40.6978° N, 73.9995° W — 21,959 FAMOUS PEOPLE
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.
Erik Fosnes Hansen
Born 1965
Stacey Sher
Born 1962
Collin Walcott
1945 - 1984
Paschal Beverly Randolph
1825 - 1875
Jerome Rothenberg
Born 1931
Joan Copeland
Born 1922
Alexander S. Wiener
1907 - 1976
Sylvia Rivera
1951 - 2002
Samson Raphaelson
1894 - 1983
Larry Fessenden
Born 1963
James Glickenhaus
Born 1950
Al Michaels
Born 1944
Ed Marinaro
Born 1950
Marv Albert
Born 1941
Fay Kanin
1917 - 2013
Dorothy Tree
1906 - 1992
Jason Wingreen
1920 - 2015
Tobias Ellwood
Born 1966
Anthony Bevilacqua
1923 - 2012
Philip Gossett
1941 - 2017
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
Born 1944
Frederick Buechner
Born 1926
Ian Maxtone-Graham
Born 1959
N'Bushe Wright
Born 1970
Dan Gerson
1966 - 2016
Bobby Short
1924 - 2005
Michael D. Roberts
Born 1947
Chris Meledandri
Born 1959
Francis Burton Harrison
1873 - 1957
John Halliday (actor)
1880 - 1947
Mark Breland
Born 1963
Jennifer Blanc
Born 1974
Charles Horman
1942 - 1973
Scooter Braun
Born 1981
John Fekner
Born 1950
John Casablancas
1942 - 2013
Jerry González
1949 - 2018
Damien Dante Wayans
Born 1980
James Howard Kunstler
Born 1948
Shannon Briggs
Born 1971
Gil Junger
Born 1954
Betty Parsons
1900 - 1982
Elliott Roosevelt
1910 - 1990
James Kirke Paulding
1778 - 1860
Michael Rabin
1936 - 1972
Eric Stuart
Born 1967
Jerry Adler
Born 1929
Taj Gibson
Born 1985
Leonard Goldberg
1934 - 2019
Phyllis Nagy
Born 1962
Wesley Merritt
1836 - 1910
Max Sandvoss
Born 1980
Albert Lewin
1894 - 1968
Andrew Goodman
1943 - 1964
Jeanne Cagney
1919 - 1984
Elihu Katz
Born 1926
Harper Simon
Born 1972
Nick Markakis
Born 1983
Karl Behr
1885 - 1949
David Lander
1947 - 2020
Ron Galella
Born 1931
Peter Sollett
Born 1976
Joseph Engelberger
1925 - 2015
William Van Alen
1883 - 1954
Johnny Hayes
1886 - 1965
Carol O'Connell
Born 1947
Ford Rainey
1908 - 2005
Jason Nevins
Born 1972
Stanley Cortez
1908 - 1997
Heinz Pagels
1939 - 1988
Ellen Kushner
Born 1955
Warner Anderson
1911 - 1976
Salvatore Totino
Born 1964
Ilan Mitchell-Smith
Born 1969
Dave Valentin
1952 - 2017
Joe McGinniss
1942 - 2014
Stanley Elkin
1930 - 1995
Alice Austen
1866 - 1952
Jimmy Destri
Born 1954
George Mundelein
1872 - 1939
Elliott Reid
1920 - 2013
Tony Thompson (drummer)
1954 - 2003
David Fury
Born 1959
Lillian Bassman
1917 - 2012
Neal Shusterman
Born 1962
David Kenyon Webster
1922 - 1961
Sidney Luft
1915 - 2005
Sidney Dillon Ripley
1913 - 2001
Jud Taylor
1932 - 2008
Philip Kearny
1815 - 1862
Louis Zukofsky
1904 - 1978
Rod Morgenstein
Born 1953
Tom Steyer
Born 1957
Matthew Pearl
Born 1975
Nikki Delano
Born 1986
Rocky Colavito
Born 1933
Sarah Schulman
Born 1958
Barbara Pepper
1915 - 1969
Eddie Daniels
Born 1941
Michael Durrell
Born 1943
William Backhouse Astor Sr.
