The Rochester, New York metropolitan area

Rochester, New York metropolitan area

The Rochester, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area , as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties in Western New York, anchored by the city of Rochester...

 in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 is or has been home to many famous individuals. These people include businessmen, civil rights activists, politicians, entertainers, educators, athletes and much more. A list of their names is below:

Academics

• Martin Brewer Anderson, first president of University of Rochester
  University of Rochester
  The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
  
  
• Richard N. Aslin
  Richard N. Aslin
  Richard N. Aslin is an American psychologist. He is William R. Kenan Professor of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Sciences at the University of Rochester. He is also Director of the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging and the Rochester Baby Lab...
  
  , developmental psychologist at the University of Rochester
  University of Rochester
  The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
  
  
• Boris Bittker
  Boris Bittker
  Boris I. Bittker was a prominent United States legal academician. A professor at Yale Law School, Bittker was a prolific author, writing many textbooks and over one hundred articles on tax law....
  
  , legal academic
• Robert Putnam
  Robert Putnam
  Robert David Putnam is a political scientist and professor of public policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also visiting professor and director of the Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change, University of Manchester...
  
  , Harvard Professor
• Richard W. Rahn
  Richard W. Rahn
  Richard W. Rahn is an American economist who frequently writes for The Washington Times. He was the Vice President and Chief Economist of the United States Chamber of Commerce during the Reagan Administration and remains a staunch advocate of Supply-side economics, Small government, and Classical...
  
  , economist
• Joel Seligman
  Joel Seligman
  Joel Seligman is the current President of the University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York, and is one of the leading authorities on securities law in the U.S..-Biography:...
  
  , current President of University of Rochester
  University of Rochester
  The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
  
  

Architects and designers

• Claude Fayette Bragdon
  Claude Fayette Bragdon
  Claude Fayette Bragdon was an American architect, writer, and stage designer based in Rochester, New York, up to World War I, then in New York City....
  
  , architect
• Harvey Ellis
  Harvey Ellis
  Harvey Ellis was an architect, perspective renderer and painter. He worked in Rochester, New York; Utica, New York; St. Paul, Minnesota; Minneapolis, Minnesota; St. Joseph, Missouri; St...
  
  , architect
• Robert Trent Jones
  Robert Trent Jones
  Robert Trent Jones, Sr. was a golf course architect who designed about 500 golf courses in at least 40 US states and 35 other countries all around the world...
  
  , golf course architect
• Clarence Stein
  Clarence Stein
  Clarence Samuel Stein was an American urban planner, architect, and writer, a major proponent of the "Garden City" movement in the United States.- Biography :...
  
  , urban planner, architect and writer who advocated for the Garden City Movement
  Garden city movement
  The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts" , containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and...
  
  
• Andrew Jackson Warner
  Andrew Jackson Warner
  Andrew Jackson Warner , also known as A. J. Warner, was a prominent architect in Rochester, New York.Warner was born in Connecticut and came to Rochester circa 1847 as an apprentice to one of his uncles, Merwin Austin, for whom he worked as a draftsman. He was soon made a partner in his uncle's...
  
  , architect
• J. Foster Warner
  J. Foster Warner
  J. Foster Warner , also known as John Foster Warner, was a Rochester, New York-based architect. He was the son of one of Rochester's most prominent 19th century architects, Andrew Jackson Warner...
  
  , architect

Baseball

• Johnny Antonelli
  Johnny Antonelli
  John August Antonelli is an American former left-handed starting pitcher who played for the Boston and Milwaukee Braves, New York and San Francisco Giants, and Cleveland Indians....
  
  , MLB
• Ross Barnes
  Ross Barnes
  Charles Roscoe Barnes was one of the stars of baseball's National Association and the early National League , playing second base and shortstop. He played for the dominant Boston Red Stockings teams of the early 1870s, along with Albert Spalding, Cal McVey, George Wright, Harry Wright, Jim...
  
  , hit the first recorded home run in professional baseball
• Bernie Boland
  Bernie Boland
  Bernard Anthony Boland was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns . Boland was a reliable pitcher for five years before suffering a broken arm...
  
  
• Cito Culver, 2010 first-round draft pick
• Heinie Groh
  Heinie Groh
  Henry Knight "Heinie" Groh was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball who spent nearly his entire career with the Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants. He was the National League's top third baseman in the late 1910s and early 1920s, and captained championship teams with the Reds and ...
  
  , MLB
• Mike Jones, MLB
• Bob Keegan
  Bob Keegan
  Robert Charles Keegan was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox from 1953-1958. He was originally from Rochester, New York....
  
  , MLB
• Charley Radbourn, MLB
• Tim Redding
  Tim Redding
  Timothy James Redding is an American professional baseball pitcher, who is currently a free agent. He has also pitched for the Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, Washington Nationals, New York Yankees, and New York Mets.-Biography:...
  
  , MLB

Basketball

• Al Cervi
  Al Cervi
  Alfred Nicholas Cervi was an American professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball League and National Basketball Association . One of the strongest backcourt players of the 1940s and 1950s, he was always assigned to defend against the opposing team's best scoring threat...
  
  , NBA player and coach
• Les Harrison, NBA player and coach
• Art Long
  Art Long
  Arthur Donnell Long is an American professional basketball player formerly in the NBA. A 6'9", 250 pound power forward out of the East High School and University of Cincinnati who also attended Independence Community Junior College, Dodge City Community College in Kansas and Southeastern...
  
  , NBA
• John Wallace
  John Wallace (basketball)
  John Gilbert Wallace is a retired American professional basketball player, in the forward position.He was picked 18th by the NY Knicks in the 1996 draft....
  
  , NBA
• Bernie Voorheis
  Bernie Voorheis
  Bernard "Bernie" Voorheis played professional basketball for the Rochester Royals, appearing in eight games in 1946, a year in which the team won the National Basketball League championship....
  
  , NBL

Football

• Cris Crissy
  Cris Crissy
  William Robert Crissy, Jr. is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins...
  
  , NFL
• Tony Collins
  Tony Collins
  Anthony Collins is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League and the Arena Football League.-Early years:...
  
  , NFL
• Don Davey
  Don Davey
  Donald Vincent "Don" Davey is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the third round of the 1991 NFL Draft. He played college football at Wisconsin.Davey also played for the Jacksonville Jaguars....
  
  , NFL
• Don Holleder
  Don Holleder
  Donald Walter Holleder was an American college football star and a hero of the Vietnam War.-Early life and football career:...
  
  , American college football star and Vietnam War hero
• T. J. Jackson (wide receiver)
  T. J. Jackson (wide receiver)
  Trenton James Jackson was an American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Illinois....
  
  , NFL
• Arthur Jones (American football)
  Arthur Jones (American football)
  Arthur Willis Jones III is an American football defensive end for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Ravens in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at Syracuse....
  
  , NFL
• Pat Kelly, NFL
• Rob Konrad
  Rob Konrad
  Robert Konrad is a former American football fullback of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at Syracuse...
  
  , NFL
• Brian Kozlowski
  Brian Kozlowski
  Brian Scott Kozlowski is an American football tight end in the National Football League. He was originally signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 1993...
  
  , NFL
• Leo Lyons
  Leo Lyons (American football)
  Leo V. Lyons was a co-founder of the National Football League. He was a player, manager,coach and owner of the Rochester Jeffersons from 1908 to 1925.-Early career:...
  
  , founder of the NFL's Rochester Jeffersons
  Rochester Jeffersons
  The Rochester Jeffersons from Rochester, New York played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1925.Formed as an amateur outfit by a rag-tag group of Rochester-area teenagers after the turn of the century , the team became known as the Jeffersons in reference to the locale of their playing...
  
  
• Adam Podlesh
  Adam Podlesh
  Adam Podlesh is an American football punter for the Chicago Bears.-Early life:Podlesh, who is Jewish, is a graduate of Pittsford Sutherland High School. He played college football for the Maryland Terrapins....
  
  , NFL
• Robert R. Thomas
  Robert R. Thomas
  Robert R. Thomas is a justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois and a former professional football player. He has served as the Illinois Supreme Court Justice for the Second District since December 4, 2000 and as Chief Justice from September 6, 2005, to September 5, 2008...
  
  , Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois and former NFL player
• David Walker
  David Walker (football coach)
  David Lee Walker is an assistant football coach for the Indianapolis Colts.-Early life:Walker grew up in the Rochester, New York suburb of Irondequoit, where he was a four-time all-county football player...
  
  , NCAA coach
• Roland Williams
  Roland Williams
  Roland Lamar Williams , is a retired American football tight end from the Syracuse. An 8-year NFL veteran, Roland has enjoyed great success on the field and off. Roland was selected in the 1998 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Rams. A multi-year starter, Roland went on to win Super Bowl XXXIV in the...
  
  , NFL
• Alan Zemaitis
  Alan Zemaitis
  Alan Zemaitis is a professional American football cornerback. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 4th round of the 2006 NFL Draft...
  
  , NFL
• Seth Payne
  Seth Payne
  Seth Copeland Payne is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the fourth round of the 1997 NFL Draft....
  
  , NFL (Victor)

Golf

• Danielle Downey
  Danielle Downey
  Danielle Elizabeth Downey is an American professional golfer. She has won golf tournaments at the collegiate level, Sun Coast events and on the Futures Tour...
  
  , LPGA player
• Walter Hagen
  Walter Hagen
  Walter Charles Hagen was a major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century. His tally of eleven professional majors is third behind Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods . He won the U.S. Open twice, and in 1922 he became the first native-born American to win the British Open, which he went on...
  
