This is a list of people who were either born or have lived in

the Bronx The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...

, a

borough A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely. History In the Middle Ag ...

of New York City, at some time in their lives. Many of the early historical figures lived in that part of

Westchester County Westchester County is located in the U.S. state of New York. It is the seventh most populous county in the State of New York and the most populous north of New York City. According to the 2020 United States Census, the county had a population o ...

which later became part of the Bronx.

Academics and science

Richard Alba Richard D. Alba (born December 22, 1942) is an American sociologist, who is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is known for developing assimilation theory to fit the contemporary, multi-racial era of immigration, with stud ...

(born 1942) – Distinguished

CCNY The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Founded in 1847, City ...

Professor of ethnicity and assimilation *

Jill Bargonetti Jill Bargonetti is an American professor at the City University of New York with dual appointments at Hunter College and The Graduate Center. Her research is focused on tumor suppressor protein p53 and its role as an oncogene when it is mutated ...

(born 1962) – biologist and Presidential Early Career Award winner *

Marshall Berman Marshall Howard Berman (November 23, 1940–September 11, 2013) was an American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer. He was a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the City U ...

(1940–2013) – philosopher of modernity; author of ''All That Is Solid Melts into Air'' * Norman Birnbaum (1926–2019) – author, educator, political advisor; University Professor Emeritus,

Georgetown University Law Center The Georgetown University Law Center (Georgetown Law) is the law school of Georgetown University, a private research university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1870 and is the largest law school in the United States by enrollment and ...

; taught at

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

University of Strasbourg The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. The French university traces its history to the ea ...

Ira Black Ira Barrie Black (March 18, 1941 – January 10, 2006) was an American physician and neuroscientist who was an advocate of stem cell research and was the first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey at Robert Wood Johnson Medical ...

(1941–2006) –

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, Biological neural network, n ...

and stem-cell researcher; first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey *

Xavier Briggs Xavier de Souza Briggs (born 1968) is an American educator, social scientist, and policy expert, known for his work on economic opportunity, social capital, democratic governance, and leading social change. He has influenced housing and urban po ...

(born 1968) – Former professor of planning at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

, former associate director of

Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, but it also examines agency programs, pol ...

, former vice-president of

Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a US$25,000 gift from Edsel Ford. By 1947, after the death ...

. Sometimes known as "Xavier de Souza Briggs" *

Roscoe Brown Roscoe Conkling Brown Jr. (March 9, 1922 – July 2, 2016) was one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a squadron commander of the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group. Career He was appointed to this position in June 1945, which was after ...

(1922–2016) –

Tuskegee airman The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African American military pilots (fighter and bomber) and airmen who fought in World War II. They formed the 332d Fighter Group and the 477th Fighter Group, 477th Bombardment Group (Medium) of the ...

, exercise physiologist, President,

Bronx Community College The Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (BCC) is a public community college in the Bronx, New York City. It is part of the City University of New York system. History The college was established in 1957 through the eff ...

, New York City political adviser *

Morton Deutsch Morton Deutsch (February 4, 1920 – March 13, 2017) was an American social psychologist and researcher in conflict resolution. Deutsch was one of the founding fathers of the field of conflict resolution. A '' Review of General Psychology'' surve ...

(1920–2017) –

conflict resolution Conflict resolution is conceptualized as the methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution. Committed group members attempt to resolve group conflicts by actively communicating information abou ...

expert *

W.E.B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up i ...

(1868–1963) – sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist. *

Gertrude B. Elion Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovat ...

(1918–1999) – Nobel Prize biochemist and pharmacologist *

Murray Gell-Mann Murray Gell-Mann (; September 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019) was an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. He was the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical ...

(1929–2019) – Nobel Prize physicist of sub-atomic particle. *

Todd Gitlin Todd Alan Gitlin (January 6, 1943 – February 5, 2022) was an American sociologist, political activist and writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He wrote about the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular an ...

(born 1943) – sociologist; co-founder of

Students for a Democratic Society Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s, and was one of the principal representations of the New Left. Disdaining permanent leaders, hierarchical relationships ...

Fred Greenstein Fred Irwin Greenstein (September 1, 1930 – December 3, 2018) was an American political scientist, known for his work on political leadership and the US presidency. Born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1930, Greenstein completed a bachelor's degr ...

(1930–2018) – political scientist who psychologically assessed U.S. presidents *

Henry Heimlich Henry Judah Heimlich (February 3, 1920 – December 17, 2016) was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher. He is widely credited as the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, a technique of abdominal thrusts for stopping choking, first ...

(1920–2016) – physician inventor of the Heimlich maneuver *

Matthew Henson Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. They spent a total of 18 years on expeditions together.

(1866–1955) – Explorer, co-discoverer of the North Pole (with Robert Peary) * Gary Hermalyn (born 1953) – Centennial Historian of New York City,

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wide ...

scholar *

Irving Howe Irving Howe (; June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America. Early years Howe was born as Irving Horenstein in The Bronx, New York. He was the son o ...

(1920–1993) – literary critic, socialist writer, author of ''World of Our Fathers'' * Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) – Government Professor at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

; co-editor of ''

Foreign Policy A State (polity), state's foreign policy or external policy (as opposed to internal or domestic policy) is its objectives and activities in relation to its interactions with other states, unions, and other political entities, whether bilaterall ...

''; author of political science works related to the modernization of societies, particularly those of developing nations * Barbara Jasny (born 1952) – deputy editor of Science; co-editor Catalysts, Women of Science Fiction *

Adrian Kantrowitz Adrian Kantrowitz (October 4, 1918 – November 14, 2008) was an American cardiac surgeon whose team performed the world's second heart transplant attempt (after Christiaan Barnard) at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York on December 6, ...

(1918–2008) – cardiac-surgery pioneer''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' obituary. November 20, 2008. *

Arthur Kantrowitz Arthur Robert Kantrowitz (October 20, 1913 – November 29, 2008) was an American scientist, engineer, and educator. Kantrowitz grew up in The Bronx and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School.Overbye, Dennis"Arthur R. Kantrowitz, Whose ...

(1913–2008) –

nose cone A nose cone is the conically shaped forwardmost section of a rocket, guided missile or aircraft, designed to modulate oncoming airflow behaviors and minimize aerodynamic drag. Nose cones are also designed for submerged watercraft such a ...

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

; co-inventor of the

intra-aortic balloon pump The intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) is a mechanical device that increases myocardial oxygen perfusion and indirectly increases cardiac output through afterload reduction. It consists of a cylindrical polyurethane balloon that sits in the aorta, ...

Jeffrey Lane Jeffrey Lane is an author, television scriptwriter, film producer and actor. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Career Broadway Lane wrote the book for the musical '' Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'', which ran on Broadway in 2005 and was nominate ...

– urban ethnographer,

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

Robert Lefkowitz Robert Joseph Lefkowitz (born April 15, 1943) is an American physician (internist and cardiologist) and biochemist. He is best known for his groundbreaking discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family G protein-coupled recep ...

(born 1943) – 2012 recipient of Nobel prize for chemistry of protein receptors *

Howard Lesnick Howard Lesnick (April 22, 1931 – April 19, 2020) was the Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Biography Lesnick was born into a Jewish family in New York City to George L. and Sadie (R ...

(1931–2020) – Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law,

University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and olde ...

Norman Levitt Norman Jay Levitt (August 27, 1943 – October 24, 2009) was an American mathematician at Rutgers University. Education Levitt was born in The Bronx and received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1963. He received a PhD from Princeton Un ...

(1943–2009) – mathematician at

Paul Levinson Paul Levinson (born March 25, 1947) is an American author, singer-songwriter, and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. His novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into ...

(born 1947) –

science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel univers ...

and non-fiction author; communications professor * Kenneth Lewes (1943–2020) – psychoanalyst who challenged prejudicial view of homosexuality. *

Ronald Mallett Ronald Lawrence Mallett (born March 30, 1945) is an American theoretical physicist, academic and author. He has been a faculty member of the University of Connecticut since 1975 and is best known for his scientific position on the possibility of ...

(born 1945) –

theoretical physicist Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimen ...

time travel Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space by an object or a person, typically with the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a w ...

* Barry Mazur (born 1937) – mathematician and Fellow of the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

* Joseph M. McShane (born 1942) –

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priest; president of

Fordham University Fordham University () is a Private university, private Jesuit universities, Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the The Bronx, Bronx in which its origina ...

Stanley Milgram Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiments on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.Blass, T. (2004). ''The Man Who Shocke ...

(1933–1984) – psychologist known for obedience to authority and small world studies *

Joseph A. O'Hare Joseph Aloysius O'Hare (February 12, 1931 – March 29, 2020) was a Jesuit priest, New York City civic leader and editor. He was president of Fordham University from 1984 to 2003 and chaired New York City's Campaign Finance Board for its first ...

(1931–2020) –

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priest; longest-serving president of

(1984–2003); first chair of

New York City Campaign Finance Board The New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB) is an independent New York City agency that serves to provide campaign finance information to the public, enable more citizens to run for office by granting public matching funds, increase voter part ...

(1988–2003) *

Jay Pasachoff Jay Myron Pasachoff (July 1, 1943 – November 20, 2022) was an American astronomer. Pasachoff was Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and the author of textbooks and tradebooks in astronomy, physics, mathematics, and other ...

(1943–2022) –

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, g ...

, umbraphile *

Carolyn Porco Carolyn C. Porco (born March 6, 1953) is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging scienc ...

(born 1953) –

planetary scientist Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their ...

; leader of the Cassini space observatory team at the

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of t ...

Space Science Institute The Space Science Institute (SSI) in Boulder, Colorado, is a nonprofit, public-benefit corporation formed in 1992. Its purpose is to create and maintain an environment where scientific research and education programs can flourish in an in ...

, studying

Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine and a half times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth; h ...

Allan Pred Allan Richard Pred (1936 – 2007) was an internationally known American geographer and professor at the University of California at Berkeley He wrote more than 20 books and monographs, translated into seven languages, and over 70 articles and ...

(1936–2007) – geographer at

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

and

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

Howard Raiffa Howard Raiffa (; January 24, 1924 – July 8, 2016) was an American academic who was the Frank P. Ramsey Professor (Emeritus) of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He w ...

(1924–2016) – economist; negotiation scientist *

Murray Rothbard Murray Newton Rothbard (; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School, economic historian, political theorist, and activist. Rothbard was a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian m ...

(1926–1995) – economist; helped define modern

libertarianism Libertarianism (from french: libertaire, "libertarian"; from la, libertas, "freedom") is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as a core value. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state's en ...

Ken Schaffer Ken Schaffer is an American inventor and former publicist. Inventor In 1975 Schaffer invented the Schaffer–Vega diversity system, a low-noise/wide dynamic range wireless guitar system that was form-factored as a wireless microphone in 1976. Scha ...

