This is a list of famous Jewish American Businesspeople. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans..
Finance
* Sheldon Adelson, billionaire property developer in Las Vegas, Nevada
* Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg, mayor of New York, philanthropist
* Eli & Edythe Broad, business leader & philanthropists
* Steven Cohen, billionaire founder of SAC Capital Management
* Marcus Goldman & Samuel Sachs, founders of Goldman Sachs
* Robert Rubin, Marc Benioff, Steven Friedman, & Edward S Lampert of Goldman Sachs (more Jewish partners, chairmen, CEOs, etc. have belonged to the group but are not listed and/or unconfirmed)
* Guggenheim family, business leaders, philanthropists & art patrons
* Carl Icahn, billionaire Investments Takeovers
* Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., billionaire co-founder of KKR leveraged buyout
* Bruce Kovner, billionaire owner of Caxton Associates
* Henry Kravis, leveraged buyout pioneer and philanthropist co-founder of KKR
* Alexandre, Simon & Elie Lazard, founders of Lazard
* Edward Lampert, billionaire founder of ESL Investments
* Thomas Lee, billionaire leveraged bayout
* Henry, Emanuel & Mayer Lehman, founders of Lehman Brothers
* Norma Lerner, billionaire co-owner of MBNA Financial
* Randolph Lerner, billionaire co-owner of MBNA Financial
* Nancy Lerner Beck, billionaire co-owner of MBNA Financial
* Leo Melamed, founding chairman of the International Monetary Market
* Michael Milken, junk bond king, fraudster & philanthropist
* Jack Nash co-owner of Odissey Partners leveraged bayout
* Roy Neuberger, financier & art dealer
* Nelson Peltz, billionaire leveraged buyout
* Michael Price, billionaire investor (one jewish parent)
* George Roberts, billionaire co-founder of KKR leveraged buyout
* David Saperstein, philanthropist, founder of Five S Capital, wealthiest man in Los Angeles, 381st richest American
* Jacob Schiff, financier & philanthropist
* Mortimer L. Schiff, financier & Boy Scouts of America leader
* Muriel Siebert, first woman to purchase a seat on NYSE
* George Soros, financier & philanthropist
* Bruce Wasserstein, financier & current CEO of Lazard
* Sandy Weill, ex-CEO of Citigroup, philanthropist
Retail and rental
See also: List of Jewish American fashion designers
* Max Azria, founder of BCBG
* Arthur Blank & Bernie Marcus, founders of Home Depot, philanthropists
* Charles Bloomingdale, founder of Bloomingdales
* Nehemiah Cohen & Samuel Lehrman, founders of Giant Food
* Kenneth Cole, founder of Kenneth Cole
* Marc Ecko, founder of Ecko
* Isaac & Bernard Gimbel, founders of Gimbel's, Saks Fifth Avenue
* John Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab, owner of The Hertz Corporation (unconfirmed)
* Marc Jacobs, founder of Marc Jacobs, artistic director for Louis Vuitton
* Donna Karan, founder of DKNY
* Sidney Kimmel, retailer & philanthropist
* Calvin Klein, founder of Calvin Klein
* Ralph Lauren, founder of Polo Ralph Lauren, acquired Club Monaco
* Paul, Georges, Maurice & Armand Marciano, founders of Marciano and Guess?
* Morris Markin, founder of Checker Cabs
* David May, founder of May Department Stores (Robinsons-May, Famous-Barr, Filene's, Foley's, Hecht's, Kaufmann's, L.S. Ayres, Marshall Field's, Meier & Frank, Strawbridge's & The Jones Store)
* Mervin G. Morris, founder of Mervyns
* Joe, Ralph & Avi Nakash, founders of Jordache
* Al Neiman, Carrie Neiman & Herbert Marcus, founders of Neiman-Marcus
* Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears & Roebuck & Kmart, philanthropist
* Allen Schwartz, founder of ABS
* Isador Straus, head of Macy's, Titanic victim
* Levi Strauss, founder of Levi's
* Nathan Swartz, founder of Timberland
* Leslie Wexner, founder of Victoria's Secret, Limited Brands (Limited, Bath & Body Works, Express, White Barn Candle Co., Aura Science, Henri Bendel)
* Mel Ziegler, Pat Ziegler & Bill Rosenzweig, founders of Banana Republic
* Eddie Bauer, founder of The Eddie Bauer
Cosmetics
* Estée Lauder, cosmeticist, founder of Estée Lauder Inc.
