Famous People

Activists

• Israel Shahak - political activist
• Michael Dorfman Russian-Israeli essayist and human rights activist.
• Natan Sharansky - Soviet-era human rights activist
• Nira Schwartz - TRW whistleblower, Wiener Award (2001)
• Uri Avnery - peace activist, Gush Shalom
• Uri Savir, peace negotiator, Peres Center for Peace
• Uzi Even - gay rights activist
• Yael Dayan - writer, politician, activist

Actors and Film Makers

• Aki Avni - actor
• Amos Gitai - director
• Amos Kollek - director, writer
• Ari Libsker - filmmaker
• Arnon Milchan - producer
• Chaim Topol - actor
• Daliah Lavi - actress
• Elia Suleiman - director
• Eyal Podell - Actor
• Eytan Fox - director
• Gad Lerner - journalist (currently living in Italy)
• Gila Almagor - actress
• Haim Saban - TV producer
• Haim Yavin - long-serving TV anchor
• Hanna Laslo - actress
• Ido Gideon - TV producer
• Lior Ashkenazi - actor
• Mili Avital - actress
• Natalie Portman - actress (Israeli-born)
• Oded Fehr - actor
• Ohad Naharin - choreographer
• Raviv Ullman - actor (Israeli-born)
• Rod Lurie - director, film critic (Israeli-born)
• Uri Geller - TV personality, self-proclaimed psychic
• Yvan Attal - actor, director (Israeli-born)

Artists

• Alber Elbaz - fashion designer
• Anna Ticho - painter
• Boris Schatz - sculptor
• Dani Karavan - sculptor
• David Ascalon - sculptor and synagogue designer
• David Tartakover - graphic designer
• Dudu Geva - artist and comic-strip illustrator
• Elyasaf Kowner - video artist
• Gideon Gechtman - sculptor
• Gil Burstein - Industrial designer
• Harry Baron - sculptor
• Isidor Ascheim - painter and printmaker
• Joseph Kossonogi - painter
• Leo Kahn - painter
• Leo Roth - painter
• Maurice Ascalon - sculptor and industrial designer
• Maya Guez - fashion photographer
• Michael Arad - architect
• Mordecai Ardon - painter
• Mordechai Avniel - painter and sculptor
• Moshe Safdie - architect
• Moshe Ziffer - sculptor
• Nahum Gutman - painter
• Ralph Bakshi - animation (director)
• Ranan Lurie - political cartoonist
• Reuven Rubin - painter
• Ron Arad - designer
• Shimshon Holzman - painter
• Tuvia Beeri - printmaker
• Yaacov Agam - kinetic artist
• Yigal Azrouel - fashion designer
• Yitzhak Danziger - sculptor
• Yitzhak Frenkel - painter

Entrepreneurs

• Ariki and Yossi Vardi, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir - founders of Mirabilis (developers of ICQ)
• Avi Arad - owner of Marvel Comics
• Beny Alagem - founder of Packard Bell
• Bob Rosenschein - founder of GuruNet, Answers.com (Israeli-based)
• Daniel M. Lewin - founder of Akamai Technologies
• David Perlmutter - mobile platforms manager of Intel (developed Centrino wholly in Israel)
• Mordecai Meirowitz - inventor of the Mastermind board game
• Safra Catz - president of Oracle
• Stef Wertheimer - industrialist
• Ted, Micky and Shari Arison - founder/owners of Carnival Corporation
• Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans - founders of Zend Technologies (developers of PHP)

Fashion Models

• Bar Refaeli
• Isabelle Adler
• Moran Atias
• Nina Brosh
• Pnina Rosenblum

Musicians - Popular

• Ahinoam Nini (Noa) - singer
• Amal Murkus - singer
• Arik Einstein - singer, actor, writer
• Avishai Cohen - jazz bassist
• Aviv Geffen - singer/songwriter
• Berry Sakharof - main Indie artist
• Chava Alberstein - singer/songwriter
• Dana International - pop singer
• David Broza - singer/songwriter
• Eef Barzelay - founder of Clem Snide
• Ehud Banai
• Esther Ofarim - singer
• Ethnix - Pop-Rock band
• Gidi Gov - singer
• Guy Oseary - head of Maverick Records
• Hillel Slovak - original guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Idan Raichel - world fusion
• Ishtar - vocalist for Alabina
• Matti Caspi - singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer
• Mike Brant - French-language singer
• Miri Ben-Ari - jazz and hip hop violinist
• Naomi Shemer - songwriter
• Nir Zidkyahu - drummer, briefly in Genesis
• Ofra Haza - singer
• Sarit Hadad - Israeli singer
• Shlomo Artzi - singer/songwriter
• Shlomo Gronich - singer and composer
• Yoni Rechter - composer and arranger
• Zino and Tommy - popular duo, songs in U.S. films.

