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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×
Through the Decades

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.

  1. Politician81
  2. Football52
  3. Lawyer50
  4. Actor49
  5. Baseball34
  6. Writer21
  7. Officer18
  8. Basket17
  1. Baseball344.8×
  2. Lawyer504.6×
  3. Officer184.4×
  4. Basket172.2×
  5. Judge62.0×
  1. Painter90.6×

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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0071 LAWYER

John Lansing Jr.

1754 - 1829

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0083 LAWYER

A. Oakey Hall

1826 - 1898

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0121 LAWYER

Rufus W. Peckham

1838 - 1909

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0141 LAWYER

John McKeon

1808 - 1883

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0153 LAWYER

John V. L. Pruyn

1811 - 1877

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0161 LAWYER

Loretta Preska

Born 1949

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0170 LAWYER

Abraham Yates Jr.

1724 - 1796

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0178 LAWYER

Gerrit Y. Lansing

1783 - 1862

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0190 LAWYER

William Allen Butler

1825 - 1902

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0191 LAWYER

Leonard Gansevoort

1751 - 1810

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0196 LAWYER

Abraham Lansing

1835 - 1899

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0197 LAWYER

Robert H. Pruyn

1815 - 1882

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0201 LAWYER

Herman Knickerbocker

1779 - 1855

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0212 LAWYER

John Van Ness Yates

1779 - 1839

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0214 LAWYER

Rensselaer Westerlo

1776 - 1851

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0225 LAWYER

Simon W. Rosendale

1842 - 1937

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0235 LAWYER

Peter W. Yates

1747 - 1826

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0255 LAWYER

John C. Coffee

Born 1944

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0271 LAWYER

John K. Kane

1795 - 1858

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0280 LAWYER

Wheeler Hazard Peckham

1833 - 1905

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0286 LAWYER

Harmanus Peek

1782 - 1838

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0301 LAWYER

Theodric Romeyn Beck

1791 - 1855

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0302 LAWYER

Edward King (Ohio politician)

1795 - 1836

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0305 LAWYER

Jerry Pappert

Born 1963

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0312 LAWYER

Andrew L. Carter Jr.

Born 1969

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0318 LAWYER

Theodore Sedgwick (writer)

1811 - 1859

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0322 LAWYER

John Duer

1782 - 1852

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0332 LAWYER

Leigh Martin May

Born 1971

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0346 LAWYER

Ken Hodges

Born 1965

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0363 LAWYER

Amanda Williams

Born 1946

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0371 LAWYER

Mae D'Agostino

Born 1954

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0381 LAWYER

Francis Bloodgood

1775 - 1840

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0386 LAWYER

Neil Breslin

Born 1942

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0397 LAWYER

Lawrence T. Harris

1873 - 1960

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0404 LAWYER

Robert Lansing (state senator)

1799 - 1878

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0420 LAWYER

John J. Ghezzi

1911 - 1983

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0428 LAWYER

Ron Saxton

Born 1954

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0453 LAWYER

Peter Gansevoort (politician)

1788 - 1876

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0457 LAWYER

Stephen P. Nash

1821 - 1898

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0458 LAWYER

Patricia Dillon Cafferata

Born 1940

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0465 LAWYER

Andrew W. Needham

Born 1960

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0504 LAWYER

Wilbur Dawson Owens Jr.

1930 - 2010

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0525 LAWYER

Carlos Spaht

1906 - 2001

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0546 LAWYER

Edward Whitson

1852 - 1910

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0567 LAWYER

Henry Twombly

Born 1862

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0593 LAWYER

Edward Everett McCall

1863 - 1924

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0596 LAWYER

Samuel T. Richardson

1857 - 1921

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0614 LAWYER

Joseph Raymond Jackson

1880 - 1969

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0616 LAWYER

Ambrose O'Connell

1881 - 1962

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0624 LAWYER

Edward S. Kampf

1900 - 1971

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