Editing Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan (section)

==Notable residents==
{{See also|Manhattan Plaza#Notable people}}
Notable current and former residents of Hell's Kitchen include:
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* [[Michael Alig]] (1966–2020), founder of the [[Club Kids]], lived at Riverbank West,<ref>{{cite web |website=The Smoking Gun |title=Longhand Of The Law: Club Kids Kill An Angel (Handwritten confession of Robert Riggs) |page=1 |url=http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/club-kids-kill-angel |date=December 1996 |author=Riggs, Robert |access-date=February 21, 2017 |archive-date=April 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426160204/http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/club-kids-kill-angel |url-status=live }}</ref> at 11th Avenue, which he described as "the place where I lived as part of my salary at [[The Limelight|Limelight]]"; it was the address where he and his roommate, Robert "Freeze" Riggs, killed [[Andre Melendez|Andre "Angel" Melendez]]<ref>{{cite news |work=[[New York Post]] |last=Alig |first=Michael |url=https://nypost.com/2014/05/12/party-monster-relives-catfight-that-ended-in-murder/ |title=Club Kid killer relives bloody crime |date=May 12, 2014 |access-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-date=December 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205083807/https://nypost.com/2014/05/12/party-monster-relives-catfight-that-ended-in-murder/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Carmelo Anthony]] (born 1984), basketball player<ref>Barbara K. [https://nypost.com/2012/04/19/la-la-anthony-dishes-on-her-hells-kitchen-crib/ "La La Anthony dishes on her Hell's Kitchen crib"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202023401/http://nypost.com/2012/04/19/la-la-anthony-dishes-on-her-hells-kitchen-crib/ |date=February 2, 2017 }}, ''[[New York Post]]'', April 19, 2012. Accessed July 4, 2016.</ref>
* [[Benjamin Appel]] (1907–1977), crime novelist<ref>Jamieson, Wendell. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE4DF1030F932A35752C0A9609C8B63 "City Lore; Hard-Boiled Tales, Told by a Gentleman"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106071241/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE4DF1030F932A35752C0A9609C8B63 |date=January 6, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 1, 2006. Accessed August 11, 2009. "Benjamin Appel was an author of more than 25 novels from 1934 to 1977, many of them set in New York. He was raised in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan and lived much of his life in Roosevelt, N.J., but after he moved he still came back to New York often."</ref>
* [[Lewis Black]] (born 1948), comedian<ref>Friend, Tad. [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lewis-black-playwright "Lewis Black, Playwright"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907100717/http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lewis-black-playwright |date=September 7, 2014 }}, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', June 5, 2012. Accessed July 4, 2016. "In his living room high up in Hell's Kitchen, the comedian Lewis Black sat on a sofa with three throw pillows tucked around him, as if he'd had a bad breakup and needed a hug and some Häagen-Dazs."</ref>
* [[Anthony Bourdain]] (1956–2018), chef and author<ref>"Disappearing Manhattan." ''[[Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations]]''. Travel Channel. February 23, 2009.</ref>
* [[James J. Braddock]] ("[[Cinderella Man]]"), boxer, lived on West 48th Street<ref>[[Manohla Dargis|Dargis, Manohla]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/movies/roll-the-fairy-tale-fade-to-the-fists.html "Roll the Fairy Tale, Fade to the Fists"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922064607/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/movies/roll-the-fairy-tale-fade-to-the-fists.html |date=September 22, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 3, 2005. Accessed July 8, 2016. "On June 13, 1935, the boxer James J. Braddock fought the fight of a lifetime. Born in Hell's Kitchen when that New York neighborhood still warranted that rough-and-tumble epithet, the 30-year-old heavyweight was the son of immigrants whose bloodlines and hardscrabble woes traced back to Ireland."</ref>