  , PGA legend
• Jeff Sluman
  Jeff Sluman
  Jeffrey George Sluman is an American professional golfer who has won numerous professional golf tournaments including six PGA Tour victories.-Early years:...
  
  , PGA Tour and Champions Tour

Hockey

• Jason Bonsignore
  Jason Bonsignore
  Jason Bonsignore is a former professional ice hockey forward and speedway promoter and racer. As a hockey player, he was drafted in the first round of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft, 4th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers, as one of the team's two first-round picks that year .-Playing career:Bonsignore was...
  
  , NHL
• Ryan Callahan
  Ryan Callahan
  Ryan Callahan is an American ice hockey forward and captain of the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:Callahan played one year of high school hockey for Hilton High School...
  
  , NHL
• Chris Collins, ECHL
• Rory Fitzpatrick
  Rory Fitzpatrick
  Rory B. Fitzpatrick is a former American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Nashville Predators, Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks and Philadelphia Flyers...
  
  , NHL
• Brian Gionta
  Brian Gionta
  Brian Joseph Gionta is an American professional ice hockey player and captain of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League , and is the second American-born captain of the Canadiens and its first sole American-born captain...
  
  , NHL
• Stephen Gionta
  Stephen Gionta
  Stephen Gionta is an American ice hockey left wing, currently playing for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League...
  
  , NHL
• Kim Insalaco
  Kim Insalaco
  Kim Insalaco is an American ice hockey player. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She graduated from Brown University in 2003. Kim married Chris Legg, also a former Brown Men's Icer on June 13, 2009 in Ithaca, NY where Kim was living at the time...
  
  , Olympic medalist
• Kevin Montgomery
  Kevin Montgomery (ice hockey)
  Kevin Montgomery is an American ice hockey player who currently plays for the Oklahoma City Barons of the American Hockey League while under contract to the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
  
  , NHL
• Marty Reasoner
  Marty Reasoner
  Martin Reasoner, is an American professional ice hockey center for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League . He has also played for the St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, Boston Bruins, Florida Panthers and Atlanta Thrashers...
  
  , NHL
• Billy Sauer
  Billy Sauer
  Billy Sauer is an American professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently playing with the Gwinnett Gladiators of the ECHL.-Playing career:...
  
  , ECHL
• Francis Spain
  Francis Spain
  Francis Jones "Frank" Spain was an American amateur ice hockey player who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany....
  
  , 1936 Winter Olympic bronze medalist
• Lyndsay Wall
  Lyndsay Wall
  Lyndsay Wall is an American ice hockey player. She won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
  
  , Olympic medalist
• Derek Whitmore
  Derek Whitmore
  Derek Robert Whitmore is a professional ice hockey forward in the Buffalo Sabres organization. After playing four seasons at Bowling Green State University, he signed a professional contract with the Sabres on March 26, 2008...
  
  , NHL

Lacrosse

• Paul Cantabene
  Paul Cantabene
  Paul Cantabene is a retired professional lacrosse player. He was a renowned faceoff specialist.-Career:...
  
  
• Grant Catalino
  Grant Catalino
  Grant Catalino is an American lacrosse player from Webster, New York. He is an attackman for the Rochester Rattlers of Major League Lacrosse and a forward for the Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League...
  
  , MLL
• Pat Cougevan
  Pat Cougevan
  Pat Cougevan is a lacrosse player for the Rochester Knighthawks in the National Lacrosse League. In 2007, he was named the team's "Comeback Player of the Year" after suffering a season-ending injury in the 2006 season....
  
  , NLL
• Ben DeLuca, Head Coach, Cornell University
• Matt Kerwick, MILL
• Ryan Maciaszek
• Shawn Nadelen
  Shawn Nadelen
  Shawn Nadelen is a retired professional lacrosse player and the current head men's lacrosse coach at Towson University.He attended Johns Hopkins University where he made two NCAA Tournament Final Four appearances with the Blue Jays as a long stick midfielder....
  
  , NLL and MLL
• Brett Queener
  Brett Queener
  Brett Queener is an American lacrosse player. He is currently a member of the Hamilton Nationals in Major League Lacrosse and the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League...
  
  , NLL and MLL
• Chris Schiller
  Chris Schiller
  Chris Schiller is a lacrosse player for the Rochester Knighthawks in the National Lacrosse League. In 2006, he was named the team's Unsung Hero. Schiller also plays for the Toronto Nationals of Major League Lacrosse .Schiller works as an Endoscopic Account Specialist for Johnson & Johnson...
  
  , NLL and MLL
• Tim Soudan
  Tim Soudan
  Tim Soudan is the current coach of the Rochester Rattlers and a former NLL/MLL lacrosse player for the Boston Blazers, Rochester Knighthawks, and Rochester Rattlers.- College career :...
  
  
• Joe Walters
  Joe Walters
  Joe Walters is a professional lacrosse player for the Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League and the Toronto Nationals in the Major League Lacrosse.-Collegiate:...
  
  , NLL and MLL

Soccer

• Brian Bliss
  Brian Bliss
  Brian Boyer Bliss is a retired American soccer defender and former coach of the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer. He played professionally in Europe and the United States including the original Major Indoor Soccer League, American Soccer League, American Professional Soccer League and...
  
  , MLS
• Jessica Dulski, W-League
• Juan Pablo Galavis
  Juan Pablo Galavis
  Juan Pablo Galavis is a Venezuelan-American professional football forward who currently plays for USL-1 team Miami FC....
  
  , USL Division-I
• Erica Henderson, W-League
• Gretchen Miller, W-League
• Kyra Petrole, W-League
• Kathryn Potter, W-League
• Lydia Vandenbergh
  Lydia Vandenbergh
  Lydia Kathleen Vandenbergh is an American soccer defender currently playing for magicJack of the Women's Professional Soccer league.-External links:* * * * *...
  
  , WPS
• Abby Wambach
  Abby Wambach
  Mary Abigail "Abby" Wambach is an American professional soccer player, coach and Olympic gold medalist. A four-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, she has been a regular on the U.S. women's national team since 2003...
  
  , 2004 Olympic medalist. WPS

Swimming and diving

• Kara Lynn Joyce
  Kara Lynn Joyce
  Kara Lynn Joyce is an American swimmer and four-time Olympic silver medalist.-High school career:...
  
  , Olympic Medalist
• Ryan Lochte
  Ryan Lochte
  Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...
  
  
• Richard Saeger
  Richard Saeger
  Richard Erwin Saeger is an American swimmer, who won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. He swam in the preliminary heats for the US 4×200 m freestyle team, which eventually triumphed in the final.-References:*...
  
  
• Wendy Wyland
  Wendy Wyland
  Janna Wendy Wyland was a female diver from the United States. More commonly known as Wendy Wyland, she represented her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, winning the bronze medal in the Women's 10m Platform competition...
  
  , 1984 Olympic medalist, Diving

Other athletes

• Josh Arieh
  Josh Arieh
  Joshua Arieh is an American professional poker player. Arieh has been competing in poker competitions since 1999...
  
  , 2005 World Series Poker Champion
• Dick Buerkle
  Dick Buerkle
  Richard "Dick" Thomas Buerkle is an Olympic athlete and once held the world record for the indoor one-mile run.-Athletic Achievements:Buerkle graduated from Aquinas Institute high school in 1966 with a personal best of 4:28 for the one-mile run. He graduated from Villanova University in 1970 with...
  
  , former world-record holder, indoor mile
• William Cox
  William Cox (athlete)
  William John Cox was an American athlete who competed mainly in the distance events.He competed for the United States in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France in the 3000 metre team where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Edward Kirby and Willard Tibbetts....
  
  , 1924 Olympic medalist, 3000m team
• Irving Crane
  Irving Crane
  Irving Crane , nicknamed "the Deacon", was an American pool player from Livonia , New York, and ranks among the stellar players in the history of the sport...
  
  , billiards, Six-time World Champion
• Bill Davey
  Bill Davey
  Bill Davey is an American bodybuilder and fitness model. He earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in exercise physiology from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. Davey has often been presented in fitness and bodybuilding magazines...
  
  , bodybuilder, 1997 AAU Mr. America
• Jon Jones (fighter)
  Jon Jones (fighter)
  Jonathan Dwight Jones is an American mixed martial artist from Endicott, New York. He is the current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion....
  
  , UFC Light Heavyweight Champion
• Doug Kent
  Doug Kent
  Doug Kent is a right-handed American professional ten-pin bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association . In the 2006-07 season, Kent became just the sixth bowler in PBA history to win two major championships in one tour year as he captured titles in the USBC Masters and Denny's PBA...
  
  , professional ten-pin bowler
  Ten-pin bowling
  Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible.-Summary:The lane is bordered along its length by semicylindrical channels Ten-pin bowling (commonly just...
  
   and 2006-07 PBA
  Professional Bowlers Association
  The Professional Bowlers Association is the major sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling in the United States. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the PBA membership consists of almost 4,300 members worldwide...
  
   Player of the Year
• A.J. Kitt, skier
• Sean Lahman
  Sean Lahman
  Sean Lahman is an award-winning author and journalist.-Sports Research:He is most noted for the Lahman Baseball Database, a collection of baseball statistics for every team and player in Major League history...
  
  
• Jason McElwain
  Jason McElwain
  Jason McElwain, , is a high-functioning autistic American; he came to fame on national news in 2006 when he played for four minutes during a high school basketball game and scored twenty points....
  
  , basketball personality
• Danny Padilla
  Danny Padilla
  Dennis "Danny" Padilla is an American bodybuilder nicknamed "The Giant Killer" because of his short stature and amazing ability to defeat much taller competitors.-Early life:...
  
