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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.
Bobby Connelly
1909 - 1922
Orville Schell
Born 1940
Eddie Pepitone
Born 1958
John Leventhal
Born 1952
James Tynion IV
Born 1987
Richard Nonas
Born 1936
Leonard Herzenberg
1931 - 2013
Isidore Cohen
1922 - 2005
Tom Engelhardt
Born 1944
Joe Ascione
1961 - 2016
Curtis Sumpter
Born 1984
John R. MacArthur
Born 1956
Bruce Sudano
Born 1948
Robert K. Tanenbaum
Born 1942
Kenny Blank
Born 1977
Sid Kuller
1910 - 1993
Marti Belle
Born 1988
Frank Cioffi
1928 - 2012
Curtis Kelly
Born 1988
Zack Granite
Born 1992
Paul Rachman
Born 1962
Jerry McCullough
Born 1973
Kurt Ralske
Born 1967
Sybil Temtchine
Born 1979
Jeffrey Schnapp
Born 1954
Emily Thorn Vanderbilt
1852 - 1946
Mina Sundwall
Born 2001
Robin Byrd
Born 1957
Kathryn Carver
1899 - 1947
Harry Holtzman
1912 - 1987
Dennis Lambert
Born 1947
Fred Maher
Born 1964
Paul Vance
Born 1929
Peter Levenda
Born 1950
Henry C. Murphy
1810 - 1882
Manny Curtis
1911 - 1984
Dwayne Washington (basketball)
1964 - 2016
Michael Baden
Born 1934
Jessica Breland
Born 1988
Paul Leicester Ford
1865 - 1902
Richard L. Simon
1899 - 1960
Alon Greenfeld
Born 1964
Arthur B. Krim
1910 - 1994
Herbert Ferber
1906 - 1991
Al Greenwood
Born 1951
Léonie Gilmour
1873 - 1933
Farish Jenkins
1940 - 2012
Bob May (actor)
1939 - 2009
Yehuda Ben-Meir
Born 1939
Walter Bowne
1770 - 1846
Murray H. Protter
1918 - 2008
Philip Anthony-Rodriguez
Born 1968
Rita Cosby
Born 1964
David Friedman (percussionist)
Born 1944
John Wexley
1907 - 1985
Kevin Stacom
Born 1951
E. Roland Harriman
1895 - 1978
Mark Texeira
Born 1950
Emilio de Gogorza
1874 - 1949
Herbert Schiller
1919 - 2000
Gabriel Heatter
1890 - 1972
Harry T. Edwards
Born 1940
Lori Berenson
Born 1969
James Flood
1895 - 1953
Louie Schwartzberg
Born 1950
Jennifer Howard (actress)
1925 - 1993
Sy Gomberg
1918 - 2001
Ryan Grant (running back)
Born 1982
Amanda Evora
Born 1984
John Reardon (baritone)
1930 - 1988
Adam Frank
Born 1962
Pia Getty
Born 1966
Nicole Willis
Born 1963
Albert Brenner
Born 1926
Francis Joseph Murray
1911 - 1996
Marti Kheel
1948 - 2011
Angelina Pivarnick
Born 1986
Andrew Wyatt
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Katharine Weber
Born 1955
Robert E. Ornstein
1942 - 2018
Theodore Rappaport
Born 1960
Sonny Seeza
Born 1970
Irwin Chanin
1891 - 1988
Fazal Sheikh
Born 1965
Tiny Kahn
1924 - 1953
James R. Russell
Born 1953
George Terwilliger
1882 - 1970
Everett Kinstler
1926 - 2019
Bob Said
1932 - 2002
Eddie Egan
1930 - 1995
Justine Mattera
Born 1971
Nicky Anosike
Born 1986
John Bissinger
1879 - 1941
John Roche (basketball)
Born 1949
Theodore Sedgwick Fay
1807 - 1898
Robert Siegel (filmmaker)
Born 1971
Sophie Maslow
1911 - 2006
Artie Bernstein
1909 - 1964
Richard White (historian)
Born 1947
Ned Benson
