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

This is a list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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  • Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508), Portuguese-born Spanish philosopher, rabbi, economist and Orthodox Jewish theologist.
  • José Aboulker (1920-2009), French resistance fighter and neurosurgeon.
  • Senor Abravanel (1930-2024), Brazilian businessman, media tycoon and television host. Direct descendant of Isaac Abravanel.
  • Abraham Amigo (1610-1683), Israeli rabbi of Sepharadi descent
  • Benjamin Artom (1835-1879), Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain
  • Lior Ashkenazi (1969-), Israeli actor
  • Ben Ashkenazy (1968/69-), American billionaire real estate developer
  • Moran Atias (1981-), Israeli-American actress
  • Jacques Attali (1943-), Algerian-born French economist, advisor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991
  • Hank Azaria (1964-) American actor, known for voicing many characters in the long-running animated series The Simpsons
  • Max Azria (1949-2019) Tunisian-born American fashion designer

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  • Predrag Finci (1946-), Bosnian-British philosopher, author, and essayist
  • Jacque Fresco (1916-2017), American futurist, industrial engineer, social designer and the founder of The Venus Project

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. Principe/Prince family

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  • ״Nani״ Noam Vazana (1982-), Israeli-Portuguese Singer, Trombonist and Composer and CEO of Why DIY Music

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See also

Footnotes

  1. http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1399-amigo-abraham
  2. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  3. Lee, Felicia. "Facing Down His Color as a Path to Privilege," The New York Times (5 May 1999), pp. E1, 10; reprinted as "A Writer Confronts His Color as A Path to Privilege," in The International Herald Tribune (6 May 1999)
  4. Obituary, Jewish Chronicle Dec 10, 1982 p.12
  5. "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
  6. "Newsday.com / The Library @ newsday.com". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2007-02-03.
  7. "Public Histoire - Sagas - Le TGV". www.public-histoire.com. Archived from the original on 2001-09-07.
  8. "Helene Cixous". Archived from the original on 1999-08-26. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  9. "DERRIDA - TRIBUTE TO JACQUES DERRIDA (1930-2004) previously at Film Forum in New York City". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2007.
  10. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
  11. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son of David Guedalla, an almond broker in Mincing Lane, who came from a Spanish-Jewish family... He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
  12. "Leadership of Sephardic Community Alliance". Archived from the original on 2018-09-02. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  13. independent.co.uk: Obituary: Sir Joshua Hassan
  14. Jacob M. Hassán
  15. El pueblo de Estella dedicará una de sus calles al ceutí Jacob Hassan Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine
  16. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
  17. Horder, John (5 March 1993). "Obituary: Delia de Leon". The Independent.
  18. Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290
  19. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "The Mocatta family were Jews driven from the Iberian peninsula in 1492"
  20. Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001. Notice that Inês Pires is only presently presented as a conversa, and that for centuries there was no known doubt regarding her non-Jewish Portuguese ethnicity (which, of course could have been hidden for religious and political reasons, her being the mother of Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza).
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