#1Famous people · Sleepy Hollow
The 7 famous people born in Sleepy Hollow, led by Tony Taylor
At the top of the list is the American basketball player Tony Taylor, covered in 11 languages. The largest group, 4, was born between 1920 and 1969. The list is still growing: 2 were born since 1970. Only 300 of the 1,293 towns in New York with anyone on record list more.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Tony Taylor
in 11 Wikipedia languages
First
1876
Frank Murphy
Youngest
1990
Tony Taylor
Most common field
Sports
2 people
What stands out about Sleepy Hollow’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Sleepy Hollow’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageWriting & ArtsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Sleepy Hollow
The three are covered in 11, 9 and 5 languages: Tony Taylor, Keith Hamilton Cobb and Jeffrey A. Meyer.
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What Sleepy Hollow is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
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Everyone else born in Sleepy Hollow
Here are 4 more, born from 1876 to 1979.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Nyack lists the most people: 38.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Sleepy Hollow and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (7)
- Tony Taylor: Sebastian Rzepiel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeffrey A. Meyer: U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Pomerantz: Susanne Lareau Maxwell, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Murphy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Hopper: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rockwell Kent: Unidentified photographer (according to SI source), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Larry James: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons