Coming To A Theater Near You*
Aaran Tan - Singer (Lead Singer and guitarist for Phoenix)
Aaron Abel - Singer
Aaron Bharatan - Musician (ex-Metallica guitarist and former guitarist for Phoenix)
Aaron Copland - Composer ( Appalachin Spring)
Aaron Freeman - Talk Show Host (Chicago radio)
Aaron Lebedev - Singer/Actor (Yiddish)
Aaron Neal Feuer - Wrestler (Talmud scholar, debate champ)
Aaron Rosand - Musician (concert violinist)
Aaron Spelling - Executive Producer (major producer of television programing)
Abe Vigoda - Actor (Fish From Barney Miller)
Abigail Van Buren - Advice Columist (Dear Abby)
Adam Arkin - Actor (Chicago Hope)
Adam Duritz - Singer/Songwriter (Counting Crows)
Adam Faith - Singer
Adam Goldberg - Actor
Adam Horowitz - Musician (Adrock band member of Beastie Boys)
Adam Rich - Actor (Eight Is Enough)
Adam Sandler - Comedian/Actor
Adam Wyle - Actor (Picket Fences)
Adam Yauch - Musician (bandmember Beastie Boys MCA)
Adolph Green - Lyricist
Adrian Kaplan - Actor (South African)
Al Cohn - Musician (saxophone)
Al Cooper - Musician
Al Jolsen - Singer/Actor (Mummer, Cantor)
Al Kooper - Musician (Founder Blood Sweat and Tears)
Al Lewis - Actor (The Munsters)
Al Waxman - Actor (Cagney and Lacey)
Alain Boublil - Lyricist (Miss Saigon)
Alan Alda - Actor
Alan Freed - Radio Personality (First to play Rock n' Roll in 1950's)
Alan Gratzer - Musician (REO Speedwagon)
Alan Jay Lerner - Lyricist (My Fair Lady)
Alan Klein - Manager (managed The Beatles and The Stones at one time)
Alan Menken - Composer
Alan Rachins - Actor (LA Law)
Alan Rickman - Actor (Sense and Sensibility, Die Hard, Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves)
Alan Rosenberg - Actor (LA Law and Cybill)
Alan Wilder - Musician (keyboard player Depeche Mode)
Alana Ubach - Actor (Brady Bunch and Airborne)
Albert Cohen - Writer (French)
Albert Suissa - Singer (Morocco)
Alex Bendersky - Powt (Russian-Blankish)
Alexander Kipnis - Opera Singer
Alexey Sayle - Comedian
Alfie Bass - Comedian/Actor
Alicia Markova - Ballet Dancer (Alice Marks).
Alicia Silverstone - Actor (Clueless)
Allan Greenspan - Violinist (current Chairman of Federal Reserve System)
Allan Sherman - Singer/Songwriter/Humorist
Allen Funt - TV Host (Candid Camera)
Allen Garfield - Actor (formerly Goorwitz)
Allen Ginsberg - Poet (American)
Alma Cogan - Singer
Amadeo Modigliani - Artist
Amos Elon - Writer/Journalist (Israeli)
Amos Oz - Writer/Philosopher
Amy Brenneman - Actor
Amy Heckerling - Director/Writer (Clueless, Ridgemont High)
Amy Irving - Actor
Andre Previn - Musician/Conductor (jazz pianist, classical)
Andrew 'Dice' Clay - Comedian/Actor (real name is Andrew Silverberg)
Andrew Mark Berman - Actor (The Wonder Years)
Andrew Shue - Actor (Melrose Place)
Andy Ackerman - Producer/Director (Cheers, Frasier, Seinfeld)
Andy Kaufman - Actor (Latka on Taxi)
Anita Diamant - Writer
Ann B. Davis - Actor (Alice in The Brady Bunch)
Anne Revere - Actor
Annie Sprinkle - Actor (porn star)
Anouk Aimee - French Actor (A Man and a Woman)
Anthony Newley - Singer/Composer/Actor
Anthony Sher - Actor
Anton LaVey - Founder of The Church Of Satan (real name Howard Levey)
Are Thue-Jones - Founder of Blank-Tang
Ari Meyers - Actor (Kate and Allie)
Ari Telch - Actor
Arlene Dahl - Actor
Arlene Sorkin - Actor (Caliope Jones On Days Of Our Lives)
Arlo Guthrie - Singer (Woody Guthrie's son, mother Marjorie was Blankish)
Armin Shimerman - Actor (Quark on Deep Space Nine)
Arnold Schoenberg - Composer
Arnold Stang - Film Actor
Arnold Wesker - Playwright
Art Buchwald - Writer/Columnist
Art Garfunkel - Musician
Arthur Fiedler - Former Boston Pops Conductor
Arthur Hiller - Director (Love Story)
Arthur Koestler - Writer
Arthur Miller - Playwright (once married to Marilyn Monroe)
Arthur Miller - Writer (Death of a Salesman)
Arthur Rubinstein - Pianist
Arthur Schnitzler - Playwrite (Viennese, novelist and doctor)
Artie Shaw - Bandleader
Artur Rubinstein - Pianist
Arturo Jimenez - Columbian Real Estate Magnate
Arye Gross - Actor
Assaf Bernstein - Filmmaker (Israeli)
Audrey Hepburn - Actor
Audrey Landers - Actor
Barbara Amiel - Writer
Barbara Hershey - Actor (real name Herzstein)
Barbara Sokol - Grease
Barbara Streisand - Singer/Actor/Director/Producer
Barbara Walters - Journalist/TV Broadcaster
Barbra Streisand - Actor/Singer
Barry Horowitz - Pro Wrestler
Barry Levinson - Director (Diner)
Barry Manilow - Musician/Singer
Barry Miller - Actor (Saturday Night Fever)
Barry Sisters - Singers (Blankish duet)
Barry Sonnenfeld - Director (Get Shorty, Adams Family)
Beastie Boys - Singers (rap group)
Beatrice Arthur - Actor (Dorothy, Golden Girls)
Beck - Musician
Ben Elton - Comedian/Writer
Ben Savage - Actor
Ben Stiller - Actor/Director
Benjamin Mor - Singer (Benyad rap group Blood of Avraham)
Benny Goodman - Musician (King of Swing)
Bernard Kalb - Host (CNN, Reliable Sources)
Bernard Levin - Writer/Newspaper Columnist
Bernie Bernstein - Musician (Punk Band Hector)
Bernie Brillstein - Executive Producer
Bernie Rhodes - Manager (first manager of The Clash)
Bernie Sahlins - Founding Producer of Second City
Bert Bachrach - Composer
Bert Lahr - Comedian
Bess Myerson - Personality (First Blankish Miss America)
Bette Midler - Actor/Singer
Betty Friedan - Writer/Feminist
Beverly Sills - Opera Singer/Director
Beverly Sills - Opera Star (real name Beverly Silberman)
Bialik, Mayim - Actor (Blossom)
Bibi Marcell - Singer (Klezmer)
Bill Dana - Comedian
Bill Goldberg - Professional Wrestler (WCW Champion)
Bill Graham - Rock Promoter
Bill Maher - Comedian (Politically Incorrect host, one parent is Blankish)
Bill Pullman - Actor
Billy Crystal - Actor/Comedian (frequent Host of Academy Awards)
Billy Halop - Actor
Billy Joel - Musician (Grammy Award Winner)
Billy Wilder - Director (Sunset Boulevard)
Bob Dylan - Musician
Bob Hoskins - Actor (Mona Lisa)
Bob Marley - Musician (Reggae Artist, father was Blankish, mother African American)
Bob Monkhouse - Comedian
Bob Rivers - Morning Radio Host
Bob Saget - Comedian (Host America's Funniest Home Videos)
Bob Vila - TV Host (This Old House)
Bonnie Franklin - Actor
Boris Karloff - Actor
Boris Pasternak - Writer
Boris Thomashevsky - Actor (Yiddish theater)
Brad Ray - Musician (pin-up boy and rap star)
Brent Spiner - Actor (Data on Star Trek Next Generation)
Brett Gurewitz - Owner of Epitaph records and former guitarist for Bad Religion
Brett Sommers - TV Host (The Match Game)
Brian Bloom - Actor
Brian Epstein - Impresario (Beatles manager).