1792 - 1875
Mitch Leigh
1928 - 2014
Karen Sillas
Born 1963
Daisy Donovan
Born 1975
Nikolai Fraiture
Born 1978
Howard Kaylan
Born 1947
András Kállay-Saunders
Born 1985
Jonah Falcon
Born 1970
Dash Snow
1981 - 2009
Art Donovan
1924 - 2013
James Florio
Born 1937
Peter Blegvad
Born 1951
Wyatt Knight
1955 - 2011
Richard Cox (actor)
Born 1948
Werner Janssen
1899 - 1990
Abram Kardiner
1891 - 1981
Marilyn Mazur
Born 1955
Wanda De Jesus
Born 1958
William Kapell
1922 - 1953
Malcolm Wallop
1933 - 2011
Saverio Guerra
Born 1964
Jonathan Penner
Born 1962
John V. Tunney
1934 - 2018
Katherine Sophie Dreier
1877 - 1952
Elizabeth Jagger
Born 1984
Fafà Picault
Born 1991
Mark Forest
Born 1933
Alfred Ryder
1916 - 1995
Richard P. Stanley
Born 1944
Lucy Dawidowicz
1915 - 1990
Margaret Floy Washburn
1871 - 1939
Peter Landesman
Born 1963
Lester Cole
1904 - 1985
Joshua Rifkin
Born 1944
Paul Herman
Born 1946
Arthur Butz
Born 1933
Jane Mayer
Born 1955
Nancy Lynch
Born 1948
Imani Coppola
Born 1978
Alex Veadov
Born 1962
Satch Sanders
Born 1938
Richard Taruskin
Born 1945
Peter Galison
Born 1955
Colin Jost
Born 1982
John Montague (poet)
1929 - 2016
Michael Grimm (politician)
Born 1970
Arthur Elgort
Born 1940
George Cables
Born 1944
Víctor Manuelle
Born 1967
C. Peter Wagner
1930 - 2016
Vico C
Born 1971
Warren Hymer
1906 - 1948
Fife Symington
Born 1945
Ralph Albert Blakelock
1847 - 1919
Herman Feshbach
1917 - 2000
Leo Hurwitz
1909 - 1991
Charles Reznikoff
1894 - 1976
Emma Greenwell
Born 1989
Valentine Davies
1905 - 1961
Jerome Frank
1889 - 1957
Florence Henri
1893 - 1982
Andrew Cohen (spiritual teacher)
Born 1955
Daniel Giraud Elliot
1835 - 1915
Samantha Fox (pornographic actress)
1951 - 2020
Herbert Croly
1869 - 1930
Leo Breiman
1928 - 2005
Doris Wishman
1912 - 2002
Michael Azerrad
Born 1961
Sam Newfield
1899 - 1964
Sol Yurick
1925 - 2013
Joe Regalbuto
Born 1949
John Berendt
Born 1939
J. Michael Riva
1948 - 2012
Peter Cooper Hewitt
1861 - 1921
Phil Leeds
1916 - 1998
John LaMotta
Born 1939
Belva Plain
1915 - 2010
Sandy Baron
1937 - 2001
George Frederick Kunz
1856 - 1932
Joel Shapiro
Born 1941
C. Henry Gordon
1883 - 1940
Opilio Rossi
1910 - 2004
Jack Rollins (producer)
1915 - 2015
Joseph Cali
Born 1950
Joe Klein
Born 1946
Burton Lane
1912 - 1997
Alan Furst
Born 1941
Jack N. Green
Born 1946
Robert Stoller
1924 - 1991
Andy Luotto
Born 1950
Jon Cypher
Born 1932
Ronnie Cuber
Born 1941
Maynard Solomon
1930 - 2020
William Finnegan
Born 1952
Norma Crane
1928 - 1973
Charlie Ray
Born 1992
Lenny Castro
Born 1956
Don Byron
Born 1958
Janet Rowley
1925 - 2013
Catherine Lloyd Burns
Born 1961
Peter J. Denning
Born 1942
