Dobbs Ferry Notable People

Writers
Rex Beach (novelist, playwright, Olympic water polo player)
Jon Carroll
Sidney Carroll (film and TV screenwriter)
Rudolph Flesch (wrote Art of Readable Writing)
Jean Fritz (childrens history books)
Gary Golio (childrens books on Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan)
William Leuchtenburg (history, specializng in FDR)
Hubert Luckett (Editor-in-Chief, Popular Science Monthly)
Robyn Ross (journalist)
Al Wall (Newsweek writer)
Feenie Ziner (book writer, particularly childrens books)

Visual Artists
John Alcorn (illustrator, designed the 1987 Love stamp)
Janice Candela (artist/illustrator)
Ray and Carol Favata (artists/animators)
Chris Ishii (artist/animator)
Ken Lavey
Kevin McKenna
Genevieve Naylor (fashion photographer, married to Misha Reznikoff)
Jon Nielsen (artist/illustrator)
Irving Novick (comic book artist)
Misha Reznikoff (painter, married to Genevieve Naylor)
Zeke Ziner (fine art and commercial art)

Actors
Jane Alexander
Bradley Bolke (voice actor, notably Chumley in Tennessee Tuxedo and the Ghostly Trio on Caspar the Friendly Ghost)
Mark Cassella
John Cotton
Augusta Dabney (married to Kevin McCarthy)
Nameer El-Kadi (Quest for Fire, now Nicholas Kadi, identical twins with Naseer)
Naseer El-Kadi (Quest for Fire)
Maurice Evans
Paul Fix (film and television character actor)
Joel Higgins (starred in Silver Spoons)
Arthur Hill
Samantha Ivers
Charles Kimbrough ("Jim Dial" on Murphy Brown TV show)
Kevin McCarthy (married to Augusta Dabney)
Becky and Jesse O'Donohue (contestants on Fear Factor and American Idol, also played roles in the movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry)
Peter Resnikoff
Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns (actors in first TV sitcom ever)
Alan ? (voice actor for cartoons, brother of Bradley Bolke)

Musicians
LaMar Alsop (violinist, concertmaster of the NYC Ballet Orchestra, married to Ruth Alsop)
Marin Alsop (music director for Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, daughter of LaMar and Ruth Alsop)
Ruth Alsop (cellist for NYC Ballet Orchestra, married to LaMar Alsop)
Gabriel Banat (violinist)
Beverly Bremers (singer/actor)
Mike Reznikoff (jazz drummer, based in Japan)
Earl Simmons, also known as DMX (rapper, grew up in Children's Village)
Jai Winding (pianist for Madonna and others, son of Kai Winding)
Kai Winding (jazz trombonist)

Sports
Mark Blount (NBA player)
Alvin Dark (major league baseball player)
David Jennings (football, NY Giants and Jets)
Dr. Sab Koide (oldest runner of New York City marathon)
Dusty Rhodes (Giants outfielder)

Other Show Business
Jace Alexander (producer/director of Law & Order, son of Jane Alexander)
Tom Buchanan (sound engineer for Ed Sullivan Show)
Allen Ludden (game show host, such as Password)
Lillah McCarthy (producer)
Stone Phillips (former co-anchor of Dateline NBC)
Amy Stofsky (costumer, rat pack and other)
Michael Todd (director/producer)
Meredith Viera (show host)
John Waryha (cameraman on Good Morning America)

Other
Dominic Altieri (architect who designed Our Lady of Pompeii church and other buildings in DF)
William C. Conner (Federal judge for the US District Court)
Robert Cunningham (Former police officer, inspiration for the movie It Could Happen To You)
Max Greenfield (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, The Today Show)
Robert Ingersol (famed orator in the 1800s)
Sy Miller (architect)
Adam J. Rumoshosky (on Lady Bird Johnson's beautification committee)
Hyman I. Shakin (placed first American Flag in Algiers during initial WWII North African Invasion)
Fanny Villard (important leader in the women's suffrage movement)
Henry Villard (Civil War correspondent, friend of Lincoln, railroad entrepreneur, Edison's main venture capitalist))
Oswald Villard (prinicipal founder and champion of the NAACP)
Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook, lived in DF but attended Ardsley schools)