List of people from Syracuse, New York

See also: List of Syracuse University people

The following people are from Syracuse, New York.

Born or brought up in the City of Syracuse
Keith B. Alexander
Tom Cruise
Grace Jones
Terry McAuliffe
David Muir (left)

Born or brought up in Greater Syracuse

Others with ties to the Syracuse area
  • Hervey Allen – author of best-selling Anthony Adverse, which became a film; resided in an extant house on James Street.
  • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews – author of The Perfect Tribute and other works; resided at Wolf Hollow, the Andrews estate at suburban Taunton, New York.
  • Carmelo Anthony – NBA player for the Portland Trail Blazers; played basketball at Syracuse University, delivering the program's only NCAA Championship.
  • The Baldwin brothers – Alec, Billy, Daniel, and Steven Baldwin, actors (mother, Carol, lives in Camillus; born in Massapequa, New York).
  • Danny Biasone – founding owner of NBA's Syracuse Nationals, now the Philadelphia 76ers; early advocate of use of shot clock in basketball.
  • Alexander T. Brown – businessman, inventor, one of the founders of Brown-Lipe-Chapin Company.[12]
  • DeWitt Clinton – senator, Mayor of New York City and sixth governor of New York. Major role in the construction of the Erie Canal.[13]
  • Asa Danforth – early settler, built a grist mill and sawmill that contributed to the growth of Onondaga County.[14]
  • Asa Danforth Jr. – early settler, land speculator and highway engineer.[14]
  • Herbert H. Franklin – automobile manufacturer and company founder and president.[15]
  • James Geddes – engineer, surveyor, New York State legislator and U.S. Congressman and one of the main creators of the salt industry at Onondaga Lake near Syracuse.[16]
  • Theodore E. Hancock – lawyer and politician. Established law firms in Syracuse and served as district attorney of Onondoga County 1890–1892.[17]
  • Gordon MacRae – actor and singer, attended Nottingham High School in Syracuse.
  • Benny Mardones - singer, lived in Syracuse area in mid 1980's
  • C. Hamilton Sanford – president of the Syracuse Trust Company and co-founder of Sanford-Herbert Motor Truck Company.[18]
  • Comfort Tyler – early settler of Syracuse, businessman and politician, Comfort Tyler Park in Syracuse named for him.[19]
  • William Van Wagoner – bicycle racer, automobile designer and Syracuse businessman.[20]
  • David Foster Wallace – author, wrote much of his landmark novel Infinite Jest while living in a small apartment on Kensington Rd. across from the food co-op.
  • Ephraim Webster – first white settler of the area that became Syracuse, translator and acted as agent for the Onondagas.[21]
  • John Wilkinson (American colonist) – early settler.[22]
  • John Wilkinson (Syracuse pioneer) – town planner, lawyer, politician, banker who gave Syracuse its name and founded the Syracuse Bank.[23]
  • Steve Wynn – Las Vegas hotel and casino tycoon (attended Manlius Military Academy, now Manlius Pebble Hill School; grew up in Utica, New York, and Las Vegas).

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  2. "21 Questions: Jaclyn Hales [Unicorn City]" (Interview). Interviewed by Luke Goss. December 9, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
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  4. "Greg Paulus". Syracuse University. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  5. 'Haines borough manager dies, 58,' The Juneau Empire, Malanie Plenda, December 10, 2002
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  8. "Revolutionary War veteran's son gave city its name". Syracuse, Post-Standard. Syracuse, New York. August 27, 2002.
  9. "Moyer Heritage – Love for Autos Runs in Family". Syracuse Post-Standard. Syracuse, New York. March 16, 1966.
  10. Reed, Cleota & Skoczen, Stan (November 1997). Syracuse China. Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN 9780815604747. Retrieved August 20, 2010.
  11. Mitchell, Stewart (1938). Horatio Seymour of New York. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, p. 33.
  12. "Alexander Brown House". syracusethenandnow.org. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
  13. "Little Short of Madness". American Heritage, Winter 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  14. "Plan to Place More Tablets To Mark Spot Where First White Settler Lived". Syracuse Herald. Syracuse, New York. September 12, 1915.
  15. "A Man and an Automobile – The Story of Herbert Franklin". Syracuse Herald-Journal. Syracuse, New York. April 19, 1956.
  16. "New York – Syracuse". madeinatlantis.com. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  17. Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Hancock to Hancox". politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
  18. "Funeral Services Are Held For C. Hamilton Sanford". Syracuse Herald Journal. Syracuse, New York. February 17, 1942.
  19. Crowell, Kathy. "History of the Town of Onondaga". rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved August 19, 2017.
  20. David Burgess Wise. The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. Atlantic, 1992.
  21. https://archive.is/20130203072104/http://www.syracuse.com/news/indianlandclaim/poststandard/index.ssf?/news/indianlandclaim/empire6.html
  22. Seely, Hart (August 27, 2002). "From Old Bones, A Family Story". Syracuse Post-Standard. Syracuse, New York.
  23. "Revolutionary War veteran's son gave city its name". The Post-Standard. Syracuse, New York. August 27, 2002.
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