* [[James Cagney]] (1899–1986), actor<ref>Eldridge, David. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uN2qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 ''American Culture in the 1930s''], p. 74. [[Edinburgh University Press]], 2008. {{ISBN|9780748629770}}. Accessed July 8, 2016. "Born in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, Cagney brought something 'fresh' to the movie, a machismo that was natural, uncontrolled and seemingly spontaneous (as when he spits beer into someone's face), and imbued with a wise-guy wit."</ref>
* [[George Cain]] (1943–2010), author of ''Blueschild Baby''<ref>Grimes, William. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/arts/29cain.html "George Cain, Writer of ''Blueschild Baby'', Dies at 66"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702013024/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/arts/29cain.html |date=July 2, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 29, 2010. Accessed October 31, 2010.</ref>
* [[Yvette Calderon]], Professor of Emergency Medicine<ref>Gilbey, Ryan. [https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/podcasts/road-resilience/shot-arm" A Shot in the Arm"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024120059/https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/podcasts/road-resilience/shot-arm |date=October 24, 2022 }}, ''[[Mount Sinair]]'', March 2, 2021. Accessed October 25, 2022. "A Shot in the Arm."</ref>
* [[Lorenzo Carcaterra]] (born 1954), author, born and raised in Hell's Kitchen, which is featured in his autobiographical story "A Safe Place" as well as the novel and later film ''[[Sleepers (film)|Sleepers]]''<ref>Lambert, Bruce. [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/nyregion/neighborhood-report-point-counterpoint-a-church-vs-sleepers.html "Neighborhood Report: Point-Counterpoint; A Church vs. ''Sleepers''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202003722/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/nyregion/neighborhood-report-point-counterpoint-a-church-vs-sleepers.html |date=February 2, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 15, 1995. Accessed July 8, 2016. "Sacred Heart of Jesus Church and its elementary school on West 51st Street are focal elements in the current best seller ''Sleepers,'' which the author, Lorenzo Carcaterra, presents as a true story drawn from his Hell's Kitchen boyhood."</ref>
* [[Vanessa Carlton]] (born 1980), singer-songwriter<ref>Staff. [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/second-cup-cafe-vanessa-carlton-15-11-2007/ "Second Cup Cafe: Vanessa Carlton"], ''[[CBS News]]'', November 17, 2007. Accessed August 10, 2009. "A few years ago, this three-time Grammy nominee was living in New York's Hell's Kitchen and working as a waitress in Lower Manhattan between performances at open mic nights in the city's clubs."</ref>
* [[Paul Cavonis]] (born 1937), actor<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GRQbAQAAIAAJ&q=%22paul+cavonis%22+%22born%22+%22hell%27s+kitchen%22 |title=Television Guest Stars: An Illustrated Career Chronicle for 678 Performers of the Sixties and Seventies |first=Jack |last=Ward |date=April 26, 1993 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=9780899508078 |via=Google Books |access-date=April 26, 2019 |archive-date=April 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408195653/https://books.google.com/books?id=GRQbAQAAIAAJ&q=%22paul+cavonis%22+%22born%22+%22hell%27s+kitchen%22 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Timothée Chalamet]] (born 1995), actor, born and raised in Hell's Kitchen<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.broadway.com/buzz/184066/prodigal-son-playwright-john-patrick-shanley-star-timothee-chalamet-on-the-pain-poetry-pride-of-revisiting-15/ |title=Prodigal Son Playwright John Patrick Shanley & Star Timothee Chalamet on the Pain, Poetry & Pride of Revisiting 15 |work=[[Broadway.com]] |first=Kathy |last=Henderson |date=March 7, 2016 |access-date=August 21, 2017 |archive-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822012725/http://www.broadway.com/buzz/184066/prodigal-son-playwright-john-patrick-shanley-star-timothee-chalamet-on-the-pain-poetry-pride-of-revisiting-15/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Richard Christy]] (born 1974), comedian, radio personality, and musician<ref>Krawitz, Alan. [http://www.qchron.com/qboro/stories/richard-christy-queens-quirky-caller/article_0359a6e0-4529-53df-b667-5f68318e0a71.html "Richard Christy: Queens' quirky caller"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180127181046/http://www.qchron.com/qboro/stories/richard-christy-queens-quirky-caller/article_0359a6e0-4529-53df-b667-5f68318e0a71.html |date=January 27, 2018 }}, ''[[Queens Chronicle]]'', January 21, 2010. Accessed July 8, 2016. "Formerly a resident of Hell's Kitchen, Christy moved to LIC in 2008 and says he's been pleasantly surprised."</ref>
