List of people from Harlem

• John James Audubon – naturalist[http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/2011/01/remember-harlem-by-jonathan-gill.html REMEMBER: Harlem by Jonathan Gill post] Harlem+Bespoke, January 24, 2011.
• Richard Croker – Tammany Hall politician,Malcolm, Bruce Perry, Station Hill, 1991, p. 154. lived at 26 Mount Morris Park WestJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 127.
• James Reese Europe – musician, credited with inventing jazz; 67 West 133rd StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 220.
• Thomas Gilroy – New York mayor
• Alexander Hamilton – politician; lived in Harlem at the end of his life
• Hubert Harrison – "The Father of Harlem Radicalism"
• Scott Joplin – pianist and composer; lived at 133 West 138th Street in 1916, then at 163 West 131st Street until his death in 1917; had a studio at 160 West 133rd Street"Tracing Scott Joplin's Life Through His Addresses", New York Times, Real Estate, February 4, 2007, p. 2.
• Alfred Henry Lewis – cowboy authorJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 128.
• Vincent James McMahon – founder of the World Wide Wrestling Federation
• Paul Meltsner – WPA era painter and muralist; grew up in Harlem
• Thomas Nast – artist
• Philip A. Payton Jr. – real estate entrepreneur; lived at 13 West 131st Street{{cite web|url=http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-man-who-became-the-father-of-harlem/|title=Ephemeral New York|date=February 9, 2011|access-date=October 24, 2014}}
• Norman Rockwell – lived as a child at 789 St. Nicholas Avenue
• Norman Thomas – radical activistJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 158.
• Daniel Tiemann – New York mayorJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 87.
• Robert Van Wyck – New York mayor
• Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence – New York mayor

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• Sholem Aleichem – writer, 110 Lenox AvenueJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 146.
• Moe Berg (1902–1972) – Major League Baseball catcher; spy
• Milton Berle – comedian and actor, born in a five-story walkup at 68 West 118th StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 165.
• Fanny Brice – actress, houses at West 128th Street and West 118th StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 163.
• Art Buchwald – writer
• Bennett Cerf – publisher,Jonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 137. was born on May 25, 1898, at 68 West 118th Street,Bennett Cerf, At Random, p. 2. the same address as Milton Berle's
• Morris Raphael Cohen – philosopher, 498 West 135th StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 151.
• Milt Gabler – record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry of the 20th century{{cite web|url=http://rockhall.com/inductees/milt-gabler/bio/|title=Milt Gabler Biography|access-date=October 24, 2014}}
• George and Ira Gershwin - composers, grew up in Harlem; lived at 108 West 111th and other addresses.Jonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 164. George wrote his first hit song, "Swanee", at his home at 520 W. 144 Street in 1919.{{cite web|url=http://www.harlemonestop.com/organization.php?id=115|title=Harlem One-Stop|access-date=October 24, 2014}} The pair were living at 501 Cathedral Parkway in 1924, and it was in this apartment that George wrote "Rhapsody in Blue."plaque outside 501 Cathedral Parkway.
• Oscar Hammerstein I – inventor and theatrical entrepreneur; lived at 333 Edgecombe Avenue
• Oscar Hammerstein II – writer and theatrical producer, addresses on East 116th Street and 112th StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 138.
• Lorenz Hart – lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart, 59 West 119th StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 136.
• Harry Houdini – magician; lived at 278 West 113th Street from 1904 until his death in 1926"The Top of the Park", New York Magazine, February 5, 2007, p. 44.
• Frank Hussey – Olympian, 129th StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 149.
• Burt Lancaster – Oscar-winning actor and producer
• Seymour Martin Lipset – political sociologist, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason UniversityDouglas Martin, [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/obituaries/04lipset.html?pagewanted=print "Seymour Martin Lipset, Sociologist, Dies at 84"], New York Times, January 4, 2007.
• Ignazio Lupo – counterfeiter, gangster
• Marx Brothers – comedians, 239 East 114th Street
• Arthur Miller – playwright, 45 West 110th StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 166.Arthur Miller Files, at University of Michigan.
• Giuseppe Morello – gangster, 323 East 107th StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 152.
