List of people from New Rochelle, New York

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This list includes notable people who were born in New Rochelle, New York, or lived there for a significant period of time.

Frank Abagnale, security consultant and former confidence trickster, check forger, and impostor Herbert Agar, journalist Tony Aiello, CBS television reporter Horace M. Albright, conservationist James P. Allaire, credited with developing marine steam engine Robert Allen, pianist, songwriter ("Chances Are", "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays") Dick Ambrose, actor Harold Anderson, illustrator Susan B. Anthony, suffragist Lee Archer, WWII fighter pilot; one of the first African-American CEOs of a Fortune 500 company Bernard Arnault, LVMH chairman Jesse Arnelle, basketball player Faith Baldwin, author Marc Ian Barasch, author Phil Barnhart, politician Nathan Franklin Barrett, landscape architect Edward A. Batchelor, sportswriter Reynolds Beal, artist James Beck, actor Anthony C. Beilenson, California legislator Francis Rufus Bellamy, writer and editor Dick Berg, screenwriter; film and television producer Phil Berger, politician Derek Bermel, composer, clarinetist, conductor Thomas V. Bermingham, Jesuit priest; classics professor and advisor for The Exorcist Arnold Bernstein, owner of several shipping lines Virginia Berresford, printmaker; artist Elizabeth Berridge, actress Helen Ginger Berrigan, federal judge Lipman Bers, mathematician Anthony Bevilacqua, Roman Catholic cardinal James Biber, architect Walter Biggs, illustrator Jerry Bilik, composer Stanley Bing, magazine writer Ken Blanchard, author, management expert Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, banker Scotty Bloch, actress Jerry Bock, composer (Fiddler on the Roof) Mark Bomback, screenwriter Benjamin Bonneville, 19th-century fur trader Nicholas Bonneville, 19th-century bookseller Agnes Booth, actress Connie Booth, writer and actress Franklin Booth, artist noted for pen-and-ink illustrations Gloria Borger, CNN and CBS special correspondent David Borowich, financier, philanthropist, community activist Rudy Boschwitz, former U.S. Senator Carrie Bowman, actress Peter Bowman, politician Samuel S. Bowne, 19th-century US Representative Peter V. Brett, writer of fantasy novels Teresa Brewer, pop and jazz singer, lived on Pinebrook Boulevard Clare Briggs, early 20th-century comic strip artist Nell Brinkley, illustrator, "Queen of Comics" Ron Bruder, billionaire businessman Edson Buddle, professional soccer player John Bunny, actor Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, writer CL Smooth, rapper Joey Calderazzo, jazz pianist Daryl Campbell, politician, Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives since 2022 Joseph Campbell, mythologist, professor and author Thomas Carmody, lawyer and politician Craig Carton, radio personality, Boomer and Carton in the Morning Irene Castle, ballroom dancer Vernon Castle, ballroom dancer Carrie Chapman Catt, women's suffragist Frank Tolles Chamberlin, artist Riley Chamberlin, actor Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express, lives in the city Penny Chenery, bred and raced Secretariat George Randolph Chester, author of Five Thousand an Hour Kay Christopher, actress Howard Chandler Christy, illustrator Graham Clarke, musician, songwriter Gene Colan, comic book artist Willie Colón, singer, musician, activist, producer Bob Coltman, singer, musician Peter Conrad, sociologist Thomas Cooke, soccer player, participant in the 1904 Olympics James Fenimore Cooper, author J. Fred Coots, songwriter ("Santa Claus is Coming to Town") Maurice Copeland, actor Dean Cornwell, artist Bud Cort, actor Johnny Counts, football player Richard Courant, mathematician Glenn Cowan (1952–2004), table tennis player Judy Crichton, television producer Robert Crichton, novelist Caresse Crosby, actress Otho Cushing, artist Faith Daniels, television journalist Miriam Davenport, artist Thaddeus Davids, colonial businessman Irwin D. Davidson, politician Billy Davis, songwriter (“Lonely Teardrops”; “Buy the World a Coke” song) Guy Davis, musician Ossie Davis, actor, playwright and social reformer, husband of Ruby Dee, lived in Rochelle Heights Drew