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.
John Pisano
Born 1931
Al Viola
1919 - 2007
William Leuchtenburg
Born 1922
Alex Jacobowitz
Born 1960
Olivia Birkelund
Born 1963
Harry C. Oberholser
1870 - 1963
Moshe Hirsch
1930 - 2010
Brendan Malone
Born 1942
David Shifrin
Born 1950
Joanna Simon (mezzo-soprano)
Born 1940
John Lourie Beveridge
1824 - 1910
Tom Palmer (comics)
Born 1942
Donald Arthur
1937 - 2016
Arnold Perl
1914 - 1971
Clara Tice
1888 - 1973
Percival Wilde
1887 - 1953
Joshua A. Fogel
Born 1950
Hisham Tawfiq
Born 1976
David Rivera
Born 1965
Louis Stettner
1922 - 2016
Irwin Fridovich
1929 - 2019
Kenny Satterfield
Born 1981
Tommy Victor
Born 1966
Kin Platt
1911 - 2003
Eddie Sauter
1914 - 1981
Harley Cross
Born 1978
Rudolf Wanderone
1913 - 1996
Seymour Fogel
1911 - 1984
Michael Goldberg (painter)
1924 - 2007
Bran Ferren
Born 1953
Kramer (musician)
Born 1958
Richard H. Price
Born 1943
Barbara Deming
1917 - 1984
Borah Bergman
1926 - 2012
Mat Maneri
Born 1969
Edgar Allan Woolf
1881 - 1948
Bobbito Garcia
Born 1966
Joan Whitney Payson
1903 - 1975
Sigrid Nunez
Born 1951
Vanessa Johansson
Born 1980
Norman Rosten
1913 - 1995
Arianne Phillips
Born 1963
Leonard Gaskin
1920 - 2009
Roger Kahn
1927 - 2020
Larry Clinton
1909 - 1985
Valentina de Angelis
Born 1989
Ray Felix
1930 - 1991
Spencer Bloch
Born 1944
Marty Ingels
1936 - 2015
David Thorne (diplomat)
Born 1944
Hughie Mack
1884 - 1927
Alfred Leslie
Born 1927
Dave Schildkraut
1925 - 1998
Ric Marlow
1925 - 2017
Parke Godwin
1929 - 2013
Gregg Diamond
1949 - 1999
Doug Drexler
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William J. Flynn
1867 - 1928
T. O'Conor Sloane
1851 - 1940
Futura (graffiti artist)
Born 1955
Leonard Berkowitz
1926 - 2016
Kristina Lilley
Born 1963
Harold Charles Bold
1909 - 1987
Abram Chasins
1903 - 1987
Tasia Valenza
Born 1967
Russell Hopton
1900 - 1945
Viola Lawrence
1894 - 1973
Andrew Durutalo
Born 1987
John Tropea
Born 1946
Van Williams (musician)
Born 1966
Bill Felstiner
Born 1929
Edwin Honig
1919 - 2011
Aubrey Joseph
Born 1997
Chris Huffins
Born 1970
Coco Fusco
Born 1960
Ira M. Lapidus
Born 1937
Leonard Spigelgass
1908 - 1985
Charles Sands
1865 - 1945
Al Schmitt
Born 1930
Frank Adonis
1935 - 2018
Harold Q. Masur
1909 - 2005
Roy C. Bennett
1918 - 2015
Irving Aaronson
1895 - 1963
Sean Wilentz
Born 1951
Raymond De Felitta
Born 1964
Edward Auer
Born 1941
Robert Ader
1932 - 2011
Arthur Sard
1909 - 1980
Henry Serrano Villard
1900 - 1996
Daniel Pinchbeck
Born 1966
John Elkann
Born 1976
Joe Delia
Born 1948
Deric Angelettie
Born 1968
Samuel Marx
1902 - 1992
Willard Van der Veer
1894 - 1963
Joseph Dunninger
1892 - 1975
John Uri Lloyd
1849 - 1936
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Born 1948
Donn A. Starry
1925 - 2011
Fredric M. Frank
1911 - 1977
Marcus Browne
Born 1990
Bob Franceschini
Born 1961
Maurice Wertheim
1886 - 1950
Richard Reeve Baxter
1921 - 1980
John Weidman
Born 1946
Charles Marowitz
1934 - 2014
Ed Repka
Born 1970
Georgi Pirinski Jr.
