List of British Jews

List of British Jews is a list of prominent Jews from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

Although the first Jews may have arrived on the island of Great Britain with the Romans, it was not 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.

There was never a corresponding expulsion from Scotland. The eminent scholar David Daiches states in his autobiographical Two Worlds: A Scottish born Jewish Childhood that there are grounds for saying that Scotland is the only Immigrant country with no history of state persecution of Jews.

Jews were re-admitted to England and Wales in 1656 by Oliver Cromwell. Slightly more than 200 years later, in 1858 they were emancipated, that is, accepted as full citizens. In the late 19th century, there was mass Jewish immigration to England from Russia due to Russian domestic policy. In the 1930s, the country accepted many 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 2001 census, the current population is around 295,000, most of whom live in London. The number of people who identified as Jews in the United Kingdom rose by just under 4% between 2001 and 2021.

Academic figures

=Scientists=

: See List of British Jewish scientists, which includes economists.

=Historians=

David Abulafia, professor of history, University of CambridgeJYB 2005 p218
Geoffrey Alderman,[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 historian
Richard David Barnett, museum curator and archaeologistJYB 1985 p187
Norman Cohn, historianJYB 2005 p215
Isaac Deutscher,{{cite web|url=http://www.deutscherprize.org.uk/Isaac%20&%20Tamara%20Deutscher.htm |title=Isaac & Tamara Deutscher |publisher=Deutscherprize.org.uk |access-date=2018-07-19}} historian
Geoffrey Rudolph Elton,{{cite web|url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cgjs/1-2-2.html |title=The Elton / Ehrenberg Papers : Centre for German-Jewish Studies : University of Sussex |access-date=2007-03-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025063939/http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cgjs/1-2-2.html |archive-date=25 October 2007 }} historian
Samuel FinerOxford 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."
Sir Moses I. Finley,Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. historian and sociologist
Sir Martin Gilbert, historian
Martin Goodman
Philip Guedalla,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery" biographer
Eric Hobsbawm,Martin Beckford, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206203216/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2007%2F02%2F05%2Fnjews105.xml "Jewish group rejects uncritical support of Israel"] Telegraph (5 February 2007) historian and Communist theoretician
Jonathan Israel, historian
Joseph Jacobs,{{cite web|url=http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/jacobs.htm |title=Joseph Jacobs |access-date=2007-05-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070420120118/http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/jacobs.htm |archive-date=20 April 2007 }} editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
Lisa Jardine, historianThe Times; 11 January 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 (6 km) from town."
Tony Judt,{{Cite web |url=http://as.nyu.edu/object/tonyjudt.html |title=Tony Judt |access-date=3 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902043559/http://as.nyu.edu/object/tonyjudt.html |archive-date=2 September 2006 |url-status=dead}} Director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at New York University
Elie Kedourie,Jewish Year Book 1990 p202 historian and political scientist
Otto Kurz, historianJYB 1975 p214
Bernard Lewis,{{Cite web |url=http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Bernard_Lewis_Unplugged.asp |title=Bernard Lewis Unplugged |access-date=29 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051215151652/http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Bernard_Lewis_Unplugged.asp |archive-date=15 December 2005 |url-status=dead}} historian
David Malcolm Lewis, professor of history, University of OxfordJYB 1995 p193
Hyam Maccoby, professor of history{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040504/ai_n12778519 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-05-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909024326/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040504/ai_n12778519 |archive-date= 9 September 2015 }}
Sir Philip Magnus, 1st Baronet, educationalist and politician
Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet,Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Magnus" biographer
Shula Marks, expert on African history
Arnaldo Momigliano, professor of history, University College LondonJYB 1985 p188
Lewis Bernstein Namier,{{cite web|url=http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0834786.html |title=Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein |publisher=FactMonster |access-date=2018-07-19}} historian (converted to Anglicanism)
Sir Francis Palgrave (born Cohen) (1768–1861),{{cite web|url=http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wood-NuttallEncyclopaedia/p/palgravesirfrancis.html |title=Palgrave, Sir Francis (Nuttall Encyclopædia) |publisher=Fromoldbooks.org |access-date=2018-07-19}} historian
Ilan Pappé Israeli born New Historian, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and professor at The University of Exeter
Sir Michael Postan, historian
Cecil Roth,{{Cite web |url=http://www.jhom.com/personalities/dona_gracia/roth.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=29 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060318201126/http://www.jhom.com/personalities/dona_gracia/roth.htm |archive-date=18 March 2006 |url-status=dead}} historian and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica
Simon Schama,{{cite web|url=http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/historian/Simon_Schama.html |title=Simon Schama History of Britain |publisher=Age-of-the-sage.org |access-date=2018-07-19}} historian
Leonard Schapiro,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Glasgow of an Anglophile Riga Jewish family" historian
Simon Sebag Montefiore,{{Cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400076789&view=qa|title=Vintage Catalog | Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore|date=14 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714100413/http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400076789&view=qa|archive-date=14 July 2007}} historian
Charles Singer,Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Historians, list headed "Prominent Jewish General Historians" historian of science
Sir Aurel Stein,{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0295977302 |title=Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road: Annabel Walker: 9780295977300: Amazon.com: Books |publisher=Amazon.com |access-date=2018-07-19}} archeologist
Barry Supple, economic historianJewish Year Book, 2005, p. 215
Geza Vermes{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s47729.htm|title=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.|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=25 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514050933/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s47729.htm|archive-date=14 May 2011|url-status=dead}}

=Medical=

Sir George Alberti, President, Royal College of PhysiciansJewish Chronicle, 14 January 2000, p.14 "Knighthood goes to diabetes pioneer"
Asher Asher,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography first Scottish Jewish doctor
Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents of Russian origin" President of the Royal Society of Medicine
Professor Andrew Eder, dentist, clinical academic, strategic board adviser, and charity trustee{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/united-synagogue-elects-trustees-for-new-term/ |title=United Synagogue elects trustees for new term |publisher=Jewish News |date=31 July 2013 |access-date=27 February 2025}}
Sir Ian Gainsford, dentistJYB 2007 p197, 222
Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 1923–2007Times obituary, 17 October 2007
Max Hamilton,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the son of Jewish parents" psychiatrist
Roderigo Lopez, New Christian doctor to Queen Elizabeth IConcise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish physician"
John Henry Marks,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/23/religion.uk|title=The few|date=23 October 1999|website=The Guardian|location=London}} former chairman of the British Medical Association
Sir Jonathan Miller,{{cite web|url=http://www.granta.com/extracts/159 |title=Extracts from the Journal of Flying Officer J | William Boyd | Granta Magazine |publisher=Granta.com |date=1983-03-01 |access-date=2018-07-19}} physician and theatre director
Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg,{{cite web|url=http://usajewish.com/scripts/usaj/paper/Article.asp?ArticleID=787 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010426022221/http://usajewish.com/scripts/usaj/paper/Article.asp?ArticleID=787 |archive-date=2001-04-26 |title=USAJewish Web Today USAJewish : THE LIPSKY BALLYHOO [Sunday, April 09, 2000] |access-date=2018-07-19}} professor, FMedSci
Oliver Zangwill, professor of psychologyJYB 1980 p182

