List of British Jews

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:More citations needed Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists 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 Cambridge<ref>JYB 2005 p218</ref>
• Geoffrey Alderman,<ref>[1] "her father, Geoffrey Alderman, is a columnist for the Jewish Chronicle, and her family are strict Orthodox Jews" Accessed 3 January 2007</ref> historian
• Richard David Barnett, museum curator and archaeologist<ref>JYB 1985 p187</ref>
• Norman Cohn, historian<ref name="JYB 2005 p215">JYB 2005 p215</ref>
• Isaac Deutscher,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> historian
• Geoffrey Rudolph Elton,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> historian
• Samuel Finer<ref>Oxford 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."</ref>
• Sir Moses I. Finley,<ref name="Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed">Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.</ref> historian and sociologist
• Sir Martin Gilbert, historian
• Martin Goodman<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Philip Guedalla,<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"</ref> biographer
• Eric Hobsbawm,<ref>Martin Beckford, "Jewish group rejects uncritical support of Israel" Telegraph (5 February 2007)</ref> historian and Communist theoretician
• Jonathan Israel, historian<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Joseph Jacobs,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
• Lisa Jardine, historian<ref>The 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."</ref>
• Tony Judt,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at New York University
• Elie Kedourie,<ref>Jewish Year Book 1990 p202</ref> historian and political scientist
• Otto Kurz, historian<ref name="JYB 1975 p214">JYB 1975 p214</ref>
• Bernard Lewis,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> historian
• David Malcolm Lewis, professor of history, University of Oxford<ref>JYB 1995 p193</ref>
• Hyam Maccoby, professor of history<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Sir Philip Magnus, 1st Baronet, educationalist and politician
• Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 2nd Baronet,<ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Magnus"</ref> biographer
• Shula Marks, expert on African history<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Arnaldo Momigliano, professor of history, University College London<ref name="JYB 1985 p188">JYB 1985 p188</ref>
• Lewis Bernstein Namier,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> historian (converted to Anglicanism)
• Sir Francis Palgrave (born Cohen) (1768–1861),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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<ref name="JYB 1985 p188"/>
• Cecil Roth,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> historian and editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica
• Simon Schama,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> historian
• Leonard Schapiro,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Glasgow of an Anglophile Riga Jewish family"</ref> historian
• Simon Sebag Montefiore,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> historian
• Charles Singer,<ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Historians, list headed "Prominent Jewish General Historians"</ref> historian of science
• Sir Aurel Stein,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> archeologist
• Barry Supple, economic historian<ref>Jewish Year Book, 2005, p. 215</ref>
• Geza Vermes<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Medical

• Sir George Alberti, President, Royal College of Physicians<ref>Jewish Chronicle, 14 January 2000, p.14 "Knighthood goes to diabetes pioneer"</ref>
• Asher Asher,<ref name="ReferenceA">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</ref> first Scottish Jewish doctor
• Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents of Russian origin"</ref> President of the Royal Society of Medicine
• Professor Andrew Eder, dentist, clinical academic, strategic board adviser, and charity trustee<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Sir Ian Gainsford, dentist<ref>JYB 2007 p197, 222</ref>
• Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 1923–2007<ref>Times obituary, 17 October 2007</ref>
• Max Hamilton,<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the son of Jewish parents"</ref> psychiatrist
• Roderigo Lopez, New Christian doctor to Queen Elizabeth I<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish physician"</ref>
• John Henry Marks,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> former chairman of the British Medical Association
• Sir Jonathan Miller,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> physician and theatre director
• Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> professor, FMedSci
• Oliver Zangwill, professor of psychology<ref>JYB 1980 p182</ref>

