List of Iberian Jews

Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists Jews had lived in the Iberian Peninsula since the Ancient Age, experiencing a Golden Age under Muslim rule. Following the Reconquista and increasing persecution, many of them were expelled from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1497. Some of their descendants, known as the Sephardim, settled mainly in North Africa, South-East Europe, the Netherlands, England, and America. Jews were only formally readmitted to the peninsula in the late 19th century. The modern Jewish Iberian population is based on post-war immigration and numbers around 14,000. The following is a list of prominent Iberian Jews arranged by country of origin:

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Portugal

• Abraham Aboab Falero (? – 1642), seventeenth century philanthropist.
• Abraham Zacutus Lusitanus, (1575-1642), physician and medical author
• Daniel Blaufuks (1963–), photographer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Joshua Benoliel (1873–1932), photojournalist, official photographer for King Carlos I of Portugal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Isaac Cardoso (1603/1604 – 1683), physician, philosopher, and polemic writer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Artur Carlos de Barros Basto (1887–1961), author and military captain.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Artur Alberto de Campos Henriques (1853–1922), 50th Prime Minister of Portugal.Template:Citation needed
• Nico Castel (1931–2015) tenor.<ref name=Fox>Fox, Margalit. "Nico Castel, Tenor and Diction Coach at the Met, Dies at 83", The New York Times, June 3, 2015</ref>
• Uriel da Costa (1585–1640), philosopher.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Abraham Curiel (1545–1609), physician.<ref name="auto2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Jacob Curiel (1587–1664), diplomat, merchant and nobleman.<ref name="auto2"/>
• Tatiana Salem Levy (1979–), novelist.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Rodrigo Lopez (1517–1594), physician<ref>Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "Jewish physician"</ref>
• Fernão de Loronha (1470–1540), explorer and merchant.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510–1569), wealthy women of Renaissance Europe, became a prominent figure in the Ottoman Empire and developed an escape network that hundreds of Conversos.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Solomon Molcho (1500–1532), mystic and writer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Garcia de Orta (1501–1578), herbalist, naturalist and physician.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Pedro Nunes (1502–1578), mathematician, cosmographer, and professor<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Jacob Rodrigues Pereira (1715–1780), irst teacher of deaf-mutes in France.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Daniela Ruah (1983–), actress, dual American citizen<ref name="Jewishjournal">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738–1816), Lisbon-born French doctor.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Prado">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Francisco Sanches (1550 – November 16, 1623), Portuguese born, Spain raised, French skeptic philosopher and physician.
• José Maria Espírito Santo Silva Ricciardi (1954–), economist and banker.<ref name="ESIB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• David ben Solomon ibn Yahya (1425–1528), rabbi sentenced by King João II to be burned at the stake fled to Corfu.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Jacob Tirado (1540–1620), founder of the Spanish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Fernando Ulrich (1952–), economist and banking administrator.<ref name="bio">Template:In lang Fernando Ulrich banqueiro por tradição familiar Template:Webarchive, Económico</ref>
• Samuel Usque (1500–1555), author.<ref>Meyer M. A. Ideas of Jewish history 1974 p105 "Samuel Usque (sixteenth century) was a Portuguese Marrano, a Jew forcibly converted to Christianity, who after extensive wanderings settled in Ferrara.</ref>
• Richard Zimler (1956–), American-born author, dual-citizen.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Spain

