# List of people from the Upper East Side

The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It has a long tradition of being home to some of the world's most wealthy, powerful and influential families and individuals.
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## A

* Roman Abramovich (born 1966) – businessman, investor, and politician
* Ronnie Abrams (born 1968), US judge
* Woody Allen (born 1935) – film director, writer, and actor
* Herbert Allen Jr. (born 1940) – businessman
* George B. Agnew (1868–1941) – politician
* Rand Araskog (1931–2021) – businessman
* Elizabeth Arden (1878–1966) – businesswoman
* Brooke Astor (1902–2007) – philanthropist and widow of Vincent Astor
* Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1930–2008) – socialite
* John Jacob Astor IV (1864–1912) – businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, who was a passenger on the RMS Titanic and chose to remain on the ship when it sank
* Vincent Astor (1891–1959) – businessman, philanthropist, and member of the prominent Astor family
* William Acquavella (born 1937/38) – art dealer

## B

* Louis Bacon – hedge fund manager
* Jules Bache – banker
* Tallulah Bankhead – actress
* Joseph Baratta investor
* Amzi L. Barber – asphalt tycoon
* Demas Barnes – politician and a United States Representative from New York
* Bernard Baruch – financier
* Robert Bass – businessman and philanthropist
* William Bates – physician
* Stephen Vincent Benét – poet
* Olivier Berggruen – art historian and curator
* Leonard Bernstein – composer, conductor
* Edward Julius Berwind – coal mining magnate
* Heber R. Bishop – businessman and jade collector
* Leon Black – hedge fund manager
* Lloyd Blankfein – banker
* Len Blavatnik – businessman, investor, and philanthropist
* Michael Bloomberg – billionaire philanthropist and former mayor of New York City
* René Bouché – artist and fashion illustrator
* John Vernou Bouvier III – socialite, Wall Street stockbroker, and father of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
* Eli Broad – entrepreneur
* Irving Brokaw – heir, figure skater, first American to compete in an olympic winter sport.
* Isaac Vail Brokaw – clothing merchant
* Charles Bronfman – businessman and philanthropist
* Edgar Bronfman Jr. – businessman
* Edgar Bronfman Sr. – businessman and philanthropist
* Matthew Bronfman – businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist
* Arthur William Brown – illustrator
* Catherine Wolfe Bruce – philanthropist
* Yul Brynner – actor
* Patricia Buckley – socialite
* William F. Buckley Jr. – author
* Tory Burch – fashion designer
* I. Townsend Burden – heir
* James A. Burden Jr. – industrialist

## C

* John T. Cahill – lawyer
* Hervey C. Calkin – U.S. Representative
* Anthony Campagna – real estate developer
* Truman Capote – novelist
* Mariah Carey – singer
* Andrew Carnegie – industrialist
* Phoebe Cates – actress
* Dick Cavett – comedian and former talk show host
* Marc Chagall – artist
* Robert Chambers – the "Preppie Killer" of Jennifer Levin
* Walid Chammah – executive
* James Chanos – investor
* Gustavo Cisneros – businessman
* Huguette Clark – heiress
* James H. Clark – Netscape founder
* William A. Clark – politician and entrepreneur
* Jill Clayburgh – actress
* Montgomery Clift – actor
* Gifford A. Cochran – entrepreneur and sportsman
* George M. Cohan – entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer
* Charles Cohen – real estate developer
* Michael Cohen – attorney for Donald Trump
* Roy Cohn – lawyer, mentor to Donald Trump
* George Condo – artist
* Sean Connery – actor
* Mark Consuelos – actor
* Barbara Corcoran – businesswoman, investor, speaker, consultant, syndicated columnist, author, and television personality
* Katie Couric – journalist
* Simon Cowell – television judge and producer
* Gardner Cowles Jr. – publisher
* Ann Coulter – author, political commentator, columnist
* Joan Crawford – actress
* Aimée Crocker (1864–1941) – heiress, princess, author, world traveler
* George Crocker – businessman

