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.
Howard Smith (director)
1936 - 2014
Wyatt Cenac
Born 1976
Frankie Genaro
1901 - 1966
Phoebe Ephron
1914 - 1971
Eric Schaeffer
Born 1962
Jennifer Cooke
Born 1964
Blue Balliett
Born 1955
Briton Hadden
1898 - 1929
Mary Pinchot Meyer
1920 - 1964
T. E. D. Klein
Born 1947
Viña Delmar
1903 - 1990
Shari Arison
Born 1957
Walter Berry (basketball)
Born 1964
Daniel Schacter
Born 1952
Robert Roosevelt
1829 - 1906
Debbie Deb
Born 1966
Al Kasha
1937 - 2020
Steven Rosenberg
Born 1940
Mary Schapiro
Born 1955
muMs da Schemer
Born 1963
Linda Sarsour
Born 1980
Diana Baumrind
1927 - 2018
Steven Sinofsky
Born 1965
Neil Bogart
1943 - 1982
Eleanor Rosch
Born 1938
Little Louie Vega
Born 1965
Harry Eagle
1905 - 1992
Roy DeMeo
1942 - 1983
Cornelius Vanderbilt IV
1898 - 1974
Sterling Campbell
Born 1964
Gabriel Casseus
Born 1972
John Dunning (writer)
Born 1942
Edgar Pangborn
1909 - 1976
Jan Merlin
1925 - 2019
Jimmie Haskell
1936 - 2016
Henry Brockholst Livingston
1757 - 1823
Dovid Katz
Born 1956
Gabrielle Zevin
Born 1977
Frankee
Born 1983
Kevin Wade
Born 1954
Joseph H. Silverman
Born 1955
Gustave Reese
1899 - 1977
Ahmed Abdul-Malik
1927 - 1993
Lillian Copeland
1904 - 1964
Joseph Siravo
Born 1957
Gladys Brockwell
1893 - 1929
Stephen M. Schwebel
Born 1929
Brian Bliss
Born 1965
Felix E. Feist
1910 - 1965
Seymour Nebenzal
1899 - 1961
Moses Abramovitz
1912 - 2000
Sharon Salzberg
Born 1952
Tom Smothers
Born 1937
Steven Sasson
Born 1950
Kay Swift
1897 - 1993
Robert Cushman Murphy
1887 - 1973
Albert Parker (director)
1885 - 1974
Francesca Hilton
1947 - 2015
Norman Geschwind
1926 - 1984
Melissa Monet
Born 1964
David René de Rothschild
Born 1942
Richard Manitoba
Born 1954
Vincent Astor
1891 - 1959
Charnett Moffett
Born 1967
Irwin I. Shapiro
Born 1929
George W. Melville
1841 - 1912
Nicodemo Scarfo
1929 - 2017
Jeh Johnson
Born 1957
Eugene Robert Glazer
Born 1942
Bob Falkenburg
Born 1926
Robert Jastrow
1925 - 2008
Huey Dunbar
Born 1974
Jane Elliot
Born 1947
Carl Kaufmann
1936 - 2008
Earl Manigault
1944 - 1998
Peter Viereck
1916 - 2006
Emily Bindiger
Born 1955
Sam Martin (singer)
Born 1983
Giselle Blondet
Born 1966
Billy Halop
1920 - 1976
Marc Prensky
Born 1946
Irving Jaffee
1906 - 1981
Curley Russell
1917 - 1986
John G. Adolfi
1888 - 1933
Anthony Ramos (actor)
Born 1991
Jennifer 8. Lee
Born 1976
Vanessa Lane
Born 1983
Jackie Loughery
Born 1930
Zab Judah
Born 1977
Adam Richman
Born 1974
Tanya Lopert
Born 1942
Robert Sterling Clark
1877 - 1956
Jean Nidetch
1923 - 2015
Daniel Fuchs
1909 - 1993
Ben Selvin
1898 - 1980
Norman Lamm
1927 - 2020
Patrick Fitzgerald
Born 1960
Martin Rev
Born 1947
Arthur Tappan Pierson
1837 - 1911
Nicola Rescigno
1916 - 2008
John Stevens (inventor, born 1749)
