List of people from the Upper East Side
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The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It has a long tradition of being home to some of the world's most wealthy, powerful and influential families and individuals.
- Roman Abramovich (born 1966) – businessman, investor, and politician[1]
- Ronnie Abrams (born 1968) – US judge
- William Acquavella (born 1937/38) – art dealer[2]
- George B. Agnew (1868–1941) – politician[3]
- Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – Saudi royal
- Herbert Allen Jr. (born 1940) – businessman[4]
- Woody Allen (born 1935) – film director, writer, and actor[5]
- Rand Araskog (1931–2021) – businessman[6]
- Elizabeth Arden (1878–1966) – businesswoman[7]
- Brooke Astor (1902–2007) – philanthropist and widow of Vincent Astor[8]
- Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1830–1908) – socialite[9]
- John Jacob Astor IV (1864–1912) – businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, who was a passenger on the RMS Titanic and chose to remain on the ship when it sank[10]
- Vincent Astor (1891–1959) – businessman, philanthropist, and member of the prominent Astor family[11]
B
- Jules Bache – banker[12]
- Louis Bacon – hedge fund manager[13]
- Tallulah Bankhead – actress[14]
- Joseph Baratta – investor[15]
- Amzi L. Barber – asphalt tycoon[16]
- Demas Barnes – politician and a United States Representative from New York[17]
- Bernard Baruch – financier[18]
- Robert Bass – businessman and philanthropist[15]
- William Bates – physician[19]
- Stephen Vincent Benét – poet[20]
- Olivier Berggruen – art historian and curator[21]
- Leonard Bernstein – composer, conductor
- Edward Julius Berwind – coal mining magnate[22]
- Heber R. Bishop – businessman and jade collector
- Leon Black – hedge fund manager[23]
- Lloyd Blankfein – banker[24]
- Len Blavatnik – businessman, investor, and philanthropist[25]
- Michael Bloomberg – billionaire philanthropist and former mayor of New York City[26]
- René Bouché – artist and fashion illustrator[27]
- John Vernou Bouvier III – socialite, Wall Street stockbroker, and father of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill[28]
- Eli Broad – entrepreneur[24]
- Irving Brokaw – heir, figure skater, first American to compete in an Olympic winter sport
- Isaac Vail Brokaw – clothing merchant[29]
- Charles Bronfman – businessman and philanthropist[30]
- Edgar Bronfman Jr. – businessman[31]
- Edgar Bronfman Sr. – businessman and philanthropist[32]
- Matthew Bronfman – businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist[33]
- Arthur William Brown – illustrator[34]
- Catherine Wolfe Bruce – philanthropist[35]
- Yul Brynner – actor[36]
- Patricia Buckley – socialite[37]
- William F. Buckley Jr. – author[37]
- Tory Burch – fashion designer[38]
- I. Townsend Burden – heir
- James A. Burden Jr. – industrialist[39][40]
C
- John T. Cahill – lawyer[41]
- Hervey C. Calkin – U.S. representative[42]
- Anthony Campagna – real estate developer[43]
- Truman Capote – novelist[44][45]
- Mariah Carey – singer
- Andrew Carnegie – industrialist[46]
- Phoebe Cates – actress
- Dick Cavett – comedian and former talk show host
- Marc Chagall – artist[47]
- Robert Chambers – the "Preppie Killer" of Jennifer Levin
- Walid Chammah – executive[24]
- James Chanos – investor[15]
- Gustavo Cisneros – businessman[48]
- Huguette Clark – heiress[49]
- James H. Clark – Netscape founder[50]
- William A. Clark – politician and entrepreneur[51]
- Jill Clayburgh – actress[52]
- Montgomery Clift – actor[53]
- Gifford A. Cochran – entrepreneur and sportsman[54]
- George M. Cohan – entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer[53]
- Charles Cohen – real estate developer[55]
- Michael Cohen – attorney for Donald Trump[56]
- Roy Cohn – lawyer, mentor to Donald Trump
- George Condo – artist[57]
- Sean Connery – actor[58]
- Mark Consuelos – actor[59]
- Barbara Corcoran – businesswoman, investor, speaker, consultant, syndicated columnist, author, and television personality[60]
- Ann Coulter – author, political commentator, columnist[61]
