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
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1940s with 167 notable births.
What Tel Aviv Is Known For
Click any row to filter the list of people below.
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.
- Sports
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Science
- Writing
- Other
- Field: Politician Clear ×
Benjamin Netanyahu
Born 1949
Tzipi Livni
Born 1958
Isaac Herzog
Born 1960
Shulamit Aloni
1928 - 2014
Ayelet Shaked
Born 1976
Efraim Sneh
Born 1944
Geulah Cohen
1925 - 2019
Yuli Tamir
Born 1954
Gideon Sa'ar
Born 1966
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
1944 - 2012
Danny Ayalon
Born 1955
Yitzhak Moda'i
1926 - 1998
Ofir Akunis
Born 1973
Elazar Stern
Born 1956
Ruth Calderon
Born 1961
Yoel Hasson
Born 1973
Avraham Shochat
Born 1936
Michael Eitan
Born 1944
Avraham Ravitz
1934 - 2009
Yoram Aridor
Born 1933
Avi Beker
1951 - 2015
Itzik Shmuli
Born 1980
Simcha Dinitz
1929 - 2003
Aharon Remez
1919 - 1994
Moshe Lion
Born 1961
Mickey Rosenthal
Born 1955
Yoram Gutgeld
Born 1959
Ron Nachman
1942 - 2013
Zvi Dinstein
1926 - 2012
Yoav Kish
Born 1968
Gidi Markuszower
Born 1977
Mordechai Bar-On
Born 1928
Avraham Katz-Oz
Born 1934
Moshe Gafni
Born 1952
Amos Degani
1926 - 2012
Ariel Atias
Born 1970
Shaul Yahalom
Born 1947
Ronit Tirosh
Born 1953
Yisrael Peled
1921 - 2016
Haim Kaufman
1934 - 1995
Yigal Cohen-Orgad
1937 - 2019
Daniel Rosolio
1927 - 2005
Rachel Tzabari
1909 - 1995
Amira Dotan
Born 1947
Ehud Rassabi
Born 1953
Avi Yehezkel
Born 1958
Ilan Shor
Born 1987
Pinchas Goldstein
1939 - 2007
Roy Folkman
Born 1975
Avigdor Yitzhaki
Born 1949
Pesah Grupper
1924 - 2013
Moshe Matalon
Born 1953
Gila Finkelstein
Born 1950
Inbal Gavrieli
Born 1975
David Golomb
1933 - 2019
Yitzhak Ziv
Born 1937
Michael Reisser
1946 - 1988
Roni Brizon
Born 1944
Boaz Moav
1938 - 2002
Hussein Mahmoud
Born 1947
Dafna Michaelson Jenet
Born 1972
Joshua Palmon
1913 - 1994