List of Latin American Jews
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2 Brazil 3 Chile 4 Colombia 5 Cuba 6 El Salvador 7 Guatemala 8 Honduras 9 Mexico 10 Panama 11 Peru 12 Uruguay 13 Venezuela 14 See also |
Argentina
- José Alperovich, governor of the province of Tucumán since 2003
- Hector Babenco, film director (Argentinian-born)
- Daniel Barenboim, conductor & pianist
- Laszlo Biro, inventor of the biro
- Daniel Burman, film director
- Andrés Calamaro, singer/songwriter (unconfirmed)
- Gregory Chaitin, mathematician (Argentinian parents)
- Mario Davidovsky, composer
- Ariel Dorfman, playwright (Argentinian-born)
- Giora Feidman, klezmer musician
- Juan Gelman, poet
- Alberto Gerchunoff, writer
- Osvaldo Golijov, classical composer
- Mauricio Kagel, classical composer
- Daniela Krukower, judo world champion
- César Milstein, immunologist, Nobel prize (1984)
- Marcos Mundstock, musician-humorist of group Les Luthiers
- Miguel Najdorf, chess player
- José Pekerman, former soccer player, coach of the national team
- Alejandra Pizarnik, poet
- Daniel Rabinovich, musician-humorist of group Les Luthiers
- Cecilia Roth, actress
- Walter Samuel, soccer player
- Lalo Schifrin, composer
- Ana María Shua, writer
- Juan Pablo Sorin, soccer player
- Alicia Steimberg, writer
- Jacobo Timerman, journalist
- Horacio Verbitsky, journalist
Brazil
- Hector Babenco, film director
- Adriana Behar, beach volleyball player
- Daniel Benzali, TV actor
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, literary critic
- Vilém Flusser, philosopher
- Ithamara Koorax, jazz singer
- Jaime Lerner, Paraná governor, urban planner
- Clarice Lispector, writer
- Oscar Niemeyer, architect
- Ivo Perelman, jazz saxophonist
- Flora Purim, jazz singer
- Bernard Rajzman, volleyball player
- Edmond Safra, banker
- Silvio Santos, TV show host
- Moacyr Scliar, author
- Lasar Segall, artist
- Hans Stern, founder, H.Stern International Jewelry Company
- Gregori Warchavchik, architect
Chile
- Marjorie Agosín, human rights activist and writer
- Ariel Dorfman, playwright
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, film director (Chilean-born)
- Don Francisco, TV host, aka Mario Kreutzberger
- Nicolás Massú, tennis player (Jewish mother)
- Volodia Teitelboim, former Communist leader
Colombia
- Jorge Isaacs, poet
- Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, entrepeneur
Cuba
- Ruth Behar, writer
- Jamie-Lynn DiScala, actress (converted Cuban mother)
- Fabio Grobart, communist party co-founder
- Brett Ratner, film director (Cuban mother)
El Salvador
- Juan Lindo, president (1841) (Jewish father)
Guatemala
- Francisco Goldman, author (Jewish father)
Honduras
- Juan Lindo, president (1847) (Jewish father)
- Ricardo Maduro, president (2002)
- Salvador Moncada, pharmacologist (Jewish mother)
Mexico
- Jacob Bekenstein, physicist
- Sabina Berman, playwright
- Jorge Castañeda, foreign minister (Jewish mother)
- Daniel Catán, composer
- Tito Fuentes, member of Molotov
- Margo Glantz, writer & critic
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, director
- Frida Kahlo, painter (Jewish father)
- Alejandro Marcovich, member of Caifanes
- Marcos Moshinsky, physicist
- Fernando Schwartz, sports comentator
- Ilan Stavans, literary critic
- Henryk Szeryng, violinist
- Ari Telch, actor
- Leon Trotsky, revolutionary (Mexican exile)
- Pancho Villa, revolutionary (Jewish paternal grandfather)
- Jacobo Zabludovsky, tv journalist
Panama
- Eric Arturo Delvalle, president (1987)
- Ricardo Maduro, Honduran president (Panamanian-born)
Peru
- Isaac Goldemberg, poet
- Meredith Monk, performance artist
- David Waisman, second vice-president
Uruguay
- Gisele Ben-Dor, conductor
- Jorge Drexler, singer/songwriter (Jewish father, raised Jewish)
- Ricardo Ehrlich, mayor of Montevideo
- Jose Gurvich, painter
- Teresa Porzecanski, writer
- Carlos Sherman, writer (Jewish father, Uruguay-born)
Venezuela
- Manuel Blum, computer scientist, Turing Award (1995)
- Andres Levin, keyboardist in Yerba Buena
- Moisés Kaufman, founder of NY's Tectonic Theater Project
- Reynaldo Hahn, composer (Jewish father)
- Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel prize (1980)
See also
- List of Jews
- List of Argentines
- List of Brazilians
- List of Chileans
- List of Colombians
- List of Cubans
- List of Guatemalans
- List of Mexicans
- List of Panamanians
- List of Peruvians
- List of Uruguayans
- List of Venezuelans