=Philosophers=

Samuel Alexander,{{cite web|url=http://www.art.man.ac.uk/RELTHEOL/JEWISH/EXHIBITION/11Alexander.html |title=Samuel Alexander |access-date=2006-08-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820051903/http://www.art.man.ac.uk/RELTHEOL/JEWISH/EXHIBITION/11Alexander.html |archive-date=20 August 2006 }} professor of philosophy at Manchester, born in Australia, the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college
Sir Alfred Ayer,{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/terrnochangeEngl.html |title=terrnochangeEngl |publisher=Ucl.ac.uk |date=2003-11-14 |access-date=2018-07-19}} philosopher, populariser of logical positivism (Jewish mother)
Sir Isaiah Berlin,{{cite web|url=http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/historian/Isaiah_Berlin.html |title=Sir Isaiah Berlin & the history of ideas |publisher=Age-of-the-sage.org |access-date=2018-07-19}} political philosopher
Max Black, philosopher
Gerald Cohen, Oxford professor of philosophy
Laurence Jonathan Cohen, Oxford professor of philosophy
Ernest Gellner,{{cite web |url=http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Gellner/CHann.html |title=Ernest Gellner – Chris Hann |access-date=2006-01-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050830065854/http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Gellner/CHann.html |archive-date=30 August 2005}} philosopher social scientist
H. L. A. Hart,{{cite web |url=http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927497-5?view=lawview |title=Law – Oxford University Press – A Life of H. L. A. Hart: Lacey |access-date=2005-12-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041209132801/http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-927497-5?view=lawview |archive-date=9 December 2004}} legal philosopher
Brian Klug,{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/05/njews105.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206203216/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2007%2F02%2F05%2Fnjews105.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 February 2007 |title=News: Breaking stories & updates |work=The Telegraph |access-date=2018-07-19 }} Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford; concepts of race, antisemitism, Islamophobia, Jewish identity
Stephan Korner, Bristol professor of philosophy
Imre Lakatos,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of Jacob Márton Lipsitz, a wine merchant, and Márgit Herczfeld, both Hungarian Jews" Hungarian-born philosopher
Alexander Piatigorsky,{{cite news|author=Tudor Parfitt |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/05/alexander-piatigorsky-obituary |title=Alexander Piatigorsky obituary | World news |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2018-07-19}} philosopher, Buddhologist, writer
Sir Karl Popper,{{cite web |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/src/popper/part1.html |title=Obituary of Karl Popper – 'Vienna' |access-date=2005-12-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051230105544/http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/src/popper/part1.html |archive-date=30 December 2005}} philosopher of science (family became Lutheran)
Jonathan Romain, minister of Maidenhead Jewish community and leader of the British reform movement
Richard Rudolf Walzer
Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher; Jewish grandparents on both sides of the family who had converted to Christianity in the 19th century; he was christened, raised and eventually buried as a Catholic
Richard Wollheim{{Cite web|url=https://waywiser-press.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041011185540/http://www.waywiser-press.com/wollheim.html|url-status=dead|title=The Waywiser Press – Tel: +44 (0)1608 677492|archive-date=11 October 2004|website=waywiser-press.com}}

=Social scientists=

Roy Clive Abraham, linguist
Michael Balint,{{cite web|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1298.html |title=Michael Balint |publisher=Whonamedit.com |access-date=2018-07-19}} psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism)
Zygmunt Bauman,{{cite news|author=Madeleine Bunting |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929598,00.html |title=Profile: Zygmunt Bauman | Books | The Guardian |newspaper=The Guardian |date=5 April 2003 |publisher=Books.guardian.co.uk |access-date=2018-07-19}} sociologist
Basil Bernstein,{{Cite web|url=https://metapress.com/|title=Metapress | A Fast Growing Resource for Young Entrepreneurs|website=Metapress}} linguist
Vernon Bogdanor, professor of politicsJYB 2005 p215, 223
Gerald Cohen, professor of social and political theory
Arthur Lumley Davids, linguist and orientalist{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4987-davids-arthur-lumley |title=Davids, Arthur Lumley |publisher=JewishEncyclopedia.com |access-date=2018-07-19}}
Norbert Elias,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Elias, as a Jew, sought refuge first in Paris (1933–5), and then in London (from 1935), eventually becoming a British citizen in 1952" sociologist
Herman Finer,{{cite web|author=Alfred de Grazia |url=http://www.grazian-archive.com/autobiography/student/STUS12.htm |title=Mr. Herman Finer, an Englishman, Jewish |publisher=Grazian-archive.com |date=29 September 2006 |access-date=28 October 2013}} political scientist
Samuel Finer,Jewish Chronicle obituary, 25 June 1993, p.15 political scientist
Sir Moses I. Finley, historian and sociologist
Meyer Fortes, anthropologistJYB 1980 p183
Eduard Fraenkel, philologistOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "An unbaptized Jew"
Anna Freud,{{cite web|url=http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/annafreud.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 November 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061109170432/http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/annafreud.html |archive-date=9 November 2006 }} child psychoanalyst
Norman Geras, professor of government{{cite web|url=http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/imprints/normangerasinterview.html|title=An interview with Norman Geras|website=eis.bris.ac.uk}}
Morris Ginsberg, sociologist{{cite web |url=http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/archives/handlists/Ginsberg/m.html |title=HTML Translation of SGML/EAD Document by Tim Green |website=library-2.lse.ac.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030722132552/http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/archives/handlists/Ginsberg/m.html |archive-date=22 July 2003 |url-status=dead}}
Max Gluckman, anthropologistJYB 1975 p213
Theodor Goldstücker,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "of Jewish parentage" orientalist
Jean Gottmann,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of prosperous Jewish parents" professor of geography, Oxford University
Julius Gould, sociologistJYB 2005 p249
David Hirsh,{{Cite news |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/news-features/david-hirsh-interview-1.443625 |title=Ex-cabbie who took on the left |last=Lipman |first=Jennifer |date=1 September 2017 |work=The Jewish Chronicle |access-date=3 September 2017}} lecturer in sociology
Paul Hirst,{{cite news|author=Ben Pimlott |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,3604,981060,00.html |title=Obituary: Professor Paul Hirst | Education |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2018-07-19}} social theorist (Jewish mother)
Marie Jahoda,{{cite web|author=JINFO |url=http://www.jinfo.org/Sociologists.html |title=Jewish Sociologists |publisher=Jinfo.org |access-date=2018-07-19}} psychology of discrimination
Melanie Klein,{{cite web|url=http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/klein2.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 November 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907110602/http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/klein2.html |archive-date= 7 September 2006 }} child psychoanalyst
Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish
Steven Lukes, political scientist
Ashley Montagu,{{cite web|url=http://montagunocircpetition.org/montagu-bio.pg |title=The Ashley Montagu Resolution |access-date=2016-01-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105184215/http://montagunocircpetition.org/montagu-bio.pg |archive-date=5 January 2016 }} anthropologist and humanist
Isaac Schapera, anthropologist
Edward Ullendorff, linguist

=Theologians and Hebraists=

Isaac Abendana,{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Abendana|volume=1|page=42}} Hebraist
Chimen Abramsky,{{cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/authors/5049 |title=Chimen Abramsky | The New York Review of Books |publisher=Nybooks.com |date=1974-12-12 |access-date=2018-07-19}} professor of Hebrew
Lionel Barnett,Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, 5 February 1960, p.1 orientalist
Abraham Benisch,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents" Hebraist and editor of the Jewish Chronicle
Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch,{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Deutsch, Immanuel Oscar Menahem|volume=8|page=119}} Semitic scholar and orientalist
Alfred Edersheim,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents at Vienna" Bible scholar
Philip Ferdinand,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: born in Poland of Jewish parents professor of Hebrew
Christian David Ginsburg,born Jewish; see Dictionary of National Biography expert on the Masoretic text
Ridley Haim Herschell,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Prussian Poland of Jewish parents" missionary
Marcus Kalisch,{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Kalisch, Marcus|volume=15|page=642}} Hebraist and Biblical commentator
David Levi,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" Jewish scholar
David Samuel Margoliouth,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "an academically highly gifted boy of Jewish parentage" orientalist (family converted to Anglicanism)
Hugh Montefiore,His own book On Being a Jewish Christian (1998) bishop
Adolf Neubauer,[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=203&letter=N&search=Neubauer "Adolf Neubauer"] Jewish Encyclopedia Hebraist
Stefan Reif,{{cite web |url=http://www.mucjs.org/jhrylands.htm |title=Centre for Jewish Studies, Jewish heritage at the Rylands |access-date=2005-12-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020421173118/http://www.mucjs.org/jhrylands.htm |archive-date=21 April 2002}} Cambridge academic
Judah Segal, professor of Semitic languages
Joseph Wolff, missionary

