People
| Abraham, Abraham | C1799–1863 | Translator and optician, President of Liverpool Jewry’s Philanthropic Institute and Hebrew School, uncle of John Simon |
| Abraham, Joseph | C1814–1867 | Politician and communal leader, President of Bristol Hebrew Congregation (1853–4), Bristol town councilor (1861), Mayor of Bristol (1865–6) |
| Abraham, Philip | 1804–1890 | Writer and educationist |
| Abrahams [Sussman], Abraham | 1801–1880 | Hasidic shochet and scholar, first notable Polish Hasid to settle in Britain (1837) |
| Adler, Celestine (Lehfeldt) | 1821–1891 | Second wife of Nathan Marcus Adler, mother of Elkan Nathan Adler |
| Adler, Henrietta (Worms) | 1800–1853 | First wife of Nathan Marcus Adler, mother of Marcus Nathan Adler and Hermann Adler |
| Adler, Nathan Marcus | 1803–1890 | Rabbinical writer and Chief Rabbi (1845–90) |
| Aguilar, Emanuel Abraham | 1824–1904 | Composer and pianist, brother of Grace Aguilar |
| Aguilar, Emanuel | 1787–1845 | Composer, pianist, and music teacher, father of Grace Aguilar |
| Aguilar, Grace | 1816–1847 | Novelist, poet, and historian, first Jewish historian of Anglo-Jewry |
| Aguilar, Sarah (Dias Fernandes) | 1786–1854 | Founder of Mrs. and Miss Aguilar’s Preparatory Establishment for Young Gentlemen, mother of Grace Aguilar |
| Alex, Ephraim | 1800–1882 | Dentist and communal leader, founder and first president of the Jewish Board of Guardians (1859) |
| Alexander [ben Judah Loeb], Alexander | d. 1807 | Writer and printer |
| Alexander, Levy | d. C1834 | Writer and printer, son of Alexander Alexander, successor of A. Alexander’s printing firm |
| Amschejewitz, Asher | 1824–1903 | Orthodox rabbi and scholar, one of the first three scholars-in-residence at the Judith Montefiore College (1867), father of J. H. Amshewitz |
| Angel, Moses | C1819–1898 | Educator and writer, headmaster of the Jews’ Free School (1842–97), first co-editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1841–2) |
| Ansell, Moss | C1821–1872 | First Jew to hold a government office in Britain, Chief Clerk in the Court of Chancery (C1842–72), recipient of the Freedom of the City of London (1856) |
| Ascher, Benjamin | 1812–1893 | Posen-born Orthodox rabbi and translator, brother of Simon Ascher |
| Ascher, Simon | 1789–1872 | Dutch-born cantor, reader, and chazan of the Great Synagogue (1832–70) |
| Barlin, Frederick | fl. 1802–7 | Portrait painter, painted oil portrait of Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschell |
| Barned, Israel | C1775–1858 | Banker, Senior Warden of Liverpool’s Seel Street congregation (1831–9) |
| Barnett, David | C1796–1854 | Russian-born politician, elected to the Birmingham Town Council and served without swearing the Christian oaths (1838), co-founder of Birmingham’s Hebrew National School (1841) |
| Barnett, John | 1802–1890 | English composer |
| Barrow, Lousada | 1816–1877 | Army officer, second highest-ranking person of Jewish extraction to have served in the Indian administration, son of Simon Barrow |
| Barrow, Simon | C1788–1862 | First Jewish mayor in Britain, mayor of Bath (1837) |
| Basevi, Miriam [Maria] | C1774–1847 | Mother of Benjamin Disraeli, daughter of Verona-born Merchant Naphtali [Nathan] Basevi |
| Beddington [Moses], Edward Henry | C1818–1872 | Merchant, member of the Council of the United Synagogue |
| Behrend, Henry | 1828–1893 | Physician, admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons (1850), regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle, President of the Jews' Hospital (1871–93) |
| Behrens, Solomon Levi | C1787–1873 | Orthodox merchant and advocate of Jewish emancipation |
| Belasco, Abraham [Aby] | 1797–C1853 | Prominent pugilist |
