List of people from the Bronx

This is a list of people who were either born or have lived in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, New York, at some time in their lives. Many of the early historical figures lived in that part of Westchester County which later became part of the Bronx.

Academics and science

• Marshall Berman (1940–2013) – philosopher of modernity; author of All That Is Solid Melts into Air
• Norman Birnbaum (born 1926) – author, educator, political advisor; University Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center; taught at Amherst College, London School of Economics, Oxford University, University of Strasbourg
• Ira Black (1941–2006) – neuroscientist and stem-cell researcher; first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey^[1]
• Roscoe Brown (1922-2016) – Tuskegee airman, exercise physiologist, President, Bronx Community College, New York City political advisor^[2]
• Todd Gitlin (born 1943) – sociologist; co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society^[3]
• Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) – Government Professor at Harvard University; co-editor of Foreign Policy; author of political science works related to the modernization of societies, particularly those of developing nations
• Barbara Jasny (1952–) – deputy editor of Science
• Adrian Kantrowitz (1918–2008) – cardiac-surgery pioneer^[4]
• Arthur Kantrowitz (1913–2008) – nose cone physicist; co-inventor of the intra-aortic balloon pump^[5]
• Martin (Mickey) Kempner (born 1941) – philosophy professor and Director of the REaCH program at Rutgers University to help inner-city youth get a university education^[6]
• Robert Lefkowitz (born 1943) – 2012 recipient of Nobel prize for chemistry of protein receptors^[7]
• Norman Levitt (1943-2009) – mathematician at Rutgers University^[8]
• Paul Levinson (born 1947) – science-fiction and non-fiction author; communications professor
• Ronald Mallett (born 1945) – theoretical physicist of time travel
• Joseph M. McShane (born 1942) – Jesuit priest; president of Fordham University
• Stanley Milgram (1933–1984) – psychologist known for obedience to authority and small world studies^[9]
• Joseph A. O'Hare (born 1931) – Jesuit priest; longest-serving president of Fordham University (1984–2003); first chair of New York City Campaign Finance Board (1988–2003)
• Carolyn Porco (born 1953) – planetary scientist; leader of the Cassini space observatory team at the Colorado Space Science Institute, studying Saturn^[10]
• Allan Pred (1936–2007) – geographer at University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley^[11]
• Howard Raiffa (1924-2016) – economist; negotiation scientist^[12]
• Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) – economist; helped define modern libertarianism
• Ken Schaffer (born 1947) – inventor; invented wireless guitar, video placeshifting^[13]
• Joseph Francis Shea (1925–1999) – aerospace engineer; headed NASA's Apollo program
• Robert Sobel (1931–1999) – historian and writer; history professor at Hofstra University; writer of business histories
• Edward Soja (1940-2015) – postmodern political geography and urban theorist at UCLA ^[14]
• Michael I. Sovern (born 1931) – Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and President Emeritus of Columbia University
• Robert Spinrad (1932–2009) – computer designer; director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center^[15]
• Leonard Susskind (born 1940) – theoretical physicist^[16]
• Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1959) – astrophysicist; director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium; host of PBS's educational-television series NOVA scienceNOW
• Allen Weinstein (born 1937) – historian; Archivist of the United States
• Barry Wellman (born 1942) – sociologist; University of Toronto professor studying social networks, community and the Internet
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born 1921) – medical physicist; co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine^[17]
• Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009) – historian; Salo Baron Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University^[18]

Arts

Architecture, art and photography

• Vito Acconci (born 1940) – architect, landscape architect and installation artist
• Robert Altman (born 1944) – photographer
• Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) – photographer (including documentary photographer)
• Cope2 (born 1968) – graffiti artist
• Willie Cole (born 1955) – artist; uses found material such as his "America" blackboard^[19]
• Ralph Fasanella (1914–1997) – painter
• Edward A. Feiner^[20] – architect; former chief architect, U.S. General Services Administration
• Ron Galella (born 1931) – paparazzo photographer^[21]
• Horace Ginsbern – architect; designed the landmark Art Deco Park Plaza Apartments on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, and other New York City structures^[22]
• Milton Glaser (born 1929) – graphic designer; designer of the "I Love New York" logo
• Garry Gross (1937–2010) – fashion photographer (including nude images of Brooke Shields at age ten), dog portraiture photographer and dog trainer^[23]
• Al Held (1928–2005) – abstract painter; associated with Abstract expressionism, Hard-edge and Color Field painting^[24]
• Marcey Jacobson (1911–2009) – photographer; images of daily life in Chiapas, Mexico^[25]
• C. Paul Jennewein (1890–1978) – sculptor
• Ivan Karp (1926–2012) – art dealer
• Ronnie Landfield (born 1947) – abstract painter; associated with lyrical abstraction, and color field painting^[26]
• Daniel Libeskind (born 1946) – architect
• Glenn Ligon (born 1960) – conceptual artist
• Whitfield Lovell^[27] (1959) – painter and installation artist;^[28] focuses on African-American themes; MacArthur Fellow (2007)^[29][30]
• Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) – photographer
• Rick Meyerowitz (born 1943) – artist
• Ralph Morse (1917-2015) – photographer
• Piccirilli Brothers (including father, Giuseppe Piccirilli (1844–1910), and his six sons – Ferruccio (born 1864), Attilio (1866–1945), Furio (1868–1949), Masaniello (1870–1951), Orazio (1872–1954) and Getulio (1874–1956)) – sculptors
• Louis Risse – French-born engineer; conceived of the Grand Concourse, a boulevard in the Bronx^[22]
• Larry Rivers (1923–2002) – artist
• Edwin Scheier (born 1910) – artist
• Phil Stern (1919-2014) – Hollywood, WWII and White House photographer ^[31]
• George Sugarman (1912–1999) – sculptor^[32]
• Lawrence Weiner (born 1942) – artist; associated with conceptual art
• Marian Zazeela (born 1940) – light artist, painter, and set designer; also musician of Hindustani classical music

Journalists and writers

Edgar Allan Poe Cottage 2640 Grand Concourse, in the Fordham section of the Bronx. Poe spent the last few years of his life there.

• Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) – author
• William Henry Appleton (1814–1899) – publisher
• Army Archerd (1922–1999) – columnist for Variety
• Harold Bloom (born 1930) – literary critic
• Leslie Brody (born 1952) – non-fiction author
• Jerome Charyn (born 1937) – prolific novelist and author of several memoirs
• Mary Higgins Clark (born 1927) – best-selling author of suspense novels
• Avery Corman (born 1935) – novelist; author of The Old Neighborhood, set in the Bronx
• Don DeLillo (born 1936) – novelist
• E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015) – author
• Will Eisner (1917–2005) – author of A Contract with God and other graphic novels and instruction books
• Jules Feiffer (born 1929) – cartoonist (primarily in The Village Voice); playwright, screenwriter
• Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) – poet, critic, reviewer
• David Halberstam (1934–2007) – Pulitzer Prize-winning author, New York Times journalist
• Phil Hall (born 1964) – film critic
• Hy Hollinger (1918–2015) – journalist for Variety and The Hollywood Reporter^[33]
• Max Kadushin (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 ^[34]
• Annie Lanzillotto (born 1963) – poet, author, dramatist, songwriter
• Paul Levinson (born 1947) – science fiction and non-fiction author
• Anthony Lewis (1927–2013) – New York Times legal reporter, specializing in coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court^[35]
• Miles Marshall Lewis (born 1970) – pop-culture critic
• Kenneth Lonergan (born 1962) – playwright and screenwriter^[36]
• Ray Marcano – medical reporter and music critic
• John Matteson (born 1961) – Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer
• Stanley Meisler (1931-2016) – Foreign correspondent, biographer, art historian ^[37]
• Judith Merril (1923–1997) – science-fiction editor and author
• Steve Mirsky – Scientific American columnist
• Nicholasa Mohr (born 1938) – Nuyorican writer about Puerto Rican women in New York
• Clifford Odets (1906–1963) – playwright, co-founder of the Group Theatre
• Cynthia Ozick (born 1928) – award-winning novelist and short-story writer
• Grace Paley (1922–2007) – award-winning short-story writer^[38]
• Michael Pearson (born 1949) – Old Dominion University English professor and author of several books, including his memoir, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) – author and poet
• Chaim Potok (1929–2002) – author^[39]
• Richard Price (born 1949) – novelist and screenwriter
• Nahshon Ratcliff (born 1978) – non-fiction writer and screenwriter
• Charles Rice-González (born 1964) – novelist and playwright^[40]
• Spider Robinson (born 1948) – science-fiction writer of novels and short stories
• Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) – neurologist and author
• Douglas Sadownick – gay fiction writer, journalist and psychotherapist
• William Safire (1929–2009) – journalist, speech writer, literary stylist^[41]
• Kate Simon (1912–1990) – memoirist and popular travel guide author^[42]
• Arthur Spiegelman (1940–2008) – journalist {not the author of Maus}^[43]
• William Steig (1907–2003) – cartoonist and author^[44]
• Mark Twain (1835–1910) – author^[45]
• Dorothy Uhnak (1930–2006) – mystery writer who drew upon her past experience as a NYPD detective
• Ben Wattenberg (1933–2015) – political/demographic analysis author (The Real Majority) ^[46]
• Barry Wellman (born 1942) – sociologist of community, networks and the Internet, co-author Networked
• Gene Weingarten (born 1951) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author and cartoonist
• Herman Wouk (born 1915) – author

