| | Anthony Newley, British actor and singer |
| | Andy Kaufman, US comedian, actor, performance artist |
| | Alfred Lowenstein, Belgian soldier, aviator, sportsman, entrepreneur |
| | Ali MacGraw, US actress |
| | Al Lewis, US actor, Grandpa on The Munsters |
| | Andy Kaufman, US actor and comedian, known from "SNL" and "Taxi" |
| | Al Jolson, US singer, actor, early sound film star |
| | Amy Irving, US actress (raised Baptist) |
| | Adam Goldberg, US actor (father Jewish) |
| | Alan King, US Show business personality and comic |
| | Allen Funt, US TV personality, creator of Candid Camera |
| | Anne Meara, US comedienne and actress (converted) |
| | Al Franken, US actor and comedy writer |
| | Adam Sandler, US comedian, actor |
| | Andrew Sachs, British actor, known from Fawlty Towers |
| | Alexei Sayle, UK comedian, actor |
| | Adam Sandler, US actor, comedian |
| | Albert Brooks, US actor |
| | Adam Brody US actor |
| | Alex Borstein, US actress (Jewish father) |
| | Adolph Zukor (Paramount Pictures) |
| | Ally Sheedy, US actress |
| | Andrew Grove, Hungarian-born US co-founder of Intel |
| | Alan Greenspan, US economist, chairman of the US Federal Reserve |
| | Art Garfunkel, US singer |
| | Al Jolson, US singer |
| | Abraham Polonsky, US director |
| | Andre Citroen, French automaker of Citroen |
| | Adam Horovitz (a.k.a. Ad-Rock), US rapper with the group Beastie Boys |
| | Adam Levine, Lead singer, Maroon 5 |
| | Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player |
| | Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer |
| | Abe Saperstein, US founder of the Harlem Globetrotters |
| | Artur Schnabel, Polish-Austrian-US classical pianist |
| | Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer |
| | Art Modell US owner of the Baltimore Ravens |
| | Artie Shaw, US jazz musician, bandleader |
| | Adam Yauch (a.k.a. MCA), US rapper with the group Beastie Boys (converted to Buddhism) |
| | Al Waxman, Canadian actor |
| | Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer |
| | Abby and Len Ardin, from the comic strip Edge City |
| | Andrew "Dice" Clay, US comedian |
| | Al Davis, US owner of the Oakland Raiders |
| | Anne Frank, Dutch Holocaust victim, diarist |
| | Boris Becker, German Tennis Star (Jewish Mother) |
| | Ben Davidson, US football player |
| | Bob Arum, US boxing promoter |
| | Bill Clinton, His German Jewish family emigrated to Scotland (Roessel>Russell) (Also widely rumored to be a Rothschild) |
| | Ben Grimm, the "Thing" in Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four |
| | Benjamin (a wandering Jew), from the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz |
| | Bill Goldberg, US professional wrestler, NFL player |
| | Boris Thomashevsky, star of Yiddish theater |
| | Barbra Streisand, US singer, actress |
| | Bob Kraft, US owner of the New England Patriots |
| | Barbra Streisand, US actress and singer |
| | Boris Berezovsky, Russian billionaire |
| | Barney Ross, US world champion boxer |
| | Bud Selig, US baseball commissioner |
| | Buddy Rich, US jazz musician |
| | Barry Manilow, US entertainer (Jewish mother) |
| | Ben Stiller, US comic actor |
| | Bea Arthur, US actress, known from Maude and The Golden Girls |
| | Branko Lustig, US-Croatian film director |
| | Billy Wilder, Austrian-born US director |
| | Billy Joel, US singer |
| | Brett Gurewitz, US musician and founder of Epitaph Records and punk rock group Bad Religion |
| | Benny Goodman, US musician, bandleader |
| | Barbara Bain, US actress, known from Mission Impossible |
| | Ben Folds, singer, songwriter, founder of rock group Ben Folds Five |
| | Bobby Slayton, US comedian, actor, radio host |
| | Barbara Walters, US news commentator, ABC TV 20/20 |
