List of Hebrew-language poets

List of Hebrew language poets (year links are to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article):

Biblical

 * Moses
 * King David
 * King Solomon
 * Jeremiah

Early Middle Ages

 * Eleazar ha-Kalir
 * Jose b. Jose
 * Yannai

Golden Age in Spain

 * Joseph ibn Abitur
 * Abraham Abulafia
 * Meir Halevi Abulafia
 * Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia
 * Samuel he-Hasid
 * Todros Abulafia
 * Yehuda Alharizi (1190-1240)
 * Judah Ben Samuel Halevi (born c. 1086)
 * Dunash ben Labrat (10th century)
 * Santob De Carrion (late 14th century), also a proverb writer
 * Abraham ibn Ezra, also known as Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1088-1167), known mainly for Biblical commentaries and grammar works
 * Moses ibn Ezra (1070-1139)
 * Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058)
 * Isaac ibn Ghiyyat
 * Solomon ibn Zakbel (
 * Yehuda Halevi
 * Joseph Kimhi (1105-1170), born in Spain, he fled to Narbonne, Provence, where he became known as a grammarian, exegete, poet, and translator.
 * Shmuel haNagid, also known as Samuel ibn Naghrela or Samuel Ha-Naggid (992-1055)
 * Menahem ibn Saruq
 * Joseph ben Jacob ibn Zaddik (died 1149)

Medieval Germany

 * Baruch of Worms (early 13th century), liturgical poet and commentator
 * Meir ben Baruch, known as Ma'aram of Rothenburg (1215-1293), a Talmudist, Tosafist and liturgical poet
 * Judah Halevi (born c. 1086)
 * Judah he-Hasid
 * Eleazer ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms (1176-1238), a Talmudist, Cabalist, moralist, scientist and poet

Medieval France

 * David Hakohen (late 13th century), composer of piyyutim from Avignon
 * Isaac Gorni (late 13th century), troubadour from Aire-sur-l'Adour
 * Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (1270-1340), poet, philosopher and physician born in Béziers
 * Joseph ben Isaac Bekor Shor (12th century), Tosafist, exegete and poet from Orléans

Safed Cabalists

 * Solomon Alkabetz (16th century)
 * Israel ben Moses Najara (c. 1555-c. 1625)

Italian Renaissance

 * Deborah Ascarelli (17th century)
 * Immanuel Frances
 * Immanuel the Roman also known as Immanuel ben Solomon and Immanuel of Rome (1270-1330), a satirical poet and scholar
 * Daniel ben Judah (late 14th century), liturgical poet
 * Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, also known as Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (1707-1747)
 * Judah Leone Modena, also known as: Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena (1571-1648), a rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and poet
 * Sara Copia Sullam (died 1641)

North Africa and Yemen

 * Shalom Shabazi
 * David Buzaglo

Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah)

 * Isaac Erter (1792-1851) satirist and poet
 * Judah Leib Gordon (1831-1892), also known as "Judah Löb ben Asher Gordon" or "Leon Gordon"
 * Abraham Baer Gottlober (1811-1899)
 * Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn (1789-1878)
 * Micah Joseph Lebensohn (1828-1852)
 * Meir Halevi Letteris (1800-1871)
 * Isaac Baer Levinsohn (1788-1860)
 * Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865)
 * Rahel Luzzatto Morpurgo (1790-1871)
 * Süsskind Raschkow
 * Constantin Shapiro (1841-1900)
 * Hermann Wassertrilling
 * Naphtali Hirz Wessely (1725-1805)

A

 * Shimon Adaf (born 1972), Israeli poet and author
 * Shmuel Yosef Agnon
 * Ada Aharoni
 * Lea Aini
 * Nathan Alterman, also known as Natan Alterman (1910-1970), Israeli journalist, translator and popular poet
 * Ronen Altman Kaydar (born 1972)
 * Yehudah Amichai (1924-2000), Israeli poet and one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew
 * Aharon Amir
 * Aharon Appelfeld
 * Roy Arad
 * Dan Armon
 * David Avidan (1934–1995), Israeli poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist and playwright

B

 * Simon Bacher
 * Yocheved Bat-Miriam (1901–1979), German-born Israeli
 * Menahem Ben (Braun)
 * Itamar Ben Canaan
 * Yakir Ben Moshe
 * Avraham Ben-Yitzhak
 * Reuven Ben-Yosef
 * Fania Bergstein
 * Haim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934)
 * Ya'qub Bilbul
 * Erez Biton

C

 * Ya'akov Cahan (1881-1960)
 * T. Carmi
 * Miriam Chalfi (writing as Miriam Barukh)
 * Rahel Chalfi
 * Sami Shalom Chetrit
 * Amichai Chasson

