- U.S. cartoonist: creator of the comic strip “Dick Tracy.”
- Canadian pianist and composer.
- U.S. financier.
- U.S. composer and pianist.
- U.S. paleontologist, biologist, and science writer.
- Benjamin Apthorp. 1824–96, US astronomer: the first to use the telegraph to determine longitudes; founded the Astronomical Journal (1849)
- Glenn. 1932–82, Canadian pianist