List of people from Syracuse, New York

This is a list of notable people from Syracuse, New York.

Born or brought up in the City of Syracuse

Keith B. Alexander

Keith B. Alexander - former Director of the National Security Agency
Jabe B. Alford - mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
Will Allen - Miami Dolphins cornerback
Jeff Altman - comedian
Maltbie D. Babcock - 19th-century clergyman and author
Dylan Baker - actor
Marcus H. Barnum - Wisconsin State Assemblyman^[1]
Kenneth Battelle - world's first celebrity hairdresser; created Jacqueline Kennedy's bouffant
Kathryn Beare - All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
John Berendt - author (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
Carlyle Blackwell - silent film actor
Andray Blatche - player for NBA's Washington Wizards
Tyvon Branch - NFL safety with Oakland Raiders
Charles F. Brannock - inventor of Brannock Device (standard foot measuring tool)
Rick Brunson - Temple University and NBA player
Ben Burtt - motion picture sound editor; Academy Award winner
Marty Byrnes - NBA player
Eric Carle - author of children's books
Jimmy Cavallo - saxophonist ("Do the Hucklebuck")
Rory Cochrane - actor
Michael Cole - WWE Friday Night SmackDown and WWE Raw announcer
Jimmy Collins - NBA player, coach at University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Copani - professional wrestler (born in Amman, Jordan)
Bruce Coville - children's author and playwright
Tom Cruise - Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning actor and producer
Rick Cua - bassist, producer
Kelly Cutrone - The Hills, People's Revolution
Mabel Potter Daggett - journalist and suffragist
Robert De Niro, Sr. - abstract expressionist artist; father of actor Robert De Niro
Mark Didio - wide receiver, Pittsburgh Steelers
Bill Dinneen - MLB pitcher and umpire
Frank DiPino - MLB pitcher
Jo-Lonn Dunbar - NFL linebacker with St. Louis Rams
Gary Dunes - radio personality, entertainer, musician, singer
Earth Crisis - straight edge hardcore punk band
Robert F. Engle - winner of 2003 Nobel Prize for Economics
Joe English - drummer, producer
Walter Farley - author of The Black Stallion
David B. Feinberg - writer and AIDS activist
Thom Filicia - interior designer, TV personality on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Jon Fishman - drummer for rock band Phish
Eliot Fisk - classical guitarist
Frank Gabrielson - stage, film, and television writer
John L. Gaunt - photographer, winner of 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Photography
Richard Gere - Golden Globe Award-winning actor
Helena Theresa Goessmann - lecturer, academician, and writer
Bobcat Goldthwait - actor, comedian
David Greenman - actor
Henry Grethel - fashion designer
Borys Gudziak - Ukrainian Catholic Bishop, rector of Ukrainian Catholic University
Michael Herr - author (Dispatches)
Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C, former president of the University of Notre Dame
Siobhan Fallon Hogan - actress
Honor Bright - pop-punk band
Jimmy Howard - NHL goaltender for Detroit Red Wings
Chuck Hyatt - college basketball player of 1920s
David Jennings - Wisconsin State Assemblyman
Grace Jones - model, actress, singer (born in Kingston, Jamaica)
Megyn Kelly - journalist
Mark Kaplan - violinist
Tom Kenny - voice of SpongeBob Squarepants
Phyllis Kirk - actress
David Klein - inventor of Jelly Belly
Tim Kneale - winner of 1976 Scripps National Spelling Bee
Zane Lamprey - comedian, actor and reality TV personality, host of Three Sheets
Dorsey Levens - NFL running back
Alex Levinsky - NHL player
Jermain Loguen - abolitionist, clergyman and key contributor to the Underground Railroad
Claire Luce - actress
Clifford Luyk - basketball player, named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991
Post Malone - recording artist
Louis Marshall - lawyer, conservationist, Jewish leader
Frank Matteo - NFL player
Edna May - Edwardian musical actress
Terry McAuliffe - Governor of Virginia
Marty Domres - QB for Baltimore Colts in early 70's
Johnny Messner - actor
Darin Morgan - screenwriter
Jonathan Murray - reality TV producer, Bunim/Murray Productions
Melissa Clucas - longtime hardo and southie dweller
James Nachtwey - photojournalist
Richard Neer - longtime DJ for WNEW-FM and sports-talk host on WFAN
Sal Nistico - jazz tenor saxophonist
Camille Paglia - social critic, author (born in Endicott, New York)
Doe Paoro - singer-songwriter
Greg Paulus - college basketball and football player^[2]
Steve Perry - lead vocalist for swing-punk group Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Jon Ratliff - MLB pitcher
Mark Reed - nanotechnology pioneer
Jamel Richardson - CFL football player for the Montreal Alouettes, 2010 Grey Cup MVP
Mike Rotunda - professional wrestler, best known as Irwin R. Schyster
Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, philanthropist, established Russell Sage Foundation
Louis "Red" Salmon - fullback, acting coach of University of Notre Dame football team
Danny Schayes - college and NBA player
George Schuyler - conservative author
Scott Schwedes - NFL player
Ray Seals - NFL defensive end with Pittsburgh Steelers and Carolina Panthers
Rod Serling - screenwriter and TV personality (grew up in Binghamton)
Martin Sexton - musician, singer, songwriter
Craig Shirley - author and political consultant
Ed Stokes - University of Arizona and NBA player
Kevin Surace - INC. 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year, TechTV personality, CEO Serious Materials
Charles W. Sweeting - Wisconsin State Assemblyman^[3]
Bill Tanguay - football player
Tommy Tanner - soccer player, owner and head coach of Syracuse Silver Knights
Tom "Tsquared" Taylor - professional video game player
Tony Trischka - banjoist, composer
Jimmy Van Heusen - composer, winner of four Academy Awards
Chris Vignogna - Goes to Boces
Frank Whaley - actor
Christopher Woodrow - movie producer
Jaclyn Hales - actress^[4]

