Notable Residents
- Ken Levine, Creator of Bioshock Series, CEO of Irrational Games
- Cathy Ladman, stand-up comedian, actor, writer (grew up in Little Neck)
- Judd Apatow, stand-up comedian, director, producer, screenwriter
- Annet Artani, singer/songwriter and international pop star
- Yak Ballz, rapper, born Yashar Zadeh
- Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America
- Jerry Beck, animation historian
- Michael Bellusci, musician
- Black Sheep (hip hop group), rap group
- James A. Bland singer and composer
- Joe Bolton (September 8, 1910 – August 13, 1986) was the host of the WPIX show "Clubhouse Gang" and "The Three Stooges Funhouse" as Officer Joe Bolton. Bolton was also The Police Chief mc of"The Dick Tracy Show".
- Godfrey Cambridge African American comedian and actor
- Fidel "Fidelito" Castro Díaz-Balart, Cuban leader Fidel Castro's son
- Joseph Cornell, artist
- Action Bronson, rapper
- Fran Drescher, actress, author, politician/humanitarian, cancer survivor, activist (known for The Nanny as Fran Fine)
- Tom Duane, first outwardly gay member of the New York State Senate
- Jimmy Durante, comedian
- Jon Favreau, actor/producer/director
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), novelist
- Franky G, actor
- Mic Geronimo, rapper
- Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator
- Mary Gordon, writer
- Al Greenwood, former keyboardist of Foreigner
- Marvin Hamlisch, composer
- Heejun Han, American Idol contestant
- Mark Hurd, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
- Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning stage actress and poet
- Steve Karsay, Baseball player
- Keith and The Girl, podcasters
- Kevin "Flushing Flash" Kelley, boxer
- Large Professor, hip-hop producer
- Gene Larkin, Major League Baseball player
- Lewis Latimer, inventor – Lewis H. Latimer House is a designated New York City Landmark
- Gene Mayer, tennis player
- Sandy Mayer, tennis player
- Nettie Mayersohn, New York Asssemblywoman from 1983 to 2011
- Charles Momsen, vice admiral who organized rescue of USS Squalus
- Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer
- Rick Moonen, executive chef of RM Seafood and R Bar Café at Mandalay Bay
- Lewis Mumford, architecture critic and historian
- A. Douglas Nash, Manager and Designer for world-famous Tiffany Glassworks, resided in the Waldheim neighborhood
- Prong, crossover thrash band
- Richard Outcault, creator of Buster Brown and Hogan's Alley
- Samuel Parsons, landscape architect
- Nancy Reagan, actress and First Lady
- Richard Riorden, Los Angeles mayor
- Royal Flush, rapper
- John Seery, artist
- Kasey Smith, Danger Danger keyboardist
- Paul Stanley, member of the band KISS
- Beau Starr, actor
- Mike Starr, actor
- Jeannie Suk, Professor of Law / Harvard Law School
- Himanshu Suri, musician
- Bill Viola, video artist
- Suzanne Weyn, children's author
- Harvey and Bob Weinstein, founders of Miramax and the Weinstein Company
- John Williams, academy award winning film composer
- John Vinocur, journalist
- Najibullah Zazi, convicted al-Qaeda member
- Henry E. Steinway
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