Leaders in Biblical Times
Leaders in the Talmudic Period
Leaders in the Diaspora
Leaders in the History of the State of Israel

Leaders in Biblical Times (TANAKH)

•  Aaron (ca. 1395 B.C.E. – ca. 1272 B.C.E.)
•  Abraham (ca. 1812 B.C.E. – ca. 1637 B.C.E.)
•  Aharon (ca. 1395 B.C.E. – ca. 1272 B.C.E.)
•  Amos
•  Asher (ca. 1563 B.C.E. – ca. 1440 B.C.E.)
•  Avraham (ca. 1812 B.C.E. – ca. 1637 B.C.E.)
•  Binyamin (ca. 1553 B.C.E. – ca. 1438 B.C.E.)
•  Chaggai
•  Chavakuk
•  Dan (ca. 1566 B.C.E.-ca. 1441 B.C.E.)
•  Daniel
•  Devorah the Prophetess
•  King David (ca. 1084 B.C.E. – ca. 1014 B.C.E.)
•  Elijah the Prophet (ca. 870 B.C.E. - )
•  Elisha HaNavi (ca. 850 B.C.E. – ca. 770 B.C.E.)
•  Eliyahu HaNavi (ca. 870 B.C.E. - )
•  Esther
•  Ezra HaSofer
•  Isaac
•  Gad (ca. 1564 B.C.E. – ca. 1439 B.C.E.)
•  Gad HaChozeh “Gad the Seer”  (ca. 1095 B.C.E. – ca. 1010 B.C.E.)
•  Hoshea
•  Jacob
•  Leah
•  Levi (ca. 1567 B.C.E. – ca. 1430 B.C.E.)
•  Malachi
•  Michah
•  Miriam (ca. 1398 B.C.E. – ca. 1273 B.C.E.)
•  Mordechai
•  Moses (ca. 1392 B.C.E. – ca. 1272 B.C.E.)
•  Moshe (ca. 1392 B.C.E. – ca. 1272 B.C.E.)
•  Nachum
•  Naphtali (ca. 1564 B.C.E. – ca. 1431 B.C.E.)
•  Ovadiah
•  The Prophet Samuel – See Shmuel HaNavi
•  Rachel
•  Reuven (ca. 1568 B.C.E. – ca. 1413 B.C.E.)
•  Rivkah
•  Ruth
•  Sarah (ca. 1802 B.C.E. – ca. 1675 B.C.E.)
•  Serach bat Asher (ca. 1540 B.C.E. – “Never”)
•  Shaul
•  Shimon (ca. 1567 B.C.E. – ca. 1447 B.C.E.)
•  Shlomo HaMelech (ca. 1034 B.C.E. – ca. 976 B.C.E.)
•  Shmuel (ca. 1142 B.C.E. – ca. 1090 B.C.E.)
•  Sons of Yaakov
•  Tzefaniah
•  Yaakov (ca. 1652 B.C.E. – ca. 1505 B.C.E.)
•  Yechezkel
•  Yehonatan
•  Yehoshua (ca. 1354 B.C.E. – ca. 1244 B.C.E.)
•  Yehudah (ca. 1566 B.C.E. – ca. 1447 B.C.E.)
•  Yeshayahu
•  Yirmiyahu
•  Yissachar (ca. 1562 B.C.E. – ca. 1440 B.C.E.)
•  Yitzchak (ca. 1712 B.C.E. – ca. 1531 B.C.E.)
•  Yoel
•  Yonah
•  Yosef (ca. 1561 B.C.E. – ca. 1451 B.C.E.)
•  Zechariah
•  Zevulun (ca. 1562 B.C.E. – ca. 1452 B.C.E.)

Leaders in the Talmudic Period
 
•  Abaye (ca. 278 C.E. – 338 C.E.)
•  Akiva (d.136 CE)
•  Bar Kochba
•  Bar Kosiba
•  bar Nappacha, Yochanan (ca. 200 C.E. – ca. 279 C.E.)
•  ben Lakish, Shimon (ca. 200 C.E. – ca. 275 C.E.)
•  ben Uziel, Yonatan (ca. 450 B.C.E.)
•  Hillel
•  Onkelos the Convert (ca. 35 C.E. – ca. 120 C.E.)
•  Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah (ca. 90 C.E. – ca. 155 C.E.)
•  Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (flourished 135 C.E. – 170 C.E.)
•  Rabbeinu Tam
•  Rav (ca. 160 C.E. – 248 C.E.)
•  Rava (ca. 270 C.E. – 350 C.E.)
•  Reish Lakish (ca. 200 C.E. – ca. 275 C.E.)
•  Shammai
•  Shimon HaTzaddik (ca. 400 B.C.E. – ca. 300 B.C.E.)
•  Shmuel Yarchina'a (ca. 170 C.E. – 257 C.E.)
•  Yehudah HaNasi (135 C.E. – 219 C.E.)
•  Yochanan ben Zakkai

