Notable German Jews

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Natural Scientists

1. Adolf von Baeyer, industrial chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1905) (Jewish mother)
   
2. Norbert Berkowitz, physicist
   
3. Hans Bethe, nuclear physics, Nobel Prize (1967)
   
4. Sir Walter Bodmer, medical researcher
   
5. Max Born, quantum mechanics, Nobel Prize (1954)
   
6. Heinrich Caro, industrial chemist
   
7. Nikodem Caro, industrial chemist
   
8. Albert Einstein, theoretical physics, Nobel Prize (1921)
   
9. Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, astronomer
   
10. James Franck, quantum physics, Nobel Prize (1925)
    
11. Adolph Frank, industrial chemist
    
12. Herbert Fröhlich, physicist
    
13. Eugen Glueckauf, chemist, expert on atomic energy
    
14. Hans Goldschmidt, industrial chemist
    
15. Fritz Haber, developed the Haber process, Nobel Prize (1918)
    
16. Walter Heitler, chemist
    
17. Arthur Korn, physicist
    
18. Ernst Ising, statistical mechanics
    
19. Albert Ladenburg, chemist
    
20. Fritz London, quantum mechanics
    
21. Leonard Mandel, quantum optics
    
22. Kurt Mendelssohn, German-born British medical physicist
    
23. Viktor Meyer, organic chemist
    
24. Leonor Michaelis, biochemist
    
25. Albert Michelson, measured speed of light, Nobel Prize (1907) (Jewish father)
    
26. Ludwig Mond, chemist & industrialist
    
27. Sir Rudolf Peierls, solid state theory
    
28. Arno Penzias, co-discoverer of CMB, Nobel Prize (1978)
    
29. Alfred Philippson, geologist
    
30. John Charles Polanyi, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1986) (born Berlin, educated in UK)
    
31. Ernst Pringsheim, spectrometry, black-body radiation
    
32. Michael Rossmann, physicist and microbiologist (Jewish mother)
    
33. Rudolf Schoenheimer, biochemist
    
34. Arthur Schuster, spectroscopist
    
35. Karl Schwarzschild, physicist & Astronomen
    
36. Franz Simon, physicist, separation of Uranium 235
    
37. Jack Steinberger, particle physics, Nobel Prize (1988)
    
38. Otto Stern, experimental physicist, Nobel Prize (1943)
    
39. Otto Wallach, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1910)
    
40. Richard Willstätter, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1915)
    

Physicians / Medical Researchers

1. Adolph Baginsky, pediatrician, diphtheria researcher
   
2. Alfred Bielschowsky, ophthalmologist
   
3. Max Bielschowsky, neuropathologist
   
4. Konrad Bloch, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1964)
   
5. Marcus Elieser Bloch, physician
   
6. Gustav Born, professor of pharmacology
   
7. Edith Bulbring, Professor of pharmacy (Jewish mother)
   
8. Sir Ernst B. Chain, developed penicillin, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1945)
   
9. Ferdinand Cohn, pioneer in microbiology
   
10. Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, pathologist
    
11. Paul Ehrlich, developed magic bullet concept, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1908)
    
12. Arthur Eichengrün, possible inventor of aspirin
    
13. Wilhelm Feldberg, biologist
    
14. Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, biochemist
    
15. Ludwig Frankenthal, surgeon
    
16. Hermann Friedberg, physician
    
17. Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, geneticist
    
18. Ernst Gräfenberg, obstetrician, the G-spot
    
19. Martin Gumpert, physician, writer
    
20. Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, physician
    
21. Sir Bernard Katz, biophysicist, Nobel Prize (1970)
    
22. Hans Kornberg, biochemist researcher[
    
23. Hans Kosterlitz, discovered endorphins
    
24. Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953)
    
