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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.
Frances Theodora Parsons
1861 - 1952
Peter H. Rossi
1921 - 2006
Norman Norell
1900 - 1972
Lewis J. Stadlen
Born 1947
Johnny Brennan
Born 1961
Kate Schellenbach
Born 1966
Lionel Tiger
Born 1937
Gerald Wiggins
1922 - 2008
Nathan Levinson
1888 - 1952
Mark Shaw (photographer)
1921 - 1969
Frank North
1840 - 1885
Lloyd K. Garrison
1897 - 1991
Nikki Finke
Born 1953
Naomi Schor
1943 - 2001
Ellen Datlow
Born 1949
Tiffany Helm
Born 1964
Marion Greenwood
1909 - 1970
Veronica Lueken
1923 - 1995
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Born 1968
Sunny Skylar
1913 - 2009
Pat Murphy (baseball coach)
Born 1958
Ronald J. Grabe
Born 1945
Gillian Robespierre
Born 1978
Isabella Tobias
Born 1991
John Banvard
1815 - 1891
Will McIntosh
Born 1962
Danny Bank
1922 - 2010
Michael Rosen (mathematician)
Born 1938
Paul McAllister
1875 - 1955
Abdul Shamsid-Deen
Born 1968
Del Negro (actor)
1939 - 2015
Richard Reeves (American writer)
1936 - 2020
Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Born 1985
Harold Grad
1923 - 1986
Harlan Cleveland
1918 - 2008
Charles Inslee
1870 - 1922
Aprile Millo
Born 1958
Walter Livingston
1740 - 1797
Amiel Daemion
Born 1979
Mark Podwal
Born 1945
George Valentine Nash
1864 - 1921
Errol Kerr
Born 1986
Lucius J. Henderson
1861 - 1947
Carl Wunsch
Born 1941
Katherine L. Adams
Born 1964
Joseph McElroy
Born 1930
Laurence Tisch
1923 - 2003
Frank Scully
1892 - 1964
Jim Dwyer (journalist)
1957 - 2020
Matt Hunter (singer)
Born 1998
Emily Vermeule
1928 - 2001
Joe Morgenstern
Born 1932
Dorothy Schiff
1903 - 1989
Martin Goldsmith
1913 - 1994
Christopher Dark
1920 - 1971
John Serry
Born 1954
Donald J. Newman
1930 - 2007
William E. Paul
1936 - 2015
Roger Pryor (actor)
1901 - 1974
Ken Kalfus
Born 1954
Nathaniel Weyl
1910 - 2005
Marcus Rojas
Born 1963
Jack Newfield
1938 - 2004
Reihan Salam
Born 1979
Clifford Ross
Born 1952
Demond Wilson
Born 1946
Paul Gilbert (actor)
1918 - 1975
Teddy Randazzo
1935 - 2003
Harikesa Swami
Born 1948
Bob Lubbers
1922 - 2017
H. Stuart Hughes
1916 - 1999
Randy Lerner
Born 1962
Michael Todaro
Born 1942
David Von Ancken
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Hélène de Pourtalès
1868 - 1945
Jenny Maxwell
1941 - 1981
Cleo Ridgely
1893 - 1962
Peter Eyre
Born 1942
Nelson Vails
Born 1960
William H. P. Blandy
1890 - 1954
Reed Farrel Coleman
Born 1956
Nina Quartero
1908 - 1985
Tony Young (actor)
1937 - 2002
Sid Rosenberg
Born 1967
Patricia Johanson
Born 1940
Paul Tripp
1911 - 2002
Frank Socolow
1923 - 1981
Allan Miller
Born 1929
Guy Wildenstein
Born 1945
Peter Stickles
Born 1976
Sera Gamble
Born 1983
Russell Javors
Born 1952
Jackie Hoffman
Born 1960
Lou Hirsch
Born 1955
Vinny Guadagnino
Born 1987
Anthony Hargrove
Born 1983
William Barclay Parsons
1859 - 1932
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Born 1923