- Katie Couric – journalist[62]
- Simon Cowell – television judge and producer[63]
- Gardner Cowles Jr. – publisher[6]
- Joan Crawford – actress[53]
- Aimée Crocker (1864–1941) – heiress, princess, author, world traveler
- George Crocker – businessman[64]
D
- Alexandra Daddario – actress[65]
- Matthew Daddario – actor[66]
- Antonio Damasio – neuroscientist[67]
- Rodney Dangerfield – comedian, actor
- William Augustus Darling – politician[68]
- Michel David-Weill – banker[2]
- Norman Davis – diplomat[69]
- Edward Coleman Delafield – colonel and banker[17]
- John DeLorean – engineer, inventor and executive in the U.S. automobile industry[70]
- Oleg Deripaska – oligarch and philanthropist[citation needed]
- Bob Diamond – former group chief executive of Barclays plc[citation needed]
- Joan Didion – author[71]
- C. Douglas Dillon – diplomat and politician[72]
- Jamie Dimon – banker[73]
- James Dinan – hedge fund manager[74]
- Julio Mario Santo Domingo – diplomat[6]
- Plácido Domingo – tenor, conductor and arts administrator[75]
- Marta Domingo – opera soprano, stage director and designer[75]
- Shaun Donovan (born 1966) – former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and director of the Office of Management and Budget, running for mayor of New York City
- Glenn Dubin – hedge fund manager[76]
- James Buchanan Duke – businessman[77]
- Henry J. Duveen – art dealer
- Charles Dyson – businessman[78]
- James Dyson – inventor, industrial design engineer and founder of the Dyson company[79]
E
- Cheryl Eisen – interior designer[80]
- Robert H. Ellsworth – art dealer[81]
- Richard Engel – journalist
- Israel Englander – hedge fund manager[82]
- Jeffrey Epstein – financier and registered sex offender[83]
- Walker Evans – photographer, at 112 East 74th Street[84]
F
- Sherman Fairchild – aviation pioneer[85]
- Linda Fairstein (born 1947) – prosecutor and author
- Philip Falcone – businessman[15]
- José Fanjul – sugar baron[86]
- Mia Farrow – actress
- Stephen Feinberg – investor[87]
- Michael Feinstein – singer[88]
- Barbara Feldon – actress
- Edna Ferber – writer[53]
- Marshall Field – entrepreneur[6]
- Karen Finerman – hedge fund manager and television personality[89]
- Jay S. Fishman – insurance executive
- J. Christopher Flowers – investor[90]
- Jonathan Franzen – National Book Award-winning novelist
- Paul J. Fribourg – businessman[91]
- Henry Clay Frick – industrialist, financier, union-buster, and art patron[92]
- Richard S. Fuld, Jr. – banker[93]
G
- Lady Gaga – singer
- Gerald Garson – former NY Supreme Court justice convicted of accepting bribes
- Ina Garten – author[94]
- Bruce Gelb – businessman and diplomat[95]
- Sarah Michelle Gellar – actress
- James W. Gerard – lawyer and diplomat[96]
- Ricky Gervais – comedian, actor
- Gordon Getty – businessman, investor, philanthropist and classical music composer[2]
- Pia Getty – filmmaker[97]
- John Giorno – artist
- Rudy Giuliani – politician, attorney, businessman, public speaker, former mayor of New York City, and attorney to President Donald Trump[98]
- Barbara Goldsmith – author, journalist, and philanthropist[99]
- Danielle Goldstein (born 1985) – American-Israeli show jumper[100]
- Lawrence E. Golub – entrepreneur, philanthropist, and business executive[89]
- Murray H. Goodman – real estate developer[101]
- Noam Gottesman – hedge fund manager[102]
- Jay Gould – railroad developer[103]
- Ulysses S. Grant – 18th president of the United States, commanding general of the Army, soldier, international statesman, and author[96]
- Peter Grauer – chairman, Bloomberg L.P.[86]
- Kenneth C. Griffin – hedge fund manager[2]
- Bob Guccione – photographer[104]
- Meyer Guggenheim – patriarch of the Guggenheim family[105]
- Simon Guggenheim – politician[106]
- Randolph Guggenheimer – lawyer[107]
- Daphne Guinness – heiress, socialite, fashion designer, art collector, model, musician, film producer and actor[108]
- Thomas Guinzburg – publisher[37]
- John Gutfreund – investment banker[37]
H
- Katie Halper – podcaster and left-wing political commentator
- J. Hooker Hamersley – heir, lawyer and poet[109]