(born 1947) – inventor; invented the wireless guitar system, video

placeshifting Space shifting (or spaceshifting), also known as place shifting (or placeshifting), allows media, such as music or films, which are stored on one device, to be accessed from another place through another device. Space shifting is frequently done thr ...

Joseph Francis Shea Joseph Francis Shea (September 5, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager. Born in the New York City borough of the Bronx, he was educated at the University of Michigan, receiving a Ph.D. in Engineeri ...

(1925–1999) –

aerospace engineer Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...

; headed

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

's Apollo program * Gary Simons – founder of

Prep for Prep Prep for Prep is a leadership development and gifted education program dedicated to expanding educational access to students of color. The organization's programs are targeted toward high achieving New York City minority students and helps with ...

gifted education program in NYC * Robert Sobel (1931–1999) – historian and writer; history professor at

Hofstra University Hofstra University is a private university in Hempstead, New York. It is Long Island's largest private university. Hofstra originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University (NYU) under the name Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of Ne ...

; writer of business histories *

Edward Soja Edward William Soja (; 1940–2015) was a self-described urbanist, a noted postmodern political geographer and urban theorist on the planning faculty at UCLA, where he was Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, and the London School of Ec ...

(1940–2015) – postmodern political geography and urban theorist at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

* Michael I. Sovern (1931–2020) – Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and President Emeritus of Columbia University * Robert Spinrad (1932–2009) –

computer designer Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers ...

; director of the

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Xerox Holdings Corporation (; also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (having moved from Sta ...

Mark Steiner Mark Steiner (May 6, 1942 – April 6, 2020) was an American-born Israeli professor of philosophy. He taught philosophy of mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Steiner died after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-1 ...

(1942–2020) – professor of philosophy of mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem *

Leonard Susskind Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940)his 60th birthday was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.in Geoffrey West's introduction, he gives Suskind's current age as 74 and says his birthday was recent. is an American physicis ...

(born 1940) – theoretical physicist *

Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson ( or ; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a po ...

(born 1959) – astrophysicist; director of the

American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 26 inter ...

Hayden Planetarium The Rose Center for Earth and Space is a part of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The Center's complete name is The Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space. The main entrance is located on the no ...

; host of PBS's educational-television series ''

NOVA scienceNOW ''Nova ScienceNow'' (styled ''NOVΛ scienceNOW'') is a spinoff of the long-running and venerable PBS science program ''Nova''. Premiering on January 25, 2005, the series was originally hosted by Robert Krulwich, who described it as an experiment ...

'' and Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (2014) and Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020). *

Lloyd Ultan (historian) Lloyd Ultan (born 1938) is a historian and author. A native of The Bronx in New York City, he has been the borough's historian since 1996. He is a professor of history at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies ...

(born 1938) – official historian of the Bronx *

Allen Weinstein Allen Weinstein (September 1, 1937 – June 18, 2015) was an American historian, educator, and federal official who served in several different offices. He was, under the Reagan administration, cofounder of the National Endowment for Democracy in ...

(1937–2015) – historian;

Archivist of the United States The Archivist of the United States is the head and chief administrator of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the United States. The Archivist is responsible for the supervision and direction of the National Archives. The ...

Barry Wellman Barry Wellman (born 1942) is a Canadian-American sociologist and is the co-director of the Toronto-based international NetLab Network. His areas of research are community sociology, the Internet, human-computer interaction and social structur ...

(born 1942) – sociologist;

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

professor studying

social networks A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for an ...

, community and the Internet *

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay ...

(1921–2011) –

medical physicist A medical physicist is a health professional with specialist education and training in the concepts and techniques of applying physics in medicine and competent to practice independently in one or more of the subfields (specialties) of medical physi ...

; co-winner of the 1977

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accord ...

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (May 20, 1932 – December 8, 2009) was the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society at Columbia University, a position he held from 1980 to 2008. Early life and education Yerushalmi was born in t ...

(1932–2009) – historian;

Salo Baron Salo Wittmayer Baron (May 26, 1895 – November 25, 1989) was a Polish-born American historian, described as "the greatest Jewish historian of the 20th century". Baron taught at Columbia University from 1930 until his retirement in 1963. Life ...

Professor of

Jewish history Jewish history is the history of the Jews, and their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures. Although Judaism as a religion first appears in Greek records during the Hellenisti ...

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Arts

Architecture, art and photography

Vito Acconci Vito Acconci (, ; January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an influential American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design. His foundational p ...

(1940–2017) – architect,

landscape architect A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture. The practice of landscape architecture includes: site analysis, site inventory, site planning, land planning, planting design, grading, storm water manageme ...

and

installation artist Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...

Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and is considered an enduring figure from the New H ...

(born 1944) – photographer *

Richard Avedon Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Vogue'' and ''Elle'' specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and danc ...

(1923–2004) – photographer *

Alvin Baltrop Alvin Baltrop (December 11, 1948 – February 1, 2004) was an American photographer. Baltrop's work focused on the dilapidated Hudson River piers and gay men during the 1970s and 1980s prior to the AIDS crisis. Early life Baltrop was born i ...

(1948–2004) – photographer *

Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Bourke-White (; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971), an American list of photographers, photographer and documentary photography, documentary photographer, became arguably best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take p ...

(1904–1971) – photographer (including

documentary photographer Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life. It is typically undertaken as professional pho ...

) *

Cope2 Fernando Carlo (also known as Cope2) is an artist from the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, New York. Early life He has been a graffiti artist since 1985. Cope2's cousin "Chico 80" influenced Cope into writing. In 1982, he made his own crew ca ...

(born 1968) –

graffiti artist Graffiti (plural; singular ''graffiti'' or ''graffito'', the latter rarely used except in archeology) is art that is written, painted or drawn on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from s ...

Willie Cole Willie Cole (born 1955 in Somerville, New Jersey) is a contemporary American sculptor, printer, and conceptual and visual artist. His work uses contexts of postmodern eclecticism, and combines references and appropriation from African and Afr ...

(born 1955) – artist; uses found material such as his "America" blackboard Frazier, Ian (December 21, 2009). "Dept. of Orientation: El Super". ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'', p. 50. * Ralph Fasanella (1914–1997) – painter *

Ron Galella Ronald Edward Galella (January 10, 1931 – April 30, 2022) was an American photographer, known as a pioneer paparazzo. Dubbed "Paparazzo Extraordinaire" by ''Newsweek'' and "the Godfather of the U.S. paparazzi culture" by ''Time'' magazine and ...

(born 1931) – paparazzo photographer * Horace Ginsbern (1902–1987) – architect; designed the landmark

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

Park Plaza Apartments on

Jerome Avenue Jerome Avenue is one of the longest thoroughfares in the New York City borough of the Bronx, New York, United States. The road is long and stretches from Concourse to Woodlawn. Both of these termini are with the Major Deegan Expressway which ...

in the Bronx, and other New York City structures Rosenblum, Constance (August 20, 2009)
"Grand Wasn't It?"
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''. Retrieved October 29, 2011. *

Milton Glaser Milton Glaser (June 26, 1929June 26, 2020) was an American graphic designer. His most notable designs include the I Love New York logo, a 1966 poster for Bob Dylan, and the logos for DC Comics, Stony Brook University and Brooklyn Brewery. In 1954 ...

(1929–2020) –

graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...

; designer of the "

I Love New York I Love New York (stylized ) is a slogan, a logo, and a song that are the basis of an advertising campaign developed by the marketing firm of Wells, Rich, Greene under the directorship of Mary Wells Lawrence used since 1977 to promote tourism i ...

" logo *

Garry Gross Garry Gross (November 6, 1937 – November 30, 2010) was an American fashion photographer who went on to specialize in dog portraiture. Career Born in New York, Gross began his career as a commercial photographer, apprenticing with photogra ...

(1937–2010) –

fashion photographer Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items, sometimes haute couture. It typically consists of a fashion photographer taking a picture of a dressed model in a photographic studio ...

(including nude images of

Brooke Shields Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and model. She was initially a child model and gained critical acclaim at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film ''Pretty Baby'' (1978). She continued to model into ...

at age ten), dog

portraiture A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this r ...

photographer and

dog trainer Dog training is the application of behavior analysis which uses the environmental events of antecedents (trigger for a behavior) and consequences to modify the dog behavior, either for it to assist in specific activities or undertake particular ...

* Sabin Howard (born 1963) – figurative sculptor, noted for U.S.

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

national monument *

Al Held Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, howe ...

(1928–2005) – abstract painter; associated with

Abstract expressionism Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...

Hard-edge Hard-edge painting is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. The Hard-edge painting style is related to Geometric abstraction, Op Art, Post-painterly Abstraction, and C ...

and Color Field painting *

Joel Iskowitz Joel Iskowitz (born August 15, 1946) is an American designer, book illustrator, print artist and stamp, coin and medal designer. From an initial interest in medical illustration, this graphic artist has branched to other fields. He specializes in ...

(born 1946) – illustrator, artist, designer for

United States Mint The United States Mint is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury responsible for producing coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce, as well as controlling the movement of bullion. It does not produce paper money; tha ...

Marcey Jacobson Marcella "Marcey" Jacobson (September 27, 1911 – July 26, 2009) was an American photographer who moved to Chiapas, Mexico in the 1950s, and was best known for her photographs of the indigenous peoples of Southern Mexico. Early life Jacobson ...

(1911–2009) – photographer; images of daily life in

Chiapas Chiapas (; Tzotzil language, Tzotzil and Tzeltal language, Tzeltal: ''Chyapas'' ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, ...

, Mexico *

C. Paul Jennewein Carl Paul Jennewein (December 2, 1890 – February 22, 1978) was a German-born American sculptor. Early career Jennewein was born in Stuttgart in Germany. At the age of seventeen, he immigrated to the United States in 1907. He was apprentic ...

(1890–1978) – sculptor *

Ivan Karp Ivan C. Karp (June 4, 1926 – June 28, 2012) was an American art dealer, gallerist and author instrumental in the emergence of pop art and the development of Manhattan's SoHo gallery district in the 1960s. Ivan Karp was born in the Bronx and gr ...

(1926–2012) –

art dealer An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art, or acts as the intermediary between the buyers and sellers of art. An art dealer in contemporary art typically seeks out various artists to represent, and builds relationshi ...

Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films, almost all of which are adaptations of nove ...

(1928–1999) – director, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, storyteller *

Ronnie Landfield Ronnie Landfield (born January 9, 1947) is an American abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction (related to Postminimalism, Color Field painting, an ...

(born 1947) – abstract painter; associated with

lyrical abstraction Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting: ''European Abstraction Lyrique'' born in Paris, the French art critic Jean José Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered ...

, and color field painting *

Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect. He is known for the design a ...

