Saratoga Springs, New York - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

Actors
  • Charles Brackett, Hollywood screenwriter and producer
  • Dave Cummings, Adult Hall of Fame performer, grew up in Saratoga Springs
  • David Hyde Pierce, 1977 Saratoga Springs High School graduate and winner of the Yaddo Medal
  • Scott Valentine, television (Family Ties) and motion picture actor, graduate of Saratoga Springs High School
  • Monty Woolley, American actor, best known for his role in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner; grew up in Saratoga Springs, where his father managed the Grand Union Hotel
Sports figures
  • Jerry Bailey, Retired jockey
  • Dave Erb, 1956 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner on the colt Needles, won many other stakes races; lives in neighboring Greenfield, New York, which borders Saratoga Springs.
  • Kathleen Kauth, hockey player; 2006 Olympic bronze medalist; currently plays for the NWHL's Brampton Thunder
  • Justin Morrow, figure-skater; two-time national ice-dancing medalist; 2005 Saratoga Springs High School graduate
  • Bill Parcells, retired football coach; owns a summer/retirement home overlooking a local golf course
  • Dottie Pepper-Normoyle, golfer; 1983 graduate of Saratoga Springs High School, daughter of Major League basketball player Don Pepper
  • Giana Roberge, professional cyclist; 2004 Master's World Time-Trial Champion; former owner of Paradox Bicycle Center on Church St.; Skidmore graduate
  • Tim Stauffer, Major League Baseball pitcher in the San Diego Padres system; attended Saratoga Central Catholic High School
  • Anthony Weaver, football player; former defensive end with the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans, 1998 Saratoga Springs High School graduate
Musicians
  • Dorian Crozier, drummer who has sat in with Five for Fighting and The Rembrandts; 1989 Saratoga Springs High School graduate
  • The Figgs, a band formed in 1987 by Mike Gent, Pete Donnelly, and Guy Lyons, 1989 and 1990 Saratoga Springs High School graduates
  • Dave Luetkenhoelter, bass player for Kutless; lived in Saratoga Springs for a short time during high school
  • Chauncey Olcott, famed Irish tenor and composer, author of My Wild Irish Rose maintained a home Inniscara in Saratoga Springs.
  • Sarah Pedinotti, young jazz singer with albums positively review by Billboard Magazine
  • Utah Phillips, while not a native, began his career as a professional musician while living in Saratoga
  • Scott Underwood, drummer for and member of Train; 1990 Saratoga Springs High School graduate
  • The band Phantogram
Authors
  • Jeff Goodell, author and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine
  • Danny Hakim, reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner for the New York Times
  • James Howard Kunstler, writer and social critic, former resident, since moved to Washington County, New York
  • John McPherson, Internationally syndicated cartoonist, creator of the comic "Close to Home"
  • Steven Millhauser, writer, winner of 1997 Pulitzer Prize.
  • Solomon Northup, lived and worked in the town, was a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery; wrote Twelve Years a Slave after regaining freedom in 1853
  • Frank Sullivan, writer, The New Yorker
  • Craig Wilson, columnist for USA Today, formerly columnist for the Saratogian
Others
  • Ransom Cook (1794–1881), long-time resident of Saratoga, inventor of the Cook Auger, or "Beetle Bit"
  • George Crum, inventor of the potato chip; a Native American/African American chef at Moon's Lake House on Saratoga Lake
  • Charles F. Dowd (1825–1904), co-principal with his wife Harriet M. Dowd of the Temple Grove Ladies Seminary, now Skidmore College)
  • Justin Michael Jenkins, artist, designer for Susan Polgar; 1989 Saratoga Springs High School graduate
  • Ulysses S. Grant, late life resident; died of cancer in 1885 at his cottage on Mt. McGregor just north of Saratoga Springs.
  • Gene Markey, screenwriter, producer, U.S. Naval officer
  • Jane Roberts, author, psychic and trance medium or spirit medium.
  • Nick Steele, noted fashion stylist; grew up in Saratoga and his family still resides there
  • Marylou Whitney, socialite; maintains a home at Cady Hill
  • Mollie Wilmot, socialite, philanthropist
  • Matt Rhoades, campaign manger for the 2012 Romney-Ryan presidential campaign
  • Jonathan "Glades" Gibbs, social media strategist, pop culture critic

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