25. Fritz Lipmann, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953)
    
26. Jacques Loeb, physiologist
    
27. Otto Loewi, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1936)
    
28. Elisabeth Mann, biologist (Jewish mother)
    
29. Otto Meyerhof, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1922) (Jewish father)
    
30. Oskar Minkowski, physiologist
    
31. Albert Neisser, physician, discovered the cause of gonorrhea (Jewish father)
    
32. Emin Pasha, physician, naturalist, explorer
    
33. Nathanael Pringsheim, botanist
    
34. Ottomar Rosenbach, physician
    
35. Moritz Traube, biochemist
    
36. Moshe Wallach, founder and director, Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem
    
37. Schwester Selma, longtime head nurse at Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem
    
38. Carl Warburg, doctor of medicine and clinical pharmacologist.
    
39. Otto Heinrich Warburg, physiologist, Nobel Prize (1931) (Jewish father)
    
40. Karl Weigert, pathologist
    

Economists

1. Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize for Economics
   
2. Richard Ehrenberg, economist
   
3. Ludwig Lachmann, economist
   
4. Emil Lederer, economist
   
5. Robert Liefmann, economist
   
6. Adolph Lowe, economist
   
7. Rosa Luxemburg, economist, co-founder of the KPD
   
8. Fritz Naphtali, economist, editor, later Israeli finance minister
   
9. Sigbert Prais, economist (JYB 2005 p215)
   
10. Reinhard Selten, Nobel prize (1994)
    
11. Hans Singer, economist
    

Mathematicians

1. Felix Bernstein, set theory
   
2. Maurice Block, statistician
   
3. Richard Brauer, modular representation theory
   
4. Paul Cohn, algebraist
   
5. Richard Courant, mathematical analysis & applied mathematics
   
6. Max Dehn, topology
   
7. Paul Epstein, number theory
   
8. Adolf Fraenkel, set theory
   
9. Hans Freudenthal, algebraic topology
   
10. Felix Hausdorff, topology
    
11. Heinz Hopf, topology (Jewish father)
    
12. Adolf Hurwitz, mathematician
    
13. Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, analysis
    
14. Leopold Kronecker, number theory
    
15. Edmund Landau, number theory
    
16. Rudolf Lipschitz, mathematician
    
17. Kurt Mahler, mathematician
    
18. Hermann Minkowski, geometrical theory of numbers
    
19. Claus Moser, Statistician
    
20. Leonard Nelson, mathematician, philosopher
    
21. Bernhard Neumann, mathematician
    
22. Emmy Noether, algebra & theoretical physics
    
23. Alfred Pringsheim, analysis, theory of functions
    
24. Richard Rado, combinatorics
    
25. Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis
    
26. Arthur Moritz Schönflies, mathematician
    
27. Issai Schur, mathematician
    
28. Otto Toeplitz, linear algebra & functional analysis
    

Technical Scientists

1. Ralph Baer, inventor of the games console
   
2. Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone
   
3. Emanuel Goldberg (1881–1970, from Russia, but published in German), pioneered Microdots and microfilm retrieval technology
   
4. Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, electrical engineer
   
5. Siegfried Marcus, automobile pioneer
   
6. Michael O. Rabin, computer algorithms, Turing Award (1976)
   
7. Reinhold Rudenberg, electrical engineer and inventor, Reinhold Rudenberg
   
8. Adolf Schallamach, pioneered understanding of friction and wear phenomena in rubber
   
9. Joseph Weizenbaum, AI critic, ELIZA
   

Psychologists

1. Karl Abraham, psychoanalyst
   
2. Rudolf Arnheim, perception theorist
   
3. Erik Erikson, developmental psychologist (Jewish mother)
   
4. Erich Fromm, psychologist & humanistic philosopher
   
5. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, psychoanalyst
   
6. Kurt Goldstein, Gestalt-influenced neurologist
   
7. Max Hamilton, psychiatrist
   
8. Magnus Hirschfeld, sexologist
   
9. Kurt Koffka, Gestalt psychologist
   
10. Kurt Lewin, social psychologist
    
11. Hugo Münsterberg, industrial psychologist
    
12. Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
    
13. Erich Neumann, analytical psychologist
    
14. Fritz Perls, psychotherapist
    
15. Otto Selz, cognitive psychologist
    
16. William Stern, the Intelligence Quotient
    
17. Max Wertheimer, Gestalt psychologist
    

Philosophers

1. Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), philosopher (Jewish father)
   
2. Ernst Bloch, philosopher
   
3. Constantin Brunner, philosopher
   
4. Ernst Cassirer, philosopher
   
5. Hermann Cohen, philosopher
   
6. Friedrich Dessauer, philosopher
   
7. Max Dessoir, philosopher
   
8. Ossip Flechtheim Sociologist Philosopher
   
9. Julius Frauenstädt, philosopher
   
10. Kurt Grelling, philosopher
    
11. Richard Hönigswald (Jewish father)
    
12. Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), philosopher & sociologist
    
