- Dion Of Syracuse
Dion (408-354 BC), tyrant of Syracuse in Sicily, was the son of Hipparinus, and brother-in-law of Dionysius I of Syracuse. In his youth, he was an admirer and pupil of Plato, whom Dionysius had invited to Syracuse; and he used every effort to inculcate the maxims of his master in the mind of the tyrant. The stern morality of Dion was distasteful to the younger Dionysius, and the historian Philistus, a faithful supporter of despotic power, …
- Corax Of Syracuse
Corax ("Korax"), along with Tisias, was one of the founders of Greek rhetoric, or sophism. It has sometimes been asserted that they are merely legendary personages. Other scholars contend that Corax and Tisias were the same person, described in one fragment as "Tisias, the Crow" (Corax is Greek for "crow.") Corax is said to have lived in Sicily in the fifth century BC. During his time, Thrasybulus, the tyrant of Syracuse, was overthrown and a democracy formed.
- Achaeus Of Syracuse
Achaeus of Syracuse was an ancient Greek tragedian native of Syracuse. The "Suda" ascribes to him 10 plays, while the Pseudo-Eudocia 14. He may be the "Achaios" who won a victory at Athens' Lenaia festival in 356 BC.
- Calippus Of Syracuse
Calippus was a tyrant of Syracuse who ruled briefly for thirteen months from 354 to 352 BC. He was a native Athenian, who traveled with Dion to Sicily to capture Syracuse, where Dion became the tyrant. Calippus then gained power by assassinating Dion, but ruled briefly before being ousted from power himself. Afterwards he commanded a band of mercenaries, who later killed him with the same sword that he used to kill Dion
- Thrasybulus Of Syracuse
Thrasybulus was a short-lasting tyrant who ruled Syracuse for eleven months during 466 and 465 BC. He was the brother of the the previous tyrant Hiero , who seized power of Syracuse by convincing Gelon's son to give up his claim to Syracusean power and instead pursue a life of pleasure. The other members of the Deinomenid family overthrew him, but members of the party who they used to seize power from Thrasybulus overthrew the Deinomenids and established a democracy.
- Hiero II of Syracuse II of Syracuse
Hieron II, king of Syracuse from 270 to 215 BC, was the illegitimate son of a Syracusan noble, Hierocles, who claimed descent from Gelon. He was a former general of Pyrrhus of Epirus and an important figure of the First Punic War. On the departure of Pyrrhus from Sicily (275 BC) the Syracusan army and citizens appointed him commander of the troops. He strengthened his position by marrying the daughter of Leptines, the leading citizen.
- Dionysius I of Syracuse I of Syracuse
Dionysius I or Dionysius the Elder, tyrant of Syracuse, conquered several cities in Sicily and southern Italy, opposed Carthage's influence in Sicily and made Syracuse the most powerful of the Western Greek colonies. He was regarded by the ancients as an example of the worst kind of despot--cruel, suspicious and vindictive.
- Dionysius II of Syracuse II of Syracuse
Dionysius the Younger or Dionysius II ruled Syracuse, Sicily from 367 BC to 357 BC and again from 346 BC to 344 BC. He was the son of Dionysius the Elder. When his father died in 367 BC, Dionysius assumed rule under supervision of his uncle, the philosopher Dion. Dion's disapproval of the young Dionysius' lavishly dissolute lifestyle compelled him to invite his teacher Plato to visit Syracuse.
- Hiero I of Syracuse I of Syracuse
Hiero I was the brother of Gelo and tyrant of Syracuse from 478 to 467 BC. In succeeding Gelo, he conspired against a third brother Polyzelos. During his reign, he greatly increased the power of Syracuse. He removed the inhabitants of Naxos and Catana to Leontini, peopled Catana (which he renamed Aetna) with Dorians, concluded an alliance with Acragas (Agrigentum) and espoused the cause of the Locrians against Anaxilas, tyrant of Rhegium.
- Leptines Of Syracuse
Leptines (Greek:) was a military leader from Syracuse, Sicily, active during his brother Dionysius the Elder's wars.
- Antiochus Of Syracuse
Antiochus of Syracuse, Greek historian, flourished about 420 BC Nothing is known of his life, but his works, of which only fragments remain, enjoyed a high reputation because of their accuracy. He wrote a "History of Sicily" from the earliest times to 424, which was used by Thucydides, and the "Colonizing of Italy", frequently referred to by Strabo and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
- William Smith
William Smith (born March 24, 1934 in Columbia, Missouri, USA) is an American actor. He worked as a child actor, but is best known for his numerous roles in low-budget action films playing bikers, cowboys, tough-guys, and villains. He is possibly best-known for playing Falconetti on the TV mini-series "Rich Man, Poor Man".