- W. Averell Harriman – governor of New York[54]
- Kitty Carlisle Hart – singer, advocate for the arts and historic preservation[37]
- Henry Osborne Havemeyer – industrialist[110]
- Millicent Hearst – wife of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst[2]
- Drue Heinz – patron of the literary arts, actress, philanthropist and socialite[111]
- Ariel Helwani – mixed martial arts writer
- Ernest Hemingway – writer[112]
- Jim Henson – puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, and filmmaker[31]
- Leon Hess – founder and President of Hess Corporation and one-time owner of the New York Jets[113]
- David M. Heyman (1891–1984) – financier, philanthropist, art collector[114]
- Tommy Hilfiger – fashion designer[104]
- J. Tomilson Hill – investor[115]
- Henry Hilton – jurist and businessman[116]
- Dennis Hoey – actor[117]
- Lena Horne – singer[118]
- Vladimir Horowitz – pianist and composer[119]
- Alan Howard – hedge fund manager[120]
I
J
- Michael Jackson – singer[122]
- Jeremy Jacobs, Sr. – owner of the Boston Bruins[123]
- Morton L. Janklow – literary agent[37]
- Jasper Johns – artist[124]
- Jed Johnson – Interior designer and filmmaker[125]
- Boris Johnson – prime minister of the United Kingdom
- Woody Johnson – businessman, philanthropist, and diplomat[126]
- Star Jones – lawyer, television personality[127]
K
- Otto Hermann Kahn – investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts[128]
- Harry Kargman – CEO of Kargo[129]
- Jill Kargman – author, writer and actress[129]
- Herbert Kasper – fashion designer[37]
- George S. Kaufman – playwright[130]
- Slim Keith – socialite[37]
- Caroline Kennedy – author and diplomat to Japan, and daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
- James Powell Kernochan – businessman and clubman[131]
- Sante Kimes – criminal[104]
- Stephen King – author[132]
- Kevin Kline – actor
- David H. Koch – businessman, philanthropist, conservative political activist
- Frederick R. Koch – collector and philanthropist[133]
- Doron Kochavi – businessman, lawyer, philanthropist
- Pannonica de Koenigswarter – jazz patron and writer[130]
- Jeff Koons – artist
- Jerzy Kosiński – novelist[134]
- Bruce Kovner – hedge fund manager[135]
- Dennis Kozlowski – former CEO of Tyco International[136]
- Nicola Kraus – novelist[137]
- Peter S. Kraus – businessman, philanthropist and art collector[138]
- Henry Kravis – investor[76]
- Jared Kushner – investor, real-estate developer, newspaper publisher, senior advisor to President Donald Trump[139]
L
- Thomas W. Lamont – banker[140]
- Marc Lasry – hedge fund manager[122]
- Aerin Lauder – businesswoman[141]
- Jane Lauder – businesswoman[142]
- Leonard Lauder – businessman, art collector and humanitarian[143]
- William Lauder – businessman, and executive chairman of the Estée Lauder Companie
- Matt Lauer – news anchor[144]
- Charles Lazarus – founder of Toys R Us[86]
- Lewis Cass Ledyard – lawyer[134]
- Harper Lee – author[145]
- Spike Lee – film director and producer
- William B. Leeds – businessman[146]
- Loida Nicolas Lewis – businesswoman who is the widow of TLC Beatrice founder and CEO Reginald Lewis[147]
- Louise Linton – actress[148]
- Robert I. Lipp – businessman
- John Langeloth Loeb Jr. – businessman, philanthropist, former United States ambassador to Denmark, and former delegate to the United Nations[149]
M
- John J. Mack – banker[24]
- Julie Macklowe – beauty entrepreneur and businesswoman[150]
- Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland – Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland[151]
- Andrew Madoff – stockbroker and investment advisor[152][153]
- Bernard Madoff – ex-hedge fund manager convicted of running a Ponzi scheme
- Madonna – entertainer; purchased $40 million mansion on East 81st Street at Lexington Avenue in 2009
- Carolyn Maloney – politician, former member of United States House of Representatives and the New York City Council
- Stewart and Cyril Marcus – gynecologists[104]
- Barbara Margolis – prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter of New York City[154]
