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List of Famous Americans of jewish population  (anoter population  - http://conk.com/search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=List_of_Jewish_Americans)

At about 6 1/2 million, the Jewish population of the United States is currently the largest Jewish population in the world. Judaism is the second most populous religion in the US after Christianity, comprising over 2% but no more than 3% of the total US population. Here is a list of some prominent Jewish Americans, arranged by field of activity a list of famous Jewish Americans.

 

Scientists: Mortimer Adler, philosopher , Paul Benacerraf, philosopher , Max Black, analytic philosopher, Ned Block, philosopher of mind, George Boolos, logician, Stanley Cavell, philosopher, Morris Raphael Cohen, philosopher , Arthur Danto, philosophy of aesthetics, Hubert Dreyfus, critic of cognitivism, Ronald Dworkin, legal philosopher, Herbert Feigl, philosopher of science, Solomon Feferman, logician, Stanley Fish, literary theorist, Jerry Fodor, philosopher of mind, Philipp Frank, logical positivist, Nelson Goodman, new riddle of induction, Sidney Hook, philosopher, Hans Jonas, philosopher, Walter Kaufmann, philosopher, Saul Kripke, logician, Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science, Ruth Barcan Marcus, logician, Ernest Nagel, philosopher of science , Thomas Nagel, philosophy of mind, Robert Nozick, libertarianism, Martha Nussbaum, ethics (converted), Hilary Putnam, functionalism, Ayn Rand, objectivism, Michael Sandel, communitarianism, Leo Strauss, political philosopher, Judith Jarvis Thomson, moral philosopher, Theodor Adorno, sociologist & philosopher (Jewish father), Hannah Arendt, political theorist, Daniel Bell, sociologist, Reinhard Bendix, sociologist, Sanford Berman, radical librarian, Peter Blau, sociologist, Franz Boas, cultural anthropologist, Kate Bornstein, gender theorist, Judith Butler, queer theorist, Lewis A. Coser, sociologist, Amitai Etzioni, sociologist, Norman Finkelstein, political theorist, Mark Granovetter, sociologist, Marvin Harris, anthropologist, Melville J. Herskovits, anthropologist, Lenore Jacobson, experimental sociologist, Evelyn Fox Keller, science & gender theorist, Irving Kristol, neoconservative, Paul Lazarsfeld, sociologist, Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist, Robert Lowie, anthropologist, Herbert Marcuse, sociologist, New Left figurehead, Robert King Merton, sociologist, Ashley Montagu, anthropologist, Paul Radin, anthropologist, David Riesman, sociologist, Robert Rosenthal, experimental sociologist, Marshall Sahlins, anthropologist, David Schneider, cultural anthropologist, Alfred Schütz, sociologist & philosopher, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, queer theorist, Louis Wirth, sociologist, Eric Wolf, anthropologist, Milford H. Wolpoff, physical anthropologist, Kaley Zeitouni, founder of Youth Against MS , Leonard Bloomfield, linguist, Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher, Joshua Fishman, sociolinguist, Joseph Greenberg, language classification, Morris Halle, linguist, Zellig Harris, structural linguist, Ray Jackendoff, linguist, Roman Jakobson, Prague School of linguistics, Jay Jasanoff, historical linguist, William Labov, sociolinguist, George Lakoff, sociolinguist, Fred Lukoff, linguist, Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist, Morris Swadesh, linguist, Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist, Michael Thomas, language teacher , Max and Uriel Weinreich, linguists, Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist, Aaron Beck, cognitive behavior theory, Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning theorist, Paul Ekman, facial expressions, Albert Ellis, psychologist, Erik Erikson, developmental psychologist (Jewish mother), Leon Festinger, Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, Erich Fromm, psychologist & humanistic philosopher, Carol Gilligan, psychologist & ethicist, Gail Gornick, psychotherapist, Irving Janis, social psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, Nobel Prize (2002), Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist, Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist, Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychologist, Stanley