page_title: Larchmont, New York
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Larchmont, New York / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Larchmont movie playhouse.
context_page_description: Larchmont is a village located within the Town of Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York, approximately 18 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan. The population of the village was 5,864 at the 2010 census. In February 2019, Bloomberg ranked Larchmont as the 15th wealthiest place in the United States, and the third wealthiest in New York.
context_section_description: Frederick Upham Adams, noted inventor and author
  Edward Albee, Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright
  Edward Franklin Albee II, Vaudeville impresario
  Tommy Armour, golfer who won the U.S. Open, PGA Championship, and the British Open
  Michael "Flea" Balzary, "Flea" of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, bassist
  Maurice Barrymore, actor and patriarch of the Barrymore family
  Jason Bay, a Major League Baseball player, formerly a left fielder for the New York Mets
  Elizabeth Berridge, film and theatre actress
  Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian (Jewish) composer
  Young Yang Chung, world-renowned textile scholar and founder of the Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum at Sookmyung Women's University
  Aimee Crocker, Gilded-age era heiress, princess, Bohemian and mystic
  Agnes de Lima, journalist and writer on education
  Georgiana Drew, stage actress
  Douglas Fairbanks, actor, screenwriter, director, and producer noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent films
  Tom Frieden former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  Dan Futterman, actor and Oscar-nominated screenwriter, The Birdcage, Capote
  Michael Gargiulo, NBC New York Anchor
  Timothy Geithner, Former United States Secretary of the Treasury (2009—2013)
  D. W. Griffith, Academy Award–winning film director
  Adelaide Hall, Jazz singer and Broadway star lived in Kilmer Road with her husband Bert Hicks between 1932 – 1936
  Erica Hill, journalist and broadcaster
  Homer Hoyt, land economist
  Michael Harrington, American socialist writer and theorist, author of The Other America
  Moss Hart, award-winning playwright
  Gregg Jarrett, Fox News and Court TV Anchor
  C. Paul Jennewein, sculptor
  Arshag Karagheusian, Armenian-American rug manufacturer and co-owner of A & M Karagheusian
  Jean Kerr, novelist and playwright
  Walter Kerr, writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning theater critic of The New York Times
  Marie Killilea, author best known for her books Karen and With Love From Karen
  Elizabeth Kolbert, journalist (The New Yorker) and author
  Ang Lee, Oscar-winning director
  Jasun Martz, award-winning musician who recorded with Michael Jackson, toured with Frank Zappa, and arranged the Starship #1 hit, "We Built This City".
  James McCaffrey, American actor
  Phyllis McGinley, poet and author
  Gavin McInnes, co-founder of Vice, writer and political commentator
  Bennett Miller, American director
  George Mitchell, American actor of stage, film, and television, born in Larchmont in 1905.
  Nicholas Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness and other books
  Michael O'Keefe, actor (The Great Santini, Caddyshack, Roseanne)
  Alfred E. Perlman, railroad executive, president of New York Central and Penn Central 1954-1970, lived in Larchmont during his tenure.
  Mary Pickford, Academy Award–winning actress and a co-founder of the film studio United Artists
  Martin Quigley, Jr., publisher, politician (Larchmont mayor), author, spy
  Joan Rivers, actress and comedian (may not have actually lived within the boundaries of Larchmont, but talked about the village in her early comedy routines)
  Amelia Rosselli, poet
  James Rubin, US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1997—2000), was raised in Larchmont
  David O. Russell, award-winning movie director
  Doc Severinsen, pop and jazz trumpeter
  Lesley Jane Seymour, editor, entrepreneur
  Amy Siskind, political activist
  William Lee Stoddart, architect known mainly for hotels in the pre-World War II era
  Paul Terry, founder of Terrytoons
  Alton Tobey, artist
  George Vergara, Played with the Four Horsemen at The University of Notre Dame, Lineman on the Green Bay Packers, NCAA Referee, NFL Referee, Mayor of New Rochelle from 1955 to 1960
  Vincent Youmans, Broadway composer best known for composing "Tea for Two"
  Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor and brother-in-law of Arnold Schoenberg
caption: Larchmont movie playhouse
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