Editing Troy, New York (section)

== Notable people ==
* [[Joe Alaskey]] (1952–2016), voice actor, known for various ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' characters<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsfromme.com/2016/02/03/joe-alaskey-r-p/|title=Joe Alaskey, R.I.P.|date=February 3, 2016|website=News From ME}}</ref>
* [[Dave Anderson (sportswriter)|Dave Anderson]] (1929–2018), Pulitzer Prize-winning sportswriter for ''[[The New York Times]]'', born in Troy<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/obituaries/dave-anderson-award-winning-times-sportswriter-dies-at-89.html|title=Dave Anderson, Award-Winning Times Sportswriter, Dies at 89|last=Goldstein|first=Richard|date=October 4, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 25, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[David Baddiel]] (1964), comedian
* [[Garnet Baltimore|Garnet Douglass Baltimore]] (1859–1946), distinguished civil engineer and landscape designer, first African-American graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rpi.edu/about/alumni/inductees/baltimore.html|title=Garnet Douglas Baltimore|language=en|access-date=November 23, 2020}}</ref>
* [[John C. Baker]] (1919–1996), US Army major general<ref name="Marquis">{{cite book |date=1955 |title=Who's Who In the East |volume=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WnZmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22baker,+john+caswell%22+%22Who%27s+Who%22 |location=Chicago, Illinois |publisher=Marquis Who's Who |page=47 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Baker (Medal of Honor)|Thomas Baker]] (1916–1944), U.S. infantryman, received Medal of Honor for [[Battle of Saipan]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/world-war-ii-saipan-veterans-108591.html|title=70 years later, vets remember Saipan|agency=Associated Press|website=POLITICO|date=July 6, 2014 |language=en|access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref>
* [[James A. Barker]], Wisconsin state senator
* [[George Packer Berry]] (1898–1986), Dean of Harvard Medical School, born in Troy<ref>Altman, Lawrence K., [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/09/obituaries/george-p-berry-87-is-dead-bacteriologist-and-educator.html "George P. Berry, 87, Is Dead; Bacteriologist and Educator"], ''[[New York Times]]''</ref>
* [[Nick Brignola]] (1936–2002), musician (internationally famous jazz baritone saxophonist), was born in Troy and lived his whole life in the area.<ref>[[Nick Brignola]]</ref>{{Circular reference|date=August 2018}}
* [[Dorothy Lavinia Brown]] (1919–2004), African American surgeon, legislator and teacher, raised in the Troy Orphan Asylum for much of her childhood and attended Troy High School, where she graduated at the top of her class in 1937.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/brown-dorothy-lavinia-1919-2004/|title=Dorothy Lavinia Brown (1919–2004) • BlackPast|date=January 19, 2015|website=BlackPast|language=en-US|access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref>
*[[Bryant's Minstrels|Dan Bryant]] (1833–1875), stage name of Dan O'Brien (or possibly Dan O'Neill), co-founder of Bryant's Minstrels with his brothers Jerry and Neil.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1875/04/12/82028741.pdf ''The New York Times'', 12 April 1875, Obituary of Daniel Webster Bryant]</ref>
*[[Henry Burden]] (1791–1871), originally from Scotland, engineer and businessman who built an industrial complex in Troy called the Burden Iron Works that featured the most powerful water wheel in the world<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesunion.com/albanyrural/burden/|title=Henry Burden|website=Times Union|date=December 5, 2013 |access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref>
* [[William Carragan]] (1937–2024), musicologist who completed [[Anton Bruckner|Bruckner]]'s Ninth Symphony. Born in [[Brunswick, New York|Brunswick]], taught at [[Hudson Valley Community College]] for 35 years, and spent his last two decades back in his childhood home.<ref>Steve Barnes, [https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/william-carragan-troy-hvcc-obituary-bruckner-19509418.php 'Troy physicist and musicologist William Carragan dies at 86'], ''Times Union'', June 12, 2024</ref>
*[[Evelyn Cavanaugh]] (b. 1890s), Broadway and vaudeville dancer, actress
