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NEW YORK CITY
Most Famous People Born in New York City, USA
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Maria Callas
1923 - 1977
Paris Hilton
Born 1981
Humphrey Bogart
1899 - 1957
Rita Hayworth
1918 - 1987
Susan Sarandon
Born 1946
J. Robert Oppenheimer
1904 - 1967
Whoopi Goldberg
Born 1955
Lana Del Rey
Born 1985
J. D. Salinger
1919 - 2010
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Born 1947
John Williams
Born 1932
Arthur Miller
1915 - 2005
Cyndi Lauper
Born 1953
Ben Stiller
Born 1965
Oliver Stone
Born 1946
Burt Lancaster
1913 - 1994
Sigourney Weaver
Born 1949
Boris Johnson
Born 1964
Tony Curtis
1925 - 2010
Charlie Sheen
Born 1965
Christopher Reeve
1952 - 2004
Henry James
1843 - 1916
Billy Joel
Born 1949
Sofia Coppola
Born 1971
James Cagney
1899 - 1986
J. J. Abrams
Born 1966
David Duchovny
Born 1960
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Born 1977
Lenny Kravitz
Born 1964
George Carlin
1937 - 2008
Jack Kirby
1917 - 1994
Tony Bennett
Born 1926
Eugene O'Neill
1888 - 1953
Walter Matthau
1920 - 2000
Pete Seeger
1919 - 2014
Washington Irving
1783 - 1859
Alan Arkin
Born 1934
Lee Marvin
1924 - 1987
Anthony Bourdain
1956 - 2018
Joss Whedon
Born 1964
Emmy Rossum
Born 1986
John Cassavetes
1929 - 1989
Anthony Perkins
1932 - 1992
Diane Lane
Born 1965
Rod Steiger
1925 - 2002
Susan Sontag
1933 - 2004
Steven Tyler
Born 1948
Olivia Wilde
Born 1984
Abigail Breslin
Born 1996
Peter Fonda
1940 - 2019
Sammy Davis Jr.
1925 - 1990
Lena Dunham
Born 1986
Aaron Sorkin
Born 1961
George A. Romero
1940 - 2017
Angela Bassett
Born 1958
Christian Slater
Born 1969
Billy Crystal
Born 1948
Abraham Maslow
1908 - 1970
Robert Vaughn
1932 - 2016
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Born 1968
Harvey Weinstein
Born 1952
Marc Anthony
Born 1968
Mary J. Blige
Born 1971
Jesse McCartney
Born 1987
Cynthia Nixon
Born 1966
Yehudi Menuhin
1916 - 1999
Mario Puzo
1920 - 1999
George Kennedy
1925 - 2016
Sienna Miller
Born 1981
Bryan Singer
Born 1965
Anna Politkovskaya
1958 - 2006
Rosario Dawson
Born 1979
Joe Satriani
Born 1956
Norman Rockwell
1894 - 1978
Emilio Estevez
Born 1962
Steve Reich
Born 1936
Rosanna Arquette
Born 1959
Billy the Kid
1859 - 1881
Julia Stiles
Born 1981
Andy Kaufman
1949 - 1984
John Jay
1745 - 1829
Jon Favreau
Born 1966
Edith Wharton
1862 - 1937
Paul Reubens
Born 1952
Joan Cusack
Born 1962
Diane Arbus
1923 - 1971
Joseph Barbera
1911 - 2006
Cesar Romero
1907 - 1994
Bill Maher
Born 1956
Michael Cimino
1939 - 2016
Dana Delany
Born 1956
Alan Greenspan
Born 1926
Amanda Peet
Born 1972
Samuel P. Huntington
1927 - 2008
George Cukor
1899 - 1983
Jonas Salk
1914 - 1995
