Academics and science

Richard Alba (born 1942) – Distinguished CCNY Professor of ethnicity and assimilation
Jill Bargonetti (born 1962) – biologist and Presidential Early Career Award winner
Marshall Berman (1940–2013) – philosopher of modernity; author of All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Norman Birnbaum (1926–2019) – author, educator, political advisor; University Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center; taught at Amherst College, London School of Economics, Oxford University, University of Strasbourg
Ira Black (1941–2006) – neuroscientist and stem-cell researcher; first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey^[1]
Xavier Briggs (born 1968) – Former professor of planning at MIT, former associate director of Office of Management and Budget, former vice-president of Ford Foundation. Sometimes known as "Xavier de Souza Briggs"
Roscoe Brown (1922–2016) – Tuskegee airman, exercise physiologist, President, Bronx Community College, New York City political adviser^[2]
Charles DeLisi (born 1941) – Arthur Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering, Boston University. Dean emeritus, College of Engineering
Morton Deutsch (1920–2017) – conflict resolution expert^[3]
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) – sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist.^[4]
Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999) – Nobel Prize biochemist and pharmacologist^[5]
Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) – Nobel Prize physicist of sub-atomic particle.^[6]
Todd Gitlin (1943–2022) – sociologist; co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society^[7]
Fred Greenstein (1930–2018) – political scientist who psychologically assessed U.S. presidents^[8]
Henry Heimlich (1920–2016) – physician inventor of the Heimlich maneuver^[9]
Matthew Henson (1866–1955) – Explorer, co-discoverer of the North Pole (with Robert Peary)
Gary Hermalyn (born 1953) – Centennial Historian of New York City, Edgar Allan Poe scholar
Irving Howe (1920–1993) – literary critic, socialist writer, author of World of Our Fathers
Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) – Government Professor at Harvard University; co-editor of Foreign Policy; author of political science works related to the modernization of societies, particularly those of developing nations
Barbara Jasny (born 1952) – deputy editor of Science; co-editor Catalysts, Women of Science Fiction
Adrian Kantrowitz (1918–2008) – cardiac-surgery pioneer^[10]
Arthur Kantrowitz (1913–2008) – nose cone physicist; co-inventor of the intra-aortic balloon pump^[11]
Jeffrey Lane – urban ethnographer, Rutgers University
Robert Lefkowitz (born 1943) – 2012 recipient of Nobel prize for chemistry of protein receptors^[12]
Howard Lesnick (1931–2020) – Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Norman Levitt (1943–2009) – mathematician at Rutgers University^[13]
Paul Levinson (born 1947) – science-fiction and non-fiction author; communications professor
Kenneth Lewes (1943–2020) – psychoanalyst who challenged prejudicial view of homosexuality.^[14]
Ronald Mallett (born 1945) – theoretical physicist of time travel
Barry Mazur (born 1937) – mathematician and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
Joseph M. McShane (born 1949) – Jesuit priest; president of Fordham University
Stanley Milgram (1933–1984) – psychologist known for obedience to authority and small world studies^[15]
Joseph A. O'Hare (1931–2020) – Jesuit priest; longest-serving president of Fordham University (1984–2003); first chair of New York City Campaign Finance Board (1988–2003)
Jay Pasachoff (1943–2022) – astronomer, umbraphile^[16]
Carolyn Porco (born 1953) – planetary scientist; leader of the Cassini space observatory team at the Colorado Space Science Institute, studying Saturn^[17]
Allan Pred (1936–2007) – geographer at University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley^[18]
Howard Raiffa (1924–2016) – economist; negotiation scientist^[19]
Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) – economist; helped define modern libertarianism
Ken Schaffer (born 1947) – inventor; invented the wireless guitar system, video placeshifting^[20]
Joseph Francis Shea (1925–1999) – aerospace engineer; headed NASA's Apollo program
Gary Simons – founder of Prep for Prep gifted education program in NYC^[21]
Robert Sobel (1931–1999) – historian and writer; history professor at Hofstra University; writer of business histories
Edward Soja (1940–2015) – postmodern political geography and urban theorist at UCLA^[22]
Michael I. Sovern (1931–2020) – Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and President Emeritus of Columbia University
Robert Spinrad (1932–2009) – computer designer; director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center^[23]
Mark Steiner (1942–2020) – professor of philosophy of mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Leonard Susskind (born 1940) – theoretical physicist^[24]
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) – astrophysicist; director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium; host of PBS's educational-television series NOVA scienceNOW and Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (2014) and Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020).
Lloyd Ultan (historian) (born 1938) – official historian of the Bronx
Allen Weinstein (1937–2015) – historian; Archivist of the United States
Barry Wellman (born 1942) – sociologist; University of Toronto professor studying social networks, community and the Internet
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921–2011) – medical physicist; co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine^[25]
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009) – historian; Salo Baron Professor of Jewish history at Columbia University^[26]