Leaders in the Diaspora

•  Abrabanel, Don Yitzchak (1437-1508)
•  Albo, Yosef (15th Century)
•  Al-fasi - Rabbi Yitzchak Al-fasi - RIF (1013-1103)
•  Arama, Yitzchak (1420-1494)
•  The "Ari" (1534-1572)
•  Asevilli - Rabbi Yom Tov ibn Asevilli - RITVA (2nd Half 13th cent. - 1st Half 14th cent.)
•  Azikri, Elazari (1533-1600)
•  Azulai, Abraham  (1570-1643)
•  Azulai, Chaim Yosef David - Chida (1724-1806)
•  Ba'al Shem Tov (1700-1760)
•  “Baba Sali,” Rav Yisrael Abuchatzeira (1889-1984)
•  Bacharach, Yair Chaim (1638-1702)
•  Bachaya Ibn Pakuda (Eleventh Century)
•  Bais HaLevi - Yoseph Ber Soloveitchik (1820-1892)
•  Beit Shmuel
•  Belkin, Dr. Samuel (1911-1976)
•  “Ben Ish Chai,” Chacham Yosef Chaim (1834 – 1909)
•  Berlin, Naftali Tzvi Yehudah - The Netziv (1817-1893)
•  Bloch, Yosef Yehudah Leib (1860-1930)
•  Brozofsky, Shalom Noach
•  Chacham Yosef Chaim (1834 – 1909)
•  Chaim of Volozhin (1749-1821)
•  Chasam Sofer - Moshe Sofer (1762-1838)
•  Chazon Ish - Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (1878-1953)
•  Chida - Chaim Yosef David Azulai (1724-1806)
•  Chiddushei HaRim - Yitzchak Meir Rothenberg Alter (1799-1866)
•  The "Chinuch" (13th Century)
•  Chofetz Chaim - Israel Meir Kagan (1838-1933)
•  Cordovero, Moshe - The Ark of the Torah (1522-1570)
•  Dov Baer (1773-1827)
•  Dubnow Maggid (1741-1804)
•  Edels, Shmuel Eliezer - MaHarSha (1555 - 1631)
•  Eibeschutz, Yonasan (1690-1764)
•  Epstein, Baruch HaLevi (1860-1941)
•  Feinstein, Moshe (1895-1986)
•  Figo, Azariah (1579-1647)
•  Gaon of Vilna (1720-1797)
•  Ginzberg, Judah Leib (1885-1946)
•  Goren, Shlomo (1917-1994)
•  Hai Gaon
•  Heller, Yom Tov Lippmann - “Tosafos Yom Tov” - (1579-1654)
•  Henkin, Yosef Eliyahu (1880-1973)
•  Hirsch, Samson Rafael (1808-1888)
•  Horowitz, Isaiah ben Avraham Ha-Levi - The Shlah (1565-1630)
•  Hurwitz, Yosef Yosel (1849-1919)
•  Hutner, Yitzchak (1906-1980)
•  Ibn Ezra, Avraham (1089-1167)
•  Isserles, Moshe (1530-1572)
•  Kagan, Israel Meir - The Chofetz Chaim (1838-1933)
•  Kanievsky, Yaakov Yisrael - The Steipler (1899-1985)
•  Kaplan, Aryeh (1934 - 1983)
•  Karelitz, Avrohom Yeshaya - Chazon Ish (1878-1953)
•  Karo, Josef (1488-1575)
•  Kimchi - Rabbi David Kimchi - RADAK (1160-1235)
•  Kook, Abraham Isaac HaCohen (1865-1935)
•  Kotler, Aharon (1895-1963)
•  Lapian, Eliyahu (1876-1976)
•  Leibowitz, Nechama (1905-1997)
•  Leibush, Meir - The Malbim (1809-1879)
•  Leiner, Yaacov (Radzyn) (1828-1878)
•  Leow, Judah - Maharal of Prague (1525-1609)
•  Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (1740-1810)
•  Levinstein, Yechezkel (1884-1974)
•  Levovitz, Yeruchem (1875-1936)
•  Luria, Solomon (1510-1574)
•  Luria, Yitzchak (1534-1572)
•  Luzzatto, Moshe Chaim (1707-1746)
•  Maharal of Prague - Judah Leow (1525-1609)
•  MaHarSha - Shmuel Eliezer Edels (1555-1631)
•  Malbim, Meir Leibush (1809-1879)
•  Margolioth, Ephraim Zalman (1762-1828)