| Belisario, Esther Mendes | 1773–1824 | Founded a Jewish girls’ school in Hackney (1807), mother of Miriam Mendes Belisario |
| Belisario, Miriam Mendes | 1816–1885 | Writer, teacher, and lexicographer, granddaughter of the scholar and preacher Isaac Mendes Belisario |
| Benedict, Sir Julius | 1804–1885 | Composer, conductor, writer, knighted in 1871 |
| Benisch, Abraham | 1811–1878 | Hebraist, editor, and journalist, editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1854–69, 1875–8) |
| Benjamin, David | 1815–1893 | Merchant, known as the “Father of the Bayswater Synagogue,” member of the Jewish Board of Guardians |
| Benmohel, Nathan Lazarus | C1800–1869 | Hamburg-born scholar and linguist, first professing Jew to graduate from a British university, obtained his BA (1836) and MA (1846) from Trinity College, Dublin |
| Bennett, Solomon Yom Tov | 1761–1838 | Belorussian-born writer, Hebraist, and engraver |
| Bergson, Michael Gabriel | 1820–1898 | Warsaw-born composer |
| Berkowitz, Henry | C1819–1891 | Warsaw-born orthodox minister, educationist, and politician, founded a private school (1857) and synagogue (1879) in Gravesend, Gravesend town councilor (1871), Mayor of Gravesend (1887) |
| Bischoffsheim, Henri Louis | 1829–1908 | Amsterdam-born banker and philanthropist, father of the Countess of Desart |
| Bolaffey, Hayim Vita | C1779–1835 | Teacher, writer, and Hebraist |
| Brandon, John Raphael Rodrigues | 1817–1877 | Architect and author |
| Brandon, Joshua Arthur Rodrigues | 1822–1847 | Architect and author, brother of John Raphael Rodrigues Brandon |
| Bresslau, Marcus Hyman | C1808–1864 | Prussian-born Hebraist, editor, and journalist, Baal Korah for the Western Synagogue, editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1844–8) |
| Bright, Henry | 1817–1904 | Local politician, Leamington town councilor, Mayor of Leamington (1876–82) |
| Cohen, Levi Barent | 1747–1808 | Merchant and communal leader, first president of the Jews’ Hospital, father of Judith (Cohen) Montefiore and Hannah (Cohen) Rothschild |
| Cohen, Levi Emanuel | 1796–1840 | Newspaper editor and founder of the Brighton Guardian (1827) |
| Dacre, Charlotte (King) | C1782–1825 | Poet and author of Gothic novels, daughter of John King |
| Deutsch, Emanuel | 1829–1873 | German-born writer and scholar |
| Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin | 1804–1881 | Author, statesman, and Conservative politician, served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868, 1874–80) |
| D'Israeli, Isaac | 1766–1848 | Author and father of Benjamin Disraeli |
| Edelmann, Zevi Hirsch | 1805–1858 | Russian-born Hebraist and scholar |
| Ephraim, Moses | 1745–1815 | Officiant of Plymouth Synagogue (C1780–1815) |
| Franklin, Jacob Abraham | 1809–1877 | Optician, actuary, and newspaper proprietor and editor, founder of the Voice of Jacob (1841–8) |
| Goldsmid, Abraham | C1756–1810 | Bill broker and stockbroker, son of Dutch merchant Aaron Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, Anna Maria | 1805–1889 | Writer, translator, and philanthropist, daughter of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, Asher | C1751–1822 | Bullion broker, son of Aaron Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, Augustus | 1818–1874 | Barrister, nephew of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, nephew of David Salomons |
| Goldsmid, Benjamin | C1755–1808 | Bill broker, son of Aaron Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet, Sir Francis Henry | 1808–1878 | Politician, barrister, and communal leader, Liberal MP for Reading (1860–78), first Jew to become an English barrister, son of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, Frederick David | 1812–1866 | Politician and communal leader, Liberal MP for Honiton (1865–6) |
