Current and Former Residents
- Jason Blake, NHL All-Star
- Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, Nobel Prize winner
- Matt Daley, New York Yankees pitcher
- Dave Debusschere, NBA Hall of Famer
- Nelson DeMille, author
- Kent Desormeaux, jockey
- John Gibson, journalist
- C.G.P. Grey, YouTube educator
- Kemp Hannon, New York state senator
- Joe Iconis, musical theater writer
- Greg Kelly, television anchor
- Harvey J. Levin, pioneer of communications economics, holder of Long Island's first research chair, Hofstra University
- Susan Lucci, actress; grew up in Garden City, worked at the Garden City Hotel, and in 1978 moved back to Garden City
- Eric Mangini, former New York Jets coach
- Curtis Martin, former New York Jet running back
- Christopher Masterson, actor
- Danny Masterson, actor
- Kevin Mawae, former NFL Pro Bowl center and president of NFL Player's Association
- Jennifer McLogan, TV news reporter
- Connell McShane, Fox Business Network
- Richard Migliore, horse jockey
- Joe Mohen, internet entrepreneur
- Bill Moyers, journalist
- Elliott Murphy, singer-songwriter
- Joe Namath, former New York Jets quarterback, Pro Football Hall of Famer, Super Bowl champion
- Walter Hines Page, United States Ambassador to England during World War I, and co-founder of Doubleday, Page and Co. publishing
- Zigmund Palffy, 4-time NHL All-Star
- Mark Parrish, NHL All-Star
- Ethan Phillips, television actor, Star Trek Voyager
- Denis Potvin, NHL All-Star
- Telly Savalas, actor
- Leslie Segrete, Trading Spaces carpenter, designer
- Lara Spencer, TV host
- Mark Streit, NHL All-Star
- Johnny Sylvester (1915–1990), received as a seriously-ill child a promise from Babe Ruth that he would hit a home run in the 1926 World Series on his behalf.
- John Tesh, musician, news anchor
- William Bradford Turner World War I hero, recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor
- Paul Zaloom, actor and puppeteer best known as Beakman on Beakman's World
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Famous quotes containing the words current and/or residents:
“Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)