Charles Murray's List of Great Historical Jewish Figures | Exhibt 3a | |||||||||||||||
Year | Year | Primary | Relative | |||||||||||||
Name | Born | Died | Domain | Importance | ||||||||||||
1 | Philo Judaeus | -25 | 54 | Phil.West | 7.55 | 45 | Anc Greece | Anc Greece | ||||||||
2 | Avicebron (ibn Gabirol) | 1021 | 1058 | Phil.West | 1.76 | 129 | Spain | Spain | ||||||||
3 | Maimonides, Moses | 1135 | 1204 | Phil.West | 6.45 | 51 | Spain | Spain | ||||||||
4 | Rojas, Fernando de | 1465 | 1541 | Lit.West | 1.50 | 774 | Spain | Spain | ||||||||
5 | Sachs, Hans | 1494 | 1576 | Lit.West | 4.44 | 430 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
6 | Montaigne, Michel de | 1533 | 1592 | Lit.West | 15.72 | 91 | France | France | ||||||||
7 | Montaigne, Michel de | 1533 | 1592 | Phil.West | 2.89 | 104 | France | France | ||||||||
8 | Rossi, Salamone | 1570 | 1630 | Music.West | 1.50 | 380 | Italy | Italy | ||||||||
9 | Guldin, Paul | 1577 | 1643 | Scientific | 5.56 | 153 | Switzerland | Switzerland | Math | |||||||
10 | Spinoza, Benedict | 1632 | 1677 | Phil.West | 27.39 | 10 | Netherlands | Netherlands | ||||||||
11 | Mendelssohn, Moses | 1729 | 1786 | Phil.West | 1.77 | 127 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
12 | Herder, Johann | 1744 | 1803 | Phil.West | 3.83 | 83 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
13 | Meyerbeer, Giacomo | 1791 | 1864 | Music.West | 14.14 | 42 | Germany | France | ||||||||
14 | Heine, Heinrich | 1797 | 1856 | Lit.West | 22.20 | 52 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
15 | Halvy, Fromental | 1799 | 1862 | Music.West | 4.38 | 157 | France | France | ||||||||
16 | Adam, Adolphe | 1803 | 1856 | Music.West | 2.73 | 251 | France | France | ||||||||
17 | Jacobi, Carl | 1804 | 1851 | Scientific | 16.61 | 65 | Germany | Germany | Math | |||||||
18 | Henle, Friedrich | 1809 | 1885 | Scientific | 16.17 | 72 | Germany | Germany | Medi | |||||||
19 | Mendelssohn, Felix | 1809 | 1847 | Music.West | 29.85 | 18 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
20 | Gutzkow, Karl | 1811 | 1878 | Lit.West | 2.58 | 641 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
21 | Singer, Isaac | 1811 | 1875 | Scientific | 10.46 | 151 | USA | USA | Technology | |||||||
22 | Auerbach, Berthold | 1812 | 1882 | Lit.West | 2.08 | 709 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
23 | Sylvester, James | 1814 | 1897 | Scientific | 9.40 | 105 | Britain | Britain | Math | |||||||
24 | Remak, Robert | 1815 | 1865 | Scientific | 8.83 | 148 | Germany | Germany | Biology | |||||||
25 | Offenbach, Jacques | 1819 | 1880 | Music.West | 5.70 | 121 | Germany | France | ||||||||
26 | Kronecker, Leopold | 1823 | 1891 | Scientific | 9.82 | 101 | Germany | Germany | Math | |||||||
27 | Cohn, Ferdinand | 1828 | 1898 | Scientific | 14.93 | 89 | Germany | Germany | Biology | |||||||
28 | Gottschalk, Louis | 1829 | 1869 | Music.West | 1.14 | 440 | USA | USA | ||||||||
