Notable Residents
Notable current and former residents of the Five Towns include:
- Lyle Alzado (1949-1992), NFL football player
- Lee Bienstock (born 1983), Apprentice 5 runner up
- Bruce Blakeman, Politician, Member of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
- Ross Bleckner (born 1949), artist.
- Peter Breggin, Psychiatrist
- Howard Deutch (born 1950), movie director
- John DiResta, actor / comedian
- Debra Drimmer, VP of Talent, Comedy Central
- Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut
- Jane Friedman, President and CEO, HarperCollins
- Jeffrey M. Friedman (born 1954), molecular geneticist and discoverer of leptin.
- James E. Gaffney, owner of the Braves baseball team, winners of the 1914 World Series
- Lisa Glasberg, NYC radio DJ
- Barbara Gaines, Producer, Late Show with David Letterman, Emmy Award Winner
- Rande Gerber, nightclub owner married to Cindy Crawford
- Brent Glass, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Louise Glück, Poet, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993, United States Poet Laureate 2003-04
- Carolyn Gusoff, WNBC News Anchor
- Mickey Hart, Drummer of The Grateful Dead
- Red Holzman (1920-1998), New York Knicks head coach.
- David M. Israel, TV Producer/Writer
- Donna Karan (born 1948), fashion designer.
- Aline Kominsky-Crumb, comics artist
- Peggy Lipton (born 1946), actress
- Steve Madden (born 1958), shoe designer.
- Gene Mayer, professional tennis player.
- Harvey Milk (1930-1978), first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States, as a city supervisor in San Francisco.
- Bruce Murray, host Murray in the Morning Radio Show
- The Legendary Danny O'Doul, Featured Columnist in The South Shore Standard, legendary singer, master chef, Friend of the American Indian and Celebrity Metallurgist.
- Evan Roberts, WFAN Host.
- Seth Rudetsky, composer, musical director and talk show host.
- Peter Shulman, Well known artist (born 1937 Lawrence)
- Jim Steinman, music producer, composer
- Rob Weiss, director/producer Amongst Friends, Entourage.
- Stuart Weitzman, shoe designer
- Leslie West (born 1945), musician of the hard rock group Mountain.
- Alan Zweibel (born 1950), writer / producer.
- Jake Burton Carpenter (born 1954), / founder and owner of Burton Snowboards.
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