  , bodybuilder, "The Giant Killer"
• Pete Pfitzinger
  Pete Pfitzinger
  Peter Dickson Pfitzinger is a former American distance runner, who later became an author and exercise physiologist...
  
  , marathoner, member of the 1984 and 1988 US Olympic Teams
• Mike Sigel
  Mike Sigel
  Mike Sigel is an American professional pool player.Sigel has won over 102 major pool tournaments, including 3 US Open Nine-ball Championship tournaments and 5 world pocket billiard championship titles...
  
  , Billiard Congress of America
  Billiard Congress of America
  Billiard Congress of America is a governing body for cue sports in North America , the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association...
  
   Hall of Famer
• Frank Ritter Shumway, figure skater
• Jenn Suhr (née Stuczynski), 2008 Olympic medalist, Pole vault
• Cathy Turner
  Cathy Turner
  Cathy Ann Turner is an American short track speed skater, who won gold medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics....
  
  , Olympic gold medalist, Short-track speed skating
• Jason Turner
  Jason Turner (sport shooter)
  Jason Turner is an American sport shooter and Olympic athlete who finished fourth at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the 10 metre air pistol final. Bronze medalist Kim Jong Su later tested positive for propranolol, disqualifying him and upgrading Turner's position to third...
  
  , 2008 Olympic medalist, Air pistol
• Felicia Zimmerman, fencer, 1996 and 2000 Olympics
• Iris Zimmerman
  Iris Zimmerman
  Iris Zimmerman is an American fencer. She competed for the United States in the 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's team foil event, although the team did not win a medal. Her sister is Felicia Zimmerman, an Olympic fencer for the United States in 1996 and 2000...
  
  , fencer, 2000 Olympics

Officials

• Ken Kaiser
  Ken Kaiser
  Kenneth John Kaiser is a former umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1977 to 1999. He spent 13 years in the minor leagues and 23 years in the major leagues, a total of 36 years in professional baseball...
  
  , baseball umpire
• Bill Klem
  Bill Klem
  William Joseph Klem, born William Joseph Klimm , known as the "father of baseball umpires", was a National League umpire in Major League Baseball from 1905 to 1941...
  
  , baseball umpire
• Jimmy Debell
  Jimmy Debell
  James "Jimmy" Debell is an American football official in the National Football League , who wears uniform number 58. Jimmy Debell made his debut in the NFL as a side judge on the crew of Alberto Riveron in 2009. He started his career officiating high school football in upstate NY and then...
  
  , NFL Official

Businesspeople

• Charles August
  Charles August
  Charles "Chuck" J. August was an American businessman who founded Monro Muffler Brake.August's career in automotive maintenance and repair began as a Midas Muffler franchisee in 1957 in Rochester, New York. In 1966, he discontinued his affiliation with Midas...
  
  , co-founder of Monro Muffler Brake
• John Jacob Bausch
  John Jacob Bausch
  John Jacob Bausch was a German-American maker of optical instruments who co-founded Bausch & Lomb ....
  
  , co-founder of Bausch & Lomb
  Bausch & Lomb
  Bausch & Lomb, an American company based in Rochester, New York, is one of the world's leading suppliers of eye health products, such as contact lenses and lens care products today. In addition to this main activity, in recent years the area of medical technology has been developed...
  
  
• George Eastman
  George Eastman
  George Eastman was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream...
  
  , Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquarted in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded by George Eastman in 1892....
  
   founder
• Charles J. Folger
  Charles J. Folger
  Charles James Folger was an American lawyer and politician. He was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1881 until his death.-Early life:...
  
  , lawyer, jurist and statesman
• Frank Gannett
  Frank Gannett
  Frank Ernest Gannett is the founder of Gannett media corporation.-Biography:Gannett was born in South Bristol, New York, United States, graduated from Bolivar High School , Bolivar, NY in 1893, and graduated from Cornell University. At the age of 30, he purchased his first newspaper, the Elmira...
  
  , founder of Gannett Newspapers and Presidential candidate
• Malcolm Glazer
  Malcolm Glazer
  Malcolm Irving Glazer is an American businessman and sports team owner. He is the president and chief executive officer of First Allied Corporation, a holding company for his varied business interests, most notably in the food processing industry...
  
  
• Kate Gleason
  Kate Gleason
  Catherine Anselm "Kate" Gleason was an American engineer and businesswoman known both for being a revolutionary in the predominantly male field of engineering and for her philanthropy.-Early life and Gleason Works:...
  
  , first female mechanical engineer
• Tom Golisano
  Tom Golisano
  Blase Thomas Golisano is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of Paychex, the second-largest payroll processor in the United States and former co-owner of the Buffalo Sabres hockey team and of the Buffalo Bandits lacrosse team...
  
  , Paychex
  Paychex
  Paychex, Inc. is a payroll and human resource service company which serves approximately 572,000 businesses in the US. The company is headquartered in Penfield, New York and has more than 100 locations across the country...
  
   founder, philanthropist, gubernatorial candidate and owner of the Buffalo Sabres
  Buffalo Sabres
  The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League .-Founding and early success: 1970-71—1980-81:...
  
   (2003–2010)
• Leonard Jerome
  Leonard Jerome
  Leonard Walter Jerome was a Brooklyn, New York, financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill.- Early life :...
  
  , financier, "King of Wall Street", and grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill
  Winston Churchill
  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
  
  
• David T. Kearns
  David T. Kearns
  David Todd Kearns was an American businessman who was CEO of Xerox Corporation and Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education . He died on the 25th of February, 2011.-Early life:...
  
  , Xerox
  Xerox
  Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
  
   CEO and former Deputy Secretary of Education
• Henry Lomb, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb
  Bausch & Lomb
  Bausch & Lomb, an American company based in Rochester, New York, is one of the world's leading suppliers of eye health products, such as contact lenses and lens care products today. In addition to this main activity, in recent years the area of medical technology has been developed...
  
  
• Frank Ritter, Dental chair pioneer and philanthropist
• Hiram Sibley
  Hiram Sibley
  Hiram Sibley , was an industrialist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.Sibley was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, and later resided in Rochester, New York. He became interested in the work of Samuel Morse involving the telegraph.In 1840, he joined with Morse and Ezra Cornell to create a...
  
  , Western Union
  Western Union
  The Western Union Company is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Its North American headquarters is in Englewood, Colorado. Up until 2006, Western Union was the best-known U.S...
  
   founder
• Henry A. Strong, Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquarted in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded by George Eastman in 1892....
  
   co-founder and president
• Hulbert Harrington Warner
  Hulbert Harrington Warner
  Hulbert Harrington Warner was a Rochester, New York businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune from the sales of patent medicine.-Biography:...
  
  
• Henry Wells
  Henry Wells
  Henry Wells was an American businessman important in the history of both the American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company.-Early life:...
  
  , founder of American Express
  American Express
  American Express Company or AmEx, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best...
  
   and co-founder of Wells Fargo
  Wells Fargo
  Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational diversified financial services company with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by assets and the largest bank by market capitalization. Wells Fargo is the second largest bank in deposits, home...
  
  
• Joseph C. Wilson, founder of Xerox Corporation

Computing and Internet

• Eric Bauman, founder of eBaum's World
  EBaum's World
  eBaum's World is a website based in Rochester, New York featuring entertainment media such as videos, Flash cartoons and web games. It is controversial for many reasons, primarily because much of the content on the website is taken from other sources without permission and rebranded with the...
  
  
• Paul Buchheit
  Paul Buchheit
  Paul Buchheit is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested the company's now-famous motto "Don't be evil" in a 2000 meeting on company values...
  
  , creator of Gmail and AdSense, and founder of FriendFeed
• Diane Greene
  Diane Greene
  Diane Greene was a founder of VMware and the CEO from 1998 to 2008.Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion founded VMware in 1998....
  
  , founder of VMware
  VMware
  VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....
  
  

Inventors

• William Seward Burroughs I
  William Seward Burroughs I
  William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York.Burroughs was the son of a mechanic and worked with machines throughout his childhood. While he was still a small boy, his parents moved to Auburn, New York, where he and his brothers were educated in the public school...
  
  
• Matthew Ewing
  Matthew Ewing
  Matthew Ewing was an American carpenter and inventor. He is known as the cofounder of the Vacuum Oil Company with business partner Hiram Bond Everest.-Biography:...
  
  
• James Caleb Jackson
  James Caleb Jackson
  James Caleb Jackson was the inventor of the first dry, whole grain breakfast cereal which he called granula.-Biography:...
  
  , Granula
• Daniel Myron LeFever
  Daniel Myron LeFever
  Daniel Myron LeFever was an American gun maker, popularly known as "Uncle Dan LeFever". He is best known as the inventor of the hammerless shotgun, first introduced in 1878.-Biography:...
  
  , American gun maker and inventor of the hammerless shotgun
• John Samuel Rowell
  John Samuel Rowell
  John Samuel Rowell was a noted agricultural inventor and pioneer manufacturer. Born in Springwater, New York, and living his adult life in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, he held more than 40 patents for farm machinery and agricultural implement improvements, including the patent on the cultivator tooth. ...
  
  , agricultural inventor and manufacturing industrialist
• George B. Selden
• S. Donald Stookey
  S. Donald Stookey
  Stanley Donald Stookey is an American inventor. He has 60 patents in his name related to glass and ceramics, some solely his while others are jointly with others...
  
  , inventor of CorningWare
  Corningware
  CorningWare was originally a brand name for a unique pyroceramic glass cookware resistant to thermal shock, that was first introduced in 1958 by Corning Glass Works. CorningWare is notable for the fact that it can be used directly on the stovetop.- History :In 1953, Dr. S...
  
