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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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- Filtered to 1870s Clear ×
Bijou Fernandez
1873 - 1961
James A. Hamilton
1876 - 1950
Silvio Hein
1879 - 1928
Bella Clara Landauer
1874 - 1960
William Laurel Harris
1870 - 1924
Barton Currie
1877 - 1962
Edward L. Hall
1872 - 1932
Ernest A. Janson
1878 - 1930
Sam Breadon
1876 - 1949
William Goodsell Rockefeller
1870 - 1922
John Recknagel
1870 - 1940
Tadd Roosevelt
1879 - 1958
Mitchell Kennerley
1878 - 1950
Ogden Crane
1873 - 1940
James A. Stillman
1873 - 1944
Gustave E. Steinback
1878 - 1959
Gian Alberto Blanc
1879 - 1966
Lydia Longacre
1870 - 1951
Sam Thorne
1873 - 1930
Isadore Bernstein
1876 - 1944
Harry Gardiner
Born 1871
Frank Cuprien
1871 - 1948
William Emerson (American architect)
1873 - 1957
Julie Opp
1871 - 1921
Edward R. Finch
1873 - 1965
V. Everit Macy
1871 - 1930
Frederick Ballard Williams
1871 - 1956
Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout
1871 - 1964
Tim Jordan (baseball)
1879 - 1949
Victor Mapes
1870 - 1943
Joseph Uhl
1877 - 1945
Oscar Maurer
1870 - 1965
Albert Campbell (singer)
1872 - 1947
Wylie Cameron Grant
1879 - 1968
Ike Van Zandt
1876 - 1908
Clare Kummer
1873 - 1958
Dan Fellows Platt
1873 - 1937
Thomas Walsh (poet)
1875 - 1928
Edward P. Carr
1878 - 1947
Phyllis Rankin
1874 - 1934
Albert Ottinger
1878 - 1938
Clara E. Laughlin
1873 - 1941
Anna S. Fisher
1873 - 1942
Florence Nightingale Levy
1870 - 1947
William Woodward Sr.
1876 - 1953
Mary Augusta Dickerson
1876 - 1962
Elliott Shepard
1876 - 1927
C. D. Bliss
1870 - 1948
Saidie May
1879 - 1951
Dorothy Walters
1877 - 1934
Erling Sandberg
1879 - 1956
H. T. Summersgill
1876 - 1931
Joseph Beacham
1874 - 1958
William Fincke
1878 - 1927
Carl Lucas Alsberg
1877 - 1940
George Henry Payne
1876 - 1945
Laurie Bliss
1872 - 1942
Carl Noeggerath
1876 - 1952
Willard Dryden Paddock
1873 - 1956
Daniel Horton (athlete)
1879 - 1954
Nicanor de Obarrio
1873 - 1941
Charles M. Lefferts
1873 - 1923
Tom Hess
1875 - 1945
Harry Felix
1870 - 1961
Leon Rains
1870 - 1954
Philipp Heineken (Sportfunktionär)
1873 - 1959
Harry Dunkinson
1876 - 1936
William Kelly Prentice
1871 - 1964
John Wells James
1873 - 1951
Douglas John Connah
1871 - 1941
Mary Grace Quackenbos
1871 - 1948
Dora Mills Adams
1875 - 1943
Billy Lauder
1874 - 1933
Alfred E. Cohn
1879 - 1957
Robert Perry (actor)
1878 - 1962
Jesse Bullowa
1879 - 1943
Robert J. Reiley
1878 - 1961
Alice Minnie Herts
1870 - 1933
Albert Ferdinand Shore
1876 - 1936
Kid Carsey
1870 - 1960
Gordon Brown (guard)
1879 - 1911
Aleck Smith
1871 - 1919
Edward Lazansky
1872 - 1955
Jim Korwan
1874 - 1899
John Lynch (sceneggiatore)
1870 - 1936
George Edwardes-Hall
1872 - 1922
Richard Sandford (athlete)
1877 - 1966
Charles C. Lockwood
1877 - 1958
Eleanor Clarke Slagle
1871 - 1942
Matthew Vincent O'Malley
1878 - 1931
Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr.
1875 - 1949
Naomi Norsworthy
1877 - 1916
Edward Le Roy Rice
1871 - 1938
John Costello
1878 - 1946
Fred Jacklitsch
1876 - 1937
Clarence G. Galston
1876 - 1964
Charles P. Hutchins
1872 - 1938
Walter Pulitzer
1878 - 1926
Isabel Whitney
1878 - 1962
Abram Fitkin
1878 - 1933
Louis M. Little
1878 - 1960
Cecil Spooner
1875 - 1953
Martin Thomas Conboy Jr.
