List of people from the Upper East Side

The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It has a long tradition of being home to some of the world's most wealthy, powerful and influential families and individuals.

A

 * Roman Abramovich (born 1966) – businessman, investor, and politician
 * Ronnie Abrams (born 1968), US judge
 * Woody Allen (born 1935) – film director, writer, and actor
 * Herbert Allen Jr. (born 1940) – businessman
 * George B. Agnew (1868–1941) – politician
 * Rand Araskog (1931–2021) – businessman
 * Elizabeth Arden (1878–1966) – businesswoman
 * Brooke Astor (1902–2007) – philanthropist and widow of Vincent Astor
 * Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1930–2008) – socialite
 * John Jacob Astor IV (1864–1912) – businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, who was a passenger on the RMS Titanic and chose to remain on the ship when it sank
 * Vincent Astor (1891–1959) – businessman, philanthropist, and member of the prominent Astor family
 * William Acquavella (born 1937/38) – art dealer

B

 * Louis Bacon – hedge fund manager
 * Jules Bache – banker
 * Tallulah Bankhead – actress
 * Joseph Baratta investor
 * Amzi L. Barber – asphalt tycoon
 * Demas Barnes – politician and a United States Representative from New York
 * Bernard Baruch – financier
 * Robert Bass – businessman and philanthropist
 * William Bates – physician
 * Stephen Vincent Benét – poet
 * Olivier Berggruen – art historian and curator
 * Leonard Bernstein – composer, conductor
 * Edward Julius Berwind – coal mining magnate
 * Heber R. Bishop – businessman and jade collector
 * Leon Black – hedge fund manager
 * Lloyd Blankfein – banker
 * Len Blavatnik – businessman, investor, and philanthropist
 * Michael Bloomberg – billionaire philanthropist and former mayor of New York City
 * René Bouché – artist and fashion illustrator
 * John Vernou Bouvier III – socialite, Wall Street stockbroker, and father of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
 * Eli Broad – entrepreneur
 * Irving Brokaw – heir, figure skater, first American to compete in an olympic winter sport.
 * Isaac Vail Brokaw – clothing merchant
 * Charles Bronfman – businessman and philanthropist
 * Edgar Bronfman Jr. – businessman
 * Edgar Bronfman Sr. – businessman and philanthropist
 * Matthew Bronfman – businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist
 * Arthur William Brown – illustrator
 * Catherine Wolfe Bruce – philanthropist
 * Yul Brynner – actor
 * Patricia Buckley – socialite
 * William F. Buckley Jr. – author
 * Tory Burch – fashion designer
 * I. Townsend Burden – heir
 * James A. Burden Jr. – industrialist

C

 * John T. Cahill – lawyer
 * Hervey C. Calkin – U.S. Representative
 * Anthony Campagna – real estate developer
 * Truman Capote – novelist
 * Mariah Carey – singer
 * Andrew Carnegie – industrialist
 * Phoebe Cates – actress
 * Dick Cavett – comedian and former talk show host
 * Marc Chagall – artist
 * Robert Chambers – the "Preppie Killer" of Jennifer Levin
 * Walid Chammah – executive
 * James Chanos – investor
 * Gustavo Cisneros – businessman
 * Huguette Clark – heiress
 * James H. Clark – Netscape founder
 * William A. Clark – politician and entrepreneur
 * Jill Clayburgh – actress
 * Montgomery Clift – actor
 * Gifford A. Cochran – entrepreneur and sportsman
 * George M. Cohan – entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer
 * Charles Cohen – real estate developer
 * Michael Cohen – attorney for Donald Trump
 * Roy Cohn – lawyer, mentor to Donald Trump
 * George Condo – artist
 * Sean Connery – actor
 * Mark Consuelos – actor
 * Barbara Corcoran – businesswoman, investor, speaker, consultant, syndicated columnist, author, and television personality
 * Katie Couric – journalist
 * Simon Cowell – television judge and producer
 * Gardner Cowles Jr. – publisher
 * Ann Coulter – author, political commentator, columnist
 * Joan Crawford – actress
 * Aimée Crocker (1864–1941) – heiress, princess, author, world traveler
 * George Crocker – businessman

