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.
Bob Herbert
Born 1945
Collins Pennie
Born 1984
Ben Cohen (businessman)
Born 1951
Grant Richards
1911 - 1963
Robert F. Murphy (anthropologist)
1924 - 1990
Marty Reisman
1930 - 2012
Leon Lishner
1913 - 1995
Uncle Murda
Born 1980
Rudy Powell
1907 - 1976
Andrea Martin (musician)
Born 1975
Paul D. Zimmerman
1938 - 1993
Sam Levenson
1911 - 1980
Don Smithers
Born 1933
Peter Evans (musician)
Born 1981
Robert Abplanalp
1922 - 2003
Benny Distefano
Born 1962
Eli Siegel
1902 - 1978
Jess Gonchor
Born 1962
Christine Marzano
Born 1986
Pierre Gadonneix
Born 1943
Allison Miller (drummer)
Born 1974
Ely Landau
1920 - 1993
Maude Hutchins
1899 - 1991
Alex Gino
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Rowdy Rebel
Born 1991
Charles Cantor
Born 1942
Jay Cameron
1928 - 2001
Robert Hermann (mathematician)
1931 - 2020
Nicholas Schaffner
1953 - 1991
Leroy Brown (athlete)
1902 - 1970
Tom Freund
Born 1968
C. P. H. Gilbert
1861 - 1952
Ric Segreto
1952 - 1998
Wayne Cilento
Born 1949
Patti Rothberg
Born 1972
Robert Riger
1924 - 1995
Nancy Dell'Olio
Born 1961
Charles Astor Bristed
1820 - 1874
Valerie Sutton
Born 1951
Hilton Als
Born 1961
Cora Crane
1865 - 1910
Erik Bauersfeld
1922 - 2016
Carol Leigh
Born 1951
Elisabeth Irwin
1880 - 1942
Jameel Watkins
Born 1977
Parker Sawyers
Born 1984
Charles Tobias
1898 - 1970
Thomas Devin
1822 - 1878
Alfred Kreymborg
1883 - 1966
Boris Said
Born 1962
Charles John Brown
Born 1959
Margherita Missoni
Born 1983
Frederic Augustus Lucas
1852 - 1929
Sarah B. Pomeroy
Born 1938
Howard Zimmerman
1926 - 2012
Nat Levine
1899 - 1989
Gary Saul Morson
Born 1948
Alan F. Horn
Born 1943
Ashley Monique Clark
Born 1988
Robert Curry
1882 - 1944
James Lepowsky
Born 1944
Mason Gaffney
1923 - 2020
James Donahue
1885 - 1966
Wm. Theodore de Bary
1919 - 2017
Henry Freulich
1906 - 1985
Derrick Chievous
Born 1967
Sid Jacobson
Born 1929
Diana Barrows
Born 1971
Sonny Lester
Born 1924
Suzanne Krull
1966 - 2013
Martin Goldstein
1905 - 1941
Jay Maisel
Born 1931
David Isaacs (writer)
Born 1949
Don Hastings
Born 1934
Nathaniel Dorsky
Born 1943
Louis Kuehnle
1857 - 1938
Alonzo Chappel
1828 - 1887
Lisa Ohlin
Born 1960
Nicholas Dante
1941 - 1991
Stanley Wilson (composer)
1915 - 1970
Deborah Meier
Born 1931
Osborn Elliott
1924 - 2008
Victor Grossman
Born 1928
David Apter
1924 - 2010
Gabriel Dell
1919 - 1988
Fred Seibert
Born 1951
Leo Goodman
Born 1928
Harold Rosenberg (mathematician)
Born 1938
Pamela Frank
Born 1967
Alan Kaufman (writer)
Born 1952
Pete Brennan
1936 - 2012
Joshua Brand
Born 1950
Sherman Otis Houghton
1828 - 1914
Jack Schlossberg
Born 1993
Lev Dobriansky
1918 - 2008
James H. Scheuer
1920 - 2005
Whitney Balliett
1926 - 2007
Margaret Morgan Lawrence
1914 - 2019
Anita Diamant
Born 1951
