List of people from the Bronx

Academics and science

• Richard Alba – Distinguished CCNY Professor of ethnicity and assimilation
• Jill Bargonetti – biologist and Presidential Early Career Award winner
• Marshall Berman – philosopher of modernity; author of All That Is Solid Melts into Air
• Norman Birnbaum – author, educator, political advisor; University Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center; taught at Amherst College, London School of Economics, Oxford University, University of Strasbourg
• Ira Black – neuroscientist and stem-cell researcher; first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey
• Xavier Briggs – Former professor of planning at MIT, former associate director of Office of Management and Budget, former vice-president of Ford Foundation. Sometimes known as "Xavier de Souza Briggs"
• Roscoe Brown – Tuskegee airman, exercise physiologist, President, Bronx Community College, New York City political adviser
• Charles DeLisi – Arthur Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering, Boston University. Dean emeritus, College of Engineering
• Morton Deutsch – conflict resolution expert
• W.E.B. Du Bois – sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist.
• Gertrude B. Elion – Nobel Prize biochemist and pharmacologist
• Murray Gell-Mann – Nobel Prize physicist of sub-atomic particle.
• Todd Gitlin – sociologist; co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society
• Fred Greenstein – political scientist who psychologically assessed U.S. presidents
• Henry Heimlich – physician inventor of the Heimlich maneuver
• Matthew Henson – Explorer, co-discoverer of the North Pole
• Gary Hermalyn – Centennial Historian of New York City, Edgar Allan Poe scholar
• Irving Howe – literary critic, socialist writer, author of World of Our Fathers
• Samuel P. Huntington – Government Professor at Harvard University; co-editor of Foreign Policy; author of political science works related to the modernization of societies, particularly those of developing nations
• Adrian Kantrowitz – cardiac-surgery pioneer
• Arthur Kantrowitz – nose cone physicist; co-inventor of the intra-aortic balloon pump
• Jeffrey Lane – urban ethnographer, Rutgers University
• Robert Lefkowitz – 2012 recipient of Nobel prize for chemistry of protein receptors
• Howard Lesnick – Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Norman Levitt – mathematician at Rutgers University
• Paul Levinson – science-fiction and non-fiction author; communications professor
• Ronald Mallett – theoretical physicist of time travel
• Barry Mazur – mathematician and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
• Joseph M. McShane – Jesuit priest; president of Fordham University
• Stanley Milgram – psychologist known for obedience to authority and small world studies
• Joseph A. O'Hare – Jesuit priest; longest-serving president of Fordham University ; first chair of New York City Campaign Finance Board
• Jay Pasachoff – astronomer, umbraphile
• Carolyn Porco – planetary scientist; leader of the Cassini space observatory team at the Colorado Space Science Institute, studying Saturn
• Allan Pred – geographer at University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley
• Howard Raiffa – economist; negotiation scientist
• Murray Rothbard – economist; helped define modern libertarianism
• Ken Schaffer – inventor; invented the wireless guitar system, video placeshifting
• Joseph Francis Shea – aerospace engineer; headed NASA's Apollo program
• Robert Sobel – historian and writer; history professor at Hofstra University; writer of business histories
• Edward Soja – postmodern political geography and urban theorist at UCLA
• Michael I. Sovern – Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and President Emeritus of Columbia University
• Robert Spinrad – computer designer; director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
• Mark Steiner – professor of philosophy of mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Leonard Susskind – theoretical physicist
• Neil deGrasse Tyson – astrophysicist; director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium; host of PBS's educational-television series NOVA scienceNOW and Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey and Cosmos: Possible Worlds.
• Lloyd Ultan (historian) – official historian of the Bronx
• Allen Weinstein – historian; Archivist of the United States
• Barry Wellman – sociologist; University of Toronto professor studying social networks, community and the Internet
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow – medical physicist; co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi – historian; Salo Baron Professor of Jewish history at Columbia University

Arts

Architects

• Vito Acconci – architect, landscape architect and installation artist
• Horace Ginsbern – architect; designed the landmark Art Deco Park Plaza Apartments on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx, and other New York City structures
• Daniel Libeskind – architect

Filmmakers

• Stanley Kubrick – film director, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, storyteller
• Gerard Malanga – filmmaker, poet, photographer, actor, curator and archivist

Photographers

• Robert Altman – photographer
• Richard Avedon – photographer
• Alvin Baltrop – photographer
• Margaret Bourke-White – photographer
• Ron Galella – paparazzo photographer
• Garry Gross – fashion photographer, dog portraiture photographer and dog trainer
• Marcey Jacobson – photographer; images of daily life in Chiapas, Mexico
• Joel Meyerowitz – photographer
• Ralph Morse – photographer
• Phil Stern – photographer in Hollywood, WWII and the White House
• Raven B. Varona – photographer.

