This is a list of people who were either born or have lived in
the Bronx, a
borough of New York City, at some time in their lives. Many of the early historical figures lived in that part of
Westchester County which later became part of the Bronx.
Irving Howe (1920–1993) – literary critic, socialist writer, author of World of Our Fathers
Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) – Government Professor at
Harvard University; co-editor of Foreign Policy; author of political science works related to the modernization of societies, particularly those of developing nations
Barbara Jasny (born 1952) – deputy editor of Science; co-editor Catalysts, Women of Science Fiction
Piccirilli Brothers (including father, Giuseppe Piccirilli (1844–1910), and his six sons – Ferruccio (1864–1945),
Attilio (1866–1945),
Furio (1868–1949), Masaniello (1870–1951), Orazio (1872–1954) and Getulio (1874–1956)) – sculptors
Michael Pearson (born 1949) –
Old Dominion University English professor and author of several books, including his memoir, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx
JFK House 5040 Independence Avenue. The house where
John F. Kennedy lived when he was a student at
Riverdale Country School from 1927 through 1930. This house is located at 5040 Independence Avenue, across the street from Wave Hill.[116]
Robert Abrams (born 1938) – Assemblyman, Bronx Borough President, New York State Attorney General
Frank Shannon (born 1961) – native of the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, conservative activist, political analyst, columnist, and candidate for the
Florida State House
Elaine Kaufman (1929–2010) – businessperson; proprietor of
Elaine's, a restaurant in the
Manhattanborough of New York City that was a haunt of writers, actors, politicians[154]
Walton McCarthy (born 1951) – businessman and principal mechanical engineer with NORAD Shelter Systems
George Meany (1894–1980) – labor union leader: first president of the
AFL–CIO
Jordan L. Mott (1799–1866) – inventor of coal kitchen stove, founder of J.L. Mott Ironworks in Mott Haven, and developer of the South Bronx neighborhood now named after him[157]
^George Johnson, "Murray Gell-Mann,Who Peered at Particles and Saw the Universe, Dies at 89." New York Times, May 25, 2019.
^Miller, Jim (November 8, 1987).
"Tears and Riots, Love and Regrets". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2011. "Mr. Gitlin was born in 1943. Growing up in the Bronx, the middle-class son of liberal Jewish parents, he was, as he recalls, 'studious and clean-cut,' a straight-arrow fan of Adlai Stevenson."
^Katherine Seelye, "Fred Greenstein, 88, A Political 'Psychologist' Who Assessed Presidents." New York Times, December 16, 2018
^Robert McFadden, "Inventor of a life-saving maneuver", The New York Times, December 21, 2016
^Margalit Fox, "Bel Kaufman, Who Told What School Was Really Like, Dies at 103." New York Times, July 28, 2014.
[1]
^Liptak, Adam (March 25, 2013). "Anthony Lewis, Supreme Court Reporter Who Brought Law to Life, Dies at 85". The New York Times.
^Hilton Als, "Urban Blight: The World of Kenneth Lonergan," New Yorker, September 22, 2014, pp. 107–109
^Sarah Crown, "A Reading Class in Masters of the Short Story." Guardian News Service, accessed via Toronto Globe and Mail, Review section, December 12, 2009.
^Jeffrey Toobin, "Feeding the Beast." The New Yorker. July 3, 2017
^Sam Roberts, "Ben Wattenberg, Author and Commentator, Dies at 81", The New York Times, June 30, 2015
^"Goings on About Town," New Yorker, June 26, 2017, p. 10.
^Norman, Michael (January 21, 1990).
"His Bus Came In". The New York Times. "Later, when the family moved near Boston Road in the Bronx, the progenitor showed himself even less."
^Meade, Marion. The Unruly Life of Woody Allen. New York City:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Chapter 1 reprinted in
[2].
^Severo, Richard (October 19, 2007).
"Joey Bishop, 89, Last of the Rat Pack, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "Joey Bishop was born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb in the Bronx on Feb. 3, 1918, the fifth child and third son of Jacob Gottlieb and the former Anna Siegel, immigrants from Eastern Europe."
^Rothstein, Mervyn (July 14, 2006).
"Comedian Red Buttons Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "He first attended P.S. 104 on East Fourth Street, but then his family moved to the Bronx, to 176th Street and Marmion Avenue."
^Weinraub, Bernard (May 17, 2004).
"James Caan Takes a Gamble On 'Las Vegas,' and Scores". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "Born in the Bronx, reared in Queens, where his family owned a kosher meat market, Mr. Caan said he ran with a tough crowd, wanted to be a professional football player but wound up, for reasons he is still not entirely sure about, auditioning and being accepted at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan."
