List of British Jews 881548 225101203 2008-07-11T21:51:09Z FCYTravis 121384 Not Jewish? <!--PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY MORE NAMES TO THIS PAGE WITHOUT INCLUDING A CREDIBLE SOURCE FOR THE INFORMATION. SEE [[WIKIPEDIA:VERIFIABILITY]] AND [[WIKIPEDIA:NO ORIGINAL RESEARCH]], WHICH ARE POLICY. THE SOURCE MUST SAY THAT THE PERSON IS ACTUALLY JEWISH.--> '''List of British Jews''' is a list that includes [[Jew]]ish people from the [[United Kingdom]] and its [[predecessor states]]. Although the first Jews may have arrived on the island of [[Great Britain]] with the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]], it wasn't until the [[Norman Conquest]] of [[William the Conqueror]] in 1066 that organised Jewish communities first appeared in [[England]]. These existed until 1290 when the Jewish population of England was expelled by King [[Edward I of England]] due to [[anti-semitism]]. (Hence plays such as ''[[The Jew of Malta]]'' and ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', regarded by many as [[antisemitic]], were written when Jews did not live openly in England.) There was never a corresponding expulsion from [[Scotland]]. Indeed, the eminent Jewish-Scottish scholar [[David Daiches]] states in his autobiographical ''Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood'' that there are grounds for saying that Scotland is the only European country with no history of state persecution of Jews. Jews were re-admitted to England and [[Wales]] in 1656 by [[Oliver Cromwell]], and [[Jewish emancipation|emancipated]] in 1858. In the late 19th century there was mass Jewish [[immigration]] from [[Russia]] due to Russian domestic policy, and in the 1930s an influx of refugees from [[Nazism]]. The Jewish population peaked at 450,000, but has since declined due to low birth-rate, [[intermarriage]] and [[emigration]], mainly of the younger generation to [[Israel]]. According to the [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 census]], the current population is around 240,000, most of whom live in [[London]], though many experts{{fact|date=May 2008}} consider this an underestimate. The following is a list of some prominent British Jews. {{Jews by country}} ==Academic figures== <!--PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY MORE NAMES TO THIS PAGE WITHOUT INCLUDING A CREDIBLE SOURCE FOR THE INFORMATION. SEE [[WIKIPEDIA:VERIFIABILITY]] AND [[WIKIPEDIA:NO ORIGINAL RESEARCH]], WHICH ARE POLICY. THE SOURCE MUST SAY THAT THE PERSON IS ACTUALLY JEWISH.--> ===Economists=== ''See [[List of British Jewish scientists]]'' ===Historians=== <!--PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY MORE NAMES TO THIS PAGE WITHOUT INCLUDING A CREDIBLE SOURCE FOR THE INFORMATION. SEE [[WIKIPEDIA:VERIFIABILITY]] AND [[WIKIPEDIA:NO ORIGINAL RESEARCH]], WHICH ARE POLICY. THE SOURCE MUST SAY THAT THE PERSON IS ACTUALLY JEWISH.--> * [[David Abulafia]], Professor of history, University of Cambridge (JYB 2005 p218) * [[Geoffrey Alderman]],<ref>[http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1713557,00.html] "her father, Geoffrey Alderman, is a columnist for the Jewish Chronicle, and her family are strict Orthodox Jews" Accessed [[3 January]] [[2007]]</ref> historian * [[Richard Barnett]], museum curator and archaeologist (JYB 1985 p187) * [[Max Beloff, Lord Beloff]], historian ([[Encyclopaedia Judaica]], art. ''Historians'') * [[Norman Cohn]], historian (JYB 2005 p215) * [[Isaac Deutscher]] [http://www.deutscherprize.org.uk/Isaac%20&%20Tamara%20Deutscher.htm], historian * [[Geoffrey Rudolph Elton]] [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cgjs/1-2-2.html], historian * [[Samuel Finer]]<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "He was one of the many children of pre-1914 Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe who were to play such prominent roles in British economic, cultural, and political life."</ref> * Sir [[Moses I. Finley]],<ref>[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]], 2nd ed.</ref> historian and sociologist * [[Martin Gilbert|Sir Martin Gilbert]], historian * [[Ernst Gombrich|Sir Ernst Gombrich]] [http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/arts/story/0,9848,587946,00.html], art historian * [[Martin Goodman (historian)]] (JYB 2005 p215) * [[Philip Guedalla]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"</ref> biographer * [[Eric Hobsbawm]] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/05/njews105.xml], historian & communist theoretician * [[Jonathan Israel]], historian (JYB 2005 p215) * [[Joseph Jacobs]] [http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/jacobs.htm], editor of the [[Jewish Encyclopedia]] * [[Lisa Jardine]], historian: The Times; [[January 11]], [[1997]]; Tony Turnbull :"Born in Oxford, she had moved to Cheltenham at the age of five when her father, the polymath [[Jacob Bronowski]], author of Ascent of Man, took up a research post with the National Coal Board. So it was that this nice little Jewish family moved in to Cleeve Hill, a small village four miles from town." * [[Tony Judt]] [http://as.nyu.edu/object/tonyjudt.html] Director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at [[New York University]]. * [[Elie Kedourie]],<ref>[[Jewish Year Book]] 1990 p202</ref> historian and political scientist * [[Dorothy King]], archaeologist and historian * [[Otto Kurz]], historian (JYB 1975 p214) * [[Bernard Lewis]] [http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Bernard_Lewis_Unplugged.asp], historian * [[David Malcolm Lewis]], professor of history, [[University of Oxford]] (JYB 1995 p.193) * [[Hyam Maccoby]], professor of history [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040504/ai_n12778519] * [[Sir Philip Magnus, 1st Baronet]], educationalist and politician * [[Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet]],<ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Magnus"</ref> biographer * [[Shula Marks]], expert on African history (JYB 2005 p.215) * [[Arnaldo Momigliano]], professor of history, [[University College London]] (JYB 1985 p188) * [[Lewis Bernstein Namier]] [http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0834786.html], historian (converted to Anglicanism) * [[Francis Palgrave|Sir Francis Palgrave]] (born ''[[Cohen (surname)|Cohen]]'') (1768-1861) [http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-NuttallEncyclopaedia/p/palgravesirfrancis.html], UK