- male
- Judas of Galilee or Judas of Gamala led a violent resistance to a census imposed for Roman tax purposes by Quirinius (sometimes spelled "Cyrenius"...
- female
- Salome Alexandra was the only Jewish regnant queen, with the exception of her own husband's mother whom he had prevented from ruling as his dying...
- male, deceased (18)
- Herod Archelaus was the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea from 4 BC to 6 AD. He was the son of Herod the Great and Malthace, the brother of...
- male, deceased (1991)
- Rabbi Louis Finkelstein was a Talmud scholar and expert in Jewish law. He taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the first American...
- male
- Judah ben Tabbai was a Jewish tanna of the early first century BCE. He was a contemporary of Simeon ben Shetach. During the persecution of the...
- male
- Joshua ben Perachya was Nasi of the Sanhedrin in the latter half of the second century BCE. He and his colleague Nittai of Arbela were the second...
- male
- Diogenes was a soldier in the service of the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 BCE). He appears in Josephus's work Antiquities of the Jews....
- male, deceased (1703)
- John Crowne (d. c. 1703) was a British dramatist and a native of Nova Scotia. His father "Colonel" William Crowne, accompanied the earl of Arundel...
- male
- Nittai of Arbela was "av beit din" or vice-president of the Sanhedrin under the nasi Joshua ben Perachyah at the time of John Hyrcanus. In Yer....
- male, deceased (1935)
- Jean Béraud was a French Impressionist painter and commercial artist. Béraud's father (also called Jean) was a sculptor and was likely working on th...
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