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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.
Claudia Lonow
Born 1963
Richard Riordan
Born 1930
Frank Lupo
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J. Ralph
Born 1975
Cornelius Roosevelt
1794 - 1871
Greg Hands
Born 1965
Charlotte d'Amboise
Born 1964
Arthur Allan Seidelman
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Marc Levin
Born 1951
Sheila Matthews Allen
1929 - 2013
Jim Holt (philosopher)
Born 1954
Casey Chaos
Born 1969
Arlene Sanford
Born 1950
George Amy
1903 - 1986
Buckshot (rapper)
Born 1974
Walter Bishop Jr.
1927 - 1998
Teddy Castellucci
Born 1965
Red Café
Born 1976
Nat Fleischer
1887 - 1972
John William Casilear
1811 - 1893
Roger Angell
Born 1920
John Lindley (cinematographer)
Born 1951
Erving Walker
Born 1990
William Levitt
1907 - 1994
Mark Slade
Born 1939
Henry Bergh
1811 - 1888
Selma James
Born 1930
William Graham (director)
1926 - 2013
Claron McFadden
Born 1961
Shirley Stoler
1929 - 1999
Amy Finkelstein
Born 1973
Jean-Claude Ameisen
Born 1951
Chubby Jackson
1918 - 2003
Quentin Reynolds
1902 - 1965
Mike Diana
Born 1969
Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman
1861 - 1939
Alfred A. Knopf Sr.
1892 - 1984
Christopher Makos
Born 1948
James Hayden
1953 - 1983
Josh Bernstein
Born 1971
Harry Payne Whitney
1872 - 1930
Rachel Pollack
Born 1945
Austin Basis
Born 1976
Paul Frommer
Born 1944
James Waterston
Born 1969
Grandmaster Caz
Born 1961
Fred Wolf (animator)
Born 1932
Doris Ulmann
1882 - 1934
Otis G. Pike
1921 - 2014
Richard Schenkman
Born 1958
Matthew Diamond
Born 1951
Charles Leale
1842 - 1932
David Kohan
Born 1964
Patrick Cousot
Born 1948
Lynne Stewart
1939 - 2017
Napoleon XIV
Born 1938
Denise Nickerson
1957 - 2019
Walter Pach
1883 - 1958
Edward Connelly
1858 - 1928
Robert Anderson Van Wyck
1849 - 1918
Michael Phillips (producer)
Born 1943
John Roberts (actor)
Born 1971
Tobias Picker
Born 1954
Sihugo Green
1933 - 1980
Alan Berliner
Born 1956
Laurence Mark
Born 1949
William Montgomery McGovern
1897 - 1964
Stephen Solarz
1940 - 2010
Natália Kelly
Born 1994
Delia Ephron
Born 1944
Leo Bassi
Born 1952
Michael C. Maronna
Born 1977
Eliot Weinberger
Born 1949
Paula Badosa Gibert
Born 1997
Frank Nugent
1908 - 1965
Sam Coslow
1902 - 1982
Emma Stebbins
1815 - 1882
Walter Newman (screenwriter)
1916 - 1993
John Davidson (actor)
1886 - 1968
Mary Ellis
1897 - 2003
Francis Xavier Ford
1892 - 1952
Cora Diamond
Born 1937
Lawrence Rabiner
Born 1943
Denzil Best
1917 - 1965
Henry Krieger
Born 1945
Neill Barry
Born 1965
Roy DeCarava
1919 - 2009
David Weisman
1942 - 2019
Joan Nestle
Born 1940
Milton Subotsky
1921 - 1991