Dance, film, radio, television and theatre

• Danny Aiello (born 1933) – actor^[47]
• Alan Alda (born 1936) – actor
• Nancy Allen (born 1955) – actress
• Woody Allen (born 1935) – film director and actor^[48]
• June Allyson (1917–2006) – actress^[49]
• Bruce Altman (born 1955) – actor^[50]
• Christopher Aponte – ballet dancer and choreographer
• Arthur Aviles (born 1963) – dancer and choreographer
• Emanuel Azenberg (born 1934) – theatrical producer
• Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) – actress ^[51]
• Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) – actress^[52]
• Ellen Barkin (born 1954) – actress^[53]
• Peter S. Beagle (born 1939) – fantasy and science fiction author
• Tyson Beckford (born 1970) – model and actor
• Joey Bishop (1918–2007) – entertainer^[54]
• Irving Brecher (1914–2008) – radio, television and film comedy writer^[4]
• Joy Bryant (born 1976) – actress
• Red Buttons (1919–2006) – comedian and actor^[55]
• James Caan (born 1940) – actor^[56]
• George Carlin (1937–2008) – comedian
• Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981) – screenwriter^[57]
• Dominic Chianese (born 1931) – actor
• Kevin Corrigan (born 1969) – actor
• Tony Curtis (1925–2010) – actor ^[58]
• Stacey Dash (born 1966) – actress
• Michael DeLorenzo (born 1959) – actor
• Don Devlin (1930–2000) – actor, screenwriter, producer
• Richard Dubin (born 1945) – television writer, director and producer
• Peter Falk (1927–2011) – actor^[59]
• Jon Favreau (born 1966) – film and television director and actor^[60]
• Joe Franklin (1926–2015) – TV host of Joe Franklin's Memory Lane^[61]
• Cuba Gooding, Jr. (born 1968) – actor
• Don Gregory (1934-2015) – Broadway theatrical producer^[62]
• Mortimer Halpern (1909–2006) – Broadway stage manager
• Jonathan Harris (1914–2002) – actor
• Amy Heckerling (born 1954) – film director
• Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975) – film composer^[63]
• Richard Hunt (1951–1992) – Muppet puppeteer
• Robert Klein (born 1942) – comedian
• Yaphet Kotto (born 1937) – actor
• Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) – film director
• Saul Landau (1936–2013) – documentary filmmaker, journalist
• Annie Lanzillotto (born 1963) – actor, performance artist, director
• Tom Leykis (born 1956) – radio host
• Domenick Lombardozzi (born 1976) – actor
• Kenneth Lonergan (born 1962) – screenwriter, director, playwright^[64]
• Jennifer Lopez (born 1969) – actor, dancer and singer
• Linda Lovelace (1949–2002) – porn actor and anti-porn activist
• Sonia Manzano (born 1950) – actor
• Garry Marshall (1934-2016) – television and film director^[65]
• Penny Marshall (born 1942) – actor and director^[65]
• Lea Michele (born 1986) – actor
• Sal Mineo (1939–1976) – actor
• Tracy Morgan (born 1968) – actor and comedian^[66]
• Romeo Muller (1928–1992) – television writer
• Robert Mulligan (1925–2008) – film director^[67]
• Jan Murray (1916–2006) – comedian
• Bess Myerson (1924-2014) – actor; best known as first Jewish Miss America ^[68]
• Carroll O'Connor (1924–2001) – actor
• Jerry Orbach (1935–2004) – actor
• Ronnie Ortiz-Magro (born 1986) – participant on MTV's reality-television series Jersey Shore
• Al Pacino (born 1940) – actor
• Chazz Palminteri (born 1952) – actor^[69]
• Regis Philbin (born 1931) – media personality and television talk-show host
• Carl Reiner (born 1922) – comedian and film director
• Rob Reiner (born 1945) – actor and film director
• Kristina Reyes (born 1994) – actress and bass guitarist
• Martin Richards (1932–2012) – theater and movie producer^[70]
• Tanya Roberts (born 1955) – actor^[71]
• Leon Robinson (born 1962) – actor
• Géza Röhrig (born 1967) – poet and film star of Son of Saul^[72]
• George Romero (born 1940) – horror film director ^[73]
• Saoirse Ronan (born 1994) – film actor^[74]
• Andre Royo (born 1968) – actor
• Mike Savage (born 1942) – radio talk-show host^[75]
• Robert Schimmel (1950–2010) – comedian
• Daniel Schorr (1918–2010) – journalist
• John Patrick Shanley (born 1950) – playwright
• Maggie Siff (born 1974) – actor
• Neil Simon (born 1927) – playwright and screenwriter
• Wesley Snipes (born 1962) – actor
• Lionel Stander (1908–1994) – actor
• Arnold Stang (1918–2009) – actor
• Joseph Stein (1912–2010) – playwright^[76]
• Renée Taylor (born 1933) – actress
• Harold Thau – theater and television producer
• Rachel Ticotin (born 1958) – actress^[77]
• Tony Vitale (born 1964) – film writer, producer and director
• Kerry Washington (born 1977) – actress
• Douglas Watt (1914–2009) – theater critic^[78]
• Malik Yoba (born 1967) – actor

