Many of the Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish Inquisition settled in the Ottoman Empire, leaving behind, at the wake of Empire, large Sephardic communities in South-East Europe: mainly in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Bosnia and Herzegovina Kalmi Baruh, writer and philosopher Emerik Blum, businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo Ivan Ceresnjes, architect-researcher, former president of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and vice-chairman of the Yugoslav Federation of Jewish Communities, 1992–1996 Oskar Danon, composer and conductor David Elazar, Israeli general and Chief of Staff of Israel Defense Forces Jakob Finci, politician, ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Switzerland Daniel Kabiljo, painter Daniel Ozmo, painter Isaac Pardo, rabbi of Sarajevo Robert Rothbart, basketball player (Jewish mother) Isak Samokovlija, writer Bulgaria Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist Binyamin Arditi Aron Aronov, tenor Mira Aroyo, member of the band Ladytron Gabi Ashkenazi Michael Bar-Zohar Maxim Behar, president of M3 Communications Group Shimon Bejarano Alexander Bozhkov, vice-premier (Jewish mother) Elias Canetti, author and Nobel Prize winner Carl Djerassi Itzhak Fintzi, dramatist Pini Gershon Moshe Gueron Shlomo Kalo Nikolay Kaufman, musicologist and composer Yehezkel Lazarov Moshe Leon Milcho Leviev, jazz composer (Jewish father) Raphael Mechoulam Moni Moshonov Ya'akov Nehushtan Ya'akov Nitzani Jules Pascin, artist (Jewish father) Isaac Passy, philosopher Solomon Passy, foreign minister, son of Isaac Passy Valeri Petrov Georgi Pirinski, Jr. David Primo Sarah-Theodora Victor Shem-Tov Maxim Staviski Angel Wagenstein, author & screenwriter Alexis Weissenberg, pianist Jaime Yankelevich Emanuel Zisman Croatia Viktor Axmann, architect Slavko Brill, sculptor and ceramics artist Julio Deutsch, architect Hugo Ehrlich, architect Ignjat Fischer, architect Josip Frank, Croatian politician Stjepan Gomboš, architect Branko Grünbaum, mathematician Leo Hönigsberg, architect Rikard Lang, prominent Croatian university professor, lawyer and economist, UN's expert Slobodan Lang, physician, politician, humanitarian Slavko Löwy, architect Rudolf Lubinski, architect Branko Lustig, film producer and winner of two Academy Awards Blessed Ivan Merz, beatified in 2003 Oscar Nemon, sculptor Vladimir Šterk, architect Ivo Stern, founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation" Karlo Weissmann, physician and founder of the first sanatorium in Osijek Dragutin Wolf, industrialist, founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar Cyprus Aristobulus of Britannia (converted to Christianity) Barnabas (mentioned in the New Testament) Mike Brant, French-based singer (Cyprus-born) Epiphanius of Salamis (converted to Christianity) John the Merciful Arie Zeev Raskin, rabbi Greece Hank Azaria Sid Ganis Anna Rezan Montenegro Jelena Đurović, writer, politician and journalist North Macedonia Haim Estreya