# List of people from Syracuse, New York

The following people are from Syracuse, New York.

## Born or brought up in the City of Syracuse

* Keith B. Alexander – four-star general in the Army and director of the NSA
* Jabe B. Alford – mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
* Will Allen – professional football player
* Jeff Altman – stand-up comedian and actor
* Maltbie Davenport Babcock – clergyman and author
* Dylan Baker – actor
* John William Barker – brigadier general in the Army
* Marcus H. Barnum – lawyer, businessman, and politician
* Bill Beagle – state senator for the 5th district of the Ohio
* Kathryn Beare – professional baseball player
* John Berendt – author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
* Timothy Betar - live streamer and YouTube personality
* Carlyle Blackwell – silent film actor, director, and producer
* Andray Blatche – professional basketball player
* Scott Blewett – professional baseball player
* Richard Bock – jazz record producer
* Alex Bono – professional soccer player
* Tyvon Branch – professional football player
* Charles F. Brannock – inventor and manufacturer
* Frederick C. Brower – locksmith, inventor, and businessman
* Rick Brunson – professional basketball player and coach
* Ben Burtt – sound designer, film director and editor, screenwriter, and voice actor
* Marty Byrnes – professional basketball player
* Georgia Campbell – professional baseball player
* Jean Campbell – professional baseball player
* Eric Carle – children's author
* Jimmy Cavallo – musician
* Rory Cochrane – actor
* Michael Cole – professional wrestling commentator
* Jimmy Collins – professional basketball player and college coach
* Jackie Coogan – actor and comedian
* Bruce Coville – children's author
* Tom Cruise – Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning actor and producer
* Rick Cua – singer, songwriter, bassist, author, and ordained minister
* Kelly Cutrone – publicist, television personality, and author
* Mabel Potter Daggett – writer, journalist, editor, and suffragist
* Nina Davuluri – public speaker, advocate, and beauty queen
* Robert De Niro Sr. – abstract expressionist painter and father of actor Robert De Niro
* Mark Didio – professional football player
* Blanche Dillaye – artist
* Bill Dinneen – professional baseball player and umpire
* Frank DiPino – professional baseball player
* Jo-Lonn Dunbar – professional football player
* Robert F. Engle – economist and winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics
* Joe English – musician, vocalist, and songwriter
* Jeanette Epps – aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut
* Walter Farley – author of The Black Stallion
* David B. Feinberg – writer and AIDS activist
* Thom Filicia – interior designer
* Jon Fishman – drummer and founding member of Phish
* Eliot Fisk – classical guitarist
* Frank Gabrielson – stage, film, and television writer
* John L. Gaunt – photographer and winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Photography
* Richard Gere – Golden Globe Award-winning actor
* Helena Theresa Goessmann – lecturer, academic, and writer
* Bobcat Goldthwait – actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
* John Robert Greene – historian and writer
* David Greenman – actor
* Henry Grethel – fashion designer, merchandiser, and marketer
* Bob Gualtieri – law enforcement officer, lawyer, and politician
* Borys Gudziak – metropolitan-archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia
* Jaclyn Hales – actress
* Muhammad Hassan – professional wrestler
* Michael Herr – writer and war correspondent
* Theodore Hesburgh – president of the University of Notre Dame
* Mary Dana Hicks – art educator
* Siobhan Fallon Hogan – actress and comedian
* Bob Holz – drummer and composer
* Jimmy Howard – professional ice hockey player
* Charley Hyatt – college basketball player
* David Jennings – member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Grace Jones – model, singer, and actress
* Mark Kaplan – violinist
* John Katko – attorney and politician
* Megyn Kelly – journalist and media personality
* Mr. Kenneth – world's first celebrity hairdresser
* Tom Kenny – actor and comedian
* Doris Kenyon – actress
* Phyllis Kirk – actress
* David Klein – confectioner and developer of Jelly Belly
* Zane Lamprey – comedian, actor, writer, editor, and producer
* Dorsey Levens – professional football player
* Alex Levinsky – professional ice hockey player
* Claire Luce – actress
* Clifford Luyk – professional basketball player and coach
* Gordon MacRae – actor, singer, and television and radio host
* Joe Magnarelli – jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist
* Post Malone – rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer
* Christopher Maloney – singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, and music educator
* Louis Marshall – corporate, constitutional, and civil rights lawyer
* Frank Matteo – professional football player
* Edna May – actress and singer
* Terry McAuliffe – businessman and politician
* William McCoy – sea captain and rum-runner
* Johnny Messner – actor
* Stephen Montague – composer, pianist, and conductor
* Darin Morgan – screenwriter
* David Muir – journalist and the anchor of ABC World News Tonight
* Jonathan Murray – television producer and co-creator of The Real World
* Spencer Murphy – bassist, producer, and composer
* James Nachtwey – photojournalist and war photographer
* Richard Neer – disc jockey and sports radio personality
* Sal Nistico – jazz tenor saxophonist
* Joy Osofsky – clinical and developmental psychologist
* Camille Paglia – social critic and author
* Doe Paoro – singer-songwriter
* Greg Paulus – college basketball player and coach
* Steve Perry – musician
* Marco Pignalberi – politician
* Rocco Pirro – professional football player and politician
* Jon Ratliff – professional baseball player
* Mark Reed – physicist and professor
* Jamel Richardson – professional football player
* Mike Rotunda – professional wrestler best known as Irwin R. Schyster
* Ellis Rubin – attorney
* Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage – philanthropist who established the Russell Sage Foundation
* Louis J. Salmon – football player and head coach of the University of Notre Dame
* Danny Schayes – professional basketball player
* George Schuyler – writer, journalist, and social commentator
* Scott Schwedes – professional football player
* Scorey – rapper, singer, and songwriter
* Ray Seals – professional football player
* Rod Serling – screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator
* Martin Sexton – singer-songwriter and music producer
* Craig Shirley – political consultant and author
* Edward C. Stearns – entrepreneur and industrialist
* Breanna Stewart – professional basketball player
* Ed Stokes – professional basketball player
* Joseph Stolz – rabbi
* Kevin Surace – technology innovator and entrepreneur
* Bob Swan – business executive and CEO of Intel
* Charles W. Sweeting – businessman and politician
* Bill Tanguay – professional football player
* Tommy Tanner – professional soccer player
* Tsquared – professional gamer
* Toosii – rapper and singer
* Tony Trischka – five-string banjo player
* Jimmy Van Heusen – composer who authored the jazz standard "Darn That Dream"
* Walt Weiskopf – jazz saxophonist, collaborator with Steely Dan and others
* Frank Whaley – actor, film director, screenwriter, and comedian
* John Wilkinson – engineer and inventor
* Christopher Woodrow – entrepreneur, financier, and movie producer
* Merry Ann Thompson Wright – businesswoman who served as the 42nd president general of DAR
* T. M. Wright – author