| | Bob Weinstein (Miramax) |
| | Brooke Burke, US actress (Jewish mother) |
| | Billy Crystal, US actor and comedian |
| | Bob Saget, US comedian, actor |
| | Bonnie Franklin, US actress, known from One Day at a Time |
| | Bill Maher, US comedian |
| | Brad Garrett, US actor |
| | Bette Midler, US singer and actress |
| | Bess Myerson, US TV entertainer |
| | Buddy Hackett, US comedian |
| | Billy Crystal, US actor and comedian |
| | Bernie Ecclestone, British owner of F1 racing |
| | Cal Abrams, US baseball player, |
| | Corey Feldman, US actor |
| | Calvin Klein, US fashion designer, CK |
| | Carrie Fisher, US actress, (father Jewish), star of Star Wars movies |
| | Christopher Columbus, explorer (may have been a Converso' but probably wasn't') |
| | Catriona Grant, co-chair Scottish Socialist Party (Jewish father but brought up Catholic) |
| | Charles Grodin, US actor |
| | Christopher Hitchens, British-born journalist and contrarian (Jewish maternal grandmother) |
| | Carolyn Jones, US actress, known from The Addams Family (converted) |
| | Chris Kattan, US actor and comedian. Parents practiced Buddhism. |
| | Carole King, US singer and songwriter |
| | Chico Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor |
| | Curt Sachs, German-US musicologist |
| | Carly Simon, US Singer, songwriter (Jewish father) |
| | Carl Reiner, US comedian, writer, actor, director |
| | Carl Laemmle Jr (Universal Studios) |
| | Clancy, from Blue Healers (Australian drama) |
| | Colin Powell, US Secretary of State (father's side has Jewish strain through Broomfield according to his autobiography) |
| | Caspar Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (Christian, paternal grandfather was Jewish) |
| | Carl Laemmle (Universal Pictures) |
| | Carlos Santana, Mexican born US musician (acknowledges descent from Conversos) |
| | David Brenner, US comic |
| | Darren Aronofsky, US director |
| | Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (one grandparent was Jewish) |
| | David Geffen (Warner Brothers; DreamWorks SKG) |
| | Donna Karan, US fashion designer, DKNY |
| | Dara Torres, US swimmer |
| | David Baddiel, British comedian |
| | David Cross, US actor and comedian |
| | Darryl Zanuck (Warner Brothers; 20th Century Pictures; 20th Century-Fox) |
| | Dave Attell, US comedian |
| | Daniel Suher, US cross country runner |
| | Dinah Shore, US actress |
| | David Blaine, US illusionist |
| | David Stern, US basketball commissioner |
| | David Lee Roth, US rock singer, lead singer of Van Halen |
| | David Copperfield, US illusionist |
| | David Barnes, US actor |
| | David Schwimmer, US actor |
| | Daryl Sabara, US actor |
| | Doris Roberts, US actress |
| | Daniel Miller, UK producer, founder of Mute records |
| | Darius Milhaud, French composer |
| | David Petersen, Philanthropist |
| | Daniel M. Lewin, Israeli Internet entrepreneur |
| | Dyan Cannon, US actress |
| | Debra Messing , TV actress (Wiull and Grace) |
| | David Beckham, English Soccer (maternal grandfather is Jewish) |
| | Danny Kaye, US actor, dancer, and singer |
| | David Berkowitz, "Son of Sam", US serial killer, (adopted by Jews, became Christian) |
| | Dharma Finkelstein from Dharma and Greg |
| | Duffman, from The Simpsons |
| | Dolph Schayes, US basketball player |
| | Dustin Hoffman, US actor |
| | Dave Osborne, US comic |
| | David Sarnoff, General Manager of RCA corporation |
| | Dan Futterman, US actor |
| | David Suchet, British actor |
| | David Bluthenthal, US basketball player |
| | David Arquette, US actress (Jewish mother) |
| | Don Rickles, US comic, actor |
| | David Duchovny, US actor (Jewish father) |
| | Daniel Day-Lewis, British actor (Jewish mother) |