• Belle Moskowitz – political advisor to New York Governor and 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=19880228&id=mPYaAAAAIBAJ&pg=6392,4554214|title=Daily News|access-date=October 24, 2014}}
• Al Pacino – Academy Award-winning actor
• Charlie Pilkington – three-time New York champion boxer; East 102nd Street
• Ed Sullivan – Broadway & Sports columnist, host of the long-running televised Sunday evening variety show; East 114th Street
• David Rappaport – fashion manufacturer, designer and painter{{cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2013/03/18/son-wants-to-throw-fashion-designer-frances-rappaport-out-of-central-park-south-apartment/|title=Son wants to throw fashion designer Frances Rappaport out of Central Park South apartment|date=March 18, 2013|work=New York Post|access-date=October 24, 2014}}
• Richard Rodgers – composer, 3 West 120th Street
• Yossele Rosenblatt – celebrated cantorJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 148.
• Henry Roth – writer, 108 East 119th Street
• Jessie Sampter – poet
• John Sanford, born Julian Lawrence Shapiro – screenwriter and author who wrote 24 books{{Cite web|url=http://psych.fullerton.edu/jmearns/bio.htm|title = A Brief Biography of John Sanford}}
• Arthur Sulzberger – publisher of the New York Times
• Henrietta Szold – founder of Hadassah
• Vincent and Ciro Terranova – gangsters, 352 East 116th StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 153.

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• Louis Armstrong – bandleader and trumpet playerLangston Hughes, "My Early Days in Harlem", in John Henrik Clarke (ed.), Harlem U.S.A., 1971 edition, p. 58.
• Count Basie – bandleader and pianist; lived at 555 Edgecombe AvenueManhattan African-American History and Culture Guide, Museum of the City of New York
• George Wilson Becton – religious cult leader"Four Men of Harlem – The Movers and the Shakers", in Harlem, U.S.A., John Henrik Clarke, 1971 edition, p. 251.
• Julius Bledsoe – singer; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue[http://www.westharlemcpo.org/history/history_2.shtml Hamilton Heights – West Harlem Community Preservation Organization] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221230949/http://www.westharlemcpo.org/history/history_2.shtml |date=December 21, 2008 }}
• Arna Bontemps – writer
• William Stanley Braithwaite – poet and essayist; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue
• Eunice Carter – New York state judge; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue
• John Henrik Clarke – editor of Freedomways Magazine and of several books; professor; moved to Harlem in 1933John Henrik Clarke, Harlem U.S.A, introductory essay to 1993 edition, A&B Book Publishers.
• Lady Bird Cleveland (1926-2015) – artist{{Cite web |last=Editors |first=Blackartstory org |date=2020-10-14 |title=Profile: Lady Bird Strickland (1926-2015) |url=https://blackartstory.org/2020/10/14/profile-lady-bird-strickland-1926-2015/ |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=Black Art Story |language=en}}
• Collyer brothers – compulsive hoarders; lived in a townhouse at 128th Street and Fifth Avenue in Harlem their entire adult lives
• Countee Cullen – poet
• Lillian Harris Dean – entrepreneur known as "Pigfoot Mary"
• Aaron Douglas – painter; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue
• W. E. B. Du Bois – activist, writer; lived at 409 Edgecombe
• Duke Ellington – composer, pianist and bandleader; lived on Riverside Drive and at 555 EdgecombeFrank Hercules, "To Live In Harlem", National Geographic, February 1977, p. 178+.
• Father Divine – religious leader, lived in several locations in Harlem, including on Astor Row, and maintained offices at 20 West 115th Street"Four Men of Harlem – The Movers and the Shakers", in Harlem, U.S.A., John Henrik Clarke, 1971 edition, p. 256.
• Rudolph Fisher – writer
• Marcus Garvey – political figure, Pan-Africanist; home at 235 West 131st StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 248.
• Billy Higgins (1888–1937), stage comedian, songwriter, and singer
• Charles Manuel "Sweet Daddy" Grace – evangelist, born in Cape Verde Islands but became prominent in Harlem in the 1920s
• Lionel Hampton – jazz musician; lived in Harlem through World War II and for some years thereafter
• Hubert Harrison – "the father of Harlem Radicalism"
• Leonard Harper – Harlem Renaissance producer, stager, and choreographer
• Coleman Hawkins – musician, saxophone player; lived at 555 Edgecombe AvenueJim Dwyer, "Making a Home, and a Haven for Books", New York Times, August 11, 2007.
• Billie Holiday – singer; lived with her mother at 108 West 139th StreetTessa Souter, "The New Heyday of Harlem", The Independent on Sunday, June 8, 1997.
