This is a list of people who were either born or have lived in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, at some time in their lives. Many of the early historical figures lived in that part of Westchester County which later became part of the Bronx.
Academics and science
Richard Alba (born 1942) – Distinguished CCNY Professor of ethnicity and assimilation Jill Bargonetti (born 1962) – biologist and Presidential Early Career Award winner Marshall Berman (1940–2013) – philosopher of modernity; author of All That Is Solid Melts into Air Norman Birnbaum (1926–2019) – author, educator, political advisor; University Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center; taught at Amherst College, London School of Economics, Oxford University, University of Strasbourg Ira Black (1941–2006) – neuroscientist and stem-cell researcher; first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey Xavier Briggs (born 1968) – Former professor of planning at MIT, former associate director of Office of Management and Budget, former vice-president of Ford Foundation. Sometimes known as "Xavier de Souza Briggs" Roscoe Brown (1922–2016) – Tuskegee airman, exercise physiologist, President, Bronx Community College, New York City political adviser Charles DeLisi (born 1941) – Arthur Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering, Boston University. Dean emeritus, College of Engineering Morton Deutsch (1920–2017) – conflict resolution expert W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) – sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist. Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999) – Nobel Prize biochemist and pharmacologist Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) – Nobel Prize physicist of sub-atomic particle. Todd Gitlin (born 1943) – sociologist; co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society Fred Greenstein (1930–2018) – political scientist who psychologically assessed U.S. presidents Henry Heimlich (1920–2016) – physician inventor of the Heimlich maneuver Matthew Henson (1866–1955) – Explorer, co-discoverer of the North Pole (with Robert Peary) Gary Hermalyn (born 1953) – Centennial Historian of New York City, Edgar Allan Poe scholar Irving Howe (1920–1993) – literary critic, socialist writer, author of World of Our Fathers Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) – Government Professor at Harvard University; co-editor of Foreign Policy; author of political science works related to the modernization of societies, particularly those of developing nations Barbara Jasny (born 1952) – deputy editor of Science; co-editor Catalysts, Women of Science Fiction Adrian Kantrowitz (1918–2008) – cardiac-surgery pioneer Arthur Kantrowitz (1913–2008) – nose cone physicist; co-inventor of the intra-aortic balloon pump Jeffrey Lane – urban ethnographer, Rutgers University Robert Lefkowitz (born 1943) – 2012 recipient of Nobel prize for chemistry of protein receptors Howard Lesnick (1931–2020) – Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School Norman Levitt (1943–2009) – mathematician at Rutgers University Paul Levinson (born 1947) – science-fiction and non-fiction author; communications professor Kenneth Lewes (1943–2020) – psychoanalyst who challenged prejudicial view of homosexuality. Ronald Mallett (born 1945) – theoretical physicist of time travel Barry Mazur (born 1937) – mathematician and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences Joseph M. McShane (born 1942) – Jesuit priest; president of Fordham University Stanley Milgram (1933–1984) – psychologist known for obedience to authority and small world studies Joseph A. O'Hare (1931–2020) – Jesuit priest; longest-serving president of Fordham University (1984–2003); first chair of New York City Campaign Finance Board (1988–2003) Jay Pasachoff (1943–2022) – astronomer, umbraphile Carolyn Porco (born 1953) – planetary scientist; leader of the Cassini space observatory team at the Colorado Space Science Institute, studying Saturn Allan Pred (1936–2007) – geographer at University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley Howard Raiffa (1924–2016) – economist; negotiation scientist Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) – economist; helped define modern libertarianism Ken Schaffer (born 1947) – inventor; invented the wireless guitar system, video placeshifting Joseph Francis Shea (1925–1999) – aerospace engineer; headed NASA's Apollo program Gary Simons – founder of Prep for Prep gifted education program in NYC Robert Sobel (1931–1999) – historian and writer; history professor at Hofstra University; writer of business histories Edward Soja (1940–2015) – postmodern political geography and urban theorist at UCLA Michael I.
