List of people from Harlem
This is a list of people from Harlem in New York City. == The early period (pre-1920) == John James Audubon – naturalist, artist, entrepreneur, explorer, and ornithologist Richard Croker – Tammany Hall politician, lived at 26 Mount Morris Park West James Reese Europe – ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer, credited with inventing jazz; 67 West 133rd Street Thomas Gilroy – New York City mayor Alexander Hamilton – politician; 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury; lived at 414 West 141st Street in Harlem at the end of his life Hubert Harrison – "The Father of Harlem Radicalism" Scott Joplin – ragtime pianist and composer; lived at 133 West 138th Street in 1916, then at 163 West 131st Street until his death in 1917; had a studio at 160 West 133rd Street Vincent James McMahon – founder of the World Wide Wrestling Federation Paul Meltsner – WPA era painter and muralist; grew up in Harlem Thomas Nast – artist, lived at 24 West 125th Street.
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