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ALBANY
Most Famous People Born in Albany, United States
- Notable people
- 625
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1923
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 4.8×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Albany during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 52 notable births.
What Albany Is Known For
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Politician is Albany's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (81).
Albany over-indexes on baseball — 4.8× the global rate.
Albany under-produces painter — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Albany's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Sports
- Film & TV
- Science
- Writing
- Military
- Other
Ray Charles
1930 - 2004
Paul Krugman
Born 1953
Marion Zimmer Bradley
1930 - 1999
Philip Sheridan
1831 - 1888
Kirsten Gillibrand
Born 1966
John McTiernan
Born 1951
Leslie Groves
1896 - 1970
Pamela Adlon
Born 1966
Joseph Henry
1797 - 1878
Phillip Phillips
Born 1990
Harry James
1916 - 1983
William Devane
Born 1937
Bret Harte
1836 - 1902
Charles Fort
1874 - 1932
Martin Seligman
Born 1942
Robert S. Langer
Born 1948
Philip Schuyler
1733 - 1804
Learned Hand
1872 - 1961
William Livingston
1723 - 1790
Walter De Maria
1935 - 2013
Ashton Holmes
Born 1978
Andy Rooney
1919 - 2011
Elise Stefanik
Born 1984
William Kennedy (author)
Born 1928
Paula Deen
Born 1947
Roscoe Conkling
1829 - 1888
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
1757 - 1854
John Litel
1892 - 1972
Gregory Maguire
Born 1954
Bobby Rush
Born 1946
Michael Wong (actor)
Born 1965
Jean Bartik
1924 - 2011
Charlayne Woodard
Born 1953
Theobald Smith
1859 - 1934
Alice Coachman
1923 - 2014
Kenny Aronoff
Born 1953
Chad Michael Collins
Born 1979
Angelo Taylor
Born 1978
Luke Rhinehart
1932 - 2020
Gerald Brom
Born 1965
Matt Freeman
Born 1966
Lil Debbie
Born 1990
Bert Sommer
1949 - 1990
Reid Scott (actor)
Born 1977
Philip Livingston
1716 - 1778
James Carpinello
Born 1975
Joe Roberts
1871 - 1923
Bobby Fish
Born 1976
Marshall Rosenbluth
1927 - 2003
David Markson
1927 - 2010
Jan Kerouac
1952 - 1996
Adam LeFevre
Born 1950
Jo Marie Payton
Born 1950
Wallingford Riegger
1885 - 1961
William C. Redfield
1858 - 1932
Carolee Carmello
Born 1962
Leigh Van Valen
1935 - 2010
Russell Malone
Born 1963
Henry Rathbone
1837 - 1911
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Born 1942
Lionel Chalmers
Born 1980
Jane Stanford
1828 - 1905
Michael Patrick Jann
Born 1970
Daniel Manning
1831 - 1887
Stefon Harris
Born 1973
Angelica Schuyler Church
1757 - 1814
Kevin Huerter
Born 1998
Christian Finnegan
Born 1973
William L. Dawson (politician)
1886 - 1970
Kim Walker-Smith
Born 1981
John Lansing Jr.
1754 - 1829
William Lemke
1878 - 1950
Stanley Falkow
1934 - 2018
Ai (poet)
1947 - 2010
Deion Branch
Born 1979
Ray Knight
Born 1952
Dion Lewis
Born 1990
Edwin J. Burke
1889 - 1944
T. J. Cloutier
Born 1939
Pete Turner (photographer)
1934 - 2017
Myron McCormick
1908 - 1962
Edward Hand
1744 - 1802
A. Oakey Hall
1826 - 1898
Clelia Duel Mosher
1863 - 1940
Allen Mandelbaum
1926 - 2011
Nicole Stott
Born 1962
Paul Preuss (author)
Born 1942
Ricardo Lockette
Born 1986
Homer Dodge Martin
1836 - 1897
Pieter Schuyler
1657 - 1724
Dalton Castle (wrestler)
Born 1986
Brooke Mueller
Born 1977
Preston Leslie
1819 - 1907
Wadsworth Jarrell
Born 1929
James Livingston (American Revolution)
1747 - 1832
Sara Berner
1912 - 1969
Nate Walcott
Born 1978
Florence Auer
1880 - 1962
Harold Chestnut
1917 - 2001
Ginny Brown-Waite
Born 1943
Charles Warren Eaton
1857 - 1937
Shane Jones (author)
Born 1980
William Gedney
1932 - 1989
Joseph Bradford Carr
1828 - 1895
Lavor Postell
Born 1978
Benjamin Boss
1880 - 1970
Henry James Sr.
