Famous Jewish People of Dnipro

Dr. Joseph Chazanovitz 1844-1919, one of the founders of the National Library in Jerusalem

Mikhail Isaakovich Sheftel 1862-1919, lawyer and member of the first Duma of the Russian Empire

Khayim Tshemerinski aka Reb Mortkhele 1862-1917, Yiddishist author and Territorialist

Abraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin 1863-1941, a prominent Zionist leader and president of the Jewish National Fund

Rabbi Shmaryahu Levin 1867-1935, Crown Rabbi of the city, a prominent Zionist, and representative in the first Duma

Rabbi Levi Yitzchack Schneerson 1878-1934, Chief Rabbi of the city. He was arrested by Stalinists in 1939.

Leah Rachel Yoffe 1883-1956, American folklorist, writer, and educator

Khane Levin 1900-1969, poet who wrote in Yiddish for adults and children

Menachem Mendel Schneerson 1902-1994, world-renowned rabbi and leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement

Fannie "Bobbie" Rosenfeld 1904-1969, the preeminent Canadian woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century

Mikhail Shapiro 1908-1971, a filmmaker in the USSR known for Slippers, Katerina Ismailova, and Kain XVIII

Boris Sagal 1923-1981, an American director of popular television shows and movies in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s

Leonid Kogan, 1924-1982, a preeminent violinist, considered to be among the finest in the 20th century

Ihor Kolomoyskyi, b. 1963, a contemporary controversial billionaire businessman-oligarch, now living in Israel