People
- Pierre C. Van Wyck, NY District Attorney 1818-1821
- Charles Van Wyck (1824-1895), United States Senator from Nebraska
- Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1849-1918), the first mayor of New York City after consolidation in 1898
- Augustus Van Wyck (1850-1922), New York lawyer and politician
- F. Van Wyck Mason (1901-1978), American historian and novelist
- Van Wyck Brooks, American writer and historian
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“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.”
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