13. Edmund Husserl, philosopher (converted to Christianity)
    
14. Hans Jonas, philosopher
    
15. Horace Kallen, philosopher
    
16. Adolf Lasson, philosopher
    
17. Theodor Lessing, philosopher, writer
    
18. Karl Löwith, philosopher
    
19. Salomon Maimon, philosopher
    
20. Fritz Mauthner, author & philosopher
    
21. Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher, scholar
    
22. Helmuth Plessner, philosopher (Jewish father)
    
23. Hans Reichenbach, philosopher (Jewish father)
    
24. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, philosopher (Jewish father)
    
25. Max Scheler, philosopher (Jewish mother)
    
26. Kurt Sternberg, philosopher
    
27. Richard Rudolf Walzer, philosopher (Jewish Year Book 1975 p214)
    

Historians

1. Ernst Bernheim, historian
   
2. Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (son of Wictor Ehrenberg)
   
3. Richard Ettinghausen, art historian
   
4. Henry Friedlander, historian
   
5. Peter Gay, historian
   
6. Heinrich Graetz, historian
   
7. George W. F. Hallgarten, historian
   
8. Eric Hobsbawm, historian
   
9. Ernst Kantorowicz, historian of medieval political and intellectual history
   
10. Richard Krautheimer, historian
    
11. Arno Lustiger, historian
    
12. Lothar Machtan
    
13. Golo Mann, historian (Jewish mother)
    
14. George Mosse, historian
    
15. Hans Rothfels, historian
    
16. Fritz Stern, historian
    
17. Michael Wolffsohn, historian
    

Social Scientists

1. Reinhard Bendix, sociologist
   
2. Eduard Bernstein, founder of evolutionary socialism
   
3. Franz Boas, cultural anthropologist
   
4. Lewis A. Coser, sociologist
   
5. Norbert Elias, sociologist
   
6. Amitai Etzioni, sociologist
   
7. Shelomo Dov Goitein, Arabist
   
8. Moses Hess, socialist
   
9. Eugene Kamenka, sociologist
   
10. Siegfried Kracauer, sociologist & film critic
    
11. Ferdinand Lassalle, founder of first German worker's party
    
12. Karl Mannheim, sociologist
    
13. Herbert Marcuse, sociologist, New Left figurehead
    
14. Karl Marx, founder of communism (parents converted to Protestantism)
    
15. Franz Oppenheimer, sociologist & economist
    
16. Leo Loewenthal, sociologist
    
17. Georg Simmel, sociologist
    
18. Georg Steindorff, egyptologist (Jewish father)
    
19. Jacob Taubes, theologist
    
20. Louis Wirth, sociologist
    

Jurists

1. Hannah Arendt, political theorist
   
2. Jacob Friedrich Behrend, jurist
   
3. David Daube, Professor of Law
   
4. Heinrich Dernburg, jurist
   
5. Victor Ehrenberg, juris
   
6. Hugo Haase, jurist
   
7. Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, Professor of Law
   
8. Hermann Kantorowicz, jurist
   
9. Walter Kaskel, jurist
   
10. Robert Kempner, jurist
    
11. Paul Laband, jurist, b. Breslau
    
12. Otto Lenel, jurist
    
13. Franz Neumann, legal theorist
    
14. Arthur Nussbaum, jurist
    
15. Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, financial planner & court Jew
    
16. Gabriel Riesser, deputy speaker of Frankfurt Assembly in 1848, first Jewish judge in Hamburg
    
17. Rudolf Schlesinger, jurist
    
18. Georg Schwarzenberger, jurist
    
19. Hugo Sinzheimer, legal scholar
    
20. Sigmund Zeisler, jurist
    

Scholars

1. Moses Buttenweiser (1862–1939), Bible scholar
   
2. Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch (1829–1873), Semitic scholar and orientalist
   
3. Marcus Kalisch, Biblical scholar
   
4. Arthur Liebert
   

Writers - Journalists - Poets

1. Erich Auerbach, literature critic
   
2. Julius Bab, dramatist and theater critic
   
3. Jurek Becker, writer
   
4. Maxim Biller, writer
   
5. Rudolf Borchardt poet
   
6. Ludwig Börne, satirist
   
7. Otto Brahm, literary critic
   
8. Henryk Broder, journalist
   
9. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), literary critic & philosopher
   