* Charles Revson, cosmetics industrialist (Revlon)
* Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics industrialist
Toys
* Beatrice Alexander, founder of the Alexander Doll Company
* Joshua Lionel Cowen, toy train manufacturer, founder of Lionel Corporation
* Arnold Greenberg, CEO of Coleco
* Maurice Greenberg, founder of Coleco
* Nathan Greenman, toy manufacturer
* Ruth Handler, inventor of Barbie, founder of Mattel
* Henry & Helal Hassenfeld, founders of Hasbro
* Isaac Larian, founder of MGA Enretainment inventor of Bratz doll
* Charles Lazarus, founder of Toys R Us
* Rose & Morris Michtom, inventors of the teddy bear
* David Rosen, former CEO of SEGA
Confectionery
* Louis Auster, inventor of egg cream
* Burton Baskin & Irving Robbins, founders of Baskin Robbins
* Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry's
* Joseph Friedman, inventor of the flexistraw
* Hyman Golden, Arnold Greenberg & Leonard Marsh, founders of Snapple
* Herb Hyman, founder of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
* Charles Lubin, founder of Sara Lee
* Rabbi Dov Behr Manischewitz, founder of Manischewitz
* Reuben Mattus, founder of Häagen-Dazs
* Bill Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin' Donuts
* Howard Schultz, head of Starbucks, co-owner of Jamba Juice
* Soofer family, founder of Soofer Company and Sadaf
Electronics
* Beny Alagem, founder of Packard Bell
* Ralph Baer, inventor of the video game console
* Michael Dell, founder of Dell, philanthropist
* Donna Dubinsky, co-founder of Palm Computing
* Lee Felsenstein, moderator of the Homebrew Computer Club
* Andrew Grove, co-founder of Intel
* Eugene Kleiner, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, venture capitalist
* Jaron Lanier, virtual reality products
* Tommy Mottola, former head of Sony Music (converted)
* Arthur Rock, hi-tech venture capitalist (Intel, Apple)
* Ben Rosen, hi-tech venture capitalist (Compaq, Lotus)
* Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International
* Andrew Viterbi & Irwin Jacobs, founders of Qualcomm
Software and Internet
* Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft (Jewish mother)
* Dan Bernstein, creator of qmail
* Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston, creators of Visicalc
* Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
* Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent
* Mark Cuban, founder of Broadcast.com, owner of the Dallas Mavericks
* Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle Corporation
* Ken Eppers, founder of Chilliware (Jewish father, converted)
* Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks
* Max Goldberg, creator of YTMND.com
* Andy Hertzfeld, programmer on Mac OS
* Larry Kaplan, co-founder of Activision
* Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software, co-founder of EFF
* Raymond Kurzweil, artificial intelligence software
* Phil Katz, creator of PKZip
* Leslie Lamport, initial developer of LaTeX
* Max Levchin, founder of PayPal
* Elias Levy (aka Aleph One), long-time moderator of Bugtraq
* Larry Page, co-founder of Google
* Jef Raskin, interface designer for Apple Macintosh
* Seymour I. Rubinstein, creator of WordStar
* Jonathan Sachs, chief programmer on Lotus Software
* Joshua Schachter, creator of del.icio.us
* Jeff Skoll, billionaire co-founder and first president of eBay
* Richard Stallman, programmer of Emacs, founder of GNU
* Larry Tesler, creator of Gypsy
