קהילת יהודי לונדון, אנגליה

 ג'ון פרנסיס ברנט (1837-1916) , מלחין. נולד בלונדון והיה אחיינו של המלחין ג'ון ברנט. בגיל 12 זכה בפרס מטעם המלכה על נגינתו בפסנתר באקדמיה המלכותית למוסיקה. השלים את לימודיו השלים בלייפציג, גרמניה, וחזר לאנגליה. ב-1883 התמנה לפרופסור בקולג' המלכותי למוסיקה בלונדון.
הלחין יצירות לפסנתר, מוסיקה קאמרית, יצירות לתזמורת וקנטטות מקהלתיות. המפורסמות שביצירותיו הן יורדי-ים מימי קדם (Ancient mariner, 1867, טקסט: קולרידג') וליל סנטה אגנס (Eve of St. Agnes, טקסט: קיטס). נפטר בלונדון, אנגליה.

תלמה ילין (1895-1959) צ'לנית. נולדה בלונדון, אנגליה, בת למשפחת בנטוויץ' (Bentwich) הידועה. ב-1911 התחילה ללמוד נגינה בצ'לו בקולג' המלכותי למוסיקה בלונדון. ניגנה לראשונה בלונדון ב-1916 ואחר כך הופיעה ביחד עם הפסנתרנית מיירה הס (Myra Hess) ואחותה מרגרט בנטוויץ' בכל רחבי אנגליה בנגינת מוסיקה קאמרית. ב-1921 עלתה לארץ-ישראל, השתקעה בירושלים ונישאה לאליעזר ילין. ייסדה את אגודת המוסיקה הירושלמית ובשנים 1937-1932 ניגנה עם רביעיית כלי-הקשת הירושלמית החדשה (כנר ראשון: אמיל האוזר). ילין ייסדה גם את הסמינר למוסיקה למלחינים ישראלים בזכרון-יעקב, ואת המחזור הראשון שלו הדריך אהרן קופלנד. נפטרה בירושלים.

Israel Abrahams (1858-1925), scholar, born in London, England. He was educated at Jews' College London, of which his father was the principal, and was awarded a MA degree from the University of London. He was appointed lecturer in preaching and secular subjects at Jews' College and became a senior tutor at the institution in 1900. He was a member of the committee for the Training of Jewish Teachers and the Anglo-Jewish Association which provided financial assistance to Jewish students in financial need to enter further education or studying for full-time degrees at universities in the United Kingdom. He was for a time secretary of the Jewish Historical Society of England.

In 1902 he was appointed professor of Talmud at Cambridge University, succeeding Solomon Schechter who had been appointed head of the Jewish Theological seminary in New York. In 1914, he published "A Companion to the Authorised Prayer Book", a commentary on and supplement to the prayer book edited by Simeon Singer and which for almost 100 years became the authorized and accepted prayer book for Anglo-Jewry. In 1922 he was invited to deliver the Schweich Lecture of the British Academy. The lectures were published under the title "Campaigns in Palestine from Alexander the Great".

In religion Abrahams favored reform. He supported the Jewish Religious Union and the Liberal Jewish synagogue which developed from it. He was an accomplished lay preacher who was often invited to address congregations.

Abrahams wrote a number of important works of Jewish scholarship. Abrahams collaborated with Claude Montefiore to write the “Aspects of Judaism”, which was published in 1895. His chief works were "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages" (1896), Studies in "Pharisaism and the Gospels" (1917-1924), "Chapters on Jewish Literature" (1898), and "Hebrew Ethical Will" (1926). In 1889, he became joint editor of the "Jewish Quarterly Review". He was a prolific contributor to periodical literature, and was especially well known for his articles on literary subjects, which appeared weekly in the "Jewish Chronicle" under the title of "Books and Bookmen". He also contributed to the "Encyclopaedia Biblica" (1903). For many years he wrote a weekly column, usually on literary matters, for the "Jewish Chronicle" newspaper and when, in 1919, the anti-Zionist "Jewish Guardian" was founded, Abrahams was an important contributor. He was an ardent advocate of the establishment of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. For 20 years from 1888 he was the editor of the "Jewish Quarterly Review".

John "Jack" Edward Cohen (1898-1979), businessman and philanthropist, who founded the British Tesco supermarket chain, born in London, England, a son of an immigrant Polish tailor. Initially he worked in his father's tailoring shop in the East End of London, but on the outbreak of World War I he joined the Royal Flying Corps. When he was discharged in 1919, he used his demobilsation payment of GBP 150 to set up as a stall holder in London's Hackney market buying and selling surplus stocks.

A shrewd businessman, he soon became the owner of a number of market stalls, and started a wholesale business. Initially the other stalls were run by members of the family, but gradually non-family members were added. Cohen and his wife worked 7 days a week, starting at dawn and counting money until late in the evening. In 1924 he created the Tesco brand and started to open shops in town centres. By 1939 Cohen owned 100 Tesco stores. In 1932 Cohen travelled to the United States to study the self-service stores which were operating there. He was convinced of the potential of such supermarkets in the UK. Tesco continued to grow fast and the business started to buy up many of its rivals. After World War II the Tesco group comprised some 500 supermarkets.

Cohen was an active worker for the Joint Palestine Appeal and established a complex for the elderly in Herzliya, Israel. He was knighted in 1969.

