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==Notable people== <!--- Keep list in alphabetical order by surname/family name --->{{div col|colwidth=30em|rules=yes}} * [[Frank Abagnale|Frank Abagnale, Jr.]] (born 1948), security consultant and former [[impostor]]/[[forgery|forger]], subject of the book ''[[Catch Me if You Can (autobiography)|Catch Me if You Can]]'' and its [[Catch Me If You Can|2002 film adaptation]]<ref>{{cite book | last1=Harris | first1=Scott | last2=Redding | first2=Stan | title=Catch Me If You Can | location=[[New York City|New York]] | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5rqO-Hes4vYC&q=Frank+W.+Abagnale+Catch+Me+If+You+Can | publisher=Random House, Inc | year=2008 | page=6 | isbn=978-0-7679-0538-1 | access-date=December 20, 2014}}</ref> * [[Roy Chapman Andrews]] (1884β1960), explorer for the American Museum of Natural History<ref name="Bronxville History">{{cite web|url=http://www.villageofbronxville.com/sube2_history17.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723142126/http://www.villageofbronxville.com/sube2_history17.htm|title=History - The Village of Bronxville|archive-date=July 23, 2013|work=villageofbronxville.com|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Harriet Hubbard Ayer]] (1849β1903), pioneer of the womenβs cosmetics industry<ref name="Bronxville History"/> * [[Kenneth Bacon]] (1944β2009), [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] spokesman who later served as president of [[Refugees International]]<ref>Martin, Douglas. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/us/16bacon.html "K. H. Bacon, an Advocate For Refugees, Is Dead at 64"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 15, 2009. Accessed August 16, 2009.</ref> * [[Harrison Bader]] (born 1994), [[Major League Baseball]] outfielder for the [[Minnesota Twins]], and previously with the [[New York Mets]], [[St. Louis Cardinals]], [[New York Yankees]], and [[Cincinnati Reds]]. * [[Chris Baio]] (born 1984), musician<ref>{{cite news|author=Meredith Matthews |title= Bronxville Grad, Chris Baio, Makes It Big Time in One of Country's Hottest Rock Bands: "Vampire Weekend" |publisher= myhometownBronxville |date=April 28, 2010 |url=http://www.myhometownbronxville.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1695:chris-baio-bronxville-03-grad-makes-it-big-time-in-one-of-countrys-hottest-rock-bands-qvampiere-weekendq&catid=3:art-drama-music-books&Itemid=3 |access-date=January 19, 2024 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714143143/http://www.myhometownbronxville.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1695:chris-baio-bronxville-03-grad-makes-it-big-time-in-one-of-countrys-hottest-rock-bands-qvampiere-weekendq&catid=3:art-drama-music-books&Itemid=3 |archive-date=July 14, 2011 }}</ref> * [[Clarence Barnhart]] (1900β1993), lexicographer, noted for the Thorndike-Barnhart school dictionary series.<ref>{{cite news |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |date=26 October 1993 |title= Clarence Lewis Barnhart Dies; Editor of Dictionaries Was 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/26/obituaries/clarence-lewis-barnhart-dies-editor-of-dictionaries-was-92.html |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |location=New York |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526094736/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/26/obituaries/clarence-lewis-barnhart-dies-editor-of-dictionaries-was-92.html |archive-date=May 26, 2015 |access-date=January 19, 2024}}</ref> * [[Andrew Brooks]] (1969β2021), associate research professor at [[Rutgers University]] and immunologist, who was the developer of the first [[Food and Drug Administration|FDA]]-approved rapid saliva test for [[COVID-19]] diagnosis.<ref>Risen, Clay. [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/science/andrew-brooks-dead.html "Andrew Brooks, Who Developed a Coronavirus Spit Test, Dies at 51"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 31, 2021. Accessed February 1, 2021. "Andrew Ira Brooks was born on Feb. 10, 1969, in Bronxville, N.Y."</ref> * [[Henry Billings Brown]], US Supreme Court justice, died at the Gramatan Hotel in 1913. * [[Felicia Bond]], author and illustrator of children's books<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/lifestyle/2007/03/10/inspired-to-become-book-illustrator/52951895007/|title= Inspired to become a book illustrator|date=March 9, 2007|work=South Coast Today|last=MacPherson |first=Karen}}</ref> * [[Marvin Bower]], former managing director of McKinsey & Co.