Business

Donald Trump

• John Jacob Astor, fur trader, company founder
• Nicholas F. Brady, ceo Dillon Read, Sec of US Treasury
• C. Douglas Dillon, ceo Dillon Read,US Amb to France, Sec of US Treasury
• George Eastman (1854-1932), founder of the Eastman Kodak Co.
• Debra Fox President and Founder of Fox Learning Systems
• E.H. Harriman errand boy, broker, blder of RR empire
• J.P. Morgan, banker, ceo, co. founder
• Jeremiah Milbank, banker, co-founder Borden Milk Co. 1857
• Jacquelyn Ottman,marketing consultant
• Henry Paulson, ceo Goldman Sachs, Sec of US Treasury
• Joseph R. Perella, M&A pro, banker, ceo
• Donald Regan, ceo Merrill Lynch, Sec of US Treasury
• John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), industrialist, philanthropist
• Robert Rubin, ceo Goldman Sachs, Sec of US Treasury
• Jacob Schiff Wall St exec, banker, Kuhn Loeb
• Donald Trump (1946), billionaire entrepreneur
• Cornelius Vanderbilt, ferry & tug boat captain, company founder, esp RRs
• Sanford Weill, ceo Citigroup which he forged into global no.1 bank

Art/literature/journalism/philosophy

• Samuel Hopkins Adams, muckraker, born in Dunkirk
• Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, creator of Dilbert
• William Bliss Baker (1859-1886), American landscape painter
• J. Bowyer Bell (1931-2003), historian, artist and art critic
• Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900), artist
• Arthur B. Davies (1863-1928), artist
• Melvil Dewey (1851-1931), originator of the Dewey Decimal System
• Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune advice columnist, who grew up on a dairy farm in Freeville
• Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), editor and publisher of abolitionist newspapers: The North Star, published in Rochester, Frederick Douglass Weekly, Frederick Douglass’ Paper, Douglass’ Monthly and New National Era.
• Arthur Dove (1880-1946), artist
• Philip Evergood (1901-1973), artist
• Ira Joe Fisher, author and weatherman, who was born and raised in Little Valley
• Helen Frankenthaler (1928), artist
• Roni Horn (1955), artist
• Washington Irving (1783-1859), author
• Henry James (1843-1916), author
• William James (1842-1910), philosopher
• Ellsworth Kelly (1923), artist
• Verlyn Klinkenborg, member of the New York Times editorial board; writer and farmer
• Matt Lauer (1957), news anchor of The Today Show
• Zoe Leonard (1961), photographer and visual artist
• Norman Mailer (1923-2007), author
• Francis Mallison of Rome. Journalist, editor and public servant. Editor of the Rome Sentinel, reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle. He and editor Joseph Howard, Jr. organized the “Great Civil War Gold Hoax”, for which he was held as a prisoner of war.
• Herman Melville (1819-1891), author, Moby-Dick
• Brice Marden (1938), artist
• Ogden Nash (1902-1971), poet
• John Reed (1969), author, Snowball’s Chance
• Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), painter
• Tim Russert (1950-2008), host of NBC’s Meet the Press, born and raised in Buffalo
• David Sedaris (1956), humorist
• Dorothy Thompson, born in Lancaster
• Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), artist
• Andrew Vachss (1942), author, activist, and lawyer
• J. Alden Weir (1852-1919), painter
• Edith Wharton (1862-1937), author
• Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet
• Brian Williams (1959), news anchor of NBC Nightly News
• John Zogby of Utica, pollster and blogger

Science/medicine

• Richard Axel (1946), scientist, Nobel prize winner
• Gertrude B. Elion (1918-1999), biochemist, pharmacologist, Nobel prize winner
• Carl Sagan (1934-1996), astronomer
• Jonas Salk (1914-1995), scientist, developed first polio vaccine

Athletics

Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947), NBA player
• Moe Berg (1902), Major League Baseball baseball player, and spy (New York City)
• Sue Bird (1980), Women’s National Basketball Association point guard, 2x Olympic champion, 4x All-Star (Seattle Storm) (Syosset)^[2]
• Al “Bummy” Davis (1920-45), professional boxer (Brooklyn)
• Shay Doron (1985), professional basketball player
• Julius Erving (1950), NBA player
• Mick Foley (1965), professional wrestler and author
• Whitey Ford, baseball player
• John Franco, baseball player
• Lou Gehrig (1903-1912), Baseball Hall of Famer
• Sid Gordon (1917-75), 2-time All Star major league baseball player
• Hank Greenberg (1911-1986), Baseball Hall of Famer (Greenwich Village)
• Sandy Koufax (1935), Baseball Hall of Famer
• Scott Lipsky (1981), tennis player
• Boyd Melson, boxer
• Joe Nathan (1974), baseball player (Minnesota Twins), (born in Pine Bush)
• A. J. Pierzynski (1976), baseball player (Chicago White Sox) (born in Bridgehampton)
• Lipman Pike (1845-93), Major League Baseball baseball player, 4x home run champion (New York City)
• Alex Rodriguez (1975), MLB player
• Carl Yastrzemski (1939), Baseball Hall of Famer

Infamous New Yorkers

• Jimmy Walker 1881-1946, NYC mayor forced into resigning by the Seabury Commission
• David Berkowitz (1953), serial killer “Son of Sam”
• Shirley Winters (1948), convicted arsonist and accused serial killer

Lawyers and jurists

• Kumiki Gibson
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• John Jay (1745-1829), first Chief Justice of the United States
• Elena Kagan
• John G. Roberts
• Antonin Scalia
• Sonia Sotomayor

Religious leaders

• Avraham Qanai, leader of one of the first Karaite Jewish congregations in the U.S.A.

Other

• Grace Brown (1886-1906, murder victim)
• Mary Therese Friel (1960), Miss USA 1979, model, businesswoman
• Harry Houdini (1874-1926), magician
• Kimberly Pressler (1977), Miss USA 1999
• Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), activist
• Richard Stallman (1953), programmer of Emacs, founder of GNU
• Josephine Terranova (1889-1981), criminal defendant

References

1. Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who. 1963.
2. Livnat, Arie (December 16, 2010). “No. 1 WNBA Draft pick Sue Bird headed to Ramle”. Haaretz. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/sports/women-s-basketball-no-1-wnba-draft-pick-sue-bird-headed-to-ramle-1.205982. Retrieved December 20, 2010.

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