Born 1948
Nathaniel P. Langford
1832 - 1911
Rob Bartlett
Born 1957
John Green Brady
1847 - 1918
Sandy Rivera
Born 1950
Ike Nwala
Born 1986
Daniel Friedan
Born 1948
Stanley Greenspan
1941 - 2010
Irene Reid
1930 - 2008
John Boylan (record producer)
Born 1941
Malcolm Goldstein
Born 1936
Andrew Levane
1920 - 2012
Hyron Spinrad
1934 - 2015
B. Kliban
1935 - 1990
Thomas Krens
Born 1946
Paul J. Sachs
1878 - 1965
Hal Fishman
1931 - 2007
Steven Paul
Born 1959
Nelson Doubleday
1889 - 1949
Howard Kurtz
Born 1953
Marty Napoleon
1921 - 2015
Harry J. Wild
1901 - 1961
Gene Weltfish
1902 - 1980
Jake Burton Carpenter
1954 - 2019
Vanessa Selbst
Born 1984
Jerry Wald
1911 - 1962
Norton Zinder
1928 - 2012
Virginia Gildersleeve
1877 - 1965
Joshua Cox
Born 1965
Seth Benardete
1930 - 2001
Paul Hodes
Born 1951
Alexandra Navrotsky
Born 1943
Richard Wormser
1908 - 1977
Bernard Pomerance
1940 - 2017
Bill Gold
1921 - 2018
Mia Frye
Born 1965
Irwin Hoffman
1924 - 2018
Mac Raboy
1914 - 1967
Claire Whitney
1890 - 1969
Ronald DeFeo Jr.
Born 1951
Noel MacNeal
Born 1961
Witter Bynner
1881 - 1968
Thomas J. Manton
1932 - 2006
DJ Casper
Born 1971
Oscar Lanford
1940 - 2013
Gene Grossman
Born 1955
Mike Riordan
Born 1945
Than Wyenn
1919 - 2015
Lágrima Ríos
1924 - 2006
Linda Keen
Born 1940
J. Erik Jonsson
1901 - 1995
James Cooley
1926 - 2016
John Gates
1913 - 1992
Alison Leslie Gold
Born 1945
Edwin H. Knopf
1899 - 1981
Lenore Kandel
1932 - 2009
Judith Roitman
Born 1945
Henry Fiol
Born 1947
Ann Hutchinson Guest
Born 1918
Charles A. Platt
1861 - 1933
Joan Tompkins
1915 - 2005
Justin Kaplan
1925 - 2014
Maria Oakey Dewing
1845 - 1927
Shye Ben Tzur
Born 1975
Ray Mantilla
1934 - 2020
James Greenway
1903 - 1989
Stephen E. Harris
Born 1936
Shizuka Sugiyama
Born 1987
Mike Esposito (comics)
1927 - 2010
Peter Norman Nissen
1871 - 1930
Louis R. Loeffler
1897 - 1972
Alicia Patterson
1906 - 1963
Jan Eliasberg
Born 1954
Ann Pennington (actress)
1893 - 1971
Leo Goldberg
1913 - 1987
Marcia Tucker
1940 - 2006
Dominique Fishback
Born 1991
Ruth Reichl
Born 1948
Gene Shalit
Born 1926
Larry Gelman
Born 1930
Virginia Grace
1901 - 1994
Allan Forrest
1885 - 1941
Charles A. Ellwood
1873 - 1946
William B. Kouwenhoven
1886 - 1975
Richard Arnowitt
1928 - 2014
George Kaftan
1928 - 2018
Chris Megaloudis
Born 1984
Joseph Frank (writer)
1918 - 2013
Buzz Bissinger
Born 1954
Greg Grandin
Born 1962
David Korn (computer scientist)
Born 1943
Tony Berlant
Born 1941
Charles Rohlfs
1853 - 1936
Khalil Kain
Born 1964
James Burke (gangster)
1931 - 1996
Joey Dedio
Born 1963
Gladys Egan
1905 - 1997
Steve Lehman (composer)
Born 1978
Gene Levitt
1920 - 1999
Mark Soskin
Born 1953
Kastro (Outlawz)
Born 1976
Francine D. Blau
Born 1946
Alvah Meyer
1888 - 1939
Charles D. Fredricks
1823 - 1894
Estelle Brody
1900 - 1995
Martin Pope
Born 1918
Solon Spencer Beman
1853 - 1914
August Belmont Jr.
