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Most Famous People Born in New York City, USA
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Stan Lee
1922 - 2018
Scarlett Johansson
Born 1984
Bernie Sanders
Born 1941
Michael Jordan
Born 1963
Christina Aguilera
Born 1980
Barbra Streisand
Born 1942
Anne Hathaway
Born 1982
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Carl Sagan
1934 - 1996
Al Pacino
Born 1940
Maria Callas
1923 - 1977
Paris Hilton
Born 1981
Humphrey Bogart
1899 - 1957
Rita Hayworth
1918 - 1987
Susan Sarandon
Born 1946
Robert Downey Jr.
Born 1965
J. Robert Oppenheimer
1904 - 1967
Milton Friedman
1912 - 2006
Mike Tyson
Born 1966
Joan Baez
Born 1941
Whoopi Goldberg
Born 1955
Aaliyah
1979 - 2001
Lana Del Rey
Born 1985
J. D. Salinger
1919 - 2010
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Born 1947
Jay-Z
Born 1969
John Williams
Born 1932
Arthur Miller
1915 - 2005
Eddie Murphy
Born 1961
Eleanor Roosevelt
1884 - 1962
Cyndi Lauper
Born 1953
Ben Stiller
Born 1965
Nancy Reagan
1921 - 2016
Oliver Stone
Born 1946
Herman Melville
1819 - 1891
Burt Lancaster
1913 - 1994
Sigourney Weaver
Born 1949
Boris Johnson
Born 1964
Mel Brooks
Born 1926
Tony Curtis
1925 - 2010
Mickey Rooney
1920 - 2014
Steve Buscemi
Born 1957
George Gershwin
1898 - 1937
Adam Sandler
Born 1966
Charlie Sheen
Born 1965
Peter Falk
1927 - 2011
Christopher Reeve
1952 - 2004
Henry James
1843 - 1916
Billy Joel
Born 1949
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1960 - 1988
Richard Stallman
Born 1953
Barbara Stanwyck
1907 - 1990
Sofia Coppola
Born 1971
James Cagney
1899 - 1986
J. J. Abrams
Born 1966
Groucho Marx
1890 - 1977
Joan Rivers
1933 - 2014
Brooke Shields
Born 1965
David Duchovny
Born 1960
Al Capone
1899 - 1947
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Born 1977
Lenny Kravitz
Born 1964
Claire Danes
Born 1979
Norah Jones
Born 1979
George Carlin
1937 - 2008
Jack Kirby
1917 - 1994
Nas
Born 1973
Marisa Tomei
Born 1964
Tony Bennett
Born 1926
Darren Aronofsky
Born 1969
Eugene O'Neill
1888 - 1953
Jon Stewart
Born 1962
Neil Diamond
Born 1941
Walter Matthau
1920 - 2000
Pete Seeger
1919 - 2014
The Notorious B.I.G.
1972 - 1997
Washington Irving
1783 - 1859
Alan Arkin
Born 1934
Lee Marvin
1924 - 1987
Anthony Bourdain
1956 - 2018
Richard Dreyfuss
Born 1947
Corbin Bleu
Born 1989
Joss Whedon
Born 1964
Emmy Rossum
Born 1986
Melanie Griffith
Born 1957
Mae West
1893 - 1980
John Turturro
Born 1957
Alan Alda
Born 1936
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Born 1977
Martin Landau
1928 - 2017
John Cassavetes
1929 - 1989
Eli Wallach
1915 - 2014
Anthony Perkins
1932 - 1992
Carole King
Born 1942
Diane Lane
Born 1965
Harvey Keitel
Born 1939
Macaulay Culkin
Born 1980
Rod Steiger
1925 - 2002
Roy Lichtenstein
1923 - 1997
Matthew Broderick
Born 1962
Éamon de Valera
1882 - 1975
Susan Sontag
1933 - 2004
Steven Tyler
Born 1948
Olivia Wilde
Born 1984
Abigail Breslin
Born 1996
Peter Fonda
1940 - 2019
Jerry Seinfeld
Born 1954
Jackie Gleason
1916 - 1987
Sammy Davis Jr.