* [[James Coonan]] (born 1946), mobster<ref>[[James Traub|Traub, James]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/05/magazine/the-lord-s-of-hell-s-kitchen.html?pagewanted=all "The Lords of Hell's Kitchen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002710/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/05/magazine/the-lord-s-of-hell-s-kitchen.html?pagewanted=all |date=February 2, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 5, 1987. Accessed July 9, 2016.</ref>
* [[Marlon Craft]] (born 1993), rapper<ref>Marantz, Andrew. [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/marlon-crafts-halal-cart-listening-party "Marlon Craft's Halal-Craft Listening Party"], ''[[The New Yorker]]'', July 29, 2019. Accessed January 4, 2024. "Marlon Craft, who is twenty-six, lives with his parents and his sister in Manhattan Plaza, the Section 8 apartment complex in Hell’s Kitchen."</ref>
* [[Larry David]] (born 1947), actor, producer of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' and ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]''<ref name=Kramer>McShane, Larry. [http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/people/149555,CST-NWS-kramer26.article "The real Kramer says actor no racist: But Richards is 'paranoid,' 'very wound-up'"]{{dead link|date=November 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes }}, ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'', November 26, 2006. Accessed August 11, 2009. "The real Kramer lived for 10 years in a Hell's Kitchen apartment across the hall from ''Seinfeld'' co-creator Larry David, and his life became the framework for Richards' quirky, bumbling Seinfeld sidekick."</ref>
* [[Marcelo Gomes (dancer)|Marcelo Gomes]] (born 1979), Brazilian ballet dancer<ref>Kaufman, Joanne. [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/realestate/marcelo-gomes-the-dancer-at-home-in-hells-kitchen.html "Marcelo Gomes, the Dancer at Home in Hell's Kitchen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915080535/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/realestate/marcelo-gomes-the-dancer-at-home-in-hells-kitchen.html |date=September 15, 2015 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 11, 2014. Accessed July 4, 2016. "Not long after Marcelo Gomes moved with his dachshund, Lua, into a subcompact (475 square feet) condo in Hell's Kitchen two and a half years ago, he gave a housewarming party."</ref>
* [[Tom Gorman (umpire)|Tom Gorman]] (1919–1986), [[Major League Baseball]] umpire<ref>[[Ira Berkow|Berkow, Ira]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/17/sports/sports-of-the-times-tom-gorman-s-final-call.html "Sports of the Times; Tom Gorman's Final Call"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002540/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/17/sports/sports-of-the-times-tom-gorman-s-final-call.html |date=February 2, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 17, 1986. Accessed July 9, 2016. "Yesterday, in a cemetery in Paramus, N.J., Thomas David Gorman, born in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, was laid to rest."</ref>
* [[Charlton Heston]], (1923-2008), Academy Award Winning Actor<ref>{{Cite web |title=Charlton Heston |url=http://www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com/actors/charlton-heston.html |access-date=2021-03-23 |website=www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com |archive-date=October 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025015352/http://www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com/actors/charlton-heston.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Alicia Keys]] (born 1981), singer and pianist<ref>Mervis, Scott. [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08108/873962-42.stm "Music Preview: Through her first several records, Alicia Keys has a golden touch"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529050433/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08108/873962-42.stm |date=May 29, 2010 }}, ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'', April 17, 2008. Accessed August 10, 2009. "Keys, a classically trained pianist raised in Hell's Kitchen by her Italian-Scottish mother, spent a few years after she dropped out of Columbia University trying to launch her pop career with songs on soundtracks."</ref>
