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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.
David Rayfiel
1923 - 2011
John Bryson
Born 1943
Cecil Payne
1922 - 2007
Nick McDonell
Born 1984
Whitman Mayo
1930 - 2001
Perry Robinson
1938 - 2018
Christopher Gartin
Born 1975
Max Pomeranc
Born 1984
James Oberg
Born 1944
Philip D. Zelikow
Born 1954
Leon Henkin
1921 - 2006
Martin Shubik
1926 - 2018
David Lowell Rich
1923 - 2001
Raymond Walburn
1887 - 1969
Jamel McLean
Born 1988
Richie Beirach
Born 1947
Jessica Benjamin
Born 1946
Robert Funaro
Born 1959
Richard Kadison
1925 - 2018
Jamil Walker Smith
Born 1982
Allen B. DuMont
1901 - 1965
Michael Sacks
Born 1948
Susan Kelechi Watson
Born 1981
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada
1871 - 1939
Martin Duberman
Born 1930
Princess Donna
Born 1982
Avery Corman
Born 1935
Dolph Sweet
1920 - 1985
Chris Milk
Born 1975
Richard Marks
1943 - 2018
Arabella Field
Born 1965
Amos Poe
Born 1950
Scott O'Grady
Born 1965
Emanuel Celler
1888 - 1981
Michael Small
1939 - 2003
William Henry Chamberlin
1897 - 1969
Danny Gottlieb
Born 1953
Jason Cerbone
Born 1977
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
1836 - 1870
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Born 1955
George Gilder
Born 1939
Anthony Lewis
1927 - 2013
Henry Ephron
1911 - 1992
Sid Bernstein
1918 - 2013
James Manos Jr.
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James Komack
1924 - 1997
Marcia Davenport
1903 - 1996
Sam Leavitt
1904 - 1984
Bob Moses (musician)
Born 1948
Howard Brookner
1954 - 1989
Malcolm Whitman
1877 - 1932
Irving Klaw
1910 - 1966
Wayne Horvitz
Born 1955
Susan Jacoby
Born 1945
Adelaide Crapsey
1878 - 1914
Robert Lewis (director)
1909 - 1997
Thelma Carpenter
1922 - 1997
Donald Meltzer
1922 - 2004
Pete Smith (film producer)
1892 - 1979
James Altucher
Born 1968
Douglas Gresham
Born 1945
Stanley Wolpert
1927 - 2019
Gloria Votsis
Born 1979
Edwin Torres (judge)
Born 1931
Michael Sipser
Born 1954
Elizabeth Holtzman
Born 1941
Armand Mastroianni
Born 1948
Hilton Ruiz
1952 - 2006
George B. Post
1837 - 1913
Larry Harlow (musician)
Born 1939
Raymond D. Mindlin
1906 - 1987
Salvatore Bonanno
1932 - 2008
Russ Heath
1926 - 2018
Andrew Lazar
Born 1966
Doug Moe
Born 1938
Samuel Ornitz
1890 - 1957
Larry Thomas (actor)
Born 1956
Benjamin Altman
1840 - 1913
Russ Smith (basketball)
Born 1991
Katha Pollitt
Born 1949
Sam Behrens
Born 1950
Daniel Kleitman
Born 1934
Anthony Veiller
1903 - 1965
Avi (author)
Born 1937
Edgar Speyer
1862 - 1932
Claude Kelly
Born 1980
Edmund H. North
1911 - 1990
Richie Powell
1931 - 1956
Byron Preiss
1953 - 2005
Lorenzo Charles
1963 - 2011
Harold Lewis
1923 - 2011
Genevieve Angelson
Born 1987
Lewis Thompson Preston
1926 - 1995
Einar Hille
1894 - 1980
Charles Fazzino
Born 1955
Arthur Housman
1889 - 1942
Mary Lefkowitz
Born 1935
Jason Hernandez
Born 1983
Con Conrad
1891 - 1938
Roy Stuart (photographer)
Born 1955
Maryam Keshavarz
Born 1975
Edwin Newman
1919 - 2010
Marjorie Gateson
1891 - 1977
Gerald Green (author)
1922 - 2006
Philip Corner
Born 1933
Harold Norse
1916 - 2009
Jack Zipes
Born 1937
Paul V. McNutt
1891 - 1955
Sidney Tarrow
Born 1938
Eric Drooker
