People who played important roles in the definition, development and growth of the modern Zionist movement:
Abba Ahimeir
Scholem Aleichem
Chaim Arlosoroff
David Ben-Gurion
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
David Baazov
Meir Bar-Ilan, rabbi and leader of Religious Zionists (National Religious Party)
Menachem Begin
Hugo Bergman
Dov Ber Borochov
Max Bodenheimer
Max Brod
Abba Eban
Albert Einstein, scientist who supported the Zionist movement. Albert Einstein's political views#Zionism
Israel Eldad
Aaron David Gordon
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Dov Gruner
Theodor Herzl, founding father of modern political Zionist movement
Arthur Hertzberg
Moses Hess
Ahad Ha'am
Zeev Jabotinsky, publicist, leader of Revisionist Zionism
Meir Kahane, rabbi and leader of Israeli Kach Party, proposed expelling all Arabs from Israel
Berl Katznelson
Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, one of Zionism's earliest pioneers in Germany.
Abraham Isaac Kook, pro-Zionist first pre-state Chief Rabbi
Rabbi Joel Landau, activist from Israel
Moshe Leib Lilienblum
Golda Meir
Nahum Goldmann
Samuel Mohilever
Max Nordau
Leon Pinsker
Ruth Popkin, led Hadassah and the Jewish National Fund
Isaac Rülf
Arthur Ruppin
Pinhas Rutenberg
Solomon Schechter, spokesman for Zionism within Conservative Judaism
Moshe Sharett
Abraham Stern
Nahum Syrkin
Henrietta Szold, Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
Bernice Tannenbaum, activist with Hadassah
Joseph Trumpeldor
Menahem Ussishkin
Chaim Weizmann
Felix Weltsch
Robert Weltsch
Orde Wingate, non-Jewish British army officer who trained the Haganah
L. L. Zamenhof
Israel Zangwill
A. L. Zissu
Baruch Zuckerman (1887–1970), American-Israeli Zionist, Yad Vashem proponent
