Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv ranks 199th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Louisville, Kentucky, Skopje, and Westminster. Memorable people born in Tel Aviv include Benjamin Netanyahu, Daniel Kahneman, and Isaac Herzog. Memorable people who died in Tel Aviv include Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, and Menachem Begin. Tel Aviv has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Tel Aviv is located in Israel.
Tel Aviv-Yafo, sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a population of 495,230, it is the economic and technological center of the country and a global high-tech hub. If East Jerusalem is considered part of Israel, Tel Aviv is the country's second-most-populous city, after Jerusalem; if not, Tel Aviv is the most populous city, ahead of West Jerusalem. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 0 and 2005, Tel Aviv was the birth place of 73 globally memorable people, including Benjamin Netanyahu, Daniel Kahneman, and Isaac Herzog. Additionaly, 61 globally memorable people have passed away in Tel Aviv including Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, and Menachem Begin.
People Born in Tel Aviv
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Benjamin Netanyahu
POLITICIAN
1949 - Present
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 34
Daniel Kahneman
PSYCHOLOGIST
1934 - 2024
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 65
Isaac Herzog
POLITICIAN
1960 - Present
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 52
Ezer Weizman
POLITICIAN
1924 - 2005
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 3
Uri Geller
MAGICIAN
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 35
Itzhak Perlman
MUSICIAN
1945 - Present
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 25
Tzipi Livni
POLITICIAN
1958 - Present
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 53
Yair Lapid
POLITICIAN
1963 - Present
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 22
Ghil'ad Zuckermann
LINGUIST
1971 - Present
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 54
Dan Shechtman
CHEMIST
1941 - Present
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 46
Dana International
SINGER
1969 - Present
HPI: 63.81
Rank: 24
Hugh I of Cyprus
POLITICIAN
1194 - 1218
HPI: 63.39
Rank: 1
People Deceased in Tel Aviv
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Yitzhak Rabin
POLITICIAN
1922 - 1995
HPI: 80.27
Rank: 42
Moshe Dayan
POLITICIAN
1915 - 1981
HPI: 78.14
Rank: 27
Menachem Begin
POLITICIAN
1913 - 1992
HPI: 77.55
Rank: 23
Max Brod
WRITER
1884 - 1968
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 36
Yitzhak Shamir
POLITICIAN
1915 - 2012
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 26
Chaim Herzog
DIPLOMAT
1918 - 1997
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 38
Itzhak Stern
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1901 - 1969
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 55
Moshé Feldenkrais
PHYSICIST
1904 - 1984
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 57
Zvi Zamir
POLITICIAN
1925 - 2024
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 60
Abba Eban
POLITICIAN
1915 - 2002
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 8
A. B. Yehoshua
WRITER
1936 - 2022
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 41
Avraham Stern
WRITER
1907 - 1942
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 47
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Tel Aviv were politicians (13), athletes (9), singers (6), actors (6), and musicians (4), while most who died were politicians (23), writers (12), singers (3), religious figures (2), and physicists (2).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, politicians have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Tel Aviv, including Benjamin Netanyahu, Isaac Herzog, and Tzipi Livni. Whereas, throughout history, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Tel Aviv, including Benjamin Netanyahu, Isaac Herzog, and Ezer Weizman.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 12 globally memorable people born in Tel Aviv since 1700.
