Talk:List of Long Islanders

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 * Please limit new additions to those persons who have a wiki article written about them. If you would really like to add a person to this list who does not have a wiki, then add the name and also start a referenced article about him/her.  Persons added to this list without appropriate references as to who they are and why they are important can be deleted according to wikipedia's policy of providing reasonable references.

Repliedthemockturtle (talk) 00:44, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Lou Reed was born in Brooklyn. His family moved to Nassau county when he was 12.


 * Not according to Lou Reed nor http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/reed_l.html nor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715563/

To DO: --JimWae 20:47, 2005 Apr 17 (UTC) http://www.nyslittree.org/users/data/nys-authors.htm

NASSAU COUNTY

LOUIS STANTON AUCHINCLOSS WILLIAM ROSE BENET WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) Born in Massachusetts. Cedermere House, where he lived from 1843 until his death in 1878, is located on Bryant Ave. in Roslyn Harbor. (Open weekends May through early November. Admission is free.) He is buried in Roslyn Cemetery. FRANCES ELIZA HODGSON BURNETT (1849-1924) Born in England. She came to NY, wrote The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), and others. The dramatization of novels without compensation to their original author had been a problem for English writers. With Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances was the first author to win such control, which created the legal precedence. She lived in Plandom Manor, NY. She is buried in Roslyn Cemetery. GEORGE M. COHAN FREDERIC DANNAY WILL DURANT F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ZELDA FITZGERALD PARKE GODWIN OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN JUPITER HAMMON (1711-1806?) The first black writer to be published in America. A slave of the Lloyd family of Oyster Bay, he wrote poems such as An Evening of Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries(1760), An Essay on the Ten Virgins(1779), An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York(1787). His work was loaded with biblical allusions to slavery, and is considered some of the first anti-slavery poetry written by an American slave. JUPITER HAMMOND' residence, Lloyd Manor, is currently a historic house museum, which gives tours from June until September. CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND RING LARDNER SINCLAIR LEWIS GABRIELA MISTRAL (LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA) (1889-1957) Born in Chile. She was the only Latin American woman to have won a Nobel Prize. She studied at the Pedagogical College in Santiago, became a secondary school teacher, taught in the Liceode los Andes (1912-1918), and rose to important posts in the Chilean educational system. She helped to reorganize the rural schools of Mexico (1922-24) and was visiting professor at Barnard, Vassar, and Middlebury colleges in the United States in 1931-32. She also served on the Committee of Arts and Letters of the League of Nations (1926-1939) and as Chilean consul in Madrid, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, Nice, and Los Angeles. Her literary life is just as remarkable; she won first prize at the Juegos Florales of Santiago in 1914, her poems were collected and published in such books as La voz de Elqui (1908); Sonetos de la muerte(1914); Desolacion (1922), which was published in New York; Ternura (1925);Nubes blancas (1930); La oraciÓn de la muestra (1930); and Tala (1938). She received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1945. She lived in Roslyn Harbor, and died in Hempstead. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1890-1957) Writer, head of the Book of the Month Club. He wrote 18 fiction titles, including Parnassus on Wheels and 16 poetry titles. '''His writing studio is preserved in the Christopher Morley County Park, in Roslyn, NY. He is buried in Roslyn Cemetery.''' ELLERY QUEEN WILLIAM SAROYAN (1908-1981) Novelist. Born in Fresno, California. Lived in Mill Neck for six months. Wrote The Time of Your Life (1939; Pulitzer Prize), The Human Comedy (1942), and My Name is Aram (1940). EDWARD EVERETT TANNER III JOHN HALL WHEELOCK

