International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
Encyclopedia
The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame was opened July 7, 1981, in Netanya
Netanya
Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...

, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere around the world.

It is located on the campus of the Wingate Institute
Wingate Institute
The Wingate Institute is a sports training facility located south of Netanya, Israel, established in 1957. Named after Orde Wingate, the facility serves as the host facility for numerous Israeli national teams as well as a military training base....

 for Physical Education and Sport. It has inducted over 300 athletes and sportspersons representing 25 countries. The Hall elects new honorees each year, with submissions due December 1 for votes for the following year.

The Hall was founded by Joseph M. Siegman, a television producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

 and writer who lives in Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together...

. He chaired the Hall from 1981 to 1989, and later served as chairman of its Selection Committee.

The IJSHoF is separate from the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, an American hall of fame
Hall of Fame
A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...

 that honors only American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Jews.

Inductees

Name Country Field Year
Harold Abrahams
Harold Abrahams
Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, was a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:...

 (deceased)
 United Kingdom Track & Field 1981
Amy Alcott
Amy Alcott
Amy Alcott is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1975, and won five major championships and 29 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame....

 United States Golf 2000
Joe Alexander (deceased)  United States American Football 1985
Mel Allen
Mel Allen
Mel Allen was an American sportscaster, best known for his long tenure as the primary play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees. During the peak of his career in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Allen was arguably the most prominent member of his profession, his voice familiar to millions...

 United States Media 1980
Lyle Alzado
Lyle Alzado
Lyle Martin Alzado was a professional American football defensive lineman of the National Football League famous for his intense and intimidating style of play....

 (deceased)
 United States American Football 2008
Yael Arad
Yael Arad
Yael Arad is an Israeli judoka.She was the first Israeli to win an Olympic medal. She is widely recognized as one of Israel's most successful athletes and is credited with bringing judo into the athletic mainstream....

 Israel Judo 2010
Ray Arcel
Ray Arcel
Ray Arcel was a boxing trainer who was active from the 1920s through the 1980s. He trained eighteen world champions....

 United States Boxing 1992
Gerry Ashworth  United States Track & Field 2001
Abe Attell
Abe Attell
Abraham Washington "Abe" Attell , known in the boxing world as Abe "The Little Hebrew" Attell, was a boxer who became known for his record-setting six-year reign as World Featherweight Champion...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1983
Arnold "Red" Auerbach
Red Auerbach
Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was an American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Boston Celtics. After he retired from coaching, he served as president and front office executive of the Celtics until his death...

 United States Basketball 1979
Albert Axelrod
Albert Axelrod
Albert Axelrod, known as Albie, , was an American foil fencer...

 United States Fencing 1993
Arthur Baar
Arthur Baar
Arthur Baar was an Austrian manager who served as vice president of the famed SC Hakoah Wien in Austria. After the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Baar emigrated to Palestine where he was instrumental in building football in the country, and was national team manager during 1940.-...

 Austria Association Football 1982
Aron "Ali" Bacher
Ali Bacher
Aron "Ali" Bacher is a former South African Test cricketer and an administrator of the United Cricket Board of South Africa.-Biography:...

 South Africa Cricket 1991
William Bachrach (deceased)  United States Swimming coach 1994
Max Baer (deceased)  United States Boxing 2010
Sam Balter
Sam Balter
Samuel "Sam" Balter, Jr. was an American basketball player.-Career:He competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics...

 United States Basketball/Media 1994
Viktor (Győző) Barna (né Braun)
Viktor Barna
Viktor Győző Barna was a Hungarian and British champion table tennis player.-Personal life:...

 (deceased)
 Hungary/ United Kingdom Table Tennis 1981
Herman Barron
Herman Barron
Herman Barron was an American professional golfer best known for being the first Jewish golfer to win a PGA Tour event.-Biography:...

 (deceased)
 United States Golf 1993
István Barta
István Barta
István Barta was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, in the 1928 Summer Olympics, and in the 1932 Summer Olympics....

 (deceased)
 Hungary Water Polo 1998
Harris Barton
Harris Barton
Harris Scott Barton is a former American football offensive lineman who played for the San Francisco 49ers.-Early life:...

 United States American Football 2009
Benny Bass
Benny Bass
Benny Bass, known as "Little Fish," was an American boxer....

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1994
Doug Beal
Doug Beal
Doug Beal is an American volleyball player and coach, the current USA Volleyball CEO, and a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.- Education :...

 United States Volleyball 2001
Adriana Behar
Adriana Behar
Adriana Brandão Behar is one of the most outstanding volleyball players of her generation....

 Brazil Beach Volleyball 2006
László Bellák (deceased)  Hungary Table Tennis 1995
Carina Benninga
Carina Benninga
Carina Marguerite Benninga is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 158 international matches for The Netherlands hockey team, in which she scored 25 goals. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and also won a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics...

 Netherlands Field Hockey 2000
Senda Berenson (deceased)  United States Basketball 1987
Jackie "Kid" Berg
Jack Kid Berg
Judah Bergman, known as Jack Kid Berg or Jackie Kid Berg , was an English boxer born in the East End of London.-Biography:Judah Bergman was born in Romford Street near Cable Street, St George in the East, Stepney...

 (deceased)
 United Kingdom Boxing 1993
Isaac Berger
Isaac Berger
Isaac "Ike" Berger was an Olympic weightlifter for the United States. He holds 23 world weightlifting records, and is a 12-time United States national titleholder.-Early life:...

 United States Weightlifting 1980
Samuel Berger
Samuel Berger (boxer)
Samuel Berger was an American professional heavyweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century.He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in San Francisco, California.-Olympics:...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1985
Richard Bergmann
Richard Bergmann
Richard Bergmann was an Austrian and British table tennis player. Winner of seven World Championships, including four Singles, one Men's Doubles, two Team's titles and 22 medals in total.-Tennis career:...

 (deceased)
 Austria Table Tennis 1982
Jack bernstein (né John Dodick)
Jack Bernstein
Jack Bernstein, also known as "John Dodick," "Kid Murphy," and Young Murphy," was an American boxer. He was World Junior lightweight Champion, with the title taken from and later lost to Johnny Dundee Jack bernstein exposed zionists and was murdered by mossad....

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 2000
Kenny Bernstein
Kenny Bernstein
Kenny Bernstein is an American drag racer and former NASCAR and IndyCar team owner. He is nicknamed the "Bud King" for his success in the Budweiser King dragster, he has also been nicknamed "The King of Speed," because he was the first driver to break 300 miles per hour in the standing-start...

 United States Auto Racing 2006
Morris "Whitey" Bimstein (deceased)  United States Boxing 2008
Arthur Bluethenthal
Arthur Bluethenthal
Arthur Bluethenthal, nicknamed "Bluey" , was an All American football player for Princeton University, who died in combat fighting for France in World War I.-Early life:...

 (deceased)
 United States American Football 1997
Walter Blum
Walter Blum
Walter "Mousey" Blum is a retired Hall of Fame jockey.A horse racing fan from boyhood, in his teens Blum began working as a racetrack hotwalker. Despite being blind in his right eye from the age of two, in 1953 he embarked on a career as a jockey, riding his first winner on July 29 at Saratoga...

 United States Horse Racing 1991
György Bródy
György Bródy
György Bródy was a Hungarian water polo player.-Career:At the 1928 Summer Olympics he was a reserve player of the Hungarian water polo team, but did not compete in a match of the 1928 tournament.He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1932 he was part of the...

 (deceased)
 Hungary Water Polo 1982
Tal Brody
Tal Brody
Tal Brody is an American-Israeli former basketball player, and current Goodwill Ambassador of Israel, who lives in Israel. Brody was drafted # 12 in the National Basketball Association draft, but chose to pass up an NBA career to instead play basketball in Israel...

 Israel Basketball 1996
Larry Brown
Larry Brown (basketball)
Lawrence Harvey "Larry" Brown is an American basketball coach and former player. He most recently served as head coach of the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Bobcats....

 United States Basketball 1990
Ellen Burka
Ellen Burka
Ellen Burka, CM is a Dutch former figure skater and a Canadian figure skating coach. She was the coach for Toller Cranston, Karen Magnussen, and her daughter Petra Burka....

 Canada Figure Skating 2010
Angela Buxton
Angela Buxton
Angela Buxton is an English tennis player. She won the women's doubles title at both the French Championships and Wimbledon in 1956 with Althea Gibson.-Tennis accomplishments:...

 United Kingdom Tennis 1981
Alain Calmat
Alain Calmat
Alain Calmat is a French former competitive figure skater, surgeon, and politician. He is the 1964 Olympic silver medalist, the 1965 World Champion, the 1962–1964 European Champion, and the 1958 & 1962–1965 French national champion.-Career:Calmat started skating at the age of nine...