Born 1977
Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn
1915 - 1984
Norma Fox Mazer
1931 - 2009
John S. Hall
Born 1960
Adele DeGarde
1899 - 1972
Joe Menendez
Born 1969
Stephen Bronner
Born 1949
Nadeen L. Kaufman
Born 1945
David H. Rosenthal
1945 - 1992
Richard Sapir
1936 - 1987
Paul Berlenbach
1901 - 1985
David Sayre
1924 - 2012
Robert Grossman
1940 - 2018
Whitney Ellsworth
1908 - 1980
Robert Lewin (screenwriter)
1920 - 2004
Fritz Roethlisberger
1898 - 1974
Alan Levy
1932 - 2004
Tristine Skyler
Born 1971
Yonatan Razel
Born 1973
Matthew Bogdanos
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Benny Morton
1907 - 1985
Ed Victor
1939 - 2017
Philip Van Cortlandt
1749 - 1831
Sidney Clute
1916 - 1985
Horace Freeland Judson
1931 - 2011
Albert Blaustein
1921 - 1994
Larry Brezner
1942 - 2015
Mike Burstyn
Born 1945
Preston Robert Tisch
1926 - 2005
Henry Eugene Davies
1836 - 1894
Lola Todd
1904 - 1995
Mary LaRoche
1920 - 1999
Larry Finnegan
1938 - 1973
Dimitri Ashkenazy
Born 1969
Surya Das
Born 1950
Charles Frankel
1917 - 1979
John M. Walker Jr.
Born 1940
Jack Garfinkel
1918 - 2013
James L. McConaughy
1887 - 1948
Abraham Nemeth
1918 - 2013
Seth Klarman
Born 1957
Robert Cottingham
Born 1935
Sergio Cresto
1956 - 1986
Chris Malinchak
Born 1987
Mobi Fehr
Born 1994
Judi Chamberlin
1944 - 2010
Louis Jolyon West
1924 - 1999
John Gutfreund
1929 - 2016
Mel Davis
Born 1950
Lester Bird
Born 1938
Donald J. Sobol
1924 - 2012
Charles Douglas Jackson
1902 - 1964
Maurice Rapf
1914 - 2003
Tom Farrell (middle-distance runner)
Born 1944
Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb
1860 - 1936
Philip Tannura
1897 - 1973
Adewale Ogunleye
Born 1977
Henry Jerome
1917 - 2011
Chris Stamp
1942 - 2012
Inaya Day
Born 1977
Ursula Goodenough
Born 1943
René McLean
Born 1946
Samuel J. Barrows
1845 - 1909
John DeNicola
Born 1955
William Caunitz
1933 - 1996
David Levi (musician)
Born 1994
Victoria Gotti
Born 1962
Matthew Aid
1958 - 2018
Stephen Reinhardt
1931 - 2018
Richard Cunningham McCormick
1832 - 1901
Nat Jaffe
1918 - 1945
Randall Kenan
1963 - 2020
James J. Schiro
1946 - 2014
Steven E. Koonin
Born 1951
Matt Cohler
Born 1977
Dick Garcia
Born 1931
Mo Ostin
Born 1927
Robert von Dassanowsky
Born 1960
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
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Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld
Born 1987
Judy-Lynn del Rey
1943 - 1986
Dina Lohan
Born 1962
Dominique Easley
Born 1992
Antonio Colorado
Born 1939
Gary Portnoy
Born 1956
George Mathews (actor)
1911 - 1984
Gladys Leslie
1899 - 1976
Nick Cogley
1869 - 1936
Al Levitt
1932 - 1994
Jan Wilsgaard
1930 - 2016
Aaron Sachs
1923 - 2014
Rose Falcon
Born 1984
Kenneth Kellermann
Born 1937
Edward Madden
1878 - 1952
Lisa Donovan
Born 1980
Jerome Travers
1887 - 1951
B. J. Raji
