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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.
Virginia Brown Faire
1904 - 1980
Poe (singer)
Born 1967
Phillips Smalley
1875 - 1939
Kyra Zagorsky
Born 1976
T. T. Boy
Born 1968
Stuart Damon
Born 1937
Lisa Barbuscia
Born 1971
Robert Maschio
Born 1966
Stephen L. Adler
Born 1939
Claudia Goldin
Born 1946
Joseph Eichler
1900 - 1974
Maxwell Maltz
1889 - 1975
Peter Lieberson
1946 - 2011
Steve Landesberg
1936 - 2010
J. I. Rodale
1898 - 1971
Daniel Mandell
1895 - 1987
Ken Jacobs
Born 1933
Robert Nathan
1894 - 1985
Dan Burros
1937 - 1965
Raymond Vernon
1913 - 1999
Michael Heidelberger
1888 - 1991
Omar Cook
Born 1982
Robert Herman
1914 - 1997
Tony Touch
Born 1969
Al Goldstein
1936 - 2013
Big Ali
Born 1978
Walt Kuhn
1877 - 1949
Thomas Keating
1923 - 2018
Jack Donohue (director)
1908 - 1984
Fred W. Friendly
1915 - 1998
Albert Herter
1871 - 1950
Phillip Reed
1908 - 1996
David Burns (actor)
1901 - 1971
Hiram Percy Maxim
1869 - 1936
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Born 1960
Julie Bovasso
1930 - 1991
David Hare (artist)
1917 - 1992
Jill Tarter
Born 1944
Josephine Earp
1861 - 1944
Laura Dean (actress)
Born 1963
Renae Cruz
Born 1987
Charlie Palmieri
1927 - 1988
Jack Trout
1935 - 2017
Maxine Sullivan
1911 - 1987
Sheldon Moldoff
1920 - 2012
John Gilbert Winant
1889 - 1947
Irving Reis
1906 - 1953
Henry Petroski
Born 1942
Frederic Mishkin
Born 1951
Barry N. Malzberg
Born 1939
Lucy Shapiro
Born 1940
Theo Epstein
Born 1973
Robert Ellis Miller
1932 - 2017
David Kertzer
Born 1948
Glenn Slater
Born 1968
Jesse Harris
Born 1969
Susan E. Morse
Born 1952
Louisine Havemeyer
1855 - 1929
Greg Rikaart
Born 1977
Jonathan Katz
Born 1946
Greg Costikyan
Born 1959
Stewart Stern
1922 - 2015
Will Rothhaar
Born 1987
Charles Previn
1888 - 1973
Robin Lakoff
Born 1942
Greg Hetson
Born 1961
Erik Bye
1926 - 2004
Tom Sachs (artist)
Born 1966
Dorothy Burlingham
1891 - 1979
Priscilla Cooper Tyler
1816 - 1889
Mort Drucker
1929 - 2020
Peter Pace
Born 1945
Alisha (singer)
Born 1968
George Duvivier
1920 - 1985
Marina von Neumann Whitman
Born 1935
Marilyn Hacker
Born 1942
Edoardo Agnelli
1954 - 2000
Lenny Venito
Born 1966
Sheila Larken
Born 1944
Cinqué Lee
Born 1966
Greg Serano
Born 1972
Peter Fernandez
1927 - 2010
Alex Flinn
Born 1966
Don Grolnick
1947 - 1996
Vernon Chatman
Born 1972
Leslie Kaplan
Born 1943
Victoria Horne
1911 - 2003
Kenny Werner
Born 1951
Rosemary Wells
Born 1943
Janet Maslin
Born 1949
Crockett Johnson
1906 - 1975
Robert Katz
1933 - 2010
Louis Silvers
1889 - 1954
William Sloane Coffin
1924 - 2006
Stefan Grossman
Born 1945
Easy Mo Bee
Born 1965
Abby Stein
Born 1991
Adam Darius
1930 - 2017
Shad Gaspard
1981 - 2020
Don Dubbins
1928 - 1991
Richard Herrnstein
1930 - 1994
William Frankena
1908 - 1994
Robert Dallek
Born 1934
Roger L. Simon
Born 1943
Lee Curreri
Born 1961
David Toop
Born 1949
Louis Untermeyer
1885 - 1977
Karla Cheatham Mosley
Born 1981
Judy Kuhn
Born 1958
David Newman (screenwriter)
1937 - 2003
Mopreme Shakur
Born 1967
Raúl Ibañez
Born 1972
Chuck Wepner
Born 1939
Connie Hawkins
1942 - 2017
Hutton Gibson
1918 - 2020
Rae Allen
Born 1926
Joan Birman
Born 1927
Rebecca Schull
Born 1929
Helen McCloy
1904 - 1994
Michael Sorrentino
Born 1982
Jack Molinas
1931 - 1975
Donald MacBride
1889 - 1957
Russell Rouse
1913 - 1987
Stacey Plaskett
Born 1966
Tige Andrews
1920 - 2007
Richie Ray
Born 1945
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
1906 - 1975
Gene Quintano
Born 1946
Jerry Butler (actor)
1959 - 2018
Alan Rabinowitz
1953 - 2018
Jacob Ruppert
1867 - 1939
Steve Lemme
Born 1968
William Stanley Jr.
1858 - 1916
William H. Phelps Sr.
1875 - 1965
Don Most
Born 1953
Don Diamond
1921 - 2011
Joe DioGuardi
Born 1940
Arthur Johnston (composer)
1898 - 1954
Isaac Kashdan
1905 - 1985
Rod Amateau
1923 - 2003
Edward J. McCluskey
1929 - 2016
Morrie Ryskind
1895 - 1985
Milton Krasner
1904 - 1988
Albert Wohlstetter
1913 - 1997
Lauren Bittner
Born 1980
Richard R. Nelson
Born 1930
T. Carmi
1925 - 1994
O.C. (rapper)
Born 1972
Lorna Simpson
Born 1960
Joel Elias Spingarn
1875 - 1939
Edward R. Pressman
Born 1943
Quinton Hosley
Born 1984
Harold Clurman
1901 - 1980
Abel Kiviat
1892 - 1991
Ron Leavitt
1947 - 2008
George Folsey (cinematographer)
1898 - 1988
Woodrow Parfrey
1922 - 1984
Jonas Carpignano
Born 1984
Vito Russo
1946 - 1990
Hopkinson Smith
Born 1946
Elaine Cunningham
Born 1957
Ashley Peldon
Born 1984
Nica Noelle
Born 1976
Philip Berg
1927 - 2013
Vincent Lopez
1895 - 1975
Alan Colmes
1950 - 2017
Frank Schlesinger
1871 - 1943
Joan Roberts
1917 - 2012
Frank Wildhorn
Born 1958
Gladys Heldman
1922 - 2003
Josephine Dunn
1906 - 1983
Warren Adler
1927 - 2019
Tom Browne (trumpeter)
Born 1954
Andrew Jarecki
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Waite Hoyt
1899 - 1984
Helen Tamiris
1905 - 1966
Erich Bergen
Born 1985
Donald Antrim
Born 1958
Wes Farrell
1939 - 1996
Luca Bercovici
Born 1957
Adam Schlesinger
1967 - 2020
Jerry Donahue
Born 1946
Nita Talbot
Born 1930
Armando Robles Godoy
1923 - 2010
William Kruskal
1919 - 2005
Jim Johnson (baseball, born 1983)
Born 1983
Robert Barry (artist)
Born 1936
Susan Landau
Born 1954
Olive Carey
1896 - 1988
Alexa Kenin
1962 - 1985
Holly Knight
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Joe Esposito (singer)
Born 1948
Edward Dillon (actor)
1879 - 1933
Marvin Kalb
Born 1930
Marvin Kaplan
1927 - 2016
Jason Starr
Born 1966
Dara Birnbaum
Born 1946
Aaron Shikler
1922 - 2015
