Field
Politics & Leadership
214 figures, most prominent first.
Bernie Sanders
United States Senator from Vermont
b. 1941
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher
1818 – 1883
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
president of Ukraine
b. 1978
Henry Kissinger
American statesman, endlessly disputed
1923 – 2023
Chuck Schumer
American politician
b. 1950
Michael Bloomberg
American businessman and politician; 108th Mayor of New Y
b. 1942
Yitzhak Rabin
signed Oslo; assassinated for it
1922 – 1995
Ed Miliband
British politician
b. 1969
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George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist
b. 1930
Benjamin Disraeli
British statesman
1804 – 1881
David Ben-Gurion
first prime minister of Israel
1886 – 1973
Hannah Arendt
on totalitarianism and evil
1906 – 1975
Rahm Emanuel
American politician
b. 1959
Shimon Peres
Israeli president who changed his mind
1923 – 2016
Stephen Breyer
US Supreme Court justice from 1994 to 2022
b. 1938
Ehud Barak
10th Prime Minister of Israel
b. 1942
Gloria Steinem
American feminist activist and journalist
1934 – 2026
Golda Meir
fourth prime minister of Israel
1898 – 1978
Rosa Luxemburg
revolutionary who warned about revolutions
1871 – 1919
- AS
Adam Schiff
American politician
b. 1960
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Garry Kasparov
Russian chess grandmaster and activist
b. 1963
Menachem Begin
Israeli politician and former Prime Minister
1913 – 1992
Dianne Feinstein
American politician
1933 – 2023
Ed Asner
American actor
1929 – 2021
Isaac Herzog
president of Israel since 2021
b. 1960
- MA
Madeleine Albright
United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001
1937 – 2022
Peter Singer
Australian moral philosopher
b. 1946
Al Franken
American comedian and politician
b. 1951
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Antony Blinken
American lawyer and diplomat and former United States Sec
b. 1962
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Elissa Slotkin
American politician
b. 1976
Jon Ossoff
American politician and filmmaker
b. 1987
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Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher
b. 1956
Leo Strauss
History of Political Philosophy scholar
1899 – 1973
Roseanne Barr
American actress and comedian
b. 1952
Herbert A. Simon
American political scientist, economist, sociologist
1916 – 2001
Yair Lapid
leader of the Opposition in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament)
b. 1963
Jerry Nadler
American politician and lawyer
b. 1947
Josh Shapiro
American politician
b. 1973
Murray Rothbard
American economist
1926 – 1995
Naftali Bennett
Prime Minister of Israel from 2021 to 2022
b. 1972
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
British banker and zoologist
1868 – 1937
Ben Bernanke
American economist
b. 1953
Ed Koch
former mayor of New York City
1924 – 2013
Isaiah Berlin
Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist
1909 – 1997
Jake Auchincloss
American politician
b. 1988
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
b. 1946
Moshe Dayan
Israeli military leader and politician
1915 – 1981
Theodor Herzl
imagined a Jewish state
1860 – 1904
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist
1908 – 2009
David Miliband
British politician
b. 1965
Ehud Olmert
Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009
b. 1945
Jerry Springer
American television personality and politician
1944 – 2023
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Richard Blumenthal
United States Senator from Connecticut since 2011
b. 1946
Ron Wyden
American politician and educator
b. 1949
Dan Goldman
American politician and attorney
b. 1976
David Ricardo
British classical economist and politician
1772 – 1823
György Lukács
Hungarian marxist philosopher and literary critic
1885 – 1971
Michael Bennet
United States Senator from Colorado since 2009
b. 1964
Steve Cohen
American lawyer and politician
b. 1949
Yitzhak Shamir
7th Prime Minister of Israel
1915 – 2012
Michael Howard
British politician; Former leader of the Conservative Par
b. 1941
Paul Wolfowitz
American politician and diplomat
b. 1943
Andrew Goodman
American civil rights activist
1943 – 1964
Becca Balint
American politician
b. 1968
Bella Abzug
American politician
1920 – 1998
Felix Frankfurter
former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
1882 – 1965
Israel Katz
Israeli politician, Minister of Defense of Israel
b. 1955
Josh Gottheimer
American politician from New Jersey
b. 1975
Michael Schwerner
American civil rights activist
1939 – 1964
Miriam Adelson
American-Israeli physician and business billionaire (born
b. 1945
Brian Schatz
American educator and politician
b. 1972
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist
1874 – 1952
Magnus Hirschfeld
German physician and sexologist
1868 – 1935
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor
1918 – 1987
Yoav Gallant
Israeli politician and former military officer
b. 1958
Alan Sugar
British business magnate, media personality
b. 1947
Isidor Straus
retailing magnate victim of the Titanic sinking
1845 – 1912
Michael Dell
American businessman and CEO
b. 1965
Avigdor Lieberman
Israeli politician, member of the Knesset
b. 1958
Chaim Herzog
6th President of Israel –
1918 – 1997
Levi Eshkol
Israeli politician, a founder of the Israeli Labor Party
1895 – 1969
Nigel Lawson
British peer and politician
1932 – 2023
Tzipi Livni
Israeli politician, former Israeli Foreign Minister and f
b. 1958
Benjamin N. Cardozo
United States federal judge
1870 – 1938
Larry Summers
American economist and government official
b. 1954
Natan Sharansky
Soviet refusenik, nine years imprisoned
b. 1948
Tristan Tzara
Romanian-French poet
1896 – 1963
Amir Ohana
Israeli politician, former Minister of National Security
b. 1976
Arthur Goldberg
American lawyer, politician and civil servant
1908 – 1990
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician
1959 – 2015
Jack Lew
American lawyer and diplomat
b. 1955
Jacky Rosen
American politician
b. 1957
Sarah Sackman
British politician, from 2024
b. 1984
Ben Cardin
American lawyer and former politician
b. 1943
Gideon Sa'ar
Israeli politician
b. 1966
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
American politician
1891 – 1967
Malcolm Rifkind
British politician
b. 1946
Ezer Weizman
Israeli politician, 7th president of Israel
1924 – 2005
- HS
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
British politician
1870 – 1963
Moshe Sharett
2nd Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955
1894 – 1965
- YL
Yariv Levin
minister of Justice of Israel since 2022
b. 1969
Abraham Beame
104th New York City mayor
1906 – 2001
Charlotte Nichols
British politician
b. 1991
Leonard Woolf
English political theorist, author
1880 – 1969
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Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
British businessman and politician
1910 – 1990
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Damien Egan
British politician
b. 1982
David Levy Yulee
American senator
1810 – 1886
Gidi Markuszower
Dutch politician
b. 1977
Leo Amery
British politician and journalist
1873 – 1955
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Marek Edelman
Jewish resistance member
1922 – 2009
- MH
Margaret Hodge
British politician
b. 1944
Samuel Pallache
Jewish-Moroccan merchant, diplomat and pirate
c. 1550 – 1616
Yigal Allon
Israeli politician, general
1918 – 1980
Abba Eban
Israeli diplomat and politician
1915 – 2002
Avi Dichter
Israeli politician
b. 1952
Daniel Finkelstein
British journalist and politician
b. 1962
Edwina Currie
British politician
b. 1946
Lionel de Rothschild
UK art collector and politician; member of Pa
1808 – 1879
Marcel Mauss
French sociologist and anthropologist
1872 – 1950
Rashid al-Din Hamadani
Persian physician and historian
c. 1247 – 1318
Robert Malley
American diplomat
b. c. 1963
Shaul Mofaz
Israeli military officer and politician
b. 1948
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Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
British banker and politician
1840 – 1915
Peter Prinsley
Labour MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
b. 1958
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Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
British politician
1860 – 1935
Yuli Edelstein
Israeli politician
b. 1958
Aryeh Eldad
Israeli physician, military officer and politician
b. 1950
Ayelet Shaked
Israeli politician, activist and engineer
b. 1976
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David Triesman, Baron Triesman
British politician
1943 – 2026
Gayle Rubin
American cultural anthropologist, activist, and feminist
b. c. 1949
Matthew Patrick
British politician
b. c. 1987
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Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi
British businessman, politician
b. 1946
Moshe Arens
Israeli diplomat, member of Knesset
1925 – 2019
Ofer Cassif
Israeli politician
b. 1964
René Cassin
French jurist
1887 – 1976
Yair Golan
Israeli general, politician and Leader of the Democrats (
b. 1962
Danny Yatom
Israeli politician
b. 1945
Gerald Kaufman
British politician
1930 – 2017
Danny Danon
Israeli politician and diplomat
b. 1971
Isaac Abarbanel
Portuguese-Spanish Jewish businessman
c. 1437 – 1508
- JB
John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley
British businessman
b. 1948
- JS
Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks
British rabbi
1948 – 2020
Merav Michaeli
Israeli politician and journalist
b. 1966
- NW