29 | Heyse, Paul | 1830 | 1914 | Lit.West | 1.94 | 730 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
30 | Pissarro, Camille | 1830 | 1903 | Art.West | 18.55 | 76 | France | France | ||||||||
31 | Suess, Eduard | 1831 | 1914 | Scientific | 24.21 | 21 | Germany | Austria | Earth Sciences | |||||||
32 | Halevy, Ludovic | 1834 | 1908 | Lit.West | 2.05 | 711 | France | France | ||||||||
33 | Baeyer, Johann von | 1835 | 1917 | Scientific | 7.52 | 86 | Germany | Germany | Chemistry | |||||||
34 | Cohnheim, Julius | 1839 | 1884 | Scientific | 5.45 | 149 | Germany | Germany | Medi | |||||||
35 | Breuer, Josef | 1842 | 1925 | Scientific | 24.76 | 37 | Austria | Austria | Medi | |||||||
36 | Pasch, Moritz | 1843 | 1930 | Scientific | 3.20 | 182 | Germany | Germany | Math | |||||||
37 | Strasburger, Eduard | 1844 | 1912 | Scientific | 11.93 | 121 | Germany | Germany | Biology | |||||||
38 | Cantor, Georg | 1845 | 1918 | Scientific | 49.98 | 13 | Russia | Germany | Math | |||||||
39 | Wallach, Otto | 1847 | 1931 | Scientific | 2.21 | 196 | Germany | Germany | Chemistry | |||||||
40 | Lilienthal, Otto | 1848 | 1896 | Scientific | 13.87 | 111 | Germany | Germany | Technology | |||||||
41 | Meyer, Viktor | 1848 | 1897 | Scientific | 4.52 | 142 | Germany | Germany | Chemistry | |||||||
42 | Goldstein, Eugen | 1850 | 1930 | Scientific | 17.86 | 63 | Germany | Germany | Physics | |||||||
43 | Michelson, Albert | 1852 | 1931 | Scientific | 24.97 | 42 | Germany | USA | Physics | |||||||
44 | Moissan, Ferdinand | 1852 | 1907 | Scientific | 4.47 | 147 | France | France | Chemistry | |||||||
45 | Moissan, Ferdinand | 1852 | 1907 | Scientific | 6.63 | 211 | France | France | Technology | |||||||
46 | Ehrlich, Paul | 1854 | 1915 | Scientific | 59.26 | 6 | Germany | Germany | Medi | |||||||
47 | Neisser, Albert | 1855 | 1916 | Scientific | 7.28 | 140 | Germany | Germany | Medi | |||||||
48 | Freud, Sigmund | 1856 | 1939 | Scientific | 34.46 | 18 | Germany | Austria | Medi | |||||||
49 | Hertz, Heinrich | 1857 | 1894 | Scientific | 30.14 | 28 | Germany | Germany | Physics | |||||||
50 | Koller, Carl | 1857 | 1944 | Scientific | 11.44 | 103 | Czech | Austria | Medi | |||||||
51 | Bergson, Henri | 1859 | 1941 | Phil.West | 9.56 | 36 | France | France | ||||||||
52 | Husserl, Edmund | 1859 | 1938 | Phil.West | 7.61 | 43 | Czech | Germany | ||||||||
53 | Mahler, Gustave | 1860 | 1911 | Music.West | 23.15 | 23 | Czech | Austria | ||||||||
54 | Volterra, Vito | 1860 | 1940 | Scientific | 5.31 | 156 | Italy | Italy | Math | |||||||
55 | Svevo, Italo (Schmitz) | 1861 | 1928 | Lit.West | 5.72 | 332 | Italy | Italy | ||||||||
56 | Schnitzler, Arthur | 1862 | 1931 | Lit.West | 3.81 | 493 | Austria | Austria | ||||||||
57 | Flexner, Simon | 1863 | 1946 | Scientific | 3.51 | 160 | USA | USA | Medi | |||||||
58 | Minkowski, Hermann | 1864 | 1909 | Scientific | 11.98 | 86 | Germany | Germany | Math | |||||||
59 | Dukas, Paul | 1865 | 1935 | Music.West | 3.96 | 176 | France | France | ||||||||
