41.2277° N, 77.8913° W
TROY
Most Famous People Born in Troy, United States
- Notable people
- 311
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- Median birth year
- 1912
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 9.3×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Troy during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1940s with 31 notable births.
What Troy Is Known For
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Politician is Troy's biggest profession — 17% of all notables (54).
Troy over-indexes on baseball — 9.3× the global rate.
Troy under-produces football — only 0.7× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Troy's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Writing
- Music
- Military
- Other
Maureen Stapleton
1925 - 2006
John Lewis (civil rights leader)
1940 - 2020
Joe Alaskey
1952 - 2016
Russell Wong
Born 1963
Martin Klebba
Born 1969
Robert Fuller (actor)
Born 1933
Jim Jordan (American politician)
Born 1964
Vance Packard
1914 - 1996
Mary Nash
1884 - 1976
Pinetop Smith
1904 - 1929
David Hunter
1802 - 1886
Johnny Evers
1881 - 1947
William C. Oates
1833 - 1910
King Kelly
1857 - 1894
Warren Davidson
Born 1970
Jean Sasson
Born 1947
Tim Hauser
1941 - 2014
Jay Hammond
1922 - 2005
Willie Davenport
1943 - 2002
Louis Thomas McFadden
1876 - 1936
William Worthington (actor)
1872 - 1941
Dick Halligan
Born 1943
Cris Carter
Born 1965
Thomas Skidmore
1932 - 2016
Jacob Collamer
1791 - 1865
Charles Crocker
1822 - 1888
John C. Heenan
1834 - 1873
Horatio Spafford
1828 - 1888
Henry Pomeroy Davison
1867 - 1922
John E. Sweeney
Born 1955
Charles Henderson (Alabama politician)
1860 - 1937
Pat Ballard
1899 - 1960
Edward V. Long
1908 - 1972
P. Schuyler Miller
1912 - 1974
Douglass Houghton
1809 - 1845
Tolbert Lanston
1844 - 1913
Nick Brignola
1936 - 2002
Guy Hebert
Born 1967
Solita Solano
1888 - 1975
Robert Wilkinson Furnas
1824 - 1905
Audrey Williams
1923 - 1975
Howard James Hubbard
Born 1938
Michael R. McNulty
Born 1947
Sam Milby
Born 1984
Mike Finnigan
Born 1945
Edwin Foster Coddington
1870 - 1950
Matt Murley
Born 1979
Greg Collins (American football)
Born 1952
Albert T. Olmstead
1880 - 1945
Manuel H. Johnson
Born 1949
William H. Wallace
1811 - 1879
Albert Herman
1887 - 1958
George Fisher Baker
1840 - 1931
Alice Fulton
Born 1952
Lucius Frederick Hubbard
1836 - 1913
Yvar Mikhashoff
1941 - 1993
Edward Murphy Jr.
1836 - 1911
S. Stillman Berry
1887 - 1984
Wilson McCoy
1902 - 1961
Ken Appledorn
Born 1980
Dave Anderson (sportswriter)
1929 - 2018
Melvin Fitting
Born 1942
Nathan A. Farwell
1812 - 1893
Henry Baldwin Ward
1897 - 1945
Michael Botticelli
Born 1958
Alfred H. Thiessen
1872 - 1956
Shaun Deeb
Born 1986
Casey Reas
Born 1972
Edward Asahel Birge
1851 - 1950
Bud Acton
Born 1942
Jay Sommers
1917 - 1985
Sean Collins (ice hockey defenceman)
Born 1983
William P. Trowbridge
1828 - 1892
William B. Franke
1894 - 1979
Charles Varnum
1849 - 1936
Malcolm Toon
1916 - 2009
Mary Donohue
Born 1947
Elliot Woolfolk Major
1864 - 1949
Haley Kopmeyer
Born 1990
Jack Van Impe
1931 - 2020
John R. Fellows
1832 - 1896
Ed Wachter
1883 - 1966
Bradley White
Born 1982
Sadie Koninsky
1879 - 1952
Michael Bisio
Born 1955
Thomas B. Kyle