(born 1946) – architect *

Glenn Ligon Glenn Ligon (born 1960, pronounced Lie-gōne) is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity.Meyer, Richard. "Glenn Ligon", in George E. Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmerman (eds), ''Gay Histories a ...

(born 1960) –

conceptual artist Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called instal ...

Whitfield Lovell Whitfield Lovell (born October 2, 1959) is a contemporary African-American artist who is known primarily for his drawings of African-American individuals from the first half of the 20th century. Lovell creates these drawings in pencil, oil stick, ...

(born 1959) – painter and

; focuses on

African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American ...

themes;

MacArthur Fellow The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

(2007) * Jules Maidoff (born 1933) – artist, teacher and founder of Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy *

Gerard Malanga Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, actor, curator and archivist. Early life Malanga was born in the Bronx in 1943, the only child of Italian immigrant parents. In 1959, at the beginning of h ...

(born 1943) – poet, photographer, filmmaker, actor, curator and archivist *

Joel Meyerowitz Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the id ...

(born 1938) – photographer *

Rick Meyerowitz Rick Meyerowitz (born November 29, 1943) is an American artist, and author. He is best known for his work for '' National Lampoon'' magazine and its spin-offs, including his poster for the comedy film ''Animal House''. Early life Meyerowitz was ...

(born 1943) – artist *

Ralph Morse Ralph Theodore Morse (October 23, 1917 – December 7, 2014) was a career staff photographer for '' Life'' magazine. He photographed some of the most widely seen pictures of World War II, the United States space program, and sports events, and wa ...

(1917–2015) – photographer *

Piccirilli Brothers The Piccirilli brothers were an Italian family of renowned marble carvers and sculptors who carved many of the most significant marble sculptures in the United States, including Daniel Chester French’s colossal ''Abraham Lincoln'' (1920) in the ...

(including father, Giuseppe Piccirilli (1844–1910), and his six sons – Ferruccio (1864–1945), Attilio (1866–1945), Furio (1868–1949), Masaniello (1870–1951), Orazio (1872–1954) and Getulio (1874–1956)) – sculptors *

Larry Rivers Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg) (1923 – 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the first artists ...

(1923–2002) – artist * Joel Arthur Rosenthal (born 1943) – jeweler * Merryll Saylan (born 1936) –

woodturner Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a simple mechanism that can generate a variety of forms. The operator ...

Edwin Scheier Edwin Scheier (November 11, 1910 – April 20, 2008) was an American artist, best known for his ceramic works with his wife, Mary Scheier. Early life Edwin Scheier was born in The Bronx, New York, to a Jewish German immigrant father, and an ...

(1910–2008) – artist *

Phil Stern Philip "Snapdragon" Stern (September 3, 1919 – December 13, 2014) was an American photographer noted for his iconic portraits of Hollywood stars, as well as his war photography while serving as a U.S. Army Ranger with "Darby's Rangers" during ...

(1919–2014) – Hollywood, WWII and White House photographer *

George Sugarman George Sugarman (11 May 1912 – 25 August 1999) was an American artist working in the mediums of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Often described as controversial and forward-thinking, Sugarman's prolific body of work defies a definitive styl ...

(1912–1999) – sculptor *

Raven B. Varona Raven B. Varona (born 1990), also known as Ravie B., is an American photographer. She is best known for serving as an official photographer for Beyoncé and Jay-Z's 2018 On the Run II Tour, for which she was nominated an iHeartRadio award. Early ...

– photographer. *

Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Charles Weiner (February 10, 1942December 2, 2021) was an American conceptual artist. He was one of the central figures in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s. His work often took the form of typographic texts, a form of word a ...

(1942-2021) – artist; associated with

conceptual art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called insta ...

Marian Zazeela Marian Zazeela (born April 15, 1940) is an American light artist, designer, calligrapher, painter and musician based in New York City. She was a member of the 1960s experimental music collective Theatre of Eternal Music, and is known for her collab ...

(born 1940) –

light art Light art or The Art of Light is generally referring to a visual art form in which (physical) light is the main, if not sole medium of creation. Uses of the term differ drastically in incongruence; definitions, if existing, vary in several asp ...

ist, painter, and

set design Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, or set design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but in recent years, are mostly trained ...

er; also musician of

Hindustani classical music Hindustani classical music is the classical music of northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. It may also be called North Indian classical music or, in Hindustani, ''shastriya sangeet'' (). It is played in instruments like the violin, sita ...

Journalists and writers

Sholem Aleichem ) , birth_date = , birth_place = Pereiaslav, Russian Empire , death_date = , death_place = New York City, U.S. , occupation = Writer , nationality = , period = , genre = Novels, sh ...

(1859–1916) – author *

William Henry Appleton William Henry Appleton (January 27, 1814 – October 19, 1899) was an American publisher, eldest son and successor of Daniel Appleton. Early life William Henry Appleton was born on January 27, 1814 at Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was the eldest ...

(1814–1899) – publisher *

Army Archerd Armand Andre Archerd (January 13, 1922 – September 8, 2009) was an American columnist for ''Variety'' for over fifty years before retiring his "Just for Variety" column in September 2005. In November 2005, Archerd began blogging for ''Variety'' ...

(1922–1999) – columnist for ''

Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films * ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont * ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...

'' *

James Baldwin James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer. He garnered acclaim across various media, including essays, novels, plays, and poems. His first novel, '' Go Tell It on the Mountain'', was published in 1953; de ...

(1924–1987) – playwright and essayist *

Harold Bloom Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was described as "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking wor ...

(1930–2019) – literary critic *

Leslie Brody Leslie Brody (born 1952) is an American author. Born in the Bronx and brought up on Long Island, Brody went to grade school in Riverhead, New York and high school in Massapequa, New York. At 17 years old, she left home to become an underground p ...

(born 1952) – non-fiction author *

Robert Caro Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote ''The Power Br ...

(born 1935) – non-fiction author of biographies of

Robert Moses Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid 20th century. Despite never being elected to any office, Moses is regarded ...

and

Lyndon Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...

Jerome Charyn Jerome Charyn (born May 13, 1937) is an American writer. With nearly 50 published works over a 50-year span, Charyn has a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life, writing in multiple ge ...

(born 1937) – prolific novelist and author of several memoirs *

Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...

(1927–2020) – best-selling author of suspense novels *

Avery Corman Avery Corman (born November 28, 1935)"Avery Corman." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. 2015. Gale. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, 2019-04-14. is an American novelist. He is known for the books ''Oh, God!'' (1971) and ''Kramer Ver ...

(born 1935) – novelist; author of ''The Old Neighborhood'', set in the Bronx *

Don DeLillo Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, per ...

(born 1936) – novelist *

E. L. Doctorow Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (January 6, 1931 – July 21, 2015) was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama. They included ...

(1931–2015) – author *

Will Eisner William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series ''The Spirit'' (1940–1952) was no ...

(1917–2005) – author of ''

A Contract with God ''A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories'' is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner published in 1978. The book's short story cycle revolves around poor Jewish characters who live in a tenement in New York City. Eisner pro ...

'' and other

graphic novels A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art. The term ''graphic novel'' is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comic scholars and industry ...

and instruction books *

Jules Feiffer Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929)''Comics Buyer's Guide'' #1650; February 2009; Page 107 is an American cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as North- ...

(born 1929) – cartoonist (primarily in ''

The Village Voice ''The Village Voice'' is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, the ''Voice'' began as a platform for the crea ...

''); playwright, screenwriter *

Bill Finger Milton "Bill" Finger (February 8, 1914 – January 18, 1974) was an American comic strip, comic book, film and television writer who was the co-creator (with Bob Kane) of the DC Comics character Batman. Despite making major (sometimes, signatu ...

(1917–1974) – writer co-creator of Batman comic book *

Vivian Gornick Vivian Gornick (born June 14, 1935) is an American radical feminist critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist. Early Life and Education In 1957 Gornick received a bachelor of arts degree from City College of New York and in 1960 a master of a ...

(born 1935) – American critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist *

Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker (born November 27, 1942) is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York. Her books of poetry include ''Presentation Piece'' (1974), which won the National Book Award, ...

(born 1942) – poet, critic, reviewer * Phil Hall (born 1964) – film critic *

Hy Hollinger Herman "Hy" Hollinger (September 3, 1918 – October 7, 2015) was an American trade journalist and studio publicist. He covered the entertainment industry for both ''Variety'' (1953–1960, 1979–1992) and ''The Hollywood Reporter'' (1992–2008) ...

(1918–2015) – journalist for ''

'' and ''

The Hollywood Reporter ''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade pap ...

'' *

Max Kadushin Max Kadushin ( be, Макс Кадушын; December 6, 1895 – July 23, 1980) was a Conservative Judaism, Conservative rabbi best known for his organic philosophy of rabbinics. Biography Born in Minsk, Max Kadushin grew up in Seattle; his father ...

(1895–1980) – rabbi, theologian and author at Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale * Bel Kaufman (1911–2014) – novelist author of ''Up the Down Staircase'' about NYC schools in the 1950s * William Melvin Kelley (1937–2017) – novelist, short-story writer, university professor *

Annie Lanzillotto Annie Lanzillotto (born June 1, 1963) is an American author, poet, songwriter, director, actor, podcaster, and performance artist. Her book, '' L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir'' was published by State University of New Yo ...

(born 1963) – poet, author, dramatist, songwriter *

Stan Lee Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber ; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Publications which ...

(1922–2018) – leading creator of

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is an American comic book publishing, publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a divsion of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, ''Magazine Management/Atlas Co ...

(born 1947) – science fiction and non-fiction author *

Anthony Lewis Anthony Lewis (March 27, 1927 – March 25, 2013) was an American public intellectual and journalist. He was twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and was a columnist for ''The New York Times''. He is credited with creating the field of legal jour ...

(1927–2013) – ''New York Times'' legal reporter, specializing in coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court *

Eleazar Lipsky Eleazar Lipsky (September 6, 1911 – February 14, 1993) was a prosecutor, lawyer, novelist and playwright born in the Bronx, New York, United States. He wrote the novels that formed the basis of two very successful films, '' Kiss of Death'' ( ...

(1911-1993) – lawyer, novelist, playwright, president of the

Jewish Telegraphic Agency The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) is an international news agency and wire service, founded in 1917, serving Jewish community newspapers and media around the world as well as non-Jewish press, with about 70 syndication clients listed on its web ...

Miles Marshall Lewis Miles Marshall Lewis (born December 18, 1970) is an American pop culture critic, essayist, literary editor, fiction writer, and music journalist. He is a graduate of Morehouse College, class of 1993. Career Lewis was born in The Bronx, Ne ...