=Others=

Sidney Greenbaum, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London 1983–90"if there was anything invariant in his life, it was his strictly observant devotion to orthodox Judaism". [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-sidney-greenbaum-1349972.html]

Artists

=Fine arts=

Frank Auerbach,{{Cite web |url=http://www.artguide.org/uk/AG.pl?Action=15163A&Axis=AllArtists |title=Auerbach, Frank |access-date=29 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060103012716/http://www.artguide.org/uk/AG.pl?Action=15163A&Axis=AllArtists |archive-date=3 January 2006 |url-status=dead}} painter
Edith Birkin, painter{{cite web|url=http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/asset669882-.html|title=Birkin, Edith: Liberation Day, 1987|website=NEN Gallery|access-date=2018-01-28}}
David Bomberg,{{cite web|url=http://www.modernbritishartists.co.uk/bomberg_biog.htm |title=MODERN BRITISH ART – David Bomberg biography |access-date=2008-01-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927192257/http://www.modernbritishartists.co.uk/bomberg_biog.htm |archive-date=27 September 2007 }} painter
Sir Anthony Caro,{{cite web|url=http://www.kunst.wuerth.com/en/kh/kh-caro1.html |title=Portal – Würth GmbH & Co. KG: Trading in the field of assembly and fastening technology |publisher=Kunst.wuerth.com |date=1970-01-01 |access-date=2018-07-19}} sculptor{{cite news|author=James Campbell |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1384783,00.html |title=Guardian Books |work=The Guardian|date= 11 January 2005|access-date=28 October 2013 |location=London}}
Benno Elkan,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born at Dortmund of Jewish parentage" sculptor
Sir Jacob Epstein,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, cited at [http://blog.oup.com/oupblog/2006/11/lives_across_th.html OUP website] sculptor (UK-based)
Hannah Frank,{{cite web|url=http://www.hannahfrank.org.uk/ |title=Scottish Women Artists |publisher=Hannah Frank |access-date=2018-07-19}} artist and sculptor
Barnett Freedman,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of East-End Russian Jewish immigrants" artist
Lucian Freud,{{cite web|url=http://www.leninimports.com/lucian_freud_bio.html |title=Lucian Freud :: Biography (1922–2011) |publisher=Leninimports.com |access-date=2018-07-19}} painter
Abram GamesOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "As a Jew, Games worked for the Jewish relief unit and for many Jewish and Israeli organizations"
Mark Gertler,{{cite web |url=http://web311.pavilion.net/ARTgertler.htm |title=Mark Gertler |access-date=2005-12-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014813/http://web311.pavilion.net/ARTgertler.htm |archive-date=27 September 2007}} painter
Zoltán Glass,{{cite web |title=Zoltán Glass (1903–1981) |url=http://pamela-green.com/zoltan-glass-1903-1981/ |website=Pamela Green: Never Knowingly Overdressed|date=25 May 2014 }} photographer
Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein),{{cite web|url=http://www.glbtq.com/arts/gluck.html |title=GLBTQ >> arts >> Gluck (Hannah Gluckenstein) |access-date=2006-11-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061214043032/http://www.glbtq.com/arts/gluck.html |archive-date=14 December 2006 }} artist
Walter Goodman,Obituary, Jewish Chronicle 30 August 1912, p16 painter
Dora Gordine,Delia Gaze Dictionary of Women Artists Routledge Press 1997, artist and sculptor
Harrison Marks,{{cite book |title=The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks |date=2017 |publisher=Wolfbait Books |location=London |isbn=9781999744106 |page=10}} photographer
Solomon Alexander Hart,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Hart was an observant Jew." painter
Lily Delissa Joseph, painter
Anish Kapoor,{{cite news|author=Marcus Fairs |url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/features/story/0,11710,950561,00.html |title='They don't know what they've let themselves in for' | Art and design |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2018-07-19}} sculptor (Jewish mother)
R. B. Kitaj, US-born painterThe 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
Leon Kossoff, 1926–2019 (The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/07/leon-kossoff-obituary Leon Kossoff obituary])
Jacob Kramer,H. Read, S. Thorndike, and others, Jacob Kramer: a memorial volume (1969) painter
Lennie Lee,{{Cite web |url=http://www.lennielee.com/index2.html |title=Lennie Lee, performance art, Installation, London, UK |access-date=28 January 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050204161820/http://lennielee.com/index2.html |archive-date=4 February 2005 |url-status=dead}} Young British Artist; mixed media
Horatio Joseph Lucas,{{cite web |last1=Cust |first1=Lionel Henry |title=Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lucas, Horatio Joseph |url=https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Lucas,_Horatio_Joseph |website=wikisource.org |publisher=Wikisource |access-date=20 January 2024}} painter
Linda McCartney,{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/mcCartneystella.html|title=Stella McCartney|website=jewishvirtuallibrary.org}} photographer
Ruth Rix,{{cite web |url=http://my.name-services.com/76905/page99.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-08-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928203345/http://my.name-services.com/76905/page99.htm |archive-date=28 September 2007}} painter
Sir William Rothenstein{{cite web |url=http://www.chrisbeetles.com/pictures/artists/Rothenstein_William/Rothenstein_William.htm |title=Sir William Rothenstein (1872–1945) Rp Neac |access-date=2006-01-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060528053254/http://www.chrisbeetles.com/pictures/artists/Rothenstein_William/Rothenstein_William.htm |archive-date=28 May 2006}}
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon[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."
Isaac Snowman,{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=305&letter=P |title=Pictorial Art |publisher=JewishEncyclopedia.com |access-date=2018-07-19}} painter
Solomon Joseph Solomon,{{cite web|url=http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Solo_SJ.htm |title=Biography for: Solomon Joseph Solomon |access-date=2007-05-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617122749/http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Solo_SJ.htm |archive-date=17 June 2008 }} painter
Alfred Wolmark,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents in Warsaw; naturalized, 1894" painter
Berthold Wolpe,{{cite web|last=Dawood|first=Sarah|url=https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/19-25-march-2018/delving-life-berthold-wolpe-german-jewish-designer-fled-nazis/|title=Delving into the life of Berthold Wolpe: the German Jewish designer who fled the Nazis|work=Design Week|date=21 March 2018|access-date=7 February 2019}} printer

=Designers and architects=

Nicole Farhi,{{cite web |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/1948/396_via.htm |title=Al-Ahram Weekly | to each his Via Dolorosa |access-date=2005-12-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051226134256/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/1948/396_via.htm |archive-date=26 December 2005}} fashion designer
John Frieda,{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316861693 |title=I Don't Want to Fight: Lulu: 9780316861694: Amazon.com: Books |publisher=Amazon |access-date=2018-07-19}} hair stylist; father of actor Jordan Frieda
Ray Kelvin,{{cite web|author=Sarah Ryle |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,851194,00.html |title=Ted Baker: How to get ahead in advertising – at no cost | Media | The Guardian |date=December 2002 |publisher=Observer.guardian.co.uk |access-date=2018-07-19}} fashion designer, founder of Ted Baker
Denys Lasdun,[http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/filterarchive.html?date=2003-12 Comment by his son James Lasdun] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928030630/http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/filterarchive.html?date=2003-12 |date=28 September 2007 }}: "He was English but not really, being Jewish": accessed 6 May 2007 architect
Stella McCartney,[https://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 fashion designer
Erich Mendelsohn,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in East Prussia of German-Jewish parents" architect
Janet Reger,{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4349445.stm |title=UK | Lingerie magnate Janet Reger dies |publisher=BBC News |date=2005-03-15 |access-date=2018-07-19}} lingerie designer
Vidal Sassoon,{{cite web|last=Horovitz |first=Bruce |url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-07-07-vidal_x.htm |title=Vidal Sassoon takes on a hairy fight against P&G |work=USA Today |date=2003-07-07 |access-date=2018-07-19}} hair stylist
Richard Seifert,{{cite news|author=Martin Pawley |url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,3604,582430,00.html |title=Obituary: Richard Seifert | Education |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2018-07-19}} architect

