The following is a list of notable people from

Scarsdale, New York Scarsdale is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The Town of Scarsdale is coterminous municipality, coextensive with the Village of Scarsdale, but the community has opted to operate ...

Arts

Cabot Lyford Cabot Lyford (May 22, 1925 – January 21, 2016) was an American sculptor best known for his depictions of animals and the female figure, often using black granite and wood as materials. His sculptures are located within public parks, museums and ...

, sculptor *

Stephanie Stebich Stephanie Antoinette Franziska Stebich (born January 26, 1966, in Mülheim) is a German-born American art historian and curator. Early life and education Born in Germany to Gehard and Ute, Stebich's family immigrated to Scarsdale, New York, wh ...

, art historian and museum director * Emmett Watson, illustrator

Business

* Eric Mindich, founder of the hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management and the youngest person to ever make partner at Goldman Sachs, was raised in Scarsdale * Harry Wilson, businessman *

David Stern David Joel Stern (September 22, 1942 – January 1, 2020) was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014. Stern oversaw NBA basketball's growth into one of t ...

, Commissioner of

National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Ca ...

George Zimmer George Zimmer (born November 21, 1948) is an American businessman. He is the founder, former executive chairman (1973–2013) and former CEO (1973–2011) of the Men's Wearhouse, a clothing retailer with more than 1,200 stores in the US and Cana ...

, founder of Men's Wearhouse, was raised in Scarsdale * Andrew R. Jassy, founder of AWS and CEO of

Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevu ...

, was raised in Scarsdale * Lauren Hobart, CEO and Chairwomen of

Dick's Sporting Goods Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. (stylized in all caps as DICK'S Sporting Goods) is an American chain of sporting goods stores founded in 1948 by Richard "Dick" Stack. It is the largest sporting goods retailer in the United States and is listed ...

and Board Member of

Yum! Brands Yum! Brands, Inc. (sometimes called simply Yum!) is an American multinational fast food corporation. It is a spin-off of PepsiCo, after they acquired KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. PepsiCo divested the brands in 1997, and these consolidated as ...

* Christopher Radko,

Christmas ornament Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs", or "Christmas bubbles" are decoration items, usually to decorate Christmas trees. These decorations may be woven, blown (glass or plastic), molded (ceramic or metal), carved from woo ...

s designer *

David Siegel (computer scientist) David Mark Siegel (born 1961) is an American computer scientist, Entrepreneurial leadership, entrepreneur, and Philanthropist (award), philanthropist. He co-founded Two Sigma, where he currently serves as co-chairman. Siegel has written for ''Bu ...

, founder of

Two Sigma Two Sigma Investments, LP is an American hedge fund headquartered in New York City. It uses a variety of technological methods, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and distributed computing, for its trading strategies. The fir ...

Daniel Och Daniel Och (born 27 January 1961) is an American billionaire Hedge fund, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and former CEO of Och-Ziff Capital Management, a global hedge fund and alternative asset management ...

, founder of

Och-Ziff Sculptor Capital Management (formerly ''Och-Ziff Capital Management Group'') is an American global diversified alternative asset management firm. They are one of the largest institutional alternative asset managers in the world. The company oper ...

Mark Bezos Marcus Jim Bezos ( ; born ) is an American space tourist and former advertising executive. He is the half-brother of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, with whom he flew to the edge of space as part of the Blue Origin NS-16 mission on July 20 ...

, early

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...

investor and brother of

Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( ;; and Robinson (2010), p. 7. ; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and clou ...

Jon Oringer Jon Oringer (born May 2, 1974) is an American programmer, photographer, and billionaire businessman, best known as the founder and CEO of Shutterstock, a stock media company headquartered in New York City. Oringer started his career while a co ...

, founder and CEO of

Shutterstock Shutterstock, Inc. is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; it is headquartered in New York. Founded in 2002 by programmer and photographer Jon Oringer, Shutterstock maintains a library of ar ...

