Rabbi Dr. Norman ("Nachum") Lamm, (born 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, United States), is a major American Modern Orthodox Jewish communal leader. He is presently the Chancellor of Yeshiva University. He was the third President of Yeshiva University (YU), and the first to be born in the USA. He also holds a Ph.D. in Jewish philosophy. He is a disciple of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik (Modern Orthodoxy's most influential scholar), …

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881-November 8, 1983) was a rabbi and the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism. Kaplan was born in Lithuania and was ordained as a rabbi at Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York City in 1902. Kaplan began his career as an Orthodox rabbi at Kehillath Jeshrun, a synagogue in New York. He helped to create the Young Israel movement of Modern Orthodox Judaism with Rabbi Israel Friedlander, …

Rabbi Avraham Weiss, born in 1944, (usually known as Avi Weiss or Rav Avi) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi who heads the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, Bronx, New York. He is an author, teacher, lecturer, and activist. In addition he is founder and Dean of the "Open Orthodox" Yeshiva in New York - Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (born 1940) is the American founder of the Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York City, the Rabbi of the Israeli city of Efrat, and Founder and Dean of the Ohr Torah Stone Institutions, a network of High Schools, Colleges, and Graduate Programs in both the United States and Israel. He belongs to Modern Orthodox Judaism.

Joseph Telushkin (born 1948) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, lecturer, and author. Telushkin attended the Yeshivah of Flatbush, was ordained at Yeshiva University, and studied Jewish history at Columbia University. Telushkin serves as a rabbi for the Los Angeles-based Synagogue for the Performing Arts, is an associate of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He is a former director of education at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute.

Israel Azriel Hildesheimer (May 20, 1820 - July 12, 1899) was a German rabbi and leader of Orthodox Judaism. He is regarded as a pioneering modernizer of Orthodox Judaism in Germany and as a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism.

Richard M. Joel (b. 1950) is the fourth president of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox Jewish university with a network of schools, colleges, and universities in New York City.

Eliezer Berkovits (1908, Nagyvarad - 20 August 1992), was a rabbi, theologian, and educator in the tradition of Modern Orthodox Judaism.

Blu Greenberg (born 1936) is an American writer specializing in Modern Orthodox Judaism and women's issues. She is the author of "On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition" (1981) and "Black Bread: Poems, After the Holocaust" (1994). Greenberg is active in the movement to bridge the gulf between Orthodox Judaism and feminism. In 1997 and 1998, she chaired the first and second International Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy, …

Barry Freundel is the rabbi of Kesher Israel congregation in Washington DC, and a leading rabbi in the Modern Orthodox Jewish world. A writer and lecturer, Rabbi Freundel addresses topics ranging from environmentalism to Jewish medical ethics. Popular among collegiates, he has served as a visiting scholar at Princeton, Yale and Cornell and guest lecturer at Columbia, University of Chicago and other universities. He is also an adjunct professor at several universities.

Rabbi Berel Wein,the founder and director of The Destiny Foundation since 1996, has, for over 25 years, been identified with the popularization of Jewish history through world-wide lectures, his more than 1,000 audiotapes, books, seminars, educational tours and, most recently, dramatic and documentary films. Rabbi Wein is a graduate of the Hebrew Theological College and Roosevelt College in Chicago.

Max Stern was born in Fulda, Germany and emigrated to America in 1926. He established and built the Hartz Mountain Pet Food Company, which eventually became one of America’s most successful private companies. He helped many charitable organizations both in America and Israel. He was a leading Jewish philanthropist and communal lay leader. Max Stern died in 1982, leaving his son Leonard N. Stern to carry on the family business.

Rabbi Chaim Dov Keller is the "Rosh yeshiva" ("dean") of the Telshe Yeshiva in Chicago. He is well known Haredi "posek" and writer, with a regular column in "Yated Ne'eman". He is a known critic of both Modern Orthodoxy and Chabad, and has written a number of articles for journals criticising these movements.

Rabbi Mayer Schiller is an American Hasid based in Monsey, New York State, who identifies himself as a member of Skver, and serves as spokesperson for the Skver community in New Square. Schiller also maintains active ties to the Modern Orthodox community, and teaches advanced Talmud at Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy of Yeshiva University. where he has been a teacher since 1987. Prior to that Rabbi Schiller taught at YCQ (in Queens, NY).

Chaim Brovender is a Modern Orthodox and Religious Zionist rabbi in Israel.