60 | Hadamard, Jacques | 1865 | 1963 | Scientific | 10.94 | 91 | France | France | Math | |||||||
61 | Steinmetz, Charles | 1865 | 1923 | Scientific | 1.00 | 239 | Germany | USA | Technology | |||||||
62 | Gomberg, Moses | 1866 | 1947 | Scientific | 3.82 | 173 | Russia | USA | Chemistry | |||||||
63 | Wassermann, August von | 1866 | 1925 | Scientific | 6.90 | 167 | Germany | Germany | Biology | |||||||
64 | Curie, Marie | 1867 | 1934 | Scientific | 40.78 | 14 | Poland | France | Physics | |||||||
65 | Haber, Fritz | 1868 | 1934 | Scientific | 11.18 | 61 | Germany | Germany | Chemistry | |||||||
66 | Hausdorff, Felix | 1868 | 1942 | Scientific | 5.49 | 154 | Germany | Germany | Math | |||||||
67 | Landsteiner, Karl | 1868 | 1943 | Scientific | 24.35 | 42 | Austria | Austria | Biology | |||||||
68 | Levene, Phoebus | 1869 | 1940 | Scientific | 16.13 | 77 | Russia | USA | Biology | |||||||
69 | Proust, Marcel | 1871 | 1922 | Lit.West | 22.25 | 50 | France | France | ||||||||
70 | Willsttter, Richard | 1872 | 1942 | Scientific | 14.25 | 41 | Germany | Germany | Chemistry | |||||||
71 | Levi-Civita, Tullio | 1873 | 1941 | Scientific | 3.98 | 170 | Italy | Italy | Math | |||||||
72 | Loewi, Otto | 1873 | 1961 | Scientific | 6.09 | 145 | Germany | Austria | Medi | |||||||
73 | Schwarzschild, Karl | 1873 | 1916 | Scientific | 19.04 | 37 | Germany | Germany | Astronomy | |||||||
74 | Wassermann, Jakob | 1873 | 1934 | Lit.West | 2.69 | 625 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
75 | Goldberger, Joseph | 1874 | 1929 | Scientific | 16.09 | 73 | Slovakia | USA | Medi | |||||||
76 | Hofmannsthal, Hugo von | 1874 | 1929 | Lit.West | 14.06 | 109 | Austria | Austria | ||||||||
77 | Schnberg, Arnold | 1874 | 1951 | Music.West | 39.00 | 13 | Austria | Austria | ||||||||
78 | Stein, Gertrude | 1874 | 1946 | Lit.West | 3.48 | 531 | USA | USA | ||||||||
79 | Glier, Reinhold | 1875 | 1956 | Music.West | 1.06 | 456 | Russia | Russia | ||||||||
80 | Jacob, Max | 1876 | 1944 | Lit.West | 3.11 | 571 | France | France | ||||||||
81 | Buber, Martin | 1878 | 1965 | Phil.West | 1.53 | 136 | Austria | Germany | ||||||||
82 | Meitner, Lise | 1878 | 1968 | Scientific | 15.83 | 76 | Austria | Germany | Physics | |||||||
83 | Schreker, Franz | 1878 | 1934 | Music.West | 2.32 | 283 | Austria | Austria | ||||||||
84 | Einstein, Albert | 1879 | 1955 | Scientific | 98.47 | 2 | Germany | Switzerland | Physics | |||||||
85 | Bloch, Ernest | 1880 | 1959 | Music.West | 3.18 | 226 | Switzerland | USA | ||||||||
86 | Epstein, Jacob | 1880 | 1959 | Art.West | 1.35 | 437 | USA | Britain | ||||||||
87 | Zweig, Stefan | 1881 | 1942 | Lit.West | 3.52 | 529 | Austria | Austria | ||||||||
88 | Born, Max | 1882 | 1970 | Scientific | 20.18 | 56 | Germany | Germany | Physics | |||||||
89 | Franck, James | 1882 | 1964 | Scientific | 4.70 | 199 | Germany | Germany | Physics | |||||||
90 | Neurath, Otto | 1882 | 1945 | Phil.West | 2.20 | 117 | Austria | Austria | ||||||||
