List of Jews in religion

This is a list of notable Jews in religion.

Biblical figures

 * See: List of Jewish Biblical figures.

High Priests

 * See: List of High Priests of Israel.

Rabbis

 * See: List of rabbis.

Rosh yeshivas

 * See: List of rosh yeshivas.

Karaite Jewish Hakhamim

 * See: List of Karaite Jews.

Scholars

 * Felix Adler
 * Hugo Bergmann (born in Prague)
 * Max Bodenheimer
 * David Cassel
 * Ismar Elbogen
 * Emil Ludwig Fackenheim
 * Jonas Fränkel
 * Heinrich Graetz, Jewish historian (born in Posen)
 * Manuel Joël, Jewish philosopher
 * Isaak Markus Jost, Jewish historian
 * Marcus Kalisch, Biblical scholar
 * Jakob Klatzkin
 * Israel Lewy
 * Moses Mendelssohn, Jewish Enlightenment philosopher
 * David Rosin
 * Gershom Scholem, Jewish scholar and historian
 * Ernst Simon
 * Friedrich Weinreb (born in Lemberg)
 * Benedict Zuckermann
 * Leopold Zunz, Jewish scholar

Other

 * Ayya Khema, Buddhist teacher (born Jewish)
 * Adolf Lasson
 * Georg Lasson
 * Johannes Pfefferkorn, antisemitic controversialist (born Jewish)
 * Friedrich Adolf Philippi
 * Johann Peter Spaeth (Moses Germanus Ashkenazi), a Christian German Proselyte
 * Edith Stein, canonized nun, Holocaust victim (born Jewish)

Hungary

 * Joseph Breuer
 * Henrik Bródy
 * J. H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
 * Abraham Hochmuth
 * Sanz-Klausenberger rebbe from Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
 * Ludwig Lichtenstein
 * Yosef Greenwald, Puppa rebbe
 * Sándor Scheiber, rabbi and director of the Budapest Rabbinical Seminary
 * Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy, rabbi and first Jewish professor in Cambridge
 * Isaac Tyrnau
 * Joachim Jacob Unger
 * Wahrmann family
 * Michoel Ber Weissmandl
 * Béla Wenckheim

Other religious leaders

 * Selig Brodetsky, President of the British Board of Deputies
 * Barnett Janner, President of the British Board of Deputies
 * Greville Janner, President of the British Board of Deputies
 * Ewen Montagu, President of the United Synagogue
 * Claude Montefiore, co-founder of British Liberal Judaism
 * Anthony Rothschild, first president of the United Synagogue

Rebbetzins

 * Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, Hungarian born founder of Hineni
 * Chaya Mushka Schneerson, rebbetzin of Chabad

Other religious leaders (including Jews associated with religions outside of Judaism)

 * Apostles, the "Twelve Apostles", first followers of Jesus
 * Ram Dass, modern American Hindu author
 * Jacob Frank, self-proclaimed messiah in Poland, founder of Frankists
 * Maurice Frydman Polish Jew who lived in India and was involved in translating Nisargadatta's "I am That." Was close to Gandhi and Nehru
 * Jesus, the central figure of Christianity
 * John the Baptist, revered by Christians
 * Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Cardinal (raised Catholic)
 * John Joseph O'Connor
 * Saint Peter, considered the first Pope
 * Saul of Tarsus, early Christian leader
 * Edith Stein, Catholic nun, Holocaust victim
 * St. Teresa of Avila, Catholic saint (parents were Conversos)