  

Criminals (suspected or convicted)

• The Alphabet Killer
  Alphabet murders
  The so-called "Alphabet murders" took place in the early 1970s in the Rochester, New York area; three young girls were raped and strangled...
  
  , cold case
• Kenneth Bianchi, one of the Hillside Stranglers
• Angelo Buono, Jr.
  Angelo Buono, Jr.
  Angelo Buono, Jr. was an American serial killer. Buono and his cousin Kenneth Bianchi together are known as the Hillside Stranglers.-Early life:...
  
  , one of the Hillside Stranglers
• Arthur Shawcross
  Arthur Shawcross
  Arthur John Shawcross was an American serial killer, also known as The Genesee River Killer in Rochester, New York...
  
  , serial killer
• Francis Tumblety
  Francis Tumblety
  Francis Tumblety was an Irish-American who earned a small fortune posing as an "Indian Herb" doctor throughout the United States and Canada. He was a notorious self-promoter and was often in trouble with the law. He was put forward as a suspect in the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders. -Early...
  
  , one of the Jack the Ripper suspects

Politicians and leaders

• Parmenio Adams
  Parmenio Adams
  Parmenio Adams was a from New York.-Life:He was the son of Parmenio Adams and Chloe Adams...
  
  , U.S. Representative
• Nathaniel Allen
  Nathaniel Allen
  Nathaniel Allen was a United States Representative from New York.Allen was born in what is now East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York before the town was established. He worked as a blacksmith before becoming postmaster in Honeoye Falls , a militia officer during the War of 1812 and a New...
  
  , U.S. Representative
• Charles Billinghurst
  Charles Billinghurst
  Charles Billinghurst was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Brighton, New York, Billinghurst attended the common schools.He studied law....
  
  , U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
• Philip Bredesen
  Phil Bredesen
  Philip Norman "Phil" Bredesen Jr. was the 48th Governor of Tennessee, serving from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected Governor in 2002, and was re-elected in 2006. He previously served as the fourth mayor of Nashville and Davidson County from 1991 to...
  
  , Governor of Tennessee
• Maggie Brooks
  Maggie Brooks
  Maggie A. Brooks is a broadcasting personality and politician most notable for having served as the first female County Executive of Monroe County, New York....
  
  , news anchor and County Executive
• Angus Cameron
  Angus Cameron
  Angus Cameron was a Republican and a member of the United States Senate from Wisconsin from 1875 to 1881, when he did not seek reelection, and again from 1881 to 1885, when he was elected to succeed Matthew H. Carpenter, who died in office; he did not seek reelection in 1885...
  
  , U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
• Sanford E. Church
  Sanford E. Church
  Sanford Elias Church was an American lawyer and Democratic politician...
  
  , Lieutenant Governor of New York, New York State Comptroller, and Chief Judge of New York State Court of Appeals
• Myron H. Clark
  Myron H. Clark
  Myron Holley Clark was an American politician from the U.S. state of New York.- Biography :Clark was born in Naples, Ontario County, New York on October 23, 1806...
  
  , Governor of New York from 1855–1857
• Cornplanter
  Cornplanter
  Gaiänt'wakê was a Seneca war-chief. He was the son of a Seneca mother, Aliquipiso, and a Dutch father, Johannes Abeel. He also carried the name John Abeel after his fur trader father...
  
  , leader of the Seneca
• Stephen A. Douglas
  Stephen A. Douglas
  Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed...
  
  , U.S. Senator and orator from Illinois
• Marion B. Folsom, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
• Millard Fillmore
  Millard Fillmore
  Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president...
  
  , former President of the United States
• John Rankin Gamble
  John Rankin Gamble
  John Rankin Gamble was a lawyer and politician from South Dakota. He was born in Alabama, New York in 1848, and was the brother of Robert J. Gamble and uncle of Ralph Abernethy Gamble....
  
  , U.S. Representative from South Dakota
• Elizur K. Hart
  Elizur K. Hart
  Elizur Kirke Hart was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Albion, New York, Hart attended the Albion Academy.He engaged in banking.He served as member of the State assembly in 1872....
  
  , U.S. Representative and founder of Rochester Post-Express newspaper
• Charles H. Holmes
  Charles H. Holmes
  Charles Horace Holmes was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Life and career:Holmes was born in Albion, Orleans County, New York on 24 October in 1827. He attended the public schools, Albion Academy and graduated from the Albany Law School...
  
  , U.S. Representative
• Kenneth Keating
  Kenneth Keating
  Kenneth Barnard Keating , was a United States Representative and a U.S. Senator from New York, and in later life, an appellate judge and a diplomat representing the United States as ambassador to India and later to Israel.-Life:...
  
  , U.S. Representative, Senator, and Ambassador to Israel
• Robert L. King
  Robert L. King
  Robert L. King is an American political figure most notable for having served as Monroe County, New York Executive and as the Chancellor of the State University of New York....
  
  , former state assemblyman, County Executive, and Chancellor of the State University of New York
• Brian Kolb
  Brian Kolb
  Brian M. Kolb is the New York State assemblyman from the 129th District, and is the minority leader of the Assembly. He was unanimously chosen as minority leader in April 2009, following the resignation of Jim Tedisco....
  
  , Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly
• Charles H. Nesbitt, former NYS Assemblyman and NYS Assembly Minority Leader
• William F. Quinn
  William F. Quinn
  William Francis Quinn was the Governor of the Territory of Hawai'i from 1957 to 1959 and the Governor of the State of Hawai'i from 1959 to 1962. Originally appointed to the office by President Dwight D...
  
  , Governor of Hawaii
• John Raines
  John Raines
  John Raines was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...
  
  , state Senator
• Daniel Shays
  Daniel Shays
  Daniel Shays was an American soldier, revolutionary, and farmer famous for leading the Shays' Rebellion.-Early life:...
  
  , leader of Shays's Rebellion in 1786
• Eliakim Sherrill
  Eliakim Sherrill
  Eliakim Sherrill was an antebellum United States Congressman from the state of New York and a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded during the Battle of Gettysburg defending against Pickett's Charge.-Early life:Sherrill was born in Greenville,...
  
  , politician and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War
• Louise Slaughter, U.S. Representative, Chairperson of the House Rules Committee
• Thomas Benton Stoddard
  Thomas Benton Stoddard
  Thomas Benton Stoddard was a New York lawyer, Wisconsin legislator, and the first mayor of La Crosse, Wisconsin....
  
  , first mayor of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Wisconsin state Assemblyman
• Robert R. Thomas
  Robert R. Thomas
  Robert R. Thomas is a justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois and a former professional football player. He has served as the Illinois Supreme Court Justice for the Second District since December 4, 2000 and as Chief Justice from September 6, 2005, to September 5, 2008...
  
  , Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois and former NFL player
• Tom Warner
  Tom Warner
  Tom Warner in Rochester, New York.Warner previously served as a Representative in the House of Representatives of the U.S. state of Florida. He currently lives in Stuart, Florida with his family.-Education:...
  
  , Former Representative in Florida State Congress
• William W. Wright
  William W. Wright
  William Westwood Wright was an American politician from New York.-Life:He married Mary L...
  
  

Military personnel

• Brigadier General John F. Albert
  John F. Albert
  John F. Albert was Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force.-Biography:Albert was born in Rochester, New York in 1915. He graduated from St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1941. In 1969, he was given the title of Monsignor by...
  
  , Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force
• Rear Admiral Leslie Gheres, Captain of the U.S.S. Franklin
• Major General William Augustus Mills
  William Augustus Mills
  William Augustus Mills was a Major General in the War of 1812 and early settler of Livingston County, New York. Mills was born in New Bedford, Connecticut and came to the Genesee Valley with his father. In 1794, he settled at Mount Morris, New York...
  
  , served during the defense of the Niagara frontier in the War of 1812
• Colonel Patrick O'Rorke
  Patrick O'Rorke
  This article is about an Irish-American colonel. For the Meath footballer from Skryne, see Patrick O'Rourke Patrick Henry "Paddy" O'Rorke or O'Rourke was an Irish-American immigrant who became a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was killed at the Battle of...
  
  

Broadcasters and reporters

• Don Alhart
  Don Alhart
  Don Alhart is the main news anchor and Associate News Director for WHAM-TV News in Rochester, New York. Alhart began his professional television career at WOKR-TV in 1966 after graduating from Ithaca College. He has reported the evening news every night at 6pm and 11pm for 43 years.He has won...
  
  
• Ralph Bown
  Ralph Bown
  Ralph Bown was a noted American radio pioneer.Bown was born in Fairport, New York, and received his M.E., M.M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University where he also taught physics...
  
  
• David Cay Johnston
  David Cay Johnston
  David Cay Johnston is an investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting....
  
  , Pulitzer Prize winner and reporter for the New York Times
• Anne Montgomery
  Anne Montgomery
  Anne Butler Montgomery is an American female sportscaster, sports official, author and teacher. She was among the first women sportscasters on television, and is reported to be the only woman high school football referee in the state of Arizona....
  
  , former WROC sports reporter and ESPN broadcaster
• Henry Jarvis Raymond
  Henry Jarvis Raymond
  Henry Jarvis Raymond was an American journalist and politician and founder of The New York Times.-Early life and ancestors:...
  
  , journalist and founder of the New York Times
• Martin Sargent
  Martin Sargent
  Martin Paul Sargent is an American television personality and was co-host of the This WEEK in FUN podcast with Sarah Lane...
  
  , professional "nerd" and host of TWIF
• Steve Scully
  Steve Scully
  Steven L. Scully is the senior executive producer, political editor, and host of C-SPAN's Washington Journal, a three-hour early morning cable television public affairs program.-Background:Scully was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, to Hubert L...
  
