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NEW YORK CITY
Most Famous People Born in New York City, USA
- Notable people
- 22,064
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- Median birth year
- 1935
- Most distinctive
- Screenwriter 5.4×
If the 20th century held a casting call, it was in New York. Almost all of the city's notable births fall after 1900, fueled by an entertainment economy — Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, the studio system, late-night TV, hip-hop in the Bronx — that has minted more actors, comedians, and musicians than any other American city. Even its 19th-century names skew literary: poets, editors, journalists, not generals or industrialists.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What New York City Is Known For
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Actor is New York City's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (3,012).
New York City over-indexes on screenwriter — 5.4× the global rate.
New York City under-produces football — only 0.1× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of New York City's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Al Smith
1873 - 1944
Lyonel Feininger
1871 - 1956
Harry Carey (actor)
1878 - 1947
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
1875 - 1942
Benjamin N. Cardozo
1870 - 1938
Frank Marshall (chess player)
1877 - 1944
William Beebe
1877 - 1962
Consuelo Vanderbilt
1877 - 1964
James Truslow Adams
1878 - 1949
Edward Kasner
1878 - 1955
Herbert H. Lehman
1878 - 1963
Charles R. Knight
1874 - 1953
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
1877 - 1940
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor
1879 - 1952
John Russell Pope
1874 - 1937
Walter Hampden
1879 - 1955
Willie Keeler
1872 - 1923
Samuel S. Hinds
1875 - 1948
Lucy Burns
1879 - 1966
Claire McDowell
1877 - 1966
Helen Westley
1875 - 1942
George Irving (American actor)
1874 - 1961
Clarence Day
1874 - 1935
Archer Milton Huntington
1870 - 1955
Marcus Loew
1870 - 1927
Alfred Chester Beatty
1875 - 1968
Alice Duer Miller
1874 - 1942
Beatrix Farrand
1872 - 1959
Francis Burton Harrison
1873 - 1957
George Mundelein
1872 - 1939
Katherine Sophie Dreier
1877 - 1952
Margaret Floy Washburn
1871 - 1939
Hans Zinsser
1878 - 1940
Conway Tearle
1878 - 1938
Elsie Clews Parsons
1875 - 1941
Edmund Breese
1871 - 1936
Anne Morgan (philanthropist)
1873 - 1952
William Kissam Vanderbilt II
1878 - 1944
Natalie Curtis
1875 - 1921
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I
1877 - 1915
John Erskine (educator)
1879 - 1951
Phillips Smalley
1875 - 1939
Walt Kuhn
1877 - 1949
Albert Herter
1871 - 1950
William H. Phelps Sr.
1875 - 1965
Joel Elias Spingarn
1875 - 1939
Frank Schlesinger
1871 - 1943
Edward Dillon (actor)
1879 - 1933
Cornelius Vanderbilt III
1873 - 1942
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
1871 - 1939
Malcolm Whitman
1877 - 1932
Adelaide Crapsey
1878 - 1914
Rubin Goldmark
1872 - 1936
Charles W. Gilmore
1874 - 1945
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
1870 - 1957
Robert Sterling Clark
1877 - 1956
Vera Lewis
1873 - 1956
Arthur Byron
1872 - 1943
Blanche Friderici
1878 - 1933
Peter G. Gerry
1879 - 1957
Harry Payne Whitney
1872 - 1930
Joseph Medill Patterson
1879 - 1946
William Conklin
1872 - 1935
Harrison Fisher
1877 - 1934
Percy MacKaye
1875 - 1956
Florence Jaffray Harriman
1870 - 1967
William King Gregory
1876 - 1970
John Hendley Barnhart
1871 - 1949
Edward Knoblock
1874 - 1945
James Hazen Hyde
1876 - 1959
Henry E. Bliss
1870 - 1955
Tasker Oddie
1870 - 1950
Eva Palmer-Sikelianos
1874 - 1952
Edward Fielding
1875 - 1945
Condé Nast (businessman)
1873 - 1942
Holcombe Ward
1878 - 1967
Frank Polk
1871 - 1943
Bess Houdini
1876 - 1943
Alice Vanderbilt Morris
1874 - 1950
Oliver Campbell
1871 - 1953
John Ince (actor)
1878 - 1947
Edmund Mortimer (actor)
1874 - 1944
John Golden
1874 - 1955
Granville Roland Fortescue
1875 - 1952
Harry C. Oberholser
1870 - 1963
Paul J. Sachs
1878 - 1965