* [[Mako Komuro]] and Kei, former [[Japanese Imperial family]] and her husband<ref>[https://nypost.com/2021/11/15/japans-former-princess-mako-arrives-at-nyc-apartment/ "Princess Mako, new husband move into one-bedroom in Hell's Kitchen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124053328/https://nypost.com/2021/11/15/japans-former-princess-mako-arrives-at-nyc-apartment/ |date=November 24, 2021 }} by Emily Crane, ''[[New York Post]]'', November 15, 2021</ref>
* [[Kenny Kramer]] (born 1943), comedian, lived in a Hell's Kitchen apartment across the hall from [[Larry David]] and became the inspiration for the [[Cosmo Kramer]] character on ''[[Seinfeld]]''.<ref name=Kramer/>
* [[Stanley Kramer]] (1913–2001), film director and producer<ref>Lyman, Rick. [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/21/movies/stanley-kramer-filmmaker-with-social-bent-dies-at-87.html?pagewanted=all "Stanley Kramer, Filmmaker With Social Bent, Dies at 87"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202003715/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/21/movies/stanley-kramer-filmmaker-with-social-bent-dies-at-87.html?pagewanted=all |date=February 2, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 21, 2001. Accessed July 9, 2016. "Stanley Earl Kramer was born in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, the only child of a divorced mother who worked as a secretary for Paramount."</ref>
* [[Hasan Minhaj]] (born 1985) comedian, writer, and political commentator<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/realestate/a-daily-show-correspondent-adjusts-to-life-new-york.html "A ''Daily Show'' Correspondent Adjusts to Life in New York"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923154701/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/realestate/a-daily-show-correspondent-adjusts-to-life-new-york.html |date=September 23, 2018 }} by Joanne Kaufman, ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 16, 2016</ref>
* [[Robert Mitchum]] (1917–1997),  actor<ref>Gene Freese (2019). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Western_Films_of_Robert_Mitchum/nEK9DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22robert+mitchum%22+%22hell%27s+kitchen%22&pg=PA10&printsec=frontcover ''The Western Films of Robert Mitchum; Hollywood's Cowboy Rebel'']</ref>
* [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]] (1927–2003), politician, sociologist, and diplomat<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/opinion/the-city-life-recalling-a-complicated-man.html |title=The City Life; Recalling a Complicated Man |first=Francis X. |last=Clines |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 15, 2004 |access-date=April 6, 2018 |archive-date=April 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407054254/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/opinion/the-city-life-recalling-a-complicated-man.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Brian Mullen]] (born 1962), NHL hockey player<ref name=Mullen>Allen, Kevin. [https://archive.today/20130104133550/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/55900749.html?dids=55900749:55900749&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+07,+1989&author=Kevin+Allen&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Mullen+brothers+come+long+way+from+Hell's+Kitchen&pqatl=google "Mullen brothers come long way from Hell's Kitchen"], ''[[USA Today]]'', February 7, 1989. Accessed August 11, 2009.</ref>
* [[Joe Mullen]] (born 1957), NHL hockey player<ref name=Mullen />
* [[Joakim Noah]] (born 1985), NBA basketball player<ref>Kussoy, Howie. [https://nypost.com/2016/10/28/thrives-in-madness-joakim-noahs-nyc-homecoming/ "You can't understand Joakim Noah until you know where he came from"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030234501/http://nypost.com/2016/10/28/thrives-in-madness-joakim-noahs-nyc-homecoming/ |date=October 30, 2017 }}, ''[[New York Post]]'', October 28, 2016. Accessed March 3, 2017. "A life set up to be overshadowed started in Manhattan, but Noah grew up in one of Paris' wealthiest suburbs, splitting time between his divorced parents. When he was 12, he moved to New York, living with his mother – who had moved to New York as a teenager – and younger sister, Yelena, near the corner of 51st Street and 10th Avenue. In Hell's Kitchen, he was no longer the child of France's favorite son."</ref>