D

 * Alexandra Daddario – actress
 * Matthew Daddario – actor
 * Antonio Damasio – neuroscientist
 * Rodney Dangerfield – comedian, actor
 * William Augustus Darling – politician
 * Norman Davis – diplomat
 * Edward Coleman Delafield – Colonel and banker
 * John DeLorean – engineer, inventor and executive in the U.S. automobile industry
 * Oleg Deripaska – oligarch and philanthropist
 * Joan Didion – author
 * C. Douglas Dillon – diplomat and politician
 * Jamie Dimon – banker
 * Bob Diamond – former group chief executive of Barclays plc
 * James Dinan – hedge fund manager
 * Julio Mario Santo Domingo – diplomat
 * Plácido Domingo – tenor, conductor and arts administrator
 * Marta Domingo – opera soprano, stage director and designer
 * Shaun Donovan (born 1966) – former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Director of the Office of Management and Budget, running for Mayor of New York City
 * Glenn Dubin – hedge fund manager
 * James Buchanan Duke – businessman
 * Henry J. Duveen – art dealer
 * Charles Dyson – businessman
 * James Dyson – inventor, industrial design engineer and founder of the Dyson company

E

 * Cheryl Eisen – interior designer
 * Robert H. Ellsworth – art dealer
 * Richard Engel – journalist
 * Israel Englander – hedge fund manager
 * Jeffrey Epstein – financier and registered sex offender
 * Walker Evans – photographer, at 112 East 74th Street

F

 * Sherman Fairchild – aviation pioneer
 * Linda Fairstein (born 1947) – prosecutor and author
 * Philip Falcone – businessman
 * José Fanjul – sugar baron
 * Mia Farrow – actress
 * Barbara Feldon – actress
 * Jay S. Fishman – insurance executive
 * Marshall Field – entrepreneur
 * Stephen Feinberg – investor
 * Michael Feinstein – singer
 * Edna Ferber – writer
 * J. Christopher Flowers – investor
 * Karen Finerman – hedge fund manager and television personality
 * Jonathan Franzen – National Book Award-winning novelist
 * Paul J. Fribourg – businessman
 * Henry Clay Frick – industrialist, financier, union-buster, and art patron
 * Richard S. Fuld, Jr. – banker
 * Richard S. Fuld, Jr. – banker

G

 * Lady Gaga – singer
 * Gerald Garson – former NY Supreme Court Justice convicted of accepting bribes
 * Ina Garten – author
 * Bruce Gelb – businessman and diplomat
 * Gordon Getty – businessman, investor, philanthropist and classical music composer
 * Pia Getty – filmmaker
 * Sarah Michelle Gellar – actress
 * James W. Gerard – lawyer and diplomat
 * Ricky Gervais – comedian, actor
 * John Giorno – artist
 * Rudy Giuliani – politician, attorney, businessman, public speaker, former mayor of New York City, and attorney to President Donald Trump
 * Barbara Goldsmith – author, journalist, and philanthropist
 * Danielle Goldstein (born 1985) – American-Israeli show jumper
 * Lawrence E. Golub – entrepreneur, philanthropist, and business executive
 * Murray H. Goodman – real estate developer
 * Noam Gottesman – hedge fund manager
 * Jay Gould – railroad developer
 * Ulysses S. Grant – 18th President of the United States, Commanding General of the Army, soldier, international statesman, and author
 * Peter Grauer – Chairman Bloomberg L.P.
 * Kenneth C. Griffin – hedge fund manager
 * Bob Guccione – photographer
 * Daphne Guinness – heiress, socialite, fashion designer, art collector, model, musician, film producer and actor
 * Meyer Guggenheim – patriarch of the Guggenheim family
 * Simon Guggenheim – politician
 * Randolph Guggenheimer – lawyer
 * Thomas Guinzburg – publisher
 * John Gutfreund – investment banker