• Casper Holstein – gangster
• Lena Horne – singer and actress; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
• Langston Hughes – writer"Star Map", New York Magazine, August 14, 2006, p. 35.
• Zora Neale Hurston – writer
• Percy C. Ifill – architect{{Cite book |last=Wilson |first=Dreck Spurlock |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t8iTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT434 |title=African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 |date=2004-03-01 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-95628-8 |pages=434–440 |language=en |chapter=Percy Costa Ifill (1913–1973)}}
• Bumpy Johnson – gangster; lived in Lenox Terrace at 132nd Street and Lenox Avenue near the end of his life"Chairman of the Money", New York Magazine, January 15, 2007, p. 20.
• James P. Johnson – pianist
• James Weldon Johnson – author, activist, composer; lived at 187 West 135th Street
• Donald Jones – actor and dancer born in Harlem but moved to the Netherlands
• Fiorello La Guardia – New York mayor, from East Harlem
• Alain Locke – editor
• Joe Louis – boxer; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
• Claude McKay – poet and novelist; born in Jamaica but moved to Harlem and wrote the famous novel Home to Harlem, West 131st StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 223.
• Florence Mills – entertainer
• Adam Clayton Powell Sr. – religious, civic leader
• A. Philip Randolph – activist, labor organizer
• Paul Robeson – singer and actor; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
• Bill "Bojangles" Robinson – dancer; lived on Strivers' Row
• James Herman Robinson – pastor of the Church of the Master on 122nd Street, founder of Operation Crossroads Africa, a forerunner of the Peace Corps
• Stephanie St. Clair – criminal leader; lived at 409 Edgecombe AvenueKatherine Butler Jones, "409 Edgecombe, Baseball, and Madame St. Clair", in The Harlem Reader, 2003.
• Willie "The Lion" Smith – pianist
• Wallace Thurman – writer
• Jean Toomer – writer
• James Van Der Zee – photographer
• Madam C.J. Walker – philanthropist and tycoon
• A'Lelia Walker – socialite and businesswoman
• Fats Waller – pianist, born at 107 West 134th StreetJonathan Gill, Harlem, p. 233.
• Ethel Waters – singer, actress; born in Chester, Pennsylvania
• Margot Webb - professional dancer
• Walter Francis White – civil rights leaderGray, Christopher. [https://www.mediafire.com/view/4906sc9d1sf3lhf "Streetscapes/409 Edgecombe Avenue: An Address That Drew the City's Black Elite"]. The New York Times. July 24, 1994. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
• Bert Williams – vaudeville performer; born in Antigua; died in 1922, near the start of the Harlem Renaissance
• Mary Lou Williams – pianist; lived at 63 Hamilton Terrace
• Lillian "Billie" Yarbo – comedienne, dancer, singer[https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=64343559 "Billy Yarbo a New 'Mugger'"]. The Pittsburgh Courier. March 10, 1928. Retrieved January 11, 2021.[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96060866/1941-01-11/ed-1/seq-6/#date1=1789&index=0&rows=20&words=LASS+PLAUDITS+WINS "Better Break for Race in Pictures Forecast in '41; Stellar Roles Promised All; Harlem Lass Wins Plaudits"]. The Phoenix Index. January 11, 1941. Retrieved January 11, 2021.

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• Miles Aiken – basketball player
• Fiona Apple – singer-songwriter and pianist, raised in Morningside Gardens{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2QKeg6Q9KAwC&q=fiona+apple+harlem&pg=PA94|title=Harlem Travel Guide|author=Johnson, Carolyn D.|year=2010|page=94|publisher=Welcome to Harlem |isbn=9781449915889}}
• James Baldwin – novelist; lived at 131st Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. (then called "Seventh Avenue")James Baldwin, "A Talk to Harlem Teachers", in John Henrik Clarke (ed.), Harlem USA, 1971, p. 173.
• Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones – dancer, poet, activist
• Patricia Bath, ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic
• Romare Bearden – artist, primarily working in collage
• Harry Belafonte – calypso musician
• Claude Brown – novelist, wrote Manchild in the Promised Land
• Ron Brown – U.S. Secretary of Commerce, grew up in the Hotel TheresaSondra Kathryn Wilson, Meet Me at the Theresa : The Story of Harlem's Most Famous Hotel, 2004.