<ref>Elizabeth Haas Edersheim, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=0IgM9Xm3Q-4C&dq McKinsey's Marvin Bower]'', at books.google.com</ref> * [[Mika Brzezinski]], television journalist on ''[[Morning Joe]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mika-brzezinski-jim-hoffer-home_n_3134225|title= Inside Mika Brzezinski And Jim Hoffer's Gorgeous 1920s English Tudor Home Designed By Larry Burns |date=April 22, 2013|work=[[HuffPost]]|last=Ecker |first=Shana}}</ref> * [[Thomas S. Buechner]] (1936β2010), founding director of the [[Corning Museum of Glass]] and director of the [[Brooklyn Museum]]<ref>Grimes, William. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/arts/design/18buechner.html "Thomas S. Buechner, Former Director of Brooklyn Museum, Dies at 83"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 17, 2010. Accessed June 19, 2010.</ref> * [[William J. Burns]], founder of the Burns Detective Agency, and director of the FBIβs predecessor organization<ref name="Bronxville History"/> * [[Mary Cain (athlete)|Mary Cain]], middle distance runner * [[Dick Clark]], host of [[American Bandstand]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/arts/television/dick-clark-tv-host-and-icon-of-new-years-eve-is-dead-at-82.html?pagewanted=all |title=TV Emperor of Rock 'n' Roll and New Year's Eve Dies at 82 |author=Bruce Weber |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=February 16, 2023 |date=April 18, 2012}}</ref> * [[Juanin Clay|Juanin Clay de Zalduondo]], American actress * [[Janet Cox-Rearick Waldman|Janet Cox-Rearick]], art historian * [[Elizabeth Custer]], widow of General George Armstrong Custer<ref name="Bronxville History"/> * [[Jeanne Darst]], writer, Fiction Ruined My Family * [[Don DeLillo]], writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perival.com/delillo/ddawards.html|title=DeLillo's Awards|work=perival.com}}</ref> * [[Lawrence Dutton]], musician * [[Francis William Edmonds]] (1806β63), genre painter<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1263.html |title=Francis William Edmonds biography |work=[[National Gallery of Art]] |location=Washington, D. C. |access-date=October 12, 2020 }}</ref> * [[Michelle Ekizian]], is an American composer. * [[Ford C. Frick]], National League President - The third Major League Commissioner of Baseball<ref name="Bronxville History"/> * [[Timothy Geithner]], owned a home in Bronxville before his appointment as treasury secretary in 2009. * [[Brendan Gill]], famed ''New Yorker'' writer<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=28jiMnfuWvMC Here at the New Yorker]'', Brendan Gill</ref> * [[Michael Gates Gill]], author of ''How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else''<ref>''[[How Starbucks Saved My Life]]'', Michael Gates Grill</ref> * [[Roger Goodell]], commissioner of the [[National Football League]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://broncos.scout.com/2/555292.html|title=Denver Broncos NFL Football Front Page|work=scout.com|access-date=January 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061106213501/http://broncos.scout.com/2/555292.html|archive-date=November 6, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Don Herbert]] (1917-2007), television host<ref name="Bronxville History"/> * [[John Hoyt]], actor<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=John Hoyt Is Dead; Actor, 86, Played In Films and on TV |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/21/arts/john-hoyt-is-dead-actor-86-played-in-films-and-on-tv.html |work=The New York Times |location=New York, USA |date=September 21, 1991 |access-date=December 30, 2017 }}</ref> * [[Rose Kennedy]], Kennedy family matriarch<ref name="Bronxville History"/> * [[Joseph P. Kennedy]], Kennedy family patriarch. Ambassador to Great Britain and 1st Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission * [[Robert F. Kennedy]], 64th attorney general and U.S. senator from New York<ref name="Bronxville History"/> * [[Ted Kennedy]], U.S. senator from Massachusetts<ref name="Bronxville History"/> * [[John F. Kennedy]], 35th president of the United States of America, U.S. senator from Massachusetts<ref>[http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/John+F.+Kennedy+Residences.htm JFK Presidential Library]</ref> * [[Denison Kitchel]], campaign manager for [[Barry M. Goldwater]] in [[U.S. presidential election, 1964|1964]], was born in Bronxville in 1908.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/22/us/denison-kitchel-94-chief-of-goldwater-campaign.html|title=Denison Kitchel, 94, Chief of Goldwater Campaign, October 20, 2002|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 22, 2002 |access-date=June 2, 2013}}</ref> * [[Lawrence Kohlberg]], a psychologist and developer of [[Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development|theories on stages of moral development]]. * [[Steve Liesman]], television reporter * [[Jamie Loeb]] (born 1995), tennis player * [[James Grover McDonald]] diplomat and first U.S. Ambassador to Israel. * [[Ginna Marston|Ginna Sulcer Marston]], [[public service announcement|public service advertiser]], attended Bronxville high school * [[Ed McMahon]], television host<ref name="Bronxville History"/> * [[Jose Melis]], musician and band leader for Jack Paar on ''The Tonight Show'' * [[Jack Paar]], radio and television talk show host<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101008075702/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939624,00.html "After Appotamattox"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. (February 22, 1960).