The following is a list of notable people from Scarsdale, New York.
Arts
edit- Cabot Lyford, sculptor[1]
- Stephanie Stebich, art historian and museum director
- Emmett Watson, illustrator[2]
Business
edit- 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[3]
- Harry Wilson, businessman
- David Stern, Commissioner of National Basketball Association
- George Zimmer, founder of Men's Wearhouse, was raised in Scarsdale
- Andrew R. Jassy, founder of AWS and CEO of Amazon.com, was raised in Scarsdale
- Lauren Hobart, CEO and Chairwomen of Dick's Sporting Goods and Board Member of Yum! Brands
- Christopher Radko, Christmas ornaments designer
- David Siegel (computer scientist), founder of Two Sigma[4]
- Daniel Och, founder of Och-Ziff[5]
- Mark Bezos, early Amazon investor and brother of Jeff Bezos
- Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock, was raised in Scarsdale
Criminals
edit- 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[6]
- 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[7]
Legal
edit- Preet Bharara, lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017.
- William Glendon, lawyer who argued the Pentagon Papers case before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of The Washington Post
Other
edit- Edgar Fiedler (1929–2003), economist
- Lauren Spierer, student who disappeared from Indiana University in 2011[8]
Media, music and entertainment
edit- Walter Carl Becker, American musician, songwriter, and record producer, and co-founder of the jazz rock band Steely Dan
- Jacqueline Alemany, American journalist and political reporter
- 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[9]
- Dorothy Dalton, silent-film actress
- Lisa Donovan, YouTube celebrity (LisaNova); former featured cast member of MadTV; graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1998[10]
- 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[11]
- Al Jolson, 30s film star; owned a house on Fenimore Road in Scarsdale
- Joseph Kaiser, opera, theater, and film actor; grew up in Scarsdale
- Zach Kornfeld, member of The Try Guys
- David Lascher, actor, Hey Dude, Blossom, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Beverly Hills, 90210; born and raised in Scarsdale
- 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, vegan business owner; wife of Beatles star Paul McCartney; attended Scarsdale High School[12]
- 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, painter, performance artist, singer, activist; her family moved to Scarsdale in the early 1950s; she later joined them from Japan[13]
- Bill Pankow, film editor, The Black Dahlia, Assault on Precinct 13, Paid In Full
- Robert Pine, actor,"CHiPs",was raised in Scarsdale but born in New York City, also the father of Chris Pine
- Noah Schnapp, American actor known for his portrayal of Will Byers in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things.[14]
- Cevin Soling, filmmaker, musician, and writer; born and raised in Scarsdale
- 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
- Robert Durst, star of HBO documentary series The Jinx (miniseries) grew up in Scarsdale
Political figures
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- 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
- Daniel D. Tompkins, sixth Vice President of the United States; born in Scarsdale[15]
Science and technology
edit- Raymond Ditmars, pioneering herpetologist, author, and long-time curator at the Bronx Zoo, lived and died in Scarsdale.
- Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business, raised in Scarsdale.
- Jeffrey A. Hoffman, astronaut; born in Brooklyn but considers Scarsdale to be his hometown;[16] SHS graduate
- Maynard Holliday, robotics engineer and Senior Technology Officer at The Pentagon[17]
- Brewster Kahle, Internet pioneer;[18] founded Wide Area Information Servers, Alexa Internet, Internet Archive[19]
- 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[20]
- Ivan Sutherland, computer graphics pioneer; SHS 1955 graduate[21]
- Herman Tarnower, author of The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet[22]
Sports
edit- Herman Barron (1909–1978), professional golfer[23]
- Bill Bavasi, Major League Baseball executive; born in Scarsdale
- Trenten Anthony Beram, Double Gold Medalist sprinter born in Scarsdale representing the Philippines[24]
- Nick Civetta, rugby lock/flanker; born in Scarsdale
- Benny Feilhaber, former professional soccer player, head coach of MLS Next Pro side Sporting Kansas City II
- 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[25]
- Frank Gifford (1930–2015), New York Giants star running back; ABC Monday Night Football broadcaster; married to Kathie Lee Gifford
- Lindsay Gottlieb, assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers; born and raised 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
- Brandon Steiner, founder and CEO of Steiner Sports
- 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
edit- Jacob M. Appel, short-story writer ("Creve Coeur"), playwright (Arborophilia), bioethicist; SHS graduate
- James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans; another of his books, The Spy, is set in Scarsdale[26]
- Laura Dave, author, graduated from SHS in 1995
- 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[27]
- 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[28]
- 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[29] 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[30]
- Andrew Ross Sorkin, financial columnist for the New York Times; editor of DealBook, an online financial daily report; graduated SHS in 1995
- 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
- Derek Milman, novelist
References
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- ^ Obituary, Scarsdale Inquirer, Volume XXXVII, Number 19, 13 May 1955, page2.
- ^ Zuckerman, Gregory; Chung, Juliet (March 23, 2017). "Eric Mindich's Eton Park Hedge Fund to Close Down". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 16, 2019 – via www.wsj.com.
- ^ "The Billionaire Next Door: Meet Westchester's Ten Wealthiest Residents". April 23, 2021.
- ^ "Daniel Och's Estate in Scarsdale, NY (Google Maps)". July 7, 2017.
- ^ Havill, Adrian (2002). The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold: The Secret Life of FBI Double Agent Robert Hanssen. Macmillan. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-312-98629-2. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
- ^ "Comment - Bugsy: The Gangster as a Clown". www.emanuellevy.com. Archived from the original on December 16, 2006.
- ^ "New break in the hunt for missing Indiana University student?". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ^ https://www.webcitation.org/5knxRp5HP?url=http://www.geocities.com/jetdogy5a/aarononly/abtospeakatscarsdale.html
- ^ Wallenstein, Andrew (April 29, 2007). "How YouTube Helped LisaNova Start HerCareer". The New York Times. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
- ^ "Dramatist Article". www.rupertholmes.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ^ "Linda McCartney dead". BBC News. April 19, 1998. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
- ^ "Yoko Ono". IMDb. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ^ "Stranger Things (TV Series 2016– )". Retrieved January 16, 2019 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Daniel D. Tompkins - Biography & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ^ NASA bio
- ^ Carroll, Dan. "Shooting for the stars". engineering.cmu.edu. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
- ^ 2012 Inductees Archived 2012-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, Internet Hall of Fame website. Last accessed September 26, 2017
- ^ Benny Evangelista (October 13, 2012). "Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on December 25, 2019. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
- ^ "fwix.com". fwix.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ^ 'Bandersnatch 1955', Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale NY
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- ^ "CARLA BARRON Obituary - West Palm Beach, FL - The Palm Beach Post". legacy.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ^ "Beram becomes 1st Pinoy double gold medalist in 2017 SEA Games". GMA News Online. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
- ^ "Scarsdale Village Court NY". www.town-court.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ^ "Historic Home "The Locusts"". sites.google.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
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- ^ "lohud.com". lohud.com. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ^ Schorske, Carl. E. (1980). Fin-De-Siecle Vienna : Politics and Culture. Vintage. ISBN 0-394-74478-0.
- ^ "Aaron Sorkin". IMDb. Retrieved January 16, 2019.