List of people from Utica, New York

This article lists notable people from Utica, New York.

From the City of Utica

Academics and scientists

• Henry D. Abelove – historian and literary critic
• Daniel Barwick – higher education administrator, teacher, author, fundraiser, journalist, and podcaster; president of Independence Community College
• Albert Perry Brigham – geologist
• Amariah Brigham – psychiatrist and founding member of American Psychiatric Association
• Robert E. Brown – ethnomusicologist, coined the term "world music"
• John Seely Brown – organizational studies researcher and author; director of PARC and chief scientist at Xerox
• James Dwight Dana - geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist
• Bob Van Dillen – meteorologist
• Elizabeth E. Farrell – educator
• Russell H. Fazio – psychologist and professor at Ohio State University
• Henry S. Fitch – herpetologist
• Asa Gray – botanist
• John P. Gray – psychiatrist; psychiatric expert in the trial for the assassination of president James A. Garfield and superintendent of the Utica Psychiatric Center
• Marilyn E. Jacox – physical chemist
• Milton Kerker – physical chemist; namesake of the Kerker effect
• Paul Krugman – economist who is a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; columnist for the New York Times
• Cherilla Storrs Lowrey – educator and clubwoman; founder and chairwoman of The Outdoor Circle
• Matthew D. Mann – gynecologist; surgeon who operated on President William McKinley after he was shot
• Walter C. Michels – physicist and professor at Bryn Mawr College
• Eugene Paul Nassar – writer, editor, professor, and literary critic
• Otto M. Nikodym – Polish mathematician
• Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters – astronomer
• John Ballard Rendall – president of Lincoln University, Latin professor, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and minister
• Robert J. Sampson – sociologist, president of the American Society of Criminology, and Harvard professor
• Hermann von Wechlinger Schulte – anatomist and dean of Creighton University School of Medicine
• Deborah F. Stanley – chancellor of the State University of New York and president of the State University of New York at Oswego
• Susan Stone – nurse midwife; president of Frontier Nursing University
• Walter Sutton - geneticist and biologist; co-developer of the Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory
• Michael Sweet – computer scientist known for being the original developer of CUPS
• E. Fuller Torrey – psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher
• Samuel Wells Williams – linguist, sinologist, and missionary
• Sam Wineburg – educational and cognitive psychologist
• Peter T. Wolczanski – chemist and Cornell professor
• Mary E. Young – historian

Actors and entertainers

• Lester Allen – actor, dancer, acrobat
• Kim Bass – director, screenwriter, and producer
• Yale Boss – actor
• Steven Brill – actor, film producer, director, and screenwriter^[1]
• Adelaide Bronti – actress and operatic singer
• Victor Bumbalo – actor and playwright
• Frank Cappelli – creator of Cappelli & Company
• Dick Cerri – disc jockey
• Dick Clark – television and radio personality and television producer^[2]
• Leonard Crofoot – actor, singer, dancer, writer and choreographer
• John Curran – director and screenwriter
• Natalie Dagwell – burlesque performer, dancer, and singer
• F. A. Dobson – cinematographer
• Frank Dumont – performer, sketch writer, and songwriter
• Robert Earle – game show host and voice actor
• John A. Ellsler – actor
• John Eskow – screenwriter
• Joseph Franz – director and actor
• Annette Funicello – actress and singer^[3][4]
• Donna Hanover – radio and television personality, television producer, and actress
• John William Isham – vaudeville impresario
• Jim Jackson – sportscaster and television and radio host
• Mary Lawlor – actress
• David Mancuso – disc jockey; creator of "The Loft"
• Jerry Mandy – actor
• Rex Marshall – actor, television announcer, and radio personality^[5]
• Ron O'Neal – actor, director, and screenwriter
• Tiffany Pollard – television personality
• Daniel Pritzker – director and musician
• Tim Roye – sports announcer and radio host
• Ralph Sheheen – sports announcer and television host
• Hal Smith – actor
• Anna Townsend – actress and frequent Harold Lloyd collaborator
• Matteo Vittucci – dancer^[6]