| | Emma Samms, British actress, known from Dynasty |
| | Elvis Presley, US musician, maternal grandfather was Jewish |
| | Eugene Levy, Canadian actor |
| | Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Canadian-US owner of Vivendi Universal |
| | Edgar G. Ulmer, German-born US director |
| | Edward G. Robinson, Romanian-born US actor |
| | Ernst Lubitch,Europe-US director ,"To Be or not To Be", |
| | Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, US writer-producer-director team |
| | Eden Riegel, US soap opera actress |
| | Ed Snider, US owner of the Philadelphia Flyers |
| | Ernest Borgnine, US actor |
| | Elizabeth Taylor, British-born US actress (converted) |
| | Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian original owner of Seagrams Distilleries |
| | Ed Asner, US actor |
| | Ed King, US rock guitarist of Strawberry Alarm Clock and Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| | Estelle Getty, US actress, known from Golden Girls |
| | Eric Melvin, Guitarist for punk band NOFX |
| | Emmanuel Goldstein, in Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| | Freddie Prinze Sr., US comedian (Jewish father) |
| | Fidel Castro, Cuban leader (may be descended from Conversos) |
| | Fyvush Finkel, US actor |
| | Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian |
| | Fran Fine from The Nanny |
| | Fagin, from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| | Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter, friend of Leon Trotsky, (Jewish father, Catholic mother) |
| | Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright (acknowledged descent from Conversos) |
| | Fanny Brice, US comedienne |
| | Fran Drescher, US comedienne |
| | Franz Schreker, Austrian-German composer (Jewish father) |
| | Felix Mendelssohn, German Romantic composer (converted to Christianity) |
| | Fran Drescher, US actress (Jewish father) |
| | Fritz Lang, German director |
| | Grace Adler, from Will and Grace |
| | Goldie Hawn, US actress (Jewish mother) |
| | Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion (Jewish father) |
| | Gabriel Kaplan, US actor |
| | George Cukor. US director |
| | Gary Gulman, US standup comedian |
| | Gwyneth Paltrow, US actress (Jewish father) |
| | Groucho Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor |
| | George Soros, Hungarian-born US billionaire, investor, philanthropist |
| | Giacomo Meyerbeer, German opera composer |
| | Gilda Radner, US actress, known from Saturday Night Live |
| | Gilda Radner, US comedianne |
| | Garry Shandling, US comedian, actor |
| | Gene Wilder, US comic actor |
| | George Burns, US comedian |
| | Geddy Lee, Canadian musician, lead singer of rock group Rush |
| | Georg Solti, Hungarian-US conductor |
| | Gustav Mahler, Austro-Hungarian Viennese composer (converted to Catholicism) |
| | Gilbert Gottfried, US comedian |
| | Gary Bettman, US National Hockey League commissioner |
| | György Ligeti, Hungarian composer |
| | Gene Simmons, US bass player for rock group KISS |
| | Graham Gouldman, British musician and songwriter, member of 10cc |
| | Hal Linden, US actor |
| | Harry Oppenheimer, South African diamond and gold mines billionare, (became Christian) |
| | Harvey Keitel, US actor |
| | Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian |
| | Harvey Weinstein (Miramax) |
| | Henry Jaglom, US director |
| | Harry Shearer, US actor, several voices on The Simpsons |
| | Howard Stern, US radio personality |
| | Henry Kravis, American financier |
| | Harold Berman, from Hey Arnold! |
| | Hilary Clinton Admitted to Jewish Heritage |
| | Harrison Ford, US actor, (mother Jewish) |
| | Hank Azaria, US actor |
| | Hank Greenberg, US baseball player |
