist
Mishi Bakhshiev , writer and poet
Agniya Barto , writer
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda , Hebrew-language writer
Isaac Dov Berkowitz , writer
[27]
Hayyim Nahman Bialik , poet
[27]
Rachel Bluwstein , poet
Yosef Haim Brenner , Hebrew-language writer
[27]
Osip Brik , author
[27]
Joseph Brodsky , Russian-language poet,
Nobel Prize (1987)
[27]
Sasha Cherny , poet
[156]
Korney Chukovsky , writer (Jewish father)
Manuvakh Dadashev , poet
Yuli Daniel , writer
Michael Dorfman , journalist and essayist
Sergei Dovlatov , journalist and writer (Jewish father)
David Edelstadt , Yiddish-language anarchist poet
Ilya Ehrenburg , writer
[31]
Natan Eidelman , writer
Alter Esselin , poet, carpenter
Alexander Galich , playwright poet
[157]
Vladimir Galperin , journalist and writer, literature professor
[158]
Boris Gavrilov , poet
Mikhail Gavrilov , writer and poet
Aleksandr Gelman , playwright
Asher Hirsch Ginsberg (Ahad Ha'Am), Hebrew-language writer
Lydia Ginzburg , writer
[157]
Yevgenia Ginzburg , writer
[157]
Jacob Gordin , American playwright
[157]
Leon Gordon , writer
[157]
Grigori Gorin , playwright and writer
Vasily Grossman , writer
[157]
Igor Guberman , writer
[157]
Peretz Hirshbein , playwright
[157]
Ilya Ilf , writer
[95]
Vera Inber , poet
[95]
Sergey Izgiyayev , poet
Lev Kassil , writer
Veniamin Kaverin , writer (Jewish father)[
citation needed ]
Arkady Khait , satirist and playwright (
Хайт, Аркадий Иосифович [
ru ] )
A.M. Klein , poet
Pavel Kogan , poet
Lev Kopelev , author and dissident
Lazar Lagin , writer
Vladimir Lantsberg , writer
H. Leivick , dramatist
Clarice Lispector , writer that settled in Brazil fleeing from
Ukraine
Civil's War
Benedikt Livshits , writer
Nadezhda Mandelstam , writer
Osip Mandelstam , poet
Samuil Marshak , poet
Yunna Morits , poet
Semen Nadson , poet (Jewish father)
Seva Novgorodsev , musician and journalist (Jewish father)
Grigoriy Oster , author and scriptwriter
Yeremey Parnov , writer
Boris Pasternak , writer,
Nobel Prize (1958)
Yakov Perelman , writer
Elizaveta Polonskaya , translator, poet
Vladimir Posner , writer
David Pinski , writer
Lev Razgon , writer,
gulag inmate for 17 years
Yevgeny Rein , poet
Ayn Rand , writer (born Alisa Rosenbaum)
Ilya Reznik , poet and songwriter
Anatoli Rybakov , writer
[159]
David Samoylov , poet
Genrikh Sapgir , poet
Natalya Sats , playwright (Jewish father)
Zoya Semenduyeva , poet
Mendele Mocher Sforim , founder of modern
Yiddish and
modern Hebrew literature
Viktor Shklovsky , writer and critic (Jewish father)
Ilia Shtemler , writer
Gary Shteyngart (Steinhart), writer
Yulian Semyonov , writer
Elena Shirman , poet
Boris Slutsky , war-time poet
Mikhail Slonimsky , writer (Jewish father)
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky , science fiction writers (Jewish father)
Mikhail Svetlov , poet
Shaul Tchernichovsky , poet and translator
[160]
Yuri Tynyanov , writer
Vladimir Voinovich , writer
Vladimir Vysotsky , poet, singer, actor (Jewish father)
Semen Yushkevich , writer and playwright
Boris Zakhoder , children's poet and writer
Mikhail Zhvanetsky , writer and comedian
Zinovy Zinik , writer
Valentin Zorin , Soviet and Russian political commentator, journalist, author, screenwriter and television presenter.
