* Jack Purvis, jazz musician
* Sylvia Kirby, singer
* Ryan White, AIDS activist
* Rupert Boneham, Survivor contestant
* Tavis Smiley, social commentator
* Elwood Haynes, inventor, automotive pioneer
* Elmer Apperson, automotive pioneer
* Edgar Apperson, automotive pioneer
* Steve Butler, Six-time Sprint Car National Champion
* Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes Correspondent
* John D. Shearer, Photographer
* Norman Bridwell, author of the Clifford the Big Red Dog books
* Strother Martin, actor (best known as the prison "captain" in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke)
* Bob Ford, National-Award winning Sports Editor for the Kokomo Tribune.
* Kaitlyn Christopher, Miss Indiana USA 2005
* Matthew Crull, musician
* Mark Langley, horse jockey
* Floyd Talbert, Soldier (of Band of Brothers fame)
* David Gray, Howard County Courthouse bomber
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)
Wow… that was a little depressing, my hometown of Rolling Meadows:
Rolling Meadows is the hometown of TV and film star Gary Cole and Figure Skater Timothy Goebel.
RMHS
From Rolling Meadows High School
Scott McClain, baseball player
Gary Cole, Actor
Jay Bennett, Singer/Songwriter and former member of alternative country Chicago based band Wilco
I now pretty much reside in Chicago which is a bit long to post.
Phil Harvey - Enterpreneur
Logan Pause - Soccer player
Doug Marlette - Cartoonist and author
Lee Smith - Author
William Hooper - A lawyer and politician who signed the United States Declaration of Independence for North Carolina
Shepperd Strudwick - Actor
Sarah Hoyt - XXXXX Galore
Dana Bash- CNN White House correspondent. Jon Doscher- actor/producer.
Peter Felknor- Author of The Tri-State Tornado: The Story of America’s Greatest Tornado Disaster. Kerri Green- films such as The Goonies and Lucas.
Rick Hurvitz- Executive Producer & Co-Creator, MTV’s Pimp My Ride.
Bruce Beresford Redman- Co-Creator, MTV’s Pimp My Ride Bill Maher- Real Time with Bill Maher. Zac Moncrief- Director of Family Guy.
Matt Mulhern- the movie Biloxi Blues and the television series Major Dad. Tom Papa- comedian, has appeared on numerous late night television shows and frequently opens for Jerry Seinfeld.
Ichabod Crane, a Colonel in the US Army during the War of 1812 and the nominal inspiration for the protagonist in Washington Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, who is buried in Staten Island, New York
Jeffrey Dahmer - serial killer. This demented individual lived on Staten Island for awhile
John Dehner - Television and movie actor born on Staten Island. A notable and one of Hollywoods best character actors, Dehner played Doris Day’s boss Sy Bennett on the Doris Day Show. He appeared in three classic Twilight Zone episodes and other movies and television shows. Western fans came to know Dehner as “Paladin” on radio’s “Have Gun, Will Travel” in his radio days.
Madonna - lived in the Stapleton area briefly. Her video “Papa Don’t Preach” was filmed there. Madonna chose the location herself. She said the neighborhood was perfect premise for the video story.
Antonio Meucci - disputed inventor of the telephone, immigrated to Staten Island, settling in the Clifton area in 1850, where he would live for the remainder of his life
Henry David Thoreau spent his longest time away from Concord, Massachusetts on Staten Island in the 1840s. He penned several letters to Ralph Waldo Emerson while on the island, and Emerson himself spent a significant amount of time on the island as well
Cornelius Vanderbilt - 19th century shipping and railroad magnate and patriarch of the Vanderbilt family, was born, and lived most of his life on, Staten Island. He is buried in the family vault in the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp on Staten Island
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne (1853–1937) 31st mayor of Chicago (1905-1907); governor of Illinois (1913-1917) was born in Watertown.
Benjamin B. Hotchkiss (1826–1885), for whom The Hotchkiss School was named by his widow, was one of the leading American ordnance engineers of his day. He made his money by founding a successful munitions company in France after the American Civil War. He was born in Watertown but in early childhood moved to Sharon.
Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. (1710–1785), governor of Connecticut before, during and after the American Revolution (1769-1784) and a friend of George Washington, he was born in Watertown.
We also have The Taft School, a private boarding school. I do know that Mary Chappin-Carpenter graduated from Taft (Class of 1974) along with many other famous people. I wouldn’t call them full time residents though since they only boarded here during the school year.
Joe Cipriano, Television Announcer, he was known as Tom Collins on WWCO in Waterbury and today is the voice of the Fox and NBC TV Networks and the announcer for Deal Or No Deal and 1 vs. 100.
Bob Crane, actor, of Hogans Heroes fame was born in Waterbury and had a radio program on WATR.
Philip Giordano, former mayor of Waterbury, (R) was stripped of power in 2001 after a corruption investigation revealed alleged sexual acts with a minor and other possible pedophilia charges. In 2003, he was convicted and sentenced to 37 years in federal prison.
Jimmy Piersall, professional baseball player, who battled bi-polar mental illness and was portrayed by Anthony Perkins in the movie “Fear Strikes Out”
The Playmates, a pop music group, consisting of Donny Conn, Morey Carr, and Carl Chicchetti. The Playmates had two hit songs, “Jo Ann”; and their biggest hit, “Little Nash Rambler” in 1958
Well known in music circles, guitar historian James Shine, Jr. was born and raised in the North End of Waterbury.
*]John Sirica, Watergate judge, was born and raised in Waterbury. He was Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 1973.
Famous residents of Carmel include Jermaine O’Neal, Jamaal Tinsley, Marquis Daniels and Stephen Jackson of the Indiana Pacers as well as Adam Vinatieri, Marlin Jackson,Nick Harper, Brandon Stokely, Tony Dungy, and owner Jim Irsay of the Indianapolis Colts and Marcus Pollard of the Detroit Lions as well as Scott Rolen of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Skateboarder and Jackass co-founder Bam Margera
Murdered hostage Nick Berg
Humor columnist Dave Barry
Professional golfer Jim Furyk
Classical composer Samuel Barber
Claude Rains
civil rights activist Bayard Rustin
Decorated war veteran and later anti-war activist Smedley Butler
American artist Horace Pippin
Thomas U. Walter, the architect of the United States Capitol dome
Jewish reggae musician Matisyahu.
Birthplace of actor Matthew McGrory (AKA “Bigfoot”),
QB Matt Schaub
CKY band members Deron Miller, Chad I. Ginsburg and Jess Margera.
Pitcher Jon Matlack
Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island Geralyn Wolf
