Notable People
- Carlos Alazraqui – American actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist & voice actor
- Anthrax – Influential thrash metal band
- Edwin Howard Armstrong – transmitted first FM radio broadcast
- David Berkowitz – notable serial killer known as the Son of Sam
- James Blake – tennis player
- Mary J. Blige – R&B Singer
- Mike Breen – sports broadcaster
- Billy Burch- professional hockey player
- Sid Caesar – actor/composer/writer
- Robert Celestino – writer/director
- Dave Costa – Saunders HS 1957–59, NFL 4-time Pro Bowler
- Cathy DeBuono – actress/psychotherapist/radio show host for LA Talk
- Doug DeWitt – professional boxer
- DMX – rapper/actor
- Tiziano Thomas Dossena – Writer/editor
- Tommy Dreamer – professional wrestler
- Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. – Pictorialist photographer
- Ella Fitzgerald – jazz singer
- Thomas Mikal Ford – actor
- Frances Foster – actress
- Ron Garan – Astronaut
- Tawny Godin – Miss America 1976
- W.C. Handy – composer and musician
- Lewis Hine – photographer
- Joe Howard – actor
- Immolation – Influential death metal band
- Ethel D. Jacobs – thoroughbred racehorse owner
- Jadakiss – Rapper, member of The LOX
- Ekrem Jevrić – Montenegrin singer/rapper
- Eddie Kingston – professional wrestler
- Gene Krupa – jazz musician
- Joe Lapchick – basketball coach
- Stagga Lee – musician
- Henrietta Wells Livermore – women's suffragist leader
- Sheek Louch – Rapper, member of The LOX
- Richard Masur – actor
- Lawrence Monoson – actor
- Cathy Moriarty – actress
- John Howard Northrop - co-recipient of 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Elisha Otis – Inventor of the elevator and Otis Elevator Company
- Outasight -singer/rapper
- Erik Palladino – actor
- Eulace Peacock – American track and field athlete who defeated Jesse Owens in sprints
- Kevin Puts – Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
- Patrick Quinlan – author, activist
- Will Rahmer – musician
- Sally Regenhard – community activist
- Vincent Richards – professional tennis player
- Steve Ridzik – professional baseball player
- Adam Rodriguez – actor
- Betty Shabazz – widow of civil rights leader Malcolm X
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz – German-American mathematician and electrical engineer
- Joseph Stilwell – U.S. Army General during World War I and World War II
- Avery Storm – R&B Singer
- Styles P – Rapper, member of The LOX
- Brian Sweeney – professional baseball player
- Chip Taylor – songwriter (brother of Jon Voight)
- Paul Teutul, Sr. – founder of Orange County Choppers and reality television personality on American Chopper
- Samuel J. Tilden – former Governor of New York and winner of the popular vote in the disputed Presidential Election of 1876
- Steven Tyler – musician, member of Aerosmith
- Jon Voight – actor
- Elsie B. Washington – author
- Tom Wolk – Hall & Oates session musician
- George Wright – baseball pioneer
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