Irwin Unger
Born 1927
Frank Hubbard
1920 - 1976
Stanley Rubin
1917 - 2014
York Larese
1938 - 2016
Elizabeth Coffin
1850 - 1930
Chick Reiser
1914 - 1996
Dean Benjamin McLaughlin
1901 - 1965
Arthur Kleinman
Born 1941
Jade Eshete
Born 1985
Donald Meichenbaum
Born 1940
Walter Berndt
1899 - 1979
Elisabeth Marbury
1856 - 1933
John Jay (lawyer)
1817 - 1894
Howard Marks (investor)
Born 1946
Joseph Perrino
Born 1982
Noah Rubin (tennis)
Born 1996
Phillip Lopate
Born 1943
Anna Berger (actress)
1922 - 2014
Albert Starr
Born 1926
Marguerite S. Church
1892 - 1995
Benjamin Appel
1907 - 1977
Richard Crudo
Born 1957
Gerard Carbonara
1886 - 1959
Francis Peabody Magoun
1895 - 1979
James Merritt Ives
1824 - 1895
Albert Salomon
1891 - 1966
Muriel Smith (singer)
1923 - 1985
John Chiang (California politician)
Born 1962
Teddy Schwarzman
Born 1979
Susan Herbst
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Sadie Alexandru
Born 1977
Lucy Grantham
Born 1951
Peyton Elizabeth Lee
Born 2004
Neil Meron
Born 1955
Daniel Lerner
1917 - 1980
Murray Louis
1926 - 2016
Eric Dixon
1930 - 1989
Margaret Wright (actress)
1917 - 1999
George Bergman
Born 1943
Peter Bernstein (guitarist)
Born 1967
Ellen Cleghorne
Born 1965
Amy Arbus
Born 1954
James S. Shapiro
Born 1955
Deborah Hay
Born 1941
Robert Thornby
1888 - 1953
Jonathan Sanger
Born 1944
Alex Rivera
Born 1973
Marie Cahill
1870 - 1933
Thomas Spencer (mathematical physicist)
Born 1946
Eddie Casiano
Born 1972
Rogers McVaugh
1909 - 2009
Ethan Nadelmann
Born 1957
Billy Milano
Born 1964
Zena Keefe
1896 - 1977
Paul Pilgrim
1883 - 1958
Harold Isaacs
1910 - 1986
Herb Jaffe
1921 - 1991
Jim Larrañaga
Born 1949
Ronald Tavel
1936 - 2009
Richard Lyons (mathematician)
Born 1945
Robert Kuttner
Born 1943
Robert Adams (spiritual teacher)
1928 - 1997
Adele Comandini
1898 - 1987
Rama Coomaraswamy
1932 - 2006
Joseph Fargis
Born 1948
James M. Poterba
Born 1958
Arthur Ornitz
1916 - 1985
Lockwood de Forest
1850 - 1932
Mike Abene
Born 1942
Anthony Santasiere
1904 - 1977
Rufus King (writer)
1893 - 1966
Jeff Moss
1942 - 1998
Wayne Koestenbaum
Born 1958
Ibrahim Jaaber
Born 1984
William Garity
1899 - 1971
Paul Chalfin
1874 - 1959
Gail Marquis
Born 1954
Jane Evelyn Atwood
Born 1947
Varetta Dillard
1933 - 1993
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Born 1941
Karla Jay
Born 1947
Jessica Yu
Born 1966
Tosin Cole
Born 1992
Robert Kelly (poet)
Born 1935
Jeff McBride
Born 1959
Lloyd Cutler
1917 - 2005
Robert O'Reilly
Born 1950
Robert T. Westbrook
Born 1945
Tom Rockmore
Born 1942
Fred Berger (producer)
Born 1981
Peter Throckmorton
1928 - 1990
Richard J. Terrile
Born 1951
Eugene D. Commins
1932 - 2015
George Oster
1940 - 2018
Walter Egan
Born 1948
James Sturm
Born 1965
Leigh Jason
1904 - 1979
Jeremy Gaige
1927 - 2011
Robert M. Hayes
Born 1926
Nick Cardy
1920 - 2013
Elliott Lewis (radio)
1917 - 1990
Gregory Olsen