## D

* Alexandra Daddario – actress
* Matthew Daddario – actor
* Antonio Damasio – neuroscientist
* Rodney Dangerfield – comedian, actor
* William Augustus Darling – politician
* Norman Davis – diplomat
* Edward Coleman Delafield – Colonel and banker
* John DeLorean – engineer, inventor and executive in the U.S. automobile industry
* Oleg Deripaska – oligarch and philanthropist
* Joan Didion – author
* C. Douglas Dillon – diplomat and politician
* Jamie Dimon – banker
* Bob Diamond – former group chief executive of Barclays plc
* James Dinan – hedge fund manager
* Julio Mario Santo Domingo – diplomat
* Plácido Domingo – tenor, conductor and arts administrator
* Marta Domingo – opera soprano, stage director and designer
* Shaun Donovan (born 1966) – former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Director of the Office of Management and Budget, running for Mayor of New York City
* Glenn Dubin – hedge fund manager
* James Buchanan Duke – businessman
* Henry J. Duveen – art dealer
* Charles Dyson – businessman
* James Dyson – inventor, industrial design engineer and founder of the Dyson company

## E

* Cheryl Eisen – interior designer
* Robert H. Ellsworth – art dealer
* Richard Engel – journalist
* Israel Englander – hedge fund manager
* Jeffrey Epstein – financier and registered sex offender
* Walker Evans – photographer, at 112 East 74th Street

## F

* Sherman Fairchild – aviation pioneer
* Linda Fairstein (born 1947) – prosecutor and author
* Philip Falcone – businessman
* José Fanjul – sugar baron
* Mia Farrow – actress
* Barbara Feldon – actress
* Jay S. Fishman – insurance executive
* Marshall Field – entrepreneur
* Stephen Feinberg – investor
* Michael Feinstein – singer
* Edna Ferber – writer
* J. Christopher Flowers – investor
* Karen Finerman – hedge fund manager and television personality
* Jonathan Franzen – National Book Award-winning novelist
* Paul J. Fribourg – businessman
* Henry Clay Frick – industrialist, financier, union-buster, and art patron
* Richard S. Fuld, Jr. – banker

## G

* Lady Gaga – singer
* Gerald Garson – former NY Supreme Court Justice convicted of accepting bribes
* Ina Garten – author
* Bruce Gelb – businessman and diplomat
* Gordon Getty – businessman, investor, philanthropist and classical music composer
* Pia Getty – filmmaker
* Sarah Michelle Gellar – actress
* James W. Gerard – lawyer and diplomat
* Ricky Gervais – comedian, actor
* John Giorno – artist
* Rudy Giuliani – politician, attorney, businessman, public speaker, former mayor of New York City, and attorney to President Donald Trump
* Barbara Goldsmith – author, journalist, and philanthropist
* Danielle Goldstein (born 1985) – American-Israeli show jumper
* Lawrence E. Golub – entrepreneur, philanthropist, and business executive
* Murray H. Goodman – real estate developer
* Noam Gottesman – hedge fund manager
* Jay Gould – railroad developer
* Ulysses S. Grant – 18th President of the United States, Commanding General of the Army, soldier, international statesman, and author
* Peter Grauer – Chairman Bloomberg L.P.
* Kenneth C. Griffin – hedge fund manager
* Bob Guccione – photographer
* Daphne Guinness – heiress, socialite, fashion designer, art collector, model, musician, film producer and actor
* Meyer Guggenheim – patriarch of the Guggenheim family
* Simon Guggenheim – politician
* Randolph Guggenheimer – lawyer
* Thomas Guinzburg – publisher
* John Gutfreund – investment banker

## H

* J. Hooker Hamersley – heir, lawyer and poet
* Katie Halper,podcaster and left-wing political commentator
* W. Averell Harriman – governor of New York
* Kitty Carlisle Hart – singer, advocate for the arts and historic preservation
* Henry Osborne Havemeyer – industrialist
* Millicent Hearst – wife of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst
* Drue Heinz – patron of the literary arts, actress, philanthropist and socialite
* Ariel Helwani – mixed martial arts writer
* Ernest Hemingway – writer
* Jim Henson – puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, and filmmaker
* Leon Hess – founder and President of Hess Corporation and one-time owner of the New York Jets
* David M. Heyman (1891–1984) – financier, philanthropist, art collector
* Tommy Hilfiger – fashion designer
* J. Tomilson Hill – investor
* Henry Hilton – jurist and businessman
* Dennis Hoey – actor
* Lena Horne – singer
* Vladimir Horowitz – pianist and composer
* Alan Howard – hedge fund manager