Born 1958
Clark Brandon
Born 1958
Arthur B. Rubinstein
1938 - 2018
George Wells (screenwriter)
1909 - 2000
Charles H. Joffe
1929 - 2008
Frank Layden
Born 1932
Lincoln Gordon
1913 - 2009
Leonard Gershe
1922 - 2002
Rachel Field
1894 - 1942
Ted Williams (voice-over artist)
Born 1957
Laurence Steinhardt
1892 - 1950
Danny Leiner
1961 - 2018
Tricky Sam Nanton
1904 - 1946
Paul Matisse
Born 1933
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Born 1946
Christine Evangelista
Born 1986
Dan Shor
Born 1956
Morton Freedgood
1912 - 2006
Mary Field
1909 - 1996
Linda Manz
1961 - 2020
Jeffrey Zeldman
Born 1955
Mark Reale
1955 - 2012
Jay Beckenstein
Born 1951
Barbara Cooney
1917 - 2000
Mell Lazarus
1927 - 2016
Lina Romay (singer)
1919 - 2010
Mathieu Schneider
Born 1969
Renaldo Balkman
Born 1984
Sally Pressman
Born 1981
Richard Tucker (actor)
1884 - 1942
David M. Schneider
1918 - 1995
John Shanks
Born 1964
Fred Wolf (writer)
Born 1964
Dick O'Neill
1928 - 1998
Bill Mantlo
Born 1951
Lloyd Daniels
Born 1967
Heywood Broun
1888 - 1939
David Hosack
1769 - 1835
Stanley Ralph Ross
1935 - 2000
Richard Engel
Born 1973
Harry Lampert
1916 - 2004
Stanley Greene
1949 - 2017
Julie Christmas
Born 1975
James Chapin
1889 - 1964
Sal da Vinci
Born 1969
Herman Raucher
Born 1928
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
1891 - 1968
Marilyn Cooper
1934 - 2009
Alan S. Kaufman
Born 1944
Michael Higgins (actor)
1920 - 2008
David DeJesus
Born 1979
Jesse L. Greenstein
1909 - 2002
Len Elmore
Born 1952
John G. Trump
1907 - 1985
John Mauceri
Born 1945
Mary Catherine Bateson
Born 1939
Elliot Easton
Born 1953
Robert Jervis
Born 1940
Paul Zane Pilzer
Born 1954
Lodge Kerrigan
Born 1964
Madeleine Astor
1893 - 1940
Adam Fawer
Born 1970
David Draiman
Born 1973
Larry Silverstein
Born 1931
Peter Unger
Born 1942
Najee
Born 1957
Alice Boughton
1866 - 1943
Johnny Gioeli
Born 1967
Bert Kalmar
1884 - 1947
India Ennenga
Born 1994
Ted Wilde
1889 - 1929
Ira Gitler
1928 - 2019
Leonard Katzman
1927 - 1996
Walter Brooke
1914 - 1986
Elie Siegmeister
1909 - 1991
Danny Lyon
Born 1942
Chris Sullivan (actor)
Born 1980
Don Randi
Born 1937
Herbert Matthews
1900 - 1977
Krista Ayne
Born 1982
Dakari Johnson
Born 1995
Stanley Osher
Born 1942
William Parker (musician)
Born 1952
Bernie Brillstein
1931 - 2008
George Newbold Lawrence
1806 - 1895
Eric Bress
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Josh Blake
Born 1975
Paul Sylbert
1928 - 2016
Alexander Girard
1907 - 1993
Charlie Dominici
Born 1951
Louis Meyer
1904 - 1995
Joseph Massino
Born 1943
Vito Bratta
Born 1961
Bob Wilber
1928 - 2019
Bob Ludwig
Born 1945
Susan Fleming
1908 - 2002
Alexis Ohanian
Born 1983
Robert Michael White
1924 - 2010
Christopher Wilkinson
Born 1950
James Stillman Rockefeller
1902 - 2004
Mark Penn
Born 1954
Harry J. Lipkin
1921 - 2015
Rubin Goldmark
1872 - 1936
Richard A. Harris
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David Johnson (American artist)
1827 - 1908
Baruch Goldstein
1956 - 1994
Melvyn Goldstein
Born 1938
A. James Gregor
1929 - 2019
Jonathan Wells (intelligent design advocate)
Born 1942
Bruce Wasserstein
1947 - 2009
Gardner McKay
1932 - 2001
Arthur Hornblow Jr.
