List of people from Scarsdale, New York
The following is a list of notable people from Scarsdale, New York.
Arts
- Cabot Lyford, sculptor[1]
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.[2]
- George Zimmer, founder of Men's Wearhouse, 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[3]
- 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[4]
Legal
- William Glendon, argued the Pentagon Papers case before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of The Washington Post
Other
- Lauren Spierer, student who disappeared from Indiana University in 2011[5]
Media and music
- 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[6]
- Dorothy Dalton, silent-film actress
- Lisa Donovan, YouTube celebrity (LisaNova); former featured cast member of MadTV; graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1998[7]
- 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[8]
- Al Jolson, 30s film star; owned a house on Fenimore Road in Scarsdale
- Joseph Kaiser, opera, theater, and film actor; grew up in Scarsdale
- David Lascher, actor, Hey Dude, Blossom, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Beverly Hills, 90210; born and raised in Scarsdale
- Justin Ross Lee, Internet personality, social commentator
- 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; wife of Beatles star Paul McCartney; attended Scarsdale High School[9]
- 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, singer; her family moved to Scarsdale in the early 1950s; she later joined them from Japan[10]
- Bill Pankow, film editor, The Black Dahlia, Assault on Precinct 13, Paid In Full
- Rob Reiner, director and actor, resided in Scarsdale for part of his childhood
- Noah Schnapp (born 3 October 2004) is an American actor known for his portrayal of Will Byers in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things.[11]
- 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
Political figures
The Daniel D. Tompkins Memorial at the intersection of Post Road and Tompkins Road
- 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
- David Dean Rusk (1909–1994), US Secretary of State, 1961–1969, under presidents Kennedy and Johnson [12]
- Daniel D. Tompkins, sixth Vice President of the United States; born in Scarsdale[13]
Science and technology
- Raymond Ditmars, pioneering herpetologist, author, and long-time curator at the Bronx Zoo - lived and died in Scarsdale.
- Jeffrey A. Hoffman, astronaut; born in Brooklyn but considers Scarsdale to be his hometown;[14] SHS graduate
- 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[15]
- Ivan Sutherland, computer graphics pioneer; SHS 1955 graduate[16]
- Herman Tarnower, author of The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet[17]
Sports
- Herman Barron (1909–1978) - professional golfer[18]
- Bill Bavasi, Major League Baseball executive; born in Scarsdale
- Trenten Anthony Beram, Double Gold Medalist Sprinter born in Scarsdale representing the Philippines[19]
- Nick Civetta (born 1989), rugby lock/flanker; born in Scarsdale
- Benny Feilhaber (born 1985), soccer midfielder; moved to Scarsdale at the age of six
- 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[20]
- Brandon Steiner, Founder and CEO of Steiner Sports
- Frank Gifford (1930–2015), New York Giants star running back; ABC Monday Night Football broadcaster; married to Kathie Lee Gifford
- Lindsay Gottlieb, head coach of University of California women's basketball; born 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
- 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 (1789–1851), his classic book The Spy is set in a Scarsdale historical home, The Locusts[21]
- 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[22]
- 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[23]
- 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.
- 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[24] 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[25]
- Andrew Ross Sorkin, financial columnist for the New York Times; editor of DealBook, an online financial daily report
- 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
References
- ↑ "Cabot Lyford obituary". Portland Press Herald. 2016-01-29. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
- ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/eric-mindichs-eton-park-to-close-down-1490287893?mod=e2tw
- ↑ Google Books: Adrian Havill, 2002, The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold: The Secret Life of FBI Double Agent Robert Hanssen, p. 56. St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-98629-7
- ↑ http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=3850
- ↑ A new break in the case of missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer? - CBS News
- ↑ https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/jetdogy5a/aarononly/abtospeakatscarsdale.html&date=2009-10-26+00:47:54
- ↑ Wallenstein, Andrew (April 29, 2007). "How YouTube Helped LisaNova Start HerCareer". The New York Times. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
- ↑ Dramatist Article
- ↑ "Linda McCartney dead". BBC News. April 19, 1998. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
- ↑ Yoko Ono - Biography - IMDb
- ↑ Stranger Things (TV Series 2016– ) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb
- ↑ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/05/05/issue.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=ArticleEndCTA®ion=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article Scarsdale to Fete, and Picket, Rusk
- ↑ Daniel D. Tompkins | vice president of United States | Britannica.com
- ↑ NASA bio
- ↑ fwix.com
- ↑ 'Bandersnatch 1955', Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale NY
- ↑ Scarsdale Diet Investigated
- ↑ CARLA BARRON Obituary - West Palm Beach, FL | The Palm Beach Post
- ↑ "Beram becomes 1st Pinoy double gold medalist in 2017 SEA Games". GMA News Online. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
- ↑ Scarsdale Village Court NY
- ↑ Historic Home "The Locusts"
- ↑ ClassZone.com
- ↑ lohud.com
- ↑ Schorske, Carl. E. (1980). Fin-De-Siecle Vienna : Politics and Culture. Vintage. ISBN 0-394-74478-0.
- ↑ Aaron Sorkin - Biography - IMDb
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