World War I British Indian Army Victoria Cross recipient Albert Goldsmid, colonel Frederick John Goldsmid, general Thomas William Gould, World War II Royal Navy Victoria Cross recipient John Patrick Kenneally, World War II British Army Victoria Cross recipient (Jewish father) Issy Smith, World War I British Army Victoria Cross recipient Peter Stevens, World War II bomber pilot/POW and recipient of the Military Cross for numerous escape activities; a German-Jewish refugee living in London at the outbreak of hostilities; born Georg Franz HEIN in Hanover; committed identity theft in order to join the RAF; was naturalized a British citizen in 1946 Wing Commander Roland Robert Stanford Tuck, DSO, DFC and Two Bars, AFC (1916-1987), RAF fighter pilot, Battle of Britain and Battle of France (27 air-to-air kills), English Electric Canberra test pilot Jack White, World War I British Army Victoria Cross recipient Property Jack Cotton, property developer David Garrard, property developer Artin Eli, property developer Poju Zabludowicz, owner of Tamares Group Retail David Alliance, Baron Alliance, businessman and Liberal Democrat politician Sir Victor Blank, chairman of GUS Sir Montague Burton, retailer Sir Charles Clore, owner of Selfridges Jack Cohen, founder of Tesco Ralph and David Gold, founders of Ann Summers and co-owners of Birmingham City football club Sir Philip Green, owner of Bhs, Arcadia Group Irene Howard, English costume designer; sister of actor Leslie Howard Stanley Kalms, now Baron Kalms of Edgware, life president of Dixons Group PLC Bernard Lewis, founder of River Island David Lewis, department store founder Michael Marks, co-founder of Marks & Spencer (born in the Russian Empire) Simon Marks, chairman of Marks & Spencer Gerald Ronson, business tycoon and philanthropist Marcus Samuel, founder of the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company Israel Sieff, chairman of Marks & Spencer Joseph Stillitz, founder and chairman of Gor-Ray Lord Alan Sugar, founder of Amstrad and star of The Apprentice (UK) Isaac Wolfson, founder of GUS plc; philanthropist Police Henry Solomon, Chief Constable of Brighton Borough 1838 to 1844 Political figures See List of British Jewish politicians. Religious and communal leaders Jacob Abendana, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Barnett Abrahams, Dayan, Principal of Jews' College Israel Abrahams, scholar and educator Yehezkel Abramsky, rabbi and dayan Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Rabbi Dr. Tony Bayfield, head of the Movement for Reform Judaism Leo Baeck, German-born Rabbi, scholar, theologian