List of Famous people born in Israel

Safra A. Catz is an Israeli-American billionaire banker and technology executive. She is the CEO of Oracle Corporation. She has been an executive at Oracle since April 1999, and a board member since 2001. In April 2011, she was named co-president and chief financial officer (CFO), reporting to founder Larry Ellison. In September 2014, Oracle announced that Ellison would step down as CEO and that Mark Hurd and Catz had been named as joint CEOs.

Dafna Dekel is an Israeli singer, actress and television personality.

Ilan Pappé is an expatriate Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies.

Sarit Hadad is an Israeli singer. In October 2009, the Israeli Music TV Channel crowned Hadad "best female singer of the 2000s". She represented her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, in Tallinn, with the song "Light a Candle".

Ghil'ad Zuckermann is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of Endangered Languages at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is the president of the Australian Association for Jewish Studies.

Shredy Jabarin is an Israeli actor. Born on the 2nd of Dec 1981 in Jaffa, he studied acting at the faculty of art in the theatre department and the film department in Tel Aviv University from 1999 to 2003. He participated in international films and theatre plays in English, French, German, Arabic and Hebrew. Shredy has one nomination for best actor for his role in the film For my Father. He played main parts in films like For my Father and The Saviour where he played Jesus.

Niv Fichman is an Israeli-Canadian film producer, actor and director.

Misha Segal is an Israeli music producer and film composer. He studied music, film, and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and apprenticed under Dieter Schöhnbach in Germany. Segal also studied composition and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, after which point he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Segal has stated that he has been influenced by jazz, Elton John and The Beatles.

Reuven Atar is a retired Israeli football player who was mostly known for his career in Maccabi Haifa and now he works as the manager of Bnei Lod. As a manager, he is mostly known for his work with Maccabi Netanya.