1878 - 1944
Virginia Tracy
1874 - 1946
Rhinelander Waldo
1877 - 1927
Otto Voss (Pianist)
1875 - 1946
Harry Adams (Marineoffizier)
Born 1876
Edward Larrabee Adams
1878 - 1957
John Stokes (Medal of Honor)
1871 - 1923
Ashley T. Cole
1876 - 1965
Anna Pendleton Schenck
1874 - 1915
C.A. de Lima
1872 - 1954
Herbert L. Pratt
1871 - 1945
Jerome Alexander
1876 - 1959
Jack Warner (catcher)
1872 - 1943
Hamilton Fish II (Rough Rider)
1873 - 1898
Joe Wall
1873 - 1936
Thomas Hoban
1872 - 1939
Beta Breuil
Born 1876
Edgar J. Moeller
1873 - 1954
Fred Hagedorn
1875 - 1940
Christian Friedrich Koennecke
1876 - 1960
Jesse Lewisohn
1872 - 1918
John Teele Pratt
1873 - 1927
Hugh McCullum Curran
1875 - 1920
Sam Hope
1878 - 1946
Robert Galbraith (Medal of Honor)
1878 - 1949
McCants Stewart
1877 - 1919
Herbert M. Harriman
1873 - 1933
William Sloane Coffin Sr.
1879 - 1933
George Washington Martin II
1876 - 1948
Alfred Voellmeke
1874 - 1951
Jeremiah T. Mahoney
1878 - 1970
Jerry Hurley (1900s catcher)
1875 - 1919
Joseph Quick (Medal of Honor)
1877 - 1969
Otto Charles Sommerich
1877 - 1968
Edwin Nelson Appleton
1877 - 1937
Mortimer W. Byers
1877 - 1962
Leonore Harris
1879 - 1953
Louie Croft Boyd
1871 - 1951
Edward J. Riegelmann
1870 - 1941
Larry Battam
1876 - 1938
Geraldine Morgan Thompson
1872 - 1967
Mina Van Winkle
1875 - 1932
Alex Farmer
1877 - 1920
Fred Siefke
1870 - 1893
Frederick Charles Stahr
1876 - 1946
Gustave May
1879 - 1943
Charlie Malay
1879 - 1949
Ida Rauh
1877 - 1970
James A. Corcoran (Brooklyn)
1878 - 1949
Mike Ledwith
1874 - 1929
Harry McRae Webster
1872 - 1940
George G. Grainger
1876 - 1945
Samuel S. Slater
1870 - 1916
James Brady (criminal)
1875 - 1904
Ernest T. Attwell
1877 - 1949
William H. Murray (Medal of Honor)
1876 - 1923
Albert Strauss
1876 - 1963
Nelson Harding
1879 - 1944
Ernie Lindemann
1878 - 1951
Harry De Vere
1870 - 1923
Pierre de Chaignon la Rose
1871 - 1940
Charles Vanoni
1876 - 1970
Pete Lamer
1873 - 1931
Joseph Humphreys
1872 - 1936
John Puhl
1876 - 1900
Sherman R. Moulton
1876 - 1949
Charles S. Schepke
1878 - 1933
Paula Edwardes
Born 1870
Vernon Robins
1872 - 1934
Theodore Greely White
1872 - 1901
Leopold David
1878 - 1924
Henry W. Goddard
1876 - 1955
Edward Spring Knapp
1879 - 1940
George M. S. Schulz
1871 - 1930
John H. Ferril
1873 - 1945
Joseph P. Day
1874 - 1924
Isabelle Evesson
1870 - 1914
Andy Dunning
1871 - 1952
Lillian Feickert
1877 - 1945
Joseph Farrell (priest)
1873 - 1960
Franklin B. Ware
1873 - 1945
Phillip Stillman
1873 - 1939
Alice Davis Menken
1870 - 1936
Thomas LeBoutillier
1879 - 1929
Henry W. Doll
Born 1870
Benjamin Hunting Howell
Born 1875
James H. Bennett
Born 1877
Martin Saxe
1874 - 1967
James P. Lee
1870 - 1941
Lucius M. Boomer
1878 - 1947
May M. Van Wye
1879 - 1968
Alwine von Keller
1878 - 1965
Gus Williams (pitcher)
1870 - 1890
Lawrence Waterbury II
1877 - 1942
George Washington Olvany
1876 - 1952
Kathleen de Vere Taylor
1873 - 1949
Elizabeth Kingsley
1871 - 1957
Harry Harvey (Medal of Honor, 1901)
1873 - 1928
Paul John McCormick
1879 - 1960
William J. Creelman
1874 - 1928
Lord Byron (umpire)
1872 - 1955
Henry I. Harriman
1873 - 1950
Alexander Stewart Webb (banker)
1870 - 1948
Albert Dardy
1874 - 1921
John Thomas Dooling
1871 - 1949
William H. Maddren
1875 - 1909
Essie Wick Rowland
1871 - 1957
Alice Franchetti Hallgarten
1874 - 1911
Albert Oldfield Brown
1872 - 1945
Charles L. Aarons
1872 - 1952
Waldron DeWitt Miller
1879 - 1929
Jean H. Norris
Born 1877
Harold Heartt Foley
1874 - 1923
Ben Ellis (baseball)
1870 - 1931
Bertha Perry Ronalds
1874 - 1963
Harriet Behnne
1874 - 1963
Ella Ehni
1875 - 1952
Joseph H. Choate Jr.
1876 - 1968
John W. Glenister
1874 - 1937
Francis Xavier McQuade
1878 - 1955
Charles I. DeBevoise
1872 - 1958
Walter Stone Scott
1871 - 1948
Henry Mollenhauer
Born 1876
Israel Lewis Feinberg
1872 - 1941
Frank Sherwood Cocheu
1871 - 1959
Joseph Clinton Devillis
1878 - 1912
George Joseph Ryan
1872 - 1949
Linsly R. Williams
1875 - 1934