, was raised in Scarsdale

Criminals

Joseph DiNapoli Past member(s) Joseph Abate Joseph "Joe" Abate (July 8, 1902 – November 28, 1994) was a capo in the family's New Jersey faction. In the 1920s, Abate served as an enforcer for Al Capone in Chicago before settling in New Jersey.Raab, p.1-3 In ...

, Italian American mobster *

Robert Hanssen Robert Philip Hanssen (April 18, 1944 – June 5, 2023) was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States periodically from 1979 to 2001. His espionage w ...

, Soviet spy; lived at 150 Webster Road in Scarsdale, 1978–1981; his children attended Immaculate Heart of Mary School * Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel, gangster and Las Vegas resort builder; owned a house in Scarsdale from 1929 on; was increasingly absent in later years but his family continued to live there

Legal

Preet Bharara Preetinder Singh Bharara (; born October 13, 1968) is an Indian American lawyer and former federal prosecutor who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. As of 2025, he is a partner at the ...

, lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. *

William Glendon William R. Glendon (c. 1920 – December 25, 2008) was an American attorney who specialized in issues relating to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and represented ''The Washington Post'' in the Pentagon Papers case. Earl ...

, lawyer who argued the Pentagon Papers case before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of ''The Washington Post''

Other

Edgar Fiedler Edgar Russell Fiedler (April 21, 1929 – March 15, 2003) was an American economist. Biography Fiedler was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and later lived in Scarsdale, New York, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a 1951 graduate of the Unive ...

(1929–2003), economist * Lauren Spierer, student who disappeared from Indiana University in 2011

Media, music and entertainment

* Walter Carl Becker, American musician, songwriter, and record producer, and co-founder of the jazz rock band Steely Dan * Jacqueline Alemany, American journalist and political reporter *

Bruce Beck Bruce David Beck (born September 18, 1956) is the lead sports anchor at WNBC. He is in his 25th year with News 4 New York. He is also the host of Sports Final, WNBC's Sunday night sports show. Beck is the host and sideline reporter for New Yor ...

, television sportscaster for WNBC-TV *

Joan Bennett Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an American stage, film, and television actress, one of three acting sisters from a show-business family. Beginning her career on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 fil ...

, Hollywood actress from the 1930s and 40s; once owned a home on Chase Road North * Aaron Brown, former host of CNN's ''NewsNight with Aaron Brown''; once resided in Scarsdale * Dorothy Dalton, silent-film actress *

Lisa Donovan Lisa Donovan (born June 11, 1980) is an American former YouTuber. She is a founder of Zappin Productions, a production company that specialized in viral videos, as well as the founder and CEO of ''The Pattern'', an astrology-based personality app ...

, YouTube celebrity (LisaNova); former featured cast member of ''MadTV''; graduated from

Scarsdale High School Scarsdale High School (SHS) is a four-year public high school in Scarsdale, New York, United States, a coterminous town and village in Westchester County, New York. It is a part of the Scarsdale Union Free School District. The school was founde ...

in 1998 * Jimmy Fink, New York radio personality for

WPLJ WPLJ (95.5 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, licensed to New York, New York. Owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), based in Franklin, Tennessee, it broadcasts EMF's Christian adult contemporary formatted p ...

K-Rock and 107.1 The Peak

WXPK WXPK (107.1 MHz), branded ''107.1 The Peak'', is a commercial radio station licensed to Briarcliff Manor, New York, and serving Westchester County, New York. It is owned by Pamal Broadcasting and broadcasts an Adult Album Alternative (AAA) rad ...

Judy Garland Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Possessing a strong contralto voice, she was celebrated for her emotional depth and versatility across film, stage, and concert performance. ...

, actress; lived at 1 Cornell Street *

Rupert Holmes Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein; February 24, 1947) is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, dramatist and author. He is widely known for the hit singles " Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" (1979) and " Him" (1980). He is also know ...

