List of people from Utica, New York

• Henry D. Abelove – historian and literary critic
• Elsa Guerdrum Allen – ornithologist, lecturer, and author
• 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
• Wylie Burke – Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington and founding co-director of the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomics Research Network
• 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
• Clara Whitehill Hunt – teacher, librarian, writer, and advocate for children's library services
• Marilyn E. Jacox – physical chemist
• Milton Kerker – physical chemist; namesake of the Kerker effect
• Paul Krugman – economist; professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; columnist for the New York Times
• Anthony Lazzaro – vice president of the University of Southern California
• 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 – 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
• George Norton Wolcott – entomologist
• Peter T. Wolczanski – chemist and Cornell professor
• Mary E. Young – historian

• Lester Allen – actor, dancer, acrobat
• Kim Bass – director, screenwriter, and producer
• Jef Billings – costume designer and ice show director
• Yale Boss – actor
• Steven Brill – actor, film producer, director, and screenwriter^[1]
• Adelaide Bronti – actress and operatic singer
• Victor Bumbalo – actor and playwright
• Brendan Burke – sportscaster
• 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 – sportscaster and radio host
• Ralph Sheheen – sportscaster and television host
• Hal Smith – actor
• Anna Townsend – actress and frequent Harold Lloyd collaborator
• Matteo Vittucci – dancer^[6]

• Brad Anderson – cartoonist; creator of Marmaduke
• Mark Bodé – cartoonist; son of Vaughn Bodē
• Vaughn Bodē – cartoonist and illustrator^[7][8]
• Neave Brown – architect and artist
• Marcus F. Cummings – architect
• 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 – painting conservator
• Rose Marasco – photographer
• Daniel Nicoletta – photographer
• Maurice J. Power – sculptor
• Joe Zane – painter, sculptor, video and performance artist, and humorist

• Irving Baxter – gold medalist in the men's high jump and the pole vault at the 1900 Summer Olympics
• Valentine Bialas – speed skater who competed in the 1924, 1928, and 1932 Winter Olympics
• Alonzo Breitenstein – baseball player
• Ken Brett – baseball player
• George Burns – baseball player
• Tim Capstraw – basketball coach and color commentator
• Dave Cash – baseball player
• Walt Chipple – baseball player
• Tommy Condell – Canadian football coach
• Bob Curtis – football coach
• Dominick Dawes – ice hockey coach
• George Detore – baseball player
• Bill Duggleby – baseball player
• Moira Dunn – golfer
• Louie Ehrensbeck – biathlon skier who competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics
• Robert Esche – hockey player
• Jim Fairbank – baseball player
• Gerry Friel – basketball coach
• Chris Garrett – football player
• George Gore – baseball player
• Mike Griffin – baseball player
• Jimmie Hunt – basketball player
• Ilia Jarostchuk – football player
• Ernest Jones – football player
• James Joseph – curler
• Lou Lazzaro – modified racing driver
• Mark Lemke – baseball player
• Fred Lewis – baseball player
• Joe Malcewicz – professional wrestler and promoter
• Charles B. Mason – football player and coach
• William W. May – athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
• 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
• Caitlin Pulli – curler
• Stacey Reile - IBF (boxing) World featherweight champion 2011
• 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
• Joseph Rockwell Swan – football player and coach
• Jim Wessinger – baseball player
• Hal White – baseball player
• George Burrell Woodin – wrestler; better known by his stage name "Mr. Wrestling"

• 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 – president of Utica University and president and CEO of Herkimer County Trust
• David D'Alessandro – businessman, marketing executive, and author; former CEO of John Hancock Financial and chairman for Servpro
• John C. Devereux – pioneering Irish Catholic and philanthropist; co-founder of the Savings Bank of Utica
• Nicholas Devereux – financier, banker, and philanthropist; founder of St. Bonaventure University
• Frank DuRoss – professional sports franchise owner
• Robert Fabbio – entrepreneur, technologist, and venture capitalist
• Kenny Friedkin – aviator and businessman; founder of Pacific Southwest Airlines
• 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
• 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]

• 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
• Lavinia Goodell – first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin and the first woman admitted to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin; abolitionist and women's suffrage and prison reform activist
• 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
• Harold R. Tyler Jr. – district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

