Famous People from New Rochelle, New York

• Denver, Bob

  Gilligan on TV's Gilligan's Island

• Dillon, Matt

  Star of Rumble Fish and Wild Things

• Leno, Jay

  The host of TV's The Tonight Show, 1992-2009 and 2010-2014

• McLean, Don

  The guy who did "American Pie" and "Starry, Starry Night"

• Menken, Alan

  The composer behind The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast

• Rice, Ray

  The NFL running back who was suspended in 2014 after hitting his wife

• Roundtree, Richard

  The star of the 1971 movie Shaft

• Sherwood, Robert E.

   The playwright who wrote the movie The Best Years of Our Lives

See also: Born in New York