Todd Strauss-Schulson
Born 1980
Timothy Noah
Born 1958
Raymond Serra
1936 - 2003
Karl Kani
Born 1970
Oscar White Muscarella
Born 1931
Laura Dean (choreographer)
Born 1945
Melissa Farman
Born 1990
Paul Ackerman
1908 - 1977
Hermann Helms
1870 - 1963
Carey Scurry
Born 1962
Dov Hikind
Born 1950
Stephen Simon
1937 - 2013
Hana Katan
Born 1958
Melissa Anelli
Born 1979
Martha Veléz
Born 1945
Freddie Jenkins
1906 - 1978
Lewis J. Rachmil
1908 - 1984
Frederick J. Horne
1880 - 1959
Ross Gload
Born 1976
Lisa Lisa
Born 1967
Earl Hammond
1921 - 2002
Barry Ulanov
1918 - 2000
Gulian C. Verplanck
1786 - 1870
Samuel Hoffman
1903 - 1967
George Schuller
Born 1958
Howard Morton
1925 - 1997
Emmett J. Rice
1919 - 2011
Lucy Ozarin
1914 - 2017
Ralph Randles Stewart
1890 - 1993
Arthur Mattuck
Born 1930
Georgina Bloomberg
Born 1983
Robert Zwanzig
1928 - 2014
Victor Hugo Green
1892 - 1960
Nat Peck
1925 - 2015
Alex Bag
Born 1969
Arthur K. Shapiro
1923 - 1995
Willow Bay
Born 1963
Grace Dunham
Born 1992
Robert Axelrod (actor)
1949 - 2019
William N. Panzer
1942 - 2007
Clarence Mackay
1874 - 1938
Richard Cohen (columnist)
Born 1941
Peter Ackerman
Born 1946
Dan Barber
Born 1969
Leonore Davidoff
1932 - 2014
Roger Milliken
1915 - 2010
Michael Levine (publicist)
Born 1954
Gloria Stroock
Born 1924
Paul R. Mendes-Flohr
Born 1941
Alan Lelchuk
Born 1938
Bernard Herzbrun
1891 - 1964
Ronald D. Liebowitz
Born 1957
Jack Wilkins
Born 1944
Greg D'Angelo
Born 1963
Philip Rosenberg
Born 1935
Joseph E. Howard
1867 - 1961
George W. Clinton
1807 - 1885
Jeffrey Hart
1930 - 2019
Coati Mundi (musician)
Born 1963
Matt McGrath (actor)
Born 1969
Jack Katz (artist)
Born 1927
Ogden Phipps
1908 - 2002
Jules Irving
1925 - 1979
Hudson Yang
Born 2003
Jay Berliner
Born 1940
Dorothy Donnelly
1880 - 1928
James V. Kern
1909 - 1966
Edmund Naughton
1926 - 2013
Ray Buktenica
Born 1943
Eleonora de Cisneros
1878 - 1934
Mel Welles
1924 - 2005
Ben Harney (actor)
Born 1952
Herbert Baker (screenwriter)
1920 - 1983
Abraham Ten Broeck
1734 - 1820
Ned Eisenberg
Born 1957
Franklin Edwards
Born 1959
Robbie Conal
Born 1944
Waxey Gordon
1888 - 1952
Jay Bennett (author)
1912 - 2009
Mira Schor
Born 1950
Eleanor Arnason
Born 1942
Daniel Melnick
1932 - 2009
Lewis E. Parsons
1817 - 1895
Milton Himmelfarb
1918 - 2006
Richard P. Rubinstein
Born 1947
Burrell Smith
Born 1955
Robert Arthur (film producer)
1909 - 1986
Ken Brett
1948 - 2003
Bill Slavicsek
Born 1971
Nabil Fahmi
Born 1951
Frederic M. Richards
1925 - 2009
Alexander del Mar
1836 - 1926
Frank B. Weeks
1854 - 1935
Leslie Glass
Born 1945
Bruce Manson
Born 1956
Samuel James Meltzer
1851 - 1920
John McSherry
1944 - 1996
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Born 1938
Irma Brandeis
1905 - 1990
Emma Straub
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Allen Eager
