Category
page 1Soviet Jews
Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet (1940-1996)
Vladimir Vysotsky
Soviet singer-songwriter and actor (1938–1980)

Marc Chagall
Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)

Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)

Lev Vygotsky
Soviet psychologist (1896-1934)
Mikhail Tal
Soviet-Latvian chess player (1936-1992)
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician (born 1966)

Leonid Kantorovich
Russian mathematician (1912-1986)
Wassily Leontief
Russian economist (1906-1999)

Maya Plisetskaya
Russian ballet dancer (1925-2015)
Ilya Ehrenburg
Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)

Vladimir Horowitz
Russian and American pianist (1903–1989)
Avigdor Lieberman
Israeli politician, member of the Knesset
El Lissitzky
Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect (1890–1941)
Faina Ranevskaya
Soviet actress (1896-1984)
David Oistrakh
Soviet violinist (1908-1974)
Boris Gelfand
Belarusian-Israeli chess player
Sergei Dovlatov
Soviet writer (1941–1990)

David Bronstein
Soviet chess grandmaster
Yelena Bonner
human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov
Vladimir Gelfand
Russian writer (1923–1983)

Regina Spektor
American musician
Vasily Aksyonov
Soviet-American writer (1932-2009)

Samuil Marshak
Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)

Karl Radek
Russian revolutionary (1885-1939)

Mariss Jansons
Latvian conductor (1943–2019)
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Icelandic pianist and conductor from Russia (born 1937)
Alexander Luria
Soviet psychologist (1902–1977)

Israel Gelfand
Soviet-American mathematician

Mikhail Romm
Soviet film director (1901–1971)
Genndy Tartakovsky
Russian-American cinema and television animator, director and producer

Emil Gilels
Soviet pianist (1916-1985)

Natan Sharansky
Israeli politician (born 1948)
Efim Geller
Soviet chess player (1925–1998)

Anatole Litvak
Ukrainian-American filmmaker (1902–1974)

Yakov Sinai
Russian-American mathematician
Lilya Brik
muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky

Margarita Levieva
Russian-born American actress

Agniya Barto
Russian Soviet writer and poet (1901–1981)
Mikhail Fridman
Russian–Israeli businessman, billionaire, and oligarch
Yevgenia Ginzburg
Russian author of Jewish ancestry
Grigori Kozintsev
Soviet film director (1905-1973)

Tatyana Lioznova
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter (1924-2011)

Yuri Levitan
Soviet radio announcer (1914–1983)

Salo Flohr
Czech chess player, arbiter, theoretician, organiser and writer (1908–1983)

Andor Lilienthal
Hungarian chess player (1911–2010)

Anatoly Rybakov
Soviet and Russian writer (1911–1998)

Leonid Kogan
Soviet violinist (1924–1982)

Mordechai Spiegler
Israeli footballer and manager
Mark Bernes
Soviet actor and singer (1911–1969)

Grigori Sokolnikov
Soviet diplomat (1888-1939)
George Zweig
American physicist
Ihor Kolomoyskyi
Israeli and former Ukrainian businessman and politician
Yelena Shushunova
Soviet-Russian artistic gymnast (1969–2018)
Semion Mogilevich
Russian fraudster
Alexander Beliavsky
Ukrainian and Slovenian chess player

Veniamin Kaverin
Russian-Soviet writer and memoirist (1902-1989)

Irina Press
Soviet athlete (1939-2004)
Leonid Kanevsky
Soviet, Russian and Israeli theater and film actor, TV presenter
Matvei Blanter
Soviet composer of Jewish origin (1903-1990)