List of Scottish Jews

Academic figures and scientists

• Ruth Adler, child welfare campaigner and human rights campaigner
• Charlotte Auerbach, geneticist
• Philip Cohen, FRS FRSE researcher, academic and Royal Medal winner; based at St Andrews and Dundee
• David Daiches, writer and literary critic; father of Jenni Calder
• Jack David Dunitz, chemist
• Alfred Edersheim, Bible scholar
• Charles Frank, maker of scientific instruments
• Ralph Glasser, psychologist, economist, author of The Gorbals Trilogy
• Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg, Emeritus Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine, University of Glasgow
• Philip Hobsbaum, academic and literary critic at Glasgow University; an influence on many Scottish writers as diverse as Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington
• Peter Kravitz, editor of the compilation Contemporary Scottish Fiction; literary critic
• Stefan Reif, professor
• J. M. Robson, geneticist and physicist, lived and worked in Edinburgh
• George Sassoon, scientist, electronic engineer, linguist, translator and author; buried on Mull, where he spent much of his childhood
• Leonard Schapiro, historian
• Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, contemporary Torah scholar and author

  Arts, literature and music

• Jenni Calder, literary figure and daughter of David Daiches
• Ivor Cutler, poet, songwriter and humourist
• Hannah Frank, sculptor, studied under Benno Schotz
• Muriel Gray, author, The Tube presenter
• Jeremy Isaacs, broadcaster
• Mark Knopfler, co-founder, lead vocalist, and lead guitarist for the band Dire Straits
• Macdonald brothers, grandsons of the Hungarian-born English filmmaker Emeric Pressburger
• * Andrew Macdonald, producer, Trainspotting
• * Kevin Macdonald, director, Touching the Void
• Isi Metzstein, modernist architect
• Saul Metzstein, director of Late Night Shopping
• Rebecca Pidgeon, actress, singer and songwriter, grew up in Edinburgh
• Hugo Rifkind, journalist
• Shulman brothers, rock musicians, born in Glasgow
• * Derek Shulman, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter
• * Phil Shulman, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter
• * Ray Shulman, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter
• Howie B, DJ, musician and producer
• J. David Simons, author
• Edith Simon, artist
• Muriel Spark, writer, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Scottie Wilson, artist and designer, born in Glasgow
• Eric Woolfson, musician and composer, founding member of The Alan Parsons Project

  Politicians

• Myer Galpern, Labour MP
• Malcolm Rifkind, Conservative MP
• Manny Shinwell, Labour MP

  Athletes

• Gary Jacobs, Scottish, British, Commonwealth, and European boxing champion welterweight

  Business and the professions

• Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, first female Court of Session judge
• Esta Henry, art and antiques dealer in the 20th century
• Sir Isaac Wolfson, businessman and philanthropist

  Religious and communal leaders

• Rabbi Salis Daiches, father of David Daiches
• Rabbi Cyril Harris, Chief Rabbi of South Africa
• Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman
• Rabbi Yaakov Benzion Mendelson
• Rabbi Nancy Morris, first female rabbi in Scotland
• Rabbi Louis Isaac Rabinowitz
• Rabbi Naftoli Shapiro

  Show business

• Ronni Ancona, comedian
• Arnold Brown, comedian
• Jerry Sadowitz, comedian

  People of Scottish-Jewish heritage / Jews of Scottish extraction

• Simon Cowell, British presenter of The X Factor
• David Duchovny, American actor, X-Files
• Isla Fisher, Australian actress, born to Scottish parents, converted to Judaism upon marriage to Sacha Baron Cohen; has described herself as "quite observant"
• Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist, librettist, and theatrical producer
• Norman Swan, born in Scotland and emigrated to Australia in adulthood, a qualified paediatrician who is known for his work as a science and medical broadcaster on the ABC
• Ivanka Trump, daughter of 45th President Donald Trump; who is ethnically part Scottish, but converted to Judaism as an adult when she married Jared Kushner in 2009, describes her conversion as "such a personal thing"
• Zarif, singer