Philosophers

• Samuel Alexander,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> professor of philosophy at Manchester, born in Australia, the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college
• Sir Alfred Ayer,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> philosopher, populariser of logical positivism (Jewish mother)
• Sir Isaiah Berlin,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> political philosopher
• Max Black,<ref name="Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed"/> philosopher
• Gerald Cohen, Oxford professor of philosophy<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Laurence Jonathan Cohen, Oxford professor of philosophy<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Ernest Gellner,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> philosopher social scientist
• H. L. A. Hart,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> legal philosopher
• Brian Klug,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Imre Lakatos,<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of Jacob Márton Lipsitz, a wine merchant, and Márgit Herczfeld, both Hungarian Jews"</ref> Hungarian-born philosopher
• Alexander Piatigorsky,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> philosopher, Buddhologist, writer
• Sir Karl Popper,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> philosopher of science (family became Lutheran)
• Jonathan Romain, minister of Maidenhead Jewish community and leader of the British reform movement
• Richard Rudolf Walzer<ref name="JYB 1975 p214"/>
• 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Social scientists

• Roy Clive Abraham,<ref name="ReferenceA"/> linguist
• Michael Balint,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism)
• Zygmunt Bauman,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> sociologist
• Basil Bernstein,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> linguist
• Vernon Bogdanor, professor of politics<ref>JYB 2005 p215, 223</ref>
• Gerald Cohen, professor of social and political theory<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Arthur Lumley Davids, linguist and orientalist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Norbert Elias,<ref>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"</ref> sociologist
• Herman Finer,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> political scientist
• Samuel Finer,<ref>Jewish Chronicle obituary, 25 June 1993, p.15</ref> political scientist
• Sir Moses I. Finley,<ref name="Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed"/> historian and sociologist
• Meyer Fortes, anthropologist<ref name="JYB 1980 p183">JYB 1980 p183</ref>
• Eduard Fraenkel, philologist<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "An unbaptized Jew"</ref>
• Anna Freud,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> child psychoanalyst
• Norman Geras, professor of government<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Morris Ginsberg, sociologist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Max Gluckman, anthropologist<ref>JYB 1975 p213</ref>
• Theodor Goldstücker,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "of Jewish parentage"</ref> orientalist
• Jean Gottmann,<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of prosperous Jewish parents"</ref> professor of geography, Oxford University
• Julius Gould, sociologist<ref>JYB 2005 p249</ref>
• David Hirsh,<ref name="Lipman">Template:Cite news</ref> lecturer in sociology
• Paul Hirst,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> social theorist (Jewish mother)
• Marie Jahoda,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> psychology of discrimination
• Melanie Klein,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> child psychoanalyst
• Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Steven Lukes, political scientist<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Ashley Montagu,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> anthropologist and humanist
• Isaac Schapera, anthropologist<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Edward Ullendorff, linguist<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>

Theologians and Hebraists

• Isaac Abendana,<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref> Hebraist
• Chimen Abramsky,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> professor of Hebrew
• Lionel Barnett,<ref>Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, 5 February 1960, p.1</ref> orientalist
• Abraham Benisch,<ref name="ReferenceB">Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents"</ref> Hebraist and editor of the Jewish Chronicle
• Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch,<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref> Semitic scholar and orientalist
• Alfred Edersheim,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents at Vienna"</ref> Bible scholar
• Philip Ferdinand,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: born in Poland of Jewish parents</ref> professor of Hebrew
• Christian David Ginsburg,<ref>born Jewish; see Dictionary of National Biography</ref> expert on the Masoretic Text
• Ridley Haim Herschell,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Prussian Poland of Jewish parents"</ref> missionary
• Marcus Kalisch,<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref> Hebraist and Biblical commentator
• David Levi,<ref>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"</ref> Jewish scholar
• David Samuel Margoliouth,<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "an academically highly gifted boy of Jewish parentage"</ref> orientalist (family converted to Anglicanism)
• Hugh Montefiore,<ref>His own book On Being a Jewish Christian (1998)</ref> bishop
• Adolf Neubauer,<ref>"Adolf Neubauer" Jewish Encyclopedia</ref> Hebraist
• Stefan Reif,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Cambridge academic
• Judah Segal, professor of Semitic languages<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Joseph Wolff,<ref name="ReferenceB"/> missionary

Others

• Sidney Greenbaum, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London 1983–90<ref>"if there was anything invariant in his life, it was his strictly observant devotion to orthodox Judaism". [2]</ref>

