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Most Famous People Born in New York City, USA
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Robert Thom (writer)
1929 - 1979
Dennis Hart Mahan
1802 - 1871
Capital Steez
1993 - 2012
Art Mooney
1911 - 1993
George Glauberman
Born 1941
Frank Jay Gould
1877 - 1956
George Kojac
1910 - 1996
Walter Kent
1911 - 1994
Judith Rossner
1935 - 2005
Rachel Bay Jones
Born 1969
Israel Singer
Born 1942
Sidney Green (basketball)
Born 1961
Cyrus Vance Jr.
Born 1954
Peter G. Van Winkle
1808 - 1872
Jeffrey Konvitz
Born 1944
Robert Leuci
1940 - 2015
Brian Leiter
Born 1963
Hilary Shepard
Born 1959
Herb Brown
Born 1936
Livingston T. Merchant
1903 - 1976
Leandra Medine
Born 1988
Frank Speck
1881 - 1950
Kenny Washington (musician)
Born 1958
Ernest Kinoy
1925 - 2014
Morton Halperin
Born 1938
Douglas N. Arnold
Born 1954
Lynn Burke
Born 1943
Clement Hurd
1908 - 1988
Ben Oakland
1907 - 1979
Dorothy Caruso
1893 - 1955
Carmine DeSapio
1908 - 2004
Lord Burgess
1924 - 2019
George Baxt
1923 - 2003
Richard Green (sexologist)
1936 - 2019
Lewis Lockwood
Born 1930
Sully Díaz
Born 1960
Gene Weingarten
Born 1951
Remy Charlip
1929 - 2012
Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark
Born 1996
Billy Cross
Born 1946
Al Seckel
1958 - 2015
Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
1858 - 1928
Saul K. Padover
1905 - 1981
Perry Botkin Jr.
Born 1933
Timothy Sullivan
1862 - 1913
Seymour Kneitel
1908 - 1964
Peter White (actor)
Born 1937
Thant Myint-U
Born 1966
David Chandler (chemist)
1944 - 2017
Watson Washburn
1894 - 1973
Adrian Slywotzky
Born 1951
Sam Seder
Born 1966
Anna Dewdney
1965 - 2016
Ronald Solomon
Born 1948
Robert Aldrich (historian)
Born 1954
Frank Carillo
Born 1950
Joe Young (lyricist)
1889 - 1939
Todd May
Born 1955
Robert Dorfman
1916 - 2002
Muriel Ostriche
1896 - 1989
Charlie Yelverton
Born 1948
Al Israel
1935 - 2011
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro
Born 1985
Keith Copeland
1946 - 2015
Allen Swift
1924 - 2010
Martin J. Fettman
Born 1956
Frank Torre
1931 - 2014
Joe Pepitone
Born 1940
Richard Carmona
Born 1949
Maggie Greenwald
Born 1955
Irwin Hasen
1918 - 2015
Andrew Sessler
1928 - 2014
Bernard Budiansky
1925 - 1999
Michael Straight
1916 - 2004
Graham Haynes
Born 1960
David Tanenbaum
Born 1956
Bobby London
Born 1950
Clarine Seymour
1898 - 1920
Jes (musician)
Born 1974
Allan Schore
Born 1943
Symphony Sid
1909 - 1984
Guy Klucevsek
Born 1947
Henry Harland
1861 - 1905
Nancy Dow
1936 - 2016
Jay Gould II
1888 - 1935
Henry T. Weinstein
1924 - 2000
Betty Furness
1916 - 1994
Edward Nugent
1904 - 1995
Connie Dierking
1936 - 2013
William M. Calder
1869 - 1945
Eric Marcus
Born 1958
Henry Morgenthau III
1917 - 2018
Aubrey Schenck
1908 - 1999
Dawoud Bey
Born 1953
Bill McDermott
Born 1961
Nancy Allen (harpist)
Born 1954