- Anne Windfohr Marion – rancher, horse breeder, business executive, philanthropist, and art collector[2]
- Howard Marks – investor[155]
- Paul Marks – medical doctor, researcher and administrator[156]
- Malachi Martin – author
- Wednesday Martin – author[157]
- Soong Mei-ling – former First Lady of the Republic of China, known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang
- Rachel Lambert Mellon – horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector[158]
- J. Ezra Merkin – hedge fund manager[159]
- Charles E. Merrill – philanthropist, stockbroker, and co-founder of Merrill Lynch[111]
- Howard Michaels – founder of the real estate investment advisory firm the Carlton Group[160]
- Bette Midler – singer[161]
- George W. Miller – politician[162]
- Robert Mnuchin – banker[163]
- Steven Mnuchin – investment banker, film producer, hedge fund manager, and secretary of the US Treasury[164]
- Mary Tyler Moore – actress, producer, and social advocate, at 927 Fifth Avenue at East 74th Street
- Sonja Morgan[165]
- Levi P. Morton – 22nd vice president of the United States, ambassador, and former governor of New York[166]
- Robert Moses – city planner, public official, referred to as the "master builder" of New York
- Mark Mulvoy – Sports Illustrated journalist and managing editor[167]
- Charles Murphy – hedge fund manager[168]
- James Murdoch – businessman[169]
- Rupert Murdoch – media mogul[170]
- Wendi Deng Murdoch – businesswoman, and movie producer[171]
- Arthur Murray – dancer[2]
N
- Spyros Niarchos – shipping magnate[6]
- Cynthia Nixon – LGBTQ actress and politician/activist
- Peggy Noonan – speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, political commentator and author
- Deborah Norville – television anchor and businesswoman
- Chris Noth – actor[172]
O
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – former First Lady of the United States[104]
- Stanley O'Neal – banker[24]
- Frederick Osborn – philanthropist, military leader, and eugenicist[162]
- Katharina Otto-Bernstein – filmmaker[173]
P
- Ashraf Pahlavi – twin sister of the deposed shah[174]
- William S. Paley – executive[2]
- Vikram Pandit – banker[24]
- Sister Parish – interior decorator and socialite[175]
- Dorothy Parker – poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist
- Antenor Patiño – tycoon[176]
- John Paulson – hedge fund manager[177]
- Joan Whitney Payson – heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family[178]
- Nelson Peltz – investor[179]
- Ronald Perelman – investor[180]
- Antonio Permuy – writer, curator, and art patron
- Holly Peterson – producer, journalist and novelist[181]
- Peter George Peterson – investment banker and United States Secretary of Commerce[177]
- Milton Petrie – retail investor[37]
- George Plimpton – author, humorist, NFL quarterback
- Generoso Pope – Italian-American businessman and newspaper publisher, lived at 1040 Fifth Avenue
- Zac Posen – fashion designer[182]
- Peter O. Price – media proprietor[37]
- Harold Prince – theatrical producer and director[183]
- Joseph Pulitzer – newspaper publisher[184]
R
- Lee Radziwill – princess, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Stewart Rahr – pharmaceuticals mogul[185]
- Michael Rapaport – actor, internet personality, podcaster
- Lynn Pressman Raymond – toy and game innovator, president of the Pressman Toy Corporation[186]
- Robert Redford – actor[187]
- Michele Singer Reiner – film producer and photographer[188]
- Ira Rennert – investor and businessman[189]
- Kelly Ripa – talk show host[59]
- Joan Rivers – comedian[190]
- David Rockefeller – banker[191]
- John D. Rockefeller Jr. – financier and philanthropist[180]
- Laurance Rockefeller – philanthropist, businessman, financier, and major conservationist[37]
- Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor – businessman[48]
- Felix Rohatyn – investment banker[192]
- Julia Restoin Roitfeld – art director and model[193]
- Eleanor Roosevelt – political figure, diplomat and activist[130]
- Theodore Roosevelt – U.S. president, represented Upper East Side in New York State Assembly at beginning of his political career.