1811 - 1882
Eli P. Ashmun
1770 - 1819
Clara Harris
1834 - 1883
Russell Todd
Born 1958
William Page (painter)
1811 - 1885
Peter Gansevoort
1749 - 1812
Alexander Johnson
Born 1983
David H. Kelley
1924 - 2011
Gregory Jaczko
Born 1970
Champ Ferguson
1821 - 1865
Harry Ackerman
1912 - 1991
Brian Lashoff
Born 1990
Edith Clements
1877 - 1971
Brendan Harris
Born 1980
Rufus W. Peckham
1838 - 1909
Emanuel Rackman
1910 - 2008
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
1845 - 1923
Chann McRae
Born 1971
Dorothy P. Lathrop
1891 - 1980
Robyn Adele Anderson
Born 1989
Paul Edwin Zimmer
1943 - 1997
Sam C. Ford
1882 - 1961
Hamilton Fish II
1849 - 1936
Charles Williams (actor)
1898 - 1958
Dontonio Wingfield
Born 1974
Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
1768 - 1835
Henry S. Thibodaux
1769 - 1827
Erica Schroeder
Born 1975
Jon Bogdanove
Born 1958
Mark Mahowald
1931 - 2013
Mark Klett
Born 1952
Henry Bell Van Rensselaer
1810 - 1864
Robin Hunicke
Born 1973
Philip Livingston (1686–1749)
1686 - 1749
John McKeon
1808 - 1883
Thomas J. Hennen
Born 1952
Ward Crane
1890 - 1928
Peter Ciavaglia
Born 1969
Edward McCartan
1879 - 1947
Romeyn Beck Hough
1857 - 1924
Amelia Marshall
Born 1958
Martin S. Weinberg
Born 1939
Chick Halbert
1919 - 2013
Caroline Campbell
Born 1980
Carol Menken-Schaudt
Born 1957
John Twist
1898 - 1976
John V. L. Pruyn
1811 - 1877
John Schuyler Crosby
1839 - 1914
J. Arthur Younger
1893 - 1967
Robert F. Lyons (actor)
Born 1939
William J. Florence
1831 - 1891
Will Hicok Low
1853 - 1933
Harmanus Bleecker
1779 - 1849
Peter Van Brugh Livingston
1710 - 1792
Loretta Preska
Born 1949
Joseph F. Girzone
1930 - 2015
Martha Quinn
Born 1959
Cy Seymour
1872 - 1919
Henry Waldron
1819 - 1880
Rudy Winkler
Born 1994
Kent Mitchell
Born 1939
John P. Lewis
1921 - 2010
Winifred Goldring
1888 - 1971
Abraham Yates Jr.
1724 - 1796
Reginald D. Hunter
Born 1969
Jeanne L. Noble
1926 - 2002
John Bahnsen
Born 1934
Donald Johnston (rower)
1899 - 1984
Sanford A. Moeller
1879 - 1961
Robert Chazan
Born 1936
Menachem Kellner
Born 1946
Gerrit Y. Lansing
1783 - 1862
James B. Kaler
Born 1938
Alice Morgan Wright
1881 - 1975
Theodosia Burr Alston
1783 - 1813
James Mann (writer)
Born 1946
Sarah Cain
Born 1979
James Steven Rausch
1928 - 1981
Lee Ziemba
Born 1989
Alida Schuyler
1656 - 1727
Kregg Lumpkin
Born 1984
Emily Axford
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Homer Eon Flint
1888 - 1924
William Allen Butler
1825 - 1902
Leonard Gansevoort
1751 - 1810
Jim Fowler
1932 - 2019
Larry Turner (basketball)
Born 1982
Travis Richter
Born 1981
Philip Hamilton
1782 - 1801
Abraham Lansing
1835 - 1899
Robert H. Pruyn
1815 - 1882
Abraham G. Lansing
1756 - 1834
Ben Clyde
Born 1951
Robert Livingston (1688–1775)
1688 - 1775
Herman Knickerbocker
1779 - 1855
Hal Breeden
Born 1944
Charles W. Bell
1857 - 1927
William Alvord
1833 - 1904