Artists

Fine arts

• Frank Auerbach,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> painter
• Edith Birkin, painter<ref name="edith">Template:Cite web</ref>
• David Bomberg,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> painter
• Sir Anthony Caro,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> sculptor<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Benno Elkan,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born at Dortmund of Jewish parentage"</ref> sculptor
• Sir Jacob Epstein,<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, cited at OUP website</ref> sculptor (UK-based)
• Hannah Frank,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> artist and sculptor
• Barnett Freedman,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of East-End Russian Jewish immigrants"</ref> artist
• Lucian Freud,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> painter
• Abram Games<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "As a Jew, Games worked for the Jewish relief unit and for many Jewish and Israeli organizations"</ref>
• Mark Gertler,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> painter
• Zoltán Glass,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> photographer
• Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> artist
• Walter Goodman,<ref>Obituary, Jewish Chronicle 30 August 1912, p16</ref> painter
• Dora Gordine,<ref>Delia Gaze Dictionary of Women Artists Routledge Press 1997,</ref> artist and sculptor
• Harrison Marks,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> photographer
• Solomon Alexander Hart,<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Hart was an observant Jew."</ref> painter
• Lily Delissa Joseph,<ref name="whistler"/> painter
• Anish Kapoor,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> sculptor (Jewish mother)
• R. B. Kitaj, US-born painter<ref>The 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</ref>
• Leon Kossoff, 1926–2019 (The Guardian Leon Kossoff obituary)
• Jacob Kramer,<ref>H. Read, S. Thorndike, and others, Jacob Kramer: a memorial volume (1969)</ref> painter
• Lennie Lee,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Young British Artist; mixed media
• Horatio Joseph Lucas,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> painter
• Linda McCartney,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> photographer
• Ruth Rix,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> painter
• Sir William Rothenstein<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon<ref>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."</ref>
• Isaac Snowman,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> painter
• Solomon Joseph Solomon,<ref name="whistler">Template:Cite web</ref> painter
• Alfred Wolmark,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents in Warsaw; naturalized, 1894"</ref> painter
• Berthold Wolpe,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> printer

Designers and architects

• Nicole Farhi,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> fashion designer
• John Frieda,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> hair stylist; father of actor Jordan Frieda
• Ray Kelvin,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> fashion designer, founder of Ted Baker
• Denys Lasdun,<ref>Comment by his son James Lasdun Template:Webarchive: "He was English but not really, being Jewish": accessed 6 May 2007</ref> architect
• Stella McCartney,<ref>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</ref> fashion designer
• Erich Mendelsohn,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in East Prussia of German-Jewish parents"</ref> architect
• Janet Reger,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> lingerie designer
• Vidal Sassoon,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> hair stylist
• Richard Seifert,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> architect

Arts and literature

• Sir Israel Gollancz,<ref name="ibiblio.org">Template:Cite web</ref> Shakespeare expert
• Sir Ernst Gombrich,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> art historian<ref>JYB 2000 p211</ref>
• Sir Sidney Lee,<ref name="ibiblio.org"/> editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and Shakespeare expert
• Siegbert Salomon Prawer, professor of German<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, 1988–2017<ref name="ReferenceC">Jewish Chronicle, 8 January 1999, p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank."</ref>
• Ernest Simon, professor of Chinese<ref name="JYB 1980 p183"/>
• Arthur Waley,<ref>Patricia Welch, "The World of the Shining Translator: Waley's "Genji", Orientalism, and the birth of Japanese Literary Studies" Template:Webarchive, "Waley, born Arthur David Schloss, was a member of an elite Anglo-Jewish family"</ref> 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 statistician<ref>article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</ref>
• Sir Hermann Bondi,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Energy
• Sir Andrew Cohen,<ref>Jewish Chronicle, 21 June 1968 Page:46</ref> colonial administrator
• Eugene Grebenik,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> first head of the Civil Service College
• Hans Kronberger,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Linz, Austria, of Jewish parents"</ref> nuclear physicist
• Sir Alan Marre,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Second Permanent Secretary, Health; later Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
• Sir Claus Moser,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Lord Moser, government statistician

