Jewish American activists

American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its list of the greatest female screen legends.

Natalie Hershlag, known professionally as Natalie Portman, is an actress, film producer and director with dual Israeli and American citizenship. She has had a prolific screen career from her teenage years and has starred in various blockbusters and independent films, receiving multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.

American economist and statistician (1912–2006)

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand is an American singer, actress, songwriter, and filmmaker. Over a career spanning more than six decades, Streisand's success in the entertainment industry has included Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards.

George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. As of May 2025, he has a net worth of US$7.2 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. In 2020, Forbes called Soros the "most generous giver" in terms of percentage of net worth.

American comedian, actress, and television host (1933–2014)

American comedian, actor and film director (1926–2017)

American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986-2013)

American actor (1925–2010)

American activist and journalist (born 1934)

American actress (born 1965)

Monica Samille Lewinsky is an American activist. She became internationally known in the late 1990s after U.S. president Bill Clinton admitted to having had an affair with her during her days as a White House intern between 1995 and 1997. The affair and its repercussions became known as the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.

American actress (1920–2006)

American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993)

Charles Ellis Schumer is an American politician serving since 1999 as a United States senator from New York. A member of the Democratic Party, he has led the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017 and served as Senate majority leader from 2021 to 2025. He has served two stints as Senate minority leader, from 2017 to 2021 and since 2025. He became New York's senior senator in 2001, upon Daniel Patrick Moynihan's retirement. Elected to a fifth term in 2022, Schumer surpassed Moynihan and Jacob K. Javits as the longest-serving U.S. senator from New York. He is the dean of New York's congressional delegation.

Austrian-born American stage and film actor (1895-1967)

Romanian-American actor (1893-1973)

American anthropologist and anarchist (1961-2020)

American politician and military officer (1909–1998)

Benjamin Aaron Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator, media host, attorney, and movie director. He writes columns for Creators Syndicate, Newsweek, and Ami Magazine, and is editor emeritus for The Daily Wire, which he co-founded in 2015. Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show, a daily political podcast and live radio show. He was editor-at-large of Breitbart News from 2012 until his resignation in 2016. Shapiro has also authored sixteen non-fiction books.

American politician (1933–2023)

American entertainer (1925–1990)

American author and politician

Hungarian psychiatrist (1920-2012)

Mark Cuban is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is the former principal owner and current minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and co-owner of 2929 Entertainment. From 2012 to 2025, he was also one of the main "sharks" on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank.

American mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938–2024)

American whistleblower (1931–2023)

American actor (1913-1952)

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1956)

American actress

American actress (1933-2010)

U.S. Representative from California (1981–2008)

American politician and lawyer (1811-1884)

American businessman

American activist and writer (born 1981)

American community organizer and writer (1909–1972)

Laura Elizabeth Loomer is an American far-right political activist, conspiracy theorist, and internet personality.

American screenwriter, novelist, essayist, playwright, LGBT-rights and AIDS activist (1935–2020)

American far-right activist, blogger, commentator and conspiracy theorist

American transgender activist and writer (1949–2014)

American television judge

American disability rights activist (1947–2023)

American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator

American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism (b. 1955)

Thomas Fahr Steyer is an American businessman, philanthropist, and environmentalist. He is the founder of Farallon Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, as well as NextGen America, a progressive political action committee, and Galvanize Climate Solutions, a climate change-centered investment firm. A member of the Democratic Party, he unsuccessfully ran for the party's nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election.

American activist (1927-1998)

American computer security researcher (born 1983)

American businessman

Soviet Uzbekistan-born American actress

Bari Weiss is an American political commentator who is the editor-in-chief of CBS News. She was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal from 2013 to 2017 and an op-ed staff editor and writer on culture and politics at The New York Times from 2017 to 2020. Weiss founded the media company The Free Press and hosts the podcast Honestly.

Neoconservative activist, writer

U.S. radio talk show host and author

American rabbi (1874–1949)

American cultural conservative writer (1935-2021)

American Cannabis/Hemp and freedom activist (1939-2010)

American writer and media theorist

Israeli political activist

animal rights activist

American political activist