Arts

Architecture, art and photography

Vito Acconci (1940–2017) – architect, landscape architect and installation artist
Robert Altman (1944–2021) – photographer
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) – photographer
Alvin Baltrop (1948–2004) – photographer
Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) – photographer (including documentary photographer)
Cope2 (born 1968) – graffiti artist
Willie Cole (born 1955) – artist; uses found material such as his "America" blackboard^[27]
Ralph Fasanella (1914–1997) – painter
Ron Galella (born 1931) – paparazzo photographer^[28]
Horace Ginsbern (1902–1987) – architect; designed the landmark Art Deco Park Plaza Apartments on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, and other New York City structures^[29]
Milton Glaser (1929–2020) – graphic designer; designer of the "I Love New York" logo
Garry Gross (1937–2010) – fashion photographer (including nude images of Brooke Shields at age ten), dog portraiture photographer and dog trainer^[30]
Sabin Howard (born 1963) – figurative sculptor, noted for U.S. World War I national monument
Al Held (1928–2005) – abstract painter; associated with Abstract expressionism, Hard-edge and Color Field painting^[31]
Joel Iskowitz (born 1946) – illustrator, artist, designer for United States Mint^[32]
Marcey Jacobson (1911–2009) – photographer; images of daily life in Chiapas, Mexico^[33]
C. Paul Jennewein (1890–1978) – sculptor
Ivan Karp (1926–2012) – art dealer
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) – director, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, storyteller
Ronnie Landfield (born 1947) – abstract painter; associated with lyrical abstraction, and color field painting^[34]
Daniel Libeskind (born 1946) – architect
Glenn Ligon (born 1960) – conceptual artist
Whitfield Lovell^[35] (born 1959) – painter and installation artist;^[36] focuses on African-American themes; MacArthur Fellow (2007)^[37]^[38]
Jules Maidoff (born 1933) – artist, teacher and founder of Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
Gerard Malanga (born 1943) – poet, photographer, filmmaker, actor, curator and archivist
Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) – photographer
Rick Meyerowitz (born 1943) – artist
Ralph Morse (1917–2015) – photographer
Piccirilli Brothers (including father, Giuseppe Piccirilli (1844–1910), and his six sons – Ferruccio (1864–1945), Attilio (1866–1945), Furio (1868–1949), Masaniello (1870–1951), Orazio (1872–1954) and Getulio (1874–1956)) – sculptors
Larry Rivers (1923–2002) – artist
Joel Arthur Rosenthal (born 1943) – jeweler
Merryll Saylan (born 1936) – woodturner^[39]
Edwin Scheier (1910–2008) – artist
Phil Stern (1919–2014) – Hollywood, WWII and White House photographer^[40]
George Sugarman (1912–1999) – sculptor^[41]
Raven B. Varona (born 1990) – photographer.^[42]
Lawrence Weiner (1942-2021) – artist; associated with conceptual art
Marian Zazeela (born 1940) – light artist, painter, and set designer; also musician of Hindustani classical music

Journalists and writers

Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) – author
William Henry Appleton (1814–1899) – publisher
Army Archerd (1922–1999) – columnist for Variety
James Baldwin (1924–1987) – playwright and essayist
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) – literary critic
Leslie Brody (born 1952) – non-fiction author
Robert Caro (born 1935) – non-fiction author of biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson
Jerome Charyn (born 1937) – prolific novelist and author of several memoirs
Mary Higgins Clark (1927–2020) – best-selling author of suspense novels
Avery Corman (born 1935) – novelist; author of The Old Neighborhood, set in the Bronx
Don DeLillo (born 1936) – novelist
E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015) – author
Will Eisner (1917–2005) – author of A Contract with God and other graphic novels and instruction books
Jules Feiffer (born 1929) – cartoonist (primarily in The Village Voice); playwright, screenwriter
Bill Finger (1917–1974) – writer co-creator of Batman comic book^[43]
Vivian Gornick (born 1935) – American critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist
Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) – poet, critic, reviewer
Phil Hall (born 1964) – film critic
Hy Hollinger (1918–2015) – journalist for Variety and The Hollywood Reporter^[44]
Max Kadushin (1895–1980) – rabbi, theologian and author at Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale
Bel Kaufman (1911–2014) – novelist author of Up the Down Staircase about NYC schools in the 1950s^[45]
William Melvin Kelley (1937–2017) – novelist, short-story writer, university professor
Annie Lanzillotto (born 1963) – poet, author, dramatist, songwriter
Stan Lee (1922–2018) – leading creator of Marvel Comics
Paul Levinson (born 1947) – science fiction and non-fiction author
Anthony Lewis (1927–2013) – New York Times legal reporter, specializing in coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court^[46]
Eleazar Lipsky (1911-1993) – lawyer, novelist, playwright, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Miles Marshall Lewis (born 1970) – pop-culture critic
Kenneth Lonergan (born 1962) – playwright and screenwriter^[47]
Lynda Lopez (born 1971) – journalist, multiple broadcast networks
Ray Marcano – medical reporter and music critic
John Matteson (born 1961) – Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer
Judith Merril (1923–1997) – science-fiction editor and author
Steve Mirsky – Scientific American columnist
Nicholasa Mohr (born 1938) – Nuyorican writer about Puerto Rican women in New York
Mwalim (born 1968) – playwright, composer, and novelist
Davi Napoleon (born 1946) – theater historian and arts journalist
Clifford Odets (1906–1963) – playwright, co-founder of the Group Theatre
Cynthia Ozick (born 1928) – award-winning novelist and short-story writer
Grace Paley (1922–2007) – award-winning short-story writer^[48]
Michael Pearson (born 1949) – Old Dominion University English professor and author of several books, including his memoir, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx
David J. Pecker (born 1951) – CEO of American Media, publisher of National Enquirer, US Weekly, Men's Fitness^[49]
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) – author and poet
Chaim Potok (1929–2002) – author^[50]
Richard Price (born 1949) – novelist and screenwriter
Chris Regan (born 1967) – television writer and author
Charles Rice-González (born 1964) – novelist and playwright^[51]
Spider Robinson (born 1948) – science-fiction writer of novels and short stories
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) – feminist science-fiction writer
Oliver Sacks (1933–2015) – neurologist and author
Douglas Sadownick – gay fiction writer, journalist and psychotherapist
William Safire (1929–2009) – journalist, speech writer, literary stylist^[52]
Tony Santiago (born 1950) – military historian^[53]
Kate Simon (1912–1990) – memoirist and popular travel guide author^[54]
Arthur Spiegelman (1940–2008) – journalist {not the author of Maus}^[55]
William Steig (1907–2003) – cartoonist and author^[56]
Mark Twain (1835–1910) – author^[57]
Dorothy Uhnak (1930–2006) – mystery writer who drew upon her past experience as a NYPD detective
Ben Wattenberg (1933–2015) – political/demographic analysis author (The Real Majority)^[58]
Al Wasserman (1921–2005) – documentary filmmaker
Barry Wellman (born 1942) – sociologist of community, networks and the Internet, co-author Networked
Gene Weingarten (born 1951) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and cartoonist
Herman Wouk (1915–2019) – author