Finance

• Sir Ernest Cassel,<ref>K. Grunwald, 'Windsor Cassel: the last court Jew', Yearbook of the Leo Baeck Institute, 14 (1969), 119–61</ref> banker
• Sir Ronald Cohen,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Egypt-born businessman and Labour party supporter
• Moses da Costa, also called Anthony da Costa<ref>Jewish Encyclopedia IV p289</ref>
• Abraham and Benjamin Goldsmid,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> brothers, leading financiers and philanthropists
• Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid,<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> 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,<ref>Jewish Chronicle 25 July 1941, p.12, "Jews in the Navy"</ref> financier
• Solomon Joel,<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "a devout Jew"</ref> financier
• Lord Levene of Portsoken, Peter Keith Levene, chairman of Lloyd's of London, Lord Mayor of London (1998–1999)<ref>JYB 2005 212</ref>
• Aaron of Lincoln,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 12th-century financier
• Moses Haim Montefiore,<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref> financier and philanthropist
• Nathan Mayer Rothschild,<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> financier and banker
• Joseph Salvador,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> first Jewish director of the British East India Company
• Barons Swaythling,<ref name="heraldica.org">Template:Cite web</ref> bankers
• Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Law

• Sir John Balcombe, Lord Justice of Appeal<ref>The Guardian (Manchester); 04/07/00; Sir Maurice Drake; p20</ref>
• Judah P. Benjamin, American exile, lawyer<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents of English nationality"</ref>
• Herbert Bentwich,<ref>New Yorker magazine "My great-grandfather Herbert Bentwitch, a lawyer from a prominent English Jewish family" Accessed 21 November 2006.</ref> lawyer and Zionist leader
• Norman Bentwich,<ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Bentwitch</ref> lawyer and Attorney-General of Palestine; son of Herbert Benwitch
• His Honour Gerald Butler, Q.C., judge<ref>The Times (London); 13 June 2000; Frances Gibb; p.Law. 3</ref>
• Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, QC (former Liberal Democrat MP and peer, now independent from 2017)<ref>Jewish Chronicle 5/7/1996 p7: "The Liberal Democrats' sole Jewish MP, Alex Carlile"</ref><ref>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"</ref>
• Arthur Cohen,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "first professing Jew to graduate at Cambridge"</ref> QC and politician
• Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen,<ref>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."</ref> Lord of Appeal
• Myrella Cohen,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> judge, QC and agunah campaigner
• Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury,<ref>Jewish Chronicle, 12 January 2007 p.15: article "People: Who is up to what in the Jewish world this week"</ref> Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Scottish Queen's Counsel and sheriff
• David Daube, professor of law<ref>JYB 1995, p193</ref>
• The Hon Sir Bernard Eder,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> former High Court judge
• Dame Hazel Genn<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>
• Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister (Q.C. 1858)
• Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> barrister
• Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith,<ref>[3] Template:Webarchive</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Attorney General
• Arthur Lehman Goodhart,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in New York of wealthy Jewish parents"</ref> jurist
• William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart,<ref>Flade, Roland. The Lehmans: From Rimpar to the New World: A Family History, 2nd Enlarged Ed., 1999; reviewed by the American Jewish Historical Society. Accessed 14 November 2006.</ref> human rights lawyer and politician (son of Arthur Goodhart)
• Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman,<ref name="education_anglo_jewry">Template:Cite web</ref> solicitor
• Dame Rose Heilbron,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Britain's first female Q.C., judge
• Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice<ref>[4]Template:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore "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."</ref>

• Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading,<ref name="heraldica.org"/> lawyer and politician
• Sir George Jessel,<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref> Solicitor General for England and Wales, later Master of the Rolls
• Anthony Julius,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> prominent lawyer for Princess Diana, and against David Irving
• Neville Laski,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> judge
• Hersch Lauterpacht<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Brian Leveson,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lord Justice of Appeal
• Leone Levi, barrister and statistician<ref>Jewish Encyclopedia, VIII, 34</ref>
• George Henry Lewis,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Gavin Lightman,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> judge; son of Harold Lightman
• Harold Lightman, barrister, father of Gavin Lightman and Stafford Lightman<ref>Obituary: 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."</ref>
• Sir Alan Mocatta,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> judge
• Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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 Neuberger<ref>Jewish Year Book 2005: p212 & 214</ref>
• David Pannick, Baron Pannick, barrister and House of Lords crossbencher
• David Pearl,<ref>Son of Rabbi Chaim Pearl: see Who's Who (UK)</ref> judge
• Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers,<ref>Template:Cite web Jewish Chronicle, 11 July 2008, "How Jewish is Lord Chief Justice Phillips?"</ref> President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Sir Bernard Rix, Lord Justice of Appeal (2000–2013)<ref>JYB 2005: p212 & 214</ref>
• Leonard Sainer,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> solicitor and retailer
• Cyril Salmon,<ref>Jewish Lives Project Accessed 20 November 2019</ref> Judge
• Fiona Shackleton, solicitor who has acted for the royal family and Paul McCartney<ref>"The Guardian Profile", The Guardian, 15 February 2008, pg.21</ref>
• Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin,<ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica 1st ed, vol 14 cols 1539–1540</ref> solicitor
• Victoria Starmer,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> English solicitor and spouse of the British prime minister
• Linda Joy Stern, Q.C., prosecutor and judge<ref>Jewish Chronicle 15 September 2006 p31: death notices</ref>
• Julius Stone<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Eldred Tabachnik, Q.C., former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Q.C., former Lord Chief Justice
• Vivian Wineman, former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews<ref name="Peace activist">Template:Cite news</ref>
• Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> former Lord Chief Justice, Q.C., former Master of the Rolls

Manufacturing

• Sir Leon Bagrit,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> pioneer of automation
• Sir Monty Finniston, industrialist<ref>JYB 1977 p206–7</ref>
• David Gestetner,<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was a devout Jew"</ref> inventor
• Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> clothes manufacturer and disgraced friend of Prime Minister Harold Wilson<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His parents were Orthodox Jews"</ref>
• Sir Emmanuel Kaye,<ref>The Times, 14 April 1998, p.1: "the Jewish philanthropist Sir Emmanuel Kaye"</ref> industrialist and philanthropist
• Lord Alan Sugar, founder and chairman of Amstrad (1968–2007)
• Sir Robert Waley-Cohen,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "leading figure in Anglo-Jewry"</ref> industrialist
• Arnold Weinstock, Lord Weinstock, Chairman of GEC<ref>JYB 2002, p211</ref>

Media

• Emma Barnett,<ref name="Telegraph">Template:Cite news</ref> radio presenter
• Rachel Beer,<ref name="ReferenceA"/> newspaper editor
• Rafael Behr,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> journalist
• Sidney Bernstein,<ref>Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed</ref> cinema owner
• Benjamin Cohen,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Channel 4 News reporter and presenter
• Richard Desmond,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> publisher, Chairman of the Daily Express Group
• André Deutsch,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> publisher
• Jonathan Freedland,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> journalist and author
• Hadley Freeman,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> journalist
• Tanya Gold,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> journalist
• Lew Grade,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> founder of ATV
• Michael Grade,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Chairman of the BBC from 2004 to 2006 and executive chairman of ITV plc from 2007 to 2009.
• Michael Green,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> founder of Carlton Television
• Miles Jacobson OBE, owner and founder of Sports Interactive and inventor of Football Manager<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Sydney Jacobson, newspaper editor<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son and elder child of Samuel and Anna Jacobson, a Jewish couple"</ref>
• Natasha Kaplinsky,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> newsreader, TV presenter
• Joseph Moses Levy,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> owner of the Daily Telegraph
• Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> newspaper proprietor
• Robert Maxwell,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> publisher
• Suzy Menkes,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> fashion journalist
• Victoria Coren Mitchell,<ref name="thejc.com">Template:Cite web</ref> writer, presenter and professional poker player
• David Patrikarakos,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> journalist
• Robert Peston,<ref name=jc-20080221>Template:Cite news</ref> TV reporter
• Melanie Phillips,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> journalist
• Stephen Pollard,<ref name=indy1>Template:Cite news</ref> editor and journalist
• Gail Rebuck, publisher [www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview-gail-warning-1154352.html]
• Paul Reuter,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> founder of Reuters
• Rachel Riley,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> television presenter and co-host of Countdown
• Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Non-Executive Deputy Chairman of the Board, British SKY Broadcasting Group PLC<ref>The 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."'</ref>
• Joshua Rozenberg,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> journalist
• Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi and Charles Saatchi,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> founders of Saatchi and Saatchi
• Richard Sharp (BBC chairman),<ref name="Jewish News">Template:Cite news</ref> BBC chairman
• Martin Sorrell,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> founder of the WPP Group
• George Weidenfeld,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> publisher

