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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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Showing 19 of 911 notable people

0015 MATHEMATICIAN

Adi Shamir

Born 1952

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0090 MATHEMATICIAN

Gil Kalai

Born 1955

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0091 MATHEMATICIAN

Joram Lindenstrauss

1936 - 2012

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0098 MATHEMATICIAN

Ronald Coifman

Born 1941

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0169 MATHEMATICIAN

Omer Reingold

Born 1973

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0172 MATHEMATICIAN

Shimon Even

1935 - 2004

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0173 MATHEMATICIAN

Shmuel Agmon

Born 1922

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0212 MATHEMATICIAN

Mina Teicher

Born 1950

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0292 MATHEMATICIAN

Moshé Flato

1937 - 1998

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0327 MATHEMATICIAN

Moshé Machover

Born 1936

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0329 MATHEMATICIAN

David Gottlieb (mathematician)

1944 - 2008

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0389 MATHEMATICIAN

Zvi Galil

Born 1947

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0436 MATHEMATICIAN

Moshe Jarden

Born 1942

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0576 MATHEMATICIAN

Yael Dowker

1919 - 2016

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0657 MATHEMATICIAN

Erez Lapid

Born 1971

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0729 MATHEMATICIAN

Michael Lin (mathematician)

Born 1942

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0769 MATHEMATICIAN

Uriel Rothblum

1947 - 2012

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0796 MATHEMATICIAN

Alexander Zabrodsky

1936 - 1986

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0891 MATHEMATICIAN

Guy Caspi

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