1893 - 1976
Cayman Togashi
Born 1993
David M. Rosenthal (director)
Born 1969
Candice Azzara
Born 1945
Agnes E. Meyer
1887 - 1970
Stanley Kauffmann
1916 - 2013
Pete Davidson
Born 1993
Richard March Hoe
1812 - 1886
John Podhoretz
Born 1961
Milt Franklyn
1897 - 1962
Andrew Cyrille
Born 1939
John Francis Dillon (director)
1884 - 1934
Ralph MacDonald
1944 - 2011
Alison Knowles
Born 1933
Walter Ralston Martin
1928 - 1989
Edward Penfield
1866 - 1925
Henri Goetz
1909 - 1989
Edward Cronjager
1904 - 1960
Richard A. Lupoff
1935 - 2020
Alexander Crummell
1819 - 1898
Helena Carter
1923 - 2000
Douglas J. Futuyma
Born 1942
Annet Artani
Born 1976
Charles W. Gilmore
1874 - 1945
Joan Pringle
Born 1945
Jeff Cheeger
Born 1943
Norm Ferguson (animator)
1902 - 1957
Robert Alan Aurthur
1922 - 1978
Alicia Ostriker
Born 1937
Will Rogers Jr.
1911 - 1993
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
1870 - 1957
Abe Reles
1906 - 1941
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Born 1950
Alan Friedman
Born 1956
Phoebe Palmer
1807 - 1874
George Hu
Born 1982
Sylven Landesberg
Born 1990
O. D. Anosike
Born 1991
David Anthony Durham
Born 1969
Pinchas Steinberg
Born 1945
Carolyn McCarthy
Born 1944
Leonard Starr
1925 - 2015
Tom DeFalco
Born 1950
Jared Palmer
Born 1971
Burton Watson
1925 - 2017
Gene de Paul
1919 - 1988
Michael Franzese
Born 1951
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Born 1977
Charles H. Bennett (computer scientist)
Born 1943
Anna Lee Fisher
Born 1949
Harold S. Shapiro
Born 1928
Jonathan Ned Katz
Born 1938
Frank G. Wisner
Born 1938
Charles S. Dubin
1919 - 2011
Alicia Lagano
Born 1979
Lamont Hamilton
Born 1984
Peter Parros
Born 1960
Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Born 1960
Tiffany Shepis
Born 1979
Herbert L. Anderson
1914 - 1988
Scott Kalvert
1964 - 2014
Bonnie Dennison
Born 1989
Philippa Schuyler
1931 - 1967
Lina Pagliughi
1907 - 1980
Sandra Gilbert
Born 1936
Steve Ross (businessman)
1927 - 1992
Victoria Forde
1896 - 1964
Princess Nokia
Born 1992
Jamie Elman
Born 1976
Howard Dietz
1896 - 1983
Leonard B. Stern
1923 - 2011
Irving Lerner
1909 - 1976
Paul Lansky
Born 1944
Jonathan Goldsmith
Born 1938
Harry Stradling Jr.
1925 - 2017
Wendy Benson
Born 1971
Robert M. Solovay
Born 1938
Richard Kadrey
Born 1957
Frank Conroy
1936 - 2005
Ruth Harriet Louise
1903 - 1940