| | Harold Ramis, US actor |
| | Harvey Fierstein, US actor |
| | Hank Sapoznik, klezmer musician |
| | Hyman Krustofsky, father of Krusty the Klown |
| | Helena Bonham Carter, actor (mother from family of Jews who converted to Catholicism) |
| | Harpo Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor |
| | Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born US actress |
| | Harris Barton, US football player |
| | Harry Houdini, US illusionist |
| | Isaac Mizrahi, US fashion designer |
| | Itzik Feffer, Russian Yiddish actor |
| | Isaac Edward Leibowitz, from the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz |
| | Isaac the Jew and his daughter Rebecca, from the novel Ivanhoe |
| | Itzhak Perlman, Israeli-US violinist |
| | Isaac Carasso, Spanish founder of Danone group |
| | Isaac Stern, US violinist |
| | Irving Thalberg "the Last Tycoon" |
| | Jenny Jones, US comedienne and talk show host |
| | Jeremy Piven, US actor |
| | James Caan, US actor |
| | Judd Nelson, US actor, member of the Brat Pack |
| | Jerry Lewis, US actor and comedian |
| | Jon Lovitz, US actor and comedian |
| | Jonathan Lipnicki, US child actor |
| | James Levine, US conductor |
| | Jack Warner (Warner Brothers) |
| | Joseph Schenck (20th Century Pictures) |
| | Jason Alexander, US actor, known from Seinfeld; born Jason Greenspan |
| | Jennifer Jason Leigh, US actress |
| | Juliet Landau, US actress |
| | Jack Black, US actor and rock musician |
| | Jeffrey Katzenberg (Paramount Pictures; DreamWorks SKG) |
| | Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary (one grandparent was Jewish) |
| | Jonathan Silverman, US actor |
| | Jill Clayburgh, US Oscar-nominated actress |
| | John Schlesinger, British director |
| | Jill St. John, US actress |
| | Jack Klugman, US actor |
| | Julie Kavner, US actress, known from The Simpsons |
| | Jim Jarmusch, US director |
| | John Banner, Austrian-born US actor, Sargeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes |
| | John Frankenheimer, US director |
| | Jules Dassin, American director |
| | Jascha Heifetz, US violinist |
| | Jane Wiedlin, US member of band The Go-Gos |
| | Joshua Lionel Cowen, US toy inventor and manufacturer |
| | Joey Bishop, US actor, member of the Rat Pack |
| | Jack Cohen, British businessman, founder of Tesco supermarkets |
| | John Zorn, US saxophonist and composer |
| | Joan Collins, British actress, known from Dynasty (Jewish father) |
| | John Houseman, Romanian-born US actor |
| | Judy Holliday, US Oscar-winning actress |
| | Judd Hirsch, US actor |
| | Johnny Weismiller, US (Hungarian) olympic swimmer and movie Tarzan |
| | Jack Benny, US comedian |
| | James Toney, US world champion boxer |
| | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, US first lady (one grandparent was Jewish) |
| | Jake Gyllenhaal, US actor (Jewish mother) |
| | Jennifer Connelly, US actress (Jewish mother) |
| | Joel Grey, US actor |
| | J. Geils, US rock musician |
| | John Kerry, Senator from Massachusets (Catholic. Paternal Jewish grandparents converted to Catholicism) |
| | Jennifer Grey, US actress |
| | Jeff Goldblum, US actor |
| | Judith Godrèche, French actress |
| | Jerry Stiller, US comic actor and comedian |
| | Jackie Fox, US bassist of band The Runaways |
| | Jerry Reinsdorf US owner of the Chicago Bulls, owner of the Chicago White Sox |
| | Jami Gertz, US actress |
| | John Forsythe, US Actor, Born Nathan Freund |
| | Jerry Stiller, US radio comic, actor |
| | Jeff Halpern, US hockey player |
| | Jacques Offenbach, French composer |
| | Janice, from US TV sitcom Friends |
| | Jon Stewart, US comedian |
| | Jamie Lee Curtis, US actress (Jewish father- see below) |
| | Jonathan Richman, US singer, songwriter |