Artists and architects

• Brad Anderson – cartoonist; creator of Marmaduke
• Mark Bodé – cartoonist; son of Vaughn Bodē
• Vaughn Bodē – cartoonist and illustrator;^[7] graduated from Proctor High School^[8]
• Neave Brown – architect and artist
• Arthur Bowen Davies – avant-garde artist and advocate of modern art
• Daniel DeWitt Tompkins Davie – photographer; pioneer of the daguerreotype
• Edward Brodhead Green – architect
• Absalom Barrett Hallock – architect
• Henry Inman – portrait, genre, and landscape painter
• Sheldon Keck – paintings conservator
• Rose Marasco – photographer
• Daniel Nicoletta – photographer
• Maurice J. Power – sculptor
• Joe Zane – painter, sculptor, video and performance artist, and humorist

Athletes and athletics personnel

• Irving Baxter – gold medalist in the men's high jump and the pole vault at the 1900 Summer Olympics
• Alonzo Breitenstein – baseball player
• Ken Brett – baseball player
• George Burns – baseball player
• Tim Capstraw – basketball coach and color commentator
• Dave Cash – baseball player
• Dominick Dawes – ice hockey coach
• George Detore – baseball player
• Louie Ehrensbeck – biathlon skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics
• Robert Esche – hockey player
• Jim Fairbank – baseball player
• Chris Garrett – football player
• Mike Griffin – baseball player
• Jimmie Hunt – basketball player
• Ilia Jarostchuk – football player
• James Joseph – curler
• Mark Lemke – baseball player
• Charles B. Mason – football player and coach
• Dave McKeough – baseball player
• Art Mills – baseball player; coach for the 1945 World Series champion Detroit Tigers
• Willie Mills – baseball player
• Bill Morehouse – curler
• Nick Palmieri – hockey player
• Hardy Richardson – baseball player
• Harry Raymond – baseball player
• Len Rossi – wrestler who competed in the National Wrestling Alliance; member of the NWA Hall of Fame and the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
• Bernard Russ – football player
• Al Salerno – baseball umpire
• Michael Slive – commissioner of the Southeastern Conference
• Andy Van Slyke – baseball player
• Will Smith – football player
• Lou Lazzaro – modified racing driver
• Hal White – baseball player
• George Burrell Woodin – wrestler; better known by his stage name "Mr. Wrestling"

Business figures

• J. Carter Bacot – President and CEO of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
• Richard H. Balch – Vice President of the Horrocks-Ibbotson Company, co-founder of Utica University
• Harry H. Bassett – automotive executive who served as president of Buick
• Joseph H. Boardman – CEO of Amtrak and administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration
• John Butterfield – founder of American Express
• Laura Casamento – former president of Utica University and former president and CEO of Herkimer County Trust
• John C. Devereux – pioneering Irish Catholic and philanthropist; co-founder of the Savings Bank of Utica
• David D’Alessandro – businessman, marketing executive, and author; former CEO of John Hancock Financial
• Nicholas Devereux – financier, banker, and philanthropist; founder of St. Bonaventure University
• Arthur Hind – textile industrialist and philatelist
• Henry J. Kaiser – industrialist; fosterer of modern American health care; founder of Kaiser Aluminum, Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Permanente, Kaiser-Frazer, Kaiser Motors, and Kaiser Broadcasting^[9]
• Joseph Mailman – businessman, investor, and philanthropist; founder of the Mailman Corporation, the Persona Blade Company, and the British Rubber Company; assisted families escaping Nazi Germany
• Alonzo C. Mather – founder and president of the Mather Stock Car Company
• Sue Mengers – talent agent
• William Henry Moore – financier; co-founder of Nabisco, Western Union the Diamond Match Company, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the American Can Company, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, and Bankers Trust
• Theron T. Pond – businessman and pharmacist; founder of Pond's
• Andy Rubin – computer programmer, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist; founder of Android Inc.
• Arthur William Savage – inventor; founder of Savage Arms
• Richard Stark – fashion designer; co-founder of Chrome Hearts
• Kenny Friedkin – aviator and businessman; founder of Pacific Southwest Airlines
• William Williams – printer and publisher
• Frank Winfield Woolworth – entrepreneur; founder of F. W. Woolworth Company
• Steve Wynn – real estate developer and art collector best known for his involvement in the casino and hotel industry^[10]

