List of people from Harlem

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This is a list of people from Harlem in New York City.

The early period (pre-1920)[]

  • John James Audubon – naturalist[1]
  • Richard Croker – Tammany Hall politician,[2] lived at 26 Mount Morris Park West[3]
  • James Reese Europe – musician, credited with inventing jazz; 67 West 133rd Street[1][4]
  • Thomas Gilroy – New York mayor[3]
  • Alexander Hamilton – politician; lived in Harlem at the end of his life
  • Hubert Harrison – "The Father of Harlem Radicalism"
  • Scott Joplin – pianist and composer; lived at 133 West 138th Street in 1916, then at 163 West 131st Street until his death in 1917; had a studio at 160 West 133rd Street[5]
  • Alfred Henry Lewis – cowboy author[6]
  • Vincent James McMahon – founder of the World Wide Wrestling Federation
  • Paul Meltsner – WPA era painter and muralist; grew up in Harlem
  • Thomas Nast – artist[1]
  • Philip A. Payton, Jr. – real estate entrepreneur; lived at 13 West 131st Street[7]
  • Norman Rockwell – lived as a child at 789 St. Nicholas Avenue[8]
  • Norman Thomas – radical activist[9]
  • Daniel Tiemann – New York mayor[10]
  • Robert Van Wyck – New York mayor[3]
  • Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence – New York mayor[10]

Jewish, Italian, Irish Harlem (circa 1900–30)[]

Moe Berg
  • Sholem Aleichem – writer, 110 Lenox Avenue[11]
  • Moe Berg (1902–1972) – Major League Baseball catcher; spy
  • Milton Berle – comedian and actor, born in a five-story walkup at 68 West 118th Street[12]
  • Fanny Brice – actress, houses at West 128th Street and West 118th Street[13]
  • Art Buchwald – writer[9]
  • Bennett Cerf – publisher,[14] was born on May 25, 1898, at 68 West 118th Street,[15] the same address as Milton Berle's
  • Morris Raphael Cohen – philosopher, 498 West 135th Street[16]
  • Milt Gabler – record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry of the 20th century[17]
  • George and Ira Gershwin - composers, grew up in Harlem; lived at 108 West 111th and other addresses.[18] George wrote his first hit song, "Swanee", at his home at 520 W. 144 Street in 1919.[8] The pair were living at 501 Cathedral Parkway in 1924, and it was in this apartment that George wrote "Rhapsody in Blue."[19]
  • Oscar Hammerstein I – inventor and theatrical entrepreneur; lived at 333 Edgecombe Avenue[8]
  • Oscar Hammerstein II – writer and theatrical producer, addresses on East 116th Street and 112th Street[20]
  • Lorenz Hart – lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart, 59 West 119th Street[21]
  • Harry Houdini – magician; lived at 278 West 113th Street from 1904 until his death in 1926[22]
  • Frank Hussey – Olympian, 129th Street[23]
  • Burt Lancaster – Oscar-winning actor and producer[9]
  • Seymour Martin Lipset – political sociologist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University[24]
  • Ignazio Lupo – counterfeiter, gangster[25]
  • Marx Brothers – comedians, 239 East 114th Street[12]
  • Arthur Miller – playwright, 45 West 110th Street[26][27]
  • Giuseppe Morello – gangster, 323 East 107th Street[25]
  • Belle Moskowitz – political advisor to New York Governor and 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith[28]
  • Al Pacino – Academy Award-winning actor
  • Charlie Pilkington – three-time New York champion boxer; East 102nd Street
  • Ed Sullivan – Broadway & Sports columnist, host of the long-running televised Sunday evening variety show; East 114th Street
  • David Rappaport – fashion manufacturer, designer and painter[29]
  • Richard Rodgers – composer, 3 West 120th Street[1][14]
  • Yossele Rosenblatt – celebrated cantor[30]
  • Henry Roth – writer, 108 East 119th Street[11]
  • Jessie Sampter – poet[23]
  • John Sanford, born Julian Lawrence Shapiro – screenwriter and author who wrote 24 books[31]
  • Arthur Sulzberger – publisher of the New York Times[30]
  • Henrietta Szold – founder of Hadassah[23]
  • Vincent and Ciro Terranova – gangsters, 352 East 116th Street[32]