Arts and literature

Sir Israel Gollancz,{{cite web|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Book/Cohen/gencul.html |title=Shtetl: Israel Cohen – Jewish Life in Modern Times |publisher=Ibiblio.org |date=1914-06-17 |access-date=2018-07-19}} Shakespeare expert
Sir Ernst Gombrich,{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishbookweek.com/2006/010306f.php |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-09-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907213517/http://www.jewishbookweek.com/2006/010306f.php |archive-date=7 September 2006}} art historianJYB 2000 p211
Sir Sidney Lee, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and Shakespeare expert
Siegbert Salomon Prawer, professor of German
Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, 1988–2017Jewish Chronicle, 8 January 1999, p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank."
Ernest Simon, professor of Chinese
Arthur Waley,Patricia Welch, [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=134981118421565 "The World of the Shining Translator: Waley's "Genji", Orientalism, and the birth of Japanese Literary Studies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612013526/http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=134981118421565 |date=12 June 2007 }}, "Waley, born Arthur David Schloss, was a member of an elite Anglo-Jewish family" poet, translator of Chinese and Japanese literature

=Performing arts=

: See List of British Jewish entertainers (includes classical musicians and actors as "entertainers").

=Writers=

: See List of British Jewish writers.

Business and the professions

=Civil service=

Abraham Manie Adelstein, government statisticianarticle in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Sir Hermann Bondi,{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2005/09/13/db1301.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051130102834/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=%2Fnews%2F2005%2F09%2F13%2Fdb1301.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 November 2005 |title=News: Breaking stories & updates |work=The Telegraph |access-date=2018-07-19 }} Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Energy
Sir Andrew Cohen,Jewish Chronicle, 21 June 1968 Page:46 colonial administrator
Eugene Grebenik,{{cite web|url=http://www.ehrcweb.org/jobs/Press-Eugene-Grebenik-17668.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-01-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928152519/http://www.ehrcweb.org/jobs/Press-Eugene-Grebenik-17668.htm |archive-date=28 September 2007 }} first head of the Civil Service College
Hans Kronberger,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Linz, Austria, of Jewish parents" nuclear physicist
Sir Alan Marre,{{cite web|url=http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/Vol_92__1992.pdf |title=Data |website=ajcarchives.org }} Second Permanent Secretary, Health; later Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
Sir Claus Moser,{{Cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717011519/http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/entertainment/previewsandreviews/content_objectid%3D13939784_method%3Dfull_siteid%3D50061_page%3D5_headline%3D-A-brush-withour-darkest-hour-name_page.html|url-status=dead|title=Liverpool Echo: Latest Liverpool and Merseyside news, sports and what's on|archive-date=17 July 2012|website=liverpoolecho.co.uk}} Lord Moser, government statistician

=Finance=

Sir Ernest Cassel,K. Grunwald, 'Windsor Cassel: the last court Jew', Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute, 14 (1969), 119–61 banker
Sir Ronald Cohen,{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1452226,00.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110604030107/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1452226,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 June 2011 |title=The Times & The Sunday Times |publisher=The Times|location=London |access-date=2018-07-19}} Egypt-born businessman and Labour party supporter
Moses da Costa, also called Anthony da CostaJewish Encyclopedia IV p289
Abraham and Benjamin Goldsmid,{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=322&letter=G |title=Goldsmid |publisher=JewishEncyclopedia.com |access-date=2018-07-19}} brothers, leading financiers and philanthropists
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid,{{Cite encyclopedia |entry-url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-Isaac-Lyon-Goldsmid-1st-Baronet |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118144416/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/237923/Sir-Isaac-Lyon-Goldsmid-1st-Baronet |archive-date=18 January 2013 |entry=Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |title=Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet (British political activist) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia |access-date=28 February 2021 |url-status=live }} financier, a leading figure in Jewish emancipation and in the foundation of University College London
Desmond Hirshfield, Baron Hirshfield, chartered accountant and financial adviser to Trade Unions
Dudley Joel,Jewish Chronicle 25 July 1941, p.12, "Jews in the Navy" financier
Solomon Joel,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "a devout Jew" financier
Lord Levene of Portsoken, Peter Keith Levene, chairman of Lloyd's of London, Lord Mayor of London (1998–1999)JYB 2005 212
Aaron of Lincoln,{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=66&letter=A|title=AARON OF LINCOLN – JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}} 12th-century financier
Moses Haim Montefiore,{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Montefiore, Sir Moses Haim|volume=18|page=765}} financier and philanthropist
Nathan Mayer Rothschild,{{cite encyclopedia|title=House of Rothschild – MSN Encarta |url=http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576222/House_of_Rothschild.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022001416/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576222/House_of_Rothschild.html |archive-date= 22 October 2009 |url-status=dead }} financier and banker
Joseph Salvador,{{cite web|url=http://www.shpltd.co.uk/rousseau-jewofcrancourt.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-03-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702191945/http://www.shpltd.co.uk/rousseau-jewofcrancourt.pdf |archive-date= 2 July 2007 }} first Jewish director of the British East India Company
Barons Swaythling,{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldica.org/topics/jewish.htm|title=Jewish Heraldry|website=heraldica.org}} bankers
Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling{{Cite web |url=http://www.montaguemillennium.com/familyresearch/h_1911_samuel.htm |title=Samuel Montagu, 1832–1911 |access-date=28 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061216144156/http://montaguemillennium.com/familyresearch/h_1911_samuel.htm |archive-date=16 December 2006 |url-status=usurped}}