^Emily Nussbaum, "Mr. Big." The New Yorker, May 14, 2018
^David Marc and Robert Thompson, Prime Time Prime Movers, Boston: Little Brown, 1992
^Leah Morrison, "Lights Camera Sandy!" Lifestyles Magazine, January 2017, pp. 22–25
^
abReeves Wiedeman, "Only in New York: Talk to Me." The New Yorker, p. 20. February 9, 2005
^
abWeiner, Jonah How Desus and Kid Mero Went From Twitter Cranks to Comedy's Hottest Duo Rolling Stone. July 8, 2015
^James, Caryn (July 9, 1995).
"Do the Movies Get New York Right?". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "Mr. Palminteri, who grew up in the Bronx on 187th Street and Belmont Avenue, said, Basically the story was about this medieval village in the Bronx, but it was so truthful and so real about the Bronx."
^Weber, Bruce (November 28, 2012). "Martin Richards, Broadway Producer, Is Dead at 80". The New York Times.
^Joseph Berger, "Claire Barry, a Singer in Sister Duo, Dies at 94," New York Times, December 3, 2014
^Erin Donnelly, "Jennifer Lopez opens up about dating Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Ben Affleck." Yahoo Entertainment, December 22, 2019.
[5]
^Rotella, Mark (October 2, 2005). "Straight Out of Newark", The New York Times. Retrieved October 9, 2007. "Originally from the Bronx, Mr. Gaudio had, at age 15, written the hit "Who Wears Short Shorts," which he made up while driving with friends along the main drag in Bergenfield."
^Martin, Douglas (April 23, 2013). "Richie Havens, a Soulful Folk Singer Who Riveted Woodstock, Dies at 72". The New York Times.
^Richard Sandomir, "Rita Houston, 59, Bronx D.J. who lifted music careers." New York Times. January 5, 2021.
^Nate Chinen, "Bobby Hutcherson, 75, Jazz Vibraphonist with Luminescent and Cooly Fluid Style," New York Times, August 17, 2016
^Sisario, Ben (January 19, 2011). "Don Kirshner, 76, TV Host and Shaper of Hit Records". The New York Times.
^Tom Huizinga, "Clarinetist Anthony McGill Kneels, Pleads And Plays For Justice." NPR Music, June 4, 2020.
[6]
^Gross, Max (April 24, 2008).
"Riverdale Run". The New York Post. New York. Retrieved May 3, 2008. John F. Kennedy spent his youth in an enormous white mansion on Independence Avenue
^Ottoman, Sharon (February 12, 2020). "The Bizarre Life of the Man Accused in the Sarah Lawrence Sex Case". New York Times.[7]
^Richard Severo and William McDonald, "Jack Greenberg Dies at 91, Las Survivor of a Legendary Civil Rights Legal Team," New York Times, October 13, 2016
^Gina Bellafante, "These Pioneers Reclaimed Pride," New York Times, May 19, 2019, p. A26
^Connie Loizos, "Jim Steyer runs the powerful nonprofit Common Sense Media; now he's using his influence to battle big tech". TechCrunch, February 12, 2019.
[8]
^Martin, Douglas (October 22, 2010). "Elizabeth L. Sturz, 93, Dies; Salvaged Troubled Lives". The New York Times, p. A23.
^Sam Howe Verhovek, "Herb Garden, an Oasis in Bronx, Withers". New York Times, June 23, 1988; Ligaya Mishan, "How It Changed: Food." New York Times T Magazine, April 22, 2018
^Daniel S. Slotnik, "Suzanne Wright, 69, a Founder of the Charity Autism Speaks," New York Times, August 2, 2016
^James Barron, "An Adman's Big Pitch: His Life Work", The New York Times, January 18, 2016
^Sam Roberts, "Wiliam E. Macaulay, 74, Patron of Tuition-Free College", The New York Times, December 8, 2019, p. 38.
^J.T.Scharf, History of Westchester County New York, Including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which Have Been Annexed to New York City, Volume 1, Part 2, 1886, p. 831
^Fox, Margait (December 16, 2009). "Sol Price, Who Founded Price Club, Is Dead at 93". The New York Times.
^Malcolm Gladwell. What the Dog Saw. p. 4. New York: Little, Brown;
Russell Hobbs, Inc; "Lewis L. Salton, 87, a Developer Of Quirky Household Appliances". New York Times, May 9, 1999.