Pre-expulsion

• Petrus Alphonsi, 11th & 12th century physician, writer, astronomer, and polemicist.<ref name="Haaretz">Template:Cite news</ref>
• Vidal Astori (15th century) merchant and silversmith.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Bonafos Caballeria (?-1464), historian and anti-Jewish writer.
• Abraham Cresques (1325–1387), cartographer.<ref name="The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Jehudà Cresques (1360–1410), cartographer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Alfonso de Cartagen (1384–1456), Roman Catholic bishop, diplomat, historian and writer of pre-Renaissance Spain.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Moses Hamon (1490–1567) physician, historian and phlanthopoist.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez (15th & 16th century), mystic and theologian.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Felipe Godínez (1588–1637), Portuguese born dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.<ref name="Felipe Godinez">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Jacob ibn Jau (9th century), silk-manufacturer and held a position in the court of the Hisham II.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Judah ben Joseph ibn Ezra (12th century), physician.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Joseph Kimhi (1105–1170), rabbi and biblical commentator.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Antonio de León Pinelo (1589–1660), writer and historian.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Moses de León (1240–1305), rabbi and Kabbalist who is considered the composer or redactor of the Zohar. =<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Isaac ben Moses Eli (15th century), mathematician.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Caterina Tarongí (1646–1691), burned alive by the Spanish Inquisition.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Bartolomé de Torres Naharro (1845–1530), writer.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Solomon ibn Verga (1460–1554), historian and physician.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Joseph Zabara (1140–1200), physicist, poet and satirist, writer of the Book of Delights'.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Abraham Zacuto (1452-c.1515), astronomer
• Francisco Perea (1620 – ?), first-generation son of Sephardic Jews exiled from Spain in Peru<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Post-expulsion

• Isak Andic (1953–), Turkish-born businessman and founder Mango.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Miguel de Barrios (1625–1701), philosopher, historian and poet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Nissan Ben-Avraham (1957–), Marrano rabbi.<ref name=JPmore>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Esther Bendahan (1964–), Moroccan born author.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Elena Benarroch (1955–), fashion designer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Doris Benegas (1951–2016), Venezuelan-born political lawyer, half Jewish.<ref name="auto1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• José María Benegas (1948–2015), Venezuelan-born politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, half Jewish.<ref name="auto1"/>
• Ricardo Bofill (1939–), world famous architect, half Jewish.<ref name="World-Architects">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Rafael Cansinos-Asséns (1882–1964), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator.<ref name="Jewishquarterly">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Abraham Miguel Cardoso (1626–1706), Sabbatean prophet and physician.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Isaac Carasso (1874–1939), Ottoman born co-founder of Danone.<ref name="auto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Daniel Carasso (1905–2009), Ottoman born co-founder of Danone<ref name="auto"/>
• Pancracio Celdrán (1942–2019), professor, intellectual and journalist who specializes in history & literature of antiquity & the medieval period.
• Claudio Guillén (1924–2007), French-born writer and historian, half Jewish.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Heinrich Gärtner (1885–1962), Austro-Hungarian-born cinematographer.<ref>Bock & Bergfelder p.572</ref>
• Andrés Herzog (1974–), politician and lawyer;spokesperson of the Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD),half Jewish.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Jon Juaristi (1951–), poet, essayist and translator, self-confessed former ETA militant. Convert.<ref name="Politika">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Alicia Koplowitz (1954–), businesswoman and philanthropist, half Jewish.<ref name="ABCMasRicas">ABC (Spain): "Las Koplowitz Las más ricas de España" by ISABEL GUTIÉRREZ (in Spanish) August 24, 2007</ref>
• Esther Koplowitz (1953–), businesswoman and philanthropist, half Jewish.<ref name="ABCMasRicas"/>
• Enrique Múgica Herzog (1932–), lawyer, politician and co-founder of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, half-Jewish.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Romeo Niram (1974–), figurative painter.
• Eduardo Propper de Callejón (1895–1972), diplomat remembered for facilitating escape of tens of thousands of Jews from France, half Jewish.Template:Citation needed
• Samuel Toledano (1929–1996), Moroccan-born Jewish lawyer and Jewish community leader.<ref name="New York Times">Template:Cite news</ref>
• Joseph de la Vega (1650–1692), well known merchant, poet, and philanthropist in Amsterdam.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

See also

• List of Sephardic Jews
• Sephardi Jews
• History of the Jews in Spain
• Spanish and Portuguese Jews
• Lists of Jews
• List of Portuguese
• List of Spaniards

Notes

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