## I

* Bob Iger – CEO

## J

* Michael Jackson – singer
* Jeremy Jacobs, Sr. – owner of the Boston Bruins
* Morton L. Janklow – literary agent
* Jasper Johns – artist
* Boris Johnson – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* Woody Johnson – businessman, philanthropist, and diplomat
* Star Jones – lawyer, television personality

## K

* Harry Kargman – CEO of Kargo
* Jill Kargman – author, writer and actress
* Herbert Kasper – fashion designer
* George S. Kaufman – playwright
* Slim Keith – socialite
* Caroline Kennedy – author and diplomat to Japan, and daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
* James Powell Kernochan – businessman and clubman
* Otto Hermann Kahn – investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts
* Kevin Kline – actor
* Stephen King – author
* Sante Kimes – criminal
* David H. Koch – businessman, philanthropist, conservative political activist
* Frederick R. Koch – collector and philanthropist
* Doron Kochavi – businessman, lawyer, philanthropist
* Pannonica de Koenigswarter – jazz patron and writer
* Jeff Koons – artist
* Jerzy Kosiński – novelist
* Bruce Kovner – hedge fund manager
* Dennis Kozlowski – former CEO of Tyco International
* Nicola Kraus – novelist
* Peter S. Kraus – businessman, philanthropist and art collector
* Henry Kravis – investor
* Jared Kushner – investor, real-estate developer, newspaper publisher, senior advisor to President Donald Trump

## L

* Thomas W. Lamont – banker
* Marc Lasry – hedge fund manager
* Aerin Lauder – businesswoman
* Jane Lauder – businesswoman
* Leonard Lauder – businessman, art collector and humanitarian
* William Lauder – businessman, and executive chairman of the Estée Lauder Companie
* Matt Lauer – news anchor
* Charles Lazarus – founder of Toys R Us
* Lewis Cass Ledyard – lawyer
* Harper Lee – author
* Spike Lee – film director and producer
* William B. Leeds – businessman
* Louise Linton – actress
* Loida Nicolas Lewis – businesswoman who is the widow of TLC Beatrice founder and CEO Reginald Lewis
* Robert I. Lipp – businessman
* John Langeloth Loeb Jr. – businessman, philanthropist, former United States Ambassador to Denmark, and former Delegate to the United Nations

## M

* John J. Mack – banker
* Julie Macklowe – beauty entrepreneur and businesswoman
* Andrew Madoff – stockbroker and investment advisor
* Bernard Madoff – ex-hedge fund manager convicted of running a Ponzi scheme
* Carolyn Maloney, politician, former member of United States House of Representatives and the New York City Council
* Stewart and Cyril Marcus – gynecologists
* Soong Mei-ling – former First Lady of the Republic of China, known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang
* Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland – Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
* Madonna – entertainer; purchased $40 million mansion on East 81st Street at Lexington Avenue in 2009
* Anne Windfohr Marion – rancher, horse breeder, business executive, philanthropist, and art collector
* Barbara Margolis – prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter of New York City
* Howard Marks – investor
* Paul Marks – medical doctor, researcher and administrator
* Malachi Martin – author
* Wednesday Martin – author
* J. Ezra Merkin – hedge fund manager
* Rachel Lambert Mellon – horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector
* Charles E. Merrill – philanthropist, stockbroker, and co-founder of Merrill Lynch
* Howard Michaels – founder of the real estate investment advisory firm the Carlton Group
* Bette Midler – singer
* George W. Miller – politician
* Robert Mnuchin – banker
* Steven Mnuchin – investment banker, film producer, hedge fund manager, and Secretary of the US Treasury
* Mary Tyler Moore – actress, producer, and social advocate, at 927 Fifth Avenue at East 74th Street
* Sonja Morgan
* Robert Moses – city planner, public official, referred to as the "master builder" of New York
* Levi P. Morton – 22nd Vice President of the United States, ambassador, and former governor of New York
* Charles Murphy – hedge fund manager
* James Murdoch – businessman
* Rupert Murdoch – media mogul
* Wendi Deng Murdoch – businesswoman, and movie producer
* Arthur Murray – dancer

