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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Avi Primor
Born 1935
Reuven Merhav
Born 1936
Alon Liel
Born 1948
Dan Ashbel
Born 1949
Yuval Rotem
Born 1959
Alon Pinkas
Born 1961
Yakov Hadas-Handelsman
Born 1957
David Saranga
Born 1964
Moshe Gidron
1925 - 2009
Barukh Binah
Born 1950
Doron Grossman
1956 - 2005
Béla Szombati
Born 1955
Aviv Shir-On
Born 1952
Avi Granot
Born 1950