1856 - 1915
Christine Kehoe
Born 1950
Hadden Clark
Born 1952
Philip Kocienski
Born 1946
Richard Selzer
1928 - 2016
Richard Henry Norton
1849 - 1918
Martin K. Gantz
1862 - 1916
Annie C. Shaw
1852 - 1887
Freeman Clarke
1809 - 1887
Joseph M. Warren
1813 - 1896
Oliver C. Wiley
1851 - 1917
Walter M. Brackett
1823 - 1919
Arnold Lewis Raphel
1943 - 1988
Peter Shelton (sculptor)
Born 1951
Chuck Collins
Born 1959
Furkan Doğan
1991 - 2010
Dean P. Taylor
1902 - 1977
Andrew Jackson Poppleton
1830 - 1896
Walter I. McCoy
1859 - 1933
Edward W. Pattison
1932 - 1990
Thomas Curley (sound engineer)
Born 1976
Fred Nall Hollis
Born 1949
Dan Pickett (musician)
1907 - 1967
Edward Sims Van Zile
1863 - 1931
Dennis Tankersley
Born 1979
Ephraim Francis Baldwin
1837 - 1916
John A. Sampson
1873 - 1946
David W. Hopkins
1897 - 1968
Randy Walker (American football coach)
1954 - 2006
George G. Rockwood
1832 - 1911
Tony Romeo
1939 - 1995
Sean Cunningham (soccer)
Born 1993
D. V. Graves
1886 - 1960
Thomas Baker (Medal of Honor)
1916 - 1944
Jackson Murphy
Born 1998
Dan Schreiber
Born 1985
E. Harold Cluett
1874 - 1954
Echo Heron
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Cathy Connolly
Born 1956
Mr. Food
1931 - 2012
Bob Ferguson (American football)
1939 - 2004
Helen Ford
1894 - 1982
Francis Terry McNamara
Born 1927
Dick Allen (poet)
1939 - 2017
Martin E. Sullivan
1944 - 2014
Robert Allen (composer)
1927 - 2000
Jesse Hill Ford
1928 - 1996
Charles Calvin Bowman
1852 - 1941
Anne Rudloe
1947 - 2012
Francis E. Brownell
1840 - 1894
Stephen Fowler Wilson
1821 - 1897
Fitzedward Hall
1825 - 1901
William J. O'Brien (Medal of Honor)
1899 - 1944
Lily Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
1854 - 1909
May Bonfils Stanton
1883 - 1962
Keith Faber
Born 1966
Pat Elzie
Born 1960
John Alden (naval architect)
1884 - 1962
John Wilkinson (Syracuse pioneer)
1798 - 1862
Lawton Williams
1922 - 2007
Jeanie Gould
1846 - 1921
Clark Leiblee
1876 - 1917
William Oscar Mulkey
1871 - 1943
Jon Berti
Born 1990
Arthur Scott Burden
1879 - 1921
Bock Baker
1878 - 1940
Bill Craver
1844 - 1901
Lawrence E. Kahn
Born 1937
Florence Nash
1888 - 1950
Thomas Pleasant Dockery
1833 - 1898
Jacqueline Hernandez (snowboarder)
Born 1992
Blair Rodman
Born 1954
Harry Gunnison Brown
1880 - 1975
Cornelius Griffin
Born 1976
Craig McMurtry
Born 1959
Pat Darcy
Born 1950
Julie McBride
Born 1982
Gordon Bell (American football)
Born 1953
Sean Rowe
Born 1975
Elias James Manning
1938 - 2019
Lewis Kimberly
1830 - 1902
James Terry Gardiner
1842 - 1912
Frank Edgar Scobey
1866 - 1931
Bayless W. Hanna
1830 - 1891
Andrea Feczko
Born 1985
Emory Folmar
1930 - 2011
George Thomas Van Bebber
1931 - 2005
Gary Evans (serial killer)
1954 - 1998
C. J. Brown (American football)
Born 1991
Henry Augustus Boardman
1808 - 1880
Ogden J. Ross
1893 - 1968
Tonya Engst
Born 1967
Beatrice Cameron
1868 - 1940
James A. Burden II
1871 - 1932
Lawrence Weed
1923 - 2017
Raymond Dean
1946 - 2015
William Lundy
1848 - 1957
Constantine George Cholakis
1930 - 1996
George Colby Chase
1844 - 1919
Barton Kyle Yount
1884 - 1949
Dave Reece
Born 1948
Todd Wilson (director)
1963 - 2005
William Keith Watkins
Born 1951
Carolyn Warmus
Born 1964
William J. Larkin Jr.