- Roy Halladay
Harry Leroy "Roy" Halladay III (born May 14 1977 in Denver, Colorado), nicknamed Doc, is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He is the ace of the Toronto Blue Jays pitching staff. He received his nickname from the famous Arizona gunslinger, "Doc" Holliday. He has played for the Jays since 1998 and was the team's first draft selection (17th overall) in the 1995 Major League Baseball Draft. He bats and throws right-handed.
- Wawasee
Wawasee or Wawaausee often contracted into Wawbee and known as ("Full Moon") was a Miami chief who lived in what is now Kosciusko County, Indiana. He was brother to Miami chief Papakeecha. Wawasee was a signatory to the Treaty of Mississinwas and in the mid-1830s, Wawasee was alloted a small village where the town of Syracuse currently is - situated near the southeast corner of Lake Wabee, …
- James Walsh
I am a US House Representative for the state of NY. I am a Republican. My religion is Catholic. I am Married. I received my BA from St. Bonaventure University. I live in Syracuse. I was born in Syracuse, NY. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "1340 Federal Bldg.; PO Box 7306, Syracuse, NY 13261-7306".
- Sean Williams
Sean Williams is a high school basketball player for Notre Dame Preparatory School in Fitchburg, MA, who is ranked as one of the top players in the nation from the class of 2007. Williams has signed a national letter of intent to play college basketball at Syracuse University after graduating high school. He stands 6 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs 210 pounds.
- John Defrancisco
John Defrancisco is responsible for maintaining the scoreboards, sound system, energy management system, alarm systems and computer systems at the Dome. He oversees hazardous waste disposal and safety issues. He has worked at the Carrier Dome since 1997. Defrancisco was first employed by the University in 1984 as an electronic maintenance specialist with Resident Services. In 1988 he was transferred to the electronics shop in Physical Plant.
- Jason Phillips
Jason Lloyd Phillips (born September 27, 1976 in La Mesa, California) is a catcher, most recently with the Toronto Blue Jays. Since 2001, he has been a catcher and part time first baseman in Major League Baseball. He bats and throws right-handed.
- Gabe Gross
Gabriel Jordan "Gabe" Gross (born October 21, 1979 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a right fielder in Major League Baseball who plays for the Milwaukee Brewers organization. He bats left-handed and throws right-handed. Formerly a starting quarterback for the Auburn football team, Gross was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the first round (15th overall) of the 2001 amateur entry draft. Promoted from Triple-A Syracuse on August 7, 2004, …
- Riley Skinner
Riley Skinner (born October 21, 1986) is the current starting quarterback for the Wake Forest football team, coached by Jim Grobe. He played high school football for The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida. Skinner stepped in for the injured Wake Forest QB Ben Mauk after Mauk injured his arm in the first game of the 2006 season against Syracuse.
- Thomas Szasz
Dr. Thomas Stephen Szasz (pronounced /sas/; born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary) is a psychiatrist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a prominent figure in the antipsychiatry movement, a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism.
- Kelvin Smith
Kelvin V. Smith (born March 20 1984 in Suffern, New York) is an American football linebacker who currently plays for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Dolphins in the seventh round (219th overall) of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Syracuse. He signed a four year deal with Miami Dolphins.
- Alessio di Mauro
"'"' (born August 9, 1977 in Syracuse) is an Italian tennis player. In Buenos Aires, he reached his first final of his career, where Argentine Juan Monaco defeated di Mauro to win his first career title, 6-1, 6-2 (according to Tennis Channel).
- David Valesky
David J. Valesky (b. circa 1966) is a member of the New York State Senate. He is a Democrat representing the mostly rural 49th Senate District, which encompasses the city of Rome in Oneida County, all of Madison County, eastern and southern Onondaga County, including the eastern half of the city of Syracuse, and parts of Cayuga County in upstate New York. He was first elected to the office in 2004. Valesky, who lives in Oneida, where he was born and raised, …
- Olindo Mare
Olindo Franco Mare (born June 6, 1973) is an American football placekicker for the National Football League's New Orleans Saints. He was the former longtime kicker of the Miami Dolphins. He attended Syracuse before joining the Dolphins.
- Fred Lewis
Fred Lewis was the head basketball coach at Syracuse from 1962 to 1967. He compiled a 91-57(.615) record during his tenure. He took his team to the NIT tournament, only two years after the team suffered a 2-22 season. Prior to coaching at Syracuse, he coached at Southern Miss, where he compiled an 89-38 record. He coached at Amityville High School where he compiled a 63-40 record, from 1950 to 1953. He also coached at Hawaii, where he went 21-2.
- Howard Jones
Howard Harding Jones (August 23 1885 - July 27 1941) was an American college football coach at Syracuse (1908), Yale (1909, 1913), Ohio State (1910), Iowa (1916-23), Duke (1924), and Southern California (1925-40).