The Harlem Renaissance and World War II (1920–1945)[]

409 Edgecombe Avenue
  • Louis Armstrong – bandleader and trumpet player[33]
  • Count Basie – bandleader and pianist; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue[34][35]
  • George Wilson Becton – religious cult leader[36]
  • Julius Bledsoe – singer; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue[35]
  • Arna Bontemps – writer
  • William Stanley Braithwaite – poet and essayist; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue[35]
  • Eunice Carter – New York state judge; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue[35]
  • John Henrik Clarke – editor of Freedomways Magazine and of several books; professor; moved to Harlem in 1933[37]
  • Collyer brothers – compulsive hoarders; lived in a townhouse at 128th Street and Fifth Avenue in Harlem their entire adult lives
  • Countee Cullen – poet[33]
  • Lillian Harris Dean – entrepreneur known as "Pigfoot Mary"
  • Aaron Douglas – painter; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue[35][37]
  • W. E. B. Du Bois – activist, writer; lived at 409 Edgecombe[34][35]
  • Duke Ellington – composer, pianist and bandleader; lived on Riverside Drive and at 555 Edgecombe[34][38]
  • Father Divine – religious leader,[38] lived in several locations in Harlem, including on Astor Row, and maintained offices at 20 West 115th Street[39]
  • Rudolph Fisher – writer[37]
  • Marcus Garvey – political figure, Pan-Africanist; home at 235 West 131st Street[40]
  • Billy Higgins (1888–1937), stage comedian, songwriter, and singer
  • Charles Manuel "Sweet Daddy" Grace – evangelist, born in Cape Verde Islands but became prominent in Harlem in the 1920s[38]
  • Lionel Hampton – jazz musician; lived in Harlem through World War II and for some years thereafter[37]
  • Hubert Harrison – "the father of Harlem Radicalism"
  • Leonard Harper – Harlem Renaissance producer, stager, and choreographer
  • Coleman Hawkins – musician, saxophone player; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue[41]
  • Billie Holiday – singer; lived with her mother at 108 West 139th Street[42]
  • Casper Holstein – gangster
  • Lena Horne – singer and actress; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue[41]
  • Langston Hughes – writer[43]
  • Zora Neale Hurston – writer[43]
  • Bumpy Johnson – gangster; lived in Lenox Terrace at 132nd Street and Lenox Avenue near the end of his life[44]
  • James P. Johnson – pianist
  • James Weldon Johnson – author, activist, composer; lived at 187 West 135th Street[34]
  • Donald Jones – actor and dancer born in Harlem but moved to the Netherlands
  • Fiorello La Guardia – New York mayor, from East Harlem
  • Alain Locke – editor[33]
  • Joe Louis – boxer; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue[41]
  • Claude McKay – poet and novelist; born in Jamaica but moved to Harlem and wrote the famous novel Home to Harlem, West 131st Street[45]
  • Florence Mills – entertainer
  • Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. – religious, civic leader[38]
  • A. Philip Randolph – activist, labor organizer
  • Paul Robeson – singer and actor; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue[34][35]
  • Bill "Bojangles" Robinson – dancer; lived on Strivers' Row[34]
  • James Herman Robinson – pastor of the Church of the Master on 122nd Street, founder of Operation Crossroads Africa, a forerunner of the Peace Corps
  • Stephanie St. Clair – criminal leader; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue[46]
  • Willie "The Lion" Smith – pianist
  • Wallace Thurman – writer[33]
  • Jean Toomer – writer[37]
  • James Van Der Zee – photographer[38]
  • Madam C.J. Walker – philanthropist and tycoon
  • A'Lelia Walker – socialite and businesswoman
  • Fats Waller – pianist, born at 107 West 134th Street[47]
  • Ethel Waters – singer, actress; born in Chester, Pennsylvania
  • Walter Francis White – civil rights leader[48]
  • Bert Williams – vaudeville performer; born in Antigua; died in 1922, near the start of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Mary Lou Williams – pianist; lived at 63 Hamilton Terrace[42]
  • .Lillian "Billie" Yarbo – comedienne, dancer, singer[49][50]

