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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.
Jerry O'Connell
Born 1974
Marlon Wayans
Born 1972
Nia Long
Born 1970
Regis Philbin
1931 - 2020
Amanda Plummer
Born 1957
Stanley Kramer
1913 - 2001
Jennifer Capriati
Born 1976
Jimmy Durante
1893 - 1980
Ruth Benedict
1887 - 1948
Lake Bell
Born 1979
Danny Aiello
1933 - 2019
Leelee Sobieski
Born 1983
Jimmy Kimmel
Born 1967
Walter Lippmann
1889 - 1974
Oscar Hammerstein II
1895 - 1960
Michael Rapaport
Born 1970
Celeste Holm
1917 - 2012
Joseph Heller
1923 - 1999
Immanuel Wallerstein
1930 - 2019
Gregory Hines
1946 - 2003
Alvin Toffler
1928 - 2016
Ken Burns
Born 1953
Héctor Elizondo
Born 1936
Audre Lorde
1934 - 1992
Cornelius Vanderbilt
1794 - 1877
Armand Assante
Born 1949
Natasha Lyonne
Born 1979
Paul Sorvino
Born 1939
Tate Donovan
Born 1963
Fiorello H. La Guardia
1882 - 1947
Edmond O'Brien
1915 - 1985
Jerome Kern
1885 - 1945
Afrika Bambaataa
Born 1957
Peter Gallagher
Born 1955
Barbara Boxer
Born 1940
Phoebe Cates
Born 1963
Philip Zimbardo
Born 1933
Peter Coyote
Born 1941
Veronica Roth
Born 1988
Ghostface Killah
Born 1970
Norman Finkelstein
Born 1953
Zoë Wanamaker
Born 1948
Chuck Connors
1921 - 1992
Michael McKean
Born 1947
Irving Langmuir
1881 - 1957
Paul Reiser
Born 1957
Artie Shaw
1910 - 2004
W. Averell Harriman
1891 - 1986
Lesley Ann Warren
Born 1946
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
1909 - 2000
Rachel Platten
Born 1981
Rhea Perlman
Born 1948
Marion Davies
1897 - 1961
Jerry Stiller
1927 - 2020
Marc Jacobs
Born 1963
Steve Allen
1921 - 2000
Sanaa Lathan
Born 1971
Estelle Getty
1923 - 2008
Carroll O'Connor
1924 - 2001
Sandy Koufax
Born 1935
Michael Kamen
1948 - 2003
William Peter Blatty
1928 - 2017
Mabel Normand
1892 - 1930
Red Buttons
1919 - 2006
Frank Grillo
Born 1965
Alan Dershowitz
Born 1938
Zero Mostel
1915 - 1977
Taj Mahal (musician)
Born 1942
Ally Sheedy
Born 1962
Eddie Cantor
1892 - 1964
Frank McCourt
1930 - 2009
E. L. Doctorow
1931 - 2015
Kieran Culkin
Born 1982
Damon Wayans
Born 1960
Abe Vigoda
1921 - 2016
Shirley Booth
1898 - 1992
Lana Parrilla
Born 1977
Louis Comfort Tiffany
1848 - 1933
Barbara Bel Geddes
1922 - 2005
Michael Jai White
Born 1967
Jordan Peele
Born 1979
Xander Berkeley
Born 1955
Rivers Cuomo
Born 1970
James A. Michener
1907 - 1997
Jerome Robbins
1918 - 1998
Abel Ferrara
Born 1951
John Saxon
1935 - 2020
Peter Berg
Born 1964
Al Smith
1873 - 1944
Bill Condon
Born 1955
Frank Morgan
1890 - 1949
Tatyana Ali
Born 1979
Gerry Mulligan
1927 - 1996
Lou Ferrigno
Born 1951
Al Sharpton
Born 1954
Annabella Sciorra
Born 1960
Todd Phillips
Born 1970
Richard Thomas (actor)
Born 1951
Tony Kushner
