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Vadim Alexeev was viewed 35614 times.

• 1.Vadim Alexeev is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vadim Alexeev , Kazakhstan born Israeli April 21, 1970) is a retired world-class Soviet/Israeli Olympic breaststroke swimmer

Vadim Gutzeit was viewed 35441 times.

• 2.Vadim Gutzeit is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vadim Gutzeit , Ukrainian fencer (saber), Olympic champion At the 2001 Maccabiah Games, Gutzeit, who is Jewish, won the silver medal in the individual sabre, losing the gold medal match to Olympian Sergey Sharikov of Russia

Vadim Milov was viewed 35501 times.

• 3.Vadim Milov is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vadim Milov , Russian born Israeli Swiss grandmaster, 2683 Help:Categories" title="Help:Categories">Categories: 1972 birthsLiving peopleRussian JewsSwiss JewsIsraeli JewsChess grandmastersChess Olympiad competitorsRussian chess playersIsraeli chess playersSwiss chess playersJewish chess playersRussian chess biography stubsEuropean chess biography stubsSwiss sportspeople stubsAsian chess biography stubsIsraeli sportspeople stubsNavigation menuPersonal tools

Valentyn Mankin was viewed 36582 times.

• 4.Valentyn Mankin is Jewish or partially Jewish.Valentyn Mankin , Soviet/Ukrainian, the only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes in 1968, 1972, and 1980, silver in 1976, Mankin is Jewish

Valery Belenky was viewed 35651 times.

• 5.Valery Belenky is Jewish or partially Jewish.Valery Belenky , Azerbaijani gymnast, Olympic champion Portal:Gymnastics" title="Portal:Gymnastics">Gymnastics portalList of select Jewish gymnastsReferences[

Vanessa Bayer was viewed 26278 times.

• 6.Vanessa Bayer is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vanessa Bayer (born November 14, 1981) is an American actress and comedienne best known as a cast member on SaturdayWhile attending college, she interned on the television shows Sesame Street and Late Night with Conan O'Brien and participated in the cast of Bloomers, an all-female musical and sketch comedy troupe.[7] Bayer is Jewish and was part of the all-Jewish cast of Second City's stage show Jewsical: The Musical, a musical that presented a comedic take on Jewish

Vanessa Carlton was viewed 34692 times.

• 7.Vanessa Carlton is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter and

Vanessa Feltz was viewed 30082 times.

• 8.Vanessa Feltz is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vanessa Jane Feltz (born 21 February 1962) is an English television personality, broadcaster and journalist. She currently presents an early morning radio show on Vanessa Feltz was born in Islington, London, and grew up in Pine Grove, Totteridge. On her radio show she frequently refers to Totteridge as "the Beverly Hills of North London", and her middle-class Jewish background as like "growing up in Fiddler on the Roof [with her] as Topol"

Vanessa Phelps was viewed 25094 times.

• 9.Vanessa Phelps is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vanessa Jane Feltz (born 21 February 1962) is an English television personality, broadcaster and journalist. She currently presents an early morning radio show on Vanessa Feltz was born in Islington, London, and grew up in Pine Grove, Totteridge. On her radio show she frequently refers to Totteridge as "the Beverly Hills of North London", and her middle-class Jewish background as like "growing up in Fiddler on the Roof"

Vasily Smyslov was viewed 35480 times.

Vera Katz was viewed 35819 times.

• 11.Vera Katz is Jewish or partially Jewish.Portland, Oregon: Vera Katz (1992–2004) Vera Katz was born on August 3, 1933 as Vera Pistrak in Düsseldorf, Germany.[1] Her parents had fled Moscow, Russia, after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, settling in Germany.[1] As Jewish Mensheviks, the family fled for France when Vera was 2 months old as Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power

Veruca Salt was viewed 35515 times.

• 12.Veruca Salt is Jewish or partially Jewish.Veruca Salt , 1990s alternative rock band with a predominantly Jewish membership that includes Nina Gordon (guitarist vocalist, songwriter) Louise Post (guitarist, vocalist, songwriter) and James Shapiro

Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor was viewed 25561 times.

• 13.Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor is Jewish or partially Jewish.Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (born September 8, 1953 in Moscow) is a prominent European public figure, philanthropist, Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (Russian: Вячеслав Моше Кантор, born on September 8, 1953 in Moscow) is a prominent European public figure, international philanthropist, entrepreneur and investorContents1 Biography2 Civic activities2

Vic Morrow was viewed 31455 times.

• 14.Vic Morrow is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vic Morrow (1929–1982), actor Morrow was born in the Bronx, (New York) to a middle class Jewish family,[1] the son of Jean (née Kress) and Harry Morrow, an electrical engineer

Vic Seixas was viewed 28377 times.