Milgram, small world and Milgram experiments, Walter Mischel, experimental psychologist, Hugo Munsterberg, industrial psychologist, Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (Jewish father), Anatol Rapoport, mathematical psychologist, Fritz Perls, Gestalt therapy, Steven Pinker, psychologist & writer, Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst, David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment, Stanley Schachter, social psychologist,Martin Seligman, Positive psychologist, Herbert Simon, cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize (1978), Robert Sternberg, intelligence & creativity, David Wechsler, intelligence testing, George Weinberg, coiner of the word "homophobia", Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist, George Akerlof, economist, Nobel Prize (2001), Kenneth Arrow, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Clark Medal (1957), Nobel Prize (1972), Gary Becker, economist, Clark Medal (1967), Nobel Prize (1992), Martin S. Feldstein, economist, Clark Medal (1977) , Franklin M. Fisher, economist, Clark Medal (1973), Robert Fogel, new economic history, Nobel Prize (1993), Milton Friedman, monetarist economist, Clark Medal (1951), Nobel Prize (1976), Zvi Griliches, econometrist, Clark Medal (1965), Sanford J. Grossman, economics of information, Clark Medal (1987), John Harsanyi, game theorist, Nobel Prize (1994), Jerry A. Hausman, econometrist, Clark Medal (1985), Robert Heilbroner, leftist economist, Israel Kirzner, Austrian School economist, Lawrence Klein, econometric models, Clark Medal (1959), Nobel Prize (1980), David M. Kreps, economist, Clark Medal (1989), Paul Krugman, economist & journalist, Clark Medal (1991), Simon Kuznets, econometrics, Nobel Prize (1971), Wassily Leontief, Input-Output method, Nobel Prize (1973) (Jewish mother), Steven Levitt, economist, Clark Medal (2003), Harry Markowitz, economist, Nobel Prize (1990), Robert Merton, Black-Scholes equation, Nobel Prize (1997) (Jewish father), Merton Miller, economist, Nobel Prize (1990), Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School economist, Franco Modigliani, economist, Nobel Prize (1985), Oskar Morgenstern, game theorist, Marc Leon Nerlove, economist, Clark Medal (1969), Matthew Rabin, economist, Clark Medal (2001), Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist, Jeffrey Sachs, economic shock therapy, Paul Samuelson, economic analysis, Clark Medal (1947), Nobel Prize (1970), Andrei Shleifer, economist, Clark Medal (1999), Myron Scholes, Black-Scholes equation, Nobel Prize (1997), Robert Solow, economic growth, Clark Medal (1961), Nobel Prize (1987), Joseph Stiglitz, economist & author, Clark Medal (1979), Nobel Prize (2001), Lawrence Summers, economist, Clark Medal (1993), Jacob Viner, economist, Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization, Gerda Lerner, feminist historian, Salomon Bochner, harmonic analysis,  Richard Brauer, modular representation theory, Eugenio Calabi, differential geometry, Paul Cohen, set theorist, Fields Medal (1966), Richard Courant, algebraic topology, George Dantzig, simplex algorithm, Martin Davis, mathematician, Persi Diaconis, statistician, Jesse Douglas, mathematician, Fields Medal (1936), Samuel Eilenberg, category theorist, Noam Elkies, mathematician, Charles Fefferman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1978), Mitchell Feigenbaum, chaos theorist, William Feller, probability theory, Michael Freedman, mathematician, Fields Medal (1986) (Jewish father), Solomon Golomb, polyominoes, Paul Halmos, mathematician, Mark Kac, mathematician,Edward Kasner, mathematician, Martin Kruskal, mathematician, Peter Lax, mathematician, Abel Prize (2005), Solomon Lefschetz, algebraic topology , Norman Levinson, mathematician, Barry Mazur, mathematician, Louis Mordell, number theorist, George Pólya, mathematician (Jewish father), Emil Post, logician, Herbert Robbins, statistician, Abraham Robinson, nonstandard analysis, Isadore Singer, mathematician, Abel Prize (2004),Richard P. Stanley, mathematician, Elias Stein, mathematician, Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician, André Weil, mathematician, Edward Witten, M-theory, Fields Medal (1990), Oscar Zariski, algebraic geometry

