Spanish and Portuguese Jews - Other Prominent Personalities

Other Prominent Personalities

• First-generation Sephardic exiles: Don Isaac Abarbanel, Solomon ibn Verga, Abraham Zacuto, Abraham ben Salomon de Torrutiel Ardutiel, Yosef ben Tzadiq of Arévalo
• Pedro de Herrera - Gibraltar community leader
• Alonso Calle — treasurer on the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Americas. He was one of the settlers of Sephardic origin who composed the crew.
• Doña Gracia Nasi — businesswoman and philanthropist
• Joseph Nasi — Duke of Naxos
• Rodrigo López — physician who served Queen Elizabeth
• Elijah Montalto - physician and polemicist from Paris, who became the personal physician of Maria de Medici.
• Abraham Cohen Herrera — religious philosopher
• Uriel da Costa — controversial writer
• Antonio Fernandez Carvajal — a Portuguese-Jewish merchant, who became the first endenizened English Jew.
• Moses Cohen Henriques — Caribbean pirate
• Isaac Orobio de Castro — religious writer
• Baruch Spinoza — philosopher
• Solomon de Medina — financier
• Francisco Lopes Suasso — financier to William of Orange
• Abraham de Casseres — Portuguese-Dutch Jewish composer of the late baroque period.
• António José da Silva — Brazilian dramatist
• Jacob Rodrigues Pereira — financier, academic and the first teacher of deaf-mutes in France.
• Isaac de Pinto — Dutch writer
• Emanuel Mendez da Costa — English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, and collector of valuable notes and of manuscripts, and of anecdotes of the literati.
• Isaac Pinto — American publisher
• Aaron Lopez — Portuguese Jewish merchant and philanthropist.
• Haym Solomon — financier to George Washington
• Gershom Mendes Seixas — hazzan and American revolutionary
• Daniel Mendoza — English prizefighter, who was boxing champion of England (1792–95).
• Isaac D'Israeli — writer
• David Ricardo — economist
• Judah Touro — American businessman and philanthropist.
• Moses Montefiore — philanthropist
• Olinde Rodrigues — French banker, mathematician, and social reformer.
• Péreire brothers — French financiers, rivals of the Rothschilds
• Benjamin Mendes da Costa - English merchant and philanthropist.
• Jacob De Cordova — founder of the Jamaica Gleaner, and later a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Judah P. Benjamin — politician and lawyer
• Grace Aguilar — novelist
• Mark Prager Lindo — Dutch prose writer.
• Edwin de Leon —Confederate diplomat, writer, and journalist.
• Moses Angel — educationist and founder of Jewish Chronicle
• Albert Cardozo - American jurist.
• Jacob Mendes Da Costa — American physician and surgeon.
• Thomas Cooper de Leon - American journalist, author, and playwright.
• Catulle Mendès — French poet
• Emma Lazarus — American poet
• Ernest Peixotto — artist
• Daniel De Leon — American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer.
• David Belasco — American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright.
• Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal — President of the Dominican Republic.
• Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita — Dutch graphic artist, teacher of M. C. Escher
• Benjamin N. Cardozo — U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Philip Guedalla — writer and critic
• Vivian de Sola Pinto — British poet, literary critic and historian.
• Julio Lobo — Cuban sugar trader and financier.
• Morris Fidanque de Castro — first native Governor of the United States Virgin Islands.
• Frieda Belinfante — cellist
• Max Delvalle — Vice President (and briefly President) of Panama.
• George Maduro — Dutch war hero.
• Abraham Bueno de Mesquita — comedian
• Vic Seixas — tennis player.
• Eric Arturo Delvalle — President of Panama.
• Bruce Bueno de Mesquita — political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
• Ophir Pines-Paz — Israeli politician
• Nicolas Maduro — Venezuelan politician, interim President of Venezuela and former Vice President of Venezuela
• Alain de Botton — writer and philosopher.
• Henrique Capriles - Venezuelan politician and lawyer, leader of the opposition to the Bolivarian Revolution