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Famous Jewish People

Can you guess these well-known Jewish people based on a short clue?
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First submittedMarch 6, 2012
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He discovered relativity
Albert Einstein
Founder of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
She kept a diary while hiding in an Amsterdam attic
Anne Frank
Founder of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg
Director of "Schindler's List"
Steven Spielberg
Dodgers pitcher who won the Cy Young in 1963, 1965, and 1966
Sandy Koufax
Born in the Frankfurt ghetto in 1743, he founded a banking dynasty
Mayer Rothschild
American chess hero who denied being Jewish
Bobby Fischer
Author of the "Communist Manifesto"
Karl Marx
Peace Prize winner assassinated in 1995
Yitzhak Rabin
African-American member of the "Rat Pack"
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Soviet leader who was assassinated with an ice axe in Mexico City
Leon Trotsky
She converted to marry playwright Arthur Miller
Marilyn Monroe
Folk singer born Robert Zimmerman who converted to Christianity (but it didn't stick)
Bob Dylan
The first Prime Minister of Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Mafia kingpin who fixed the 1919 World Series
Arnold Rothstein
The first Jewish U.S. Supreme Court justice, namesake of a university near Boston
Louis Brandeis
Rabbi who asked "if not now, when?"
Hillel
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the 19th century
Benjamin Disraeli
Singer of "The Chanukah Song"
Adam Sandler
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78 Comments
2Boo2
+3
Level 42
May 8, 2012
Some you could add from the Chanukah Song: David Lee Roth, James Caan, Kirk Douglas, Dinah Shore, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Rod Carew, Ann Landers, Dear Abby, and Larry, Curly and Mo!
mikeb
+3
Level 65
Mar 19, 2015
Rod Carew = NOT Jewish; wife was Jewish, but he did not convert.
mikeb
+2
Level 65
Mar 19, 2015
With this list, how could you omit the Marx Brothers?
Walacama
+15
Level 83
Jan 24, 2017
He got one of the brothers - Karl. He was a real hoot!
RobNobody
+6
Level 80
Jan 16, 2018
Yeah, how could you forget? Groucho, Harpo, and Pinko.
DonTheLamplighter
+3
Level 87
Jun 6, 2017
Hank Greenberg, Hall of Fame player for the Detroit Tigers, nicknamed "The Hebrew Hammer". One of the all-time Tiger greats.
Hdny42
+3
Level 66
May 8, 2012
First of all, there was another Jewish member of the Rat Pack: Joey Bishop. Secondly, I'm surprised there is no Jerry Seinfeld, Ben Stiller, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johannson, Mel Brooks, Arthur Miller himself and not just as a hint to get Monroe, David Mamet, Neil Simon, Paul Simon, the Beastie Boys including the late Adam Yauch, Kiss including Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, historians like Josephus, Alan Greenspan, Ayn Rand, the already mentioned Anne Frank, Red Auerbach and Larry Brown of NBA, Ian Kinsler and Kevin Youkilis currently in MLB. Golda Meir, and the main comic book guys: the creators of Superman, Joe Schuster and Jerry Siegel, the creator of Batman, Bob Kane, comic writer Jack Kirby, and the creator of the X-Men, Fantastic 4, Hulk, and Spider-Man to name a few, Stan Lee.
LuckyPunk
+2
Level 79
Jul 10, 2014
Also Jonas Salk
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Jan 18, 2015
Added "African-American" to the clue for Sammy Davis Jr.
IsleAuHaulte
+6
Level 92
Mar 11, 2020
In other words everyone wants a 100-answer quiz.