(born 1970) – pop-culture critic *

Kenneth Lonergan Kenneth Lonergan (born October 16, 1962) is an American film director, playwright, and screenwriter. He is the co-writer of the film ''Gangs of New York'' (2002), and wrote and directed '' You Can Count on Me'' (2000), ''Margaret'' (2011), and ' ...

(born 1962) – playwright and screenwriter *

Lynda Lopez Lynda Lopez (born June 14, 1971) is an American journalist and author based in New York City. She is also a co-founder of Nuyorican Productions, an American production company founded in 2001 with Benny Medina which became active in 2006 with the ...

(born 1971) – journalist, multiple

broadcast network A terrestrial network (or broadcast network in the United States) is a group of radio stations, television stations, or other electronic media outlets, that form an agreement to air, or broadcast, content from a centralized source. For example, ...

s * Ray Marcano – medical reporter and music critic *

John Matteson John Matteson (born March 3, 1961) is an American professor of English and legal writing at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his first book, '' Eden's Out ...

(born 1961) –

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

–winning biographer *

Judith Merril Judith Josephine Grossman (January 21, 1923 – September 12, 1997), who took the pen-name Judith Merril around 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the first women to be wid ...

(1923–1997) – science-fiction editor and author *

Steve Mirsky Steve Mirsky is a writer for ''Scientific American'', the host of the magazine's longform science podcast, Science Talk'. and the producer of the dail60-Second Sciencepodcast. Mirsky has also writteScientific American's monthly “Anti Gravity” ...

– ''

Scientific American ''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it. In print since 1845, it i ...

'' columnist *

Nicholasa Mohr Nicholasa Mohr (born November 1, 1938) is one of the best known Nuyorican writers, born in the United States to Puerto Rican parents. In 1973, she became the first Nuyorican woman in the 20th century to have her literary works published by the maj ...

(born 1938) –

Nuyorican Nuyorican is a portmanteau of the terms "New York" and "Puerto Rican" and refers to the members or culture of the Puerto Ricans located in or around New York City, or of their descendants (especially those raised or currently living in the N ...

writer about Puerto Rican women in New York *

Mwalim Mwalim (Morgan James Peters I, born June 6, 1968), also known as "Mwalim *7" and "Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor" is an American performing artist, writer, and educator. He is a tenured associate professor of English and former director of Black Stud ...

(born 1968) – playwright, composer, and novelist *

Davi Napoleon Davi Napoleon, also known as Davida Skurnick and Davida Napoleon (born 1946), is an American theater historian and critic as well as a freelance feature writer. She is a regular contributor to ''Live Design'', a monthly magazine about entertainmen ...

(born 1946) – theater historian and arts journalist *

Clifford Odets Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, as O'Neill began to withdra ...

(1906–1963) – playwright, co-founder of the Group Theatre *

Cynthia Ozick Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist. Biography Cynthia Ozick was born in New York City, the second of two children. She moved to the Bronx with her Belarusian-Jewish parents from Hlusk, ...

(born 1928) – award-winning novelist and short-story writer *

Grace Paley Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007) was an American short story author, poet, teacher, and political activist. Paley wrote three critically acclaimed collections of short stories, which were compiled in the Pulitzer Prize and Na ...

(1922–2007) – award-winning short-story writer * Michael Pearson (born 1949) –

Old Dominion University Old Dominion University (Old Dominion or ODU) is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia. It was established in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary and is now one of the largest universities in Virginia with ...

English professor and author of several books, including his memoir, ''Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx'' * David J. Pecker (born 1951) – CEO of

American Media Mass media in the United States consist of several types of media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and web sites. The U.S. also has a strong music industry. New York City, Manhattan in particular, and to a lesser extent ...

, publisher of ''

National Enquirer The ''National Enquirer'' is an American tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1926, the newspaper has undergone a number of changes over the years. The ''National Enquirer'' openly acknowledges that it pays sources for tips, a common practice in tabl ...

'', ''

US Weekly ''Us Weekly'' is a weekly celebrity and entertainment magazine based in New York City. ''Us Weekly'' was founded in 1977 by The New York Times Company, who sold it in 1980. It was acquired by Wenner Media in 1986, and sold to American Media Inc ...

'', ''

Men's Fitness ''Men's Fitness'' was a men's magazine published by American Media, Inc and founded in the United States in 1987. The premier issue featured Michael Pare from the television series ''The Greatest American Hero''. The magazine's slogan was "How th ...

'' *

(1809–1849) – author and poet *

Chaim Potok Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. His first book ''The Chosen'' (1967), was listed on ''The New York Times’'' best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies. Biography H ...

(1929–2002) – author *

Richard Price Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer, pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the French ...

(born 1949) – novelist and screenwriter * Chris Regan (born 1967) – television writer and author * Charles Rice-González (born 1964) – novelist and playwright *

Spider Robinson Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian list of science fiction authors, science fiction author. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 1977 and 198 ...

(born 1948) – science-fiction writer of novels and short stories *

Joanna Russ Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as ''How to Suppress Women's Writing'', as w ...

(1937–2011) – feminist science-fiction writer *

Oliver Sacks Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in Britain, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the Uni ...

(1933–2015) – neurologist and author *

Douglas Sadownick Douglas Sadownick is an American writer, activist, professor and psychotherapist. Biography Born in the Bronx in 1959, Douglas Sadownick attended Columbia College for his B.A., New York University for his graduate work in English, and the gradua ...

– gay fiction writer, journalist and psychotherapist *

William Safire William Lewis Safire (; Safir; December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009Safire, William (1986). ''Take My Word for It: More on Language.'' Times Books. . p. 185.) was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He w ...

(1929–2009) – journalist, speech writer, literary stylist *

Tony Santiago Antonio Santiago Rodríguez (born March 9, 1950) — better known as Tony the Marine or as Tony Santiago — is a United States Marine Corps, United States Marine veteran, writer, and military historian from New York City, New York (state), New ...

(born 1950) – military historian''Antonio "the Marine" Santiago Recognized as Puerto Rico's Foremost Military Historian''
SomosPrimos.com, August 2010; retrieved May 15, 2013. * Kate Simon (1912–1990) – memoirist and popular travel guide author * Arthur Spiegelman (1940–2008) – journalist *

William Steig William Steig (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books, best known for the picture book ''Shrek!'', which inspired the film series of the same name, as well as others that in ...

(1907–2003) – cartoonist and author *

Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has p ...

(1835–1910) – author *

Dorothy Uhnak Dorothy Uhnak (April 24, 1930 – July 8, 2006; née Goldstein) was an American novelist. Uhnak was born in New York City. She attended City College of New York and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Uhnak worked for 14 years as a detect ...

(1930–2006) – mystery writer who drew upon her past experience as a

NYPD The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement agency within the City of New York, the largest and one of the oldest in ...

detective *

Ben Wattenberg Benjamin Joseph Wattenberg (born Joseph Ben Zion Wattenberg;Roberts, Sam New York ''Times'', June 29, 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-29. August 26, 1933 – June 28, 2015) was an American author, neoconservative political commentator and demographer, ...

(1933–2015) – political/demographic analysis author (''The Real Majority'') * Al Wasserman (1921–2005) – documentary filmmaker *

(born 1942) – sociologist of community, networks and the Internet, co-author ''Networked'' *

Gene Weingarten Gene Norman Weingarten (born October 2, 1951) is an American journalist, and former syndicated humor columnist for ''The Washington Post.'' He is the only two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Weingarten is known for both ...

(born 1951) –

-winning journalist, author and cartoonist *

Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include ''The Winds of War'' and ' ...

(1915–2019) – author

Film, television, radio, dance and theatre

Charlie Ahearn Charlie Ahearn (born 1951) is an American film maker living in New York City. Although predominantly involved in film and video art production, he is also known for his work as an author, freelance writer, member of Colab, and radio host. He is m ...

(born 1951) – film director of ''Wild Style'' *

Danny Aiello Daniel Louis Aiello Jr. () (June 20, 1933 – December 12, 2019) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous motion pictures, including ''The Godfather Part II'' (1974), ''The Front'' (1976), ''Once Upon a Time in America'' (1984), ''Hide in ...

(1933–2019) – actor *

Alan Alda Alan Alda (; born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for playing Captain Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the war co ...

(born 1936) – actor * Nancy Allen (born 1955) – actress *

Woody Allen Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing ...

(born 1935) – film director and actor *

June Allyson June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman; October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress, dancer, and singer. Allyson began her career in 1937 as a dancer in short subject films and on Broadway in 1938. She sign ...

(1917–2006) – actress *

Bruce Altman Bruce Altman (born July 3, 1955) is an American film and television actor. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Early life Altman was born in The Bronx, New York. He is of Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish ...

(born 1955) – actor *

Christopher Aponte Christopher Aponte is an American classical ballet dancer. Aponte was born in the borough of Manhattan, then moved, at the age of three, to live in the Bronx. Aponte attended the High School of Performing Arts and received a scholarship to the Na ...

– ballet dancer and choreographer *

Arthur Aviles Arthur Avilés (born 1963) is an American Bessie Award-winning dancer and choreographer of Puerto Rican descent. Avilés was born in Queens, New York, and raised in Long Island and the Bronx. He graduated from Bard College, a liberal arts coll ...

(born 1963) – dancer and choreographer *

Emanuel Azenberg Emanuel "Manny" Azenberg (born January 22, 1934) is an American theatre producer and general manager whose professional relationship with playwright Neil Simon spans thirty-three years. Life and career Azenberg was born in The Bronx, the son of Han ...

(born 1934) – theatrical producer *

Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall (; born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and received an Academy Honorary Aw ...

(1924–2014) – actress *

Martin Balsam Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American actor. He had a prolific career in character roles in film, in theatre, and on television. An early member of the Actors Studio, he began his career on the New ...

(1919–1996) – film actor *

Anne Bancroft Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, tw ...

(1931–2005) – actress * Ellen Barkin (born 1954) – actress * Joseph Bassolino (Joey Boots) (1967–2016) – comedian who popularized the phrase "Baba Booey" on the ''Howard Stern Show'' * Peter S. Beagle (born 1939) – fantasy and science fiction author *

Tyson Beckford Tyson Beckford (born December 19, 1970) is an American model and actor best known as a Ralph Lauren Polo model. He was also the host of both seasons of the Bravo program '' Make Me a Supermodel''. Beckford has been described as one of the most ...

(born 1970) – model and actor *

Ahmed Best Ahmed Best (born August 19, 1973) is an American actor, comedian and musician. He is known for providing motion capture and the voice of the character of Jar Jar Binks in the '' Star Wars'' franchise. Best likewise collaborated with director G ...

(born 1973) –

Jar Jar Binks Jar Jar Binks is a fictional character of the Gungan race from the ''Star Wars'' saga created by George Lucas. Jar Jar appears throughout the ''Star Wars'' prequel trilogy – as a major character in '' Episode I: The Phantom Menace'', with a ...

