Academic figures •
Roy Clive Abraham, linguist •
Samuel Alexander, philosopher •
Neal Ashkanasy, psychologist and
emotional intelligence academic •
Phillip Blashki, successful businessman, magistrate, JP •
Bernard Boas, marriage guidance counsellor, broadcaster, author of biblical treatises •
Ron Castan, barrister and rights advocate •
Sir Zelman Cowen,
Governor-General (1977–1982), lawyer, university lecturer (including past appointments as
Provost,
Dean and
Vice-Chancellor) •
Linda Dessau, 29th Governor of Victoria, and former Family Court Judge •
Marcus Einfeld, former Federal Court judge •
Alan Finkel, Australia's
Chief Scientist • Sir
Otto Frankel, geneticist •
Bryan Gaensler, astronomer and former
Young Australian of the Year •
Fred Hilmer, academic, lawyer and businessman •
David Isaacs, architect and structural engineer, musician and composer •
Phillip Isaacs, architect and structural engineer •
Joseph Jacobs, historian and folklorist • Justice
Stephen Kaye, judge of the Court of Appeal •
William Kaye, judge of the Supreme Court 1972–1991 •
Kurt Mahler, mathematician •
Robert Manne, academic and social critic • Sir
Matthew Nathan, British soldier and judge, Governor of Queensland 1920–1925, after also serving as Governor of
Sierra Leone,
Gold Coast,
Hong Kong and
Natal; the Brisbane suburbs of
Nathan and Nathan Heights are named after him, as is Nathan Street, in the Canberra suburb of
Deakin •
Bernhard Neumann, mathematician •
Gustav Nossal, immunologist (Jewish father) •
Robert Richter, barrister and human rights advocate •
Hilary L. Rubinstein, historian •
William D. Rubinstein, historian •
Suzanne Rutland, historian •
Peter Singer, philosopher •
Julius Stone, distinguished legal theorist, professor of jurisprudence and international law • Louis Waller, public teacher of law and law reformer •
James Wolfensohn, World Bank president • Sir
Albert Wolff, Chief Justice of Western Australia •
Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist and language revivalist
Business figures • Sir
Peter Abeles, former chairman of
Ansett Transport Industries •
Rodney Adler, CEO of
HIH Insurance, convicted criminal •
Peter Alexander, fashion designer •
Albert Bensimon,
Adelaide jeweller and businessman •
Harold Boas, architect, Perth councillor, Jewish community worker •
Albert Dadon, businessman •
John Gandel and
Marc Besen, founder/owners of
Chadstone Shopping Centre and
Sussan fashion chain •
David Gonski, public figure and businessman, philanthropist •
Joseph Gutnick, mining magnate and ex-President of
Melbourne Football Club •
Poppy King, cosmetician •
Frank Lowy, co-founder of the
Westfield Group, philanthropist •
Sidney Myer, founder of
Myer department store and philanthropist •
Leon and
Richard Pratt, founder/owners of
Visy •
Rene Rivkin, stockbroker and convicted
insider trader •
Helena Rubenstein, cosmetician (business started in Melbourne), philanthropist, art collector •
Sheree Rubinstein, entrepreneur •
Abe Saffron, nightclub owner, underworld figure •
Joe Saragossi, founder of
G.James Glass & Aluminium, glass and window manufacturer •
John Saunders, co-founder of the
Westfield Group •
Harry Seidler, architect •
Sidney Sinclair, men's fashion label founder •
Smorgon family, founder/owners of
Smorgon Steel and other businesses •
Harry Triguboff, property developer founder of
Meriton Cultural figures •
Oren Ambarchi, musician •
Louis Abrahams, businessman, artist, and later a patron of the artists of the
Heidelberg School •
Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-born musician, born to a Jewish mother but raised Christian •
Eric Baume, broadcaster/journalist •
Arthur Benjamin, composer •
Danny Ben-Moshe, writer •
Rachel Berger, comedian •
John Bluthal, actor •
Lily Brett, writer •
Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer •
Saskia Burmeister, actress •
Judy Cassab, painter •
Deborah Conway, singer-songwriter •
Ed Doolan, Australian-born British broadcaster •
George Dreyfus, composer •
Jon Faine, radio presenter •
Alex Fein, community activist, writer, and businesswoman •
Jack Feldstein, scriptwriter/neon animator •
