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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.
Carl David Anderson
1905 - 1991
Mortimer J. Adler
1902 - 2001
Paul Mazursky
1930 - 2014
Richard Fleischer
1916 - 2006
Helen Frankenthaler
1928 - 2011
Gaby Hoffmann
Born 1982
Paz de la Huerta
Born 1984
Schuyler Colfax
1823 - 1885
Timothy Treadwell
1957 - 2003
Jerry Fodor
1935 - 2017
James Badge Dale
Born 1978
Sheldon Lee Glashow
Born 1932
Gene Wolfe
1931 - 2019
Tina Louise
Born 1934
Adam Yauch
1964 - 2012
Howard Fast
1914 - 2003
Roy J. Glauber
1925 - 2018
Alice Brady
1892 - 1939
John Sculley
Born 1939
Armand Hammer
1898 - 1990
Hermann Joseph Muller
1890 - 1967
Rachel Miner
Born 1980
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
Demetri Martin
Born 1973
William Windom (actor)
1923 - 2012
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Born 1950
Nancy Travis
Born 1961
Bruce Schneier
Born 1963
Shawn Wayans
Born 1971
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1921 - 2011
Mamie Gummer
Born 1983
Robert Mueller
Born 1944
Steven Strait
Born 1986
Rory Culkin
Born 1989
Robin Givens
Born 1964
Studs Terkel
1912 - 2008
Erica Jong
Born 1942
L. Sprague de Camp
1907 - 2000
Nana Visitor
Born 1957
Julia Ward Howe
1819 - 1910
David Graeber
1961 - 2020
Jon Seda
Born 1970
Robert Hofstadter
1915 - 1990
Henry Murray
1893 - 1988
John Carlos
Born 1945
Khandi Alexander
Born 1957
Morton Feldman
1926 - 1987
Gene Barry
1919 - 2009
Mark Isham
Born 1951
Robert Evans
1930 - 2019
Rakim
Born 1968
Gregory Corso
1930 - 2001
Robin Cook (American novelist)
Born 1940
Susan Strasberg
1938 - 1999
Robert Fogel
1926 - 2013
Gene Tunney
1897 - 1978
John Mearsheimer
Born 1947
Leonard Susskind
Born 1940
Christian Camargo
Born 1971
Andrew Dice Clay
Born 1957
Catherine Oxenberg
Born 1961
Charles Krauthammer
1950 - 2018
Robert C. Merton
Born 1944
Tovah Feldshuh
Born 1952
Dick Wolf
Born 1946
Drew Gilpin Faust
Born 1947
Chuck Schuldiner
1967 - 2001
William Bendix
1906 - 1964
Vincent Pastore
Born 1946
Sean Hannity
Born 1961
Nicholas Negroponte
Born 1943
Murray Perahia
Born 1947
Elliott Carter
1908 - 2012
Stacey Dash
Born 1967
Paul Strand
1890 - 1976
James Maslow
Born 1990
Michael Walzer
Born 1935
Eva Amurri
Born 1985
Donna Murphy
Born 1959
Bert Lahr
1895 - 1967
Fred Gwynne
1926 - 1993
Nicky Hilton Rothschild
Born 1983
June Lockhart
Born 1925
Alan Dean Foster
Born 1946
Harold Robbins
1916 - 1997
Dina Merrill
1923 - 2017
Patricia Morison
1915 - 2018
Kathy Acker
1947 - 1997
Bob Guccione
1930 - 2010
Kelly LeBrock
Born 1960
Walt Whitman Rostow
1916 - 2003
Steny Hoyer
Born 1939
Leon Cooper
Born 1930
Gouverneur Morris
1752 - 1816
Brooke Adams (actress)
Born 1949
Stephen Schwartz (composer)
Born 1948
Robert B. Sherman
1925 - 2012
Dean Winters
Born 1964
Sam Jaffe
1891 - 1984
Skylar Astin
Born 1987
Michael Eisner
Born 1942
Jon Turteltaub
Born 1963
Robert Alda
1914 - 1986
Nicholas Meyer
Born 1945
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
1891 - 1967
Yaya DaCosta
Born 1982
Moisés Arias
Born 1994
Alan Jay Lerner
1918 - 1986
Nathanael West
1903 - 1940
Spencer Breslin
Born 1992
George Tenet
Born 1953
Mark Frost
Born 1953
Robert Mulligan
1925 - 2008
Andrew Robinson (actor)
Born 1942
Barbara Hutton
1912 - 1979
Richard Jordan
1937 - 1993
Lloyd Kaufman
Born 1945
Chris Messina
Born 1974
Susan Sullivan
Born 1942
Cecil Taylor
1929 - 2018
Neil Postman
1931 - 2003
Joy Bryant
Born 1974
Burton Richter
1931 - 2018
Jef Raskin
1943 - 2005
Irwin Allen
1916 - 1991
Yasmine Bleeth
Born 1968
Patti Austin
Born 1950
Richard Posner
Born 1939
Peter Strauss
Born 1947
Nestor Carbonell
Born 1967
Leonard Kleinrock
Born 1934
Whitfield Diffie
Born 1944
Leslie Lamport
Born 1941
Grace Gummer
Born 1986
Laura Benanti
Born 1979
Mark Z. Danielewski
Born 1965
James Russo
Born 1953
Yancy Butler
Born 1970
John Dall
1918 - 1971
William Castle
1914 - 1977
Len Wein
1948 - 2017
