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Chuck Schumer

Senate Majority Leader with Galician-Jewish roots

Ari Fleischer

Bush's voice at the podium, rooted in the Pale

Artem Dolgopyat

Ukrainian-born Israeli gymnast, Olympic floor champion at Tokyo 2020

Gal Gadot

Israeli actress, born in Petah Tikva

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse

First female Permanent Secretary of the Académie française, born of Russian-Georgian noble descent

Isser Harel

Born in Vitebsk, built the Mossad and personally captured Adolf Eichmann

Mayumana (group)

Israeli percussion and dance troupe with Russian-Soviet roots that became a global theatrical phenomenon

Meir Dagan

Born in Novosibirsk to Holocaust survivors — became the most feared Mossad chief in history

Michael Cherney

Tashkent-born Israeli businessman, co-founder of Trans World Group in the post-Soviet aluminium industry

Nigel Lawson

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer with Latvian-Russian Jewish roots who engineered the Lawson Boom

Peter Van Loan

Canadian Conservative MP whose family traces to Estonia and Russia — former House Leader

Shari Arison

Israeli-American businesswoman and philanthropist; daughter of Carnival founder Ted Arison

Waldemar Herdt

Kazakhstan-born Russlanddeutsche who became a CDU politician in Germany

Yaakov Kedmi

Zvi Zamir

Wladimiro Acosta

Architect born Vladimir Konstantinovsky in Odessa in 1900; pioneer of modern and bioclimatic architecture in Argentina with his 'Helios system'