39. Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer’s career in making the world laugh began in earnest as a contestant on a reality tv competition for stand-up comedians in 2007. Today, Amy, who was raised Jewish, is one of the most well-known female comedians on the planet. She has written and acted in countless sketch shows and films, performed stand-up for sell-out crowds, won Grammy and Tony awards and been nominated for multiple Emmys.

Cited by Time Magazine as one of its ‘Most Influential People’ and by Barbara Walters as one of the ’15 Most Fascinating People of 2015’, this hilarious girl from Long Island even has a fan in her childhood rabbi, Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin.

Rabbi Salkin, who wrote a blog for the Religious News Service in which he described Schumer’s family’s deep involvement in Jewish life, stated that he had enjoyed Amy’s movie, Trainwreck, and appreciated her ‘natural, quirky, blisteringly honest way of being herself’.