</ref> * [[Frank Patterson]], Irish tenor * [[Mark Patterson (investor)|Mark Patterson]], investor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myhometownbronxville.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=922:mark-patterson-chairman-of-matlin-patterson-global-advisers-to-speak-at-concordia-business-breakfast-october-6&catid=107:financial-and-legal-services&Itemid=33|title=Mark Patterson, Chairman of Matlin Patterson Global Advisers, to Speak at Concordia Business Breakfast October 6|work=myhometownbronxville.com}}</ref> * [[Gretchen Peters]], country singer/songwriter<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gretchen-peters-mn0000197165/biography Gretchen Peters] Biography at Allmusic.com, Retrieved May 10, 2023.</ref> * [[Peter Pennoyer]], architect * [[Eddie Rickenbacker]], World War I fighter pilot, and later president of Eastern Airlines<ref name="Bronxville History"/> * [[Dennis Ritchie]], one of the creators of Unix and the C programming language<ref>[[Bell Labs]] [http://www1.bell-labs.com/history/unix/ritchiebio.html biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509141027/http://www1.bell-labs.com/history/unix/ritchiebio.html |date=May 9, 2008 }}</ref><ref>Keill, Liz. [http://www.nj.com/independentpress/index.ssf/2011/02/japan_prize_for_unix_was_a_sur.html "Berkeley Heights man wins Japan Prize for inventing UNIX operating system"], ''Independent Press'', February 1, 2011. Accessed October 17, 2011. "Ritchie, 69, has lived in Berkeley Heights for 15 years. He was born in Bronxville, NY, grew up in Summit and attended Summit High School before going to Harvard University."</ref> * [[Gary Robinson]], software entrepreneur{{citation needed|date=March 2013}} * [[Ron Rothstein]] (born 1942), NBA basketball coach and college basketball player * [[Chuck Scarborough]], news anchor<ref name="Bronxville History"/> * [[William E. Schluter]] (1927-2018), politician who served in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] and the [[New Jersey Senate]].<ref>Shea, Kevin. [https://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2018/08/bill_schluter_former_state_senator_who_ran_for_governor_dies_at_90.html "Bill Schluter, former state senator who ran for governor, dies at 90"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], August 6, 2018. Accessed August 7, 2018. "Born in Bronxville, New York and raised in Princeton, Schluter graduated from Princeton University in 1950, where he played varsity hockey all four years.."</ref> * [[Tad Smith]], CEO of [[Sotheby's]]<ref name=Olshan>{{cite web|title=Caroline Mitchell Fitzgibbons|url=http://olshan.com/agentbio.php?ag=31|website=Olshan|access-date=March 24, 2015}}</ref> * [[Frederick D. Sulcer]], advertising executive who wrote ''Put a Tiger in Your Tank'' for [[ExxonMobil]]<ref name=twsC13>{{cite news|author=David Kaplan |title=Sulcer, 77, Former DDB Needham Exec, Dies |publisher=all Business |quote=NEW YORK Frederick D. "Sandy" Sulcer, a former executive at DDB Needham Worldwide, ... created the well-known "Put a tiger in your tank" theme line for Esso (now ExxonMobil) ... |date=January 2004 |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/4134172-1.html |access-date=October 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825175431/http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/4134172-1.html |archive-date=August 25, 2009 }}</ref><ref name=twsC34>{{cite news |author= Michael Strauss |title= Andover Triumphs; Lewis Scores Two |newspaper= The New York Times |quote= ... For Sandy Sulcer of Bronxville, NY ... |date= November 11, 1973 |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70914FF3E5D127A93C3A8178AD95F478785F9 |access-date= October 3, 2011}}</ref> * [[Ruth Ann Swenson]], operatic soprano<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842442/|title=Ruth Ann Swenson|work=IMDb}}</ref> * [[Philip Torchio]], electrical engineer with Edison Electric Company<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/torchio.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409151024/http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/torchio.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 9, 2008|title=IEEE|work=[[IEEE]]}}</ref> * [[Charles J. Urstadt]], real estate executive * [[David Kenyon Webster]], World War 2 soldier in Easy Company, the "Band of Brothers" * [[Witold Woyda]], Polish Olympic gold medalist. {{Div col end}}
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