 Early Modern France Figure Skating 1987
Zefania Carmel
Zefania Carmel
Zefania Carmel was an Israeli yachting world champion.-Yachting career:As teammates on Israel’s Zevulun Bat-Yam Club, the two won the Israeli Championship in 1966 in the 420-Class, and topped an international field of competition in the same event on New York’s Hudson River in August 1967.Carmel...

 (deceased)
 Israel Yachting 1982
Joe Choynski
Joe Choynski
Joseph Bartlett "Joe" Choynski was an American boxer who fought professionally from 1888 to 1904.-Boxing career:"Chrysanthemum Joe", the son of a Polish immigrant that settled in California in 1867, weighed no more than 176 lb throughout his career but regularly fought heavyweights. He was...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1991
Robert Cohen
Robert Cohen (boxer)
Robert Cohen was a French boxer. Cohen was world bantamweight champion from 1954 to 1956.-Boxing career:...

 Algeria Boxing 1988
Lillian Copeland
Lillian Copeland
Lillian Copeland was an American athlete, who excelled in weight throwing. She has been called "the most successful female discus thrower in U.S...

 (deceased)
 United States Track & Field 1979
Howard Cosell
Howard Cosell
Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these...

 United States Media 1993
Harry Danning
Harry Danning
Harry Danning, nicknamed Harry the Horse was a professional baseball player. He played his entire Major League Baseball career as a catcher for the New York Giants, and was considered one of the top defensive catchers of his era. He batted and threw right-handed...

 United States Baseball 2000
Pierre Darmon
Pierre Darmon
Pierre Darmon was a French tennis player.In 1963, he reached his highest world ranking, # 8. He was also ranked in the top 10 worldwide in 1958 and 1964.-Tennis career:...

 Early Modern France Tennis 1997
Umberto De Morpurgo
Umberto De Morpurgo
Baron Umberto Louis De Morpurgo was a male tennis player from Italy.De Morpurgo was born in Trieste when it was part of Austria, but became an Italian citizen when the city changed hands after World War I. He was ranked in the World’s Top 10 1928-30 —- 9th in 1928, 10th in 1929, and 8th in 1930...

 (deceased)
 Italy Tennis 1993
Barney Dreyfuss
Barney Dreyfuss
Bernhard "Barney" Dreyfuss was an executive in Major League Baseball who owned the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise from 1900 to 1932....

 (deceased)
 United States Baseball 1979
Dutch Olympians, 1928
Netherlands at the 1928 Summer Olympics
The Netherlands was the host nation for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. 264 competitors, 219 men and 45 women, took part in 103 events in 17 sports.- Gold:* Bep van Klaveren — Boxing, Featherweight...

 Netherlands Gymnastics 1997
"Dutch Sam" Elias (deceased) Boxing 2011
Nikolai Epshteen (deceased)  Russia Ice Hockey 2001
Charlotte Epstein
Charlotte Epstein
Charlotte "Eppie" Epstein was known as "Mother of Women's Swimming in America" after she founded the Women's Swimming Association and coached the Women's Olympic Swimming Team in the 1920s.-Career:...

 (deceased)
 United States Swimming 1982
László Fábián
László Fábián (canoer)
László Fábián is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. He won a gold medal in the K-2 10000 m at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne...

 Hungary Canoeing 1996
Jackie Fields (né Jacob Finklestein)
Jackie Fields
Jackie Fields was an American professional boxer who won two world championship titles.-Personal life:...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1979
Herbert Flam
Herbert Flam
----Herbert Flam was an American tennis player.Considered to be one of the best male Jewish tennis players in history, he was ranked World No...

 (deceased)
 United States Tennis 1992
Alfred Flatow
Alfred Flatow
Alfred Flatow was a German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was Jewish....

 (deceased)
 Germany Gymnastics 1981
Gustav Flatow
Gustav Flatow
Gustav Felix Flatow was a German gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris....

 (deceased)
 Germany Gymnastics 1989
Nat Fleischer
Nat Fleischer
Nathaniel Stanley Fleischer was a noted American boxing writer and collector. Fleischer inaugurated in 1922, encouraged by Tex Rickard, the Ring Magazine publication...

 (deceased)
 United States Media 1985
Bobby Frankel
Bobby Frankel
Robert Julian Frankel was an American thoroughbred race horse trainer whom ESPN called "one of the most successful and respected trainers in the history of thoroughbred racing." He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1995, and was a five-time winner of the Eclipse...

 (deceased)
 United States Horse Racing 2011
Gal Fridman
Gal Fridman
Gal Fridman is an Israeli windsurfer and Olympic gold medalist.He was born in Karkur, Israel, and lives in nearby kibbutz Sdot Yam.Fridman won a bronze medal in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics, and a gold medal in the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics...

 Israel Sailing 2005
Benny Friedman
Benny Friedman
Benjamin "Benny" Friedman was an American football quarterback who played for the University of Michigan , Cleveland Bulldogs , Detroit Wolverines , New York Giants , and Brooklyn Dodgers .He is generally considered the first great passer in professional football...

 (deceased)
 United States American Football 1979
Max Friedman (deceased)  United States Basketball 1994
Jenő Fuchs
Jeno Fuchs
Dr. Jenő Fuchs was a Hungarian Olympic champion sabre fencer.-Fencing career:...

 (deceased)
 Hungary Fencing 1982
Tamás Gábor
Tamás Gábor
Tamás Gábor was a Hungarian épée fencer.-World championships:In World Championships competition, Gabor’s individual medals were a bronze in 1961 and a silver in 1962...

 Hungary Fencing 1996
János Garay
János Garay (fencer)
János Garay was a Hungarian fencer, and one of the best sabre fencers in the world in the 1920s....

 (deceased)
 Hungary Fencing 1990
Mitch Gaylord
Mitch Gaylord
Mitchell Jay Gaylord , is an American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.Gaylord was born in Van Nuys, California, son of Fred and Linda Gaylord. While attending UCLA, he won the All-Around in the 1983 and 1984 U.S...

 United States Gymnastics 1988
Aaron "Okey" Geffen  South Africa Rugby Union 1998
Dr. Oszkár Gerde
Oszkár Gerde
Dr. Oszkár Gerde, also spelled "Oskar" , born in Budapest, Hungary, was a Hungarian sabre fencer.-Olympics:...

 (deceased)
 Hungary Fencing 1989
Sid Gillman
Sid Gillman
Sidney "Sid" Gillman was an American football player, coach, executive, and innovator. Gillman's insistence on stretching the football field by throwing deep downfield passes, instead of short passes to running backs or wide receivers at the sides of the line of scrimmage, was instrumental in...

 United States American Football 1991
Sir Arthur A. Gold  United Kingdom Contributor 1987
Bill Goldberg
Bill Goldberg
Goldberg earned a scholarship to play for the University of Georgia Bulldogs football team where he served as a defensive tackle. He was taken in the 11th round, with the 302nd overall selection, in the 1990 NFL Draft....

 United States Professional Wrestling 2010
Marshall Goldberg
Marshall Goldberg
Marshall Goldberg was an American football halfback with the Chicago Cardinals in the National Football League.- Football career :Goldberg was born in Elkins, West Virginia...

 United States American Football 1980
Charles "Buckets" Goldenberg
Charles Goldenberg
Charles R. "Buckets" Goldenberg was an American football player. He is often credited as the originator of the draw play....

 (deceased)
 United States American Football 1993
Israel Charley Goldman
Charley Goldman
Charley Goldman was a famed boxing trainer who trained five world champions. Goldman's most famous pupil was the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, Rocky Marciano....

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1999
Margie Goldstein-Engle
Margie Goldstein-Engle
Margie Goldstein-Engle is an American show jumping equestrian, and a 10-time American Grandprix Association Rider of the Year.-Early and personal life:...

 United States Equestrian 2009
Reuven "Ruby" Goldstein
Ruby Goldstein
"Ruby" Goldstein , the "Jewel Of The Ghetto," was an American boxer and prize fight referee.-Boxing career:Before he became a referee, Goldstein boxed professionally from 1925 to 1937...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1995
Sándor Gombos
Sándor Gombos
Dr. Sándor Gombos was a Hungarian fencer.-World Championships:...

 (deceased)
 Hungary Fencing 1997
Aleksandr Gomelsky  Soviet Union Basketball 1981
Sid Gordon
Sid Gordon
Sidney "Sid" Gordon , known as "Sid," was a stocky, powerfully built American right-handed Major League Baseball outfielder, third baseman, and first baseman....

 (deceased)
 United States Baseball 2010
Maria Gorokhovskaya
Maria Gorokhovskaya
Maria Kondratyevna Gorokhovskaya was a Ukrainian gymnast. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, she won seven medals, the most medals won by any woman in a single Olympics....