H

 * J. Hooker Hamersley – heir, lawyer and poet
 * W. Averell Harriman – governor of New York
 * Kitty Carlisle Hart – singer, advocate for the arts and historic preservation
 * Henry Osborne Havemeyer – industrialist
 * Millicent Hearst – wife of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst
 * Drue Heinz – patron of the literary arts, actress, philanthropist and socialite
 * Ariel Helwani – mixed martial arts writer
 * Ernest Hemingway – writer
 * Jim Henson – puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, and filmmaker
 * Leon Hess – founder and President of Hess Corporation and one-time owner of the New York Jets
 * David M. Heyman (1891–1984) – financier, philanthropist, art collector
 * Tommy Hilfiger – fashion designer
 * J. Tomilson Hill – investor
 * Henry Hilton – jurist and businessman
 * Dennis Hoey – actor
 * Lena Horne – singer
 * Vladimir Horowitz – pianist and composer
 * Alan Howard – hedge fund manager

I

 * Bob Iger – CEO

J

 * Michael Jackson – singer
 * Jeremy Jacobs, Sr. – owner of the Boston Bruins
 * Morton L. Janklow – literary agent
 * Jasper Johns – artist
 * Boris Johnson – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * Woody Johnson – businessman, philanthropist, and diplomat
 * Star Jones – lawyer, television personality

K

 * Harry Kargman – CEO of Kargo
 * Jill Kargman – author, writer and actress
 * Herbert Kasper – fashion designer
 * George S. Kaufman – playwright
 * Slim Keith – socialite
 * Caroline Kennedy – author, United States Ambassador (2013–2017) to Japan, and daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
 * James Powell Kernochan – businessman and clubman
 * Otto Hermann Kahn – investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts
 * Kevin Kline – actor
 * Stephen King – author
 * Sante Kimes – criminal
 * David H. Koch – businessman, philanthropist, conservative political activist
 * Frederick R. Koch – collector and philanthropist
 * Doron Kochavi – businessman, lawyer, philanthropist
 * Pannonica de Koenigswarter – jazz patron and writer
 * Jeff Koons – artist
 * Jerzy Kosiński – novelist
 * Bruce Kovner – hedge fund manager
 * Dennis Kozlowski – former CEO of Tyco International
 * Nicola Kraus – novelist
 * Peter S. Kraus – businessman, philanthropist and art collector
 * Henry Kravis – investor
 * Jared Kushner – investor, real-estate developer, newspaper publisher, senior advisor to President Donald Trump

L

 * Thomas W. Lamont – banker
 * Marc Lasry – hedge fund manager
 * Aerin Lauder – businesswoman
 * Jane Lauder – businesswoman
 * Leonard Lauder – businessman, art collector and humanitarian
 * William Lauder – businessman, and executive chairman of the Estée Lauder Companie
 * Matt Lauer – news anchor
 * Charles Lazarus – founder of Toys R Us
 * Lewis Cass Ledyard – lawyer
 * Harper Lee – author
 * Spike Lee – film director and producer
 * William B. Leeds – businessman
 * Louise Linton – actress
 * Loida Nicolas Lewis – businesswoman who is the widow of TLC Beatrice founder and CEO Reginald Lewis
 * Robert I. Lipp – businessman
 * John Langeloth Loeb Jr. – businessman, philanthropist, former United States Ambassador to Denmark, and former Delegate to the United Nations

M

 * John J. Mack – banker
 * Julie Macklowe – beauty entrepreneur and businesswoman
 * Andrew Madoff – stockbroker and investment advisor
 * Bernard Madoff – ex-hedge fund manager convicted of running a Ponzi scheme
 * Carolyn Maloney, politician, former member of United States House of Representatives and the New York City Council
 * Stewart and Cyril Marcus – gynecologists
 * Soong Mei-ling – former First Lady of the Republic of China, known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang
 * Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland – Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
 * Madonna – entertainer; purchased $40 million mansion on East 81st Street at Lexington Avenue in 2009
 * Anne Windfohr Marion – rancher, horse breeder, business executive, philanthropist, and art collector
 * Barbara Margolis – prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter of New York City
 * Howard Marks – investor
 * Paul Marks – medical doctor, researcher and administrator
 * Malachi Martin – author
 * Wednesday Martin – author
 * J. Ezra Merkin – hedge fund manager
 * Rachel Lambert Mellon – horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector
 * Charles E. Merrill – philanthropist, stockbroker, and co-founder of Merrill Lynch
 * Howard Michaels – founder of the real estate investment advisory firm the Carlton Group
 * Bette Midler – singer
 * George W. Miller – politician
 * Robert Mnuchin – banker
 * Steven Mnuchin – investment banker, film producer, hedge fund manager, and Secretary of the US Treasury
 * Mary Tyler Moore – actress, producer, and social advocate, at 927 Fifth Avenue at East 74th Street
 * Sonja Morgan
 * Robert Moses – city planner, public official, referred to as the "master builder" of New York
 * Levi P. Morton – 22nd Vice President of the United States, ambassador, and former governor of New York
 * Charles Murphy – hedge fund manager
 * James Murdoch – businessman
 * Rupert Murdoch – media mogul
 * Wendi Deng Murdoch – businesswoman, and movie producer
 * Arthur Murray – dancer