  , C-SPAN host; former reporter and anchor at WHEC-TV in Rochester
• Jimmy Wallington
  Jimmy Wallington
  James "Jimmy" Wallington was an American radio personality.After playing small roles in a few Hollywood films, he was the announcer for several popular radio shows in the 1940s and 1950s....
  
  
• Irv Weinstein
  Irv Weinstein
  Irwin "Irv" Weinstein is a retired local television news anchor. He hosted WKBW-TV's Eyewitness News in Buffalo, New York, for 34 years, from 1964 to 1998, becoming an iconic broadcaster well known in both the Buffalo area and in Southern Ontario, which was within WKBW's broadcast area. Weinstein...
  
  

Sport broadcasters

• Mike Catalana
  Mike Catalana
  Mike Catalana is the Sports Director of WHAM-TV, the ABC affiliate in Rochester, New York. His professional career began in 1986 when he became the Sports Director at WMGC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Binghamton, New York. He came to WOKR in Rochester as the weekend sports anchor and reporter in...
  
  
• Lanny Frattare
  Lanny Frattare
  Lanny Lawrence Frattare is a former American sportscaster. For 33 years he was a play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates, the longest such tenure in the team's history...
  
  , Pittsburgh Pirates
• Josh Lewin
  Josh Lewin
  Josh Lewin is an American sports play-by-play announcer who most recently called television games for the Texas Rangers baseball club. He serves as radio voice of the San Diego Chargers football team...
  
  , San Diego Chargers and Texas Rangers
• Clem McCarthy
  Clem McCarthy
  Clem McCarthy was an American sportscaster and public address announcer. He also lent his voice to Pathe News's RKO newsreels. He was known for his gravelly voice and dramatic style, a "whiskey tenor" as sports announcer and executive David J...
  
  
• Bill Stern
  Bill Stern
  Bill Stern was a U.S. actor and sportscaster who announced the nation's first remote sports broadcast and the first telecast of a Major League Baseball game. In 1984, Stern was part of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame’s inaugural class which included sportscasting legends Red...
  
  
• Jeff Van Gundy
  Jeff Van Gundy
  Jeffrey William "Jeff" Van Gundy is a former American basketball head coach. He coached most recently with the National Basketball Association's Houston Rockets...
  
  

Actors and models

• Tyson Beckford
  Tyson Beckford
  Tyson Craig Beckford is an American male model and actor, best known as a Ralph Lauren model. He was also the host of both seasons of the Bravo program Make Me a Supermodel.-Biography:...
  
  
• Donna Lynne Champlin
  Donna Lynne Champlin
  Donna Lynne Champlin is an actress from New York City. She is married to actor Andrew Arrow.Her burgeoning career began at the age of four, when she performed a tap solo in a local variety show...
  
  , Broadway actress
• Julie Lynn Cialini
• Jordan Clarke
• Jennifer Cody
  Jennifer Cody
  Jennifer Cody , is an American dancer and actress.-Early life:Cody was born in Henrietta, New York. She began dancing at an early age. She studied acting at Fredonia State University...
  
  
• Taye Diggs
  Taye Diggs
  Scott Leo "Taye" Diggs is an American theatre, film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Broadway musical Rent, the motion picture How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the television series Private Practice...
  
  
• Pete Duel
  Pete Duel
  Pete Duel was an American actor, best known for his role in the television series Alias Smith and Jones.-Early life:Peter Ellstrom Deuel was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up in nearby Penfield....
  
  
• Dan Finnerty
  Dan Finnerty
  -Early and personal life:Finnerty was born in Rochester, New York, but grew up in the small town of Bath, New York and attended Emerson College in Boston. He was a member of the hit off-Broadway show Stomp in New York City. On August 8, 1995, he married actress Kathy Najimy. Gloria Steinem...
  
  
• Nicole Fiscella
  Nicole Fiscella
  Nicole Fiscella is an American actress and model, of Indian and St Lucian ancestry, who rose to fame through the book-based TV series Gossip Girl as Isabel Coates.-Early life:...
  
  
• Robert Forster
  Robert Forster
  Robert Forster is an American actor, best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, and as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.- Early life :Forster was born Robert Wallace...
  
  
• Teddy Geiger
  Teddy Geiger
  -Singles:-Album appearances:-Television and movie appearances:-External links:****...
  
  
• Kevin Greene
  Kevin Greene
  Kevin Darwin Greene is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League for 15 years and who retired after the 1999 NFL season...
  
  
• Philip Seymour Hoffman
  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  Philip Seymour Hoffman is an American actor and director. Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year started to appear in films...
  
  
• Lauren Holly
  Lauren Holly
  Lauren Michael Holly is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in the TV series Picket Fences, as Mary Swanson in the 1994 film Dumb & Dumber, and as Jenny Shepard on the TV series NCIS. She was married to comic actor Jim Carrey from 1996 to...
  
  
• Mimi Kennedy
  Mimi Kennedy
  Mimi Kennedy is an American actress, author and activist.-Early life:Kennedy was born Mary Claire Kennedy in Rochester, New York, the daughter of Nancy Helen and Daniel Gerald Kennedy. She got her start in theater with the Rochester Community Players, appearing in Agatha Christie's "Spider Web"...
  
  
• Norman Kerry
  Norman Kerry
  Norman Kerry was an American actor whose career spanned over twenty-five years in the motion picture industry beginning in the silent era at the end of World War I.-Biography:...
  
  , silent film actor
• Hudson Leick
  Hudson Leick
  Heidi Hudson Leick is an American actress, known for her role as villain Callisto in the TV series Xena: Warrior Princess. She is a certified Yoga instructor and intuitive counselor at the Healing Heart Yoga Center.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kara Lindsay
  Kara Lindsay
  Kara Lindsay is an American theatre actress.-Career:In 2009, Lindsay appeared as Laura in a musical-theatre production of Little House on the Prairie with Melissa Gilbert as Ma. The play is an adaption of the children's book of the same name by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Gilbert had originally played...
  
  
• John Lithgow
  John Lithgow
  John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, and author. Presently, he is involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television, film, and radio...
  
  
• Vincent Martella
  Vincent Martella
  Vincent Michael Martella is an American teen actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Greg Wuliger on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, and for the voice of Phineas Flynn in Disney Channel's original animated show Phineas and Ferb...
  
  
• Timothy Mitchum
  Timothy Mitchum
  Timothy T. Mitchum is an American actor and singer. Mitchum performed the Beatles song "Let It Be" in the 2007 film Across the Universe, which he performed together with Carol Woods....
  
  
• Hugh O'Brian
  Hugh O'Brian
  Hugh O'Brian is an American actor, known for his starring role in the ABC television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp .-Early years and career:...
  
  
• Michael Park
  Michael Park (actor)
  Michael Park is an American actor, best known for his role of Jack Snyder on As the World Turns . Park won back to back Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2010 and 2011.-Career:...
  
  
• Joe Reid
• Richard Ryder
  Richard Ryder (actor)
  Richard Ryder was an American actor from Rochester, New York.Ryder starred in the motion pictures Abuse and Forever Young, as well as the television movies Threesome, Laker Girls, Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story and When the Dark Man Calls.He also played a Bajoran deputy in the Star Trek:...
  
  
• Brennan Swain
• Joy Tanner
  Joy Tanner
  Joy Tanner is an American-born Canadian actress, who is known for her portrayal of Nora McDonald in the Canadian TV series Life with Derek.-Career:Born in Rochester, New York, Tanner has her honors B.A...
  
  
• Tom Villard
  Tom Villard
  Thomas Louis Villard was an American actor. He is best known for his leading role in the 1980s series We Got it Made as Jay Bostwick, as well as roles in feature films One Crazy Summer, Heartbreak Ridge, My Girl, and Popcorn.-Early life:Tom Villard was born on November 19, 1953, in...
  
  
• Kristen Wiig
  Kristen Wiig
  Kristen Carroll Wiig is an American film and television actress who currently appears as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Wiig was a member of improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings, and has appeared in several films and television series, including Bridesmaids, MacGruber, Flight of...
  
  , comedienne, Saturday Night Live
• Henri Young
  Henri Young
  Henri Theodore Young was a prisoner at Alcatraz who attempted to escape with two other inmates, Arthur Barker and Rufus McCain and is best known for being the main character in the movie Murder in the First....
  
  
• Regan Young

Authors and writers

• Nicholson Baker
  Nicholson Baker
  Nicholson Baker is a contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction. As a novelist, he often focuses on minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness, and has written about such provocative topics as voyeurism and planned assassination...
  
  
• Andrea Barrett
  Andrea Barrett
  Andrea Barrett is an American novelist, and short story writer. Her Ship Fever collection of novella and short stories won the National Book Award in 1996...
  
  
• Philip Barry
  Philip Barry
  Philip James Quinn Barry was an American playwright born in Rochester, New York.-Early life:Philip Barry was born on June 18, 1896 in Rochester, New York to James Corbett Barry and Mary Agnes Quinn Barry. James would die from appendicitis a year after Philip's birth, and his father's marble and...
  
  , playwright
• Richard Brookhiser
  Richard Brookhiser
  Richard Brookhiser is an American journalist, biographer and historian. He is a senior editor at National Review. He is most widely known for a series of biographies of America's founders, including Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and George Washington.-Life and career:Brookhiser was born...
  
  , biographer
• Tom Chiarella
  Tom Chiarella
  Tom Chiarella is Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at DePauw University and writer-at-large and fiction editor of Esquire Magazine.Born Rochester NY , he received a BA in Studio Art/Writing at St...
  
