| January, 1667 | Witness could swear on Old Testament | Robeley v. Langston |
| 23rd June, 1700 | Knight | Solomon de Medina |
| 27th June, 1723 | Fellow of the Royal Society | Isaac de Sequera Samuda. |
| 16 December 1732 | Stage Performer | Hanna Norsa played Polly Peachum in the Beggars Opera at Covent Garden |
| 1739 | Physician | Jacob de Castro Sormento |
| 1746 | Playwright | Moses Mendez’s The Double Disappointment |
| 13 February, 1770 | Solicitor | Joseph Abrahams was admitted as a solicitor |
| 1779 | University Graduate | Joseph Hart Myers graduated in medicine at University of Edinburgh |
| 6 May 1784 | Sentenced to transportation to Australia | Joseph Levy |
| 1792 | Boxing Champion | Daniel Mendoza became boxing champion of England. |
| 1824 | Actuary | Benjamin Gompertz |
| 31st January, 1833 | Barrister | Francis Henry Goldsmid |
| 1835 | Municipal Office | Phineas Levy in Devonport |
| 17th November, 1835 | Juryman | A Jewish juryman was sworn in on the Old Testament. |
| 6th February, 1832 | First Undergraduate at an Anglican University | Nathan Lazarus Benmohel went up to Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated in 1836 |
| 1837 | Magistrate | David Salomons |
| 1840 | Royal Academician | Solomon Alexander Hart |
| 1841 | Hereditary Title | Isaac Lyon Goldsmid was created a Baronet |
| 1855 | Lord Mayor of London | David Salomons |
| 1857 | Provincial Mayor | J L Levy in Rochester |
| March, 1858 | ‘Blue’ | Archibald Levin Smith rowed for Cambridge against Oxford |
| 26th July, 1858 | Member of Parliament | Lionel Rothschild |
| 1858 | Queeen’s Council | Francis Henry Goldsmid |
| 1858 | Judge | Sir John Simon was appointed a County Court Judge |
| 1860 | Fish and Chips Shop | Joseph Malin opened the first Fish and Chips shop in Britain. |
| 1866 | World Chess Champion | William Steinitz became world chess champion, a position he held until 1894 |
| 1869 | Senior Wrangler | Numa Hartog was admitted to his degree without having to take the usual oath |
| June, 1871 | The Derby | Favonius owned by Baron Meyer Anschell de Rothschild won the Derby |
| 1871 | Minister of the Crown | Sir George Jessel was appointed Solicitor-General |
| 1873 | Privy Councillor | Sir George Jessel |
| 1883 | Professor at Oxbridge | James Joseph Sylvester appointed to the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford |
| 29th June, 1885 | Peer | Nathaniel Mayer de Rothschild made a Baron |
| 1891 | Weightlifting Champion | Edward Lawrence Levy was the First English and World Weightlifting Champion |
| 1901 | Coroner | George Alexander Cohen for Middlesex |
| 1902 | International Rugby Cap | John E Raphael represented England nine times between 1902 and 1906 |
| 20th March, 1909 | Recorder | A M Langdon for Burnley |
| 1909 | Cabinet Minister | Herbert Samuel |
| 1912 | Olympic Gold Medal | Davis Jacobs was a member of the winning 4x100m. squad. |
| 1913 | Lord Chief Justice | Rufus Isaacs |
| 24th November, 1914 | Victoria Cross (VC) | Lt. Frank Alexander de Pass |
| 31st August, 1915 | World Boxing Champion | Ted ‘Kid’ Lewis won the world welterweight championship |
| 1920 | High Commissioner for Palestine | Herbert Samuel |
| 1921 | Viceroy of India | Rufus Isaacs |
| 1922 | English Table Tennis Champion | M Cohen |
| 1922 | Labour member of Parliament | Emanuel Shinwell |
| 1924 | Individual Olympic Gold | Harold Abrahams won the 100 metres at the Olympic games in Paris |
| 1928 | Winner of Le Mans | Woolf Barnato won the 24 hour race |
| 1929 | Female member of Parliament | Dr Marion Phillips |
| 1930 | Order of Merit | Samuel Alexander |
| 1932 | Fellow of All Souls, Oxford | Isaiah Berlin. |
| 1933 | World amateur Billiards champion | Sydney Lee |
| 1940 | Academy Award (Oscar) | Vincent Korda for Best Art Director |
| 1943 | Companion of Honour | Joseph Herman Hertz (Chief Rabbi) |
| 1945 | Nobel Prize | Ernst Chain shared Nobel Prize for Medicine. Chain was born in Germany but had lived and worked in Britain since 1933 and was naturalised. The first British born Jew to win the Nobel prize was Brian D Josephson who won the prize in Physics in 1973 |
| 1951 | Life Peer | Lionel Leonard Cohen |
| 1952 | Test Cricket for England | Freddie Trueman played his first test for England on 5 June 1952. It was not known until the 1990s that his mother’s mother was Jewish and thus he was halachically Jewish. He became very proud of this. |
| 1954 | European Women’s Driving Champion | Sheila Van Damm |
| 15 July 1955 | Top of the Pops (popular music) | Alma Cogan with Dreamboat |
| 1956 | Wimbledon Champion | Angela Buxton won the mixed doubles |
| 1956 | Female Recorder | Rose Heilbron |
| 1970 | Booker Prize | Bernice Rubens for The Elected Member |
| 1974 | Female High Court Judge | Rose Heilbron |
| 6 November 2003 | Leader of the Opposition (Conservative) | Michael Howard |
| 25 September 2010 | Leader of the Opposition (Labour) | Ed Milliband |