ישראל זנגוויל (1864 - 1926), סופר, נולד למשפחה דלת אמצעים בלונדון, גדל בליברפול. למד ולימד בבית הספר היהודי החופשי באיסט אנד של לונדון. בשנת 1891 פרסם שני ספרים הומוריסטיים שהובילו אותו להצלחה. ב- 1892 ספרו "ילדי הגיטו", סיפורים על האיסט אנד, זכה להצלחה מיידית. ספרים רבים וסיפורים קצרים, כולל מלך הקבצנים באו בעקבותיהם. מחזותיו כוללים את "סיר ההיתוך" שהוצג תקופה ארוכה בברודוויי (ניו יורק) ותיאר את השתלבות היהודים בארה"ב. ישראל זנגוויל היה חסידו המובהק של תיאודור הרצל והשתתף בקונגרס הציוני הראשון שהתקיים בבזל, שווייץ בשנת 1897.
כאשר רעיונו של הרצל לקבל את הצעת הבריטים ליישב את היהודים באוגנדה נדחה, זנגוויל עזב את התנועה הציונית והקים את הארגון הטריטוריאלי לחפש חלופה להתיישבות בארץ ישראל.

עמנואל אברהם אגילר (1824-1904) פסנתרן ומלחין. נולד בלונדון, אנגליה. אגילר למד מוסיקה בפרנקפורט, גרמניה. נחל הצלחה ניכרת ויצירותיו נוגנו לעתים קרובות. ב-1848 שב ללונדון והתמסר להוראה.
ביו יצירותיו שתי אופרות וסדרה של קטעים מכינים לקראת נגינה של הפסנתר המושווה מאת י"ס באך. אגילר רשם מנגינות של המסורת הספרדית של אמסטרדם, כפי שהושרו באזניו מפי דוד אהרן דה סולה. כמו כן, ערך בהרמוניה את מנגינותיו של דה סולה שראו אור בספר "מנגינות עתיקות מעבודת הקודש של יהודי ספרד ופורטוגל". נפטר בלונדון, אנגליה.

Norman Bentwich (1883-1971), jurist, scholar and Zionist leader, born in London and educated at St Paul's School in London and at Cambridge University. A brilliant student, he was awarded a scholarship for International Law. In 1908 he became a barrister and four years later in the British Colonial service he worked at the Ministry of Justice in Cairo, Egypt. In 1913 he was appointed commissioner of the courts in Egypt and was also a lecturer at the Cairo Law School. During World War I he served in the British Army in Palestine and was discharged with the rank of major.

From 1918 to 1931 Bentwich was legal secretary and then the first Attorney General of Mandatory Palestine in which capacity he modernised the country's courts and introduced British law and systems to replace the Turkish system which had been in force previously. In 1930 the Mandatory Government removed him from his position on account of his Zionist opinions, although his views were more moderate than most. He constantly advocated rapprochement between Jews and Arabs. In 1932 he became Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and held the position until 1951, when he returned to England. Between 1933 and 1935 he was appointed director of the League of Nations High Commission for Refugees from Germany.
In 1951 he was appointed to the British Foreign Office committee on Restitution in the British zone of Germany.
Within the English Jewish community Bentwich was co-editor of the "Jewish Review" 1910-1913 and again 1932-34, he was President of the Jewish Historical Society in 1960–1962, Chairman of the Friends of Hebrew University and President of London North-Western Reform Synagogue from 1958 until 1971.

He wrote many books on Zionism and Israel, on the legal system in Israel, on international relations, on Hellenism and also a number of biographies. His autobiography was published in 1961. His wife, Helene, was very active in English local government being chairman of the London County Council in 1956-1957.

הרולד סמואל (1879-1937) פסנתרן.

נולד בלונדון, אנגליה, למד בקולג' המלכותי למוסיקה והופעת הבכורה שלו נערכה בלונדון ב-1894. עד 1921 הופיע אך ורק כמלווה. הקריירה הסולנית שלו החלה בעקבות הופעה ברסיטל למוסיקה של באך שניגן בלונדון ב-1921. בעקבות הופעה זו התפרסם כמומחה לביצוע מוסיקה של באך בזכות הפרשנויות המקוריות שלו. נפטר בלונדון.

Martin Gilbert (1936-2015), historian and author of some 80 books, born in London, England. During WW II he was evacuated to Canada as part of the British efforts to safeguard children. After the war he attended Highgate School, and then completed two years of National Service in the Intelligence Corps before going on to study at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1960 with a first-class BA in modern history. After two years of postgraduate work, he was approached by Randolph Churchill for help in writing a biography of his father, Sir Winston Churchill. Finally appointed Churchill's official biographer Gilbert spent twenty years on the six narrative volumes, releasing a number of other books throughout the time.

In the 1960s, Gilbert compiled some of the first historical atlases. His major works include a definitive single-volume History of The Holocaust, as well as single-volume histories of the First World War and the Second World War. He has also written a notable three-volume series called A History of the Twentieth Century.

Since 2002, he has been a Distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA, and between 2006 and 2007 he was a professor in the history department at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. In October 2008, he was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Churchill College Oxford. He continued to lecture around the world on Churchill and Jewish history. Gilbert was appointed in June 2009 as a member of the British government’s inquiry into the Iraq War (headed by Sir John Chilcot). Gilbert's most recent major work is In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands.

In 1995 Gilbert was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.