Music

• Afrika Bambaataa – disc jockey^[79]
• Anthony Amato (1920–2011) – founder and director of Amato Opera^[80]
• Anaís – singer
• Aventura (born 1996) – bachata music group
• Balozi Dola – Tanzanian rapper who often sings with Bronx hip-hop groups, in Swahili^[19]
• The Barry Sisters – Yiddish-American singers from the 1940s to 2004 ^[81]
• The Belmonts – late-1950s singing group, with Dion
• Jellybean Benitez – 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 – old-school rapper from the 1980s
• Jerry Calliste Jr (born 1965) – music-industry executive
• Diahann Carroll (born 1935) – actress and singer
• The Chiffons – early-1960s girl group
• Cheryl "Coko" Clemons (born 1970) – gospel singer and lead singer of R&B group SWV
• Cold Crush Brothers – rap group
• Willie Colón (born 1950) – trombonist
• Judy Craig – 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 – rapper; member of Wu-Tang Clan
• Kat DeLuna (born 1987) – 1950s–1960s singer
• Diamond D – hip-hop artist
• Dion DiMucci (born 1939) – singer-songwriter; 1950s–1960s rock singer
• DJ Chuck Chillout – disc jockey
• Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band – 1970s disco group
• Drag On (born 1979) – rapper
• Arnold Eidus – concert violinist and session musician
• Fat Joe (born 1970) – rapper
• Charles Fox (born 1940) – Grammy-winning composer
• Ace Frehley (born 1951) – Kiss guitarist
• French Montana (born 1984) – rapper
• Ross "The Boss" Friedman (born 1954) – guitarist and founding member of The Dictators and Manowar
• Funkmaster Flex – disc jockey
• Funky Four Plus One – rap group
• Furious Five – rap group
• Bob Gaudio (born 1942) – Four Seasons principal songwriter and group member^[82]
• Stan Getz (1927–1991) – jazz musician
• Eydie Gormé (1931–2013) – traditional pop music singer
• Grand Mixer DXT – disc jockey
• Grand Wizard Theodore – disc jockey
• Grandmaster Flash (born 1958) – disc jockey
• Cory Gunz – rapper
• Aaron Hall (born 1964) – R&B singer-songwriter
• Andre "Dr. Jeckyll" Harrell – half of rap duo Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde
• Richie Havens (1941–2013) – musician^[83]
• Jimi Hazel (born 1963) – 24-7 Spyz guitarist, vocalist and producer
• Heatmakerz – hip-hop producers
• Hell Rell – rapper
• Bobby Hutcherson (1941-2016) - jazz vibraphonist who lived in the Bronx in 1960s^[84]
• Jazzy Five – rap group
• Billy Joel (born 1949) – singer
• Jim Jones (born 1976) – rapper, actor
• Kool DJ Herc – disc jockey
• Lord Finesse – hip-hop artist
• Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz – hip-hop duo
• Helen Kane (1903–1966) – singer
• Kid Capri – disc jockey and producer
• Don Kirshner (1934–2011) – 1950s–1960s rock producer, 1970s television: "Rock Concert"^[85]
• Jann Klose – singer
• Kool Keith (born 1963) – hip-hop artist
• Joey Kramer – drummer from Aerosmith
• KRS-One (born 1965) – rapper
• La India – "The Princess of Salsa"
• Héctor Lavoe (1946–1993) – salsa singer
• Jennifer Lopez (born 1969) – actress, dancer, singer and songwriter
• Leanne "Lelee" Lyons (born 1973) – member of R&B group SWV
• Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba (born 1954) – singer, The Dictators, MC5 and Manitoba's Wild Kingdom; entertainer; radio DJ; saloon keeper
• Abel Meeropol (1903–1986) – composer of "Strange Fruit", "The House I Live in"; adoptive father of Rosenberg boys^[86]
• Melle Mel (born 1961) – rapper
• 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^[87]
• Chris Moy (born 1992) – member of Menudo
• Nice & Smooth – rap duo
• Nine – 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
• Roberta Peters (born 1930) – opera singer
• Positive K – rapper
• Prince Royce (born 1989) – bachata singer-songwriter
• Tito Puente (1923–2000) – jazz musician
• Rahzel – rapper, beatboxer
• Christopher "Kid" Reid – half of Kid 'n Play
• Remy Ma (born 1981) – rapper
• Jamar Rogers (born 1982) – singer
• Sadat X – rapper; member of Brand Nubian
• Romeo Santos – singer, bachata
• Neal Stuart Schneberg (born 1950) – 1950s–1970s singer, The Zirkons, Empire State Band
• Gil Scott-Heron – "godfather of rap"^[88]
• Showbiz and A.G. – hip-hop duo
• Carly Simon (born 1945) – singer-songwriter
• Joanna Simon (born 1940) – mezzo-soprano opera singer; MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour arts correspondent; older sister of Carly Simon and Lucy Simon
• Lucy Simon (born 1943) – composer and older sister of Carly Simon
• Slick Rick – rapper
• Soulsonic Force – rap group
• Joey Spampinato – musician
• Phil Spector – composer and arranger; murderer
• Regina Spektor (born 1980) – singer-songwriter
• Maxine Sullivan (1911–1987) – jazz singer
• Swizz Beatz – record producer/rapper
• T La Rock – rapper
• Ray Tabano – former guitarist and founding member of Aerosmith
• Tim Dog (1967-2013) – rapper
• Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957) – cellist, conductor
• Doris Troy (1937-2004) – R&B singer and songwriter
• Richard Tucker (1913–1975) – operatic tenor, cantor, Temple Adath Israel
• Steven Tyler (born 1948) – frontman of Aerosmith^[89]
• Ultramagnetic MCs – rap group
• Dave Valentin (born 1954) – Latin jazz flutist
• Luther Vandross (1951–2005) – singer
• Mario Vazquez (born 1977) – singer
• Veronica Vazquez (born 1975) – singer
• Louie Vega – disc jockey and music producer
• Jesse West – rapper, producer
• Christopher Williams – singer

Government and politics

JFK House 5040 Independence Avenue. The house where John F. Kennedy lived when he was a student at Riverdale Country School from 1927 through 1930. This house is located at 5040 Independence Avenue, across the street from Wave Hill.^[90]

