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SYRACUSE

Most Famous People Born in Syracuse, United States

Notable people
497
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1946
Most distinctive
Psychologist 5.4×
Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Syracuse during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 73 notable births.

What Syracuse Is Known For

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Football is Syracuse's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (43).

Syracuse over-indexes on psychologist5.4× the global rate.

Syracuse under-produces politician — only 0.7× the global rate.

  1. Football43
  2. Politician41
  3. Actor30
  4. Baseball30
  5. Lawyer29
  6. Basket23
  7. Writer22
  8. Singer12
  1. Psychologist55.4×
  2. Baseball305.3×
  3. Novelist94.6×
  4. Basket233.7×
  5. Lawyer293.4×
  6. Screenwriter62.8×
  7. Business122.4×
  8. Artist122.4×
  1. Politician410.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Syracuse's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Showing 29 of 497 notable people

0069 LAWYER

Louis Marshall

1856 - 1929

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0119 LAWYER

Noel Francisco

Born 1969

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0154 LAWYER

Augustus C. Baldwin

1817 - 1903

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0180 LAWYER

John H. Terry

1924 - 2001

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0190 LAWYER

Michael E. Driscoll

1851 - 1929

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0194 LAWYER

B. J. Monkiewicz

1898 - 1971

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0197 LAWYER

Edward Schoeneck

1875 - 1951

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0201 LAWYER

Dan W. Reicher

Born 1956

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0224 LAWYER

David Toscano

Born 1950

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0226 LAWYER

William Schneider (politician)

Born 1959

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0251 LAWYER

Whitney Gaskell

Born 1972

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0254 LAWYER

Norman A. Mordue

Born 1942

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0255 LAWYER

Stephanie Miner

Born 1970

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0259 LAWYER

Richard Lesley Voorhees

Born 1941

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0263 LAWYER

Ellis Rubin

1925 - 2006

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0286 LAWYER

Arba Seymour Van Valkenburgh

1862 - 1944

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0309 LAWYER

John Sears (political strategist)

1940 - 2020

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0317 LAWYER

William Shankland Andrews

1858 - 1936

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0318 LAWYER

Frederick Scullin

Born 1939

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0323 LAWYER

Helen W. Gillmor

Born 1942

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0355 LAWYER

William James Wallace

1837 - 1917

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Bruce H. Andrews

Born 1968

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Lawrence Lindemer

1921 - 2020

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0414 LAWYER

Mark C. Scarsi

Born 1964

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0415 LAWYER

Roger Nober

Born 1964

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0416 LAWYER

George H. Bond

1874 - 1954

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0418 LAWYER

George O. Redington

1871 - 1958

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0464 LAWYER

Neal Peters McCurn

1926 - 2014

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0479 LAWYER

Edmund Port

1906 - 1986

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