County seat of Onondaga County, founded 1786 as Webster's Landing.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Keith B. Alexander |
Military |
1952 |
|
Former Director of U.S. National Security Agency |
| Jeff Altman |
Comic |
13-Aug-1951 |
|
Pink Lady and Jeff |
| Dylan Baker |
Actor |
7-Oct-1959 |
|
Murder One |
| Catherine Bertini |
Administrator |
31-Mar-1950 |
|
World Food Programme, 1992-2002 |
| Rory Cochrane |
Actor |
28-Feb-1972 |
|
Tim Speedle on CSI: Miami |
| Michael Cole |
TV Personality |
8-Dec-1968 |
|
WWE Announcer |
| John T. Connor |
Business |
3-Nov-1914 |
6-Oct-2000 |
CEO of Allied Chemical, 1967-79 |
| Peter Dalton Constable |
Diplomat |
10-Apr-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to Zaire, 1982-84 |
| Tom Cruise |
Actor |
3-Jul-1962 |
|
Flamboyant Scientologist |
| Robert E. Dineen, Jr. |
Attorney |
1940 |
|
Former Partner, Shearman & Sterling |
| Robert F. Engle III |
Economist |
10-Nov-1942 |
|
Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity |
| Glenn W. Ferguson |
Educator |
28-Jan-1929 |
20-Dec-2007 |
University president, Ambassador to Kenya |
| Thom Filicia |
TV Personality |
17-May-1968 |
|
Interior Design Queer Eye guy |
| Bobcat Goldthwait |
Comic |
26-May-1962 |
|
Shakes the Clown |
| Duke Guider |
Business |
10-Mar-1900 |
18-Jan-1968 |
Defense attorney for Hideki Tojo |
| Theodore Hesburgh |
Educator |
25-May-1917 |
26-Feb-2015 |
President, University of Notre Dame, 1952-87 |
| Mark W. Huddleston |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, University of New Hampshire |
| Megyn Kelly |
Journalist |
18-Nov-1970 |
|
Fox News Channel anchor |
| Tom Kenny |
Comic |
13-Jul-1962 |
|
Mr. Show, SpongeBob SquarePants |
| Doris Kenyon |
Actor |
5-Sep-1897 |
1-Sep-1979 |
Counsellor at Law |
| Carolyn D. King |
Judge |
30-Jan-1938 |
|
5th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Quentin Kopp |
Politician |
11-Aug-1928 |
|
California politician and judge |
| Eric Lichtblau |
Journalist |
c. 1965 |
|
NY Times reporter |
| Tod Lindberg |
Columnist |
1960 |
|
Policy Review editor |
| Gary Lucas |
Guitarist |
c. 1952 |
|
Avant-guitarist, Magic Band alumnus |
| William Lundigan |
Actor |
12-Jun-1914 |
20-Dec-1975 |
Men Into Space |
| Dan Maffei |
Politician |
4-Jul-1968 |
|
Congressman from New York, 2009-11 |
| Terry McAuliffe |
Politician |
9-Feb-1957 |
|
Governor of Virginia |
| Louis Menand |
Critic |
21-Jan-1952 |
|
The Metaphysical Club |
| Johnny Messner |
Actor |
11-Apr-1970 |
|
Det. Jack Hale on Killer Instinct |
| James Nachtwey |
Photographer |
14-Mar-1948 |
|
War photographer |
| H. John Riley, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Cooper Industries, 1995-2005 |
| Rod Serling |
Author |
25-Dec-1924 |
28-Jun-1975 |
Creator of The Twilight Zone |
| Craig Shirley |
Government |
24-Sep-1956 |
|
Conservative PR man |
| Jimmy Van Heusen |
Composer |
26-Jan-1913 |
7-Feb-1990 |
Call Me Irresponsible |
| Jim Walsh |
Politician |
19-Jun-1947 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1989-2009 |
| John Walsh |
TV Personality |
26-Dec-1945 |
|
America's Most Wanted |
| Craig E. Weatherup |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Pepsi Bottling Group, 1999-2003 |
| Edward Noyes Westcott |
Novelist |
27-Sep-1846 |
31-Mar-1898 |
David Harum |
| Frank Whaley |
Actor |
20-Jul-1963 |
|
The Jimmy Show |
| John P. White |
Government |
27-Feb-1937 |
|
US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1995-97 |
| George C. Wortley |
Politician |
8-Dec-1926 |
21-Jan-2014 |
Congressman from New York, 1981-89 |