* [[Trevor Noah]] (born 1984), comedian & actor<ref>Staff. [http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/trevor-noah-new-york-city-penthouse "Trevor Noah Bought a $10 Million New York City Penthouse; The comedian upgraded to the best apartment in his building"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304113655/http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/trevor-noah-new-york-city-penthouse |date=March 4, 2017 }}, ''[[Architectural Digest]]'', March 1, 2017. Accessed March 3, 2017. "After taking the helm of ''The Daily Show'', Trevor Noah's hard work has clearly paid off. The comedian just purchased a $10 million penthouse apartment in the same building where he's been renting for the past six months, reports StreetEasy. The duplex is located in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, which is conveniently close to where ''The Daily Show'' films."</ref>
* [[Paul O'Neill (producer)|Paul O'Neill]] (1956–2017), producer and founder of [[Trans-Siberian Orchestra]]<ref>Mervis, Scott. [http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2015/12/24/Music-Preview-Trans-Siberian-Orchestra-tour-leans-on-old-special-and-new-album/stories/201512240019 "Music Preview: Trans-Siberian Orchestra tour leans on old special and new album"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304035648/http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2015/12/24/Music-Preview-Trans-Siberian-Orchestra-tour-leans-on-old-special-and-new-album/stories/201512240019 |date=March 4, 2017 }}, ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'', December 24, 2015. Accessed March 3, 2017. {{"'}}I've always been fascinated by night', Mr. O'Neill says. 'Night is where the fringes of society can feel safe. At one point of my life I used to live in Hell's Kitchen, when I was younger, and at night you would see the winos, the schizophrenics, the drug addicts.{{'"}}</ref>
* [[Jerry Orbach]] (1935–2004), actor. Kept an apartment on Eighth Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets<ref>[[Ben Brantley|Brantley, Ben]]; Severo, Richard. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E1DA1739F933A05751C1A9629C8B63 "Jerry Orbach, Stage and TV Actor, Is Dead at 69"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701022129/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E1DA1739F933A05751C1A9629C8B63 |date=July 1, 2016 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 30, 2004. Accessed August 11, 2009.</ref>
* [[Tony Orlando]] (born 1944), singer<ref>Van Matre, Lynn. [http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1975/07/02/page/33/article/tony-orlando-fame-dawns-the-second-time-around "Tony Orlando: Fame dawns the second time around"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305034335/http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1975/07/02/page/33/article/tony-orlando-fame-dawns-the-second-time-around/ |date=March 5, 2017 }}, ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', July 2, 1975. Accessed March 3, 2017. "Raised in Manhattan's tough 'Hells' Kitchen' area (most of the people he grew up with, Orlando says, 'are either dead or in jail'), Tony attended high school only one week before dropping out."</ref>
* [[Ilka Tanya Payán]] (1943–1996), actress and AIDS activist<ref>Mason, Kiki. [https://www.poz.com/article/The-Lady-Is-a-Champ-1843-4155 "The Lady Is a Champ; Actress/Lawyer/Activist Ilka Tanya Payán fights for the glamorous life"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304041040/https://www.poz.com/article/The-Lady-Is-a-Champ-1843-4155 |date=March 4, 2017 }} ''[[POZ (magazine)]]'', August 1, 1995. Accessed March 3, 2017. "A homecare worker with a ring through her nose greets me at the door to Ilka Tanya Payán's high-rise apartment in Manhattan's West Fifties."</ref>
* [[Josh Peck]] (born 1986), actor, was born and raised in Hell's Kitchen<ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [http://www.today.com/popculture/josh-peck-leaves-drake-josh-behind-wbna25575638 "Josh Peck leaves ''Drake & Josh'' behind"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304035550/http://www.today.com/popculture/josh-peck-leaves-drake-josh-behind-wbna25575638 |date=March 4, 2017 }}, ''[[Today (American TV program)|Today]]'', July 7, 2008. Accessed March 3, 2017. "A shy, overweight kid growing up in New York's Hell's Kitchen, Peck says he got into standup comedy as young as he did simply because it was the only thing he was good at."</ref>
