James Geddes – engineer, surveyor, and politician instrumental in the planning of the Erie Canal who was also at the forefront of the development of the salt industry at Onondaga Lake beginning in 1794[17]
Theodore E. Hancock – lawyer and politician who served as district attorney of Onondaga County from 1890 to 1892[18]
Bucky Lawless – professional boxer based in Syracuse from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s
David Foster Wallace – author who wrote much of his landmark novel Infinite Jest while living in an apartment on Kensington Road across from the food co-op
↑ Barker, Robert M. (1930). "Obituary, John William Barker". Sixty-first Annual Report of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy. Newburgh, NY: Moore Printing Company. pp.239–242 – via West Point Digital Library.
↑ "Revolutionary War veteran's son gave city its name". The Post-Standard. Syracuse, New York. August 27, 2002.
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