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 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 Philip Gannon – member of the Wisconsin State Assembly 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 Nathan Knight (born 1997) –NBA and Israeli Basketball Premier League basketball player 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 John Mannion – U.S. representative for New York 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'Haines borough manager dies, 58,' The Juneau Empire, Malanie Plenda, December 10, 2002 Rocco Pirro – professional football player and politician Jon Ratliff – professional baseball player Mark Reed – physicist and professor Jamel Richardson – professional football player Harold E. Robinson – botanist and entomologist Ed Rombola – stage and television actor Mike Rotunda – professional wrestler best known as Irwin R. Schyster Ellis Rubin – attorney Marc Ryan – radio personality 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 Mary Gay Scanlon – U.S. representative for Pennsylvania 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 William Strobeck – filmmaker, director, videographer, and photographer Kevin Surace – technology innovator and entrepreneur Bob Swan – business executive and CEO of Intel Charles W. Sweeting – businessman and politician'Wisconsin Blue Book 1897,' Biographical Sketch of Charles W. Sweeting, pg. 584 Bill Tanguay – professional football player Tommy Tanner – professional soccer player TimTheTatman – live streamer and YouTube personality Toosii – rapper and singer Tony Trischka – five-string banjo player Tsquared – professional gamer 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 Carl Woese – microbiologist and biophysicist 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) John Desko – head coach of men's lacrosse team at Syracuse University (Camillus) 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