List of sons and daughters of the City of Rochester, New York

This is a list of public figures that American US in the town of Rochester ( New York ) were born. The list does not claim to be complete.

19th century

Charles Radbourn
(1854-1897)

William Seward Burroughs I
(1857–1898)

Walter Rauschenbusch
(1861–1918)

Henry Huntly Haight (1825–1878), politician and Governor of California from 1867 to 1871
Francis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906), publisher and editor
Isabella Macdonald Alden (1841–1930), writer
Frank Lawler (1842-1896), politician
Grove Karl Gilbert (1843-1918), geologist
Charles Radbourn (1854-1897), baseball pitcher
William Seward Burroughs I (1857–1898), entrepreneur and inventor of an adding machine
Edward Joseph Hanna (1860–1944), Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco
Thomas Francis Hickey (1861–1940), Roman Catholic Bishop of Rochester
Nick Kaufmann (1861–1943), artistic cyclist
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918), Baptist theologian
Kate Gleason (1865–1933), inventor of the prefabricated house
Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944), painter, designer, poet and salonnière
George Melford (1877–1961), actor and director
Fletcher Steele (1885–1971), landscape architect
Blanche Stuart Scott (1889–1970), the first American woman to fly an airplane
Walter Hagen (1892–1969), golf legend
Norman Kerry (1894-1956), actor
Philip Barry (1896-1949), playwright
Tom Keene (1896–1963), actor
Arthur Herbert Copeland (1898–1970), mathematician

20th century

1901-1930

John Lund
(1911-1992)

Hugh O'Brian
(1925-2016)

John Ashbery
(1927-2017)

William Cox (1904–1996), middle and long distance runner
Harold Sumberg (1905–1994), Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher
Cab Calloway (1907–1994), jazz singer and band leader
Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996), writer
Alec Wilder (1907–1980), composer of classical and jazz musical works, ballads and teaching materials
Michael Kanin (1910–1993), screenwriter
Richard Rober (1910–1952), actor
John Lund (1911–1992), actor
Mitch Miller (1911-2010), orchestra leader, musical director at CBS Records
Garson Kanin (1912–1999), screenwriter
Joe Simon (1913–2011), comic book writer, illustrator and editor
Virgil Finlay (1914–1971), fantasy and science fiction book illustrator and artist
LeRoy Apker (1915–1970), experimental solid-state physicist
Hank D'Amico (1915-1965), jazz clarinetist
David Diamond (1915-2005), composer
Boris Bittker (1916–2005), lawyer and tax scientist
Marcia Brown (1918–2015), children's author and illustrator
William F. Quinn (1919–2006), first governor of the 50th state of Hawaii
Marion S. Kellogg (1920–2004), Vice President of General Electric
Herbert York (1921–2009), nuclear physicist
Arthur Wightman (1922-2013), physicist
François Augiéras (1925–1971), French author
Hugh O'Brian (1925-2016), actor
Marilyn Erskine (born 1926), actress
James Alexander Green (1926-2014), British mathematician
Arthur Rock (* 1926), venture capitalist in the high-tech sector
John Ashbery (1927-2017), poet
Malcolm Glazer (1928-2014), entrepreneur
Charles Bentley (1929–2017), geophysicist and polar explorer
Jeremy Bernstein (* 1929), theoretical physicist and science essayist
Peter Breck (1929–2012), actor
Edward D. Hoch (1930–2008), crime and science fiction writer
Frank Strazzeri (1930–2014), jazz pianist
Bob Tullius (* 1930), racing car driver and racing team owner

1931-1950

Adolphus Hailstork
(* 1941)

John Lithgow
(* 1945)

Thomas Cajetan Kelly (1931–2011), Roman Catholic clergyman
James Michael Moynihan (1932–2017), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Syracuse
Angelo Buono (1934–2002), serial killer
Frank Pullara (≈1935–2019), jazz musician
Charles Gordon Fullerton (1936-2013), astronaut
Roy McCurdy (born 1936), jazz drummer
Carolyn Merchant (* 1936), philosopher and science historian
Marcian Edward Hoff (* 1937), electrical engineer and one of the inventors of the microprocessor
"Spider" John Koerner (* 1938), singer, guitarist and songwriter
Bill Folwell (1939–2019), rock and jazz musician
Pete Duel (1940–1971), actor
Chuck Mangione (* 1940), jazz flugelhorn player and composer
Robert Forster (1941–2019), film actor
Adolphus Hailstork (* 1941), composer and music teacher
Robert Putnam (* 1941), sociologist and political scientist
Gerry Niewood (1943–2009), jazz musician
John H. Freeman (1944–2008), sociologist and organizational researcher
Noah Creshevsky (* 1945), composer
Steve Gadd (born 1945), drummer
John Lithgow (born 1945), actor
Don Moye (* 1946), jazz drummer, singer and composer
Robert D. Schreiber (* 1946), immunologist
Dick Buerkle (1947-2020), long-distance runner
Mimi Kennedy (born 1948), actress
Dan Welcher (* 1948), bassoonist, composer, conductor and music teacher
Jordan Clarke (born 1950), actor
Richard Ben Cramer (1950–2013), journalist and author
Lou Gramm (born 1950), singer

1951-1970

Robert Duffy
(* 1954)

Savanna Samson
(* 1967)

David Schickler
(* 1969)

David Amico (* 1951), painter and draftsman
Kenneth Alessio Bianchi (* 1951), serial killer
Joey Silvera (* 1951), porn actor and director
Kim Gordon (* 1953), bassist and occasionally singer and guitarist
Kenneth S. Rogoff (* 1953), economist
Maria Venuti (* 1953), opera, lied and concert singer
David Bellugi (1954–2017), Italian-American conductor, recorder player and university professor
Robert Duffy (* 1954), former Mayor of Rochester, Lieutenant Governor of New York
Richie Vitale (* 1954), jazz musician
Diane Greene (* 1955), entrepreneur and engineer
Aaron Lustig (* 1956), actor
Steve Williams (* 1956), jazz musician
David Tronzo (* 1957), guitarist
Rob Byrnes (born 1958), author
Scott Cramer (born 1958), figure skater
Robert Weaver (born 1958), wrestler
Lydia Lunch (* 1959), singer, poet and actress
Armand Schultz (born 1959), actor
Joyce Sims (* 1959), singer, pianist and songwriter
Nick DiChario (* 1960), writer
David Spergel (* 1961), astrophysicist
Peck Allmond (* 1962), jazz musician
Cathie Turner (* 1962), short track runner
Richard Saeger (* 1964), swimmer
Joe Arlauckas (born 1965), basketball player
Joy Tanner (born 1966), actress
Suzanne Cryer (born 1967), actress
Savanna Samson (* 1967), porn actress
AJ Kitt (* 1968), ski racer
Charles Murray (* 1968), light welterweight boxer
Chyna (1969-2016), bodybuilder, wrestler, actress and porn star
David Schickler (* 1969), writer