Bayard Veiller
1869 - 1943
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
1861 - 1933
Andy Kindler
Born 1956
Adrian Rollini
1903 - 1956
Benjamin Radford
Born 1970
Rupert Crosse
1927 - 1973
Tom Reiss
Born 1964
Irene Mayer Selznick
1907 - 1990
Curtis Roosevelt
1930 - 2016
John Sexton
Born 1942
Oliver Belmont
1858 - 1908
Lionel Casson
1914 - 2009
Robert Morgenthau
1919 - 2019
Peter Brooks (writer)
Born 1938
Richard Popkin
1923 - 2005
Jay Sekulow
Born 1957
Harry V. Jaffa
1918 - 2015
Jules Bache
1861 - 1944
Eddie Ojeda
Born 1955
Bernard Vorhaus
1904 - 2000
Diane Dixon
Born 1964
Geoffrey Wigdor
Born 1982
Sid Melton
1917 - 2011
Allen Weinstein
1937 - 2015
Milton Sperling
1912 - 1988
David Denby
Born 1943
Jason Lindner
Born 1973
George Washington Cullum
1809 - 1892
Frederick Cooper (historian)
Born 1947
Aaron Schroeder
1926 - 2009
Ken Uston
1935 - 1987
Frank Marth
1922 - 2014
Christopher Mayer (American actor)
1954 - 2011
Michael Herz (producer)
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Josh Ostrovsky
Born 1985
Tim Herlihy
Born 1966
Bruce Bilson
Born 1928
Aram Saroyan
Born 1943
Bill Drayton
Born 1943
Ezra Laderman
1924 - 2015
Charles Busch
Born 1954
Robert Goldwater
1907 - 1973
Guy Pène du Bois
1884 - 1958
Tony Pastor
1837 - 1908
Richard Stone (politician)
1928 - 2019
Édgar Sosa (basketball)
Born 1988
Jim Jonsin
Born 1970
Bill Griffith
Born 1944
Bill Richmond
1763 - 1829
Alisa Reyes
Born 1981
Vanessa Marshall
Born 1969
David Gelb
Born 1983
Max Zaslofsky
1925 - 1985
Todd Gitlin
Born 1943
Kenneth Duberstein
Born 1944
Ernie Henry
1926 - 1957
William Rubin
1927 - 2006
Víctor Manuel Gerena
Born 1958
Priscilla Lopez
Born 1948
Adrian Kantrowitz
1918 - 2008
David F. Noble
1945 - 2010
Sam Rolfe
1924 - 1993
Joseph Medill Patterson
1879 - 1946
Sammy Brooks
1891 - 1951
King Moody
1929 - 2001
Fred Murphy (cinematographer)
Born 1942
Harry Barris
1905 - 1962
Ernie Roth
1929 - 1983
Aliette de Bodard
Born 1982
Tony Longo
1961 - 2015
Danny Burstein
Born 1964
Daphnée Duplaix
Born 1976
Lionel Rogosin
1924 - 2000
Eliot Feld
Born 1942
DJ Cassidy
Born 1981
John Franco
Born 1960
Arthur Levitt
Born 1931
Andrea M. Ghez
Born 1965
Mike Zwerin
1930 - 2010
Beatrice Warde
1900 - 1969
Jamaal Tinsley
Born 1978
Edith Storey
1892 - 1967
Michael DiSalle
1908 - 1981
John Swinton (journalist)
1829 - 1901
Craig Benson
Born 1954
Melvin Gibbs
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Roxy Paine
Born 1966
Ron Rosenbaum
Born 1946
Paul Zukofsky
1943 - 2017
Jack Richardson (actor)
1883 - 1957
Gilbert Sorrentino
1929 - 2006
Melvin Hochster
Born 1943
Freedom Williams
Born 1966
Joseph Valentine
1900 - 1949
Daniel E. Koshland Jr.
