diplomat Wolf Karni, football referee Daniel Katz, writer Elias Katz, athlete, Olympic medalist Salomon Klass (1907–1985), Finnish Army captain Roni Porokara, football player Boris Rotenberg, football player Marion Rung, pop singer Elis Sella, actor Seela Sella, actress Mauritz Stiller, director Uniikki, rapper Sam Vanni, painter Poju Zabludowicz, business magnate Ben Zyskowicz, conservative leader Iceland Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist Bobby Fischer, chess player (Jewish mother, but did not self-identify as a Jew; American expatriate, Icelandic) Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland Sruli Recht, award-winning designer Latvia Elya Baskin, actor Isaiah Berlin, historian of ideas Lipman Bers, mathematician and activist David Bezmozgis, author Boris Brutskus Sergei Eisenstein, film director Movsas Feigins, chess player Morris Halle, linguist Philippe Halsman, photographer Joseph Hirshhorn, financier and philanthropist Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish musicologist Hermann Jadlowker, musician (born at Riga) Mariss Jansons, conductor (Jewish mother) Gil Kane, comic book illustrator Alexander Koblencs, chess player Abraham Isaac Kook, rabbi Gidon Kremer, violinist; father was a Jewish Holocaust survivor Nechama Leibowitz Yeshayahu Leibowitz Hermanis Matisons, chess player Mischa Maisky, cellist Solomon Mikhoels, actor Aron Nimzowitsch, chess player Arkady Raikin, performing artist Yosef Rosen, der Rogatchover Gaon Mark Rothko, painter Judith Shklar, political philosopher Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, rabbi Mikhail Tal, world chess champion Max Weinreich, linguist Lithuania Semyon Alapin (1856–1923), chess player Mark Antokolsky (1840–1902), sculptor to Tzar Alexander II of Russia Moshe Arens (1925–2019), former Minister of Defence and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Aaron Barak (born 1936), President of the Supreme Court of Israel Saul Bellow (1915–2005), writer and laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1976) Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922), reviver of Hebrew Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), art critic Izis Bidermanas (1911–1980), photographer Reuben Asher Braudes (1851–1902), Hebrew-language novelist and journalist Victor David Brenner (1871–1924), designer of the US penny Eli Broad (1933–2021), American philanthropist and investor; founder of KB Home Sir Montague Burton, British retailer Abraham Cahan (1860–1951), writer and activist Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), musician, poet David Cronenberg (born 1943), film director Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892–1953), rabbi, Talmudic scholar Simeon Dimanstein (1886–1938), Soviet Commissar of Nationalities Bob Dylan (born 1941), singer-songwriter, artist, writer Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), one of the most prolific and well-known writers during the Soviet Union Nosson Tzvi Finkel, Orthodox Judaism leader Vyacheslav Ganelin (born 1944), jazz musician Sara Ginaite (born 1924), former resistance fighter, now Canadian academic Romain Gary, novelist, the Prix Goncourt (twice) Morris Ginsberg, sociologist Louis Ginzberg, scholar of the Talmud