Lawyers and jurists

• Fritz Beebe – lawyer and chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company
• Francis Marion Burdick – legal scholar and a mayor of Utica
• Richard J. Cardamone – circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• John D. Caton – chief justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois
• Ward Hunt – associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
• Alexander S. Johnson – judge
• Hugh R. Jones – served as an Associate Judge on the New York Court of Appeals
• James F. Lewis – chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada
• John J. Marquette – judge of the United States Tax Court
• Charles Mason – justice of the New York Supreme Court
• Louis M. Martin – justice of the New York Supreme Court
• Harry S. Patten – lawyer and politician

Military figures

• William Anders – Air Force major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman
• Jacksel M. Broughton – Air Force colonel and author; retired with 43 separate awards and decorations, including four Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Silver Stars and the Air Force Cross
• Daniel Butterfield – Union army general and Assistant Treasurer of the United States
• Mark Divine – Navy SEAL commander
• Ferris Foreman – Mexican-American War veteran, Union army colonel, and California 49er
• Edward F. Jones – Union army officer, merchant, manufacturer, author and politician
• James H. Ledlie - Union army general and civil engineer
• William Mervine - Navy real admiral, served during the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War
• James A. Mulligan - Union army colonel
• Jedediah Sanger – Continental Army first lieutenant, politician, judge, and founder of New Hartford
• Richard Henry Savage – military officer and author, potential inspiration for the pulp novel character Doc Savage
• Benjamin Walker – Continental Army officer, businessman, and politician^[11]

Musicians

• Carlos Alexander – operatic singer
• Joe Bonamassa – blues rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter^[12]
• Bruce Burger – singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer
• Fran Cosmo – musician best known as a former lead singer of the rock bands Boston and Orion the Hunter^[13]
• Tommy DeCarlo – singer who is the current lead vocalist for the rock band Boston^[14]
• Earthstar – electronic music group
• Arthur Fields – singer-songwriter
• Debbie Friedman – singer-songwriter of religious Jewish music^[15]
• Lincoln Holroyd – performer, band leader, and music educator
• Howard Kaylan – musician and songwriter; member of The Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and The Mothers of Invention
• David Eric Lowen – half of the songwriting team Lowen & Navarro^[16]
• Joseph Michael – lead singer of Sanctuary, former member of White Wizzard, Midnight Reign and Peppermint Creeps
• moe. – jam rock band^[17]
• J. R. Monterose – jazz saxophonist
• Barbara Owen – organist
• Rosetta Reitz – remastering engineer, record label owner, concert organizer, jazz historian, and activist
• B. A. Rolfe – bandleader, recording artist, radio personality, and film producer
• Sofronio Vasquez – Filipino singer; winner of season 26 of The Voice
• Jay Wanamaker – percussionist, music instructor, author, and businessman; CEO of Roland Americas and former executive at Fender, Guitar Center, Yamaha, Alfred Publishing, and chair of the Percussive Arts Society rudimental committee
• Jan Williams – percussionist, conductor, and composer
• Jimmy Wormworth – jazz drummer
• Ronnie Zito – jazz musician; drummer for Bobby Darin, Peggy Lee, and Eartha Kitt
• Torrie Zito – pianist, composer, and conductor; string arranger for John Lennon

Religion and philosophy

• Leopoldina Burns – religious sister; close companion and biographer of Marianne Cope during the 1883 Hansen’s Disease epidemic on the island of Moloka’i, Hawaii
• Marianne Cope – religious sister and Roman Catholic saint
• George Washington Gale – minister, founder of the Oneida Institute of Science and Industry^[18]
• Asa Jennings – pastor who organized the evacuation of 350,000 Christian refugees from the shores of Smyrna
• Alexander Bryan Johnson – philosopher and semanticist; married to the granddaughter of president John Adams
• Samuel Kirkland Lothrop – clergyman and writer
• John Timothy Stone – clergyman
• Granville M. Williams – priest, monk, and writer

