The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It has a long tradition of being home to some of the world's most wealthy, powerful and influential families and individuals.
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- Roman Abramovich (born 1966) â businessman, investor, and politician
- Ronnie Abrams (born 1968) â US judge
- William Acquavella (born 1937/38) â art dealer
- George B. Agnew (1868âÂÂ1941) â politician
- Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud â Saudi royal
- Herbert Allen Jr. (born 1940) â businessman
- Woody Allen (born 1935) â film director, writer, and actor
- Rand Araskog (1931âÂÂ2021) â businessman
- Elizabeth Arden (1878âÂÂ1966) â businesswoman
- Brooke Astor (1902âÂÂ2007) â philanthropist and widow of Vincent Astor
- Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1830âÂÂ1908) â socialite
- John Jacob Astor IV (1864âÂÂ1912) â businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the SpanishâÂÂAmerican War, who was a passenger on the RMS Titanic and chose to remain on the ship when it sank
- Vincent Astor (1891âÂÂ1959) â businessman, philanthropist, and member of the prominent Astor family
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C
- John T. Cahill â lawyer
- Hervey C. Calkin â U.S. representative
- Anthony Campagna â real estate developer
- Truman Capote â novelist
- Mariah Carey â singer
- Andrew Carnegie â industrialist
- Phoebe Cates â actress
- Dick Cavett â comedian and former talk show host
- Marc Chagall â artist
- Robert Chambers â the "Preppie Killer" of Jennifer Levin
- Walid Chammah â executive
- James Chanos â investor
- Gustavo Cisneros â businessman
- Huguette Clark â heiress
- James H. Clark â Netscape founder
- William A. Clark â politician and entrepreneur
- Jill Clayburgh â actress
- Montgomery Clift â actor
- Gifford A. Cochran â entrepreneur and sportsman
- George M. Cohan â entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer
- Charles Cohen â real estate developer
- Michael Cohen â attorney for Donald Trump
- Roy Cohn â lawyer, mentor to Donald Trump
- George Condo â artist
- Sean Connery â actor
- Mark Consuelos â actor
- Barbara Corcoran â businesswoman, investor, speaker, consultant, syndicated columnist, author, and television personality
- Ann Coulter â author, political commentator, columnist
- Katie Couric â journalist
- Simon Cowell â television judge and producer
- Gardner Cowles Jr. â publisher
- Joan Crawford â actress
- Aimée Crocker (1864âÂÂ1941) â heiress, princess, author, world traveler
- George Crocker â businessman
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- Lady Gaga â singer
- Gerald Garson â former NY Supreme Court justice convicted of accepting bribes
- Ina Garten â author
- Bruce Gelb â businessman and diplomat
- Sarah Michelle Gellar â actress
- James W. Gerard â lawyer and diplomat
- Ricky Gervais â comedian, actor
- Gordon Getty â businessman, investor, philanthropist and classical music composer
- Pia Getty â filmmaker
- John Giorno â artist
- Rudy Giuliani â politician, attorney, businessman, public speaker, former mayor of New York City, and attorney to President Donald Trump
- Barbara Goldsmith â author, journalist, and philanthropist
- Danielle Goldstein (born 1985) â American-Israeli show jumper
- Lawrence E. Golub â entrepreneur, philanthropist, and business executive
- Murray H. Goodman â real estate developer
- Noam Gottesman â hedge fund manager
- Jay Gould â railroad developer
- Ulysses S. Grant â 18th president of the United States, commanding general of the Army, soldier, international statesman, and author
- Peter Grauer â chairman, Bloomberg L.P.