- Elihu Root – former secretary of state[194]
- James Rorimer – museum director[195]
- Aby Rosen – real estate developer[196]
- Christopher Ross – sculptor, designer and collector
- Steve Ross – CEO of Time Warner[180]
- Alexander Rovt – real estate investor[197]
- Marc Rowan – investor[198]
- Helena Rubinstein – businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist[199]
- Serge Rubinstein – stock and currency manipulator and murder victim[53]
- Jacob Ruppert – brewer[104]
S
- Lily Safra – philanthropist and socialite[200]
- Walter J. Salmon Sr. – real estate developer[201]
- Nassef Sawiris – CEO[86]
- Jacob Schiff – banker[202]
- Jack Schlossberg – writer[203]
- Rose Schlossberg – filmmaker
- Tatiana Schlossberg – journalist and author
- Stephen Schwarzman – businessman[204]
- Martin Scorsese – film director and producer[205]
- Arthur Hawley Scribner – president of Charles Scribner's Sons[206]
- Charles R. Schwab – investor, financial executive, and philanthropist[207]
- Ryan Seacrest – radio personality, television host, and producer[208]
- Terry Semel – Yahoo! CEO[2]
- Bishop Sheen – religious leader
- Leonard Sillman – broadway producer[27]
- David Simon – CEO of Simon Malls
- Ramona Singer – TV personality[209]
- Harry Slatkin – businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist[210]
- William Douglas Sloane – businessman, sportsman, philanthropist[211]
- Al Smith – former governor of New York[2]
- George Soros – hedge fund manager[212]
- Andy Spade – fashion designer[213]
- Kate Spade – fashion designer[213]
- Jerry Speyer – real estate developer[214]
- Carl Spielvogel – ambassador to the Slovak Republic[215]
- Eliot Spitzer – former governor of New York[216]
- Kenneth I. Starr – money manager[217]
- John Steinbeck – author[218]
- Saul Steinberg – businessman[6]
- Benjamin Steinbruch – CEO[86]
- Gloria Steinem – journalist[219]
- Michael Steinhardt – financier[220]
- George Stephanopoulos – journalist, political commentator and former Democratic advisor[221]
- Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes – architect[222]
- Willard Dickerman Straight – investment banker, publisher, reporter, Army Reserve officer, diplomat and by marriage, a member of the Whitney family[135]
- Jesse I. Straus – ambassador to France[223]
- Roger Williams Straus Jr. – entrepreneur[39]
- Igor Stravinsky – composer[53]
- Margaret Rockefeller Strong – activist[224]
- Robert L. Stuart – industrialist[225]
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger – publisher and businessman[226]
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. – publisher[226]
- Sy Syms – founder and owner of Syms Corporation discount clothing retailer; benefactor of Yeshiva University's Syms School of Business[227]
T
- Elie Tahari – fashion designer[228]
- A. Alfred Taubman – businessman, investor, and philanthropist[229]
- Margaretta Taylor – media heiress[23]
- Chloe Temtchine – singer-songwriter[230]
- John Thain – banker[231]
- Jonathan Tisch – chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels & Co.[232]
- Ronn Torossian – public relations executive[233]
- Donald Trump Jr. – businessman and former reality television personality[234]
- Ivana Trump – former model and businesswoman, who was the first wife of Donald Trump[235]
- Ivanka Trump – businesswoman, fashion designer, author, reality television personality, daughter of Donald Trump[139]
- Vanessa Trump – socialite, actress and former model[75]
U
- James Ramsey Ullman – writer and mountaineer[58]
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger – philosopher and politician
- Louis Untermeyer – author, anthologist, editor, poet[72]
V
- Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt – wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
- Anne Harriman Vanderbilt – heiress[111]
- Gloria Vanderbilt – artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite[236]
- William Kissam Vanderbilt II – motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman[237]
- Margit Varga – artist, painter, gallerist, art director, journalist[238]
- Gary Vaynerchuk – entrepreneur, author, speaker and Internet personality[239]
- Leila and Massimo Vignelli – designers[240]
- Vincent Viola – businessman[241]
- Anthony Volpe – baseball player
W
- Mike Wallace (1918–2012) – journalist[37]
- Vera Wang (born 1949) – fashion designer[82]
- Edward Warburg[242]
- Felix M. Warburg[243]
- James Warburg – banker[244]
- Paul Warburg – banker[54]
- Andy Warhol (1928–1987) – artist and filmmaker[125]
- Bruce Wasserstein (1947–2009) – investment banker[245]
- Franz Waxman – composer[246]
- Sigourney Weaver (born 1949) – actress
- Susan Weber (born 1954) – historian[42]
- Boaz Weinstein (born 1973) – hedge fund manager[15]
- Les Wexner (born 1937) – businessman[247]
- Lawrence Grant White – architect[248]
- Mary Jo White (born 1947) – chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission[75]
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney – sculptor, art patron, collector, and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art[16]
- William Collins Whitney (1875–1942) – political leader and financier[16]
- Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) – Holocaust survivor and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986[249]
- Elisha Wiesel (born 1972) – chief information officer of Goldman Sachs; hedge fund manager of the Niche Plus; son of Elie Wiesel
- Alec N. Wildenstein – businessman, art dealer, racehorse owner, and breeder[250]
- Jocelyn Wildenstein – socialite[250]
- Robert B. Willumstad (born 1945) – CEO of AIG[24]: 765
- Steve Witkoff (born 1957) – Special Envoy to the Middle East for U.S. President Donald Trump; real estate investor and developer, founder of the Witkoff Group, attorney
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) – author[251]
- Tom Wolfe – novelist, founder of New Journalism[252][253]
- Jayne Wrightsman – philanthropist[2]
Y
- Charles Yerkes – financier[110]