Ithaca, New York

The city of Ithaca (named for the Greek island of Ithaca in Homer's Odyssey) sits on the southern shores of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York.

Notable residents and natives

• Hans Bethe, resident, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, head of theoretical division of the Manhattan Project
• Richard Feynman, resident, physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• Alex Haley, native, author of ' and the Autobiography of Malcolm X
• Karel Husa, resident, composer
• Vladimir Nabokov, resident, author (most famously of Lolita)
• Roy H. Park, resident, media executive, founder of Park Communications and the Park Foundation
• Carl Sagan, resident, astronomer, popularizer of science, and author and host of '
• Rod Serling, resident, screenwriter, creator and host of The Twilight Zone
• Steve Squyres, resident, astronomer
• Robert R. Wilson, resident, physicist
• Paul Wolfowitz, native, academic, Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001-2005), World Bank President (2005-)