1920 - 2007
Sheryl WuDunn
Born 1959
Kirsten Miller
Born 1973
James Handy
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Aaron Elkins
Born 1935
Charles Tiebout
1924 - 1968
Gino Quilico
Born 1955
Frankie Thomas
1921 - 2006
Adele Goldstine
1920 - 1964
Fred Katz (cellist)
1919 - 2013
Mercator Cooper
1803 - 1872
Charles Rackoff
Born 1948
William Conklin
1872 - 1935
Alan Weinstein
Born 1943
Novella Nelson
1939 - 2017
Bobby Previte
Born 1951
Jae Millz
Born 1980
Morgan Llywelyn
Born 1937
Edward Harrigan
1844 - 1911
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
1822 - 1908
William H. Baxter
Born 1949
Sanford I. Weill
Born 1933
Gordon Baym
Born 1935
James Strong (theologian)
1822 - 1894
Hans P. Kraus
1907 - 1988
Art Kane
1925 - 1995
Andrew Jean-Baptiste
Born 1992
Lenore Kasdorf
Born 1948
Gordy Hoffman
Born 1964
Jack Sarfatti
Born 1939
Toby Emmerich
Born 1963
Anthony Wallace (soccer)
Born 1989
Pat Cooper
Born 1929
Frances FitzGerald (journalist)
Born 1940
Dave Winer
Born 1955
Richard Archbold
1907 - 1976
Charles Simmons (author)
1924 - 2017
Ramsay MacMullen
Born 1928
Stanley Shapiro
1925 - 1990
Darryl Middleton
Born 1966
Bertram Kostant
1928 - 2017
Alexander Dinelaris Jr.
Born 1968
Stephen Marlowe
1928 - 2008
Thomas Piccirilli
1965 - 2015
Marilyn Bergman
Born 1929
Janet Afary
Born 1960
Claire Watson
1927 - 1986
Chan Parker
1925 - 1999
Ernest Flagg
1857 - 1947
Mary Louise Weller
Born 1946
John M. Johansen
1916 - 2012
Yael Averbuch
Born 1986
Gene Mayer
Born 1956
Pierre Van Cortlandt
1721 - 1814
Philip Handler
1917 - 1981
Anne Klein
1923 - 1974
Harry Kurnitz
1908 - 1968
Zelda Harris
Born 1985
Reggie Freeman
Born 1975
Beryl Korot
Born 1945
Anthony Azizi
Born 1969
Jeb Stuart Magruder
1934 - 2014
Willie Deane
Born 1980
Lowell Ganz
Born 1948
Ruth Landes
1908 - 1991
Judith Lewis Herman
Born 1942
Radames Pera
Born 1960
Kara Lynn Joyce
Born 1985
Bernadine Healy
1944 - 2011
Dov S. Zakheim
Born 1948
Frank O'Connor (actor)
1881 - 1959
Arthur Kopit
Born 1937
Flora Payne Whitney
1897 - 1986
Ross Mintzer
Born 1987
Joe LaBarbera
Born 1948
Jack Keller (songwriter)
1936 - 2005
Alice James
1848 - 1892
Roxanne Seeman
Born 1954
Lawrence Grossberg
Born 1947
Laurence Bergreen
Born 1950
Irwin Keyes
1952 - 2015
Thomas Steinbeck
1944 - 2016
Reed Brody
Born 1953
Irving Shulman
1913 - 1995
Sid Ganis
Born 1940
Dave Spitz
Born 1958
Lisa Fruchtman
Born 1948
Edward Glaeser
Born 1967
Scott Colomby
Born 1952
Cynthia Harris
Born 1934
Francesca Zambello
Born 1956
Stephen Mitchell (translator)
Born 1943
Wendell Alexis
Born 1964
Inez Courtney
1908 - 1975
Chris Korda
Born 1962
Jimmy Crespo
Born 1954
Schuyler Wheeler
1860 - 1923
Bruce Mahler
Born 1950
Richard Danielpour
Born 1956
Amanda Brooks
Born 1981
Beatrice Mintz
Born 1921
Lois W.
1891 - 1988
Tina Barney
Born 1945
Mickey Welch
1859 - 1941
Bill Berkson
1939 - 2016
Warren Foster
1904 - 1971
Flora Rheta Schreiber
1918 - 1988
Babaloo Mandel
Born 1949
Les Crane
1933 - 2008
John Tyler Bonner
1920 - 2019
Omar Mateen
1986 - 2016
Theodore N. Kaufman
1910 - 1986
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
1921 - 2015
Regina E. Dugan
Born 1963
James McLamore
1926 - 1996
Jim Mooney
1919 - 2008