historian * Sir [[Michael Postan]], historian (JYB 1985 p188) * [[Matthew Pendrill]], historian (University of Sheffield) * [[Cecil Roth]] [http://www.jhom.com/personalities/dona_gracia/roth.htm], historian and editor of the Encyclopedia Judaica * [[Simon Schama]] [http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/historian/Simon_Schama.html], historian * [[Leonard Schapiro]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born in Glasgow of an Anglophile Riga Jewish family"</ref> historian * [[Simon Sebag Montefiore]] [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400076789&view=qa], historian * [[Charles Singer]],<ref>[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]], art. Historians, list headed "Prominent Jewish General Historians"</ref> historian of science * [[Aurel Stein|Sir Aurel Stein]] [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0295977302], archeologist * [[Barry Supple]], British economic historian (Jewish Year Book, 2005, p.215) * [[Geza Vermes]] [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s47729.htm] :"Five years or so later, I decided to define publicly my identity as belonging to the Jewish community by becoming a member of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue." ===Medical=== <!--PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY MORE NAMES TO THIS PAGE WITHOUT INCLUDING A CREDIBLE SOURCE FOR THE INFORMATION. SEE [[WIKIPEDIA:VERIFIABILITY]] AND [[WIKIPEDIA:NO ORIGINAL RESEARCH]], WHICH ARE POLICY. THE SOURCE MUST SAY THAT THE PERSON IS ACTUALLY JEWISH.--> * Sir [[George Alberti]], President, [[Royal College of Physicians]]<ref>Jewish Chronicle, [[January 14]], [[2000]], p.14 "Knighthood goes to diabetes pioneer"</ref> * [[Asher Asher]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]</ref> first Scottish Jewish doctor * [[Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born of Jewish parents of Russian origin"</ref> President of the Royal Society of Medicine * [[Julius Dreschfeld]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born in Bavaria of Jewish parents"</ref> medical researcher * Sir [[Ian Gainsford]], dentist (JYB 2007 p.197, 222) * Sir [[Abraham Goldberg]], Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 1923-2007, Times Obituary, [[17 October]] [[2007]] * [[Max Hamilton]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "the son of Jewish parents"</ref> psychiatrist * [[Rodrigo Lopez (physician)]]<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "Jewish physician"</ref> * [[John Henry Marks]] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,200475,00.html Guardian, Saturday [[October 23]], [[1999]]], chairman of the [[British Medical Association]]. * Sir [[Jonathan Miller]] [http://www.granta.com/extracts/159], physician and theatre director * [[Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg]] [http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:Fr_qNxEwfMsJ:usajewish.com/scripts/usaj/paper/Article.asp%3FArticleID%3D787+%22Leslie+Turnberg%22+Jewish&hl=en], Professor: FMedSci * [[Oliver Zangwill]], Professor of psychology (JYB 1980 p182) * Sir Joseph Stone, [[Lord Stone]] of Hendon, Personal phyisician to Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] ===Philosophers=== * [[Samuel Alexander]] [http://www.art.man.ac.uk/RELTHEOL/JEWISH/EXHIBITION/11Alexander.html], professor of philosophy at Manchester, born in Australia, the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college * [[Alfred Ayer|Sir Alfred Ayer]] [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/terrnochangeEngl.html], philosopher, populariser of logical positivism (Jewish mother) * [[Isaiah Berlin|Sir Isaiah Berlin]] [http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/historian/Isaiah_Berlin.html], political philosopher * [[Max Black]],<ref>[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]], 2nd ed.</ref> philosopher * [[Gerald Cohen]], Oxford professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215) * [[Laurence Jonathan Cohen]], Oxford professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215) * [[Ernest Gellner]] [http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Gellner/CHann.html], philosopher, social scientist * [[H. L. A. Hart]] [http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927497-5?view=lawview], legal philosopher * [[Brian Klug]] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/05/njews105.xml], historian & communist theoretician * [[Stephan Korner]], Bristol professor of philosophy (JYB 2005 p215) * [[Imre Lakatos]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "the only child of Jacob Márton Lipsitz, a wine merchant, and Márgit Herczfeld, both Hungarian Jews"</ref> Hungarian-born philosopher * [[Karl Popper|Sir Karl Popper]] [http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/src/popper/part1.html], philosopher of science (family became Lutheran) * [[Richard Rudolf Walzer]] (JYB 1975 p214) * [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], philosopher; Evening Standard (London); 24/5/2004, p15 :"Born less than a week apart, Adolf Hitler and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein attended the institution together. There is a haunting school photograph of the young, complex, Jewish philosopher just one row away from the most politically-controversial of the 20th century." * [[Richard Wollheim]] [http://www.waywiser-press.com/wollheim.html] :"Wollheim was an outstanding representative of a generation of Central European Jewish intellectuals" ===Social scientists=== See [[List of British Jewish scientists]] ===Theologians and Hebraists=== * [[Isaac Abendana]],<ref>[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]] 1911: ABENDANA, the name of two Jewish theologians ... Jacob ... Isaac</ref> Hebraist * [[Chimen Abramsky]] [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/5049], Professor of Hebrew * [[Michael Solomon Alexander]], first Anglican bishop of Jerusalem (born Jewish; see [[Dictionary of National Biography]]) * [[Lionel Barnett]],<ref>Obituary, ''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'', [[February 5]], [[1960]], p.1</ref> orientalist * [[Abraham Benisch]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born of Jewish parents"</ref> Hebraist and editor of the ''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'' * [[Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch]],<ref>[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]], 1911 ed.