• Robert Abrams (born 1938) - Assemblyman, Bronx Borough President, New York State Attorney General
• Bella Abzug (1920–1998) – Congresswoman and international feminist leader
• Herman Badillo (born 1929) – former New York City housing official, Bronx Borough President, Congressman and CUNY board of trustees chair
• Adolfo Carrión, Jr. – former Bronx Borough President tapped by President Barack Obama to be Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs
• Gray Davis (born 1942) – former Governor of California
• Louis Farrakhan (born 1933) – Black Muslim leader^[53]
• Luis A. Gonzalez^[91] – first Latino to be named Presiding Justice of the New York State Appellate Division, First Judicial Department
• Alan Grayson (born 1958) – Democratic Congressman, Florida^[92]
• Eric Holder (born 1951) – first African American-appointed United States Attorney General
• Martin Jezer (1940–2005) – progressive activist in New York and Vermont; leader of stutterers' self-help movement
• Benjamin Kaplan (1911–2010) – law professor, judge, crafter of Nuremberg Trials indicments^[93]
• John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th President of the United States (born in Brookline, Massachusetts)^[94]
• Ed Koch (1924–2013) – politician; former 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 since 1988 whose Westchester district once included parts of the Bronx and Queens
• Norman Marcus – former general counsel, New York City Planning Commission^[95]
• Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816) – revolutionary war statesman
• Michael Mukasey (born 1941) – former U.S. judge and U.S. Attorney General (under George W. Bush)
• Colin Powell (born 1937) – 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 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
• 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.^[96]
• Charles Urstadt – gubernatorial advisor and appointee noted for development of Battery Park City and as namesake of contentious Urstadt Law^[97][98]

Sports

Lou Gehrig

Hank Greenberg, Hall of Famer and two-time MVP

• Nate Archibald (born 1948) – former NBA player
• Elías Larry Ayuso (born 1977) – Puerto Rican basketball player
• Margaret Bailes (born 1951) – Olympic gold medalist
• Iran Barkley (born 1960) – boxer
• (Loretta Behrens)) Born 1932) Roller Derby
• Bobby Bonilla – former MLB player
• Willie Cager – player on 1966 Texas Western University NCAA basketball championship team^[99]
• Rod Carew (born 1945) – Baseball Hall of Famer signed by the Minnesota Twins in the Bronx^[100]
• Willie Colon – New York Jets guard
• Cus D'Amato (1908–1985) – boxing manager
• Aaron Davis (born 1967) – boxer
• Bizunesh Deba (born 1987) – marathoner^[101]
• Art Donovan (born 1925) – former NFL football tackle
• Mike "SuperJew" Epstein (born 1943) – MLB first baseman
• Chris Eubank (born 1966) – boxer
• 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) – Baseball Hall of Famer
• Daryl Homer (born 1990) – Olympic fencer^[102]
• Nat Holman – Hall of Fame basketball player and coach
• Cullen Jones (born 1984) – swimmer
• Max Kellerman (born 1973) – sports-radio host
• Ed Kranepool (born 1944) – former Major League Baseball player; New York Mets
• Marie Kruckel (born 1924) – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
• Jake LaMotta (born 1921) – boxer
• Fred Lewis (born 1947) – American-handball player
• Anibal Lopez (born 1942) – bodybuilder
• Doug Marrone (born 1964) – head coach – Buffalo Bills
• Floyd Mayweather, Sr. (born 1952) – boxing trainer
• Nat Militzok (1923–2009) – basketball player
• Marvin Miller (1917–2012) – founder, Major League Baseball Players Association^[103]
• Davey Moore (1959–1988) – WBA world middleweight champion boxer
• Juan Orozco (born 1993) – champion gymnast, 2012 Olympian^[104]
• Justin Pierce (1975–2000) – skateboarder
• Bill Polian (born 1942) – NFL executive
• Alex Ramos (born 1961) – boxer
• T.J. Rivera – New York Mets infielder. ^[105]
• Michele A. Roberts (born 1956) – director of NBA players' union ^[106]
• Randy Ruiz (born 1977) – baseball player; Toronto Blue Jays designated hitter
• Dolph Schayes (1928-2015) – Hall of Fame NBA basketball player and coach
• Babe Scheuer (1913–1997) – football player
• Vin Scully (born 1927) – sportscaster
• Amanda Serrano (born 1988) – IBF Female World Super Featherweight champion boxer
• Nevil Shed – player on 1966 Texas Western University NCAA basketball championship team^[99]
• Kemba Walker (born 1990) – basketball player; Charlotte Bobcats point guard
• Hilton White (1933–1990) – basketball coach and community leader^[99]

Name givers

• 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
• Roscoe Brown (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 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^[107]
• Ita Ford (1940–1980) – Maryknoll nun, murdered by Salvadoran death squad
• Jack Greenberg (1924-2016) – civil rights lawyer as head of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund for 23 years^[108]
• 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 (1943) – head of River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding; mother of Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix
• Sally Regenhard – 9/11 activist; Co-op City resident
• Stephen Spiro – conscientious objector and Vietnam War opponent
• Elizabeth Sturz (1917–2010) – founder of Argus Community and Harbor House; folklorist with husband Alan Lomax^[109]
• Suzanne (Werner) Wright (1946-2016) – co-founder of Autism Speaks ^[110]

Business

• Joseph Beninati (born 1964) – real estate developer and private equity investor
• Lloyd Blankfein (born 1954) – businessman; chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs (since 2006)^[111]
• Eli Broad (born 1933) – businessman and arts philanthropist; co-founder of Kaufman & Broad^[112]
• 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
• Fred DeLuca (1947-2015) – founder and CEO of Subway fast food sandwich chain
• Millard "Mickey" Drexler" (born 1944) – businessman; chief executive officer of J. Crew; former chief executive officer of the Gap^[113]
• Michael J. Freeman – inventor, educator, business consultant, and entrepreneur
• Harry Helmsley (1909–1997) – real estate magnate in New York City
• Roger Hertog – co-founder of investment firm; co-publisher of The New Republic magazine; philanthropist^[114]
• 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 borough of New York City that was a haunt of writers, actors, politicians^[115]
• Calvin Klein (born 1942) – clothing designer
• Ralph Lauren (born 1939) – clothing designer
• George Lois (born 1932) – advertising^[116]
• Reuben and Rose Mattus (1912–1994; 1916–2006) – founders of Häagen-Dazs ice cream
• Mark Penn (born 1954) – chief executive officer of the public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller; president of the polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates
• Sol Price (1916–2009) – founder of the Price Club and FedMart retail stores^[117]
• Fred Schwartz (1931-2016) – Furrier, known nationally as "Fred the Furrier".^[118]
• Fred Trump (1905-1999) - Real estate developer and father of Donald Trump