Virginia Gildersleeve
1877 - 1965
Peter Norman Nissen
1871 - 1930
Charles A. Ellwood
1873 - 1946
Glen MacDonough
1870 - 1924
Frank Jay Gould
1877 - 1956
Kenneth Kent Mackenzie
1877 - 1934
Jesse I. Straus
1872 - 1936
Owen Johnson (writer)
1878 - 1952
Anna Gould
1875 - 1961
Paul McAllister
1875 - 1955
Charles Inslee
1870 - 1922
Marie Cahill
1870 - 1933
Paul Chalfin
1874 - 1959
Robert Winthrop Chanler
1872 - 1930
Abe Holzmann
1874 - 1939
Fred J. Balshofer
1877 - 1969
Henry Sloane Coffin
1877 - 1954
Sydney Ayres
1879 - 1916
John Henry Lake
Born 1877
Grace Vanderbilt
1870 - 1953
Otto Hoffman
1879 - 1944
Ellery Sedgwick
1872 - 1960
Joe Ruddy
1878 - 1962
Alvin Wyckoff
1877 - 1957
Hugo Ballin
1879 - 1956
Edward Francis Hutton
1875 - 1962
Léonie Gilmour
1873 - 1933
Emilio de Gogorza
1874 - 1949
John Bissinger
1879 - 1941
Edward Madden
1878 - 1952
Payne Whitney
1876 - 1927
Hermann Helms
1870 - 1963
Clarence Mackay
1874 - 1938
Eleonora de Cisneros
1878 - 1934
May Wilson Preston
1873 - 1949
Paul Kelly (criminal)
1876 - 1936
Paul Dougherty (artist)
1877 - 1947
George Louis Beer
1872 - 1920
John J. Fitzgerald
1872 - 1952
Lewis Einstein
1877 - 1967
Neal Hart
1870 - 1949
Elisabeth Moore
1876 - 1959
William Alanson White
1870 - 1937
Robert Farnan (rower)
1877 - 1939
Wallace Morgan
1875 - 1948
Mildred Barnes Bliss
1879 - 1969
Lawrence Feuerbach
1879 - 1911
Gifford Beal
1879 - 1956
Charles Keck
1875 - 1951
Arthur Hotaling
1873 - 1938
James A. Johnston
1874 - 1954
Allen Curtis
1877 - 1961
Alfred Clark (director)
1873 - 1950
Waldemar Kaempffert
1877 - 1956
Douglas Z. Doty
1874 - 1935
Fred Englehardt
1879 - 1942
John Mulcahy
1876 - 1942
Benjamin Bradshaw
1879 - 1960
Frederick Roth
1872 - 1944
Maud Barger-Wallach
1870 - 1959
Howard Gould
1871 - 1959
Alfred C. Abadie
1878 - 1950
Josie Sadler
1871 - 1927
Jacob J. Shubert
1879 - 1963
Henry Beaumont Herts
1871 - 1933
Edmund Greacen
1877 - 1949
William Dickey (diver)
1874 - 1944
Frank J. Corr
1877 - 1934
Edward Anthony Spitzka
1876 - 1922
Alice Lounsberry
1872 - 1949
Grace George
1879 - 1961
John J. Boylan
1878 - 1938
Helen Hellwig
1874 - 1960
Theodore Pell
1879 - 1967
Charles H. Tuttle
1879 - 1971
Edward Stanley Kellogg
1870 - 1948
Frederick S. Armitage
1874 - 1933
Arnold Daly
1875 - 1927
Mary Goelet
1878 - 1937
Henry L. Jost
1873 - 1950
Eugenie Forde
1879 - 1940
Lillian Blauvelt
1873 - 1947
Adeline Oppenheim Guimard
1872 - 1960
Josephine Preston Peabody
1874 - 1922
Percy Avery Rockefeller
1878 - 1934
Clark Voorhees
1871 - 1933
Gouverneur Morris (novelist)
1876 - 1953
John Cregan (athlete)
1878 - 1965
Ernest Sachs
1879 - 1958
Heinrich Ries
1871 - 1951
Seth Raynor
1874 - 1926
Pauline Payne Whitney
1874 - 1916
Raymond Robins
1873 - 1954
Elizabeth Daly
1878 - 1967
Charles O. Baumann
1874 - 1931
William Hobart Royce
1878 - 1963
Clark Williams
1870 - 1946
Frederick R. Lehlbach
1876 - 1937
Rudolph Edgar Block
1870 - 1940
David Hunter Miller
1875 - 1961
Lloyd B. Carleton
1872 - 1933
Frank Whitson
1877 - 1946
Irving Brokaw
1870 - 1939
Electus D. Litchfield
1872 - 1952
Brinsley Shaw
1876 - 1931
Grace Conkling
1878 - 1958
Alfred Montmarquette
1871 - 1944
Mary Dreier
1875 - 1963
Marie Jenney Howe
1870 - 1934
Charles Louis Pollard
1872 - 1945
Samuel Gottscho
1875 - 1971
James MacKaye
1872 - 1935
Howard Brockway
1870 - 1951
William W. Cohen
1874 - 1940
George K. Hollister
1873 - 1952
Charles Townsend (fencer)
1872 - 1906
William Adams Delano
1874 - 1960
Regis Henri Post
1870 - 1944
Otto Kinkeldey
1878 - 1966
Charles Elmer
1872 - 1954
Frederic Brewster Loomis
1873 - 1937
Blanche Walsh
1873 - 1915
Winifred Holt
1870 - 1945
Emily Vanderbilt Sloane
1874 - 1970
Hobart Upjohn
1876 - 1949
Lilian Vaughan Morgan
1870 - 1952
Jesse Benedict Carter
1872 - 1917
Mary Heaton Vorse
1874 - 1966
Ludwig Lore
1875 - 1942
William A. Carroll
1875 - 1928
Geraldine Bonner
1870 - 1930
Percy Haughton
1876 - 1924
Edwin P. Fischer
1873 - 1947
Christopher D. Sullivan
1870 - 1942
Mitchell May
1870 - 1961
Thomas Harrison Montgomery Jr.
