I was just hunting around on Wikipedia to better understand the history of my hometown, Chappaqua NY. Among other things, I never knew how many notable people lived here. I pared the list down a bit. See if you know any on the list.
It's also funny that there are a few here I went to school with or went to school with their kids but didn't even know they were "famous."
- Adam Arkin,American television, film, and stage actor, son of Alan Arkin
- Alan Arkin,Academy Award–winning actor, best known for his roles in such films as The In-Laws, Catch-22, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Wait Until Dark, and Little Miss Sunshine.
- Dave Bickler,ead singer of Survivor
- Bill Clinton, 42nd U.S. President and former Governor of Arkansas, and
- Hillary Clinton, current United States Secretary of State, former Senator (D-N.Y.), former First Lady, candidate in 2008 U.S. presidential election. The Clintons purchased their home in Chappaqua for $1.7 million near the end of Bill Clinton's presidency in 1999.
- Renee Cox, African-American Artist, Photographer, Political Activist and Curator
- Andrew Cuomo, New York Governor and former Attorney General of New York
- Ace Frehley,lead guitarist of Kiss
- Earl G. Graves, Jr.,Former NBA player resides in Chappaqua now
- Horace Greeley, newspaper editor, reformer, politician
- Nora Guthrie,daughter of Woody Guthrie and sister of Arlo Guthrie
- David A. Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee
- Mary Beth Hurt, Actress
- Paul F. Iams, founder of the Iams pet food company
- Kenneth T. Jackson, American historian
- Heather Paige Kent, actress
- Jonathan Klein, President of CNN
- Peter Kunhardt, documentary film-maker
- Sandra Lee, host of Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee, a show on the Food Network.
- Ferdinand Lundberg, author, journalist, economist
- Daniel O'Keefe, Reader's Digest editor and inventor of the secular holiday Festivus. His son, Dan O'Keefe, popularized the holiday in 1997 by writing it into the plot of the television sitcom Seinfeld.[37]
- Lawrence Meyers, screenwriter-producer (Picket Fences, The Pretender, The Outer Limits, Crossing Jordan), author of Teacher of the Year: The Mystery & Legacy of Edwin Barlow (a famous math teacher who taught at the town's high school)
- Peter Saul, painter
- Simon Schama, British historian
- Paul Schrader, Writer and Director
- Ben Stiller, actor
- Rene Syler, journalist
- The Honorable Tina L. Brozman, former Chief Justice of the Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York.
- Jeff Van Gundy used to live there,formerly head coach of the Houston Rockets, formerly head coach of the New York Knicks
- Kevin Wade, screenwriter known best for Working Girl
- Dar Williamssinger, songwriter
- Vanessa Williams,Miss America 1984 beauty pageant, model, actress, singer
- Jenna Wolfe, sportscaster
- Christine Taylor, Actress
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