Rochester, NY
Susan B. Anthony (suffragist)
Johnny Antonelli (baseball player)
Philip Barry
John Jacob Bausch (native of Germany and co-founder of Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Company)
Boris Bittker (legal academic)
Bernie Boland (baseball player)
William Seward Burroughs I
Cab Calloway (singer/bandleader)
Francis Pharcellus Church
Julie Lynn Cialini
David Diamond
Taye Diggs (actor born in New Jersey but raised in Rochester)
Frederick Douglass (born in Maryland but a long-time Rochester resident and interred in Rochester's Mt. Hope Cemetery)
Pete Duel (actor)
George Eastman (Kodak founder, philanthropist)
Garth Fagan (Choreographer native of Jamaica and long-time Rochester resident)
Rory Fitzpatrick (NHL player)
Renée Fleming (Opera singer born in Pennsylvania but raised in Rochester)
Robert Forster (actor)
Steve Gadd (jazz drummer)
Frank Gannett (founder of Gannett Newspapers, presidential candidate)
Teddy Geiger (musician/actor)
Brian Gionta (NHL player)
Malcolm Glazer
Emma Goldman
Tom Golisano (Paychex founder, philanthropist, gubernatorial candidate, owner Buffalo Sabres NHL team)
Kim Gordon (bass player and lead singer of Sonic Youth)
Jared Gradinger (dancer & choreographer, Dorky Park by Constanza Macras)
Lou Gramm (lead singer of Foreigner)
Seth Green, Rochester born, pioneer in fish farming.
Heinie Groh
Walter Hagen (golfer)
Adolphus Hailstork (composer)
Howard Hanson
Davey Havok (Musician. Born in Rochester, raised in Ukiah, California.)
Edward D. Hoch (mystery writer)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Oscar-winning actor)
Garson Kanin
Bob Keegan (baseball player)
Mimi Kennedy
Norman Kerry (silent film actor)
Charlene Keys (singer, a.k.a Tweet)
Ellsworth Paine Killip (botanist)
Joanie Laurer (wrestler, a.k.a. Chyna)
John Lithgow (actor, born in Rochester but raised in Ohio)
Joe Locke (Jazz vibraphonist born in California but raised in Rochester)
Henry Lomb (native of Germany and co-founder of Rochester's Bausch and Lomb Company)
Lydia Lunch
Chuck McCoy (disk jockey)
Jason McElwain
Chuck Mangione (flugelhornist)
Pamela Melroy (astronaut)
Carolyn Merchant
Mitch Miller (bandleader)
Audrey Munson
Gerry Niewood (Jazz saxophonist)
Hugh O'Brien (actor)
Sam Patch (daredevil)
Danny Padilla (bodybuilder)
William F. Quinn
Charley Radbourn[1]
Walter Rauschenbusch (theologian)
Marty Reasoner (NHL player)
Tim Redding (baseball player)
Frank Ritter (Dental chair pioneer, philanthropist)
Del Rivers (Alternative Recording Artist)
Joe Romano (Jazz saxophonist)
Richard Ryder (actor)
Savanna Samson (porn actress)
Rob Sanderson (pro wrestling personality "The Artiste")
George B. Selden
Joel Seligman (current President of University of Rochester)
F. Ritter Shumway (US Figure Skating leader, philanthropist)
Hiram Sibley (Western Union founder)
Mike Sigel (Billiard Congress of America Hall of Famer)
Jeff Sluman (PGA Tour golfer)
Bill Stern
Jason Stockmaster (Hand Signal Enthusiast)
John Wallace (professional basketball player)
William Warfield (born in Arkansas; raised in Rochester)
Hulbert Harrington Warner, wealthy maker of patent medicines and patron of Astronomy.
Abby Wambach (soccer player)
Lee-Hom Wang (Asian pop/hip hop superstar)
Roland Williams (NFL tightend)
Wendy O. Williams of The Plasmatics
Joseph C. Wilson (Xerox)
Jim "The Bob" Wyand (Comic)