SUFFOLK COUNTY

NELSON ALGREN W.H. AUDEN PHILIP BARRY AMBROSE BIERCE JAMES FENIMORE COOPER FINLEY PETER DUNNE ANTOINE DE ST. EXUPERY JAMES JONES JACK KEROUAC RING LARDNER A.J. LIEBLING FRANK O'HARA JOHN O'HARA EUGENE O'NEILL JOHN HOWARD PAYNE (1791-1852) Actor, playwright who wrote over 65 plays. Born in New York. At 14, while working in a New York counting house, he spent his spare hours editing and published the Thespian Mirror, a journal of events and gossip in the theatrical world of the time. Payne's first play Julia; or, the Wanderer, was presented at the Park Theatre, New York on Feb. 7, 1806. Payne went to Britain to pursue an acting career, but did not succeed. He had to write to support himself. In 1820, he leased the Sadlers Wells Theatre, plunging himself into debt and going to debtors prison. He adapted plays to raise money for his own freedom, and went to Paris. Payne is best remembered for the song Home, Sweet Home, from his 1823 opera Clari; or, the Maid of Milan. Payne also tried collaboration with WASHINGTON IRVING, but none of these were outstanding works of literature. Although Payne was warmly welcomed upon his return to the U.S., his finances didn't improve. Some of Payne's friends, including Daniel Webster, arranged for Payne's appointment in 1842 as American consul at Tunis. He remained at this post until 1845 when the administration in Washington changed and was reappointed in 1851. He died there a year later, and his body was taken back to Washington in 1883. Home Sweet Home, the house where Payne spent his childhood, is on The National Register of Historic Places, and it is located at 14 James Lane, East Hampton. Open different times, different months. 516-324-0713. Inside is a chest made in 1640 which is documented to be the oldest piece of furniture made in the colonies, also, a large collection of china and other artifacts. PERCIVAL POLLARD ARTHUR BENJAMIN REEVE ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH SEBA SMITH (MAJOR JACK DOWNING) JEAN STAFFORD JOHN STEINBECK GEORGE STERLING BOOKER T. WASHINGTON JOHN HALL WHEELOCK THEODORE H. WHITE WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) Born in West Hills. West Hills, Huntington Station is the site of Whitman's birth. Built in 1819 by Whitman's father. It is preserved and open to public with many artifacts and original manuscripts. 516.427.5240 (see also BROOKLYN, MANHATTAN) P.G. WODEHOUSE HERMAN WOUK

Request for Comment
A page similar to this one. List of people from San Francisco, is currently under review as an article for deletion, for reasons which would apply to this article as well. I am conducting an RfC on the talk page of the above-mentioned list to determine whether the concensus agrees on keeping such lists or not. Any and all comments are more than welcome. Badbilltucker 16:17, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Why should this page be limited to Nassau and Suffolk counties
Why should this page be limited to Nassau and Suffolk counties? Is there some reason that it would be bad for someone to show up on both List of people from New York City and this list? Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 14:38, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

The parent page Long Island is about all four counties not just the two western counties, and I don't see a reason for this page to differ. It's been six days and there have been no objections so I'll remove the note that that this page is limited to the two western counties. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 19:59, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

I know I'm obviously very late in saying this, but does anyone actually consider people from Brooklyn or Queens to be "Long Islanders"? Typically, the term means that you are from either Nassau or Suffolk counties, since there is such a clear cultural and historical difference between the city and the suburban areas. The Long Island page even says: "In popular usage, "Long Island" often refers only to Nassau and Suffolk counties in order to differentiate them from New York City, although all four counties are situated on the island and are part of the New York metropolitan area." ABarnes94 (talk) 17:20, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


 * But it just is not true to say "Raised on Long Island (but not born on Long Island)" when two of the three included were born in NYC part of the island. Maybe they were not "Long Isladers" by birth, but Derrick Adkins and Moira Kelly were born and raised on Long Island. 82.141.73.182 (talk) 23:04, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Table & list?
I'm not sure why this page has both a table format and a list format for similar information? Can these be merged into one kind of display of information? Liz Read! Talk!
 * I agree. I had the same question. I would suggest unformatting that table and inserting those into the more simple format below. But you are correct that there cannot be two different formats. Keystone18 (talk) 14:18, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Request
Hololive VTuber Gawr Gura is from Long Island, is it okay if she is featured here? 2603:6080:7F08:9F00:6478:3849:66E5:6B9 (talk) 23:39, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Sugar and Spice (drag queens)
Possible addition: Sugar and Spice (drag queens) --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 23:14, 10 February 2023 (UTC)