, composer and writer; once resided in Scarsdale *

Al Jolson Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson, ; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-born American singer, comedian, actor, and vaudevillian. Self-billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer," Jolson was one of the United States' most famous and ...

, 30s film star; owned a house on Fenimore Road in Scarsdale * Joseph Kaiser, opera, theater, and film actor; grew up in Scarsdale *

Zach Kornfeld ''The Try Guys'' is an American online entertainment group and media production company that produces content for their YouTube channel. The group was founded by Keith Habersberger, Ned Fulmer, Zach Kornfeld, and Eugene Lee Yang. The Try Guys ...

, member of

The Try Guys ''The Try Guys'' is an American online entertainment group and media production company that produces content for their YouTube channel. The group was founded by Keith Habersberger, Ned Fulmer, Zach Kornfeld, and Eugene Lee Yang. The Try Guys ...

David Lascher David Scott Lascher (born April 27, 1972) is an American actor best known for his roles as Vinnie on ''Blossom'', Josh on ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'', Kyle Conners on ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', and Ted McGriff on the Nickelodeon show ''Hey Dude ...

, actor, ''Hey Dude'', ''Blossom'', ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'', and ''Beverly Hills, 90210''; born and raised in Scarsdale *

Mara Liasson Mara Liasson (; born June 13, 1955) is an American journalist and political pundit. She is the national political correspondent for NPR,Susan Lucci Susan Victoria Lucci (born December 23, 1946) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama ''All My Children'' during that show's entire network run from 1970 to 2011. The character is considere ...

, actor, star of soap TV series ''All My Children'' *

Linda McCartney Linda Louise, Lady McCartney ( Eastman; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Paul McCartney and Wings, Wings tha ...

, actress, writer, cinematographer, producer, photographer, vegan business owner; wife of Beatles star Paul McCartney; attended Scarsdale High School *

Liza Minnelli Liza May Minnelli ( ; born March 12, 1946) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Known for her commanding stage presence and powerful alto singing voice, Minnelli has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, ...

, singer and actress; lived in Scarsdale with her mother,

; attended Scarsdale High School; toured Europe and Israel in an SHS production of ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' *

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono (, usually spelled in katakana as ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up in Tokyo and moved to New York ...

, painter, performance artist, singer, activist; her family moved to Scarsdale in the early 1950s; she later joined them from Japan *

Bill Pankow Bill Pankow is an American film editor with more than 40 film credits dating from 1982. Filmography Pankow has edited nine films for director Brian De Palma commencing with ''Body Double'' in 1984. His other credits include: ;TV mo ...

, film editor, ''The Black Dahlia'', ''Assault on Precinct 13'', ''Paid In Full'' *

Robert Pine Robert Pine (born Granville Whitelaw Pine; July 10, 1941) is an American actor. He is best known as Sgt. Joseph Getraer on the television series ''CHiPs'' (1977–1983). Including ''CHiPs'', Pine has appeared in over 400 episodes of various tel ...

, actor,"

CHiPs ''CHiPs'' is an American crime drama television series created by Rick Rosner and originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1977, to May 1, 1983. After the final first-run telecast on NBC in May 1983, the series went into reruns on Sundays fr ...

",was raised in Scarsdale but born in

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

, also the father of

Chris Pine Christopher Whitelaw Pine (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as James T. Kirk in the ''Star Trek'' reboot film series (2009–2016) and Steve Trevor in the DC Extended Universe films ''Wonder Woman'' ...

Noah Schnapp Noah Cameron Schnapp (born October 3, 2004) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Will Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series ''Stranger Things''. In addition to his work in television, Schnapp had a supporting role in ...

, American actor known for his portrayal of Will Byers in the Netflix science fiction series ''

Stranger Things ''Stranger Things'' is an American television series created by the Duffer brothers, Duffer Brothers for Netflix. Produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, the Stranger Things season 1, first season was released on N ...

''. *

Cevin Soling Cevin Soling is an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, musician, music producer, and artist. Soling writes articles and books in addition to producing documentaries, animations, short films, and feature films that engage in social critique ...