* Dave Winer, content management, XML-RPC
* Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser, Amnon Amir & Ariel Yarnitsky, founders of Mirabilis and ICQ
Media
* Jack & Harry Cohn, co-founders of Columbia Pictures
* Michael Eisner, former head of The Walt Disney Company
* William Fox, Joseph Schenk, co-founders of 20th Century Fox
* Leonard Goldenson, founder of ABC
* Irving Kahn, co-founder of TelePrompTer
* Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios
* Sherry Lansing, former head of Paramount Pictures
* Marcus Loew, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, co-founders of MGM
* William S. Paley,founder of CBS
* Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom
* Ralph Roberts, Daniel Aaron, Julian Brodsky, founders of Comcast
* David Sarnoff, founder of RCA
* Robert Shaye, founder of New Line Cinema
* Harry Sloan, Chairman of MGM
* Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen, founders of Dreamworks SKG
* Harry, Albert, Sam & Jack Warner, founders of Warner Brothers
* Bob & Harvey Weinstein, founders of Miramax
* Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures
Publishing
* Walter Annenberg, publisher & philanthropist
* Bonnie Fuller, editor and autobiographer
* Alfred & Blanche Knopf, founders of Knopf Publishing
* Samuel Irving Newhouse, founder of Advance Publications
* Adolph Ochs, former head of the New York Times
* Joseph Pulitzer, publisher (Jewish father)
* Barney Rossett, founder of Grove Press (Jewish father)
* Richard L. Simon & Max Schuster, founders of Simon and Schuster
* Roger W. Straus, Jr., co-founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
* Daniel Dirk Robert Zif, owners of Zif Davis Publishing
* Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of New York Daily News and US News and World Report
Advertising
* Edward Bernays, father of public relations
* Bill Bernbach, advertising pioneer
* Jay Chiat, advertiser
* Stan Freberg, advertiser & radio personality
* Oscar Goldstein, creator of Ronald McDonald
* Albert Lasker, advertising pioneer, founder of the Lasker Award
* Shirley Polykoff, advertiser
* Ron Popeil, inventor & father of infomercials
* Jay Schulberg, creator of Got Milk?
* Daniel Snyder, founder and owner of Snyder Communications
* Rodrigo Osna José, founder and owner of ZAAVCHAI
Other
* Alex Chiu, inventor of "immortality ring" (by religion only)
* Meir Kahane, founder and leading figure in Jewish Defense League
* Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan
* Bruce Pasternack, President/CEO Special Olympics, Author The Centerless Corporation and Results
This is a list of famous Jewish American Politicians. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
Presidential candidates
* Katharine Dukakis, wife of presidential candidate Michael Dukakis
* Barry Goldwater, presidential candidate (raised Episcopalian, father was born Jewish)
* John Kerry, presidential candidate and senator (raised Roman Catholic, grandfather was born Jewish (father was "fully Jewish" ethnically but grandfather had converted family before father was born, actual family name: Kohn)
* Janet Jagan, emigrated, became president of Guyana (1997-99)
* Joseph Lieberman, vice-presidential candidate
* Wesley Clark, presidential candidate, birth father was Jewish (family name Kanne). Clark's father died when Clark was a young boy, and he was eventually adopted by his stepfather. Clark has been a member of both Protestant and Catholic churches.