Visual artists and designers

• Vito Acconci – architect, landscape architect and installation artist
• Bernard Bernstein metalsmith, silversmith and teacher
• Cope2 – graffiti artist
• Willie Cole – visual artist; uses found material such as his "America" blackboard
• Ralph Fasanella – painter
• Milton Glaser – graphic designer; designer of the "I Love New York" logo
• Sabin Howard – figurative sculptor, noted for U.S. World War I national monument
• Al Held – abstract painter; associated with Abstract expressionism, Hard-edge and Color Field painting
• Joel Iskowitz – illustrator, artist, designer for United States Mint
• C. Paul Jennewein – sculptor
• Ivan Karp – art dealer
• Ronnie Landfield – abstract painter; associated with lyrical abstraction, and color field painting
• Glenn Ligon – conceptual artist
• Whitfield Lovell, contemporary visual artist – painter and installation artist; focuses on African-American themes; MacArthur Fellow
• Jules Maidoff – artist, teacher and founder of Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
• Rick Meyerowitz – illustrator, writer
• Piccirilli Brothers, and his six sons – Ferruccio, Attilio, Furio, Masaniello, Orazio and Getulio ) – sculptors
• Larry Rivers – painter
• Joel Arthur Rosenthal – jeweler
• Merryll Saylan – woodturner
• Edwin Scheier – artist
• George Sugarman – sculptor
• Lawrence Weiner – artist; associated with conceptual art
• Marian Zazeela – light artist, painter, and set designer; also musician of Hindustani classical music

Journalists and writers

• Sholem Aleichem – author
• William Henry Appleton – publisher
• Army Archerd – columnist for Variety
• James Baldwin – playwright and essayist
• Harold Bloom – literary critic
• Leslie Brody – non-fiction author
• Robert Caro – non-fiction author of biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson
• Jerome Charyn – prolific novelist and author of several memoirs
• Mary Higgins Clark – best-selling author of suspense novels
• Avery Corman – novelist; author of The Old Neighborhood, set in the Bronx
• Don DeLillo – novelist
• E. L. Doctorow – author
• Will Eisner – author of A Contract with God and other graphic novels and instruction books
• Jules Feiffer – cartoonist ; playwright, screenwriter
• Bill Finger – writer co-creator of Batman comic book
• Vivian Gornick – American critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist
• Marilyn Hacker – poet, critic, reviewer
• Phil Hall – film critic
• Hy Hollinger – journalist for Variety and The Hollywood Reporter
• Max Kadushin – rabbi, theologian and author at Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale
• Bel Kaufman – novelist author of Up the Down Staircase about NYC schools in the 1950s
• William Melvin Kelley – novelist, short-story writer, university professor
• Mark Lane – author, attorney, researcher
• Annie Lanzillotto – poet, author, dramatist, songwriter
• Stan Lee – leading creator of Marvel Comics
• Paul Levinson – science fiction and non-fiction author
• Anthony Lewis – New York Times legal reporter, specializing in coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court
• Eleazar Lipsky – lawyer, novelist, playwright, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
• Miles Marshall Lewis – pop-culture critic
• Kenneth Lonergan – playwright and screenwriter
• Lynda Lopez – journalist, multiple broadcast networks
• Ray Marcano – medical reporter and music critic
• John Matteson – Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer
• Judith Merril – science-fiction editor and author
• Steve Mirsky – Scientific American columnist
• Nicholasa Mohr – Nuyorican writer about Puerto Rican women in New York
• Mwalim – playwright, composer, and novelist
• Davi Napoleon – theater historian and arts journalist
• Clifford Odets – playwright, co-founder of the Group Theatre
• Cynthia Ozick – award-winning novelist and short-story writer
• Grace Paley – award-winning short-story writer
• Michael Pearson – Old Dominion University English professor and author of several books, including his memoir, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx
• David J. Pecker – CEO of American Media, publisher of National Enquirer, US Weekly, Men's Fitness
• Edgar Allan Poe – author and poet
• Chaim Potok – author
• Richard Price – novelist and screenwriter
• Chris Regan – television writer and author
• Charles Rice-González – novelist and playwright
• Spider Robinson – science-fiction writer of novels and short stories
• Joanna Russ – feminist science-fiction writer
• Oliver Sacks – neurologist and author
• Douglas Sadownick – gay fiction writer, journalist and psychotherapist
• William Safire – journalist, speech writer, literary stylist
• Tony Santiago – military historian
• Kate Simon – memoirist and popular travel guide author
• Arthur Spiegelman – journalist
• William Steig – cartoonist and author
• Mark Twain – author
• Dorothy Uhnak – mystery writer who drew upon her past experience as a NYPD detective
• Ben Wattenberg – political/demographic analysis author
• Al Wasserman – documentary filmmaker
• Gene Weingarten – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and cartoonist
• Herman Wouk – author