•  Mechaber
•  Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (1843-1926)
•  Menachem ben Solomon Meiri (1249-1316)
•  Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787-1859)
•  Moshe Ben Nachman (1194-1270)
•  Moshe Leib of Sosov (1745-1807)
•  Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810)
•  Naftali of Ropshitz (1760 - 1827) 
•  Netziv - Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin (1817-1893)
•  Ozhorover Rebbe (1890-1971)
•  Papo, Eliezer - Pele Yoetz (1785-1826)
•  Rabbeinu Gershom (960 – 1040)
•  RADAK - Rabbi David Kimchi (1160-1235)
•  RAMA (1530-1572)
•  RAMBA"M (1135-1204)
•  RAMBA"N (1194-1270)
•  RA"N (1320-1380)
•  Rashba - Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet (1235-1310)
•  RASH"I (1040-1105)
•  Reischer, Jacob Back - The Shevus Yaakov (1670-1733)
•  Reishis Chochma - Eliyahu de Vidas (1518-1592)
•  Revel, Dr. Bernard (1885-1940)
•  RIF - Rabbi Yitzchak Al-fasi (1013-1103)
•  RITVA - Rabbi Yom Tov ibn Asevilli (2nd Half 13th cent. - 1st Half 14th cent.)
•  The “Rosh” - Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel (1250-1328)
•  Rothenberg Alter, Yitzchak Meir - The Chiddushei HaRim (1799-1866)
•  Saadiah Gaon (c. 1000)
•  Salanter, Yisrael (1810-1883)
•  Satmar Rav (1887-1979)
•  Schneerson, Menachem Mendel (1902 -1994)
•  Sfas Emes - Rebbe Yehudah Leib Alter (1847-1905)
•  Shapira, Kalonymous Kalman (1889-1943)
•  Shapiro, Zvi Elimelech of Dinov (1783-1841)
•  Shlah - Isaiah ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz (1565-1630)
•  Shneur Zalman (1745-1813)
•  Siftei Kohen (1621-1662)
•  Sofer, Abraham Samuel Benjamin (1815-1871)
•  Sofer, Moshe - The Chasam Sofer (1762-1838)
•  Soloveitchik, Aharon (1917-2001)
•  Soloveitchik, Joseph Ber (1903-1993)
•  Soloveitchik, Yoseph Ber - The Bais HaLevi (1820-1892)
•  Sorotzkin, Zalman (1881-1966) 
•  Steipler - Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899-1985)
•  Teitelbaum, Yoel - The Satmarer Rebbe (1887 – 1979)
•  Tosafos Yom Tov - Rabbi Yom Tov Lippmann Heller (1579-1654)
•  Tzadok HaKohein of Lublin (1823-1900)
•  de Vidas, Eliyahu - Reishis Chochma (1518-1592)
•  Vilna Gaon (1720-1797)
•  Vital, Chaim (1543-1620)
•  Wasserman, Elchanan (1875-1941)   
•  Weinberg, Yechiel Yaakov (1885-1966)
•  Weissmandel, Michoel Dov (d.1957)
•  Yaacov Yosef of Polnoye  (died 1782)
•  Yaakov Ibn Chaviv (died 1516)
•  Yavetz, Yosef - The Chasid or The Darshan (died 1507)
•  Yehudah HaChassid (1150-1217)
•  Yehudah HaLevi (1075 C.E. – 1141 C.E.)
•  Yisraeli, Shaul (1910-1995)

Leaders in the History of the State of Israel

•  Begin, Menachem (1913-1992)
•  ben Gurion, David (1886-1973)
•  ben-Yehuda, Eliezer (1858-1922)
•  Eban, Abba (1915-2002)
•  Herzl, Theodor (1860-1904)
•  Jabotinsky, Vladimir (1880-1940)
•  Meier, Golda (1898-1978)
•  Montefiore, Sir Moses (1784-1885)
•  Senesh, Hannah (1921-1944)
•  Weizmann, Chaim (1874-1952)