Editing Yorktown, New York (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Roy Colsey]], [[Major League Lacrosse]] player, grew up in Yorktown
*[[Nargis Fakhri]], Bollywood actress, owns a house in Yorktown<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/yorktown/neighbors/happy-birthday-to-yorktowns-nargis-fakhri/408200/|title=Happy Birthday To Yorktown's Nargis Fakhri |website=Yorktown Daily Voice |date=October 20, 2013 |publisher=[[The Daily Voice (U.S. hyperlocal news)|The Daily Voice]]|access-date=March 23, 2019}}</ref>
*[[Susan Faludi]], American feminist, journalist, author, and Pulitzer Prize winner grew up in Yorktown
*[[Charlie Gasparino]], American financial journalist
*[[Robert Hannsen]], convicted Russian spy, lived with his family in Yorktown in the mid-1980s
*[[Margaret Illington]], stage actress popular in the first decade of the 20th century, lived on her Dreamlake estate in Yorktown<ref>{{cite web |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/04/25/112657609.pdf |title=Dreamlake Is Sold - A. D. Geissler Buys Estate of Margaret Illington. |website=timesmachine.nytimes.com |access-date=June 17, 2011}}</ref>
*[[Consuelo Kanaga]], photographer and writer who became well known for her photographs of African-Americans
*[[Andrew Kavovit]], actor, grew up in Yorktown
*[[Dave Matthews]], singer/songwriter, lived with his family in Yorktown before he moved to [[Virginia]]
*[[William Keepers Maxwell Jr.]], fiction editor for ''[[The New Yorker]]'' and novelist<ref>{{cite web |url=http://findinglincolnillinois.com/ross-dyer-brummell.html |title=William Maxwell's Black Characters in Billie Dyer and Other Stories |website=findinglincolnillinois.com |access-date=June 17, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_r4xQgkMZ8C&q=william+maxwell+yorktown&pg=PR9 | title=William Maxwell: A Literary Life| isbn=9780252030185| last1=Burkhardt| first1=Barbara A.| year=2005| publisher=University of Illinois Press}}</ref>
*[[Terrence Murphy (chiropractor)|Terrence Murphy]], Former New York State Senator
*[[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]], Congresswoman, born in NYC, but moved to Yorktown when she was five and later attended Yorktown High School<ref>{{cite news|first1=Andy|last1=Newman|first2=Vivian|last2=Wang|first3=Luis|last3=Ferré-Sadurní|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Emerges as a Political Star|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bio-profile.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|location=New York City|date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628072729/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bio-profile.html |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Buster Olney]], [[ESPN]] baseball analyst and former [[New York Yankees]] beat writer
*[[Clifford A. Pickover]], writer. In his book, ''The Mobius Strip'', he models the fictional New Devonshire on Yorktown. Pickover also used the [[Jefferson Valley Mall]] as the locale for his book ''The Heaven Virus.''
*[[Al Roker]], meteorologist, lived in Yorktown while he was married to the town clerk, Alice Bell
*[[Anthony "Romeo" Santos]], Dominican-American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and lead vocalist of the American bachata band Aventura who is the first Latino artist to sell out Yankee and MetLife Stadium
*[[Matt Slater (politician)|Matt Slater]], American politician currently serving as a member of the [[New York State Assembly]], representing the 94th district. Former Town Supervisor of Yorktown.
*[[Lawrence Treat]], mystery writer and pioneer of the genre of novels [[police procedural]]s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1998-01-14/news/9801130339_1_mystery-writers-mystery-readers-novel |title=Lawrence Treat, Mystery Writer, 94 |website=[[Sun Sentinel]] |access-date=June 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902082411/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1998-01-14/news/9801130339_1_mystery-writers-mystery-readers-novel |archive-date=September 2, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Halsey (H.W.) Wilson]], founder of the [[H. W. Wilson Company]], a publisher, lived in the Croton Heights section of Yorktown<ref>{{cite journal | pmc=199761 | volume=42 | issue=3 |pages = 402–403| journal=Bulletin of the Medical Library Association | title=Halsey W. Wilson|year = 1954}}</ref>