D

 * Menahem Mendel Dolitzki (1858-1931)

E

 * Dror Elimelech
 * Israel Eliraz

F

 * Jacob Fichman (1881-1958) a critic, essayist and poet
 * Ezra Fleischer
 * Simeon Samuel Frug (1860-1922), wrote in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew

G

 * Yehonatan Geffen
 * Mordechai Geldman
 * Amir Gilboa
 * Simon Ginzburg (1890-1944)
 * Haim Gouri
 * Leah Goldberg (1911-1970), born in Lithuania, immigrated to Israel
 * Uri Zvi Greenberg (Tur Malka)

H

 * Simon Halkin
 * Avigdor Hameiri (1886-1970), born in Carpato-Russ and immigrated to Israel in 1921; also a novelist
 * Hedva Harekhavi
 * Shulamith Hareven
 * Paul Hartal
 * Galit Hasan-Rokem
 * Roy Hasan
 * Haim Hazaz
 * Haim Hefer
 * Dalia Hertz
 * Amira Hess
 * Ayin Hillel
 * Yair Hurvitz

I

 * Naphtali Herz Imber (1856-1909), the author of Hatikvah ("The Hope"), called "the Jewish national hymn"

K

 * Yehudit Kafri
 * Ben Kalman, see Abraham Reisen
 * Itzhak Katzenelson (anglicized: Isaac Katzenelson; 1886-1944), murdered in Auschwitz
 * Admiel Kosman
 * Abba Kovner

L

 * Yitzhak Lamdan (1899-1954)
 * Yitzhak Laor (born 1948) Israeli poet, author, and journalist
 * Haim Lensky, also known as "Hayyim Lensky" (1905–1942 or 1943), Russian poet who wrote in Hebrew; imprisoned in Soviet labor camps after 1934, where he wrote most of his verse
 * Giora Leshem
 * Hezi Leskali
 * Hanoch Levin
 * Judah Lob Levin (1845-1925)
 * Ephraim Lisitzky (1885-1962)

M

 * Meir Leibush Malbim (1809-1879), notable Russian Bible commentator who wrote some poetry in Hebrew
 * Salomon Mandelkern (1846-1902), Ukrainian poet and scholar; author of the Hebrew concordance, Hekal Hakodesh
 * Mordecai Zvi Mane (1859-1886)
 * Reda Mansour
 * Salman Masalha
 * Margalit Matitiahu
 * Rivka Miriam
 * Agi Mishol (born 1947), Hungarian-born Israeli poet

N

 * Vaan Nguyen
 * Tal Nitzán

O

 * Amir Or
 * Ofra Offer Oren

P

 * Dan Pagis
 * Alexander Penn
 * Isaac Loeb Peretz (1851-1915), wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish
 * Israel Pinkas
 * Anda Pinkerfeld Amir
 * Elisha Porat
 * Daniel Preil (1911- )
 * Gabriel Preil

R

 * Rachel (Hebrew: רחל) in English, sometimes transcribed as "Ra'hel" or "Rahel", also known as "Rachel the poetess" (Hebrew: רחל המשוררת), pen name of Rachel Bluwstein Sela (1890–1931), poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909
 * Yonatan Ratosh
 * Dahlia Ravikovitch
 * Janice Rebibo
 * Abraham Regelson
 * Abraham Reisen (1870-1953), Russian native who immigrated to the United States; prolific poet and prose writer; pen name: Ben Kalman
 * Tuvya Ruebner

S

 * Rami Saari
 * Yossi Sarid
 * Zalman Shneur (1887-1959), novelist and poet
 * A. A. Schwartz (1846-1931)
 * Amir Segal
 * Aharon Shabtai
 * Yaakov Shabtai
 * Amnon Shamossh
 * Zalman Shazar
 * Naomi Shemer
 * David Shimonowitz, also known as "David Shimoni" (1886-1956)
 * Abraham Shlonsky
 * Simha Siani
 * Tal Slutzker
 * Ronny Someck
 * Jacob Steinberg (1887-1948)

T

 * Shaul Tchernichovsky, also known as Saul Tchernihowsky* (1875-1943)
 * Yoram Taharlev, (1938-present)

V

 * David Vogel

W

 * Yona Wallach
 * Meir Wieseltier

Y

 * Zvi Yair
 * Miriam Yalan-Shteklis
 * Avoth Yeshurun
 * Natan Yonatan

Z

 * Nathan Zach
 * Nurit Zarchi
 * Zelda
 * Eliezer Zvi Zweifel, also a Russian scholar, commentator and defender of Hassidism
 * Stephan Zweig, (1836-1913), wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish
 * Eliakum Zunser, (1881-1942), born in Vienna; also a biographer and dramatist