List of people from Scarsdale, New York

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

Arts

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Criminals

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  • 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]
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  • 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

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Media, music and entertainment

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  • 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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The Daniel D. Tompkins Memorial at the intersection of Post Road and Tompkins Road

Science and technology

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Sports

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Writers

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References

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