S. Days, III, Solicitor General of the United States, Professor of Law at Yale Law School Jane Emmet de Glehn, figure and portrait painter René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, financier Peter De Rose, songwriter (Deep Purple) Dan DeCarlo, cartoonist who developed Josie and the Pussycats and Archie Comics Ruby Dee, actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist; married to Ossie Davis, lived in Rochelle Heights Bob Denver, actor (Gilligan from Gilligans Island) Donald V. DeRosa, president, University of the Pacific Leon Dewan, artist Louis Diat, chef, creator of vichyssoise John Dickerson, trainer Kevin Dillon, actor Matt Dillon, actor Joseph J. DioGuardi, politician Kara DioGuardi, songwriter, judge on American Idol E.L. Doctorow, author, Ragtime Kaneji Domoto, architect Daniel Dorff, musician, composer Edward M. Douglas, businessman Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr., entrepreneur Elsie Driggs, painter James Dunn, actor Christopher Edley, Jr., class of 1970; Dean of University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) Richard Edson, actor Arnold Ehrlich, biblical and rabbinical scholar David A. Embury, attorney, author, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks Grenville T. Emmet, diplomat Lydia Field Emmet, painter Robert Temple Emmet, artist William Le Roy Emmet, engineer Justus B. Entz, electrical engineer, inventor of the electromagnetic transmission Jean Erdman, dancer Ato Essandoh, television and film actor Anthony Walton White Evans, 19th-century civil engineer Bernard Evslin, author Tom Evslin, businessman Douglas Fairbanks, actor John Falter, artist and Saturday Evening Post illustrator Peter Faneuil, wealthy colonial merchant, slave trader, and philanthropist who donated Faneuil Hall to Boston Diane Farrell, politician, unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Connecticut's 4th congressional district in 2004 and 2006 Charles Fazzino, 3D pop artist William N. Fenton, writer W C Fields, comedian and actor Annie Finch, poet Terry Finn, actress, original Broadway cast of Merrily We Roll Along Laurence Fishburne, actor, playwright, director, and producer, married to Gina Torres Thom Fitzgerald, theater director Noah Fleiss, actor Robert MacDonald Ford, Washington state representative Victor Forsythe, artist Kendall Foss, journalist Eddie Foy, Jr., actor Eddie Foy, Sr., actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian Sidney Frank, multi-billionaire creator of "top-shelf" liquors Betty Freeman, philanthropist Kurt O. Friedrichs, German-American mathematician Frankie Frisch, baseball player Franklin Clark Fry, leading Lutheran clergyman, known for his work on behalf of interdenominational unity Ed Gallagher, football player, University of Pittsburgh Ralph Gants, jurist Lou Gehrig, Hall of Fame baseball player Leslie H. Gelb, former President of the Council on Foreign Relations Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator Steven Gilborn, television and film actor Dorothy Gish, actress Lillian Gish, actress Robin Givens, film, television and stage actress Marty Glickman, Jewish American track-and-field athlete and sports announcer Barbara Goldsmith, author Peter Gordon, composer Irv Gotti, Murder Inc. CEO, record producer; Beechmont Woods Steve Gottlieb, music executive Frank Graham, writer Josiah Gray, MLB pitcher for the Washington Nationals Grand Puba, rapper Barry Gray, radio personality Courtney Greene, NFL safety James Gregory, stage, screen and TV actor Nick Gregory, meteorologist Della Griffin, jazz vocalist, drummer Ralph Guggenheim, video designer Molly Guion, artist David Hall, sound archivist, author Monty Hall, television personality Roy Hamilton, singer E. W. Hammons, producer Butch Harmon, golf instructor, grew up in New Rochelle Claude Harmon, golfer, lived in New Rochelle Alfred Harvey, creator of Richie Rich Greg Hawkins, hedge fund manager Julian Hawthorne, author Peter Lind Hayes, actor, lived on Icard Lane off Pelham Road Anthony Heald, actor Mary Healy, entertainer William Randolph Hearst, newspaper baron A. G. Heaton, artist, author and leading numismatist Henry Heimlich, creator of the Heimlich maneuver John Held, Jr., cartoonist Larry Hennessy, basketball