Musicians - Classical

• Amir Katz - pianist
• Arie Vardi - pianist
• Avner Dorman - composer
• Bart Berman - pianist
• Daniel Barenboim - conductor and pianist
• Dror Elimelech - composer
• Eliahu Inbal - conductor
• Gary Bertini - conductor
• Gil Shaham - violinist
• Giora Feidman - clarinetist
• Hagai Shaham - violinist
• Itzhak Perlman - violinist
• Ivry Gitlis - violinist
• Matt Haimovitz - cellist
• Michael Shani - conductor
• Mischa Maisky - cellist
• Moshe Atzmon - conductor
• Natan Brand - pianist
• Noam Sheriff - composer
• Ofra Harnoy - cellist
• Paul Ben-Haim - composer
• Pinchas Zukerman - violinist
• Shlomo Mintz - violinist
• Shulamit Ran - composer
• Yefim Bronfman - pianist
• Yoel Levi - conductor

Writers

• A.B. Yehoshua - author
• Abraham Sutzkever - Yiddish poet
• Aharon Appelfeld - author, Prix Médicis étranger (2004)
• Aharon Megged - author
• Amira Hass - journalist and author
• Amos Oz - author and journalist, Goethe Prize (2005)
• Avraham Shlonsky - poet
• Avraham Stern - poet
• Batya Gur - author
• Benny Ziffer - author, journalist and translator
• Dalia Ravikovich - poet
• David Grossman - writer
• Emile Habibi - author
• Ephraim Kishon - satirist
• Etgar Keret - author
• Hannah Szenes - poet
• Hanoch Levin - playwright
• Hayyim Nahman Bialik - poet
• Julius Margolin, writer
• Leah Goldberg - poet
• Mati Shemoelof - poet, editor and journalist
• Max Brod - author, composer and friend of Kafka
• Meir Shalev - author and journalist
• Moshe Shamir - author, poet
• Naomi Shemer - poet
• Nathan Alterman - poet
• Nathan Zach - poet
• Orly Castel-Bloom - author
• Rachel - poet
• Roy Arad - poet
• Sami Michael - author
• Samir Naqqash- novelist
• Shmuel Katz - author and journalist
• Shmuel Yosef Agnon - author, Nobel Prize in Literature (1966)
• Uri Orlev - author, Hans Christian Andersen Award (1996)
• Uri Zvi Greenberg - poet
• Yehuda Amichai - poet
• Zelda - poet
• Zeruya Shalev - author

Sports

Basketball

• Amit Tamir
• Shay Doron
• Tal Brody
• Tal Burstein

Football

• Eyal Berkovic - Southampton, West Ham, Celtic, Man City, Portsmouth
• Haim Revivo - Galatasaray
• Itzik Zohar - Crystal Palace
• Mordechai Spiegler - Maccabi Netanya, Paris St. Germain
• Pini Zahavi - UK-based super-agent
• Ronnie Rosenthal - Liverpool, Tottenham
• Tal Ben Haim - Bolton Wanderers
• Yossi Benayoun - West Ham

Tennis

• Amir Hadad
• Amos Mansdorf
• Andy Ram
• Anna Smashnova
• Dudi Sela
• Eyal Ran
• Gilad Bloom
• Harel Levy
• Jonathan Erlich
• Noam Behr
• Noam Okun
• Shahar Peer
• Shlomo Glickstein
• Tzipora Obziler

Other Sports

• Alex Averbukh - pole vaulter (European champion: 2002, 2006)
• Boris Gelfand, Emil Sutovsky, Ilya Smirin - chess Grandmasters
• Eli Elezra - professional poker player
• Esther Roth-Shachamarov - track and field (5 Asian game golds)
• Gal Fridman - windsurfer (olympic gold: 2004, bronze: 1996; world champion: 2002)
• Galit Chait and Sergei Sakhnovski - ice dancers (world championship bronze: 2002)
• Michael Kolganov - kayak paddler (olympic bronze: 2000)
• Oren Smadja - judoka (olympic bronze: 1992)
• Yael Arad - judoka (olympic silver: 1992, European champion: 1993, world silver: 1993). First Israeli Olympic medallist