- Ernest Albert, artist
- Robert Allen (composer), pianist and an arranger and writer of music for popular songs.
- Susan B. Anthony, suffragist
- Bernard Arnault, LVMH Chairman[1]
- Tony Aiello, CBS Television reporter
- James P. Allaire, master mechanic, steam engine builder (credited with developing the first marine steam engine)
- Robert Allen (composer), pianist, songwriter ("chances are"; "there's no place like home for the holidays")
- Dick Ambrose, actor[2]
- Lee Archer (pilot), WWII fighter pilot; one of the first African-American CEOs of a Fortune 500 company
- Jesse Arnelle, basketball player[3]
- Faith Baldwin, actor[4]
- James Beck, actor[5]
- Anthony C. Beilenson, former Southern California legislator to the House of Representatives
- Francis Rufus Bellamy, writer and editor
- Dick Berg, screenwriter; film and television producer
- Philip E. Berger, Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly
- Derek Bermel, Composer, Clarinetist, Conductor[6]
- Virginia Berresford, printmaker; artist
- Elizabeth Berridge (actress), film and theater actress
- Helen Ginger Berrigan, United States Federal Judge
- Jerry Bilik, composer[7][8]
- William Black, founder of Chock Full-o-Nuts,[9] lived on Premium Point
- Ken Blanchard, author; management expert
- Scotty Bloch, actress[10]
- Jerry Bock, musical theater producer; Tony Award winner (Fiddler on the Roof)
- Mark Bomback, screenwriter
- Frederick Bond, actor[11]
- Connie Booth, writer and actress
- Franklin Booth, influential artist noted for his highly detailed pen-and-ink illustrations.
- Gloria Borger, CNN and CBS special correspondent[6]
- David Borowich, financier; philanthropist; community activist
- Rudy Boschwitz, former independent-republican United States Senator
- Samuel S. Bowne, late 19th century United States Representative (New York)
- John Boyd, athlete, Three-time National rowing champion for the NYAC 2002-2007
- Noam Bramson, mayor of New Rochelle[6]
- Peter V. Brett, writer of fantasy novels.
- Teresa Brewer, pop and jazz singer, lived on Pinebrook Boulevard[12]
- Clare Briggs, early 20th Century comic strip artist
- Nell Brinkley, illustrator and comic artist known as the "Queen of Comics"[13]
- Edson Buddle, professional soccer player for the Los Angeles Galaxy.[14]
- Joey Calderazzo, jazz pianist
- Joseph Campbell, mythologist, professor and author[15]
- Thomas Carmody, lawyer and politician
- Craig Carton, radio personality who currently co-hosts the Boomer and Carton in the Morning radio program
- Irene Castle, dancer[16]
- Montague Castle, artist[17]
- Vernon Castle, dancer
- Howard Chandler Christy, illustrator
- Carrie Chapman Catt, women's suffragist, first international leader of the political phase of the feminist movement[18]
- Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express, lives in the city[19]
- Penny Chenery, bred and raced Secretariat
- George Randolph Chester, writer; author of popular works such as Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford and Five Thousand an Hour
- CL Smooth, rapper
- Graham Clarke, musician; songwriter; arranger; entertainer
- Willie Colón, musician
- Bob Coltman, singer; musician; banjoist
- Daniel Content, illustrator[20]
- Thomas Cooke (footballer), soccer player; participant in the 1904 olympics
- J. Fred Coots, songwriter (Santa Claus is Coming to Town)[21]
- Maurice Copeland, actor
- Bud Cort, actor[22]
- Vinnie Costa, reality TV participant and actor
- Johnny Counts, former professional American football player
- Caresse Crosby, actress[23]
- Margaret Cullington, actress
- Otto Cushing, artist[24]
- Faith Daniels, NBC News personality
- Irwin D. Davidson, former democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (New York)
- Billy Davis, songwriter (“Lonely Teardrops”; “Buy the World a Coke” song)