</ref> Semitic scholar and orientalist * [[Alfred Edersheim]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born of Jewish parents at Vienna"</ref> Bible scholar * [[Philip Ferdinand]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: born in Poland of Jewish parents</ref> Professor of Hebrew * [[Christian David Ginsburg]],<ref>born Jewish; see [[Dictionary of National Biography]]</ref> expert on the [[Masoretic text]] * [[Ridley Haim Herschell]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born in Prussian Poland of Jewish parents"</ref> missionary * [[Marcus Kalisch]] [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Marcus_Kalisch], Hebraist and Biblical commentator * [[David Levi (scholar)|David Levi]],<ref>[[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "Jewish controversialist, born in London in 1740, was son of Mordecai Levi, a member of the London congregation of German and Polish Jews"</ref> Jewish scholar * [[David Samuel Margoliouth]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "an academically highly gifted boy of Jewish parentage"</ref> orientalist (family converted to Anglicanism) * [[Adolf Neubauer]],<ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=203&letter=N&search=Neubauer Jewish Encyclopedia article on Adolf Neubauer]</ref> Hebraist * [[Stefan Reif]] [http://www.mucjs.org/jhrylands.htm], Cambridge academic * [[Judah Segal]], professor of Semitic languages (JYB 2005 p215) * [[Joseph Wolff]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born of Jewish parents"</ref> missionary ==Artists== ===Fine arts=== * [[Frank Auerbach]] [http://www.artguide.org/uk/AG.pl?Action=15163A&Axis=AllArtists], painter * [[David Bomberg]] [http://www.modernbritishartists.co.uk/bomberg_biog.htm], painter * Sir [[Anthony Caro]] [http://www.kunst.wuerth.com/en/kh/kh-caro1.html], sculptor<ref>[http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1384783,00.html Guardian Books]</ref> * [[Benno Elkan]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born at Dortmund of Jewish parentage"</ref> sculptor * Sir [[Jacob Epstein]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]], cited at [http://blog.oup.com/oupblog/2006/11/lives_across_th.html OUP web site]</ref> sculptor (UK-based) * [[Hannah Frank]] [http://www.hannahfrank.org.uk/], artist & sculptor * [[Barnett Freedman]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "son of East-End Russian Jewish immigrants"</ref> artist * [[Lucian Freud]] [http://www.leninimports.com/lucian_freud_bio.html], painter * [[Abram Games]]<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "As a Jew, Games worked for the Jewish relief unit and for many Jewish and Israeli organizations"</ref> * [[Mark Gertler]] [http://web311.pavilion.net/ARTgertler.htm], painter * [[Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein)]] [http://www.glbtq.com/arts/gluck.html], artist * [[Walter Goodman]],<ref>Obituary, ''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'' [[August 30]], [[1912]], p16</ref> painter * [[Solomon Alexander Hart]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "Hart was an observant Jew."</ref> painter * [[Anish Kapoor]] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,950561,00.html], sculptor (Jewish mother) * [[R. B. Kitaj]], US-born painter<ref>''[[The Guardian]]'', [[6 February]] [[2002]], p6: Letter from Kitaj: "London's four leading Jewish painters, including me"; Listed as a British painter in Hutchinson's Encyclopedia of Britain, 2005</ref> * [[Jacob Kramer]],<ref>H. Read, S. Thorndike, and others, Jacob Kramer: a memorial volume (1969)</ref> painter * [[Lennie Lee]] [http://www.lennielee.com/index2.html], [[Young British Artist]]/mixed media * [[Linda McCartney]] [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/mcCartneystella.html], photographer * [[Ruth Rix]] [http://my.name-services.com/76905/page99.htm], painter * Sir [[William Rothenstein]] [http://www.chrisbeetles.com/pictures/artists/Rothenstein_William/Rothenstein_William.htm] * [[Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon]] <ref>[http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m10&AId=60757&ATypeId=1 Jewish Chronicle], "Lord Snowdon is indeed Jewish ... Snowdon does not need to be any more Jewish. Halachically, the Lubavitcher rebbe was no more haimishe than he is.</ref> * [[Isaac Snowman]] [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=305&letter=P], painter * [[Solomon Joseph Solomon]] [http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Solo_SJ.htm], painter * [[Tolleck Winner]], mixed media * [[Alfred Wolmark]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born of Jewish parents in Warsaw; naturalized, 1894"</ref> painter ===Designers and Architects=== * [[Nicole Farhi]] [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/1948/396_via.htm], fashion designer * [[John Frieda]] [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316861693], hair-stylist; father of actor [[Jordan Frieda]] *[[Ray Kelvin]] [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,851194,00.html], fashion designer, founder of [[Ted Baker]] * [[Denys Lasdun]],<ref>[http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/filterarchive.html?date=2003-12 Comment by his son James Lasdun]: "He was English but not really, being Jewish": accessed [[6 May]] [[2007]]</ref> architect * [[Stella McCartney]],<ref>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/mcCartneystella.html Jewish Virtual Library]: "Maybe I'm a really bad Jew because I'm always so excited to say that I am, but I don't live and breathe the religion.": accessed [[6 May]] [[2007]]</ref> fashion designer * [[Erich Mendelsohn]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born in East Prussia of German-Jewish parents</ref> architect * [[Janet Reger]] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4349445.stm], lingerie designer * [[Vidal Sassoon]] [http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-07-07-vidal_x.htm], hair stylist * [[Richard Seifert]] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,582430,00.html], architect ==Arts and literature== * Sir [[Israel Gollancz]] [http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Cohen/gencul.html], [[Shakespeare]] expert * Sir [[Ernst Gombrich]] [http://www.jewishbookweek.com/2006/010306f.php], art historian (JYB 2000 p211) * Sir [[Sidney Lee]] [http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Cohen/gencul.html], editor of the [[Dictionary of National Biography]] and [[Shakespeare]] expert * [[Siegbert Salomon Prawer]], professor of German (JYB 2005 p215) * Sir [[Nicholas Serota]], Director of the [[Tate Gallery]], 1987-<ref>''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'', [[8 January]] [[1999]], p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank."</ref> * [[Ernest Simon]], professor of Chinese (JYB 1980 p183) * [[Arthur Waley]] [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=134981118421565], Chinese and Japanese literature :"Waley, born Arthur David Schloss, was a member of an elite Anglo-Jewish family" ===Musicians=== See [[List of British Jewish entertainers]] ===Writers=== See [[List of British Jewish writers]] ==Business and the professions== ===Civil service=== * [[Abraham Manie Adelstein]], Government statistician<ref>article in Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]</ref> * [[Michael Baxter]], Government statistician<ref>Who's Who in the World, 18th ed (2001) p.163: "Religion: Jewish"</ref> * Sir [[Hermann Bondi]] [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2005/09/13/db1301.xml], Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Energy *Sir [[Andrew Cohen (statesman)|Andrew Cohen]],<ref>[[Jewish Chronicle]], [[June 21]], [[1968]] Page:46</ref> colonial administrator * [[Eugene Grebenik]] [http://www.ehrcweb.org/jobs/Press-Eugene-Grebenik-17668.htm], first head of the Civil Service College * [[Hans Kronberger (physicist)]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born in Linz, Austria, of Jewish parents"</ref> nuclear physicist * Sir [[Alan Marre]] [http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/Vol_92__1992.pdf], Second Permanent Secretary, Health; later Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration * Sir [[Claus Moser]] [http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/entertainment/previewsandreviews/content_objectid=13939784_method=full_siteid=50061_page=5_headline=-A-brush-withour-darkest-hour-name_page.html], Lord Moser, Government Statistician ===Finance=== * Sir [[Ernest Cassel]],<ref>K. Grunwald, ‘Windsor Cassel: the last court Jew’, Yearbook of the [[Leo Baeck]] Institute, 14 (1969), 119–61</ref> banker * [[Sir Ronald Cohen]][http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1452226,00.html], Egypt-born businessman and Labour party supporter * [[Moses da Costa]], also called Anthony da Costa; ''[[Jewish Encyclopedia]]'' IV p. 289 *[[Goldsmid|Abraham and Benjamin Goldsmid]] [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=322&letter=G], brothers, leading financiers and philanthropists *Sir [[Isaac Lyon Goldsmid]] [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037280], financier, a leading figure in Jewish emancipation and in the foundation of [[University College London]]. * [[Dudley Joel]],<ref>Jewish Chronicle [[July 25]], [[1941]], p.12, "Jews in the Navy"</ref> financier * [[Solomon Joel]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "a devout Jew"</ref> financier * [[Peter Keith Levene]], chairman of Lloyds of London, Lord Mayor of London (1998-1999) (JYB 2005 212) * [[Henry Daniel Jackson]], founder of [[Merchant Equity Partners]], which owns [[MFI]] and [http://www.but.fr But] * [[Aaron of Lincoln]] [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=66&letter=A], 12th century financier * [[Moses Haim Montefiore]] [http://82.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MO/MONTEFIORE_SIR_MOSES_HAIM.htm], financier & philanthropist * [[Michael Moritz]] [http://www.sequoiacap.com/perspective/articles/google_banker.html], venture capitalist * [[N M Rothschild & Sons]] ** [[Nathan Mayer Rothschild]] [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576222/Rothschild_House_of.html], financier & banker * [[Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling]] [http://www.montaguemillennium.com/familyresearch/h_1911_samuel.htm] * [[Joseph Salvador]] [http://www.shpltd.co.uk/rousseau-jewofcrancourt.pdf], first Jewish director of the [[British East India Company]] * [[Baron Swaythling|Barons Swaythling]] [http://www.heraldica.org/topics/jewish.htm], bankers ===Law=== * [[John Balcombe|Sir John Balcombe]], Lord Justice of Appeal (The Guardian (Manchester); 04/07/00; Sir Maurice Drake; p. 20) * [[Judah P. Benjamin]], American exile, lawyer<ref>(Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born of Jewish parents of English nationality"</ref> * [[Herbert Bentwich]],<ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/021209fa_fact New Yorker magazine] "My great-grandfather Herbert Bentwich, a lawyer from a prominent English Jewish family" Accessed [[21 November]] [[2006]].</ref> lawyer and Zionist leader * [[Norman Bentwich]],<ref>[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]], art. Bentwich</ref> lawyer and Attorney-General of Palestine; son of Herbert Bentwich * His Honour [[Gerald Butler]], [[Queen's Counsel|Q.C.]], judge (The Times (London); 13/06/00; Frances Gibb; p. Law. 3) * [[Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew]], Liberal Democrats: ''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'' :5/7/1996 p7: "The Liberal Democrats' sole Jewish MP, Alex Carlile" :25/6/1999 p10: "Alex Carlile is on his way back to Westminster as one of four Jews among the 36 working peers" * [[Arthur Cohen]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "first professing Jew to graduate at Cambridge"</ref> QC and politician * [[Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen]],<ref>[[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "Another area to which Cohen gave time and devotion was that of Jewish culture and charity. He had been brought up in the Orthodox tradition, and came to take the Reformed and Liberal positions."