Jay Leno
born 1950 American television host and comedian
Matt Dillon
born 1964 American actor
Alan Menken
born 1949 American composer
Don McLean
born 1945 American singer-songwriter
Richard Roundtree
1942–2023 American actor and singer
Kevin Dillon
born 1965 American actor
Rob Morrow
born 1962 American actor and director
Walter Lantz
1899–1994 American animator
Edson Buddle
born 1981 American soccer player
Robert E. Sherwood
1896–1955 American writer
Alex Raymond
1909–1956 American comic strip artist and creator of Flash Gordon
Marcus Hurley
1883–1941 American racing cyclist
Peter Scolari
1955–2021 American actor
Anthony Heald
born 1944 American actor
Bob Denver
1935–2005 American actor
Frank Rosenblatt
1928–1971 American psychologist notable in the field of artificial intelligence
Richard Edson
born 1954 American actor and musician
Elizabeth Berridge
born 1962 American actor
Lou Jones
1932–2006 Athletics competitor
Steven Gilborn
1936–2009 American actor, educator
Ray Rice
born 1987 American football player, running back
Bob Mintzer
born 1953 American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader
Burton Watson
1925–2017 American sinologist, translator, and writer
Donald Spoto
1941–2023 American biographer and theologian
Herbert Agar
1897–1980 American journalist
Stanley R. Jaffe
1940–2025 American film producer
Jesse Arnelle
1933–2020 American basketball player and lawyer
Mark Bomback
born 1971 American screenwriter
Adam Rosen
1984–2021 British-American luger
Annie Finch
born 1956 American poet
James Beck
1930–2007 American art historian
Larry Hennessy
1929–2008 Basketball player
Dan DeCarlo
1919–2001 American cartoonist
Joey Calderazzo
born 1965 American jazz pianist
John Joseph Nevins
1932–2014 Catholic bishop
Ralph Guggenheim
born 1951 American film producer
Bernard McEveety
1924–2004 American film director
Eddie Miller
1931–2014 American basketball player
Gerry Baker
1938–2013 Scottish-American soccer player
Ira Wallach
1913–1995 American screenwriter
Jerome Kohlberg, Jr.
1925–2015 American businessman
Nancy Buirski
1945–2023 American documentary filmmaker and photographer
Richard Prum
born 1961 American ornithologist, evolutionary biologist
Robert Kenner
born 1950 American film director
Cullen Murphy
born 1952 American writer and editor
Del James
born 1964 American composer
Frances Mercer
1915–2000 American actress
Glenn Cowan
1952–2004 American table tennis player
Herbert Lieberman
1933–2023 American writer
Kathy Searle
born 1981 TV actress
Leslie H. Gelb
1937–2019 American journalist
Penny Chenery
1922–2017 American racehorse owner and breeder
Samuel S. Bowne
1800–1865 American politician
Truman Michelson
1879–1938 American academic
William Summer Johnson
1913–1995 American chemist
Harold Wilensky
1923–2011 American sociologist
Lawrence Joyce Kenney
1930–1990 Roman Catholic bishop
Virginia Berresford
1902–1995 American artist
Also called New Rochelle home
ED E. L. Doctorow
1931–2015 Novelist, editor, professor
Ben Ferencz
1920–2023 American lawyer and pacifist
Alicia Barney Caldas
born 1952 Colombian artist
Naomi Long Madgett
1923–2020 American poet
Frank Graham
1893–1965 New York sportswriter
Donald P. Ryder
1926–2021 American architect
Montague Castle
1867–1939 Canadian-born American stained-glass artist
Paul Wenck
1892–1964 German-American illustrator
Anna K. Weiss
American pediatrician
Carol Freedman
1931–2020 Early victim of the COVID-19 pandemic
Cato Lafayette Baskervill
1903–1957
Dana Shearer
American rower, Syracuse
Julie Butler
1957–2020 Harlem veterinarian
Maggie Schpak
born 1944 American prop and jewelry designer
Mark David Bonham
born 1959 American tech marketer
Paul Freedman
1931–2020 Victim of the COVID-19 pandemic
Steven Umin
1939–2012 American lawyer
Wayne E. Falta
1965–1999 Resident of New Rochelle, New York