Film, television, radio, dance and theatre

• Charlie Ahearn – film director of Wild Style
• Danny Aiello – actor
• Alan Alda – actor
• Nancy Allen – actress
• Woody Allen – film director and actor
• June Allyson – actress
• Bruce Altman – actor
• Christopher Aponte – ballet dancer and choreographer
• Arthur Aviles – dancer and choreographer
• Emanuel Azenberg – theatrical producer
• Lauren Bacall – actress
• Martin Balsam – film actor
• Anne Bancroft – actress
• Ellen Barkin – actress
• Joseph Bassolino – comedian who popularized the phrase "Baba Booey" on the Howard Stern Show
• Peter S. Beagle – fantasy and science fiction author
• Tyson Beckford – model and actor
• Ahmed Best – Jar Jar Binks
• Joey Bishop – entertainer
• Irving Brecher – radio, television and film comedy writer
• Martin Brest – film director, producer, and writer
• Joy Bryant – actress
• Cara Buono – actress
• Red Buttons – comedian and actor
• James Caan – actor
• Steven Canals – television screenwriter and producer.
• George Carlin – comedian
• Eddie Carmel, born Oded Ha-Carmeili – Israeli-born entertainer with gigantism and acromegaly, popularly known as "The Jewish Giant"
• Paddy Chayefsky – screenwriter
• Dominic Chianese – actor
• Sanford "Sandy" Climan – film producer
• Lee J. Cobb – actor
• Kevin Corrigan – actor
• Tony Curtis – actor
• Stacey Dash – actress
• Michael DeLorenzo – actor
• Desus – comedian, former host of Viceland's Desus and Mero and current host of Showtime's Desus & Mero
• The Kid Mero – comedian, former host of Viceland's Desus and Mero and current host of Showtime's Desus & Mero
• Richard Dubin – television writer, director and producer
• Peter Falk – actor
• Jon Favreau – film and television director and actor
• Joe Franklin – TV host of Joe Franklin's Memory Lane
• Cuba Gooding, Jr. – actor
• Howard Gottfried – film producer of academy awarding winning Network and The Hospital
• Don Gregory – Broadway theatrical producer
• Mortimer Halpern – Broadway stage manager
• Jonathan Harris – actor
• Moss Hart – playwright and theatre director
• Amy Heckerling – film director
• Bernard Herrmann – film composer
• Richard Hunt – Muppet puppeteer
• Jharrel Jerome – actor
• Robert Klein – comedian
• Yaphet Kotto – actor
• Stanley Kubrick – film director
• Saul Landau – documentary filmmaker, journalist
• Annie Lanzillotto – actor, performance artist, director
• Tom Leykis – radio host
• Hal Linden – actor, director, and musician
• Lindsay Lohan – actress
• Louis Lombardi – actor
• Domenick Lombardozzi – actor
• Kenneth Lonergan – screenwriter, director, playwright
• Jennifer Lopez – singer, actress and dancer
• Linda Lovelace – porn actor and anti-porn activist
• Melissa Manchester – singer
• Sonia Manzano – actress, Maria Figueroa Rodriguez on Sesame Street
• Garry Marshall – television and film director
• Bernard McGuirk – American radio personality
• Penny Marshall – actor and director
• Lea Michele – actor
• Sal Mineo – actor
• Tracy Morgan – actor and comedian
• Romeo Muller – television writer
• Robert Mulligan – film director
• Jan Murray – comedian
• Mwalim – playwright, actor, director; spoken-word artist; co-founder of the Urban Expressionists Lab
• Bess Myerson – actor; best known as first Jewish Miss America
• Carroll O'Connor – actor
• Okwui Okpokwasili – dancer, actor
• Jerry Orbach – actor
• Toby Orenstein – founder and director of the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts, the Young Columbians, and Toby's Dinner Theatre
• Ronnie Ortiz-Magro – participant on MTV's reality-television series Jersey Shore
• Al Pacino – actor
• Chazz Palminteri – actor
• Vincent Pastore – actor
• Ron Perlman – film actor; Hellboy, etc.
• Regis Philbin – media personality and television talk-show host
• Carl Reiner – comedian and film director
• Rob Reiner – actor and film director
• Kristina Reyes – actress and bass guitarist
• Martin Richards – theater and movie producer
• Martin Ritt – Academy Award-nominated movie director
• Tanya Roberts – actor
• Leon Robinson – actor
• Géza Röhrig – poet and film star of Son of Saul
• George Romero – horror film director
• Saoirse Ronan – film actor
• Andre Royo – actor
• Harmony Santana – transgender film actress starred in Gun Hill Road
• Mike Savage – radio talk-show host
• Robert Schimmel – comedian
• Daniel Schorr – journalist
• Ben Schwartz – actor and comedian
• John Patrick Shanley – playwright
• Maggie Siff – actor
• Neil Simon – playwright and screenwriter
• Wesley Snipes – actor
• Peter Sohn – animated film director and voice actor at Pixar
• Danielle Spencer – actress
• Lionel Stander – actor
• Arnold Stang – actor
• Joseph Stein – playwright
• Renée Taylor – actress
• Rachel Ticotin – actress
• Tony Vitale – film writer, producer and director
• Kerry Washington – actress
• Douglas Watt – theater critic
• Fred Weintraub – founder and impresario of the Bitter End 1960s hippie club; producer of movies about Woodstock, Bruce Lee
• Tacarra Williams – comedian and actress
• Burt Wolf – travel reporter and writer for CNN and ABC networks
• Malik Yoba – actor