Born 1945
Robert Winthrop Chanler
1872 - 1930
Jerry March
1929 - 1997
Robert Miano
Born 1942
Gerald Estrin
1921 - 2012
Bianca Trump
Born 1972
William Alfred Weber
1918 - 2020
Steven Heller (design writer)
Born 1950
Kenneth Cole (designer)
Born 1954
Luca Venantini
Born 1970
Sara Ziff
Born 1983
Kathy Troccoli
Born 1958
James G. King
1791 - 1853
Yin Chang
Born 1989
David Nirenberg
Born 1964
Billy Kay (actor)
Born 1984
Richard Merkin
1938 - 2009
Johnnie Walker (actor)
1894 - 1949
Mickey Knox
1921 - 2013
Lou Fine
1914 - 1971
Robert Whitman
Born 1935
Abe Holzmann
1874 - 1939
Taylor Deupree
Born 1971
Curtis Bean Dall
1896 - 1991
Paula Stone
1912 - 1997
Raymond Dalmau
Born 1948
Jefery Levy
Born 1958
Eugene Aserinsky
1921 - 1998
Daniel Levinson
1920 - 1994
Abigail Clayton
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Brian Herzlinger
Born 1976
Louis Ferrante
Born 1969
Stanley Roberts (screenwriter)
1916 - 1982
Jonathan Dee
Born 1962
Richard Michaels
Born 1936
Jane O'Meara Sanders
Born 1950
Robert Strichartz
Born 1943
Deana Martin
Born 1948
Charlie Brill
Born 1938
Allan Gotthelf
1942 - 2013
Leon Ehrenpreis
1930 - 2010
John King Jr.
Born 1975
John Miller (Washington politician)
1938 - 2017
Theodore Drange
Born 1934
Tom McClung
1957 - 2017
Lee Israel
1939 - 2014
Paul Singer (businessman)
Born 1944
Swingfly
Born 1969
Eddie Snyder
1919 - 2011
Si Zentner
1917 - 2000
Rodd Redwing
1904 - 1971
Fred J. Balshofer
1877 - 1969
Pauline Newman
Born 1927
Gerald Feldman
1937 - 2007
Hezekiah Walker
Born 1962
Adam Ross (author)
Born 1967
Irwin Silber
1925 - 2010
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Born 1961
Katrina Kraven
Born 1977
Eva Rosenfeld
1892 - 1977
Bill Green (New York politician)
1929 - 2002
Warren Finnerty
1925 - 1974
John Arnold (cinematographer)
1889 - 1964
Jill Stuart
Born 1965
Ralph Bishop
1915 - 1974
Frankie J. Galasso
Born 1985
Walter Walker (actor)
1864 - 1947
Larry Ochs (musician)
Born 1949
Jeremy Zuckerman
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Jackson Beck
1912 - 2004
Francis Wayland
1796 - 1865
Benjamin Wood
1820 - 1900
Wilbur Knorr
1945 - 1997
Francis Blackwell Forbes
1839 - 1908
Joel Seligman
Born 1950
Ben Perowsky
Born 1966
Henry Sloane Coffin
1877 - 1954
Arthur B. Singer
1917 - 1990
Elizabeth Janeway
1913 - 2005
Linda Greenhouse
Born 1947
Gerald Fink
Born 1940
Harold Wolff
1898 - 1962
Robert John
Born 1945
Maurice Peress
1930 - 2017
William Farquhar Barry
1818 - 1879
James Augustus Suydam
1819 - 1865
Sonny Vincent
Born 1953
Sidney Meyers
1906 - 1969
Robert Bauer
Born 1952
Gerald Thomas (theatre director)
Born 1954
Gabriel Olds
Born 1972
Ethel Shutta
1896 - 1976
Herbert Trube
1886 - 1959
Adam Clymer
1937 - 2018
John Mankiewicz
Born 1954
Daniel Haines
1801 - 1877
George Memmoli
1938 - 1985
Albert Jennings Fountain
1838 - 1896
Deborah Drattell
Born 1956
William Zinsser
1922 - 2015
Maurice Karnaugh
Born 1924