Philip Glass, music composer Leah Goldberg, poet Emma Goldman, political activist Nahum Goldmann, world Jewish leader Chaim Grade, writer Iosif Grigulevich, secret agent, historian Zvi Griliches, economist Shira Gorshman, Zionist pioneer, writer Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg, rabbi Bernard Lown, scientist, Nobel prize winner Aron Gurwitsch, philosopher Laurence Harvey, actor Jascha Heifetz (1901–1987), widely regarded as the greatest violinist of the 20th century Sidney Hillman, political activist Shemp Howard (1895–1955), comedian and actor Moe Howard (1897–1975), comedian and actor Curly Howard (1903–1952), comedian and actor Jay M. Ipson, founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum Leo Jogiches, revolutionary Al Jolson, singer, comedian, and actor Berek Joselewicz, colonel of the Polish Army Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, clothes manufacturer Yisrael Meir Kagan, rabbi Daniel Kahneman, psychologist, Nobel Prize (2002) (Lithuanian parents) Mordechai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism Shlomo Kleit, political activist Aaron Klug, chemist, Nobel Prize (1982) Gurwin Kopel (1923–1990), artist Lazare Kopelmanas, international law scholar Abba Kovner, poet, writer Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn, writer Micah Joseph Lebensohn, writer Phoebus Levene, biochemist Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher Isaac Levitan, artist Bernard Lewis, historian Morris Lichtenstein, rabbi, founder of the Jewish Science Jacques Lipchitz, cubist sculptor Jay Lovestone, politician Alexander Ziskind Maimon, author and scholar of the Talmud Osip Mandelstam, poet librettist Abraham Mapu, novelist Isser Zalman Meltzer, rabbi Harvey Milk, gay politician in the U.S. Hermann Minkowski, mathematician Oskar Minkowski, physiologist Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel Mitchell Parish (1900–1993), Lithuanian-born American lyricist Abram Rabinovich, chess player Bar Refaeli, Israeli supermodel, television host, actress, and businesswoman Willy Ronis, artist Eduardas Rozentalis, chess player Yisroel Salanter, rabbi, famed Talmudist Meyer Schapiro, art historian Alexander Schneider, violinist and conductor Lasar Segall, painter, engraver and sculptor Benjamin Schlesinger, American labor leader, former President of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union Ben Shahn, artist Esther Shalev-Gerz, artist Karl Shapiro, poet (Lithuanian parents) Sam, Lee and Jacob Shubert, theatre managers, producers (cf. Shubert Brothers) Joe Slovo, ANC activist Elijah ben Solomon, rabbi, The Gaon of Vilna Maximilian Steinberg, composer David Suchet, English actor Helen Suzman, anti-apartheid MP (Lithuanian parents) Isakas Vistaneckis, chess player Louis Washkansky, recipient of the world's first human heart transplant Uriel Weinreich, linguist David Wolfsohn, second President of World Zionist Organization Bluma Zeigarnik, psychologist and psychiatrist Emanuelis Zingeris, politician William Zorach, painter, sculptor and writer Louis Zukofsky, poet (Lithuanian parents) Benjamin Zuskin, actor Norway Bjørn Benkow, journalist, known for faking interviews Jo Benkow, President of the Parliament