## N

* Spyros Niarchos – shipping magnate
* Cynthia Nixon – LGBTQ actress and politician/activist
* Peggy Noonan – speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, political commentator and author
* Deborah Norville – television anchor and businesswoman

## O

* Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – former First Lady of the United States
* Stanley O'Neal – banker
* Chris Noth – actor
* Frederick Osborn – philanthropist, military leader, and eugenicist
* Katharina Otto-Bernstein – filmmaker

## P

* Ashraf Pahlavi – twin sister of the deposed Shah
* William S. Paley – executive
* Vikram Pandit – banker
* Dorothy Parker – poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist
* Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor – businessman
* Joan Whitney Payson – heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family
* Sister Parish – interior decorator and socialite
* Antenor Patiño – tycoon
* George Plimpton – author, humorist, NFL quarterback
* Generoso Pope – Italian-American businessman and newspaper publisher, lived at 1040 Fifth Avenue
* Zac Posen – fashion designer
* John Paulson – hedge fund manager
* Nelson Peltz – investor
* Holly Peterson – producer, journalist and novelist
* Peter George Peterson – investment banker and United States Secretary of Commerce
* Milton Petrie – retail investor
* Ronald Perelman – investor
* Antonio Permuy, writer, curator, and art patron
* Peter O. Price – media proprietor
* Harold Prince – theatrical producer and director
* Joseph Pulitzer – newspaper publisher

## R

* Lee Radziwill – princess, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
* Lynn Pressman Raymond – toy and game innovator, president of the Pressman Toy Corporation
* Stewart Rahr – pharmaceuticals magenta
* Michael Rapaport – actor, internet personality, podcaster
* Robert Redford – actor
* Ira Rennert – investor and businessman
* Kelly Ripa – talk show host
* Joan Rivers – comedian
* David Rockefeller – banker
* John D. Rockefeller Jr. – financier and philanthropist
* Laurance Rockefeller – philanthropist, businessman, financier, and major conservationist
* Felix Rohatyn – investment banker
* Julia Restoin Roitfeld – art director and model
* Eleanor Roosevelt – political figure, diplomat and activist
* Theodore Roosevelt – U.S. president, represented Upper East Side in New York State Assembly at beginning of his political career.
* Elihu Root – former Secretary of State
* Christopher Ross – sculptor, designer and collector
* Steve Ross – CEO of Time Warner
* James Rorimer – museum director
* Aby Rosen – real estate developer
* Alexander Rovt – real estate investor
* Marc Rowan – investor
* Helena Rubinstein – businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist
* Serge Rubinstein – stock and currency manipulator and murder victim
* Jacob Ruppert – brewer
* Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – Saudi royal