• William Anders – Air Force major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman
• Samuel Livingston Breese – Navy rear admiral
• 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
• Richard Evans – US Army brigadier general^[11]
• Ferris Foreman – Mexican-American War veteran, Union army colonel, and California 49er
• James G. Grindlay – Medal of Honor recipient and Union army brevetted brigadier general
• Earl B. Hailston – Marine Corps lieutenant general; Commanding General of United States Marine Corps Forces Pacific, U.S. Marine Forces Central Command, and U.S. Marine Corps Bases Pacific
• Edward F. Jones – Union army officer, merchant, manufacturer, author and politician
• James H. Ledlie – Union army general and civil engineer
• William Mervine – Navy rear 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^[12]

• Carlos Alexander – operatic singer
• Joe Bonamassa – blues rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter^[13]
• 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^[14]
• Tommy DeCarlo – singer; current lead vocalist for the rock band Boston^[15]
• Earthstar – electronic music group
• Arthur Fields – singer-songwriter
• Debbie Friedman – singer-songwriter of religious Jewish music^[16]
• Jules Herbuveaux – jazz musician and orchestra director; television executive for WMAQ-TV, the first all-color station in the world
• 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^[17]
• Joseph Michael – lead singer of Sanctuary, former member of White Wizzard, Midnight Reign and Peppermint Creeps
• moe. – jam rock band^[18]
• 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

• 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
• St. Andre Durand Balcombe – Minnesota legislator, Indian agent, and newspaper editor
• Samuel Beardsley – U.S. congressman
• Flavel W. Bingham – mayor of Cleveland
• Sherwood Boehlert – U.S. congressman
• Alvan E. Bovay – Wisconsin State Assembly representative; one of the founders of the Republican Party
• M. William Bray – lieutenant governor of New York
• 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]
• Charles Cook – New York state senator
• Simon Newton Dexter – politician and merchant
• John W. Dorrington – Arizona Territorial Legislature representative and newspaper owner, editor and publisher
• Fred J. Douglas – U.S. congressman
• Russell G. Dunmore – New York State Assembly member
• Rufus Elefante – Democratic political boss
• De Witt C. Flanagan – U.S. congressman
• William Jay Gaynor – mayor of New York City and political reformer
• Jonas Platt Goodsell – New York State Engineer and Surveyor
• Alexander T. Goodwin – New York state senator
• Charles P. Graham – Adjutant General of the State of Connecticut
• John K. Hackett – Recorder of New York City
• William H. Hampton – New York state senator
• Richard Hanna – U.S. congressman
• Carol Hanson – mayor of Boca Raton, Florida
• 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
• Brian Miller – New York State Assembly member
• Morris S. Miller – U.S. congressman
• Rutger B. Miller – U.S. congressman
• Joe Morelle – U.S. congressman
• Charles E. Morris – Wisconsin State Assembly representative
• 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]
• James R. Sheffield – New York State Assembly member and Ambassador to Mexico
• 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
• Thurlow Weed – principal advisor to William H. Seward
• 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

• 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^[25]
• 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
• George Heber Jones – missionary in Korea
• Samuel Kirkland Lothrop – clergyman and writer
• Isaac Norton Rendall – Presbyterian minister and president of Lincoln University
• John Timothy Stone – clergyman
• Granville M. Williams – priest, monk, and writer

• Ralph Beaumont – labor union leader
• George Alder Blumer – physician, mental hospital administrator, and journal editor; major leader and reformer in the provision of humanitarian care for mental hospital patients
• Jane Louisa Hardy – activist and philanthropist
• Jermain Wesley Loguen – abolitionist, bishop, teacher, and author
• Anna Rice Powell – abolitionist and women's suffrage activist
• 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

• 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^[26]
• 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
• Tom McGinty – investigative journalist; Pulitzer Prize winner
• 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
• Jeff Rossen –television journalist
• Dan Senor – columnist, writer, and political advisor to Mitt Romney
• John Randolph Spears – author and journalist
• John Zogby – political pollster, author, and public speaker; founder of the Zogby poll and the Zogby International poll

• 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

• Bobbi Anderson – protagonist of the Stephen King novel The Tommyknockers^[27]
• Gary Chalmers – superintendent of Springfield School District on the animated sitcom The Simpsons
• Clean – protagonist of the 2021 film of the same name
• 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