 (deceased)
 Soviet Union Gymnastics 1991
Brian Gottfried
Brian Gottfried
Brian Edward Gottfried is a retired tennis player from the United States who won 25 singles titles and 54 doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest ranking on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour on June 19, 1977, when he became World No....

 United States Tennis 1999
Eddie Gottlieb (deceased)  United States Basketball 1980
Milton Green
Milton Green
This article is about the American sportsperson. For other uses, see Milton Green Milton Green was a world record holder in high hurdles during the 1930s....

 United States Track & Field 1997
Hank Greenberg
Hank Greenberg
Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg , nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank" or "The Hebrew Hammer," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s. A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation...

 United States Baseball 1979
Abie Grossfeld
Abie Grossfeld
Abie Grossfeld is a former American gymnast and current American gymnastics coach.Grossfeld has represented the United States as a gymnastics competitor or coach in seven Olympic Games, seven World Championships, six Maccabiah Games, and five Pan American Games — in addition to many other major...

 United States Gymnastics 1992
Gary Gubner
Gary Gubner
Gary Jay Gubner was an American shotputter, weightlifter, and discus hurler. He is known for setting various shot put records, including a 53-foot throw with a 16-lb...

 United States Track & Field 2001
George Gulack
George Gulack
George Julius Gulack was an American gymnast and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles where he received a gold medal in rings.Gulack died in July 1987 at the age of 82.-See also:...

 United States Gymnastics 1984
Boris Max Gurevich  Soviet Union Wrestling 1987
Boris Mikhailovich Gurevich  Soviet Union Wrestling 1982
Béla Guttmann
Béla Guttmann
Béla Guttmann was a Jewish Hungarian footballer and coach. He played as a midfielder for MTK Hungária FC, SC Hakoah Wien, Hungary and several clubs in the United States. However he is perhaps best remembered as a coach and manager of some the world’s leading football teams, including AC Milan, São...

 Hungary Association Football 1981
Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann
Ludwig Guttmann
Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann CBE, FRS was a German neurologist who founded the Paralympic Games while living in England, and is considered one of the founding fathers of organized physical activities for people with a disability....

 (deceased)
 Germany
 United Kingdom
Contributor 1981
Alfréd Hajos-Guttmann
Alfréd Hajós
Alfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer and architect. He was the first modern Olympic swimming champion and the first Olympic champion of Hungary.-Biography:...

 (deceased)
 Hungary Swimming 1981
Hakoah-Vienna  Austria Association Football 1982
Alphonse Halimi
Alphonse Halimi
Alphonse Halimi was a French boxer. He was nicknamed "la Petite Terreur."Time wrote of him: "Alphonse went to work with a street fighter's will. A grown-up guttersnipe from the back alleys of Algeria...

 Early Modern France
( Algeria)
Boxing 1989
Sidney Halter
Sydney Halter
Gerald Sydney Halter, was a Canadian lawyer and the first commissioner of the Canadian Football League.-Biography:...

 Canada American Football 2006
Willie Harmatz  United States Horse Racing 1999
Johan Harmenberg
Johan Harmenberg
Johan Harmenberg is a Swedish epee fencer. Harmenberg completed two years of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, leaving his course early before returning to Sweden to pursue his fencing career.-Fencing career:He has won eight individual and/or team epee gold medals at...

 Sweden Fencing 1997
Harry Harris
Harry Harris (boxer)
Harry Harris was an American boxer.Harris was World Bantamweight Champion in 1901–02.-Boxing career:Harris turned professional in 1896 at the age of 16....

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1996
Sigmund Harris
Sigmund Harris
Sigmund "Sig" Harris was University of Minnesota’s All-American quarterback in 1902–04, for powerful teams under Dr. Henry L. Williams...

 (deceased)
 United States American Football 1994
Cecil Hart
Cecil Hart
Cecil Hart was a head coach of the Montreal Canadiens. He was born in Bedford, Quebec.Hart helped lead the team to three Stanley Cups, in 1924, 1930, and 1931...

 (deceased)
 Canada Ice Hockey 1992
Lew Hayman
Lew Hayman
Lewis Edward "Lew" Hayman was an American sports figure. He was one of the driving forces behind the Canadian Football League as coach, general manager, team president, and league president. As head coach, he was a five-time Grey Cup winner with three different teams...

 (deceased)
 Canada American Football 2004
Ladislav Hecht
Ladislav Hecht
Ladislav Hecht was a Jewish professional tennis player, well known for representing Czechoslovakia in the Davis Cup during the 1930s....

 (deceased)
 Czech Republic Tennis 2005
Julie Heldman
Julie Heldman
Julie Heldman is a retired American tennis player who won 22 professional tennis titles.In 1969 she was World No. 5, her highest career world ranking, and was ranked No. 2 in the U.S.-Tennis career:...

 United States Tennis 2001
Ben Helfgott
Ben Helfgott
Ben Helfgott is a British Holocaust survivor and former champion weightlifter.He was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs programme on 1 April 2007...

 United Kingdom Weightlifting 1995
Lilli Henoch
Lilli Henoch
Lilli Henoch was a German track and field athlete who set four world records and won 10 German national championships, in four different disciplines....

 (deceased)
 Germany Track & Field 1990
Otto Herschmann
Otto Herschmann
Dr. Otto Herschmann was a Jewish Austrian swimmer, fencer, lawyer, and sport official. He is one of only three athletes to have won Olympic medals in different sports.-Olympic swimming career:...

 (deceased)
 Austria Swimming 1989
Victor Hershkowitz  United States Handball 1991
Nikolaus Hirschl (deceased)  Austria Wrestling 1993
Marty Hogan  United States Racquetball 1996
Marshall Holman
Marshall Holman
Marshall Holman is an American professional bowler primarily known for his success on the PBA Tour throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He also served as a color analyst alongside Mike Durbin on several ESPN and ESPN2 bowling telecasts from 1996–2001...

 United States Tenpin Bowling 2006
Nat Holman
Nat Holman
Nat Holman was one of the early pro basketball players and one of the game's most important innovators.-Career:...

 United States Basketball 1979
Ken Holtzman
Ken Holtzman
Kenneth Dale Holtzman is a left-handed former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the Chicago Cubs and Oakland Athletics...

 United States Baseball 1995
William "Red" Holzman
Red Holzman
William "Red" Holzman was an NBA basketball player and coach probably best known as the head coach of the New York Knicks from 1967 to 1982. Holzman helped lead the Knicks to two NBA Championships in 1970 and 1973, and was elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985...

 United States Basketball 1988
Sarah Hughes
Sarah Hughes
Sarah Elizabeth Hughes is an American figure skater. She is the 2002 Olympic gold medalist and 2001 World bronze medalist in ladies singles.-Personal life:...

 United States Figure Skating 2005
Maria Leontyana Itkina  Soviet Union Track & Field 1991
Joe Jacobi
Joe Jacobi
Joseph Bennet "Joe" Jacobi is an American slalom canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.-Career:Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold in the C-2 event at Barcelona in 1992....

 United States Canoeing 2005
Hirsch Jacobs
Hirsch Jacobs
Hirsch Jacobs was an American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner.Jacobs was the leading race-winning trainer in the United States 1933-39, 1941–44, the U.S. leading money-winning trainer, 1946, 1960, 1965, and the U.S. leading money-winning breeder, 1964-67...

 (deceased)
 United States Horse Racing 1979
Jimmy Jacobs
Jimmy Jacobs (handballer)
James Leslie 'Jimmy' Jacobs was an American handball player, boxing manager, Academy Award nominee and comic book and fight film collector.-Handball:...

 United States Handball 1979
Irving Jaffee
Irving Jaffee
Irving Warren Jaffee was an American speed skater who won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there along with his compatriot Jack Shea.-Early life:Jaffee, who was Jewish, was born to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Russia in 1896...

 United States Speed Skating 1979
Allan Jay
Allan Jay
Allan Louis Neville Jay MBE was a British foil and épée fencer.One of the greatest fencers in British history, Jay competed in five Olympiads in both épée and foil, winning two medals.-National championships:...

 United Kingdom Fencing 1985
Endre Kabos
Endre Kabos
Endre Kabos , born in Nagyvárad, Hungary, was a Hungarian sabre fencer.-Fencing career:Kabos began fencing after receiving a fencing outfit as a birthday present. Although he hid the outfit in his wardrobe, a friend found it and teased him. The following day, he enrolled in a fencing club just to...

 Hungary Fencing 1986
Rena Kanokogi (aka Rusty Glickman)
Rena Kanokogi
Rena "Rusty" Kanokogi , née Glickman, was a renowned Jewish-American judo expert from Brooklyn, New York. In 1959, disguised as a man, she won a medal at a YMCA judo tournament, but had to return it after acknowledging that she was a woman...

 (deceased)
 United States Judo 2011
Louis "Kid" Kaplan (deceased)  United States Boxing 1986
Károly Kárpáti
Károly Kárpáti
Károly Kárpáti was a Jewish Hungarian Olympic wrestling champion.-Career:He won a gold medal in 1936 in the Lightweight Freestyle class...

 Hungary Wrestling 1994
Gennadi Karponosov  Russia Figure Skating 2001
Elias Katz
Elias Katz
Elias Katz was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the 3000 metre steeple chase.He was Jewish, and born in Turku. He competed for Finland in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France in the 3000 metre steeple chase where he won the silver medal...

 (deceased)
 Finland Track & Field 1981
Ágnes Keleti (Klein)
Ágnes Keleti
Ágnes Keleti is a retired Hungarian artistic gymnast. The winner of 10 Olympic medals including five gold medals, she is considered to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all time. She was the most successful athlete at the 1956 Summer Olympics.-Career:Keleti is Jewish, and...

 Hungary Gymnastics 1981
Abel Kiviat
Abel Kiviat
Abel Richard Kiviat was an American middle distance track event middle distance runner.-Career:...

 United States Track & Field 1984
Traute Kleinova (deceased)  Czechoslovakia Table Tennis 1994
Ilana Kloss
Ilana Kloss
Ilana Sheryl Kloss is a former professional tennis player and the commissioner of World Team Tennis.-Tennis career:Kloss was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Before turning professional, in 1972 she won the Wimbledon juniors singles title. In 1974 she won U.S...

 South Africa Tennis 2010
Béla Komjádi
Béla Komjádi
Béla Komjádi was a Hungarian water polo player and coach.-Water polo coaching career:...

 (HU) (deceased)
 Hungary Water Polo 1992
Zsuzsa Körmöczy (Suzy Kormoczy)
Zsuzsa Körmöczy
Zsuzsa Körmöczy was a female tennis player from Hungary. She won the singles title at the 1958 French Championships at the age of 33 and reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1958...

 (deceased)
 Hungary Tennis 2007
Sandy Koufax
Sandy Koufax
Sanford "Sandy" Koufax is a former left-handed baseball pitcher who played his entire 12-year Major League Baseball career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers...

 United States Baseball 1979
Lenny Krayzelburg
Lenny Krayzelburg
Lenny Krayzelburg is an American backstroke swimmer, and Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder. He swam in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. He won a total of 4 Olympic gold medals....

 United States Swimming 2005
Solly Krieger
Solly Krieger
Solly Krieger was an American middleweight boxer who fought from 1928-41.-Boxing career:A Golden Gloves amateur champion, Krieger turned professional in 1928....

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1997
Grigori Kriss  Soviet Union Fencing 1989
Lily Kronberger
Lily Kronberger
Lily Kronberger , also spelled Lili Kronberger, was a Hungarian figure skater competitive during the early years of modern figure skating...

 (deceased)
 Hungary Figure Skating 1983
Alfred Kuchevsky
Alfred Kuchevsky
Alfred Iosifovich Kuchevsky was a Russian ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. Olympic champion 1956, bronze 1960. Twice World champion.He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. He was Jewish....

 (deceased)
 Soviet Union/ Russia Ice Hockey 2011
Henry Laskau
Henry Laskau
Helmut Laskau has been called the greatest racewalker in U.S. track and field history. Born in Berlin, Germany Laskau was a top distance runner in his native Germany before being forced to leave that country in by the Nazis in 1938. He moved to the United States and served in the U.S...

 United States Track & Field 1996
Lydia Lazarov
Lydia Lazarov
-Yachting career:Lazarov and Zefania Carmel were teammates in the Zevulun Bateam Club in Israel. They won the 1966 Israeli 420-class national championship.Lazarov and Carmel also won the 1969 world title in the Team 420 Sailing Class, at Sandhem, Sweden...

 Israel Yachting 1982
Keren Leibovitch
Keren Leibovitch
Keren Or Leibovitch is an Israeli champion Paralympic swimmer.Leibovitch is a three-time world champion, a five-time European champion, a holder of three world records , and an eight-time Paralympic medal winner...

 Israel Swimming 2008
Benny Leonard
Benny Leonard
Benny Leonard was an American lightweight boxer. He was named as number 8 on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years and number 7 on ESPN's 50 Greatest Boxers of All-Time....

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1979
Battling Levinsky (Barney Lebrowitz)
Battling Levinsky
Barney Williams , was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world from 1916 to 1920.-Boxing career:...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1982
Edward L. Levy (deceased)  United Kingdom Weightlifting 1988
Marv Levy
Marv Levy
Marvin Daniel Levy is a former American and Canadian football coach, front office executive and author.He is a former professional football coach, in the CFL as head coach of the Montreal Alouettes , and in the NFL as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills , coaching the Bills...

 United States American Football 1998
Fred Lewis
Fred Lewis (handball)
Fred Lewis is an American former handball player.Lewis is Jewish, and was born in The Bronx, New York. Both of his parents played handball, and he learned to play handball by playing it off building walls in the Bronx. He grew up primarily playing 1-wall handball, and played his first tournament...

 United States Handball 2011
Harry Lewis
Harry Lewis (boxer)
Harry Lewis , was an American champion boxer. Lewis was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 and to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008.-Link:***...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 2002
Ted "Kid" Lewis (deceased)  United Kingdom Boxing 1983
Jason Lezak
Jason Lezak
Jason Edward Lezak is an American Olympic swimmer, winner of 4 Olympic gold medals.He formerly swam for Irvine Novaquatics. He graduated from Irvine High School in 1994, and then from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. He is a member of the Rose Bowl Aquatics swim club...

 United States Swimming 2006
Mort Lindsey
Mort Lindsey
Mort Lindsey, is an orchestrator, composer, pianist, conductor and musical director for Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Merv Griffin.Lindsey attended Newark Arts High School....

 United States Bowling 1997
Alexandre Lippmann
Alexandre Lippmann
Alexandre Lippmann was a French Olympic epee fencer.-Olympics:He competed in 3 Olympiads for France, winning 5 medals, including 2 golds....

 (deceased)
 Early Modern France Fencing 1984
Harry Litwack
Harry Litwack
Harold "Chief" Litwack was a college men's basketball coach. He served as head coach of Temple University from 1947 to 1973, compiling a 373-193 record....

 United States Basketball 1980
Benny Lom
Benny Lom
Benjamin "Benny" Lom was an American college football player who played for three seasons for the University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears, and was best known for his attempt to stop his own teammate Roy Riegels after Riegels ran the ball 69 yards in the wrong direction during the 1929 Rose...

 (deceased)
 United States American Football 1996
Sid Luckman
Sid Luckman
Sidney Luckman, known as Sid Luckman, was an American football quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League from 1939 to 1950...

 United States American Football 1979
Tatiana Lysenko
Tatiana Lysenko
Tatiana Felixivna Lysenko is a Soviet and Ukrainian gymnast, who had her senior competitive career from 1990 to 1994.She is Jewish. Tatiana was known for her exceptional difficulty level and haughty style on the floor...

 Ukraine Gymnastics 2002
Joe Magidsohn
Joe Magidsohn
Joseph "Joe" Magidsohn was an American football player and official. He played halfback for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1909 and 1910 and was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp in 1909 and a first-team All-American in 1910...

 (deceased)
 United States American Football 1999
Gyula Mandl (deceased)  Hungary Association Football 1982
Valentin Mankin  Soviet Union Yachting 1987
Al McCoy
Al McCoy (boxer)
Al McCoy was a boxing world middleweight champion from 1914 to 1917. McCoy’s professional record: 157 bouts — won 99 , lost 40, no-decisions 18.-Biography:...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1989
Hugo Meisl
Hugo Meisl
Hugo Meisl , brother of the journalist Willy Meisl, was the multi-lingual football coach of the famous Austrian 'Wunderteam' of the early 1930s, as well as a referee.-Background:...

 (deceased)
 Austria Association Football 1981
Fania Melnik  Soviet Union Track & Field 1984
Daniel Mendoza
Daniel Mendoza
Daniel Mendoza was an English prizefighter, who was boxing champion of England 1792–95.-Success:...

 (deceased)
 United Kingdom Boxing 1981
Dr. Ferenc Mező
Ferenc Mezo
Ferenc Mező was a Hungarian poet.He was born in Pölöskefő, Zala County and died in Budapest....