Music

• A Boogie wit da Hoodie – rapper
• Afrika Bambaataa – disc jockey
• Miguel Angel Amadeo – Latin musician-composer and owner of Casa Amadeo music store
• Anthony Amato – founder and director of Amato Opera
• Aventura – bachata music group
• B-Lovee – rapper
• The Barry Sisters – Yiddish-American singers from the 1930s to 1970s
• The Belmonts – late-1950s singing group, with Dion
• Jellybean Benitez – music producer credited with discovering Madonna
• Big Bank Hank – old school rapper member of the Sugarhill Gang
• Big Pun – rapper
• Mary J. Blige – singer and songwriter
• Angela Bofill – R&B singer and songwriter
• Busy Bee Starski – old-school rapper from the 1980s
• Jerry Calliste Jr – music-industry executive
• Richard Camacho – vocalist, founding member of CNCO
• Cardi B – hip-hop recording artist
• Diahann Carroll – actress and singer
• The Chiffons – early-1960s girl group
• Cheryl "Coko" Clemons – gospel singer and lead singer of R&B group
• Sean Combs – "Puff Diddy" rapper, singer, record producer, entrepreneur
• Cold Crush Brothers – rap group
• Willie Colón – trombonist
• Judy Craig – lead singer of the Chiffons
• Cuban Link – hip-hop artist
• Bobby Darin – 1950s–1960s singer
• Dennis Day – comedian and singer; regular on Jack Benny radio and television programs
• Inspectah Deck – rapper; member of Wu-Tang Clan
• Kat DeLuna – 1950s–1960s singer
• Diamond D – hip-hop artist
• Dion DiMucci – singer-songwriter; 1950s–1960s rock singer
• DJ Chuck Chillout – disc jockey
• DJ Kool Herc – hip hop pioneer
• Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band – 1970s disco group
• Drag On – rapper
• DreamDoll – rapper
• Arnold Eidus – concert violinist and session musician
• Fat Joe – rapper
• Charles Fox – Grammy-winning composer
• Ace Frehley – Kiss guitarist
• Arlen Roth – guitarist
• French Montana – rapper
• Ross "The Boss" Friedman – guitarist and founding member of The Dictators and Manowar
• Funkmaster Flex – disc jockey
• Kay Flock – rapper
• Funky Four Plus One – rap group
• Furious Five – rap group
• Bob Gaudio – Four Seasons principal songwriter and group member
• Stan Getz – jazz musician
• Richard Goode – classical pianist
• Eydie Gormé – traditional pop singer
• Grand Mixer DXT – disc jockey
• Grand Wizard Theodore – disc jockey
• Grandmaster Flash – disc jockey
• Cory Gunz – rapper
• Aaron Hall – R&B singer-songwriter
• Big Bank Hank – rapper member of rap group The Sugarhill Gang
• Andre "Dr. Jeckyll" Harrell – half of rap duo Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde
• Richie Havens – musician
• Heatmakerz – hip-hop producers
• Hell Rell – rapper
• Rita Houston – disc jockey, producer, and program director of "The Whole Wide World",
• Bobby Hutcherson – jazz vibraphonist who lived in the Bronx in the 1960s
• Ice Spice – singer-songwriter
• The Jaynetts – singers, "Sally Go Round the Roses"
• Jazzy Five – rap group
• Billy Joel – singer
• Jim Jones – rapper, actor
• Helen Kane – singer
• Kid Capri – disc jockey and producer
• Don Kirshner – 1950s–1960s rock producer, 1970s television: "Rock Concert"
• Jann Klose – singer
• Kool Keith – hip-hop artist
• Joey Kramer – drummer from Aerosmith