Film, television, radio, dance and theatre

Charlie Ahearn (born 1951) – film director of Wild Style^[59]
Danny Aiello (1933–2019) – actor^[60]
Alan Alda (born 1936) – actor
Nancy Allen (born 1950) – actress
Woody Allen (born 1935) – film director and actor^[61]
June Allyson (1917–2006) – actress^[62]
Bruce Altman (born 1955) – actor^[63]
Christopher Aponte – ballet dancer and choreographer
Arthur Aviles (born 1963) – dancer and choreographer
Emanuel Azenberg (born 1934) – theatrical producer
Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) – actress^[64]
Martin Balsam (1919–1996) – film actor
Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) – actress^[65]
Ellen Barkin (born 1954) – actress^[66]
Joseph Bassolino (Joey Boots) (1967–2016) – comedian who popularized the phrase "Baba Booey" on the Howard Stern Show^[67]
Peter S. Beagle (born 1939) – fantasy and science fiction author
Tyson Beckford (born 1970) – model and actor
Ahmed Best (born 1973) – Jar Jar Binks
Joey Bishop (1918–2007) – entertainer^[68]
Irving Brecher (1914–2008) – radio, television and film comedy writer^[10]
Joy Bryant (born 1976) – actress
Cara Buono (born 1971) – actress
Red Buttons (1919–2006) – comedian and actor^[69]
James Caan (1940–2022) – actor^[70]
Steven Canals (born 1980) – television screenwriter and producer.^[71]
George Carlin (1937–2008) – comedian
Eddie Carmel, born Oded Ha-Carmeili (1936–1972) – Israeli-born entertainer with gigantism and acromegaly, popularly known as "The Jewish Giant"
Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981) – screenwriter^[72]
Dominic Chianese (born 1931) – actor
Sanford "Sandy" Climan (born 1956) – film producer^[73]
Lee J. Cobb (1911–1976) – actor
Kevin Corrigan (born 1969) – actor
Tony Curtis (1925–2010) – actor^[74]
Stacey Dash (born 1966/1967) – actress
Michael DeLorenzo (born 1959) – actor
Desus (born 1983) – comedian, former host of Viceland's Desus and Mero and current host of Showtime's Desus & Mero^[75]
The Kid Mero (born 1983) – comedian, former host of Viceland's Desus and Mero and current host of Showtime's Desus & Mero^[75]
Richard Dubin (born 1945) – television writer, director and producer
Peter Falk (1927–2011) – actor^[76]
Jon Favreau (born 1966) – film and television director and actor^[77]
Joe Franklin (1926–2015) – TV host of Joe Franklin's Memory Lane^[74]
Cuba Gooding, Jr. (born 1968) – actor
Howard Gottfried (1923–2017) – film producer of academy awarding winning Network and The Hospital^[78]
Don Gregory (1934–2015) – Broadway theatrical producer^[79]
Mortimer Halpern (1909–2006) – Broadway stage manager
Jonathan Harris (1914–2002) – actor
Moss Hart (1904–1961) – playwright and theatre director
Amy Heckerling (born 1954) – film director
Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975) – film composer^[80]
Richard Hunt (1951–1992) – Muppet puppeteer
Jharrel Jerome (born 1997) – actor
Robert Klein (born 1942) – comedian
Yaphet Kotto (1939–2021) – actor
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) – film director
Saul Landau (1936–2013) – documentary filmmaker, journalist
Annie Lanzillotto (born 1963) – actor, performance artist, director
Tom Leykis (born 1956/1957) – radio host
Hal Linden (born 1931) – actor, director, and musician^[81]
Lindsay Lohan (born 1986) – actress^[82]
Louis Lombardi (born 1968) – actor
Domenick Lombardozzi (born 1976) – actor
Kenneth Lonergan (born 1962) – screenwriter, director, playwright^[83]
Jennifer Lopez (born 1969) – singer, actress and dancer
Linda Lovelace (1949–2002) – porn actor and anti-porn activist
Melissa Manchester (born 1951) – singer
Sonia Manzano (born 1950) – actress, Maria Figueroa Rodriguez on Sesame Street
Garry Marshall (1934–2016) – television and film director^[84]
Bernard McGuirk (1957-2022) – American radio personality
Penny Marshall (1943–2018) – actor and director^[84]
Lea Michele (born 1986) – actor
Sal Mineo (1939–1976) – actor
Tracy Morgan (born 1968) – actor and comedian^[85]
Romeo Muller (1928–1992) – television writer
Robert Mulligan (1925–2008) – film director^[86]
Jan Murray (1916–2006) – comedian
Mwalim (born 1968) – playwright, actor, director; spoken-word artist; co-founder of the Urban Expressionists Lab
Bess Myerson (1924–2014) – actor; best known as first Jewish Miss America^[87]
Carroll O'Connor (1924–2001) – actor
Okwui Okpokwasili (born 1972) – dancer, actor^[88]
Jerry Orbach (1935–2004) – actor
Toby Orenstein (born 1937) – founder and director of the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts, the Young Columbians, and Toby's Dinner Theatre^[89]
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro (born 1985) – participant on MTV's reality-television series Jersey Shore^{[citation needed]}
Al Pacino (born 1940) – actor
Chazz Palminteri (born 1952) – actor^[90]
Vincent Pastore (born 1946) – actor
Ron Perlman (born 1950) – film actor; Hellboy, etc.
Regis Philbin (1931–2020) – media personality and television talk-show host
Carl Reiner (1922–2020) – comedian and film director
Rob Reiner (born 1945) – actor and film director
Kristina Reyes (born 1994) – actress and bass guitarist
Martin Richards (1932–2012) – theater and movie producer^[91]
Martin Ritt (1914–1990) – Academy Award-nominated movie director
Tanya Roberts (1949–2021) – actor^[92]
Leon Robinson (born 1962) – actor
Géza Röhrig (born 1967) – poet and film star of Son of Saul^[93]
George Romero (1940–2017) – horror film director^[94]
Saoirse Ronan (born 1994) – film actor^[95]
Andre Royo (born 1968) – actor
Harmony Santana (born ?) – transgender film actress starred in Gun Hill Road^[96]
Mike Savage (born 1942) – radio talk-show host^[97]
Robert Schimmel (1950–2010) – comedian
Daniel Schorr (1918–2010) – journalist
Ben Schwartz (born 1981) – actor and comedian
John Patrick Shanley (born 1950) – playwright
Maggie Siff (born 1974) – actor
Neil Simon (1927–2018) – playwright and screenwriter
Wesley Snipes (born 1962) – actor
Peter Sohn (born 1977) – animated film director and voice actor at Pixar
Lionel Stander (1908–1994) – actor
Arnold Stang (1918–2009) – actor
Joseph Stein (1912–2010) – playwright^[98]
Renée Taylor (born 1933) – actress
Rachel Ticotin (born 1958) – actress^[99]
Tony Vitale (born 1964) – film writer, producer and director
Kerry Washington (born 1977) – actress
Douglas Watt (1914–2009) – theater critic^[100]
Fred Weintraub (1928–2017) – founder and impresario of the Bitter End 1960s hippie club; producer of movies about Woodstock, Bruce Lee
Burt Wolf (born 1938) – travel reporter and writer for CNN and ABC networks
Malik Yoba (born 1967) – actor

