List of South-East European Jews

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Kalmi Baruh, writer and philosopher
• Emerik Blum, businessman, founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo
• Ivan Ceresnjes, architect-researcher, former president of the Jewish community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and vice-chairman of the Yugoslav Federation of Jewish Communities from 1992-1996
• Oskar Danon, composer and conductor
• David Elazar, Israeli general and Chief of Staff of Israel Defense Forces
• Jakob Finci, politician, ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Switzerland
• Daniel Kabiljo, painter
• Daniel Ozmo, painter
• Isaac Pardo, rabbi of Sarajevo
• Robert Rothbart, basketball player
• Isak Samokovlija, writer

  Bulgaria

• Albert Aftalion, Bulgarian-born French economist
• Binyamin Arditi
• Aron Aronov, tenor
• Mira Aroyo, member of the band Ladytron
• Gabi Ashkenazi
• Michael Bar-Zohar
• Maxim Behar, president of M3 Communications Group
• Shimon Bejarano
• Alexander Bozhkov, vice-premier
• Elias Canetti, author and Nobel Prize Winner
• Carl Djerassi
• Itzhak & Samuel Fintzi, dramatists
• Pini Gershon
• Moshe Gueron
• Shlomo Kalo
• Nikolay Kaufman, musicologist and composer
• Yehezkel Lazarov
• Moshe Leon
• Etien Levi, singer
• Sabin Levi
• Milcho Leviev, jazz composer
• Raphael Mechoulam
• Moni Moshonov
• Ya'akov Nitzani
• Ya'akov Nehushtan
• Jules Pascin, artist
• Isaac Passy, philosopher
• Solomon Passy, foreign minister, son of Isaac Passy
• David Peretz :ja:ダヴィド・ペレツ|
• Valeri Petrov
• Georgi Pirinski, Jr.
• David Primo
• Sarah-Theodora
• Victor Shem-Tov
• Molly Sidi, former NBC producer, journalist
• Maxim Staviski
• Angel Wagenstein, author & screenwriter
• Alexis Weissenberg, pianist
• Jaime Yankelevich
• Emanuel Zisman

  Croatia

• Viktor Axmann, architect
• Slavko Brill, sculptor and ceramics artist
• Julio Deutsch, architect
• Hugo Ehrlich, architect
• Ignjat Fischer, architect
• Josip Frank, Croatian politician
• Stjepan Gomboš, architect
• Branko Grünbaum, mathematician
• Leo Hönigsberg, architect
• Slobodan Lang, physician, politician, humanitarian
• Rikard Lang, prominent Croatian university professor, lawyer and economist, UN's expert
• Branko Lustig, film producer and winner of two Academy Awards
• Slavko Löwy, architect
• Rudolf Lubinski, architect
• Blessed Ivan Merz, beatified in 2003
• Oscar Nemon, sculpture
• Ivo Stern, founder of the "Zagreb Radiostation"
• Vladimir Šterk, architect
• Karlo Weissmann, physician and founder of the first sanatorium in Osijek
• Dragutin Wolf, industrialist, founder of the food company Koestlin in Bjelovar

  Cyprus

• Aristobulus of Britannia
• Barnabas
• Mike Brant, French-based singer
• Epiphanius of Salamis
• * John the Merciful
• Arie Zeev Raskin, rabbi

  Greece

• Sid Ganis
• Hank Azaria
• Anna Rezan

  Montenegro

• Jelena Đurović, writer, politician and journalist

  North Macedonia

• Haim Estreya Ovadya, Yugoslav partisan

  Serbia

• David Albahari, writer
• David Albala, military officer, physician, diplomat, and Jewish community leader
• Oskar Danon, composer
• Oskar Davičo, poet
• Filip David, playwright and columnist
• Predrag Ejdus, actor
• Vanja Ejdus, actress
• Rahela Ferari, actress
• Ivan Ivanji, writer
• Enriko Josif, composer
• Danilo Kiš, writer
• Marko Kon, pop singer
• Shaul Ladany, Holocaust survivor, racewalker and two-time Olympian
• Tommy Lapid, former Israeli politician of Hungarian descent, born in Novi Sad
• Paulina Lebl-Albala, feminist, translator, literary critic, literature theoretician, and professor of literature in Belgrade
• Sonja Licht, political activist
• Izidor Papo, cardiac surgeon, general-colonel of the Yugoslav Army medical unit
• Moša Pijade, politician, painter, art critic and publicist
• Eva Ras, actress
• Seka Sablić, actress
• Erich Šlomović, art collector
• Aleksandar Tišma, writer

  Slovenia

• Katja Boh, politician
• Berta Bojetu, author
• Israel Isserlin, Medieval rabbi
• Lev Kreft, sociologist and politician
• Dušan Šarotar, author and editor

  Turkey