Leonid Geishtor , USSR (Belarus), sprint canoer, Olympic champion (Canadian pairs 1,000-meter)
Michael Kolganov , Soviet (Uzbek)-born Israeli, sprint canoer, world champion, Olympic bronze (K-1 500-meter)
Naum Prokupets , Moldovan-born Soviet, sprint canoer, Olympic bronze (C-2 1,000-meter), gold (C-2 10,000-meter) at
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Yury Gelman (born 1955), Ukrainian-born American Olympic fencing coach
Vadim Gutzeit , Ukraine (saber), Olympic champion
[164]
Grigory Kriss , Soviet (épée), Olympic champion, 2x silver
Maria Mazina , Russia (épée), Olympic champion, bronze
Mark Midler ,
Soviet (foil), 2x Olympic champion
Mark Rakita , Soviet (saber), 2x Olympic champion, 2x silver
Yakov Rylsky , Soviet (saber), Olympic champion
Sergey Sharikov , Russia (saber), 2x Olympic champion, silver, bronze
David Tyshler , Soviet (saber), Olympic bronze
Eduard Vinokurov , Russia (saber), 2x Olympic champion, silver
Iosif Vitebskiy , Soviet (épée), Olympic silver, 10x national champion
Irina Slutskaya
Ilya Averbukh , Russia, ice dancer, Olympic silver
Oksana Baiul ,
Ukraine , figure skater, Olympic gold, world champion
[165]
Alexei Beletski , Ukrainian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian
[166]
Sasha Cohen , figure skater (U.S. National Champion and silver medalist at the 2006 Winter Olympics)
Aleksandr Gorelik , Soviet, pair skater, Olympic silver, World Championship 2x silver, bronze
Natalia Gudina , Ukrainian-born Israeli, figure skater, Olympian
[167]
Gennadi Karponossov , Russia, ice dancer and coach, Olympic gold, World Championship 2x gold, silver, 2x bronze
Michael Shmerkin , Soviet-born Israeli, figure skater
[168]
Irina Slutskaya , Russia, figure skater, Olympic silver, bronze, World Championship 2x gold, 3x silver, bronze
Maxim Staviski , Russian-born Bulgarian, ice dancer, World Championship gold, silver, bronze
[169]
Alexandra Zaretski ,
Belarusian -born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian
Roman Zaretski , Belarusian-born Israeli, ice dancer, Olympian
[170]
Evgeny (or Yevgeny) Babich , Soviet, Olympic champion, world and European champion, 2x runner-up
Yanina Batyrchina , Russia, Olympic silver (
rhythmic gymnastics )
Maria Gorokhovskaya , USSR, Olympic 2x champion (all-around individual exercises, team combined exercises), 5x silver (vault, asymmetrical bars, balance beam, floor exercises, team exercises with portable apparatus)
Natalia Laschenova , USSR, Olympic champion (team)
Tatiana Lysenko , Soviet/
Ukrainian , 2x Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises), bronze (horse vault)
Mikhail Perelman , USSR, Olympic champion (team combined exercises)
Vladimir Portnoi , USSR, Olympic silver (team combined exercises) and bronze (
long horse vault )
Yulia Raskina , Belarus, Olympic silver (rhythmic gymnastics)
Alexander Shatilov , Uzbekistan/Israel, world bronze (
artistic gymnast ; floor exercises)
[171]
Yelena Shushunova , USSR, Olympic 2x champion (all-around, team), silver (balance beam), bronze (uneven bars)
Max Birbraer , Russian from Kazakhstan; lived and played in Israel; 1st Israeli drafted by NHL team (
New Jersey Devils )
[172]
Vitaly Davydov , Soviet, defenseman, 3x Olympic champion, world and European champion 1963–71, runner-up
Alfred Kuchevsky , Soviet, Olympic champion, bronze
Yuri Lyapkin , Soviet, defenceman, Olympic champion
[173]
Yuri Moiseev , Soviet, Olympic champion, world champion
[174]
Vladimir Myshkin , Soviet, goaltender, Olympic champion, silver
[173]
Ian Rubin , Ukraine/Australia, Russia national team
[175]