  , Esquire
• Francis Pharcellus Church
  Francis Pharcellus Church
  Francis Pharcellus Church was an American publisher and editor. He was a member of the Century Association.-Biography:...
  
  
• Thomas Fenton
  Thomas Fenton
  Thomas Fenton is an American screenwriter and his writing credits include the screenplays for Saw IV.-Filmography:*Lady in White *Cheap Shots *Slaughter of the Innocents...
  
  , screenwriter, Saw IV
• Joseph Fornieri
  Joseph Fornieri
  Joseph R. Fornieri is an American political historian and Professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology...
  
  
• Dana Fox
  Dana Fox
  Dana Fox is an American screenwriter best known as the writer of the 2005 film The Wedding Date and the 2008 film What Happens in Vegas.-Career:...
  
  , screenwriter, The Wedding Date
• Geoffrey Giuliano
  Geoffrey Giuliano
  Geoffrey Giuliano is an American author, radio personality and film actor, best known for his biographies of The Beatles members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, and of musician Pete Townshend....
  
  
• Virginia Haviland
  Virginia Haviland
  Virginia Haviland was an authority in children's literature and specialized in fairy tales. She is best known for her Favorite Fairy Tales series, featuring 16 countries....
  
  
• Edward D. Hoch
  Edward D. Hoch
  Edward Dentinger Hoch was an American writer of detective fiction. Although he wrote several novels, he was primarily known for his vast output of over 950 short stories.-Biography:...
  
  , mystery writer
• Mary Jane Holmes, nineteenth-century author
• William H. C. Hosmer, poet
• David Hudson
  David Hudson (New York)
  David Hudson was an American lawyer, writer and politician from New York.-Life:He was the son of Asa Hudson and Mary Hudson...
  
  
• Charles R. Jackson
  Charles R. Jackson
  Charles Reginald Jackson was an American author, best known for his 1944 novel The Lost Weekend.-Career:Jackson's first published story, "Palm Sunday", appeared in the Partisan Review in 1939...
  
  , author of The Lost Weekend
• Shirley Jackson
  Shirley Jackson
  Shirley Jackson was an American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years...
  
  , author, The Lottery
• David Cay Johnston
  David Cay Johnston
  David Cay Johnston is an investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting....
  
  , Pulitzer Prize winner and reporter for the New York Times
• Garson Kanin
  Garson Kanin
  Garson Kanin was a prolific American writer and director of plays and films.-Film and stage career:...
  
  
• Mollie Katzen
  Mollie Katzen
  Mollie Katzen is an American chef, cookbook author and artist. She is best known for her vegetarian cookbook, the Moosewood Cookbook , inspired by the Moosewood Restaurant collective she helped create near Cornell University and Ithaca College...
  
  
• Stanton Davis Kirkham
  Stanton Davis Kirkham
  Stanton Davis Kirkham was a naturalist, philosopher, ornithologist and author. Although widely travelled, he resided primarily in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. He was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, the only child of Major Murray S...
  
  
• Michael Muhammad Knight
  Michael Muhammad Knight
  Michael Muhammad Knight is an American Muslim novelist, journalist, and performance artist. His writings are popular among American Muslim youth...
  
  
• Jerre Mangione
  Jerre Mangione
  Jerre Mangione was an American writer and scholar of the Italian-American experience.He was a graduate of Syracuse University and of the Federal Writers' Project....
  
  
• Linda Sue Park
  Linda Sue Park
  Linda Sue Park is an American author of children's fiction. Park published her first novel, Seesaw Girl, in 1999. She has written six children’s novels and five picture books. Park’s work achieved prominence when she received the prestigious 2002 Newbery Medal for her novel A Single Shard...
  
  , Newbery Medal winner
• David Schickler
  David Schickler
  David Schickler is an American author who has published two books, Kissing in Manhattan and Sweet and Vicious...
  
  , author, Kissing in Manhattan and Sweet and Vicious
• Mark Shulman
  Mark Shulman
  Mark Shulman was born April 2, 1962 in Rochester, New York. He is an American children's author of over 100 books. He is the founder of Oomf, Inc....
  
  
• Joe Simon
  Joe Simon
  Joseph Henry "Joe" Simon is an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.With his...
  
  , comic book writer and co-creator of Captain America
  Captain America
  Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...
  
  
• Rachel Stuhler, writer for Hallmark Channel's Love Takes Wing
  Love Takes Wing
  Love Takes Wing is a Christian drama and the seventh TV movie based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It aired on Hallmark Channel on April 4, 2009...
  
  and McBride: Requiem

Musicians

• Milo Bonacci, Gym Class Heroes
  Gym Class Heroes
  Gym Class Heroes is an American hip hop rock band from Geneva, New York. They have collaborated with Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump on numerous occasions, notably for providing backing vocals on the song "Cupid's Chokehold." Stump also produced the majority of their album The Quilt.The group formed...
  
  
• Cab Calloway
  Cab Calloway
  Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer....
  
  , bandleader
• Brann Dailor
  Brann Dailor
  Brann Dailor is a drummer, best known as a member of Mastodon, a progressive metal band based in Atlanta, Georgia. Dailor was also a founding member of mathcore band Lethargy, and played with grindcore bands Discordance Axis and Today is the Day.-Personal life:Dailor was born into a musical family...
  
  , Mastodon
• Steve Decker
  Steve Decker
  Stephen Michael Decker , is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played from -, -, and . He is the current manager of the Fresno Grizzlies, the Triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants....
  
  , Gym Class Heroes
• David Diamond
  David Diamond (composer)
  David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in...
  
  , composer
• Renée Fleming
  Renée Fleming
  Renée Fleming is an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice.Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. She has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also...
  
  , opera singer
• Jack Flynn, The Sunstreak
  The Sunstreak
  -Career:First known as One Year Nothing, they released an album on B and W records. They played on the Vans Warped Tour in 2002 , and again in 2006—filling the "Bar-Ba_Q" slot, meaning they played and then cooked for the other bands...
  
  
• Gary Foster, The Sunstreak
• Ace Frehley
  Ace Frehley
  Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of the "Spaceman" or "Space Ace" when the band adopted costumes and theatrics...
  
  , Kiss
• Steve Gadd
  Steve Gadd
  Steve Gadd is an American session and studio drummer, notable for his work with popular musicians from a wide range of genres.-Biography:...
  
  , drummer
• Teddy Geiger
  Teddy Geiger
  -Singles:-Album appearances:-Television and movie appearances:-External links:****...
  
  
• Ryan Geise, Gym Class Heroes
• Glory
  Glory (musician)
  James Giddeon, better known by his stage name Glory is an American Rapper.-Biography:Glory is a hip hop recording artist signed to Suthun Music Entertainment . He is currently in the studio working on his debut album, Celebration, which is scheduled for release on August 16, 2011...
  
  
• Kim Gordon
  Kim Gordon
  Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
  
  , Sonic Youth
• Lou Gramm
  Lou Gramm
  Lou Gramm is an American rock vocalist and songwriter best known for his role as the lead vocalist and co-writer of many of the songs for the rock band Foreigner. He also had a successful solo career...
  
  , Foreigner
• DJ Green Lantern
  DJ Green Lantern
  James D'Agostino , better known by his stage name DJ Green Lantern, is an American-Italian-Puerto Rican DJ and hip hop music producer from Rochester, New York. In 2002, D'Agostino was signed by Eminem to become the official DJ for Shady Records after DJ Head stepped down for undisclosed reasons...
  
  , rapper
• Mick Guzauski
  Mick Guzauski
  Mick Guzauski is a multi-platinum Mixing Engineer and sound engineer.Guzauski's work spans a wide range of styles, including jazz, R&B, Latin, rock, pop, and easy listening...
  
  , mixer
• Adolphus Hailstork
  Adolphus Hailstork
  Adolphus Hailstork is an American composer and educator. He grew up in Albany, New York, where he studied violin, piano, organ, and voice....
  
  , composer
• Howard Hanson
  Howard Hanson
  Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music...
  
  , conductor
• Michael Hashim
  Michael Hashim
  Michael James Hashim is an American jazz alto saxophonist.Hashim began playing saxophone while in elementary school, playing with Phil Flanigan and Chris Flory as a high schooler. He worked with both into the middle 1970s, and in 1976 he toured with Muddy Waters and played with the Widespread...
  
  
• Davey Havok
  Davey Havok
  David Paden Marchand , more commonly known by the stage name Davey Havok, is the lead vocalist of the American rock band AFI and the electronic music band Blaqk Audio....
  
  
• David Hochstein
  David Hochstein
  David Hochstein was an American virtuoso violinist from Rochester, New York. After enlisting in the United States Army during World War I, he was killed during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive...
  
  , virtuoso violinist
• Will Hollis, Eagles
• Son House
  Son House
  Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music...
  
  , bluesman
• Daniel Katzen
  Daniel Katzen
  Daniel Katzen is a French horn teacher and player, and, since September 2008, has been the Associate Professor of Horn at the University of Arizona School of Music in Tucson. Prior to that, he was Second Horn in the Boston Symphony Orchestra from April 1979 to August 2008...
  
  
• Bill Kelliher
  Bill Kelliher
  Bill Kelliher is a guitarist in the Atlanta heavy metal band Mastodon. He is a native of Victor, New York. He shares guitar duties with Brent Hinds, playing mainly complex rhythm parts. Kelliher is married, with two young sons—the eldest one named Harrison, after Harrison Ford of Star Wars fame...
  
  , Mastodon
• Charlene Keys
  Tweet (singer)
  Tweet is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter.-Early years:The youngest child of Tom and Shirley Keys, Tweet was born in Rochester, New York on January 21, 1972, and grew up singing in the church along with her parents and her four older siblings...
  
