List of Famous people born in East Hampton, United States of America

Howard Brush Dean III is an American physician, author, and retired politician who served as Governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 2009. Dean was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election. His implementation of the fifty-state strategy as head of the DNC is credited with the Democratic victories in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Afterward, he became a political commentator and consultant to McKenna Long & Aldridge, a law and lobbying firm.

Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, and podcaster.

David Gardiner Tyler, was a U.S. Democratic Party politician and the ninth child and fourth son of John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States.

Edna Kelly was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

Samuel Reber III was a diplomat who spent 27 years in the Foreign Service of the United States, including several years with the Allied High Commission for Germany. Threats by Senator Joseph McCarthy to reveal a homosexual incident in his past forced him to resign quietly from the State Department in 1953. McCarthy later publicly alleged that Reber had been forced to retire because he posed a "security risk."

George Huntington was an American physician who contributed a classic clinical description of the disease that bears his name – Huntington's disease.

Catharine Esther Beecher was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education. She published the advice manual The American Woman's Home with her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1869.