Editing Great River, New York (section)

==Notable people==
* William Nicoll (Nicholls), an English aristocrat who was awarded a royal patent, purchased "East of Islip" surrounding land on November 29, 1683.
* William Nicoll 3rd, known as "Lawyer Nicoll", served as Clerk of Suffolk County, New York from 1749 until his death in 1780. He erected [[St. Johns Episcopal Church and Cemetery (Oakdale, New York)|St. Johns Episcopal Church and Cemetery]].
* Benjamin Nicoll, brother of William Nicoll 3rd.  Benjamin left a widow, Charity Floyd, who eventually married the Reverend Doctor [[Samuel Johnson (American educator)|Samuel Johnson]].
* William Nicoll 4th, the fourth owner of Islip Grange, lived only 39 years. During his lifetime, the Nicoll estate dwindled to {{convert|40000|acre}}.
* William Nicoll 7th, School Commissioner of East Islip, New York, was the last owner of Islip Grange. He served as Warden of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Great River for 22 years and ministered to the small cemetery there in which he is buried. William 7th also donated part of the land on which the present (2015) East Islip Junior High School now stands.
* Frances Louisa Nicoll, wife of [[American Civil War|Civil War]] [[Brevet (military)|brevet]] [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|lieutenant colonel]] and eventually Civil War Union [[Brigadier general]] [[William Ludlow]]. Frances was sister to William Nicoll 7th.
* [[George L. Lorillard]] (March 26, 1843 – 1892), tobacco manufacturer and racehorse owner
* Marie Louise Lafarge (Lorillard), later Countess Di [[Agreda]] (Spain), was married to George L. Lorillard.
* [[William Bayard Cutting]], attorney, financier, real estate developer, sugar beet refiner, ferry operator, railroad baron and philanthropist, owned a {{convert|992|acre|km2|adj=on}} estate in Great River eventually given to the people of Long Island by Bayard Cutting's widow, Olivia, and daughter, Olivia, as [[Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park]]. Mr. Cutting was a member and Vice President of the South Side Sportsmen's Club.
[[File:Cabanel, Alexandre - Olivia Peyton Murray Cutting - 1887.png|thumb|Alexandre Cabanel, ''Olivia Peyton Murray Cutting'', 1887. Oil on canvas, 276 x 149 cm. Museum of the City of New York.]]* Olivia Peyton Cutting (née Murray) (1855–1949,) the daughter of Bronson Murray of [[Murray Hill, Manhattan|Murray Hill]] family, was married to William Bayard Cutting.  Mrs. Cutting's children are William Bayard Cutting, Jr., Bronson M. Cutting, Justine Bayard Cutting (Ward,) and Olivia M. Cutting (James.) Mrs. Cutting sat as mythical [[Phaedra (mythology)|Phaedra]] for the French artist [[Alexandre Cabanel]]'s [[Phaedra (Alexandre Cabanel)#Portraiture|Phaedra portrait]].  This work was exhibited in the [[Salon (Paris)|Salon]] of 1880 and later donated by Cabanel to the [[Musée Fabre]].
* Cutting children born in Great River
** William Bayard Cutting, Jr. (1878– d. 1910 of tuberculosis) secretary to the US embassy to the [[Court of St. James's|Court of St James]] for the [[Monarch|Sovereign]] of the United Kingdom.
** [[Bronson M. Cutting]], born in Great River, [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[United States Senate]] from [[New Mexico]], publisher, and military attaché who was killed in an airplane crash.
** Justine Bayard Cutting (Ward) (1879–1975), daughter of William Bayard Cutting, was born in Great River. She developed the Ward Method of music education as a way to teach [[Sight reading|sight-singing]] to children in Catholic schools to promote the [[Gregorian chant]].
** Olivia M. Cutting (James) (1892–1949), married [[Pulitzer Prize]] awardee [[Henry James (biographer)]], son of psychologist [[William James]], in 1917 but eventually ended in divorce.
* [[Angel de la Torre]], Spain's first golf professional, was golf pro at Timber Point Golf Course in 1925.
* [[Philip Boyle]] (1961–), [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], 2013 New York 4th Senatorial District Senator, lived in Great River at one time and is still active in the Great River Fire Department in 2015.
* [[Tim Melia]] (1986–), born in Great River, May 15, 1986, is an American soccer player who plays goalie (# 29) for [[Sporting Kansas City]] (2015– ) of [[Major League Soccer]].  Melia played for the [[Long Island Rough Riders]] in the [[USL Premier Development League]] in 2007.
* [http://www.usga.org/championships/2016/u-s--women-s-mid-amateur/articles/women-s-mid-am-competitors-have-tamed-everest--kilimanjaro-.html LeeAnn Lewis (née Vogel)] Competitive [[United States Golf Association]] (USGA) female [[United States Amateur Championship (golf)|U.S. amateur golfer]].