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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.
Phillip Margolin
Born 1944
Richard N. Haass
Born 1951
Sidney Kingsley
1906 - 1995
Nev Schulman
Born 1984
David Corn
Born 1959
Robert Joffrey
1930 - 1988
Jac Holzman
Born 1931
Joel Benjamin
Born 1964
Dean Dixon
1915 - 1976
Joyce Johnson
Born 1935
Daniel Goldin
Born 1940
Maino
Born 1973
Paul Davidson (economist)
Born 1930
Alan Lowenthal
Born 1941
Jackie Tohn
Born 1980
David Paterson
Born 1954
Al Plastino
1921 - 2013
Arthur Bisguier
1929 - 2017
Billy Goldenberg
1936 - 2020
Herman Chernoff
Born 1923
Barry De Vorzon
Born 1934
Joseph Biroc
1903 - 1996
Abe Burrows
1910 - 1985
Herbert Goldstein
1922 - 2005
Nancy Valen
Born 1965
Andrea Mitchell
Born 1946
Robin Kelly
Born 1956
Al Santos (actor)
Born 1976
Brad Grey
1957 - 2017
William Alexander, Lord Stirling
1726 - 1783
William Cagney
1905 - 1988
Jeff Morrow
1907 - 1993
Alice Hirson
Born 1929
Lance Thomas
Born 1988
Rosetta LeNoire
1911 - 2002
John Jacob Astor III
1822 - 1890
Ellen Willis
1941 - 2006
Don DaGradi
1911 - 1991
Joanne Greenberg
Born 1932
Catherine Burns
1945 - 2019
Robert C. O'Brien (author)
1918 - 1973
Robert D. Levin
Born 1947
Axel Stordahl
1913 - 1963
Lewis Wilson
1920 - 2000
Mark Hellinger
1903 - 1947
James LoMenzo
Born 1959
Edmund Breese
1871 - 1936
Donald Byrne
1930 - 1976
Charles Anthon
1797 - 1867
Eyvind Earle
1916 - 2000
Alexander Jackson Davis
1803 - 1892
Vinny Testaverde
Born 1963
Antônio Campos (director)
Born 1983
Roy Rowland (film director)
1910 - 1995
Peter J. Weinberger
Born 1942
Catherine Russell (singer)
Born 1956
Ben Monder
Born 1962
Joe Rock
1893 - 1984
Fred DeLuca
1947 - 2015
Terry Gibbs
Born 1924
George D. Wallace
1917 - 2005
Kristina Klebe
Born 1979
Bud Greenspan
1926 - 2010
Robert Wald
Born 1947
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
Born 1953
Walter Bernstein
Born 1919
Sidney Salkow
1911 - 2000
Lynn Ahrens
Born 1948
Tom Brown (actor)
1913 - 1990
Hal Draper
1914 - 1990
Steve Fuller (sociologist)
Born 1959
Bert Schneider
1933 - 2011
James Duane
1733 - 1797
David Buttolph
1902 - 1983
Malcolm Wilson (governor)
1914 - 2000
Anne Morgan (philanthropist)
1873 - 1952
Lia Neal
Born 1995
Edward Buzzell
1895 - 1985
Liberty DeVitto
Born 1950
Harry Akst
1894 - 1963
Michael Boskin
Born 1945
Robert Logan
Born 1941
Disasterpeace
Born 1986
Carol J. Adams
Born 1951
John Howard Payne
1791 - 1852
Catherine Kellner
Born 1970
Lynda Obst
Born 1950
Charlie Shavers
1920 - 1971
Phyllis Avery
1922 - 2011
Sarah Natochenny
Born 1987
Larry Hama
Born 1949
Jane Hirshfield
Born 1953
Gentry Lee
Born 1942
E. Morton Jellinek
1890 - 1963
Ann Turkel
Born 1946
Morton Sobell
1917 - 2018
Carl Solomon
1928 - 1993
Sam M. Lewis
1885 - 1959
Elizabeth Anne Allen
Born 1970
Dan DiDio
Born 1959
Ari Lehman
Born 1965
Wesley Strick
Born 1954
Richard Blackwell
1922 - 2008
Lawrence Schiller
Born 1936
Stuart A. Rice
Born 1932
Jason Furman
Born 1970
Steve Lombardi
Born 1961
Halley Feiffer
Born 1984
Grant Williams (actor)
1931 - 1985
John Walker (musician)
1943 - 2011
Jerome Moross
1913 - 1983
AMG (rapper)
Born 1970
Alan North
1920 - 2000
Emmanuel Lewis
Born 1971
William Kissam Vanderbilt II
1878 - 1944
Jon Spaihts
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Bobby Flay
Born 1964
Pedro de Cordoba
1881 - 1950
Edward L. Beach Jr.
