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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.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Tel Aviv during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1940s with 167 notable births.

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 rabbi11.8× the global rate.

Tel Aviv under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.

  1. Politician62
  2. Football60
  3. Actor55
  4. Singer43
  5. Composer30
  6. Film27
  7. Writer26
  8. Artist26
  1. Rabbi1211.8×
  2. Conductor125.1×
  3. Photographer214.8×
  4. Mathematician194.2×
  5. Entrepreneur113.5×
  6. Artist262.8×
  7. Diplomat142.6×
  8. Composer302.5×
  1. Politician620.6×
  2. Football600.6×
  3. Player120.7×

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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0005 SINGER

Dana International

Born 1969

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0007 ACTOR

Yvan Attal

Born 1965

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0008 SINGER

Achinoam Nini

Born 1969

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0010 ACTOR

Ayelet Zurer

Born 1969

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0011 JOURNALIST

Yair Lapid

Born 1963

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0021 WRITER

Gilad Atzmon

Born 1963

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0025 POLITICIAN

Isaac Herzog

Born 1960

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0040 ARTIST

Rutu Modan

Born 1966

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0045 SINGER

Noam Kaniel

Born 1962

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0048 PRODUCER

Offer Nissim

Born 1964

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0054 JUDO

Yael Arad

Born 1967

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0064 WRITER

Orly Castel-Bloom

Born 1960

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0085 POLITICIAN

Gideon Sa'ar

Born 1966

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0087 PLAYER

Amos Mansdorf

Born 1965

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0094 PAINTER

Tal R

Born 1967

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0100 PHOTOGRAPHER

Nadav Kander

Born 1961

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0117 WRITER

Doron Rabinovici

Born 1961

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0125 LINGUIST

Guy Deutscher (linguist)

Born 1969

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0132 PLAYER

Gilad Bloom

Born 1967

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0135 LAWYER

Yishai Sarid

Born 1965

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0141 ACTOR

Asi Levi

Born 1969

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0144 MUSIC

Ori Kaplan

Born 1969

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0160 HISTORIAN

Raanan Rein

Born 1960

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0161 ECONOMIST

Itzhak Gilboa

Born 1963

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0176 RABBI

Binyamin Lau

Born 1961

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0183 BIOINFORMATICIAN

Uri Alon

Born 1969

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0186 POLITICIAN

Ruth Calderon

Born 1961

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0190 MODEL

Michaela Bercu

Born 1967

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0195 ARTIST

Arik Levy

Born 1963

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0205 FOOTBALL

Boni Ginzburg

Born 1964

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0221 COMPOSER

Koby Israelite

Born 1966

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0235 PROFESSOR

Amir Hetsroni

Born 1968

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0246 HISTORIAN

Reviel Netz

Born 1968

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0258 AUTHOR

Lea Aini

Born 1962

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0259 PHOTOGRAPHER

Ori Gersht

Born 1967

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0271 WRITER

Irit Linur

Born 1961

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0274 PRESENTER

Erez Tal

Born 1961

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0277 SINGER

Yuval Banay

Born 1962

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0282 ACTOR

Rami Heuberger

Born 1963

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0285 POLITICIAN

Moshe Lion

Born 1961

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0300 ACTOR

Itzik Cohen (actor)

Born 1968

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0303 FOOTBALL

Motti Ivanir

Born 1964

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0311 COMEDIAN

Eli Yatzpan

Born 1965

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0328 MILITAR

Avichai Mandelblit

Born 1963

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0338 COMIC

Uri Fink

Born 1963

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0341 FILM

Duki Dror

Born 1963

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0350 ECONOMIST

Uri Gneezy

Born 1967

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0351 POLITICIAN

Yoav Kish

Born 1968

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0353 RACING

Chanoch Nissany

Born 1963

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0370 ARTIST

Nira Pereg

Born 1969

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0372 ACTOR

Yoram Yosefsberg

Born 1963

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0388 PHOTOGRAPHER

Dina Goldstein

Born 1969

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0435 MUSIC

Shlomi Bracha

Born 1962

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0467 AUTHOR

Michal Zamir

Born 1964

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0473 BASKET

Tomer Steinhauer

Born 1966

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0474 BASKET

Ronen Ginzburg

Born 1963

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0475 COMPOSER

Daniel Gortler

Born 1965

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0481 ARTIST

Orit Ishay

Born 1961

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0490 COMPOSER

Roy Zu-Arets

Born 1969

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0500 DESIGNER

Ilan Fernández Uzzan

Born 1966

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0512 COMEDIAN

Eyal Kitzis

Born 1969

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0537 MISSING

Yoram Cohen

Born 1960

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0549 RABBI

David Lau

Born 1966

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0557 PHOTOGRAPHER

Michael Ackerman

Born 1967

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0558 HISTORIAN

Eran Rolnik

Born 1965

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0574 CHOREOGRAPHER

Itzik Galili

Born 1961

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0578 PAINTER

Adi Rosenblum

Born 1962

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0579 PRODUCER

Josh Macrae

Born 1964

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0581 PRESENTER

Miki Haimovich

Born 1962

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0598 ARTIST

Eran Schaerf

Born 1962

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0599 DIPLOMAT

Alon Pinkas

Born 1961

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0616 PHOTOGRAPHER

Lili Almog

Born 1961

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0617 FILM

Nomi Talisman

Born 1966

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0632 JUDGE

Dori Spivak

Born 1968

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0667 FOOTBALL

Guy Sharabi

Born 1969

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0681 COOK

Erez Komarovsky

Born 1962

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0685 CONDUCTOR

Yaron Traub

Born 1964

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0701 FOOTBALL

David Levi (poker player)

Born 1962

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0703 PAINTER

Boaz Kaizman

Born 1962

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0720 DIPLOMAT

David Saranga

Born 1964

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0722 SCULPTOR

Gil Shachar

Born 1965

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0728 SCHOLAR

Ronen Reichman

Born 1960

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0752 PHOTOGRAPHER

Sheffy Bleier

Born 1964

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0765 PHOTOGRAPHER

Erieta Attali

Born 1966

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0767 PHYSICIST

Maya Paczuski

Born 1963

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0776 THEATRE

Airan Berg

Born 1961

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0781 MILITAR

Zohar Palti

Born 1964

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0792 ENTREPRENEUR

Estee Shiraz

Born 1968

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0794 CONSULTANT

Golan Cipel

Born 1968

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0802 DIRIGENTE

Amos Genish

Born 1960

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0809 TEACHER

David Muller

Born 1964

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0845 ENTREPRENEUR

Uri Levine

Born 1965

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0859 ARCHITECT

Hagy Belzberg

Born 1964

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0879 FOOTBALL

Tamir Linhart

Born 1968

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0886 CHEMIST

Yitzhak Mastai

Born 1966

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0910 FOOTBALL

Jackie Tzarfati

Born 1969

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