Yevgeni Zimin , Soviet, Olympic champion 1968–72, world and European champion 1968–69, 1971
Viktor Zinger , Soviet, Olympic champion; world champion 1965–69
Valentyn Mankin , Soviet/Ukraine, only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes (yachting: finn class, tempest class, and star class), silver (yachting, tempest class)
Leonid Buryak , USSR/Ukraine, midfielder, Olympic bronze
Yakov Ehrlich , Russia, striker
Andriy Oberemko , Ukraine, midfielder (
Illichivets and U21 national team)
[177]
Israel Olshanetsky , USSR, attacking midfielder at Dynamo Leningrad
Boris Razinsky , USSR/Russia, goalkeeper/striker, Olympic champion, manager
Boris Borisovich Rotenberg , Russia/Finland/Israel, defender
Mordechai Spiegler , Soviet Union/Israel, striker (Israel national team), manager
Rafayel Grach , USSR, Olympic silver (500-meter), bronze (500-meter)
Vadim Alexeev ,
Kazakhstan -born Israeli,
breaststroke
[178]
Semyon Belits-Geiman , USSR, Olympic silver (400-m freestyle relay) and bronze (800-m freestyle relay); world record in men's 800-m freestyle
Lenny Krayzelburg ,
Ukrainian -born US, 4x Olympic champion (100-m backstroke, 200-m backstroke, twice 4x100-m medley relay); 3x world champion (100-m and 200-m backstroke, 4×100-m medley) and 2x silver (4×100-m medley, 50-m backstroke); 3 world records (50-, 100-, and 200-m backstroke)
Aleksandr Averbukh , Russian-born Israeli, 2002 and 2006 European champion (
pole vault )
[180]
Maria Leontyavna Itkina , USSR, sprinter, world records (400-m & 220-yards, and 800-m relay)
Svetlana Krachevskaya , USSR, shot put, Olympic silver
[181]
Vera Krepkina , USSR, Olympic champion (long jump), world records (100-m dash and 4x100-m)
[182]
Faina Melnik , Ukrainian-born USSR, 11 world records; Olympic discus throw champion
Zhanna Pintusevich-Block , Ukraine, sprinter, world 100-m and 200-m champion
Irina Press , USSR, 2x Olympic champion (80-m hurdles and
pentathlon )
Tamara Press , USSR, 6 world records (shot put and discus); 3x Olympic champion (2x shot put and discus) and silver (discus)
Nelly Abramova , USSR, Olympic silver
Larisa Bergen , USSR, Olympic silver
[183]
Yefim Chulak , USSR, Olympic silver, bronze
Nataliya Kushnir , USSR, Olympic silver
Yevgeny Lapinsky , USSR, Olympic champion, bronze
[184]
Georgy Mondzolevsky , USSR, 2x Olympic champion, 2x world champion
Vladimir Patkin , USSR, Olympic silver, bronze
[185]
Yuriy Venherovsky , USSR, Olympic champion
Moisei Kas’ianik , Ukrainian-born USSR, world champion
[176]
Grigory Novak , Soviet, Olympic silver (middle-heavyweight); world champion
Rudolf Plyukfelder , Soviet, Olympic champion, 2x world champion (light heavyweight)
[187]
David Rigert , Kazakh-born USSR, Olympic champion, 5x world champion (light-heavyweight and heavyweight), 68 world records
[188]
Igor Rybak , Ukrainian-born USSR, Olympic champion (lightweight)
Valery Shary , Byelorussian-born USSR, Olympic champion (light-heavyweight)
Grigorii Gamarnik , USSR, world champion (Greco-Roman lightweight), world championship silver
[176]
Samuel Gerson , Ukrainian-born US, Olympic silver (freestyle featherweight)
Boris Maksovich Gurevich , Soviet, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman flyweight), 2x world champion
Boris Michail Gurevitsch , USSR, Olympic champion (freestyle middleweight), 2x world champion
Oleg Karavaev , USSR, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman bantamweight), 2x world champion
[189]
Yakov Punkin , Soviet, Olympic champion (Greco-Roman featherweight)
David Rudman , USSR, world championship bronze
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