Religious and Communal Leaders
- Jacob Abendana, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
- Barnett Abrahams, Dayan, Principal of Jews' College
- Israel Abrahams, scholar and educator
- Yehezkel Abramsky, Rabbi and dayan
- Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi
- Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi
- Benjamin Artom, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
- Jon Benjamin, Chief Executive, Board of Deputies of British Jews
- Lionel Blue, Reform rabbi and broadcaster
- Levi Brackman, Rabbi
- Rabbi Dr. Tony Bayfield, Head of the Movement for Reform Judaism
- Sir Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi
- Felix Carlebach, German born Rabbi
- Isidore Epstein, Rabbi, Principal of Jews' College
- Moses Gaster, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
- Sir Hermann Gollancz, Rabbi and educator
- Aaron Hart, Chief Rabbi
- Joseph H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi
- Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman, Rabbi and dayan
- Solomon Hirschell, Chief Rabbi
- Moses Hyamson, acting Chief Rabbi
- Louis Jacobs, Rabbi and educator
- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi
- Nathan S. Joseph
- Casriel Dovid Kaplin, rabbi and dayan
- James Kennard, Rabbi and Educationalist
- Hart Lyon, Chief Rabbi
- Frederick de Sola Mendes, rabbi
- Ewen Montagu, President of the United Synagogue
- Claude Montefiore, Lay synagogue leader
- Julia Neuberger, Reform Rabbi
- David Nieto, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
- Isaac Nieto, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews
- Michael Plaskow, Minister
- Joel Portnoy, Rabbi and Mohel - Hale & District Hebrew Congregation. Also on the Cabinet of the Chief Rabbi, UK.
- Jonathan Romain, Rabbi
- Sir Anthony Rothschild, first president of the United Synagogue
- Lord Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi
- Joseph ben Yehuda Leib Shapotshnick, rabbi
- Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy, rabbi and first Jewish professor in Cambridge
- Simeon Singer, Rabbi
- Andrew Shaw, Rabbi
- Simon Waley Waley, Lay leader
- Chaim Weizmann, Zionist leader
- Jonathan Wittenberg, Massorti Rabbi
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