 (deceased)
 Hungary Contributor 1986
Mark Midler
Mark Midler
Mark Petrovich Midler was a Soviet Russian foil fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games.-Fencing career:Midler was a member of the USSR National Fencing Team between 1951 and 1967...

 Soviet Union Fencing 1983
Walter Miller
Walter Miller (jockey)
Walter Miller was an American jockey.Miller was Jewish, and was born in Brooklyn, New York.He rode in his first race at age 14. At the age of 16, he won 388 races , and between the years 1905 and 1908 he won 1,094 races. He led the U.S...

 (deceased)
 United States Horse Racing 1983
Ron Mix
Ron Mix
Ronald Jack Mix , in Los Angeles, California was an American football player.Mix attended USC, and upon graduation played right tackle and guard for the American Football League's Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers and the NFL Oakland Raiders .- College career :A graduate of the University of Southern...

 United States American Football 1980
Ivor Montagu
Ivor Montagu
The Honorable Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu was a British filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player and apparent Soviet spy...

 United Kingdom Table Tennis 1984
Samuel Mosberg
Samuel Mosberg
Samuel A. Mosberg , born in New York City, was an American lightweight professional boxer who competed in the early 1920s.-Boxing career:...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1985
Armand Mouyal
Armand Mouyal
Armand Mouyal was a French epee fencer.-Fencing career:Born in Oran, Algeria , Mouyal began fencing in the early 1950s, and was as skilled with the foil as with the épée .-National Championships:Mouyal, a French police officer, captured French national Individual Épée titles in 1952,...

 Early Modern France Fencing 1988
Charles "Buddy" Myer
Buddy Myer
Charles Solomon "Buddy" Myer was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1925 to 1941.An excellent hitter, he batted .300 or better in eight full seasons, and retired with a career average of .303. He walked more than twice as many times as he struck out...

 (deceased)
 United States Baseball 1992
Lon Myers
Lon Myers
Laurence Eugene "Lon" Myers was an American sprinter and middle distance runner.Myers won 28 national championships. He also set world records at 11 different distances, and held every American record for races 50 yards to one mile. Myers set the world quarter-mile record while running the final...

 (deceased)
 United States Track & Field 1980
Alfred Nakache
Alfred Nakache
Alfred Nakache was a French swimmer and water polo player. Nakache was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1993...

 (deceased)
 Early Modern France Swimming 1993
Paul Neumann
Paul Neumann (swimmer)
Paul Neumann was an Austrian swimmer and physician, who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and became the first Austrian gold medalist ever.-Biography:...

 (deceased)
 Austria Swimming 1984
Edward Newman
Ed Newman
Ed Newman is a former Offensive Guard who, from 1973 to 1984, played 12 seasons with the Miami Dolphins.-Early life:...

 United States American Football 1995
Harry Newman
Harry Newman
Harry Lawrence Newman was an American football quarterback who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines , the New York Giants , and the Brooklyn/Rochester Tigers .-College career:...

 United States American Football 1992
Tzvi Nishri (Orloff) (deceased)  Israel Contributor 1981
Sydney Nomis
Syd Nomis
Sydney "Syd" Nomis is a former South African national rugby union player who until 2001 held the record for most consecutive matches played for the Springboks...

 South Africa Rugby Union 1999
Grigori Novak (deceased)  Soviet Union Weightlifting 1985
Fred Oberlander
Fred Oberlander
Fred Oberlander was an Austrian, British, and Canadian wrestler.-Wrestling career:Between 1930 and 1950 he won two Austrian Junior wrestling titles, five French Heavyweight Championships, seven British Heavyweight Championships , and the 1950 Canadian Heavyweight crown.He also won the 1935 World...

 Canada Wrestling 1991
Tom Okker
Tom Okker
Thomas S. Okker is a former Dutch tennis player. He was ranked among the world's top 10 singles players for seven consecutive years, 1968–74, reaching a career high of world # 3 in 1969. He also was ranked World # 1 in doubles in 1969.-Tennis career:Okker was the Dutch champion from 1964 through...

 Netherlands Tennis 2003
Bob Olin
Bob Olin
Robert Lous "Bob" Olin was an American boxer.He won the World Light Heavyweight Championship.-Boxing career:In 1928 Olin won the New York City Golden Gloves Open Championship...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 2008
Ivan Osiier (deceased)  Denmark Fencing 1986
Victor "Young" Perez
Victor Perez
Victor "Young" Perez was a Sephardic Jew born in French Tunisia, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. He was born to Khmaïssa Perez a household goods salesman and Khaïlou René Perez. He was raised along with his four siblings in Dar-El Berdgana, the Jewish quarter of Tunis...

 (deceased)
 Tunisia Boxing 1986
Attila Petschauer
Attila Petschauer
Attila Petschauer was a Jewish Hungarian Olympic fencer.-Fencing career:Born in Budapest, Petschauer was a member of the Hungarian fencing team in the 1928 and 1932 Olympics...

 (deceased)
 Hungary Fencing 1985
Philadelphia Sphas
Philadelphia Sphas
The Philadelphia Sphas, also written SPHAs and SPHAS, were a team that competed in the Eastern Basketball League and then the American Basketball League 1925-55. They played their home games in social halls and, from 1938, in the ballroom of the Broadwood Hotel...

 United States Basketball 1996
Lipman Pike
Lip Pike
Lipman Emanuel "Lip" Pike the "Iron Batter", was one of the stars of 19th century baseball in the United States. He was the first player to be revealed as a professional , as well as the first Jewish player...

 (deceased)
 United States Baseball 1985
Zhanna Pintusevich-Block
Zhanna Pintusevich-Block
Zhanna Pintusevich-Block is a sprinter who has competed in the Olympic Games....

 Ukraine Track & Field 2009
Maurice Podoloff
Maurice Podoloff
Maurice Podoloff was a U.S. lawyer and basketball and ice hockey administrator. He was the first president of the National Basketball Association...

 (deceased)
 United States Basketball 1989
Daniel Prenn
Daniel Prenn
Dr. Daniel Prenn was a German and British tennis player. Prenn was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1981.-External links:**...

 Germany Tennis 1981
Myer Prinstein
Myer Prinstein
Myer Prinstein was an American athlete and member of the Irish American Athletic Club...

 (deceased)
 United States Track & Field 1982
Béla Rajki-Reich (HU)  Hungary Water Polo 2000
Mark Rakita
Mark Rakita
Mark Semenovich Rakita is a famed Russian sabreur and coach from the Soviet era.-Fencing career:Rakita started fencing at 14. He practiced daily for between three – six hours a day. A 1969 graduate of The Daghestan State Pedagogical Institute, Rakita earned the title of Master of the Sport in...

 Soviet Union Fencing 1988
Marilyn Ramenofsky
Marilyn Ramenofsky
Marilyn Ramenofsky was an American freestyle swimmer. She is currently a researcher at the University of California at Davis, studying the physiology and behavior of bird migration...

 United States Swimming 1988
Mauri Rose
Mauri Rose
Mauri Rose was an American racecar driver.He started from the pole position driving a Maserati in the 1941 Indianapolis 500, but spark plug problems put him out of the race after sixty laps. He then took over the Wetteroth/Offenhauser car being driven by Floyd Davis that had started in 17th place....

 (deceased)
 United States Auto Racing 2007
Al Rosen
Al Rosen
Albert Leonard Rosen , nicknamed "Al", "Flip", and the "Hebrew Hammer", is a former American professional baseball player who was a third baseman and right-handed slugger in the Major Leagues for ten seasons in tthe 1940s and 1950s.He played his entire 10-year career with the Cleveland Indians in...

 United States Baseball 1980
Mel Rosen
Mel Rosen
Melvin "Mel" Rosen is an American former track coach.He was head coach of the Auburn University Tigers track team for 28 years, from 1963–91, during which time the team won four consecutive Southeastern Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships from 1977–80, and an outdoor track & field...

 United States Track & Field 2004
Harry "Coon" Rosen
Harry Rosen
Harry Rosen, CM is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Canadian luxury men's wear store Harry Rosen Inc.-Early life:Born and raised in Toronto, Rosen lived for a short time in Callander, Ontario. As a teenager he found a job at a tailoring factory for men's clothes...

 United States Softball 1993
Allen Rosenberg
Allen Rosenberg (rower)
Allen Perry Rosenberg is an American former rower and rowing coach. He won 12 international and national gold and silver medals as a rower, and teams he coached won more than 24 gold and silver medals in the Olympics and world championships.-Early life:Rosenberg, who is Jewish, was born in...

 United States Rowing 1994
Charlie Rosenberg (deceased)  United States Boxing 1990
Wilf Rosenberg
Wilf Rosenberg
Wilfred "Wilf" Rosenberg was a South African rugby union and rugby league player.He was nicknamed the Flying Dentist.He was the son of a rabbi....

