In Popular Media
- The song "This Nelson Rockefeller" by McCarthy is dedicated to him.
- He is referenced in the title of the Charles Mingus composition "Remember Rockefeller at Attica".
- He is played by actor Edward Herrmann in the Oliver Stone movie Nixon.
- In John Lennon's 1972 song "Attica State" on the album Some Time in New York City Lennon sings 'Media blames it on the prisoners/ But the prisoners did not kill/ "Rockefeller pulled the trigger"/ That is what the people feel'.
- In Marvel Comics, Rockefeller is President of the United States in the parallel universe of Earth-712, the alternate world inhabited by the Squadron Supreme which is described as "strangely without a Richard Nixon". In this alternate timeline, Rockefeller succeeds President Hubert Humphrey.
- Rockefeller's marriage to Happy is referenced in a third-season episode of the TV show Mad Men, set in New York in 1963, and the recurring fictional character Henry Francis is an aide in then-governor Rockefeller's office.
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