People associated with Karaite Judaism include:
- Early Karaite Period — 8th-9th centuries (700-899 CE)
- ‘Anan ben David — founder of the Annanites which would later be absorbed into Kara'ism
- Benjamin al-Nahawandi — regarded by some as the proper originator of Kara'ism as it has come down through the ages
- Golden Age — 10th-12th centuries (900-1199 CE)
- Aharon ben Mosheh ben Asher, (died c.960 CE) refiner of the Tiberian writing system, regarded as having produced the most accurate version of the Masoretic Text
- Daniel al-Qumisi — Kara'ite scholar, polemicist, proto-Zionist, and compiler of the legal code Sefer ha-Mitzvot
- Ya'akov Qirqisani aka al-Kirkisani — dogmatist, author, and exegete of the early 10th century
- Yehudah Hadasi — 12th century scholar, philosopher, and grammarian from Constantinople
- Solomon ben Jeroham — exegete and controversialist
- Yefet ben Ali — Babylonian commentator on the Bible
- Middle Period — 13th-17th century (1200-1699 CE)
- Aaron ben Elijah of Nicomedia, (1328/9-1369) perhaps the most prominent Kara'ite theologian, considered the Kara'ite equivalent of his rabbinic contemporary, Maimonides
- Elijah Bashyazi, (1420-1490) Hakham who codified Kara'ite laws
- Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham of Troki — 16th century Lithuanian Kara'ite philosopher and writer who wrote the important apology or defense of Judaism vis-a-vis Christianity entitled Ḥizzuq Emunah (Fortification of Faith)
- Early-Modern Era — 18th-19th centuries (1700-1947 CE)
- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891-1970), Russian-English mathematician
- Adolph Joffe, (1883-1927) Russian communist revolutionary, Bolshevik politician, Soviet diplomat
- Avraham Firkovich — a famous leader of the Crimean Karaites, a very important collector of manuscripts, who was an amateur archeologist
- Jacob Tamarkin (1888–1945), a Russian-American mathematician
- Rodion Malinovsky, (1898-1967) Soviet Marshal and Minister of Defense
- Samuel Maykapar, (1867–1938) a Soviet composer
- Seraya Shapshal, (1873-1961) ḥakham of the Lithuanian Karaite community
- Sima Babovich, (1790-1855), ḥakham of the Crimean Karaites
- Current-Modern Era — 20th-21st centuries (1948 CE-present)
- Avrom Aryeh-Zuk Kahana — author of the Kahana Chronicles series of books and publisher of the website blog "Kahana's Voice"
- Avraham Kefeli — Ḥazzan in Ashdod, Israel
- Avraham Qanaï — Ḥakham of the Kara'ite congregation “Oraḥ Ṣaddiqim” in Albany, New York
- Joe Pessah — congregation leader of congregation B'nai Y'israel in Daly City, California
- Meir Rekhavi — prominent ḥakham, author and co-founder of the World Karaite Movement. Currently he holds the position of Chancellor for the Karaite Jewish University; he maintains the website Rekhavi.karaitejudaism.org
- Moshe Marzouk (1926-1955) Egyptian Kara'ite Jew, hanged by Egypt for his participation in Israel's Operation Suzannah, also called the Lavon Affair
- Nehemia Gordon — arguably the best known Kara'ite Jew of this era, an author/scholar, and co-founder of the World Karaite Movement
- Moshe Yosef Firrouz — Chief Rabbi and Vice-Chancellor of Karaite Jewish University; Rabbi Firrouz maintains the Karim.net website
- Yochanan Zaqantov — Hazzan and Dean of Students of Karaite Jewish University; Hazzan Yochanan maintains the KaraiteJudaism.org website; He was one of the first Karaite conversions in 2007
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