Cabinet members and senior administration officials
* Judah Benjamin, confederate secretary of war (1861) & state (1862-64)
* Oscar Straus, secretary of commerce & labor (1906-09)
* Henry Morgenthau, Jr., secretary of the treasury (1934-45)
* Pierre Salinger, white house press secretary (1961-64) (Jewish father)
* James Schlesinger, CIA Director 1973 Secretary of Defense (1973-75) (Converted to Christianity)
* Henry Kissinger, national security advisor (1969-75), secretary of state (1973-77)
* W. Michael Blumenthal, secretary of the treasury (1977-79)
* Harold Brown, secretary of defense (1977-81)
* Philip Morris Klutznick, secretary of commerce (1980-1981)
* Robert Reich, secretary of labor (1993-97)
* John M. Deutch, Belgian-born CIA director (1995-96)
* Robert Rubin, secretary of the treasury (1995-99)
* Madeline Albright, secretary of state (1997-01) (raised Episcopalian by converted parents)
* Sandy Berger, national security advisor (1997-01)
* William Cohen, secretary of defense (1997-01) (Jewish father)
* Larry Summers, secretary of the treasury (1999-01)
* Ari Fleischer, white house press secretary (2001-03)
* Michael Chertoff, homeland security secretary (2005-)
* Leon Fuerth, national security advisor to Vice President Al Gore (1993-2001)
* Edward Levi, attorney general (1975-1977)
* Joshua Bolten, White House Chief of Staff (2006-)
* Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture (1995-2001)
Senators
* David Levy Yulee, senator (D-FL: 1845-51, 1855-61)
* Judah Benjamin, senator (Whig-LA: 1853-61)
* Benjamin F. Jonas, senator (D-LA: 1879-85)
* Joseph Simon, senator (R-OR: 1898-03)
* Isidor Rayner, senator (D-MD: 1905-12)
* Simon Guggenheim, senator (R-CO: 1907-13)
* Herbert Lehman, senator (D-NY: 1949-57)
* Richard L. Neuberger, senator (D-OR: 1955-60)
* Jacob Javits, senator (R-NY: 1957-81)
* Ernest Gruening, senator (D-AK: 1959-69)
* Abraham Ribicoff, senator (D-CT: 1963-81)
* Howard Metzenbaum, senator (D-OH: 1974, 1976-95)
* Richard B. Stone , senator (D-FL: 1975-80)
* Edward Zorinsky, senator (D-NE: 1976-87)
* Rudy Boschwitz, senator (R-MN: 1978-91)
* Carl Levin, senator (D-MI: 1979-)
* Warren Rudman, senator (R-NH: 1980-93)
* Arlen Specter, senator (R-PA: 1981-)
* Frank Lautenberg, senator (D-NJ: 1982-01, 2003-)
* Jacob Hecht, senator (R-NV: 1983-89)
* John Kerry, senator (D-MA: 1985-) (father was "ethnically Jewish", but raised Catholic)
* Herb Kohl, senator (D-WI: 1989-)
* Joseph Lieberman, senator (D-CT: 1989-)
* Paul Wellstone, senator (D-MN: 1991-02)
* Dianne Feinstein, senator (D-CA: 1992-)
* Barbara Boxer, senator (D-CA: 1992-)
* Russ Feingold, senator (D-WI: 1993-)
* Ron Wyden, senator (D-OR: 1996-)
* Charles Schumer, senator (D-NY: 1999-)
* Norm Coleman, senator (R-MN: 2003-)
Representatives
Prominent representatives only for a full list see jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
* Francis Salvador, first Jewish member of a colonial legislature.
* Lewis Charles Levin, first Jewish representative (PA: 1845-51)
* Victor L. Berger, socialist (Soc-WI: 1911-13, 1919, 1923-29)
* Florence P. Kahn, first Jewish woman representative (R-CA: 1925-37)
* Allard K. Lowenstein, civil rights activist (D-NY: 1968-1970)
* Bella Abzug, feminist leader & gay rights activist (D-NY: 1971-77)
* Henry Waxman, liberal leader (D-CA: 1975-)
* Barney Frank, liberal, openly gay politician (D-MA: 1981-)
* Sam Gejdenson, (D-CT: 1981-2001)
* Tom Lantos, holocaust survivor (D-CA: 1981-)
* Gary Ackerman, (D-NY: 1983-)
* Bernie Sanders, independent (Ind-VT: 1991-)
* Jerrold Nadler, WTC district congressman during 9/11 (D-NY: 1992-)
* Adam Schiff (D-CA: 1998-)
* Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL: 2004-)
* Peter Deutsch (D-FL: 1993-2005)
* Steve Israel (D-NY: 2000-)
* Rahm Emanuel, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair (2005-), (D-IL: 2003-)
* Means Tom, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair (2005-), (D-WI: 2003-)
* Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R,Fla.), raised Catholic by a Jewish mother who converted to Cathol.