Lena Horne
1917 - 2010
Grace Hopper
1906 - 1992
Bea Arthur
1922 - 2009
David Cassidy
1950 - 2017
Don DeLillo
Born 1936
John Carradine
1906 - 1988
Stockard Channing
Born 1944
Dylan O'Brien
Born 1991
George Burns
1896 - 1996
Alexandra Daddario
Born 1986
Wallace Shawn
Born 1943
Lance Henriksen
Born 1940
Marvin Minsky
1927 - 2016
Colin Powell
Born 1937
Bob Kane
1915 - 1998
Robert Mapplethorpe
1946 - 1989
Tom Morello
Born 1964
Kenneth Arrow
1921 - 2017
Bernard Herrmann
1911 - 1975
Neil Simon
1927 - 2018
Jill Clayburgh
1944 - 2010
Téa Leoni
Born 1966
Kyra Sedgwick
Born 1965
Martha Nussbaum
Born 1947
Ving Rhames
Born 1959
Ann Coulter
Born 1961
Joel Schumacher
1939 - 2020
Steven Weinberg
Born 1933
Jerome Bruner
1915 - 2016
Crispin Glover
Born 1964
Luther Vandross
1951 - 2005
Talia Shire
Born 1946
Robert Ludlum
1927 - 2001
Keith David
Born 1956
Alan Silvestri
Born 1950
Michelle Trachtenberg
Born 1985
Amanda Palmer
Born 1976
Suzanne Pleshette
1937 - 2008
Danielle Steel
Born 1947
Mary Higgins Clark
1929 - 2020
Dorothy Day
1897 - 1980
Jennifer Grey
Born 1960
Charlie Kaufman
Born 1958
John Zorn
Born 1953
Richard Rorty
1931 - 2007
Lee J. Cobb
1911 - 1976
George Raft
1901 - 1980
Elmer Bernstein
1922 - 2004
Milton Berle
1908 - 2002
Jerry Orbach
1935 - 2004
William F. Buckley Jr.
1925 - 2008
Topher Grace
Born 1978
Irene Cara
Born 1959
Judy Holliday
1921 - 1965
Sal Mineo
1939 - 1976
René Auberjonois
1940 - 2019
Harold Bloom
1930 - 2019
Billy Dee Williams
Born 1937
Jon Cryer
Born 1965
Richard Avedon
1923 - 2004
Peggy Guggenheim
1898 - 1979
Stephen Lang
Born 1952
Fats Waller
1904 - 1943
Vivian Maier
1926 - 2009
Tito Puente
1922 - 2000
Nile Rodgers
Born 1952
Kelis
Born 1979
David Benioff
Born 1970
Brian Greene
Born 1963
Harpo Marx
1888 - 1964
Marlon Wayans
Born 1972
Amanda Plummer
Born 1957
Jennifer Capriati
Born 1976
Ruth Benedict
1887 - 1948
Lake Bell
Born 1979
Leelee Sobieski
Born 1983
Walter Lippmann
1889 - 1974
Oscar Hammerstein II
1895 - 1960
Celeste Holm
1917 - 2012
Joseph Heller
1923 - 1999
Immanuel Wallerstein
1930 - 2019
Gregory Hines
1946 - 2003
Alvin Toffler
1928 - 2016
Héctor Elizondo
Born 1936
Audre Lorde
1934 - 1992
Armand Assante
Born 1949
Tate Donovan
Born 1963
Fiorello H. La Guardia
1882 - 1947
Edmond O'Brien
1915 - 1985
Afrika Bambaataa
Born 1957
Philip Zimbardo
Born 1933
Veronica Roth
Born 1988
Zoë Wanamaker
Born 1948
Michael McKean
Born 1947
Paul Reiser
Born 1957
Artie Shaw
1910 - 2004
W. Averell Harriman
1891 - 1986
Lesley Ann Warren
Born 1946
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
1909 - 2000
Rachel Platten
Born 1981
Marc Jacobs
Born 1963
Steve Allen
1921 - 2000
Sanaa Lathan
Born 1971
Estelle Getty
