List of people from Rochester, New York
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Rochester, New York in the United States is or has been home to many famous people from past and present times. These people have been businessmen, civil rights activists, politicians, entertainers, educators and much more. A list of their names is below.
- Susan B. Anthony (suffragist)
- Johnny Antonelli (baseball player)
- Philip Barry
- Eric "eBaum" Bauman (founder of eBaum's World)
- 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)
- 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)
- Steve Gionta (Hockey 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)
- Hudson Leick (actress, born in Cincinnati, Ohio but raised in Rochester)
- 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)
- Robert Otto Marella (wrestler, a.k.a. Gorilla Monsoon)
- Pamela Melroy (astronaut)
- Carolyn Merchant
- Britney Milazzo (Soccer player)
- Mitch Miller (bandleader)
- Barbara Bieck (poet)
- Patrick Naughton (Co-creator of Java and noted pedophile)
- Gerry Niewood (Jazz saxophonist)
- Hugh O'Brian (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)
- Holly Redman (Poet)
- Bill Stern
- 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)
Some students of note have been Reverend Francis Bellamy (wrote the Pledge of Allegiance) who attended University of Rochester and Rochester Theological Seminary and Reverend Dr. Howard Thurman student at Colgate Rochester Divinity School. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s alma mater Crozer Seminary has moved to Rochester Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.
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- ^ [1969] (1979) in Reichler, Joseph L.: The Baseball Encyclopedia, 4th edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8.