, filmmaker, musician, and writer; born and raised in Scarsdale *

Too Much Joy Too Much Joy is an American alternative rock music group, that formed in the early 1980s in Scarsdale, New York. Members The original members were Tim Quirk (vocals), Jay Blumenfield (guitar, vocals), Sandy Smallens (bass, vocals) and Tommy V ...

, alternative rock band; formed in Scarsdale and three of its four members went to Scarsdale High School *

Nina Totenberg Nina Totenberg (born January 14, 1944) is an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) focusing primarily on the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR's news magazines ''All Things Consid ...

, NPR legal correspondent; graduate of Scarsdale High School * Ellen Weiss, four-time

Peabody award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Foster Peabody, George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and in ...

-winning journalist, former

NPR National Public Radio (NPR) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It serves as a national Radio syndication, syndicator to a network of more ...

vice-president of news; graduate of Scarsdale High School *

Robert Durst Robert Alan Durst (April 12, 1943 – January 10, 2022) was a convicted murderer and an American real estate heir. The eldest son of New York City real estate magnate Seymour Durst, he garnered attention as a suspect in the unsolved 1982 disappe ...

, star of HBO documentary series

The Jinx (miniseries) ''The Jinx'' is an American true crime documentary television series about New York real estate heir Robert Durst, a convicted murderer. The first season, subtitled ''The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst'', debuted on HBO on February 8, 2015, an ...

grew up in Scarsdale

Political figures

Otto Dohrenwend Otto E. Dohrenwend (1899–1989) was an American investment banker from Scarsdale, New York, best known for his conservative political activism during the 1950s. As chairman of the Scarsdale Citizens Committee, better known as the Committee o ...

, chairman of the anti-Communist "Committee of Ten" during the 1950s * Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (1941–2010), diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, and investment banker; graduated SHS 1958 *

Daniel D. Tompkins Daniel D. Tompkins (June 21, 1774 – June 11, 1825) was an American politician. He was the fourth Governor of New York from 1807 to 1817, and the sixth Vice President of the United States from 1817 to 1825. Born in Scarsdale, New York, Tompkin ...

, sixth Vice President of the United States; born in Scarsdale

Science and technology

Raymond Ditmars Raymond Lee Ditmars (June 22, 1876 – May 12, 1942) was an American herpetology, herpetologist, writer, public speaker and pioneering natural history filmmaker. Biography Ditmars was fascinated by all animals, but primarily reptiles, obta ...

, pioneering herpetologist, author, and long-time curator at the Bronx Zoo, lived and died in Scarsdale. *

Jonathan Haidt Jonathan David Haidt (; born October 19, 1963) is an American social psychologist and author. He is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at the New York University Stern School of Business. Haidt's main areas of study are the psyc ...

social psychologist Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field of ...

and Professor of Ethical Leadership at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

Stern School of Business The Leonard N. Stern School of Business (also NYU Stern, Stern School of Business, or simply Stern) is the business schools, business school of New York University, a private university, private research university based in New York City. Founded ...

, raised in Scarsdale. * Jeffrey A. Hoffman, astronaut; born in Brooklyn but considers Scarsdale to be his hometown; SHS graduate * Maynard Holliday, robotics engineer and Senior Technology Officer at

The Pentagon The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II. As ...

Brewster Kahle Brewster Lurton Kahle ( ; born October 21, 1960) is an American digital librarian, computer engineer, and Internet entrepreneur. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer s ...

, Internet pioneer; founded Wide Area Information Servers,

Alexa Internet Alexa Internet, Inc. was a web traffic analysis company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded as an independent company by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat in 1996. Alexa provided web traffic data, global rankings, and other info ...

Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including web ...

* Frank McDowell Leavitt, early engineer and inventor; patent for manufacturing tin cans; inventor of Bliss-Leavitt torpedo *

Benoit Mandelbrot Benoit B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of phy ...

