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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