player Don Hewitt, television producer Marion West Higgins, politician Dietrich von Hildebrand, philosopher John H. Hilldring, general Ron Hines, first black Ivy League-educated auto racing engineer on America’s road racing circuits George Hirsch, publisher, New York Magazine, New York Times Charles J. Hite, ran Thanhouser Company Wilder Hobson, journalist Doug Hoffer, policy analyst Grethe Barrett Holby, producer Quame Holder, footballer Henry Holt, publisher and author Bill Hook, chess master Bronson Howard, dramatist Devon Hughes, professional wrestler Rowland Hughes, budget director Terrell Hughes, professional wrestler Terrence Hughes, professional wrestler Walter Beach Humphrey, illustrator Joseph Humphreys, boxing official Francis Hunter, model Jennifer Hyman, entrepreneur Timothy C. Idoni, three-time mayor of New Rochelle Adrian G Iselin, wealthy businessman; industrialist Charles Oliver Iselin, yachtsman; businessman Hope Goddard Iselin, socialite Mary Phelps Jacob, poet, publisher, peace activist, New York socialite Richard Jacobs, rabbi Stanley R. Jaffe, film producer Maryam Jameelah, author of Islamic culture and history Art James, TV game show host Boney James, saxophonist, songwriter, record producer Del James, musician, writer Edward G. Janeway John Jay, politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States Ty Jerome, NBA basketball player Willem Jewett, politician Hans Jonas, philosopher Lou Jones, Olympic gold medal winner Scram Jones, producer Hugo Kafka, Czech-American architect Michael Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C Arthur Kallet, consumer advocate Brad Caleb Kane, singer Robert Kapilow, composer and conductor M. Farooq Kathwari, chairman and owner of Ethan Allen Walter Kauzmann, chemist, professor emeritus at Princeton Elia Kazan, director Max Keiser, broadcaster Adrian Lee Kellard, artist in woodwork, sculpture Chance Kelly, actor Katherine C. Kelly, activist Edward Winsor Kemble, cartoonist and illustrator Lawrence Joyce Kenney, bishop Jean Kerr, author and playwright Walter Kerr, author and playwright Abraham Keteltas, colonial Presbyterian clergyman Karen Killilea, subject of two best-selling books written by her mother (Karen and With Love From Karen) Joe Klein, writer

Jonathan Klein, former head of CNN U.S. William Klemperer, chemist John Kluge, German-American television mogul (Metromedia) and billionaire Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., billionaire co-founder of Private Equity group KKR Jim Koplik, concert promoter Martin David Kruskal, mathematician, physicist Florence La Badie, actress Luciano Lamonarca, opera singer Jacob Landau, journalist, attorney, government official, free-speech activist Jocelyn Lane, actress Joseph Langland, poet Jim Lansing, college football player and coach (Fordham Rams) Walter Lantz, producer, director, creator of Woody Woodpecker Susan Larson, soprano opera singer William Leggett, poet, writer Jacob Leisler, German-born American colonist, governor of New York, facilitator of settlement at New Rochelle Jay Leno, comedian, writer and TV personality Clifford J. Levy, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark J. Lewis, scientist Russell T. Lewis, newspaper executive Frank X. Leyendecker, illustrator J. C. Leyendecker, Saturday Evening Post illustrator John W. Lieb, electrical engineer Herbert Lieberman, novelist and playwright Leonard Lief, educator Sara Jane Lippincott, author Zachary Lipton, musician Lucius Littauer, businessman Stuart C. Lord, educator Errol Louis, television personality Tom Lovell, illustrator Orson Lowell, artist; illustrator Richard E. Lyon, illustrator Roger MacBride, lawyer Harry Macklowe, CEO, Macklowe Properties René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, financial fund manager Janet Maguire, composer Joshua Malina, actor Tommy Manville, heir to asbestos fortune, socialite Nancy Marcus, biologist, oceanographer, and dean at Florida State University Branford Marsalis, Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Frederick Dana Marsh, artist Anthony Mason, basketball player Antoine Mason, basketball player Chenoa Maxwell, actress Robert L. May, creator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Willie Mays, Hall