Field
Law
38 figures, most prominent first.
Chuck Schumer
American politician
b. 1950
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court justice
1933 – 2020
Elena Kagan
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Stat
b. 1960
Stephen Breyer
US Supreme Court justice from 1994 to 2022
b. 1938
- AS
Adam Schiff
American politician
b. 1960
Isaac Herzog
president of Israel since 2021
b. 1960
- AB
Antony Blinken
American lawyer and diplomat and former United States Sec
b. 1962
Heinrich Heine
Germany's sharpest poet
1797 – 1856
Jerry Nadler
American politician and lawyer
b. 1947
Josh Shapiro
American politician
b. 1973
Ed Koch
former mayor of New York City
1924 – 2013
Louis Brandeis
American Supreme Court Justice
1856 – 1941
Ehud Olmert
Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009
b. 1945
- RB
Richard Blumenthal
United States Senator from Connecticut since 2011
b. 1946
Dan Goldman
American politician and attorney
b. 1976
Steve Cohen
American lawyer and politician
b. 1949
Bella Abzug
American politician
1920 – 1998
Felix Frankfurter
former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
1882 – 1965
Josh Gottheimer
American politician from New Jersey
b. 1975
- MK
Michael Kors
American fashion designer
b. 1959
Chaim Herzog
6th President of Israel –
1918 – 1997
Tzipi Livni
Israeli politician, former Israeli Foreign Minister and f
b. 1958
Benjamin N. Cardozo
United States federal judge
1870 – 1938
Doug Emhoff
Second Gentleman of the United States from 2021 to 2025
b. 1964
Arthur Goldberg
American lawyer, politician and civil servant
1908 – 1990
Ben Stein
American actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher
b. 1944
Jack Lew
American lawyer and diplomat
b. 1955
Richard Posner
United States federal judge
b. 1939
Ben Cardin
American lawyer and former politician
b. 1943
Abe Fortas
United States Supreme Court Justice
1910 – 1982
David Levy Yulee
American senator
1810 – 1886
Harold Abrahams
British sprinter
1899 – 1978
Robert Malley
American diplomat
b. c. 1963
William Kunstler
American lawyer and civil rights activist
1919 – 1995
Hans Kelsen
Austrian lawyer
1881 – 1973
René Cassin
French jurist
1887 – 1976
Laurence Steinhardt
American diplomat
1892 – 1950
Alfred Hermann Fried
Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist
1864 – 1921