# List of people from Scarsdale, New York

The following is a list of notable people from Scarsdale, New York.

## Arts

* Cabot Lyford, sculptor
* Stephanie Stebich, art historian and museum director
* Emmett Watson, illustrator

## Business

* Eric Mindich, founder of the hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management and the youngest person to ever make partner at Goldman Sachs, was raised in Scarsdale
* Harry Wilson, businessman
* David Stern, Commissioner of National Basketball Association
* George Zimmer, founder of Men's Wearhouse, was raised in Scarsdale
* Andrew R. Jassy, founder of AWS and CEO of Amazon.com, was raised in Scarsdale
* Lauren Hobart, CEO and Chairwomen of Dick's Sporting Goods and Board Member of Yum! Brands
* Christopher Radko, Christmas ornaments designer
* David Siegel (computer scientist), founder of Two Sigma
* Daniel Och, founder of Och-Ziff
* Mark Bezos, early Amazon investor and brother of Jeff Bezos
* Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock, was raised in Scarsdale

## 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
* 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

## Legal

* Preet Bharara, lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017.
* William Glendon, lawyer who argued the Pentagon Papers case before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of The Washington Post

## Other

* Edgar Fiedler (1929–2003), economist
* Lauren Spierer, student who disappeared from Indiana University in 2011

## Media, music and entertainment

* Walter Carl Becker, American musician, songwriter, and record producer, and co-founder of the jazz rock band Steely Dan
* Jacqueline Alemany, American journalist and political reporter
* 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
* Dorothy Dalton, silent-film actress
* Lisa Donovan, YouTube celebrity (LisaNova); former featured cast member of MadTV; graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1998
* 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
* Al Jolson, 30s film star; owned a house on Fenimore Road in Scarsdale
* Joseph Kaiser, opera, theater, and film actor; grew up in Scarsdale
* Zach Kornfeld, member of The Try Guys
* David Lascher, actor, Hey Dude, Blossom, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Beverly Hills, 90210; born and raised in Scarsdale
* Mara Liasson, NPR political correspondent, graduated from Scarsdale (Alternative) High School in 1983.
* Susan Lucci, actor, star of soap TV series All My Children
* Linda McCartney, actress, writer, cinematographer, producer, photographer, vegan business owner; wife of Beatles star Paul McCartney; attended Scarsdale High School
* 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, painter, performance artist, singer, activist; her family moved to Scarsdale in the early 1950s; she later joined them from Japan
* Bill Pankow, film editor, The Black Dahlia, Assault on Precinct 13, Paid In Full
* Robert Pine, actor,"CHiPs",was raised in Scarsdale but born in New York City, also the father of Chris Pine
* Noah Schnapp, American actor known for his portrayal of Will Byers in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things.
* Cevin Soling, filmmaker, musician, and writer; born and raised in Scarsdale
* 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
* Ellen Weiss, four-time Peabody award-winning journalist, former NPR vice-president of news; graduate of Scarsdale High School
* Robert Durst, star of HBO documentary series The Jinx (miniseries) grew up in Scarsdale

## Political figures

* 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
* Daniel D. Tompkins, sixth Vice President of the United States; born in Scarsdale

## Science and technology

* Raymond Ditmars, pioneering herpetologist, author, and long-time curator at the Bronx Zoo, lived and died in Scarsdale.
* Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business, raised in Scarsdale.
* Jeffrey A. Hoffman, astronaut; born in Brooklyn but considers Scarsdale to be his hometown; SHS graduate
* Maynard Holliday, robotics engineer and Senior Technology Officer at The Pentagon
* 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
* Ivan Sutherland, computer graphics pioneer; SHS 1955 graduate
* Herman Tarnower, author of The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet

## Sports

* Herman Barron (1909–1978), professional golfer
* Bill Bavasi, Major League Baseball executive; born in Scarsdale
* Trenten Anthony Beram, Double Gold Medalist sprinter born in Scarsdale representing the Philippines
* Nick Civetta, rugby lock/flanker; born in Scarsdale
* Benny Feilhaber, former professional soccer player, head coach of MLS Next Pro side Sporting Kansas City II
* 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
* Frank Gifford (1930–2015), New York Giants star running back; ABC Monday Night Football broadcaster; married to Kathie Lee Gifford
* Lindsay Gottlieb, assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers; born and raised in Scarsdale
* Paul Heyman, professional wrestling manager and former promoter, known for his role in Extreme Championship Wrestling
* Yanni Hufnagel, college basketball coach
* Bill Mazer (1920–2013), New York sports talk and talk show personality; resided in Quaker Ridge from the mid-1960s until his death in 2013
* Allie Sherman, former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and New York Giants head coach
* Brandon Steiner, founder and CEO of Steiner Sports
* 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, author of The Last of the Mohicans; another of his books, The Spy, is set in Scarsdale
* Laura Dave, author, graduated from SHS in 1995
* 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
* Richard Kostelanetz, writer and artist; graduated from SHS in 1958
* 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
* Harry M. Lydenberg, an American librarian, author and book conservationist. Best known as a long-time director for the New York Public Library.
* Esther Morgan McCullough, novelist and anthologist, died in Scarsdale but is buried in Bennington, Vermont.
* Derek Milman, novelist
* Dan O'Brien, playwright and poet, The Body of an American, War Reporter; 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 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
* Nikita Singh, author
* Aaron Sorkin, writer and creator of TV series Sports Night and The West Wing; raised in Scarsdale
* Andrew Ross Sorkin, financial columnist for the New York Times; editor of DealBook, an online financial daily report; graduated SHS in 1995
* 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