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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Gilad Atzmon
Born 1963
Orly Castel-Bloom
Born 1960
Doron Rabinovici
Born 1961
Lizzie Doron
Born 1953
Margalit Matitiahu
Born 1935
Nathan Shaham
1925 - 2018
Shulamit Lapid
Born 1934
Ephraim Katz
1932 - 1992
Irit Linur
Born 1961
Alon Hilu
Born 1972
Ephraim Sidon
Born 1946
Uriel Ofek
1926 - 1987
Daniella Carmi
Born 1956
Shifra Horn
Born 1951
Ronen Altman Kaydar
Born 1972
Michal Govrin
Born 1950
Limor Schreibman-Sharir
Born 1954
Maira Kalman
Born 1949
Tamar Adar
Born 1939
Azila Talit Reisenberger
Born 1952
Tami Lancut Leibovitz
Born 1949
On Sarig
1926 - 2012
Gail Hareven
Born 1959
Michael Guggenheimer
Born 1946
Daniel Milo
Born 1953
S. K. Azoulay
Born 1979