91 | Noether, Emmy | 1882 | 1935 | Scientific | 10.05 | 99 | Germany | Germany | Math | |||||||
92 | Schlick, Moritz | 1882 | 1936 | Phil.West | 3.80 | 86 | Czech | Austria | ||||||||
93 | Kafka, Franz | 1883 | 1924 | Lit.West | 21.82 | 55 | Czech | Czech | ||||||||
94 | Mises, Richard von | 1883 | 1953 | Scientific | 1.18 | 196 | Austria | Austria | Math | |||||||
95 | Warburg, Otto | 1883 | 1970 | Scientific | 21.63 | 54 | Germany | Germany | Biology | |||||||
96 | Beckmann, Max | 1884 | 1950 | Art.West | 7.11 | 181 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
97 | Brod, Max | 1884 | 1968 | Lit.West | 2.62 | 635 | Czech | Czech | ||||||||
98 | Funk, Casimir | 1884 | 1967 | Scientific | 23.54 | 39 | Poland | USA | Medi | |||||||
99 | Meyerhof, Otto | 1884 | 1951 | Scientific | 5.99 | 174 | Germany | Germany | Biology | |||||||
100 | Modigliani, Amedeo | 1884 | 1920 | Art.West | 6.90 | 187 | Italy | France | ||||||||
101 | Bohr, Niels | 1885 | 1962 | Scientific | 51.66 | 7 | Denmark | Denmark | Physics | |||||||
102 | Delaunay-Terk, Sonia | 1885 | 1979 | Art.West | 3.72 | 296 | Russia | France | ||||||||
103 | Hevesy, Gyrgy | 1885 | 1966 | Scientific | 13.26 | 46 | Hungary | Denmark | Chemistry | |||||||
104 | Kern, Jerome | 1885 | 1945 | Music.West | 1.00 | 477 | USA | USA | ||||||||
105 | Broch, Hermann | 1886 | 1951 | Lit.West | 3.77 | 497 | Austria | Austria | ||||||||
106 | Pevsner, Antoine | 1886 | 1962 | Art.West | 3.23 | 318 | Russia | France | ||||||||
107 | Fajans, Kasimir | 1887 | 1975 | Scientific | 13.31 | 45 | Poland | Germany | Chemistry | |||||||
108 | Paneth, Friedrich | 1887 | 1958 | Scientific | 6.44 | 98 | Austria | Germany | Chemistry | |||||||
109 | Berlin, Irving | 1888 | 1989 | Music.West | 1.46 | 386 | Russia | USA | ||||||||
110 | Goldschmidt, Victor | 1888 | 1947 | Scientific | 7.68 | 81 | Switzerland | Norway | Chemistry | |||||||
111 | Stern, Otto | 1888 | 1969 | Scientific | 8.68 | 135 | Germany | Germany | Physics | |||||||
112 | Waksman, Selman | 1888 | 1973 | Scientific | 21.68 | 51 | Russia | USA | Medi | |||||||
113 | Chagall, Marc | 1889 | 1985 | Art.West | 11.97 | 112 | Russia | France | ||||||||
114 | Gutenberg, Beno | 1889 | 1960 | Scientific | 13.94 | 41 | Germany | Germany | Earth Sciences | |||||||
115 | Wittgenstein, Ludwig | 1889 | 1951 | Phil.West | 12.83 | 24 | Austria | Britain | ||||||||
116 | Mller, Hermann | 1890 | 1967 | Scientific | 32.95 | 26 | USA | USA | Biology | |||||||
117 | Pasternak, Boris | 1890 | 1960 | Lit.West | 11.76 | 145 | Russia | Russia | ||||||||
118 | Ray, Man | 1890 | 1976 | Art.West | 7.06 | 182 | USA | USA | ||||||||
119 | Werfel, Franz | 1890 | 1945 | Lit.West | 4.48 | 424 | Czech | Austria | ||||||||
120 | Ehrenberg, Ilya | 1891 | 1967 | Lit.West | 5.00 | 391 | Russia | Russia | ||||||||
121 | Lipchitz, Jacques | 1891 | 1973 | Art.West | 7.23 | 176 | Russia | France | ||||||||
122 | Reichenbach, Hans | 1891 | 1953 | Phil.West | 1.97 | 125 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