Social reformers

• Jane Louisa Hardy – activist and philanthropist
• Jermain Wesley Loguen – abolitionist, bishop, teacher, and author
• Gerrit Smith – social reformer, abolitionist, businessman, public intellectual, and philanthropist
• Charles Stuart – Bermudian-born abolitionist and military officer
• Theodore Dwight Weld – early architect of the abolitionist movement

Politicians

See also: List of mayors of Utica, New York

• Joseph Ackroyd – New York State senator
• Campbell W. Adams – civil engineer, surveyor and politician; New York State Engineer and Surveyor
• Dean Alfange – politician, Greek-American activist
• Josh J. Allen – New York State Assembly member and Supervisor of Elections for the Eastern District of New York
• Mike Arcuri – U.S. congressman
• William J. Bacon – U.S. congressman
• Wesley Bailey – politician and newspaper editor
• William Baker – Speaker of the New York State Assembly and Erie Canal Commissioner
• Samuel Beardsley – U.S. congressman
• Sherwood Boehlert – U.S. congressman
• Alvan E. Bovay – Wisconsin State Assembly representative; one of the founders of the Republican Party
• Anthony Brindisi – U.S. congressman
• William S. Calli – New York State Assembly member and New York State senator
• John T. Clark – civil engineer and politician
• Alfred Conkling – U.S. congressman, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, and United States Minister to Mexico
• Roscoe Conkling – U.S. congressman^[19][20]
• Simon Newton Dexter – politician and merchant
• Fred J. Douglas – U.S. congressman
• Russell G. Dunmore – New York State Assembly member
• Rufus Elefante – Democratic political boss
• William Jay Gaynor – mayor of New York City and political reformer
• Alexander T. Goodwin – New York State senator
• John K. Hackett – Recorder of New York City
• Richard Hanna – U.S. congressman
• Thomas H. Hubbard – U.S. congressman
• Thomas Lemuel James – United States Postmaster General, journalist, and banker
• Francis Kernan – U.S. congressman
• Michael J. Kernan – New York State Assembly member and New York State senator
• Joseph Kirkland – U.S. congressman
• Orsamus Benajah Matteson – U.S. congressman
• John T. McKennan – New York State Assembly member
• Henry Merrill – Wisconsin State senator, pioneer, and merchant
• Victor H. Metcalf – Secretary of Commerce and Labor and Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Rosevelt
• Rutger B. Miller – U.S. congressman
• Cyrus D. Prescott – U.S. congressman
• Alexander Pirnie – U.S. congressman
• William H. Ray – U.S. congressman
• John A. Roche – mayor of Chicago
• Theodore S. Sayre – New York State senator and businessman
• William R. Sears – New York State Assembly member and New York State senator
• Henry Seymour – politician, merchant, banker
• Horatio Seymour – politician who served as New York State Governor^[21][22]
• Walter Sheridan – FBI investigator and author
• Carrie Babcock Sherman – wife of Vice President James S. Sherman, second lady of the United States
• James Schoolcraft Sherman – lawyer and politician who served as 27th vice president of the United States^[23][24]
• Fred Sisson – U.S. congressman
• John T. Spriggs – U.S. congressman
• Henry R. Storrs – U.S. congressman
• Charles A. Talcott – U.S. congressman
• Enoch B. Talcott – New York State senator
• William B. Taylor – civil engineer and politician; New York State Engineer and Surveyor
• William Townsend – New York State Assembly member and New York State senator
• Benjamin Welch – New York State Treasurer
• Chandler J. Wells – prominent builder who served as mayor of Buffalo, New York
• Philo White – Wisconsin State senator
• John Williams – U.S. congressman
• James Zogby – founder of the Arab American Institute