1853 - 1924
Melissa Rivers
Born 1968
Ralph Ginzburg
1929 - 2006
Paul Lohmann
1926 - 1995
Jay Pasachoff
Born 1943
Nick Stewart
1910 - 2000
Adam Silver
Born 1962
Herman Witkin
1916 - 1979
Lawrence Edward Watkin
1901 - 1981
Neil Leifer
Born 1942
William Morris Meredith Jr.
1919 - 2007
Gerald Hirschfeld
1921 - 2017
Sidney Painter
1902 - 1960
Ronnie Mathews
1935 - 2008
Michael Schudrich
Born 1955
George O'Hara (actor)
1899 - 1966
Diego Chávarri
Born 1979
Gerard C. Smith
1914 - 1994
Ralph Raico
1936 - 2016
James R. Newman
1907 - 1966
Donald Samuel Ornstein
Born 1934
Prince Markie Dee
Born 1968
Howard Russell Butler
1856 - 1934
Maryam Jameelah
1934 - 2012
Ellen Bry
Born 1951
Tess Slesinger
1905 - 1945
Austin Williams
Born 1996
Robert Abbe
1851 - 1928
Hetty Goldman
1881 - 1972
Aamina Sheikh
Born 1981
Kim Stolz
Born 1983
Leonard Parker
Born 1938
Irene Dische
Born 1952
Vincent Crapanzano
Born 1939
Tricia Rose
Born 1962
Michael Gross (writer)
Born 1952
Charles Jones (basketball, born 1975)
Born 1975
Jacques Haitkin
Born 1950
James I. Roosevelt
1795 - 1875
David Noel Freedman
1922 - 2008
Daniel G. Bobrow
1935 - 2017
Epic Mazur
Born 1970
Tami Monroe
Born 1970
Fred Kohlmar
1905 - 1969
Willi One Blood
Born 1956
Deborah Feldman
Born 1986
Samyr Lainé
Born 1984
Doris Fisher (songwriter)
1915 - 2003
Rich Aurilia
Born 1971
Shana Alexander
1925 - 2005
Newton Horace Winchell
1839 - 1914
Andrea Bendewald
Born 1970
Bruce Manning
1902 - 1965
Gail R. Martin
Born 1944
Alex Gimeno
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Jack Donohue (basketball)
1931 - 2003
Jo Duffy
Born 1954
Eric Jacobsen
Born 1960
Karl J. Niklas
Born 1948
Curtis McClarin
1969 - 2014
Glen MacDonough
1870 - 1924
Jane C. Wright
1919 - 2013
Artie Kornfeld
Born 1942
Carl Safina
Born 1955
Gary Morton
1924 - 1999
Steven Orszag
1943 - 2011
Chuck Low
1928 - 2017
Victor Saul Navasky
Born 1932
Walter Gross (musician)
1909 - 1967
Anthony Gatto
Born 1973
Paul Outerbridge
1896 - 1958
Tom Whedon
1932 - 2016
Pura Fé
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John Joseph Mitty
1884 - 1961
Felix Morrow
1906 - 1988
David Gerber
1923 - 2010
Gilmore David Clarke
1892 - 1982
Charles Fowlkes
1916 - 1980
Kevin Rafferty
1948 - 2020
Allan Francovich
1941 - 1997
Carmen Ortiz
Born 1956
Rick Jason
1923 - 2000
Norman Maurer
1926 - 1986
David Pomeranz
Born 1951
Caroline Polachek
Born 1985
Fred Hellerman
1927 - 2016