1873 - 1912
John J. Delaney
1878 - 1948
Oscar L. Auf der Heide
1874 - 1945
Henry Shrady
1871 - 1922
Maude Nugent
1873 - 1958
Robert Lindneux
1871 - 1970
Matty Matthews
1873 - 1948
Arthur Lyon (fencer)
1876 - 1952
Alfred Lichtenstein (philatelist)
1876 - 1947
Daniel J. Riordan
1870 - 1923
Henry Clews Jr.
1876 - 1937
John F. O'Ryan
1874 - 1961
Frank Joseph McNulty
1872 - 1926
Thomas J. Bradley
1870 - 1901
Ida Hill
1875 - 1954
Michael J. Hogan
1871 - 1940
Arthur Hammerstein
1872 - 1955
Richard F. McKiniry
1878 - 1950
Irving Lehman
1876 - 1945
Robert J. Collier
1876 - 1918
B. W. Huebsch
1876 - 1964
Samuel Seabury (judge)
1873 - 1958
Reuben L. Haskell
1878 - 1971
Belle Moskowitz
1877 - 1933
Allen George Newman
1875 - 1940
Ida Darling
1875 - 1936
De Witt C. Flanagan
1870 - 1946
James H. Torrens
1874 - 1952
Ilsley Boone
1879 - 1968
Hamilton Holt
1872 - 1951
W. C. Robinson
1873 - 1942
Joseph Rowan
1870 - 1930
Stephen A. Rudd
1874 - 1936
Charles Chadwick (athlete)
1874 - 1953
Edward Bright Vedder
1878 - 1952
Albert B. Rossdale
1878 - 1968
Vincent O'Sullivan (American writer)
1872 - 1940
Hamilton Easter Field
1873 - 1922
James V. Ganly
1878 - 1923
Arnold Friedman
1874 - 1946
Eleanor Cross Marquand
1873 - 1950
Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison
1872 - 1938
Charles Minthorn Murphy
1870 - 1950
Stephen Birch
1872 - 1940
Josephine Clara Goldmark
1877 - 1950
Benjamin I. Taylor
1877 - 1946
Rosalie Edge
1877 - 1962
Mary Young (actress)
1879 - 1971
Ida Helen Ogilvie
1874 - 1963
Andrew B. Sterling
1874 - 1955
Robert D. Farquhar
1872 - 1967
Kellogg Casey
1877 - 1938
Cortlandt F. Bishop
1870 - 1935
Henry Hering
1874 - 1949
Augusta Huiell Seaman
1879 - 1950
Frank J. Hogan
1877 - 1944
Eugenie McEvoy
1879 - 1975
Philip Egner
1870 - 1956
Marie Zimmermann
1879 - 1972
John Garrett Underhill
1876 - 1946
Tom Cooper (cyclist)
1874 - 1906
Roland Hinton Perry
1870 - 1941
Irene Franklin
1876 - 1941
Robert Livingston Gerry Sr.
1877 - 1957
Augustus Post
1873 - 1952
Isadore Gilbert Mudge
1875 - 1957
Frederick Paul Keppel
1875 - 1943
Joseph Byron Totten
1870 - 1946
John W. Cooper
1873 - 1966
Porter Sargent
1872 - 1951
Andrew J. Thomas
1875 - 1965
Willie Hammerstein
1874 - 1914
Herman Armour Webster
1878 - 1970
Michael Spring
1879 - 1970
George Soper
1870 - 1948
Helen E. Haines
1872 - 1961
Bert Grant
1878 - 1951
Leonora O'Reilly
1870 - 1927
Arthur Elliott (photographer)
1870 - 1938