Rishonim

List of Rishonim

11th Century

• Menahem ben Helbo, 11th century French tosafist and exegete
• Isaac ibn Ghayyat, 11th century Spanish halakhist and commentator.
• Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry, 11th century French Talmudist
• Bahya ibn Paquda,, 11th century Spanish philosopher and moralist
• Rabbenu Gershom, 11th century German Talmudist and legalist
• Isaac Alfasi,, 11th century North African and Spanish Talmudist and Halakhist
• Jonah ibn Janah, 11th century Hebrew grammarian
• Rashi,, 11th century French Talmudist and exegete
• Tosafists,, 11th, 12th and 13th century Talmudic scholars in France and Germany
• Simeon Kara, 11th century rabbi and Joseph's father
• Baruch ben Samuel, 12th century Talmudist and poet

12th Century

• Isaac ben Melchizedek, 12th-century Talmudist
• Isaac of Chernigov, 12th century exegete
• Eleazar of Worms, 12th century German halakhist
• Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg, 12th century German mystic and halakhist
• Isaac ben Abba Mari, 12th century Provençal rabbi
• Jacob ben Meir, 12th century Talmudist, halakhist, and Biblical philologist
• Shemaiah of Soissons, 12th century Talmudist and Biblical exegete
• Joseph Kara, 12th century Biblical exegete.
• Isaiah di Trani, 12th century Biblical exegete and halakhist.
• Isaac ben Dorbolo, 12th-century halakhist
• Abraham ibn Daud,, 12th century Spanish philosopher
• Abraham ibn Ezra,, 12th century Spanish-North African Biblical commentator
• Samuel ben Jacob Jam'a, 12th century North African rabbi and scholar
• Joseph Kimhi, 12th century exegete, grammarian, and lexicographer
• Moses Kimhi, 12th century biblical commentator and grammarian.
• David Kimhi, 12th century French biblical commentator, philosopher, and grammarian
• Eliezer ben Nathan, 12th century poet and pietist
• Hillel ben Eliakim,, 12th century Talmudist and disciple of Rashi''
• Solomon ben Meir, 12th century grandson of Rashi, one of the Tosafot.
• Ibn Tibbon, a family of 12th and 13th century Spanish and French scholars, translators, and leaders
• Joseph ibn Migash 12th century Spanish Talmudist and rosh yeshiva; teacher of Maimon, father of Maimonides
• Maimonides, Moshe Ben Maimon,, 12th century Spanish-North African Talmudist, philosopher, and law codifier
• Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon, 12th-13th century French Maimonidean philosopher and translator
• Yehuda Halevi,, 12th century Spanish philosopher and poet devoted to Zion
• ,, 12th century Talmudist with a commentary on Masechet Pesachim that has become influential on contemporary Iyyun
• Yitzhak Saggi Nehor,, 12th-13th century Provençal Kabbalist
• Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona, 12th century Talmudist
• Moses ben Isaac ben ha-Nessiah, 12-13th century grammarian

13th Century

• Isaac ben Meir Halevi of Düren, 13th-century halakhist
• Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil, 13th-century halakhist
• Isaac of Ourville, 13th-century halakhist
• Menahem Recanati, 13th-century halakhist
• Abraham ben Nathan, 13th century Provençal Talmudist.
• Moses de León, 13th century Spanish Kabbalist
• Moses ben Meir of Ferrara, 13th century Tosafist
• Eliezer ben Samuel of Metz, 13th century Tosafist.
• Eliezer ben Samuel of Verona, 13th century Tosafist.
• Judah ben Benjamin Anaw, 13th century Italian halakhist and Talmudist
• Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw, 13th century Italian halakhist
• Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw, 13th century poet, exegete, and halakhist.
• Abba Mari,, 13th century Provençal rabbi
• Isaiah di Trani the Younger, 13th century Biblical exegete and halakhist
• Asher ben Jehiel,, 13th century German-Spanish Talmudist
• Meir of Rothenburg, 13th century German rabbi and poet
• Isaac ben Moses of Vienna, 13th century Bohemian Posek
• Meir Abulafia,, 13th century Spanish Talmudist
• Mordecai ben Hillel,, 13th century German Halakhist
• Nahmanides, Moshe ben Nahman,, 13th century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist
• Menachem Meiri,, 13th century Talmudist
• Yom Tov Asevilli,, 13th century Talmudist
• Solomon ben Aderet,, 13th century Talmudist
• Aharon HaLevi,, 13th century Talmudist
• Meshullam ben Jacob, , 13th century Talmudist
• Joseph Caspi, 13th–14th century talmudist, grammarian, and philosopher
• Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa, 13th-14th century commentator, Talmudist and Kabbalist
• Moses of Évreux, one of three rabbi brothers in 13th century Normandy, modern-day France.

14th Century

• Samson ben Samuel, 14th-century poet and halakhist
• Menahem ben Aaron ibn Zerah, 14th-century halakhist
• Moses da Rieti, 14th-century poet and philosopher
• David Abudirham, 14th century liturgical commentator
• Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom,, 14th century French Talmudist and philosopher
• Jacob ben Asher,, 14th century German-Spanish Halakhist
• Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin, , 14th century codifier of German minhag
• Hasdai Crescas,, 14th century Talmudist and philosopher
• Isaac Lattes, 14th-century French chronicler.
• Immanuel of Rome, 14th century Italian poet
• Benjamin ben Judah, 14th century Italian exegete.
• Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, 14th-century French translator and philosopher.
• Benjamin ben Isaac of Carcassonne, 14th century scholar.
• Nissim of Gerona,, 14th century Halakhist and Talmudist
• Crescas Vidal, 14th century Talmudist and philosopher
• , 14th-century halakhist
• Samuel ben Aaron Schlettstadt, 14th century German halakhist
• Simeon ben Zemah Duran, 14th-15th century Halakhist

15th Century

• Don Isaac Abravanel, 15th century philosopher and Torah commentator
• Joseph ben Moses, 15th century halakhist
• Abraham Saba, Castilian exegete
• Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai, Sephardic kabbalist
• Joseph Albo, 15th century Spain
• Israel Bruna, 15th century German Rabbi and Posek
• Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro , 15th century commentator on the Mishnah