Musicians
- Simon Barere, pianist
- Felix Blumenfeld, pianist
- Shura Cherkassky, pianist
- Isaak Dunayevsky, composer
- Mischa Elman, violinist
- Anthony Fedorov, singer, American Idol finalist
- Samuil Feinberg, composer
- Emil Gilels, pianist
- Maria Grinberg, pianist
- Jascha Horenstein, conductor
- Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
- Tina Karol, singer
- Leonid Kogan, violinist
- Mikhail Kopelman, violinist
- Oleg Maisenberg, pianist
- Samuel Maykapar, composer/pianist
- Nathan Milstein, violinist
- Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist
- David Oistrakh, violinist
- Igor Oistrakh, violinist (Jewish father)
- Leo Ornstein, composer
- Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist
- Pokrass brothers, composers
- Mark Donskoy, Soviet film director
- Heinrich Schenker, music theorist
- Joseph Schillinger, composer, music theorist, and composition teacher
- Leo Sirota, pianist
- Isaac Stern, violinist
- Yakov Zak, pianist
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