Yoav Talmi

(1942-Alive). Israeli conductor and composer. Co-Conductor, Israel Chamber Orchestra, 1970-1972. Artistic Director and Conductor, Gelder Symphony Orchestra, 1974-1980. Music Director and Principal Conductor, Israel Chamber Orchestra, 1984-1988. Music Director, San Diego Symphony, 1989. Musical Director and Principal Conductor, Symphony Orchestra of Quebec, 1998-Current.

Herman Taube

(February 2, 1918, Lodz, Poland-Alive). American poet and novelist. Holocaust survivor.

Ellen O'Kane Tauscher

November 15, 1951, Newark, New Jersey-Alive). U.S. Representative (D-CA), 1997-Current.

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor

(February 27, 1932, Hampstead, London, England-Alive). British-American actress. Noted for her beauty. Married 8 times, including husbands Conrad Hilton, Jr., Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton (Twice), John Warner, and Larry Fortensky. Received Academy Award for Best Actress, 1960 (BUtterfield 8), and 1966 (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Edward Teller

(January 15, 1908, Budapest, Austria/Hungary-September 9, 2003, Stanford, California). Nuclear physicist. Known as the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb." Received Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2003.

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin

(1948-Alive). Orthodox Jewish Rabbi. Ordained Rabbi, Yeshiva University. Rabbi, Synagogue for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, California. Senior Associate, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Author of Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History; The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living; Words that Hurt, Words that Heal: How to Use Words Wisely and Well; Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews; A Code of Jewish Ethics: You Shall be Holy; The Ten Commandments of Character; The Golden Land: The Story of Jewish Immigration to America; Rabbi Daniel Winter mystery series; The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism (with Dennis Prager); Heaven's Witness (with Allen Estrin); Why the Jews: The Reason for Antisemitism (with Dennis Prager); Bibilical Literacy; Jewish Wisdom.

Howard Martin Temin

(December 10, 1934, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-February 9, 1994, Madison, Wisconsin). American geneticist. Received National Medal of Science, 1992. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1975.

Margaret "Inez" Tenenbaum

(March 8, 1951, Hawkinsville, Georgia-Alive). American politician and attorney. Democratic State Superintendent of Education of South Carolina, 1999-2007. Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate (SC), 2004.

Herbert Tenzer

(November 1, 1905, New York, New York-March 24, 1993, Lawrence, New York). U.S. Representative (D-NY), 1965-1969.

Louis "Studs" Terkel

(May 16, 1912, New York, New York-October 31, 2008, Chicago, Illinois). American author, historian, and broadcaster. Noted for his oral histories. Received Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, 1985 (The Good War). Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1997.