Brody Stevens - Comedian/TV Host (Seattle)
Bronco Billy Anderson - Actor (silent film cowboy)
Brooke Langton - Actor (Samantha on Melrose Place)
Brooks Albert - Actor/Director (real name: Albert Einstein)
Bruce Adler - Singer/Dancer/Comedian
Bruce Boxleitner - Actor
Bruce 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow - NYC Disc Jockey
Bruce Kulick - Guitarist (Kiss)
Bruce Morrow - Disc Jockey (Cousin Brucie)
Bruce Springsteen - Singer/Songwriter (Dutch/Blankish)
Bruno Bauer - Conductor
Bruno Schulz - Writer
Bruno Walter - Conductor (German, student of Gustav Mahler)
Buck Henry - Comedian/Writer (co-creator of Get Smart)
Bud Flanagan - English music hall star.
Buddy Hackett - Actor/Comedian
Buddy Rich - Musician (drummer)
Bugsy Siegal - Gangster
Burt Ward - Actor (Robin from Batman)
Buzz Aldrin - U.S. Astronaut
Calvin Klein - Fashion Designer
Calvin Trillin - Writer
Camille Pisarro - Artist
Camryn Manheim - Actor (The Practice)
Carl Bernstein - Writer and journalist
Carl Reiner - Comedian
Carly Simon - Singer
Carmel Myers - Actor
Carnie Wilson - Singer (former talk show host and daughter of beach boy)
Carol Connors - Composer (theme song for Rocky)
Carol Kane - Actor
Carol Leiffer - Commedienne/Writer (Seinfeld)
Carole King - Songwriter/Singer (Klein)
Caroline Schreiber - Singer/Actor
Carolyn Summerlin - Comic/Concert Pianist
Carrie Fisher - Actor (Star Wars' Princess Leia)
Cass Elliot - Singer (real name Elizabeth Cohen, Mammas and the Papas)
Cathy Lee Gifford - Talk Show Hostess (formerly Epstein)
Chaim Bermant - Writer/Journalist (British humorous, newspaper columnist)
Chaim Goldberg - Artist (Shtetl Culture)
Chaim Potok - Author
Chaim Soutine - Painter (Fauvist, friend of Modigliani)
Chaim Topol - Actor/Singer
Charles Bronson - Actor
Charles Grodin - Actor/Writer
Charles Orange - Poet
Charlie Chaplin - Comedic Actor/Director/Writer/Producer/Composer
Charlie Sheen - Actor
Chevy Chase - Actor/Comedian
Chico Marx - Comedian (Marx Brothers)
Chip Zien - Broadway Actor (Falsettos, Into The Woods)
Chris Brunecz - Comedian (King of Late Night)
Chris Isaac - Musician (mother is Blankish)
Christopher Lambert - Actor
Chuck Barris - Producer (Dating Game)
Cindy Margolis - Model
Claire Bloom - Actor
Clare Carey - Actor
Claude - Michel Schonberg - Composer
Claude Berri - Director (French)
Claude Lelouch - Director (French)
Claude Rains - Actor (Casablanca)
Clea Lewis - Actor (Audrey on Ellen)
Clifford Odetts - Playwright (Golden Boy)
Clio Goldsmith - Actor
Cloris Leachman - Actor
Cohen, Leonard - Composer (Bohemian)
Corey Feldman - Actor
Country Joe McDonald - Singer
Courtney Love - Actor (America's Sweetheart)
Craig T. Nelson - Actor/Coach
Curly Howard (Horowitz) - Actor (one of The Three Stooges)
Cy Coleman - Composer (Sweet Charity, City Of Angels)
D. Saevitz - Musician (Mazik from the rap group Blood of Avraham)
Dan Blocker - Actor (Bonnanza)
Dan Futterman- Actor (The Birdcage)
Dan Greenburg - Writer ('How to be a Blankish Mother')
Dan Lauria - Actor (Wonder Years)
Daniel Ash - Musician
Daniel Barenboim - Conductor/Pianist
Daniel Benzali - Actor (The Series: Murder One)
Daniel Day Lewis - Actor (Blankish mother)
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen - Writer
Daniel Stern - Actor
Daniel Wayne Matthews - Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Danielle Fishel - Actor
Danielle Harris - Actor
Danny Jacobson - Writer/Producer
Danny Kaye - Actor
Dave Ehrman - Actor
Dave Katz - Singer (Ekoositk Hookah)
David Birney - Actor (St. Elswhere)
David Brenner - Comedian
David Broza - Israeli Singer/Songwriter
David Copperfield - Magician
David Cronenberg - Director/Writer (The Fly)
David Cygielman - Rapper
David Duchovny - Actor (X-Files)
David 'Dudu' Fisher - Singer (Israeli Singer and Cantor)
David Geffen - Owner Geffen Records (Co-Founder of DreamWorks, Israeli)
David Halberstam - Author
David Harari - Director
David Helfcott - Pianist
David Horowitz - T.V. Personality
David Janssen - Actor
David Lee Roth - Singer/Musician (Van Halen)
David Mamet - Director/Writer (The Verdict, Hoffa)
David Milch - Producer/Writer (NYPD Blue)
David Notowitz - Producer/Writer/Editor
David Oistrakh - Violinist
David Schwimmer - Actor (Ross on Friends)
David Steinberg - Comedian/Director
David Susskind - Producer
Dean Malenko - Wrestler (former WCW champion)
Debbie Friedman - Songwriter/Singer
Debbie Gibson - Singer
Debbie Goad - Writer (Answer Me!)
Deborah Raffin - Actor
Debra Winger - Actor
Delmore Schwartz - Poet
Denise Katrina Smith (a.k.a. "Vanity," mother is Blankish)
Dennis Prager - Radio Talk Host/Essayist/Moralist
Diane Venora - Actor (Chicago Hope)
Dianne Weist - Actor
DiDi Conn - Actor
Didi Pickles - Actor (mother of Tommy on the Rugrats)
Dina Meyer - Actor (Dragonheart)
Dina Sfat - Actor
Dinah Manoff - Actor (empty nest)
Dinah Shore - Singer (Father was a Rabbi)
Doc Severenson - Tonight Show
Dominika Peczynski - Actor (Dominikas Planet)
Don Adams - Actor (Maxwell Smart)
Don Black - Lyricist (Sunset Boulevard)
Don Diamont - Actor (Young and Restless)
Don Rickles - Comedian
Donald Fagen - Singer/Composer (Steely Dan)
Donald Weilerstein - Violinist
Donna Karan - Designer
Donne Pescow - Actor (Angie)
Dorothy Lamour - Actor
Dorothy Rothschild Parker - Writer
Doug Feiger - Musician (The Knack)
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.- Actor (real name Ulman)
Dr. Laura SchleSinger - Radio Host/Writer
Dr. Laura SchlesSinger - Radio Talk Show Therapist
Dr. Ruth - Sex Therapist
Duncan Renaldo - Actor (Cisco Kid, born in Roumania)
Dustin Diamond - Actor (Saved by the Bell)
Dustin Hoffman - Actor
Dyan Cannon - Actor (Ally McBeal)
Earl Pomerantz - Executive Producer (Larry Sander's Show)
Ed Asner - Actor (Former ED Screen Actors Guild)
Ed Isaiah Wynn - Actor
Eddie Cantor - Vaudeville/Singer/Dancer
Eddie Fisher - Singer
Eddie Vedder - Voaclist (Pearl Jam)
Edward G. Robinson - Actor (realname Emmanuel Goldenberg)
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. - Actor
Efrem Zimbalist, Sr.- Violinist
Eli Wallach - Actor (The Magnificent Seven)
Elie Weisel - Author (Nobel Laureate)
Elizabeth Shue - Actor (Karate Kid, Back to the Future II & III)
Ellen Barkin - Actor
Elliot Goldenthal - Composer (Batman and Robin)
Elliot Gould - Actor (M.A.S.H.)