Gladys Spellman
1918 - 1988
Robert Christopher Riley
Born 1980
Jacob Milgrom
1923 - 2010
Jerry Reynolds (basketball, born 1962)
Born 1962
Bruce E. Melnick
Born 1949
Kirk Knight
Born 1995
Tim Asch
1932 - 1994
Herman Tarnower
1910 - 1980
Thomas Hardie Chalmers
1884 - 1966
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller
1948 - 2006
John Taras
1919 - 2004
Ashrita Furman
Born 1954
Raoul Pene Du Bois
1914 - 1985
Kenneth Kent Mackenzie
1877 - 1934
Constance Keene
1921 - 2005
Joe Judge
1894 - 1963
Sherman Edwards
1919 - 1981
Ray Draper
1940 - 1982
Roy Halee
Born 1934
Steve Drake
Born 1954
Ron Behagen
Born 1951
William Gardner Pfann
1917 - 1982
John Viener
Born 1972
Charles Ebbets
1859 - 1925
Leopold Mannes
1899 - 1964
Nina Garbiras
Born 1964
Charles A. Reich
1928 - 2019
Margie Hyams
1920 - 2012
E. J. Bonilla
Born 1988
Nat Finkelstein
1933 - 2009
Judith Wood
1906 - 2002
Dan Calichman
Born 1968
Robert Brustein
Born 1927
C. D. B. Bryan
1936 - 2009
Rebecca Moros
Born 1985
Roy Nathanson
Born 1955
George Ranalli
Born 1946
Alex Segal
1915 - 1977
Ranee Lee
Born 1942
Sheila Nevins
Born 1939
Ellen Mirojnick
Born 1949
Ruth Ann Swenson
Born 1959
Robert Emerson (scientist)
1903 - 1959
Steve Schapiro
Born 1934
Michael Shub
Born 1943
Charles Jenkins Jr.
Born 1964
Godfrey Dewey
1887 - 1977
Andrew Imbrie
1921 - 2007
Jon Rubinstein
Born 1956
Adam Wiltzie
Born 1969
Margaret Webster
1905 - 1972
Dwight Taylor (writer)
1902 - 1986
Tim Adleman
Born 1987
Daisy Eagan
Born 1979
Robert Foster (author)
Born 1949
James Carafano
Born 1955
Bernard Krigstein
1919 - 1990
Myles Brand
1942 - 2009
Jeanne Lamon
Born 1949
Fred Niblo Jr.
1903 - 1973
Manny Klein
1908 - 1994
Hanon Reznikov
1950 - 2008
Ava Alice Muriel Astor
1902 - 1956
Edward Sorel
Born 1929
Rockell
Born 1977
Mitchel Forman
Born 1956
Thomas J. Smith
1840 - 1870
Norval White
1926 - 2009
Ernő Verebes
1902 - 1971
Kenny Vance
Born 1943
Rich Eisen
Born 1969
Patricia M. Derian
1929 - 2016
Miss Coco Peru
Born 1965
Florence Meyer
1911 - 1962
Michael Convertino
Born 1953
Joseph Florimond Loubat
1831 - 1927
Maya Hawke
Born 1998
Joan Semmel
Born 1932
Teddy Atlas
Born 1956
Bob Shad
1920 - 1985
Allen Kurzweil
Born 1960
Carolyne Mas
Born 1955
John D. Bulkeley
1911 - 1996
Robert Abelson
1928 - 2005
Steve Barri
Born 1942
Jorie Graham
Born 1950
Jesse I. Straus
1872 - 1936
Ronald C. Arkin
Born 1949
Jeff Burrell
Born 1968
Richard Swan
Born 1933
Madeline Gins
1941 - 2014
Caitlin Compton Gregg
Born 1980
Steve Berrios
1945 - 2013
Christopher Norris (actress)
Born 1953
Elayne Boosler
Born 1952
Al Anderson (The Wailers)
Born 1950
Nicky Skopelitis
Born 1949
Arthur Max
Born 1946
Gloria Davy
1931 - 2012
Keeth Smart
Born 1978
Jamel Thomas
Born 1976
Janet Murray
Born 1946
A. V. Williams Jackson
1862 - 1937
Half a Mill
1973 - 2003
Stew Albert
1939 - 2006
Richard B. Morris
