Educators from New York City

American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)

teacher and companion of Helen Keller

German-American sex therapist

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1956)

first native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1774-1821)

American swing and bebop trumpeter (1920–2015)

American stage, film, radio, and television actress (1928–2014)

American politician (1947 – 2026)

American rock musician

American electrical engineer (1907–1985)

American jazz pianist and composer

American professional wrestler and commentator

American actor

American politician and educator (born 1976)

Polish-born American comic book artist (1926-2012)

American fencer

American conductor and violinist

American poet (1854-1940)

American mathematician

American writer

American linguist (1927-1976)

American mathematician

American labor activist, suffragist, and educator

American musician (1928–2025)

American author, activist, professor (1939–1995)

American playwright, screenwriter and novelist

American songwriter (1903-1986)

American singer

American applied mathematician

American engineer; Professor of Engineering at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

American theologian (1822–1894)

composer, conductor

American musicologist (1899–1977)

American mathematician (1943-2020)

American academic administrator

American historian (1928–2022)

American tap dancer (1911-1992)

Jewish American businesswoman and philanthropist (1936–2011)

American academic (1877-1965)

American singer, actor and director

American pornographic actress, film director and producer

American YouTuber and educator

American physicist (1928–2014)

American mathematician

Swiss historian, professor, and diplomat (1883-1958)

American musician; acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and singer, music producer and educator

American chess player and writer (1904–1977)

American musicologist

Jazz drummer (1927–2011)

Canadian choreographer (1948–2010)

American writer and journalist (born 1985)

American actor (1952-1995)

American martial artist

American academic

American artist (1873-1966)

Professor at Harvard

American jurist; president of Yale University (1801–1889)

American pianist and teacher (1904-1983)

American ballet dancer (1920–1997)