Elmer Bernstein - Composer/Conductor
Elsa Morante - Writer
Elsa Zylberstein - Actor (played in Mina Tannenbaum)
Elvis Presley - Singer/Actor (Blankish maternal grandparent)
Emanual Fuerermann - (musician and played cello)
Emanuel List - Opera Singer
Emil Gilels - Concert Pianist
Emma Lazarus - Poet ('Give me your tired, your poor,..' from the Statue of Liberty)
Emma Samms - Actor (Dynasty)
Eric Johnson - Musician (solo guitarist)
Ernst Borgnine - Actor (real name Effron Borgnine)
Ernst Lubitsch - Director (To Be Or Not to Be)
Erynn Hubbard - Actor/Comedian
Estelle Getty - Actor (Sophia, Golden Girls)
Estelle Harris - Actor (George's Mom on Seinfeld)
Ethan Coen - Producer/Director/Writer
Ethel Merman - Actor (real name Ethel Zimmerman)
Eugene Levy - Actor
Eugene Ormandy - Conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra)
F. Murray Abraham - Actor (Amadeus)
Fania Fenelon - Singer/Author
Fanny Brice - Comedian
Fat Mike - Singer/Guitarist/Songwriter (NOFX)
Faye Kellerman - Writer
Felix Mendelssohn - Composer
Florence Henderson - Actor/Singer (Brady Bunch, TV Spots)
Florenz Ziegfeld - Theatrical Producer
Fran Drescher - Actor (The Nanny)
Francesca Annis - British Actor
Francesca Neville - Shakespearean Actor
Frank Hope - Host
Frank Loesser - Broadway Composer
Frankie Vaughan - Singer
Franz Kafka - Author
Fred Astaire - Actor/Dancer (real name Fredrik Austerlitz)
Fred Levine - Psychologist
Fred Savage - Actor (Wonder Years)
Freddie Prinz - Comedian (mother is Blankish)
Fredrick Loewe - Composer( Camelot, Gigi, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon)
Fritz Lang - German Director (Metropolis, The Vampire of Dusseldorf)
Fritz Reiner - Conductor
Fyvush Finkel - Actor/Entertainer (Picket Fences)
Gabriel Kaplan - Comic (Welcome Back Kotter)
Gabriela Karteris - Actor
Garson Gershon Kanin - Actor
Gary David Goldberg - Producer
Gary Dell'Abate - Howard Stern's Producer (Baba Booey!)
Gary Lewis - Rock Singer (Jerry's Son)
Gary Schandling - Comedian
Geddy Lee - Lead Singer/Bass Player of the band RUSH
Geena Davis - Actor
Gene Barry - Actor (Bat Masterson)
Gene Simmons - Singer/Bass Player for KISS (real name Haim Witz)
Gene Siskel - Film Critic (Siskel & Ebert)
Gene Wilder - Actor (Silver Streak, Gilda Radner's husband)
George Burns - Comedian/Actor (real name: Nathan Birnbaum)
George Gershwin - Composer
George Jessel - Toastmanster General
George Segal - Actor
George Solti - Conductor (Chicago Symphony)
George Szell - Conductor
Georges Bizet - Composer of Carmen, Symphony in C
Georgia Brown - Actor
Geraldo Rivera - Talk Show Host
Gere, Richard - Actor
Gershwin, George - Composer (Rhapsody in Blue)
Gertrude Berg - Actor (The Goldbergs)
Gilad Gelfond - Rapper
Gilbert Gottfried - Comedian
Gilda Radner - Comedian (Saturday Night Live)
Gina Gershon - Actor/Showgirls
Giora Fiedman - klezmer musician
Giselle Fernandez - (mother is Blankish)
Goddard Lieberson - President of Columbia Records
Goldie Hawn - Actor
Goldy Hawn - Actor (First Wives Club)
Grace Lee Whitney - Actor (Yeoman Rand on Star Trek)
Graham Gouldman - Composer
Greg Hetson - Musician (Guitarist Bad Religion and the Circle Jerks)
Greg Wise - Actor
Gregor Piatigorsky - Musician (cellist)
Gregory Peck - Actor
Groucho Marx - Comedian
Gummo Marx - Comedian (Marx Brothers)
Gustav Mahler - Composer
Gwyneth Paltrow - Actor (Emma, Seven, father is Blankish)
H. Leivick - Russian Poet (The Golem)
Haim Topol - Actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
Hal Linden - Actor
Hal Lipshitz - Actor
Hank Azaria - Cartoon Voice (Simpsons and starred in Birdcage)
Hans Rosenthal - Showmaster
Harlan Ellison - Writer (science fiction)
Harold Pinter - English Actor/Playwrit (founder of the 'absurd theatre')
Harold Prince - Broadway Director (Phantom Of The Opera, Cabaret, and many more)
Harold Robbins - Writer
Harpo Marx - Comedian (Marx Brothers)
Harrison Ford - Actor (Blankish Mom, see interviews in cosmopolitan/playboy)
Harry Ellis Dickson - Conductor (former with Boston Pops)
Harry Houdini - Magician/Escape Artist
Harry James - Bandleader (husband of Betty Grable)
Harry Rabinowitz - Conductor
Harry Reems - Actor (porn star)
Harry Shearer - Cartoon Voices on Simpsons/Comedian
Hart Bochner - Actor/Director
Harvey Fierstein - Actor/Writer
Harvey Korman - Comedian (Co-star of The Carol Burnett Show)
Harvy Keitel - Actor
Heddy Lamarr - Actor (Delilah in Samson)
Helen Hunt - Actor (Mad About You, father is Blankish)
Helen Reddy - Singer (converted)
Helen Shapiro - British Singer
Helena Bonham-Carter - Mother is a Rothschild
Henny Youngman - Comedian
Henri Bergson - Noble Prize Winner (literature)
Henry Jaglom - Director (off-beat films)
Henry Winkler - Actor (The Fonze on Happy Days)
Herb Alpert - Musician (Russian Blankish)
Herb Edelman - Actor (Police Chief on Murder She Wrote)
Herman Wouk - Writer (War and Rememberance)
Hermione Gingold - Actor (parents married by British Chief Rabbi)
Herschel Bernardi - Actor
Herschel Savage - Actor (porn star)
Hillel Slovak - Musician (late guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Horst Buchholst - Actor (one of the Magnificent Seven).