</ref> Lord of Appeal * [[Myrella Cohen]] [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article822650.ece], prominent Judge, QC and agunah campaigner * Sir [[Lawrence Collins]],<ref>''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'', [[January 12]], [[2007]] p.15: article "People: Who is up to what in the Jewish world this week"</ref> appeal court judge * [[Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove]] [http://www.culham.ac.uk/tvr/Feature/f980917_rh.html], Scottish [[Queen's Counsel]] and sheriff * [[David Daube]], Professor of Law (JYB 1995, p193) * Sir [[Morris Finer]], judge * Dame [[Hazel Genn]] (JYB 2005 p215) * Sir [[Goldsmid|Francis Henry Goldsmid]] [http://www.rothschildarchive.org/ib/?doc=/ib/articles/BW3bGoldsmid], MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister ([[Queen's Counsel|Q.C.]] 1858) * Sir [[David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons]] [http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/salomons-museum/tree/d-lionel-salomons.asp], barrister * [[Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith]] [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1100147299159&p=1006953080001], [http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=11674035&method=full&siteid=50061], [[Attorney General]] * [[Arthur Lehman Goodhart]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born in New York of wealthy Jewish parents"</ref> jurist * [[William Goodhart]], Lord Goodhart;<ref>Flade, Ronald. The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History, 2nd Enlarged Ed., 1999; reviewed by the [http://www.ajhs.org/about/Newsletter/2003_spring/AJHS_newsletter_spring_03.pdf?bcsi_scan_22F071C7F07ABBC7=0&bcsi_scan_filename=AJHS_newsletter_spring_03.pdf American Jewish Historical Society]. Accessed [[14 November]] [[2006]].</ref> human rights lawyer and politician (son of Arthur Goodhart) * [[Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman]] [http://www.liberaljudaism.org/education_anglo_jewry.htm], solicitor * [[Brian Green]] [http://www.halfjew.com/html/october/4_being.html] [[Queen's Counsel|Q.C.]] * [[Alexis Grower]], Prominent Entertainment Lawyer, Magrath & Co, London * [[Rose Heilbron|Dame Rose Heilbron]] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1665683,00.html], Britain's first female [[Queen's Counsel|Q.C.]], judge * [[Rosalyn Higgins]], President of the [[International Court of Justice]]<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/06/nlaw06.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/06/ixhome.html]"Was it any more difficult for her to be so critical in the Israel case because she is Jewish? "I don't think so," she says, stressing that she judged the case as an international lawyer and not because of her background. "I also think that the fact you happen to be Jewish doesn't mean you think that everything the State of Israel does is right." When the Foreign Office put her name forward for election to the court, there were fears that some countries in the UN would not vote for a Jewish woman. She dismisses such concerns. "I don't think I have ever been perceived as Rosalyn Higgins, the Jewish international lawyer - and I hope not Rosalyn Higgins, the woman international lawyer."</ref> * [[Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading]] [http://www.heraldica.org/topics/jewish.htm], lawyer and politician * [[George Jessel (jurist)|Sir George Jessel]] [http://24.1911encyclopedia.org/J/JE/JESSEL_SIR_GEORGE.htm], [[Solicitor General for England and Wales]], later [[Master of the Rolls]] * [[Anthony Julius]] [http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/05/13/reviews/010513.13wheatct.html], prominent Lawyer for [[Princess Diana]], and against [[David Irving]]. * Sir [[Otto Kahn-Freund]], Professor of Law ([[Dictionary of National Biography]]) * [[Neville Laski]] [http://www.art.man.ac.uk/RELTHEOL/JEWISH/EXHIBITION/16zion1930s.html], judge * [[Hersch Lauterpacht]] [http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol8/No2/art6.html] * [[Leone Levi]], barrister and statistician: [[Jewish Encyclopedia]], VIII, 34 * [[George Henry Lewis]] [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E6DD1239F93BA25750C0A962948260], solicitor * [[Gavin Lightman]] [http://www.cjc.org.uk/people.officers.html], judge; son of Harold Lightman * [[Harold Lightman]], barrister, father of [[Gavin Lightman]] and [[Stafford Lightman]] :Obituary: Harold Lightman; The Independent; [[November 18]], [[1998]]; John Balcombe; p. 6; "Lightman was disadvantaged in his early legal career by the fact that he had not been to university and was Jewish." * [[Alan Mocatta]] [http://www.trivia-library.com/a/templeton-foundation-prize-for-religious-progress-history-and-award-winners.htm]: "Sir Alan Mocatta, Jewish" * [[Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon]] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1697708,00.html], solicitor. * [[David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury]], Lord of Appeal; son of [[Albert Neuberger]], brother of [[James Neuberger]] and [[Michael Neuberger]], and brother-in-law of [[Julia Neuberger]] (''Jewish Year Book'' 2005:212 & 214) * [[David Pearl]],<ref>Son of Rabbi Chaim Pearl: see [[Who's Who (UK)]]</ref> judge * [[Bernard Rix|Sir Bernard Rix]], Lord Justice of Appeal (2000-) (JYB 2005:212 & 214) * [[Leonard Sainer]] [https://www.jewishcare.org/news/?disp_feature=DPUFgl], solicitor and retailer * [[Fiona Shackleton]] Solicitor who has acted for the Royal Family and Paul McCartney<ref>"The Guardian Profile", ''[[The Guardian]]'', [[February 15]], [[2008]], pg.21</ref> * [[Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin]],<ref>[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]] 1st ed, vol 14 cols 1539-1540</ref> solicitor * [[Linda Joy Stern]] [[Queen's Counsel|Q.C.]], prosecutor and judge (''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'' 15/9/06 p31: death notices) * [[Julius Stone]] [http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/jurisprudence/juliusstone.shtml] *[[Eldred Tabachnik]], [[Queen's Counsel|Q.C.]], former president of the [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/619244.stm]. * [[Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth]] [http://www.jewishdutchess.org/recipes_books/book_review.php3], [[Queen's Counsel|Q.C.]], former [[Lord Chief Justice]] * [[Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf]] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2669719.stm], former [[Lord Chief Justice]], [[Queen's Counsel|Q.C.]], former [[Master of the Rolls]] * Jonathan Winegarten, Master, Probate Division ===Manufacturing=== * Sir [[Leon Bagrit]] [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940215,00.html?promoid=googlep Time Magazine], pioneer of automation * Sir [[Monty Finniston]], industrialist (JYB 1977 p206-7) * [[David Gestetner]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "He was a devout Jew"</ref> inventor * [[Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan]] [http://www.ajr.org.uk/pastjournal61.htm] clothes manufacturer and disgraced friend of Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]].