Rockville Centre, New York

Rockville Centre is a village located in New York's Nassau County in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 24,568.

People with village connections

• Comedian Dave Attell was born there.
• Former NBA player and current University of Florida head basketball coach Billy Donovan was born there.
• Author Doris Kearns Goodwin grew up there and her memoir about baseball, Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir (ISBN 0684824892), is set there.
• Rocker Joan Jett lived there during the 1980s; in 2003, she used a Rockville Centre address as her home address when she ran as a Howard Dean New York delegate.http://trix.dailykos.com/story/2003/11/26/22415/009
• Relief pitcher Billy Koch was born there.
• Radio personality Howard Stern moved there when he was 15 and attended South Side High School.
• Segway Human Transporter inventor Dean Kamen attended South Side High School.
• Former Major League Baseball player Sandy Koufax lived in Rockville Centre from 1944 - 1949.
• Broadway lighting designer Don Holder (Movin' Out (musical)) graduated from South Side High School.
• RNN-TV Sportscaster, Kevin Connors, was raised in Rockville Centre and graduated from South Side High School.