Born or brought up in Greater Syracuse

Steven Alexander - founder and CEO of Infamous Adventures, a software game company
L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books starting with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Chittenango)
Joey Belladonna - lead singer of Anthrax (Oswego)
Joe Calvert - guitarist and producer with 38 gold/platinum credits
Ed Carpenter - singer, songwriter, sessions artist for numerous entertainers
Grover Cleveland - 22nd and 24th President of the United States (Fayetteville; born in Caldwell, N.J.)
Tim Connolly - hockey player with NHL's Buffalo Sabres (Baldwinsville)
Jackie Coogan - actor, The Addams Family
Elizabeth Cotten - singer
Ronnie James Dio - musician (Cortland)
Pete Dominick - comedian, radio and TV personality (Marcellus)
Matilda Joslyn Gage - feminist, abolitionist, suffragist (Fayetteville)
Tim Green - author, NFL linebacker, Fox NFL commentator (Liverpool)
Mike Hart - Michigan football player (Nedrow)
Gary Holland - drummer and vocalist, Dokken, Great White, Blue Cheer
Tom Kenny - comedian, voice of SpongeBob SquarePants (East Syracuse)
Dave Mirra - professional BMX rider (Chittenango)
Tiffany Pollard - TV personality aka New York (Utica)
John Walsh - host of America's Most Wanted (Auburn)
Tobias Wolff - writer

Others with ties to the Syracuse area

Hervey Allen - author of best-selling Anthony Adverse, which became a film; resided in an extant house on James Street
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews - author of The Perfect Tribute and other works; resided at Wolf Hollow, the Andrews estate at suburban Taunton, New York
The Baldwin brothers - Alec, Billy, Daniel, and Steven Baldwin, actors (mother, Carol, lives in Camillus; born in Massapequa, New York)
Daniel Biasone - founding owner of NBA's Syracuse Nationals, now the Philadelphia 76ers; early advocate of use of shot clock in basketball
Gordon MacRae - actor and singer, attended Nottingham High School in Syracuse
David Foster Wallace - author, wrote much of his landmark novel "Infinite Jest" while living in a small apartment on Kensington Rd. across from the food co-op
Steve Wynn - Las Vegas hotel and casino tycoon (attended Manlius Military Academy, now Manlius Pebble Hill School; grew up in Utica, New York and Las Vegas)

Attended Syracuse University

Marv Albert - sportscaster
Carmelo Anthony - small forward for the New York Knicks, led SU to 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
Joseph Biden - Vice President of the United States; U.S. Senator from Delaware; 1988 Democratic presidential candidate
Dave Bing - NBA player and Mayor of Detroit
Jim Boeheim - Syracuse men's basketball head coach
Jim Brown - NFL running back, Pro Football Hall of Famer
Joe Castiglione - sportscaster
Felix Cavaliere - musician, The Young Rascals
Dick Clark - TV personality, American Bandstand host
Michael Cole - commentator for World Wrestling Entertainment
Derrick Coleman - NBA player
Bob Costas - sportscaster
Tom Coughlin - two-time Super Bowl-winning coach of the New York Giants
Ernie Davis - football running back, first African American to win Heisman Trophy
Maya Deren - filmmaker
Taye Diggs - actor
Sherman Douglas - basketball player
Steve Ellis - fantasy & comic book artist
Birgitta Moran Farmer - painter
Gary Gait - lacrosse player
Donato Giancola - fantasy artist
Vic Hanson - basketball player
Ted Koppel - television journalist, ABC's Nightline anchor
Joseph S. Kozlowski - portrait artist
Lisa Lampanelli - comedian
Floyd Little - football player
Donovan McNabb - NFL quarterback
Gerry McNamara - basketball player
Billy Fuccillo - businessman
Joyce Carol Oates - writer
Lou Reed - frontman of The Velvet Underground, singer, guitarist
Mike Rotunda - professional wrestler, best known as Irwin R. Schyster
Donna Shalala - president of University of Miami, Florida, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Lexington Steele - porn star
Dick Stockton - sportscaster
Mike Tirico - sportscaster
Vanessa Williams - singer, actress, Miss America
Pete Yorn - singer, guitarist

References

↑ 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1897, Biographical Sketch of Mark Barnum, pg. 685
↑ "Greg Paulus". Syracuse University. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
↑ 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1897,' Biographical Sketch of Charles W. Sweeting, pg. 584
↑ "21 Questions: Jaclyn Hales [Unicorn City]" (Interview). Interview with Luke Goss. December 9, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2016.

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