of Fame baseball player; lived on Croft Terrace Andrea McArdle, actress, Broadway's original Annie Roy McCardell, writer, humorist Bernard McEveety, film director John J. McGlone, scientist J. Raymond McGovern, lawyer John McGraw, baseball player and manager Don McLean, singer of 1971 ballad "American Pie" Robert H. Meltzer, painter Alan Menken, Academy Award-winning composer Robert Merrill, operatic baritone Jeralyn Merritt, criminal defense attorney Susan Metcalfe Casals, opera singer Truman Michelson, linguist and anthropologist Stanley Milgram, psychologist Bob Mintzer, saxophonist, composer, bandleader Gabriel Minvielle, original Huguenot settler, founder of New Rochelle Andrea Mitchell, television journalist Arthur Mitchell, politician James J. Montague, writer and poet of the early 20th century J.P. Morgan, industrialist Rob Morrow, actor Bill Morton, college football player and American Express executive Tad Mosel, playwright Frank Moser, film director Jürgen Moser, mathematician Henry C. Moses, educator Tommy Mottola, music executive John Cullen Murphy, illustrator of Prince Valiant John Joseph Nevins, auxiliary bishop, Archdiocese of Miami Charles Henry Niehaus, sculptor Timothy Noah, journalist Doris Nolan, actress Glynnis O'Connor, actress Gloria Oden, poet C. Stanley Ogilvy, mathematician Jennifer O'Neill, actress George Oppen, poet Frederick Burr Opper, pioneer of comic strips Barrie M. Osborne, film producer, 2004 Academy Award winner (Lord of the Rings) William O'Shaughnessy, broadcaster, author, advocate for free speech Muriel Ostriche, actress Moishe Oysher, cantor Cynthia Ozick, author George Elden Packard, bishop Thomas Paine, philosopher, writer, politician Al Parker, illustrator Vincent Pastore, actor, The Sopranos David Patchen, glass artist Frederick D. Patterson, educator Jeff Pearlman, writer Jan Peerce, operatic tenor Edward Penfield, artist J.C. Penney, founder of department store chain Bob Perciasepe, energy executive House Peters, Jr., character actor Coles Phillips, illustrator Joseph R. Pisani, lawyer Clarkson Nott Potter, politician Theodore Pratt, writer Pearl Primus, dancer Rudolph Douglas Raiford, decorated WWII combat officer Sendhil Ramamurthy, actor Perry T. Rathbone, museum director George Ratsey, sailor Albert Ray, director, actor and screenwriter Alex Raymond, creator of Flash Gordon; graduated Iona Prep 1927 Jim Raymond, comic strip artist (brother of Alex Raymond) Della Reese, singer, actress, philanthropist; lived on Trenor Drive Bill Reilly, publishing executive, founder of Primedia Carl Reiner, actor, director, producer, writer and comedian Estelle Reiner, singer and actress Rob Reiner, actor, director, producer, writer, children's advocate and political activist Charles M. Relyea, illustrator Frederic Remington, painter and sculptor Charles Revson, pioneering cosmetics industry executive, created Revlon Joseph L. Rhinock, politician Ray Rice, NFL running back Dean Riesner, film and television writer Richard Riordan, Mayor of Los Angeles 1993–2001 Mariano Rivera, baseball pitcher for New York Yankees Norman Rockwell, visual artist, illustrator and painter James O. Rodgers, football player and coach Wayne Allyn Root, television producer, author Ken Rosato, journalist Adam Rosen, American-born British luger, Olympian Fred Rosen, businessman Gary Rosenberg, scientist Frank Rosenblatt, psychologist Lionel Rosenblatt, humanitarian, refugee advocate Arthur Rothstein, photojournalist Richard Roundtree, actor and male fashion model Samuel Ruben, inventor Louis Rukeyser, business columnist, commentator Merryle Rukeyser, economist, father of Louis Rukeyser and William S. Rukeyser William S. Rukeyser, editor of Fortune magazine Daniel R. Russel, diplomat and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs J.H. Ryley, singer, actor Sadat X, rapper, hip hop group Brand Nubian Jeff Sagarin, oddsmaker Mead Schaeffer, artist David Scherman, photographer David Schiff, composer Eric Schmertz, lawyer, labor negotiator Ruth Schönthal, pianist William Schurman, 18th-century businessman, legislator Montgomery Schuyler, artist Philip Schuyler, general in the American Revolution, U.S. Senator Remington Schuyler, artist Peter Scolari, actor Gary Scott, baseball