Howard Ashman - Lyricist (Little Shop of Horrors, Disney animated features)
Howard Kaylan - Musician (Co-founder The Turtles)
Howard Stern - Radio Personality
Howie Mandel - Comedian
Howie Morris - Comedian (Your Show of Shows)
Hy Berkawitz - Owner (Rogers Deptartment Store in Grand Rapids, MI)
Ian Ziering - Actor
Iggy Pop - Musician
Ira Gershwin - Lyricist
Irving Berlin - Composer (God Bless America, White Christmas)
Irving Layton - Poet (Canadian)
Irwin Chusid - Writer/Record Producer/Radio Personality
Isaac Asimov - Writer
Isaac Babel - Writer
Isaac Deutscher - Writer (biography of "Stalin")
Isaac Mizrachi - Fashion Designer
Isaac Stern - Violinist
Israel Horowitz - Playwright
Itzhak Perlman - Violinist
Ivan Reitman - Director (Meatballs)
J.D. Salinger - Writer (Catcher in the Rye)
J.Geils Band - Musicians (all members Blankish except for J. Geils)
Jack Benny - Comedian (Real name Benjamin Kubelsky)
Jack Carter - Comedian
Jack Gilford - Comedian/Actor
Jack Klugman - Actor (Oscar from The Odd Couple)
Jack Rosenthal - Playwrite
Jack Spector - Disc Jockey
Jackie Kallen - Manager (James Toney)
Jackie Mason - Comedian and Ordained Rabbi
Jackie Vernon- Comedian
Jackie Zeman - Actor (General Hospital)
Jacob Freedman - Disc Jockey (WBZC's Sunday Morning Klezmer)
Jaime Alissa Yoss - Gymnast Extrordinaire, Indy Racer
Jakob Dylan - Lead Singer (The Wallflowers, son of Bob Dylan)
James Caan - Actor (Misery, Rollerball)
James L. Brooks - Producer
James Levine - Conductor
James spader - Actor
Jamie Gertz - Actor
Jamie Lee Curtis - Actor (Father is Blankish)
Jamie Luner - Actor (Savannah)
Jan Murray - Comedian
Jan Peerce - Singer (operatic tenor, real name Pinchus Perlmutter)
Jane kaczmarek - Actor
Jane Seymour - Actor (father is Blankish)
Jane Wiedland - Member of the Go-Gos
Janet Leigh - Actor (Psycho, Bye Bye Birdie, mother of Jamie Lee Curtis)
Jascha Brodsky - First Violinist (Curtis String Quartet)
Jason Alexander - Actor (George Castanza on 'Seinfeld')
Jason Bateman - Actor
Jason Hervey - Actor (co-star The Wonder Years)
Jason Marsden - Actor
Jay Black - Jay And The Americans
Jay Diamond - Radio Talk Show Host (used to be on WABC)
Jean Claude Van Damme - Actor (Mother is Blankish)
Jean Jacques Goldman - Musician/Singer (french)
Jean-Luc Godard - Filmmaker
Jeannie Becker - Fashion Television
Jeannie Berlin - Actor
Jean-Pierre Barda - Actor
Jeff Beck - Guitarist
Jeff Beck - Musician
Jeff Chandler - Actor
Jeff Goldblum - Actor
Jeff Goldman - Actor
Jeff Hanneman - Musician (Slayer)
Jeffrey Archer - Writer
Jeffrey Katzenberg - Studio Executive
Jeffrey Meyer - Yankee Hero
Jello Biafra (Singer of American HC punk band Dead Kennedys)
Jenna Jameson - Actor (porn star, mother teresa protege, wife of SQS)
Jenna Leigh Green - Actor (Sabrina on The Teenage Witch)
Jenna Von Oy - Actor (Six on Blossom)
Jennifer Doctorovich - Actor (theatrical, Houston, Texas)
Jennifer Grey - Actor (Dirty Dancing)
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Actor
Jennifer Rubin - Actor (Screamers)
Jeremy Isaacs - Director (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
Jeremy Priven - Actor (Ellen)
Jerome Kern - Composer
Jerome Robbins - Choreographer/Director
Jerry Bock - Composer (Fiddler On The Roof, She Loves Me)
Jerry Herman - Composer (Hello Dolly)
Jerry Lewis - Comedian/Actor/Director
Jerry Ohrbach - Actor
Jerry Seinfeld - Actor/Comedian
Jerry Springer - Talk Show Host
Jerry Stiller - Actor (Mr. Costanza and Ben's dad)
Jerry Walker - Disc Jockey (ABC Radio Network)
Jerzy Kosinski - Novelist
Jessica Hecht - Actor (Single Guy)
Jessica Lundy - Actor (Hope and Gloria)
Jessica Savitch - NBC News' Former Golden Girl
Jessica Tandy - Actor (Driving Miss Daisy)
Jessica Walter - Actor
Jill Clayburgh - Actor (An Unmarried Woman, Silver Streak)
Jim Bleyer - Writer
Jim Bradley - Dog Trainer
Jim Rome - Sports Talk Show Host
Jim Shapiro - Musician (Veruca Salt)
Jim Steinman - Composer (Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion)
Jo Amar - Singer (Morocco)
Joan Collins - Actor
Joan Lunden - Actor (real last name Blunden)
Joan Micklin Silver - Director/Writer (Hester Street, Crossing Delancey)
Joan Rivers - Actor/Comedian/Writer/Jeweler
Joanna Gleason - Actor (daughter of Monty Hall)
Joanna Going - Actor
Joe Belgrade - Actor (stage and screen)
Joe Besser - Actor (one of the three stooges for a while)
Joe Cocker - Singer (Israeli/German)
Joe DeCarlo - Comedian
Joe Dytko - Founder of the Turrles
Joe Elliot- Lead Singer (Def Leppard)
Joe T. Turri - Music Producer
Joel Coen - Producer/Director/Writer
Joel Grey - Actor (Broadway, Emcee, Cabaret)
Joel Siegel - Film Critic (ABC Network)
Joel Silver - Producer (Die Hard I,II,III)
Joely Fisher - Actor (Ellen, half-sister of Carrie)
Joey Bishop - Comedian
Joey Ramone - Lead Singer (The Ramones)
Joey Slotnick - Actor
Johhny Rivers - Musician
John Banner - Actor (Schultz from Hogan's Heroes)
John Forsythe - Actor (John Freund)
John Garfield - Actor
John Leguizamo - Actor/Comedian
John Rubinstein - Actor (Family, son of Artur)
John Steinbeck - Writer
John Stossel - TV Personality (20/20)
John Taylor - Musician (Bass Player of Duran Duran)
Jon Cryer - Actor (Pretty in Pink, The Famous Teddy Z)
Jon Lovitz - Actor/Comedian (Saturday Night Live, The Critic)
Jon Stewart - Comedian
Jonathan Brandis - Actor
Jonathan kellerman - Writer (best selling Writer)
Jonathan Larson - Composer (Rent)
Jonathan Miller - Opera Director (British)
Jonathan Mostow - Writer/Director
Jonathan Silverman - Actor
Jonathan Taylor Thomas - Home Improvement (real name Jonathan Weiss)
Jonathon Lipnicki - Child Actor (Jerry Maguire)
Jonathon wolfe - Musician
Jonny Clegg - Musician (South African Jaluka and Savuka)
Jose Lewgoy - Actor (Brazilian, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Josef Schmidt - Opera Singer
Josef Szigeti - Violinist
Josef Von Sternberg - Actor/Director
Joseph Brodsky - Writer (Nobel Prize for Literature)
Joseph Gordon - Actor (Levitt on 3rd Rock From The Sun)
Joseph Papp - Theatre
Josh Mostel - Actor (son of Zero Mostel)
Josh Niehaus - Musician/Entertainer
Josh Server - Actor (All That)
Josh Silver - Musician (keyboard goth metal band)
