List of people from Kingston, New York
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The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Kingston, New York.
Notable people
Actors, musicians and others in the entertainment industry
- Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939), film director, writer and actor; born in Kingston[1]
- Larry Cohen (b. 1941), film producer, director, and screenwriter;, born in Kingston[2]
- Robert Craft (b. 1923), conductor and writer who worked with and had a lifelong friendship with composer Igor Stravinsky, recording a number of his works; born in the city
- John Glover (b. 1944), actor, born in Kingston[3]
- Tom Hart (b. 1969), comics creator, born in Kingston[4]
- Paul Austin Kelly (b. 1960), opera tenor, jazz singer, children's music performer and impresario
- Joseph Kesselring (1902–1967), writer and playwright best known for his play Arsenic and Old Lace, died in Kingston
- Paul Kreppel (b. 1947), television and Broadway theatre director and actor; born in Kingston
- Elissa Landi (1904–1948), Italian-born actress, popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 30s; died in Kingston
- Pauline Oliveros composer, performer, humanitarian, pioneer in American music
- Henry Paul (b. 1949), southern rock and country singer/songwriter; born in Kingston[5]
- Anne Sweeney (b. 1957), Co-Chair of Disney Media and President of the Disney–ABC Television Group[6]
- Velous (b. 1991), born Tyler Bryant, musician, singer-songwriter and music producer; born in Kingston
- Josh Eppard (b. 1979), born Joshua Eppard, drummer for Progressive Rock band Coheed and Cambria, rap artist known for Weerd Science; born in Kingston
Politics, political activism, government service
- George Clinton (1739–1812), fourth vice president of the United States and first elected governor of New York State, is buried in the city at the Old Dutch Church[7]
- Charles DeWitt (1727–1789), a miller and statesman from Kingston, served as a delegate to the Continental Congress[8]
- Arthur Sherwood Flemming (1905–1996), United States Secretary of Health and Human Services[9]
- Abraham B. Hasbrouck (1791–1879), U.S. Congressman and the sixth President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University), born and died in Kingston[10]
- Alton B. Parker (1852–1926), Democratic presidential nominee in 1904, practiced law in the city and was the first president of the Ulster County Bar Association. Also president of Ulster County Savings Institution for eight years. He not only lost the election, he didn't even carry Ulster County.[11]
- Henry Granville Sharpe (1858–1947), 24th Quartermaster General[12]
- Nicholas Sickles (1801–1845), US Congressman[13]
- John Van Buren (1799–1855), US Congressman[14]
Others
- Joe Ausanio (b. 1965), pitcher for the New York Yankees during the 1990s; born and grew up in Kingston; half-brother of Major Leaguer Paul Runge
- Heywood Hale Broun (1918–2001), sportswriter and commentator, died in the city
- Gerald Celente (b. 1946), publisher of Trends Journal
- Robert H. Dietz (1921–1945), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
- Mike Ferraro (b. 1944), third baseman for the New York Yankees and Milwaukee Brewers; later coach for the Kansas City Royals; born in Kingston[15]
- Ezra Fitch (1866–1930), the "Fitch" in Abercrombie & Fitch, practiced law in Kingston before leaving to join Abercrombie in his wilderness outfitting store in New York City in 1900; bought out Abercrombie in 1907
- Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), donated his art collection to the Smithsonian Institution; born in Kingston; namesake of the Freer Gallery of Art, part of the Smithsonian
- Walter B. Gibson (1897–1985), author and professional magician, known for his pulp-fiction character The Shadow
- Brian Kenny (b. 1963), journalist; anchor of Friday Night Fights and ESPNEWS' The Hot List; previously worked for WTZA in the city
- Edgar F. Luckenbach (1868–1943), shipping magnate, Luckenbach Steamship Company
- James Mahoney (1925–2002), auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York
- Jervis McEntee (1828–1891), painter of the Hudson River School; buried in Montrepose Cemetery in the city[16]
- Evaline Ness (1911–1986), illustrator and author; won a Caldecott Medal in 1967 for Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine; was married to "Untouchable" Eliot Ness, 1938–1946; died in the city
- Maud Petersham (1890–1971), won the Caldecott Medal with her husband and co-author Miska Petrezselyem Mikaly in 1946 for The Rooster Crows; born in Kingston
- Andrée Ruellan (1905–2006), painter whose works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum; died in the city
- Paul Runge Jr., (b. 1958), infielder for the Atlanta Braves during the 1980s; manager of several minor league teams; born and grew up in Kingston; half-brother of major leaguer Joe Ausanio
- Ron Suskind (b. 1959), journalist and writer
- Anne Sweeney (b. 1957), co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of the Disney-ABC Television Group; been named the "Most Powerful Woman in Entertainment" by The Hollywood Reporter, one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" by Fortune magazine, and one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" by Forbes; spent her childhood in Kingston and is a graduate of Coleman High School
- John Vanderlyn (1776–1852), neoclassicist painter; born in Kingston[17]
- Calvert Vaux (1824–1895), architect and landscape designer; co-designer of Central Park, NYC; buried in Kingston's Montrepose Cemetery
- Kate Youngman (1841–1910), Christian missionary to Japan, established the Ihaien leprosy hospital in Tokyo, Japan
Notes
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "CLINTON, George, (1739–1812)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- ^ "DE WITT, Charles, (1727–1787)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "Kingston, New York". City-Data.com,. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ Westbrook, Frederick Edward (1883). The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Erection of the Building Occupied as the Senate House of the State of New York in 1777: The Year of the Adoption of the First State Constitution at Esopus (now City of Kingston) : Together with Sketches of Old Prominent Citizens of Kingston. Journal & Freeman Branch Office Print. p. 18. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ^ Tammany Publishing Company (1903). The Tammany Times, Volumes 22–23. Tammany Publishing Company. p. xxiv. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ^ "Kingston, New York". City-Data.com,. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "SICKLES, Nicholas, (1801–1845)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- ^ "VAN BUREN, John, (1799–1855)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- ^ "Kingston, New York". City-Data.com,. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
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- ^ "Kingston, New York". City-Data.com,. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
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