1925 - 1990
Lena Dunham
Born 1986
Mary Tyler Moore
1936 - 2017
Aaron Sorkin
Born 1961
George A. Romero
1940 - 2017
Angela Bassett
Born 1958
Christian Slater
Born 1969
Ivanka Trump
Born 1981
Billy Crystal
Born 1948
Laura Linney
Born 1964
Abraham Maslow
1908 - 1970
Aaron Copland
1900 - 1990
Robert Vaughn
1932 - 2016
Danny Kaye
1913 - 1987
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Born 1968
Harvey Weinstein
Born 1952
Idina Menzel
Born 1971
Marc Anthony
Born 1968
Mary J. Blige
Born 1971
Jesse McCartney
Born 1987
Melissa Leo
Born 1960
Cynthia Nixon
Born 1966
Yehudi Menuhin
1916 - 1999
Barry Manilow
Born 1943
Mario Puzo
1920 - 1999
George Kennedy
1925 - 2016
Al Franken
Born 1951
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 Louis-Dreyfus
Born 1961
Susan Hayward
1917 - 1975
Julia Stiles
Born 1981
Andy Kaufman
1949 - 1984
John Jay
1745 - 1829
Stephen Sondheim
Born 1930
Larry King
Born 1933
Priscilla Presley
Born 1945
Jon Favreau
Born 1966
Edith Wharton
1862 - 1937
Paul Reubens
Born 1952
David Rockefeller
1915 - 2017
Joan Cusack
Born 1962
Diane Arbus
1923 - 1971
Clara Bow
1905 - 1965
Joseph Barbera
1911 - 2006
Jimmy Fallon
Born 1974
Cesar Romero
1907 - 1994
Lou Gehrig
1903 - 1941
Bill Maher
Born 1956
Michael Cimino
1939 - 2016
Dana Delany
Born 1956
Alan Greenspan
Born 1926
Howard Zinn
1922 - 2010
Gene Tierney
1920 - 1991
Debra Messing
Born 1968
Chevy Chase
Born 1943
Amanda Peet
Born 1972
Samuel P. Huntington
1927 - 2008
David O. Russell
Born 1958
Mos Def
Born 1973
George Cukor
1899 - 1983
Vincent D'Onofrio
Born 1959
Jonas Salk
1914 - 1995
Lena Horne
1917 - 2010
Grace Hopper
1906 - 1992
Bea Arthur
1922 - 2009
David Cassidy
1950 - 2017
Amy Schumer
Born 1981
Don DeLillo
Born 1936
Henry Winkler
Born 1945
John Carradine
1906 - 1988
Stockard Channing
Born 1944
Dylan O'Brien
Born 1991
George Burns
1896 - 1996
Robert Loggia
1930 - 2015
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
Ben Gazzara
1930 - 2012
Sarah Hyland
Born 1990
Tom Morello
Born 1964
Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
Born 1949
Kenneth Arrow
1921 - 2017
Bernard Herrmann
1911 - 1975
Neil Simon
1927 - 2018
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1933 - 2020
Maurice Sendak
1928 - 2012
Debbie Gibson
Born 1970
Jill Clayburgh
1944 - 2010
Téa Leoni
Born 1966
Kyra Sedgwick
Born 1965
Rudy Giuliani
Born 1944
Robert Nozick
1938 - 2002
Elliott Gould
Born 1938
James L. Brooks
Born 1940
Louis Gossett Jr.
Born 1936
Lee Grant
Born 1927
Martha Nussbaum
Born 1947
Barbara Bush
1925 - 2018
Ving Rhames
Born 1959
Caroline Kennedy
Born 1957
Ann Coulter
Born 1961
Joel Schumacher
1939 - 2020
Veronica Lake
1922 - 1973
Steven Weinberg
Born 1933
Jerome Bruner
1915 - 2016
Asa Akira
Born 1985
Crispin Glover
Born 1964
Luther Vandross
1951 - 2005
Jeremy Piven
Born 1965
Talia Shire
Born 1946
Janet Yellen
Born 1946
Robert Ludlum
1927 - 2001
Keith David
Born 1956
Steve Guttenberg
Born 1958
Alan Silvestri
Born 1950
Michelle Trachtenberg
Born 1985
Marvin Hamlisch
1944 - 2012
Amanda Palmer
Born 1976
Suzanne Pleshette
1937 - 2008
Danielle Steel
Born 1947
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Born 1980
Edie Falco
Born 1963
Mary Higgins Clark
1929 - 2020
Dorothy Day
1897 - 1980
Jennifer Grey
Born 1960
Charlie Kaufman
Born 1958
Joe Dassin
1938 - 1980
Ansel Elgort
Born 1994
Gilbert Gottfried
Born 1955
Buddy Rich
1917 - 1987
Pat Benatar
Born 1953
Jimmy Smits
Born 1955
John Zorn
Born 1953
Richard Rorty
1931 - 2007
Joan Blondell
1906 - 1979
Lee J. Cobb
1911 - 1976
George Raft
1901 - 1980
Lorraine Bracco
Born 1954
Elmer Bernstein
1922 - 2004
Milton Berle
1908 - 2002
Robert Solow
Born 1924
Dom DeLuise
1933 - 2009
Jerry Orbach
1935 - 2004
William F. Buckley Jr.
1925 - 2008
Topher Grace
Born 1978
Tab Hunter
1931 - 2018
Utada Hikaru
Born 1983
Julian Schnabel
Born 1951
Irene Cara
Born 1959
Bob Cousy
Born 1928
Julius Erving
Born 1950
Judy Holliday
1921 - 1965
Sal Mineo
1939 - 1976
Bobby McFerrin
Born 1950
René Auberjonois
1940 - 2019
Alex Rodriguez
Born 1975
Harold Bloom
1930 - 2019
Tim Daly
Born 1956
Billy Dee Williams
Born 1937
Jon Cryer
Born 1965
Richard Avedon
1923 - 2004
Neil Sedaka
Born 1939
Irving Thalberg
1899 - 1936
Peggy Guggenheim
1898 - 1979
Harvey Fierstein
Born 1954
Carmelo Anthony
Born 1984
Stephen Lang
Born 1952
Fats Waller
1904 - 1943
Will Eisner
1917 - 2005
Jennifer Esposito
Born 1973
Vivian Maier
1926 - 2009
Tito Puente
1922 - 2000
Nile Rodgers
Born 1952
Kelis
Born 1979
David Benioff
Born 1970
Harry Nilsson
1941 - 1994
Josh Peck
Born 1986
Brian Greene
Born 1963
Harpo Marx
1888 - 1964