Dean Riesner
1918 - 2002
Minor Cooper Keith
1848 - 1929
Jane Colden
1724 - 1766
Edward Anhalt
1914 - 2000
Billy Talbot
Born 1943
Bruce C. Murray
1931 - 2013
William Axt
1888 - 1959
Ian Kahn
Born 1972
Cynthia Enloe
Born 1938
Margaret Heckler
1931 - 2018
Patricia Field
Born 1941
Elif Batuman
Born 1977
Lotta Crabtree
1847 - 1924
Rama Burshtein
Born 1967
Eddie Basden
Born 1983
Alfred Cheney Johnston
1885 - 1971
Roy Rosenzweig
1950 - 2007
Toni Cade Bambara
1939 - 1995
Maurice Hinchey
1938 - 2017
Punch Sulzberger
1926 - 2012
John Gulager
Born 1957
Dannie Richmond
1931 - 1988
Ursula Burns
Born 1958
Gil Stratton
1922 - 2008
Ronnie Gilbert
1926 - 2015
Nick Valensi
Born 1981
William Bliss Baker
1859 - 1886
Ruth Gruber
1911 - 2016
Jace Alexander
Born 1964
Joel Sternfeld
Born 1944
Barbara Trentham
1944 - 2013
Queen Pen
Born 1972
Bob Dornan
Born 1933
Steve Katz (musician)
Born 1945
Rockets Redglare
1949 - 2001
Jenny Lumet
Born 1967
Frank Harary
1921 - 2005
Donna Woolfolk Cross
Born 1947
Chuck Negron
Born 1942
Jeffrey Toobin
Born 1960
Natalie Goldberg
Born 1948
Gloria Naylor
1950 - 2016
Alexander Chaplin
Born 1971
Johnny Kelly
Born 1968
Mindy Smith
Born 1972
James Francis McIntyre
1886 - 1979
Steve Grossman (saxophonist)
1951 - 2020
Emily Kapnek
Born 1969
Ramel Curry
Born 1980
David Giler
Born 1930
Harry Braverman
1920 - 1976
Smush Parker
Born 1981
DONDI
1961 - 1998
George Meeker
1904 - 1984
Jean Liedloff
1926 - 2011
Karsh Kale
Born 1974
Shawn James
Born 1983
Michael Drosnin
1946 - 2020
Dave Meltzer
Born 1959
Lil Suzy
Born 1979
Bert Lytell
1885 - 1954
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Born 1959
Cornelius Vanderbilt III
1873 - 1942
Joe Bastianich
Born 1968
Jamie Gold
Born 1969
Mace Neufeld
Born 1928
Jamie Saft
Born 1971
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Born 1944
Richard L. Rubenstein
Born 1924
J. R. Moehringer
Born 1964
Paula Strasberg
1909 - 1966
John Costelloe (actor)
1961 - 2008
Adolf Erbslöh
1881 - 1947
Kenneth Silverman
1936 - 2017
Abbey Simon
1920 - 2019
David Spinozza
Born 1949
Josh Evans (film producer)
Born 1971
Roy Mayorga
Born 1970
William F. Lamb
1893 - 1952
Bob Haggart
1914 - 1998
Max Cantor
1959 - 1991
Eddie Velez
Born 1958
Alan Bergman
Born 1925
Alice Kober
1906 - 1950
Dave Barbour
1912 - 1965
Erik Friedlander
Born 1960
William Henry Vanderbilt III
1901 - 1981
Billy Bauer
1915 - 2005
George Reisman
Born 1937
Amel Larrieux
Born 1973
Joe Napolitano
1948 - 2016
Leon Klinghoffer
1916 - 1985
Nelson George
Born 1957
Ruth Snyder
1895 - 1928
Felix Arndt
1889 - 1918
Christopher Knight (actor)
Born 1957
Sylvia Fine
1913 - 1991
Michael J. Flynn
Born 1934
Edward Heyman
1907 - 1981
Isidore Mankofsky
Born 1931
Lelia Goldoni
Born 1936
Michael Salazar
Born 1992