List of people from Scarsdale, New York explained

The following is a list of notable people from Scarsdale, New York.

Arts

• Cabot Lyford, sculptor^[1]
• Stephanie Stebich, art historian and museum director
• Emmett Watson, illustrator^[2]

Business

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Edgar Fiedler (1929–2003), economist
• Lauren Spierer, student who disappeared from Indiana University in 2011^[8]

Media, music and entertainment

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 ^[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

Notes and References

1. News: Cabot Lyford obituary . . 2016-01-29 . 2016-02-13.
2. Obituary, Scarsdale Inquirer, Volume XXXVII, Number 19, 13 May 1955, page2.
3. News: Eric Mindich's Eton Park Hedge Fund to Close Down. Gregory. Zuckerman. Juliet. Chung. Wall Street Journal . March 23, 2017. January 16, 2019. www.wsj.com.
4. Web site: The Billionaire Next Door: Meet Westchester's Ten Wealthiest Residents . April 23, 2021 .
5. Web site: Daniel Och's Estate in Scarsdale, NY (Google Maps) . July 7, 2017 .
6. Book: Havill . Adrian . The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold: The Secret Life of FBI Double Agent Robert Hanssen . 2002 . Macmillan . 978-0-312-98629-2 . 57 . April 30, 2020 . en.
7. Web site: Comment - Bugsy: The Gangster as a Clown . www.emanuellevy.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061216074903/http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=3850 . 2006-12-16.
8. Web site: New break in the hunt for missing Indiana University student?. www.cbsnews.com. January 16, 2019.
9. https://www.webcitation.org/5knxRp5HP?url=http://www.geocities.com/jetdogy5a/aarononly/abtospeakatscarsdale.html
10. News: How YouTube Helped LisaNova Start HerCareer . The New York Times . Andrew . Wallenstein . April 29, 2007 . April 9, 2010.
11. Web site: Dramatist Article. www.rupertholmes.com. January 16, 2019.
12. News: Linda McCartney dead . BBC News . April 19, 1998 . April 9, 2010.
13. Web site: Yoko Ono. IMDb. January 16, 2019.
14. Web site: Stranger Things (TV Series 2016–). January 16, 2019. www.imdb.com.
15. Web site: Daniel D. Tompkins - Biography & Facts. Encyclopedia Britannica. January 16, 2019.
16. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/hoffman.html NASA bio
17. Web site: Shooting for the stars. Carroll. Dan. engineering.cmu.edu. en. 2019-08-07.
18. http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/year/2012 2012 Inductees
19. News: Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive . . October 13, 2012 . October 13, 2012 . Benny Evangelista . December 25, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191225121209/https://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Brewster-Kahle-s-Internet-Archive-3946898.php . live .
20. Web site: fwix.com. fwix.com. January 16, 2019.
21. 'Bandersnatch 1955', Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale NY
22. Web site: Scarsdale Diet Investigated. www.freedieting.com. January 16, 2019.
23. Web site: CARLA BARRON Obituary - West Palm Beach, FL - The Palm Beach Post. legacy.com. January 16, 2019.
24. Web site: Beram becomes 1st Pinoy double gold medalist in 2017 SEA Games. GMA News Online. 2017-09-02.
25. Web site: Scarsdale Village Court NY. www.town-court.com. January 16, 2019.
26. Web site: Historic Home "The Locusts". sites.google.com. January 16, 2019.
27. Web site: ClassZone.com. www.classzone.com. January 16, 2019.
28. Web site: lohud.com. lohud.com. January 16, 2019.
29. Book: Schorske, Carl. E.. Fin-De-Siecle Vienna : Politics and Culture. 1980. Vintage. 0-394-74478-0.
30. Web site: Aaron Sorkin. IMDb. January 16, 2019.