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LONG ISLAND CITY
Most Famous People Born in Long Island City, United States
- Notable people
- 1,037
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1959
- Most distinctive
- Rapper 21.1×
Queens-adjacent and culturally inseparable from it, which is why the Rapper bench here runs at better than twenty-one times the global baseline — this is Queensbridge territory, the hip-hop equivalent of Liverpool's Cavern Club spread across a few square miles. The outsized Basket and Producer counts tell the rest of the story: street courts and bedroom studios feeding the same cultural pipeline, with a thick Screenwriter bump quietly trailing the neighborhood's film-school graduates.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Long Island City during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Long Island City Is Known For
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Actor is Long Island City's biggest profession — 16% of all notables (167).
Long Island City over-indexes on rapper — 21.1× the global rate.
Long Island City under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Long Island City's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Film & TV
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- Filtered to 1920s Clear ×
Don Rickles
1926 - 2017
Patrick McGoohan
1928 - 2009
Jack Cassidy
1927 - 1976
Gerald Edelman
1929 - 2014
Iris Apfel
Born 1921
Dick Van Patten
1928 - 2015
George Maharis
Born 1928
Stanley Schachter
1922 - 1997
Barbara Nichols
1928 - 1976
Barney Martin
1923 - 2005
Don Heck
1929 - 1995
Frank Aletter
1926 - 2009
Al McGuire
1928 - 2001
Sue Kaufman
1926 - 1977
Florence Halop
1923 - 1986
Marie Van Brittan Brown
1929 - 1999
Stanley Moss
Born 1925
Sully Boyar
1924 - 2001
Herbert Gutman
1928 - 1985
Marie Maynard Daly
1921 - 2003
Joseph P. Addabbo
1925 - 1986
Bob Fitzgerald (basketball)
1923 - 1983
Grace Renzi
1922 - 2011
Louis Lasagna
1923 - 2003
Edgar Gilbert
1923 - 2013
Dick Fitzgerald (basketball)
1920 - 1968
Ed Leede
1927 - 2018
Sam Mele
1922 - 2017
William M. Feehan
1929 - 2001
Abner W. Sibal
1921 - 2000
Gerald S. Lesser
1926 - 2010
Charles James McDonnell
1928 - 2020
Lee R. Bobker
1925 - 1999
Arnold Demain
1927 - 2020
Robert Farrar Capon
1925 - 2013
Louise Reiss
1920 - 2011
Ray Wertis
1922 - 2006
Arnold S. Relman
1923 - 2014
June Blum
1929 - 2017
Gerard Nierenberg
1923 - 2012
Alfred Gescheidt
1926 - 2012
Jack Curtis (voice actor)
1926 - 1970
Billy Loes
1929 - 2010
Frank X. Altimari
1928 - 1998
Crosby Bonsall
1921 - 2014
Penny Edwards (actress)
1928 - 1998
Dick Poillon
1920 - 1994
Diana Decker
1924 - 2019
Carolyn Cohen
1929 - 2017
Buddy Kerr
1922 - 2006
Norman Mapp
1928 - 1988
Chris Haughey
Born 1925
Gordon McKenzie (athlete)
1927 - 2013
Charley Feeney
1924 - 2014
Bill Zinser
1920 - 2001
Nettie Mayersohn
1926 - 2020
Robert Gale
1925 - 1975
George Onorato
1928 - 2015
Arthur R. Albohn
1921 - 2008
Nicholas Ferraro
1928 - 1984
Robert E. Kuttner
1927 - 1987
Ramona Ripston
1927 - 2018
Bill Walker (Toledo basketball)
Born 1920
John J. Pesch
1921 - 2010
Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Hyland
1927 - 2012
Toni Carabillo
1926 - 1997
William J. Pattison
1921 - 1943
Merton B. Myers
1921 - 1943
Joseph Loewenstein
Born 1925