Many of the Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish Inquisition settled in the Ottoman Empire , leaving behind, at the wake of Empire, large Sephardic communities in South-East Europe: mainly in Bulgaria , Turkey , Greece , Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia .
Bosnia and Herzegovina [ edit ]
Kalmi Baruh , writer and philosopher[ 1]
Emerik Blum , businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo[ 2]
Ivan Ceresnjes , architect-researcher, former president of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and vice-chairman of the Yugoslav Federation of Jewish Communities, 1992–1996[ 3]
Oskar Danon , composer and conductor[ 4]
David Elazar , Israeli general and Chief of Staff of Israel Defense Forces [ 5]
Jakob Finci , politician, ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Switzerland
Daniel Kabiljo , painter
Daniel Ozmo , painter
Isaac Pardo , rabbi of Sarajevo
Robert Rothbart , basketball player (Jewish mother)[ 6]
Isak Samokovlija , writer[ 7]
Albert Aftalion , Bulgarian-born French economist[ 8]
Binyamin Arditi
Aron Aronov , tenor
Mira Aroyo , member of the band Ladytron
Gabi Ashkenazi
Michael Bar-Zohar
Maxim Behar , president of M3 Communications Group
Haim Bejarano , Torah scholar and chief rabbi
Shimon Bejarano
Alexander Bozhkov , vice-premier (Jewish mother)[ 9]
Elias Canetti , author and Nobel Prize winner
Sabetay Djaen , rabbi and teacher
Carl Djerassi
Itzhak Fintzi , dramatist[ 10]
Pini Gershon
Moshe Gueron
Shlomo Kalo
Nikolay Kaufman , musicologist and composer[ 11]
Yehezkel Lazarov
Moshe Leon
Milcho Leviev , jazz composer (Jewish father)[ 12]
Raphael Mechoulam
Moni Moshonov
Ya'akov Nehushtan
Ya'akov Nitzani
Jules Pascin , artist (Jewish father)[ 10]
Isaac Passy , philosopher[ 10]
Solomon Passy , foreign minister,[ 13] son of Isaac Passy
Valeri Petrov
Georgi Pirinski, Jr.
David Primo
Sarah-Theodora
Victor Shem-Tov
Maxim Staviski
Angel Wagenstein , author & screenwriter[ 14]
Alexis Weissenberg , pianist[ 15]
Jaime Yankelevich
Emanuel Zisman
Viktor Axmann , architect
Slavko Brill , sculptor and ceramics artist
Julio Deutsch , architect
Hugo Ehrlich , architect
Ignjat Fischer , architect
Josip Frank , Croatian politician
Stjepan Gomboš , architect
Branko Grünbaum , mathematician
Leo Hönigsberg , architect
Rikard Lang , prominent Croatian university professor, lawyer and economist, UN's expert
Slobodan Lang , physician, politician, humanitarian
Slavko Löwy , architect
Rudolf Lubinski , architect
Branko Lustig , film producer and winner of two Academy Awards
Blessed Ivan Merz , beatified in 2003
Oscar Nemon , sculptor
Vladimir Šterk , architect
Ivo Stern , founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation"
Karlo Weissmann , physician and founder of the first sanatorium in Osijek
Dragutin Wolf , industrialist, founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar
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David Albahari , writer
David Albala , military officer, physician, diplomat, and Jewish community leader
Oskar Danon , composer
Oskar Davičo , poet
Filip David , playwright and columnist
Predrag Ejdus , actor
Vanja Ejdus , actress
Rahela Ferari , actress
Ivan Ivanji , writer
Enriko Josif , composer
Danilo Kiš , writer
Marko Kon , pop singer
Shaul Ladany , Holocaust survivor, racewalker and two-time Olympian
Tommy Lapid , former Israeli politician of Hungarian descent, born in Novi Sad
Paulina Lebl-Albala , feminist, translator, literary critic, literature theoretician, and professor of literature in Belgrade
Sonja Licht , political activist
Izidor Papo , cardiac surgeon, general-colonel of the Yugoslav Army medical unit
Moša Pijade , politician, painter, art critic and publicist
Eva Ras , actress
Seka Sablić , actress[ 16]
Erich Šlomović , art collector
Aleksandar Tišma , writer
Ishak Alaton , co-founder of Alarko Holding
Aaron Alfandari , writer
Solomon Eliezer Alfandari , Sephardic rabbi
Isak Andic , is a Spanish billionaire businessman
Seyla Benhabib , political theorist[ 17]
Can Bonomo , musician from İzmir who represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku , Azerbaijan
Abraham Salomon Camondo , Ottoman-Italian financier and philanthropist; patriarch of the Camondo family
Elijah Capsali , first Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Chief Rabbi ) of the Ottoman Empire
Moses Capsali , Hakham Bashi
Isaac Carasso , Ottoman Jewish entrepreneur and businessman
Bob Dylan , American singer-songwriter
Menahem Egozi , talmudist
Üzeyir Garih , co-founder of Alarko Holding
Fernando Gerassi , Turkish artist
Françoise Giroud , politician
Umut Güzelses , Turkish-Israeli football player
Ishak Haleva , current Hakham Bashi of Turkey
Israel Hanukoglu , biochemist
Barzillai ben Baruch Jabez , talmudist
Victoria Kamhi , pianist[ 18]
Emanuel Karasu , Salonica -born Ottoman statesman
Tchéky Karyo , French actor and musician; born in Istanbul, father is Turkish-Jewish
Hila Klein , Israeli-American YouTuber; mother is of Turkish-Jewish descent
Morris Levy , music industry executive
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , American politician
Linet , Turkish-Israeli singer
Alejandro Mayorkas , American politician
Leandra Medine , author and blogger; father, Mois Medine, is of Turkish-Jewish descent
Elijah Mizrachi , Hakham Bashi [ 19]
Darío Moreno , İzmir -born musician[ 20]
Chaim Nahum , Hakham Bashi [ 19]
Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi
Joseph Nasi , Portuguese Ottoman trader and the first non-Muslim to be appointed to the rank of Sanjak-bey (governor )
Abraham Palacci , grand rabbi of İzmir
Joseph Palacci , rabbi of İzmir
Rahamim Nissim Palacci , grand rabbi of İzmir
Haim Palachi , grand rabbi of İzmir
Emin Pasha , physician, naturalist, and governor
Mosè Piccio , lexicographer
Haim Saban , Israeli-American TV producer; mother was of Turkish-Jewish descent
Berry Sakharof , Israeli rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer
Silvio Santos , media tycoon and television host
Rotem Sela , Israeli actress best known for starring in the Israeli television series Beauty and the Baker (2013–2021).
Izak Senbahar , American real estate developer
Lenore Skenazy , activist and founder of the Free-Range kids movement
Joseph Taitazak , Spanish-born Ottoman rabbi and Kabbalist
Sabbatai Zevi , Sephardic rabbi and Kabbalist
Jaklin Kornfilt , theoretical linguist
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