Joey Bishop Joseph Abraham Gottlieb (February 3, 1918 – October 17, 2007), known professionally as Joey Bishop, was an American entertainer who appeared on television as early as 1948 and eventually starred in his own weekly comedy series playing a talk/ ...

(1918–2007) – entertainer *

Irving Brecher Irving S. Brecher (January 17, 1914 – November 17, 2008) was a screenwriter who wrote for the Marx Brothers among many others; he was the only writer to get sole credit on a Marx Brothers film, penning the screenplays for ''At the Circus'' (1 ...

(1914–2008) – radio, television and film comedy writer *

Joy Bryant Joy Bryant is an American actress, businesswoman and fashion model. She has appeared in numerous films and television since beginning her acting career in 2001. She has received two NAACP Image Award nominations, and one Screen Actors Guild Award ...

(born 1976) – actress *

Cara Buono Cara Buono (born 1973/1974) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Dr. Faye Miller in the fourth season of the AMC drama series ''Mad Men''; Kelli Moltisanti in the sixth season of ''The Sopranos''; Linda Salvo in the 2006 ...

(born 1974) – actress *

Red Buttons Red Buttons (born Aaron Chwatt; February 5, 1919 – July 13, 2006) was an American actor and comedian. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role in the 1957 film ''Sayonara''. He was nominated for awards for his acting work i ...

(1919–2006) – comedian and actor *

James Caan James Edmund Caan ( ; March 26, 1940 – July 6, 2022) was an American actor. He came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in ''The Godfather'' (1972) – a performance which earned him Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Academy Award an ...

(1940–2022) – actor * Steven Canals (born 1980) – television screenwriter and producer. *

George Carlin George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American comedian, actor, author, and social critic. Regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time, he was dubbed "the dean of countercul ...

(1937–2008) – comedian *

Eddie Carmel Eddie Carmel (born Oded Ha-Carmeili ; March 16, 1936 – August 14, 1972) was an Israeli-born American entertainer with gigantism and subsequent acromegaly resulting from a pituitary adenoma. He was popularly known as "The Jewish Giant", "The ...

, born Oded Ha-Carmeili (1936–1972) – Israeli-born entertainer with gigantism and acromegaly, popularly known as "The Jewish Giant" *

Paddy Chayefsky Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both adapted and original screenplays. He was ...

(1923–1981) – screenwriter *

Dominic Chianese Dominic Chianese (; born February 24, 1931) is an American actor, singer, and musician. He is best known for his roles as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO series ''The Sopranos'' (1999–2007), Johnny Ola in ''The Godfather Part II'' (197 ...

(born 1931) – actor * Sanford "Sandy" Climan (born 1956) – film producer *

Lee J. Cobb Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby; December 8, 1911February 11, 1976) was an American actor, known both for film roles and his work on the Broadway stage. He often played arrogant, intimidating and abrasive characters, but he also acted as respectabl ...

(1911–1976) – actor *

Kevin Corrigan Kevin Corrigan (born ) is an American character actor. He has appeared mostly in independent films and television since the 1990s, including as Uncle Eddie on the sitcom ''Grounded for Life'' (2001–2005). His film appearances include support ...

(born 1969) – actor *

Tony Curtis Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925September 29, 2010) was an American actor whose career spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s (Kansas Raiders, 1950) and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 f ...

(1925–2010) – actorReeves Wiedeman, "Only in New York: Talk to Me." ''The New Yorker'', p. 20. February 9, 2005 *

Stacey Dash Stacey Lauretta Dash (born January 20, 1967) is an American actress. Dash played Dionne Marie Davenport in the 1995 feature film ''Clueless'' and its television series of the same name. She has also appeared in the films '' Moving'', ''Mo' Mone ...

(born 1966) – actress *

Michael DeLorenzo Michael DeLorenzo (born October 31, 1959) is an American actor, director, writer, producer, dancer, and musician. He is known for his work in television and film. Early life DeLorenzo was raised in The Bronx, New York. His late father, Arthur De ...

(born 1959) – actor * Desus (born 1983) – comedian, former host of

Viceland Viceland (stylized in all caps), and Vice TV in the United States, are brands used for television channels owned and programmed by Vice Media. Viceland launched on February 29, 2016, with two branded cable channels; the American version (rebra ...

's '' Desus and Mero'' and current host of

Showtime Showtime or Show Time may refer to: Film * ''Showtime'' (film), a 2002 American action/comedy film * ''Showtime'' (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur Television Networks and channels * Showtime Networks, a division of Paramount Global w ...

's '' Desus & Mero''Weiner, Jonah How Desus and Kid Mero Went From Twitter Cranks to Comedy's Hottest Duo Rolling Stone. July 8, 2015 *

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(born 1983) – comedian, former host of

's '' Desus and Mero'' and current host of

's '' Desus & Mero'' *

Richard Dubin Richard Dubin is an American professor at Syracuse University. __TOC__ Biography Richard Dubin is a writer/producer/director who joined the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications faculty in the fall of 2000 after a long stint in netwo ...

(born 1945) – television writer, director and producer *

Peter Falk Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series ''Columbo'' (1968–1978, 1989–2003), for which he ...

(1927–2011) – actor *

Jon Favreau Jonathan Kolia Favreau (; born October 19, 1966) is an American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, Favreau has appeared in films such as ''Rudy (film), Rudy'' (1993), ''PCU (film), PCU'' (1994), ''Swingers (1996 film), Swingers'' (1996), ''Very ...

(born 1966) – film and television director and actor *

Joe Franklin Joe Franklin (March 9, 1926 – January 24, 2015), born Joseph Fortgang, was an American radio and television host personality, author and actor from New York City. Franklin is noted for having the first talk show and inventing the format. His te ...

(1926–2015) – TV host of ''Joe Franklin's Memory Lane'' *

Cuba Gooding, Jr. Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Emmy nomination. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in ''Boyz n the Hood'' (1991), he appeare ...

(born 1968) – actor *

Howard Gottfried Howard Kenneth Gottfried (November 13, 1923 – December 8, 2017) was an American film producer. He produced many films, including '' The Hospital'', ''Network'', ''Torch Song Trilogy'' and ''Suburban Commando''. Gottfried served in the U.S. Arm ...

(1923–2017) – film producer of academy awarding winning

Network Network, networking and networked may refer to: Science and technology * Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects * Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks Mathematics ...

and

The Hospital ''The Hospital'' is a 1971 American satirical film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert Bock. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky, who was awarded the 1972 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Chayefsky als ...

Don Gregory Don Gregory (December 3, 1934 – November 5, 2015) was an American Broadway producer. Biography Gregory was born Donald Ginsberg to a Jewish family in the Bronx on December 3, 1934, the son of Dorothy (née Sheffrin) and Morris Ginsberg. Wh ...

(1934–2015) – Broadway theatrical producer *

Mortimer Halpern Mortimer V. Halpern (May 12, 1909 – January 3, 2006) was an actor and long-time production stage manager who worked on over 45 Broadway plays in a theatre career that spanned some 60 years. Life and career Mortimer "Morty" Halpern was born ...

(1909–2006) – Broadway stage manager *

Jonathan Harris Jonathan Harris (born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin, November 6, 1914 – November 3, 2002) was an American character actor whose career included more than 500 television and film appearances, as well as voiceovers. Two of his best-known roles we ...

(1914–2002) – actor *

Moss Hart Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright, librettist, and theater director. Early years Hart was born in New York City, the son of Lillian (Solomon) and Barnett Hart, a cigar maker. He had a younger brother ...

(1904–1961) – playwright and theatre director *

Amy Heckerling Amy Heckerling (born May 7, 1954) is an American filmmaker. An alumna of both New York University and the American Film Institute, she directed the commercially successful films ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' (1982), ''National Lampoon's Europ ...

(born 1954) – film director *

Bernard Herrmann Bernard Herrmann (born Maximillian Herman; June 29, 1911December 24, 1975) was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in composing for films. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers. He is widely re ...

(1911–1975) – film composer * Richard Hunt (1951–1992) –

Muppet The Muppets are an American ensemble cast of puppet characters known for an surreal humor, absurdist, burlesque, and self-referential humor, self-referential style of Variety show, variety-sketch comedy. Created by Jim Henson in 1955, they are ...

puppeteer A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object, called a puppet, to create the illusion that the puppet is alive. The puppet is often shaped like a human, animal, or legendary creature. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from ...

Jharrel Jerome Jharrel Jerome (born October 9, 1997) is an American actor and rapper who is best known for appearing in Barry Jenkins's acclaimed drama film ''Moonlight'' (2016), and for portraying Korey Wise in Ava DuVernay's Netflix miniseries ''When They S ...

(born 1997) – actor *

Robert Klein Robert Klein (born February 8, 1942) is an American stand-up comedian, singer, and actor. He is known for his appearances on stage and screen. He has released four standup comedy specials: ''A Child of the 50s'' (1973), ''Mind Over Matter'' (197 ...

(born 1942) – comedian *

Yaphet Kotto Yaphet Frederick Kotto (born Frederick Samuel Kotto; November 15, 1939 – March 15, 2021) was an American actor known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1999) as ...

(1939–2021) – actor *

(1928–1999) – film director *

Saul Landau Saul Landau (January 15, 1936 – September 9, 2013) was an American journalist, filmmaker and commentator. He was also a professor emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he taught history and digital media. Educa ...

(1936–2013) – documentary filmmaker, journalist *

(born 1963) – actor, performance artist, director *

Tom Leykis Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

(born 1956) – radio host *

Hal Linden Hal Linden (born Harold Lipshitz, March 20, 1931) is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician. Linden began his career as a big band musician and singer in the 1950s. After a stint in the United States Army, he began ...

(born 1931) – actor, director, and musician *

Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Dee Lohan ( ; born July 2, 1986) is an American actress and singer. Born in New York City and raised on Long Island, Lohan was signed to Ford Models at the age of three. Having appeared as a regular on the television soap opera '' An ...

(born 1986) – actress *

Louis Lombardi Louis Lombardi (born January 17, 1968) is an American actor known for his roles in ''The Sopranos'', ''Fantasy Island'', and ''24''. Early life Lombardi was born in The Bronx, New York City, the son of Louis Lombardi Sr. Career On telev ...

(born 1968) – actor *

Domenick Lombardozzi Domenico "Domenick" Lombardozzi (, ; born March 25, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Herc in ''The Wire'', and is also known for his roles in ''A Bronx Tale'' (1993), ''Entourage'', and ''The Irishman'' (2019). Care ...

(born 1976) – actor *

(born 1962) – screenwriter, director, playwright *

Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Lynn Affleck (' Lopez; born July 24, 1969), also known as J.Lo, is an American singer, actress and dancer. In 1991, she began appearing as a Fly Girl dancer on the sketch comedy television series ''In Living Color'', where she rema ...

(born 1969) – singer, actress and dancer *

Linda Lovelace Linda Lovelace (born Linda Susan Boreman; January 10, 1949 – April 22, 2002) was an American pornographic actress who became famous for her performance in the 1972 hardcore film '' Deep Throat''. Although the film was an enormous success, Bor ...

(1949–2002) – porn actor and anti-porn activist *

Melissa Manchester Melissa Manchester (born February 15, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Since the 1970s, her songs have been carried by adult contemporary radio stations. She has also appeared on television, in films, and on stage. Early l ...

(born 1951) – singer *

Sonia Manzano Sonia Manzano (born 1950) is an American actress, screenwriter, author, singer and songwriter. She is best known for playing Maria on ''Sesame Street'' from 1971 to 2015. She received a Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy Award in 2016. Her memo ...

(born 1950) – actress, ''

Maria Figueroa Rodriguez Since the premiere of the children's television program ''Sesame Street'' on November 10, 1969, it has included what writer Malcolm Gladwell has called "the essence of ''Sesame Street''—the artful blend of fluffy monsters and earnest adults ...

'' on

Sesame Street ''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) a ...

Garry Marshall Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) was an American filmmaker and actor. He started his career in the 1960s writing for ''The Lucy Show'' and ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' before he developed Neil Simon's 1965 play ''The Odd Co ...

(1934–2016) – television and film directorRosenblum, Constance (August 21, 2009)
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''. * Bernard McGuirk (1957-2022) – American radio personality *

Penny Marshall Carole Penny MarshallBorn Carole Penny Marshall in 1943, as per ''My Mother Was Nuts, a Memoir'', p. 10; . Copyright 2012 (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018) was an American actress, director and producer. She is known for her role as ...

(1943–2018) – actor and director *

Lea Michele Lea Michele Sarfati (; born August 29, 1986) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and author. She began her career as a child actress on Broadway (theatre), Broadway, appearing in productions of ''Les Misérables (musical), Les Misérab ...

(born 1986) – actor *

Sal Mineo Salvatore Mineo Jr. (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976) was an American actor, singer, and director. He is best known for his role as John "Plato" Crawford in the drama film ''Rebel Without a Cause'' (1955), which earned him a nomination f ...

(1939–1976) – actor *

Tracy Morgan Tracy Jamal Morgan (born November 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and actor best known for his television work as a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' (1996–2003) and for his role as Tracy Jordan in the sitcom ''30 Rock'' (2006 ...

(born 1968) – actor and comedian *

Romeo Muller Romeo Earl Muller, Jr. (August 7, 1928 – December 30, 1992) was an American screenwriter and actor most remembered for his screenplays for the Rankin/Bass holiday specials including ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Little Drummer Boy ...

(1928–1992) – television writer *

Robert Mulligan Robert Patrick Mulligan (August 23, 1925 – December 20, 2008) was an American director and producer. He is best known for his humanist dramas, including ''To Kill a Mockingbird (film), To Kill a Mockingbird'' (1962), ''Summer of '42'' (1971), ' ...

(1925–2008) – film director *

Jan Murray Jan Murray (born Murray Janofsky; October 4, 1916 – July 2, 2006) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and game-show host who originally made his name on the Borscht Belt and later was known for his frequent television appearances over s ...

(1916–2006) – comedian *

(born 1968) – playwright, actor, director; spoken-word artist; co-founder of the Urban Expressionists Lab *

Bess Myerson Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model and television actress who in 1945 became the first Miss America who was also Jewish. Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an af ...

(1924–2014) – actor; best known as first Jewish Miss America *

Carroll O'Connor John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) was an American actor, producer, and director whose television career spanned over four decades. He became a lifelong member of the Actors Studio in 1971. O'Connor found widespread fame ...

(1924–2001) – actor *

Okwui Okpokwasili Okwui Okpokwasili (; born August 6, 1972) is an American artist, performer, choreographer, and writer. Her multidisciplinary performances draw upon her training in theatre, and she describes her work as at "the intersection of theatre, dance, and ...

(born 1972) – dancer, actor *

Jerry Orbach Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor and singer, described at the time of his death as "one of the last'' bona fide'' leading men of the Broadway musical and global celebrity on television" and a " ...

(1935–2004) – actor *

Toby Orenstein Toby Barbara Orenstein (née Press; born May 23, 1937) is an American theatrical director, producer, and educator. She has two honorable mentions for the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre. Orenstein was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hal ...

(born 1937) – founder and director of the

Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts Columbia may refer to: * Columbia (personification), the historical female national personification of the United States, and a poetic name for America Places North America Natural features * Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region in ...

, the

Young Columbians The Young Columbians are a theater troupe established by Toby Orenstein in 1975 under the auspices of the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts. It is a unique ensemble of talented youth aged 15–21. History The Young Columbians were founded in ...

, and

Toby's Dinner Theatre Toby's Dinner Theatre is a Washington–Baltimore metropolitan area professional dinner theater based in Columbia, Maryland. History Soon after the establishment of the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts (CCTA), Toby Orenstein decided to op ...

Ronnie Ortiz-Magro Ronald J. Ortiz-Magro Jr. (born December 4, 1985) is an American television personality, best known as one of the eight main cast members of the MTV reality series '' Jersey Shore''. Early life Ortiz-Magro was born in the Bronx in New York C ...

(born 1986) – participant on

MTV MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...

's reality-television series ''

Jersey Shore The Jersey Shore (known by locals simply as the Shore) is the coastal region of the U.S. state of New Jersey. Geographically, the term encompasses about of oceanfront bordering the Atlantic Ocean, from Perth Amboy in the north to Cape May Po ...

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Al Pacino Alfredo James Pacino (; ; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he has received numerous accolades: including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy ...

(born 1940) – actor *

Chazz Palminteri Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri (born May 15, 1952)
Chazzpalminteri.net. Retrieved on November 19, 2013. is an American ...

(born 1952) – actor *

Vincent Pastore Vincent Pastore (; born July 14, 1946) is an American actor. Often cast as a mafioso, he is best known for his portrayal of Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on the HBO series ''The Sopranos''. Early life Pastore was born to an Italian-America ...

(born 1946) – actor *

Ron Perlman Ronald Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor. His credits include the roles of Amoukar in ''Quest for Fire'' (1981), Salvatore in ''The Name of the Rose'' (1986), Vincent in the television series ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1987–199 ...

(born 1950) – film actor;

Hellboy Hellboy is a fictional superhero created by writer-artist Mike Mignola. The character first appeared in ''San Diego Comic-Con Comics'' #2 (August 1993), and has since appeared in various eponymous miniseries, one-shots and intercompany crossovers ...

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Regis Philbin Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (; August 25, 1931 – July 25, 2020)Archived aGhostarchiveand thWayback Machine was an American television presenter, talk show host, game show host, comedian, actor, and singer. Once called "the hardest working ma ...

(1931–2020) – media personality and television talk-show host *

Carl Reiner Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922 – June 29, 2020) was an American actor, stand-up comedian, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned seven decades. He was the recipient of many awards and honors, including 11 Primetime Emmy Awards, ...

(1922–2020) – comedian and film director *

Rob Reiner Robert Norman Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence with the role of Michael "Meathead" Stivic on the CBS sitcom ''All in the Family'' (1971–1979), a performanc ...

(born 1945) – actor and film director *

Kristina Reyes ''The Naked Brothers Band'' is an American musical comedy television series created by Polly Draper, which aired on Nickelodeon from February 3, 2007, to June 13, 2009. It depicts the daily lives of Draper's sons, who lead a faux world-renowned ...

(born 1994) – actress and bass guitarist *

Martin Richards Martin Richards may refer to: * Martin Richards (computer scientist) (born 1940), British computer scientist * Martin Richards (police officer) Martin Richards QPM (born 1959) is a British retired police officer, whose last post was as the Ch ...

(1932–2012) – theater and movie producer *

Martin Ritt Martin Ritt (March 2, 1914 – December 8, 1990) was an American director and actor who worked in both film and theater, noted for his socially conscious films. Some of the films he directed include ''The Long, Hot Summer'' (1958), '' The Black ...

(1914–1990) –

Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

-nominated movie director *

Tanya Roberts Tanya Roberts (born Victoria Leigh Blum; October 15, 1949 – January 4, 2021) was an American actress. She played Julie Rogers in the final season of the television series ''Charlie's Angels'' (1980–1981), Stacey Sutton in the James Bond fi ...

(1955–2020) – actor *

Leon Robinson Leon Preston Robinson (born March 8, 1962), usually credited as simply Leon, is an American actor who began his professional career as a film actor in the early 1980s. Robinson is best known for his roles as David Ruffin in the TV film ''The T ...

(born 1962) – actor *

Géza Röhrig Géza Röhrig ( hu, Röhrig Géza, ; May 11, 1967) is a Hungarian actor and poet. He is best known for his role in the 2015 film ''Son of Saul'', which won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Lang ...

(born 1967) – poet and film star of ''

Son of Saul ''Son of Saul'' ( hu, Saul fia) is a 2015 Hungarian historical drama film directed by László Nemes, in his feature directorial debut, and co-written by Nemes and Clara Royer. It is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, a ...

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(1940–2017) – horror film director *

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Music

* A Boogie wit da Hoodie (born 1995) – rapper *

Afrika Bambaataa Lance Taylor (born on April 17, 1957), also known as Afrika Bambaataa (), is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York. He is notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenc ...

