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Template:JewsByCountry Jewish immigration to Latin America began with seven sailors arriving in Christopher Columbus's crew. Since then, the Jewish population of Latin America has risen to more than 500,000 — more than half of whom live in Argentina, with large communities also present in Brazil and Mexico. Here is a list of some prominent Latin American Jews, arranged by country of origin.
Argentina
Main article: List of Argentine Jews- Daniel Barenboim, conductor & pianist
- Mario Davidovsky, composer
- Ariel Dorfman, playwright (Argentine-born)
- Alberto Gerchunoff, writer
- Osvaldo Golijov, classical composer
- Mauricio Kagel, classical composer
- Alejandro Lerner, singer / composer
- César Milstein, immunologist, Nobel prize (1984)
- Marcos Mundstock, musician-humorist of group Les Luthiers
- Martín Jaite, former tennis player
- Miguel Najdorf, chess player
- Alicia Partnoy, writer
- José Pekerman, former soccer player, coach of the national team
- Daniel Rabinovich, musician-humorist of group Les Luthiers
- Jacobo Timerman, journalist
Brazil
Main article: List of Brazilian Jews
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Chile
Main article: List of Chilean Jews- Alberto Calderón, bussinessman
- Ariel Dorfman, playwright
- Tomás Hirsch, politician
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, film director (Chilean-born)
- Mario Kreutzberger, better known as Don Francisco, TV host.
- Sebastián Rozental, football player
Colombia
- Jorge Isaacs, poet
- Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, entrepreneur
Cuba
- Ruth Behar, writer
- Jamie-Lynn DiScala, actress (converted Cuban mother)
- Fabio Grobart, communist party co-founder
- Brett Ratner, film director (Cuban mother)
El Salvador
- Juan Lindo, president (1841) (Jewish father)
Guatemala
- Francisco Goldman, author (Jewish father)
Honduras
- Juan Lindo, president (1847) (Jewish father)
- Ricardo Maduro, president (2002)
- Salvador Moncada, pharmacologist (Jewish mother)
Mexico
Main article: List of Mexican Jews- Jacob Bekenstein, physicist
- Jorge Castañeda, foreign minister (Jewish mother)
- Daniel Catán, composer
- Giselle Fernández, television journalist (Jewish mother)
- Julio Frenk Mora, Secretary of Health
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, director
- Frida Kahlo, painter (Jewish father)
- Marcos Moshinsky, physicist
- Henryk Szeryng, violinist
- Leon Trotsky, revolutionary (Mexican exile)
- Pancho Villa, revolutionary (Jewish paternal grandfather)
- Jacobo Zabludovsky, tv journalist
Panama
- Eric Arturo Delvalle, president (1987)
- Ricardo Maduro, Honduran president (Panamanian-born)
Peru
- Almendra Gomelsky, TV host
- Isaac Goldemberg, poet
- Maritza Kirchhausen, playwriter
- Meredith Monk, performance artist
- David Waisman, second vice-president
Uruguay
- Gisele Ben-Dor, conductor
- Jorge Drexler, singer/songwriter (Jewish father, raised Jewish)
- Ricardo Ehrlich, mayor of Montevideo
- Jose Gurvich, painter
- Teresa Porzecanski, writer
- Carlos Sherman, writer (Jewish father, Uruguay-born)
Venezuela
- Manuel Blum, computer scientist, Turing Award (1995)
- Andres Levin, keyboardist in Yerba Buena
- Moisés Kaufman, founder of NY's Tectonic Theater Project
- Reynaldo Hahn, composer (Jewish father)
- Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel prize (1980)
See also
- List of Jews
- List of Argentines
- List of Brazilians
- List of Chileans
- List of Colombians
- List of Cubans
- List of Guatemalans
- List of Panamanians
- List of Peruvians
- List of Uruguayans
- List of Venezuelans