List of Jews of Sephardic ancestry:

• Maurice Abravanel, conductor
• Albert Jean Amateau, rabbi
• Hank Azaria, actor
• Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israeli diplomat
• Judah P. Benjamin, politician and lawyer
• Elias Canetti, author
• Benjamin Cardozo, United States Supreme Court justice
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
• Benjamin Disraeli, British politician
• Eydie Gorme, singer
• Lanie Kazan , singer and actress
• Emma Lazarus, poet
• Salvador Luria, Nobel Prize winner in medicine
• Moses Maimonides, physician and commentator
• Pierre Mendès-France, French politician
• Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Minister of Defence
• Rodrigues Ottolengui, writer
• Murray Perahia, American concert pianist
• David Ricardo,economist
• Neil Sedaka, singer
• Silvan Shalom, Foreign Minister of Israel
• Baruch Spinoza, philosopher