Joshua Bell - Musician (concert violinist)
Joshua Redman - Musician (saxaphonist, Blankish mother)
Judd Hirsh - Actor (Taxi)
Judd Nelson - Actor (Suddenly Susan, The Breakfast Club)
Judy Blume - Writer (children's material)
Judy Cavitez - Actor
Judy Holliday - Actor
Judy Kuhn - Actor (Broadway, Voice of Pocahontes)
Judy Landers - Actor
Juice Newton - Singer (Country/Pop, Queen of Hearts, real last name: Cohen)
Jule Styne - Composer (Gypsy)
Jules Dassin - Director
Julia Louis - Actor
Julianna Margulies - Actor (ER)
Julie Kavner - Actor (voice of Marge Simpson)
Julius Lester - Writer/Professor
June Allyson Ella Geisman - Actor
Justine Bateman - Actor
Justine Frischmann - Singer (lead of UK band Elastica)
Kari Wuhrer-Salin - Hostes (MTV, B actor)
Karl Haas-pianist - Conductor, host of Adventures in Music)
Kate Capshaw - Actor
Katey segal - Actor/Singer
Kathie Lee Gifford - Talk Show Hostess (father was Blankish Epstien)
Kathy Levine - QVC Hostess
Katrina Neville - Singer (soprano, star of Penn State Opera Theatre)
Keith Moon - Musician (The Who)
Ken Berry - Actor (Mayberry R.F.D., F Troop)
Ken olin - Actor (Thirtysomething)
Ken Wahl - Actor
Kenny G - Musician
Kent Brockman - TV Anchor (The Simpsons Kenny Brockelstein)
Kerry King - Musician (Slayer)
Kevin Cronin - Musician (REO Speedwagon)
Kevin Haskin - Musician (Bauhaus, British Goth Band)
Kevin Kline - Actor (A Fish Called Wanda)
Kevin Pollack - Actor
Kim Greist - Actor (Chicago Hope, Homeward Bound)
Kim Iglinski - Model (Israeli)
Kim Zimmer - Actor (Guiding Light)
King Diamond - Singer
Kinky Friedman - Singer (country) Wiriter (mystery)
Kirk Douglas - Actor
Kirka Babitzin - Finnish Singer
Kitty Carlisle - Panelist (What's My Line, real last name: Conn)
Kurt Weil - Composer (Three Penny Opera)
Kyra Sedgwick - Actor (Phenom, Miss Rose White, mother is Blankish)
Lacey Chabert - Actor (Party of Five)
Larisa Oleynik - Actor (Secret World of Alex Mack)
Larry Adler - Musician (harmonica)
Larry David - Writer/Producer
Larry Fine - Actor (one of the Three Stooges)
Larry Floyd Matthews - Musician (country singer, accordian)
Larry Gelbart - Producer (M.A.S.H.)
Larry King - Radio Personality/Talk Show Host (CNN)
Larry Kramer - Playwrite (The Normal Heart, The Destiny of Me)
Larry Storch - Actor (F Troop)
Laura Bertam - Actor (Ready or Not)
Laura Nyro - Singer
Lauren Bacall - Actor
Laurence Tolhurst - Musician (original drummer of The Cure)
Laurin Sydney - Showbiz Today CNN
Lawrence Harvey - Actor (born Skikne)
Leah Remini - Actor (sitcom Fired Up)
Lee Cobb - Actor
Lee Grant - Actor/Director
Lee Konitz - Musician (jazz, saxophone)
Lee Strasberg - Actor/Acting Teacher (Founder Method Acting)
Lee Zurik - Anchor (CBS Sports)
Leiber and Stoller - Composers/Producers/Writers (Hound Dog, Stand By Me)
Lena Brenner - Writer
Lenny Bruce - Comedian
Lenny Kravitz - Musician (singer, guitarist)
Leo Genn - Actor (Quo Vadis)
Leo Gorcey - Actor
Leo Rosten - Writer (Joys of Yiddish)
Leon Askin - Actor/Director (General Burkhalter in Hogan's Heroes)
Leonard Bernstein - Composer/Conductor (West Side Story)
Leonard Nimoy - Actor (Spock in Star Trek)
Leonard Warren - Opera Singer
Leonid Kogan - Musician (violinist)
Leslie Ann Warren - Actor
Leslie Gore - Singer
Leslie Howard - Actor (Gone With The Wind)
Leslie Nielsen - Actor (Airplane, Mr. Magoo)
Leslie Stahl - Sixty Minutes
Lilli Palmer - Actor
Linda (Epstein) Eastman - (Eastman Kodak Company, Paul MaCartney's wife)
Linda Lavin - Actor (TV Show Alice)
Linda Rondstat - Singer (Blankish Grandparents)
Lindsey Crouse - Actor (Daniel)
Lisa Bonet - Actor (ex-wife of Lenny Kravitz)
Lisa Edelstein - Actor (Relativity)
Lisa Kudrow - Actor (Star Friends)
Lisa Loeb - Singer (Nine Stories)
Liv Tyler - Actor (Daughter of Steven Tyler)
Liz Sheridan - Actor (plays Jerry's mom on Seinfeld)
Lloyd Bochner - Actor (Canadian Shakespearean, Naked Gun)
Lorenzo Lamas - Actor (Blankish Mom)
Lori Beth Denberg - Actor (All That)
Lorne Green - Actor (Bonnaza)
Lorne Michaels - T.V. Producer (created Saturday Night Live)
Lorraine Bracco - Actor (Goodfellas)
Lorraine Newman - Actor (Saturday Night Live)
Lou Reed - Musician
Louie Nye - Comedian (Neistat)
Louis B. Mayer - Founder Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Louise Lasser - Mary Hartman
Louise Rainer - Actor
Louise Wener - Musician (Frontwoman Britpop band Sleeper)
Luciano Costa Martins - Musician (Brazilian, father indian/Blankish)
Lyle Waggoner - Comedian/Actor (co-star of The Carol Burnett Show)
Lynn Samuels - Radio Talk Show Host (WABC radio)
M.C. Escher - Graphic Artist
Madeline Kahn - Actor (Clue, Nixon)
Maeve kinkead - Actor (Guiding Light)
Malcolm Gets - Actor (Richard on Caroline in the City)
Malcolm McLaren - Manager/Impresario (The Sex Pistols)
Mandy Patinkin - Actor (Chicago Hope)
Manfred Mann - Musician
Mara Wilson - Actor (child actor in Mrs. Doubtfire)
Marc Bolan - Musician
Marc Chagall - Painter/Visual Artist
Marcel Marceau - Mime (French)
Marcel Proust - Writer
Marianne Faithful - Singer (girlfriend of Mick Jagger)
Marie Rappold - Opera Singer
Marilyn Bergman - Songwriter
Marilyn Manson - Actro (real name is Warner)
Marilyn Michaels - Impressionist
Marion Ross - Actor (Brooklyn Bridge, Happy Days)
Mark Banks - Comedian (South African)
Mark Feuerstein - Actor (Fired Up)
Mark Frankel - Actor
Mark Knopfler - Musician (Dire Straits lead vocal and guitarist)
Mark Moses - Actor
Mark Reizen - Musician (Great Russian bass voice Russia ever produced)
Mark Rothko - Painter (Abstract Expressionist)
Mark Volman - Co-founder of the Turtles
Mark Walberg - Game Show Host (The Big Date)
Marla Sokoloff - Actor
Marlee Matlin - Actor (Picket Fences)
Martin Gore - Songwriter (Depeche Mode)
Martin Landau - Actor
Martin Mull - Comedy
Martin Sheen - Actor
Marty Balin - Singer (Jefferson Airplane)
Marty Feldman - Actor/Comedian
Marvin Hamlisch - Composer (A Chorus Line)
Mary Livingstone - Comedian
Matityahu Glazerson - Writer/Composer
Matt Fraiberg - owner Guardian Alarm
Matt Groening - Creator of the Simpsons
Matt Lauer - NBC Today Show
Matthew Bratter - Musician (Daisy's Red Gravy Train)
Matthew Broderick - Actor (Mother is Blankish)
Matthew Kuchta - Actor (porn star)
Maureen Lipman - Actor.
