List of people from Scarsdale, New York
The following is a list of notable people from Scarsdale, New York.
Arts
- Cabot Lyford, sculptor[1]
- Nikita Singh, author
Criminals
- Joseph DiNapoli, Italian American mobster
- Robert Hanssen, Soviet spy; lived at 150 Webster Road in Scarsdale, 1978–1981; his children attended Immaculate Heart of Mary School[2]
- 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[3]
Legal
- William Glendon, argued the Pentagon Papers case before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of The Washington Post
Media and music
- Bruce Beck, television sportscaster for WNBC-TV
- Joan Bennett, 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 [4]
- Dorothy Dalton, silent-film actress
- Lisa Donovan, YouTube celebrity (LisaNova); former featured cast member of MadTV; graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1998[5]
- Jimmy Fink, New York radio personality for WPLJ K-Rock and 107.1 The Peak WXPK
- Judy Garland, actress; lived at 1 Cornell Street
- Rupert Holmes, composer and writer; once resided in Scarsdale[6]
- Al Jolson, 30s film star; owned a house on Fenimore Road in Scarsdale
- Joseph Kaiser, opera, theater, and film actor; grew up in Scarsdale
- David Lascher, actor, Hey Dude, Blossom, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Beverly Hills, 90210; born and raised in Scarsdale
- Justin Ross Lee, Internet personality, social commentator
- Susan Lucci, actor, star of soap TV series All My Children
- Linda McCartney, actress, writer, cinematographer, producer, photographer; wife of Beatles star Paul McCartney; attended Scarsdale High School [7]
- Liza Minnelli, singer and actress; lived in Scarsdale with her mother, Judy Garland; attended Scarsdale High School; toured Europe and Israel in an SHS production of The Diary of Anne Frank
- Yoko Ono, singer; her family moved to Scarsdale in the early 1950s; she later joined them from Japan[8]
- Bill Pankow, film editor, The Black Dahlia, Assault on Precinct 13, Paid In Full
- Rob Reiner, director and actor, resided in Scarsdale for part of his childhood
- Too Much Joy, alternative rock band; formed in Scarsdale and three of its four members went to Scarsdale High School
- Nina Totenberg, NPR legal correspondent; graduate of Scarsdale High School
Political figures
The Daniel D. Tompkins Memorial at the intersection of Post Road and Tompkins Road
- Otto Dohrenwend, 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
- David Dean Rusk (1909–1994), US Secretary of State, 1961–1969, under presidents Kennedy and Johnson
- Daniel D. Tompkins, sixth Vice President of the United States; born in Scarsdale[9]
Science and technology
- Jeffrey A. Hoffman, astronaut; born in Brooklyn but considers Scarsdale to be his hometown;[10] SHS graduate
- Brewster Kahle, Internet pioneer; founded Wide Area Information Servers, Alexa Internet, Internet Archive
- Frank McDowell Leavitt, early engineer and inventor; patent for manufacturing tin cans; inventor of Bliss-Leavitt torpedo
- Benoit Mandelbrot, French mathematician, IBM research scientist and father of fractal geometry[11]
- Ivan Sutherland, computer graphics pioneer; SHS 1955 graduate[12]
- Herman Tarnower, author of The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet[13]
Sports
- Bill Bavasi, Major League Baseball executive; born in Scarsdale
- Benny Feilhaber, soccer midfielder; moved to Scarsdale at the age of six
- Brian Gaffney, professional golfer
- Joe Garagiola (1926-2016), catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs and New York Giants; later a popular sportscaster and TV personality; he and his wife raised their children in Scarsdale[14]
- Frank Gifford (1930–2015), New York Giants star running back; ABC Monday Night Football broadcaster; married to Kathie Lee Gifford
- Lindsay Gottlieb, head coach of University of California women's basketball; born in Scarsdale
- Paul Heyman, professional wrestling manager and former promoter, known for his role in Extreme Championship Wrestling
- Bill Mazer (1920–1983), New York sports talk and talk show personality; has resided in Quaker Ridge since the mid-1960s
- Allie Sherman, former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and New York Giants head coach
- David Stern, former commissioner of the NBA
- Hugh White, captain of the 1901 national champion University of Michigan football team, winners of first Rose Bowl (1902), combined score for season (550-0); engineer and businessman; Scarsdale village president
Writers
- Jacob M. Appel, short-story writer ("Creve Coeur"), playwright (Arborophilia), bioethicist; SHS graduate
- James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), his classic book The Spy is set in a Scarsdale historical home, The Locusts[15]
- Eve Ensler, 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 (pseudonym of Lillian Jen), novelist; born in Scarsdale, 1956; a thinly disguised version of Scarsdale is a subject of some of her works[16]
- Richard Kostelanetz, writer and artist; graduated from SHS in 1958
- Harold Krents (1944–1987), lawyer; life story inspired the drama Butterflies Are Free; author of To Race the Wind; SHS graduate
- Nicholas Kristof, journalist and columnist for the New York Times; twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, most recently in 2006 for columns regarding the humanitarian crisis in Darfur[17]
- Harry M. Lydenberg, an American librarian, author and book conservationist. Best known as a long-time director for the New York Public Library.
- Dan O'Brien, playwright, Dear Boy, The Voyage of the Carcass; 1992 SHS graduate
- Bryan Reynolds, critical theorist, playwright; graduated SHS in 1983
- Carl Schorske, historian and author of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture[18] with his sister,
- Alan Schwarz, reporter for the New York Times; author of The Numbers Game; grew up in Scarsdale and graduated from SHS in 1986
- Robert Paul Smith novelist and playwright, Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing and The Tender Trap; husband of children's book author and illustrator Elinor Goulding
- Aaron Sorkin, writer and creator of TV series Sports Night and The West Wing; raised in Scarsdale[19]
- Andrew Ross Sorkin, financial columnist for the New York Times; editor of DealBook, an online financial daily report
- Florence Wald, former Dean of the Yale School of Nursing; founder of American Hospice
- Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for the New York Times; married to Nicholas D. Kristof, also a columnist for The Times
References
- ↑ "=Cabot Lyford obituary". Portland Press Herald. 2016-01-29. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ↑ Google Books: Adrian Havill, 2002, The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold: The Secret Life of FBI Double Agent Robert Hanssen, p. 56. St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-98629-7
- ↑ http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=3850
- ↑ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/jetdogy5a/aarononly/abtospeakatscarsdale.html&date=2009-10-26+00:47:54
- ↑ Wallenstein, Andrew (April 29, 2007). "How YouTube Helped LisaNova Start HerCareer". The New York Times. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.rupertholmes.com/writings/newyorktimes/index.html
- ↑ "Linda McCartney dead". BBC News. April 19, 1998. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648780/bio
- ↑ http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9072841/Daniel-D-Tompkins
- ↑ NASA bio
- ↑ http://fwix.com/westchester/article/5d2b50dd91/former_scarsdale_resident_benoit_mandelbrot_dies_at_85
- ↑ 'Bandersnatch 1955', Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale NY
- ↑ http://www.everydiet.org/diet/scarsdale-diet
- ↑ http://www.town-court.com/getTownCourt.php?courtID=347
- ↑ http://sites.google.com/site/historichomethelocusts/
- ↑ http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/authors/jen.cfm
- ↑ http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061213/CUSTOM02/612130316/1282
- ↑ Schorske, Carl. E. (1980). Fin-De-Siecle Vienna : Politics and Culture. Vintage. ISBN 0-394-74478-0.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0815070/bio
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