[9]
^Sam Roberts, "Fred Schwartz is Dead at 84, Furrier and Philanthropist." New York Times, August 10, 2016
This is a list of people who were either born or have lived in
the Bronx, a
borough of New York City, at some time in their lives. Many of the early historical figures lived in that part of
Westchester County which later became part of the Bronx.
Irving Howe (1920–1993) – literary critic, socialist writer, author of World of Our Fathers
Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) – Government Professor at
Harvard University; co-editor of Foreign Policy; author of political science works related to the modernization of societies, particularly those of developing nations
Barbara Jasny (born 1952) – deputy editor of Science; co-editor Catalysts, Women of Science Fiction
Piccirilli Brothers (including father, Giuseppe Piccirilli (1844–1910), and his six sons – Ferruccio (1864–1945),
Attilio (1866–1945),
Furio (1868–1949), Masaniello (1870–1951), Orazio (1872–1954) and Getulio (1874–1956)) – sculptors
Michael Pearson (born 1949) –
Old Dominion University English professor and author of several books, including his memoir, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx
JFK House 5040 Independence Avenue. The house where
John F. Kennedy lived when he was a student at
Riverdale Country School from 1927 through 1930. This house is located at 5040 Independence Avenue, across the street from Wave Hill.[116]
Robert Abrams (born 1938) – Assemblyman, Bronx Borough President, New York State Attorney General
Frank Shannon (born 1961) – native of the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, conservative activist, political analyst, columnist, and candidate for the
Florida State House
Elaine Kaufman (1929–2010) – businessperson; proprietor of
Elaine's, a restaurant in the
Manhattanborough of New York City that was a haunt of writers, actors, politicians[154]
Walton McCarthy (born 1951) – businessman and principal mechanical engineer with NORAD Shelter Systems
George Meany (1894–1980) – labor union leader: first president of the
AFL–CIO
Jordan L. Mott (1799–1866) – inventor of coal kitchen stove, founder of J.L. Mott Ironworks in Mott Haven, and developer of the South Bronx neighborhood now named after him[157]
^George Johnson, "Murray Gell-Mann,Who Peered at Particles and Saw the Universe, Dies at 89." New York Times, May 25, 2019.
^Miller, Jim (November 8, 1987).
"Tears and Riots, Love and Regrets". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2011. "Mr. Gitlin was born in 1943. Growing up in the Bronx, the middle-class son of liberal Jewish parents, he was, as he recalls, 'studious and clean-cut,' a straight-arrow fan of Adlai Stevenson."
^Katherine Seelye, "Fred Greenstein, 88, A Political 'Psychologist' Who Assessed Presidents." New York Times, December 16, 2018
^Robert McFadden, "Inventor of a life-saving maneuver", The New York Times, December 21, 2016
^Margalit Fox, "Bel Kaufman, Who Told What School Was Really Like, Dies at 103." New York Times, July 28, 2014.
[1]
^Liptak, Adam (March 25, 2013). "Anthony Lewis, Supreme Court Reporter Who Brought Law to Life, Dies at 85". The New York Times.
^Hilton Als, "Urban Blight: The World of Kenneth Lonergan," New Yorker, September 22, 2014, pp. 107–109
^Sarah Crown, "A Reading Class in Masters of the Short Story." Guardian News Service, accessed via Toronto Globe and Mail, Review section, December 12, 2009.
^Jeffrey Toobin, "Feeding the Beast." The New Yorker. July 3, 2017
^Sam Roberts, "Ben Wattenberg, Author and Commentator, Dies at 81", The New York Times, June 30, 2015
^"Goings on About Town," New Yorker, June 26, 2017, p. 10.
^Norman, Michael (January 21, 1990).
"His Bus Came In". The New York Times. "Later, when the family moved near Boston Road in the Bronx, the progenitor showed himself even less."
^Meade, Marion. The Unruly Life of Woody Allen. New York City:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Chapter 1 reprinted in
[2].
^Severo, Richard (October 19, 2007).
"Joey Bishop, 89, Last of the Rat Pack, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "Joey Bishop was born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb in the Bronx on Feb. 3, 1918, the fifth child and third son of Jacob Gottlieb and the former Anna Siegel, immigrants from Eastern Europe."
^Rothstein, Mervyn (July 14, 2006).
"Comedian Red Buttons Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "He first attended P.S. 104 on East Fourth Street, but then his family moved to the Bronx, to 176th Street and Marmion Avenue."
^Weinraub, Bernard (May 17, 2004).
"James Caan Takes a Gamble On 'Las Vegas,' and Scores". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "Born in the Bronx, reared in Queens, where his family owned a kosher meat market, Mr. Caan said he ran with a tough crowd, wanted to be a professional football player but wound up, for reasons he is still not entirely sure about, auditioning and being accepted at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan."
