Rivers Cuomo (born June 13, 1970), is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer.

Cuomo was born in a Manhattan hospital to parents of Italian and German/English descent, and raised on an ashram run by the late yoga master H.H. Rev. Sri Swami Satchidananda in Pomfret, Connecticut. For his early childhood, he attended a private school on an Ashram farm where his parents raised him and his brother, Leaves. Cuomo`s parents moved to nearby Storrs, Connecticut when the ashram (known as Yogaville) was relocated to a plot of land along the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Cuomo attended E.O. Smith High School, Santa Monica College and Harvard University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. In high school, Rivers played the role of Johnny Casino in the stage production of Grease.

His father, Frank Cuomo played drums on the album Odyssey of Iska, by the jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter. His mother, Beverly named him Rivers because he was born near the running river in New York. Beverly liked the sound of the running water, and that`s where she got her idea for his name.