Despite a continuous presence for over 2000 years, the Italian Jewish community – the Italkim – has numbered no more than 50,000 since it was fully emancipated in 1870. The following is a list of some prominent Italian Jews.

Political figures

• Fiorello La Guardia, New York mayor (Italian parents; Jewish mother)
• Anna Kuliscioff , revolutionary feminist
• Luigi Luzzatti, Italian Prime Minister (1910-1911)
• Daniele Manin, President of the Venetian republic (1848) (Jewish father)
• Margherita Sarfatti, journalist & mistress of Mussolini

Academics

• Eugenio Calabi, mathematician
• Guido Castelnuovo, mathematician
• Federigo Enriques, mathematician
• Robert Fano, information theorist
• Ugo Fano , physicist
• Guido Fubini, mathematician
• Giovanni Jona-Lasinio , physicist (Jewish father)
• Tullio Levi-Civita, mathematician
• Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)
• Cesare Lombroso, criminologist
• Salvador Luria, microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1969)
• Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, rabbi, scholar, mystic
• Franco Modigliani, economist, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Bruno Pontecorvo , physicist
• Guido Pontecorvo , geneticist
• Giulio Racah, physicist
• Bruno Rossi, astrophysicist
• Emilio Segrè, physicist, Nobel Prize (1959)
• Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, rabbi, philosopher
• Piero Sraffa, economist
• Gabriele Veneziano , physicist
• Andrew Viterbi, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
• Vito Volterra, mathematician

Musicians

• Mario Ancona, baritone
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, guitar composer
• Eydie Gorme, singer (Italian father)
• Mike Mainieri , jazz vibrophanist (Italian parents)
• Lorenzo Da Ponte, opera librettist
• Salamone Rossi, baroque composer
• Victor de Sabata , conductor (Jewish mother)

Writers

• Giorgio Bassani, author
• Natalia Ginzburg , author (Jewish father)
• Carlo Levi, writer, painter & physician
• Primo Levi, chemist and author
• Alberto Moravia, author (Jewish father)
• Umberto Saba, poet (single Jewish mother)
• Clara Sereni , writer
• Italo Svevo, author

Artists

• Amedeo Modigliani, painter and sculptor
• Frank Horvat , fashion photographer
• Moni Ovadia , theatre figure
• Gillo Pontecorvo , director
• Bruno Zevi , architect

Business

• Moses Haim Montefiore, financier & philanthropist
• Camillo Olivetti , founder of Olivetti typewriters

Other

• Edgardo Mortara, boy kidnapped by Catholic Papal authorities
• Lindsey Vuolo, model (converted Italian father)

See also

• Italkim
• History of the Jews in Italy
• List of Jews
• List of Italians