1749 - 1838
Stacy Title
Born 1970
Richard Venture
1923 - 2017
Tyondai Braxton
Born 1978
Bram Cohen
Born 1975
Lucia Micarelli
Born 1983
Peter Arno
1904 - 1968
Anton Coppola
1917 - 2020
Stephen Albert
1941 - 1992
J. Michael Muro
Born 1966
Richard Sylbert
1928 - 2002
Harry Landers
1921 - 2017
Kasim Sulton
Born 1955
Oscar Handlin
1915 - 2011
Jason Griffith
Born 1980
Frank Chodorov
1887 - 1966
Adrienne La Russa
Born 1948
Lucy Simon
Born 1943
David Christian (historian)
Born 1946
Harvey Brooks (bassist)
Born 1944
Isobel Lennart
1915 - 1971
John Laurance
1750 - 1810
Jeff MacNelly
1947 - 2000
Kenneth Kunen
1943 - 2020
Maggie Haberman
Born 1973
Courtney Peldon
Born 1981
William H. Press
Born 1948
Paul Krassner
1932 - 2019
Jonathan Elias
Born 1956
Shelley Berkley
Born 1951
Hiroshi Wakasugi
1935 - 2009
T. K. Carter
Born 1956
Patience Cleveland
1931 - 2004
Rachel Covey
Born 1998
Esmond Bradley Martin
1941 - 2018
George Walsh
1889 - 1981
Ben Katchor
Born 1951
Herb Gardner
1934 - 2003
Henry Stanbery
1803 - 1881
Robert Ellis (actor, born 1892)
1892 - 1974
Susan Silo
Born 1942
Dawnn Lewis
Born 1961
Sharon Kay Penman
Born 1945
Vera Lewis
1873 - 1956
Arthur Byron
1872 - 1943
Michael Tolkin
Born 1950
Aaron Rosenberg
1912 - 1979
Victoria Dillard
Born 1969
Sadam Ali
Born 1988
Frank Mankiewicz
1924 - 2014
Anthony Katagas
Born 1971
O. Z. Whitehead
1911 - 1998
Charles Yanofsky
1925 - 2018
Durand Scott
Born 1990
Solomon Kullback
1907 - 1994
William Rutherford Mead
1846 - 1928
Kenny Aaronson
Born 1952
Karen Olivo
Born 1976
Melvyn P. Leffler
Born 1945
John Carberry
1904 - 1998
Charlotte Henry
1914 - 1980
Lejaren Hiller
1924 - 1994
Peter Goldreich
Born 1939
Robert Ledley
1926 - 2012
Barbara Colby
1939 - 1975
Alexander Stille
Born 1957
Leon Goldensohn
1911 - 1961
Dave Pell
1925 - 2017
Lou Carnesecca
Born 1925
Norton Juster
Born 1929
Kin Shriner
Born 1953
Tom Kennedy (actor)
1885 - 1965
Don Diamont
Born 1962
Roy Tarpley
1964 - 2015
Leon Wieseltier
Born 1952
Constance Binney
1896 - 1989
Jim Chapin
1919 - 2009
Richard J. Bernstein
Born 1932
Chris Wingert
Born 1982
Morris Engel
1918 - 2005
Lewis Seiler
1890 - 1964
Henry Denker
1912 - 2012
Richard Dorson
1916 - 1981
Lawrence E. Spivak
1900 - 1994
Roz Chast
Born 1954
Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann
Born 1983
Arnold Drake
1924 - 2007
Robert Audi
Born 1941
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Born 1946
Priscilla Garita
Born 1968
Bashford Dean
1867 - 1928
Doris Belack
1926 - 2011
David Rosenthal (musician)
Born 1961
Shep Fields
1910 - 1981
Alexander Singer
Born 1932
Danny Steinmann
1942 - 2012
Francis Hunter
1894 - 1981
April Greiman
Born 1948
Dave Berg (cartoonist)
1920 - 2002
O. Winston Link
1914 - 2001
Mike Massimino
Born 1962