FourPlay Electric String Quartet (3/4 Jewish) •
Louise Fox, television writer-producer •
Isla Fisher, Omani-born actress •
Tim Freedman, musician •
Amelia Frid, former child actress •
Renée Geyer, soul singer •
Henry Gilbert, actor •
Alan Gold, author •
Libby Gorr, comedian •
Yoram Gross, producer •
Michael Gudinski, record executive •
Osher Günsberg, television/radio presenter and journalist • Alexander Gutman (aka
Austen Tayshus), comedian •
David Helfgott, pianist •
Elena Kats-Chernin, composer •
Danny Katz, writer/comedian •
Inge King, sculptor •
Steve Kipner, songwriter •
Barrie Kosky, creative director •
Ben Lee, singer-songwriter •
Jack Levi (aka
Elliot Goblet), comedian • Lior Attar (aka
Lior), Israeli-born singer-songwriter •
Sam Lipski, newspaper writer and editor, radio and TV broadcaster and commentator, CEO of the philanthropic
Pratt Foundation •
Tziporah Malkah (aka Kate Fisher), actress, model •
David Malouf, writer (Jewish mother) •
Miriam Margolyes, actress •
Bill Meyer, artist •
Margaret Michaelis-Sachs, photographer •
Isaac Nathan, Australia's first composer •
Helmut Newton, photographer •
Olivia Newton-John, singer-songwriter, actress •
Eva Orner, film-maker •
Elliot Perlman, writer •
Linda Phillips, composer •
Bram Presser, author and singer for Yidcore •
Ohad Rein, musician •
Lara Sacher, actress •
John Safran, comedian/documentarian •
Hermann Schildberger, choir leader, organist (secular and in synagogues) •
Michael Schildberger, radio and TV broadcaster and commentator •
Athol Shmith, photographer •
Michael Shmith, journalist and music critic •
Cate Shortland, screenwriter and director (Convert) •
Larry Sitsky, composer •
Troye Sivan, actor, singer-songwriter •
Nathan Spielvogel, writer, particularly about Jewish life in early Ballarat; lay communal leader of the Ballarat synagogue •
Yael Stone, actor •
Simon Tedeschi, pianist • Harry van der Sluys (
aka Roy Rene and Mo McCackie), music hall, theatrical and radio comedian •
Felix Werder, composer •
Tal Wilkenfeld, musician •
Yitzhak Yedid, composer •
Yidcore's members (
Bram, Myki, Tim and Rory), Jewish punk band, from Melbourne, Australia •
Allan Zavod, musician
Political figures National figures •
Julian Leeser,
Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives (2016–present) •
Moss Cass, former
Labor cabinet minister •
Barry Cohen, Labor government minister in the Federal Parliament (1983–1987) •
Michael Danby, Labor member of the
Australian House of Representatives (1998–2019) •
Mark Dreyfus QC, Attorney-General of Australia 2013–2013 Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives (2007–present) •
James Edelman, High Court Justice •
Jason Falinski,
Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives (2016–2022) •
Josh Frydenberg,
Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives (2010–2022), Minister for Environment and Energy 2016–2018, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party 2018–present. •
Stirling Griff,
Centre Alliance, senator for
South Australia in the Upper House of Parliament (2016–present) • Sir
Isaac Isaacs, Governor General (1931–1936), prominent solicitor, member of Victorian colonial parliament, one of the drafters of the Australian constitution, member of first Australian parliament, Chief Justice of the High Court •
Josh Burns, Labor member of the
House of Representatives (2019–present) •
Mark Regev, Israeli Ambassador in Kensington, London, England (2015–2017) •
Nicola Roxon, Minister for Health and Ageing 2007–2011, Attorney-General of Australia 2011–2013 Labor member of the
Australian House of Representatives (1998–2013) •
Elias Solomon, former member of Federal Parliament •
Vaiben Louis Solomon, premier of South Australia and member of the House of Representatives for
South Australia Local body politicians •
Maurice Ashkanasy, Vice-chairman of Victorian Bar Council and member of Australian Labor party •
Hajnal Ban, politician, author •
Peter Baume, Liberal cabinet minister, chancellor of the
Australian National University •
Joe Berinson, Member of Federal Parliament, Minister in Whitlam's third Cabinet, State Upper house member, State Labor cabinet minister and Attorney General of Western Australia •