• KRS-One – rapper
• La India – "The Princess of Salsa"
• Héctor Lavoe – salsa singer
• Tom Lehrer – satirical songwriter and performer
• Leanne "Lelee" Lyons – member of R&B group SWV*
• Lord Finesse – hip-hop artist
• Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz – hip-hop duo
• Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba – singer, The Dictators, MC5 and Manitoba's Wild Kingdom; entertainer; radio DJ; saloon keeper
• Johnny Marks – composer of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and other songs
• Anthony McGill (musician) – principal clarinetist of New York Philharmonic
• Abel Meeropol – composer of "Strange Fruit", "The House I Live In"; adoptive father of Rosenberg boys
• Melle Mel – rapper
• Alan Merrill – musician, singer, actor, model
• Helen Merrill – jazz singer
• Robert Moog – inventor of the Moog synthesizer
• Jerry Moss – co-founder of A&M Records; owner of Zenyatta race horse
• Chris Moy – member of Menudo
• Mwalim – singer, pianist, composer, arranger, producer
• Nice & Smooth – rap duo
• Nine – rapper
• Laura Nyro – composer and singer
• Jon Oliva – heavy-metal singer
• Adelina Patti – opera singer
• Jan Peerce – opera singer
• Murray Perahia – pianist and conductor
• Roberta Peters – opera singer
• Positive K – rapper
• Tony Powers – actor, singer-songwriter, video artist
• Prince Royce – bachata singer-songwriter
• Tito Puente – jazz musician
• Lenny Santos – bachata producer, guitarist and songwriter
• Rahzel – rapper, beatboxer
• Drew Ramos – singer from the group In Real Life
• Christopher "Kid" Reid – half of Kid 'n Play
• Remy Ma – rapper
• Jamar Rogers – singer
• Bobby Sanabria - drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, bandleader
• Ron Suno – rapper
• Sadat X – rapper; member of Brand Nubian
• Romeo Santos – singer, bachata
• Gil Scott-Heron – "godfather of rap"
• Sha EK – rapper
• Showbiz and A.G. – hip-hop duo
• Carly Simon – singer-songwriter
• Joanna Simon – mezzo-soprano opera singer; MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour arts correspondent; older sister of Carly Simon and Lucy Simon
• Lucy Simon – composer and older sister of Carly Simon
• Slick Rick – rapper
• Soulsonic Force – rap group
• Joey Spampinato – musician
• Phil Spector – composer and arranger; murderer
• Regina Spektor – singer-songwriter
• Donna Stark – country singer-songwriter
• Maxine Sullivan – jazz singer
• Swizz Beatz – record producer/rapper
• Max Santos – bass player, rapper
• T La Rock – rapper
• Ray Tabano – former guitarist and founding member of Aerosmith
• Tim Dog – rapper
• Lil Tjay – rapper
• Arturo Toscanini – cellist, conductor
• Doris Troy – R&B singer and songwriter
• Richard Tucker – operatic tenor, cantor, Temple Adath Israel
• Steven Tyler – frontman of Aerosmith
• Ultramagnetic MCs – rap group
• Dave Valentin – Latin jazz flutist
• Luther Vandross – singer
• Mario Vazquez – singer
• Veronica Vazquez – singer
• Louie Vega – disc jockey and music producer
• Jesse West – rapper, producer
• Christopher Williams – singer
• Peter Wolf – lead singer of The J. Geils Band
• Nanette Workman – singer-songwriter. Backing vocalist Rolling Stones, Elton John, John Lennon

