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- References
{{unreferenced|date=April 2015}}People associated with Karaite Judaism include: - Early Karaite Period — 8th-9th centuries (700-899 CE)
- ‘Anan ben David, founder of the Annanites which would later be absorbed into Kara'ism
- Benjamin al-Nahawandi, regarded by some as the proper originator of Kara'ism as it has come down through the ages
- Golden Age — 10th-12th centuries (900-1199 CE)
- Aharon ben Mosheh ben Asher (died c.960 CE), refiner of the Tiberian writing system, regarded as having produced the most accurate version of the Masoretic Text
- Daniel al-Qumisi, Kara'ite scholar, polemicist, proto-Zionist, and compiler of the legal code Sefer ha-Mitzvot
- Hasun ben Mashiach, scholar who flourished in Egypt (or Babylonia) in the first half of the tenth century
- Ya'akov Qirqisani aka al-Kirkisani, dogmatist, author, and exegete of the early 10th century
- Yehudah Hadasi, 12th century scholar, philosopher, and grammarian from Constantinople
- Solomon ben Jeroham, exegete and controversialist
- Yefet ben Ali, Babylonian commentator on the Bible
- Middle Period — 13th-17th century (1200-1699 CE)
- Aaron ben Elijah of Nicomedia (1328/9-1369), perhaps the most prominent Kara'ite theologian, considered the Kara'ite equivalent of his rabbinic contemporary, Maimonides
- Elijah Bashyazi (1420-1490), Hakham who codified Karaite laws
- Moses ben Elijah Bashyazi (1537-1555), wrote many Karaite books
- Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham of Troki, 16th century Lithuanian Kara'ite philosopher and writer who wrote the important apology or defense of Judaism vis-a-vis Christianity entitled Ḥizzuq Emunah (Fortification of Faith)
- Mordecai Sultansky (1772-1862), prominent scholar who wrote about angelology and the origin of Karaite Jews
- Early-Modern Era — 18th-19th centuries (1700-1947 CE)
- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891-1970), Russian-English mathematician
- Adolph Joffe (1883-1927), Russian communist revolutionary, Bolshevik politician, Soviet diplomat
- Avraham Firkovich, famous leader of the Crimean Karaites, a very important collector of manuscripts, who was an amateur archeologist
- Solomon Krym (1864–1936), deputy in the Russian Duma
- Samuel Maykapar (1867-1938), Soviet composer
- Seraya Shapshal (1873-1961), ḥakham of the Lithuanian Karaite community
- Sima Babovich (1790-1855), ḥakham of the Crimean Karaites
- Current-Modern Era — 20th-21st centuries (1948 CE-present)
- Avraham Kefeli, Ḥazzan in Ashdod, Israel
- Avraham Qanaï, Ḥakham of the Kara'ite congregation “Oraḥ Ṣaddiqim” in Albany, New York
- Melech ben Ya'aqov, Ḥakham of the [https://sites.google.com/site/worldallianceofqaraim/ World Alliance of Qara'im], and maintains the website Karaite Insights
- Joe Pessah, Congregation leader of congregation B'nai Y'Israel in Daly City, California
- Meir Rekhavi, Ḥakham and co-founder of the World Karaite Movement, holds the position of Chancellor for the Karaite Jewish University, maintains the website Rekhavi.karaitejudaism.org
- Moshe Marzouk (1926-1955), Egyptian Kara'ite Jew, hanged by Egypt for his participation in Israel's Operation Suzannah, also called the Lavon Affair
- Moshe ben Yosef Firrouz, Chief Rabbi and Vice-Chancellor of Karaite Jewish University, maintains the Karaim.net website
- Yochanan Zaqantov, Hazzan and Dean of Students of Karaite Jewish University, maintains the KaraiteJudaism.org website
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