Famous Jews Interactive

Jewish Military Professionals, Partisans and Police

[244] Sir John Monash -- Commanded Australian troops in France during WW1
[311] Two-Gun Cohen -- an infallible mover and a shaker in Chinese history (b. 1887)
[106] Wesley Clark -- fmr. NATO Allied Commander in Europe
[81] Leonard Keysor -- Australian Victoria Cross winner
[117] Yoni Netanyahu -- Commando of Operation Thunderbolt, aka the raid on Entebbe. He was killed in action.
[68] Frank De Pass -- The first Jew to be awarded Britain's Victoria Cross
[66] Issy Smith -- This British infantryman won the Victoria Cross in WW1
[62] Ariel Sharon -- Prime Minister of Israel, Defense Minister
[56] Ben Dunkelman -- A highly decorated Canadian veteran who lead Israel's 7th Brigade during the War of Independence
[90] David Marcus -- Colone David Marcus, American officer who died for Jerusalem in Israel's war of independence.
[53] Moshe Dayan -- Israeli soldier and statesman, 6-Day war hero
[38] Morris Bright -- The first Jew to rise from the lower deck of the Royal Navy to senior rank.
[35] Maurice Rose -- Colorado's Fighting General: a truly brilliant American soldier
[44] Hyman Rickover -- U.S. admiral, father of the U.S. navy nuclear submarine
[39] Herschel Grynszpan -- assassin of Nazi foreign service officer Ernst vom Rath
[39] Uriah P. Levy -- Commodore of the US Navy
[35] Jeremy Boorda -- U.S. admiral, chief of naval operations
[35] Sam Dreben -- Warrior, Patriot, American Hero
[19] Abba Kovner -- Jewish partisan leader during WW2
[20] Charles Strauss -- diminutive, goateed, bespectacled, gun-wielding Jewish sheriff of Tuscon, Arizona
[25] Yosef Trumpeldor -- A military officer who together with Jabotinsky founded the Jewish legion, died heroically.
[18] Ignác Helfy -- Hungarian freedom fighter in 1848-49 liberty war, Kossuth's palatine.
[25] Alfred Dreyfus -- Captain in the French army, victim of antisemitism (1894)
[11] Ernest Frank Benjamin -- Canadian general who commanded the British Army's Jewish Brigade in WW2
[11] Thomas Gould -- Won Britain's highest award, the Victoria Cross, in World War 2
[10] Sidney Shulemson -- The most decorated Canadian Jew
[9] Emil Kleber -- Commanded the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War