• 15.Vic Seixas is Jewish or partially Jewish.Elias Victor Seixas, Jr. (born August 30, 1923) is an American former tennisSeixas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of Portuguese Sephardi Jewish ancestry

Vic Ziegel was viewed 26848 times.

• 16.Vic Ziegel is Jewish or partially Jewish.Victor "Vic" Ziegel (August 16, 1937 – July 23, 2010) was an American sports

Victor Blank was viewed 23366 times.

• 17.Victor Blank is Jewish or partially Jewish.Sir Maurice Victor Blank, (born 9 Nov. 1942)[1] is a British businessman and philanthropist.The Jewish Chronicle

Victor Borge was viewed 31385 times.

Victor Fleming was viewed 30798 times.

• 19.Victor Fleming is Jewish or partially Jewish.Victor Fleming Oscar winning film director, cinematographer, and producer known for co directing films The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939), among many others.

Victor Garber was viewed 25420 times.

• 20.Victor Garber is Jewish or partially Jewish.Victor Joseph[citationBorn in London, Ontario, Garber is of Russian Jewish descent

Victor L Berger was viewed 30761 times.

• 21.Victor L Berger is Jewish or partially Jewish.Victor L. Berger , (Socialist WI: 1911–13, 1919, 1923–29)

Victor L. Berger was viewed 30814 times.

• 22.Victor L. Berger is Jewish or partially Jewish.Victor Luitpold Berger (1860 - 1929) was a founding member of the Socialist Party of America and an important and influential Socialist journalist who helpedVictor Berger was born to a Jewish family[1][2] in

Victor Mikhalevski was viewed 35773 times.

• 23.Victor Mikhalevski is Jewish or partially Jewish.Victor Mikhalevski , Belarusian born Israeli grandmaster Help:Categories" title="Help:Categories">Categories: 1972 birthsLiving peoplePeople from GomelBelarusian JewsBelarusian emigrants to IsraelIsraeli people of Belarusian descentIsraeli JewsChess Olympiad competitorsChess grandmastersBelarusian chess playersIsraeli chess playersJewish chess playersHidden categories: Articles containing Hebrew-language textArticles containing potentially dated statements from March 2010All articles containing potentially dated statementsBLP articles lacking sources from November 2007Use dmy dates from August 2010Navigation menuPersonal tools

Victor Perez was viewed 30988 times.

• 24.Victor Perez is Jewish or partially Jewish.Victor Perez ("Young"), Tunisian world champion flyweight boxer

Victor Vancier was viewed 22178 times.

• 25.Victor Vancier is Jewish or partially Jewish.Victor Vancier (born December 25, 1956), commonly referred to by his Hebrew name, Chaim Ben Pesach (Hebrew: חיים בןNational Chairman of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in the United States

Victor Young was viewed 19654 times.

• 26.Victor Young is Jewish or partially Jewish.Victor Young (August 8, 1900– November 10, 1956)[1]Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories: 1900 births1956 deathsPupils of Isidor PhilippDecca Records artistsAmerican violinistsAmerican film score composersJewish American composersJewish American songwritersBest Original Music Score Academy Award winnersSongwriters Hall of Fame inducteesBurials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery20th-century violinists20th-century classical musicians20th-century American musiciansHidden categories: Articles with hCardsWikipedia articles with VIAF identifiersWikipedia articles with LCCN identifiersWikipedia articles with ISNI identifiersWikipedia articles with GND identifiersWikipedia articles with BNF identifiersWikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiersNavigation menuPersonal tools

Victor Zilberman was viewed 35473 times.

• 27.Victor Zilberman is Jewish or partially Jewish.Victor Zilberman , Rumanian Olympic welterweight bronze medal winner List_of_Jews_in_sports#Boxers" title="List of Jews in sports">List of select Jewish boxersReferences[

Victoria Coren was viewed 24699 times.

Victoria Nuland was viewed 35526 times.

• 29.Victoria Nuland is Jewish or partially Jewish.Victoria Nuland , U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO (2005 2008)

Vidal Sassoon was viewed 26690 times.

• 30.Vidal Sassoon is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vidal Sassoon, CBE (17 January 1928– 9 May 2012) was a British hairdresser, credited with creating aHis parents were Sephardi Jews

Viktor Barna was viewed 35659 times.

• 31.Viktor Barna is Jewish or partially Jewish.Viktor GyÅ‘zÅ‘ Barna[1] (Braun) (August 24, 1911, in Budapest,Barna, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1981

Viktor Korchnoi was viewed 25372 times.

• 32.Viktor Korchnoi is Jewish or partially Jewish.Viktor Korchnoi , Russian born Dutch Swiss Korchnoi was born on March 23, 1931 in Leningrad, USSR, to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother

Viktor Vekselberg was viewed 22464 times.

