List of Sephardic Jews

The following is a list of Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews.

A list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry:

A

• Abraham Amigo, Palestinian rabbi of Sepharadi descent^[1]
• Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain ^[2]

B

• Yves Béhar, designer, entrepreneur and sustainability advocate.^[3]
• Maurice Berger, cultural historian, art critic, curator (Sephardic Mother ;father non-Sephardic Jew)^[4]
• Alain de Botton, Swiss writer and philosopher
• Can Bonomo, Turkish singer
• Alain Boublil, Tunisian-born lyricist of the musical Les Misérables
• Caryl Brahms, writer ^[5]
• June Brown, British actress
• Tony Bullimore,^[6] British yachtsman

C

• Neve Campbell (1973 - ) Canadian film and television actress (Scream)
• Isaac & Daniel Carasso, founders of Danone
• Maurice Abraham Cohen (Educator)

G

• Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer ^[7]
• Philip Guedalla, biographer ^[8]

H

• Rita Hayworth, actress, dancer
• Sir Basil Henriques,^[9] philanthropist

I

• Inês Pires, Mistress of King John I of Portugal. Ancestor of Dukes and Portuguese Kings of the House of Braganza and many of European royalty and nobility.^[10]

K

• Paul Kodish, professional drummer

M

• Raphael Meldola (chemist and first president of the Maccabaeans) ^[11]
• Frederic Mocatta, philanthropist ^[12]
• Daniel Mendoza 19th century Pugilist/Prize fighter

P

• Murray Perahia American concert pianist

S

• David Serero, Opera singer and Actor. Sephardi descendant from Morocco.
• Peter Sellers, Comedian and Actor. Knight of the Realm. Born Richard Henry Sellers.

T

• Israel Tsvaygenbaum, Russian-American artist

See also

• List of Iberian Jews
• Sephardi Jews
• Lists of Jews
• List of Portuguese
• List of Spaniards
• Spanish Inquisition
• Portuguese Inquisition

Footnotes

1. http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1399-amigo-abraham
2. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
3. "The Maker's Mark". Smart Furniture. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
4. Lee, Felicia. “Facing Down His Color as a Path to Privilege,” The New York Times (5 May 1999), pp. E1, 10; reprinted as “A Writer Confronts His Color as A Path to Privilege,” in The International Herald Tribune (6 May 1999)
5. Obituary, Jewish Chronicle Dec 10, 1982 p.12
6. "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
7. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
8. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son of David Guedalla, an almond broker in Mincing Lane, who came from a Spanish-Jewish family ... He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
9. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
10. Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001. Notice that Inês Pires is only presently presented as a conversa, and that for centuries there was no known doubt regarding her non-Jewish Portuguese ethnicity (which, of course could have been hidden for religious and political reasons, her being the mother of Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza).
11. Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290
12. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "The Mocatta family were Jews driven from the Iberian peninsula in 1492"