=Law=

Sir John Balcombe, Lord Justice of AppealThe Guardian (Manchester); 04/07/00; Sir Maurice Drake; p20
Judah P. Benjamin, American exile, lawyerConcise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents of English nationality"
Herbert Bentwich,[https://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/021209fa_fact New Yorker magazine] "My great-grandfather Herbert Bentwitch, a lawyer from a prominent English Jewish family" Accessed 21 November 2006. lawyer and Zionist leader
Norman Bentwich,Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bentwitch lawyer and Attorney-General of Palestine; son of Herbert Benwitch
His Honour Gerald Butler, Q.C., judgeThe Times (London); 13 June 2000; Frances Gibb; p.Law. 3
Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, QC (former Liberal Democrat MP and peer, now independent from 2017)Jewish Chronicle 5/7/1996 p7: "The Liberal Democrats' sole Jewish MP, Alex Carlile"Jewish Chronicle: 25 June 1999 p10: "Alex Carlile is on his way back to Westminster as one of four Jews among the 36 working peers"
Arthur Cohen,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "first professing Jew to graduate at Cambridge" QC and politician
Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen,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." Lord of Appeal
Myrella Cohen,{{Cite web |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article822650.ece |title=Her Honour Myrella Cohen |access-date=30 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510204257/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article822650.ece |archive-date=10 May 2011 |url-status=dead}} judge, QC and agunah campaigner
Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury,Jewish Chronicle, 12 January 2007 p.15: article "People: Who is up to what in the Jewish world this week" Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove,{{cite web|url=http://www.culham.ac.uk/tvr/Feature/f980917_rh.html |title=Rosh Hashanah 17/9/98 |access-date=2008-06-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020133720/http://www.culham.ac.uk/tvr/Feature/f980917_rh.html |archive-date=20 October 2007 }} Scottish Queen's Counsel and sheriff
David Daube, professor of lawJYB 1995, p193
The Hon Sir Bernard Eder,{{cite web |url=https://jewishtimesasia.org/regional-news-topmenu-53/618-2015-06/3306-jewish-judge-appointed-to-singapore-court |title=Jewish judge appointed to Singapore court |publisher=Jewish Times Asia |date=20 September 2015 |access-date=26 February 2025}} former High Court judge
Dame Hazel Genn
Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid,{{cite web |url=https://www.rothschildarchive.org/ib/?doc=/ib/articles/BW3bGoldsmid |title= Bank to Westminster: Lionel de Rothschild's journey to parliament, 1847–1858|website=rothschildarchive.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716194636/http://www.rothschildarchive.org/ib/?doc=%2Fib%2Farticles%2FBW3bGoldsmid |archive-date=16 July 2012}} MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister (Q.C. 1858)
Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons,{{cite web|url=http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/salomons-museum/tree/d-lionel-salomons.asp |title=Salomons Family Tree Entry – Salomons Museum – Canterbury Christ Church University |access-date=21 March 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928020950/http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/salomons-museum/tree/d-lionel-salomons.asp |archive-date=28 September 2007 }} barrister
Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith,[http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1100147299159&p=1006953080001] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511162114/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter&cid=1100147299159&p=1006953080001|date=11 May 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=11674035&method=full&siteid=50061|title=News: Liverpool and Merseyside news – Liverpool Echo|website=icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk}} Attorney General
Arthur Lehman Goodhart,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in New York of wealthy Jewish parents" jurist
William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart,Flade, Roland. 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. human rights lawyer and politician (son of Arthur Goodhart)
Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman,{{cite web |url=http://www.liberaljudaism.org/education_anglo_jewry.htm |title=Ideas for community study 350 years of Anglo-jewry |work=LiberalJudaism.org |access-date=12 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091105192153/http://www.liberaljudaism.org/education_anglo_jewry.htm |archive-date=5 November 2009}} solicitor
Dame Rose Heilbron,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/dec/13/guardianobituaries.gender|title=Obituary: Dame Rose Heilbron|first=James|last=Morton|date=13 December 2005|website=The Guardian}} Britain's first female Q.C., judge
Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/06/nlaw06.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/04/06/ixhome.html]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} "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."

Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, lawyer and politician
Sir George Jessel,{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Jessel, Sir George|volume=15|page=336}} Solicitor General for England and Wales, later Master of the Rolls
Anthony Julius,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/05/13/reviews/010513.13wheatct.html|title=Bearing False Witness|website=The New York Times}} prominent lawyer for Princess Diana, and against David Irving
Neville Laski,{{cite web |url=http://www.art.man.ac.uk/RELTHEOL/JEWISH/EXHIBITION/16zion1930s.html |title=16 Zionist Activities in the 1930s |access-date=2007-01-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504140111/http://www.art.man.ac.uk/RELTHEOL/JEWISH/EXHIBITION/16zion1930s.html |archive-date=4 May 2006}} judge
Hersch Lauterpacht{{cite web |url=http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol8/No2/art6.html |title=Tributes to Sir Hersch Lauterpacht |access-date=2006-01-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050905221046/http://ejil.org/journal/Vol8/No2/art6.html |archive-date=5 September 2005}}
Brian Leveson,{{cite news|url=http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/51573/lord-justice-leveson-lead-phonehacking-inquiry|title=Lord Justice Leveson to lead phonehacking inquiry|access-date=13 July 2011|newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle|date=13 July 2011}} Lord Justice of Appeal
Leone Levi, barrister and statisticianJewish Encyclopedia, VIII, 34
George Henry Lewis,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/18/books/in-short-042156.html|title=IN SHORT (Published 1984)|newspaper=The New York Times|date=18 March 1984}}
Gavin Lightman,{{cite web|url=http://www.cjc.org.uk/people.officers.html|title=Commonwealth Jewish Council|website=Commonwealth Jewish Council}} judge; son of Harold Lightman
Harold Lightman, barrister, father of Gavin Lightman and Stafford LightmanObituary: Harold Lightman; The Independent; 18 November 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."
Sir Alan Mocatta,{{cite web|url=http://www.trivia-library.com/a/templeton-foundation-prize-for-religious-progress-history-and-award-winners.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050618075044/http://www.trivia-library.com/a/templeton-foundation-prize-for-religious-progress-history-and-award-winners.htm|url-status=live|archive-date=2005-06-18|title=Sir Alan Mocatta, Jewish}} judge
Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jan/30/guardianobituaries.mainsection|title=Obituary: Lord Mishcon|first=James|last=Morton|date=30 January 2006|website=The Guardian|location=London}} solicitor
David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom; son of Albert Neuberger, brother of James Neuberger and Michael Neuberger, and brother-in-law of Julia NeubergerJewish Year Book 2005: p212 & 214
David Pannick, Baron Pannick, barrister and House of Lords crossbencher
David Pearl,Son of Rabbi Chaim Pearl: see Who's Who (UK) judge
Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers,{{cite web |url=http://community.thejc.com/node/3206 |title=How Jewish is Lord Chief Justice Phillips? | the Jewish Chronicle |access-date=2008-07-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712185046/http://community.thejc.com/node/3206 |archive-date=12 July 2012}} Jewish Chronicle, 11 July 2008, "How Jewish is Lord Chief Justice Phillips?" President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Sir Bernard Rix, Lord Justice of Appeal (2000–2013)JYB 2005: p212 & 214
Leonard Sainer,{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishcare.org/news/?disp_feature=DPUFgl|title=News – Jewish Care|website=jewishcare.org}} solicitor and retailer
Cyril Salmon,[https://www.jewishlivesproject.com/profiles/cyril-barnet-salmon Jewish Lives Project] Accessed 20 November 2019 Judge
Fiona Shackleton, solicitor who has acted for the royal family and Paul McCartney"The Guardian Profile", The Guardian, 15 February 2008, pg.21
Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin,Encyclopaedia Judaica 1st ed, vol 14 cols 1539–1540 solicitor
Victoria Starmer,{{cite news |last1=Strick |first1=Katie |date=2 July 2024 |title=Victoria Starmer: the no-nonsense solicitor set to become Britain's next first lady |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/victoria-starmer-solicitor-keir-wife-first-lady-b1164846.html |access-date=2 July 2024 |work=The Standard}} English solicitor and spouse of the British prime minister
Linda Joy Stern, Q.C., prosecutor and judgeJewish Chronicle 15 September 2006 p31: death notices
Julius Stone{{cite web|url=http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/jurisprudence/juliusstone.shtml |title=About Professor Julius Stone – Centres & Institutes – the University of Sydney |access-date=2006-04-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060623171512/http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/jurisprudence/juliusstone.shtml |archive-date=23 June 2006 }}
Eldred Tabachnik, Q.C., former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/619244.stm|title= Blair unveils Holocaust memorial plan|publisher=BBC News}}
Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth,{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishdutchess.org/recipes_books/book_review.php3 |title=Jewish Dutchess – Jewish Basics |access-date=2005-12-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060220044456/http://jewishdutchess.org/recipes_books/book_review.php3 |archive-date=20 February 2006}} Q.C., former Lord Chief Justice
Vivian Wineman, former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews{{cite news | url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/peace-activist-wineman-snatches-board-presidency-in-close-run-poll-1.9358 | author= Rocker, Simon|title=Peace activist Wineman snatches Board presidency in close-run poll | work=The Jewish Chronicle | date=21 May 2009 | access-date=31 January 2020}}
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf,{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2669719.stm|title=Lord Woolf: Wild about Harry|date=20 July 2018|publisher=BBC News}} former Lord Chief Justice, Q.C., former Master of the Rolls