• 33.Viktor Vekselberg is Jewish or partially Jewish.Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg (Russian: Виктор Феликсович Вексельберг, Victor Vekselberg was born in 1957 to a Ukrainian Jewish father and a Russian mother[7

Vilna Gaon was viewed 33593 times.

• 34.Vilna Gaon is Jewish or partially Jewish.He was one of the most influential Rabbinic authorities since the Middle Ages, and – although he is counted among the sages known as the Acharonim – he is held by many authorities afterWhen he reached a more mature age, Elijah decided to go into "exile" and he wandered in various parts of Europe including Poland and Germany, as was the custom of the pious of the time. By the time he was twenty years old, rabbis were submitting their most difficult halakhic problems to him. Scholars, Jewish and non-Jewish, sought his insights into mathematics and astronomy

Vincent Elbaz was viewed 24421 times.

• 35.Vincent Elbaz is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vincent Elbaz (born 3 February 1971) is a French actor. He has appeared in many French Elbaz was born in Paris, France, to a Jewish family from Morocco

Vinessa Shaw was viewed 25812 times.

• 36.Vinessa Shaw is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw (born July 19, 1976) is an American film actress and model. Shaw has starred in numerous motion pictures since the early 1990s and has had her

Vitali Golod was viewed 35598 times.

• 37.Vitali Golod is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vitali Golod , Ukrainian born Israeli grandmaster Help:Categories" title="Help:Categories">Categories: 1971 birthsLiving peopleIsraeli JewsChess grandmastersUkrainian chess playersIsraeli chess playersSoviet chess playersJewish chess playersUkrainian JewsEuropean chess biography stubsUkrainian sportspeople stubsAsian chess biography stubsIsraeli sportspeople stubsNavigation menuPersonal tools

Vitaly Chekhover was viewed 35591 times.

• 38.Vitaly Chekhover is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vitaly Chekhover , Russian Help:Categories" title="Help:Categories">Categories: 1908 births1965 deathsRussian JewsChess International MastersChess composersJewish chess playersRussian chess playersRussian chess writersSoviet chess playersSoviet chess writersChess theoreticiansJewish writersHidden categories: Articles containing Russian-language textWikipedia articles with VIAF identifiersNavigation menuPersonal tools

Vitaly Davydov was viewed 35713 times.

Vitaly Pisetsky was viewed 35113 times.

• 40.Vitaly Pisetsky is Jewish or partially Jewish.

Vito Schnabel was viewed 22740 times.

• 41.Vito Schnabel is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vito Schnabel (born July 27, 1986) is an independent curator and art dealer based in New York

Vittorio Gassman was viewed 25863 times.

• 42.Vittorio Gassman is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vittorio Gassman, Knight Grand Cross, OMRI (born Vittorio Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29He was born in Genoa to a German father, Heinrich Gassmann, and a Pisan Jewish mother, Luisa Ambron

Vivian Joseph was viewed 35915 times.

• 43.Vivian Joseph is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vivian Joseph , U.S. figure skater, U.S. Junior National Champion, U.S. Championships gold, 2 time silver, and bronze, World Championship silver, bronze List_of_Jews_in_sports#Figure_skating" title="List of Jews in sports">List of select Jewish figure skatersReferences[

Vladimir Horowitz was viewed 22996 times.

• 44.Vladimir Horowitz is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Самiйло́вич Го́ровиць, Volodymyr SamijlovichAlthough Horowitz was Jewish and Wanda Catholic, this was not an issue, as neither was observant

Vladimir Liberzon was viewed 35436 times.

• 45.Vladimir Liberzon is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vladimir Liberzon , Russian born Israeli grandmaster Help:Categories" title="Help:Categories">Categories: 1937 births1996 deathsRussian JewsSportspeople from MoscowSoviet JewsSoviet emigrants to IsraelIsraeli JewsChess grandmastersIsraeli chess playersSoviet chess playersJewish chess playersHidden categories: Articles containing Hebrew-language textArticles containing Russian-language textNavigation menuPersonal tools

Vladimir Spivakov was viewed 22470 times.

• 46.Vladimir Spivakov is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov (Russian: Владимир Теодорович Спиваков) (born September 12, 1944 in Ufa) is a leading Russian conductor and

Vladimir Vukovic was viewed 35410 times.

• 47.Vladimir Vukovic is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vladimir Vukovic , Croatian NationalityCroatVladimir Vuković (26 August 1898, Zagreb – 18 November 1975, Zagreb) was a Croatian Jewish[1][2] chess writer, theoretician, player, arbiter, and journalist

Volodymyr Zelenskyy was viewed 2209 times.

• 48.Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish or partially Jewish.Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy[a] (also romanized as Zelensky or Zelenskiy;Born to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine

Vyacheslav Ragozin was viewed 36106 times.

• 49.Vyacheslav Ragozin is Jewish or partially Jewish.Vyacheslav Ragozin , Russian grandmaster