Notable Baghdadi Jews
- Edward Isaac Ezra, opium trader and real estate developer
- Edward Shohet
- Lord Kadoorie
- Abraham Sofaer, actor
- Brian Elias, composer
- Nadira, Bollywood actress
- J. F. R. Jacob, Indian military commander in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971; former Governor of Goa and Punjab.
- Anish Kapoor, British Asian sculptor; Baghdadi Jewish mother
- David & Simon Reuben, British Asian businessmen
- David Sassoon, merchant and founder of the Sassoon family
- Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, merchant
- Silas Aaron Hardoon, real estate tycoon
- Sassoon David Sassoon, English merchant
- Siegfried Sassoon, English poet during World War I, grandson of Sassoon David Sassoon
- Sassoon J. David, banker (founder of Bank of India) and member of the Bombay Municipal Corporation
- Brian George, Israeli-born character actor of Baghdadi-Indian Jewish descent; most well known for playing the role of a Pakistani shop owner, "Bhabu", on Seinfeld, US TV series
- David Saul Marshall, the first Chief Minister of Singapore
- Gerry Judah, Artist/Designer
- Tim Judah, Journalist and Historian
- Robin Ghosh, composer of Bangladeshi film industry
- Ashok Ghosh, film director in Bangladesh
- Joseph Judah, Soldier and Italian shipyard representative
- Jack Dellal (Property Developer)
- Moshe Tobi, considered an elder leader of Baghadadi Jew community in India (Died in 1769 Surat)
- Claire Judah, Bletchley park code breaker
Read more about this topic: Baghdadi Jews
Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or jews:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“No doubt Jews are most obnoxious creatures. Any competent historian or psychoanalyst can bring a mass of incontrovertible evidence to prove that it would have been better for the world if the Jews had never existed. But I, as an Irishman, can, with patriotic relish, demonstrate the same of the English. Also of the Irish.... We all live in glass houses. Is it wise to throw stones at the Jews? Is it wise to throw stones at all?”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)