page_title: Merrick, New York
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Merrick, New York / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: March 10, 2008: Cinema City Film Festival
context_page_description: Merrick is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 22,097. The name Merrick is taken from the word Meroke, the name of the ancestral homeland of the Algonquian tribe formerly indigenous to the area. It is served by the Merrick station on the Long Island Rail Road on the Babylon line.
context_section_description: Craig Allen, Fox News weatherman
  Roone Arledge, former president of ABC Sports/News
  Justin Beck, guitarist in the band Glassjaw
  Melissa Howard Beck, cast member, The Real World New Orleans
  Ed Begley, actor
  Ed Begley, Jr., actor
  Janet Billig, record executive, Broadway producer
  Brian Bloom, actor
  Schuyler V. Cammann, professor of Oriental Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  Vinnie Caruana, lead singer of I Am the Avalanche and The Movielife
  Leonard Chang, author
  CheapyD, owner of Cheap Ass Gamer
  Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's ice cream
  Doreen Cronin, children's author
  Doug Ellin, writer/creator of Entourage
  Amy Fisher, the "Long Island Lolita"
  Frank Frazetta, fantasy artist
  Paul George Feinman, associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals
  Bill Freiberger, Emmy-nominated writer/producer of The Simpsons, The PJs
  Debbie Gibson, singer
  Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's ice cream
  Ryan Hunter, lead vocalist of the band Envy On The Coast
  Danny Kopec, international chess master
  Michael Kors, fashion designer
  Paul R. Krugman, 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, New York Times columnist, professor and scholar
  Scott Lipsky (born 1981), tennis player
  Elliot S. Maggin, writer
  Michael Markowitz, writer/producer of Horrible Bosses, Becker and Duckman
  Romeo Muller, screenplay writer of Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Frosty the Snowman, Little Drummer Boy
  The Lohan residence including Lindsay, Michael Jr., Ali, Dakota and Dina Lohan
  Constantinos Philippou, mixed martial artist
  Mario Puzo, author of the novel The Godfather (later adapted to film by Francis Ford Coppola)
  Steve Rifkind, hip hop entrepreneur
  Robbie Rosen, singer, contestant on season 10 of American Idol
  Noah Rubin (born 1996), tennis player
  Zack Ryder, WWE professional wrestler, former WWE Intercontinental Champion and WWE United States Champion, WWE Tag Team Champion
  Sha Na Na (George and Rob Leonard), Woodstock festival, Grease album rock group
  Kevin Shinick, actor/writer/director, notably Robot Chicken and was the host of the PBS game show Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
  James Siegel, author of Derailed, adapted to a film starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen
  Lee Tepper, co-founder of MerchDirect with Glassjaw's Justin Beck
  Marc Slutsky, Musician
  Bruce Sussman, Songwriter
caption: Debbie Gibson
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