123 | Mandelstam, Osip | 1892 | 1938 | Lit.West | 2.29 | 681 | Russia | Russia | ||||||||
124 | Milhaud, Darius | 1892 | 1974 | Music.West | 12.81 | 51 | France | France | ||||||||
125 | Schulz, Bruno | 1892 | 1942 | Lit.West | 0.96 | 822 | Poland | Poland | ||||||||
126 | Soutine, Chaim | 1893 | 1943 | Art.West | 4.44 | 258 | Russia | France | ||||||||
127 | Toller, Ernst | 1893 | 1939 | Lit.West | 3.18 | 562 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
128 | Babel, Isaak | 1894 | 1941 | Lit.West | 4.33 | 444 | Russia | Russia | ||||||||
129 | Kapitsa, Pyotr | 1894 | 1984 | Scientific | 4.77 | 196 | Russia | Russia | Physics | |||||||
130 | Wiener, Norbert | 1894 | 1964 | Scientific | 7.18 | 131 | USA | USA | Math | |||||||
131 | Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo | 1895 | 1946 | Art.West | 7.27 | 175 | Hungary | Hungary | ||||||||
132 | Tamm, Igor | 1895 | 1971 | Scientific | 9.44 | 129 | Russia | Russia | Physics | |||||||
133 | Cori, Gerty | 1896 | 1957 | Scientific | 7.26 | 163 | Czech | USA | Biology | |||||||
134 | Tzara, Tristan | 1896 | 1963 | Lit.West | 4.15 | 464 | Balkans | Balkans | ||||||||
135 | Reichstein, Tadeus | 1897 | 1996 | Scientific | 10.14 | 66 | Poland | Switzerland | Chemistry | |||||||
136 | Gershwin, George | 1898 | 1937 | Music.West | 6.18 | 113 | USA | USA | ||||||||
137 | Rabi, Isidor Isaac | 1898 | 1988 | Scientific | 6.76 | 167 | Slovakia | USA | Physics | |||||||
138 | Schoenheimer, Rudolf | 1898 | 1941 | Scientific | 9.69 | 139 | Germany | USA | Biology | |||||||
139 | Shahn, Ben | 1898 | 1969 | Art.West | 2.16 | 385 | Russia | USA | ||||||||
140 | Szilard, Leo | 1898 | 1964 | Scientific | 6.77 | 166 | Hungary | USA | Physics | |||||||
141 | Taussig, Helen | 1898 | 1986 | Scientific | 7.46 | 137 | USA | USA | Medi | |||||||
142 | Lipmann, Fritz | 1899 | 1986 | Scientific | 13.81 | 103 | Germany | USA | Biology | |||||||
143 | Copland, Aaron | 1900 | 1990 | Music.West | 7.19 | 102 | USA | USA | ||||||||
144 | Gabor, Dennis | 1900 | 1979 | Scientific | 10.81 | 112 | Hungary | Britain | Physics | |||||||
145 | Krebs, Hans | 1900 | 1981 | Scientific | 20.85 | 56 | Germany | Britain | Biology | |||||||
146 | Levine, Philip | 1900 | 1987 | Scientific | 12.17 | 116.5 | Russia | USA | Biology | |||||||
147 | London, Fritz | 1900 | 1954 | Scientific | 8.67 | 136 | Germany | Germany | Physics | |||||||
148 | Pauli, Wolfgang | 1900 | 1958 | Scientific | 31.64 | 25 | Austria | Switzerland | Physics | |||||||
149 | Seghers, Anna (Radvanyi) | 1900 | 1983 | Lit.West | 2.46 | 658 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
150 | Weill, Kurt | 1900 | 1950 | Music.West | 5.27 | 132 | Germany | Germany | ||||||||
151 | Loewe, Frederick | 1901 | 1988 | Music.West | 1.00 | 471 | Germany | USA | ||||||||
152 | Goudsmit, Samuel | 1902 | 1978 | Scientific | 4.89 | 194.5 | Netherlands | Netherlands | Physics | |||||||
