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This is a list of people from
Harlem in
New York City .
The early period (pre-1920)
Jewish, Italian, Irish Harlem (circa 1900–30)
Moe Berg
Sholem Aleichem – writer, 110 Lenox Avenue
[11]
Moe Berg (1902–1972) – Major League Baseball catcher; spy
Milton Berle – comedian and actor, born in a five-story walkup at 68 West 118th Street
[12]
Fanny Brice – actress, houses at West 128th Street and West 118th Street
[13]
Art Buchwald – writer
[9]
Bennett Cerf – publisher,
[14] was born on May 25, 1898, at 68 West 118th Street,
[15] the same address as Milton Berle's
Morris Raphael Cohen – philosopher, 498 West 135th Street
[16]
Milt Gabler – record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry of the 20th century
[17]
George and
Ira Gershwin - composers, grew up in Harlem; lived at 108 West 111th and other addresses.
[18] George wrote his first hit song, "Swanee", at his home at 520 W. 144 Street in 1919.
[8] The pair were living at 501 Cathedral Parkway in 1924, and it was in this apartment that George wrote "
Rhapsody in Blue ."
[19]
Oscar Hammerstein I – inventor and theatrical entrepreneur; lived at 333 Edgecombe Avenue
[8]
Oscar Hammerstein II – writer and theatrical producer, addresses on East 116th Street and 112th Street
[20]
Lorenz Hart – lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team
Rodgers and Hart , 59 West 119th Street
[21]
Harry Houdini – magician; lived at 278 West 113th Street from 1904 until his death in 1926
[22]
Frank Hussey – Olympian, 129th Street
[23]
Burt Lancaster – Oscar-winning actor and producer
[9]
Seymour Martin Lipset – political sociologist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University
[24]
Ignazio Lupo – counterfeiter, gangster
[25]
Marx Brothers – comedians, 239 East 114th Street
[12]
Arthur Miller – playwright, 45 West 110th Street
[26]
[27]
Giuseppe Morello – gangster, 323 East 107th Street
[25]
Belle Moskowitz – political advisor to New York Governor and 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith
[28]
Al Pacino – Academy Award-winning actor
Charlie Pilkington – three-time New York champion boxer; East 102nd Street
Ed Sullivan – Broadway & Sports columnist, host of the long-running televised Sunday evening variety show; East 114th Street
David Rappaport – fashion manufacturer, designer and painter
[29]
Richard Rodgers – composer, 3 West 120th Street
[1]
[14]
Yossele Rosenblatt – celebrated cantor
[30]
Henry Roth – writer, 108 East 119th Street
[11]
Jessie Sampter – poet
[23]
John Sanford , born Julian Lawrence Shapiro – screenwriter and author who wrote 24 books
[31]
Arthur Sulzberger – publisher of the
New York Times
[30]
Henrietta Szold – founder of
Hadassah
[23]
Vincent and Ciro Terranova – gangsters, 352 East 116th Street
[32]
The Harlem Renaissance and World War II (1920–1945)
409 Edgecombe Avenue
Louis Armstrong – bandleader and trumpet player
[33]
Count Basie – bandleader and pianist; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
[34]
[35]
George Wilson Becton – religious cult leader
[36]
Julius Bledsoe – singer; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue
[35]
Arna Bontemps – writer
William Stanley Braithwaite – poet and essayist; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue
[35]
Eunice Carter – New York state judge; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue
[35]
John Henrik Clarke – editor of Freedomways Magazine and of several books; professor; moved to Harlem in 1933
[37]
Lady Bird Cleveland (1926-2015) – artist
[38]
Collyer brothers – compulsive hoarders; lived in a townhouse at 128th Street and Fifth Avenue in Harlem their entire adult lives
Countee Cullen – poet
[33]
Lillian Harris Dean – entrepreneur known as "Pigfoot Mary"
Aaron Douglas – painter; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue
[35]
[37]
W. E. B. Du Bois – activist, writer; lived at 409 Edgecombe
[34]
[35]
Duke Ellington – composer, pianist and bandleader; lived on Riverside Drive and at 555 Edgecombe
[34]
[39]
Father Divine – religious leader,
[39] lived in several locations in Harlem, including on
Astor Row , and maintained offices at 20 West 115th Street
[40]
Rudolph Fisher – writer
[37]
Marcus Garvey – political figure, Pan-Africanist; home at 235 West 131st Street
[41]
Billy Higgins (1888–1937), stage comedian, songwriter, and singer
Charles Manuel "Sweet Daddy" Grace – evangelist, born in Cape Verde Islands but became prominent in Harlem in the 1920s
[39]