10. Emil Carlebach, writer, dissident
    
11. Joseph Derenbourg, orientalist, father of Hartwig Derenbourg
    
12. Hilde Domin, poet
    
13. Lion Feuchtwanger, novelist
    
14. Hubert Fichte, author (Jewish father)
    
15. Anne Frank, diarist
    
16. Karen Gershon, poet (1923–1993)
    
17. Friedrich Gundolf, literary man
    
18. Glückel of Hameln, 18th-century Yiddish diarist
    
19. Maximilian Harden, journalist
    
20. Heinrich Heine, poet (converted for job prospects)
    
21. Stefan Heym, novelist, politician
    
22. Wolfgang Hildesheimer
    
23. Edgar Hilsenrath, novelist
    
24. Barbara Honigmann, writer
    
25. Heinrich Eduard Jacob, writer and journalist
    
26. Siegfried Jacobsohn, journalist and theater critic
    
27. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter
    
28. Wladimir Kaminer, short story writer
    
29. Judith Kerr, children's writer
    
30. Victor Klemperer, writer
    
31. Else Lasker-Schüler, writer, poet & artist (converted to Protestantism for job prospects)
    
32. Claire Loewenfeld, writer and herbalist.
    
33. Gila Lustiger, author
    
34. Erika Mann, writer, actress (Jewish mother)
    
35. Klaus Mann, writer (Jewish mother)
    
36. Monika Mann, writer (Jewish mother)
    
37. Julius Mosen, born Moses
    
38. Erich Mühsam, anarchist poet
    
39. Henning Pawel, child-book author, writer.
    
40. Solomon Perel, author
    
41. Marcel Reich-Ranicki, literary critic
    
42. H. A. Rey & Margret Rey, creators of Curious George
    
43. Renate Rubinstein (Jewish father)
    
44. Nelly Sachs, poet, Nobel Prize (1966)
    
45. Anna Seghers, novelist
    
46. Oskar Seidlin, writer
    
47. Rafael Seligmann, writer
    
48. William Sternheim playwright
    
49. Süßkind von Trimberg writer
    
50. Kurt Tucholsky, writer (converted to Protestantism)
    
51. Samuel Ullman, poet
    
52. Rahel Varnhagen, writer and saloniste (converted to Christianity)
    
53. Moritz Callmann Wahl
    
54. Jakob Wassermann, novelist
    
55. Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
    
56. Jeanette Wohl
    
57. Friedrich Wolf, writer, physician
    
58. Carl Zuckmayer, playwright (Jewish mother)
    
59. Arnold Zweig, writer
    
60. Stefan Zweig, novelist, playwright and journalist, best known for his autobiograph
    
61. Walter Tetzlaff, ed. "2000 Kurzbiographien bedeutender deutscher Juden des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Lindhorst: Askania, 1982).
    

Linguists and philologists

1. Paulus Aemilius, professor of Hebrew
   
2. Theodor Benfey, linguist (Jewish father)
   
3. Eduard Fraenkel, philologist
   
4. Wilhelm Freund, philologist
   
5. Ludwig Friedländer, philologist
   
6. Julius Fürst, orientalist
   
7. Theodor Goldstücker, linguist
   
8. Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, linguist
   
9. Victor Klemperer, linguist & diarist
   
10. Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Professor of German
    
11. Chaim Menachem Rabin, linguist
    
12. Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist
    
13. Ernest Simon, professor of Chinese
    
14. Heymann Steinthal, linguist
    

Musicians

1. Samuel Adler, composer
2. Haim Alexander, composer
3. Tzvi Avni, composer
4. Paul Ben-Haim, composer
5. Julius Benedict, composer
6. Herman Berlinski, American composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and choir conductor
7. Wolf Biermann, singer/songwriter (Jewish father)
8. Yehezkel Braun, Israeli composer
9. Manfred Bukofzer, musicologist
10. Paul Dessau, composer
11. Abel Ehrlich, Israeli composer
12. Alfred Einstein, musicologist
13. Hanns Eisler, German-born composer (Jewish father)
14. Lukas Foss, composer & conductor Claude Frank, pianist
15. Alexander Goehr, composer
16. Walter Goehr, conductor
17. Berthold Goldschmidt, composer
18. Bernard Greenhouse, cellist
19. George Henschel, singer & conductor
20. Alfred Hertz, conductor
21. André Herzberg, musician
22. Gerard Hoffnung, musicologist
23. Friedrich Holländer, composer
24. Salomon Jadassohn, composer
25. Leon Jessel, composer
26. Robert Kahn, composer
27. Otto Klemperer, conductor
28. Robert Lachmann, musicologist
29. Ludwig Lenel, organist and composer
30. Hermann Levi, conductor
31. Alfred Lion & Frank Wulff, founders of Blue Note Records
32. Edward Lowinsky, musicologist
33. Michael Mann, musician (Jewish mother)
34. Arnold Mendelssohn, organist
35. Felix Mendelssohn, composer & conductor (Jewish ancestry but raised Lutheran)
36. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, composer
37. Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer
38. Ben-Zion Orgad, Israeli composer
39. Menahem Pressler, pianist
40. André Previn, conductor
41. Franz Reizenstein, pianist, composer
42. Curt Sachs, musicologist, co-founder of modern organology
43. Kurt Sanderling, conductor
44. Adolf Martin Schlesinger, music publisher
45. Heinrich Sontheim, tenor
46. William Steinberg, conductor
47. Erich Walter Sternberg, composer
48. Josef Tal, composer
49. Ilia Trilling, synagogue composer
50. Ignatz Waghalter, composer & conductor
51. Bruno Walter, conductor (Jewish father)
52. Franz Waxman, film composer
53. Kurt Weill, composer
54. Indira Weiss, singer & actress
55. Stefan Wolpe, composer
56. Alec Empire, member of Atari Teenage Riot
57. Hilde Zadek, soprano
58. Aron Liedtke, Music Producer

