This is a list of famous people from Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island.

People from Brooklyn and Queens are on List of famous New Yorkers.

Born in Nassau or Suffolk

• Carol Alt
• Ashanti
• Alec Baldwin
• Mariah Carey
• Billy Crystal
• Chuck D
• Jennifer Capriati
• Rodney Dangerfield
• Amy Fisher
• Melissa Joan Hart
• Joey Heatherton
• Christine Jorgensen
• Method Man
• Eddie Money
• Jane Monheit
• Rosie O'Donnell
• John Petrucci
• Thomas Pynchon
• Lou Reed
• Joe Satriani
• Dee Snider
• Howard Stern
• John Tesh
• Thomas Truxtun
• Steve Vai
• Walt Whitman
• Carl Yastrzemski

Famous residents who grew up in Nassau or Suffolk

• Paul Bowles
• Jim Brown
• John Cassavetes
• Al D'Amato
• Brian Dennehy
• Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
• Lisa Gay Hamilton
• Billy Joel
• Ron Kovic
• Eddie Murphy
• Bill O'Reilly (commentator)
• Natalie Portman
• Jef Raskin
• Laura Schlessinger
• Jerry Seinfeld
• Vinny Testaverde

Famous residents of Nassau or Suffolk

• Raoul Barré
• Willem de Kooning
• Jackson Pollock
• Theodore Roosevelt