Charles Jenkins (basketball)
Born 1989
George Waggner
1894 - 1984
Francesca Battistelli
Born 1985
Hilly Kristal
1931 - 2007
Lowell Liebermann
Born 1961
Kathleen Rice
Born 1965
Hale Appleman
Born 1986
Paul Rabinow
Born 1944
DeWolf Hopper
1858 - 1935
Kitty Genovese
1935 - 1964
Reni Santoni
1939 - 2020
Alex de Renzy
1935 - 2001
Yancey Arias
Born 1971
Lew Landers
1901 - 1962
Smith Thompson
1768 - 1843
Marvin Miller
1917 - 2012
Ward Moore
1903 - 1978
Ken Levine (game developer)
Born 1966
Pete La Roca
1938 - 2012
Giovanna Melandri
Born 1962
E. Lockhart
Born 1967
Bea Wain
1917 - 2017
Inez Milholland
1886 - 1916
JoAnn Falletta
Born 1954
Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez
Born 1970
Lee Bergere
1924 - 2007
Christopher Pike (author)
Born 1954
Bethenny Frankel
Born 1970
Robert Kanigher
1915 - 2002
Anthony Hecht
1923 - 2004
Wendy Phillips
Born 1952
Arthur Miller (cinematographer)
1895 - 1970
Lenore Blum
Born 1942
Dennis Davis
1951 - 2016
Rene Ricard
1946 - 2014
Mary Rodgers
1931 - 2014
Romy Rosemont
Born 1964
Hans Zinsser
1878 - 1940
Adam Rich
Born 1968
Benjamin H. Freedman
1890 - 1984
T. M. Stevens
Born 1951
Lucille Fletcher
1912 - 2000
Gary Graffman
Born 1928
Paul Pimsleur
1927 - 1976
Benny Green (pianist)
Born 1963
Kenny Hickey
Born 1966
Patricia Breslin
1931 - 2011
Percy Helton
1894 - 1971
Arthur Jaffe
Born 1937
Ann Shoemaker
1891 - 1978
John Karlen
1933 - 2020
Jack La Rue
1902 - 1984
Seth Low
1850 - 1916
Lucy Deakins
Born 1971
Victor Milner
1893 - 1972
Nathan Englander
Born 1970
Pete Hamill
1935 - 2020
Jacqueline Barton
Born 1952
Rob Sheridan
Born 1979
Mel Damski
Born 1946
Kurt Eichenwald
Born 1961
Ben Younger
Born 1972
Vince Russo
Born 1961
Mary White Ovington
1865 - 1951
Guy Davis (musician)
Born 1952
Jeffrey Goldberg
Born 1965
Joyce Hyser
Born 1957
Grachan Moncur III
Born 1937
E. L. Konigsburg
1930 - 2013
Norman Gimbel
1927 - 2018
Robert Paul Wolff
Born 1933
Conway Tearle
1878 - 1938
La La Anthony
Born 1979
Jimmy Castor
1940 - 2012
Jesse Malin
Born 1968
Dan Grimaldi
Born 1952
Lloyd Gough
1907 - 1984
Spencer Gordon Bennet
1893 - 1987
Jason Evers
1922 - 2005
Troy Beyer
Born 1964
Dorsey Wright
Born 1957
Frank Eugene
1865 - 1936
A. J. Pero
1959 - 2015
Elsie Clews Parsons
1875 - 1941
Lapo Elkann
Born 1977
Loon (rapper)
Born 1975
Don Stark
Born 1954
Ira Newborn
Born 1949
Joe E. Lewis
1902 - 1971
Jenny Wright
Born 1962
Roy Rappaport
1926 - 1997
Israel Albert Horowitz
1907 - 1973
Leon Kirchner
1919 - 2009
Bill Charlap
Born 1966
John P. Meier
Born 1942
Morris Cohen (spy)
1910 - 1995
Disparition d'Etan Patz
1972 - 1979
Bud Collyer
1908 - 1969
Jim Aparo
1932 - 2005