• Kareem Campbell – pro skateboarder
• George Carlin – comedian; 121st Street between Amsterdam and Broadway[http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/09/george_carlin_s.php Village Voice online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012220834/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/09/george_carlin_s.php |date=October 12, 2011 }}, September 7, 2011.
• Jimmy Castor – R&B/funk bandleader
• Dr. Kenneth Clark – psychologist and activist; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
• Pat Cleveland – model{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Ellen E. |date=2020-08-13 |title=Pat Cleveland: the model who partied with Warhol, lived with Lagerfeld – and took on Vogue |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/aug/13/pat-cleveland-the-model-who-partied-with-warhol-lived-with-lagerfeld-and-took-on-vogue |access-date=2024-04-07 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
• Evelyn Cunningham – civil-rights-era journalist and aide to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New YorkDaniel Lovering, "Evelyn Cunningham, Civil Rights Reporter, Dies at 94," The New York Times, April 29, 2010.
• Jules Dassin – film director
• Benjamin J. Davis – New York City councilman, ultimately sent to jail for violations of the Smith Act
• Ossie Davis – actor and director; lived in Harlem in the late 1930s and mid-1940s
• Sammy Davis Jr. – entertainer, actor, member of Rat Pack, born in Harlem Hospital in 1925plaque outside the Harlem Hospital.
• Roy DeCarava – photographer, born in Harlem in 1919Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. [http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/decarava_roy.php Roy DeCarava]. Accessed August 4, 2009.
• Wanda De Jesus – actress
• David Dinkins – Mayor of New York; lived in the Riverton HousesCharles V. Bagli, [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/nyregion/in-harlem-buildings-reminders-of-a-bubble-and-a-collapse.html "In Harlem Buildings, Reminders of Easy Money and the Financial Crisis"], The New York Times, June 9, 2011.
• Ralph Ellison – novelist, wrote Invisible Man, about a man who moves from the deep south to Harlem; lived at 730 Riverside Drive in Harlemmonument outside 730 Riverside Drive.
• Erik Estrada – actor, from East Harlem
• Donald Faison – actor
• Jack Geiger – physician, co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility; lived with Canada Lee for a year at 555 Edgecombe Avenue"Kindness of Strangers", This American Life, September 12, 1997.
• Herbert Gentry – abstract expressionist painter, lived at 126th street and Amsterdam Avenue, 1940s
• Althea Gibson – professional tennis player; lived at 115 West 143rd Street
• Oscar Hammerstein II – writer and theatrical producer
• W. C. Handy – composer and bandleader; lived on Strivers' Row in Harlem towards the end of his life
• Benny Harris – musician, trumpet
• Lorenz Hart – lyricist
• Johnny Hartman – vocalist; born in Louisiana, grew up in Chicago, moved to Harlem's Sugar Hill in 1950s
• Evan Hunter, aka Ed McBain – author, grew up in East HarlemMetropolis Found: New York Is Book Country 25th Anniversary Collection, 2003.
• Roy Innis – head of the Congress of Racial Equality; lived in Harlem but ultimately moved to Brooklyn"City Hall Holds The Key. Harlem's renaissance finds lots of friends, and a few foes", Christian Science Monitor, March 12, 1987.
• June Jordan – Caribbean American poet, novelist, journalist, biographer, dramatist, teacher
• JTG – WWE wrestler
• Ben E. King – soul singer and former lead tenor of The Drifters, best known for the song, "Stand By Me"
• Canada Lee – actor; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue
• Frank Lucas – drug dealer
• Frankie Lymon – lead tenor of The Teenagers, best known for the song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"
• Malcolm X – preacher, revolutionary
• Earl Manigault – basketball player
• Thurgood Marshall – Supreme Court justice; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue
• Carl McCall – New York State senator, and Comptroller of New York State
• Jackie McLean – musician, alto saxophone* Arthur Miller – playwright, was married to Marilyn Monroe
• Hal Miller – actor (Sesame Street, Law & Order, etc.); also painter, singer, poet, lyricist, lived at 152nd Street & Macombs Place in the 1950s, born in Harlem
• Moby – musician, born in Harlem
• Joe Morton – actor, born in Harlem
• Edward Mosberg (1926-2022) - Polish-American Holocaust survivor, educator, and philanthropist
• Alice Neel – artist; lived in East Harlem
• Eleanor Holmes Norton – head of the Commission of Human Rights for New York City, now non-voting Delegate from the District of Columbia to the United States House of Representatives
• Elaine Parker – community organizer and activist, Chairperson of Harlem C.O.R.E. Director of the Manhattan Borough President's Office, Special Assistant to the City Council President City of NY{{cite web|url=http://harlemcore.com/omeka/items/browse?search=c.+Elaine+Parker&submit_search=Search|title=Harlem CORE|access-date=October 24, 2014}}
• Gordon Parks – film director and photographer
• Basil Paterson – New York state senator, New York City deputy mayor for labor relations, Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee"Harlem's Dreams Have Died in Last Decade, Leaders Say", New York Times, March 1, 1978. p. A1.
• Fannie Pennington Harlem Civil Rights Foot Soldier
• Samuel Pierce – Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; lived in the Riverton Houses
• Adam Clayton Powell Jr. – politician
• Bud Powell – musician, pianistWilliam R. Dixon, "The Music of Harlem", in John Henrik Clarke (ed.), Harlem USA, 1971, p. 136.
• Tito Puente, Sr. – musician, Spanish Harlem
• Gene Anthony Ray – dancer and actor{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712833/bio|title=IMDb bio for Gene Anthony Ray|work=IMDb|access-date=October 24, 2014}}
• Ving Rhames – actor
• Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson, NBA analyst{{cite web|last1=Raj|first1=Sunil Sunder|title=Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson details compelling journey into the world of covering the NBA

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• Sugar Ray Robinson – boxer, entrepreneur; moved to Harlem at age 12
• Sonny Rollins – musician, tenor saxophone
• Steve Rossi – comedian, former manager for Howard Stern{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0744326/bio|title=Steve Rossi IMDB page|work=IMDb|access-date=October 24, 2014}}
• Henry Roth – novelist
• J. D. Salinger – novelist; lived at 3681 Broadway until he was nine years old{{cite web|url=http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/2010/01/walk-jd-salingers-childhood-home.html|title=Harlem Bespoke|author=Ulysses|date=January 29, 2010|access-date=October 24, 2014}}
• Isabel Sanford – actress; co-star of The Jeffersons
• Hazel Scott – pianist, wife of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., first African-American woman with her own television show
• Nina Simone – singer; lived, for a time, in Duke Ellington's old house in Harlem
• Thomas Sowell – professional economist and author
• Billy Strayhorn – jazz composer, arranger
• Percy Sutton – Borough President of Manhattan: "If I were offered a million dollars, I wouldn't leave Harlem."
• Billy Taylor – jazz pianist; lived in the Riverton Houses
• Clarice Taylor – actress on the Cosby Show
• Conrad Tillard (born 1964) - politician, Baptist minister, radio host, author, and civil rights activist
• Samuel E Vázquez – abstract expressionist painterScott Shoger, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130703013008/http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/from-street-to-gallery-samuel-e-vazquez/Content?oid=2621418 "Samuel E Vázquez: From Street To Gallery"], Nuvo, July 1, 2013.[http://issuu.com/humanizemagazine/docs/humanize20/1?e=4518603/1824507 "Samuel E Vázquez: Graffiti Was Our Social Network"] Karla D. Romero, "Humanize", No. 20, Spring 2013.
• Dinah Washington – "Queen of the Blues"; born in Alabama but became famous when she lived in Harlem
• Roy Wilkins – civil rights leader; lived at 409 Edgecombe
• Billy Dee Williams – actor
• Louis T. Wright – physician, chairman of the board of the NAACP"How Bootsie Was Born", Ollie Harrison, in Harlem U.S.A., John Henrik Clarke, ed., 1971, p. 75 (note, this is a weak source, as it is a reference in a fictional story. A better source should be found).
• Morrie Yohai – rabbi, inventor of Cheez DoodlesDennis Hevesi, [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/business/03yohai.html "Morrie Yohai, 90, the Man Behind Cheez Doodles, Is Dead"], The New York Times, August 2, 2010.