- Agathocles
Agathocles, (From the Greek name "Αγαθοκλης" ("Agathokles") which was derived from the Greek "αγαθος" ("agathos") "good" and "κλεος" ("kleos") "glory"), tyrant of Syracuse (317-289 BC) and king of Sicily (304-289 BC). He was born at Thermae Himeraeae (modern name Termini Imerese) in Sicily. The son of a potter who had moved to Syracuse in about 343 BC, he learned his father's trade, …
- Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey "Jeff" Brown is a former state assemblyman in New York. He represented suburban areas around Syracuse. Brown was first elected to the Assembly in 2002, succeeding his father, former Assemblyman Harold Brown. An attorney, Brown worked in Congress and was the chief attorney for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in central New York State. Brown serves as a Captain in the 174th Fighter Wing at Hancock Field.
- Archytas
Archytas : "And therefore Plato himself dislikes Eudoxus, Archytas, and Menaechmus for endeavoring to bring down the doubling the cube to mechanical operations; for by this means all that was good in geometry would be lost and corrupted, it falling back again to sensible things, and not rising upward and considering immaterial and immortal images, in which God being versed is always God."</ref> The Archytas curve, …
- Hermocrates
Hermocrates (Ancient Greek:) was a general of Syracuse during the Athenians' Sicilian Expedition. The first historical reference to Hermocrates is at the congress of Gela in 424 BC, where he gave a speech demanding the Sicilian Greeks to stop their quarrelling. In 415 BC he proposed a coalition that would even include non-Sicilian cities (as well as non-Greek cities such as Carthage) in an alliance against Athens. He was elected as one of Syracuse's three strategoi, …
- Sean McDonough
Sean McDonough (born May 13, 1962) is an American television sportscaster. The son of legendary Boston Globe sportswriter Will McDonough, Sean graduated from Syracuse University in 1984. It was in Syracuse where McDonough began his broadcasting career in 1982 as the play-by-play announcer for the Syracuse Chiefs of the International League.
- Ben Burtt
Ben Burtt (born July 12, 1948 in Syracuse, New York) is the archetypal sound designer (a term he invented) and sound editor for many famous and noteworthy films, as well as directing an Oscar-nominated documentary.
- Eurymedon
Eurymedon (d. 414 BC), was one of the Athenian generals (Strategos) during the Peloponnesian War. In 428 BC he was sent by the Athenians to intercept the Peloponnesian fleet which was on its way to attack Corcyra. On his arrival, finding that Nicostratus, with a small squadron from Naupactus, had already secured the island on behalf of Athens, he took command of the combined fleet. Owing to the absence of the Peloponnesians, Eurymedon had no chance to distinguish himself.
- Daryl Johnston
Daryl Peter "Moose" Johnston (born February 10, 1966) is a former National Football League fullback who played his entire career with the Dallas Cowboys from (1989-1999). Johnston was a two time Pro Bowler and attended the game in 1993 and 1994. Johnston was a member of three Super Bowl winning teams stands 6'2 242 at the time of play. Drafted by the Cowboys out of Syracuse where he was an All-American and All-East pick in 1988, …
- Bob Shannon
Radio DJ originally known as Don Bombard (born: December 16, 1948) but more widely known under the air name Bob Shannon, was first introduced on radio by legendary sportscaster Marv Albert as the winner of a guest deejay contest, while still a junior high school student in his hometown of Syracuse, New York. At age 15, Don experimented with broadcasting from his home, using a radio that had the wiring reversed to become a transmitter.
- David Bradley
David Bradley (November 8, 1811 - February 19, 1899) was a "Pioneer Plowman". David Bradley was born in Groton, New York on November 8th, 1811. After working with his brother, C. C. Bradley, for several years in Syracuse, he relocated to Chicago in 1835. Initially he was in the employ of Jones, King & Co. and helped to build the first foundry in Chicago, known as the "Chicago Furnace". From the late 1830's until the 1850's David Bradley farmed in Lake County, Illinois, …
- John M. McHugh
John Michael McHugh (born September 29, 1948) is a politician from the state of New York, currently representing the state's 23rd Congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives. McHugh was born in Watertown, New York and he graduated from Utica College. He was elected to the New York state senate as a Republican in 1984, and successfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992 to replace Congressman David O'B. Martin.
- Sheldon Killpack
Sheldon Killpack is an American politician from Utah. A Republican, he is a member of the Utah State Senate, representing the state's 21st senate district in Syracuse. He currently serves as the Assistant Majority Whip in the Utah Senate.
- Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Marcus Claudius Marcellus (ca. 268 BC-208 BC) was a Roman general, one of the commanders of the Roman Army during the Second Punic War and the conqueror of Syracuse. In his first consulship (222 BC) he was engaged, with Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus (uncle of Scipio Africanus) as colleague, in war against the Insubrian Gauls, and won the "spolia opima", the greatest of all possible honors for a Roman, …