Rav Naftali Trop, Rosh Yeshiva Radin (1871-1930). Born in Grodno, he studied with his father, Rav Moshe Trop, who was Rosh Yeshiva of a local yeshiva. At 14, he left for Kelm, then Solodka, then Telz, where he became close to Rav Eliezer Gordon. In 1889, he returned to Slobodka, when Rav Yaakov Yitzchak (Itzel) Rabinowitz was appointed Rosh Yeshiva. There, he became his close talmid. In 1890, Rav Hirshel Levitan appointed him Rosh Yeshiva of Or HaChaim in Slobodka. In 1903, he replaced Rav Moshe Landinski as Rosh Yeshiva in Radin, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Rav Moshe Segal of Lvov, known as Rosh Hagolah Umanhig Hamedinah (1719).
Rav Yitzchak Chiyus, Rav in Skolya (1726). Author of of the Mishnah commentary, Zera Yitzchak
Rav Nosson Adler, teacher of the Chasam Sofer, author of Mishnah DiRabi Nasan (1800)
Rav Yaakov Leib of Kvahl (1833)

Rav Eliyahu Tzarfati, author of Eliyahu Zuta (1805)

R. Elazar son of R. Shimon bar Yochai (102 CE)
Rav Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov (1721-1786). The son of son of Rabbi Yitzchak of Drohovitch, he was introduced by his father to the Baal Shem Tov at a young age. He was also a student of the Maggid of Mezritch. Many of his teachings are collected in Mayim Rabim. His disciples included Rav Yehoshua Heshel of Apta. The Zlotschover Maggid also had five sons, each of whom became Rebbe in a different place. They were R’ Yosef of Yampola, R’ Mordechai of Kremnitz, R’ Yitzchak of Radvil, R’ Binyamin of Zbariz and R’ Moshe of Zvhil, the first Zvhiller Rebbe.

Chabakuk Hanavi

Rav Yisrael of Pikov, son of Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (1818)
Rav Uri, the Seraph of Strelisk, author of Imrei Kodesh (1826). A disciple of Rav Shlomo of Karlin and of Rav Mordechai of eshchiz, he was the brother-in-law of Rav Menachem Mendel of Kosov. His main disciple was Rav Yehuda Zvi Hirsch, the first of the Stretyn dynasty.
Rav Yosef Baabad, the Minchas Chinuch (a commentary on Sefer Hachinuch), Rav of Tarnapol, Poland (1874). His “last name” is an acronym for B’nei Av Beit Din.
Rav Yitzchak Menachem Danziger, the Alexander Rebbe, author of Akeidas Yitzchak, killed in Treblinka with eightof his children (1942)

Rav Yaakov of Orleans, one of the Baalei Tosefos and a student of Rabbeinu Tam, was killed with many other Jews in London during pogroms after the coronation of King Richard the Lion-Hearted, 1189.

Rav Yehuda Loew, the Maharal (1525-1609). Born in Posen, Poland, on the night of the Pesach Seder, to a distinguished family of rabbis that traced its ancestry to King Dovid. He was the youngest of four brothers. The Maharal married at the age of 32 to Pearl. He had six girls and one boy who was named after the Maharal’s father, Betzalel. In 1553 he was elected rabbi of Nikolsburg and the Province of Moravia, where he remained for the following 20 years. In 1573 he moved to Prague, where he opened a yeshiva. In 1592 the Maharal accepted the position of rabbi in Posen, returning to Prague in 1598 to serve as its chief rabbi.

Rav Chaim Benveniste (1603 [or 1599]-1673). A disciple of Rav Yosef Trani. Born in Constantinople, he was appointed Rav of Tita (near Izmir) in 1644. In 1658, he was appointed one of the rabbis of Izmir (Smyrna); he eventually became Chief Rabbi there in the 1660s. He became an adherent of Shabsai Tzvi (1665-67) but subsequently repented. He authored Kenesses HaGedolah, a digest of halachic material from the time of Rav Yosef Caro until his own time.
Rav Nosson Nota Shapiro, maggid of Lublin (1752).
Rav Yosef Yoska of Dubno, author of Yesod Yosef, an encyclopedic work on mussar, drawing heavily on the Zohar (1800). A student of the Maggid of Mezritch.

Rav Avraham Landau, the Strikover Rebbe of Bnei Brak (1917-2001). Born in Kinov, in the Ostrovtze region of Poland. His father, Rav Yaakov Yitzchak Dan, served as rav of the city. Avraham was raised by his grandfather, Rav Elimelech Menachem Mendel. At the age of 13, Avraham began to study in the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva. When the second World War broke out, he was at his parents’ home and he fled with his father to Lodz, from which the family fled to Warsaw, and from there, at the directive of his father, Avraham fled to Baranowitz. A week after his arrival in Baranowitz he fled to Vilna, during Chanukah 1939. There, he began to study under the Griz (Rav Velvel Soloveitchik) of Brisk. In 1946, he married a great-granddaughter of the Chiddushei Harim of Gur.