• 40 Cal – rapper
• ASAP Ferg – rapper ASAP Mob
• ASAP Rocky – rapper from Harlem (member of ASAP Mob)
• Bodega Bamz - rapper, actor
• Azealia Banks – rapper, singer, lyricist
• Stuart Bascombe - singer, songwriter, producer and actor
• Leroy Burgess - Musician, singer, songwriter and producer
• Big L – rapper
• Black Ivory - R&B vocal group
• Black Rob – rapper from Spanish Harlem
• Cam'ron – rapper (owner of Diplomat Records) (Dipset)
• Cannibal Ox – rap duo
• Crash Crew – old-school rap group
• Yaya DaCosta – America's Next Top Model contestant/model
• Damon Dash – Co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records
• DJ Hollywood – VH-1 hip hop honoree; rap/hip-hop pioneer
• DJ Red Alert – DJ, hip hop pioneer
• Kool Moe Dee – old-school rapper and one-third of the Treacherous Three
• Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock – rap duo best known for their hit "It Takes Two"
• Dave East – rapper (Mass Appeal Records)
• Famous Dex – rapper{{Cite web |title=FAMOUS DEX - Before They Were Famous {{!}} Ghostarchive |url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/4hhNWa4lwkw |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=ghostarchive.org}}
• Fatman Scoop – Grammy and MTV Award winner; radio personality; reality TV star
• The Fearless Four – pioneer rap group
• Doug E. Fresh – '80s rapper, runs a waffle house in Harlem
• Spoonie Gee – pioneer rapper
• Sugarhill Ddot – child rapper
• Ebony Haith – America's Next Top Model contestant, model
• Charles Hamilton – rapper
• Ilacoin – hip hop artist, creator of the "Pause" game
• Freddie Jackson – singer
• Jim Jones – rapper (co-CEO of Diplomat Records) (Dipset)
• Joe Budden – rapper, media personality, host of The Joe Budden Podcast
• Kareem "Biggs" Burke - co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records
• Kelis – R&B singer and songwriter
• Rayne Storm – rapper, producer (Digiindie)
• Puff Daddy – rapper, businessman, founder of Bad Boy Records
• Freekey Zekey – rapper (owner, CEO of 730 Dips Records)
• Immortal Technique – rapper
• Kurtis Blow – rapper
• Lil Mama – rapper; judge of America's Best Dance Crew
• Biz Markie – rapper, disc jockey owns a Waffle House
• Mase – rapper
• Jae Millz – rapper
• P-Star – rapper, singer, actress
• Q-Tip – rapper, producer (A Tribe Called Quest)
• Russell Patterson - singer, songwriter, producer and actor
• Teddy Riley – producer, artist
• Tupac Shakur - rapper, actor,
• Carl Hancock Rux – writer, performer
• Juelz Santana – rapper (owner, CEO of Skull Gang Records)
• Bre Scullark – America's Next Top Model contestant, model
• Smoke DZA – rapper
• Dani Stevenson – singer
• Keith Sweat – singer
• Teyana Taylor – singer and rapper signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label
• Treacherous Three – old-school rap group
• T-Rex – battle rapper (member Of Dot Mob)
• Vado – rapper (We The Best Records)
• JR Writer – rapper (Dipset member)
• Sheck Wes - rapper{{cite web |url=https://www.thefader.com/2018/07/03/sheck-wes-mo-bamba-interview |title=Live Sheck Wes |last=Ezra |first=Marcus |website=The Fader |date=June 22, 2018 |access-date=September 6, 2018}}
• Dave Wooley - director, producer, author and entrepreneur

• Bob Dylan - owned a brownstone on Striver’s Row from 1980’s until year 2000. The townhouse is located at 265 West 139th Street and it sold in 2018 for $3.7M{{Cite web|last=Plitt|first=Amy|date=2017-03-01|title=Historic Harlem townhouse once owned by Bob Dylan wants $3.7M|url=https://ny.curbed.com/2017/3/1/14776546/harlem-strivers-row-bob-dylan-townhouse-for-sale|access-date=2020-11-26|website=Curbed NY|language=en}}
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – basketball player, moved into a Mount Morris brownstone at 30 West 120th Street{{cite web|url=http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/2011/08/dwell-30-west-120th-street-in-contract.html|title=Harlem Bespoke|author=Ulysses|date=August 2011|access-date=October 24, 2014}} in September 2006"Kareem's Harlem digs", New York Daily News, September 10, 2006.
• Lorraine Adams – writer and journalist
• Maya Angelou – poet and author, owned a home on 120th Street in Mount Morris Park districtLouis Tutelian, "A Revised Edition", New York Times, January 5, 2007.