https://www.jetpunk.com/create-quiz

happygrrl
+3
Level 14
May 9, 2012
Woohoo for the Jew Crew! I'm part of the tribe myself. And actually, I believe jews make up around 2% of the worlds population.
sidhera
+10
Level 68
May 9, 2012
Actually, it's much much lower - about .2% of the world's population. The decimal point is very important here!
kalbahamut
+7
Level 79
Mar 19, 2015
Maybe you're confused. They make up almost 2% of the population of the United States. Much much less for the total world population. 0.2% is about right.
Jerry928
+2
Level 76
Mar 19, 2015
Try Top 20 Most Jewish Countries to find out which countries they live in.
Maladroit
+2
Level 50
Oct 24, 2017
Nice segway mate.
kalbahamut
+6
Level 79
Oct 22, 2019
How do you know Jerry has a Segway?
EytanMelech
+1
Level 66
Mar 7, 2020
I have never said that I have been part of the *Jew Crew*, but I will start doing so from now on.
NerdyPolyglot
+1
Level 44
May 1, 2026
well i wear a yid lid.
llamalife
+1
Level 4
May 28, 2012
Wow. I only got four. :) good quiz
What
+2
Level 26
May 30, 2012
Please add a hint to Marx: He was only Jew by blood, his father had converted to Catholicism. Describing Marx as a jew was actually part of the Nazi-propaganda.
redsplat
+5
Level 72
Nov 14, 2018
It's more complicated than that. Being Jewish is an ethnicity and culture as well. But you are correct that it was used for propaganda purposes.
cmountenay
+2
Level 91
Apr 29, 2026
This is true, except it wasn't Catholicism, it was Lutheranism.
Sora54329
+1
Level 10
Nov 28, 2012
Has anyone else heard that Hitler was a Jew himself? Or his parents were... Something along those lines.
TheWombat
+3
Level 72
Aug 23, 2013
It has been claimed that his father, who was illegitimate, was half Jewish. His grandmother had been a housekeeper for a Jewish family and the theory is that the son of the family got her pregnant. There's no good evidence for this, though, and it seems likely that the rumour is the result of an over zealous historian looking for a juicy story. Anyway, Jewishness is matrilineal, so while it would not have been great from Hitler's point of view to be a quarter Jewish, the fact that it was the male side that was Jewish means that he would not have been considered Jewish even if the story were true.
dragoncat
+1
Level 75
Nov 24, 2013
Depends who's doing the considering. Hitler himself would have considered a person whose paternal grandfather was Jewish to be Jewish, no question. So in the Germany of his time, if that were his lineage, he would have been Jewish.
waiting4
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Level 24
May 10, 2014
Biblically it's not the mother who makes you Jewish, it's the father. Because many women were raped during the middle ages and many times the father was not known, the rabbis of the time make it a rabbinical rule that to be Jewish, the mother of the offspring had to be Jewish. - it's a rabbinical rule, not a Biblical one.
Clarisse451
+4
Level 64
Mar 7, 2016
Waiting4, you are oversimplifying the question. The Mishnah establishes the Halakah (rabbincal rule) and is part of the oral Torah, preceding the Middle Ages. There is a complicated debate about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F#Tannaitic_Judaism
mungomatic
+1
Level 84
Apr 29, 2026
In the end, it didn't matter. Hitler's chauffeur and best bro, Emil Maurice was a Jew by nazi laws, but he was simply declared a "Honorary Aryan".

These guys never even cared for their own rules if it ever made things difficult for them.

I think it's very important to not give them too much credit for anything.

Here are further examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_Aryan

smartcookie17
+3
Level 44
Aug 22, 2014
Somebody denied being Jewish?... Whoa.
redsplat
+3
Level 72
Nov 14, 2018
What are you implying?
EytanMelech
+2
Level 66
Mar 7, 2020
Just look at Kathy Lee Gifford.
Ponderosa
+3
Level 89
Nov 24, 2014
Bunch of atheists and agnostics here. Albert Einstein, Mark Zuckerburg, Freud, Marx, and Trotsky were/are all nonbelievers in one sense or another.
evacooper
+7
Level 50
Mar 19, 2015
according to judaism you can't stop being jewish, even if you decide to be an atheist or christian or muslim.
Jerry928
+11
Level 76
Mar 19, 2015
So you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave?
DonTheLamplighter
+7
Level 87
Jun 6, 2017
(guitar riff)
divantilya
+2
Level 36
Jan 29, 2018
Exactly! - You can be an ethnic Jew, regardless of what religion (or non-religion) you decide on later in life. And by his own definition,

that made Hitler a Jew.

CosmicCalamity
+6
Level 74
Jan 28, 2024
Erm, no, it didn't. There's absolutely no proof that Hitler had any Jewish heritage.
Coyuznik
+2
Level 85
Mar 19, 2015
I had no clue on "Baking Dynasty" question, so I threw out every name I could think of, from Betty Crocker to Chef Boyardee. Now that I see the answer, I still have no clue who that is. Time to go hit up google...
RobNobody
+10
Level 80
Nov 14, 2018
That may be because it's about a banking dynasty.
Sulps
+5
Level 55
Mar 19, 2015
Interesting fact: before the late 1930s, most leading Soviet communists were Jews. At the same time, there were few Jews in leading positions of capitalist regimes.

Note: my research relies on individual (English) Wikipedia articles.

CosmicCalamity
+2
Level 74
Jan 28, 2024
What does that have to do with this quiz?
evacooper
+2
Level 50
Mar 19, 2015
D'Israeli's parents converted to Christianity, so while halachically (according to Jewish law) he was Jewish, it wasn't his practicing religion.