* [[Mario Puzo]] (1920–1999), author of ''[[The Godfather (novel)|The Godfather]]''<ref>Homberger, Eric. [https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/05/guardianobituaries "Mario Puzo: The author of the Godfather, the book the Mafia loved"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20210623224958/https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/05/guardianobituaries |date=June 23, 2021 }}, ''[[The Guardian]]'', July 5, 1999. Accessed August 10, 2009. "Born the son of illiterate Neapolitan immigrants, and one of 12 children, Puzo grew up in Hell's Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan."</ref><ref>[[Mel Gussow|Gussow, Mel]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/03/movies/mario-puzo-author-who-made-the-godfather-a-world-addiction-is-dead-at-78.html "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World Addiction, Is Dead at 78"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20210623225604/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/03/movies/mario-puzo-author-who-made-the-godfather-a-world-addiction-is-dead-at-78.html |date=June 23, 2021 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 3, 1999. Accessed July 9, 2016. "Mario Puzo was born in Hell's Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan. His parents were poor Italian-American immigrants from Naples (not, like the Corleones, from Sicily)."</ref>
* [[George Raft]] (1901–1980), actor<ref>via ''[[Associated Press]]'', [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hdQVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GBIEAAAAIBAJ&dq=george-raft%20hell's-kitchen&pg=4923%2C4855479 "'Tough guy' George raft dies of emphysema at 85"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403085611/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hdQVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GBIEAAAAIBAJ&dq=george-raft%20hell%27s-kitchen&pg=4923%2C4855479 |date=April 3, 2016 }}, ''[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|The Milwaukee Sentinel]]'', November 25, 1980. Accessed August 10, 2009. "After growing up in New York's tough Hell's Kitchen area, Raft was a boxer, electrician and baseball player before landing a job as a dancer in nightclubs in the 1920s."</ref>
* [[John Reed (novelist)|John Reed]] (born 1969), author<ref>[http://www.penparentis.org/portfolio/john-reed/ John Reed] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408195653/https://www.penparentis.org/portfolio/john-reed/ |date=April 8, 2023 }}, Pen Parentis, October 5, 2013. Accessed March 3, 2017. "I live with my wife and two young children in Hell's Kitchen."</ref>
* [[Mickey Rourke]] (born 1953), actor<ref>Frankel, Bruce. [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/56194355.html?dids=56194355:56194355&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+17%2C+1992&author=Bruce+Frankel&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Rourke+sits+in+on+trial+of+pal+Gotti&pqatl=google "Rourke sits in on trial of pal Gotti"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021215450/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/56194355.html?dids=56194355:56194355&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+17,+1992&author=Bruce+Frankel&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Rourke+sits+in+on+trial+of+pal+Gotti&pqatl=google |date=October 21, 2012 }}, ''[[USA Today]]'', March 17, 1992. Accessed August 10, 2009. "The bad-boy actor, who grew up in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, spent the morning in court on a 'family' – the Gotti family – pass, following transcripts of conversations between Gotti, Salvatore 'Sammy Bull' Gravano and others."</ref>
*[[Richie Scheinblum]] (1942–2021),  Major League Baseball player<ref>Hillel Kuttler (August 22, 2016). [https://jewishbaseballmuseum.com/spotlight-story/qa-richie-scheinblum-star-royals-lessons-playing-ted-williams/ "Q/A with Richie Scheinblum: All-Star with Royals; lessons from playing for Ted Williams,"] Jewish Baseball Museum.</ref> 
* [[Max Schneider]] (born 1992), singer-songwriter and actor<ref>[https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/max-hells-kitchen-angel "MAX"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413180939/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/max-hells-kitchen-angel |date=April 13, 2016 }}, ''Interview Magazine'', April 10, 2016.</ref>