| | Josh Lyman, from the US drama "The West Wing". |
| | Jerry Seinfeld, US comedian |
| | Jay Fiedler, US football player |
| | Joey Ramone, US rock singer |
| | Joan Rivers, US comedienne |
| | Jerome Howard, US actor and comedian, Curly of the Three Stooges |
| | Jeff Agoos, US soccer player |
| | John Safran, Australian comedian |
| | Kyle Broflovski, from South Park |
| | Kurt Weill, German-US composer |
| | Kate Capshaw, US actress (converted) |
| | Kevin Pollak, US actor and comedian |
| | Kirk Douglas |
| | Kevin Pollak, US actor |
| | Kenneth Cole, US fashion designer |
| | Krusty the Clown, from The Simpsons |
| | Kate Hudson, US actress, daughter of Goldie Hawn (Jewish mother) |
| | Kenny G, US musician |
| | Kent Brockman, from The Simpsons (was Kenny Brocklestein in a flashback episode) |
| | Kenny Bernstein, US drag racer |
| | Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat formely of the X-Men and Excalibur mutant groups. |
| | Kinky Friedman, US country singer, author |
| | Larry Brown, US basketball coach |
| | Lenny Bruce, US satirist |
| | Lenny Kravitz, US musician (Jewish father) |
| | Lewis Black, US comedian |
| | Larry Fine, US actor and comedian, Larry of the Three Stooges |
| | Lisa Kudrow, US actress |
| | Lee Konitz, US jazz musician |
| | Lauren Bacall, US actress |
| | Larry King, US TV and radio talk show host |
| | Lilith Sternin, from Frasier |
| | Linda Lavin, US actress |
| | Larry Ellison, US CEO of Oracle Corporation |
| | Lesli Kay, US soap opera actress |
| | Lorin Maazel, US conductor |
| | Leslie Howard, UK actor, born Hungary,"Pygmalion", Ashley in "Gone with the Wind". |
| | Laraine Newman, US actress, known from Saturday Night Live |
| | Leonard Nimoy, US actor, known from Star Trek |
| | Lisa Edelstein, US actress |
| | Lyle Alzado, US football player |
| | Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-born US swimmer |
| | Lou Reed, US singer, songwriter |
| | Leon Askin, Austrian actor, known from Hogan's Heroes |
| | Larry David, US actor and comedy writer |
| | Lorne Greene, Canadian actor |
| | Lew Wasserman (Universal Studios) |
| | Lee J. Cobb, US actor |
| | Louis B. Mayer, (the "M" of MGM) |
| | Lev Leviev, Russian-born Israeli diamond billionaire |
| | Levi Strauss, US "Father of Jeans" |
| | Laurence Tisch, US billionaire, owned CBS |
| | Louis Moreau Gottschalk, US composer (Jewish father) |
| | Leo Penn, US director and actor |
| | Lisa Bonet, US actress, known from The Cosby Show (Jewish mother) |
| | Louise Wener, British rock singer and author |
| | Leslie West, US rock guitarist |
| | Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born British actor |
| | Leopold Bloom, from the novel Ulysses by James Joyce |
| | Lisa Loeb, US pop singer |
| | Linda McCartney, née Eastman, US-born photographer |
| | Marvin Goldstein, US pianist (converted to LDS Church) |
| | Mort Sahl, US comedian |
| | Marcel Dassault, French industrialist |
| | Michael Dell, US founder of Dell Inc. |
| | Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker, first of the Rothschild family |
| | Mike Gordon, US musician, bassist for Phish |
| | Max Weinberg, US drummer for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and leader of the Max Weinberg Seven |
| | Moses Howard, US actor and comedian, Moe of the Three Stooges |
| | Mel Blanc, US cartoon voice actor |
| | Mark Spitz, US olympic swimmer |
| | Mike Wallace, US news reporter, CBS TV 60 Minutes |
| | Maggie Gyllenhaal |
| | Menocu, "only half-Jewish", from Mr. Show with Bob and David |
| | Mr. Harold Hooper, from Sesame Street |
| | Marc Jacobs, US clothing designer |
| | Michael Bolton, US singer |
| | Mick Green, British guitarist, brother of Peter Green |