1918 - 2002
Jeffrey Wigand
Born 1942
Helen Menken
1901 - 1966
Robert Walden
Born 1943
Mike Dunleavy Sr.
Born 1954
William Taubman
Born 1940
Neal Israel
Born 1956
Andrea Feldman
1948 - 1972
Letty Aronson
Born 1943
Henriette Avram
1919 - 2006
Olga San Juan
1927 - 2009
Morrie Schwartz
1916 - 1995
Malvina Hoffman
1885 - 1966
Kass Morgan
Born 1984
Terry Gross
Born 1951
John Lafia
1957 - 2020
Faith Minton
Born 1957
Shyheim
Born 1978
Seiji Kameda
Born 1964
Murray Schisgal
1926 - 2020
Bob Gruen
Born 1945
Muriel Rukeyser
1913 - 1980
Wellington Mara
1916 - 2005
Tracy Vilar
Born 1968
Morton Deutsch
1920 - 2017
Alfred Henry Maurer
1868 - 1932
Valerie Curtin
Born 1945
H. C. Potter
1904 - 1977
Zena Grey
Born 1988
Ralph J. Gleason
1917 - 1975
Joe E. Ross
1914 - 1982
Barbara Tucker
Born 1967
Mitchell Whitfield
Born 1964
Harold Hecht
1907 - 1985
Richard Foreman
Born 1937
Harry Browne
1933 - 2006
Robert Merrihew Adams
1937 - 1996
Robert H. Harris
1911 - 1981
Steve Carver
Born 1945
Paul Levitz
Born 1956
Jessi (musician)
Born 1988
Disco Inferno (wrestler)
Born 1968
Ada Louise Huxtable
1921 - 2013
Karina Pasian
Born 1991
Jeffrey Lewis
Born 1975
Howard Levy
Born 1951
David Weinberger
Born 1950
Elsie Ferguson
1883 - 1961
Herbie Nichols
1919 - 1963
MF Grimm
Born 1970
Joseph Kesselring
1902 - 1967
Amanda Swisten
Born 1978
Bernard Maybeck
1862 - 1957
William Rose Benét
1886 - 1950
W. A. B. Coolidge
1850 - 1926
Lynn Nottage
Born 1964
Joe Cuba
1931 - 2009
Mark Jackson (basketball)
Born 1965
Thomas Hauser
Born 1946
William Barrett (philosopher)
1913 - 1992
Robert M. Young (director)
Born 1924
Edward L. Cahn
1899 - 1963
Don Murphy
Born 1967
Malachy McCourt
Born 1931
Lenny Montana
1926 - 1992
Danny Hoch
Born 1970
Daniel C. Drucker
1918 - 2001
Suzy McKee Charnas
Born 1939
A. J. Liebling
1904 - 1963
Marcia Mitzman Gaven
Born 1959
Harold Kushner
Born 1935
Laura Riding
1901 - 1991
Ben Rappaport
Born 1986
B. Reeves Eason
1886 - 1956
Josh Silver
Born 1962
Billy Eichner
Born 1978
William P. Barr
Born 1950
Peter Werner
Born 1947
Rachel Chagall
Born 1952
Kristoff St. John
1966 - 2019
Ayad Akhtar
Born 1970
Alex Steinweiss
1917 - 2011
Chris Hondros
1970 - 2011
Carmen Cavallaro
1913 - 1989
Theodoros Stamos
1922 - 1997
Bob Arum
Born 1931
De La Ghetto
Born 1982
Vic Mizzy
1916 - 2009
Jim McBride
Born 1941
Godfrey Tearle
1884 - 1953
Frank McGuire
1914 - 1994
Luana Anders
1938 - 1996
Herbert Putnam
1861 - 1955
Queenie Smith
1898 - 1978
Jonathan Goldstein (filmmaker)
Born 1968
Jack Lawrence
1912 - 2009
Joseph A. Califano Jr.