Maurice Schwartz - Actor (major figure in Yiddish Theatre)
Maurice Sklar - Musician (violinist, plays for Benny Hinn)
Maury Chaykin - Actor
Maury Povich - Talk Show Host
Maury Yeston - Composer (Nine, Phantom and Titanic)
Max Aranoff - Musician (violist of the Curtis String Quartet)
Max Felix - Actor/Radio Personality
Max Fleischer - Producer (animation Betty Boop, Popeye)
Max Miller - Comedian (English music hall)
Max Weinberg - Musician (drummer for Bruce Springstein, Conan O'Brien)
Max Youngstein - Producer, Studio Executive
Maxim Gorgi - Writer (Russian)
Maya Plisetskaya - Balet Dancer (Russian)
Mel Blanc - Voice-over Artist (many cartoons)
Mel Brooks - Actor/Director/Comedian/Writer
Mel Brooks - Actor/Director/Producer
Mel Tilles - Singer (Country and Western)
Mel Torme - Singer/Actor/Songwriter (The Christmas Song)
Melanie Chartoff - Actor
Melanie mayron - Actor (Thirtysomething)
Melissa Gilbert - Actor
Melissa Manchester - Singer/Songwriter/Actor
Melissa Rosenberg - Host E! Entertaiment (Joan Rivers' daughter)
Melvyn Douglas - Actor
Menahem Golan - Producer/Director (Co-Founder of Cannon Films)
Mendel Feibush - Actor (Yiddish character actor)
Meredith Bishop - Actor (Secret World Of Alex Mack)
Mia Kirschner - Actor (Exotica)
Michael Bolton - Singer
Michael Buchmann Silver - Actor (DA on NYPD Blue)
Michael Douglas - Actor (Kirk Douglas's son)
Michael Fishman - Actor (Roseanne)
Michael Gelman - Producer (Regis and Kathie Lee)
Michael Gross - Actor (Family ties)
Michael Jackson - Talk Radio Host (ABC)
Michael Kinsley - Syndicated Columnist
Michael Krugman - Author (Generation Ecch)
Michael Landon - Actor (Little House On The Prairie, real name: Eugene Orowitz)
Michael Lembeck - Actor/Director
Michael Nyman - Composer (The Piano)
Michael Ovitz - Superagent (Founder CAA, Studio Executive at Disney)
Michael Rappaport - Actor
Michael Richards - Actor (Seinfeld)
Michael Roll - Musician (British pianist)
Michael Stoyanov - Actor (played Tony Ruso on Blossom)
Michael T. Weiss - Actor (The Pretender)
Michael Tilson Thomas - Conductor (Grandfather Yiddish Actor Boris Tomashevski)
Michael Tucker - Actor (LA Law)
Michael Wolf - Musician
Michael Zaslow - Actor (Roger Thorpe on The Guiding Light)
Michel Berger - Musician (French Composer and Singer)
Michel Boujenah - Actor (French)
Michele Landsberg - Writer (Newspaper columnist, Blankish Womens' activist)
Michelle Lee - Actor (Knots Landing)
Michelle Tractenberg - Actor (Harriet, The Spy)
Mick Green - Musician (Rock guitarist with the Pirates)
Mick Jones - Musician (Clash/B.A.D., Mother is Blankish)
Mickey Cohen - Gangster
Mickey Hart - Musician (Drummer for Grateful Dead, also Mystery Box)
Mike Bloomfield - Musician (Blues Guitarist)
Mike Diamond - (Mike D.) band member of Beastie Boys
Mike Gordan - Musician (Bass for Phish)
Mike Nichols - Director (The Graduate, Catch, The Birdcage)
Mike Ogulnick - Anchor (one on one sports radio network)
Mike Stern - Jazz Guitarist
Mike Wallace - TV Journalist (60 Minutes)
Mili Avital - Actor (Stargate)
Milton Berle - Comedian
Minelli, Liza - Singer/Actor
Mircea Crisan - Entertainer (Romanian)
Mischa Elman - Violinist
Missy Yager - Actro (Anne Frank on Broadway play)
Mitterrandestein - Actor (French)
Mitul Patel - Actor (Blankish/Indian)
Mitzi Gaynor - Actor/Dancer/Singer
Moe Howard - Actor (one of The Three Stooges)
Moe Kauffman - Musician (Canadian jazz)
Moira Shearer - Actor (now deceased)
Molly Picon - Actor
Molly Ringwald - Actor (Brat Pack)
Monty Hall - Game Show Host
Mordechai Richler - Writer (Montreal)
Morley Safer - Television Journalist (60 Minutes)
Morris Carnovsky - Actor
Mort Sahl - Comedian
Moshe Weinberg (Vainberg) - Composer (Russian, contemporary of Shostakovitch)
Mr. G - Weatherman (WPIX New York)
Mr. Rogers - Actor/Producer (PBS)
Murray Kaufman - Disk Jockey (Murray The K, The Fifth Beatle)
Naom Chomsky - Philosopher (American)
Naomi Shemer - Composer (Yerushalayim shel zahav)
Natalie Portman - Actor
Natalio Finkelstein - Musician (violinist tango orchestras, Argentina)
Natanya Ross - Actor (Secret World Of Alex Mack)
Natasha Lyonne - Actor
Nathanael West - Writer (real name Nathan Weinstein, The Day of the Locust)
Neil Diamond - Musician/Singer/Actor
Neil Gaiman - Author (Sandman, Neverwhere)
Neil Sedaka - Singer
Neil Simon - Broadway Playwright
Nelly Sachs - Poet (Noble prize in literature)
Neriah Davis - Actor (porn star)
Neuwirth, Bebe - Actor (Lilith on Cheers)
Nichols and May - Comedians
Nina Gordon - Musician
Nina Rodzynek - Musician
Noah Wyle - Actor (ER)
Nora Ephron - Writer/Director
Norm Crosby - Standup Comic
Norman Corwin - Writer/Producer/Director (American radio drama)
Norman Greenbaum - Musician (Spirit in the Sky)
Norman Lear - Producer/Writer (All In The Family)
Ofra Haza - Musician (Israeli Singer)
Olivia Newton John - Actro/Singer (Australian Pop Singer)
Omri Katz - Actor
Ophelie Winter - Actor/Singer
Oscar Hammerstein - Composer (Broadway musicals, deceased)
Oscar Levant - Musician (pianist)
Otto Klemperer - Orchestral Conductor
Pamela Anderson - Model/Actor (Playboy, born Joan Goldstein)
Pat Benatar - Singer
Pat Nash - Singer (real name Jacob Goldberg)
Patricia Richardson - Actor (Home Improvement)
Patricia Wettig - Actor (Thirtysomething)
Patrick Bruel - Singer (French)
Paul Auster - Poet/Writer
Paul Cohen - Musician (Quebec guitarist)
Paul Haggis - TV Producer/Writer
Paul Kossoff - Musician (guitarist)
Paul Mazursky - Director