Nathaniel Weyl
American politician
1910 – 2005
Nir Barkat
minister of Economy of Israel since 2024
b. 1959
Orit Strook
Israeli right-wing religious politician and activist
b. 1960
Samson Raphael Hirsch
Jewish theologian, Germany 19th century
1808 – 1888
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
15th Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
1944 – 2012
Avraham Burg
Israeli politician
b. 1955
- IM
Ian Mikardo
20th-century British Labour Member of Parliament
1908 – 1993
Jared Bernstein
American economist
b. 1955
May Golan
Israeli politician, political activist and television com
b. 1986
Meir Amit
Israeli politician
1921 – 2009
Meyer London
American politician
1871 – 1926
Michael Oren
Israeli historian, military officer and diplomat
b. 1955
Yitzhak Navon
Israeli politician, 5th President of Israel
1921 – 2015
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Yuval Ne'eman
Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist
1925 – 2006
Zhores Alferov
Soviet-Russian physicist
1930 – 2019
Charles Bettelheim
French historian and economist
1913 – 2006
Gila Gamliel
Israeli politician
b. 1974
Miri Regev
Israeli politician
b. 1965
Philip Sassoon
British politician
1888 – 1939
Rehavam Ze'evi
Israeli politician, Minister of Tourism
1926 – 2001
Robert Jay Lifton
American psychiatrist and author
1926 – 2025
Shulamit Aloni
Israeli politician
1928 – 2014
David Levy
Israeli politician
1937 – 2024
Ephraim Katzir
Israeli scientist, 4th President of Israel -
1916 – 2009
- GP
Grace Paley
American writer and activist
1922 – 2007
Kate Green
British politician
b. 1960
Manny Shinwell
British politician
1884 – 1986
Oona King
British politician
b. 1967
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Sharren Haskel
Israeli politician
b. 1984
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Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs
British politician
b. 1932
Avi Maoz
Israeli politician
b. 1956
Boaz Bismuth
Israeli journalist and ambassador
b. 1964
- EM
Edwin Montagu
British politician
1879 – 1924
Ernestine Rose
American feminist activist
1810 – 1892
Ferdinand de Rothschild
British politician
1839 – 1898
Gabi Ashkenazi
Israeli military officer and politician
b. 1954
Julian Lewis
British politician
b. 1951
Laurence Steinhardt
American diplomat
1892 – 1950
Limor Son Har-Melech
Israeli politician
b. 1979
- LL
Liviu Librescu
Romanian-Israeli-American scientist and Holocaust survivor
1930 – 2007
Moshe Feiglin
Israeli politician
b. 1962
Naama Lazimi
Israeli politician and social activist
b. 1986
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Richard Hermer, Baron Hermer
British barrister
b. c. 1968
Shelly Yachimovich
Israeli politician
b. 1960
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Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein
British businessman and media executive
1899 – 1993
Tommy Lapid
Israeli radio and television presenter, journalist
1931 – 2008
Tzachi Hanegbi
Israeli politician
b. 1957
Ze'ev Elkin
Israeli politician
b. 1971
Benny Begin
Israeli politician
b. 1943
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
IraqI-Israeli military officer and politician
1936 – 2016
Dalia Itzik
Israeli politician
b. 1952
Galit Distel-Atbaryan
Israeli author and politician
b. 1971
Julian Amery
British politician
1919 – 1996
Julian Huppert
British Liberal Democrat politician
b. 1978
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Leslie Hore-Belisha
British politician
1893 – 1957
- NP
Nick Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers
British judge
b. 1938
Ofir Sofer
Israeli politician
b. 1974
Pnina Tamano-Shata
Israeli politician and minister, born in Ethiopia
b. 1981
Shlomo Karhi
Israeli academic and politician
b. 1982
Tally Gotliv
Israeli lawyer and politician
b. 1975
Carol Gilligan
American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist
b. 1936
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Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery
British politician
1882 – 1974
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Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf
British life peer and retired barrister and judge
b. 1933
Hili Tropper
Israeli politician
b. 1978
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Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith
British barrister
b. 1950
Ron Huldai
Israeli politician, mayor of Tel Aviv
b. 1944
Silvan Shalom
Israeli politician
b. 1958
Aletta Jacobs
Dutch physician and feminist, editor
1854 – 1929
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Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett
British politician
1868 – 1930
Amichai Chikli
minister of Diaspora Affairs of Israel
b. 1981
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist
1860 – 1940