Infamous

• David Berkowitz (born 1953) – "Son of Sam" serial killer
• Larry Davis (1966–2008) – drug dealer; shot multiple police officers
• John Gotti (1940–2002) – crime boss

See also

• List of people from New York City
  • List of people from Brooklyn
  • List of people from Queens
  • List of people from Staten Island

References

1. Pearce, Jeremy (January 12, 2006). "Dr. Ira B. Black, 64, Leader in New Jersey Stem Cell Effort, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
2. Sam Roberts, "Roscoe C. Brown, 94, Tuskegee Airman and Political Confidant," New York Times, July 7, 2016
3. Miller, Jim (November 8, 1987). "Tears and Riots, Love and Regrets". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2011. "Mr. Gitlin was born in 1943. Growing up in the Bronx, the middle-class son of liberal Jewish parents, he was, as he recalls, 'studious and clean-cut,' a straight-arrow fan of Adlai Stevenson."
4. The New York Times obituary. November 20, 2008.
5. The New York Times obituary. December 10, 2008.
6. John Chadwick, "In Needy Communities, Rutgers Prepares Teens for College", Rutgers News and Events,
7. "Nobel Prize Winner Hails from the Bronx," MyFoxNY.com
8. Pasachoff, Jay M. (February 2010). "Norm Levitt: An Obituary". The Skeptical Inquirer. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. 34 (1). Retrieved 28 April 2016.
9. Thomas Blass, "The Man Who Shocked the World" Psychology Today, March 1, 2002
10. Overbye, Dennis (September 21, 2009). "An Odyssey from the Bronx to Saturn's Rings". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
11. Natalia Vonnegut, "Alan Pred in Memoriam",
12. Sam Roberts, "Howard Raifa, 92, Negotiation Scientist" New York Times, July 18, 2016
13. "Ken Schaffer: What's the Frequency?" http://www.nutcom.com/?cat=3
15. Markoff, John (September 6, 2009). Robert Spinrad, a Pioneer in Computing, Dies at 77". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
16. Byrne, Peter (July 2011). "Bad Boy of Physics". Scientific American. pp. 80–83.
17. Gellene, Denise (June 2, 2011). "Rosalyn S. Yalow, Nobel Medical Physicist, Dies at 89". The New York Times.
18. Berger, Joseph (December 10, 2009). "Yosef H. Yerushalmi, Scholar of Jewish History, Dies at 77". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
19. Frazier, Ian (December 21, 2009). "Dept. of Orientation: El Super". The New Yorker. p. 50.
20. . American Institute of Architects.
21. Friend, Tad (May 31, 2010). "Big Game Dept.: No Pictures". The New Yorker. pp. 24–25.
22. Rosenblum, Constance (August 20, 2009). "Grand Wasn't It?". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
23. Hevesi, Dennis (December 7, 2010). "Garry Gross Is Dead at 73; Photographer of Clothes and Their Absence". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
24. McNay, Michael (July 31, 2005). "Al Held – American Painter Who Found His Voice in Hard Edge Abstraction". The Guardian. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
25. Weber, Bruce. (August 11, 2009). "Marcey Jacobson, a Photographer Inspired by Mexico, Dies at 97". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
26. Landfield, Ronnie; Morgan, Robert C.; Landfield, Jenny (2007). Ronnie Landfield – Paintings from Five Decades – September 16 – November 25, 2007 (exhibition catalogue). Youngstown, Ohio: Butler Institute of American Art. "Beginnings". pp. 7–10. ISBN 978-1-882790-50-0.
27. Whitfield Lovell
28. Yau, John (July–August 2006). "Whitfield Lovell with John Yau". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
29. Staff (September 2007). "MacArthur Fellows 2007 – Whitfield Lovell". John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
30. Video (requires Adobe Flash; 00:02:11) (June 11, 2008). "2007 MacArthur Fellow: Whitfield Lovell". John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (via its YouTube channel). Retrieved October 29, 2011.
31. Robert McFadden, "Phil Stern, Photographer; Chronicler of Movie Stars and a President was 95" New York Times, December 16, 2014"
32. Smith, Roberta (August 31, 1999). "George Sugarman, a Sculptor Of Colorful Works, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
33. Hy Hollinger, Longtime Variety Reporter, Dies at 97
34. Margalit Fox, "Bel Kaufman, Who Told What School Was Really Like, Dies at 103." New York Times, July 28, 2014.
35. Liptak, Adam (March 25, 2013). "Anthony Lewis, Supreme Court Reporter Who Brought Law to Life, Dies at 85". The New York Times.
36. Hilton Als, "Urban Blight: The World of Kenneth Lonergan," New Yorker, September 22 2014, pp 107-109
37. William Grimes, "Stanley Meisler, 85, Reporter Who Pivoted to Art History," New York Times, July 7, 2016
38. Sarah Crown, "A Reading Class in Masters of the Short Story." Guardian News Service, accessed via Toronto Globe and Mail, Review section, December 12, 2009.
39. Fox, Margalit (July 24, 2002). "Chaim Potok, 73, Dies; Novelist Illumined the World of Hasidic Judaism". The New York Times. Retrieved December 1, 2007. "Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx on Feb. 17, 1929."