Paul McKellar - Lecturer/Nazi Hunter (Holocaust events)
Paul Michael Glazer - Actor/Director (Starsky and Hutch)
Paul Muni - Actor (Louis Pasteur, realname Muni Weisenfreund)
Paul Newman - Actor (Buch Cassedy and the Sundance Kid)
Paul Reiser - Actor (Mad About You)
Paul Rubin - Comedian
Paul Shaffer - Conductor (CBS Orchestra The Late Show)
Paul Simon - Musician
Paul Stanley - Musiccian (singer/guitarist in Kiss, real name Stanley Eisen)
Paul Whiteman - Conductor (Early big jazz band)
Paula Abdul - Singer (Mother is French canadian Blank)
Paula Prentiss - Actor
Paula Zahn - Broadcast Journalist (CBS)
Paulette Goddard - Actor
Pauly Shore - Actor
Pee Wee Herman - Actor (Paul Rubens)
Peggy Lipton - Actor (Mod Squad)
Perry Farrel - Musician (Bernstein, Porno for Pyros)
Peter Bogdanovich - Director
Peter Falk - Actor (Columbo)
Peter Green - Musician (Blues guitarist, founder of Fleetwood Mac)
Peter Himmelman - Musician (and son-in-law to B. Dylan)
Peter Lorre - Actor (Ladislav Loewenstein)
Peter Mark Richman - Actor/Writer/Artist
Peter Riegert - Actor, Crossing Delancey
Peter Schaffer - Playwright
Peter Sellers - Actor/Comedian
Peter Strauss - Actor (Rich Man, Poor Man)
Peter Ustinov - Actor
Peter Wolf - Musician
Phil Glasser- Actor- An American Tail (Fievel)
Phil Ochs - Singer
Phil Spector - Record Producer (The Wall of Sound)
Philip Glass - Composer
Philip Roth - Author
Phoebe Cates - Actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, real last name: Katz)
Phoebe Snow - Singer
Phyllis Newman - Actor
Pierre Monteux - Orchestral Conductor
Pinchas Zuckerman - Violinist
Pinky Lee(Pincas Levy) - Entertainer (Children)
Pittsburgh Pete - Radio Actor
Polly Bergen - Actor
Polly Draper - Actor (Thirtysomething)
Primo Levi - Writer (Holocaust Survivor)
Rachel Lipman - Writer (Rugrats,Hey Arnold)
Rachel Miner - Actor (Guiding Light)
Rachel Rosenthal - Actor
Raffi - Entertainer (Childrens)
Rain Pryor - Actor (daughter of Richard Pryor, mom Blankish)
Ralph Bakshi - Cartoon Director (Fritz the Cat, Cool World)
Ralph Lauren - Designer
Ramblin' Jack Elliot - Musician (folk singer, guitarist)
Randy 'Macho Man' Savage - Pro Wrestler
Randy Newman - Composer/(Toy Story)
Randy Spelling - Actor (son of Aaron Spelling, brother of Tori Spelling)
Randy West - Actor (porno star)
Raphael Smith - Composer/Scriptwriter (Search for Bokkie Rosenthal)
Rebecca Goldstein - Writer
Red Aaron Buttons - Comedian
Red Skelton - Comedian/ TV Host
Rena Sofer - Actor
Renee Taylor - Actor (The Nanny)
Reudor - Cartoonist/Writer
Rhea Perlman - Actor
Ricardo Cortez - Actor (born Jacob Krantz)
Richard Avedon - Photographer
Richard Belzer - Comedy
Richard Benjamin - Actor/Director
Richard Beymer - Actor (West Side Story)
Richard Dix - Actor (twenties and thirties)
Richard Dreyfus - Actor
Richard Dreyfuss - Actor
Richard Kaufman - Disc Jockey (Ricky The K)
Richard Kind - Actor (Mad About You, Spin City)
Richard Kline - Actor (Three's Company)
Richard Lewis - Comedian
Richard marx Singer/Musician
Richard masur - Actor
Richard Rogers - Composer
Richard Salwitz - Musician (aka Magic Dick, J Geils)
Richard Simmons - Health Guru
Richard Starkey - Musician (Ringo Starr, drummer of Beatles)
Richard Tucker - Singer (hazzan and operatic tenor)
Richartd Belzer-Actor/Comedian
Rick Moranis - Actor
Rick Rubin - Record Producer (Def jam co-founder)
Ricki Lake - Talk Show Hostess
Ringo Starr - Musician (drummer for The Beatles)
Rita Hayworth - Actor (real name Rita Cansino)
Rita Rudner - Commedienne
Rita Shane - Singer (Norman Mittelmann, Met opera)
Ritz Brothers - Comedians
Rob Cohen - Director (Horror Films)
Rob Morrow - Actor
Rob Reiner - Comedian/Director
Rob schneider - Actor/Comedian
Robbie Kreieger - Musician (Doors guitarist)
Robbie Robertson - Singer (The Band)
Robby Benson Robert Segal- Actor/Director
Robert Clary - Actor (LeBeau from Hogan's Heroes)
Robert Crumb - Cartoonist (s/s cultural)
Robert DeNiro - Actor [Blankish Mother]
Robert Downey, Jr. - Actor
Robert Goulet - Singer (real name: Robert Applebaum)
Robert Lansing - Actor
Robert Merrill - Opera Singer
Robert Redford - Actor (Describes himself as 'half Blankish')
Robert Rietti - British Actor
Roberta Peters - Opera Singer
Roberta Peters - Singer Metropolitan Opera
Robin Williams - Actor (Said he was Blankish on "Oprah")
Rod Serling - Twilight Zone Creator Blankish?
Rod Steiger - Actor
Rod Steiger - Actor (Oscar Winner) Blankish?
Rodd Keith - Pote/Composer (real name Rod Eskelin)
Rodney Dangerfield - Comedian/Actor (real name Jack Cohen)
Roger Hannin - Actor
Roman Polanski - Director
Ron Jeremy - Actor (porn star)
Ron Leavitt - Producer (Married With Children)
Ron rifkin - Actor
Ron Silver - Actor/Director
Rona Barret - Gossip Columist (Bernstein)
Ronald Harwood - Playwrite (Born in South Africa as Horwitz)
Ronn Owens - Talk Show Host (San Francisco/Los Angeles)
Ronnie Scott - Musician (British jazz saxophonist, founder Ronnie Scott's Club)
Rosa Raisa - Opera Singer
Roseanne Barr - Comedian
Ross Gelman - Actor/Comedian
Ross Martin - Actor (The Wild, Wild West, real name Martin Rosenblatt)
Rowan Atkinson - Comedian (Mr. Bean, Voice of Zazu in Lion King)
Roxanne Hart - Actor (Chicago Hope)
Roy Lichtenstein - Painter
Ruby Wax - Comedienne.
S. J. Perelman - Writer (Marx' Comedies, Monkey Business)
Salim Hallali - Singer
Sally field - Actor
Sally Jessy Raphael - Talk Show Hostess (real last name: Lowenthal)
Sally Kellerman - Actor (M.A.S.H.)
