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Physicist who reshaped our picture of space, time, and light.

Chemist who fermented acetone for the war — and became Israel’s first president.

Writer and witness who insisted the world remember.

Songwriter who gave America some of its most durable popular music.

Physicist who led Los Alamos and then argued for a grown-up nuclear policy.

American actor, comedian, singer, and musician (born 1969)

The Cleveland teenagers who created Superman.

Salk Institute (Founder)

Physician who discovered the ABO blood groups and made transfusion safe.

Physicist who imagined the nuclear chain reaction — and then tried to govern it.

Physicist who explained nuclear fission and refused to build a bomb.

The first Jewish justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and a craftsman of privacy law.

Painter who floated violinists, lovers, and shtetl memory through modern color.

Lawyer who coined the word genocide and drafted a convention against it.

Physical chemist whose X-ray images made the double helix visible.

Mattel (Founder)

Marvel Entertainment (Executive)

American football player (born 1998)

Harvard (Founder)

Aaron Ciechanover

Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher who forged a uniquely American classical music…

Aaron Klug (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a Lithuanian-born British biophysicist and chemist renowned for pioneering crystallographic electron…

American tennis player (born 1967)

American filmmaker (born 1961)

Nakam (Founder)

American screenwriter and producer (1927–2008)

Abe Bernstein (c.

Abe Fortas (June 19, 1910 – April 5, 1982) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from October 4, 1965, to…

Abraham Pollin (December 3, 1923 – November 24, 2009) was an American real estate developer, sports team owner, and philanthropist based in the Washington, D.C.

American mobster and informant (1906-1941)

Sanitary engineer who helped make municipal water chlorination standard.

Abigail Kathleen Breslin (born April 14, 1996) is an American actress who rose to prominence as a child performer.

Abraham David Beame (March 20, 1906 – February 10, 2001) was an American accountant and Democratic politician who served as the 104th mayor of New York City…

Jewish Daily Forward (Founder)

Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) was a rabbi, philosopher, and mystic who served as the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine from 1921 until his…

American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher