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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Miri Ben-Ari
Born 1978
Shuki Levy
Born 1947
Dror Feiler
Born 1951
Shulamit Ran
Born 1949
Noam Sheriff
1935 - 2018
Ilan Chester
Born 1952
Yair Rosenblum
1944 - 1996
Avner Dorman
Born 1975
Boaz Sharabi
Born 1947
Gil Shohat
Born 1973
Koby Israelite
Born 1966
Betty Olivero
Born 1954
Adam Ben Ezra
Born 1982
Yardena Alotin
1930 - 1994
Lior Navok
Born 1971
Orit Wolf
Born 1974
Daniel Gortler
Born 1965
Roy Zu-Arets
Born 1969
Dafna Eilat
1938 - 2002
Uri Fineman
Born 1959
Matan Porat
Born 1982
Samir Odeh-Tamimi
Born 1970
Raviv Gazit
Born 1949
Frank Ilfman
Born 1970
Eran Prion
Born 1974
Rami Bar-Niv
Born 1945
Avi Berman
Born 1971
Adam Basanta
Born 1985
Kiki Keren-Huss
Born 1955
Guy Tuneh
Born 1977