153 | Lwoff, Andr | 1902 | 1994 | Scientific | 4.73 | 182 | France | France | Biology | |||||||
154 | Morgenstern, Oskar | 1902 | 1977 | Scientific | 6.94 | 134 | USA | USA | Math | |||||||
155 | Wigner, Eugene | 1902 | 1995 | Scientific | 6.33 | 100 | Hungary | USA | Chemistry | |||||||
156 | Beadle, George | 1903 | 1989 | Scientific | 14.48 | 94 | USA | USA | Biology | |||||||
157 | Gottlieb, Adolph | 1903 | 1973 | Art.West | 2.48 | 366 | USA | USA | ||||||||
158 | Pincus, Gregory | 1903 | 1967 | Scientific | 16.88 | 74 | USA | USA | Biology | |||||||
159 | Pincus, Gregory | 1903 | 1967 | Scientific | 15.49 | 79 | USA | USA | Medi | |||||||
160 | Rothko, Mark | 1903 | 1970 | Art.West | 10.53 | 123 | Russia | USA | ||||||||
161 | Von Neumann, John | 1903 | 1957 | Scientific | 18.52 | 57 | Hungary | USA | Math | |||||||
162 | Von Neumann, John | 1903 | 1957 | Scientific | 26.07 | 30 | Hungary | USA | Technology | |||||||
163 | West, Nathanael | 1903 | 1940 | Lit.West | 0.83 | 826 | USA | USA | ||||||||
164 | Frisch, Otto | 1904 | 1979 | Scientific | 3.08 | 212 | Austria | Britain | Physics | |||||||
165 | Heitler, Walter | 1904 | 1981 | Scientific | 6.60 | 170 | Germany | Germany | Physics | |||||||
166 | Oppenheimer, Robert | 1904 | 1967 | Scientific | 4.98 | 189 | USA | USA | Physics | |||||||
167 | Bloch, Felix | 1905 | 1983 | Scientific | 14.30 | 86 | Switzerland | USA | Physics | |||||||
168 | Newman, Barnett | 1905 | 1970 | Art.West | 7.64 | 166 | USA | USA | ||||||||
169 | Segr, Emilio | 1905 | 1989 | Scientific | 21.56 | 49 | Italy | USA | Physics | |||||||
170 | Bethe, Hans | 1906 | Scientific | 11.83 | 104 | Germany | USA | Physics | ||||||||
171 | Chain, Ernst | 1906 | 1979 | Scientific | 26.42 | 31 | Germany | Britain | Medi | |||||||
172 | Gelfond, Aleksander | 1906 | 1968 | Scientific | 6.82 | 136 | Russia | Russia | Math | |||||||
173 | Goldmark, Peter | 1906 | 1977 | Scientific | 14.68 | 105 | Hungary | USA | Technology | |||||||
174 | Odets, Clifford | 1906 | 1963 | Lit.West | 0.92 | 823 | USA | USA | ||||||||
175 | Sabin, Albert | 1906 | 1993 | Scientific | 4.37 | 184 | Poland | USA | Biology | |||||||
176 | London, Heinz | 1907 | 1970 | Scientific | 5.41 | 180 | Germany | Britain | Physics | |||||||
177 | Moravia, Alberto (Pincherle) | 1907 | 1990 | Lit.West | 7.56 | 238 | Italy | Italy | ||||||||
178 | Frank, Ilya | 1908 | 1990 | Scientific | 7.60 | 153 | Russia | Russia | Physics | |||||||
179 | Land, Edwin | 1909 | 1991 | Scientific | 18.29 | 66 | USA | USA | Technology | |||||||
180 | Levi-Montalcini, Rita | 1909 | Scientific | 8.15 | 156 | Italy | USA | Biology | ||||||||
181 | Ayer, Alfred | 1910 | 1989 | Phil.West | 3.55 | 90 | Britain | Britain | ||||||||
182 | Kline, Franz | 1910 | 1962 | Art.West | 6.03 | 213 | USA | USA | ||||||||
183 | Schuman, William | 1910 | 1992 | Music.West | 2.28 | 285 | USA | USA | ||||||||
184 | Biro Brothers | c 1900 | Scientific | 9.74 | 165.5 | Hungary | Latin Am | Technology | ||||||||