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List of people from Harlem

This is a list of people from Harlem in New York City.

The early period (pre-1920)

Jewish, Italian, Irish Harlem (circa 1900–30)

  • Sholem Aleichem – writer, 110 Lenox Avenue
  • 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
  • Fanny Brice – actress, houses at West 128th Street and West 118th Street
  • Art Buchwald – writer
  • Bennett Cerf – publisher, was born on May 25, 1898, at 68 West 118th Street, the same address as Milton Berle's
  • Morris Raphael Cohen – philosopher, 498 West 135th Street
  • Milt Gabler – record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry of the 20th century
  • George and Ira Gershwin - composers, grew up in Harlem; lived at 108 West 111th and other addresses. George wrote his first hit song, "Swanee", at his home at 520 W. 144 Street in 1919. The pair were living at 501 Cathedral Parkway in 1924, and it was in this apartment that George wrote "Rhapsody in Blue."
  • Oscar Hammerstein I – inventor and theatrical entrepreneur; lived at 333 Edgecombe Avenue
  • Oscar Hammerstein II – writer and theatrical producer, addresses on East 116th Street and 112th Street
  • Lorenz Hart – lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart, 59 West 119th Street
  • Harry Houdini – magician; lived at 278 West 113th Street from 1904 until his death in 1926
  • Frank Hussey – Olympian, 129th Street
  • Burt Lancaster – Oscar-winning actor and producer
  • Seymour Martin Lipset – political sociologist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University
  • Ignazio Lupo – counterfeiter, gangster
  • Marx Brothers – comedians, 239 East 114th Street
  • Arthur Miller – playwright, 45 West 110th Street
  • Giuseppe Morello – gangster, 323 East 107th Street
  • Belle Moskowitz – political advisor to New York Governor and 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith
  • 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
  • Richard Rodgers – composer, 3 West 120th Street
  • Yossele Rosenblatt – celebrated cantor
  • Henry Roth – writer, 108 East 119th Street
  • Jessie Sampter – poet
  • John Sanford, born Julian Lawrence Shapiro – screenwriter and author who wrote 24 books
  • Arthur Sulzberger – publisher of the New York Times
  • Henrietta Szold – founder of Hadassah
  • Vincent and Ciro Terranova – gangsters, 352 East 116th Street

The Harlem Renaissance and World War II (1920–1945)

Famous after World War II

Rap, hip hop, R&B and reality

21st-century residents

Representatives

References