40. Junco, Maite (March 29, 2012). "Gay coming-of-age novel 'Chulito' puts Hunts Point in the literary map". The New York Daily News. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
41. Robert McFadden, "Willim Safire, Political Columnist and Oracle of Language, Dies at 79" The New York Times, September 29, 2009.
42. Flint, Peter B. (February 5, 1990). "Kate Simon, Acclaimed Memoirist And Travel Writer, Is Dead at 77". The New York Times. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
43. Archived December 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
44. Boxer, Sarah (November 29, 1997). "Wry Child of the Unconscious; William Steig, 90, on Art, Life and the Mysterious Orgone". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "He was born in 1907, grew up in the Bronx and had what he once called a defective education."
45. Goodman, Jonathan (January–February 2001). "Wave Hill: Sculpture in the Garden". Sculpture. Retrieved August 7, 2013. "Mark Twain rented Wave Hill from 1901 through 1903, and Arturo Toscanini lived there from 1942 through 1945."
46. Sam Roberts, "Ben Wattenberg, Author and Commentator, Dies at 81", New York Times, June 30, 2015
47. Norman, Michael (January 21, 1990). "His Bus Came In". The New York Times. "Later, when the family moved near Boston Road in the Bronx, the progenitor showed himself even less."
48. Meade, Marion. The Unruly Life of Woody Allen. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons. Chapter 1 reprinted in .
49. Harmetz, Aljean (July 11, 2006). "June Allyson, Adoring Wife in MGM Films, Is Dead at 88". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "June Allyson was born Ella Geisman on Oct. 7, 1917, in the Bronx."
50. . Internet Movie Database.
52. Berkvist, Robert (June 8, 2005). "Anne Bancroft, Stage and Film Star in Voracious and Vulnerable Roles, Dies at 73". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "Anna Maria Louisa Italiano was born on Sept. 17, 1931, in the Bronx to Italian immigrant parents."
53. "Place of Birth Index". Who2.com. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
54. Severo, Richard (October 19, 2007). "Joey Bishop, 89, Last of the Rat Pack, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "Joey Bishop was born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb in the Bronx on Feb. 3, 1918, the fifth child and third son of Jacob Gottlieb and the former Anna Siegel, immigrants from Eastern Europe."
55. Rothstein, Mervyn (July 14, 2006). "Comedian Red Buttons Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "He first attended P.S. 104 on East Fourth Street, but then his family moved to the Bronx, to 176th Street and Marmion Avenue."
56. Weinraub, Bernard (May 17, 2004). "James Caan Takes a Gamble On 'Las Vegas,' and Scores". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "Born in the Bronx, reared in Queens, where his family owned a kosher meat market, Mr. Caan said he ran with a tough crowd, wanted to be a professional football player but wound up, for reasons he is still not entirely sure about, auditioning and being accepted at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan."
57. David Marc and Robert Thompson, Prime Time Prime Movers, Boston: Little Brown, 1992
58. Reeves Wiedeman, "Only in New York: Talk to Me." The New Yorker, p. 20. February 9, 2005
59. http://www.nycplus.com/nyc18/just79morethings.html
60. Bowles, Scott (May 7, 2010). "Favreau's a Comic-Book Hero." USA Today. pp. 1D-2D.
61. Reeves Wiedeman, "Only in New York: Talk to Me." The New Yorker, p. 20. February 9, 2005
62. Bruce Weber, "Don Gregory Dies at 80: Produced Solo Plays." New York Times, November 10, 2015
63. "Bernard Hermann (American Composer), Encyclopædia Britannica" – ; Jim Fusilli, "The Psycho Maestro at 100." Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2011.
64. Rebecca Mead, "Lost Time," New Yorker, November 7, 2016
65. Rosenblum, Constance (August 21, 2009). "Grand, Wasn't It?". The New York Times.
66. Wheeler, Brad (March 19, 2012). "Tracy Morgan". The Globe and Mail. p. R3.
67. Fox, Margalit (December 28, 2008). "Robert Mulligan, Director, Is Dead at 83". The New York Times.
69. James, Caryn (July 9, 1995). "Do the Movies Get New York Right?". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "Mr. Palminteri, who grew up in the Bronx on 187th Street and Belmont Avenue, said, Basically the story was about this medieval village in the Bronx, but it was so truthful and so real about the Bronx."
70. Weber, Bruce (November 28, 2012). "Martin Richards, Broadway Producer, Is Dead at 80". The New York Times.
71. .
72. Antony Lane, "Deeo and Dark", The New Yorker, Dec 21, 2015: 117
73. Chris Alexander, "Horror Legends Talk about Hollywood." Metro Toronto October 28, 2016
74. Steve Gow, "Saoirse Steps into Role She's Lived." Metro Toronto, November 20, 2015, p. 26.
75. Sanneh, Kelefa (August 3, 2009). "Party of One". The New Yorker. p. 53.
76. Gates, Anita (October 26, 2010). "Joseph Stein, 'Fiddler on the Roof' Author, Dies at 98". The New York Times.