Lionel Hampton – jazz musician; lived in Harlem through World War II and for some years thereafter
[37]
Hubert Harrison – "the father of Harlem Radicalism"
Leonard Harper – Harlem Renaissance producer, stager, and choreographer
Coleman Hawkins – musician, saxophone player; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
[42]
Billie Holiday – singer; lived with her mother at 108 West 139th Street
[43]
Casper Holstein – gangster
Lena Horne – singer and actress; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
[42]
Langston Hughes – writer
[44]
Zora Neale Hurston – writer
[44]
Bumpy Johnson – gangster; lived in Lenox Terrace at 132nd Street and Lenox Avenue near the end of his life
[45]
James P. Johnson – pianist
James Weldon Johnson – author, activist, composer; lived at 187 West 135th Street
[34]
Donald Jones – actor and dancer born in Harlem but moved to the Netherlands
Fiorello La Guardia – New York mayor, from East Harlem
Alain Locke – editor
[33]
Joe Louis – boxer; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
[42]
Claude McKay – poet and novelist; born in Jamaica but moved to Harlem and wrote the famous novel
Home to Harlem , West 131st Street
[46]
Florence Mills – entertainer
Adam Clayton Powell Sr. – religious, civic leader
[39]
A. Philip Randolph – activist, labor organizer
Paul Robeson – singer and actor; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
[34]
[35]
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson – dancer; lived on
Strivers' Row
[34]
James Herman Robinson – pastor of the Church of the Master on 122nd Street, founder of Operation Crossroads Africa, a forerunner of the
Peace Corps
Stephanie St. Clair – criminal leader; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue
[47]
Willie "The Lion" Smith – pianist
Wallace Thurman – writer
[33]
Jean Toomer – writer
[37]
James Van Der Zee – photographer
[39]
Madam C.J. Walker – philanthropist and tycoon
A'Lelia Walker – socialite and businesswoman
Fats Waller – pianist, born at 107 West 134th Street
[48]
Ethel Waters – singer, actress; born in Chester, Pennsylvania
Margot Webb - professional dancer
Walter Francis White – civil rights leader
[49]
Bert Williams – vaudeville performer; born in Antigua; died in 1922, near the start of the Harlem Renaissance
Mary Lou Williams – pianist; lived at 63 Hamilton Terrace
[43]
Lillian "Billie" Yarbo – comedienne, dancer, singer
[50]
[51]
Famous after World War II
Miles Aiken – basketball player
Fiona Apple – singer-songwriter and pianist, raised in
Morningside Gardens
[52]
James Baldwin – novelist; lived at 131st Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. (then called "Seventh Avenue")
[53]
Amiri Baraka , born LeRoi Jones – dancer, poet, activist
Patricia Bath , ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic
Romare Bearden – artist, primarily working in collage
Harry Belafonte – calypso musician
Claude Brown – novelist, wrote Manchild in the Promised Land
Ron Brown – U.S. Secretary of Commerce, grew up in the
Hotel Theresa
[54]
Kareem Campbell – pro skateboarder
George Carlin – comedian; 121st Street between Amsterdam and Broadway
[55]
Jimmy Castor – R&B/funk bandleader
Dr. Kenneth Clark – psychologist and activist; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
[35]
Pat Cleveland – model
[56]
Evelyn Cunningham – civil-rights-era journalist and aide to Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York
[57]
Jules Dassin – film director
[1]
Benjamin J. Davis – New York City councilman, ultimately sent to jail for violations of the
Smith Act
[37]
Ossie Davis – actor and director; lived in Harlem in the late 1930s and mid-1940s
Sammy Davis Jr. – entertainer, actor, member of
Rat Pack , born in
Harlem Hospital in 1925
[58]
Roy DeCarava – photographer, born in Harlem in 1919
[59]
Wanda De Jesus – actress
David Dinkins – Mayor of New York; lived in the Riverton Houses
[60]
Ralph Ellison – novelist, wrote Invisible Man, about a man who moves from the deep south to Harlem; lived at 730 Riverside Drive in Harlem
[61]
Erik Estrada – actor, from East Harlem
Donald Faison – actor
Jack Geiger – physician, co-founder of
Physicians for Social Responsibility ; lived with Canada Lee for a year at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
[62]
Herbert Gentry – abstract expressionist painter, lived at 126th street and Amsterdam Avenue, 1940s
Althea Gibson – professional tennis player; lived at 115 West 143rd Street
[34]
Oscar Hammerstein II – writer and theatrical producer
[1]
W. C. Handy – composer and bandleader; lived on