• Angela Bassett – Emmy and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe-winning actress
• Keith David – actor and singer
• Charlotte d'Amboise – actress and dancer
• Jonathan Franzen – author; lived on 125th Street when he wrote his book The CorrectionsJean Cumming, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20031018.HARLEM18/TPStory/Travel "Catching up with Harlem"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915221609/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20031018.HARLEM18/TPStory/Travel |date=September 15, 2008 }}, TheGlobeAndMail.com Travel, October 18, 2003.
• Daphne Frias – activistSarah, R. (2021). Girl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth. United States: Chicago Review Press.
• Marcia Gay Harden – Oscar-winning actressJill Capuzzo, "Between Film Sets, Life on Gossamer Lake", The New York Times, September 14, 2007.
• Edward W. Hardy – Composer, musician and producer{{cite news |last1=Hardy |first1=Edward |title='He handed me the Black Violin and said, try this one – it was love at first sight' |url=https://www.thestrad.com/he-handed-me-the-black-violin-and-said-try-this-one-it-was-love-at-first-sight/8426.article |access-date=15 June 2021 |work=Blog |publisher=The Strad |date=December 5, 2018}}
• Neil Patrick Harris – actor; lives near Morningside Park when not in Los Angeles{{cite web|url=http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/2011/07/read-where-in-harlem-is-neil-patrick.html|title=Harlem Bespoke|author=Ulysses|date=July 12, 2011|access-date=October 24, 2014}}
• Rashidah Ismaili, writer
• Jeff L. Lieberman – film director{{Cite news|url=http://lgbtweekly.com/2016/11/10/my-harlem///|title= My Harlem|last= Hoff|first= Victor|date=November 10, 2016|newspaper=LGBT Weekly}}
• Terrance Mann – actor and dancer
• Cameron Mathison – actor on All My Children and contestant on Dancing with the Stars, 136 West 130th Street[http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/2009/03/meet-cameron-mathison.html Harlem Bespoke.]{{cite web|url=http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/2011/07/dwell-mathison-brownstone-off-market.html|title=Harlem Bespoke|author=Ulysses|date=July 27, 2011|access-date=October 24, 2014}}
• S. Epatha Merkerson – actress
• Harold "Hal" Miller – actor ("Gordon" on Sesame Street), lived on 152nd Street & Macombs Place, before going to live and work in China, India and throughout Europe
• Mandy Patinkin – actor
• Adam Clayton Powell IV – New York City Council member
• Richard Price – author and screenwriterJeremy Egner, "Crime and Punishers on Streets of Harlem", The New York Times, April 4, 2012, Arts & Leisure, p. 13.
• Marcus Samuelsson – chef and restaurateur; lived in duplex near Frederick Douglass BoulevardGlenn Collins, [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/dining/08rooster.html "Marcus Samuelsson Opens in Harlem"], The New York Times, September 7, 2010.
• Miz Cracker - Drag Queen
• Akhnaten Spencer-El – Olympic fencer{{cite web|url=http://www.edgate.com/copernedit/html/summergames/inactive/from_the_athlete/akhnaten_spencer-el.html|title=Edgate|access-date=October 24, 2014}}
• Stephen Spinella – Tony Award-winning actorCelia Barbour, "Stephen Spinella's Real Estate Angels", New York Times, July 1, 2007.
• Joel Steinberg – killed his adopted daughter; moved to Harlem after his 2004 release from prison"The monster now", The New York Daily News, July 10, 2006.
• Khalid Yasin – born in Harlem; raised in Brooklyn; teacher and lecturer of Islam
• Oscar Peñas – composer and jazz guitarist – born in Barcelona, Spain; moved from Clinton Hill, Brooklyn to Hamilton Height, Harlem in 2018
• Alysia Reiner - American actress and producer, best known for playing Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in the Netflix comedy drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as part of the ensemble cast
• Haile King-Rubie – artist born and active in Harlem{{Cite web |last=Misha |first=Omo |date=2016-05-13 |title=Artist Haile King-Rubie Celebrates New Art and a Birthday |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/haile_b_9906814 |access-date=2024-05-06}}

• Inez Dickens - New York City Council
• Robert Jackson – New York City council
• David Paterson – New York State Governor
• Bill Perkins – New York State Senator
• Adam Clayton Powell IV – New York State Assembly
• Charles B. Rangel – United States House of Representatives, lives in Lenox Terrace at 132nd Street and Lenox Avenue
• José M. Serrano – New York State Senate
• Keith L.T. Wright – New York State Assembly

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