Aaron Spelling

Spelling was born in Dallas, Texas, to Pearl (née Wald) and David Spelling (originally Spurling), Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland, respectively.

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Lithuanian Jewish descent in 1900, the last of five children.

Adam Goldstein - DJ AM

Adam Michael Goldstein is an Internation Jewish club disc jockey better known as DJ AM.

Adam Horovitz

Horovitz was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Doris Keefe and playwright Israel Horovitz.

Adam Sandler

Sandler was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Judy, a nursery school teacher, and Stanley Sandler, an electrical engineer. He had a Jewish upbringing.

Adam Yauch

Yauch, an only child, was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is of Jewish descent.

Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse was born in the Southgate area of Enfield, London to a Jewish family who shared her love of jazz music.

Andy Kaufman

Kaufman was born in New York City on January 17, 1949, the first son of Janice Bernstein and Stanley Kaufman, who were both Jewish.

Barbara Walters

Walters was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the daughter of Dena (née Seletsky) and Louis Edward Walters, a theatrical booking agent and producer. Walters' parents were Jewish.

Barry Horowitz

During this time WWE played up Barry's Jewish heritage, including giving him as an entrance theme a rock version of the Jewish folk Song "Hava Nagila"

Ben Stiller

Stiller was born in New York City. Stiller's father is Jewish and his mother, who is of Irish Catholic background, converted to Judaism after marrying his father.

Bette Midler

Her parents were from Paterson, New Jersey and moved to Honolulu shortly before Midler was born. Midler's family was one of the few Jewish families in a mostly Asian neighborhood.

Bill Goldberg

Bill is also proud of his Jewish religion and became well-known for his Jewish identity during his wrestling career.

Billy Joel

His mother, Rosalind Nyman, was born in England, to a Jewish family (Philip and Rebecca Nyman).

Bob Dylan

His parents, Abram Zimmerman and Beatrice "Beatty" Stone, were part of the area's small but close-knit Jewish community.

Bob Saget

Saget was born in Philadelphia and moved to Lexington, Virginia when he was two years old. His father was a supermarket executive and a hospital administrator. His family was Jewish and he was Bar Mitzvahed in Philadelphia.

Bugsy Siegel

Siegel was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to a poor Jewish family originally from Letychiv, Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire, in modern Ukraine.

Calvin Klein

Born Richard Klein in The Bronx to Jewish-Hungarian immigrants.

Carly Simon

Her mother was Andrea Louise Simon (née Heinemann), a biracial (black and white) Jewish civil rights activist and singer.

Cindy Margolis

Margolis was born in Los Angeles, California of Jewish heritage.

Corey Feldman

Feldman is Jewish and has two brothers, Eden and Devin, as well as two sisters, Mindy and Brittnie.

Corey Haim

Haim was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Judy, an Israeli-born computer operator, and Bernie Haim, who worked in sales. Haim is Jewish.

Courtney Love

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California to a family of Irish and Jewish descent. She regards herself as "a nice Jewish girl".

David Schwimmer

Schwimmer was born in Astoria, Queens, New York, to Jewish parents, Arthur Schwimmer and Arlene Colman.

Dustin Hoffman

Hoffman's family was Jewish, although he did not have a religious upbringing. He graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955.

Eugene Levy

Levy was born to a Jewish family in Hamilton, Ontario, the son of a homemaker mother and an automobile plant foreman father.

Fran Drescher

Drescher was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family of Eastern European origin.

Fred Savage

His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, and Poland, and Savage was raised in Reform Judaism.

Gene Simmons

Simmons was born in Haifa, Israel, and emigrated to New York City at the age of eight, with his mother Florence Klein—a Jewish Hungarian immigrant and the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust.

Geraldo Rivera

Rivera's father was Puerto Rican and his mother was Jewish, and he was raised "mostly Jewish" and had a Bar Mitzvah.

