Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg grew up in the village of Dobbs Ferry, New York, some 18 miles (or 29 kilometers) north of New York City.
The Zuckerberg family lived in a house on Russell Place, just off Northfield Avenue, from where Mark’s father, Doctor Edward Zuckerberg, operated an adjoining dental clinic.
Mark Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School in nearby Ardsley for two years before transferring to the independent Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire as a boarding student.