John Furlong (American actor)
1933 - 2008
Jessie Busley
1869 - 1950
Parker Corning
1874 - 1943
Asa Brainard
1841 - 1888
Norman C. Armitage
1907 - 1972
Kevin Warsh
Born 1970
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Born 1969
John Van Ness Yates
1779 - 1839
Edwin Durno
1899 - 1976
Rensselaer Westerlo
1776 - 1851
Charles Tracey
1847 - 1905
Fernando Bryant
Born 1977
Gerard Bancker
1740 - 1799
Stephen Luce
1827 - 1917
Kathleen Vinehout
Born 1958
Joseph T. Ryan
1913 - 2000
Thomas Williams (Union general)
1815 - 1862
Andrew Garrett (explorer)
1823 - 1887
John L. Schoolcraft
1806 - 1860
Robert Wyche Davis
1849 - 1929
Simon W. Rosendale
1842 - 1937
Donald Prentice Booth
1902 - 1993
John Rathbone Oliver
1872 - 1943
Charles King (general)
1844 - 1933
William E. Dyess
1916 - 1943
Henry B. Metcalfe
1805 - 1881
Walter Strenge
1898 - 1974
Erastus Corning 2nd
1909 - 1983
Marcus Campbell (basketball)
Born 1982
John Hilton (American football)
1942 - 2017
Peter W. Yates
1747 - 1826
Walter P. Lewis
1866 - 1932
Gene Cretz
Born 1950
Clifford Goldstein
Born 1955
Alvin Ganzer
1911 - 2009
Angel Tompkins
Born 1942
James Cochran (New York politician)
1769 - 1848
Louis Slobodkin
1903 - 1975
Edwin Corning
1883 - 1934
Alexander Boyd
1764 - 1857
Gerald Jennings
Born 1948
Mark Taylor (American politician)
Born 1957
Bobby Deen
Born 1970
Danny Daniels
1924 - 2017
Daryl Smith
Born 1982
Edmund H. Garrett
1853 - 1929
Elizabeth Hughes Gossett
1907 - 1981
Marc Cavosie
Born 1981
Doug Jeffries
Born 1966
Demetric Bennett
Born 1985
John C. Coffee
Born 1944
George N. Southwick
1863 - 1912
Catherine Van Rensselaer
1734 - 1803
Edward Smith Deevey Jr.
1914 - 1988
Dwight Hooker
1928 - 2015
Terence J. Quinn
1836 - 1878
Frederic P. Olcott
1841 - 1909
Verplanck Colvin
1847 - 1920
Joe Mahoney
Born 1987
Stephen Van Rensselaer IV
1789 - 1868
Lisa Beamer
Born 1969
Gerrit L. Dox
1784 - 1847
Kristie Marano
Born 1979
James Eights
1798 - 1882
T. Garry Buckley
1922 - 2012
D. A. Powell
Born 1963
John K. Kane
1795 - 1858
Andre Young (basketball)
Born 1990
Bryant Haliday
1928 - 1996
Michael Mastro (actor)
Born 1962
Amir Imam
Born 1990
Gregory Orr (poet)
Born 1947
Garlin Murl Conner
1919 - 1998
Marian Van Landingham
Born 1937
Gordon Ackerman
Born 1931
Wheeler Hazard Peckham
1833 - 1905
John McEneny
Born 1943
Walter Launt Palmer
1854 - 1932
Roger McNamee
Born 1956
John C. Davies II
1920 - 2002
Iris Smith (wrestler)
Born 1979
Harmanus Peek
1782 - 1838
Frederick Townsend Martin
1849 - 1914
Fred Guardineer
1913 - 2002
Donald Laster
Born 1958
Charles Christopher Trowbridge
1800 - 1883
Thomas Welton Stanford
1832 - 1918
Bonnie J. Blackburn
Born 1939
John Wesley Hillman
1832 - 1915
Robert Livingston (1708–1790)
1708 - 1790
Peggy Schuyler
1758 - 1801
Thomas E. Murray
1860 - 1929
Paul Fenimore Cooper
1899 - 1970
Tim Thelen
Born 1961
Catharine Weed Barnes
1851 - 1913
Jaime Schultz
Born 1991