Goldie Hawn

Hawn's mother was Jewish, the daughter of immigrants from Hungary, Hawn was raised in the Jewish religion.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Paltrow's father was of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent and her mother was raised a Quaker; Paltrow acknowledges her Jewish roots.

Haim Topol

Chaim Topol (Born in Tel Aviv), began his acting career while in the army. Once his service was completed he returned to his Kibbutz where he founded a satirical theatre - The Spring Onion, which later became The Popular Theatre.

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford's maternal grandparents, Anna Lifschutz and Harry Nidelman, were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, Russia.

Harry Houdini

Houdini's father was Mayer (Mayo) Samuel Weiss (1829-1892), a rabbi.

Howard Stern

Howard Stern was born into a Jewish American family living in the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights, though the family soon moved to the Long Island town of Roosevelt.

Helen Hunt

Hunt is of Jewish (from her paternal grandmother) and Methodist background.

Isaac Mizrahi

Mizrahi was born in Brooklyn, New York of Syrian Jewish heritage.

Ido Mosseri

Ido Mosseri (Hebrew: עידו מוסרי‎; born 17 April 1978) is an Israeli film and television actor.

Jaime Lee Curtis

Curtis was born in Los Angeles, California, the child of well-known actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Hungary.

Jeremy Piven

He has a sister, Shira, and attended Camp Chi, a Jewish Community Center summer camp in Lake Delton, Wisconsin, in the 1970s.

Jerry Seinfeld

Seinfeld's father, Kálmán, was of Hungarian-Jewish background and his mother, Betty, is of Syrian-Jewish descent.

Jerry Springer

Springer was born in London, England, in the East Finchley tube station. His parents, Margot (a bank clerk) and Richard Springer (a taxidermist), were Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.

Joan Rivers

Rivers was born Joan Alexandra Molinsky in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice (née Grushman) and Meyer C. Molinsky, who was a doctor.

Joaquin Phoenix

His mother, Arlyn Phoenix (née Dunetz), was born in the Bronx, New York to Jewish parents from Hungary and Russia.

Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart was born in New York City to a Jewish family and grew up in Lawrence, New Jersey, where he attended Lawrence High School.

Joe Lieberman

Lieberman is an Orthodox Jew. The Liebermans keep a kosher home and observe Shabbat, but do not adhere fully to the requirements of Halakha.

Kirk Douglas

Douglas's parents were illiterate Russian Jewish immigrants from Gomel, now in Belarus. His father's brother, who had emigrated earlier, was going by the surname of Demsky, a name which Douglas's family adopted.

Lainie Kazan

Kazan was born Lanie Levine in Brooklyn, New York City to an Ashkenazi Jewish father who worked as a bookie and a Sephardic Jewish mother, Carole, whom Kazan has described as "neurotic, fragile and artistic".

Lenny Kravitz

Kravitz's father was of Ukrainian Jewish descent and his mother was of Bahamian descent. Though biracial, Kravitz identifies more with his Bahamian heritage and is widely recognized as an African American, although he still considers himself Jewish.

Leonard Cohen

Cohen was born to a middle-class Jewish family to a father of Polish ancestry and a Lithuanian Jewish mother, an immigrant from Kaunas, in 1934 in Montreal, Quebec.

Lisa Kudrow

Kudrow was raised in an upper middle class Ashkenazi Jewish family and has an older sister, Helene Marla, and an older brother, neurologist David Kudrow.

Martin Landau

Landau was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Selma (née Buchanan) and Morris Landau, an Austrian-born machinist.

Mel Brooks

Brooks's family was Jewish; his mother's parents emigrated from outside Kiev and his paternal family from Austria. His father died of kidney disease at age 34.

Michael Douglas

His paternal grandparents, Bryna Sanglel and Herschel Danielovitch, were Jewish immigrants from Russia.

Mike Diamond

Mike D was born in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He is Jewish. He attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York for six months.

Natalie Portman

Portman's maternal ancestors were Jews from Austria and Russia and her paternal ancestors were Jews who immigrated to Israel from Poland and Romania.