Strivers' Row in Harlem towards the end of his life
[34]
Benny Harris – musician, trumpet
[63]
Lorenz Hart – lyricist
[1]
Johnny Hartman – vocalist; born in Louisiana, grew up in Chicago, moved to Harlem's Sugar Hill in 1950s
Evan Hunter , aka Ed McBain – author, grew up in East Harlem
[64]
Roy Innis – head of the
Congress of Racial Equality ; lived in Harlem but ultimately moved to Brooklyn
[65]
June Jordan – Caribbean American poet, novelist, journalist, biographer, dramatist, teacher
JTG – WWE wrestler
Ben E. King – soul singer and former lead tenor of
The Drifters , best known for the song, "
Stand By Me "
Canada Lee – actor; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
[62]
Frank Lucas – drug dealer
Frankie Lymon – lead tenor of
The Teenagers , best known for the song "
Why Do Fools Fall in Love? "
Malcolm X – preacher, revolutionary
Earl Manigault – basketball player
Thurgood Marshall – Supreme Court justice; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue
[34]
[35]
Carl McCall – New York State senator, and Comptroller of New York State
[39]
Jackie McLean – musician, alto saxophone
[63] *
Arthur Miller – playwright, was married to
Marilyn Monroe
[1]
Hal Miller – actor (
Sesame Street ,
Law & Order , etc.); also painter, singer, poet, lyricist, lived at 152nd Street & Macombs Place in the 1950s, born in Harlem
Moby – musician, born in Harlem
Joe Morton – actor, born in Harlem
Edward Mosberg (1926-2022) - Polish-American Holocaust survivor, educator, and philanthropist
Alice Neel – artist; lived in East Harlem
[1]
Eleanor Holmes Norton – head of the Commission of Human Rights for New York City, now non-voting Delegate from the District of Columbia to the United States House of Representatives
[39]
Elaine Parker – community organizer and activist, Chairperson of Harlem C.O.R.E. Director of the Manhattan Borough President's Office, Special Assistant to the City Council President City of NY
[66]
Gordon Parks – film director and photographer
[39]
Basil Paterson – New York state senator, New York City deputy mayor for labor relations, Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
[39]
[67]
Fannie Pennington Harlem Civil Rights Foot Soldier
Samuel Pierce – Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; lived in the Riverton Houses
[60]
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. – politician
Bud Powell – musician, pianist
[63]
Tito Puente, Sr. – musician, Spanish Harlem
Gene Anthony Ray – dancer and actor
[68]
Ving Rhames – actor
Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson , NBA analyst
[69]
Sugar Ray Robinson – boxer, entrepreneur; moved to Harlem at age 12
Sonny Rollins – musician, tenor saxophone
[63]
Steve Rossi – comedian, former manager for
Howard Stern
[70]
Henry Roth – novelist
[1]
J. D. Salinger – novelist; lived at 3681 Broadway until he was nine years old
[71]
Isabel Sanford – actress; co-star of
The Jeffersons
Hazel Scott – pianist, wife of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., first African-American woman with her own television show
[39]
Nina Simone – singer; lived, for a time, in Duke Ellington's old house in Harlem
[39]
Thomas Sowell – professional economist and author
Billy Strayhorn – jazz composer, arranger
Percy Sutton – Borough President of Manhattan: "If I were offered a million dollars, I wouldn't leave Harlem."
[39]
Billy Taylor – jazz pianist; lived in the Riverton Houses
[60]
Clarice Taylor – actress on the
Cosby Show
Conrad Tillard (born 1964) - politician, Baptist minister, radio host, author, and civil rights activist
Samuel E Vázquez – abstract expressionist painter
[72]
[73]
Dinah Washington – "Queen of the Blues"; born in Alabama but became famous when she lived in Harlem
[39]
Roy Wilkins – civil rights leader; lived at 409 Edgecombe
[34]
Billy Dee Williams – actor
Louis T. Wright – physician, chairman of the board of the
NAACP
[74]
Morrie Yohai – rabbi, inventor of
Cheez Doodles
[75]
Rap, hip hop, R&B and reality
40 Cal – rapper
ASAP Ferg – rapper
ASAP Mob
ASAP Rocky – rapper from Harlem (member of
ASAP Mob )
Bodega Bamz - rapper, actor
Azealia Banks – rapper, singer, lyricist
Stuart Bascombe - singer, songwriter, producer and actor
Leroy Burgess - Musician, singer, songwriter and producer
Big L – rapper
Black Ivory - R&B vocal group
Black Rob – rapper from Spanish Harlem
Cam'ron – rapper (owner of Diplomat Records) (Dipset)
Cannibal Ox – rap duo
Crash Crew – old-school rap group
Yaya DaCosta – America's Next Top Model contestant/model
