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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Adi Shamir
Born 1952
Gil Kalai
Born 1955
Joram Lindenstrauss
1936 - 2012
Ronald Coifman
Born 1941
Omer Reingold
Born 1973
Shimon Even
1935 - 2004
Shmuel Agmon
Born 1922
Mina Teicher
Born 1950
Moshé Flato
1937 - 1998
Moshé Machover
Born 1936
David Gottlieb (mathematician)
1944 - 2008
Zvi Galil
Born 1947
Moshe Jarden
Born 1942
Yael Dowker
1919 - 2016
Erez Lapid
Born 1971
Michael Lin (mathematician)
Born 1942
Uriel Rothblum
1947 - 2012
Alexander Zabrodsky
1936 - 1986
Guy Caspi
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