=Manufacturing=

Sir Leon Bagrit,{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940215,00.html?promoid=googlep|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930043328/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940215,00.html?promoid=googlep|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 September 2007|title=World: TEN FOR THE FUTURE|date=25 January 1963|via=time.com}} pioneer of automation
Sir Monty Finniston, industrialistJYB 1977 p206–7
David Gestetner,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was a devout Jew" inventor
Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan,{{cite web|url=http://www.ajr.org.uk/pastjournal61.htm|title=Making a New Life: Educational opportunities|website=ajr.org.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304013630/http://www.ajr.org.uk/pastjournal61.htm |archive-date=4 March 2007 |url-status=dead}} clothes manufacturer and disgraced friend of Prime Minister Harold WilsonOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His parents were Orthodox Jews"
Sir Emmanuel Kaye,The Times, 14 April 1998, p.1: "the Jewish philanthropist Sir Emmanuel Kaye" industrialist and philanthropist
Lord Alan Sugar, founder and chairman of Amstrad (1968–2007)
Sir Robert Waley-Cohen,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "leading figure in Anglo-Jewry" industrialist
Arnold Weinstock, Lord Weinstock, Chairman of GECJYB 2002, p211

=Media=

Emma Barnett,{{cite news|last=Barnett|first=Emma|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10688125/Can-you-really-be-an-Orthodox-Jew-and-a-feminist.html|title=Can you really be an Orthodox Jew and a feminist?|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=11 March 2014|access-date=30 May 2017}} radio presenter
Rachel Beer, newspaper editor
Rafael Behr,{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/02/israelandthepalestinians.features |title=Testament of youth |last=Behr |first=Rafael |date=2 October 2005 |access-date=2 July 2019 |work=The Guardian|location= London}} journalist
Sidney Bernstein,Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed cinema owner
Benjamin Cohen,{{Cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/news/about_us/meet-the-team/benjamin-cohen.html |title=Channel4.com – news – about us – Meet the Channel 4 News Team – Benjamin Cohen |access-date=26 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070126103925/http://www.channel4.com/news/about_us/meet-the-team/benjamin-cohen.html |archive-date=26 January 2007 |url-status=dead}} Channel 4 News reporter and presenter
Richard Desmond,{{cite web|url=http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/859_sj_super_7.htm|title=SJ Super 7|website=somethingjewish.co.uk}} publisher, Chairman of the Daily Express Group
André Deutsch,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/apr/12/news.obituaries|title=André Deutsch|first=John|last=Calder|date=12 April 2000|website=The Guardian}} publisher
Jonathan Freedland,{{cite news|url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/books/freedland-thriller-1.440666|title=Freedland on Freedland|last=Freedland|first=Michael|date=29 June 2019|access-date=27 July 2019|work=The Jewish Chronicle}} journalist and author
Hadley Freeman,{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Hadley|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/06/sick-of-us-news|title=Sick of US news? Don't worry: there are lots of other things to discuss |work=The Guardian|date=6 November 2012 |access-date=29 May 2018}} journalist
Tanya Gold,{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/dec/05/happy-chrismukah-christian-jewish-family-festive-season-tanya-gold|title=Happy Chrismukah: our season of festive compromise|last=Gold|first=Tanya|date=5 December 2015|access-date=9 March 2020|work=The Guardian}} journalist
Lew Grade,{{cite web |url=http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/crguide/vcp.html |title=Producers |access-date=2012-01-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805134428/http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/crguide/vcp.html |archive-date=5 August 2012}} founder of ATV
Michael Grade,{{cite web |url=http://www.itvplc.com/itv/news/releases/pr2006/2006-11-28/ |title=Board appointment |access-date=2007-01-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125182615/http://www.itvplc.com/itv/news/releases/pr2006/2006-11-28/ |archive-date=25 January 2007}} Chairman of the BBC from 2004 to 2006 and executive chairman of ITV plc from 2007 to 2009.
Michael Green,{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3206880.stm|title=Life and times of Michael Green|date=20 October 2003|publisher=BBC News}} founder of Carlton Television
Miles Jacobson OBE, owner and founder of Sports Interactive and inventor of Football Manager{{cite web|url=https://mobile.twitter.com/milesSI/status/537217871307612160|title=Twitter|website=mobile.twitter.com}}
Sydney Jacobson, newspaper editorOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple"
Natasha Kaplinsky,{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/bbc/series-four/natasha-kaplinsky.asp|title=Help with your research – The National Archives|first=The National|last=Archives}} newsreader, TV presenter
Joseph Moses Levy,{{Cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9048000 |title=Joseph Moses Levy – Britannica Online Encyclopedia |access-date=29 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080108100554/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9048000 |archive-date=8 January 2008 |url-status=dead}} owner of the Daily Telegraph
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NagdhSUgB9oC&q=%22edward+levy+lawson%22+jewish&pg=PA356|title=Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews|first=Albert S.|last=Lindemann|date=4 December 2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521795388|via=Google Books}} newspaper proprietor
Robert Maxwell,{{cite book|editor1-last=Rubinstein |editor1-first=William D.|editor2-last=Jolles |editor2-first=Michael|editor3-last=Rubinstein|editor3-first=Hilary L.|editor1-link=William Rubinstein|editor3-link=Hilary L. Rubinstein|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA502|title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History|location=Basingstoke|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2011|page=654|isbn=9781403939104}} publisher
Suzy Menkes,{{cite web|url=http://www.booknoise.net/johnseabrook/stories/design/menkes/index.html |title=John Seabrook | Stories | A Samurai in Paris: Suzy Menkes |access-date=2007-03-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203071058/http://www.booknoise.net/johnseabrook/stories/design/menkes/index.html |archive-date=3 February 2007 }} fashion journalist
Victoria Coren Mitchell,{{cite web|url=https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/interviews/interview-victoria-coren-1.11349|publisher=thejc.com|title=Interview: Victoria Coren|access-date=26 October 2019}} writer, presenter and professional poker player
David Patrikarakos,{{cite news|url=https://www.oxfordchabad.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/746568/jewish/Past-Speakers.htm|title=Past Speakers Iranian Jewish Postgraduate, David Patrikarakos. Postgraduate student researching Iran and nuclear power, Wadham College, Oxford University.|access-date=30 July 2019|work=Oxford Chabad Society}} journalist
Robert Peston,{{cite news|url=https://www.thejc.com/business/features/robert-peston-the-bbc-reporter-who-means-business-1.1923|title=Robert Peston: The BBC reporter who means business|work=The Jewish Chronicle|date=21 February 2008|access-date=8 March 2020}} TV reporter
Melanie Phillips,{{cite news|url=https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/4989/freethinker/|title=Freethinker|last=Hernroth-Rothstein|first=Annika|date=Winter 2019|access-date=21 March 2020|work=Jewish Review of Books}} journalist
Stephen Pollard,{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/fantastic-timing-a-baptism-of-fire-at-the-jewish-chronicle-1299058.html|title='Fantastic timing': a baptism of fire at the Jewish Chronicle|last=Bell|first=Matthew|date=11 January 2009|access-date=26 September 2019|work=The Independent|location=London}} editor and journalist
Gail Rebuck, publisher [www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-gail-warning-1154352.html]
Paul Reuter,{{Cite web |url=http://www.ejpress.org/article/in_depth/on_anglo_jewry/3810 |title=EJP | in Depth | on Anglo Jewry | Nine famous British Jews |access-date=29 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427034731/http://www.ejpress.org/article/in_depth/on_anglo_jewry/3810 |archive-date=27 April 2006 |url-status=dead}} founder of Reuters
Rachel Riley,{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/rachel-riley-of-countdown-finds-her-jewish-roots-to-take-on-the-corbynistas-7hdmshx7f|title=Rachel Riley of Countdown finds her Jewish roots to take on the Corbynistas|first=Rachel Sylvester, Alice|last=Thomson|via=The Times|location=London}} television presenter and co-host of Countdown
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of the Board, British SKY Broadcasting Group PLCThe Times (London); 3 December 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."'
Joshua Rozenberg,{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/17/marriage-law-commission-reform-marry-outdoors|title=UK marriage law is out of step with the times|last=Rozenberg|first=Joshua|date=17 December 2015|access-date=21 March 2020|work=The Guardian}} journalist
Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi and Charles Saatchi,{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1559703636|title=Saatchi & Saatchi: The Inside Story|first=search|last=results|date=4 November 1996|publisher=Arcade Publishing}} founders of Saatchi and Saatchi
Richard Sharp (BBC chairman),{{cite news |last1=Frazer |first1=Jenni |title=Leading candidate to be next BBC chair is Jewish banking expert Richard Sharp |url=https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/leading-candidate-to-be-next-bbc-chair-is-jewish-banking-expert-richard-sharp/ |access-date=6 January 2021 |work=Jewish News |date=27 October 2020}} BBC chairman
Martin Sorrell,{{cite web|url=http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/553_top_jewish_earners.htm|title=Top Jewish earners|website=somethingjewish.co.uk|access-date=29 December 2005|archive-date=14 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090614094020/http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/553_top_jewish_earners.htm|url-status=dead}} founder of the WPP Group
George Weidenfeld,{{cite web |url=http://www.ajr.org.uk/exhibit.htm |title=The Association of Jewish Refugees |access-date=2007-03-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061014065104/http://www.ajr.org.uk/exhibit.htm |archive-date=14 October 2006}} publisher