<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "His parents were Orthodox Jews"</ref> * Sir [[Emmanuel Kaye]],<ref>The Times, [[April 14]], [[1998]], p.1: "the Jewish philanthropist Sir Emmanuel Kaye"</ref> industrialist and philanthropist * Sir [[Robert Waley-Cohen]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "leading figure in Anglo-Jewry"</ref> industrialist * [[Arnold Weinstock]], Lord Weinstock, Chairman of GEC - JYB 2002, p211 ===Media=== * [[Rachel Beer]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]</ref> newspaper editor * [[Sidney Bernstein]],<ref>[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]], 2nd ed</ref> cinema owner *[[Benjamin Cohen (British journalist)|Benjamin Cohen]] [http://www.channel4.com/news/about_us/meet-the-team/benjamin-cohen.html], [[Channel 4 News]] reporter and presenter * [[Richard Desmond]] [http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/859_sj_super_7.htm], publisher, Chairman of the [[Daily Express]] Group * [[Andre Deutsch]] [http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,158496,00.html] * [[Lew Grade]] [http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/crguide/vcp.html], founder of [[Associated TeleVision|ATV]] * [[Michael Grade]] [http://www.itvplc.com/itv/news/releases/pr2006/2006-11-28/], Chairman of [[ITV]] * [[Michael Green]] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3206880.stm], founder of [[Carlton Television]] * [[Sydney Jacobson]], newspaper editor<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple"</ref> * [[Joseph Moses Levy]] [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9048000], owner of the [[Daily Telegraph]] * [[Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham]] [http://books.google.com/books?id=NagdhSUgB9oC&pg=PA356&lpg=PA356&dq=%22edward+levy+lawson%22+jewish&source=web&ots=BMO6L_MzJA&sig=P3EZkn3LWLlAI6AWO9Rmw1Y5jxQ], newspaper proprietor * [[Robert Maxwell]] [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786710780], publisher * [[Suzy Menkes]] [http://www.booknoise.net/johnseabrook/stories/design/menkes/index.html], fashion journalist * [[Paul Reuter]] [http://www.ejpress.org/article/in_depth/on_anglo_jewry/3810], founder of [[Reuters]] * [[Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild]], Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of the Board, British SKY Broadcasting Group PLC<ref>The Times (London); [[December 3]], [[1992]]; Ruth Gledhill:'Lord Rothschild, who is head of the English branch of the Rothschild family, says: "I would not like to disguise that I am first and foremost a secular Jew."'</ref> * [[Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi]] & [[Charles Saatchi]] [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1559703636], founders of [[Saatchi and Saatchi]] * [[Martin Sorrell]] [http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/553_top_jewish_earners.htm], founder of the [[WPP Group]] * [[Iain Wareing]], Radio Broadcaster * [[George Weidenfeld]] [http://www.ajr.org.uk/exhibit.htm], publisher ===Military=== * [[Frank Alexander de Pass]] [http://www.sephardim.com/html/lore.html], [[World War I|WWI]] [[British Indian Army]] Victoria Cross recipient * [[John Edwards (sailor)|John Edwards]], sailor at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] (The Independent (London); 02/11/05; Martin Sugarman; p. 34) * [[Robert Gee]] [http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/jewish/service/service.htm], WWI British Army Victoria Cross recipient * [[Albert Goldsmid]] [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=322&letter=G#1091], colonel * [[Goldsmid|Frederick John Goldsmid]] [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=322&letter=G#1107], general * [[Thomas William Gould]] [http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:fqT0Pvw_wVUJ:www.dictionaryofeverything.com/explore/947/Thomas_William_Gould.html+%22Thomas+William+Gould%22+Jewish&hl=en], WWII [[Royal Navy]] Victoria Cross recipient * [[John Patrick Kenneally]] [http://www.mishalov.com/Kenneally.html], WWII British Army Victoria Cross recipient (Jewish father) * [[Issy Smith]] [http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:hKEcbdSjg2sJ:au.geocities.com/digger_history_youngest_vc/pages/smith-vc.htm+%22Issy+Smith%22+Jewish&hl=en], WWI [[British Army]] Victoria Cross recipient * [[Jack White VC|Jack White]], WWI British Army Victoria Cross recipient (JYB 2005 p215) ===Property=== * [[Jack Cotton]],<ref>[[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "Cotton was a highly respected member of the Jewish community in Birmingham, of whose main synagogue he had been vice-president and treasurer"</ref> property developer * [[Lewis Hammerson]], Founder Hammerson Property Group * [[Peter Rachman]], London landlord * Arnold Silverstone [[Lord Ashdown of Chelwood]], Property developer built Ashdown House on Victoria Street, London ===Retail=== * [[David Alliance, Baron Alliance]], businessman & Liberal Democrat politician (JYB 2005 212) * Sir [[Victor Blank]],<ref>''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'', [[8 January]] [[1999]], p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank."</ref> Chairman of [[GUS (retailer)|GUS]] * Sir [[Montague Burton]], retailer<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born in Lithuania of Jewish parentage"</ref> * Sir [[Charles Clore]] [http://www.chox.org.uk/generic/default.asp?pageid=84], owner of [[Selfridges]] * [[Jack Cohen (Tesco)|Jack Cohen]] [http://www.mytowerhamlets.co.uk/towerhamlets/celebs&gossip-jack_cohen.htm], founder of [[Tesco]] * [[Ralph Gold|Ralph]] and [[David Gold]], founders of [[Ann Summers]] and co-owners of [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]] football club (Financial Times (London); 13/07/04; Jonathon Guthrie; p. 15) * Sir [[Philip Green]] [http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1008_green_donation.htm], owner of [[Bhs]], [[Arcadia Group]] * [[Irene Howard]], English costume designer and sister of actor [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]]. * [[Stanley Kalms]] [http://www.jpr.org.uk/Press_releases/Kalms_Leigh.htm], now '''Baron Kalms of Edgware''', life president of [[Dixons Group PLC]]. * [[Bernard Lewis (entrepreneur)|Bernard Lewis]],<ref>''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'', [[April 24]], [[1998]], p.7: "one Jewish businessman on the up is fashion and property man Bernard Lewis"</ref> founder of [[River Island]] * [[David Lewis (English merchant)|David Lewis]] [http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/archive/index.php/index.php?t-1238.html], department store founder * [[Michael Marks]] [http://www.bh.org.il/NAMES/POW/Marks.asp], co-founder of [[Marks & Spencer]] (born in Poland) * [[Simon Marks]] [http://www.liberaljudaism.org/education_anglo_jewry.htm], chairman of [[Marks & Spencer]] * [[Gerald Ronson]] [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1268356,00.html], business [[tycoon]] and [[philanthropist]]. * [[Marcus Samuel]], founder of [[Royal Dutch Shell|the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company]] (Birmingham Post (Birmingham); 08/11/03; Chris Upton; p. 44) * [[Israel Sieff]] [http://www.liberaljudaism.org/education_anglo_jewry.htm], chairman of [[Marks & Spencer]] * [[Sir]] [[Alan Sugar]] [http://www.totallyjewish.com/entertainment/TJ_gold/?content_id=301], founder of [[Amstrad]] * [[Isaac Wolfson]] [http://act.org.nz/news-article.aspx?id=24112], founder of [[GUS (retailer)|GUS plc]] & philanthropist ===Scientists=== See [[List of British Jewish scientists]] ==Police== * [[Henry Solomon]] [http://www.sussex.police.uk/about_us/aboutus_museum.asp] [http://www.buses.co.uk/history/fleethist/633hs.htm] [http://www.gmjpa.org.uk] Chief Constable of Brighton Borough 1838 to 1844 ==Political figures== <!--PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY MORE NAMES TO THIS PAGE WITHOUT INCLUDING A RELIABLE SOURCE FOR THE INFORMATION. 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THE SOURCE MUST SAY THAT THE PERSON IS ACTUALLY JEWISH.--> ''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 * [[Jon Benjamin (Jewish leader)|Jon Benjamin]], Chief Executive, [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]] * [[Lionel Blue]], Reform rabbi and broadcaster * [[Levi Brackman]], Rabbi * [[Jonathan Kellystienowitz]], Rabbi of KCECH and 525 * [[Israel Brodie|Sir Israel Brodie]], Chief Rabbi * [[Felix Carlebach]], German born Rabbi * [[Isidore Epstein]], Rabbi, Principal of Jews' College * [[Moses Gaster]], [[Haham]] of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews * [[Hermann Gollancz|Sir Hermann Gollancz]], Rabbi and educator * [[Aaron Hart]], Chief Rabbi [http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/HART%2C_AARON_%28Jewish_Encyclopedia%29] * [[Joseph H. Hertz]], Chief Rabbi * [[Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman]], Rabbi and dayan * [[Solomon Hirschell]], Chief Rabbi * [[Moses Hyamson]], acting Chief Rabbi * [[Louis Jacobs]], Rabbi and educator * [[Immanuel Jakobovits|Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits]], Chief Rabbi * [[Casriel Dovid Kaplin]], rabbi and dayan * [[James Kennard]], Rabbi and Educationalist * [[Hart Lyon]], Chief Rabbi * [[Carly McKenzie]] [http://www.manchesterjewishstudents.com/about_us.mjs], One of founding members of the Byachad Movement and Campaigner * [[Frederick de Sola Mendes]], rabbi * [[Ewen Montagu]], President of the [[United Synagogue]] * [[Claude Montefiore]], Lay synagogue leader * [[Julia Neuberger]], Reform Rabbi * [[David Nieto]], [[Haham]] of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews * [[Isaac Nieto]], Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews * [[Michael Plaskow]], Minister * Sir [[Anthony Rothschild]], first president of the [[United Synagogue]] * [[Jonathan Sacks|Sir Jonathan Sacks]], Chief Rabbi * [[Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick]], rabbi * [[Simeon Singer]], Rabbi * [[Andrew Shaw]], Rabbi * [[Simon Waley Waley]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "a leading member of the London Jews"</ref> Lay leader * [[Chaim Weizmann]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "naturalised British subject, 1910"</ref> Zionist leader ==Showbusiness== See [[List of British Jewish entertainers]] ==Sports== * [[Harold Abrahams]] [http://the-internet-eye.com/r-404274/m-VHS/b-169798/a-6300271498/Default.aspx], gold medalist sprinter at the [[1924 Olympics]] who was immortalized in the film ''Chariots of Fire'' * Sir [[Sidney Abrahams]], [http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=318] Olympic long-jumper, colonial judge. * [[Tony Bullimore]],<ref>"Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", ''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'' [[January 24]], [[1997]] p.1</ref> yachtsman * [[Ludwig Guttmann]] [http://www.jewishsports.net/historical_view.htm], founder of the [[Paralympics]] * Sir [[Stirling Moss]], racing driver (Jewish father) (The Sunday Telegraph (London); 20/03/05; Nicholas Bagnall; p. 012) * [[David Pleat]], former football manager [http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=soccer&ID=128] * [[Fred Trueman]], cricketer (Jewish ancestry) (''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'' [[July 7]], [[2006]] p40: "T'fastest Jewish bowler ever") * [[Sheila van Damm]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "Sheila's upbringing in an all-girl Jewish family generated no interest in motoring beyond her training as a Women's Auxiliary Air Force driver."</ref> rally driver * [[Barry Silkman]], Footballer and Agent ===Boxing=== * [[Jackie Kid Berg]] [http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/JackieBerg.htm], Junior Welterweight Champion (IBHOF) * [[Roman Greenberg]],<ref>[http://www.secondsout.com/romangreenberg/previousnews.cfm Roman Greenberg site] "the first Jewish world heavyweight champion in more than a quarter-century" [http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=77065 Boxrec site] "Hometown Finchley, England". Both accessed [[12 November]] [[2006]].