Ian Cohen, Greens member of the
New South Wales Legislative Council (1995–2011) •
Philip Dalidakis, Labor member of the
Victorian Legislative Council •
Linda Dessau, Governor of Victoria (from 2015) •
Marcus Einfeld, human rights activist, former Federal Court judge and convicted perjurer •
Sydney Einfeld, New South Wales Minister for Consumer Affairs (1976–1981) •
Vida Goldstein, suffragette •
Jennifer Huppert, Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council (2009–2010) •
Martin Indyk, United States ambassador to
Israel (1995–1997 and 2000–2001) •
Walter Jona, Victorian State Minister • Dr
John Kaye, Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Council • Sir
Richard Kingsland, Public Servant,
RAAF pilot who rescued two senior British WWII leaders in Morocco in 1940 •
Paul Landa, solicitor, barrister, N.S.W. Labor politician, and minister in the
Wran Government (1976–1984) •
Henry Ninio, Lord Mayor of Adelaide, co-founder of Progressive Judaism in Adelaide •
Martin Pakula, Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council,
Attorney-General 2014-Since •
Leo Port, Lord Mayor of Sydney (1975–1978) •
Julius Roe, Fair Work Australia Commissioner, former head of Australian Manufacturing Workers Union •
Eric Roozendaal, NSW Labor cabinet minister (2008–2011) •
David Southwick, Liberal Member of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly •
James Wolfensohn, World Bank president • Sir
Albert Wolff, Chief Justice of Western Australia
Religious figures • Rabbi Dr
Joseph Abrahams, prominent Melbourne rabbi of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was unsuccessful as a candidate in 1911 for the position of Chief Rabbi of Britain and the Commonwealth • Rabbi Dr
Raymond Apple, Senior
Rabbi of the
Great Synagogue of Sydney, Senior Rabbi to the Australian Defence Force, Registrar of the Sydney
Beth Din, author of OzTorah.com, and the leading spokesperson for Jews and Judaism in Australia from 1972 to 2005 • Rabbi
Elias Blaubaum, rabbi at St Kilda Hebrew Congregation for 40 years, newspaper editor • Rabbi
Abraham Tobias Boas, rabbi in Adelaide for about 40 years • Rabbi
Rudolph (Rudie) Brasch, senior reform rabbi in Sydney for over 30 years, a well-known author and broadcaster • Gen.
Paul Cullen, founder of Emanuel Synagogue, Sydney, Army General • Rabbi
Francis Cohen, prominent Sydney rabbi in the early 20th century • Rabbi
Jacob Danglow, rabbi at St Kilda Hebrew Congregation 1905–1962, one of the most prominent rabbis in both the Jewish and the general communities • Rev
Alexander Davis, over 30 years as minister of the York Street and Great synagogues • Rabbi
Pinchus Feldman, Rabbi of the
Yeshiva Centre • Rabbi
David Freedman, rabbi in Perth for over 40 years • Rabbi
Harry Freedman, rabbi in Sydney and translator for
Soncino Press • Rabbi
David Freilich, rabbi in Perth 1988–2012 • Rabbi
Ralph Genende, rabbi at Caulfield, and prominent in interfaith dialogue • Rabbi
Lazarus Goldman, rabbi at Toorak Road synagogue, author and historian, died on the
bimah in 1960 whilst conducting a
Kol Nidre service in Adelaide • Rabbi
Yitzchok Dovid Groner, director of many Chabad operations in Victoria • Rabbi
J. L. Guerewitz, long serving rabbi at Carlton United synagogue • Rabbi
Chaim Gutnick, formerly rabbi of Elwood Synagogue for over forty years and life president of the
Rabbinical Council of Victoria • Rabbi
Mordechai Gutnick, rabbi at Elwood and member of the Beth Din • Rabbi
Sholom Gutnick, rabbi at Caulfield for about 40 years, and Av Beth Din • Rabbi
Philip Heilbrunn, Rabbi Emeritus and long-serving rabbi at St Kilda • Rabbi
John Levi, first Australian-born rabbi, prominent Progressive rabbi, teacher and historian • Rabbi
Ronald Lubofsky, rabbi at St Kilda for over 30 years •
Joseph Marcus, convict who trained as a rabbi and is reputed to have conducted the first Jewish services in Sydney • Rabbi
Jerome Mark, the first Progressive rabbi in Australia • Rev
Joseph Myers, minister in Brisbane for 43 years • Mrs
Ada Phillips, founder of Australia's first permanent Progressive congregation in Melbourne • Rabbi