1923 - 2008
Carroll O'Connor
1924 - 2001
Michael Kamen
1948 - 2003
William Peter Blatty
1928 - 2017
Frank Grillo
Born 1965
Taj Mahal (musician)
Born 1942
Ally Sheedy
Born 1962
E. L. Doctorow
1931 - 2015
Kieran Culkin
Born 1982
Damon Wayans
Born 1960
Louis Comfort Tiffany
1848 - 1933
Barbara Bel Geddes
1922 - 2005
Jordan Peele
Born 1979
James A. Michener
1907 - 1997
Jerome Robbins
1918 - 1998
Abel Ferrara
Born 1951
Peter Berg
Born 1964
Bill Condon
Born 1955
Frank Morgan
1890 - 1949
Gerry Mulligan
1927 - 1996
Richard Thomas (actor)
Born 1951
Chris Weitz
Born 1969
Martha Plimpton
Born 1970
Katharine Graham
1917 - 2001
Christopher McDonald
Born 1955
Peggy Lipton
1946 - 2019
Julian Schwinger
1918 - 1994
Michael Weatherly
Born 1968
Christopher Guest
Born 1948
Keenan Wynn
1916 - 1986
Lawrence Kohlberg
1927 - 1987
Anthony Franciosa
1928 - 2006
Madeleine L'Engle
1918 - 2007
James Mangold
Born 1963
Campbell Scott
Born 1961
Gertrude B. Elion
1918 - 1999
Barnett Newman
1905 - 1970
Griffin Dunne
Born 1955
Jaron Lanier
Born 1960
Andrew McCarthy
Born 1962
Henry L. Stimson
1867 - 1950
Bruno Kirby
1949 - 2006
Carter Burwell
Born 1954
Lawrence M. Krauss
Born 1954
Akiva Goldsman
Born 1962
Mekhi Phifer
Born 1974
Marcus Miller
Born 1959
Yaphet Kotto
Born 1939
Lyonel Feininger
1871 - 1956
Kenneth Lonergan
Born 1962
Bud Powell
1924 - 1966
Douglas Hofstadter
Born 1945
Troy Donahue
1936 - 2001
Ben Hecht
1894 - 1964
John Spencer (actor)
1946 - 2005
Jake T. Austin
Born 1994
Barry Sonnenfeld
Born 1953
Terry Richardson
Born 1965
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Born 1944
Nick Cassavetes
Born 1959
Charlie Day
Born 1976
Richard Holbrooke
1941 - 2010
Julian Casablancas
Born 1979
Cam'ron
Born 1976
Peter Benchley
1940 - 2006
Lily Rabe
Born 1982
Buck Henry
1930 - 2020
Dash Mihok
Born 1974
Pauley Perrette
Born 1969
Devon Aoki
Born 1982
Frederik Pohl
1919 - 2013
Donald Faison
Born 1974
Ed McBain
1926 - 2005
Tom Lehrer
Born 1928
Robert Moog
1934 - 2005
Doug Liman
Born 1965
George P. Shultz
Born 1920
David Baltimore
Born 1938
Bob Menendez
Born 1954
Olivia Thirlby
Born 1986
F. Gary Gray
Born 1969
Huey Lewis
Born 1950
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
1918 - 2014
Harry Carey (actor)
1878 - 1947
Donna Karan
Born 1948
Samuel R. Delany
Born 1942
Chris Elliott
Born 1960
Emma Lazarus
1849 - 1887
Jason Beghe
Born 1960
Constance Bennett
1904 - 1965
Sally Kirkland
Born 1941
Alice Faye
1915 - 1998
Liam Aiken
Born 1990
Edith Roosevelt
1861 - 1948
Richard Benjamin
Born 1938
Irwin Shaw
1913 - 1984
Tuesday Weld
Born 1943
Terence Trent D'Arby
Born 1962
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Born 1958
Kim Raver
Born 1969