William Stewart Halsted
1852 - 1922
David Paymer
Born 1954
Richard Masur
Born 1948
Bob Weinstein
Born 1954
Frank Loesser
1910 - 1969
Mike Starr (actor)
Born 1950
Mark Moses
Born 1958
Craig Bierko
Born 1964
Roger Y. Tsien
1952 - 2016
Brock Peters
1928 - 2005
Jakob Dylan
Born 1969
Lee Smolin
Born 1955
Sophie B. Hawkins
Born 1967
Paula Fox
1923 - 2017
Bob Kahn
Born 1938
Eric Maskin
Born 1950
Robert Rossen
1908 - 1966
Joakim Noah
Born 1985
Paul Gallico
1897 - 1976
Lil Mama
Born 1989
Ron Leibman
1937 - 2019
Edward Arnold (actor)
1890 - 1956
Jay Rockefeller
Born 1937
John Sebastian
Born 1944
Mike Bongiorno
1924 - 2009
Johnny Rivers
Born 1942
Steven Bochco
1943 - 2018
Hal David
1921 - 2012
Jonathan Lethem
Born 1964
Anne Revere
1903 - 1990
Peter Hyams
Born 1943
Eddie Cahill
Born 1978
Tyler James Williams
Born 1992
Alexandra Paul
Born 1963
Anne Shirley (actress)
1918 - 1993
John Marley
1907 - 1984
James Salter
1925 - 2015
William Klein (photographer)
Born 1928
Gōtoku Sakai
Born 1991
Jim Jones (rapper)
Born 1976
Aida Turturro
Born 1962
Richard Barthelmess
1895 - 1963
Jan Sterling
1921 - 2004
Aldis Hodge
Born 1986
Martin Ritt
1914 - 1990
Mort Shuman
1936 - 1991
Cliff Martinez
Born 1954
John Randolph (actor)
1915 - 2004
Jacob Epstein
1880 - 1959
Eve Ensler
Born 1953
Dan Dailey
1915 - 1978
Eliot Spitzer
Born 1959
Tony Visconti
Born 1944
Hamilton Fish
1808 - 1893
Béla Fleck
Born 1958
Zelda Williams
Born 1989
Marcia Strassman
1948 - 2014
Dan Ariely
Born 1967
William Baumol
1922 - 2017
Gillian Welch
Born 1967
Mark Snow
Born 1946
Irwin Winkler
Born 1931
Peter Diamond
Born 1940
Bob Rafelson
Born 1933
Fred Tatasciore
Born 1967
Sammy Cahn
1913 - 1993
Royal Dano
1922 - 1994
Dean Devlin
Born 1962
Michael G. Wilson
Born 1942
Herman J. Mankiewicz
1897 - 1953
Monty Woolley
1888 - 1963
Jonathan Littell
Born 1967
Alexis Dziena
Born 1984
Judith Miller
Born 1948
Asia Carrera
Born 1973
Eric Hoffer
1898 - 1983
Seth Gilliam
Born 1968
William Gaddis
1922 - 1998
Benjamin N. Cardozo
1870 - 1938
Brooke Smith (actress)
Born 1967
Lucy Boynton
Born 1994
Jamie Gillis
1943 - 2010
Yonatan Netanyahu
1946 - 1976
Peter Riegert
Born 1947
Terence Winter
Born 1960
Edward MacDowell
1860 - 1908
John Lindsay
1921 - 2000
Leonard Maltin
Born 1950
Isabel Sanford
1917 - 2004
Sam Robards
Born 1961
James Gray (director)
Born 1969
Harry Stack Sullivan
1892 - 1949
Howard Deutch
Born 1950
Peter Matthiessen
1927 - 2014
Andy Milonakis
Born 1976
James R. Schlesinger
1929 - 2014
John O'Keefe (neuroscientist)
Born 1939
W. S. Merwin
1927 - 2019
Marissa Jaret Winokur
Born 1973
David Halberstam
1934 - 2007
Francis Capra
Born 1983
Robert Lopez
Born 1975
Mimi Leder
Born 1952
Zach Galligan
Born 1964
Keith Olbermann
Born 1959
Jiah Khan
1988 - 2013
Paul Weitz (filmmaker)
Born 1965
Charles Wilkes
1798 - 1877
Al Oerter
1936 - 2007
Janet Margolin
1943 - 1993
Ricky Steamboat
Born 1953
Peter DeLuise
Born 1966
Naomi Novik
Born 1973
Walter Murch
Born 1943
Ted Demme
1963 - 2002
Marc Lawrence
1910 - 2005
Ty Simpkins
Born 2001
John Kerr (actor)
1931 - 2013
Ruth Chatterton
1892 - 1961
Harold Prince
1928 - 2019
Mika Brzezinski
Born 1967
Raphael Sbarge
Born 1964
Vanessa del Rio
Born 1952
Harry Davenport (actor)
1866 - 1949
Estelle Harris
Born 1928
Cecily von Ziegesar
Born 1970
Erica Leerhsen
Born 1976
Scott Mechlowicz
Born 1981
George Segal (artist)
1924 - 2000
Ben Shenkman
Born 1968
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Born 1986
Bob Mould
Born 1960
Peter Lamborn Wilson
Born 1945
Hank Greenberg
1911 - 1986
Tracey Gold
Born 1969
Colby O'Donis
Born 1989
Colson Whitehead
Born 1969
Joshua Malina
Born 1966
John Corigliano
Born 1938
Stanley Miller
1930 - 2007
Louise Lasser
Born 1939
Elena Kagan
Born 1960
Kimora Lee Simmons
Born 1975
William Hopper
1915 - 1970
Talia Balsam
Born 1959
Josh Hamilton (actor)
Born 1969
Clarke Peters
Born 1952
Louis Sachar
Born 1954
Ronald Lauder
Born 1944