Music

A Boogie wit da Hoodie (born 1995) – rapper
Afrika Bambaataa (born 1957) – disc jockey^[101]
Miguel Angel Amadeo – Latin musician-composer and owner of Casa Amadeo music store
Anthony Amato (1920–2011) – founder and director of Amato Opera^[102]
Aventura (born 1996) – bachata music group
B-Lovee (born 2000) – rapper
The Barry Sisters – Yiddish-American singers from the 1930s to 1970s^[103]
The Belmonts – late-1950s singing group, with Dion
Jellybean Benitez (born 1957) – music producer credited with discovering Madonna
Big Bank Hank (1956–2014) – old school rapper member of the Sugarhill Gang
Big Pun (1971–2000) – rapper
Mary J. Blige (born 1971) – singer and songwriter
Angela Bofill (born 1954) – R&B singer and songwriter
Busy Bee Starski (born 1962) – old-school rapper from the 1980s
Jerry Calliste Jr (born 1965) – music-industry executive
Richard Camacho (born 1997) – vocalist, founding member of CNCO
Cardi B (born 1992) – hip-hop recording artist
Diahann Carroll (1935–2019) – actress and singer
The Chiffons – early-1960s girl group
Cheryl "Coko" Clemons (born 1970) – gospel singer and lead singer of R&B group
Sean Combs (born 1969) – "Puff Diddy" rapper, singer, record producer, entrepreneur^[104]
Cold Crush Brothers – rap group
Willie Colón (born 1950) – trombonist
Judy Craig (born 1946) – lead singer of the Chiffons
Cuban Link (born 1974) – hip-hop artist
Bobby Darin (1936–1973) – 1950s–1960s singer
Dennis Day (1916–1988) – comedian and singer; regular on Jack Benny radio and television programs
Inspectah Deck (born 1970) – rapper; member of Wu-Tang Clan
Kat DeLuna (born 1987) – 1950s–1960s singer
Diamond D (born 1968) – hip-hop artist
Dion DiMucci (born 1939) – singer-songwriter; 1950s–1960s rock singer
DJ Chuck Chillout (born 1962) – disc jockey
DJ Kool Herc (born 1955) – hip hop pioneer
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band – 1970s disco group
Drag On (born 1979) – rapper
DreamDoll (born 1992) – rapper
Arnold Eidus (1922–2013) – concert violinist and session musician
Fat Joe (born 1970) – rapper
Charles Fox (born 1940) – Grammy-winning composer
Ace Frehley (born 1951) – Kiss guitarist
Arlen Roth (Master of the Telecaster) (born 1952) – guitarist
French Montana (born 1984) – rapper
Ross "The Boss" Friedman (born 1954) – guitarist and founding member of The Dictators and Manowar
Funkmaster Flex (born 1968) – disc jockey
Kay Flock (born 2003) – rapper
Funky Four Plus One – rap group
Furious Five – rap group
Bob Gaudio (born 1942) – Four Seasons principal songwriter and group member^[105]
Stan Getz (1927–1991) – jazz musician
Richard Goode (born 1943) – classical pianist
Eydie Gormé (1931–2013) – traditional pop music singer
Grand Mixer DXT – disc jockey
Grand Wizard Theodore (born 1963) – disc jockey
Grandmaster Flash (born 1958) – disc jockey
Cory Gunz (born 1987) – rapper
Aaron Hall (born 1964) – R&B singer-songwriter
Andre "Dr. Jeckyll" Harrell (born 1964) – half of rap duo Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde
Richie Havens (1941–2013) – musician^[106]
Heatmakerz – hip-hop producers
Hell Rell (born 1979) – rapper
Rita Houston (1961–2020) – Disk jockey, producer, and program director of "The Whole Wide World",^[107]
Bobby Hutcherson (1941–2016) – jazz vibraphonist who lived in the Bronx in the 1960s^[108]
The Jaynetts (1961–1964) – singers, "Sally Go Round the Roses"
Jazzy Five – rap group
Billy Joel (born 1949) – singer
Jim Jones (born 1976) – rapper, actor
Helen Kane (1903–1966) – singer
Kid Capri (born 1967) – disc jockey and producer
Don Kirshner (1934–2011) – 1950s–1960s rock producer, 1970s television: "Rock Concert"^[109]
Jann Klose – singer
Kool Keith (born 1963) – hip-hop artist
Joey Kramer (born 1950) – drummer from Aerosmith
KRS-One (born 1965) – rapper
La India (born 1969) – "The Princess of Salsa"
Héctor Lavoe (1946–1993) – salsa singer