- Kenneth C. Griffin â hedge fund manager
- Bob Guccione â photographer
- Meyer Guggenheim â patriarch of the Guggenheim family
- Simon Guggenheim â politician
- Randolph Guggenheimer â lawyer
- Daphne Guinness â heiress, socialite, fashion designer, art collector, model, musician, film producer and actor
- Thomas Guinzburg â publisher
- John Gutfreund â investment banker
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- Katie Halper â podcaster and left-wing political commentator
- J. Hooker Hamersley â heir, lawyer and poet
- W. Averell Harriman â governor of New York
- Kitty Carlisle Hart â singer, advocate for the arts and historic preservation
- Henry Osborne Havemeyer â industrialist
- Millicent Hearst â wife of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst
- Drue Heinz â patron of the literary arts, actress, philanthropist and socialite
- Ariel Helwani â mixed martial arts writer
- Ernest Hemingway â writer
- Jim Henson â puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, and filmmaker
- Leon Hess â founder and President of Hess Corporation and one-time owner of the New York Jets
- David M. Heyman (1891âÂÂ1984) â financier, philanthropist, art collector
- Tommy Hilfiger â fashion designer
- J. Tomilson Hill â investor
- Henry Hilton â jurist and businessman
- Dennis Hoey â actor
- Lena Horne â singer
- Vladimir Horowitz â pianist and composer
- Alan Howard â hedge fund manager
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J
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- Otto Hermann Kahn â investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts
- Harry Kargman â CEO of Kargo
- Jill Kargman â author, writer and actress
- Herbert Kasper â fashion designer
- George S. Kaufman â playwright
- Slim Keith â socialite
- Caroline Kennedy â author and diplomat to Japan, and daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
- James Powell Kernochan â businessman and clubman
- Sante Kimes â criminal
- Stephen King â author
- Kevin Kline â actor
- David H. Koch â businessman, philanthropist, conservative political activist
- Frederick R. Koch â collector and philanthropist
- Doron Kochavi â businessman, lawyer, philanthropist
- Pannonica de Koenigswarter â jazz patron and writer
- Jeff Koons â artist
- Jerzy KosiÃ
Âski â novelist
- Bruce Kovner â hedge fund manager
- Dennis Kozlowski â former CEO of Tyco International
- Nicola Kraus â novelist
- Peter S. Kraus â businessman, philanthropist and art collector
- Henry Kravis â investor
- Jared Kushner â investor, real-estate developer, newspaper publisher, senior advisor to President Donald Trump
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- John J. Mack â banker
- Julie Macklowe â beauty entrepreneur and businesswoman
- Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland â Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
- Andrew Madoff â stockbroker and investment advisor
- Bernard Madoff â ex-hedge fund manager convicted of running a Ponzi scheme
- Madonna â entertainer; purchased $40 million mansion on East 81st Street at Lexington Avenue in 2009
- Carolyn Maloney â politician, former member of United States House of Representatives and the New York City Council
- Stewart and Cyril Marcus â gynecologists
- Barbara Margolis â prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter of New York City
- Anne Windfohr Marion â rancher, horse breeder, business executive, philanthropist, and art collector
- Howard Marks â investor
- Paul Marks â medical doctor, researcher and administrator
- Malachi Martin â author
- Wednesday Martin â author
- Soong Mei-ling â former First Lady of the Republic of China, known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang
- Rachel Lambert Mellon â horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector
- J. Ezra Merkin â hedge fund manager
- Charles E. Merrill â philanthropist, stockbroker, and co-founder of Merrill Lynch
- Howard Michaels â founder of the real estate investment advisory firm the Carlton Group
- Bette Midler â singer
- George W. Miller â politician
- Robert Mnuchin â banker
- Steven Mnuchin â investment banker, film producer, hedge fund manager, and secretary of the US Treasury
- Mary Tyler Moore â actress, producer, and social advocate, at 927 Fifth Avenue at East 74th Street
- Sonja Morgan
- Levi P. Morton â 22nd vice president of the United States, ambassador, and former governor of New York
- Robert Moses â city planner, public official, referred to as the "master builder" of New York
- Mark Mulvoy â Sports Illustrated journalist and managing editor
- Charles Murphy â hedge fund manager
- James Murdoch â businessman
- Rupert Murdoch â media mogul
- Wendi Deng Murdoch â businesswoman, and movie producer
- Arthur Murray â dancer
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- Ashraf Pahlavi â twin sister of the deposed shah
- William S. Paley â executive
- Vikram Pandit â banker
- Sister Parish â interior decorator and socialite