Born 1956
Chris Weitz
Born 1969
Michael Angarano
Born 1987
Martha Plimpton
Born 1970
Katharine Graham
1917 - 2001
Christopher McDonald
Born 1955
Wayne Knight
Born 1955
Peggy Lipton
1946 - 2019
Bernard Malamud
1914 - 1986
Vincent Schiavelli
1948 - 2005
Julian Schwinger
1918 - 1994
Omar Epps
Born 1973
Michael Weatherly
Born 1968
Talib Kweli
Born 1975
Tony Danza
Born 1951
Lee Krasner
1908 - 1984
Christopher Guest
Born 1948
Keenan Wynn
1916 - 1986
Fabolous
Born 1977
Lawrence Kohlberg
1927 - 1987
Anthony Franciosa
1928 - 2006
Anne Meara
1929 - 2015
Madeleine L'Engle
1918 - 2007
Raoul Walsh
1887 - 1980
James Mangold
Born 1963
Campbell Scott
Born 1961
Gertrude B. Elion
1918 - 1999
Noah Baumbach
Born 1969
Barnett Newman
1905 - 1970
Chris Mullin (basketball)
Born 1963
Griffin Dunne
Born 1955
Jaron Lanier
Born 1960
Frank Frazetta
1928 - 2010
Andrew McCarthy
Born 1962
Henry L. Stimson
1867 - 1950
Mary Stuart Masterson
Born 1966
Catherine Hicks
Born 1951
Bruno Kirby
1949 - 2006
Carter Burwell
Born 1954
Lawrence M. Krauss
Born 1954
Dan Fogler
Born 1976
Bonnie Bedelia
Born 1948
Michael K. Williams
Born 1966
Akiva Goldsman
Born 1962
Red Auerbach
1917 - 2006
Mekhi Phifer
Born 1974
Marcus Miller
Born 1959
Yaphet Kotto
Born 1939
Buddy Hackett
1924 - 2003
Lyonel Feininger
1871 - 1956
Kenneth Lonergan
Born 1962
Bud Powell
1924 - 1966
Douglas Hofstadter
Born 1945
Meir Kahane
1932 - 1990
Troy Donahue
1936 - 2001
Ben Hecht
1894 - 1964
John Spencer (actor)
1946 - 2005
William Forsythe (actor)
Born 1955
Robert Silverberg
Born 1935
Ira Gershwin
1896 - 1983
Connie Stevens
Born 1938
Jake T. Austin
Born 1994
Barry Sonnenfeld
Born 1953
Jeff Chandler
1918 - 1961
Terry Richardson
Born 1965
Lesley Gore
1946 - 2015
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Born 1944
Shirley Chisholm
1924 - 2005
Nick Cassavetes
Born 1959
Mickey Spillane
1918 - 2006
Charlie Day
Born 1976
Richard Holbrooke
1941 - 2010
Julian Casablancas
Born 1979
Cam'ron
Born 1976
Richie Havens
1941 - 2013
Peter Benchley
1940 - 2006
Lily Rabe
Born 1982
Foxy Brown (rapper)
Born 1979
Theodore Sturgeon
1918 - 1985
Zeppo Marx
1901 - 1979
Lucas Hedges
Born 1996
Buck Henry
1930 - 2020
Dash Mihok
Born 1974
Pauley Perrette
Born 1969
GZA
Born 1966
Charlie Murphy
1959 - 2017
Devon Aoki
Born 1982
Frederik Pohl
1919 - 2013
William Daniels
Born 1927
Donald Faison
Born 1974
Samantha Mathis
Born 1970
Ed McBain
1926 - 2005
Jeff Conaway
1950 - 2011
Tom Lehrer
Born 1928
Robert Moog
1934 - 2005
Brenda Vaccaro
Born 1939
Doug Liman
Born 1965
George P. Shultz
Born 1920
David Baltimore
Born 1938
Leon Festinger
1919 - 1989
Bob Menendez
Born 1954
Thelma Ritter
1905 - 1969
Don Adams
1923 - 2005
Olivia Thirlby