Tom Lehrer (born 1928) – satirical songwriter and performer
Leanne "Lelee" Lyons (born 1973) – member of R&B group SWV*
Lord Finesse (born 1970) – hip-hop artist
Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz – hip-hop duo
Jennifer Lopez (born 1969) – singer, actress and dancer
Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba (born 1954) – singer, The Dictators, MC5 and Manitoba's Wild Kingdom; entertainer; radio DJ; saloon keeper
Johnny Marks (1909–1985) – composer of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and other songs
Anthony McGill (musician) (born 1979) – principal clarinetist of New York Philharmonic^[110]
Abel Meeropol (1903–1986) – composer of "Strange Fruit", "The House I Live In"; adoptive father of Rosenberg boys^[111]
Melle Mel (born 1961) – rapper
Alan Merrill (born 1951) – musician, singer, actor, model
Helen Merrill (born 1930) – jazz singer
Robert Moog (1934–2005) – inventor of the Moog synthesizer
Jerry Moss (born 1935) – co-founder of A&M Records; owner of Zenyatta race horse^[112]
Chris Moy (born 1992) – member of Menudo
Mwalim (born 1968) – singer, pianist, composer, arranger, producer
Nice & Smooth – rap duo
Nine (born 1969) – rapper
Laura Nyro (1947–1997) – composer and singer
Jon Oliva (born 1960) – heavy-metal singer
Adelina Patti (1843–1919) – opera singer
Jan Peerce (1904–1984) – opera singer
Murray Perahia (born 1947) – pianist and conductor
Roberta Peters (1930–2017) – opera singer
Positive K (born 1967) – rapper
Tony Powers (born 1938) – actor, singer-songwriter, video artist
Prince Royce (born 1989) – bachata singer-songwriter
Tito Puente (1923–2000) – jazz musician
Lenny Santos (born 1979) – bachata producer, guitarist and songwriter
Rahzel (born 1964) – rapper, beatboxer
Drew Ramos (born 1997) – singer from the group in Real Life
Christopher "Kid" Reid (born 1964) – half of Kid 'n Play
Remy Ma (born 1981) – rapper
Jamar Rogers (born 1982) – singer
Ron Suno (born 2000) – rapper
Sadat X (born 1968) – rapper; member of Brand Nubian
Romeo Santos (born 1981) – singer, bachata
Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011) – "godfather of rap"^[113]
Sha EK (born 2003) – rapper
Showbiz and A.G. – hip-hop duo
Carly Simon (born 1943) – singer-songwriter
Joanna Simon (1936–2022) – mezzo-soprano opera singer; MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour arts correspondent; older sister of Carly Simon and Lucy Simon
Lucy Simon (1940–2022) – composer and older sister of Carly Simon
Slick Rick (born 1965) – rapper
Soulsonic Force – rap group
Joey Spampinato (born 1948) – musician
Phil Spector (1939–2021) – composer and arranger; murderer
Regina Spektor (born 1980) – singer-songwriter
Ice Spice (born 2000) – rapper
Donna Stark (born 1948) – country singer-songwriter
Maxine Sullivan (1911–1987) – jazz singer
Swizz Beatz (born 1978) – record producer/rapper
Max Santos (born 1982) – bass player, rapper
T La Rock (born 1961) – rapper
Ray Tabano (born 1946) – former guitarist and founding member of Aerosmith
Tim Dog (1967–2013) – rapper
Lil Tjay (born 2001) – rapper^[114]
Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957) – cellist, conductor
Doris Troy (1937–2004) – R&B singer and songwriter
Richard Tucker (1913–1975) – operatic tenor, cantor, Temple Adath Israel
Steven Tyler (born 1948) – frontman of Aerosmith^[115]
Ultramagnetic MCs – rap group
Dave Valentin (1952–2017) – Latin jazz flutist
Luther Vandross (1951–2005) – singer
Mario Vazquez (born 1977) – singer
Veronica Vazquez (born 1975) – singer
Louie Vega (born 1965) – disc jockey and music producer
Jesse West (born 1967) – rapper, producer
Christopher Williams (born 1967) – singer
Peter Wolf (born 1946) – lead singer of The J. Geils Band
Nanette Workman (born 1945) – Singer-songwriter. Backing vocalist Rolling Stones, Elton John, John Lennon

