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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 1940s Clear ×
Benjamin Netanyahu
Born 1949
Uri Geller
Born 1946
Pinchas Zukerman
Born 1948
Dan Shechtman
Born 1941
Ilanit
Born 1947
Hanoch Levin
1943 - 1999
Boaz Davidson
Born 1943
Shuki Levy
Born 1947
Dan Halutz
Born 1948
Batya Gur
1947 - 2005
Nurit Hirsh
Born 1942
Yona Wallach
1944 - 1985
Michael Wolffsohn
Born 1947
Efraim Sneh
Born 1944
Bracha L. Ettinger
Born 1948
Shulamit Ran
Born 1949
Ronald Coifman
Born 1941
Uri Barbash
Born 1946
Menachem Bello
Born 1947
Mayana Zatz
Born 1947
Elyakim Rubinstein
Born 1947
Alexander Pines
Born 1945
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
1944 - 2012
Yaakov Peri
Born 1944
Yair Rosenblum
1944 - 1996
Roni Milo
Born 1949
Dorit Beinisch
Born 1942
Boaz Sharabi
Born 1947
Micky Arison
Born 1949
Moshe Romano
Born 1946
Yossi Vardi
Born 1942
Rivka Golani
Born 1946
Ehud Kalai
Born 1942
Isaac Ben Israel
Born 1949
Nurith Aviv
Born 1945
Yisrael Rosen
1941 - 2017
Gabriela Shalev
Born 1941
Tsvi Piran
Born 1949
Yaron London
Born 1940
Roni Bar-On
Born 1948
Michael Eitan
Born 1944
Gideon Koren
Born 1947
Shmuel Ashkenasi
Born 1941
Ram Loevy
Born 1940
Moshe Zuckermann
Born 1949
Rafael Seligmann
Born 1947
Daniel Pe'er
1943 - 2017
Giora Romm
Born 1945
Hanan Goldblatt
Born 1941
Dan Shilon
Born 1940
Asher Grunis
Born 1945
David Fisher (architect)
Born 1949
Ariel Zilber
Born 1943
Yehuda Weinstein
Born 1944
Haggai Erlich
Born 1942
Benny Shanon
Born 1948
Ron Nachman
1942 - 2013
Ahuva Ozeri
1948 - 2016
Nitza Metzger-Szmuk
Born 1945
Alex Levac
Born 1944
Avihu Medina
Born 1948
Abraham Nitzan
Born 1944
Yaron Ezrahi
1940 - 2019
David Gottlieb (mathematician)
1944 - 2008
Tuvia Tzafir
Born 1945
Ephraim Sidon
Born 1946
Shulamit Volkov
Born 1942
Eitan Haber
1940 - 2020
Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi
1943 - 2015
Ze'ev Segal
1947 - 2011
Gad Kaynar
Born 1947
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Born 1943
Motti Mizrachi
Born 1946
Yissachar Dov Rokeach (fifth Belzer rebbe)
Born 1948
Amots Dafni
Born 1944
Yoheved Kaplinsky
Born 1947
Joshua Epstein
Born 1940
Avraham Oz
Born 1944
Zvi Galil
Born 1947
Joseph Kalichstein
Born 1946
Atar Arad
Born 1945
Daklon
Born 1944
Hermona Soreq
Born 1947
Yadin Dudai
Born 1944
Yehoshua Mondshine
1947 - 2014
Aryeh Stern
Born 1944
David Witzthum
Born 1948
Eli Mohar
1948 - 2006
David Ascalon
Born 1945
Moshe Jarden
Born 1942
Etan Kohlberg
Born 1943
Maira Kalman
Born 1949
Shaul Yahalom
Born 1947
Joseph Hackmey
Born 1945
Alon Liel
Born 1948
Ilana Raviv
Born 1945
Gideon Remez
Born 1946
Itamar Procaccia
Born 1949
Amnon Salomon
1940 - 2011
Yoram Bilu
Born 1942
Yairah Amit
Born 1941
Jeheskel Shoshani
1943 - 2008
Nili Tal
Born 1944
Dan Ashbel
Born 1949
Shimon Cohen
Born 1942
Shimon Kagan
Born 1942
Avishai Henik
Born 1945
Tami Lancut Leibovitz
Born 1949
Yair Hurvitz
1941 - 1988
Uriel Reichman
Born 1942
Giora Leshem
1940 - 2011
Avigdor Feldman
Born 1948
Amira Dotan
Born 1947
Rivka Feldhay
Born 1947
Eliahu Stern
Born 1948
Uzi Landman
Born 1944
Carlo Mossy
Born 1946
Alon Reininger
Born 1947
Ilana Vered
Born 1943
Dov Glickman
Born 1949
Dora Levy Mossanen
Born 1945
Shlomo Izre'el
Born 1949
Avigdor Yitzhaki
Born 1949
Eti Livni
Born 1948
Raviv Gazit
Born 1949
Jerry Zucker (businessman)
1949 - 2008
Eli Alon
Born 1945
Aviva Joel
Born 1949
Ronny Loewy
1946 - 2012
Zohar Zisapel
Born 1949
Michael Dezer
Born 1941
Miriam Adelson
Born 1945
Harry Baron
Born 1944
Rachel Hirschfeld
1946 - 2018
Oded Grajew
Born 1944
Yigal Zalmona
Born 1945
Uri D. Herscher
Born 1941
Yisroel Hager (The second)
Born 1945
Eli Putievsky
1942 - 2017
Ronald Barazon
Born 1944
Baruch Berliner
Born 1942
Michael Lin (mathematician)
Born 1942
Michael Guggenheimer
Born 1946
Baruch Minke
Born 1940
Michael Reisser
1946 - 1988
Rami Bar-Niv
Born 1945
Ilana Adir
Born 1941
Yehuda Talit
1944 - 2019
Uriel Rothblum
1947 - 2012
Uri C. Weiser
Born 1945
Avi Trattner
1946 - 2011
Amos Grodzinowsky
Born 1940
Roni Brizon
Born 1944
Dalia Levin
Born 1946
Mordechai Mishani
1945 - 2013
Leah Laiman
Born 1946
Michael Gurdus
1944 - 2017
Hussein Mahmoud
Born 1947
Alisa Douer
Born 1943
Hanna Fahlbusch-Wald
1948 - 2006
Itschak Shrem
Born 1947
Joseph Avron
Born 1948
Daniel Danieli (calciatore)
1945 - 1977
Dan Barzily
Born 1945
Shmuel Melika
1947 - 2011
Jacob Klein (chemist)
Born 1949
Cobi Benatoff
Born 1944