## Born or brought up in Greater Syracuse

* L. Frank Baum – children's author best known for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Chittenango)
* Joey Belladonna – singer best known as the vocalist for Anthrax (Oswego)
* Grover Cleveland – served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States (Fayetteville)
* Tim Connolly – professional ice hockey player (Baldwinsville)
* Ronnie James Dio – singer and member of Black Sabbath and Rainbow (Cortland)
* Pete Dominick – political comedian and talk radio personality (Marcellus)
* Joel Farabee – professional ice hockey player (Cicero)
* Matilda Joslyn Gage – activist known for her contributions to women's suffrage and abolitionism (Fayetteville)
* Irving Gill – pioneer modern architect in Southern California (Tully)
* Tim Green – professional football player, radio and television personality, and author (Liverpool)
* Thomas Harley – professional ice hockey player (Jamesville)
* Mike Hart – professional football player and college coach (Nedrow)
* Gary Holland – musician best known for being the original drummer of Great White (LaFayette)
* Tim Locastro – professional baseball player (Auburn)
* Dave Mirra – professional BMX rider (Chittenango)
* Harvey A. Moyer – entrepreneur and founder of H. A. Moyer Automobile Company (Clay)
* Bert E. Salisbury – businessman and president of Onondaga Pottery Company (Geddes)
* Horatio Seymour – politician and 18th governor of New York (Pompey)
* Alex Tuch – professional ice hockey player (Baldwinsville)
* John Walsh – television personality and host/creator of America's Most Wanted (Auburn)

## Others with ties to the Syracuse area

* Hervey Allen – author best known for Anthony Adverse, which was made into a movie of the same name, resided in an extant house on James Street
* Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews – author best known for a widely read short story about U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, The Perfect Tribute, resided at Wolf Hollow, the Andrews estate in Taunton
* Carmelo Anthony – basketball player at Syracuse University who delivered the program's first NCAA Championship in 2003
* Danny Biasone – founding owner of the NBA's Syracuse Nationals in 1946
* Joe Biden – served as the 46th president of the United States; graduated from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968
* Lucy Wood Butler – pioneer temperance leader, who was the first president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New York, lived in Syracuse for more than 50 years
* DeWitt Clinton – served as mayor of New York City and the sixth governor of New York; played a significant role in the construction of the Erie Canal
* Elizabeth Cotten – folk and blues musician who lived much of her later life in Syracuse and for whom a bronze statue is dedicated
* Asa Danforth – early settler who built a gristmill and sawmill that contributed to the growth of Onondaga County
* Asa Danforth Jr. – early settler, land speculator, and highway engineer
* Herbert H. Franklin – entrepreneur and automobile manufacturer for whom Franklin Square is named
* James Geddes – engineer, surveyor, and politician instrumental in the planning of the Erie Canal who was also at the forefront of the development of the salt industry at Onondaga Lake beginning in 1794
* Theodore E. Hancock – lawyer and politician who served as district attorney of Onondaga County from 1890 to 1892
* Bucky Lawless – professional boxer based in Syracuse from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s
* Simon Le Moyne – Jesuit priest who, in 1655, founded a mission known as Sainte Marie de Gannentaha, and for whom Le Moyne College is named
* Jermain Loguen – key contributor to the Underground Railroad who helped make Syracuse a leading abolitionist city
* Pierre-Esprit Radisson – explorer and coureur des bois who traveled into Onondaga territory to aid Le Moyne and operate his mission
* C. Hamilton Sanford – businessman and president of the Syracuse Trust Company and co-founder of Sanford-Herbert Motor Truck Company
* Kim Simmonds – musician and founder of the English blues rock band Savoy Brown
* Comfort Tyler – early settler, businessman, and politician for whom Comfort Tyler Park is named
* William Van Wagoner – bicycle racer and automobile designer
* David Foster Wallace – author who wrote much of his landmark novel Infinite Jest while living in an apartment on Kensington Road across from the food co-op
* Ephraim Webster – first white settler in Central New York who arrived in 1786 to an area later named Syracuse
* John Wilkinson – lawyer and politician who gave Syracuse its name and founded the Syracuse Bank
* Steve Wynn – casino and hotel tycoon who attended The Manlius School