Famous after World War II[]

  • Miles Aiken – basketball player
  • Fiona Apple – singer-songwriter and pianist, raised in Morningside Gardens[51]
  • James Baldwin – novelist; lived at 131st Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. (then called "Seventh Avenue")[52]
  • Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones – dancer, poet, activist
  • Patricia Bath, ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic
  • Romare Bearden – artist, primarily working in collage
  • Harry Belafonte – calypso musician
  • Claude Brown – novelist, wrote Manchild in the Promised Land
  • Ron Brown – U.S. Secretary of Commerce, grew up in the Hotel Theresa[53]
  • Kareem Campbell – pro skateboarder
  • George Carlin – comedian; 121st Street between Amsterdam and Broadway[54]
  • Jimmy Castor – R&B/funk bandleader
  • Dr. Kenneth Clark – psychologist and activist; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue[35]
  • Evelyn Cunningham – civil-rights-era journalist and aide to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York[55]
  • Jules Dassin – film director[1]
  • Benjamin J. Davis – New York city councilman, ultimately sent to jail for violations of the Smith Act[37]
  • Ossie Davis – actor and director; lived in Harlem in the late 1930s and mid-1940s
  • Sammy Davis, Jr. – entertainer, actor, member of Rat Pack, born in Harlem Hospital in 1925[56]
  • Roy DeCarava – photographer, born in Harlem in 1919[57]
  • Wanda De Jesus – actress
  • David Dinkins – Mayor of New York; lived in the Riverton Houses[58]
  • Ralph Ellison – novelist, wrote Invisible Man, about a man who moves from the deep south to Harlem; lived at 730 Riverside Drive in Harlem[59]
  • Erik Estrada – actor, from East Harlem
  • Jack Geiger – physician, co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility; lived with Canada Lee for a year at 555 Edgecombe Avenue[60]
  • Herbert Gentry – abstract expressionist painter, lived at 126th street and Amsterdam Avenue, 1940s
  • Althea Gibson – professional tennis player; lived at 115 West 143rd Street[34]
  • Oscar Hammerstein II – writer and theatrical producer[1]
  • W. C. Handy – composer and bandleader; lived on Strivers' Row in Harlem towards the end of his life[34]
  • Benny Harris – musician, trumpet[61]
  • Lorenz Hart – lyricist[1]
  • Johnny Hartman – vocalist; born in Louisiana, grew up in Chicago, moved to Harlem's Sugar Hill in 1950s
  • Evan Hunter, aka Ed McBain – author, grew up in East Harlem[62]
  • Roy Innis – head of the Congress of Racial Equality; lived in Harlem but ultimately moved to Brooklyn[63]
  • June Jordan – Caribbean American poet, novelist, journalist, biographer, dramatist, teacher
  • JTG – WWE wrestler
  • Ben E. King – soul singer and former lead tenor of The Drifters, best known for the song, "Stand By Me"
  • Canada Lee – actor; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue[60]
  • Frank Lucas – drug dealer
  • Frankie Lymon – lead tenor of The Teenagers, best known for the song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"
  • Malcolm X – preacher, revolutionary
  • Earl Manigault – basketball player
  • Thurgood Marshall – Supreme Court justice; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue[34][35]
  • Carl McCall – New York State senator, and Comptroller of New York State[38]
  • Jackie McLean – musician, alto saxophone[61]* Arthur Miller – playwright, was married to Marilyn Monroe[1]
  • Hal Miller – actor (Sesame Street, Law & Order, etc.); also painter, singer, poet, lyricist, lived at 152nd Street & Macombs Place in the 1950s, born in Harlem
  • Moby – musician, born in Harlem
  • Alice Neel – artist; lived in East Harlem[1]
  • Eleanor Holmes Norton – head of the Commission of Human Rights for New York City, now non-voting Delegate from the District of Columbia to the United States House of Representatives[38]
  • Elaine Parker – community organizer and activist, Chairperson of Harlem C.O.R.E. Director of the Manhattan Borough President's Office, Special Assistant to the City Council President City of NY[64]
  • Gordon Parks – film director and photographer[38]
  • Basil Paterson – New York state senator, New York City deputy mayor for labor relations, Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee[38][65]
  • Fannie Pennington Harlem Civil Rights Foot Soldier
  • Samuel Pierce – Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; lived in the Riverton Houses[58]
  • Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. – politician
  • Bud Powell – musician, pianist[61]
  • Tito Puente, Sr. – musician, Spanish Harlem
  • Gene Anthony Ray – dancer and actor[66]
  • Ving Rhames – actor
  • Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson, NBA Analyst[67]
  • Sugar Ray Robinson – boxer, entrepreneur; moved to Harlem at age 12
  • Sonny Rollins – musician, tenor saxophone[61]
  • Steve Rossi – comedian, former manager for Howard Stern[68]
  • Henry Roth – novelist[1]
  • J. D. Salinger – novelist; lived at 3681 Broadway until he was nine years old[69]
  • Hazel Scott – pianist, wife of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., first African-American woman with her own television show[38]
  • Nina Simone – singer; lived, for a time, in Duke Ellington's old house in Harlem[38]
  • Thomas Sowell – professional economist and author
  • Billy Strayhorn – jazz composer, arranger
  • Percy Sutton – Borough President of Manhattan: "If I were offered a million dollars, I wouldn't leave Harlem."[38]
  • Billy Taylor – jazz pianist; lived in the Riverton Houses[58]
  • Clarice Taylor – actress on the Cosby Show
  • Samuel E Vázquez – abstract expressionist painter[70][71]
  • Dinah Washington – "Queen of the Blues"; born in Alabama but became famous when she lived in Harlem[38]
  • Roy Wilkins – civil rights leader; lived at 409 Edgecombe[34]
  • Louis T. Wright – physician, chairman of the board of the NAACP[72]
  • Morrie Yohai – rabbi, inventor of Cheez Doodles[73]

