List of Caribbean Jews

Antigua and Barbuda

• Jamaica Kincaid, writer

  Aruba

• Henny Eman, Prime Minister
• Mike Eman, Prime Minister

  Cuba

• Ruth Behar, writer
• José Antonio Bowen, jazz musician and president of Goucher College
• Fabio Grobart, Communist Party co-founder
• Olga Guillot, singer
• José Miller, leader of the Cuban Jewish community
• Meyer Rosenbaum, Rabbi and spiritual leader
• William Levy, actor

  Curaçao

• George Maduro
• Daniel De Leon, socialist leader

  Dominican Republic

• Oscar Haza, journalist
• Dominican President Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal
• Pedro Henríquez Ureña, academic and writer

  French Guiana

Guyana

• Janet Jagan, née Rosenberg, president

  Haiti

• Eric André, actor, comedian, and television host
• Gilbert Bigio, businessman billionaire of Syrian descent and Israeli honorary consul in Haiti
• Luis de Torres, one of the first Jews to settle on Haiti, and also Christopher Columbus's interpreter
• Monique Péan, fine jewelry designer
• Sol Alexander Rosenberg, a musician of Russian descent known as Sol

  Jamaica

• Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records
• Isaac Mendes Belisario, artist
• Lewis Gordon, philosopher
• Sean Paul, singer
• Frank Silvera, actor, founder of Theatre of Being
• Louis Simpson, poet

  Martinique

Puerto Rico

• Alegría Hudes, Quiara – author, playwright. Wrote the book for Broadway's musical In the Heights. Her play, Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007.
• Sandy Alomar, Sr. father was Jewish but an agnostic who allowed his children to be brought up as a Catholic
• Anderson, Axel – actor/director, Anderson made his debut in Puerto Rican television with a sitcom named Qué Pareja a local version of I Love Lucy.
• Blaine, David – magician, Blaine is also an endurance artist and Guinness Book of Records world record-holder.
• Brugman, Mathias – was a leader in Puerto Rico's independence revolution against Spain known as El Grito de Lares.
• Kaplan, Julio – Puerto Rican chess player and former world junior champion.
• Katz Montiel, Marco – composer for Zoey's Zoo and trombonist with Charlie Palmieri and Mon Rivera.
• Leavitt, Raphy – composer, director and founder of "La Selecta"
• Lehman, Manny – DJ and producer.
• Levy, Hila – U.S. Air Force, in 2007 she became the first Puerto Rican Rhodes Scholar.
• Meyers, Ari – actress, Best known for her role as Emma Jane McArdle in the Kate & Allie TV series.
• Ostow, Micol – author of "Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa" and "Mind Your Manners, Dick and Jane".
• Phoenix, Joaquin – actor, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Gladiator in 2000 and in 2005, he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, and won a Golden Globe in the same category in 2006 for his role as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line.
• Rivera, Geraldo – journalist
• Sally Jessy Raphael - syndicated talk show host
• Seijo, Jorge – Puerto Rican radio and television personality
• Starr, Brenda K. – salsa singer, her seventh album, Atrevete a Olvidarme, titled, "Tu Eres" earned her a nomination by the Billboard Latin Music Awards in 2006.
• Snyder, Aaron Cecil – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
• Tassler, Nina – President of CBS Entertainment.
• Ticotin, Rachel – actress, starred in Critical Condition, Where the Day Takes You Falling Down Total Recall and in Con Air, where she earned an ALMA Award for her role as prison guard Sally Bishop.
• Ticotin, Sahaj – vocalist/guitarist from the Rock band Ra.

  Suriname

• Edgar Davids, footballer
• Jacques Judah Lyons, rabbi
• Pim de la Parra, film maker

  Trinidad and Tobago

US Virgin Islands

• Gabriel Milan Governor of the Danish West Indies
• Judah Benjamin, US & Confederate politician
• Ralph Moses Paiewonsky Businessman, Politician and Governor
• Camille Pissarro, artist
• David Levy Yulee, US politician