Mila Kunis

Kunis was born in Kyiv, Ukraine to a Jewish family.

Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond was born into a Jewish Russian-Polish family, the son of a dry-goods merchant.

Olivia Newton John

Born fled Germany with his wife in the 1930s to avoid persecution due to their Jewish ancestry, although in later life they returned to Germany.

Paul Newman

His father was Jewish and his mother was born to a Slovak Catholic family at Ptičie (formerly Peticse) in the former Kingdom of Hungary, now in Slovakia, and converted to Christian Science when Paul was five. Newman has described himself as Jewish.

Paul Krugman

Krugman was born into a Jewish family and grew up on Long Island in New York.

Paula Abdul

Her father is a Syrian Jew who was born in Syria, raised in Brazil, and subsequently emigrated to the U.S. Abdul's mother is also Jewish and originally from Saint Boniface, Manitoba, Canada.

Pauly Shore

Pauly was raised in a Jewish family and has two brothers, Scott and Peter. Shore grew up in Beverly Hills, graduating from Beverly Hills High School in 1986.

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Rueben Lifshitz in The Bronx to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Belarus Fraydl (Kotlar) and Frank Lifshitz, a house painter.

Rachel Sarah Bilson

Bilson was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Janice (née Stango), a sex therapist, and Danny Bilson, a writer, director, and producer. Rachel Bilson's father is Jewish and her mother is a Philadelphia-born Italian American.

Randy Savage

Savage was born in Columbus, Ohio to Angelo Poffo, an Italian American, and Judy, a Jewish American.

Ricki Lake

Lake was born to a Jewish family in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, the daughter of Jill, a housewife, and Barry Lake, a pharmacist. She attended Ithaca College and the Professional Children's School.

Rob Schneider

chneider's father was a secular Jew, while his maternal grandmother was a Filipina who met and married Schneider's maternal grandfather, an American army private, while he was stationed in the Philippines.

Ron Jeremy

Ronald Hyatt was born to an upper-middle class Jewish family; his father Arnold was a physicist and his mother a book editor who served in the O.S.S. during World War II as she spoke fluent German and French.

Roseanne Barr

The eldest of four children, she was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to a working-class Jewish family.

Sarah Silverman

Sarah's family is Jewish, the descendants of immigrants from Russia and Poland. Sarah appeared in Community Theater at age twelve.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Parker's father, a native of Brooklyn, was Jewish, the original family surname being "Bar-Kahn" ("son of Kohen"); Parker has said of herself, "I always just considered myself a Jew".

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Both of her parents were Jewish, though Gellar's family had a Christmas tree during the holidays while she was growing up. In 1984, her parents divorced and she was brought up by her mother on the Upper East Side.

Sasha Baron Cohen

Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is a British Jewish comedian, writer and Golden Globe-winning actor most noted for his comic characters Ali G (a hip hop gangsta wannabe from suburban Staines), Borat (a Kazakh reporter), and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter).

Tori Spelling

Both of Spelling's parents were Jewish, though her family celebrated both Christmas and Hanukkah while she was growing up.

Seth Rogen

He has described his parents, who met at an Israeli kibbutz, as "radical Jewish socialists".

Scarlett Johansson

Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx.

Uri Geller

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to Jewish parents with Austro-Hungarian background, Geller was named after a cousin who had been killed in a bus accident.

Winona Ryder

Ryder's mother is a Buddhist and her father is an atheist. Regarding her ancestry, Ryder has described herself as "Jewish", her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia, and relatives of hers died in the Holocaust.

Wolf Blitzer

Wolf Blitzer, who has the same first name as his maternal grandfather, grew up in Buffalo, New York, the son of Jewish refugees from Poland.

Woody Allen

Woody's family was Jewish and his grandparents were Yiddish- and German-speaking immigrants.

Yasmine Bleeth

Philip Bleeth, Yasmin's American father, is Jewish of Russian and German ancestry, while her late mother Carina was of French and Algerian descent.