32.0799° N, 34.7800° E
TEL AVIV
Most Famous People Born in Tel Aviv, Israel
- Notable people
- 911
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- Median birth year
- 1953
- Most distinctive
- Rabbi 11.8×
The Bauhaus beach city is essentially the secular twin of its uphill sibling, and the roster follows suit: a Rabbi bench running at better than eleven times the global baseline sits alongside disproportionate Conductor, Photographer, and Mathematician counts. Central European émigrés stepped off the boats in the 1930s with violins and proof techniques in their luggage, and the city never got over it.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Tel Aviv during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Tel Aviv Is Known For
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Politician is Tel Aviv's biggest profession — 7% of all notables (62).
Tel Aviv over-indexes on rabbi — 11.8× the global rate.
Tel Aviv under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Tel Aviv's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1920s Clear ×
Ezer Weizman
1924 - 2005
Yuval Ne'eman
1925 - 2006
Haim Gouri
1923 - 2018
Shulamit Aloni
1928 - 2014
Amos Kenan
1927 - 2009
Geulah Cohen
1925 - 2019
Haim Ginott
1922 - 1973
Nisim Aloni
1926 - 1998
Benny Peled
1928 - 2002
Zaharira Harifai
1929 - 2013
Michael Harari
1927 - 2014
Nathan Shaham
1925 - 2018
Shimon Tzabar
1926 - 2007
Yitzhak Moda'i
1926 - 1998
Yitzhak Hofi
1927 - 2014
Shmuel Agmon
Born 1922
Pnina Salzman
1922 - 2006
Yehoshua Glazer
1927 - 2018
Dan Tolkowsky
Born 1921
Eliyahu Winograd
1926 - 2018
Simcha Dinitz
1929 - 2003
Netiva Ben-Yehuda
1928 - 2011
Ted Arison
1924 - 1999
Yaakov Rechter
1924 - 2001
Zvi Dinstein
1926 - 2012
Uriel Ofek
1926 - 1987
Gidon Graetz
Born 1929
Mordechai Bar-On
Born 1928
Aharon Davidi
1927 - 2012
Naomi Polani
Born 1927
Joseph Tabenkin
1921 - 1987
Amichai Paglin
1922 - 1978
David Schweitzer
1925 - 1997
Yigal Arnon
1929 - 2014
Eviatar Nevo
Born 1929
Amos Degani
1926 - 2012
Yekutiel Adam
1927 - 1982
Elyakum Shapirra
1926 - 2014
Yisrael Peled
1921 - 2016
Eliyahu Bet-Zuri
1922 - 1945
Herzl Shafir
Born 1929
Shalom Ronli-Riklis
1922 - 1994
Mosche Lissak
1928 - 2018
Avner Treinin
1928 - 2011
Daniel Rosolio
1927 - 2005
On Sarig
1926 - 2012
Elisheva Michaeli
1928 - 2009
Reuven Shefer
1925 - 2011
Shaul Rosolio
1923 - 1992
Yehoshua Ben-Zion
1924 - 2004
Menahem Degani
1927 - 2018
Emanuel Hatzofe
1928 - 2019
Pesah Grupper
1924 - 2013
Yeshayahu Gavish
Born 1925
Moshe Gidron
1925 - 2009
Daniel Doron
Born 1929
Uzi Wiesel
1927 - 2019
Zvi Zibel
1925 - 1948
Pnina Bor
1924 - 2009
Michael Feldman
1926 - 2005
Avraham Bendori
1928 - 2019
Moshe Litvak
1926 - 2012
Reuven Helman
1927 - 2013
Dahlia Gredinger
1926 - 1979