| | Matthew Broderick US actor (Jewish mother) |
| | Michael Tilson-Thomas, US conductor |
| | Mike Diamond (a.k.a. Mike D), US rapper with the group Beastie Boys |
| | Marilyn Monroe, US actress (converted) |
| | Mel Brooks, US comedian, filmmaker |
| | Mark Cuban, US billionaire owner of Dallas Mavericks |
| | Mike Klein, Canadian born investment magnate |
| | Mezz Mezzrow, US jazz musician |
| | Moses Haim Montefiore, English financier and Zionist |
| | Molly Ringwald, Former Bratpacker , actress |
| | Madeline Kahn, US actress |
| | Mathieu Schneider, US hockey player |
| | Michael Winner, British director |
| | Mick Jones, British rock musician, member of the Clash |
| | Melissa Gilbert, US actress, known from Little House on the Prairie |
| | Muriel Gray, broadcaster (Jewish maternal grandmother) |
| | Moe Berg, US baseball player |
| | Manfred Mann, South African born British rock musician |
| | Monica Geller, from US sitcom Friends |
| | Michael Eisner (Paramount Pictures; Disney Studios) |
| | Mark Knopfler, British guitarist, founder of rock group Dire Straits |
| | Malcolm McLaren, British impresario and recording artist |
| | Marty Feldman, British comedian |
| | Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress |
| | Milton Berle, US comedian |
| | Mark Cuban, US owner of the Dallas Mavericks |
| | Marcus Loew (MGM) |
| | Marlee Matlin, US Oscar-winning deaf actress |
| | Mike Rossman, US world champion boxer (Jewish mother) |
| | Mel Brooks, US comedian |
| | Michael Douglas, US actor, (Jewish father), son of Kirk Douglas |
| | Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-born US actress |
| | Murray Perahia, US pianist |
| | Mindy Cohn, US television actress on The Facts of Life |
| | Michael Landon US Actor (Jewish father) |
| | Mikhail Fridman, Russian billionaire |
| | Mare Winningham, US actress (converted, reported to be quite devout) |
| | Martin Landau, US actor |
| | Michael Bloomberg, US politician, founder of Bloomberg News |
| | Marty Friedman, US basket player |
| | Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian billionare |
| | Marv Levy, US football coach |
| | Malcolm Glazer, US owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, part owner of Manchester United |
| | Neil Sedaka, US singer, songwriter |
| | Norman Fell, US actor |
| | Nikolai Fraiture , French-born US bassist for rock-n-roll band The Strokes |
| | Natalie Green, from The Facts of Life |
| | Natasha Lyonne, US actress |
| | Noah Wyle, US actor |
| | Noah Cantor, Canadian football player |
| | Nell Carter, US actress (converted) |
| | Nikki Schieler Ziering, US actress, (converted for marriage and remained Jewish after divorce) |
| | Nathan Milstein, US violinist |
| | Nathan Mayer Rothschild, British financier and philanthropist |
| | Norman Greenbaum, US musician, best known for hit Spirit in the Sky |
| | Natalie Portman, Israeli-born, US actress |
| | Nina Hartley, US pornographic film actress (parents converted to Zen Buddhism) |
| | Nick Valensi, US guitarist for rock band The Strokes |
| | Neil Walk, US basketball player |
| | Neil Diamond, US singer |
| | Otto Klemperer, German-born US-Israeli conductor |
| | Ovadia A. Vaknin, Israeli comedian |
| | Oliver Stone, US director |
| | Oliver Hudson, US actor, son of Goldie Hawn (Jewish mother) |
| | Orlando Bloom, English actor (Jewish father) |
| | Otto Preminger, Austrian-born US director |
| | Peter Green, British guitarist, seminal member of Fleetwood Mac |
| | Paul Newman, US actor (Jewish father) |
| | Peter Falk, US actor |
| | Pete Sampras, paternal grandmother was Jewish |
| | Peter Ivany, Australian Media Mogul, earned his fortune running Hoyts cinemas world wide |
