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List of people from Harlem

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This is a list of people from Harlem in New York City.

The early period (pre-1920)

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Scott Joplin
Norman Rockwell

Jewish, Italian, Irish and Spanish Harlem (circa 1900–30)

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Moe Berg
Fanny Brice
George Gershwin
Harry Houdini
Burt Lancaster
Benny Leonard, world lightweight champion.
The Marx Brothers
Henrietta Szold

The Harlem Renaissance and World War II (1920–1945)

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Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Lionel Hampton
Billie Holiday
Lena Horne
James Weldon Johnson
Fiorello La Guardia
Joe Louis, world heavyweight champion
A. Philip Randolph
Maxie Rosenbloom, light heavyweight boxing champion.
Isadore "Corporal Izzy" Schwartz, world flyweight champion.
Al Singer, world lightweight champion .
Ethel Waters

Famous after World War II

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Jules Dassin
Sammy Davis Jr.
Moby
Edward Mosberg
Hermann Joseph Muller, Nobel Prize winner.
Martin Lewis Perl, Nobel Prize winner.
Sugar Ray Robinson, world welterweight and world middleweight champion.
Nina Simone
Thomas Sowell
Percy Sutton
Conrad Tillard

Entertainment

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ASAP Ferg
Puff Daddy
Q-Tip
Juelz Santana
Tupac Shakur
Willie "the Lion" Smith
Teyana Taylor

21st-century residents

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Maya Angelou
Miz Cracker
Bob Dylan
Oscar Peñas
Alysia Reiner

Representatives

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Adriano Espaillat

References

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