Offenbach (1819–1880), German-born composer Catherine Ringer (born 1957), singer, songwriter, actress Sapho (born 1950), Moroccan-born singer David Serero (born 1981), French opera singer, actor, producer; his parents are Sephardi Jews from Morocco Martial Solal (born 1927), jazz pianist and composer Tal (born 1989), Israeli-born pop / R'n'B singer Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986), Polish-born composer, pianist Daniel Vangarde (born 1947), French songwriter and producer, father of Thomas Bangalter Émile Waldteufel (1837–1915), composer Writers and poets Tristan Bernard (1866–1947), playwright and novelist, father of Raymond Bernard and Jean-Jacques Bernard Jean-Jacques Bernard (1888–1974), playwright, son of Tristan Bernard and brother of Raymond Bernard Henri Bernstein (1876–1953), playwright Henri Blowitz (1825–1903), Bohemian-born journalist Paul Celan (1920–1970), Romanian-born poet Benjamin Fondane (1898–1944), Romanian-born poet Romain Gary (1914–1980), Russian Empire-born novelist René Goscinny (1926–1977), comic book author and editor, co-creator of Asterix Élie Halévy (1760–1826), Bavarian-born French Hebrew poet, author and secretary of the Jewish community of Paris; father of Fromental Halévy and Léon Halévy Marek Halter (born 1936), writer and activist Léon Hollaenderski (1808–1878), writer and poet Max Jacob (1876–1944), poet Edmond Jabès (1912–1991), Egyptian-born poet Joseph Joffo (born 1931), writer Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940), novelist Gustave Kahn (1859–1936), poet and art critic Joseph Kessel (1898–1979), Argentinian-born novelist and journalist Justine Lévy (born 1974), novelist, daughter of Bernard-Henri Lévy André Maurois (1885–1967), author Alain Mamou-Mani (born 1949), Tunisian-born French film producer and writer Albert Memmi (1920-2020), Tunisian-born novelist and sociologist Catulle Mendès (1841–1909), poet and man of letters (half Jewish) Patrick Modiano (born 1945), writer (half Jewish) Nine Moati (born 1938), Tunisian-born novelist Les Belles de Tunis and screenwriter; sister of Serge Moati Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942), writer Georges Perec (1936–1982), novelist Marcel Proust (1871–1922), writer Yasmina Reza (born 1959), playwright Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999), Russian-born writer Jean-Jacques Schuhl (born 1941), writer Anne Sinclair (born 1948), political journalist; wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn André Suarès (1868–1948), poet Elsa Triolet (1896–1970), Russian-born novelist Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian-born poet Ilarie Voronca (1903–1946), Romanian-born poet and essayist Bernard Werber (born 1961), best-selling author Business figures Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet (1906–1996), founder and head of Publicis Groupe Moïse de Camondo (1860–1935), Ottoman Empire-born banker Isaac and Daniel Carasso, founders of Danone André Citroën (1878–1935), founder of Citroën Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), aerospace industrialist; converted to Catholicism in 1950 Achille Fould (1800–1867), financier Maurice Girodias (1919–1990), founder of Olympia Press (half Jewish) Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896), banker Philippe Kahn (born 1952), founder of Borland Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (1932–2016),