List of Scottish Jews
This is a list of Scottish people of some Jewish background, or Jewish people with a Scottish background or connection. See History of the Jews in Scotland for more information. Academic figures and scientists Ruth Adler, child welfare campaigner and human rights campaigner Charlotte Auerbach, geneticist Philip Cohen, FRS FRSE professor of biochemistry, University of Dundee, winner of the Royal Medal and other awards David Daiches, writer and literary critic, professor of English, University of Sussex; father of Jenni Calder Jack D. Dunitz, chemist Alfred Edersheim, Bible scholar Charles Frank, maker of scientific instruments Ralph Glasser, psychologist, economist, author of The Gorbals Trilogy Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine, University of Glasgow Philip Hobsbaum, academic and literary critic at Glasgow University; an influence on many Scottish writers as diverse as Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington A C Jacobs, poet Hans Kosterlitz, professor of pharmacology, University of Aberdeen Stefan Reif, emeritus professor of medieval Hebrew studies, University of Cambridge and director of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit John Michael Robson, geneticist, University of Edinburgh George Sassoon, electronics engineer, translator and author; son of Siegfried Sassoon, buried on Mull, where he spent much of his childhood Leonard