1904 - 1989
Scott Lilienfeld
1960 - 2020
Allan Roberts (songwriter)
1905 - 1966
Jack Belden
1910 - 1989
Mick LaSalle
Born 1959
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Edward Cooper (mayor)
1824 - 1905
Claude Schnell
Born 1958
Karen Pryor
Born 1932
Charles R. Bentley
1929 - 2017
Allan Schwartzberg
Born 1942
Joshua Muravchik
Born 1947
Victor Colicchio
Born 1953
Philip Evergood
1901 - 1973
Harold Farberman
1929 - 2018
Joy Mangano
Born 1956
Robert D. Hales
1932 - 2017
Elliott Schwartz
1936 - 2016
Victor Ganz
1913 - 1987
John Keese
1805 - 1856
David V. Picker
1931 - 2019
Owen Johnson (writer)
1878 - 1952
Jonathan Steinberg
Born 1934
Edward J. Flynn
1891 - 1953
Ralph Carter
Born 1961
DJ Skee
Born 1983
George Bagby (author)
1906 - 1985
Maxine Greene
1917 - 2014
Mario Elie
Born 1963
Peter J. McGuire
1852 - 1906
Ronald Holmberg
Born 1938
George W. Merck
1894 - 1957
Clara Horton
1904 - 1976
Alfred Horn
1918 - 2001
William Winant
Born 1953
Lenore E. Walker
Born 1942
John Henry Coatsworth
Born 1940
Sam Steiger
1929 - 2012
Mike Smith (basketball, born 1963)
Born 1963
Margaret Becker
Born 1959
Elaine Dundy
1921 - 2008
Robert Hogan (actor)
Born 1933
Mimi Fox
Born 1956
Charles Klein
1867 - 1915
David Sholtz
1891 - 1953
Norman Zabusky
1929 - 2018
Laura Z. Hobson
1900 - 1986
Sol Spiegelman
1914 - 1983
Michael Malone (basketball)
Born 1971
James Aloysius O'Gorman
1860 - 1943
Sandi Simcha DuBowski
Born 1970
James W. Skotchdopole
Born 1933
Helen Ward (singer)
1913 - 1998
Theodore Kuchar
Born 1963
Fairfax Harrison
1869 - 1938
Herbert Lottman
1927 - 2014
Aaron Schwartz (American actor)
Born 1981
Tim Morehouse
Born 1978
Halil Kanacević
Born 1991
Henry Graff
1921 - 2020
Michael Stewart (playwright)
1924 - 1987
Bill Pankow
Born 1952
Eric Bercovici
1933 - 2014
Frank McCormick
1911 - 1982
Frances Ellen Work
1857 - 1947
Herbert Saffir
1917 - 2007
Aileen Hernandez
1926 - 2017
Jill Kargman
Born 1974
Bob Kauffman
1946 - 2015
Gary Schwartz (art historian)
Born 1940
Jo Anderson
Born 1958
Lou Duva
1922 - 2017
Jimmie Rivera
Born 1989
Professor X the Overseer
1956 - 2006
Barry Leibowitz
Born 1945
Nzingha Prescod
Born 1992
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Born 1968
Bernard C. Schoenfeld
1907 - 1990
Allen Adler
1916 - 1964
Gloria Blondell
1915 - 1986
Ronald Sukenick
1932 - 2004
John Ford Noonan
1943 - 2018
Emily Rutherfurd
Born 1974
Anna Gould
1875 - 1961
Jack L. Strominger
Born 1925
Zara Steiner
1928 - 2020
George H. Plympton
1889 - 1972
Eliot Janeway
1913 - 1993
Michael Blankfort
1907 - 1982
Tom Stern (director)
Born 1960
Carl Braun (basketball)
1927 - 2010
Richard Grant White
1822 - 1885
Louis F. Edelman
1900 - 1976
Gus Lewis
Born 1993
George Barna
Born 1954
Cornelius Lott Shear
1865 - 1956
Charles Grenzbach
1923 - 2004
Shawon Dunston
Born 1963
Cynthia Wade
Born 1967