Military

• Sir Edward Brampton, godson of King Edward IV, a knight and commander during the War of the Roses<ref>The first of the Tudors: a study of Henry VII and his reign (Taylor & Francis, 1981) by Michael Van Cleave Alexander, page 97</ref>
• Frank Alexander de Pass,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> World War I British Indian Army Victoria Cross recipient
• Albert Goldsmid,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> colonel
• Frederick John Goldsmid,<ref name="jewishencyclopedia.com">Template:Cite web</ref> general
• Thomas William Gould,<ref>[5]Template:Dead link</ref> World War II Royal Navy Victoria Cross recipient
• John Patrick Kenneally,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> World War II British Army Victoria Cross recipient (Jewish father)
• Issy Smith,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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<ref name="JYB 2005 p215"/>

Property

• Jack Cotton,<ref>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"</ref> property developer
• David Garrard,<ref name="SingerGrossman2003">Template:Cite book</ref> property developer
• Poju Zabludowicz, owner of Tamares Group<ref>"People – Zabludowicz Collection". Zabludowicz Collection. Retrieved 19 May 2014.</ref>

Retail

• David Alliance, Baron Alliance, businessman and Liberal Democrat politician<ref>JYB 2005 p212</ref>
• Sir Victor Blank,<ref name="ReferenceC"/> chairman of GUS
• Sir Montague Burton, retailer<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Lithuania of Jewish parentage"</ref>
• Sir Charles Clore,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> owner of Selfridges
• Jack Cohen,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> founder of Tesco
• Ralph and David Gold, founders of Ann Summers and co-owners of Birmingham City football club<ref>Financial Times (London); 13 July 2004; Jonathon Guthrie; p.15</ref>
• Sir Philip Green,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> owner of Bhs, Arcadia Group
• Irene Howard, English costume designer; sister of actor Leslie Howard
• Stanley Kalms,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> now Baron Kalms of Edgware, life president of Dixons Group PLC
• Bernard Lewis,<ref>Jewish Chronicle, 24 April 1998, p.7: "one Jewish businessman on the up is fashion and property man Bernard Lewis"</ref> founder of River Island
• David Lewis,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> department store founder
• Michael Marks,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> co-founder of Marks & Spencer (born in the Russian Empire)
• Simon Marks,<ref name="education_anglo_jewry" /> chairman of Marks & Spencer
• Gerald Ronson,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> business tycoon and philanthropist
• Marcus Samuel, founder of the "Shell" Transport and Trading Company<ref>Birmingham Post, 08/11/03, Chris Upton, p.44</ref>
• Israel Sieff,<ref name="education_anglo_jewry" /> chairman of Marks & Spencer
• Joseph Stillitz, founder and chairman of Gor-Ray
• Lord Alan Sugar,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> founder of Amstrad and star of The Apprentice (UK)
• Isaac Wolfson,<ref>http://act.org.nz/news-article.aspx?id=24112Template:Dead link</ref> founder of GUS plc; philanthropist

Police

• Henry Solomon,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>http://www.gmjpa.org.uk Template:Webarchive</ref> 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 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
• Gertrude Golda Lowy, suffragist and member of the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage
• 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,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "a leading member of the London Jews"</ref> lay leader
• Chaim Weizmann,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "naturalised British subject, 1910"</ref> Zionist leader
• Jonathan Wittenberg, Masorti rabbi

Show business

See List of British Jewish entertainers.

