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The following is a list of prominent Jews from across the Jewish diaspora, with one example from each country and a link to a list for that country. See also a list of prominent Jews in the arts and sciences.

Algeria (list) – Jacques Derrida, philosopher
Antigua & Barbuda (list) – Jamaica Kincaid, writer (convert)
Argentina (list) – Lalo Schifrin, composer
Australia (list) – John Monash, WWI general
Austria (list) – Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst
Azerbaijan (list) – Lev Landau, physicist
Belarus (list) – Marc Chagall, painter
Belgium (list) – Ilya Prigogine, chemist
Bosnia-Herzegovina (list) – Isak Samokovlija , writer
Brazil (list) – Clarice Lispector, writer
Bulgaria (list) – Elias Canetti, writer
Cameroon (list) – Yaphet Kotto, actor (Cameroonian father)
Canada (list) – Leonard Cohen, singer & poet
Chile (list) – Ariel Dorfman, playwright
China (list) – Michael Kadoorie, businessman
Colombia (list) – Jorge Isaacs , poet
Croatia (list) – Mira Furlan, actor
Cuba (list) – Fabio Grobart , communist party founder
Cyprus (list) – Mike Brant , French-based singer
Czech Republic (list) – Franz Kafka, writer
Denmark (list) – Arne Jacobsen, architect & designer
DR Congo (list) – Olivier Strelli , fashion designer
Egypt (list) – Sylvain Sylvain, musician
El Salvador (list) – Juan Lindo, president (half-Jewish)
Estonia (list) – Louis I. Kahn, architect
Finland (list) – Moses Pergament , composer
France (list) – Emile Durkheim, sociologist
French Polynesia (list) – Alexander Salmon , Tahitian prince
Georgia (list) – Melvin Calvin, chemist (Georgian mother)
Germany (list) – Albert Einstein, physicist
Gibraltar (list) – Don Pacifico, businessman
Greece (list) – Hank Azaria, actor (Greek grandparents)
Guatemala (list) – Francisco Goldman , author (half Jewish)
Guyana (list) – Janet Jagan, president
Honduras (list) – Ricardo Maduro, president
Hungary (list) – John Von Neumann, mathematician
Iceland (list) – Dorrit Moussaieff, first lady
India (list) – Nissim Ezekiel, poet
Indonesia (list) – Xaviera Hollander, writer (half-Jewish)
Iran (list) – Elie Tahari , fashion designer
Iraq (list) – Maurice & Charles Saatchi, advertisers
Ireland (list) – John Desmond Bernal, scientist (half-Jewish)
Israel (list*) – Itzhak Perlman, violinist (*most are Jewish)
Italy (list) – Amedeo Modigliani, artist
Jamaica (list) – Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records (half Jewish)
Japan (list) – David Rosen, founder of SEGA (unconfirmed)
Kazakhstan (list) – Vladimir Zhirinovsky, politician (half-Jewish)
Kyrgyzstan (list) – Alexander Mashkevich , businessman
Latvia (list) – Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
Lebanon (list) – Edmond Safra , banker
Lithuania (list) – Emma Goldman, anarchist
Luxembourg (list) – Hugo Gernsback, science-fiction pioneer (unconfirmed)
Macedonia (list) – Esma Redzepova , Romany singer (half-Jewish) (unconfirmed)
Mali (list) – Marvin Pontiac , R&B singer (half-Jewish)
Mexico (list) – Frida Kahlo, painter (half-Jewish)
Moldova (list) – William F. Friedman, cryptologist
Monaco (list) – Franz Schreker, composer (half Jewish)
Morocco (list) – Natacha Atlas, singer (half-Jewish)
Mozambique (list) – Ruth First, ANC activist
Myanmar (list) – Ike Isaacs , jazz player
Netherlands (list) – Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
Netherlands Antilles (list) – Daniel De Leon, socialist leader
New Zealand (list) – Julius Vogel, prime-minister
Norway (list) – Jo Benkow, opposition leader
Panama (list) – Eric Arturo Delvalle , president
Peru (list) – Isaac Goldemberg , poet
Poland (list) – Roman Polanski, director
Portugal (list) – Luis De Torres, explorer
Romania (list) – Tristan Tzara, poet
Russia (list) – Boris Pasternak, poet
Serbia and Montenegro (list) – Danilo Kis, writer (half-Jewish)
Singapore (list) – David Saul Marshall, Chief Minister
Slovakia (list) – Ivan Reitman, film director
Slovenia (list) – Alexander Beliavsky, chess player (unconfirmed)
South Africa (list) – Nadine Gordimer, writer
Spain (list) – Maimonides, philosopher
Sudan (list) – Nessim Gaon , financier
Sweden (list) – Oskar Klein, physicist
Switzerland (list) – Felix Bloch, physicist
Syria (list) – Jerry Seinfeld, actor (Syrian mother)
Tajikistan (list) – Moses Znaimer, tv producer
Trinidad and Tobago (list) – Nathaniel Nathan , chief justice
Tunisia (list) – Alain Boublil, librettist
Turkey (list) – Neil Sedaka, singer/songwriter (Turkish father)
Ukraine (list) – Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
United Kingdom (list) – Harold Pinter, playwright
United States (list) – Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter
Uruguay (list) – Gisele Ben-Dor , conductor
Uzbekistan (list) – Yefim Bronfman, pianist
Venezuela (list) – Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist
Virgin Islands (UK) (list) – Camille Pissarro, artist
Virgin Islands (US) (list) – Judah Benjamin, politician
Yemen (list) – Ofra Haza, singer (Yemenite parents)
Zambia (list) – Stanley Fischer, economist
Zimbabwe (list) – Alexander Pines , chemist