Latvia
- Elya Baskin, actor
- Isaiah Berlin, historian of ideas
- Lipman Bers, mathematician & activist
- David Bezmozgis, author
- Boris Brutskus
- Movsas Feigins, chess player
- Morris Halle, linguist
- Philippe Halsman, photographer
- Joseph Hirshhorn, financier & philanthropist
- Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish musicologist
- Hermann Jadlowker, musician (born at Riga)
- Mariss Jansons, conductor (Jewish mother)
- Gil Kane, comic book illustrator
- Alexander Koblencs, chess player
- Abraham Isaac Kook, rabbi
- Gidon Kremer, violinist Kremer's father was a Jewish Holocaust survivor .
- Nechama Leibowitz
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz
- Armands Leimanis, singer
- Hermanis Matisons, chess player
- Mischa Maisky, cellist
- Solomon Mikhoels, actor
- Aron Nimzowitsch, chess player
- Arkady Raikin*, performing artist
- Mark Rothko, painter
- Yosef Rosen, der Rogatchover Gaon
- Elizabeth Shammash, US singer (Latvian mother, Iraqi father)
- Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, rabbi
- Mikhail Tal, world chess champion
- Max Weinreich, linguist
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Famous cantor and singer(1914-2002)
- Oscar Strok Composer(1893-1975)
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