Charlotte Garrigue
1850 - 1923
John Byner
Born 1938
Robert Osserman
1926 - 2011
Lillian Fuchs
1901 - 1995
Blanche Friderici
1878 - 1933
Shlomo Riskin
Born 1940
Betty Aberlin
Born 1942
Barry Melton
Born 1947
Frederick Vernon Coville
1867 - 1937
Heather MacRae
Born 1946
Roger Brown (basketball, born 1942)
1942 - 1997
Paul C. Vogel
1899 - 1975
Paul Lo Duca
Born 1972
Sherwin B. Nuland
1930 - 2014
Celia Adler
1889 - 1979
Wiard Ihnen
1897 - 1979
David E. Green
1910 - 1983
John McLoughlin (policier)
Born 1953
Alex Berenson
Born 1973
Chester Crocker
Born 1941
Jeremy Rowley
Born 1978
Aram Avakian
1926 - 1987
Philip D'Antoni
1929 - 2018
Michael Esper
Born 1976
Jean de Segonzac
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Linda Jo Rizzo
Born 1955
George Jay Gould I
1864 - 1923
Tyler Brooke
1886 - 1943
Gerald Feinberg
1933 - 1992
Pat Walshe
1900 - 1991
Celia S. Friedman
Born 1957
Jessica Carlson (actress)
Born 1993
Maurice Binder
1925 - 1991
Marie Menken
1909 - 1970
Joey Giardello
1930 - 2008
Juli Furtado
Born 1967
Oliver Chesler
Born 1970
Judith Exner
1934 - 1999
Cornelius Vanderbilt II
1843 - 1899
Peter G. Gerry
1879 - 1957
Michael Tucci
Born 1946
Vince Gironda
1917 - 1997
Steven Hahn
Born 1951
Léonie Adams
1899 - 1988
Jennifer Tour Chayes
Born 1956
Lawrence Montaigne
1931 - 2017
Sean Daniel
Born 1951
Johnny Ortiz
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Mary Wineberg
Born 1980
Calvert DeForest
1921 - 2007
Mike Seeger
1933 - 2009
Dick Huemer
1898 - 1979
Candace Pert
1946 - 2013
Liane Curtis
Born 1965
Sol C. Siegel
1903 - 1982
Sterling E. Lanier
1927 - 2007
Jed Allan
1937 - 2019
George L. Engel
1913 - 1999
Aaron Bank
1902 - 2004
Morgan Russell
1886 - 1953
Bernard Rogers
1893 - 1968
Raymond Abrashkin
1911 - 1960
Ronnie Cutrone
1948 - 2013
Tina Romero
Born 1949
Elena Kampouris
Born 1997
Mabel Taliaferro
1887 - 1979
Martin Jay
Born 1944
Larry B. Scott
Born 1961
Andy Narell
Born 1954
John Anthony West
1932 - 2018
Diana Sands
1934 - 1973
Gijs de Vries
Born 1956
James Loeb
1867 - 1933
Otis Barton
1899 - 1992
James Tour
Born 1959
Michael Jan Friedman
Born 1955
Arthur Ripley
1897 - 1961
Buffy Dee
1923 - 1995
Roger S. H. Schulman
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Brigid Berlin
1939 - 2020
Ron Marz
Born 1959
D-Nice
Born 1971
Bob Gibson (musician)
1931 - 1996
David Healy (actor)
1929 - 1995
Ramón Rivas
Born 1966
Egbert Benson
1746 - 1833
Rona Jaffe
1931 - 2005
Ludlow Griscom
1890 - 1959
Carmine Caridi
1934 - 2019
Ron Browz
Born 1982
Richard Ellis (biologist)
Born 1938
Hugo F. Sonnenschein
Born 1940
Philip Jessup
1897 - 1986
Flip Phillips
1915 - 2001
Richard Epstein
Born 1943
Ray Abruzzo
Born 1954
Jake Kilrain
1859 - 1937
Matthew Cowles
1944 - 2014
Fred Reinfeld
1910 - 1964