Sefaradíes famosos

Luego de nuestro artículo sobre Meryl Streep tras el descubrimiento de que era de origen sefaradí, nos pusimos a buscar en otras fuentes otros famosos de este origen y encontramos esta lista que por supuesto de ninguna manera pretende ser completa; todo lo contrario, sabemos que es incompleta y que seguramente hay muchas más personalidades reconocidas de todo tipo de origen sefaradí:

* Paula Abdul, singer (Syrian Sephardic father)
* Abravanel family
** Maurice Abravanel, conductor
** Senor Abravanel (Salvio Santos), TV show host in Brazil and owner of SBT (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão), the second biggest Brazilian television network.
* Uriel Acosta, rationalist
* Albert Jean Amateau, rabbi
* Ronni Ancona, impressionist
* Edward Andrade, physicist
* Marc D. Angel, rabbi
* Samuel Avital, founder of Le Centre du Silence Mime School
* Hank Azaria, actor
* Max Azria, fashion designer, founder of BCBG
* Grace (Gracia) Aguilar, Sephardic poet, Daughter of Emmanuelle And Sara Aguilar
* Shlomo Moshe Amar, Sephardic Cheif Rabbi of Israel, Born in Morocco
* Moshe Raphael d’Aguilar, Portuguese Rabbi, helped establish Jewish Community in Brazil after the Inquisition.
* Isaac Babel, Russian writer
* Barocas
* Washington Bartlett, mayor of San Francisco, California
* David Belasco, playwright
* Frieda Belinfante, cellist, conductor
* Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
* Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israeli diplomat
* Menasseh Ben Israel, rabbi, scholar, printer and diplomat
* Judah P. Benjamin, politician and lawyer
* Emile Benveniste, linguist
* J. D. Bernal, scientist, Marxist writer (Sephadic father and non-Jewish mother)
* Bernays family
** Edward Bernays, father of public relations
* Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records (English father and Sephardic mother)
* Niels Bohr, Nobel physicist (Danish father and Sephardic mother)
* Aage Bohr, Nobel physicist, son of Niels
* Jorge Luis Borges, author (descendant of Isidoro Suárez, Argentinian Colonel of possible Sephardic origins).
* Neve Campbell, U.S. actress (Her mother, Marnie, is Sephardic)
* Elias Canetti, author, Nobel Prize winner in literature
* Veza Canetti, author (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
* Benjamin Cardozo, United States Supreme Court justice
* Sem Tob de Carrión, Spanish poet
* Anthony Caro, sculptor
* Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer
* David Charvet, actor
* Emmanuelle Chriqui, actress
* Hélène Cixous, feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher and literary critic (Ashkenazic father and Sephardic mother)
* Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss writer
* Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Nobel Prize winner in physics
* Ronald Cohen, businessman and political figure
* Isaac da Costa, poet
* Michael Costa, conductor and composer
* Sam Costa, singer and comedian
* Peter Coyote, actor (Sephardic father)
* Moise de Camondo
** Beatrice de Camondo
** Nissim de Camondo
* Lorenzo da Ponte, librettist
* Daniel De Leon, socialist
* Cecil B. DeMille, film director (mother Sephardic)
* Jacques Derrida, philosopher
* Benjamin Disraeli, British politician
* Joseph Duveen, art dealer
* Karl Emil Franzos, author
* Anna Freud, psychoanalyst (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
* Eydie Gorme, singer
* Hélène Grimaud, pianist
* Yehuda Halevy, poet
* Harari Family, prominent Egyptian family
* Sidney Hart, British trade unionist
* Heinrich Heine, poet (Sephardic mother)
* Henriette Herz, the first Jewish woman to host a salon (nee de Lemos)
* Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister
* Ivan Illich, polymath, polemicist (Sephardic mother)
* Edmond Jab’es, author
* Lainie Kazan, singer and actress (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
* Otto Klemperer, conductor (Sephardic mother & Ashkenazic father)
* Emma Lazarus, poet