Government and politics

Robert Abrams (born 1938) – Assemblyman, Bronx Borough President, New York State Attorney General
Bella Abzug (1920–1998) – Congresswoman and international feminist leader
Brian G. Andersson (born 1957) – former New York City Commissioner of Records & Information Services.^[117]
Herman Badillo (1929–2014) – former New York City housing official, Bronx Borough President, Congressman and CUNY board of trustees chair
Oxiris Barbot (born 1965/1966) – Commissioner of Health of the City of New York
Mario Biaggi (1917–2015) – decorated policeman and US Congressman
Adolfo Carrión, Jr. (born 1961) – former Bronx Borough President appointed by President Barack Obama to be Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs
Darcel Clark (born 1962) – first female Bronx County District Attorney
Gray Davis (born 1942) – former Governor of California
Rubén Díaz Jr. (born 1973) – Bronx borough president and former New York State assembly member
Louis Farrakhan (born 1933) – Black Muslim leader^[66]
Luis A. Gonzalez^[118] – first Latino to be named Presiding Justice of the New York State Appellate Division, First Judicial Department
Alan Grayson (born 1958) – Democratic Congressman, Florida^[119]
Eric Holder (born 1951) – first African American-appointed United States Attorney General
Scott Israel (born 1956/57) – Police Chief of Opa-locka, former Sheriff of Broward County
Martin Jezer (1940–2005) – progressive activist in New York and Vermont; leader of stutterers' self-help movement
Lazarus Joseph (1891–1966) – NY State Senator and New York City Comptroller.
Benjamin Kaplan (1911–2010) – law professor, judge, crafter of Nuremberg Trials indictments^[120]
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) – 35th President of the United States; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (born in Brookline, Massachusetts)^[121]
Bernard Kerik (born 1955) – former Commissioner of Police and of Corrections, New York City.^[122]
Ed Koch (1924–2013) – politician; former U.S. Representative who became a three-term Mayor of New York City
Kenneth Kronberg (1948–2007) – leading member of LaRouche Movement
Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882–1947) – former Mayor of New York City
Nita Lowey (born 1937) – Congresswoman served from 1989 to 2021 whose Westchester district once included parts of the Bronx and Queens
Beatrice Lumpkin (born 1918) – union organizer
Norman Marcus – former general counsel, New York City Planning Commission^[123]
Francis W. Martin (1878–1947) – first Bronx County District Attorney
Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816) – revolutionary war statesman
Michael Mukasey (born 1941) – former U.S. judge and U.S. Attorney General (under George W. Bush)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989) – youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, 2018
Colin Powell (1937–2021) – former United States Secretary of State
Anthony Romero (born 1965) – executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) – U.S. president who spent boyhood summers at Wave Hill in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York City
Frank Shannon (born 1961) – native of the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, conservative activist, political analyst, columnist, and candidate for the Florida State House
Larry Sharpe (born 1968) – 2018 Libertarian nominee for Governor of New York; 2016 Libertarian vice-presidential candidate
Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954) – federal appeals court judge, New York; appointed by President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court of the United States
Eliot Spitzer (born 1959) – politician and television talk-show host; former New York State Attorney General (1999–2006); Governor of New York (2007–2008)
John Timoney (police officer) (1948–2016) – Philadelphia police commissioner; Miami police chief; New York City deputy police commissioner^[124]
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) – Soviet revolutionary and political theorist^[125]^[126]
Charles J. Urstadt (1928–2020) – gubernatorial advisor and appointee noted for development of Battery Park City and as namesake of contentious Urstadt Law^[127]^[128]

