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Notable Residents of Ithaca, NY  
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The City of Ithaca sits on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York State. Here are some of the famous people who reside in (and around) the gorgeous community.

	Josh Bard, native, professional baseball player, San Diego Padres, Catcher
	Hans Bethe, resident (deceased 2005), physicist, Nobel Prize winner, Cornell Professor, head of theoretical division of the Manhattan Project
	Adam C. Engst, native, resident, publisher of TidBITS and Take Control ebook series
	Richard Feynman, resident (deceased 1988), physicist, Cornell Professor, Nobel Prize winner
	Alice Fulton, resident, poet, Cornell Professor, MacArthur Fellow
	Alex Haley, native (deceased 1992), author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the Autobiography of Malcolm X
	David Lee, resident, physicist, Cornell Professor, Nobel Prize winner
	J. Robert Lennon, resident, author (Mailman, Happyland)
	Mary McDonnell, native, actor in Dances with Wolves, Independence Day, Battlestar Galactica, and others
	Robert Moog, ex-resident (deceased 2005), engineer, pioneer of electronic music, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, creator of Moog Music originally named R.A. Moog Co. and Big Briar
	Vladimir Nabokov, resident, (deceased 1977), Cornell Professor, author (most famously of Lolita)
	Roy H. Park, resident (deceased 1993), media executive, founder of Park Communications and the Park Foundation
	Robert C. Richardson, resident, physicist, Cornell Professor, Nobel Prize winner
	Carl Sagan, resident (deceased 1996), astronomer, Cornell Professor, popularizer of science, and author and host of Cosmos
	Rod Serling, resident of Interlaken, NY 18 miles away in Seneca County, 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
	Steven Stucky, resident, classical American composer, Cornell Professor, Pulitzer Prize winner
	Brian Wansink, resident, Cornell Professor and author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
	E.B. White, resident (deceased 1985), novelist, author of Charlotte's Web and co-author of The Elements of Style
	Robert R. Wilson, resident (deceased 2000), physicist, head of the Cyclotron group of the Manhattan Project
	Paul Wolfowitz, native, academic, Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001-2005), former President of the World Bank (2005-2007)
	Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo, native, Guitarist, member of Gym Class Heroes (2001-Present)

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