Famous People with Name Alon

Alon Mizrahi            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Alon Mizrahi: a former Israeli football player in a striker position. He is the most prolific scorer in Israeli football history.His nickname is The Airplane, referring to the movement he used to do after scoring a goal.

Alon Weisberg            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Alon Weisberg: an Israeli-Nigerian football player. His unusual surname is the result of being adopted by his step father who is Russian and moved him and his mother from Nigeria to Israel after getting married.

Alon Greenfeld            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Alon Greenfeld: is an Israeli chess grandmaster (GM).More recently, Alon has concentrated in the fields of chess coaching. His most famous pupil has been Emil Sutovsky (ironically, Emil himself is now [2008] working as a second for Gata Kamsky). He travels regularly to India, and works with a number of promising young Indian players e.g Vidit. Asked what his best game was Greenfeld unhesitatingly replied: "My game against GM Boyce at Jersey 2004."

Alon Pinkas            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Alon Pinkas: was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician. A signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, he was the country's third Minister of Transport.In 1944 he became a member of the Assembly of Representatives, and between 1947 and 1948 served as a member of the Jewish National Council's directorate. In 1948 he was one of the people to sign the Israeli declaration of independence.

Alon Mandel            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Alon Mandel: is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Nir Alon            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Nir Alon: is an Israeli sculptor and an installation artist. Alon studied from 1988 until 1992 at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. In 1996 he received the price for young artists of the Israeli Ministry for education and Culture. In 1998 he parti