Ambassadors
* Samuel D. Berger, ambassador to Korea (1961-64); Vietnam (1968-72)
* David B. Hermelin, ambassador to Norway (1997-2000)
* Martin Indyk, ambassador to Israel (1995-97, 2000-01)
* Dennis Ross, Middle East envoy
* Martin J. Silverstein, ambassador to Uruguay (2001-2005)
Governors
* Moses Alexander, governor of Idaho (D-ID: 1915-19)
* Simon Bamberger, governor of Utah (D-UT: 1917-21)
* Arthur Seligman, governor of New Mexico (D-NM: 1931-33)
* Julius L. Meier, governor of Oregon (Ind-OR: 1931-35)
* Henry Horner, governor of Illinois (D-IL: 1933-40)
* Herbert H. Lehman, governor of New York (D-NY: 1933-42)
* Ernest Gruening, territorial governor of Alaska (D-AK: 1939-53)
* Abraham Ribicoff, governor of Connecticut (D-CT: 1955-61)
* Samuel H. Shapiro, governor of Illinois (D-IL: 1968-69)
* Frank Licht, governor of Rhode Island (D-RI: 1969-73)
* Marvin Mandel, governor of Maryland (D-MD: 1969-77)
* Milton Shapp, governor of Pennsylvania (D-PA: 1971-79)
* Madeleine M. Kunin, governor of Vermont (D-VT: 1985-91)
* Neil Goldschmidt, governor of Oregon (D-OR: 1987-91)
* Bruce Sundlun, governor of Rhode Island (D-RI: 1991-95)
* Linda Lingle, governor of Hawaii (R-HI: 2002-)
* Ed Rendell, governor of Pennsylvania (D-PA: 2002-)
Mayors
Prominent mayors/major cities only.
* Cincinnati: Bill Gradison (1971), Jerry Springer (1977-78)
* Las Vegas: Oscar Goodman (1999-)
* Louisville: Jerry E. Abramson (1985-98, 2002-)
* New York: Fiorello LaGuardia (1934-45; Jewish mother)
* New York: Abe Beame (1974-77)
* New York: Ed Koch (1978-89)
* New York: Michael Bloomberg (2002-)
* Philadelphia: Edward Rendell (19922000)
* Pittsburgh: Sophie Masloff (1988-1993)
* Portland, Oregon: Vera Katz (1992-2004)
* San Diego: Susan Golding (1992-2000)
* San Francisco: Adolph Sutro (1894-96), Dianne Feinstein (197688)
* Seattle: Bailey Gatzert (1875-76)
* Indianapolis: Stephen Goldsmith (1992-99)
* Miami: Harold Rosen (1975)
Economists
* Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve (2006-)
* Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve (1987-2006)
* Eugene Meyer, chairman of the Federal Reserve (1930-1933), president of the World Bank (1946)
* James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank (1995-2005)
* Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank (2005-)
* Walter Block, President of the Jewish Libertarian Coalition (2006-)
Other
* Elliott Abrams, current National Security Council staff candidate; an Assistant Secretary of State in the 1980s; enmeshed in Iran-Contra scandal
* Irving Kristol, one of the founders of the neoconservative movement, along with wife, Gertrude Himmelfarb
* Kitty Dukakis, wife of former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic Party Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis
* William Kristol, right-wing editor of The Daily Standard (son of Irving Kristol)
* Jean Lafitte, Buccaneer leader of the early 1800s.
* Monica Lewinsky, sex scandal intern, fashion designer
* Ken Mehlman, current Head of Republican National Committee
* Jack Abramoff, embattled lobbyist and GOP supporter
* Norman Podhoretz, one of the founders of the neoconservative movement, along with wife, Midge Decter
* Judith Steinberg Dean, wife of Democrat Howard Dean
* Yehuda Shain, Several-time independent candidate in Lakewood, New Jersey Lakewood
* Kinky Friedman, 2006 Texas Independent Gubernatorial Candidate
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