| Goldsmid, Sir Frederic John | 1818–1908 | Author, army officer, and civil servant in India, Director General of the Indo-European Telegraph, nephew of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid [Moses], Henry Edward | 1812–1855 | East India Company official, married into the Goldsmid family |
| Goldsmid, Sir Isaac Lyon | 1778–1859 | Financier and communal leader, founding member of the West London Synagogue (C1840), son of Asher Goldsmid |
| Goldsmid, Jessie Sarah | 1816–1888 | Sister of Frederic John Goldsmid, wife of Henry Edward Goldsmid [Moses] |
| Goldsmid, Louisa Sophia | 1819–1908 | Feminist and philanthropist, niece of Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, wife of Francis Henry Goldsmid |
| Gordon, Lord George | 1751–1793 | Aristocrat and politician, converted to Judaism (1787) |
| Hartog, Marion (Moss) | 1821–1907 | Poet, author, and educator, co-founder of the first Jewish women’s periodical, the Jewish Sabbath Journal (1855), sister of Celia (Moss) Levetus |
| Henry, Emma (Lyon) | 1788–1870 | First published Anglo-Jewish woman poet |
| Hirschell, Solomon | 1762–1842 | Chief Rabbi (1802–42) |
| Hurwitz, Hyman | C1770–1844 | Posen-born biblical scholar and Hebraist, founder of the Highgate Academy, professor of Hebrew at University College London (1828–44) |
| Josephs, Michael | 1761–1849 | Businessman, Hebraist, and communal leader, born Meyer Konigsberg |
| King, John | C1753–1824 | Money broker, radical writer, born Jacob Rey, father of Charlotte (King) Dacre |
| Levetus, Celia (Moss) | 1819–1873 | Writer of Jewish historical fiction, co-founder of the first Jewish women’s periodical, the Jewish Sabbath Journal (1855), sister of Marion (Moss) Hartog |
| Levi, David | 1742–1801 | Author, translator, and printer |
| Lindo, Abigail | 1803–1848 | Lexicographer and scholar, first British Jew to compile a Hebrew-English dictionary |
| Lindo, David Abarbanel | 1772–1852 | Communal leader and scion of the Lindo family, father of Abigail Lindo, uncle of Benjamin Disraeli |
| Lindo, Elias Haim | 1783–1865 | Scholar and author, nephew of David Abarbanel Lindo |
| Lousada, Abigail | C1772–1833 | Scholar, mathematician, and translator |
| Lousada, Emanuel Baruh | 1783–1854 | West Indies merchant and developer of Sidmouth, High Sheriff of Devon (1842–3), son of Isaac Baruh Lousada |
| Lousada, Isaac Baruh | 1748–1831 | Mahamad of Bevis Marks (1778–1820) |
| Lousada, Jane (Goldsmid) | 1783–1870 | Daughter of Abraham Goldsmid, wife of Emanuel Baruh Lousada |
| Lousada, Moses Baruh | 1780–1826 | Solicitor at Austin Friars in the City of London, son of Isaac Baruh Lousada |
| Lyon, Abraham Septimus (A.S.) | 1804–1872 | Diarist and brother of Emma (Lyon) Henry |
| Lyon, Sarah (Lindo) | 1823–1906 | Diarist and wife of A.S. Lyon |
| Lyon, Solomon | 1755–1820 | Writer, scholar, and Hebraist, established Britain’s first Jewish boarding school, father of Emma (Lyon) Henry |
| Marks, David Woolf | 1811–1909 | First spiritual leader of the West London Synagogue of British Jews |
| Meldola, David | 1797–1853 | Minister of Bevis Marks (1828), first co-editor of the Jewish Chronicle (1841–2) |
| Merton, Hannah Moses (Cohen) | 1816–1898 | Diarist and homemaker |
| Mendoza, Daniel | C1765–1836 | Writer and prizefighter |
| Mocatta, Anne (Goldsmid) | 1783–1837 | Daughter of George [Gershon] Goldsmid, wife of Daniel Mocatta |
| Mocatta, Abraham | 1797–1880 | Bullion broker and stockbroker, grandson of Abraham Mocatta [Lumbrozo de Mattos] the founder of Mocatta & Goldsmid |
| Mocatta, David | 1806–1882 | Architect and first Jewish member of a profession in Britain, son of Moses Mocatta |
