o and alot of smart people like...
* Hans Bethe, resident, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, Cornell Professor, head of theoretical division of the Manhattan Project
* Alex Haley, native, author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the Autobiography of Malcolm X
* Mary McDonnell, native, actor in Dances with Wolves, Independence Day, Battlestar Galactica, and others
* Vladimir Nabokov, resident, Cornell Professor, author (most famously of Lolita)
* Roy H. Park, resident, media executive, founder of Park Communications and the Park Foundation
* Carl Sagan, resident, astronomer, Cornell Professor, popularizer of science, and author and host of Cosmos
* Rod Serling, resident (of nearby Interlaken, NY), Ithaca College Professor, screenwriter, creator and host of The Twilight Zone
* Steve Squyres, resident, astronomer, Cornell Professor, Principal Investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
* E.B. White, resident, novelist, author of Charlotte's Web and co-author of The Elements of Style
* Paul Wolfowitz, native, academic, Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001-2005), former President of the World Bank (2005-2007)
* Dustin Brown, NHL player for the Los Angeles Kings
* Josh Bard. MLB baseball catcher for the San Diego Padres