Rap, hip hop, R&B and reality[]

  • 40 Cal – rapper
  • ASAP Ferg – rapper ASAP Mob
  • ASAP Rocky – rapper from Harlem (member of ASAP Mob)
  • Azealia Banks – rapper, singer, lyricist
  • Big L – rapper (deceased)
  • Black Rob – rapper from Spanish Harlem
  • Cam'ron – rapper (owner of Diplomat Records) (Dipset)
  • Cannibal Ox – rap duo
  • Crash Crew – old-school rap group
  • Yaya DaCosta – America's Next Top Model contestant/model
  • Damon Dash – former CEO of Roc-A-Fella Records
  • DJ Hollywood – VH-1 hip hop honoree; rap/hip-hop pioneer
  • DJ Red Alert – DJ, hip hop pioneer
  • Kool Moe Dee – old-school rapper and one-third of the Treacherous Three
  • Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock – rap duo best known for their hit "It Takes Two"
  • Dave East – rapper (Mass Appeal Records)
  • Fatman Scoop – Grammy and MTV Award winner; radio personality; reality TV star
  • The Fearless Four – pioneer rap group
  • Doug E. Fresh – '80s rapper, runs a waffle house in Harlem
  • Spoonie Gee – pioneer rapper
  • Ebony Haith – America's Next Top Model contestant, model
  • Charles Hamilton – rapper
  • Ilacoin – hip hop artist, creator of the "Pause" game
  • Freddie Jackson – singer
  • Jim Jones – rapper (co-CEO of Diplomat Records) (Dipset)
  • Kareem "Biggs" Burke - co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records
  • Kelis – R&B singer and songwriter
  • Rayne Storm – rapper, producer (Digiindie)
  • Puff Daddy – rapper, businessman, founder of Bad Boy Records
  • Freekey Zekey – rapper (owner, CEO of 730 Dips Records)
  • Immortal Technique – rapper
  • Kurtis Blow – rapper
  • Lil Mama – rapper; judge of America's Best Dance Crew
  • Biz Markie – rapper, disc jockey owns a Waffle House
  • Mase – rapper
  • Jae Millz – rapper
  • P-Star – rapper, singer, actress
  • Q-Tip – rapper, producer (A Tribe Called Quest)
  • Teddy Riley – producer, artist
  • Tupac Shakur - rapper
  • Carl Hancock Rux – writer, performer
  • Isabel Sanford – actor; co-star of The Jeffersons
  • Juelz Santana – rapper (owner, CEO of Skull Gang Records)
  • Bre Scullark – America's Next Top Model contestant, model
  • Smoke DZA – rapper
  • Dani Stevenson – singer
  • Keith Sweat – singer
  • Teyana Taylor – singer and rapper signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label
  • Treacherous Three – old-school rap group
  • T-Rex – battle rapper (member Of Dot Mob)
  • Vado – rapper (We The Best Records)
  • Billy Dee Williams – actor
  • JR Writer – rapper (Dipset member)
  • Bodega Bamz - rapper, actor

