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 William Acquavella (born 1937/38) – art dealer George B. Agnew (1868–1941) – politician Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – Saudi royal Herbert Allen Jr. (born 1940) – businessman Woody Allen (born 1935) – film director, writer, and actorDay, Sherri. "Disappointment for Woody Allen, But Not at Box Office". The New York Times, March 26, 2004. Accessed August 18, 2019. "The state's highest court yesterday dismissed an effort to halt construction of a 10-story building on the Upper East Side, ending a six-year battle that pitted Woody Allen and a group of fellow Upper East Siders against the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission." Rand Araskog (1931–2021) – businessman Elizabeth Arden (1878–1966) – businesswoman"Elizabeth Arden Is Dead at 81; Made Beauty a Global Business; Elizabeth Arden Dies Here At 81", The New York Times, October 19, 1966. Accessed August 18, 2019. "Mrs. Elizabeth N. Graham, (Elizabeth Arden), who built a multimillion-dollar business in beauty salons, cosmetics and clothes and who was one of the country's leading race-horse, owners, died of a heart attack yesterday morning at Lenox Hill Hospital. She was stricken Monday evening at her 10-room apartment at 834 Fifth Avenue and admitted to the hospital at 7 P.M. by her physician, Dr. George W. Slaughter." Brooke Astor (1902–2007) – philanthropist and widow of Vincent AstorZimmer, Amy. "$100M Brooke Astor Estate Settlement Reached" , DNAinfo.com, March 28, 2012. Accessed September 3, 2017. "The five-year fight over the estate of Upper East Side doyenne Brooke Astor has been settled, paving the way for $100 million to start flowing to charities, the New York Attorney General's office announced Wednesday." Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1830–1908) – 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

B Jules Bache – banker Louis Bacon – hedge fund manager 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 CityMarino, Vivian. "A $14 Million Co-op for Michael R. Bloomberg", The New York Times, April 15, 2016. Accessed September 3, 2017. "Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, apparently looking to someday create a double-wide mansion for himself on the Upper East Side, paid $14,000,000 for a triplex at the co-op townhouse next to his Beaux-Arts limestone house." 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 – novelistTyrnauer, Matt "Vidal's Ravello Redoubt", Vanity Fair, August 3, 2012, accessed March 23, 2018Begley, Sarah "The Legendary Friendship of Harper Lee and Truman Capote", Time, February 19, 2016, accessed March 23, 2018. 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 – artistConway, Megan (January 23, 2014) "Artist George Condo's Instrument Collection", The Wall Street Journal Sean Connery – actor Mark Consuelos – actor Barbara Corcoran – businesswoman, investor, speaker, consultant, syndicated columnist, author, and television personality Ann Coulter – author, political commentator, columnist Katie Couric – journalist Simon Cowell – television judge and producer Gardner Cowles Jr. – publisher 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 Michel David-Weill – banker 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 Bob Diamond – former group chief executive of Barclays plc Joan Didion – authorJacobs, Alexandra. "Joan Didion on the Céline Ad", The New York Times, January 7, 2015. Accessed September 3, 2017. "'I don't have any clue,' said the 80-year-old author of well-thumbed classics such as The White Album, Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The Year of Magical Thinking, reached by telephone on Wednesday at her Upper East Side residence (where the photo, by Juergen Teller, was taken)." C. Douglas Dillon – diplomat and politician Jamie Dimon – bankerDe La Merced, Michael J. "Protesters Take Aim at Dimon, but Miss His Office", The New York Times, October 12, 2011. Accessed September 3, 2017. "The nearly month-old Occupy Wall Street protest has apparently settled on a favorite target for their ire, Jamie Dimon. On Tuesday, protestors marched to his apartment building in Manhattan's Upper East Side, bearing a giant fake check critiquing the low taxes of America's wealthiest individuals." 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 Stephen Feinberg – investorhehrhfran Michael Feinstein – singer Barbara Feldon – actress Edna Ferber – writer Marshall Field – entrepreneur Karen Finerman – hedge fund manager and television personality Jay S. Fishman – insurance executive J. Christopher Flowers – investor 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

G Lady Gaga – singer Gerald Garson – former NY Supreme Court justice convicted of accepting bribes Ina Garten – author Bruce Gelb – businessman and diplomat Sarah Michelle Gellar – actress James W. Gerard – lawyer and diplomat Ricky Gervais – comedian, actor Gordon Getty – businessman, investor, philanthropist and classical music composer Pia Getty – filmmaker 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 Meyer Guggenheim – patriarch of the Guggenheim family Simon Guggenheim – politician Randolph Guggenheimer – lawyer Daphne Guinness – heiress, socialite, fashion designer, art collector, model, musician, film producer and actor Thomas Guinzburg – publisher John Gutfreund – investment banker

H Katie Halper – podcaster and left-wing political commentator 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 collectorBlair, William G. "David M. Heyman, Financier And A Health Services Leader", The New York Times, January 8, 1984. Accessed August 18, 2019. "David M. Heyman, financier, philanthropist and advocate of better municipal health services, died yesterday at his home on East 76th Street." 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 – artistBrody, Richard. "Spike Lee's Vampiric Remake", New Yorker, February 13, 2015. Accessed March 23, 2018. Jed Johnson – Interior designer and filmmaker Boris Johnson – prime minister of the United Kingdom Woody Johnson – businessman, philanthropist, and diplomat Star Jones – lawyer, television personality

K Otto Hermann Kahn – investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts