40.6979° N, 73.9995° W
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 1880s Clear ×
Rolando Illa
1880 - 1937
Benjamin Fein
1887 - 1962
Rose McClendon
1884 - 1936
Dave Stamper
1883 - 1963
Aymar Embury II
1880 - 1966
Gustave F. Touchard
1888 - 1918
Dorothy Arnold
1886 - 1910
David Karsner
1889 - 1941
Eleanor Butler Alexander-Roosevelt
1888 - 1960
Robert Emmett Keane
1883 - 1981
Edna Luby
1884 - 1928
Joe Fogler
1884 - 1930
Robert Livingston Schuyler
1883 - 1966
Warren Delano Robbins
1885 - 1935
La Sylphe
1883 - 1968
Ralph Borsodi
1886 - 1977
Burnet Tuthill
1888 - 1982
Guillermo de Blanck y Menocal
1882 - 1978
Thomas F. Burchill
1882 - 1955
Albert C. Cohn
1885 - 1959
Jay Belasco
1888 - 1949
Joseph V. Flynn
1883 - 1940
Marcellus H. Evans
1884 - 1953
Henry W. Shoemaker
1880 - 1958
Doris Doscher
1882 - 1970
Charles A. Voight
1887 - 1947
Loring M. Black Jr.
1886 - 1956
Jack Norton
1882 - 1958
Robert North
1884 - 1976
May Emory
1885 - 1948
Hugh Fay
1882 - 1926
Joe Brown (actor)
1884 - 1965
Brian Hooker (poet)
1880 - 1946
Georgina Jones (tennis)
1882 - 1955
Cecil Mack
1883 - 1944
Nathan Straus Jr.
1889 - 1961
Philip H. Frohman
1887 - 1972
Dick Rudolph
1887 - 1949
Bartholomew J. Eustace
1887 - 1956
Tammany Young
1886 - 1936
Nessa Cohen
1885 - 1976
Ocey Snead
1885 - 1909
Ogden Mills Reid
1882 - 1947
Anna Alice Chapin
1880 - 1920
J. Malcolm Bird
1886 - 1964
Charles Horan
1886 - 1928
Michael J. Ryan (athlete)
1889 - 1971
Philip Moeller
1880 - 1958
Marion Sims Wyeth
1889 - 1982
Lawrence Grant White
1887 - 1956
Fred F. French
1883 - 1936
Harvey S. Ladew
1887 - 1976
Charles Christopher Mierow
1883 - 1961
Anna Rochester
1880 - 1966
Charlotte Epstein
1884 - 1938
David Thompson (attore)
1884 - 1957
Luis de Florez
1889 - 1962
Marie Shotwell
1880 - 1934
Irene Lewisohn
1886 - 1944
Billy Jones (1930s singer)
1889 - 1940
Katharine Bishop
1889 - 1975
Matthew T. Abruzzo
1889 - 1971
Arthur H. Wicks
1887 - 1985
Lee Simonson
1888 - 1967
Edward Fitzpatrick
1884 - 1960
Lillian Worth
1884 - 1952
Fred G. Meyer
1886 - 1978
Paul Scheurich
1883 - 1945
Joe Brandt
1882 - 1939
Sherwood MacDonald
1880 - 1968
Jack Lait
1883 - 1954
Robert Walton Goelet
1880 - 1941
Estelle Liebling
1880 - 1970
Lou Fleischer
1889 - 1976
George Schaefer (film producer)
1888 - 1981
Hilda Worthington Smith
1888 - 1984
Tom Herbert
1888 - 1946
Octavia Handworth
1887 - 1978
Vera Leisner
1885 - 1972
Walter E. Sachs
1884 - 1980
Lorillard S. Spencer
1883 - 1939
Marion H. Beckett
1886 - 1949
Jessie Sampter
1883 - 1938
Alice Lewisohn
1883 - 1972
Gemma La Guardia Gluck
1881 - 1962
Eva Gebhard
1886 - 1959
Andrew Rebori
1886 - 1966
Charles Harwood
1880 - 1950
Margaret Bechstein Hays
1887 - 1956
Ed Brady (actor)
1889 - 1942
George McQuillan
1885 - 1940
Josephine de Boer
1886 - 1972
Mary Elsie Moore
1889 - 1941
May Peterson Thompson
1880 - 1952
Roger Burlingame
1889 - 1967
Fred Waller
1886 - 1954
Elias Goldberg
1886 - 1978
Joseph Kopsky
1882 - 1974
Martin Thomas Manton
1880 - 1946
Lotta Faust
1880 - 1910
William Hedgcock
1883 - 1947
Ben Taggart
1889 - 1947
Gregory Mason
1889 - 1968
Vera Michelena
1885 - 1961
Philip Klein
1889 - 1935
Clarence Howell
1881 - 1936
Ira Schuster
1889 - 1945
John J. O'Connell
1884 - 1946
Barney Roos
1887 - 1960
John Francis Neylan
1885 - 1960
William Sylvester Silkworth
1884 - 1971
Archibald E. Stevenson
1884 - 1961
Kathleen McEnery
1888 - 1971
George Rosener
1884 - 1945
Mary M. Crawford
1884 - 1972
Edwin Joseph O'Malley
1881 - 1953
Walter Ackerman
1881 - 1938
James A. Foley
1882 - 1946
Gene Carr (cartoonist)
1881 - 1959
Harry Bowen (actor)
1888 - 1941
J. Herbert Frank
1885 - 1926
Marion Cothren
1880 - 1949
Shaemas O'Sheel
1886 - 1954
John Joseph Boylan (bishop)
1889 - 1953
Marian Skinner
1880 - 1963
John McDermott (runner)
1880 - 1948
John J. Lyons
1881 - 1945
Lucius Horatio Biglow
1885 - 1961
Percy Rivington Pyne 2nd
1882 - 1950
William Wagner (actor)
1883 - 1964
Wayland Trask Jr.
1887 - 1918
Tom Thorp
1884 - 1942
Samuel D. Leidesdorf
1881 - 1968
Arthur Ashley
1886 - 1970
William Lorenz
1882 - 1958
Robert A. Dillon
1889 - 1944
Roy Turnbull Black
1888 - 1962
John H. Collins
1889 - 1918
John Becht
Born 1886
Sheldon Whitehouse (diplomat)
1883 - 1965
Alexander Holtzoff
1886 - 1969
Louise Hammond Raymond
1886 - 1991
George Emlen Roosevelt
1887 - 1963
Gertrude Rand
1886 - 1970
George Robertson (racing driver)
1884 - 1955
Mosey King
1884 - 1956
Ulysses Ricci
1888 - 1960
Harold B. Franklin
1889 - 1941
Rose G. Jacobs
1888 - 1975
Pop Laval
1882 - 1966
George Carleton (actor)
1885 - 1950
William Haller
1885 - 1974
Charles Solomon (politician)
1889 - 1963
R. Ernest Dupuy
1887 - 1975
Elisabeth Martini
1886 - 1984
Louis Weintz
1885 - 1969
Meyer Robert Guggenheim
1885 - 1959
Heinie Beckendorf
1884 - 1949
George D. Widener Jr.
1889 - 1971
Harris Merton Lyon
1882 - 1916
John F. Curry
1886 - 1973
Alice Fleming
1882 - 1952
James Hayes (bishop)
1889 - 1980
Sidney Jackson
1886 - 1968
Franklin Brooke Voss
1880 - 1953
John Alphonsus Murphy
1881 - 1935
William Scully (director)
1889 - 1949
Jap Barbeau
1882 - 1969
Ethel McClellan Plummer
1888 - 1936
John Cheever Cowdin
1889 - 1960
Edward Bayard Heath
1888 - 1931
Mary Ryan (actress; 1885-1948)
1885 - 1948
Larry Larom
1889 - 1973
Robert Enrique Muller
1881 - 1921
Anna Gertrude Hall
1882 - 1967
Michael Zadora
1882 - 1946
Constance Whitney Warren
1888 - 1948
Buck Miles
1888 - 1954
Ralph Kellard
1883 - 1955
Orson Desaix Munn II
1883 - 1958
Pat Rooney
1880 - 1962
Barbara Spofford Morgan
1887 - 1971
Frank Gargan
1888 - 1960
Samuel Lifschey
1889 - 1961
Frank J. Bart
1883 - 1961
Florence Ballin
1887 - 1975
Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
1885 - 1911
Tommy Clarke
1888 - 1945
Nan Aspinwall
1880 - 1964
Hack Simmons
1885 - 1942
James W. Bryce
1880 - 1949
Adele Lewisohn Lehman
1882 - 1965
Howard Gargan
1886 - 1945
Tenny Wright
1885 - 1971
Sherman Bainbridge
1880 - 1950
Harrison Ross Steeves
1881 - 1981
Richard Kovacs
1884 - 1950
Lewis Joseph Valentine
1882 - 1946
Dwight Franklin
1888 - 1971
William O'Shea (bishop)
1884 - 1945
Joseph McCulloch
1887 - 1960
Noel Everingham Sainsbury
1884 - 1955
George B. Chadwick
1880 - 1961
Lave Winham
1881 - 1951
Jessie Stanton
1887 - 1976
Karl Polenske
1881 - 1926
George Bradley (Medal of Honor)
1881 - 1942
Edith Claire Bryce
1880 - 1960
James Ben Ali Haggin III
1882 - 1951
George Adam Pfeiffer
1889 - 1943
George Draper (physician)
1880 - 1959
Charles Gerstenberg
1882 - 1948
Leo Landau (Anwalt)
1880 - 1960
Nicolas Sanabria
1889 - 1945
Douglas Imrie McKay
1883 - 1962
Emil Praeger
1882 - 1973
Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch
1884 - 1976
J. Parker Read Jr.
1885 - 1942
Joe Wagner
1889 - 1948
Courtlandt Nicoll
1880 - 1938
Henry Hobart (producer)
1888 - 1951
Malcolm Duncan (attore)
1881 - 1942
Pauline Astor
1880 - 1972
Gerald Chapman
1887 - 1926
Tanner Smith
1887 - 1919
Anita Willets-Burnham
1880 - 1958
Sam Benson
1886 - 1957
Joe Lake
1881 - 1950
Billy Arnold
1886 - 1954
Eddie Fitzgerald (athlete)
1888 - 1936
Frederick Kaiser
1889 - 1928
Gordon Burnham
1886 - 1964
John F. D. Rohrbach
1889 - 1968
Ward Melville
1887 - 1977
George Cregan
1885 - 1969
John Arthur Hughes
1880 - 1942
Will Morrissey
1887 - 1957
Ruth Messenger
1884 - 1964
Louis Marcus (mayor)
1880 - 1936
Josiah Zuro
1887 - 1930
Robert L. Moran
1884 - 1954
Kingdon Gould Sr.
1887 - 1945
Mike Donovan (baseball)
1881 - 1938
Crawford Blagden
1881 - 1937
Dorothy Jardon
1883 - 1966
Jack Haskell
1886 - 1963
Joë Bridge
1886 - 1967
Robert H. Stanley
1881 - 1942
Clarence A. Barnes
1882 - 1970
Henry Balding Lewis
1889 - 1966
Johnnie Morris (actor)
1887 - 1969
Charles A. Dana (philanthropist)
1881 - 1975
Laura Benét
1884 - 1979
Rutherford Page
1887 - 1912
Bill Brady (baseball)
1889 - 1956
Albert Howson
1881 - 1960
Rene Edward De Russy Hoyle
1883 - 1981
Frank Fogarty
1887 - 1978
Robert L. Leslie
1885 - 1987
Elise Johnson McDougald
1885 - 1971
Phil Reardon
1883 - 1920
Anson F. Keeler
1887 - 1943
Walter D. Binger
1888 - 1979
Bugs Reisigl
1887 - 1957
Walter Tuckerman
1881 - 1961
Dinny Meehan
1889 - 1920
Charlie Girard
1884 - 1936
Willie Lewis (boxer)
1884 - 1949
Thomas T. Reilley
1883 - 1940
Julian Peabody
1881 - 1935
Gertrude Robinson Smith
1881 - 1963
Harry Aaron Hollzer
1880 - 1946
Carl M. Leviness
1885 - 1964
Theodore A. Liebler Jr.
1886 - 1975
Andrew P. Forbeck
1881 - 1924
Emil Batch
1880 - 1926
Thomas H. McLaughlin
1881 - 1947
Jim Clark (outfielder, born 1887)
1887 - 1969
George Brunjes
1889 - 1968
Fred Herreshoff
1888 - 1920
Wilbert Wallace White
1889 - 1918
Meyer C. Ellenstein
1886 - 1967
Edward Henry Delafield
1880 - 1955
Harold Foshay
1883 - 1953
Samuel B. Dicker
1889 - 1960
Walter G. Winne
1889 - 1972
Phil Cooney (baseball)
1882 - 1957
Herman Rottger
1881 - 1917
Carola Woerishoffer
1885 - 1911
Robert Wilson Goelet
1880 - 1966
Paul Steinberg
1880 - 1964
John E. McGeehan
1880 - 1968
Charles B. McLaughlin
1884 - 1947
Guy Hutchinson
1884 - 1941
Robert L. Levy (cardiologist)
1888 - 1974
Anne Hyde Choate
1886 - 1967
Harry Tietlebaum
Born 1889
Pell Trenton
1883 - 1924
Vida Milholland
1888 - 1952
Sammy Blum
1889 - 1945