Sam Cohen

Samuel Herbert Cohen QC (26 October 1918 – 7 October 1969) was an Australian politician and barrister. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served as a Senator for Victoria from 1962 until his death in 1969. He was also a member of Gough Whitlam's shadow ministry from 1967. He was the first Jew elected to the Senate.

At the University of Melbourne Cohen won a scholarship to Queen's College, graduating Bachelor of Arts (1940), Bachelor of Laws (1941), and Master of Laws (1942). He was president of the Students' Representative Council and was involved in the National Union of Australian University Students. From 1942 to 1943 Cohen worked on the staff of Alfred Conlon in the Army Land Headquarters Research Section. He then worked with the Universities Commission in Sydney from 1943 to 1945. At the bar he specialised in industrial law, where he worked closely with another future Labor MP Clyde Holding, and was a pioneer of common-law workers' compensation claims.