, French

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...

research scientist and father of

fractal geometry In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension. Many fractals appear similar at various scales, as ...

Ivan Sutherland Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer graphics as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subje ...

computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. ...

pioneer; SHS 1955 graduate *

Herman Tarnower Herman Tarnower (March 18, 1910 – March 10, 1980) was an American cardiologist and co-author (with Samm Sinclair Baker) of the bestselling diet book ''The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet'' (1978), which promoted a high-protein low-carboh ...

, author of '' The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet''

Sports

Herman Barron Herman Barron (December 23, 1909 – June 11, 1978) was an American professional golfer best known for being the first Jewish golfer to win a PGA Tour event. Early life Barron was born in Port Chester, New York. Professional career Barro ...

(1909–1978), professional golfer * Bill Bavasi, Major League Baseball executive; born in Scarsdale * Trenten Anthony Beram, Double Gold Medalist sprinter born in Scarsdale representing the Philippines * Nick Civetta, rugby lock/flanker; born in Scarsdale *

Benny Feilhaber Benny Feilhaber (; born January 19, 1985) is an American soccer coach for the Oakland Roots and a former professional player. A midfielder, Feilhaber played for clubs in Germany, Denmark, England, and the United States. Born in Brazil but raise ...

, former professional soccer player, head coach of

MLS Next Pro MLS Next Pro (MLSNP) is a men's professional association football, soccer league in the United States and Canada that is affiliated with Major League Soccer (MLS). It launched in 2022 with 21 teams and now comprises 27 reserve sides of MLS clu ...

side

Sporting Kansas City II Sporting Kansas City II is a MLS Next Pro club affiliated with Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer. For the 2022 season they will play their home games at Rock Chalk Park at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, as well as Swope ...

Joe Garagiola Joseph Henry Garagiola Sr. (February 12, 1926 – March 23, 2016) was an American professional baseball catcher, and later a radio and television personality with a varied career. He played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the ...

(1926–2016), catcher for the

St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League Central, Centra ...

Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League Central, Central ...

Chicago Cubs The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League Central, Central Division. Th ...

and

New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The ...

; later a popular sportscaster and TV personality; he and his wife raised their children in Scarsdale *

Frank Gifford Francis Newton Gifford (August 16, 1930 – August 9, 2015) was an American professional football player, actor, and television sports commentator. After a 12-year playing career as a halfback, flanker and safety for the New York Giants of ...

(1930–2015), New York Giants star running back; ABC ''Monday Night Football'' broadcaster; married to

Kathie Lee Gifford Kathryn Lee Gifford (Given name, née Epstein; born August 16, 1953) is an American television presenter, singer, songwriter, actress, and author. From 1985 to 2000, she and Regis Philbin hosted the talk show ''Live with Kelly and Mark, Live! wi ...

Lindsay Gottlieb Lindsay Catherine Gottlieb (born October 2, 1977) is an American basketball coach who is the women's head coach for the USC Trojans women's basketball, USC Trojans of the Big Ten Conference. She was previously the head coach of the California Gol ...

, assistant coach for the

Cleveland Cavaliers The Cleveland Cavaliers, often referred to as the Cavs, are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland. The Cavaliers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Central Division (NBA), Central Divis ...

; born and raised in Scarsdale *

Paul Heyman Paul Heyman (born September 11, 1965) is an American professional wrestling manager, former executive, promoter, and commentator. He is signed to WWE as the on-screen manager of Seth Rollins, Bron Breakker, and Bronson Reed, and is widely regard ...

professional wrestling Professional wrestling, often shortened to either pro wrestling or wrestling,The term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to modern scripted professional wrestling, though it is also used to refer to Real life, real- ...

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a government bodies through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administra ...

and former promoter, known for his role in

Extreme Championship Wrestling Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was an American professional wrestling promotion that was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and operated by its parent company HHG Corporation. The promotion was founded in 1992 by Tod Gordon as Nationa ...