| Mocatta, Isaac Lindo | 1818–1879 | Author of tracts on Jewish moral teachings and social questions, son of Moses Mocatta |
| Mocatta, Moses | 1768–1857 | Bullion broker, Hebraist, and communal leader, president of the Board of Deputies (1829–35), son of Abraham Mocatta [Lumbrozo de Mattos] |
| Montefiore, Abraham Joseph Elias | 1788–1824 | Merchant and stockbroker, brother of Moses Montefiore, father of Charlotte Montefiore |
| Montefiore, Charlotte | 1818–1854 | Writer and philanthropist, founder of the Cheap Jewish Library, niece of Moses Montefiore |
| Montefiore, Joseph Elias | 1759–1804 | London merchant and father of Moses Montefiore |
| Montefiore, Lady Judith (Cohen) | 1784–1862 | Writer and philanthropist, author of the first Anglo-Jewish cookbook, wife of Moses Montefiore |
| Montefiore, Sir Moses Haim | 1784–1885 | Businessman, philanthropist, and communal leader |
| Montefiore, Rachel (Mocatta) | 1762–1844 | Mother of Moses Montefiore, daughter of Abraham Mocatta [Lumbrozo de Mattos] |
| Nathan, Isaac | 1790–1864 | Composer, musicologist, and writer |
| Newman, Selig | 1788–1871 | German-born Hebraist and writer |
| Polack, Elizabeth | fl. 1830 | First Anglo-Jewish woman dramatist, related to Solomon Polack |
| Polack, Elizabeth | fl. 1830 | Anglo-Jewish woman poet |
| Polack, Ephraim | b. C1801 | Tailor and noted hazzan, cousin of Henry Edward Goldsmid |
| Polack, Joel Samuel | 1807–1882 | Pioneer settler in New Zealand, son of Solomon Polack |
| Polack, Maria | fl. 1830 | First Anglo-Jewish woman novelist, daughter of Ephraim Polack, related to Elizabeth Polack |
| Polack, Solomon | 1745–1839 | Artist and engraver |
| Raphall, Morris Jacob | 1798–1868 | Orthodox rabbi and author, editor of the Hebrew Review and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature (1834–6), rabbi of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation (1841–9) |
| de Rothschild, 1st Baronet, Sir Anthony | 1810–1876 | Financier, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire (1861), son of Nathan Mayer and Hannah (Cohen) Rothschild |
| Rothschild, Charlotte von | 1819–1884 | German-born socialite, wife of Lionel de Rothschild |
| Rothschild, Hannah (Cohen) | 1783–1850 | Sister of Judith (Cohen) Montefiore, wife of Nathan Mayer Rothschild |
| de Rothschild, Baron Lionel Nathan | 1808–1879 | Banker, politician, and philanthropist, first Jewish MP in the House of Commons, Liberal MP for the City of London (1847–68) |
| de Rothschild, Lady Louisa (Montefiore) | 1821–1910 | Philanthropist and founding member of the Union of Jewish Women, wife of Anthony de Rothschild |
| Rothschild, Nathan Mayer | 1777–1836 | Banker, businessman, and financier, founder of the Rothschild banking family of England (1798), son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild of Frankfurt |
| Salomons, 1st Baronet, Sir David | 1797–1873 | Politician, businessman, and communal leader, Sheriff of London (1835–6), Liberal MP for Greenwich (1851–73), Lord Mayor of London (1855), son of Levy Salomons |
| Salomons, Levy | 1774–1843 | Merchant and insurance broker |
| Salomons, Philip | 1796–1867 | Businessman and communal leader, High Sheriff of Sussex (1852), son of Levy Salomons |
| Samuel, Moses | 1795–1860 | Writer, translator, and Hebraist |
| Schiff, David Tevele | d. 1791 | Chief Rabbi (1780–91) |
| de Sola, David Aaron | 1796–1860 | Minister of Bevis Marks (1818–60) |
| Vallentine, Isaac | C1793–1868 | Founder of the Jewish Chronicle (1841), the Jewish Association for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge (1828), and the Jews’ Orphans Asylum (1831) |
| Van Oven, Joshua | 1766–1838 | Writer, surgeon, and communal leader, co-founder of the Jews’ Free School (1817), founder of the Jews’ Hospital (1807) |