Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

male, deceased (1677)
Rationalist, Determinist, philosopher, Biblical criticism, age of enlightenment, 17th-century philosophy…Portuguese, Jewish, Jewish person, Spanish and Portuguese Jew, JewishPortuguesehistory
Baruch de Spinoza (lived November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Revealing considerable sc...

Judah Leon Abravanel

male, deceased (1523)
Italian of Portuguese descent, Spanish-Italian, Yehuda ben Yitzhak Abravanel, Dialogues of Love, Dialoghi d'amore, Leo the Hebrew…Portuguese, JewishPortuguesehistory, Jewish person, Jewish Spanish history, Jewish
Judah Leon Abravanel (or Abrabanel, otherwise known as: in Latin, "Leo Hebraeus"; in Portuguese, "Leão Hebreu"; in Spanish, "León Hebreo"; in It...

Yahia ben Yahi III

male, deceased (1185)
Christian, Lisbon, rabbi, cordoba, Muslim, faro…JewishPortuguesehistory, Jewish person
Yahia Ben Yahi III, also known as Jahia Negro Ibn Ya'isch, was a Sephardi Jew born in Cordoba in 1115 to Yahia Ben Rabbi, also known as Yahya...

António José da Silva

male, deceased (1739)
Playwright, JewishPortuguesehistory, dramatist, antonio, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian
António José da Silva, was a Portuguese dramatist, known as "the Jew" ("O Judeu"). The Brazilian spelling of his first name is Antônio.

Yahia ben Rabbi

male
Lisbon, exilarch, Don Yahia "El Negro", Aldeia dos Negros, Yahya Ibn Yaish, Yahya Ha-Nasi…JewishPortuguesehistory, Jewish person
Yahia Ben Rabbi, also known as Yahya Ha-Nasi, Yahya Ibn Yaish, Dom Yahia "o Negro" or Don Yahia "El Negro" (died 1222), known as Lord of "Aldeia...
Isaac Abrabanel

Isaac Abrabanel

male, deceased (1508)
Abravanel, Rishonim, Sephardi Jew, JewishPortuguesehistory, Judah Minz, Medieval rabbi…Portuguese, Jewish person, Jewish Spanish history, Jewish
Isaac ben Judah or Yitzchak ben Yehuda Abravanel was a Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier. He was a scion of the...
Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro

male, deceased (1903)
Impressionism, painter, artist, Impressionist, French, great french impressionist…Jewish person, JewishPortuguesehistory, Jewish
Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and...
Uriel da Costa

Uriel da Costa

male, deceased (1640)
da Costa, convert to Judaism, costa, Sephardi Jew, philosopher, skeptic…JewishPortuguesehistory, Spanish and Portuguese Jew, Jewish person, Portuguese, Jewish film and theatre
Uriel da Costa (ca. 1585 - April 1640) or Uriel Acosta (from the Latin form of his Portuguese surname, "Costa", or "da Costa") was a philosopher...
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira

Jacob Rodrigues Pereira

male, deceased (1780)
Portuguese-French, Portuguese, Educator, French, Jewish French history, Academic…JewishPortuguesehistory
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira was an academic and the first teacher of deaf-mutes in France. Born Jacob Rodrigues Pereira in Peniche, Portugal, he was a...

Aloandro ben Bekar

male
Christian, Muslim, Queen Elizabeth II, faro, Queen consort, JewishPortuguesehistory
Aloandro Ben Bekar (or Bakr; also known as Aldroando Gil), was the Mozarab (Iberian Christian living under Muslim domination) Governor of Faro, in...