Short answer: Yes. Larry Page's mother is Jewish, which the published biographies of him and independent reference sources both record, and his maternal grandfather emigrated to Israel. He was raised in a home without religion, and he has never publicly discussed religion or Jewish identity himself.
What the record actually shows
- Page's mother is Jewish and his maternal grandfather later emigrated to Israel, while the household Page grew up in was secular. This traces to the published biographies of Page by Janet Lowe (2009) and Corona Brezina (2013).
- The same account appears in an independent reference publisher: EBSCO's Research Starters biography states that "Although Page's mother was Jewish, he was raised in a home without religion, favoring his father's view that his religion was technology." (EBSCO)
- His father was a computer science professor at Michigan State University, and his mother taught computer programming there, a household EBSCO's biography sums up as one where technology was the family religion.
- Page's father's side is not Jewish. In his University of Michigan commencement address on May 2, 2009, Page described his father's father as an assembly line worker at the Chevy plant in Flint, Michigan, who "used to carry an 'Alley Oop' hammer – a heavy iron pipe with a hunk of lead melted on the end." (Google press blog) That speech, his most personal public statement on record, is entirely about family, Michigan and Google, with no mention of religion, Judaism or Israel.
- Jewish outlets have routinely included him on lists of Jewish billionaires. JTA listed the "Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, at 20 and 21, with $23 billion and $22.8 billion" on the 2013 Forbes billionaires list, released March 4, (JTA) and again on the list of March 2, 2015. (JTA) The Times of Israel counted him among "five members of the tribe" in the top 10 of the 2018 Forbes 400, released October 3. (Times of Israel)
- In July 2025, reporting on an internal Google forum exchange, JTA wrote that "Page is also Jewish and also has not commented publicly on Israel or the war in Gaza." (JTA)
- Page speaks publicly very rarely, and there is a documented reason. On May 14, 2013 he disclosed left vocal cord paralysis, writing that "About 14 years ago, I got a bad cold, and my voice became hoarse... my voice never fully recovered" and that "Thankfully, after some initial recovery I'm fully able to do all I need to at home and at work, though my voice is softer than before." (CBS News)
Why people ask
The biggest driver is his co-founder. Sergey Brin's Jewish story is famous and well documented: his family left the Soviet Union in 1979 to escape antisemitism, a story Brin has told publicly for decades. On October 25, 2009, the thirtieth anniversary of his family's arrival, Brin gave $1 million to HIAS and said, "I would have never had the kinds of opportunities I've had here in the Soviet Union, or even in Russia today." (JTA) Because the two men are named together in almost every sentence ever written about Google's founding, Brin's biography gets read onto Page.
The second driver is that the question does not resolve on sight. The surname Page reads as Anglo, his father's side is not Jewish, and Page himself has never said a word about religion in public. Add the sheer scale of Google, which makes him a permanent fixture of "who runs tech" speculation, and the question keeps getting asked even though the documented answer sits in his published biographies.
Larry Page and Israel
His only documented connection to Israel is a family one: his maternal grandfather emigrated there, as recorded in the biographies of Page. Beyond that there is no public record. JTA reported in July 2025 that Page has not commented publicly on Israel or the war in Gaza, and as of August 2026 there is still no public statement from him on religion, Jewish identity, antisemitism or Israel. Full details in our companion piece Does Larry Page Support Israel?.
The bottom line
Larry Page is Jewish through his mother, and his maternal grandfather moved to Israel. He was raised without religion, in a house where, as his biographers put it, his father's religion was technology. He has never spoken publicly about Jewish identity, and nothing in the record through August 2026 changes that.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