 South Africa Rugby Union 1994
Maxie Rosenbloom
Maxie Rosenbloom
Max Everitt Rosenbloom, known as Slapsie Maxie was an American boxer, actor, and television personality.-Life and career:...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1984
Leonard Rosenbluth
Lennie Rosenbluth
Leonard Robert "Lennie" Rosenbluth is an American former basketball player.-Biography:...

 United States Basketball 2003
Albert Rosenfeld
Albert Rosenfeld
Albert Aaron Rosenfeld was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer, a national representative whose club career was played in Sydney and in England...

 (deceased)
 Australia Rugby League 2006
Fanny Rosenfeld (deceased)  Canada Track & Field 1982
Barney Ross
Barney Ross
Barney Ross , born Beryl David Rosofsky, was a world champion boxer in three weight divisions and decorated veteran of World War II.-Early life:...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1979
Victor Ross
Victor Ross
-Early life:Ross was Jewish, and was born in Kiszalo, Hungary.He graduated from Bridgeport High School in 1918. He then attended Syracuse University, where he played on both the soccer and lacrosse teams. He subsequently attended Syracuse Law School, where he earned an LLB degree in 1924...

 (deceased)
 United States Lacrosse 1995
Mark Roth
Mark Roth
Mark Roth is a former professional bowler. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. As a youth he resided in Meiers Corners, Staten Island, New York City, New York.-Bowling career:...

 United States Bowling 1992
Emília Rotter  Hungary Figure Skating 1995
Leon Rotman
Leon Rotman
Leon Rotman is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.-Life and sporting career:...

 Kingdom of Romania Canoeing 1981
Angelica Rozeanu
Angelica Rozeanu
Angelica Rozeanu was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin, and one of the most successful female table tennis players in the history of the sport.-Table tennis career:...

 (deceased)
 Kingdom of Romania Table Tennis 1981
Louis Rubenstein
Louis Rubenstein
Louis Rubenstein was a Canadian figure skater, sportsman and politician. Rubenstein is considered the "Father of Canadian Figure Skating." After retirement from skating in 1892, Rubenstein became involved in the sports of bowling, curling, and cycling...

 (deceased)
 Canada Figure Skating 1981
Mendy Rudolph
Mendy Rudolph
Marvin "Mendy" Rudolph was a professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association for 22 years, from 1953 to 1975. Regarded as one of the greatest officials in NBA history, Rudolph officiated 2,112 NBA games and was the first league referee to work 2,000 games...

 (deceased)
 United States Basketball 1989
Abe Saperstein
Abe Saperstein
Abraham M. Saperstein was an owner and coach of the Savoy Big Five, which later became the Harlem Globetrotters...

 (deceased)
 United States Basketball 1979
Miklós Sárkány
Miklós Sárkány
Miklós Sárkány was a Hungarian water polo player.-Career:He competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Budapest....

 Hungary Water Polo 1990
Richard Savitt  United States Tennis 1979
Dolph Schayes
Dolph Schayes
Adolph "Dolph" Schayes is a retired American professional basketball player and coach in the NBA. A top scorer and rebounder, he was a member of the 1955 NBA champion Syracuse Nationals and a 12-time All-Star....

 United States Basketball 1979
Jody Scheckter
Jody Scheckter
Jody David Scheckter is a South African former auto racing driver, the Formula One World Drivers Champion.-Career:Scheckter was born in East London, South Africa and educated at Selborne College.-Formula One:...

 South Africa Auto Racing 1983
Corporal Isidore Schwartz
Isadore “Corporal Izzy” Schwartz
Isadore “Corporal Izzy” Schwartz was an American boxer.Schwartz was World Flyweight Champion from 1927 to 1929.-Boxing career:...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1998
Barney Sedran
Barney Sedran
Barney Sedran was one of the great early pro basketball players in the 1910s and 1920s.-Career:Nicknamed "Mighty Mite", the New York City native who grew up on the Lower East Side, Sedran was a member of the well-known New York Whirlwinds and Cleveland Rosenblums, among many other teams in New...

 (deceased)
 United States Basketball 1989
Eugene Selznick
Eugene Selznick
Eugene Selznick is an American Hall of Fame former volleyball player, and volleyball coach.-Early life:...

 United States Volleyball 2002
Sergei Sharikov
Sergei Charikov
Sergey Aleksandrovich Sharikov , also known as Serguei/Sergei Charikov, is a left-handed Russian sabre fencer...

 Russia Fencing 2003
Yelena Shushunova
Yelena Shushunova
Yelena Lvovna Shushunova is a Russian gymnast, World, European, and Olympic Champion. Shushunova is renowned for her dynamic vaulting and tumbling skills as well as her longevity and exceptional consistency...

 Soviet Union Gymnastics 2005
Michael Sigel  United States Billiards 2011
Al Singer
Al Singer
Al Singer was an American boxer. He was born in the Lower East Side in New York City....

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 2006
Anna Sipos
Anna Sipos
Anna Sipos was a Hungarian table tennis player. She won 21 medals in the World Table Tennis Championships.-Table Tennis Career:Sipos won 11 gold medals in World Championships...

 (deceased)
 Hungary Table Tennis 1996
Irina Slutskaya  Russia Figure Skating 2009
Harold Solomon
Harold Solomon
Harold Solomon was an American professional tennis player during the 1970s and 1980s. He achieved a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world in 1980.- Tennis career :...

 United States Tennis 2004
Jack Solomons
Jack Solomons
Jack Solomons was a British boxing promoter who has been called "one of the greatest boxing promoters in history."He began promoting boxing in London during the 1930s. His first great success came when he put together a match between Jack London and Bruce Woodcock for the British heavyweight title...

 (deceased)
 United Kingdom Boxing 2004
Moe Spahn
Moe Spahn
-Early life, and college basketball career:Spahn, who was Jewish, was born in New York, New York. He attended Bryant High School, in Queens, New York, where he played basketball....

 (deceased)
 United States Basketball 1993
Frank Spellman
Frank Spellman
Frank Isaac Spellman was an American weightlifter who set several Olympic records and earned a gold medal in 1948...

 United States Weightlifting 1983
Don Spero  United States Rowing 1993
Mark Spitz
Mark Spitz
Mark Andrew Spitz is a retired American swimmer. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, an achievement only surpassed by Michael Phelps who won eight golds at the 2008 Olympics....

 United States Swimming 1979
David Stern
David Stern
David Joel Stern is the commissioner of the National Basketball Association. He started with the Association in 1966 as an outside counsel, joined the NBA in 1978 as General Counsel, and became the league's Executive Vice President in 1980. He became Commissioner in 1984 succeeding Larry O'Brien...

 United States Basketball 1998
Georges Stern (deceased)  Early Modern France Horse Racing 1993
Steve Stone
Steve Stone (baseball player)
Steven Michael Stone is an American former Major League Baseball player, and current sportscaster and author....

 United States Baseball 2004
Joel Stransky
Joel Stransky
Joel Theodore Stransky is a former South African rugby union rugby player, most notable for scoring all of South Africa's points, including the famous dramatic winning drop goal, against New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final. He played as a fly-half.-Early life:Stransky was born in...

 South Africa Rugby 2009
Earl Strom
Earl Strom
Earl "Yogi" Strom was a professional basketball referee for 29 years in the National Basketball Association and for three years in the American Basketball Association . Strom is credited as the greatest referee in the history of the NBA and was known for his flamboyant style and ability to...

 (deceased)
 United States Basketball 2008
Kerri Strug  United States Gymnastics 2000
Miklós Szabados
Miklos Szabados
Miklós Szabados was a Hungarian and Australian table tennis champion.Szabados won 15 World Championship titles, including the World Singles crown in 1931.-Table tennis career:...

 (deceased)
 Hungary Table Tennis 1987
Éva Székely
Éva Székely
Éva Székely is a Hungarian retired female swimmer. She won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics....

 Hungary Swimming 1981
Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewinska
Irena Szewińska is a retired Polish Jewish sprinter who was one of the world's foremost athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events....

 (née Kirszenstein)
 Poland Track & Field 1981
Sid Tannenbaum
Sid Tannenbaum
Sidney Tannenbaum was an American basketball player.-Biography:A 6' 0" guard/forward, Tannenbaum played college basketball at New York University, where he was a two-time All-American and two-time Haggerty Award winner. He also won the 1947 Bar Kochba Award, which honored him as the best Jewish...

 (deceased)
 United States Basketball 1997
Eliot Teltscher
Eliot Teltscher
Eliot Teltscher is a retired professional American tennis player.-Early years:Teltscher's mother was born in Israel; his father emigrated there during the Holocaust, and joined the British army...