* [[Kevin Spacey]] (born 1959), actor<ref>{{YouTube|9PEz8PQ5YPE|Guest Kevin Spacey}}, ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon]]'', May 2, 2014</ref>
* [[Vincent Speranza]] (1925–2023), WW2 veteran and hero of the [[siege of Bastogne]], born and raised in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood<ref>{{cite web | url=https://timesofsandiego.com/military/2022/09/24/you-could-see-forever-wwii-veterans-parachute-to-coronado-during-force-con/ | title='You Could See Forever': WWII Veteran Parachutes to Coronado During Force-Con | date=September 25, 2022 }}</ref>
* [[Mickey Spillane (mobster)|Mickey Spillane]] (1933–1977), mobster<ref>[[James Traub|Traub, James]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/05/magazine/the-lord-s-of-hell-s-kitchen.html?pagewanted=all "The Lord's of Hell's Kitchen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002710/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/05/magazine/the-lord-s-of-hell-s-kitchen.html?pagewanted=all |date=February 2, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 5, 1987. Accessed March 3, 2017. "By the Mid-1970s, Control over Hell's Kitchen crime had passed to the mythically named Michael (Mickey) Spillane. A bookmaker, loan shark and murderer, Spillane was one of the last of the old-fashioned gangsters, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and paying visits to the elderly."</ref>
* [[Sylvester Stallone]] (born 1946), actor who was born and raised in the area<ref>Gilbey, Ryan. [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/24/sylvester-stallone-profile-creed-rocky " Sylvester Stallone: the wacky people's champ who battled his own ego; Leading the race for best supporting actor Oscar for his comeback in Creed, this self-made star's creative fortunes have been inseparably bound to his most famous creation, Rocky Balboa"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408195719/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/24/sylvester-stallone-profile-creed-rocky |date=April 8, 2023 }}, ''[[The Guardian]]'', February 24, 2016. Accessed March 3, 2017. "He was born in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, to an astrologer mother and a father whom Stallone claimed ate raw sparrows and rabbit entrails."</ref>
* [[Lisa Velez]] (born 1966), singer of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam<ref>Hunt, Denis. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-05-ca-2229-story.html "Lisa Lisa Is Cookin' In Hell's Kitchen"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', July 5, 1987. Accessed March 3, 2017. "To hear Lisa Velez talk, you'd think New York City's infamous Hell's Kitchen—a dangerous, drug-infested slum—was paradise.... Usually kids grow up in Hell's Kitchen with one thought: escaping as soon as they are able. But Velez, the youngest of 10 children, had a different goal. She wanted to be a singer."</ref>
* [[Bruce Willis]] (born 1955), actor, lived at West 49th Street and Tenth Avenue as a struggling actor<ref>[[Kenneth Turan|Turan, Kenneth]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/01/movies/motion-pictures-bruce-willis-looks-for-the-man-within-the-icon.html?pagewanted=all "Motion Pictures; Bruce Willis Looks for the Man Within the Icon"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408195659/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/01/movies/motion-pictures-bruce-willis-looks-for-the-man-within-the-icon.html?pagewanted=all |date=April 8, 2023 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 1, 1990. Accessed August 15, 2017. "Somewhere in Hell's Kitchen, hard by West 49th Street and 10th Avenue in Manhattan, there is an apartment with Bruce Willis's name on it. A railroad flat where, for $175 a month, he bivouacked as one of New York's small army of aspiring actors, it still remains, and not by accident, in the man's family."</ref>
* [[Andrew Yang]] (born 1975), businessman, attorney, lobbyist, 2020 Democratic Party presidential and 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral candidate<ref>{{cite web|last=Balk|first=Tim|date=March 30, 2021|title=Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang says woman attacked in Hell's Kitchen 'could easily have been my mother'|website=[[New York Daily News]] |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nyc-elections-2021/ny-nyc-mayoral-candidate-andrew-yang-anti-asian-attacks-20210330-cwtbrt3aanffvcsrhgr762mewm-story.html|access-date=May 23, 2021}}</ref>{{div col end}}