Government and politics

• Robert Abrams – Assemblyman, Bronx Borough President, New York State Attorney General
• Bella Abzug – Congresswoman and international feminist leader
• Brian G. Andersson – former New York City Commissioner of Records & Information Services.
• Herman Badillo – former New York City housing official, Bronx Borough President, Congressman and CUNY board of trustees chair
• Oxiris Barbot – Commissioner of Health of the City of New York
• Mario Biaggi – decorated policeman and US Congressman
• Adolfo Carrión, Jr. – former Bronx Borough President appointed by President Barack Obama to be Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs
• Darcel Clark – first female Bronx County District Attorney
• Gray Davis – former Governor of California
• Rubén Díaz Jr. – Bronx borough president and former New York State assembly member
• Adriano Espaillat born 1954) – U.S. representative and former New York State senator and New York State assembly member
• Louis Farrakhan – Black Muslim leader
• Luis A. Gonzalez – first Latino to be named Presiding Justice of the New York State Appellate Division, First Judicial Department
• Alan Grayson – Democratic Congressman, Florida
• Michael Greco – United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York
• Eric Holder – first African American-appointed United States Attorney General
• Scott Israel – Police Chief of Opa-locka, former Sheriff of Broward County
• Martin Jezer – progressive activist in New York and Vermont; leader of stutterers' self-help movement
• Lazarus Joseph – NY State Senator and New York City Comptroller.
• Benjamin Kaplan – law professor, judge, crafter of Nuremberg Trials indictments
• John F. Kennedy – 35th President of the United States; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
• Bernard Kerik – former Commissioner of Police and of Corrections, New York City.
• Ed Koch – politician; former U.S. Representative who became a three-term Mayor of New York City
• Kenneth Kronberg – leading member of LaRouche Movement
• Fiorello H. La Guardia – former Mayor of New York City
• Nita Lowey – Congresswoman served from 1989 to 2021 whose Westchester district once included parts of the Bronx and Queens
• Beatrice Lumpkin – union organizer
• Norman Marcus – former general counsel, New York City Planning Commission
• Francis W. Martin – first Bronx County District Attorney
• Garry McCarthy – Chief of Police of Willow Springs, Illinois; former Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department; 2019 candidate for mayor of Chicago
• Gouverneur Morris – revolutionary war statesman
• Michael Mukasey – former U.S. judge and U.S. Attorney General
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, 2018
• Colin Powell – former United States Secretary of State
• Anthony Romero – executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union
• Theodore Roosevelt – U.S. president who spent boyhood summers at Wave Hill in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York City
• Larry Sharpe – 2018 Libertarian nominee for Governor of New York; [2016 Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian National Convention|2016] Libertarian vice-presidential candidate
• Sonia Sotomayor – federal appeals court judge, New York; appointed by President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court of the United States
• Eliot Spitzer – politician and television talk-show host; former New York State Attorney General ; Governor of New York
• John Timoney (police officer) – Philadelphia police commissioner; Miami police chief; New York City deputy police commissioner
• Ritchie Torres – U.S. representative and New York City councilor
• Leon Trotsky – Soviet revolutionary and political theorist
• Charles J. Urstadt – gubernatorial advisor and appointee noted for development of Battery Park City and as namesake of contentious Urstadt Law

