Noted Castle Garden Immigrants
This list is an incomplete sampling
- Martin Beck, founder and owner of the Orpheum vaudeville circuit
- Edward Bok (Holland)
- Mother Cabrini (Italy)
- James J. Davis (Wales)
- William Fox (producer)
- L. Wolfe Gilbert (Russia)
- Emma Goldman
- Oscar Hammerstein I
- Harry Houdini
- Lew Leslie
- Carl Laemmle, founder of the Universal Studios
- Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon)
- M. P. Moller
- William Morris, founder of the William Morris Agency
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Michael I. Pupin
- J. William Schickel, architect of the firm Schickel & Ditmars
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
- Nikola Tesla
- Sophie Tucker
- Bert Williams
- Adolph Zukor
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