=Military=

Sir Edward Brampton, godson of King Edward IV, a knight and commander during the War of the RosesThe first of the Tudors: a study of Henry VII and his reign (Taylor & Francis, 1981) by Michael Van Cleave Alexander, page 97
Frank Alexander de Pass,{{cite web |url=http://www.sephardim.com/html/lore.html |title=Sephardic genealogy at Sephardim.com |access-date=2005-12-29 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051224211804/http://www.sephardim.com/html/lore.html |archive-date=24 December 2005}} World War I British Indian Army Victoria Cross recipient
Albert Goldsmid,{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=322&letter=G#1091|title=GOLDSMID – JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}} colonel
Frederick John Goldsmid,{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=322&letter=G#1107|title=GOLDSMID – JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}} general
Thomas William Gould,[http://www.dictionaryofeverything.com/explore/947/Thomas_William_Gould.html]{{dead link|date=July 2018}} World War II Royal Navy Victoria Cross recipient
John Patrick Kenneally,{{cite web|url=http://www.mishalov.com/Kenneally.html|title=John Kenneally|website=mishalov.com}} World War II British Army Victoria Cross recipient (Jewish father)
Issy Smith,{{cite web|url=http://au.geocities.com/digger_history_youngest_vc/pages/smith-vc.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021105212333/http://au.geocities.com/digger_history_youngest_vc/pages/smith-vc.htm|archive-date=2002-11-05|title=Smith VC|date=5 November 2002}} World War I British Army Victoria Cross recipient
Peter Stevens, World War II bomber pilot/POW and recipient of the Military Cross for numerous escape activities; a German-Jewish refugee living in London at the outbreak of hostilities; born Georg Franz HEIN in Hanover; committed identity theft in order to join the RAF; was naturalized a British citizen in 1946
Wing Commander Roland Robert Stanford Tuck, DSO, DFC and Two Bars, AFC (1916–1987), RAF fighter pilot, Battle of Britain and Battle of France (27 air-to-air kills), English Electric Canberra test pilot
Jack White, World War I British Army Victoria Cross recipient

=Property=

Jack Cotton,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" property developer
David Garrard,{{cite book|last1=Singer|first1=David|last2=Grossman|first2=Lawrence|title=American Jewish Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98Y-vc2xsCwC&pg=PA377|access-date=1 April 2018|year=2003|publisher=VNR AG|isbn=978-0-87495-126-4|page=377}} property developer
Poju Zabludowicz, owner of Tamares Group[http://www.zabludowiczcollection.com/collection/people "People – Zabludowicz Collection"]. Zabludowicz Collection. Retrieved 19 May 2014.

=Retail=

David Alliance, Baron Alliance, businessman and Liberal Democrat politicianJYB 2005 p212
Sir Victor Blank, chairman of GUS
Sir Montague Burton, retailerConcise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Lithuania of Jewish parentage"
Sir Charles Clore,{{cite web |url=http://www.chox.org.uk/generic/default.asp?pageid=84 |title=Oxford Children's Hospital Charity |website=chox.org.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927181321/http://www.chox.org.uk/generic/default.asp?pageid=84 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |url-status=dead}} owner of Selfridges
Jack Cohen,{{Cite web |url=http://www.mytowerhamlets.co.uk/towerhamlets/celebs%26gossip-jack_cohen.htm |title=Jack Cohen – founder of Tesco in Towerhamlets |access-date=29 December 2005 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070928180618/http://www.mytowerhamlets.co.uk/towerhamlets/celebs&gossip-jack_cohen.htm |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url-status=dead}} founder of Tesco
Ralph and David Gold, founders of Ann Summers and co-owners of Birmingham City football clubFinancial Times (London); 13 July 2004; Jonathon Guthrie; p.15
Sir Philip Green,{{cite web|url=http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1008_green_donation.htm|title=Green donation|website=somethingjewish.co.uk}} owner of Bhs, Arcadia Group
Irene Howard, English costume designer; sister of actor Leslie Howard
Stanley Kalms,{{cite web |url=http://www.jpr.org.uk/Press_releases/Kalms_Leigh.htm |title=Press release – Kalms-Leigh |access-date=2005-12-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008114430/http://www.jpr.org.uk/Press_releases/Kalms_Leigh.htm |archive-date=8 October 2006}} now Baron Kalms of Edgware, life president of Dixons Group PLC
Bernard Lewis,Jewish Chronicle, 24 April 1998, p.7: "one Jewish businessman on the up is fashion and property man Bernard Lewis" founder of River Island
David Lewis,{{cite web|url=http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/archive/index.php/index.php?t-1238.html|title=YO! Liverpool|website=yoliverpool.com}} department store founder
Michael Marks,{{cite web|url=https://dbs.bh.org.il/luminary/marks-michael |title=Michael Marks |access-date=30 March 2007 |publisher=The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot }} co-founder of Marks & Spencer (born in the Russian Empire)
Simon Marks, chairman of Marks & Spencer
Gerald Ronson,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2004/jul/25/raceintheuk.theobserver|title=How anti-semitic is the City?|first=Conal|last=Walsh|date=24 July 2004|website=The Guardian}} business tycoon and philanthropist
Marcus Samuel, founder of the "Shell" Transport and Trading CompanyBirmingham Post, 08/11/03, Chris Upton, p.44
Israel Sieff, chairman of Marks & Spencer
Joseph Stillitz, founder and chairman of Gor-Ray
Lord Alan Sugar,{{cite web |url=http://www.totallyjewish.com/entertainment/TJ_gold/?content_id=301 |title=TotallyJewish.com | Entertainment | TJ Gold |access-date=2005-12-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050826203700/http://www.totallyjewish.com/entertainment/TJ_gold/?content_id=301 |archive-date=26 August 2005}} founder of Amstrad and star of The Apprentice (UK)
Isaac Wolfson,http://act.org.nz/news-article.aspx?id=24112{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} founder of GUS plc; philanthropist

Police

Henry Solomon,{{cite web|url=http://www.sussex.police.uk/about_us/aboutus_museum.asp |title=Old Police Cells Museum |access-date=2008-04-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428131749/http://www.sussex.police.uk/about_us/aboutus_museum.asp |archive-date=28 April 2008 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.buses.co.uk/history/fleethist/633hs.htm |title=Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company Limited |access-date=2006-10-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008104834/http://www.buses.co.uk/history/fleethist/633hs.htm |archive-date=8 October 2006 }}http://www.gmjpa.org.uk {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310141433/http://www.gmjpa.org.uk/ |date=10 March 2007 }} Chief Constable of Brighton Borough 1838 to 1844