- Dorothy Parker â poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist
- Antenor Patiño â tycoon
- John Paulson â hedge fund manager
- Joan Whitney Payson â heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family
- Nelson Peltz â investor
- Ronald Perelman â investor
- Antonio Permuy â writer, curator, and art patron
- Holly Peterson â producer, journalist and novelist
- Peter George Peterson â investment banker and United States Secretary of Commerce
- Milton Petrie â retail investor
- George Plimpton â author, humorist, NFL quarterback
- Generoso Pope â Italian-American businessman and newspaper publisher, lived at 1040 Fifth Avenue
- Zac Posen â fashion designer
- Peter O. Price â media proprietor
- Harold Prince â theatrical producer and director
- Joseph Pulitzer â newspaper publisher
R
- Lee Radziwill â princess, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Stewart Rahr â pharmaceuticals mogul
- Michael Rapaport â actor, internet personality, podcaster
- Lynn Pressman Raymond â toy and game innovator, president of the Pressman Toy Corporation
- Robert Redford â actor
- Michele Singer Reiner â film producer and photographer
- Ira Rennert â investor and businessman
- Kelly Ripa â talk show host
- Joan Rivers â comedian
- David Rockefeller â banker
- John D. Rockefeller Jr. â financier and philanthropist
- Laurance Rockefeller â philanthropist, businessman, financier, and major conservationist
- Carlos RodrÃÂguez-Pastor â businessman
- Felix Rohatyn â investment banker
- Julia Restoin Roitfeld â art director and model
- Eleanor Roosevelt â political figure, diplomat and activist
- Theodore Roosevelt â U.S. president, represented Upper East Side in New York State Assembly at beginning of his political career.
- Elihu Root â former secretary of state
- James Rorimer â museum director
- Aby Rosen â real estate developer
- Christopher Ross â sculptor, designer and collector
- Steve Ross â CEO of Time Warner
- Alexander Rovt â real estate investor
- Marc Rowan â investor
- Helena Rubinstein â businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist
- Serge Rubinstein â stock and currency manipulator and murder victim
- Jacob Ruppert â brewer
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- Lily Safra â philanthropist and socialite
- Walter J. Salmon Sr. â real estate developer
- Nassef Sawiris â CEO
- Jacob Schiff â banker
- Jack Schlossberg â writer
- Rose Schlossberg â filmmaker
- Tatiana Schlossberg â journalist and author
- Stephen Schwarzman â businessman
- Martin Scorsese â film director and producer
- Arthur Hawley Scribner â president of Charles Scribner's Sons
- Charles R. Schwab â investor, financial executive, and philanthropist
- Ryan Seacrest â radio personality, television host, and producer
- Terry Semel â Yahoo! CEO
- Bishop Sheen â religious leader
- Leonard Sillman â broadway producer
- David Simon â CEO of Simon Malls
- Ramona Singer â TV personality
- Harry Slatkin â businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
- William Douglas Sloane â businessman, sportsman, philanthropist
- Al Smith â former governor of New York
- George Soros â hedge fund manager
- Andy Spade â fashion designer
- Kate Spade â fashion designer
- Jerry Speyer â real estate developer
- Carl Spielvogel â ambassador to the Slovak Republic
- Eliot Spitzer â former governor of New York
- Kenneth I. Starr â money manager
- John Steinbeck â author
- Saul Steinberg â businessman
- Benjamin Steinbruch â CEO
- Gloria Steinem â journalist
- Michael Steinhardt â financier
- George Stephanopoulos â journalist, political commentator and former Democratic advisor
- Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes â architect
- Willard Dickerman Straight â investment banker, publisher, reporter, Army Reserve officer, diplomat and by marriage, a member of the Whitney family
- Jesse I. Straus â ambassador to France
- Roger Williams Straus Jr. â entrepreneur
- Igor Stravinsky â composer
- Margaret Rockefeller Strong â activist
- Robert L. Stuart â industrialist
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger â publisher and businessman
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. â publisher
- Sy Syms â founder and owner of Syms Corporation discount clothing retailer; benefactor of Yeshiva University's Syms School of Business
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V
- Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt â wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
- Anne Harriman Vanderbilt â heiress
- Gloria Vanderbilt â artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite
- William Kissam Vanderbilt II â motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman
- Margit Varga â artist, painter, gallerist, art director, journalist
- Gary Vaynerchuk â entrepreneur, author, speaker and Internet personality
- Leila and Massimo Vignelli â designers
- Vincent Viola â businessman
- Anthony Volpe â baseball player
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