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List of people from Utica, New York

• Amariah Brigham – psychiatrist
• Alexander Bryan Johnson – prominent Utica banker; self-taught philosopher and political writer; married to the granddaughter of president John Adams
• Francis Marion Burdick – legal scholar; a mayor of Utica (1882-1883), (born at De Ruyter, New York)
• John T. Clark – civil engineer and politician
• Jane Elizabeth Dexter Conklin – poet, journalist, and religious writer
• Roscoe Conkling – U.S. Senator and Republican Stalwart political leader; a mayor of Utica; is buried there^[1][2]
• Marianne Cope – religious sister and Roman Catholic saint
• Arthur Bowen Davies – artist, born in Utica
• Harold Frederic – author and journalist, born and raised in Utica; buried in Utica's Forest Hill Cemetery
• Grace May North – author, born in Utica
• Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún (1777–1856) – Irish-American homesteader and composer of American poetry in the Irish language; arived in Utica in 1826; buried there
• Horatio Seymour – New York State Governor and Democratic presidential candidate; native of Utica; buried there^[3][4]
• Carrie Babcock Sherman – James Schoolcraft Sherman's wife, born in Utica
• James Schoolcraft Sherman – U.S. vice president; born in Utica; buried there^[5][6]
• Gerrit Smith – social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist; born in Utica
• Benjamin Walker – Revolutionary War soldier; lived the last 20 years of his life in Utica^[7]
• Chandler J. Wells – former mayor of Buffalo, New York, born in Utica

Twentieth and twenty-first century[edit]

Arts and entertainment[edit]

• Kim Bass – screenwriter, producer, and director
• Mark Bodé – artist; born in Utica; son of Vaughn Bodē
• Vaughn Bodē – artist, born in Utica^[8] and graduated from Proctor High School;^[9]
• Joe Bonamassa – blues musician^[10]
• Steven Brill – film producer, director and screenwriter^[11]
• Neave Brown – London-based architect and artist
• Dick Clark – lived briefly in Utica and began his television career there, hosting a country music show on WKTV^[12]
• Daryl Cobb – children's book author and national children's educational presenter,^[13] born in Utica^[14]
• Fran Cosmo – musician of the band Boston^[15]
• Tommy DeCarlo – musician of the band Boston^[16]
• Debbie Friedman – singer-songwriter of Jewish religious-themed songs, born in Utica^[17]
• Annette Funicello – actress and singer; born in Utica;^[18] poked mild fun at the city in her^[19] song "The Promised Land".^[20] Funicello also makes reference to Utica in the 1960 Sherman Brothers-authored song "Hawaiian Love Talk", singing: "I think that you're much cuter than the day we met in Utica".
• Lincoln Holroyd – performer, bandleader and music educator in Utica from 1905 until his death in 1961
• Angela Johnson – singer; born and raised in Utica^[21]
• moe. – jam rock band^[22]
• Ron O'Neal – actor, born in Utica
• Tiffany Pollard – actress and television personality, known for Flavor of Love and I Love New York

Sports[edit]

• George Burns – former Major League Baseball outfielder for the New York Giants, born in Utica
• Dave Cash – Major League Baseball infielder and three-time All-Star, was born in Utica
• Robert Esche – National Hockey League goalie and sports executive affiliated with the Utica Comets
• Chris Garrett – running back in Canadian Football League grew up in Utica
• Jim Jackson – play by play broadcaster for the Philadelphia Flyers
• Mark Lemke – former Major League Baseball player was born in Utica
• Art Mills – Major League Baseball pitcher and coach of the 1945 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, born in Utica
• Len Rossi – pro wrestler
• Will Smith – NFL defensive end and New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame member graduated from Thomas R. Proctor High School in Utica
• Andy Van Slyke – former Major League Baseball outfielder, born in Utica

Business[edit]

• Harry H. Bassett (1874–1926) – auto maker, president of Buick (1920–1926), born in Utica
• Kenny Friedkin (1915-1962) – founder of Pacific Southwest Airlines, born in Utica
• Steve Wynn – real estate developer, hotel and casino mogul^[23]

Politicians[edit]

• Mike Arcuri – former U.S. Congressman
• Sherwood Boehlert – former U.S. Congressman
• Anthony Brindisi – former U.S. Congressman
• Fred J. Douglas – former U.S. Congressman
• Rufus Elefante – Democratic political boss
• Charles A. Talcott – former U.S. Congressman

Other[edit]

• Daniel Barwick – author, fundraiser, journalist, podcaster, higher education administrator, and teacher
• Elizabeth E. Farrell (1870–1932) – educator
• Asa Jennings – Utica YMCA worker who organized the evacuation of refugees from the Great Fire of Smyrna
• Michael Kernan – former Washington Post journalist
• Paul Krugman – economist, professor at City University of New York, columnist for the New York Times
• Cherilla Storrs Lowrey (1861–1918) – clubwoman in Hawaii, born in Utica
• John D. MacDonald – best-selling crime novelist, grew up in Utica
• Dan Senor – columnist, writer, and political advisor to Mitt Romney
• John Zogby – political pollster

Fictional characters[edit]

• Gary Chalmers – Superintendent of Springfield School District on the television cartoon series The Simpsons
• Karen Filippelli – Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin Utica Branch on the television comedy The Office
• Uncle Leo – Alice Kramden's uncle in The Honeymooners

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