David Remnick (?) – journalis-russist, N.Y Times

Musicians and bands : Joe Dassin, French-based singer , Neil Diamond, singer/songwriter , Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter, Marvin Goldstein, pianist, Arlo Guthrie, folk singer (Jewish mother),  Carole King, singer/songwriter, Elvis Presley, rock&roll musician (Jewish great-great-grandmother), Lou Reed, singer/songwriter, Neil Sedaka, singer/songwriter, Barbra Streisand, singer, actress, director,  Aerosmith - Joey Kramer , The Beach Boys - David Marks (half Jewish), Blondie - Chris Stein (half Jewish), Blood, Sweat & Tears - Al Kooper, Fred Lipsius, Randy Brecker, Jerry Weiss, Steve Katz, Bobby Colomby , Bon Jovi - David Bryan, The Doors - Robbie Krieger,  Grateful Dead - Mickey Hart,  Jefferson Airplane - Marty Balin, Jorma Kaukonen (both half Jewish) Paul Kantner, KISS - Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, Los Lobos - Steve Berlin, The Mamas & the Papas - Cass Elliot , New York Dolls - David Johansen (Jewish mother), Arthur Kane, Sylvain Sylvain , Patti Smith group - Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl, The Ramones - Joey Ramone, Tommy Ramone , Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Hillel Slovak,  Simon and Garfunkel - Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel , Sparks - Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Twisted Sister - Dee Snider, Jay Jay French (Snider Jewish father), The United States of America - Dorothy Moskowitz,

Classical composers: Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Ernest Bloch, Aaron Copland, Richard Danielpour, Mario Davidovsky, David Diamond, Jacob Druckman, Morton Feldman, Lukas Foss, George Gershwin, Philip Glass, Rubin Goldmark, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, (Jewish father), Morton Gould, Aaron Jay Kernis, Leon Kirchner, Leo Ornstein, George Perle, Shulamit Ran, Steve Reich, George Rochberg, Arnold Schoenberg, William Schuman, Ernst Toch, John Zorn,

Autors  

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Paterson, New Jersey. He formed a bridge between the Beat movement of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s, befriending, among others, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Gregory Corso, Bob Kaufman, Herbert Huncke, Rod McKuen, and Bob Dylan.

Kathy Acker, writer , Forrest J. Ackerman, science fiction author & fan, Nelson Algren, novelist (son of convert), Jonathan Ames, author, Sholem Asch, Yiddish writer, Isaac Asimov, science fiction author, Paul Auster, author, Peter S. Beagle, novelist, Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel Prize (1976), Robert Bloch, science fiction author , Lawrence Block, crime novelist, Harold Bloom, literary critic, Judy Blume, children's author , Jane Bowles, writer & playwright, David Brin, science fiction author , Michael Chabon, novelist , Harlan Coben, mystery writer, Anita Diamant, writer, E. L. Doctorow, writer, Harlan Ellison, 'speculative fiction' writer, Jon Fasman, mystery writer, Howard Fast, novelist, Raymond Federman, postmodernist writer, Edna Ferber, author, Jonathan Safran Foer, writer, Betty Friedan, writer, Kinky Friedman, crime writer & singer/songwriter, Alan Furst, novelist, Barry Gifford, poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter (Jewish father), Natalie Goldberg, author & teacher, William Goldman, novelist & screenwriter, Noah Gordon, Joe Haldeman, science fiction author, Daniel Handler, writer, Sam Harris, author, Joseph Heller, novelist, Richard Herrnstein, author, Mark Helprin, novelist, Erica Jong, author, Faye Kellerman, crime novelist; married to Jonathan Kellerman, crime novelist, Frederick Kohner, author of Gidget, Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer, Jerzy Kosinski, writer, Jonathan Kozol, writer & educator , Edward E. Kramer, writer & editor, Judith Krantz, romance writer , James Howard Kunstler, novelist and New Urbanist author, Fran Lebowitz, essayist & humorist, Jonathan Lethem, novelist, Ira Levin, author, Laura Lippman, crime novelist, Phillip Lopate, author, Norman Mailer, writer , Bernard Malamud, writer, James McBride, author (Jewish mother), Walter Mosley, murder-mystery novelist (Jewish mother), Cynthia Ozick, novelist, Grace Paley, short story writer & poet, Sara Paretsky, mystery writer, Dorothy Parker, writer, poet & wit (Jewish father), S. J. Perelman, humorist, Marge Piercy, novelist, poet, Rachel Pollack, science-fiction author, Chaim Potok, author & rabbi, Ayn Rand, writer (atheist), Harold Robbins, author, Philip Roth, novelist, S.J. Rozan, author, Louis Sachar, children's writer, J. D. Salinger, author (Jewish father), Budd Schulberg, novelist & screenwriter, Maurice Sendak, children's author, Sidney Sheldon, novelist & screenwriter, Robert Silverberg, science fiction author, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize (1978), Susan Sontag, essayist & novelist, Danielle Steele, romance novelist (Jewish father),Gertrude Stein, writer, poet & playwright, Joel Stein, columnist, George Steiner, literary critic, Jacqueline Susann, novelist, Studs Terkel, author & oral historian, Alice B. Toklas, literary figure, Lionel Trilling, literary critic, Scott Turow, mystery writer, Harry Turtledove, science fiction writer, Leon Uris, novelist, Irving Wallace, novelist, Nathanael West, writer, Elie Wiesel, writer & Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize (1986), Herman Wouk, author, Elizabeth Wurtzel, author