Born 1931
Theodora Richards
Born 1985
Tarrus Riley
Born 1979
Mike Mondo
Born 1983
Sabu Martinez
1930 - 1979
Isaac Hecker
1818 - 1888
Sam Taylor (director)
1895 - 1958
Millicent Fenwick
1910 - 1992
Catherine Malfitano
Born 1948
Karen Duffy
Born 1962
Marcos Siega
Born 1969
Harry Hillman
1881 - 1945
Hy Zaret
1907 - 2007
Joseph Edward Mayer
1904 - 1983
Neil Turbin
Born 1963
Irving Segal
1918 - 1998
Peter Nero
Born 1934
Peter Campus
Born 1937
Gillian Zinser
Born 1985
Esther M. Conwell
1922 - 2014
Frank Campanella
1919 - 2006
Kim Coles
Born 1962
Jonathan Schell
1943 - 2014
Ann Nocenti
Born 1957
Andrés Duany
Born 1949
Knut Haukelid
1911 - 1994
Leona Naess
Born 1974
David M. Kreps
Born 1950
Leonard Freed
1929 - 2006
Mack David
1912 - 1993
Steve Rubell
1943 - 1989
Richard Tee
1943 - 1993
Mordechai Ben David
Born 1951
Robert Byrne (chess player)
1928 - 2013
Howard Koch (screenwriter)
1901 - 1995
Jeanne Lee
1939 - 2000
Caroline Schermerhorn Astor
1830 - 1908
Elizabeth Gertrude Britton
1858 - 1934
Priscilla Dean
1896 - 1987
Der Scutt
1934 - 2010
Alan V. Oppenheim
Born 1937
Barbara Goodson
Born 1949
William Collier Jr.
1902 - 1987
Frank Elegar
Born 1986
Taro Daniel
Born 1993
Felipe Rose
Born 1954
Val Bisoglio
Born 1926
Bertrand Halperin
Born 1941
Joshua Sinclair
Born 1957
Anya Seton
1904 - 1990
Tracy Kidder
Born 1945
Natalie Curtis
1875 - 1921
Martin Weitzman
1942 - 2019
John Courtney Murray
1904 - 1967
John Lawrence LeConte
1825 - 1883
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I
1877 - 1915
James Dooley (composer)
Born 1976
Linda Clifford
Born 1948
Sebastian Arcelus
Born 1976
Ray Cummings
1887 - 1957
Robert Lustig
Born 1957
John Erskine (educator)
1879 - 1951
Paule Marshall
1929 - 2019
Arnold Moss
1910 - 1989
James L. Conway
Born 1950
Jonathan Keltz
Born 1988
Allen Frances
Born 1942
Chuck Israels
Born 1936
Henry Osborne Havemeyer
1847 - 1907
Ariel Schulman
Born 1981
Kirk Baltz
Born 1959
Dennis Miller Bunker
1861 - 1890
Eddie Henderson (musician)
Born 1940
Merlin Santana
1976 - 2002
Mort Mills
1919 - 1993
Garth Williams
1912 - 1996
Bernard Fowler
Born 1960
Helen Schneider
Born 1952
Melissa Fahn
Born 1967
Edgar Barrier
1907 - 1964
Lonny Price
Born 1959
King Donovan
1918 - 1987
George-Daniel de Monfreid
1856 - 1929
Dovima
1927 - 1990
Sandy Kenyon
1922 - 2010
Chester Kallman
1921 - 1975