Israel Porush, prominent and long-serving Sydney rabbi • Mr
Abraham Rabinovitch, philanthropist and founder of Sydney's main Orthodox Jewish educational institutions • Rev
Moses Rintel, first minister of the Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, and later of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation • Rabbi
Louis Rubin-Zacks, rabbi in Perth for 25 years • Rabbi Dr
Herman Sanger, important Melbourne progressive rabbi, responsible for the spread of progressive Judaism to other parts of Australia • Rabbi
Max Schenk, first Progressive rabbi in Sydney, early Zionist
Sports figures •
Ben Ashkenazi, cricketer (
Victorian Bushrangers) •
Ashley Brown, football (soccer) player
Melbourne Victory •
Jordan Brown, midfielder (
Melbourne Victory) •
David Emanuel, Australian rugby union player •
Gavin Fingleson, South African-born Australian, Olympic
silver medalist •
Jessica Fox, French-born Australian 3-times Olympic gold medallist in K-1 and Canoe slalom •
Noemie Fox, Olympic gold medallist in Kayak cross •
Peter Fuzes, soccer goalkeeper for Hakoah and Australia, Maccabi Hall of Fame 2003; played 1st grade 1964 till 1976; international career 1966–72, against Scotland 1967, Greece 1969, Israel 1969 and 1972; played against various European clubsides including AS ROMA 1966, Manchester United at the time of Bobby Charlton and Dennis Law •
Jake Girdwood-Reich, footballer for
St. Louis City SC and the
Olyroos •
Todd Goldstein, Australian rules footballer (
Essendon) •
Todd Greenberg, former CEO of the
National Rugby League •
David Horwitz, rugby union fly-half / centre,
New South Wales Waratahs •
Eban Hyams, India-Israel-Australia, Australian
National Basketball League & Israeli
Super League 6' 5" guard, first-ever Indian national to play in
ULEB competitions •
Tal Karp (born 1981), female Australian football (soccer) player •
Michael Klinger, cricketer; an ex-collegian at
Mount Scopus Memorial College •
Gary Lazarus, ARF
Fitzroy Lions •
Leonard "Jock" Livingston, cricketer •
Jonathan Moss, former first-class cricketer for the
Victoria cricket team (2000–07); played for Australia at the
Maccabiah Games in Israel •
Phil Moss, current manager of the Central Coast Mariners in the A-League; former soccer player in the National Soccer League •
Jacob Muir, footballer, Perth Glory •
Ray Phillips, cricketer, NSW and Queensland •
Myer Rosenblum, rugby union player and solicitor, father of Rupert Rosenblum, who notably employed
John Howard as an articled clerk •
Rupert Rosenblum, rugby union player and solicitor, son of Myer Rosenblum •
Albert Rosenfeld, rugby league player •
Ian Rubin, Russian-born player for
South Sydney Rabbitohs •
Zac Sapsford, footballer for
Western Sydney Wanderers •
Geoff Selby, played for
St George Dragons, tragically died in car accident in 1989. •
Harry Sheezel, Australian rules footballer (
North Melbourne) •
Mark Shulman, rugby league player •
Steven Solomon, Olympic sprinter; Maccabiah Games medalist •
Jordan Swibel, footballer,
Valour FC •
Ian Synman, Australian Rules footballer with St Kilda 1958–69, notorious for playing in St Kilda's only Premiership (1966) on
Yom Kippur •
Lionel Van Praag, speedway champion •
Ivor Warne-Smith, two-time Brownlow medallist •
Julien Wiener, cricketer •
David Zalcberg, Australian Olympic table tennis player; also an ex-collegian at Mount Scopus Memorial College
Other figures •
Frances Barkman, schoolteacher and charitable worker •
Dunera boys, group of mainly Jewish British detainees who were deported to Australia in horrific circumstances; many of them later becoming prominent Australian citizens •
Esther Johnston, first fleet prisoner •
Solomon Levey, transported convict who later became a successful businessman • Sir
John Monash, World War I general, engineer, first chairman of Victoria's State Electricity Commission •
Lisa Jackson Pulver, first Indigenous Australian to serve as a Synagogue President •
Ikey Solomon,
First Fleet prisoner, the person on whom
Charles Dickens based the character of
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