Sports

• Nate Archibald – former NBA player
• Chris Armas – soccer player
• Albert Axelrod – Olympic medalist foil fencer
• Elías Larry Ayuso – professional basketball player and Olympian
• Harrison Bader – MLB outfielder
• Margaret Bailes – Olympic gold medalist
• Iran Barkley – boxer
• Saquon Barkley – NFL player, 2018 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year
• Arun Basuljevic – soccer player
• Ronnie Belliard – former MLB player
• Bobby Bonilla – former MLB player
• Willie Cager – player on 1966 Texas Western University NCAA basketball championship team
• Tom Byer – soccer player, coach, and writer
• Rod Carew – Baseball Hall of Famer signed by the Minnesota Twins in the Bronx
• Lou Cioffi – soccer player
• Rocky Colavito – former MLB player
• Willie Colon – former NFL player
• Cus D'Amato – boxing manager
• Aaron Davis – boxer
• Bizunesh Deba – marathoner
• Art Donovan – former NFL football tackle
• Mike "SuperJew" Epstein – MLB first baseman
• Chris Eubank – boxer
• Harry Feldman – former MLB pitcher
• Frankie Frisch – former MLB player
• Lou Gehrig – Baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees first baseman
• Marty Glickman – athlete and sports announcer
• Mitch Green – boxer
• Hank Greenberg – MLB Hall of Famer
• Paul Heyman – WWE manager
• John Holland – American-Puerto Rican basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Eric Holtz – Head Coach of the Israel national baseball team
• Daryl Homer – Olympic fencer
• Nat Holman – Hall of Fame basketball player and coach
• Jay Horwitz – New York Mets executive
• Clint Hurtt – NFL defensive line coach
• Jonathan Isaac – basketball player, Orlando Magic forward
• Cullen Jones – swimmer
• Max Kellerman – sports-radio host
• Ed Kranepool – former Major League Baseball player; New York Mets
• Marie Kruckel – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
• Jake LaMotta – boxer
• Barry Leibowitz – American-Israeli basketball player in the American Basketball Association and the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Fred Lewis – American-handball player
• Anibal Lopez – bodybuilder
• Frank Malzone – former MLB player
• Doug Marrone – NFL coach
• Floyd Mayweather Sr. – boxing trainer
• Shep Messing – Olympic soccer goalkeeper and current broadcaster
• Nat Militzok – basketball player
• Marvin Miller – founder, Major League Baseball Players Association
• Davey Moore – WBA world middleweight champion boxer
• Mike Nagy – former MLB player
• Bernard Opper – All-American basketball player for the Kentucky Wildcats and professional player
• John Orozco – champion gymnast, 2012 Olympian
• Justin Pierce – skateboarder
• Ed Pinckney – basketball player, Villanova Wildcats Championship Team; 13-year NBA; Current Lead Assistant Coach, Minnesota Timberwolves
• Bill Polian – NFL executive
• Damian Priest - WWE Wrestler of Puerto Rican descent; Former WWE United States Champion; Currently a leader of The Judgment Day
• Alex Ramos – boxer
• Tubby Raskin – basketball player and coach
• T. J. Rivera – New York Mets infielder
• Michele A. Roberts – executive director of NBA players' union
• Lennie Rosenbluth – basketball player
• Dolph Schayes – Hall of Fame NBA basketball player and coach
• Babe Scheuer – football player
• Stephen A. Smith – commentator, ESPN First Take
• Vin Scully – sportscaster
• Amanda Serrano – IBF Female World Super Featherweight champion boxer
• Nevil Shed – player on 1966 Texas Western University NCAA basketball championship team
• Benjamin (Benji) Ungar – fencer
• Kemba Walker – basketball player; New York Knicks point guard
• Hilton White – basketball coach and community leader
• Andrew Velazquez – MLB infielder

Name givers

• Anne Hutchinson – pioneer religious liberation
• Thomas Pell – physician

Activists

• Murray Bookchin – anarchist, social ecologist, libertarian socialist
• Roscoe Brown – Tuskegee Airman, President
• Stokely Carmichael – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader in the 1960s U.S. Civil Rights Movement
• Majora Carter – MacArthur Genius Award-winning founder of Sustainable South Bronx
• Claudette Colvin – first person to be arrested protesting bus segregation in the U.S. South, in Montgomery, Alabama, March 2, 1955
• Harry Fleischman – American socialist activist and writer
• Ita Ford – Maryknoll nun, murdered by Salvadoran death squad
• Jack Greenberg – civil rights lawyer as head of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund for 23 years
• Ray McGovern – retired Central Intelligence Agency officer turned political activist
• Maurice Paprin – Mitchell Lama apartments developer and social activist
• Arlyn Phoenix – head of River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding; mother of Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix
• Sally Regenhard – 9/11 activist; Co-op City resident
• Sylvia Rivera – transgender activist, "the Rosa Parks of the transgender movement"
• Jim Steyer – child advocate
• Stephen Spiro – conscientious objector and Vietnam War opponent
• Elizabeth Lyttleton Sturz – founder of Argus Community and Harbor House; folklorist with husband Alan Lomax