Sports

Nate Archibald (born 1948) – former NBA player
Albert Axelrod (1921–2004) – Olympic medalist foil fencer
Elías Larry Ayuso (born 1977) – Puerto Rican basketball player
Harrison Bader (born 1994) – MLB outfielder
Margaret Bailes (born 1951) – Olympic gold medalist
Iran Barkley (born 1960) – boxer
Saquon Barkley (born 1997) – NFL player
Ronnie Belliard (born 1975) – former MLB player
Bobby Bonilla (born 1963) – former MLB player
Willie Cager (1942–2023) – player on 1966 Texas Western University NCAA basketball championship team^[129]
Rod Carew (born 1945) – Baseball Hall of Famer signed by the Minnesota Twins in the Bronx^[130]
Rocky Colavito (born 1933) – former MLB player
Willie Colon (born 1983) – former NFL player
Cus D'Amato (1908–1985) – boxing manager
Aaron Davis (born 1967) – boxer
Bizunesh Deba (born 1987) – marathoner^[131]
Art Donovan (1924–2013) – former NFL football tackle
Mike "SuperJew" Epstein (born 1943) – MLB first baseman
Chris Eubank (born 1966) – boxer
Harry Feldman (1919–1962) – former MLB pitcher
Frankie Frisch (1897–1973) – former MLB player
Lou Gehrig (1903–1941) – Baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees first baseman
Marty Glickman (1917–2001) – athlete and sports announcer
Mitch Green (born 1957) – boxer
Hank Greenberg (1911–1986) – MLB Hall of Famer
Paul Heyman (born 1965) – WWE manager
John Holland (born 1988) – American-Puerto Rican basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Eric Holtz (born 1965) – Head Coach of the Israel national baseball team
Daryl Homer (born 1990) – Olympic fencer^[132]
Nat Holman (1896–1995) – Hall of Fame basketball player and coach
Jonathan Isaac (born 1997) – basketball player, Orlando Magic forward
Cullen Jones (born 1984) – swimmer
Max Kellerman (born 1973) – sports-radio host
Ed Kranepool (born 1944) – former Major League Baseball player; New York Mets
Marie Kruckel (1924–2012) – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Jake LaMotta (1921–2017) – boxer
Fred Lewis (born 1947) – American-handball player
Anibal Lopez (born 1942) – bodybuilder
Frank Malzone (1930–2015) – former MLB player
Doug Marrone (born 1964) – NFL coach
Floyd Mayweather Sr. (born 1952) – boxing trainer
Shep Messing (born 1949) – Olympic soccer goalkeeper and current broadcaster
Nat Militzok (1923–2009) – basketball player
Marvin Miller (1917–2012) – founder, Major League Baseball Players Association^[133]
Davey Moore (1959–1988) – WBA world middleweight champion boxer
Mike Nagy (born 1948) – former MLB player
Bernard Opper (1915–2000) – All-American basketball player for the Kentucky Wildcats and professional player
Juan Orozco (born 1993) – champion gymnast, 2012 Olympian^[134]
Justin Pierce (1975–2000) – skateboarder
Ed Pinckney (born 1963) – basketball player, Villanova Wildcats Championship Team; 13-year NBA; Current Lead Assistant Coach, Minnesota Timberwolves
Bill Polian (born 1942) – NFL executive
Damian Priest (born 1982) - WWE Wrestler of Puerto Rican descent; Former WWE United States Champion; Currently a leader of The Judgment Day^[135]
Alex Ramos (born 1961) – boxer
Tubby Raskin (1902–1981) – basketball player and coach
T. J. Rivera (born 1988) – New York Mets infielder^[136]
Michele A. Roberts (born 1956) – executive director of NBA players' union^[137]
Lennie Rosenbluth (born 1933) – basketball player
Dolph Schayes (1928–2015) – Hall of Fame NBA basketball player and coach
Babe Scheuer (1913–1997) – football player
Stephen A. Smith (born 1967) – commentator, ESPN First Take
Vin Scully (1927–2022) – sportscaster
Amanda Serrano (born 1988) – IBF Female World Super Featherweight champion boxer
Nevil Shed (born 1943) – player on 1966 Texas Western University NCAA basketball championship team^[129]
Benjamin (Benji) Ungar (born 1986) – fencer
Kemba Walker (born 1990) – basketball player; New York Knicks point guard
Hilton White (1933–1990) – basketball coach and community leader^[129]
Andrew Velazquez (born 1994) – MLB infielder

Name givers

Thomas Cornell (1595–1655) – one of the earliest settlers of the Bronx (area now named Clason Point)
Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643) – pioneer religious liberation
Thomas Pell (1608–1669) – physician

Activists

Murray Bookchin (1921–2006) – anarchist, social ecologist, libertarian socialist
Roscoe Brown (1922–2016) – Tuskegee Airman, President
Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998) – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader in the 1960s U.S. Civil Rights Movement
Majora Carter (born 1966) – MacArthur Genius Award-winning founder of Sustainable South Bronx
Claudette Colvin (born 1939) – first person to be arrested protesting bus segregation in the U.S. South, in Montgomery, Alabama, March 2, 1955^[138]
Ita Ford (1940–1980) – Maryknoll nun, murdered by Salvadoran death squad
Jack Greenberg (1924–2016) – civil rights lawyer as head of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund for 23 years^[139]
Ray McGovern (born 1939) – retired Central Intelligence Agency officer turned political activist
Maurice Paprin (1920–2005) – Mitchell Lama apartments developer and social activist
Arlyn Phoenix (born 1943) – head of River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding; mother of Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix
Sally Regenhard (born 1946) – 9/11 activist; Co-op City resident
Sylvia Rivera (1951–2002) – transgender activist, "the Rosa Parks of the transgender movement"^[140]
Jim Steyer (born 1956) – child advocate^[141]
Stephen Spiro (1939–2007) – conscientious objector and Vietnam War opponent
Elizabeth Sturz (1917–2010) – founder of Argus Community and Harbor House; folklorist with husband Alan Lomax^[142]
Gary Waldron (born 1943) – founder of Glie Farms, commercial organic herb garden in low-income neighborhood.^[143]
Suzanne (Werner) Wright (1946–2016) – co-founder of Autism Speaks^[144]

