Here are a few people for the Native New Yorkers Hall of Fame, although most made their names elsewhere.

Elizabeth F. Ellet (1812?-1877), born in Sodus Point, historian and poet. Although not known as an advocate of women's rights, she pioneered women's history and social history with the publication of "Women of the American Revoluiton" 3 vols. (1848-1850) and "Pioneer Women of of the West" (1852).

Gordon Granger (1822-1876), born in Joy hamlet, Sodus town, Civil War general. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Chickamauga and later established the military occupation government of Texas.

William T. Sampson (1840-1902), born in Palmyra, Spanish-American War admiral. He commanded the North Atlantic squadron during the Battle of Santiago, 1898.

William Hall Sherwood (1854-1911), born in Lyons, pianist and music educator. He began teaching at the Lyons Musical Academy (founded by his father) at the age of 12. He later went to Europe where he studied under Franz Liszt. In 1897, he founded the Sherwood Piano School (now the Sherwood Conservatory of Music) in Chicago.

William Morris Stewart (1827-1909), born in Galen town, corporate lawyer and politician. He began his legal studies in a Lyons law office. Later, he followed the Gold Rush to California and the Silver Rush to Nevada, where he was associated with corporate mining interests. He became one of Nevada's first two U.S. Senators and authored the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.

Myron Charles Taylor (1874-1959), born in Lyons, corporate executive. Although he began in his father's textile business, he ended up the president of U.S. Steel. In order to avert a major strike in 1937, he broke with the rest of the steel industry and met personally with John L. Lewis, with whom he crafted a compromise agreement that opened the industry to collective bargaining.

And a couple of people born nearby:

Antoinette Brown (later Blackwell) (1825-1921). Born in Henrietta, Monroe Co., she came to South Butler, Wayne Co., where in 1853 she became the first woman ordained as a minister in the United States. (Alas, her sister-in-law, Elizabeth Blackwell. who became the first female physician in Geneva [Ontario Co.} was born in England.)

Sallie Holley (1818-1893), born in Canandaigua, Ontario Co. (but grew up in Lyons). The daughter of the Connecticut-born canal builder/Anti-Mason/abolitionist Myron Holley, he became a lecturer of the American Anti-Slavery Society before the Civil War and an advocate of civil rights after emancipation. She taught in a school for former slaves in Virginia after the war.

By the way, the 24-volume "American National Biography" includes an index by state of birth.