Born 1986
Eleanor Clift
Born 1940
Stan Fischler
Born 1932
Caroline Paul
Born 1963
Isabel Leonard
Born 1982
Alan Kupperberg
1953 - 2015
George Larkin
1887 - 1946
John P. Craven
1924 - 2015
Walter Tetley
1915 - 1975
Mann Rubin
1927 - 2013
Bull Dempsey
Born 1988
Mark L. Smith
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Les Krims
Born 1942
Richard Kostelanetz
Born 1940
Enrico Quarantelli
1924 - 2017
Joseph Raffael
Born 1933
Paul Sloane (director)
1893 - 1963
Fred Branfman
1942 - 2014
Albert Henderson (actor)
1915 - 2004
Grace Randolph
Born 1973
H. Hugh Fudenberg
1928 - 2014
Belén Maya
Born 1966
Gildo Mahones
1929 - 2018
Billy Graham (boxer)
1922 - 1992
Judy Becker
Born 1955
Harold Widom
Born 1932
Victor LaValle
Born 1972
Emanuel Xavier
Born 1971
Robert Kanigel
Born 1946
Mike Greenberg
Born 1967
F. Trubee Davison
1896 - 1974
Bill Adler
Born 1951
Lionel Wilson (voice actor)
1924 - 2003
Rob Simmons
Born 1943
Vincent Mason
Born 1970
Bruce Molsky
Born 1955
Rebecca Stead
Born 1968
Alvin Queen
Born 1950
George Wunder
1912 - 1987
Charles Schreyvogel
1861 - 1912
Daniel Tay
Born 1991
Cathy Silvers
Born 1961
William Jay (jurist)
1789 - 1858
Jeffrey K. Zeig
Born 1947
Jefferson Monroe Levy
1852 - 1924
Margaret Neilson Armstrong
1867 - 1944
Richard Walker Bolling
1916 - 1991
Alfred Sarant
1918 - 1979
James Duncan (athlete)
1887 - 1955
Hillard Elkins
1929 - 2010
Julian Blaustein
1913 - 1995
Abraham Ellstein
1907 - 1963
Isabel Fonseca
Born 1963
William Varley
1880 - 1968
Angela Gots
Born 1983
Spencer Reed
Born 1983
Salvatore Scarpitta
1919 - 2007
Payne Whitney
1876 - 1927
Dani Shapiro
Born 1962
Ed Conlin
1933 - 2012
Gary Giddins
Born 1948
Kevin Ceballo
Born 1977
Peter Gimbel
1927 - 1987
Nayland Blake
Born 1960
Ralph Fasanella
1914 - 1997
Carl Hancock Rux
Born 1971
Kari Michaelsen
Born 1961
Sonia Shah
Born 1969
Gilbert Miller
1884 - 1969
Fred Sadoff
1926 - 1994
Christian Pollas
Born 1947
Johnny Rodz
Born 1938
John Stanley (cartoonist)
1914 - 1993
Charles Leander Weed
1824 - 1903
Sean K
Born 1968
Alfred Norton Goldsmith
1888 - 1974
Marc Cary
Born 1967
Vanessa Lann
Born 1968
Max Gordon (producer)
1892 - 1978
Erez Lieberman Aiden
Born 1980
Melvin Lax
1922 - 2002
Isaac Haxton
Born 1985
Conor O'Brien (soccer)
Born 1988
John Steinbeck IV
1946 - 1991
Samuel Putnam Avery
1822 - 1904
Jack Goldman
1921 - 2011
Mitzi Hoag
1932 - 2019
George Oppenheimer
1900 - 1977
Joe Giella
Born 1928
Josh Neufeld
Born 1967
Elizabeth Mitchell (musician)
Born 1968
Tom Sito
Born 1956
Eve Marder
Born 1948
Fiona Hale
1926 - 2014
Harry Betts
1922 - 2012
Bernadette Mayer
Born 1945
John Silva Meehan
1790 - 1863
Doug MacLeod (musician)
Born 1946
Irving Kolodin
1908 - 1988
Arthur Sze
Born 1950
Johnny Downs
1913 - 1994
Martin Mailman
1932 - 2000
Peter Lipton
1954 - 2007
Rachel Harrison
Born 1966
Joe Shulman
1923 - 1957