Editing Croton-on-Hudson, New York (section)

== Notable people ==
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* [[Alan Abelson]], financial writer for ''Barron's''
* [[Guy Adami]]
* [[Manny Albam]], composer, arranger, [[RCA Records|RCA]] and [[Solid State Records (jazz label)|Solid State Records]]
* [[Frances E. Allen]], computer scientist, seminal work in compilers, program optimization, and [[parallel computing]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/award/index.html |title=IBM Fellow becomes first woman to receive A. M. Turing Award |website=[[IBM]] |access-date=September 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306034423/http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/award/index.html |archive-date=March 6, 2007 |url-status=bot: unknown }}, IBM Corporation.</ref>
* [[Kristen Anderson-Lopez]], American film and stage lyricist 
* [[Nenad Bach]]
* [[Isabel Barrows|Isabel Chapin Barrows]], physician, ophthalmologist, professor, congressional stenographer &ndash; many "first woman as" achievements <ref>{{cite journal |title=Two Pioneer 19th-Century Women Who Breached Ophthalmology's Glass Ceiling |author=Alice R. McPherson, [[Daniel M. Albert]] |journal=[[Ophthalmology (journal)|Ophthalmology]] |year=2015 |volume=122 |issue=6 |pages=1067–69 |doi=10.1016/j.ophtha.2014.11.020|pmid=26008907 }}</ref>
* [[Helen Purdy Beale]], "mother of plant virology and serology", inventor of standard serology tools used in scientific research and medical diagnosis <ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Scholthof|first1=Karen‐Beth G.|last2=Peterson|first2=Paul D.|publisher=Adv. Appl. Microbiol.|year=2006|isbn=9780120026616|volume=59|pages=221–241|doi=10.1016/S0065-2164(06)59008-2|pmid = 16829261|title=Advances in Applied Microbiology Volume 59|series=Advances in Applied Microbiology}}</ref><ref name=":1">[https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/9720/bot_Littler2005i.pdf Scholthof, K.-B. G., & Peterson, P.D. (2005). Helen Purdy Beale: The mother of plant virology (and serology).]</ref>
* [[Charles H. Bennett (computer scientist)|Charles H. Bennett]]
* [[George Biddle]]
* [[Ramon Bloomberg]], artist and music video director
* [[Louise Bryant]]
* [[Alexander Calder]], artist
* [[Isadora Duncan]], ballet dancer
* [[Crystal Eastman]]
* [[Max Eastman]]
* [[Irving Fierstein]], American impressionist painter and designer<ref>''Croton-Cortlandt News,'' Croton-on-Hudson, NY, December 17, 1970</ref>
* [[Carl Folta]], Viacom executive
* [[Allen Funt]]
* [[William Gaddis]]
* [[Josh Greenfeld]]
* [[Hananiah Harari]], American modernist painter and illustrator
* [[Mary Hamilton (activist)|Mary Hamilton]], activist
* [[Robb Hanrahan]]
* [[Lorraine Hansberry]], playwright and author
* [[Lee Elhardt Hays]]
* [[Lawrence R. Jacobs]], American political scientist
* [[Joseph Heller]]
* [[Sally Jacobsen]], first woman as international editor of the ''[[Associated Press]]''<ref name=ap>{{cite news |first=Charles J.|last=Hanley |title=Sally Jacobsen, AP's first female international editor, dies |url=https://apnews.com/f099efb531d0478b96556bcb970e5663/Sally-Jacobsen,-AP's-first-female-international-editor,-dies |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=May 12, 2017 |access-date=June 8, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Stephen Jardine]]
* [[Herman Kahn]]
* [[Roger Kahn]], author of ''[[The Boys of Summer (book)|The Boys of Summer]]''
* [[Ira Kaplan]], songwriter and lead guitarist for [[Yo La Tengo]]
* [[Herbert Keppler]]
* Scott Levine, astronomy author and communicator known for his work with [[BBC Sky at Night]] Magazine,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/author/scottlevine/|title=Scott Levine at BBC Sky at Night}}</ref> [[Sky and Telescope]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://skyandtelescope.org/author/scott-levine/|title=Scott Levine at Sky & Telescope}}</ref> [[EarthSky]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://earthsky.org/author/scott-levine/|title=Scott Levine at EarthSky}}</ref> and other outlets.
* [[Jeff McCarthy]]
* [[Audra McDonald]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newyork.newsday.com/entertainment/theater/croton-s-audra-mcdonald-seeks-fifth-tony-award-1.3765691|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130054837/http://newyork.newsday.com/entertainment/theater/croton-s-audra-mcdonald-seeks-fifth-tony-award-1.3765691|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 30, 2013|title=Croton's Audra McDonald seeks fifth Tony Award|access-date=July 2, 2012}}</ref>
* [[John Mearsheimer]]
* [[Richard Merkin]], American painter and illustrator<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us/13merkin.html|title=Richard Merkin, Painter, Illustrator and Fashion Plate, Dies at 70|work=The New York Times |date=September 12, 2009 |access-date=December 16, 2014 |last1=Grimes |first1=William }}</ref>
* [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]]
* [[Ward Morehouse (activist)|Ward Morehouse]]
* [[Jessye Norman]]
* [[Elmar Oliveira]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/16/nyregion/croton-violinist-in-solo-concert.html|title=Croton Violinist in Solo Concert|access-date=May 22, 2012| work=The New York Times|first=Roberta|last=Hershenson|date=January 16, 2000}}</ref>
* [[Jerry Pinkney]], a [[Caldecott Medal|Caldecott]] award-winning children's book illustrator
* [[John Silas Reed]]
* [[Michael Robinson (rabbi)]], activist for civil rights and human rights
* [[Darlene Rodriguez]]
* [[Edward Rondthaler]]
* [[Thomas Secunda]], co-founder and vice-chairman of Bloomberg L.P.
* [[Gordon Sheer]]
* [[Upton Sinclair]], author
* [[Nicholas Springer]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/nyregion/a-normal-teenager-lives-the-new-normal.html|title=A Normal Teenager Lives the 'New Normal' |work=The New York Times |date=September 14, 2003 |access-date=February 11, 2012 |last1=Kenny |first1=Alice }}</ref>
* [[Peter Strauss]]
* [[Gloria Swanson]], motion picture actress
* [[Hannah Tompkins (artist)|Hannah Tompkins]], American painter and illustrator<ref>''Croton Cortlandt News'', January 16, 1964</ref>
* [[Joe Vasta]]
* [[William Pulleyblank]]
* [[Donald Wallance]]<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|title=Don Wallance, 80, Designer of Furniture|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/28/obituaries/don-wallance-80-designer-of-furniture.html|access-date=September 30, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 28, 1990}}</ref>
* [[Kenneth C. Laudon]], professor of information systems
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