77. Rachel Tictotin Biography (1958–), Filmreference.com
78. Weber, Bruce (October 2, 2009). "Douglas Watt, New York Theater Critic, Dies at 95". The New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2009.
79. Fernandez, Manny (June 17, 2006). "For One Week, a Bronx Cheer Means Cheering for the Borough", The New York Times. Retrieved October 28, 2011. "The Bronx is also Afrika Bambaataa, who, while growing up in the Bronx River Houses, became a D.J. in the early 1970s."
80. Fox, Margalit (December 15, 2011). "Anthony Amato, 91, Owner of Feisty Opera". The New York Times.
81. Joseph Berger, "Claire Barry, a Singer in Sister Duo, Dies at 94," New York Times, December 3, 2014
82. Rotella, Mark (October 2, 2005). "Straight Out of Newark", The New York Times. Retrieved October 9, 2007. "Originally from the Bronx, Mr. Gaudio had, at age 15, written the hit "Who Wears Short Shorts," which he made up while driving with friends along the main drag in Bergenfield."
83. Martin, Douglas (April 23, 2013). "Richie Havens, a Soulful Folk Singer Who Riveted Woodstock, Dies at 72". The New York Times.
84. Nate Chinen, "Bobby Hutcherson, 75, Jazz Vibraphonist with Luminescent and Cooly Fluid Style," New York Times, August 17, 2016
85. Sisario, Ben (January 19, 2011). "Don Kirshner, 76, TV Host and Shaper of Hit Records". The New York Times.
86. Joan Cook, "Abel Meeropol, 83, a songwriter, dies" New York Times October 31, 1986, http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/31/obituaries/abel-meeropol-83-a-songwriter-dies.html
87. Drape, Joe (November 11, 2010). "The Sweet Tune of Perfection". The New York Times. pp. B12, B15.
88. Wilkinson, Alec (August 9, 2010). "New York Is Killing Me". The New Yorker. August 9, 2010, pp. 26–32.
89. Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith (1999 paperback edition) Harper Collins Publishers, p. 23. ISBN 0-06-051580-5
90. JFK in the Bronx
91. "Governor Andrew M. Cuomo". Ny.gov. March 10, 2011. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
92. Barbaro, Michael (January 3, 2011). "Enter Swinging: Exit: Much the Same Way". The New York Times.
93. Weber, Bruce (August 24, 2010). "Benjamin Kaplan, Crucial Figure in Nazi Trials, Dies at 99". The New York Times.
94. Gross, Max (April 24, 2008). "Riverdale Run". The New York Post. New York. Retrieved May 3, 2008. John F. Kennedy spent his youth in an enormous white mansion on Independence Avenue
95. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/nyregion/07marcus.html
96. Rick Rojas and Emily Palmer, "At Funeral Mass, Police Leader is Remembered as 'One of a Kind'". New York Times, August 24, 2016
97. http://www.gothamgazette.com/housing/jul.02.shtml
98. http://downtownexpress.com/de_357/urstadt.html
99. Grant, Jason (August 3, 2009). "More Than Playing Ball on a South Bronx Playground". The New York Times.
100. Baseball Digest 1977. (via Google Books). Retrieved March 14, 2011.
101. Julie Bosman (October 31, 2011). "Elite Runner Lives and Trains in New York". The New York Times.
102. Andrew Marantz, "Up Life's Ladder: Touche" New Yorker, April 8, 2016, pp. 24-25
103. Goldstein, Richard (November 28, 2012). "The Bargainer Who Remade the Old Ball Game". The New York Times.
104. Juliet Macur, Juliet (August 1, 2012). "Getting Back Up is Nothing New for Bronx Gymnast". The New York Times.
105. James Wagner, "A Minor League Hit Machine Tries to Keep Producing with the Mets." New York Times, August 18, 2016
106. Andrew Keh, "Smashing a Ceiling and A Lot of Egos," New York Times sports section, August 17, 2014
107.  • Hoose, Phillip H. (2009). Claudette Colvin – Twice Toward Justice. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-31322-7.
      • Barnes, Brooks (November 26, 2009). "From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights History". The New York Times.
108. Richard Severo and William McDonald, "Jack Greenberg Dies at 91, Las Survivor of a Legendary Civil Rights Legal Team," New York Times, October 13, 2016
109. Martin, Douglas (October 22, 2010). "Elizabeth L. Sturz, 93, Dies; Salvaged Troubled Lives". The New York Times. p. A23.
110. Daniel S. Slotnik, "Suzanne Wright, 69, a Founder of the Charity Autism Speaks," New York Times, August 2, 2016
111. "Report on Business". The Globe and Mail. April 17, 2010.
112. Bruch, Connie (December 10, 2010). "The Art of the Billionaire". The New Yorker.
113. Paumgarten, Nick (September 20, 2010). "The Merchant" The New Yorker. pp. 74–87.
114. "This page is available to GlobePlus subscribers". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 14, 2011.
115. Talese, Gay (January 22, 2011). "Four Hundred Dresses". The New Yorker. p. 22.
116. James Barron, "An Adman's Big Pitch: His Life Work", New York Times, January 18, 2016
117. Fox, Margait (December 16, 2009). "Sol Price, Who Founded Price Club, Is Dead at 93". The New York Times.
118. Sam Roberts, "Fred Schwartz is Dead at 84, Furrier and Philanthropist." New York Times, August 10, 2016