N

 * Spyros Niarchos – shipping magnate
 * Cynthia Nixon – LGBTQ actress and politician/activist
 * Peggy Noonan – speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, political commentator and author
 * Deborah Norville – television anchor and businesswoman

O

 * Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – former First Lady of the United States
 * Stanley O'Neal – banker
 * Chris Noth – actor
 * Frederick Osborn – philanthropist, military leader, and eugenicist
 * Katharina Otto-Bernstein – filmmaker

P

 * Ashraf Pahlavi – twin sister of the deposed Shah
 * William S. Paley – executive
 * Vikram Pandit – banker
 * Dorothy Parker – poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist
 * Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor – businessman
 * Joan Whitney Payson – heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family
 * Sister Parish – interior decorator and socialite
 * Antenor Patiño – tycoon
 * George Plimpton – author, humorist, NFL quarterback
 * Generoso Pope – Italian-American businessman and newspaper publisher, lived at 1040 Fifth Avenue
 * Zac Posen – fashion designer
 * John Paulson – hedge fund manager
 * Nelson Peltz – investor
 * Holly Peterson – producer, journalist and novelist
 * Peter George Peterson – investment banker and United States Secretary of Commerce
 * Milton Petrie – retail investor
 * Ronald Perelman – investor
 * Peter O. Price – media proprietor
 * Harold Prince – theatrical producer and director
 * Joseph Pulitzer – newspaper publisher

R

 * Lee Radziwill – princess, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
 * Lynn Pressman Raymond – toy and game innovator, president of the Pressman Toy Corporation
 * Stewart Rahr – pharmaceuticals magenta
 * Michael Rapaport – actor, internet personality, podcaster
 * Robert Redford – actor
 * Ira Rennert – investor and businessman
 * Kelly Ripa – talk show host
 * Joan Rivers – comedian
 * David Rockefeller – banker
 * John D. Rockefeller Jr. – financier and philanthropist
 * Laurance Rockefeller – philanthropist, businessman, financier, and major conservationist
 * Felix Rohatyn – investment banker
 * Julia Restoin Roitfeld – art director and model
 * Eleanor Roosevelt – political figure, diplomat and activist
 * Theodore Roosevelt – U.S. president, represented Upper East Side in New York State Assembly at beginning of his political career.
 * Elihu Root – former Secretary of State
 * Christopher Ross – sculptor, designer and collector
 * Steve Ross – CEO of Time Warner
 * James Rorimer – museum director
 * Aby Rosen – real estate developer
 * Alexander Rovt – real estate investor
 * Marc Rowan – investor
 * Helena Rubinstein – businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist
 * Serge Rubinstein – stock and currency manipulator and murder victim
 * Jacob Ruppert – brewer
 * Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – Saudi royal

S

 * Lily Safra – philanthropist and socialite
 * Walter J. Salmon Sr. – real estate developer
 * Nassef Sawiris – CEO
 * Jacob Schiff – banker
 * Martin Scorsese – film director and producer
 * Stephen Schwarzman – businessman
 * Arthur Hawley Scribner – president of Charles Scribner's Sons
 * Charles R. Schwab – investor, financial executive, and philanthropist
 * Ryan Seacrest – radio personality, television host, and producer
 * Terry Semel – Yahoo! CEO
 * Bishop Sheen – religious leader
 * Leonard Sillman – broadway producer
 * David Simon – CEO of Simon Malls
 * Ramona Singer – TV personality
 * Harry Slatkin – businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
 * William Douglas Sloane – businessman, sportsman, philanthropist
 * Al Smith – former governor of New York
 * George Soros – hedge fund manager
 * Andy Spade – fashion designer
 * Kate Spade – fashion designer
 * Jerry Speyer – real estate developer
 * Carl Spielvogel – ambassador to the Slovak Republic
 * Eliot Spitzer – former Governor of New York
 * Kenneth I. Starr – money manager
 * John Steinbeck – author
 * Saul Steinberg – businessman
 * Benjamin Steinbruch – CEO
 * Gloria Steinem – journalist
 * Michael Steinhardt – financier
 * George Stephanopoulos – journalist, political commentator and former Democratic advisor
 * Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes – architect
 * Willard Dickerman Straight – investment banker, publisher, reporter, Army Reserve officer, diplomat and by marriage, a member of the Whitney family
 * Jesse I. Straus – ambassador to France
 * Roger Williams Straus Jr. – entrepreneur
 * Igor Stravinsky – composer
 * Margaret Rockefeller Strong – activist
 * Robert L. Stuart – industrialist
 * Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher and businessman
 * Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. – publisher
 * Sy Syms – founder and owner of Syms Corporation discount clothing retailer and benefactor of Yeshiva University's Syms School of Business

T

 * Elie Tahari – fashion designer
 * A. Alfred Taubman – businessman, investor, and philanthropist
 * Margaretta Taylor – media heiress
 * John Thain – banker
 * Chloe Temtchine – singer-songwriter
 * Jonathan Tisch – Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels & Co.
 * Ronn Torossian – public relations executive
 * Donald Trump Jr. – businessman and former reality television personality
 * Ivana Trump – former model and businesswoman, who was the first wife of Donald Trump
 * Ivanka Trump – American businesswoman, fashion designer, author, reality television personality, daughter of Donald Trump
 * Vanessa Trump – socialite, actress and former model

U

 * James Ramsey Ullman – writer and mountaineer
 * Roberto Mangabeira Unger – philosopher and politician
 * Louis Untermeyer – author, anthologist, editor, poet

V

 * Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt – wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
 * Anne Harriman Vanderbilt – heiress
 * Gloria Vanderbilt – artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite
 * William Kissam Vanderbilt II – motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman
 * Margit Varga – artist, painter, gallerist, art director, journalist
 * Gary Vaynerchuk – entrepreneur, author, speaker and Internet personality
 * Leila and Massimo Vignelli – designers
 * Vincent Viola – businessman
 * Anthony Volpe – baseball player

W

 * Mike Wallace – journalist
 * Vera Wang – fashion designer
 * Felix M. Warburg
 * James Warburg – banker
 * Paul Warburg – banker
 * Andy Warhol – artist
 * Bruce Wasserstein (1947-2009) – investment banker
 * Franz Waxman – composer
 * Sigourney Weaver – actress
 * Susan Weber - historian
 * Michel David-Weill – banker
 * Boaz Weinstein – hedge fund manager
 * Les Wexner – businessman
 * Lawrence Grant White – architect
 * Mary Jo White – Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
 * William Collins Whitney – political leader and financier
 * Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney – sculptor, art patron, collector, and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art
 * Elie Wiesel – Holocaust survivor and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986
 * Elisha Wiesel (born 1972) – chief information officer of Goldman Sachs; hedge fund manager of the Niche Plus; son of Elie Wiesel
 * Alec N. Wildenstein – businessman, art dealer, racehorse owner, and breeder
 * Jocelyn Wildenstein – socialite
 * Robert B. Willumstad – CEO of AIG
 * P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) – author
 * Tom Wolfe – novelist, founder of New Journalism
 * Jayne Wrightsman – philanthropist

Y

 * Charles Yerkes – financier

Z

 * Pia Zadora – actress
 * Paula Zahn – journalist
 * Jeff Zucker – media executive
 * Mortimer Zuckerman – media mogul