- Ossie Davis, actor, playwright and social reformer, husband of Ruby Dee - Rochelle Heights[25]
- Drew S. Days, III, Solicitor General of the United States, Professor of Law at Yale Law School[6]
- Dan DeCarlo, cartoonist who developed Josie and the Pussycats and Archie Comics[26][27]
- René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, financier
- Peter De Rose, songwriter (Deep Purple)[21]
- Ruby Dee, actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist; married to Ossie Davis - Rochelle Heights[28]
- Bob Denver, actor (Gilligan from Gilligans Island)[29]
- Matt Dillon, actor[30]
- Kara DioGuardi, songwriter, producer, and fourth judge on American Idol.[31]
- E.L. Doctorow, author[32]
- Daniel Dorff, musician; composer
- Christopher Edley, Jr. '70 - Dean of University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)[6]
- Richard Edson, actor[33]
- Arnold Ehrlich, biblical and rabbinical scholar
- David A. Embury, attorney; author ('The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks')
- Jane Emmet de Glehn, American figure and portrait painter[34]
- Justus B. Entz, electrical engineer; inventor of the electromagnetic transmission
- Ato Essandoh, television and film actor
- Anthony Walton White Evans, civil engineer whose work included countless railroad and canal commissions in North and South America during the mid-nineteenth century.
- John Falter, artist and Saturday Evening Post illustrator[35]
- Peter Faneuil, wealthy American colonial merchant, slave trader, and philanthropist who donated Faneuil Hall to Boston
- Diane Farrell, politician who was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Connecticut's 4th congressional district in 2004 and 2006
- James Fenimore Cooper, American author[36]
- Adam Fetterman, democratic politician on the Florida House of Representatives
- Lydia Field Emmet, painter[37]
- W C Fields, comedian and actor[38]
- Annie Finch, poet
- Terry Finn, actress, original Broadway cast, Merrily We Roll Along (musical)
- Laurence Fishburne, actor, playwright, director, and producer, and wife Gina Torres[39]
- Thom Fitzgerald, American-Canadian film director
- Noah Fleiss, actor[40]
- Robert MacDonald Ford, former Washington State Representative
- Eddie Foy, Jr., actor[41]
- Eddie Foy, Sr., actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian.
- Irving Foy, actor, writer[42]
- Sidney Frank, multi-billionaire creator of 'top-shelf' liquors[43]
- Kurt O. Friedrichs, noted German-American mathematician
- Frankie Frisch, baseball player[44]
- Franklin Clark Fry, leading American Lutheran clergyman, known for his work on behalf of interdenominational unity.
- Ed Gallagher, football player (University of Pittsburgh)
- Arlen Gargagliano, writer; author; television personality
- Lou Gehrig, Hall of Fame baseball player[45]
- Leslie H. Gelb, former President of the Council on Foreign Relations[6]
- Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator
- Steven Gilborn, television and film actor[46]
- Robin Givens, film, television and stage actress
- Marty Glickman, Jewish American track and field athlete and sports announcer
- Irv Gotti, Murder Inc CEO, Record producer - Beechmont Woods[47]
- Grand Puba, rapper
- Courtney Greene, Current Free Safety for The Jacksonville Jaguars[48]
- James Gregory, stage, screen and TV actor[6]
- Nick Gregory, meteorologist[49]
- Della Griffin, jazz vocalist; drummer
- David Hall, sound archivist; author
- Walter Merrill Hall, important figure in American tennis (both as a player and administrator)
- Butch Harmon, golf instructor, former coach of Tiger Woods, son of Claude Harmon, grew up in New Rochelle[50]
- Claude Harmon, golfer, lived in New Rochelle[50]
- Peter Lind Hayes, actor, lived on Icard Lane off Pelham Road[51]
- Anthony Heald, actor[52]
- William Randolph Hearst, newspaper 'baron'
- A. G. Heaton, artist, author and leading numismatist.