Damon Dash – Co-founder of
Roc-A-Fella Records
DJ Hollywood – VH-1 hip hop honoree; rap/hip-hop pioneer
DJ Red Alert – DJ, hip hop pioneer
Kool Moe Dee – old-school rapper and one-third of the
Treacherous Three
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock – rap duo best known for their hit "
It Takes Two "
Dave East – rapper (Mass Appeal Records)
Famous Dex – rapper
[76]
Fatman Scoop – Grammy and MTV Award winner; radio personality; reality TV star
The Fearless Four – pioneer rap group
Doug E. Fresh – '80s rapper, runs a waffle house in Harlem
Spoonie Gee – pioneer rapper
Ebony Haith – America's Next Top Model contestant, model
Charles Hamilton – rapper
Ilacoin – hip hop artist, creator of the "Pause" game
Freddie Jackson – singer
Jim Jones – rapper (co-CEO of Diplomat Records) (Dipset)
Joe Budden – rapper, media personality, host of
The Joe Budden Podcast
Kareem "Biggs" Burke - co-founder of
Roc-A-Fella Records
Kelis – R&B singer and songwriter
Rayne Storm – rapper, producer (Digiindie)
Puff Daddy – rapper, businessman, founder of
Bad Boy Records
Freekey Zekey – rapper (owner, CEO of 730 Dips Records)
Immortal Technique – rapper
Kurtis Blow – rapper
Lil Mama – rapper; judge of
America's Best Dance Crew
Biz Markie – rapper, disc jockey owns a Waffle House
Mase – rapper
Jae Millz – rapper
P-Star – rapper, singer, actress
Q-Tip – rapper, producer (
A Tribe Called Quest )
Russell Patterson - singer, songwriter, producer and actor
Teddy Riley – producer, artist
Tupac Shakur - rapper
Carl Hancock Rux – writer, performer
Juelz Santana – rapper (owner, CEO of Skull Gang Records)
Bre Scullark – America's Next Top Model contestant, model
Smoke DZA – rapper
Dani Stevenson – singer
Keith Sweat – singer
Teyana Taylor – singer and rapper signed to
Kanye West 's
G.O.O.D. Music label
Treacherous Three – old-school rap group
T-Rex – battle rapper (member Of Dot Mob)
Vado – rapper (We The Best Records)
JR Writer – rapper (Dipset member)
Sheck Wes - rapper
[77]
Dave Wooley - director, producer, author and entrepreneur
21st-century residents
Bob Dylan - owned a brownstone on
Striver’s Row from 1980’s until year 2000. The townhouse is located at 265 West 139th Street and it sold in 2018 for $3.7M
[78]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – basketball player, moved into a Mount Morris brownstone at 30 West 120th Street
[79] in September 2006
[80]
Lorraine Adams – writer and journalist
[81]
Maya Angelou – poet and author, owned a home on 120th Street in Mount Morris Park district
[82]
Angela Bassett –
Emmy and
Academy Award -nominated, and
Golden Globe -winning actress
Keith David – actor and singer
Charlotte d'Amboise – actress and dancer
Jonathan Franzen – author; lived on 125th Street when he wrote his book The Corrections
[83]
Daphne Frias – activist
[84]
Marcia Gay Harden – Oscar-winning actress
[44]
[85]
Edward W. Hardy – Composer, musician and producer
[86]
Neil Patrick Harris – actor; lives near Morningside Park when not in Los Angeles
[87]
Rashidah Ismaili , writer
Jeff L. Lieberman – film director
[88]
Terrance Mann – actor and dancer
Cameron Mathison – actor on
All My Children and contestant on Dancing with the Stars , 136 West 130th Street
[89]
[90]
S. Epatha Merkerson – actress
[44]
Harold "Hal" Miller – actor ("Gordon" on Sesame Street ), lived on 152nd Street & Macombs Place, before going to live and work in China, India and throughout Europe
Mandy Patinkin – actor
[44]
Adam Clayton Powell IV –
New York City Council member
Richard Price – author and screenwriter
[81]
Marcus Samuelsson – chef and restaurateur; lived in duplex near Frederick Douglass Boulevard
[91]
Miz Cracker - Drag Queen
Akhnaten Spencer-El – Olympic fencer
[92]
Stephen Spinella –
Tony Award -winning actor
[93]
Joel Steinberg – killed his adopted daughter; moved to Harlem after his 2004 release from prison
[94]
Alton White [
citation needed ] – hockey player
Khalid Yasin – born in Harlem; raised in Brooklyn; teacher and lecturer of Islam
Oscar Peñas – composer and jazz guitarist – born in Barcelona, Spain; moved from Clinton Hill, Brooklyn to Hamilton Height, Harlem in 2018
Alysia Reiner - American actress and producer, best known for playing Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in the
Netflix comedy drama series
Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019), for which she won a
Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as part of the ensemble cast
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