Notable Residents
Notable current and former residents of Corona include:
- Cannonball Adderley (1928–1975), jazz alto saxophonist
- Nat Adderley (1931–2000), jazz cornet and trumpet player
- Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), jazz trumpeter, whose house is now a museum
- Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, Pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church
- Maurice E. Connolly (1881–1935), Queens Borough President from 1911 to 1928
- Marie Maynard Daly (1921–2003), first African American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry
- Harry Diaz (born 1973), Civil Engineer
- Peter T. Farrell (c. 1901–1992), judge who presided over the trial of bank robber Willie Sutton
- Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996), jazz vocalist
- Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993), jazz trumpeter
- Jimmy Heath (born 1926), jazz saxophonist
- Lena Horne (1917–2010), singer and actress
- Crockett Johnson (1906-1975), cartoonist and author of children's books, lived here when he was a boy, c. 1912-1924.
- Estée Lauder (1906–2004), founder of the cosmetics company that bears her name
- Johnny LoBianco (1915–2001), boxing referee
- Frankie Lymon, jazz musician
- Madonna (born 1958), singer lived here from 1979–1980 as a member of the band Breakfast Club
- Frankie Manning (1914–2009), popularized the Lindy Hop
- Helen Marshall, Queens Borough President (2002 - )
- Omar Minaya (born 1958), Former General Manager of the Montreal Expos and New York Mets
- Robert Parris Moses, a legendary figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and later founder of the Algebra Project, lived at 108-63 Ditmars Boulevard in Corona
- Carlos D. Ramirez (1946–1999), publisher of El Diario La Prensa
- Charlie Shavers, jazz musician
- Clark Terry (born 1920), Swing trumpeter
- Jim Valvano (1946–1993), basketball coach
- Marie Maynard Daly (1921–2003)]biochemist, the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Chemistry.
- Hip-hop musicians from Corona
- The Beatnuts
- Kid 'n Play
- Kool G Rap (born 1968), rapper.
- Kwamé Raper/producer aka Kwamé Holland
- Noreaga
- Salt-n-Pepa
- V.I.C.
- Styles P of The L.O.X. born in Corona
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