Business

• Joseph Beninati – real estate developer and private equity investor
• Chris Bianco – chef, born in the Bronx
• Lloyd Blankfein – businessman; chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs
• Eli Broad – businessman and arts philanthropist; co-founder of Kaufman & Broad
• B. Gerald Cantor – businessman; co-founder of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald; with his wife Iris, amassed and then donated the largest private collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin
• Stanley Chais – investment advisor in the Madoff investment scandal
• Fred DeLuca – founder and CEO of Subway fast food sandwich chain
• Millard "Mickey" Drexler" – businessman; chief executive officer of J. Crew; former chief executive officer of the Gap
• Reggie Fils-Aimé – president of Nintendo of America
• Michael J. Freeman – inventor, educator, business consultant, and entrepreneur
• Harry Helmsley – real estate magnate in New York City
• Roger Hertog – co-founder of investment firm; co-publisher of The New Republic magazine; philanthropist
• Richard March Hoe – inventor of rotary printing press
• Collis Potter Huntington – railroad and shipbuilding magnate; created the privately endowed Huntington Free Library and Reading Room near his summer home in the Throggs Neck neighborhood of the Bronx
• Elaine Kaufman – businessperson; proprietor of Elaine's, a restaurant in the Manhattan borough of New York City that was a haunt of writers, actors, politicians
• Calvin Klein – clothing designer
• Ralph Lauren – clothing designer
• George Lois – advertising
• William E. Macaulay – billionaire businessman; CEO and chairman of First Reserve Corporation; co-founder of William E. Macaulay Honors College of City University of New York
• Reuben and Rose Mattus – founders of Häagen-Dazs ice cream
• Walton McCarthy – businessman and principal mechanical engineer with NORAD Shelter Systems
• George Meany – labor union leader: first president of the AFL–CIO
• Jordan L. Mott – inventor of coal kitchen stove, founder of J.L. Mott Ironworks in Mott Haven, and developer of the South Bronx neighborhood now named after him
• Mark Penn – chief executive officer of the public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller; president of the polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates
• Sol Price – founder of the Price Club and FedMart retail stores
• Fred Trump – real estate developer; father of Donald Trump
• Steve Witkoff – Special Envoy to the Middle East for U.S. President Donald Trump; real estate investor and developer, founder of the Witkoff Group, attorney

Attorneys

• William Barr – U.S. Attorney General under Donald Trump
• Pat Cipollone – Trump lawyer in impeachment case and elsewhere
• Bernard G. Ehrlich – Law partner of Mario Biaggi, National Guard major general, convicted in the Wedtech scandal
• Larry Fleisher – sports agent, helped found the National Basketball Association Players Association
• Hal Kant – specializing in representing musical groups, spent 35 years as principal lawyer and general counsel for the Grateful Dead
• Irving Picard – known for his recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal
• Gerald Shur – founder of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program
• Melvyn Weiss – co-founded plaintiff class action law firm Milberg Weiss

Infamous

• David Berkowitz – "Son of Sam" serial killer
• Evgeny Buryakov – Russian spy
• Richard Cottingham – serial killer
• Larry Davis – drug dealer; shot multiple police officers
• Harvey Glatman serial killer known as the “Glamour Girl Slayer”
• John Gotti – crime boss
• Sidney Gottlieb – American chemist who led the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s–1960s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra
• Moshe Lax – partner in Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry; subject of multiple lawsuits
• Twymon Myers – federal fugitive
• Jeffry Picower – investor and philanthropist involved in the Madoff investment scandal
• Morton Sobell – convicted along with Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg in 1951 of being a spy for the Soviet Union
• Howard Spira – instrumental in George Steinbrenner's ban from baseball