It always seemed weird to me that someone would convert not to be Jewish, but keep the name D'Israeli...

ander217
+2
Level 73
Mar 19, 2015
It was his family name so why change it? Norman Jewison who directed Fiddler on the Roof was Protestant. Just proves we shouldn't judge a book by its cover (or title.)
fuanacdc
+1
Level 89
Mar 19, 2015
Never thought I would see the words 'chess' and 'hero' in the same sentence.
cyninoregon
+4
Level 35
Mar 19, 2015
then you must be too young to remember Bobby Fischer? He was a big deal...a celebrity.
Thisisreal
+1
Level 90
Mar 6, 2024
Gary Kasparov was my first thought for this answer.
SimonJ7567
+1
Level 14
Mar 20, 2015
Woody Allen is actually not Jewish. He is in most of his movies, but is actually an atheist.
ander217
+13
Level 73
Apr 20, 2015
And you can sleep in your garage every night, but it still doesn't make you a car.
Regtheledge1000
+1
Level 28
Feb 14, 2020
Really?
rgkieleo
+1
Level 39
Jul 17, 2015
Ugh, if I'd thought of the *Brooklyn* Dodgers rather than LA, I might've gotten Koufax.
Margles1
+1
Level 40
Jan 30, 2018
Geddy Lee!

Am I showing my age?

redsplat
+1
Level 72
Nov 14, 2018
Maybe, but you're also showing your excellent taste!
Pharley
+1
Level 75
Nov 14, 2018
With all the dodgy spelling that's accepted throughout this site, you won't accept Davies for Davis?
GeoDude
+1
Level 46
Jan 25, 2019
I find it difficult to believe there was only 1 Jewish VP nominee in all American history...
CosmicCalamity
+3
Level 74
Jan 29, 2024
That isn't difficult to believe at all.
Thisisreal
+1
Level 90
Mar 6, 2024
It makes more sense when even a Catholic president/VP is a big deal.
Wulfy
+2
Level 49
May 22, 2019
please name it 'Famous Jewish People Quiz', saying 'Jews' is offensive
CosmicCalamity
+10
Level 74
Jan 29, 2024
Speaking as a Jew, no, it isn't.
comradecora
+2
Level 69
Jun 5, 2020
It's in incredibly bad taste to put Zuckerberg, Marx, and Trotsky on here, as they were/are not jewish by religion nor ethnicity. Marx and Trotsky being born to Jewish families is the foundation for the "judeo-bolshevism" neonazi conspiracy theory.
Quizmaster
+11
Level ∞
Apr 29, 2026
Oh give me a break.
RobNobody
+2
Level 80
Apr 30, 2026
Maybe this is just my ignorance showing, but how exactly can one be born into a Jewish family and not be ethnically Jewish? Like, if their ancestors going back centuries were Jewish, does that not matter? I mean, both of Karl Marx's grandfathers were rabbis; you'd think that'd count for something.
PrettyTiedUp
+2
Level 71
Aug 25, 2020
You could have added the late, great Amy Winehouse (RIP)
EcceHomo
+2
Level 85
Jul 1, 2021
Some of these are a bit obscure for your average non-American (in the sense of a person from the USA). The ones I didn't get were:

1. US Vice-Presidential nomineee

2. Dodgers pitcher

3. NBA Commissioner

4. First Jewish Supreme Court Justice

5. Mafia kingpin (I guessed Hyman Roth, lol).

CosmicCalamity
+4
Level 74
Jan 29, 2024
Trust me, a lot of them are obscure even for Americans.
Freestatebear
+2
Level 88
Apr 30, 2026
Well, maybe you should have gotten partial credit for Hyman Roth - the fictionalized version of Meyer Lansky from the Godfather saga.
tazzerman
+1
Level 46
Apr 30, 2025
Got Davis by misspelling David with muscle memory from the Losing Presidential Candidates quiz.
MCdoesgeography
+3
Level 74
Nov 10, 2025
Based Bobby Fisher.
christian28932
+4
Level 63
Apr 25, 2026
add kalbahamut
Constantinos
+6
Level 75
Apr 29, 2026
Ha. It now explains why he comes across as angry sometimes ;)
RondoNo2
+2
Level 53
Apr 29, 2026
?
moyasayom
+1
Level 74
Apr 29, 2026
Where is max fried?
cmountenay
+1
Level 91
Apr 29, 2026
Marx came from a Jewish family, but his father converted the family to Lutheranism before he was born, so he was never a practicing Jew.
RobNobody
+1
Level 80
Apr 30, 2026
Jewish identity is not just religious, but also ethnic and cultural. There are plenty of secular and atheist Jews.
LAP3UNC
+1
Level 91
Apr 29, 2026
Seems that Jesus would be a good inclusion.
SpartanLlama
+4
Level 79
Apr 29, 2026
I feel like Bugsy Siegel or Meyer Lansky would be a better Jewish mobster to include, particularly the former
MikolajSzkutnik
+2
Level 76
Apr 29, 2026
Please allow Bronstein as a type-in for Trotsky, Trotsky was a pseudonym.
RondoNo2
+1
Level 53
Apr 29, 2026
Showoff.
Piotryt
+1
Level 25
Apr 30, 2026
Why is no one talking about the lack of Jesus here?

I mean I think he was a Jew and he definetly is known.

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