List of people from Syracuse, New York
The following people are from Syracuse, New York .
Born or brought up in the City of Syracuse
Tom Cruise
Jon Fishman
Richard Gere
Bobcat Goldthwait
Megyn Kelly
Post Malone
David Muir
Rod Serling
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[ 1]
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
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[ 2]
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
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[ 3]
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
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[ 4]
Steve Perry – musician
Marco Pignalberi – politician[ 5]
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[ 6]
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[ 7]
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 "
Frank Whaley – actor, film director, screenwriter, and comedian
John Wilkinson – engineer and inventor[ 8]
Christopher Woodrow – entrepreneur, financier, and movie producer
T. M. Wright – author
Born or brought up in Greater Syracuse
Grover Cleveland
Tim Connolly
Others with ties to the Syracuse area
Carmelo Anthony
Joe Biden
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 [ 12]
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 [ 13]
Asa Danforth Jr. – early settler, land speculator, and highway engineer[ 13]
Herbert H. Franklin – entrepreneur and automobile manufacturer for whom Franklin Square is named[ 14]
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[ 15]
Theodore E. Hancock – lawyer and politician who served as district attorney of Onondaga County from 1890 to 1892[ 16]
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[ 17]
C. Hamilton Sanford – businessman and president of the Syracuse Trust Company and co-founder of Sanford-Herbert Motor Truck Company [ 18]
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[ 19]
William Van Wagoner – bicycle racer and automobile designer[ 20]
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[ 21]
John Wilkinson – lawyer and politician who gave Syracuse its name and founded the Syracuse Bank[ 22]
Steve Wynn – casino and hotel tycoon who attended The Manlius School
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