Philanthropists

• Bernhard Baron, cigarette maker and philanthropist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Sir Clive Bourne,<ref>Jewish Chronicle, obituary, 19 January 2007 p.45</ref> philanthropist
• Dame Vivien Duffield, philanthropist, daughter of Sir Charles Clore<ref>JYB 2005 p214</ref>
• Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank<ref>Template:Cite web: "Lord Duveen and many other Jewish intellectuals"</ref>
• Anna Maria Goldsmid,<ref>Oxf, ord Dictionary of National Biography: "Born an Orthodox Jew, in her religious practices Anna Maria remained throughout her life very observant"</ref> philanthropist
• Sir Basil Henriques,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"</ref> philanthropist
• Maurice de Hirsch,<ref>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."</ref> banker and philanthropist
• Samuel Lewis,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> financier and philanthropist
• Sir Robert Mayer,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> philanthropist
• Frederic David Mocatta,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish philanthropist"</ref> philanthropist

Miscellaneous

• Diana Barnato Walker, first British woman to break the sound barrier<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Barney Barnato,<ref name="ReferenceA"/> diamond miner
• Jack Beddington,<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His family were Jewish"</ref> advertising executive
• Neil Blair,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> literary agent
• William Buzaglo,<ref>Template:Jewish Encyclopedia</ref> self-proclaimed inventor
• Antonio Fernandez Carvajal,<ref name="ReferenceA"/> merchant, first Jew to be naturalised as a British citizen
• Jeremiah Duggan,<ref name="The Press 2006, p.4">The Press, Hendon and Finchley Edition, 16 November 2006, p.4: "Student Jeremiah, who was Jewish"</ref> possible murder victim
• Brian Epstein (1934–1967), music entrepreneur who discovered and managed the Beatles<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Michael Foster, talent agent<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Alexander Goldberg,<ref>[6]; The Irish Times, Wednesday, 7 January 1998: "Ireland's Young Bloomers"</ref> human rights activist, chaplain and barrister
• Henry Edward Goldsmid,<ref name="jewishencyclopedia.com"/> East India Company servant
• Kurt Hahn,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Berlin of Jewish parents"</ref> educationalist
• Nathaniel Isaacs,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> explorer
• Aaron Kosminski, suspect in the Jack the Ripper case
• Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840–1899), educationist and orientalist<ref>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "registered with the Jewish community of Pest"</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Sir Solomon de Medina,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> army contractor, first English Jew to be knighted
• Nigella Lawson, celebrity chef
• Chava Mond,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> model
• Dorrit Moussaieff, Israeli-British businesswoman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and the First Lady of Iceland
• Yotam Ottolenghi, celebrity chef, food writer
• Don Pacifico,<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "a Portuguese Jew, but born a British subject"</ref> cause of the Pacifico incident
• Krystyna Skarbek,<ref>Lire: le magazine littéraire Template:Webarchive: "la comtesse Krystyna Skarbek, une aristocrate juive"</ref> spy
• Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen,<ref name="Archived copy">Template:Cite web</ref> Lord Mayor of London
• Jerelle Jules, rights activist known for challenging discriminatory grooming policies at The Ritz Hotel. <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu, Soviet spy, filmmaker, table tennis champion <ref>https://theconversation.com/ivor-montagu-communist-aristocrat-soviet-spy-and-activist-filmmaker-101600</ref>

See also

• History of the Jews in England
• History of the Jews in Scotland
• History of the Jews in Ireland
• List of British Jewish entertainers
• List of British Jewish nobility and gentry
• List of British Jewish politicians
• List of British Jewish scientists
• List of British Jewish sportspeople
• List of British Jewish writers
• Lists of Jews
• List of Britons

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.