Political figures

: 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
Rabbi Dr. Tony Bayfield, head of the Movement for Reform Judaism
Leo Baeck, German-born rabbi, scholar, theologian
Jon Benjamin, Chief Executive, Board of Deputies of British Jews
Moses Berlin, 19th-century British Reform rabbi
Lionel Blue, Reform rabbi and broadcaster
Shmuley Boteach, American-born Orthodox rabbi, author, and TV and radio host{{Cite web|url=https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/rob_eshman/99795/|title=Lord Shmuley?|date=4 January 2012|website=Jewish Journal}}
Sir Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi
Felix Carlebach, German-born rabbi
Eli Cashdan, rabbi
Albert Chait, rabbi and broadcaster, Leeds
Isidore Epstein, rabbi, principal of Jews' College
Harry Freedman, rabbi
Moses Gaster, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
Sir Hermann Gollancz, rabbi and educator
Aaron Hart, Chief Rabbi{{cite web |url=http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/HART%2C_AARON_%28Jewish_Encyclopedia%29 |title=HART, AARON (Jewish Encyclopedia) – BibleWiki |access-date=2007-01-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928105726/http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/HART%2C_AARON_%28Jewish_Encyclopedia%29 |archive-date=28 September 2008}}
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
Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi of the Movement for Reform Judaism
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi
Nathan S. Joseph
Casriel Dovid Kaplin, rabbi and dayan
James Kennard, rabbi and educationalist
Hart Lyon, Chief Rabbi
Frederick de Sola Mendes, rabbi
Solomon Mestel, British 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
Jonathan Romain, rabbi
Sir Anthony Rothschild, first president of the United Synagogue
Lord Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi
Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy, rabbi and first Jewish professor in Cambridge
Elyakim Schlesinger, rabbi
Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick, rabbi
Simeon Singer, rabbi
Simon Waley Waley,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "a leading member of the London Jews" lay leader
Chaim Weizmann,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "naturalised British subject, 1910" Zionist leader
Jonathan Wittenberg, Massorti rabbi

Show business

: See List of British Jewish entertainers.

Sports

Philanthropists

Bernhard Baron, cigarette maker and philanthropist{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/Brightonh.htm |title=JCR-UK: Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain – Brighton, England (Paper by Aubrey Newman) |access-date=2012-01-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302041522/http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/Brightonh.htm |archive-date=2 March 2012}}
Sir Clive Bourne,Jewish Chronicle, obituary, 19 January 2007 p.45 philanthropist
Dame Vivien Duffield, philanthropist, daughter of Sir Charles CloreJYB 2005 p214
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishbookweek.com/2007/250207i.php |title=Jewish Book Week 2007 | Walking tour of Jewish Bloombsbury |access-date=2007-03-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223190412/http://www.jewishbookweek.com/2007/250207i.php |archive-date=23 February 2007}}: "Lord Duveen and many other Jewish intellectuals"
Anna Maria Goldsmid,Oxf, ord Dictionary of National Biography: "Born an Orthodox Jew, in her religious practices Anna Maria remained throughout her life very observant" philanthropist
Sir Basil Henriques,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family" philanthropist
Maurice de Hirsch,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." banker and philanthropist
Samuel Lewis,{{cite web |url=http://www.tymsder.co.uk/lender.htm |title=Lender to the Lords |access-date=2007-05-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612043108/http://www.tymsder.co.uk/lender.htm |archive-date=12 June 2007}} financier and philanthropist
Sir Robert Mayer,{{cite web|url=http://ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1987_7_WestEurope.pdf |title=Data |website=ajcarchives.org }} philanthropist
Frederic David Mocatta,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish philanthropist" philanthropist

Miscellaneous

Diana Barnato Walker, first British woman to break the sound barrier{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1927116/Diana-Barnato-Walker.html? |title=Diana Barnato Walker |work=The Daily Telegraph|date=4 May 2008 |location=London |issn=0307-1235 |oclc=49632006 |access-date=12 December 2011}}
Barney Barnato, diamond miner
Jack Beddington,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His family were Jewish" advertising executive
Neil Blair,{{cite web|url=https://www.theblairpartnership.com/2017/09/29/literary-agent-neil-blair-opens-the-neil-blair-special-collections-reading-room-at-oxford-university/|title=NEIL BLAIR OPENS THE NEIL BLAIR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS READING ROOM AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY|access-date=14 July 2019|work=The Blair Partnership}} literary agent
William Buzaglo,{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=William Buzaglo|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=B&artid=1632}} self-proclaimed inventor
Antonio Fernandez Carvajal, merchant, first Jew to be naturalised as a British citizen
Jeremiah Duggan,The Press, Hendon and Finchley Edition, 16 November 2006, p.4: "Student Jeremiah, who was Jewish" possible murder victim
Brian Epstein (1934–1967), music entrepreneur who discovered and managed the Beatles{{cite web|url=https://forward.com/culture/188384/meet-the-fifth-jewish-beatle-manager-brian-epste/|title=Meet the Fifth (Jewish) Beatle – Manager Brian Epstein|website=forward.com|date=4 December 2013 }}
Michael Foster, talent agent{{cite news|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/jewish-labour-donor-not-one-pound-to-central-party/2016/04/10/|title=Jewish Labour Donor: 'Not One Pound to Central Party'|work=The Jewish Press|first=Hana Levi|last=Julian|date=10 April 2016|access-date=16 May 2017}}
Alexander Goldberg,[http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/biographies.shtml]; The Irish Times, Wednesday, 7 January 1998: "Ireland's Young Bloomers" human rights activist, chaplain and barrister
Henry Edward Goldsmid, East India Company servant
Kurt Hahn,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Berlin of Jewish parents" educationalist
Nathaniel Isaacs,{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=256&letter=I&search=ISAACS,+NATHANIEL|title=ISAACS, NATHANIEL – JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}} explorer
Aaron Kosminski, suspect in the Jack the Ripper case
Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840–1899), educationist and orientalistOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "registered with the Jewish community of Pest"{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=169&letter=L&search=Leitner|title=LEITNER, GOTTLIEB WILLIAM – JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}}
Sir Solomon de Medina,{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=328&letter=M|title=MEDINA, SIR SOLOMON DE – JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=jewishencyclopedia.com}} army contractor, first English Jew to be knighted
Nigella Lawson, celebrity chef
Chava Mond,{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.co.il/content.asp?id%3D14439%26sid%3D7 |title=Eonline.co.il |access-date=18 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626005402/http://www.eonline.co.il/content.asp?id=14439&sid=7 |archive-date=26 June 2010 }} model
Dorrit Moussaieff, Israeli-British businesswoman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and the First Lady of Iceland
Yotam Ottolenghi, celebrity chef, food writer
Don Pacifico,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "a Portuguese Jew, but born a British subject" cause of the Pacifico incident
Krystyna Skarbek,[http://www.lire.fr/critique.asp/idC=39075/idR=217/idG=4 Lire: le magazine littéraire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929100209/http://www.lire.fr/critique.asp/idC=39075/idR=217/idG=4 |date=29 September 2007 }}: "la comtesse Krystyna Skarbek, une aristocrate juive" spy
Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen,{{cite web |url=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V38I4P62-1.htm |title=Commentary Magazine – the Jacobs Affair |access-date=2006-04-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050423142301/http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V38I4P62-1.htm |archive-date=23 April 2005}} Lord Mayor of London
Jerelle Jules, rights activist known for challenging discriminatory grooming policies at The Ritz Hotel. {{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Tobi |title=Ritz job applicant informed of afro hair ban says hotel apology 'disingenuous' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/12/ritz-job-applicant-rejected-afro-hair-apology-disingenuous-jerelle-jules |work=The Guardian |date=12 April 2023 |access-date=30 March 2025}}

References

=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, 25 May 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.

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