*[[Howie Charbonneau]] (b. 1955), soccer player<ref>{{Cite web |title=NASL–Howie Charbonneau |url=https://www.nasljerseys.com/Players/C/Charbonneau.Howie.htm |access-date=March 29, 2025 |website=(NASL) jerseys}}</ref>
* [[Hadden Clark]], Cannibal child murderer and suspected serial killer; Born in Troy.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/dorr/dorr111592.htm?noredirect=on|title=Murder Suspect's 'Lifestyle is Getting Even'|last=Jennings|first=Veronica T.|date=November 15, 1992|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref>
*[[James Connolly]] (1868–1916), a leader of the Irish [[Easter Rising]], lived in Troy 1903 – c. 1910; a statue of Connolly was erected in Troy in 1986<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/celebrating-the-life-of-james-connolly-in-troy-new-york/|title=Celebrating the life of James Connolly in Troy, New York|last=Townsend|first=Chris|date=May 2, 2016|website=People's World|language=en-US|access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Thomas H. Conway]], Wisconsin State Assemblyman<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1929', Biographical Sketch of Thomas H. Conway, p. 558</ref>
* [[Charles Crocker]], a railroad executive, a founder of the [[Central Pacific Railroad]], and an associate of [[Leland Stanford]]
*[[Jeff Daly]], architect and designer, former head of design for the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
*[[Blanche Dayne]], an actress in [[vaudeville]] from 1890s to 1920s
* [[Courken George Deukmejian Jr.]] (1928–2018), an American politician from the Republican Party who was the 35th Governor of California from 1983 to 1991 and Attorney General of California from 1979 to 1983
* [[Shaun Deeb]] (born 1986), poker player
* [[Katharine DeWitt]] (1867–1963), an American nurse, writer and co-editor of the ''American Journal of Nursing''.
* [[John Joseph Evers]] (1883–1947), baseball Hall of Fame [[second baseman]]
* [[Mame Faye]] (1866–1943), brothel mistress<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2008/01/29/mame-faye-the-inside-scoop-on-troys-second-most-fa|title=Mame Faye: the inside scoop on Troy's second most famous figure|website=All Over Albany|access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Robert Fuller (actor)|Robert Fuller]] (born 1933), actor, star of TV series ''[[Wagon Train]]'', rancher, born in Troy
* [[Alice Fulton]] (born 1952), poet and author, [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur "Genius Grant" recipient]], was born and raised in Troy; her novel ''The Nightingales of Troy''<ref>{{cite web|title=Greg Schutz|url=http://fictionwritersreview.com/reviews/the-nightingales-of-troy-by-alice-fulton|publisher=Fiction Writers Review|access-date=December 20, 2012}}</ref> follows a fictional Irish-American family through the 20th Century in Troy<ref>{{cite web|title=Companion Map to Alice Fulton's The Nightingales of Troy |url=https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=113392205776745354649.00046e65a4e475e8fba73&ll=42.754701,-73.679123&spn=0.08987,0.128746&z=13|publisher=Google Maps|access-date=December 20, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Charles Ganimian]] (1926–1988), [[Armenian American]] musician and [[oud]] player
* [[Henry Highland Garnet]] (1815–1882), African-American abolitionist, minister and orator; editor of ''The National Watchman'' and ''The Clarion''
* [[Uri Gilbert]] (July 10, 1809 – June 17, 1888) 19th century mayor and alderman of Troy and owner of [[Gilbert Car Company]].<ref name="Rittner">{{Cite book |last=Rittner |first=Don |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhlGBGpjZ1gC&pg=PA44 |title=Legendary Locals of Troy |date=February 2012 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-4671-0007-6 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Abba Goddard]] (1819–1873), editor of ''The Trojan Sketchbook'' <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ebYe8eSzWg8C|title=The Trojan Sketch Book|first=Abba A.|last=Goddard|date=August 8, 1846|publisher=Young & Hartt|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* [[Jay S. Hammond]] (1922–2005), fourth [[governor of Alaska]] from 1974 to 1982
* [[Tim Hauser]] (1941–2014), singer and founding member of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer
* [[Joe Horan]] (1878–1961), racing driver
*[[Edward Burton Hughes]], the Deputy Superintendent of [[New York State Department of Public Works]] from 1952 to 1967<ref>1910 US Census: Edward B. Hughes (head) aged 30, Susan B. Hughes (wife) aged 30. Address: 693 Third Avenue, Troy.</ref>