^Emily Nussbaum, "Mr. Big." The New Yorker, May 14, 2018
^David Marc and Robert Thompson, Prime Time Prime Movers, Boston: Little Brown, 1992
^Leah Morrison, "Lights Camera Sandy!" Lifestyles Magazine, January 2017, pp. 22–25
^
abReeves Wiedeman, "Only in New York: Talk to Me." The New Yorker, p. 20. February 9, 2005
^
abWeiner, Jonah How Desus and Kid Mero Went From Twitter Cranks to Comedy's Hottest Duo Rolling Stone. July 8, 2015
^James, Caryn (July 9, 1995).
"Do the Movies Get New York Right?". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2007. "Mr. Palminteri, who grew up in the Bronx on 187th Street and Belmont Avenue, said, Basically the story was about this medieval village in the Bronx, but it was so truthful and so real about the Bronx."
^Weber, Bruce (November 28, 2012). "Martin Richards, Broadway Producer, Is Dead at 80". The New York Times.
^Joseph Berger, "Claire Barry, a Singer in Sister Duo, Dies at 94," New York Times, December 3, 2014
^Erin Donnelly, "Jennifer Lopez opens up about dating Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Ben Affleck." Yahoo Entertainment, December 22, 2019.
[5]
^Rotella, Mark (October 2, 2005). "Straight Out of Newark", The New York Times. Retrieved October 9, 2007. "Originally from the Bronx, Mr. Gaudio had, at age 15, written the hit "Who Wears Short Shorts," which he made up while driving with friends along the main drag in Bergenfield."
^Martin, Douglas (April 23, 2013). "Richie Havens, a Soulful Folk Singer Who Riveted Woodstock, Dies at 72". The New York Times.
^Richard Sandomir, "Rita Houston, 59, Bronx D.J. who lifted music careers." New York Times. January 5, 2021.
^Nate Chinen, "Bobby Hutcherson, 75, Jazz Vibraphonist with Luminescent and Cooly Fluid Style," New York Times, August 17, 2016
^Sisario, Ben (January 19, 2011). "Don Kirshner, 76, TV Host and Shaper of Hit Records". The New York Times.
^Tom Huizinga, "Clarinetist Anthony McGill Kneels, Pleads And Plays For Justice." NPR Music, June 4, 2020.
[6]
^Gross, Max (April 24, 2008).
"Riverdale Run". The New York Post. New York. Retrieved May 3, 2008. John F. Kennedy spent his youth in an enormous white mansion on Independence Avenue
^Ottoman, Sharon (February 12, 2020). "The Bizarre Life of the Man Accused in the Sarah Lawrence Sex Case". New York Times.[7]
^Richard Severo and William McDonald, "Jack Greenberg Dies at 91, Las Survivor of a Legendary Civil Rights Legal Team," New York Times, October 13, 2016
^Gina Bellafante, "These Pioneers Reclaimed Pride," New York Times, May 19, 2019, p. A26
^Connie Loizos, "Jim Steyer runs the powerful nonprofit Common Sense Media; now he's using his influence to battle big tech". TechCrunch, February 12, 2019.
[8]
^Martin, Douglas (October 22, 2010). "Elizabeth L. Sturz, 93, Dies; Salvaged Troubled Lives". The New York Times, p. A23.
^Sam Howe Verhovek, "Herb Garden, an Oasis in Bronx, Withers". New York Times, June 23, 1988; Ligaya Mishan, "How It Changed: Food." New York Times T Magazine, April 22, 2018
^Daniel S. Slotnik, "Suzanne Wright, 69, a Founder of the Charity Autism Speaks," New York Times, August 2, 2016
^James Barron, "An Adman's Big Pitch: His Life Work", The New York Times, January 18, 2016
^Sam Roberts, "Wiliam E. Macaulay, 74, Patron of Tuition-Free College", The New York Times, December 8, 2019, p. 38.
^J.T.Scharf, History of Westchester County New York, Including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which Have Been Annexed to New York City, Volume 1, Part 2, 1886, p. 831
^Fox, Margait (December 16, 2009). "Sol Price, Who Founded Price Club, Is Dead at 93". The New York Times.
^Malcolm Gladwell. What the Dog Saw. p. 4. New York: Little, Brown;
Russell Hobbs, Inc; "Lewis L. Salton, 87, a Developer Of Quirky Household Appliances". New York Times, May 9, 1999.
[9]
^Sam Roberts, "Fred Schwartz is Dead at 84, Furrier and Philanthropist." New York Times, August 10, 2016