| | Patricia Arquette, US actress (Jewish mother) |
| | Paul Stanley, US guitar player for rock band KISS |
| | Phil Spector, US record producer and songwriter |
| | Pat Smear, US rock musician, member of the Foo Fighters |
| | Phil Ochs, US singer, songwriter |
| | P.F. Sloan, US singer, songwriter |
| | Paul Simon, US musician |
| | Paulo Costanzo, US TV actor (mother Jewish) |
| | Peter Lorre, US actor |
| | Peggy Lipton, US actress, known from the Mod Squad |
| | Piper Laurie, US actress |
| | Paul Tagliabue, US NFL commissioner |
| | Peter Sellers, British actor |
| | Peter Wolf, US rock singer, formerly of J Geils Band |
| | Rhoda Morgenstern, from The Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| | Ricky Jay, US magician |
| | Richard Belzer, US actor and comedian |
| | Ron Mael and Russell Mael,US rock band stars of Sparks |
| | Roseanne Barr, US TV actress |
| | Ron Mix, US football player |
| | Roman Abramovich, Russian billionaire |
| | Roy Neuberger, US art dealer of Neuberger & Berman |
| | Rikki Lake, US actress |
| | Rachel Green, from Friends |
| | Rene Dreyfus, French Grand Prix auto racing champion |
| | Ross Geller, from US sitcom Friends |
| | Roseanne Barr, US comedienne |
| | Randy Newman, US singer |
| | Rachel Dratch, US actress known for Saturday Night Live |
| | Robert Schimmel, US comedian |
| | Robert Clary, French-born US actor, Cpl Louis Lebeau from Hogan's Heroes |
| | Robert Evans (Paramount Pictures) |
| | Ron Sommer, CEO of Deutsche Telekom |
| | Rachel, French actress |
| | Rob Reiner,US director ("Princess Charming"," Harry/Sally") |
| | Robert Wise, US director |
| | Richard Lewis, US comedian |
| | Richard Hell, US rock musician, poet |
| | Rick Moranis, Canadian actor |
| | Ron Jeremy, US pornographic and mainstream actor |
| | Raoul Wallenberg, Protector of Jews during Holocaust (one Jewish great-great grandparent) |
| | Randy Grossman, US football player |
| | Red Auerbach, US basketball coach |
| | Rena Sofer, US actress |
| | Roman Polanski, Polish-born US director (Jewish father) |
| | Rachel Weisz, British actress |
| | Richard Tucker, US opera singer |
| | Rosanna Arquette, US actress (Jewish mother) |
| | Ron Popeil, US inventor |
| | Richard Dreyfuss, US actor |
| | Rhea Perlman, US actress |
| | Reuben Flagg, from American Flagg! |
| | Raymond Teller, US comedian, magician |
| | Ralph Lauren, US fashion designer |
| | Robert Cohn from the novel "The Sun Also Rises"/"Fiesta" by Ernest Hemingway |
| | Richard Belzer, US actor and comedian |
| | Rodney Dangerfield, US comedian, born Jacob Cohen |
| | Steven Hill, US actor best known on Law & Order |
| | Seth Green, US actor |
| | Serge Gainsbourg, French singer, songwriter |
| | Scarlett Johansson, US actress |
| | Susanna Hoffs, US member of band The Bangles |
| | Steve Lacy, US jazz musician |
| | Steve Lawrence, US singer |
| | Sarah Michelle Gellar, US actress |
| | Shia LeBoeuff, US actor |
| | Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare |
| | Sumner Redstone, US CEO of Viacom |
| | Soupy Sales, US comedian |
| | Shari Lewis, US actress, known as companion of Lambchop |
| | Sarah Silverman, US comedian, actor |
| | Shelley Winters US actress -Oscars for Diary of Anne Frank, (1959) and A Patch of Blue, (1965) |
| | Solomon Mikhoels, Russian Yiddish actor |
| | Shelly Manne, US jazz musician |
| | Sharon Osbourne, TV talkshow host, Reality Show alumni |
| | Sara Jessica Parker, US actress (Jewish mother) |
| | Sean Penn, US actor (Jewish father) |
| | Suzanne Pleshette, US actress |
| | Steve Ellman, US owner of the Phoenix Coyotes |
| | Sandy Nelson, US musician |
| | Steven Page, Canadian singer, guitarist for Barenaked Ladies |