   ("Tweet")
• Christine Lavin
  Christine Lavin
  Christine Lavin is a New York City-based singer-songwriter and promoter of contemporary folk music. She has recorded numerous solo albums, and has also recorded with other female folk artists under the name Four Bitchin' Babes...
  
  
• Joe Locke
  Joe Locke
  Joseph Paul Locke is a US American jazz vibraphonist, composer, recording artist and educator.-Biography:Locke was born in Palo Alto, California, but raised in Rochester, New York...
  
  
• Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo, Gym Class Heroes
• Lydia Lunch
  Lydia Lunch
  Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress whose career was spawned by the New York No Wave scene...
  
  
• Chuck Mangione
  Chuck Mangione
  Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.-Early life and career:...
  
  , smooth jazz flugelhornist
• Gap Mangione
  Gap Mangione
  Gaspare "Gap" Mangione is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader from Rochester, New York, United States.Born and raised in Rochester, Mangione's younger brother is Grammy-winning flugelhornist Chuck Mangione. Members of a music-loving family, both Gap and Chuck took up instruments...
  
  , bandleader
• Travis McCoy, Gym Class Heroes
• Matt McGinley
  Matt McGinley
  Matt McGinley is the co-founder and drummer of Gym Class Heroes.-Career:McGinley and Travis McCoy met in school in gym class and quickly became friends. The two decided to form a band, the now popular Gym Class Heroes...
  
  , Gym Class Heroes
• Mitch Miller
  Mitch Miller
  Mitchell William "Mitch" Miller was an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R man and record company executive...
  
  , bandleader
• Qwanell Mosley
  Qwanell Mosley
  Qwanell Anthony Mosley , better known as "Que", is an American singer who is best known for being a contestant, and winner on the hit TV show Making the Band 4. He was the youngest member of the group Day26 signed to Bad Boy Records, along with their former label members, Danity Kane and Donnie Klang...
  
  , Day26
• Julia Nunes
  Julia Nunes
  Julia Nunes is a singer and songwriter from Fairport, New York. Her career has progressed online through her videos of pop songs on YouTube in which she sings harmony with herself and plays acoustic instruments, primarily the ukulele, guitar, melodica and piano.-Biography:Nunes was born into a...
  
  
• Lauren O'Connell
  Lauren O'Connell
  Lauren O'Connell is a singer/songwriter from Rochester, New York. She has released two full length solo albums and one EP as a duo with Nataly Dawn. She began uploading videos of herself performing original songs on YouTube soon after releasing her debut album Sitting in Chairs...
  
  
• Tony Rebis, The Sunstreak
• Eric Roberts
  Eric Roberts
  Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies , earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story, Paul's Case...
  
  , Gym Class Heroes
• Jason Sarkis, The Sunstreak
• David Schuler
  David Schuler
  David Schuler, born "David James Schuler" on August 1, 1982, is a record producer/songwriter from Rochester, NY. Currently residing between New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA, Schuler has earned notable success as a record producer, songwriter, mixing engineer and remixer throughout the music business...
  
  , The Sunstreak
• Zach Shields, Dead Man's Bones
  Dead Man's Bones
  Dead Man's Bones is a band founded by actor Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields. Their first album, Dead Man's Bones, was released on October 6, 2009 through ANTI- Records. The entire album is a collaboration with the Silverlake Conservatory Children's Choir started by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea...
  
  
• Joyce Sims
  Joyce Sims
  Joyce Sims is an American singer-songwriter. Her biggest hit single was "Come into My Life," which reached top-10 status in both the US Billboard R&B chart and the UK Singles Chart in 1987/8....
  
  
• Jeff Tyzik
  Jeff Tyzik
  Jeff Tyzik is an American conductor, arranger, and trumpeter from Rochester, New York, working primarily with orchestral and jazz styles.-Education:Tyzik, born in Hyde Park, New York, started playing cornet at age 9...
  
  , conductor
• John Viavattine
  John Viavattine
  John Viavattine is an American professional woodwind performer and instrumental music teacher in Rochester, New York at Spencerport High School.-Music performer:...
  
  , Mambo Kings
• Bill Wadhams, Animotion
  Animotion
  Animotion is a 1980s U.S. New Wave/synthpop band from Los Angeles, California best known for their songs "Obsession" , "Let Him Go", "I Engineer" and "Room to Move"...
  
  
• Leehom Wang, C-pop
• William Warfield
  William Warfield
  William Caesar Warfield , was an American concert bass-baritone singer and actor.-Early life and career:Warfield was born in West Helena, Arkansas and grew up in Rochester, New York, where his father was called to serve as pastor of Mt. Vernon Church. He gave his recital debut in New York's Town...
  
  
• Wendy O. Williams
  Wendy O. Williams
  Wendy Orlean Williams , better known as Wendy O. Williams, was the lead singer for the American punk band the Plasmatics, as well as a solo artist...
  
  , Plasmatics
• Tim Yeung
  Tim Yeung
  Tim Yeung is a prominent extreme metal drummer. He was born on November 27, 1978 in Rochester, New York and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Tim started playing drums when he was 11 years old.-Biography:...
  
  , Divine Heresy

Photographers and artists

• Alfred Agate, painter
• Frederick Styles Agate
  Frederick Styles Agate
  Frederick Styles Agate was a noted painter best known for his paintings Ugolino and Old Oaken Bucket....
  
  , painter
• Arthur Dove
  Arthur Dove
  Arthur Garfield Dove was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter.-Youth and education:...
  
  
• Emil Gruppe
  Emil Gruppe
  Emile Albert Gruppé was an American painter born in Rochester, New York to Helen and Charles P. Gruppe. He lived the early years of his life in the Netherlands as his father Charles Paul Gruppe, painted with the Hague school of art and acted as a dealer for the Dutch painters in the US...
  
  , impressionist painter
• Nicholas Gurewitch, creator of The Perry Bible Fellowship
• Peter Hannan, creator of CatDog
• James D. Havens
  James D. Havens
  James Dexter Havens was a printmaker and painter in Rochester, New York, who is considered part of the color woodblock revival in America. He has works in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University...
  
  , woodcut artist, early insulin recipient
• Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum
  Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum
  Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum, American cross-stitch embroidery designer known especially for her Victorian angel designs. Her design business is "Told in a Garden" with her most famous designs sold under the product lines of "Butternut Road" and "Lavender and Lace."Marilyn's professional design career...
  
  , needlework designer
• Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
  Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
  Manuel Rivera-Ortiz is an American documentary photographer of Puerto Rican descent, the author of several photographic collections and the recipient of a number of awards. He is best known for his documentary photographs of people's living conditions in less developed countries...
  
  

Wrestlers

• Johnny Barend
  Johnny Barend
  "Handsome" Johnny Barend , was an American professional wrestler.Barend started wrestling as an amateur at the age of eight. After graduating Jefferson High in Rochester in 1944, he served his country during World War II, and wrestled in the Navy. He was trained to wrestle professionally by Ed Don...
  
  
• Colin Delaney
  Colin Delaney
  Colin Matthew Delaney is a American professional wrestler, best known for wrestling for World Wrestling Entertainment. He has also wrestled for promotions such as 2CW Squared Circle Wrestling, Chikara, NWA Upstate, Pier 6 Wrestling, Buffalo Championship Wrestling, NWA Empire, LakeShore Wrestling,...
  
  , WWE
• Joanie "Chyna" Laurer
• Gorilla Monsoon

Other

• Larry Ashmead
  Larry Ashmead
  Lawrence Peel "Larry" Ashmead was an American book editor who helped create 100 books a year featuring such authors as Isaac Asimov, Quentin Crisp, Tony Hillerman, Susan Isaacs and Michael Korda at a string of publishers including Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, Lippincott, Harper & Row and its...
  
  , book editor
• Raul daSilva
  Raúl daSilva
  Raúl daSilva is a TV commercial producer, business documentary filmmaker, writer and an expert in the field of photoanimation.-Biography:Raúl daSilva began his film career in 1965 at the Jamison Handy Organization of Detroit, Michigan...
  
  , prizewinning author, filmmaker
• Sean Fine
  Sean Fine
  Sean Fine is a documentary filmmaker whose War/Dance about child soldiers was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007.- Biography :...
  
  , Oscar-nominated documentarian, War/Dance
• Jason Hawes
  Jason Hawes
  Jason Conrad Hawes is the founder of The Atlantic Paranormal Society , which is based in Warwick, Rhode Island. He is also one of the stars and co-producers of Syfy's Ghost Hunters, which is in its seventh season.-Family:He and his wife have five children - three girls and twin boys...
  
  , founder of the Atlantic Paranormal Society and Sci Fi Channel series Ghost Hunters
• Frank LaLoggia, film director of Lady in White
  Lady in White
  Lady in White is a 1988 American horror film of the ghost/mystery genre. Much of the film was made in Wayne County, New York, taking advantage of appropriate local color...
  
   and Fear No Evil
  Fear No Evil
  Fear No Evil is a made for television movie. It and Ritual of Evil are both unsold pilots for a proposed television series which would have been called Bedeviled. Both starred Louis Jourdan as David Sorrell, a psychologist and authority on the occult who became involved in supernatural...
  
  

Religion and philosophy

• Reverend Francis Bellamy
  Francis Bellamy
  Francis Julius Bellamy was an author, editor, and Baptist minister born in Mount Morris, New York. He attended Rome Free Academy in Rome, New York, the University of Rochester and the Rochester Theological Seminary . He was an American Baptist minister and Christian Socialist who wrote the...
  
