Pre-Mishnaic Rabbis (Zugot) [515 BCE – 70 CE]
| Avtalyon | Judah ben Tabbai |
| Gamaliel | Nittai of Arbela |
| Hillel the Elder | Shammai |
| Jose ben Joezer | Shemaya |
| Jose ben Johanan | Simeon ben Shetach |
| Joshua ben Perachyah |
Mishnaic Rabbis (Tannaim) [70 CE – 200 CE]
| Akiva | Shimon bar Yochai |
| Eliezer ben Jose | Shimon HaTzadik |
| Judah haNasi | Rabbi Tarfon |
| Rabbi Meir | Yohanan ben Zakkai |
Talmudic Rabbis (Amoraim) [200 CE – 500 CE]
| Abaye | Rav Jonah |
| Abba Arika | Rav Nachman |
| Abbahu | Rav Papa |
| Hamnuna | Rava |
| Hillel, son of Gamaliel III | Ravina |
| Hillel II | Ravina II |
| Judah II | Resh Lakish |
| Judah III | Shmuel (Talmud) |
| Rabbah bar Nahmani | Yochanan |
| Rav Ashi |
Middle Ages Rabbis (Geonim/Rishonim) [500 CE – 1500 CE]
| Abba Mari | Joseph Albo, (Sefer Ikkarim) |
| Abraham ben David of Posquières | Joseph ibn Migash |
| Abraham ibn Ezra, (Even Ezra) | Maimonides, Moshe Ben Maimon, (Rambam) |
| Amram Gaon | Meir ben Samuel (RaM) |
| Asher ben Jehiel, (Rosh) | Mordecai ben Hillel, (The Mordechai) |
| Chananel Ben Chushiel (Rabbeinu Chananel) | Nahmanides, Moshe ben Nahman, (Ramban) |
| David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra (Radbaz) | Nissim Ben Jacob (Rav Nissim Gaon) |
| Eleazar of Worms, (Sefer HaRokeach) | Nissim of Gerona, (RaN) |
| Rabbenu Gershom | Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, (Bartenura) |
| Gersonides, Levi ben Gershom, (Ralbag) | Samuel ben Meri (Rashbam) |
| Hasdai Crescas, (Or Hashem) | Solomon ben Yitzchak (Rashi) |
| Hillel ben Eliakim, (Rabbeinu Hillel) | Saadia Gaon |
| Don Isaac Abravanel, (Abarbanel) | Tosafists, (Tosfot) |
| Isaac Alfasi, (the Rif) | Yehuda Halevi, (Kuzari) |
| Jacob ben Asher, (Baal ha-Turim ; Arbaah Turim) |
16th through 17th Century Rabbis (Achraronim) [1500 CE – 1700 CE]
| Isaac Abendana | Judah Low ben Bezalel (Maharal) |
| Jacob Abendana | Meir of Lublin (Maharam) |
| Isaac Aboab da Fonseca | Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz |
| Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (RaMaK) | Isaac Luria (Ari) |
| Samuel Edels (Mahrsha) | Solomon Luria (Maharshal) |
| David HaLevi Segal, (Taz) | Shalom Shachna |
| Abraham Cohen de Herrera (RabACH) | Sforno |
| Isaiah Horowitz (Shlah) | Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno (Sforno) |
| Moshe Isserles (Rema) | Mordecai Yoffe (Levush) |
| Yosef Karo (Mechaber) |
18th Century Rabbis (Achraronim) [1700 CE – 1800 CE]
| Aharon of Karlin (I) | Hart Lyon |
| Chaim Joseph David Azulai (Hida) | Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) |
| Haim Isaac Carigal | Shalom Sharabi |
| Dovber of Mezritch (Maggid) | Shneur Zalman of Liadi (Alter Rebbe of Chabad) |
| Aaron Hart | Yechezkel Landau (Noda Bihudah) |
| Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov) | Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (Kedushas Leivi) |
19th Century Rabbis (Achraronim) [1800 CE – 1900 CE]
| Nathan Marcus Adler | Emil Hirsch |
| Samuel Adler | Samson Raphael Hirsch |
| Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (Gerrer Rebbe) | Samuel Hirsch |
| Moses Berlin | Samuel Holdheim |
| Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv) | Nachman Krochmal |
| Avrohom Bornsztain (Avnei Nezer) | Malbim (The Malbim) |
| Zvi Hirsch Chajes (Maharatz Chayes) | Nachman of Breslov (Rebbe Nachman) |
| Yosef Chayim (Ben Ish Hai) | Nathan of Breslov (Reb Noson) |
| David Einhorn | Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy |
| Yechiel Michel Epstein (Arukh ha-Shulkhan) | Dovber Schneuri |
| Jacob Ettlinger | Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Tzemach Tzedek) |
| Zecharias Frankel | Shmuel Schneersohn |
| Abraham Geiger | Moses Sofer (Chatam Sofer) |
| Moshe Shmuel Glasner (Dor Revi’i) | Chaim Soloveitchik |
| Chaim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov (Stropkover Rov) | Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, (Beis Halevi) |
| Moshe Greenwald | Isaac Mayer Wise |
| Levi Herzfeld | Leopold Zunz |
20th Century Rabbis (Achraronim) [1900 CE – 2000 CE]
| Paula Ackerman | Mordecai Kaplan |
| Hermann Adler | Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz |
| Philip R. Alstat | Isaac Klein |
| Yisrael Ariel | Abraham Isaac Kook |
| Leo Baeck | Albert L. Lewis |
| Meir Berlin | Saul Lieberman |
| Shmuel Bornsztain | Marshall Meyer |
| Deborah Brin | Julia Neuberger |
| David Max Eichhorn | Gunther Plaut |
| Ira Eisenstein | Sally Priesand |
| Baruch Epstein | Jonathan Sacks |
| Moshe Feinstein | Murray Saltzman |
| Nosson Tzvi Finkel | Samuel Schafler |
| Louis Finkelstein | Solomon Schechter |
| Louis Ginzberg | Sholom Dovber Schneersohn |
| Elyse Goldstein | Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn |
| Robert Gordis | Menachem Mendel Schneerson |
| Shlomo Goren | Abba Hillel Silver |
| David Weiss Halivni | Morris Silverman |
| Jules Harlow | Simeon Singer |
| Joseph H. Hertz | Joseph Bar Soloveitchik |
| Abraham Joshua Heschel | Stephen S. Wise |
| Regina Jonas | Ovadia Yosef |
| Aryeh Kaplan |
21st Century Rabbis (Achraronim) [2000 CE – Present]
| Shlomo Amar | Norman Lamm |
| Arik Ascherman | Dov Landau |
| Bradley Shavit Artson | Israel Meir Lau |
| Yaakov Aryeh Alter | William H. Lebeau |
| Benjamin Blech | Dov Lior |
| Shlomo Carlebach | Zalman Melamed |
| Menachem Creditor | Yona Metzger |
| Elliot N. Dorff | Avigdor Nebenzahl |
| Michel Dorfman | Jacob Neusner |
| Denise Eger | Daniel Nevins |
| Dan Ehrenkrantz | Abraham Nissan |
| Amy Eilberg | Einat Ramon |
| Sandy Eisenberg Sasso | Shlomo Riskin |
| Mordechai Eliyahu | Joel Roth |
| Yaffa Epstein (Rabba) | Hershel Schachter |
| Mimi Feigelsohn (Rabba) | Ismar Schorsch |
| Neil Gillman | Avraham Shapira |
| Tina Grimberg | Ahron Soloveichik |
| Irving Greenberg | Alysa Stanton |
| Reuven Hammer | Adin Steinsaltz |
| Carol Harris-Shapiro | Moshe David Tendler |
| David Hartman | Avi Weiss |
| Sara Hurwitz (Rabba) | Yisroel Dovid Weiss |
| Louis Jacobs | David Wolpe |
| Harold Kushner | Ovadia Yosef |