- Henry Heimlich creator of Heimlich Maneuver[6]
- Larry Hennessy, professional basketball player (college: Villanova; NBA: Philadelphia Warriors)
- Don Hewitt, producer[6][53]
- Marion West Higgins, Republican Party politician who served as the first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
- Ron Hines, first black Ivy League-educated auto racing engineer on America’s road racing circuits
- George Hirsch, publisher (New York Magazine, New York Times)[6]
- Lucius Hitchcock, cartoonist[54]
- Charles J. Hite, former head of the Thanhouser Company
- Henry Holt, publisher and author[55]
- Bill Hook, chess master
- Bronson Howard, American dramatist[56]
- Devon Hughes, professional wrestler[57]
- Walter Beach Humphrey, illustrator
- Timothy C. Idoni, three time mayor of the city of New Rochelle, New York[6]
- Mary Phelps Jacob, poet, publisher, peace activist, and a New York socialite
- Stanley R. Jaffe, multi-award-winning American film producer, (Fatal Attraction, The Accused, and Kramer vs. Kramer)[58]
- Lord Jamar, rapper[59]
- Maryam Jameelah, author (Islamic culture and history)
- Art James, American game show host[60]
- Del James, musician; writer
- John Jay, American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States
- Bruce Jennings, actor and composer[61]
- Lou Jones, Olympic gold medal winner[62]
- Hugo Kafka, Czech-American architect
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- Michael Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C[6]
- Arthur Kallet, consumer advocate
- Walter Kauzmann, chemist; professor Emeritus at Princeton
- Elia Kazan, director[6][63]
- Adrian Lee Kellard, artist (woodwork; sculpture)
- Edward Winsor Kemble, American cartoonist and illustrator[64]
- M. Farooq Kathwari, chairman & owner of Ethan Allen[65]
- Jean Kerr, author and playwright
- Walter Kerr. author and playwright
- Abraham Keteltas, colonial Presbyterian clergyman
- Karen Killilea, subject of two bestselling books written by her mother ('Karen' and 'With Love From Karen')
- Jonathan Klein (CNN), former head of CNN U.S.
- John Kluge, German-American television industry mogul (Metromedia) and billionaire[66]
- Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., billionaire co-founder of Private Equity group KKR[6]
- Jim Koplik, concert promoter
- Martin David Kruskal, mathematician; physicist
- Jacob Landau, journalist, attorney, government official, and free-speech activist
- Jim Lansing, college football player and coach (Fordham Rams)
- Walter Lantz, producer, director, creator of Woody Woodpecker, Chilly Willy, and other characters.
- Susan Larson, soprano opera singer
- William Leggett (writer), poet, fiction writer, and journalist
- Jacob Leisler, German-born American colonist, wealthy New York businessman, former governor of New York, and facilitator of the creation of the settlement at New Rochelle
- Jay Leno, comedian, writer and TV host[67]
- Clifford J. Levy, Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist[6]
- Frank X. Leyendecker, illustrator
- J. C. Leyendecker, Saturday Evening Post illustrator[68]
- John W. Lieb, renown electrical engineer
- Herbert Lieberman, mystery/crime novelist and playwright
- Lucius Littauer, businessman
- Marteen Looten, actor[69]
- Dorian Lopinto, actress
- Errol Louis, television personality (host of NY1's 'Inside City Hall')
- Andrea McArdle, singer and actress, Broadway's original Annie[70]
- Roy McCardell, writer; humorist
- Bernard McEveety, American film director[71]
- Don McLean, singer, famous for the 1971 ballad, "American Pie"[72]
- Harry Macklowe, Chairman And CEO Macklowe Properties Real Estate Investment[6]
- Tommy Manville, heir to asbestos fortune, socialite[73]
- Branford Marsalis,Grammy Award Winning Jazz Performer[74]