Writers and journalists

• Mary C. Ames – novelist, poet, and journalist
• Daniel Barwick – writer, fundraiser, journalist, podcaster, higher education administrator, and teacher
• Allan Beekman – writer and reporter
• Richard Benedetto – political reporter and columnist
• Eric Boehlert – journalist, writer, and media critic
• Ray Bremser – poet
• Dan Cameron – writer and contemporary art curator
• Daryl Cobb – author of children's books^[25]
• Jane Elizabeth Conklin – poet and religious writer
• Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún – Irish-American homesteader and composer of American poetry in the Irish language
• John Elliott Curran – novelist
• Mark Danner – writer, journalist, and educator
• Georgia Roberts Durston – novelist and poet
• David Skaats Foster – novelist
• Harold Frederic – journalist and novelist
• Charles E. Fritch – fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery novelist
• Joanne Grant – journalist and activist
• Michael Kernan – writer and Washington Post journalist
• Alen Pol Kobryn – novelist, poet, and voice actor
• John D. MacDonald – writer and best-selling crime novelist
• HP Newquist – writer, museum founder and curator, and musician
• Ryan Nobles – journalist
• Grace May North – newspaper journalist and author of novels for children and adolescents
• Charles Quinn – journalist and NBC News reporter
• Dan Senor – columnist, writer, and political advisor to Mitt Romney
• John Zogby – political pollster, author, and public speaker; founder of the Zogby poll and the Zogby International poll

Other

• Bianca Devins – teenager who was murdered by a male acquaintance
• Edward P. Felt – passenger on United Flight 93
• Lewis Lawrence – founder of Eatonville, Florida, the oldest incorporated Black town in the U.S
• John Thomas Moss – frontiersman, prospector, and miner
• Nyah Mway – teenager who was killed by an officer of the Utica Police Department
• Samuel Manning Todd – founding member of the Mistick Krewe of Comus, the oldest extant New Orleans, Louisiana Carnival Krewe
• Michael Zarnock – Hot Wheels collector and two-time Guinness World Record holder

Fictional characters

• Gary Chalmers – superintendent of Springfield School District on the animated sitcom The Simpsons
• Karen Filippelli – regional manager of the Utica branch of Dunder Mifflin on the mockumentary sitcom The Office
• Uncle Leo – Alice Kramden's uncle on The Honeymooners

From Greater Utica

Academics and scientists

• Charles Henry Smyth Jr. – geologist

Actors and entertainers

• Susan Bennett – voice actress and singer; provided the original voice of Apple's Siri personal assistant, sang backup for Roy Orbison and Burt Bacharach
• John Frink – writer and executive producer for The Simpsons
• Joel de la Fuente – actor

Artists and architects

• Calvert Coggeshall – painter
• Rufus J. Dryer – painter

Athletes and athletics personnel

• Chuck Detwiler – football player

• Joe Nolan – hockey player
• Johnny Sullivan – boxer; competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics

Business figures

• William McLaren Bristol – co-founder of Bristol-Meyers Squibb
• John Ripley Myers – co-founder of Bristol-Meyers Squibb
• H.M. Quackenbush – inventor and industrialist

Lawyers and jurists

• Jasper W. Gilbert – justice of the New York Supreme Court

Military figures

• Frank O. Fournia – Medal of Honor recipient
• Nicholas Herkimer – military officer; fought during the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War

Musicians

• Roberta Guaspari – violinist
• Mat Marucci – jazz drummer

Religion and philosophy

• Francis Bellamy – Christian socialist Baptist minister and author; author of the Pledge of Allegiance
• Hiram Huntington Kellogg Sr. – Presbyterian minister; founder and first director of the Female Seminary in Clinton, New York and the first president of Knox College

Social reformers

• Clara Barton – founder of the American Red Cross^[26][27]

Politicians

• Alexander L. Collins – Whig party leader; first governor of Wisconsin
• Frederick S. Martin – U.S. congressman
• Francis E. Spinner – Treasurer of the United States
• Mancel Talcott – Chicago politician

Writers and journalists

• Natalie Babbitt – children's author
• Grace Lin – children's author
• Harold Bell Wright – author

Other

• Benjamin Wright – chief engineer of the Erie Canal

See also

• Category:Utica University people
• List of people from Rome, New York