| | Samuel Bronfman, Ukrainian-born Canadian founder of Seagrams Distilleries |
| | Shawn Green, US baseball player |
| | Sammy Davis Jr., US actor and performer (converted) |
| | Sergey Brin Russian-born US co-founder of Google |
| | Sacha Baron Cohen, British actor, known from Da Ali G Show |
| | Sandy Koufax, US baseball player |
| | Sid Luckman, US football player |
| | Steve Ballmer, US CEO of Microsoft (Jewish mother) |
| | Sid Caesar, US comedian |
| | Shel Silverstein, US songwriter |
| | Slash, British-born US rock musician (Jewish father) |
| | Steven Spielberg (DreamWorks SKG) |
| | Sam Goldwyn, (the "G" in MGM) |
| | Simone Signoret, French actress |
| | Sarah Silverman, US actress |
| | Sylvain Sylvain, Egyptian-born US rock musician, guitarist for the New York Dolls. |
| | Steven Spielberg, US director |
| | Steve Buscemi, US actor (converted to Scientology) |
| | Sydney Pollack, US director |
| | Sidney Lumet, US director |
| | Sandra Bernhard, US actress |
| | Sid James, British comedian |
| | Sophie Tucker, Russian-born US singer and entertainer |
| | Stanley Kubrick, US director |
| | Spike Jonze, US director |
| | Sam Fuller, US director and screenwriter |
| | Selma Blair, US actress |
| | Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet director of Aleksander Niefsky and Ivan the Terrible |
| | Shmuel Howard, US actor and comedian, Shemp of the Three Stooges |
| | Seth Cohen from US show The OC (Jewish father) |
| | Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and dancer |
| | Sammy Davis, Jr., US singer (converted to Judaism) |
| | Steve Guttenberg, US actor |
| | Ted Turner, Founder of CNN |
| | Tony Randall, US comedian, The Odd Couple |
| | Tony Curtis, US actor |
| | Traci Lords, US pornographic and mainstream actress (Jewish father) |
| | Theda Bara, US actress |
| | Theo Epstein, US General Manager of the Boston Red Sox |
| | Tracy Pollan, US actress |
| | Tina Louise, US actress |
| | Ted Lewis, US musician, entertainer |
| | Tom Lehrer, singer/songwriter |
| | Tevye, from Fiddler on the Roof |
| | Toby Ziegler, from the US drama "The West Wing". |
| | Tom Bosley, US actor |
| | Ted Koppel, US news anchor, ABC TV Nightline |
| | Tony Kornheiser, US columnist for the Washington Post, radio host, and televsion host |
| | Uri Geller, Israeli spoon bending magician |
| | Véra Korène, French actress and singer |
| | Vladimir Gusinsky, Russian billionaire |
| | Vladimir Lenin, leader of Russian Bolsheviks during Russian Revolution (maternal grandfather was Jewish) |
| | Wanda Wasilewska, Polish communist leader, alleged Stalin mistress and collaborator |
| | Willow Rosenberg, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| | Woody Allen, US actor, film director |
| | Werner Klemperer, German-born US actor, Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes (Jewish father) |
| | William Paley, US billionaire who built CBS |
| | Warren Zevon, US rock songwriter, singer |
| | Walter Matthau, US actor |
| | Wladyslaw Szpilman, Polish pianist, author of The Pianist |
| | Winona Ryder, US actress (Jewish father) |
| | Whoopie Goldberg US comedian |
| | Woody Allen, US comedian |
| | Walter Sobchak, from The Big Lebowski |
| | William Shatner, Canadian actor, known from Star Trek |
| | William Fox (Fox Film Corporation; 20th Century-Fox) |
| | Willie "The Lion" Smith, US pianist |
| | William Rosenberg, US founder of Dunkin Donuts |
| | Wandering Jew of Christian folklore |
| | Yaphet Kotto, US actor |
| | Yasmine Bleeth, US actress (Jewish father) |
| | Yehudi Menuhin, US-British violinist, conductor, educator |
| | Zeppo Marx, US vaudeville and film comic actor |
| | Zucker brothers,US parody directors |