List of Sephardic Jews

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The following is a list of Sephardic Jews. See also List of Iberian Jews.

A list of notable Jews of Sephardic ancestry:

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See also

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  • David Serero, Opera singer and Actor. Sephardi descendant from Morocco.
  • Peter Sellers, Comedian and Actor. Knight of the Realm. Born Richard Henry Sellers.

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Footnotes

  1. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. Lee, Felicia. “Facing Down His Color as a Path to Privilege,” The New York Times (5 May 1999), pp. E1, 10; reprinted as “A Writer Confronts His Color as A Path to Privilege,” in The International Herald Tribune (6 May 1999)
  3. Obituary, Jewish Chronicle Dec 10, 1982 p.12
  4. "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
  5. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "he was of Portuguese Jewish descent"
  6. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only son of David Guedalla, an almond broker in Mincing Lane, who came from a Spanish-Jewish family ... He was buried in Golders Green Jewish cemetery"
  7. Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born into old, established Jewish family"
  8. Isabel Violante Pereira, "De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I," Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2001. Notice that Inês Pires is only presently presented as a conversa, and that for centuries there was no known doubt regarding her non-Jewish Portuguese ethnicity (which, of course could have been hidden for religious and political reasons, her being the mother of Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza).
  9. Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290
  10. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "The Mocatta family were Jews driven from the Iberian peninsula in 1492"