  , wrote the Pledge of Allegiance
  Pledge of Allegiance
  The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an expression of loyalty to the federal flag and the republic of the United States of America, originally composed by Christian Socialist Francis Bellamy in 1892 and formally adopted by Congress as the pledge in 1942...
  
  
• Bishop Fulton Sheen
• Bishop Bernard John McQuaid
  Bernard John McQuaid
  Bernard John McQuaid was an American Catholic priest, the first Bishop of Rochester, U.S.A. and the first president of Seton Hall University...
  
  
• Antoinette Brown Blackwell, first female minister
• Kate, Leah, and Margaret Fox
  Fox sisters
  The Fox sisters were three sisters from New York who played an important role in the creation of Spiritualism. The three sisters were Leah Fox , Margaret Fox and Kate Fox . The two younger sisters used "rappings" to convince their much older sister and others that they were communicating with...
  
  , spiritualists
• Philip Kapleau
  Philip Kapleau
  Philip Kapleau was a teacher of Zen Buddhism in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition, a blending of Japanese Sōtō and Rinzai schools.-Early life:...
  
  , brought Zen Buddhism to western mainstream 1964, founded Rochester Zen Center
• Carolyn Merchant
  Carolyn Merchant
  Carolyn Merchant is an American ecofeminist philosopher and historian of science most famous for her theory on 'The Death of Nature', whereby she identifies the Enlightenment as the period when science began to atomize, objectify and dissect nature, foretelling its eventual conception as inert...
  
  
• Walter Rauschenbusch
  Walter Rauschenbusch
  Walter Rauschenbusch was a Christian theologian and Baptist minister. He was a key figure in the Social Gospel movement in the United States of America.-Evolution of Thought:...
  
  , theologian
• Benjamin Titus Roberts, founder, Free Methodist Church
• Joseph Smith, founder of Latter Day Saint movement
  Latter Day Saint movement
  The Latter Day Saint movement is a group of independent churches tracing their origin to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 14 million members...
  
  
• Paul J. Swain
  Paul J. Swain
  Paul Joseph Swain is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls.- Early life :Swain was a convert from Methodism and attended law school at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was born in Newark, New York. He served in Vietnam and, after his return home, was legal counsel...
  
  , Roman Catholic bishop
• Reverend Dr. Howard Thurman
  Howard Thurman
  Howard Thurman was an influential American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. He was Dean of Theology and the chapels at Howard University and Boston University for more than two decades, wrote 21 books, and in 1944 helped found a multicultural church.-Early life...
  
  

Scientists

• James C. Adamson
  James C. Adamson
  James Craig Adamson is a former NASA astronaut and retired colonel of the United States Army. He is married with 3 children...
  
  , astronaut
• Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to become qualified as a medical doctor
• Frank J. Duarte
  F. J. Duarte
  F. J. Duarte is a laser physicist and author/editor of several well-known books on tunable lasers. He introduced the generalized multiple-prism dispersion theory and has discovered various multiple-prism grating oscillator laser configurations...
  
  , laser physicist and author
• Grove Karl Gilbert
  Grove Karl Gilbert
  Grove Karl Gilbert , known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist....
  
  , geologist
• Edward Tsang Lu, space shuttle astronaut, International Space Station resident
• Pamela Melroy
  Pamela Melroy
  Pamela Anne Melroy is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut. She served as pilot on Space Shuttle missions STS-92 and STS-112 and commanded mission STS-120.-Early life and education:...
  
  , astronaut
• Lewis Henry Morgan, anthropologist
• John Wesley Powell
  John Wesley Powell
  John Wesley Powell was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions...
  
  , geologist
• Mark Rosenzweig
  Mark Rosenzweig
  Mark Richard Rosenzweig was an American research psychologist who found in animal studies on neuroplasticity that the brain continues developing anatomically, reshaping and repairing itself into adulthood based on life experiences, overturning the conventional wisdom that the brain reached full...
  
  , research psychologist
• Lewis A. Swift
  Lewis A. Swift
  Lewis A. Swift was an American astronomer.-Discoveries:He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic comets 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR, 64P/Swift-Gehrels, and 109P/Swift-Tuttle...
  
  , astronomer
• Henry Augustus Ward
  Henry Augustus Ward
  Henry Augustus Ward was an American naturalist and geologist, born in Rochester, New York.After attending Williams College and the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, where he was an assistant of Louis Agassiz, he traveled in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine, and studied at the Jardin des Plantes,...
  
  , naturalist and geologist, founder of Ward's Natural Science
  Ward's Natural Science
  Ward's Natural Science is a supplier of science education materials for high school and college-level studies in Rochester, New York. It was founded by Henry Augustus Ward in 1862....
  
  
• John Ralston Williams
  John Ralston Williams
  John Ralston Williams was a Canadian-American physician who was an instrumental figure in the public health of Rochester, New York.Williams was born in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada in 1874, one of nine children of a baker...
  
  , medical pioneer

Social reformers

• Terry A. Anderson, former hostage and humanitarian
• Susan B. Anthony
  Susan B. Anthony
  Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President...
  
  , women's rights leader
• Walter Cooper
  Walter Cooper (scientist)
  Walter Cooper, Ph.D. is an American scientist, humanitarian, activist, and educator. Primarily a research scientist, he was also heavily involved in civil rights work both in Rochester, New York and in Mali....
  
  , research scientist, urban education reformer and civil rights activist
• Frederick Douglass
  Frederick Douglass
  Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing...
  
  , abolitionist
• Emma Goldman
  Emma Goldman
  Emma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....
  
  , anarchist
• Helen Barrett Montgomery
  Helen Barrett Montgomery
  Helen Barrett Montgomery was an American social reformer, educator and writer. In 1921 she was elected as the first woman president of the Northern Baptist Convention . She had long been a delegate to the Convention and a policymaker...
  
  , social reformer and women’s activist
• Helen Pitts
  Helen Pitts
  Helen Pitts was an American suffragist and the second wife of Frederick Douglass. She also created the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association.-Early life:She was born in Honeoye, New York...
  
  , abolitionist and feminist
• Samuel Ringgold Ward
  Samuel Ringgold Ward
  Samuel Ringgold Ward was an African American who escaped enslavement to become an abolitionist, newspaper editor and Congregational minister....
  
  , African-American pastor and abolitionist
• Lillian Wald
  Lillian Wald
  Lillian D. Wald was a nurse; social worker; public health official; teacher; author; editor; publisher; activist for peace, women's, children's and civil rights; and the founder of American community nursing...
  
  , public health nurse and social worker
• Frances Willard
  Frances Willard (suffragist)
  Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution...
  
  , suffragist and temperance reformer
• Fannie Barrier Williams
  Fannie Barrier Williams
  300px|thumb|Fannie Barrier Williams, 1902Fannie Barrier Williams was an African American educator and political and women's rights activist...
  
  , black social reformer

Others

• Douglas Brei
  Douglas Brei
  Douglas Brei is a former minor league sports executive who has recently garnered national attention as a sports historian in his hometown of Rochester, New York, United States.- Historical contributions :...
  
  , sports historian
• Ed Edmondson
  Ed Edmondson (chess official)
  Edmund Edmondson was President of the United States Chess Federation from 1963 to 1966 and Executive Director of the USCF from 1966 to 1975. He served as an officer, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, with the United States Air Force.Edmondson played a key role in Bobby Fischer's path to the...
  
  , chess arbiter
• Jon Finkel
  Jon Finkel
  Jon Finkel is an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player. In the year 2000, he became the world champion of Magic, as well as being on the team that became the team world champion.-Career:...
  
  , Magic: The Gathering champion
• Jerome Fuller
  Jerome Fuller
  Jerome Fuller was a lawyer and chief justice of Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court from 1851 to 1852.Fuller was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1808, but details are scarce about his early years. At some point he moved to Brockport, New York, and was a 27th District member of the New York...
  
  , jurist
• Gideon Granger
  Gideon Granger
  Gideon Granger was an early American politician and lawyer. He was the father of Francis Granger.Born in Suffield, Connecticut, Granger attended and graduated from Yale University and became a lawyer. He was considered a brilliant political essayist...
  
  , U.S. Postmaster General under Thomas Jefferson
• Seth Green
  Seth Green (Pisciculture)
  Seth Green was a pioneer in fish farming . He established the first fish hatchery in the United States in the Town of Caledonia....
  
  , pioneer in fish farming
• Mary Jemison
  Mary Jemison
  Mary Jemison was an American frontierswoman and an adopted Seneca. When she was in her teens, she was captured in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania, from her home along Marsh Creek, and later chose to remain a Seneca....
  
  , the White Lady of the Genesee
• Thomas Krens
  Thomas Krens
  Thomas Krens is the former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York City, and currently the Guggenheim's Senior Advisor for International Affairs, overseeing the completion of the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi...
  
  , former director, current senior adviser, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• Increase A. Lapham, "Father" of the United States Weather Service
• Christopher Lasch
  Christopher Lasch
  Christopher Lasch was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic....
  
  , historian
• Belva Ann Lockwood
  Belva Ann Lockwood
  Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood was an American attorney, politician, educator, and author. She was active in working for women's rights, although the term feminist was not in use. The press of her day referred to her as a "suffragist," someone who believed in women's suffrage or voting rights...
  
  , first female attorney to practice before the Supreme Court
• Nathaniel Rochester
  Nathaniel Rochester
  Nathaniel Rochester was an American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, most noted for founding the settlement which would become Rochester, New York.-Early years:...
  
  , city founder
• Blanche Stuart Scott
  Blanche Stuart Scott
  Blanche Stuart Scott , also known as Betty Scott, was possibly the first American woman aviator.-Early life:...
  
  , first American aviatrix