* Primo Levi, author
* Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
* Yosi Saffi Levy, sephardic Israeli singer in Los Angeles
* Benny Levy, author, secretary to Sartre
* Bernard-Henri Levy, philosopher
* David Levy, Israeli politician
* Uriah P. Levy, American Commodore
* Arthur Lourié, composer
* Isaac Luria, scholar and mystic (Ashkenazic father and Sephardic mother)
* Salvador Luria, Nobel Prize winner in medicine
* Rosa Luxemburg, revolutionary
*Lol Levy, actor
* Moses Maimonides, physician and commentator
* David Malouf, writer (Lebanese-Christian father and English-Jewish mother of Portuguese descent)
* Georges, Paul, Armand, and Maurice Marciano, founders of Guess?
* Benjamin Melendez, broker for the gang truce
* Albert Memmi, author
* Catulle Mendes, poet
* Sam Mendes, film director
* Jacob Mendes da Costa, physician
* Pierre Mendes-France, French politician
* Daniel Mendoza, boxer
* Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, painter
* Darius Milhaud, composer (maternal Sephardic grandfather)
* Michael Mizrachi, poker player (Iraqi father)
* Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer
* Alan Abraham Mocatta, Judge
* Patrick Modiano, author (Sephardic-Italian father and Flemish mother)
* Amedeo Modigliani, painter
* Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize winner in economics
* Michel de Montaigne, writer (His mother, Antoinette de Louppes, came from a rich Spanish Jewish family)
* Moses Montefiore, Jewish leader
* Dario Moreno, singer
* Shelley Morrison, Actress
* Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi
* Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician
* Yechiel Nahari, among the greatest Sephardic cantors of all time
* Mordecai Manuel Noah, playwright, diplomat, journalist and utopian
* Danny Nucci, actor
* Ehud Olmert, Israeli Prime Minister 2006-; Israeli-born Jew of Moroccan ancestry
* Jerry Orbach, actor (father was a German Jew of Sephardic origin)
* Rodrigues Ottolengui, writer
* Jules Pascin, painter
* Murray Perahia, American concert pianist
* Victor Perera, Guatemalan author
* Sean Paul, Jamaican musician, Dancehall singer (Sephardic Jewish father)
* Harold Pinter, playwright (originally Pinto)
* Camille Pissarro, painter
* Georges de Porto-Riche, playwright
* David Ricardo, economist
* Edouard Roditi, author
* Jacques Saada, Canadian Cabinet minister and politician
* Charles Saatchi, founder of Saatchi and Saatchi
* Haim Saban, media mogul
* Safra Family, prominent Syrian bankers
* Francis Salvador, first American Jew to be killed in the American Revolution
* Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese President of the Republic
* Pete Sampras, professional tennis player (Sephardic Greek Jewish paternal grandmother)
* Jacob Samuda, civil engineer
* Nicolas Sarkozy, French politician (Sephardic grandfather)
* Siegfried Sassoon, poet (Sephardic father)
* Victor Sassoon, hotelier
* Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist (Sephardic father)
* Neil Sedaka, singer
* Emilio Gino Segre, physicist, Nobel Prize winner in physics
* Peter Sellers, actor
* Abraham Serfaty, Moroccan dissident
* Silvan Shalom, Foreign Minister of Israel
* Jamie-Lynn Sigler, actress (father Steve Sigler is Sephardic)
* Raphael Soriano, modernist architect
* Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
* Meryl Streep, actress (Sephardic Dutch father and Irish/Swiss/English mother) Originally Messerschnitz
* Andre Suares, poet
* Adolph Sutro, mayor of San Francisco, California
* Ralph de Toledano, journalist
* Mordechai Vanunu, nuclear technician
* Warburg family (Italian origin)
* Aby Warburg, art critic
* Chaim Aharon Valero, banker, Jerusalem
* Aaron Valero, physician
* Avrham B. Yehoshua, author
* David Levi Yulee, politician
* Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer (maternal Sephardic grandfather)
* Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, of Iraqui Descent

Fuente: All Experts