 United States Tennis 2009
Lew Tendler
Lew Tendler
"Lefty" Lew Tendler was an American boxer. He is a member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame.-External links:******...

 (deceased)
 United States Boxing 1992
Leah Thall-Neuberger (deceased)  United States Table Tennis 1999
David "Pep" Tobey
David Tobey
David "Dave" Tobey was an American basketball referee. He refereed many notable pro games in New York between 1918 and 1925. In 1926 he refereed the Syracuse vs. West Point game, which featured two future Hall of Famers, Vic Hanson and John Roosma...

 (deceased)
 United States Basketball 1995
Allen Tolmich
Allen Tolmich
Allen Tolmich is a former track and field athlete.Tolmich was born in Detroit, Michigan, and is Jewish. He attended Wayne State University, joined its track team as a walk-on in 1934, and was captain of it in 1936 to 1937...

 United States Track & Field 2002
Shaun Tomson
Shaun Tomson
Shaun Tomson is a South African professional surfer and former world champion, environmentalist, actor, author and businessman.-Life and career:...

 South Africa Surfing 1995
Dara Torres
Dara Torres
Dara Grace Torres is an American international swimmer and a twelve-time Olympic medalist. Torres was the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympic Games , and, at age 41, the oldest swimmer ever to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team...

 United States Swimming 2005
Eduard Vinokurov
Eduard Vinokurov
Eduard Teodorovich Vinokurov was a Soviet Russian sabre fencer. He was born in the village of Baizhansai, South Kazakhstan Province, Kazakh SSR.-Fencing career:Vinokurov began fencing in 1956.He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Leningrad....

 Kazakhstan Fencing 2007
Richárd Weisz
Richárd Weisz
Richárd Weisz was a Hungarian sport wrestler who competed in the 1906 Summer Olympics and in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was born and died in Budapest....

 (deceased)
 Hungary Wrestling 1983
Matt Wells
Matt Wells (boxer)
Matthew "Matt" Wells was a professional boxer in the welterweight division.- Amateur career :During his amateur career, he won four consecutive ABA Lightweight titles .- Olympics :...

 (deceased)
 United Kingdom Boxing 2007
Sylvia Wene
Sylvia Wene
Sylvia Wene , also known as Sylvia Wene Martin, is an American former bowler.Wene is Jewish, and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....

 United States Bowling 1979
Lajos Werkner
Lajos Werkner
Lajos Werkner was a Hungarian sabre fencer.- Olympic career :He won gold medals in Team Sabre at the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games....

 (deceased)
 Hungary Fencing 1999
Henry Wittenberg
Henry Wittenberg
Henry Wittenberg was a prodigious American wrestler and Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling. He won two Olympic medals and was the first American wrestler after 1908 to achieve this feat. He at one point in his career wrestled 300 matches without losing...

 (deceased)
 United States Wrestling 1979
Chagai Zamir  Israel Volleyball 1998
Max Zaslofsky
Max Zaslofsky
Max "Slats" Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach.-Biography:Zaslofsky attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, and St. John's University. He was Jewish....

 (deceased)
 United States Basketball 1983

Pillar of Achievement

Name Country Field Year
Jesse Abramson†  United States Media 1995
Maury Allen
Maury Allen
Maury Allen was an American sportswriter, actor, and former columnist for the New York Post and the Journal-News. He was also a voter for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Allen wrote 40 books on American sports icons...

 United States Media 2009
Jehoshua Alouf  Israel Official/Administrator 1981
Robert Atlasz  Israel Official/Administrator 1986
Baruch Bagg  Israel Official/Administrator 1981
Moe Berg
Moe Berg
Morris "Moe" Berg was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II...

 United States Baseball/Patriot 1983
Gretel Bergmann
Gretel Bergmann
Gretel Bergmann, also known as Margaret Bergmann-Lambert is a German-born athlete who competed as a high jumper during the 1930s.-Biography:Bergmann was born in Laupheim, Germany, where she later began her career in athletics...

 Germany Track & Field 1980
Ira Berkow
Ira Berkow
Ira Berkow is an American Pulitzer Prize winning sports reporter, columnist and writer.-Life:Berkow earned his BA in English Literature at Miami University, and his MA from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University...

 United States Media 2006
Dr. Richard Blum  Germany Official/Administrator 1983
Alfréd Brüll  Hungary Official/Administrator 1995
John Brunswick  United States Bowling 1996
Daniel Bukantz
Daniel Bukantz
Daniel B. Bukantz was an American Olympic fencing competitor and referee and also a dentist.He won the national singles championship in the foil in 1949, 1952, 1953 and 1957. He competed in the foil in Olympic games four consecutive times beginning in 1948, and was part of nine national...

 United States Official/Administrator 2001
Si Burick
Si Burick
Simon "Si" Burick was a sports editor and featured columnist for the Dayton Daily News for 58 years. Burick received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award on July 23, 1983, and was inducted into the writers section of the Baseball Hall of Fame...

 United States Media 2000
Haskell Cohen
Haskell Cohen
Haskell Cohen was the public relations director of the National Basketball Association from 1950 to 1969. He is known as the creator of the NBA All-Star Game. He was inducted to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions in basketball.-Career:In 1951, Cohen joined the NBA...

 United States Official/Media 1991
Dan Daniel
Dan Daniel
Dan Daniel may refer to:* Dan Daniel , American sportswriter* Dan Daniel , U.S. Representative from Virginia* Dan Daniel , "Dandy Dan", American radio disc jockey...

 United States Media 1996
Massimo Della Pergola  Italy Official/Media 1989
Judith Deutsch  Austria Swimming 1981
Lajos Dömény-Deutsch†  Hungary Official/Administrator 1995
Leo Donáth  Hungary Swimming 1999
Leone Efrati  Italy Boxing 2000
Al Munro Elias†  United States Media 2003
Red Fisher
Red Fisher (journalist)
Red Fisher is a Canadian sports journalist whose columns focus on the National Hockey League and its Montreal Canadiens team....

 Canada Media 1999
György Szepesi
György Szepesi
György Szepesi is a Hungarian radio personality, journalist and sports executive.-Early life:...

  (born Friedländer)
 Hungary Media 1998
Ian Froman
Ian Froman
Ian Froman is a South African-born Israeli former tennis player and tennis patron.He is known for playing in the Wimbledon Championships in the 1950s, representing Israel in Davis Cup competition in the 1960s and 1970s, and playing a primary role in the founding of the Israel Tennis Centers in the...

 South Africa Tennis 1991
Harry L. Getz  South Africa Official/Administrator 1985
Emmanuel Gill  Israel Official/Administrator 1983
Harry Glickman
Harry Glickman
Harry Glickman is a retired journalist, promoter, and sports executive. He was one of the founders of the Portland Trail Blazers, and was the team's president from 1987 to 1994.-Early career:...

 United States Official/Administrator 1995
Marty Glickman
Marty Glickman
Martin "Marty" Glickman was a Jewish American track and field athlete and sports announcer, born in The Bronx, New York. His parents, Harry and Molly Glickmann, immigrated to the United States from Jassy, Romania....

 United States Media 1996
Chaim Glovinsky  Israel Official/Administrator 1982
Julius Goldman
Julius Goldman
Julius "Goldie" Goldman was a Canadian basketball player....

 Canada Basketball 1999
Kenneth Gradon  United Kingdom Official/Administrator 2002
Al Greenberg  United States Media 1993
Bud Greenspan  United States Media 1995
Pierre Guildesgame  United Kingdom Official/Administrator 1985
Lester Harrison
Lester Harrison
Lester "Les" Harrison was an American professional basketball player, coach, and team owner and is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame....

 United States Basketball 1991
Sidney Halter  Canada Football 2005
Gladys Heldman
Gladys Heldman
Gladys Medalie Heldman was the founder of World Tennis magazine; she supported Billie Jean King and other female tennis players who formed the Virginia Slims Tour in the early 1970s...

 United States Tennis/Media 1989
Harry Henshel  United States Official/Administrator 1983
Jerome Holtzman
Jerome Holtzman
Jerome Holtzman was an American sportswriter known for his writings on baseball who served as the official historian for Major League Baseball from 1999 until his death.-Newspaper career:...

 United States Media 2005
Joseph Inbar  Israel Official/Administrator 1989
Mike Jacobs
Mike Jacobs (boxing)
Michael Strauss Jacobs was a boxing promoter, arguably the most powerful in the sport from the mid-1930's until his effective retirement in 1946...

 United States Boxing 1993
Hank Kaplan
Hank Kaplan
Hank Kaplan was an American boxing historian and writer. Always wearing one of many of his prized boxing baseball caps, and smoking a pipe, he is widely regarded as the nation's foremost boxing historian, and was known and respected worldwide...