* Yanni Hufnagel, college basketball coach *

Bill Mazer Bill Mazer (born Morris Mazer; November 2, 1920 – October 23, 2013) was an American television and radio personality. He won numerous awards and citations, including three National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association's Sportscaster of ...

(1920–2013), New York sports talk and talk show personality; resided in Quaker Ridge from the mid-1960s until his death in 2013 *

Allie Sherman Alex "Allie" Sherman (February 10, 1923 – January 3, 2015) was an American football player and coach who played 51 games in six seasons in the National Football League (NFL) as a quarterback and defensive back, and afterward served as head coa ...

, former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and New York Giants head coach *

Brandon Steiner Brandon Steiner (born June 23, 1959) is a sports marketer. He was the founder and former CEO of Steiner Sports now owned by Fanatics. He is currently the founder and CEO of CollectibleXchange and The Steiner Agency. He and his family live in Scar ...

, founder and CEO of Steiner Sports *

, former commissioner of the

NBA The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Ca ...

* Hugh White, captain of the 1901 national champion

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

team, winners of first Rose Bowl (1902), combined score for season (550-0); engineer and businessman; Scarsdale village president

Writers

Jacob M. Appel Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American polymath, author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer, and social critic.Nagamatsu, Sequoia "A Few Words with the Ubiquitous Jacob M. Appel" ''Prince Mincer'' Journal http://primemincer.com/ con ...

, short-story writer ("Creve Coeur"), playwright ('' Arborophilia''), bioethicist; SHS graduate *

James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought h ...

, author of ''

The Last of the Mohicans ''The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757'' is an 1826 historical romance novel by James Fenimore Cooper. It is the second book of the '' Leatherstocking Tales'' pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. '' The Pathfinder'', ...

''; another of his books, '' The Spy'', is set in Scarsdale * Laura Dave, author, graduated from SHS in 1995 *

Eve Ensler V, formerly Eve Ensler (; born May 25, 1953), is an American playwright, author, performer, feminist, and activist. V is best known for her play ''The Vagina Monologues''.

, dramatist, raised in Scarsdale, attended SHS * David Galef, writer and editor of children's books, anthologies of poetry and short fiction, essays, and literary criticism; raised in Scarsdale *

Gish Jen Gish Jen (born Lillian Jen; () August 12, 1955) is a contemporary American writer and speaker.Matsukawa, Yuko"MELUS interview: Gish Jen" ''MELUS'', Vol. 18, 1993 Early life and education Gish Jen is a second-generation Chinese American. Her pa ...

(pseudonym of Lillian Jen), novelist; born in Scarsdale, 1956; a thinly disguised version of Scarsdale is a subject of some of her works *

Richard Kostelanetz Richard Cory Kostelanetz (born May 14, 1940) is an American artist, author, and critic. Birth and education Kostelanetz was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the conductor Andre Kostelanetz. He has a B.A. (1962) fr ...

, writer and artist; graduated from SHS in 1958 *

Nicholas Kristof Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959) is an American journalist and political commentator. A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he is a regular CNN contributor and an op-ed columnist for ''The New York Times''. Born in Chicago, Kristof wa ...

journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

and

columnist A columnist is a person who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Column (periodical), Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs. They take the ...

for the ''

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

''; twice winner of the

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

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, novelist and anthologist, died in Scarsdale but is buried in

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. *

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, novelist *

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, playwright and poet, ''The Body of an American'', ''War Reporter''; 1992 SHS graduate * Bryan Reynolds, critical theorist, playwright; graduated SHS in 1983 *

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, historian and author of '' Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture'' with his sister, *

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, reporter for the ''New York Times''; author of ''The Numbers Game''; grew up in Scarsdale and graduated from SHS in 1986 *

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, writer and creator of TV series ''

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'' and ''

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''; raised in Scarsdale *

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of the

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; founder of American Hospice *

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-winning journalist and columnist for the ''New York Times''; married to

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, also a columnist for ''The Times''

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