List of Zionists

A–B

• Sarah Aaronsohn
• Abba Ahimeir, born in Russia, immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, c.1924
• Sholem Aleichem born in Russia, left for New York after witnessing the 1905 pogroms; advocated Zionism in his writings
• Shulamit Aloni, born in Poland, active in Zionist youth movement, later Israeli politician
• Chaim Arlosoroff, born in Romny, leader of the Yishuv during the British Mandate for Palestine
• David Baazov, public and religious figure involved in the Zionist movement in Georgia/Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
• Meir Bar-Ilan, born in Volozhin, rabbi and leader of Religious Zionists
• Shulamit Bat-Dori
• Menachem Begin, leader of the militant Irgun group, later prime minister of Israel
• David Ben-Gurion, born in Congress Poland, founder and first prime minister of Israel
• Mordechai Bentov
• Eliezer Ben-Yehuda born in the Vilna Governorate, Hebrew lexicographer and language revivalist
• Hugo Bergmann born in Austria-Hungary, immigrated to Palestine in 1920
• Max Bodenheimer, German-born lawyer and associate of Theodor Herzl, settled in Palestine in 1935
• Dov Ber Borochov, born in Zolotonosha, involved in founding Poale Zion party, Yiddish philogist
• Max Brod, born in Prague, settled in Palestine in 1939

  C–H

• tzahi Cohen, South African-Israeli Zionist, volunteer and missionary
• Rachel Cohen-Kagan
• Abba Eban, born in South Africa, active in the Youth movement and the World Zionist Organization, later Israeli politician
• Albert Einstein, born in the German Empire, scientist who supported the Zionist movement. Albert Einstein's political views#Zionism
• Israel Eldad, Galician-born Revisionist Zionist, follower of Ze'ev Jabotinsky
• Paul Friedmann, German philanthropist, founded the short-lived Midian colony as a safe haven for Russian Jews
• Nahum Goldmann born in Vishnevo, Russian Empire, founder and president of the World Zionist Congress
• Shulamit Goldstein
• Romana Goodman
• A. D. Gordon, Born in the Russian Empire, Labor/Practical Zionist, founded Hapoel Hatzair
• Uri Zvi Greenberg, Galician-born poet writing in Yiddish and Hebrew; Labor, later Revisionist Zionist
• Dov Gruner, Hungarian-born, active in Mandatory Palestine, member of the Irgun paramilitary group
• Ahad Ha'am, Russian Empire-born, Cultural Zionist
• Theodor Herzl, born in the Austrian Empire, founding father of modern political Zionist movement
• Arthur Hertzberg, Polish-born Rabbi, lived in the United States, scholar of Zionism
• Moses Hess, French-born philosopher, Labor Zionist

  J–R

• Zeev Jabotinsky, publicist, leader of Revisionist Zionism
• Senta Josephtal, born in Germany, joined the HaBonim movement in 1933, immigrated to Palestine in 1938, later Israeli politician
• Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, one of Zionism's earliest pioneers in Germany.
• Berl Katznelson
• Abraham Isaac Kook, pro-Zionist first pre-state Chief Rabbi
• Moshe Leib Lilienblum
• Emma Levine-Talmi
• Golda Meir
• Samuel Mohilever
• Max Nordau
• Erna Patak, Austrian social worker and women's activist
• Leon Pinsker
• Ruth Popkin, led Hadassah and the Jewish National Fund
• Haviva Reik
• Isaac Rülf
• Arthur Ruppin
• Pinhas Rutenberg

  S–Z

• Solomon Schechter, spokesman for Zionism within Conservative Judaism
• Rebecca Vera Schweitzer
• Moshe Sharett
• Abraham Stern
• Nahum Syrkin
• Hannah Szenes
• Henrietta Szold, Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
• Bernice Tannenbaum, activist with Hadassah
• Joseph Trumpeldor
• Menahem Ussishkin
• Chaim Weizmann
• Felix Weltsch
• Robert Weltsch
• Orde Wingate, non-Jewish British army officer who trained the Haganah
• L. L. Zamenhof
• Israel Zangwill
• A. L. Zissu
• Baruch Zuckerman, American-Israeli Zionist, Yad Vashem proponent