</ref> IBO intercontinental heavyweight champion * [[Ted "Kid" Lewis]] (Gershon Mendeloff),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsports.net/biopages/TedLewis.htm|title=Ted “Kid” Lewis(Gershon Mendeloff)|publisher=www.jewishsports.net|accessdate=2008-05-09|last=|first=}}</ref> world welterweight champion 1915-6, 1917-9 * [[Daniel Mendoza]] [http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/DanielMendoza.htm], 18th century Heavyweight Champion (IBHOF), ancestor of actor [[Peter Sellers]] and Mike Mendoza (talksport) Radio & Television Presenter ===Chess=== * [[Gerald Abrahams]] [http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=120], British chess player * [[Harry Golombek]] [http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html], British chess player * [[Isidor Gunsberg]] [http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html], Hungarian/British chess player * [[William Hartston]] [http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html], British chess player * [[Bernhard Horwitz]] [http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html], German/British chess player * [[Johann Löwenthal]] [http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html], Hungarian/British chess player * [[Jonathan Mestel]] [http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html], British chess player * [[Jacques Mieses]] [http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html], German/British chess player * [[Jon Speelman]] [http://jewish-books.net/findBy_AuthName/find_Speelman_chess.html], British chess player * [[Michael Stean]] [http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html], British chess player * [[Johannes Zukertort]] [http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html], Polish/German chess player == Socialites == * [[Barbara Amiel|The Right Honourable Lady Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel, Baroness Black of Crossharbour]] == Philanthropists == * [[Bernhard Baron]], cigarette maker and philanthropist [http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/Brightonh.htm] * Sir [[Clive Bourne]],<ref>''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'', obituary, [[January 19]], [[2007]] p.45</ref> philanthropist * [[Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank]]<ref>[http://www.jewishbookweek.com/2007/250207i.php]: "Lord Duveen and many other Jewish intellectuals"</ref> * Dame [[Vivien Duffield]], philanthropist, daughter of Sir [[Charles Clore]] (JYB 2005 p214) * [[Anna Maria Goldsmid]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "Born an Orthodox Jew, in her religious practices Anna Maria remained throughout her life very observant"</ref> philanthropist * Sir [[Basil Henriques]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born into old, established Jewish family"</ref> philanthropist * [[Maurice de Hirsch]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "His grandfather Jacob had established the family as one of the first Jewish families to acquire great wealth and social acceptability in Bavaria ... His mother came from an Orthodox Frankfurt family and ensured that the children were properly instructed in Jewish matters ... he thereafter lived more in London than in Paris."</ref> banker and philanthropist * [[Samuel Lewis (financier)|Samuel Lewis]] [http://www.tymsder.co.uk/lender.htm], moneylender and philanthropist * Sir [[Robert Mayer]] [http://ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1987_7_WestEurope.pdf], philanthropist * [[Frederic David Mocatta]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "Jewish philanthropist"</ref> philanthropist ==Miscellaneous== * [[Barney Barnato]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]</ref> diamond miner * [[Jack Beddington]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "His family were Jewish" </ref> advertising executive * [[Antonio Fernandez Carvajal]],<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]</ref> merchant, first Jew to be naturalised as a British citizen * [[Jeremiah Duggan]]<ref>'''The Press''', Hendon and Finchley Edition, [[16 November]] [[2006]], p.4: "Student Jeremiah, who was Jewish"</ref> Possible murder victim * [[Lewis Elton]] [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cgjs/1-2-2.html], educationalist * [[Stuart Paton]], Famous for his likeness to [[Jimmy Neutron]]. * [[Alexander Goldberg]],<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/biographies.shtml]; ''[[The Irish Times]]'', Wednesday, [[January 7]], [[1998]]: "Ireland's Young Bloomers"</ref> human rights activist, chaplain and barrister * [[Goldsmid|Henry Edward Goldsmid]] [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=322&letter=G#1107], East India Company servant * [[Kurt Hahn]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "born in Berlin of Jewish parents"</ref> educationalist * [[Nathaniel Isaacs]],[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=256&letter=I&search=ISAACS,%20NATHANIEL] explorer * [[Nigella Lawson]] [http://cowo.culham.ac.uk/assemblies/023s_way.php], Cookery writer * [[Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner]] (1840-1899), educationist and orientalist<ref>Oxford [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "registered with the Jewish community of Pest"; [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=169&letter=L&search=Leitner Jewish Encyclopedia]</ref> * [[Roger Lyons]] Trade Union leader * Sir [[Solomon de Medina]] [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=328&letter=M], army contractor, first English Jew to be knighted * [[Chava Mond]], [http://www.eonline.co.il/content.asp?id=14439&sid=7] model * [[Don Pacifico]],<ref>Concise [[Dictionary of National Biography]]: "a Portuguese Jew, but born a British subject"</ref> cause of the [[Pacifico incident]] * [[Jordan (Katie Price)]], model<ref>''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'', [[24 November]] [[2006]], p.1: "Ms Price, who is halachically Jewish"</ref> * [[Krystyna Skarbek]],<ref>[http://www.lire.fr/critique.asp/idC=39075/idR=217/idG=4 Lire: le magazine littéraire]: "la comtesse Krystyna Skarbek, une aristocrate juive"</ref> spy * Sir [[Bernard Waley-Cohen]] [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V38I4P62-1.htm], Lord Mayor of London ==References== ===Footnotes=== {{reflist}} ==Bibliography== *Celmins, Martin. ''Peter Green: The Authorized Biography''. London: Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd.; 3rd edition, 2003. Pp. 23-32. * JYB = [[Jewish Year Book]] (annual) * "Obituary: Sir Edward Sassoon". ''The Times'', Saturday, [[May 25]], [[1912]]; pg. 11; Issue 39908; col C. * TimesAd: ''[[The Times]]'', 6/7/06 p34: "A Call by Jews in Britain" (advert signed by 300 British Jews) * David S. Katz, The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). xvi, 447 pp. ==See also== *[[History of the Jews in England]] *[[History of the Jews in Scotland]] *[[History of the Jews in Ireland]] *[[Lists of Jews]] *[[List of Britons]] [[Category:Lists of British Jews| ]] [[Category:English Jews| ]] [[Category:Lists of people by ethnicity]]