Notable Residents From Clinton Hill

pictured (l to r top) Talib Kweli, Rosie Perez, Kota the Friend, Tish James / (l to r bottom) Mos Def (aka Yasiin Bey), Jeffrey Wright, Susan Sarandon, Malik Yoba 

Here’s a list of notable people who either lived or still live in Clinton Hill, as per Wikipedia.

• Ted Allen (born 1965), writer and television personality
• Lester Bowie (1941–1999), avant-garde jazz (trumpet) musician owned Victorian-style home at 207 Washington Avenue for 20 years until his death in 1999^[]
• Jay Critch (born 1997), rapper
• Charles F. Erhart (1821–1891), businessman who co-founded Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc.
• James William Elwell (1820-1899), shipping merchant and philanthropist who founded James W. Elwell & Co., and built the historic house at 70 Lefferts Place.
• KOTA the Friend (born 1992),one of the most successful Independent hip hop artist / producer in the U.S.. He mentions Clinton Hill in some of his songs
• Adrian Grenier (born 1976), actor
• Lev Grossman (born 1969), novelist and journalist
• Heems (stage name of Himanshu Suri), rapper
• Tehching Hsieh (born 1950), performance artist
• Talib Kweli (born 1975), rapper
• Mos Def (born 1973), rapper/actor
• The Notorious B.I.G. (1972–1997), rapper, grew up on 226 St. James Place, near the Bedford–Stuyvesant border;^[36] the address was then regarded as part of Bedford–Stuyvesant
• David Paterson (born 1954), former New York Governor
• Rosie Perez (born 1964), actress
• Mary Pinkett (c. 1931–2003), first black New York City councilwoman, she served 28 years from 1974 until 2001 when she was term-limited out of office
• Letitia James (born 1958), incumbent Attorney General of New York
• Antoni Porowski (born 1984), chef, actor, and television personality, lived in a studio with former partner, Joey Krietemeyer, that has been featured in interior design magazines
• Susan Sarandon (born 1946), actress, lives in a home described as “aesthetically ironic”
• Danny Simmons, artist
• Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe shared an apartment on Hall Street in 1967, after they first met
• Barbara Stanwyck (1907–1990), actress, model and dancer, was born at 246 Classon Avenue
• Conrad Tillard (born 1964), politician, Baptist minister, radio host, author, and civil rights activist
• John Thomas Underwood (1857–1937), entrepreneur and inventor who founded the Underwood Typewriter Company
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892), poet and editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1846 to 1848, formerly lived at 99 Ryerson Street while working on Leaves of Grass
• Jessica Williams (born 1989), actress and comedian
• Jeffrey Wright (born 1965), actor
• Bowen Yang (born 1990), comedian on Saturday Night Live
• Malik Yoba (born 1967), actor

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