Business

Joseph Beninati (born 1964) – real estate developer and private equity investor
Chris Bianco – chef, born in the Bronx
Lloyd Blankfein (born 1954) – businessman; chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs (since 2006)^[145]
Eli Broad (1933–2021) – businessman and arts philanthropist; co-founder of Kaufman & Broad^[146]
B. Gerald Cantor (1916–1996) – businessman; co-founder of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald; with his wife Iris, amassed and then donated the largest private collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin
Stanley Chais (1926–2010) – investment advisor in the Madoff investment scandal
Mario Dedivanovic (born 1983) – Award-winning make-up artist and businessman.^[147]
Fred DeLuca (1947–2015) – founder and CEO of Subway fast food sandwich chain
Richelieu Dennis – co-founder of Sundial Brands personal care products.^[148]
Millard "Mickey" Drexler" (born 1944) – businessman; chief executive officer of J. Crew; former chief executive officer of the Gap^[149]
Reggie Fils-Aimé (born 1961) – president of Nintendo of America
Michael J. Freeman (born 1947) – inventor, educator, business consultant, and entrepreneur
Mike Greco (1929–2019) – 'salami king'^[150]
Harry Helmsley (1909–1997) – real estate magnate in New York City
Roger Hertog (born 1941) – co-founder of investment firm; co-publisher of The New Republic magazine; philanthropist^[151]
Richard March Hoe (1812–1886) – inventor of rotary printing press^[152]
Collis Potter Huntington (1821–1900) – railroad and shipbuilding magnate; created the privately endowed Huntington Free Library and Reading Room near his summer home in the Throggs Neck neighborhood of the Bronx
Elaine Kaufman (1929–2010) – businessperson; proprietor of Elaine's, a restaurant in the Manhattan borough of New York City that was a haunt of writers, actors, politicians^[153]
Calvin Klein (born 1942) – clothing designer
Ralph Lauren (born 1939) – clothing designer
George Lois (1931–2022) – advertising^[154]
William E. Macaulay (1945–2019) – billionaire businessman; CEO and chairman of First Reserve Corporation; co-founder of William E. Macaulay Honors College of City University of New York^[155]
Reuben and Rose Mattus (1912–1994; 1916–2006) – founders of Häagen-Dazs ice cream
Walton McCarthy (born 1951) – businessman and principal mechanical engineer with NORAD Shelter Systems
George Meany (1894–1980) – labor union leader: first president of the AFL–CIO
Jordan L. Mott (1799–1866) – inventor of coal kitchen stove, founder of J.L. Mott Ironworks in Mott Haven, and developer of the South Bronx neighborhood now named after him^[156]
Mark Penn (born 1954) – chief executive officer of the public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller; president of the polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates
Sol Price (1916–2009) – founder of the Price Club and FedMart retail stores^[157]
Lewis Salton (1910–1997) – inventor and manufacturer of the Salton Hotray^[158]
Fred Schwartz (1931–2016) – furrier, known nationally as "Fred the Furrier"^[159]
Sy Sperling (1941–2020) – founder, long-time head and TV commercial star of HairClub^[160]
Fred Trump (1905–1999) – real estate developer; father of Donald Trump

Attorneys

William Barr (born 1950) – U.S. Attorney General under Donald Trump^[161]
Pat Cipollone (born 1966) – Trump lawyer in impeachment case and elsewhere^[162]
Larry Fleisher (1930–1989) – sports agent, helped found the National Basketball Association Players Association
Hal Kant (1931–2008) – specializing in representing musical groups, spent 35 years as principal lawyer and general counsel for the Grateful Dead
Irving Picard (born 1941) – known for his recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal
Gerald Shur (1933–2020) – founder of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program^[163]
Melvyn Weiss (1935–2018) – co-founded plaintiff class action law firm Milberg Weiss

Infamous

David Berkowitz (born 1953) – "Son of Sam" serial killer
Evgeny Buryakov (born 1975) – Russian spy^[164]
Richard Cottingham (born 1946) – serial killer
Larry Davis (1966–2008) – drug dealer; shot multiple police officers^{[citation needed]}
John Gotti (1940–2002) – crime boss
Sidney Gottlieb (1918–1999) – American chemist who led the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s–1960s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra
Moshe Lax (born 1974) – partner in Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry; subject of multiple lawsuits^[165]
Twymon Myers (1950–1973) – federal fugitive
Jeffry Picower (1942–2009) – investor and philanthropist involved in the Madoff investment scandal
Morton Sobell (1917–2018) – convicted along with Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg in 1951 of being a spy for the Soviet Union^[166]
Howard Spira (born 1959) – instrumental in George Steinbrenner's ban from baseball

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v t e Neighborhoods in the New York City borough of the Bronx
South Bronx	East Morrisania/Crotona Park East Hunts Point Longwood Melrose Morrisania Mott Haven Port Morris
West Bronx	Bedford Park Belmont Concourse East Tremont Fordham Highbridge Jerome Park Kingsbridge Kingsbridge Heights Van Cortlandt Village Morris Heights Norwood Riverdale North Riverdale Fieldston Hudson Hill Mosholu Spuyten Duyvil Tremont University Heights West Farms Woodlawn Heights
East Bronx	Allerton Baychester Bronx Manor Castle Hill City Island Clason Point Harding Park Co-op City Country Club Eastchester Morris Park Olinville Pelham Bay Pelham Gardens Parkchester Pelham Parkway Soundview Throggs Neck Edgewater Park Locust Point Schuylerville Van Nest Wakefield Westchester Square Williamsbridge
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