Artists - Art Dealers

1. • Anni Albers, textile designer
2. • Frank Auerbach, painter
3. • Eduard Bendemann, painter
4. • Martin Bloch, British painter
5. • Erwin Blumenfeld, photographer
6. Paul Cassirer gallery owner
7. • Alfred Eisenstaedt, photographer
8. • Benno Elkan, sculptor
9. Alfred Flechteim art gallery owner
10. • James Ingo Freed, architect
11. • Gisèle Freund, photographer
12. • Eva Hesse, materials artist
13. • Erich Kahn, painter, expressionist
14. • Eugen Kaufmann, architect
15. • Hugo Lederer (1871–1940) sculptor
16. • Max Liebermann, painter
17. • Wilhelm Löwith, artist
18. • Peter Max, pop artist
19. • Ludwig Meidner, painter
20. • Erich Mendelsohn, architect
21. • Helmut Newton, photographer (Jewish father)
22. • Felix Nussbaum, painter
23. • Meret Oppenheim, surrealist
24. • Erwin Panofsky, art historian
25. • Hans Schleger, designer
26. • Charlotte Salomon, artist
27. • Erich Salomon, news photographer Grete Stern, photographer
28. • Victor Weisz, Vicky, cartoonist

Showbusiness

1. • Hugo Egon Balder, comedian, producer (Jewish mother)
2. • Ludwig Berger, director
3. • Lotte Berk, dancer and health guru
4. • Kurt Bernhardt, director
5. • Artur Brauner, film producer
6. • Friedrich Dalsheim, director
7. • Michael Degen, actor
8. • Ernst Dohm, actor, editor
9. • Hedwig Dohm-Pringsheim, actress
10. • E.A. Dupont, director
11. • Michel Friedman, TV personality
12. • Kurt Gerron, stage actor & film director
13. • Dora Gerson, actress, cabaret singer
14. • Therese Giehse, actress Pepermill
15. • Lou Jacobs, clown
16. • Ludwig Karl Koch, broadcaster and sound recordist
17. • Werner Klemperer, Movie, TV Hogan's Heroes and Broadway actor, violinist
18. • Carl Laemmle, film producer
19. • Paul Leni, film director
20. • Ernst Lubitsch, director
21. • Jeanine Meerapfel, film director and screenwriter
22. • Max Ophüls, film director
23. • Richard Oswald, director
24. • Ferdinand Eduard Pahnecke, actor
25. • Lilli Palmer, actress
26. • Hans Rosenthal, one of Germany's most popular TV personalities in history
27. • Susan Sideropoulos, actress
28. • Robert Siodmak, director
29. • Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist
30. • Konrad Wolf, film director
31. • Peter Zadek, theatre director
32. • Christian Berkel, actor

Politicians

1. • Fischel Arnheim, politician

1. Siegfried Aufhäuser, SPD politician and Reichstag member (1921-1933)
   

1. • Ludwig Bamberger, politician
2. • Daniel Cohn-Bendit, member of European Parliament, student leader in 1968
3. • Wilhelm Dröscher, SPD politician (half-Jewish)
4. • Kurt Eisner, Bavarian prime minister
5. • Heinrich von Friedberg, jurist, statesman (converted to Christianity)
6. • Karl Rudolf Friedenthal, Prussian politician
7. • Clement Freud, German-born British MP
8. • Alex Himelfarb, ambassador
9. • Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, Nobel Prize (1973)
10. • Ludwig Landmann, mayor of Frankfurt/Main
11. • Eduard Lasker, co-founder of the National Liberal Party
12. • Eugen Levine, Bavarian prime minister
13. • Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin, Member of parliament, Green party, Feminist party
14. • Eduard von Simson, President of the Reichstag, President of the Reichsgericht
15. • Walther Rathenau, Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic
16. • Herbert Weichmann, mayor of Hamburg
17. • Jeanette Wolff, West Berlin politician
18. • Walter Wolfgang, German-born politician