1928 - 2019
Carl Christian Rasmussen
1890 - 1992
David August
Born 1970
Reed Brockway Bontecou
1824 - 1907
Ron Smith (radio host)
1941 - 2011
Ernest Bearg
1893 - 1971
John Wright (doctor)
1811 - 1846
Larry Beightol
Born 1942
Al Todd
1902 - 1985
Max Urick
Born 1940
Peter Timmer
Born 1941
Heath Murray
Born 1973
Jim Devlin (pitcher)
1866 - 1900
Henry F. Warner
1923 - 1944
Stephen P. Friot
Born 1947
Roger Demment
Born 1950
Morris Silverman (philanthropist)
1912 - 2006
Otis Griffin
Born 1977
Walton Wesley Battershall
1840 - 1920
Lloyd Andrews Hamilton
1894 - 1918
Rudy Meoli
Born 1951
J. Richard Blankenship
Born 1949
Frazier Boutelle
1840 - 1924
William Ahearn
1858 - 1919
Joanna E. Cole
Born 1948
John A. Kimberly
1838 - 1928
James W. Fleming
1867 - 1928
Jack Doscher
1880 - 1971
Ed Schieffer
Born 1949
William H. Freeman
1844 - 1911
Tim Sherwin
Born 1958
Gwen Bingham
Born 1959
Eric Torkelson
Born 1952
I. Townsend Burden
1838 - 1913
Cinders O'Brien
1867 - 1892
Dick Buckley (baseball)
1858 - 1929
Casey DeSantis
Born 1980
Tim Vogler
Born 1956
Joe Evers
1891 - 1949
Luther Merritt Swygert
1905 - 1988
Eric Fenton
Born 1969
Jimmy Peoples
1863 - 1920
Jack Maheu
1930 - 2013
Charles R. Boutin
Born 1942
Edward Tashji
1932 - 2005
Bub McAtee
1845 - 1876
Shawn Miller (boxer)
Born 1982
Leigh Richmond
1911 - 1995
Erin Yenney
Born 1992
Arthur M. Brown
1884 - 1980
Charles H. Papas
1918 - 2007
William van Schaick
1837 - 1927
Henry Keep (American football)
1872 - 1965
Jack Rafter
1875 - 1943
Tom Vaughn (American football)
1943 - 2020
R. G. Buckingham
1816 - 1889
Dan Pickett
Born 1968
Robert Lory
Born 1936
Laramie Dean
Born 1981
John Inglis (American football)
1887 - 1918
Harold Arthur Poling
1925 - 2012
Mary Canfield Ballard
1852 - 1927
Ada Milby
Born 1983
Dan Minnehan
1865 - 1929
Richard Adams (U.S. politician)
Born 1939
Jordan Canzeri
Born 1993
Peter M. Guenette
1948 - 1968
Rip Coleman
1931 - 2004
Art Stringer
Born 1954
Hughie Hearne
1873 - 1932
Joseph A. Haskin
1818 - 1874
Mike Lawlor (baseball)
1854 - 1918
Ron Keselowski
Born 1946
Cornelius Swartwout
1839 - 1910
James Lewis (comedian)
1840 - 1896
Mimi Ryan
Born 1936
Daniel Robert Alexander
Born 1859
Dennis W. Hickey
1844 - 1908
J. Scot Chadwick
Born 1953
Tom Evers
1852 - 1925
Joe Horan
1881 - 1961
Corky Valentine
1929 - 2005
Griffith Pritchard Griffith
1840 - 1933
Lester LeFevre Cecil
1893 - 1982
John Daly (gambler)
1838 - 1906
Nicholas J. Hayes
1856 - 1928
Ken Harring
Born 1967
Sanford Parker
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Sanford Lockwood Cluett
1874 - 1968
George Henry Warren II
1856 - 1943
James N. Glover
1838 - 1921
Edward Murphy Markham
1877 - 1950
Bill Fagan
1869 - 1930
Chris Morman
Born 1977
George B. Wellington
1856 - 1921
Ryan Mahrle
Born 1985
William Fletcher Burden
1830 - 1867
William Cantwell
1804 - 1886
Jonas C. Heartt
1793 - 1874
Clinton Watson
Born 1888
William E. Powell
Born 1934
Randy Pietzman
Born 1961
Richard Alonzo Jaccard
1918 - 1942
Derwood Williams
1889 - 1973
Howie Charbonneau
Born 1955
James Thomas Foley
1910 - 1990
George Dayton (senator)
1827 - 1938
Ronnie Quillian
Born 1933
Frederick E. Draper
1873 - 1951
William Robert Wallace
1886 - 1960
Nathan Zuzga
Born 1985