Social laeders:  David Remnick (rusist), Saul Alinsky, social organizer, Daniel De Leon, socialist leader, David Dubinsky, labor leader, Emma Goldman, anarchist leader, Samuel Gompers, labor leader, Sidney Hillman, labor leader, Abbie Hoffman, social activist, Yippie, Jackie Presser, labor leader, racketeer, Jerry Rubin, social activist, Yippie . Anti-racism: Abraham Foxman, head of the ADL , Kivie Kaplan, head of the NAACP, Winona LaDuke, Native American acitivst & environmentalist (Jewish mother), Stanley Levison, advisor of Martin Luther King, Abel Meeropol, composer of Strange Fruit, Michael Schwerner & Andrew Goodman, CORE activists, KKK victims, Joel & Arthur Spingarn, early NAACP leaders, Helen Suzman, South African anti-apartheid activist, Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi-hunter, Tim Wise, anti-racism activist,  Bella Abzug, feminist politician, Gloria Allred, feminist lawyer, Andrea Dworkin, feminist writer, Susan Faludi, feminist writer, Betty Friedan, co-founder & first president of NOW,  Harvey Milk, murdered gay rights activist & openly-gay politician, Robin Morgan, editor of Ms. Magazine, Ernestine Rose, feminist, Gloria Steinem, founder of Ms. Magazine (Jewish father), Rebecca Walker, feminist writer (Jewish father), Naomi Wolf, feminist writer

Alan Berg, murdered radio host, Nick Berg, beheaded entrepreneur, Josephine Earp, wife of Wyatt Earp, Leo Frank, lynching victim, Jeremy Glick (1), September 11 victim (UA flight 93), Jeremy Glick (2), activist & son of September 11 victim (WTC), Ronald Goldman, murdered friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, Meir Kahane, orthodox rabbi, Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, Jonathan Levin, teacher son of executive Gerald Levin; tortured and killed by a student, Chandra Levy, disappeared intern, Monica Lewinsky, sex scandal intern, Joshua A. Norton, eccentric & self-proclaimed emperor, Daniel Pearl, beheaded journalist, Judith Resnik, Space Shuttle Challenger victim, Mickey Schwerner & Andrew Goodman, KKK victims, William James Sidis, child prodigy, Nancy Spungen, murdered girlfriend of Sid Vicious

Criminals:Lori Berenson, activist convicted of terrorism in Peru, David Berkowitz, Son of Sam, serial killer (adopted by Italian father & Jewish mother, raised Catholic), Otto Berman, gangster, Louis Buchalter, gangster, Samuel Byck, failed assassin of Richard Nixon, Benny Fein, gangster, Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam, Mickey Cohen, gangster, Frank Collin, neo-nazi, Maxie Eisen, gangster, Waxey Gordon, gangster, Jake Guzik, gangster, Nathan Kaplan, gangster, Dylan Klebold, Columbine massacre (Jewish maternal grandfather, raised Lutheran), Abe Landau, gangster, Meyer Lansky, gangster, Jean Lafitte, pirate ('part-Jewish'), Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb, murderers, Kevin Mitnick, hacker, Sara Jane Moore, failed assassin of Gerald Ford, Willie Moretti, gangster, Jacob Orgen, gangster, Jonathan Pollard, jailed spy, Abe Reles, gangster, Ethel & Julius Rosenberg, executed spies, Louis Rosenberg, gangster, Joseph Rosenzweig, gangster, Lou Rothkopf, gangster, Arnold Rothstein, gangster, Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, Joe Saltis, gangster, Dutch Schultz, gangster, Bugsy Siegel, gangster, 'father of Las Vegas' , Johnny Spanish, gangster, Harry Strauss, gangster, Albert Tannenbaum, gangster, Adam Worth, Victorian thief, model for Moriarty , Jack Zuta, gangster, Abner Zwillman, gangster