- Frederick Dana Marsh, artist
- Paul Martin, illustrator
- Willie Mays, Hall of Fame baseball player,[75] lived on Croft Terrace
- Alan Menken, Academy Award winning composer[6]
- Frances Mercer, actress
- Robert Merrill, operatic baritone[76]
- Jeralyn Merritt, criminal defense attorney
- Truman Michelson, linguist and anthropologist
- Bob Mintzer, saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader[6]
- Andrea Mitchell, Journalist[6]
- James J. Montague, American writer and poet of the early 20th century
- J.P. Morgan, industrialist[1]
- Rob Morrow, actor[77]
- Tad Mosel, playwright[6]
- Frank Moser, film director[78]
- Tommy Mottola, music executive[79]
- John Cullen Murphy, magazine and comic strip illustrator known for his work on the Prince Valiant comic strip[80]
- John Joseph Nevins, auxiliary Bishop to the Archdiocese of Miami
- G. Glen Newell, artist
- Selig Neubardt, obstetrician and gynecologist, prominent early advocate for birth control and safe abortion[81]
- Glynnis O'Connor, actress[82]
- George Oppen, poet[83]
- Frederick Burr Opper, one of the pioneers of U.S. newspaper comic strips and in his time was considered a leader in the creation of comic characters appealing to popular culture[84]
- Barrie M. Osborne, Film Producer & 2004 Academy Award winner (Lord of the Rings[6]
- Cynthia Ozick, author[85]
- Al Parker, illustrator[20]
- Vincent Pastore, Actor, played "Pussy" Bombensiero on the Sopranos
- J.C. Penney, founder of department store chain[86]
- Thomas Paine, philosopher, writer, and politician[87]
- David Patchen, glass artist
- Jan Peerce, operatic tenor[88]
- House Peters, Jr., character actor most noted for his roles in 1950s B movies and westerns[89]
- Coles Phillips, illustrator[90]
- Theodore Pratt, writer
- Grand Puba, rapper[91]
- Rudolph Douglas Raiford, decorated WWII combat officer
- Albert Ray, film director, actor and screenwriter[92]
- Alex Raymond, cartoonist, creator of "Flash Gordon", graduated Iona Prep in 1927[93][94]
- Jim Raymond, comic strip artist (brother of Alex Raymond - creator of 'Flash Gordon')
- Bill Reilly, publishing and media executive who was the founder and former chairman of Primedia
- Carl Reiner, actor, director, producer, writer and comedian[95]
- Estelle Reiner
- Rob Reiner, actor, director, producer, writer, children's advocate and political activist[96]
- Dean Riesner, film and television writer
- Frederic Remington, painter and sculptor[97]
- Charles Revson, pioneering cosmetics industry executive, created Revlon[98][99]
- Ray Rice, Baltimore Ravens Running Back[100]
- Richard Riordan, Republican politician from California, U.S.A. who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003–2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993–2001* Mariano Rivera, baseball player
- Norman Rockwell, artist, lived at 24 Lord Kitchener Road in Bonnie Crest[101]
- Wayne Allyn Root, entrepreneur, television producer, and best-selling author
- Ken Rosato, journalist
- Adam Rosen, American born British luger; winter olympian
- Arthur Rothstein, noted photographer considered to be one of American premier photojournalists
- Richard Roundtree, actor and male fashion model[6][102]
- Louis Rukeyser, business columnist, economic commentator and TV host[6][103]
- Merryle Rukeyser, economist, father of Louis Rukeyser and William S. Rukeyser,
- William S. Rukeyser, Editor of Fortune[6]
- Alice B. Russell
- J.H. Ryley, singer, actor[104]
- Sadat X, rapper, a member of Alternative hip hop group Brand Nubian[59]
- Mead Schaeffer, artist.[20]
- Eric Schmertz, lawyer, labor negotiator[105]
- William Schurman, 18th century businessman and member of the Legislature on Prince Edward Island[106]
- Philip Schuyler, general in the American Revolution and a U.S. Senator from New York