(born 1957) – disc jockey * Miguel Angel Amadeo – Latin musician-composer and owner of Casa Amadeo music store * Anthony Amato (1920–2011) – founder and director of Amato Opera * Aventura (band), Aventura (born 1996) – Bachata (music), bachata music group * B-Lovee (born 2000) – rapper * The Barry Sisters – Yiddish-American singers from the 1930s to 1970s * The Belmonts – late-1950s singing group, with Dion DiMucci, Dion * Jellybean Benitez (born 1957) – music producer credited with discovering Madonna * Big Pun (1971–2000) – rapper * Mary J. Blige (born 1971) – singer and songwriter * Angela Bofill (born 1954) – R&B singer and songwriter * Busy Bee Starski (born 1962) – old-school rapper from the 1980s * Jerry Calliste Jr (born 1965) – music-industry executive * Cardi B (born 1992) – hip-hop recording artist * Diahann Carroll (1935–2019) – actress and singer * The Chiffons – early-1960s girl group * Cheryl "Coko" Clemons (born 1970) – gospel singer and lead singer of R&B group * Sean Combs (born 1969) – "Puff Diddy" rapper, singer, record producer, entrepreneur * Cold Crush Brothers – rap group * Willie Colón (born 1950) – trombonist * Judy Craig (born 1946) – lead singer of the Chiffons * Cuban Link (born 1974) – hip-hop artist * Bobby Darin (1936–1973) – 1950s–1960s singer * Dennis Day (1916–1988) – comedian and singer; regular on Jack Benny radio and television programs * Inspectah Deck (born 1970) – rapper; member of Wu-Tang Clan * Kat DeLuna (born 1987) – 1950s–1960s singer * Diamond D (born 1968) – hip-hop artist * Dion DiMucci (born 1939) – singer-songwriter; 1950s–1960s rock singer * DJ Chuck Chillout (born 1962) – disc jockey * DJ Kool Herc (born 1955) – hip hop pioneer * Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band – 1970s disco group * Drag On (born 1979) – rapper * Arnold Eidus (1922–2013) – concert violinist and session musician * Fat Joe (born 1970) – rapper * Charles Fox (composer), Charles Fox (born 1940) – Grammy-winning composer * Ace Frehley (born 1951) – Kiss (band), Kiss guitarist * Arlen Roth (Master of the Telecaster) (born 1952) – guitarist * French Montana (born 1984) – rapper * Ross "The Boss" Friedman (born 1954) – guitarist and founding member of The Dictators and Manowar * Funkmaster Flex (born 1968) – disc jockey * Kay Flock (born 2003) – rapper * Funky Four Plus One – rap group * Furious Five – rap group * Bob Gaudio (born 1942) – The Four Seasons (band), Four Seasons principal songwriter and group member * Stan Getz (1927–1991) – jazz musician * Richard Goode (born 1943) – classical pianist * Eydie Gormé (1931–2013) – traditional pop music singer * Grand Mixer DXT – disc jockey * Grand Wizard Theodore (born 1963) – disc jockey * Grandmaster Flash (born 1958) – disc jockey * Cory Gunz (born 1987) – rapper * Aaron Hall (singer), Aaron Hall (born 1964) – R&B singer-songwriter * Andre Harrell, Andre "Dr. Jeckyll" Harrell (born 1964) – half of rap duo Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde (group), Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde * Richie Havens (1941–2013) – musician * Heatmakerz – hip-hop producers * Hell Rell (born 1979) – rapper * Rita Houston (1961–2020) – Disk jockey, producer, and program director of "The Whole Wide World", * Bobby Hutcherson (1941–2016) – jazz vibraphonist who lived in the Bronx in the 1960s * The Jaynetts (1961–1964) – singers, "Sally Go Round the Roses" * Jazzy Five – rap group * Billy Joel (born 1949) – singer * Jim Jones (rapper), Jim Jones (born 1976) – rapper, actor * Helen Kane (1903–1966) – singer * Kid Capri (born 1967) – disc jockey and producer * Don Kirshner (1934–2011) – 1950s–1960s rock producer, 1970s television: "Rock Concert" * Jann Klose – singer * Kool Keith (born 1963) – hip-hop artist * Joey Kramer (born 1950) – drummer from Aerosmith * KRS-One (born 1965) – rapper * La India (born 1969) – "The Princess of Salsa" * Héctor Lavoe (1946–1993) – salsa singer * Tom Lehrer (born 1928) – satirical songwriter and performer * Leanne "Lelee" Lyons (born 1973) – member of R&B group SWV* * Lord Finesse (born 1970) – hip-hop artist * Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz – hip-hop duo *

(born 1969) – singer, actress and dancer * Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba (born 1954) – singer, The Dictators, MC5 and Manitoba's Wild Kingdom; entertainer; radio DJ; saloon keeper * Johnny Marks (1909–1985) – composer of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (song), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and other songs * Anthony McGill (musician) (born 1979) – principal clarinetist of New York Philharmonic * Abel Meeropol (1903–1986) – composer of "Strange Fruit", "The House I Live In (song), The House I Live In"; adoptive father of Rosenberg boys * Melle Mel (born 1961) – rapper * Alan Merrill (born 1951) – musician, singer, actor, model * Helen Merrill (born 1930) – jazz singer * Robert Moog (1934–2005) – inventor of the Moog synthesizer * Jerry Moss (born 1935) – co-founder of A&M Records; owner of Zenyatta race horse * Chris Moy (born 1992) – member of Menudo (band), Menudo *

(born 1968) – singer, pianist, composer, arranger, producer * Nice & Smooth – rap duo * Nine (rapper), Nine (born 1969) – rapper * Laura Nyro (1947–1997) – composer and singer * Jon Oliva (born 1960) – heavy-metal singer * Adelina Patti (1843–1919) – opera singer * Jan Peerce (1904–1984) – opera singer * Murray Perahia (born 1947) – pianist and conductor * Roberta Peters (1930–2017) – opera singer * Positive K (born 1967) – rapper * Tony Powers (born 1938) – actor, singer-songwriter, video artist * Prince Royce (born 1989) – Bachata (music), bachata singer-songwriter * Tito Puente (1923–2000) – jazz musician * Lenny Santos (born 1979) – Bachata (music), bachata producer, guitarist and songwriter * Rahzel (born 1964) – rapper, beatboxer * In Real Life (band), Drew Ramos (born 1997) – singer from the group in Real Life * Christopher Reid (entertainer), Christopher "Kid" Reid (born 1964) – half of Kid 'n Play * Remy Ma (born 1981) – rapper * Jamar Rogers (born 1982) – singer * Ron Suno (born 2000) – rapper * Sadat X (born 1968) – rapper; member of Brand Nubian * Romeo Santos (born 1981) – singer, bachata * Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011) – "godfather of rap" * Sha EK (born 2003) – rapper * Showbiz and A.G. – hip-hop duo * Carly Simon (born 1943) – singer-songwriter * Joanna Simon (singer), Joanna Simon (1936–2022) – mezzo-soprano opera singer; ''MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour'' arts correspondent; older sister of Carly Simon and Lucy Simon * Lucy Simon (1940–2022) – composer and older sister of Carly Simon * Slick Rick (born 1965) – rapper * Soulsonic Force – rap group * Joey Spampinato (born 1948) – musician * Phil Spector (1939–2021) – composer and arranger; murderer * Regina Spektor (born 1980) – singer-songwriter * Ice Spice (born 2000) – rapper * Donna Stark (born 1948) – country singer-songwriter * Maxine Sullivan (1911–1987) – jazz singer * Swizz Beatz (born 1978) – record producer/rapper * Max Santos (born 1982) – bass player, rapper * T La Rock (born 1961) – rapper * Ray Tabano (born 1946) – former guitarist and founding member of Aerosmith * Tim Dog (1967–2013) – rapper * Lil Tjay (born 2001) – rapper * Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957) – cellist, conductor * Doris Troy (1937–2004) – R&B singer and songwriter * Richard Tucker (tenor), Richard Tucker (1913–1975) – operatic tenor, hazzan, cantor, Temple Adath Israel * Steven Tyler (born 1948) – frontman of Aerosmith * Ultramagnetic MCs – rap group * Dave Valentin (1952–2017) – Latin jazz flutist * Luther Vandross (1951–2005) – singer * Mario Vazquez (born 1977) – singer * Veronica Vazquez (born 1975) – singer * Louie Vega (born 1965) – disc jockey and music producer * Jesse West (born 1967) – rapper, producer * Christopher Williams (singer), Christopher Williams (born 1967) – singer * Peter Wolf (born 1946) – lead singer of The J. Geils Band * Nanette Workman (born 1945) – Singer-songwriter. Backing vocalist Rolling Stones, Elton John, John Lennon

Government and politics

* Robert Abrams (born 1938) – Assemblyman, Bronx Borough President, New York State Attorney General * Bella Abzug (1920–1998) – Congresswoman and international feminist leader * Brian G. Andersson (born 1957) – former New York City Commissioner of Records & Information Services. * Herman Badillo (1929–2014) – former New York City housing official, Bronx Borough President, Congressman and CUNY board of trustees chair * Oxiris Barbot (born 1965/1966) – Commissioner of Health of the City of New York * Mario Biaggi (1917–2015) – decorated policeman and US Congressman * Adolfo Carrión, Jr. (born 1961) – former Bronx Borough President appointed by President Barack Obama to be Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs * Darcel Clark (born 1962) – first female Bronx County District Attorney * Gray Davis (born 1942) – former Governor of California * Rubén Díaz Jr. (born 1973) – Bronx borough president and former New York State assembly member * Louis Farrakhan (born 1933) – Nation of Islam, Black Muslim leader * Luis A. Gonzalez (judge), Luis A. Gonzalez – first Latino to be named Presiding Justice of the New York State Appellate Division, First Judicial Department * Alan Grayson (born 1958) – Democratic Congressman, Florida * Eric Holder (born 1951) – first African American-appointed United States Attorney General * Scott Israel (born 1956/57) – Police Chief of Opa-locka, former Sheriff of Broward County * Martin Jezer (1940–2005) – progressive activist in New York and Vermont; leader of stutterers' self-help movement * Lazarus Joseph (1891–1966) – New York State Senate, NY State Senator and New York City Comptroller. * Benjamin Kaplan (1911–2010) – law professor, judge, crafter of Nuremberg Trials indictments * John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) – 35th President of the United States; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (born in Brookline, Massachusetts) * Bernard Kerik (born 1955) – former Commissioner of Police and of Corrections, New York City. * Ed Koch (1924–2013) – politician; former United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative who became a three-term Mayor of New York City * Kenneth Kronberg (1948–2007) – leading member of LaRouche Movement * Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882–1947) – former Mayor of New York City * Nita Lowey (born 1937) – Congresswoman served from 1989 to 2021 whose Westchester County, New York, Westchester district once included parts of the Bronx and Queens * Beatrice Lumpkin (born 1918) – union organizer * Norman Marcus – former general counsel, New York City Planning Commission * Francis W. Martin (1878–1947) – first Bronx County District Attorney * Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816) – revolutionary war statesman * Michael Mukasey (born 1941) – former U.S. judge and U.S. Attorney General (under George W. Bush) * Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989) – youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, 2018 * Colin Powell (1937–2021) – former United States Secretary of State * Anthony Romero (born 1965) – executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union * Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) – U.S. president who spent boyhood summers at Wave Hill in the Riverdale, Bronx, Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York City * Frank Shannon (born 1961) – native of the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, conservative activist, political analyst, columnist, and candidate for the Florida State House * Larry Sharpe (politician), Larry Sharpe (born 1968) – New York gubernatorial election, 2018, 2018 Libertarian Party (United States), Libertarian nominee for Governor of New York; 2016 Libertarian National Convention, 2016 Libertarian vice-presidential candidate * Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954) – federal appeals court judge, New York; appointed by President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court of the United States * Eliot Spitzer (born 1959) – politician and television talk-show host; former New York State Attorney General (1999–2006); Governor of New York (2007–2008) * John Timoney (police officer) (1948–2016) – Philadelphia police commissioner; Miami police chief; New York City deputy police commissioner * Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) – Soviet revolutionary and political theorist * Charles J. Urstadt (born 1928) – gubernatorial advisor and appointee noted for development of Battery Park City and as namesake of contentious Urstadt Law