21st-century residents[]

  • Bob Dylan - owned a brownstone on Striver’s Row from 1980’s until year 2000. The townhouse is located at 265 West 139th Street and it sold in 2018 for $3.7M[74]
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – basketball player, moved into a Mount Morris brownstone at 30 West 120th Street[75] in September 2006[76]
  • Lorraine Adams – writer and journalist[77]
  • Maya Angelou – poet and author, owned a home on 120th Street in Mount Morris Park district[78]
  • Angela Bassett – Emmy and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe-winning actress
  • Keith David – actor and singer
  • Charlotte d'Amboise – actress and dancer
  • Jonathan Franzen – author; lived on 125th Street when he wrote his book The Corrections[79]
  • Marcia Gay Harden – Oscar-winning actress[43][80]
  • Edward W. Hardy – Composer, musician and producer[81]
  • Neil Patrick Harris – actor; lives near Morningside Park when not in Los Angeles[82]
  • Rashidah Ismaili, writer
  • Jeff L. Lieberman – film director[83]
  • Terrance Mann – actor and dancer
  • Cameron Mathison – actor on All My Children and contestant on Dancing with the Stars, 136 West 130th Street[84][85]
  • S. Epatha Merkerson – actress[43]
  • Harold "Hal" Miller – actor ("Gordon" on Sesame Street), lived on 152nd Street & Macombs Place, before going to live and work in China, India and throughout Europe
  • Mandy Patinkin – actor[43]
  • Adam Clayton Powell IV – New York City Council member
  • Richard Price – author and screenwriter[77]
  • Marcus Samuelsson – chef and restaurateur; lived in duplex near Frederick Douglass Boulevard[86]
  • Miz Cracker - Drag Queen
  • Akhnaten Spencer-El – Olympic fencer[87]
  • Stephen Spinella – Tony Award-winning actor[88]
  • Joel Steinberg – killed his adopted daughter; moved to Harlem after his 2004 release from prison[89]
  • Alton White[citation needed] – hockey player
  • Khalid Yasin – born in Harlem; raised in Brooklyn; teacher and lecturer of Islam
  • Oscar Peñas – composer and jazz guitarist – born in Barcelona, Spain; moved from Clinton Hill, Brooklyn to Hamilton Height, Harlem in 2018
  • Alysia Reiner - American actress and producer. Reiner is best known for playing Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in the Netflix comedy drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as part of the ensemble cast.

Representatives[]

  • Inez Dickens - New York City Council
  • Robert Jackson – New York City council
  • David Paterson – New York State Governor
  • Bill Perkins – New York State Senator
  • Adam Clayton Powell IV – New York State Assembly
  • Charles B. Rangel – United States House of Representatives, lives in Lenox Terrace at 132nd Street and Lenox Avenue[44]
  • José M. Serrano – New York State Senate
  • Keith L.T. Wright – New York State Assembly

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