- Peter Scolari, actor[107]
- Gary Scott (baseball), former major league baseball player (Cubs)
- Renata Scotto, Italian soprano and opera director
- Al Seckel, author, authority on visual and sensory illusions
- Chaka Seisay, actor[108]
- Douglas Shanahan, musician, author, athlete, scientist, philosopher
- Alan Shapiro (education reformer)
- Kevin Shattenkirk, professional hockey player (Colorado Avalanche)
- Robert Emmet Sherwood, actor, playwright[109][110]
- Sol Shor, film and television screenwriter
- Bill Skiff, former major league baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)[111]
- Brian Slocum, major league baseball player
- Lawrence M. Small, president and chief operating officer of Fannie Mae, Smithsonian Institution Secretary[6]
- Paddy Smith (baseball)
- Henry Smart, head of Standard Oil Company, lived in Beechmont[112]
- Buffalo Bob Smith, TV host, created and voiced Howdy Doody[113]
- CL Smooth, rapper[114]
- Matt Snell, former pro-football player[115]
- Marguerite Snow, actress[116]
- George Spaulding, songwriter
- Donald Spoto, celebrity biographer, was born in New Rochelle
- Arnold Stang, comic actor[117]
- John H. Starin, businessman and creator of Glen Island Resort
- David Starobin, classical guitarist, producer, professor and composer of works including "New Rochelle Suite"[118]
- Sol Steinmetz, linguistics and lexicography expert
- Frances Sternhagen, actress[119]
- John Stephenson, inventor of the street car, founded John Stevenson Company[120]
- Fran Tarkenton, former professional football player, TV personality, and computer software executive
- Benjamin I. Taylor, former member of the United States House of Representatives
- Teyana Taylor, musician and TV personality
- Cristina Teuscher, Olympic Gold Medalist (Swimming)[121]
- Edwin Thanhouser, founder of Thanhouser Film Studios[116]
- Gertrude Thanhouser, co-founder of Thanhouser Film Studios[116]
- Augustus Thomas, playwright[122]
- George T. Tobin, illustrator[123]
- Jean Toomer, writer[124]
- Joe Torre, Manager - New York Yankees, former Major League baseball player[125]
- Gina Torres, actress[126][127]
- Joan Tower contemporary American composer, pianist and conductor[128]
- Rob Trains, contemporary artist
- Harry Traver, rollercoaster designer
- George Treadwell, early 20th century jazz trumpeter
- Myra Turley, film and television actress most
- John Q. Underhill, U.S. Representative from New York
- Billy Van Heusen, player for the American Football League's Denver Broncos in 1968 and 1969, and 1970 to 1976[129]
- Rachel Vail, children's author[6]
- Donald Verrilli Jr., lawyer, government official (Obama White House)
- Herb Voland, actor, best known for his role as General Clayton on the hit CBS-TV show M*A*S*H[130]
- Heinie Wagner, shortstop for the New York Giants and Boston Redsox
- Daniel Webster, leading American statesman during the nation's Antebellum Period.
- Robert Walter Weir, artist, best known as an educator, and as an historical painter[131]
- Asa Whitney, merchant, promoter of the American Transcontinental Railroad[132]
- Francis Wilson (actor), actor[122]
- H. Donald Wilson, lawyer, database entrepreneur (creator of the Lexis legal system)
- Malcolm Wilson, politician, former Governor of New York[133]
- John Woodruff, athlete, 1936 Summer Olympics gold medal winner
- Ben Yagoda, journalist
- Chic Young, cartoonist, creator of Blondie[38]
- Whitney Young, Jr., civil rights leader[134]
- Steven M. Zeitels, surgical innovator (voice restoration procedures)n professor
- Heinrich Zimmer, Indologist, historian of South Asian Art
- Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum, 19th century magazine illustrator, journalist and author[135]
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