Sam Jaffe - Actor (Ben Casey)
Sam Levene - Actor
Sam Levinson - Humorist
Sammy Davis, Jr. - Singer/Actor/Dancer (deceased)
Samuel Goldwyn - Producer/Director/Studio Executive (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Samy Elmaghribi - Singer (Morocco)
Sandra Bernhard - Comedian/Actor
Sandra Bullock - Actor
Sandy Becker - TV Host (Children shows)
Sara Gilbert - Actor
Sara Silverman - Commedienne
Sarah Bernhardt - Actor
Sarah Jessica Parker - Actor
Sarah Michelle Geller - Actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV)
Sasha Mitchell - Actor (Step by Step, Kickboxer )
Saul Bellow - Novelist
Saul rubinek - Actor
Saul Zaentz - Producer (One flew over..., Amadeus, The English Patient)
Scarlett Levine - Actor
Scott Simon - Broadcast Journalist (NPR's Saturday Weekend Edition)
Selma Diamond - Actor (Night Court)
Serge Gainsbourg - Comoser/Singer
Serge Koussevitzky - Conductor
Shalom Aleichem - Writer
Shalom Secunda - Composer
Shari Lewis - Children's Entertainer
Shaun Weiss - Actor (Heavyweights, Mighty Ducks)
Shawn Michaels - Pro Wrestler
Shecky Greene - Comedian
Shel Silverstein Children's Writer
Sheldon Harnick - Lyricist (Fiddler On the Roof, She Loves Me plus more)
Sheldon Leonard - Actor/Producer
Shelley Berman - Comedian
Shelley Winters Shirley Schrift - Actor
Shemp Howard (Horowitz) - Actor (one of The Three Stooges)
Sherwood Schwartz - Producer (Gilligan's Island)
Shimi Tavori - Singer/Performer
Shiraz - Israeli Supermodel
Shlomo Mintz - Violinist
Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Writer (Nobel Prize Winner)
Sid Caesar - Comedian
Sidney Lumet - Director
Sidney Sheldon - Writer
Silvio Santos - Humorist
Simone Signoret - Actor (Diabolique)
Siouxie Sioux - Singer (British punk/goth band Siouxie & Banshees)
Sir Gorge Solti - Conductor (opera)
Sissy Spacek - Actor
Slash - Guitarist (Guns and Roses, Saul Hudson)
Sonia Benezra - Talk Show Host (Montreal)
Sonny Fox - Producer/Host (children's TV)
Sophie Marceau - Actor (Braveheart, daughter of Marcel)
Sophie Tucker Abuza - Actor
Soupy Sales - Comedian
Stacy Earl- Singer
Stan Getz - Jazz Saxophonist
Stanley Drucker - Musician (clarinetist, NY Philharmonic Orchestra)
Stanley Kubrick - Director (Clockwork Orange, The Shining)
Stepfanie Kramer - Actor
Stephanie Powers - Actor
Stephen Evans - Writer/Director/Actor
Stephen Perkins - Drummer (Jane's Addiction)
Stephen Schwartz - Lyricist/Composer
Stephen Sondheim - Broadway Lyricist/Composer
Steve Goodman - Singer
Steve Guttenberg - Actor
Steve Lawrence - Singer (real name Sidney Liebowitz)
Steve Page - Singer (Barenaked Ladies, also my cousin)
Steve Reich - Composer (minimalist music)
Steven Adler - Drummer (ex for Guns n Roses)
Steven Bochco - Producer (NYPD Blue, L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues)
Steven Lovy - Writer/Director (Circuitry Man)
Steven P. Greenberg - Composer/Songwriter (Funkytown)
Steven Seagal - Actor (Under Siege)
Steven Spielberg - Director/Producer
Steven Tyler - Singer (Aerosmith lead singer)
Steven Weber - Actor (wings)
Stuart Pankin - Host (HBO)
Stuart Whitman - Actor
Studio Executives - See http://www.homevideo.net/FIRM/control.htm
Sue Mengers - Superagent (ICM)
Super Dave Osborne - Comedian (real name: Bob Einstein)
Susan Cabot - Actor
Susan St. James - Actor
Susan Strasberg - Actor (daughter of Lee Strasberg)
Susanna Hoffs - Singer (Bangles)
Suzanne Pleshette - Actor (Co-star of The Bob Newhart Show)
Suzy Mamann Greenberg - Producer (Seinfeld, other NBC shows)
Swoozie Kurtz - Actor (Sisters)
Sydney Pollack - Director/Producer
Sydney Rome - Actor
Sylvia sydney - Actor
Taylor Dayne - Singer
Ted Koppel - TV Newscaster (ABC Niteline)
Telly Savalas - Actor
The Greaseman - Radio Jock (Doug Tracht)
The King Ad Rock - Musician (Adam Horovitz, rap musician, Beastie Boys)
Theda Bara - Silent Actor (original 'vamp')
Theodore Bikel - Actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
Thomas Shlamme - Director
Tim Burton - Director
Tina Louise - Actor (Gilligan's 'Ginger' - origin of the Hebrew word 'Jinji')
Todd Suchman - Drummer
Tom Arnold - Actor
Tom Bosley - Actor (Mr. C. on Happy Days)
Tony Curtis - Actor (real name Bernard Schwartz)
Tony Gordon - Manager (UK punk band Sham 69)
Tony Kushner- Playwright (Angels in America)
Tony Martin - Singer
Tony Randall Actor (real name is Leonard Rosenberg)
Tori Spelling - Actor (Donna in Beverly Hills)
Totie Fields - Comedienne
Tracy Pollan - Actor (wife of Michael J. Fox)
Tristan Tzara - Poet (real name Sami Rosenstein, Dadaist Movement)
Uri Geller - Magician/Spoon-bender
Vic Morrow - Actor
Vic Tayback - Actro (Alice)
Victor Borge - Comedian
Victor Borge - Pianist/Humorist (Borge Rosenbaum)
Viola Spolins - Inventor (theater games)
Vladimir Horowitz - Pianist
Wallace Shawn - Actor (Princess Bride, Toy Story, Clueless)
Walter Lippman - Journalist (founded the New Republic)
Walter Mathau - Actor/Comedian
Walter Matthau - Comedian/Actor
Walter Mosley - Writer (mother is Blankish)
Walter Yetnikoff - Manager (Michael Jackson ex-manager)
Warren Mitchell - Actor
Wayne and Shuster - Comedians
Wendy Liebman - Commedienne
Wendy Mallick - Actor (sitcoms)
Werner Klemperer - Actor (Klink on Hogan's Heroes, son of Otto K.)
Will Self - Writer (British)
William Daniels - Actor (St. Elswhere)
William Finn - Composer (Falsettos)
William Goldman - Writer (The Princess Bride)
William Shatner - Actor (Star Trek's Captain 'James T. Kirk')
Winona Ryder - Actor
Wolf Blitzer - Journalist (CNN)
Woody Allen - Comedian/Actor/Director/Producer (real name: Allan Konigsberg)
Woody Strode - Actor
Yaakov Agam - Painter/Sculptor
Yaasha Heifitz - Violinist
Yaki Margulies - Artist
Yaphet Kotto - Actor
Yaphet kotto - Actor (capt. g on Homicide)
Yascha Heifetz - Violinist
Yasha Heifetz - Violinist
Yasmine Bleeth - Actor (father Blankish)
Yehudi Menuhin - Violonist
Yul Brynner - Actor
Yuri Rasovsky - Dramatist (Peabody Award-winning).
Yves Montand - Singer (real name Ivo Livi)
Zachary Hines - Actor (son of Gregory Hines)
Zeppo Marx - Comedian (Marx Brothers)
Zero Mostel, Actor/Comedian/Painter
Zohra Lampert - Actor
Zuehra Elfassia - Famous Singer (Morocco)
*This list is based on published source material (see bibliography) and believed to be accurate. However if you note any inaccuracies, please inform us as soon as possible with the correction and your source. Thank you.
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