Notable People
- Neil Bancroft, U.S. Army soldier in the Black Hills War
- Joey Belladonna, singer of heavy metal band Anthrax
- David Branshaw, PGA Tour golfer
- Fenimore Chatterton, sixth Governor of Wyoming
- Erik Cole, NHL hockey player, Olympian
- George Grant, doctor and inventor
- John Porter Hatch, Union army general
- Robert M. Hensel, disability advocate, poet and world record holder
- Mike O'Brien, a Hereditary Disease Foundation advocate who died in 2005 climbing Mt. Everest with his brother
- Willard Dickerman Straight, banker, diplomat, co-founder of The New Republic magazine
- Mary E. Walker, only female Civil War doctor, and only woman to receive the Medal of Honor
- Leigh Allison Wilson, author
- Curtis F. Shoup, Medal of Honor recipient.
- Owen Benjamin, formerly Smith, actor and comedian
- George Barnard, Civil War photographer and portrait photography pioneer
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld, ESPN SportsCenter anchors Steve Levy and Linda Cohn, and NBC's Today Show Weatherman Al Roker all attended SUNY Oswego.
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