The 100 Most Influential Jews of All Time (List)

[Irish Zionist]

Rank Name Lived Description
1 Moses 13th Cen. C.E.   
2 Jesus of Nazareth ca. 4 B.C.E. - ca. 30 C.E.   
3 Albert Einstein 1879-1955 physicist
4 Sigmund Freud 1856-1936 psychiatrist
5 Abraham ca. 20th-19th cen B.C.E.;
according to the Bible,
1813-1638 B.C.E.   
6 Saul of Tarsus (Saint Paul) 4 - 64 C.E.   
7 Karl Marx 1818-1883 philosopher
8 Theodor Herzl 1860-1904 writer
9 Mary b. ca. 20 B.C.E.   
10 Baruch de Spinoza 1632-1677 philosopher
11 David fl. 1000 B.C.E.   
12 Anne Frank 1929-1945 diarist
13 The Prophets Biblical times   
14 Judas Iscariot ca. 4 B.C.E. - ca. 30 C.E.   
15 Gustav Mahler 1860-1911 composer
16 Maimonides 1135-1204 theologian
17 Niels Bohr 1885-1962 physicist
18 Moses Mendelssohn 1729-1786 philosopher
19 Paul Ehrlich 1854-1915 medical scientist
20 Rashi 1040-1105 rabbinical commentator
21 Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881 politician
22 Franz Kafka 1883-1924 author
23 David Ben-Gurion 1886-1973 founder of Israel
24 Hillel ca. 70 B.C.E. - 10 C.E. theologian
25 John Von Neumann 1903-1957 mathematician
26 Simon Bar Kokhba fl. 135 C.E. general, leader
27 Marcel Proust 1871-1922 novelist
28 Mayer Rothschild 1744-1812 financier
29 Solomon ca. 990 - ca. 933 B.C.E.   
30 Heinrich Heine 1797-1856 poet
31 Selman Waksman 1888-1973 developed antibiotics
32 Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791-1864 created grand opera
33 Isaac Luria 1534-1572 kabbalist
34 Gregory Pincus 1903-1967 developed birth control pill
35 Leon Trotsky 1879-1940 facilitator of the Russian Revolution
36 David Ricardo 1772-1823 founded classical school of economics
37 Alfred Dreyfus 1859-1935 center of 1895 Dreyfus affair in Paris
38 Leo Szilard 1898-1964 physicist; cyberneticist
39 Mark Rothko 1903-1970 painter
40 Ferdinand Cohn 1828-1898 bacteriologist
41 Samuel Gompers 1850-1924 labor leader
42 Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 author
43 Albert Michelson 1852-1931 physicist
44 Philo Judaeus ca. 20 B.C.E. - 40 C.E. philosopher
45 Golda Meir 1898-1978 prime minister of Israel
46 The Vilna Gaon 1720-1797 rabbinical scholar
47 Henri Bergson 1859-1941 philosopher
48 The Baal Shem Tov 1700-1790 religious reformer
49 Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847 musician
50 Louis B. Mayer 1885-1957 motion picture pioneer
51 Judah Halevy ca. 1075-1141 philosopher and poet
52 Haym Salomon 1740-1785 Revolutionary War patriot
53 Johanan ben Zakkai ca. 80 C.E. general, leader
54 Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951 composer
55 Emile Durkheim 1858-1917 sociologist
56 Betty Friedan 1921- feminist; founder of NOW
57 David Sarnoff 1891-1971 broadcaster
58 Lorenzo Da Ponte 1749-1838 Mozart's librettist
59 Julius Rosenwald 1862-1932 philanthropist
60 Casimir Funk * 1884-1967 discoverer of vitamins
61 George Gershwin 1898-1937 composer
62 Chaim Weizmann 1874-1952 first president of Israel
63 Franz Boas 1858-1942 anthropologist
64 Sabbatai Zevi 1626-1676 religious leader
65 Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990 musician
66 Flavius Josephus ca. 38-ca. 100 C.E. historian
67 Walter Benjamin 1892-1940 literary critic, journalist, philosopher
68 Louis Brandeis 1856-1941 jurist
69 Emile Berliner 1851-1929 inventor
70 Sarah Bernhardt 1844-1923 actress
71 Levi Strauss 1829-1902 clothier
72 Nahmanides 1195-1270 scholar
73 Menachem Begin 1913-1992 politician
74 Anna Freud 1895-1982 psychologist
75 Queen Esther 5th cen. B.C.E. Biblical queen
76 Martin Buber 1878-1965 philosopher, theologian, social activist
77 Jonas Salk 1914- physician
78 Jerome Robbins 1918- choreographer
79 Henry Kissinger 1923- politician
80 Wilhelm Steinitz ca. 1835-1900 chess champion
81 Arthur Miller 1915- playwright
82 Daniel Mendoza 1764-1836 boxer
83 Stephen Sondheim 1930- writer of musicals
84 Emma Goldman 1869-1940 anarchist, feminist
85 Sir Moses Montefiore 1787-1885 leader
86 Jerome Kern 1885-1945 writer of musicals
87 Boris Pasternak 1890-1960 novelist, poet
88 Harry Houdini 1874-1926 magician
89 Edward Bernays 1981- founder of public relations
90 Leopold Auer 1845-1930 violinist
91 Groucho Marx 1890-1977 comedian
92 Man Ray 1890-1976 artist
93 Henrietta Szold 1860-1945 founder of Hadassah
94 Benny Goodman 1909-1986 clarinetist and bandleader
95 Steven Spielberg 1947- filmmaker
96 Marc Chagall 1887-1985 painter
97 Bob Dylan 1941- musician
98 Sandy Koufax 1935- baseball player
99 Bernard Berenson 1865-1959 art critic
100 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster b. 1914; 1914-1992 comics book artist/writer, creators of Superman
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[mord]

some of them are very left Gertrude stein for example or betty freidan

[Americanhero1]

Sandy Koufax is not really influential

[Irish Zionist]

I am starting to wonder who is voting great list. 

[Americanhero1]

The poll was pointless.
It is a lose lose poll.
Some people on the list are evil and others are good.