1927 - 2003
DJ Spinna
Born 1973
Ilfenesh Hadera
Born 1985
Aline B. Saarinen
1914 - 1972
Georgie Torres
Born 1957
Sheridan Gibney
1903 - 1987
Stephanie Andujar
Born 1986
John Schoenherr
1935 - 2010
Robert Snyder (filmmaker)
1916 - 2004
Larry Levine
1928 - 2008
Anthony Holland (actor)
1928 - 1988
David Begelman
1921 - 1995
Chris Seefried
Born 1966
Sid Silvers
1901 - 1976
Bertram Ross
1920 - 2003
Toby Berger
Born 1940
William Beach Lawrence
1800 - 1881
Crescent Dragonwagon
Born 1952
Chuck Fenda
Born 1972
Dan Raviv
Born 1954
Jordan Gelber
Born 1975
William Edmund Barrett
1900 - 1986
Jack H. Jacobs
Born 1945
Bob Magnusson
Born 1947
Roger Shattuck
1923 - 2005
John Forté
Born 1975
Danny Heifetz
Born 1964
Beatriz Michelena
1890 - 1942
May Wilson Preston
1873 - 1949
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Born 1942
Charles Scribner I
1821 - 1871
Anton Sanko
Born 1960
Arthur Sarnoff
1912 - 2000
Arthur I. Keller
1867 - 1924
Donna Wilkes
Born 1958
Walter Yetnikoff
Born 1933
Jeff Katz
Born 1943
Louie Ramirez
1938 - 1993
Jeremiah Stamler
Born 1919
George Nozuka
Born 1986
Samuel Weber
Born 1940
Robert Elegant
Born 1928
Catherine Bell (religious studies scholar)
1952 - 2008
William Klemperer
1927 - 2017
Lilian Swann Saarinen
1912 - 1995
Mark Kamins
1955 - 2013
Darryl Bryant
Born 1990
Charles N. Brown
1937 - 2009
Streetlife (rapper)
Born 1994
Cal Bruton
Born 1954
Navia Nguyen
Born 1973
Roswell Gilpatric
1906 - 1996
Martin J. Klein
1924 - 2009
Dot da Genius
Born 1986
Josephine Pollard
1834 - 1892
Paul Kelly (criminal)
1876 - 1936
Tyrone Grant
Born 1977
Stanley Drucker
Born 1929
Percival Goodman
1904 - 1989
Welles Crowther
1977 - 2001
Frank Rehak
1926 - 1987
Alan Dale (singer)
1925 - 2002
Lee Wallace (actor)
Born 1930
Gary Hartstein
Born 1955
Michael Strong
1918 - 1980
Frank Hussey
1905 - 1974
James A. Roosevelt
1825 - 1898
Tamala Krishna Goswami
1946 - 2002
Cynthia (singer)
Born 1968
William Harrigan
1894 - 1966
Jimmy Sabater
1936 - 2012
Arlene Gottfried
1950 - 2017
George Barrows
1914 - 1994
Linda Yellen
Born 1949
David Russell (basketball)
Born 1960
Rosalyn Baxandall
1939 - 2015
Arlene Shechet
Born 1951
Tawny Peaks
Born 1970
Frank Infante
Born 1951
Johnny Rivera
Born 1962
Freddy Johnson
1904 - 1961
Rick Rozz
Born 1967
William Schaus
1858 - 1942
David Kirkpatrick (author)
Born 1953
Charles C. Wilson (actor)
1894 - 1948
James Wlcek
Born 1964
Jack Pearl
1894 - 1982
Daniel Weinreb
1959 - 2012
Robert H. Morris (mayor)
1808 - 1855
Jigsaw (wrestler)
Born 1983
Edward Sagarin
1913 - 1986
Michael Wigler
Born 1947
John Broome (politician)
1738 - 1810
Mr. Magic
1956 - 2009
Teresa Gallagher
Born 1971
Eugene Lawrence
Born 1986
Christina Cabot
Born 1969
Agnes Dean Abbatt
1847 - 1917
Mel Taylor
1933 - 1996
Dan Rice
1823 - 1900
Jennifer Gatti
Born 1968