Famous Jewish People

Can you guess these well-known Jewish people based on a short clue?

Includes Biblical characters

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Clue	Answer
Slew Goliath	David
Discovered relativity	Albert Einstein
Founder of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud
Amsterdam attic diarist	Anne Frank
U.S. Vice-Presidential nominee	Joe Lieberman
Facebook founder	Mark Zuckerberg
"Schindler's List" director	Steven Spielberg
Founder of Christianity	Jesus
Led the Jews from Egypt	Moses
Yentl actress	Barbra Streisand
Dominant Dodgers pitcher	Sandy Koufax
Current NBA commissioner	Adam Silver
Born in the Frankfurt ghetto, he founded a banking dynasty	Mayer Rothschild
American chess hero who denied being Jewish	Bobby Fischer

Clue	Answer
"Communist Manifesto" author	Karl Marx
Peace Prize winner, assassinated in 1995	Yitzhak Rabin
African-American "Rat Pack" member	Sammy Davis, Jr.
Soviet leader, assassinated in Mexico	Leon Trotsky
She converted to marry Arthur Miller	Marilyn Monroe
His sons became the 12 tribes	Jacob
Folk singer who converted to Christianity, but it didn't stick	Bob Dylan
First Prime Minister of Israel	David Ben-Gurion
Mafia kingpin who fixed the World Series	Arnold Rothstein
First Jewish Supreme Court justice	Louis Brandeis
Annie Hall director	Woody Allen
Rabbi who asked "if not now, when?"	Hillel
"Chanukah Song" singer	Adam Sandler
19th century British PM	Benjamin Disraeli

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68 Comments

Level 40

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!

Level 65

Mar 19, 2015

Rod Carew = NOT Jewish; wife was Jewish, but he did not convert.

Level 65

Mar 19, 2015

With this list, how could you omit the Marx Brothers?

+14

Level 82

Jan 24, 2017

He got one of the brothers - Karl. He was a real hoot!

Level 78

Jan 16, 2018

Yeah, how could you forget? Groucho, Harpo, and Pinko.

Level 85

Jun 6, 2017

Hank Greenberg, Hall of Fame player for the Detroit Tigers, nicknamed "The Hebrew Hammer". One of the all-time Tiger greats.

Level 64

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.

Level 78

Jul 10, 2014

Also Jonas Salk

Level ∞

Jan 18, 2015

Added "African-American" to the clue for Sammy Davis Jr.

Level 90

Mar 11, 2020

In other words everyone wants a 100-answer quiz.

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

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.

Level 61

May 9, 2012

Actually, it's much much lower - about .2% of the world's population. The decimal point is very important here!

Level 81

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.

Level 76

Mar 19, 2015

Try Top 20 Most Jewish Countries to find out which countries they live in.

Level 51

Oct 24, 2017

Nice segway mate.

Level 81

Oct 22, 2019

How do you know Jerry has a Segway?

Level 67

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.

Level 4

May 28, 2012

Wow. I only got four. :) good quiz

Level 27

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.

Level 73

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.

Level 10

Nov 28, 2012

Has anyone else heard that Hitler was a Jew himself? Or his parents were... Something along those lines.

Level 73

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.

Level 77

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.

Level 25

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.

Level 65

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

Level 45

Aug 22, 2014

Somebody denied being Jewish?... Whoa.

Level 73

Nov 14, 2018

What are you implying?

Level 67

Mar 7, 2020

Just look at Kathy Lee Gifford.

Level 87

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.

Level 51

Mar 19, 2015

according to judaism you can't stop being jewish, even if you decide to be an atheist or christian or muslim.

Level 76

Mar 19, 2015

So you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave?

Level 85

Jun 6, 2017

(guitar riff)

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.

Level 72

Jan 28, 2024

Erm, no, it didn't. There's absolutely no proof that Hitler had any Jewish heritage.

Level 84

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...

Level 78

Nov 14, 2018

That may be because it's about a banking dynasty.

Level 70

Mar 19, 2015

It should say former NBA commissioner for David Stern.

Level 56

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.

Level 72

Jan 28, 2024

What does that have to do with this quiz?

Level 51

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...

Level 74

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.)

Level 74

Mar 19, 2015

The current NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, is Jewish. It caused a bunch of anti-Semites to whine and moan about Jews' control of the world blah blah blah when he disciplined that schmendrick Donald Sterling.

Level ∞

Mar 19, 2015

Interesting. I didn't know that the NBA was controlled by international Zionism :) I changed the answer to Adam Silver and added "current" to the question.

Level 86

Mar 19, 2015

Never thought I would see the words 'chess' and 'hero' in the same sentence.

Level 36

Mar 19, 2015

then you must be too young to remember Bobby Fischer? He was a big deal...a celebrity.

Level 90

Mar 6, 2024

Gary Kasparov was my first thought for this answer.

Level 15

Mar 20, 2015

Woody Allen is actually not Jewish. He is in most of his movies, but is actually an atheist.

Level 74

Apr 20, 2015

And you can sleep in your garage every night, but it still doesn't make you a car.

Level 29

Feb 14, 2020

Really?

Level 40

Jul 17, 2015

Ugh, if I'd thought of the *Brooklyn* Dodgers rather than LA, I might've gotten Koufax.

Level 41

Jan 30, 2018

Geddy Lee!

Am I showing my age?

Level 73

Nov 14, 2018

Maybe, but you're also showing your excellent taste!

Level 74

Nov 14, 2018

With all the dodgy spelling that's accepted throughout this site, you won't accept Davies for Davis?

Level 47

Jan 25, 2019

I find it difficult to believe there was only 1 Jewish VP nominee in all American history...

Level 72

Jan 29, 2024

That isn't difficult to believe at all.

Level 90

Mar 6, 2024

It makes more sense when even a Catholic president/VP is a big deal.

Level 79

Apr 2, 2019

Moses was not of the tribe of Judah therefore was not a Jew. He was a descendant of Levi. Also, Jacob was Judah's father so although he is the father of all Jews, he was not a Jew himself. House of Israel, yes. Jews, no.

Level 72

Jan 29, 2024

WTF are you talking about?

Level 50

May 22, 2019

please name it 'Famous Jewish People Quiz', saying 'Jews' is offensive

Level 72

Jan 29, 2024

Speaking as a Jew, no, it isn't.

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.

Level 69

Aug 25, 2020

You could have added the late, great Amy Winehouse (RIP)

Level 82

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).

Level 72

Jan 29, 2024

Trust me, a lot of them are obscure even for Americans.

Level 48

Mar 14, 2023

I typed Joeseph Lieberman..... please make that an option

Level 72

Jan 29, 2024

Besides the fact that that's not how you spell JOSEPH, why wouldn't you just type Lieberman?

Level 77

Jul 16, 2024

Level 39

Feb 14, 2025

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