## S

* Lily Safra – philanthropist and socialite
* Walter J. Salmon Sr. – real estate developer
* Nassef Sawiris – CEO
* Jacob Schiff – banker
* Rose Schlossberg – filmmaker
* Tatiana Schlossberg – journalist and author
* Jack Schlossberg – writer
* Martin Scorsese – film director and producer
* Stephen Schwarzman – businessman
* Arthur Hawley Scribner – president of Charles Scribner's Sons
* Charles R. Schwab – investor, financial executive, and philanthropist
* Ryan Seacrest – radio personality, television host, and producer
* Terry Semel – Yahoo! CEO
* Bishop Sheen – religious leader
* Leonard Sillman – broadway producer
* David Simon – CEO of Simon Malls
* Ramona Singer – TV personality
* Harry Slatkin – businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
* William Douglas Sloane – businessman, sportsman, philanthropist
* Al Smith – former governor of New York
* George Soros – hedge fund manager
* Andy Spade – fashion designer
* Kate Spade – fashion designer
* Jerry Speyer – real estate developer
* Carl Spielvogel – ambassador to the Slovak Republic
* Eliot Spitzer – former Governor of New York
* Kenneth I. Starr – money manager
* John Steinbeck – author
* Saul Steinberg – businessman
* Benjamin Steinbruch – CEO
* Gloria Steinem – journalist
* Michael Steinhardt – financier
* George Stephanopoulos – journalist, political commentator and former Democratic advisor
* Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes – architect
* Willard Dickerman Straight – investment banker, publisher, reporter, Army Reserve officer, diplomat and by marriage, a member of the Whitney family
* Jesse I. Straus – ambassador to France
* Roger Williams Straus Jr. – entrepreneur
* Igor Stravinsky – composer
* Margaret Rockefeller Strong – activist
* Robert L. Stuart – industrialist
* Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher and businessman
* Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. – publisher
* Sy Syms – founder and owner of Syms Corporation discount clothing retailer and benefactor of Yeshiva University's Syms School of Business

## T

* Elie Tahari – fashion designer
* A. Alfred Taubman – businessman, investor, and philanthropist
* Margaretta Taylor – media heiress
* John Thain – banker
* Chloe Temtchine – singer-songwriter
* Jonathan Tisch – Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels & Co.
* Ronn Torossian – public relations executive
* Donald Trump Jr. – businessman and former reality television personality
* Ivana Trump – former model and businesswoman, who was the first wife of Donald Trump
* Ivanka Trump – American businesswoman, fashion designer, author, reality television personality, daughter of Donald Trump
* Vanessa Trump – socialite, actress and former model

## U

* James Ramsey Ullman – writer and mountaineer
* Roberto Mangabeira Unger – philosopher and politician
* Louis Untermeyer – author, anthologist, editor, poet

## V

* Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt – wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
* Anne Harriman Vanderbilt – heiress
* Gloria Vanderbilt – artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite
* William Kissam Vanderbilt II – motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman
* Margit Varga – artist, painter, gallerist, art director, journalist
* Gary Vaynerchuk – entrepreneur, author, speaker and Internet personality
* Leila and Massimo Vignelli – designers
* Vincent Viola – businessman
* Anthony Volpe – baseball player

## W

* Mike Wallace (1918–2012) – journalist
* Vera Wang (born 1949) – fashion designer
* Felix M. Warburg
* James Warburg – banker
* Paul Warburg – banker
* Andy Warhol (1928–1987) – artist
* Bruce Wasserstein (1947-2009) – investment banker
* Franz Waxman – composer
* Sigourney Weaver (born 1949) – actress
* Susan Weber (born 1954) - historian
* Michel David-Weill – banker
* Boaz Weinstein (born 1973) – hedge fund manager
* Les Wexner (born 1937) – businessman
* Lawrence Grant White – architect
* Mary Jo White (born 1947) – Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
* William Collins Whitney (1875–1942) – political leader and financier
* Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney – sculptor, art patron, collector, and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art
* Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) – Holocaust survivor and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986
* Elisha Wiesel (born 1972) – chief information officer of Goldman Sachs; hedge fund manager of the Niche Plus; son of Elie Wiesel
* Alec N. Wildenstein – businessman, art dealer, racehorse owner, and breeder
* Jocelyn Wildenstein – socialite
* Robert B. Willumstad (born 1945) – CEO of AIG$^{:765}$
* Steve Witkoff (born 1957) – Special Envoy to the Middle East for U.S. President Donald Trump; real estate investor and developer, founder of the Witkoff Group, attorney
* P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) – author
* Tom Wolfe – novelist, founder of New Journalism
* Jayne Wrightsman – philanthropist

## Y

* Charles Yerkes – financier

## Z

* Pia Zadora – actress
* Paula Zahn – journalist
* Jeff Zucker – media executive
* Mortimer Zuckerman – media mogul