Born 1986
F. Gary Gray
Born 1969
Jack Lord
1920 - 1998
Huey Lewis
Born 1950
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
1918 - 2014
Fanny Brice
1891 - 1951
Harry Carey (actor)
1878 - 1947
Donna Karan
Born 1948
Harold Perrineau
Born 1963
Samuel R. Delany
Born 1942
Jean Stapleton
1923 - 2013
Chris Elliott
Born 1960
Emma Lazarus
1849 - 1887
Daniel Keyes
1927 - 2014
Jason Beghe
Born 1960
Constance Bennett
1904 - 1965
Lady Randolph Churchill
1854 - 1921
Guy Williams (actor)
1924 - 1989
David Geffen
Born 1943
Sally Kirkland
Born 1941
Phil Silvers
1911 - 1985
Alice Faye
1915 - 1998
Chico Marx
1887 - 1961
Liam Aiken
Born 1990
Edith Roosevelt
1861 - 1948
Richard Benjamin
Born 1938
Angelo Badalamenti
Born 1937
Irwin Shaw
1913 - 1984
Bronson Pinchot
Born 1959
Leah Remini
Born 1970
Tuesday Weld
Born 1943
Terence Trent D'Arby
Born 1962
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Born 1958
Raekwon
Born 1970
Ethan Suplee
Born 1976
Kim Raver
Born 1969
Carl David Anderson
1905 - 1991
Jim Carroll
1949 - 2009
Mortimer J. Adler
1902 - 2001
Paul Mazursky
1930 - 2014
Richard Fleischer
1916 - 2006
Ron Silver
1946 - 2009
Max Brooks
Born 1972
Helen Frankenthaler
1928 - 2011
Gaby Hoffmann
Born 1982
Paz de la Huerta
Born 1984
Timothy Geithner
Born 1961
Schuyler Colfax
1823 - 1885
Bugsy Siegel
1906 - 1947
Donald E. Westlake
1933 - 2008
Timothy Treadwell
1957 - 2003
Jerry Fodor
1935 - 2017
Peter Steele
1962 - 2010
James Badge Dale
Born 1978
Gina Torres
Born 1969
Sheldon Lee Glashow
Born 1932
Vanessa Ferlito
Born 1980
Gene Wolfe
1931 - 2019
Arthur Kornberg
1918 - 2007
Tina Louise
Born 1934
Gloria Vanderbilt
1924 - 2019
Adam Yauch
1964 - 2012
Howard Fast
1914 - 2003
Roy J. Glauber
1925 - 2018
Paul Wolfowitz
Born 1943
Alice Brady
1892 - 1939
Rose Marie
1923 - 2017
John Sculley
Born 1939
Richard Blumenthal
Born 1946
Bebe Rexha
Born 1989
Armand Hammer
1898 - 1990
Hermann Joseph Muller
1890 - 1967
Talisa Soto
Born 1967
Beverly Sills
1929 - 2007
Rachel Miner
Born 1980
Paul Berg
Born 1926
Lindsay Crouse
Born 1948
Ricki Lake
Born 1968
Ron Rifkin
Born 1939
Elizabeth Ann Seton
1774 - 1821
Joey Bishop
1918 - 2007
Frank Stallone
Born 1950
Bennett Miller
Born 1966
Alvin E. Roth
Born 1951
Cornell Woolrich
1903 - 1968
Barbara W. Tuchman
1912 - 1989
Adam Savage
Born 1967
Diana Muldaur
Born 1938
Demetri Martin
Born 1973
William Windom (actor)
1923 - 2012
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Born 1950
Peter Criss
Born 1945
Nancy Travis
Born 1961
Bruce Schneier
Born 1963
Maury Chaykin
1949 - 2010
Shawn Wayans
Born 1971
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1921 - 2011
Mamie Gummer
Born 1983
Robert Mueller
Born 1944