Sports

* Nate Archibald (born 1948) – former NBA player * Albert Axelrod (1921–2004) – Olympic medalist foil fencer * Elías Larry Ayuso (born 1977) – Puerto Rican basketball player * Harrison Bader (born 1994) – MLB outfielder * Margaret Bailes (born 1951) – Olympic gold medalist * Iran Barkley (born 1960) – boxer * Saquon Barkley (born 1997) – NFL player * Bobby Bonilla (born 1963) – former MLB player * Willie Cager – player on 1966 University of Texas at El Paso, Texas Western University NCAA basketball championship teamGrant, Jason (August 3, 2009). "More Than Playing Ball on a South Bronx Playground". ''

''. * Rod Carew (born 1945) – Baseball Hall of Famer signed by the Minnesota Twins in the Bronx * Willie Colon (American football), Willie Colon (born 1983) – former NFL player * Cus D'Amato (1908–1985) – boxing manager * Aaron Davis (boxer), Aaron Davis (born 1967) – boxer * Bizunesh Deba (born 1987) – marathoner * Art Donovan (1924–2013) – former NFL Tackle (American football), football tackle * Mike Epstein, Mike "SuperJew" Epstein (born 1943) – MLB first baseman * Chris Eubank (born 1966) – boxer * Harry Feldman (1919–1962) – MLB pitcher * Lou Gehrig (1903–1941) – Baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees first baseman * Marty Glickman (1917–2001) – athlete and sports announcer * Mitch Green (born 1957) – boxer * Hank Greenberg (1911–1986) – MLB Hall of Famer * Eric Holtz (born 1965) – Head Coach of the Israel national baseball team * Daryl Homer (born 1990) – Olympic fencer * Nat Holman (1896–1995) – Hall of Fame basketball player and coach * Jonathan Isaac (born 1997) – basketball player, Orlando Magic forward * Cullen Jones (born 1984) – swimmer * Max Kellerman (born 1973) – sports radio, sports-radio host * Ed Kranepool (born 1944) – former Major League Baseball player; New York Mets * Marie Kruckel (1924–2012) – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player * Jake LaMotta (1921–2017) – boxer * Fred Lewis (handball), Fred Lewis (born 1947) – American handball, American-handball player * Anibal Lopez (born 1942) – bodybuilder * Doug Marrone (born 1964) – NFL coach * Floyd Mayweather Sr. (born 1952) – boxing trainer * Shep Messing (born 1949) – Olympic soccer goalkeeper and current broadcaster * Nat Militzok (1923–2009) – basketball player * Marvin Miller (1917–2012) – founder, Major League Baseball Players Association * Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959), Davey Moore (1959–1988) – WBA world middleweight champion boxer * Bernard Opper (1915–2000) – All-American basketball player for the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball, Kentucky Wildcats and professional player * Juan Orozco (born 1993) – champion gymnast, 2012 Olympian * Justin Pierce (1975–2000) – skateboarder * Ed Pinckney (born 1963) – basketball player, Villanova Wildcats Championship Team; 13-year NBA; Current Lead Assistant Coach, Minnesota Timberwolves * Bill Polian (born 1942) – NFL executive * Alex Ramos (born 1961) – boxer * Tubby Raskin (1902–1981) – basketball player and coach * T. J. Rivera (born 1988) – New York Mets infielder * Michele A. Roberts (born 1956) – executive director of NBA players' union * Lennie Rosenbluth (born 1933) – basketball player * Dolph Schayes (1928–2015) – Hall of Fame NBA basketball player and coach * Babe Scheuer (1913–1997) – American football, football player * Stephen A. Smith (born 1967) – commentator, ''ESPN First Take'' * Vin Scully (1927–2022) – sportscaster * Amanda Serrano (born 1988) – IBF Female World Super Featherweight champion boxer * Nevil Shed (born 1943) – player on 1966 University of Texas at El Paso, Texas Western University NCAA basketball championship team * Benjamin (Benji) Ungar (born 1986) – fencer * Kemba Walker (born 1990) – basketball player; New York Knicks point guard * Hilton White (1933–1990) – basketball coach and community leader * Andrew Velazquez (born 1994) – MLB infielder

Name givers

* Thomas Cornell (settler), Thomas Cornell (1595–1655) – one of the earliest settlers of the Bronx (area now named Clason Point) * Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643) – pioneer religious liberation * Thomas Pell (1608–1669) – physician

Activists

* Murray Bookchin (1921–2006) – anarchist, social ecologist, libertarian socialist *

(1922–2016) – Tuskegee Airman, President * Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998) – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader in the 1960s U.S. Civil Rights Movement * Majora Carter (born 1966) – MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Genius Award-winning founder of Sustainable South Bronx * Claudette Colvin (born 1939) – first person to be arrested protesting bus segregation in the U.S. South, in Montgomery, Alabama, March 2, 1955 * Ita Ford (1940–1980) – Maryknoll nun, murdered by Salvadoran death squad * Jack Greenberg (lawyer), Jack Greenberg (1924–2016) – civil rights lawyer as head of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund for 23 years * Ray McGovern (born 1939) – retired Central Intelligence Agency officer turned political activist * Maurice Paprin (1920–2005) – Mitchell Lama apartments developer and social activist * Arlyn Phoenix (born 1943) – head of River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding; mother of Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix * Sally Regenhard (born 1946) – 9/11 activist; Co-op City resident * Sylvia Rivera (1951–2002) – transgender activist, "the Rosa Parks of the transgender movement" * Jim Steyer (born 1956) – child advocate * Stephen Spiro (1939–2007) – conscientious objector and Vietnam War opponent * Elizabeth Sturz (1917–2010) – founder of Argus Community and Harbor House; folklorist with husband Alan Lomax * Gary Waldron (born 1943) – founder of Glie Farms, commercial organic herb garden in low-income neighborhood. * Suzanne (Werner) Wright (1946–2016) – co-founder of Autism Speaks

Business

* Joseph Beninati (born 1964) – real estate developer and private equity investor * Chris Bianco – chef, born in the Bronx * Lloyd Blankfein (born 1954) – businessman; chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs (since 2006) * Eli Broad (1933–2021) – businessman and arts philanthropist; co-founder of Kaufman & Broad * B. Gerald Cantor (1916–1996) – businessman; co-founder of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald; with his wife Iris, amassed and then donated the largest private collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin * Stanley Chais (1926–2010) – investment advisor in the Madoff investment scandal * Marco Dedivanovic (born 1983) – Award-winning make-up artist and businessman. * Fred DeLuca (1947–2015) – founder and CEO of Subway fast food sandwich chain * Richelieu Dennis – co-founder of Sundial Brands personal care products. * Millard Drexler, Millard "Mickey" Drexler" (born 1944) – businessman; chief executive officer of J. Crew; former chief executive officer of the Gap (clothing retailer), Gap * Reggie Fils-Aimé (born 1961) – president of Nintendo of America * Michael J. Freeman (inventor), Michael J. Freeman (born 1947) – inventor, educator, business consultant, and entrepreneur * Mike Greco (1929–2019) – 'salami king' * Harry Helmsley (1909–1997) – real estate magnate in New York City * Roger Hertog (born 1941) – co-founder of investment firm; co-publisher of ''The New Republic'' magazine; philanthropist * Richard March Hoe (1812–1886) – inventor of rotary printing press * Collis Potter Huntington (1821–1900) – railroad and shipbuilding magnate; created the privately endowed Huntington Free Library and Reading Room near his summer home in the Throggs Neck neighborhood of the Bronx * Elaine Kaufman (1929–2010) – businessperson; proprietor of Elaine's, a restaurant in the Manhattan

of New York City that was a haunt of writers, actors, politicians * Calvin Klein (born 1942) – clothing designer * Ralph Lauren (born 1939) – clothing designer * George Lois (born 1932) – advertising * William E. Macaulay (1945–2019) – billionaire businessman; CEO and chairman of First Reserve Corporation; co-founder of William E. Macaulay Honors College of City University of New York * Reuben and Rose Mattus (1912–1994; 1916–2006) – founders of Häagen-Dazs ice cream * Walton McCarthy (born 1951) – businessman and principal mechanical engineer with NORAD Shelter Systems * George Meany (1894–1980) – labor union leader: first president of the AFL–CIO * Jordan L. Mott (1799–1866) – inventor of coal kitchen stove, founder of J.L. Mott Ironworks in Mott Haven, and developer of the South Bronx neighborhood now named after him * Mark Penn (born 1954) – chief executive officer of the public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller; president of the polling firm Penn, Schoen & Berland, Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates * Sol Price (1916–2009) – founder of the Price Club and FedMart retail stores * Lewis Salton (1910–1997) – inventor and manufacturer of the Salton Hotray * Fred Schwartz (1931–2016) – furrier, known nationally as "Fred the Furrier" * Sy Sperling (1941–2020) – founder, long-time head and TV commercial star of HairClub * Fred Trump (1905–1999) – real estate developer; father of Donald Trump

Attorneys

* William Barr (born 1950) – U.S. Attorney General under Donald Trump * Pat Cipollone (born 1966) – Trump lawyer in impeachment case and elsewhere * Larry Fleisher (1930–1989) – sports agent, helped found the NBA Players Association, National Basketball Association Players Association * Hal Kant (1931–2008) – specializing in representing musical groups, spent 35 years as principal lawyer and general counsel for the Grateful Dead * Irving Picard (born 1941) – known for his recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal * Gerald Shur (1933–2020) – founder of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program * Melvyn Weiss (1935–2018) – co-founded plaintiff class action law firm Milberg Weiss

Infamous

* David Berkowitz (born 1953) – "Son of Sam" serial killer * Evgeny Buryakov (born 1975) – Russian spy * Richard Cottingham (born 1946) – serial killer * Larry Davis (criminal), Larry Davis (1966–2008) – drug dealer; shot multiple police officers * John Gotti (1940–2002) – crime boss * Sidney Gottlieb (1918–1999) – American chemist who led the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s–1960s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra * Moshe Lax (born 1974) – partner in Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry; subject of multiple lawsuits * Jeffry Picower (1942–2009) – investor and philanthropist involved in the Madoff investment scandal * Morton Sobell (1917–2018) – convicted along with Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg in 1951 of being a spy for the Soviet Union[Michael Kaufman and Sam Roberts, "Morton Sobell, 101, Who Spent Years Denying His Role as Soviet Spy, Dies, ''The New York Times'', January 31, 2019] * Howard Spira (born 1959) – instrumental in George Steinbrenner's ban from baseball

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