There have been many noted residents of Brooklyn Heights. The dates listed are their respective birth and death dates. Famous residents include: •
W. H. Auden (1907–1973), poet, lived with Benjamin Britten and Carson McCullers at 7 Middagh Street •
Matthew Barney (born 1967), artist •
John R. Bartels (1897–1997),
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. •
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), clergyman, social reformer and abolitionist •
Edet Belzberg, documentary filmmaker who won a 2005
MacArthur Fellowship. •
Paul Bettany (born 1971), actor •
Morton Birnbaum (1926–2005), lawyer and physician who advocated for the right of psychiatric patients to have adequate, humane care, and who coined the term
sanism. •
Björk (born 1965), musician •
Emily Blunt (born 1983), actress. •
Lee Breuer (1937–2021), playwright and theater director •
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), composer, lived with W. H. Auden and Carson McCullers at 7 Middagh Street •
Gabriel Byrne (born 1950), actor •
Truman Capote (1924–1984), author, lived at 70 Willow Street •
Ron Chernow (born 1949), Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian •
Peggy Clark (1915–1996), lighting designer, costume designer and set designer. •
Jennifer Connelly (born 1970), actress •
Barbara Cooney (1917–2000), writer and illustrator •
Hart Crane (1899–1932), poet •
Matt Damon (born 1970), actor •
Adam Driver (born 1983), actor who appeared as
Kylo Ren in the
Star Wars sequel trilogy. •
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, author and editor •
Lena Dunham (born 1986), actress, writer and director •
Bonnie Erickson (born 1941), designer of puppets, costumes, toys, and graphics, best known for her work with
Jim Henson and
The Muppets where her creations include
Miss Piggy. •
William Everdell (born 1941), historian, author and teacher •
Tom Frieden, infectious disease and public health expert, who was director of the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. •
Elizabeth Gaffney (born 1966), novelist •
Paul Giamatti (born 1967), actor •
Hetty Green (1834–1916), businesswoman known for both her wealth and her miserliness •
Lucas Hedges (born 1996), actor •
Peter Hedges (born 1962), novelist, playwright, screenwriter and film director •
Jack Holland (1947–2004), journalist, novelist and poet who chronicled "
The Troubles" in his native
Northern Ireland. •
Alice Recknagel Ireys (1911–2000), landscape architect. •
John Krasinski (born 1979), actor •
Utrice Leid (born ), journalist who was the managing editor of
The City Sun and general manager of New York radio station
WBAI •
Philip Levine (1928–2015), poet •
Joe Lhota (born 1954), public servant and a former politician, who served as the chairman of the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority. •
Grace Denio Litchfield (1849–1944), poet and novelist •
Philip Livingston (1716–1778), lawyer, businessman, slave trader and one of New York's four signers of the
United States Declaration of Independence. •
H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), short-story writer, editor, novelist and poet. •
James Lyons (1960–2007), film editor, screenwriter and actor who frequently collaborated with
Todd Haynes. •
Norman Mailer (1923–2007), novelist. •
Carson McCullers (1917–1967), writer, lived with W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten at 7 Middagh Street •
Henry Miller (1891–1980), author •
Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017), actress •
Errol Morris (born 1948), film director •
Mary-Louise Parker (born 1964), actress and writer. •
Joseph Pennell (1857–1926), painter •
Suzanne Pleshette (1937–2008), actress and voice actress •
John Podhoretz (born 1961), commentator •
Ernest Poole (1880–1950), novelist •
Marky Ramone (born 1952), former drummer of punk rock band the
Ramones. •
John A. Roebling II (1867–1952), engineer and philanthropist •
Theodore Roosevelt IV (born 1942), investment banker and managing director at
Barclays Investment Bank •
Keri Russell (born 1976), actress •
Amy Ryan (born 1968), actress who appeared in
The Office •
Mia Sara (born 1967), actress who appeared in ''
Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' •
Amy Schumer (born 1981), comedian and actress •
Louis Sheaffer (1912–1993), journalist and author who was awarded the 1974
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his biography of
Eugene O'Neill. •
Oliver Smith (1918–1984), stage designer, owned 60 Willow Street •
Dan Stevens (born 1982), actor •
William C. Thompson (1924–2018),
New York State Senator and Justice of the
New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division •
Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), Norwegian author who resided in the U.S. in exile during World War II •
John Utendahl (born 1962), owner of the Utendahl Group, one of the largest African American-owned investment banking groups in the United States •
Andrew VanWyngarden (born 1983), musician,
MGMT •
Walt Whitman (1819–1892), poet and editor of the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle •
Bill W. (1895–1971 as William Griffith Wilson), co-founded
Alcoholics Anonymous in a town house at 182 Clinton Street. •
Michelle Williams (born 1980), actress •
Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938), novelist •
Adam Yauch (1964–2012), founding member of the
Beastie Boys •
Thaddeus Young (born 1988), power forward for the
Indiana Pacers. •
Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978), poet ==In popular culture==