Scarsdale, New York

Scarsdale is both a town and village located in Westchester County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, it had a total population of 17,823.

Notable People

People associated with Scarsdale include:

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

• Eric Alterman, columnist
• Aaron Brown, host of NewsNight with Aaron Brown on the television network CNN
• Billy Collins, poet laureate of the United States, raised in Edgemont.
• Linda Eastman, photographer. Later became the wife of Beatle Paul McCartney (Eastman was an SHS graduate)
• Eve Ensler, dramatist. Raised in Scarsdale, attended SHS.
• Paul Heyman, television writer, wrestling promoter (Edgemont High School Graduate)
• Jeffrey A. Hoffman Ph.D., astronaut. Born in Brooklyn but "considers Scarsdale to be his hometown", see bio at NASA website. (SHS graduate)
• Gish Jen (pseudonym of Lillian Jen), novelist. Born in Scarsdale, 1956. A thinly disguised version of Scarsdale is a subject of some of her works.
• Greg Hum Co-Founder of Quickerclickers Advertising Agency.
• Harold Krents (1944-1987), lawyer, whose life story inspired the drama Butterflies Are Free. Author of To Race the Wind. (SHS graduate)
• Liza Minnelli, singer and actress, lived in Scarsdale with her mother, Judy Garland and attended Scarsdale High School. She also toured Europe and Israel in an SHS production of The Diary of Anne Frank.
• Yoko Ono, singer. Her family moved to Scarsdale in the early 1950's; she later joined them from Japan.
• Benjamin Siegel, gangster and Las Vegas resort builder. He owned a house in Scarsdale from 1929 on; he was increasingly absent in later years but his family continued to live there.
• Aaron Sorkin, writer and creator of the TV series Sports Night and The West Wing. Raised in Scarsdale.
• David Stern, Current Commissioner of the National Basketball Association. His sons attended Scarsdale High School
• Ivan Sutherland, computer graphics pioneer. (SHS graduate)
• Daniel Tompkins, 7th Vice President of the United States. Vice President Tompkins was born in Scarsdale.
• Nina Totenberg, NPR legal correspondent. (SHS graduate)
• Yoshi Tsurumi, professor of International Business at Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business