 United States Media 2004
Henry Kaplan  United States Boxing 2004
Ferenc Kemény  Hungary Official/Administrator 1996
Leonard Koppett
Leonard Koppett
Leonard Koppett was one of the most influential sportswriters of the 20th century.Born in Moscow, Koppett moved with his family from Russia to the United States when he was five years old...

 United States Media 2011
Kurt Lamm
Kurt Lamm
Kurt Lamm was a German-born American soccer player, coach, manager, and administrator.-Early and family life:Lamm was Jewish, and was born in Salmünster, Germany. He came to the United States as a youth, in 1936...

 United States Soccer 1993
Harold Landesberg  United States Official/Administrator 1983
Fred Lebow
Fred Lebow
Fred Lebow , who was born Fischel Lebowitz, was an avid runner and founder of the New York City Marathon. Born in Arad, Romania, he presided over the transformation of the race from one with 55 finishers in 1970 to one of the largest marathons in the world with over 43,660 finishers in 2009...

 United States Official/Administrator 1994
Dr. Herman Leweller  United States Official/Administrator 1987
A.J. Liebling†  United States Media 1998
Bill Lippy  United States Official/Administrator 1997
Willy Meisl
Willy Meisl
Willy Meisl was an Austrian-jewish sports journalist in the 20th century; the brother of the Austrian national football manager, Hugo Meisl....

 Germany
 United Kingdom
Media 1986
Marvin Miller
Marvin Miller
Marvin Julian Miller is a former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association , from 1966 to 1982. Under Miller's direction, the players' union was transformed into one of the strongest unions in the United States...

 United States Official/Administrator 2001
Barney Nagler†  United States Media 1992
Ben Olan  United States Media 1994
Murray Olderman
Murray Olderman
Murray Olderman is an artist who specialized in cartoons related to sports. He received the National Cartoonist Society Sports Cartoon Award for 1974 and 1978. His artwork often accompanied the sports stories he authored. His art also has been used by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and hung above...

 United States Media 1997
Charles Ornstein†  United States Official/Administrator 1984
Orna Ostfeld
Orna Ostfeld
Orna Ostfeld is an Israeli former basketball player and current basketball coach.-Early life and non-basketball activities :Ostfeld is Jewish, and was born in Jerusalem, Israel....

 Israel Basketball 2009
Bernard Postal†  United States Media 1986
Shirley Povich
Shirley Povich
Shirley Lewis Povich was an American sports columnist and reporter for the Washington Post.-Biography:Povich's parents were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania...

 United States Media 1992
Julia Jones Pugliese
Julia Jones Pugliese
Julia Jones Pugliese was an American fencer.Born Julia Jones, she married Anthony Pugliese. She started her fencing career at NYU and became the first women's US National Intercollegiate champion in 1929....

 United States Fencing 2002
Jimmie Reese
Jimmie Reese
Jimmie Reese was a Major League Baseball second baseman, third baseman, and coach.In order to avoid the brunt of prejudice against Jewish...

 United States Baseball 1995
Joe Reichler†  United States Media 2008
Harold U. Ribalow†  United States Media 2009
Ed Sabol
Ed Sabol
Edward "Ed" Sabol is an American filmmaker and the founder of NFL Films. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011 as a contributor due to his works with NFL Films....

 United States Media 1996
Al Schacht
Al Schacht
Alexander "Al" Schacht was an American professional baseball player, coach, and, later, restaurateur. Schacht was a pitcher in the major leagues from 1919–21 for the Washington Senators.-Baseball career:...

 United States Baseball 2008
Dick Schaap
Dick Schaap
Richard Jay Schaap was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.-Early life and education:...

 United States Media 2003
Eric Seelig
Eric Seelig
Eric Seelig was middleweight/light-heavyweight boxing champion in Germany in 1933. Because he was Jewish, he was stripped of his titles, and, in July 1933, he was threatened by the Nazis if he dared fight another match. He fled to France...

 Germany Boxing 1992
Joseph Shane  United States Official/Administrator 2002
Jesse Silver  United States Media 1989
Roy Silver  United States Media 1989
Harry Simmons
Harry Simmons
Harry Simmons was a baseball executive, writer, and historian. His early interest in baseball derived from the Sunday afternoon games heattended with his father...

 Canada Official/Administrator 2007
Emmanuel Simon†  Israel Official/Administrator 1983
Dr. Uri Simri  Israel Official/Administrator 1991
Margaredt Sonnenfeld  Israel Official/Coach 1997
Oscar State†  United Kingdom Official/Weightlifting 1989
Louis Stein†  United States Official/Bowling 1992
Bill Stern
Bill Stern
Bill Stern was a U.S. actor and sportscaster who announced the nation's first remote sports broadcast and the first telecast of a Major League Baseball game. In 1984, Stern was part of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame’s inaugural class which included sportscasting legends Red...

 United States Media 2001
Sam Stoller
Sam Stoller
Sam Stoller was an American sprinter and long jumper who tied the world record in the 60-yard dash in 1936. He is best known for his exclusion from the American 4 × 100 relay team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, triggering widespread speculation that he and Marty Glickman,...

 United States Track & Field 2007
Arthur Takać  Kingdom of Yugoslavia
( Independent State of Croatia)
Official/Administrator 1989
Sam Taub
Sam Taub
Sam Taub was a journalist and radio broadcaster who is best known for his work covering boxing.Taub was Jewish, and was born on New York's Lower East Side and raised on Mott Street in Chinatown. Taub's first job in journalism was as an assistant to Bat Masterson at the New York Morning Telegraph...

 (deceased)
 United States Media 1993
Irving Ungerman  Canada Boxing 1994
Ben Weider
Ben Weider
Benjamin "Ben" Weider, was the co-founder of the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness along with brother Joe Weider...

 Canada Body Building 1992
Joe Weider
Joe Weider
Josef E. "Joe" Weider is co-founder of the International Federation of BodyBuilders along with brother Ben Weider and creator of the Mr. Olympia, the Ms. Olympia, and the now-defunct Masters Olympia bodybuilding contests...

 Canada Body Building 1992
Chaim Wein†  Israel Official/Administrator 1986
Joseph Yekuteli†  Israel Official/Administrator 1982
Aviezer Yellin†  Israel Official/Administrator 1984
Paul Ziffren†  United States Official/Administrator 1993
Harold O. Zimman†  United States Official/Media 1991

  • NB: † denotes a posthumous induction

Lifetime Achievement

Year Name Location
1992 Sam Sharrow   Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper...

, USA
1993 David Pincus   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

, USA
1994 Karl Ribstein   Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

1995   Monty Hall
Monty Hall
Monte Halperin, OC, OM , better known by the stage name Monty Hall, is a Canadian-born MC, producer, actor, singer and sportscaster, best known as host of the television game show Let's Make a Deal.-Early life:...

  Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills is an affluent city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. With a population of 34,109 at the 2010 census, up from 33,784 as of the 2000 census, it is home to numerous Hollywood celebrities. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together...

, USA
1996 Yariv Oren   Netanya
Netanya
Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...

, Israel
1997 Alan Sherman   Potomac, Maryland
Potomac, Maryland
Potomac is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, named for the nearby Potomac River. The population was 44,822 at the 2000 census. The Potomac area is known for its very affluent and highly-educated residents. In 2009 CNNMoney.com listed Potomac as the fourth...

, USA
1998 Moshe Rashkes   Ramat Gan, Israel
1999   Fred Worms, OBE
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, UK
2000 Joseph Luttenberg   Afeka
Afeka
Afeka is a residential neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. It is located in the northwestern part of the city.-Notable residents:*Yaron London , media personality, journalist, actor, and songwriter...

, Israel
2001 Robert Spivak   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2002 Uri Afek   Netanya
Netanya
Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...

, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

2003 Lester Fein   Vernon, New Jersey, USA
2004 Shimon Mizrahi   Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

2005 Sidney Greenberg   Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

2006 Alex Gilady  Israel
2007 Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer   Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, USA
2008 R. Stephen Rubin, OBE London, England, UK
2009 Michael Kevezahi   Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Moshe Teumim   Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 Robert Levy   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Chairman's Award of Excellence

Year Name Location
2010 Samuel P. Spron   New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, USA
  Teddy Kaplan  Israel

See also

  • List of Jews in sports
  • Jewish Sports Review
    Jewish Sports Review
    Jewish Sports Review is a bi-monthly magazine that was established in 1997. Its editors are Ephraim Moxson and Shel Wallman.The magazine identifies which star and professional athletes are Jewish...

  • National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of Fame
    National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of Fame
    The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, in Commack, New York, is dedicated to honoring American Jewish sports figures who have distinguished themselves in sports....

     (U.S.)

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Other Jewish sports halls of fame

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