* [[Theodore Judah]], a railroad engineer for the [[Central Pacific Railroad]]
* [[King Kelly]] (1857–1894), professional baseball player, born in Troy
* [[Deborah G. King]] (1839–1922), [[Women's Crusade]]r and [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] advocate; born in the county, went to school in Troy
*[[Ida Pulis Lathrop]] (1859–1937), American painter, born in Troy.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzHTAAAAMAAJ|title=Who's Who in New York City and State|publisher=L.R. Hamersly Company|others=Lewis Randolph Hamersly, John William Leonard, William Frederick Mohr, Frank R. Holmes, Herman Warren Knox, Winfield Scott Downs (editors)|year=1924|volume=8|pages=760}}</ref>
* [[Dennis Mahoney]] (1974–), author, born in Troy
* [[William L. Marcy]] (1786–1857), governor, U.S. senator, U.S. Secretary of State<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=William Marcy|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000127|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=October 20, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Edward P. McCabe]] (1850–1920), African American settler, attorney and land agent, born in Troy
* [[Herman Melville]] (1819–1891), author (''[[Moby Dick]]''), from 1838 to 1847 resided in Lansingburgh
* [[John Morrissey]] (1831–1878), bare-knuckle boxer, U.S. representative, co-founder of [[Saratoga Race Course]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=John Morrissey|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001001|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=October 20, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Kate Mullany]] (1845–1906), Irish-born labor organizer, founder of the [[Collar Laundry Union]]
* [[James Mullowney]], Wisconsin State Assemblyman<ref>{{cite book|title=The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin |edition=18th|location=Madison, Wis.|publisher=David Atwood|year=1879|page=495}}</ref>
*[[Edward Murphy Jr.]] (1836–1911), mayor, U.S. senator<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Edward Murphy|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m001090|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=October 20, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Florence Nash]] (1888–1950), actress
* [[Mary Nash (actress)|Mary Nash]] (1884–1976), actress
* [[Mary Louise Peebles]] (1833–1915), author of children's books
* [[Cicero Price]] (1805–1888), United States Navy commodore who fought in [[American Civil War]] and was commander of [[East India Squadron]], resided in Troy for 36 years
* [[Jacob S. Raisin]] (1878–1946), rabbi
* [[La Mott W. Rhodes]] (1843–1890), lawyer and member of the New York State Assembly
* [[Don Rittner]], Historian, author, film maker
* [[George G. Rockwood]] (1832–1911), celebrity photographer
* [[Richard Selzer]] (1928–2016), surgeon and author, was born in Troy; his memoir ''Down from Troy'' recounts his experiences there as the son of a physician
* [[Bernard Shir-Cliff]] (1924–2017), editor
* [[Kate Simmons]] (1850–1926), composer
* [[Jeanie Oliver Davidson Smith]] (1836–1925), poet, romancist
* [[Horatio Spafford]] (1828–1888), composer of the well-known Christian hymn "[[It Is Well With My Soul]]", was born in Lansingburgh (now Troy)
* [[Maureen Stapleton]] (1925–2006), Academy Award-winning actress of film, stage and television
* [[Lavinia Stoddard]] (1787–1820), poet, school founder
* [[John J. Taylor (New York politician)|John J. Taylor]], U.S. Congressman
* [[Mike Valenti]], radio commentator
* [[Joseph M. Warren]], [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for New York<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000165|title=WARREN, Joseph Mabbett, (1813–1896)|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=October 10, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Amy Wax]] (born 1953), law professor
* [[Harriet Hilreth Weeks]] (1875–1939), Wisconsin state legislator
* [[Samuel Wilson]] (1766–1854), a butcher and meatpacker during [[War of 1812]] whose name is believed to be the inspiration for the personification of the United States known as [[Uncle Sam]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-nicknamed-uncle-sam|title=United States nicknamed Uncle Sam|website=HISTORY|date=November 24, 2009 |language=en|access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Russell Wong]] (born 1963), actor
* [[Duke Zeibert]] (1910–1997), restaurateur