Entrepreneurs

1. Albert Ballin entrepreneur
2. • Alfred Beit, financier
3. • Sir Ernest Cassel, banker
4. • Maurice de Hirsch, banker
5. Emil Rathenau
6. • Hugo Reiss
7. • Sir Robert Mayer, German-born businessman and philanthropist
8. • Stef Wertheimer "77 year old German-born Stef Wertheimer"
9. • Abraham Kuhn[73] and Solomon Loeb, founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
10. • Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, founder of Harland and Wolff

Court Jews

1. • Josel of Rosheim; de (1476–1554)
2. • Chajim Fürst, (1592–1653), court agent in Hamburg, elder of the Jewish community in Hamburg, richest Jew in Hamburg.
3. • Moses Israel Fürst, (1617–1692), court agent in Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Schwerin
4. • Leffmann Behrends (Liepmann Cohen) of Hanover (c. 1630–1714)
5. • Samuel Oppenheimer (1635–1703), military supplier for the Holy Roman Emperor.
6. • Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724), Austrian financier,rabbi of Eisenstadt
7. • Issachar Berend Lehmann; de (1661–1730)
8. • Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698–1738), financier for Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg
9. • Aaron Beer († 1740) of Aurich and Frankfurt
10. • Löw Sinzheim (c. 1675 – 1744), court purveyor of Mainz
11. • Daniel Itzig (1723–1799), a court Jew of Frederick II the Great and Frederick William II of Prussia.
12. • Raphael Kaulla († 1810) and "Madame Kaulla" (1739–1809)
13. Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), "court factor" for William I, Elector of Hesse
14. • Israel Jacobson (1768–1828), philanthropist and reformer, court agent of Brunswick.
15. • Wolf Breidenbach (1751–1829), factor to the Elector of Hesse, father of Moritz Wilhelm August Breidenbach

Rabbis

1. • Ahron Daum, Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt am Main
2. • Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
3. • Samson Raphael Hirsch, intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism
4. • Levi Herzfeld, 19th century proponent of moderate reform

Activists

1. • Hedwig Dohm-Schleh, feminist, author
2. • Nahum Goldmann, president of World Jewish Congress
3. • Josel of Rosheim, court Jew & Jewish advocate
4. • Paul Spiegel, leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany

Sports

1. • Rudi Ball, ice hockey player, right wing, Olympic bronze, world runner-up, bronze
2. • Gretel Bergmann, high jumper
3. • Hans Berliner, world postal chess champion
4. • Barney Dreyfuss, co-founder of the World Series
5. • Alfred Flatow, 3x Olympic gymnastics champion (parallel bars, team parallel bars, team horizontal bar), silver (horizontal bar)
6. • Gustav Felix Flatow, 2x Olympic gymnastics champion (team parallel bars, team horizontal bar)
7. • Gottfried Fuchs, soccer player, (German national team)
8. • Ludwig Guttmann, founder of the Paralympics
9. • Lilli Henoch, world records (discus, shot put, and 4x100-m relay); shot by the Nazis in Latvia
10. • Julius Hirsch, footballer, German champion, killed during the Holocaust
11. • Bernhard Horwitz, chess player
12. • Herbert Klein, swimmer, Olympic bronze (200-m breaststroke); 3 world records
13. • Emanuel Lasker, world chess champion
14. • Henry Laskau, racewalker, won 42 national titles; Pan American champion; 4x Maccabiah champion
15. • Helene Mayer, foil fencer (Jewish father), Olympic champion
16. • Sarah Poewe, swimmer (Jewish mother), Olympic bronze (4x100 medley relay)
17. • Daniel Prenn, tennis player, highest world ranking # 6
18. • Siegbert Tarrasch, chess player

Educationalists

1. • Lewis Elton, educationalist
2. • Kurt Hahn, educationalist

Other

1. • Ridley Haim Herschell, missionary
2. • Joseph Wolff, missionary