player, Chicago Cubs Renata Scotto, Italian soprano and opera director Al Seckel, author, authority on visual and sensory illusions Chaka Seisay, actor Lorenzo Semple, Jr., screenwriter Elizabeth Ann Seton, first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized as a saint Clarine Seymour, actress Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X; activist Alan Shapiro, education reformer Kevin Shattenkirk, professional hockey player, Anaheim Ducks Marlena Shaw, singer Robert Emmet Sherwood, actor, playwright Sol Shor, film and television screenwriter Henry Augustus Siebrecht, florist; propagated first orchids in the United States Horace Silver, musician Bill Skiff, baseball player, Pittsburgh Pirates Brian Slocum, baseball player Lawrence M. Small, president of Fannie Mae; Smithsonian Institution Secretary Henry Smart, head of Standard Oil Company, lived in Beechmont Buffalo Bob Smith, TV host, created and voiced Howdy Doody Paddy Smith, baseball player Matt Snell, football player Marguerite Snow, actress C. B. J. Snyder, architect Deborah Solomon, writer Olga Sosnovska, actress George Spaulding, songwriter Donald Spoto, author, born in New Rochelle Arnold Stang, comic actor Adam Stanger, musician John H. Starin, businessman and creator of Glen Island Resort George Starke, football player David Starobin, classical guitarist, composer of works including "New Rochelle Suite" Harry Stein, author Joseph Stein, playwright Sol Steinmetz, linguistics and lexicography expert John Stephenson, inventor of the first U.S. street car, founded John Stephenson Company Frances Sternhagen, actress Al Sutton, filmmaker Andrew Svoboda, golfer John Sweeney, electrical clerk, first American citizen to be issued a social security number at age 23, died at age 61 and never collected his social security payment David Tanenbaum, guitarist Fran Tarkenton, Hall of Fame football player, TV personality, software executive Benjamin I. Taylor, US Representative Teyana Taylor, musician and TV personality Cristina Teuscher, swimmer, Olympic gold medalist Edwin Thanhouser, founder of Thanhouser Film Studios Gertrude Thanhouser, co-founder of Thanhouser Film Studios Augustus Thomas, playwright Claude Thornhill, pianist George T. Tobin, illustrator James Henry Toole, politician Jean Toomer, writer Joe Torre, baseball player and manager (New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers) Gina Torres, actress Joan Tower, contemporary composer, pianist and conductor Harry Traver, roller coaster designer George Treadwell, early 20th-century jazz trumpeter Jonathan Tropper, best-selling author and screenwriter Myra Turley, film and television actress John Q. Underhill, U.S. Representative from New York Rachel Vail, children's author Billy Van Heusen, football player, Denver Broncos Clyde Vaughan, basketball player and coach George Vergara, football player Donald Verrilli Jr., lawyer, Solicitor General of the United States Herb Voland, actor Harold von Schmidt, illustrator Heinie Wagner, shortstop for New York Giants and Boston Red Sox Ira Wallach, writer Edmund Franklin Ward, illustrator Ivan Warner, lawyer Kent Washington (born 1956), basketball player Burton Watson, translator Daniel Webster, leading statesman during the antebellum period Robert Walter Weir, artist, educator, historical painter Max Wertheimer, psychologist James E. West, former head of the Boy Scouts of America Paul Whiteman, bandleader Asa Whitney, merchant, promoter of Transcontinental Railroad Brian Wiggins, football player Harold Wilensky, sociologist Francis Wilson, actor H. Donald Wilson, lawyer, creator of Lexis legal system Malcolm Wilson, politician, former Governor of New York John Woodruff, athlete, 1936 Summer Olympics gold medalist John Douglas Woodward, painter Ben Yagoda, journalist K. Aslihan Yener, archaeologist Molly Yestadt, milliner Chic Young, cartoonist, creator of Blondie Dean Young, cartoonist Whitney Young, Jr., civil rights leader Steven M. Zeitels, surgical innovator (voice restoration procedures) and professor Heinrich Zimmer, Indologist, historian of South Asian art Chuck Zito, actor, biker Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum, 19th-century illustrator, author Jane Zweibel, artist and art therapist.