Famous Members of the LOEB Family Tree

Biblical Figures

• Adam and Eve
• Noah
• The Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
• Moses and Aaron
• King David, King Solomon, ...
• High Priest Mattathias and the Maccabbees
• King Zedekiah, last King of Judah
• Zerubabel

Famous Rabbis

• Rabbi Solomon Ben Isaac, Rashi
• Rabbi Akiva the Kohen and Rabbi Beinish the Kohen
• Hillel, Schimeon Hanassi, Raban Gamliel, and Rabbi Jochanan Hasandlar
• Bustanai
• Rabbi Hai Gaon
• Rabbi Samuel Ha-Nagid
• Jair Chayim BACHRACH, Chavas Yoir
• Rabbi Abraham BERDUGO
• Rabbi Joshua BERDUGO
• Rabbi Salomon BERDUGO
• Rabbi Raphael BERDUGO, the Angel
• Rabbi Mordecai BERDUGO
• Rabbi Yekoutiel Haim BERDUGO
• Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah Edeles, the MaHaRSHA
• Rabbi Akiba EGER (1761-1837), descendant of Maharal
• Rabbi David HASSINE (1730-1790), poet
• Rabbi Moshe Shmuel GLASNER (av beit din Klausenberg), the Dor Revi'i
• Rabbi Ezekiel LANDAU (1713-1793), descendant of Maharal
• Rabbi Judah LOEW, the Maharal of Prague
• Rabbi Leopold LOEW (1811-1875) [reformed] and his son Immanuel LOEW (1854-1954), descendant of Maharal
• Rabbi David MESSAS, Chief Rabbi of Paris, son of Grand Rabbi Shalom MESSAS, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.
• Rabbi Menachem Mendel SCHNEERSON (1902-1994), descendant of Maharal along with the other Lubavitcher Rabbis.
• Menahem Mendel SCHNEURSOHN, the Tsemah Tzedek  
• Rabbi Moses SCHREIBER, also known as the Chatam Sofer.
• Rabbi Selig STARR
• Rabbi Matityahu TREVES
• Rabbi Schneur ZALMAN

Scientists

• Saul ADELMAN, astronomer
• Isaac BORROSH, mathematician
• Dr. Andrew DANNENBERG, director of Strang Cancer Prevention Center, professor of medicine at New York Hospital, and his brother Dr. Alexander DANNENBERG, physicist
• Max Wilhelm DEHN, mathematician, inventor of modern topology
• Albert EINSTEIN, physicist
• Gustav Georg EMBDEN, biochemist
• Edmund LANDAU (1877-1938), mathematician, and his father Leopold LANDAU (1848-1921), pioneer in gynecology
• Daniel E. LOEB, mathematician :-)
• Jacques LOEB, biologist
• J. Robert OPPENHEIMER, physicist
• Salomon Aminyu ROSENBLUM, physicist.
• Norton STARR, mathematician
• Theodore VON KARMAN

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• Victor ADLER, founder of Austrian Social Democrat Party, his son Friedrich ADLER, secretary of socialist international
• Shlomo (Serge) BERDUGO, Moroccan cabinet member
• Yehudah BLUM, Israeli ambassador to UN
• Jerome BONAPARTE, brother of Napoleon BONAPARTE
• Samuel COHEN-SCALI, Royal Jeweler
• Joseph de Cadoine Marquis de Gabriac, French ambassador
• General Ludwig Baron von GABLENZ
• Senator John F. KERRY
• Michael HAINISCH, first President of Austria (1920-1928)
• John LOEB, US Ambassador to Denmark
• Meir MACNIN, Moroccan ambassador
• Karl MARX, communist.
• Samuel OPPENHEIMER, court Jew
• Maitre Salomon SEBBAG, Moroccan senator
• Uri SEBBAG, General Secretary of the Labor Party (Histadrut)
• Zalman SHAZAR, Israel's third president
• Daniel TOLEDANO, Hayyim TOLEDANO and Joseph TOLEDANO, counselors to Moroccan King Moulay Isma'il
• Jacob Moses TOLEDANO (1880-1960) [Minister of Religious Affairs in the Ben Gurion government]
• Max VON GOMPERZ, industrialist, financier and politician
• Grand Duke of Lichtenstein

• Isaac ASIMOV, said to be related to Alter Rebbe (First) of Lubavitch by marriage
• Lilly BRAUN and Otto BRAUN, writers
• Anne FRANK, author of The Diary of a Young Girl
• Gyorgy KOZMA, writer and cartoonist
• John O'BEIRNE-RANELAGH, author, producer
• George OPPEN, poet
• Leopold (Leo) PERUTZ, writer, philosopher and mathematician.
• Joseph SCHNEIDER-FRANKEN, aka. Bo Yin Ra, author

• Guenther ANDERS, philosopher, descendant of Maharal
• Darren ARONOFSKY, film producer
• Raphael BERDUGO, film producer
• Susanne BIER, Danish film producer
• Martin BUBER, philosopher, descendant of Maharal
• Raymond William Benjamin EGER and his son Julien Jean-Claude EGER, French film producers.
• Leo FALL, composer, Richard FALL composer, and Moritz FALL, conductor
• Viktor FRANKL, philosopher, descendant of Maharal
• Eduard GANS, lawyer, descendant of Maharal
• Ralph LAUREN, fashion designer
• Lotte LEHMAN, opera singer
• Yehuda MENUCHIN, violinist
• Ernst OPPLER (1867-1929), Painter and Engraver.
• Simon Wolf OPPENHEIMER, banker
• Dame Luice RIE, potter
• Gabriel RIESSER, descendant of Maharal
• ROTHSCHILD family, bankers
• Erik Oluf Preben SCHMIDT, world champion sailor
• Joseph SEBBAG-MONTEFIORE and his uncle Sir Moses MONTEFIORE
• Bill STARR, baseball player and owner.
• Barbara STREISAND, actress
• Rachel WEISZ, actress

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