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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.
Leo Isacson
1910 - 1996
David Blumenthal
Born 1948
David Leonhardt
Born 1973
Michael Greenberg (writer)
Born 1952
Nedra Talley
Born 1946
Harmon Craig
1926 - 2003
Symona Boniface
1894 - 1950
Alfred Blumstein
Born 1930
Ben Ratliff
Born 1968
Luis Senarens
1863 - 1939
Ken Scott (actor)
1928 - 1986
Amy Adler
Born 1966
Philip Slone
1907 - 2003
Sonya Klopfer
Born 1934
Whit Dickey
Born 1954
Lee Zahler
1893 - 1947
Morris Dickstein
Born 1940
Tony Tallarico
Born 1933
Al Vande Weghe
1916 - 2002
Doc Powell
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Peter Irving
1771 - 1838
John Perreault
1937 - 2015
Herbert Brodkin
1912 - 1990
Marilyn Michaels
Born 1943
Natasha Katz
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Wil Shriner
Born 1953
Edward Clyde Benfold
1931 - 1952
Margel Hinder
1905 - 1995
Phil Sellers
Born 1953
William Leggett (writer)
1801 - 1839
E. Christian Kopff
Born 1946
Jeff Greer
Born 1979
Frank Lisciandro
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George Tibbles
1913 - 1987
Lawrence Lariar
1908 - 1981
Kevin Norton
Born 1956
Elizabeth E. Wein
Born 1964
Bill Wendell
1924 - 1999
Laurence Stoddard
1903 - 1997
Marvin Breckinridge Patterson
1905 - 2002
Lorin Hollander
Born 1944
Carmine Persico
1933 - 2019
Peter Stein (cinematographer)
Born 1943
Christa Faust
Born 1969
Pumpkinhead (rapper)
1976 - 2015
Walter Hudson (1944–1991)
1944 - 1991
Gotay
Born 1985
Ohmega Watts
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William Tucci
Born 1966
Lucas Prata
Born 1978
Tony Tarasco
Born 1970
Manuel Komroff
1890 - 1974
Bruce Straley
Born 1978
Freddie Crawford
Born 1941
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Born 1949
Saville Sax
1924 - 1980
Albert Simonson
1914 - 1965
Eddie Yost
1926 - 2012
Clarence Kelly
Born 1941
Nathan Mendelsohn
1917 - 2006
James Prigoff
Born 1927
Joseph Pearman
1892 - 1961
Marguerite Bertsch
1889 - 1967
Alexis Stewart
Born 1965
Michael Patrick MacDonald
Born 1966
Arthur Weiss
1912 - 1980
Frederick Roth
1872 - 1944
Meghan O'Rourke
Born 1976
Maud Barger-Wallach
1870 - 1959
Devery Freeman
1913 - 2005
Michael Carmine
1959 - 1989
Alyson Richman
Born 1972
Howard Gould
1871 - 1959
Aileen Osborn Webb
1892 - 1979
Anson Phelps Stokes
1838 - 1913
Rikky von Opel
Born 1947
Tom Glocer
Born 1959
Bert Granet
1910 - 2002
Ira Schneider
Born 1939
Victoria Redel
Born 1959
Meyer Reinhold
1909 - 2002
Marc Edwards (drummer)
Born 1949
Bernard Childs
1910 - 1985
John Stone (producer)
1888 - 1961
Leo Friedlander
1888 - 1966
Oscar Schachter
1915 - 2003
Gene Stone
Born 1951
Allegra Goodman
Born 1967
Kate Shepherd
Born 1961
Jonathan Berger
Born 1954
Jo Eisinger
1909 - 1991
Rosanne Katon
Born 1954
Fiona Hogan
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Bernard Cohn (anthropologist)
1928 - 2003
William Phipps Blake
1826 - 1910
Madeleine B. Stern
1912 - 2007
Alfred C. Abadie
1878 - 1950
David Franks (loyalist)
1720 - 1794
George Miller Dyott
1883 - 1972
Jay Hoggard
Born 1954
Kaitlin Hopkins
Born 1964
Arthur Purdy Stout
1885 - 1967
Charlie Cole (rower)
Born 1986
Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Born 1960
Kevin Williams (basketball)
Born 1961
Joe Pignatano
Born 1929
Judy Rifka
Born 1945
Wolf Hudson
Born 1984
Theodore R. Kupferman
1920 - 2003
Peter Rodgers Melnick
Born 1958
Benjamin Nugent
Born 1950
Marc Neikrug
Born 1946
Burton Kramer
Born 1932
Roy Schafer
1922 - 2018
Zeke Zarchy
1915 - 2009
Ansen Dibell
1942 - 2006
John Griesemer
Born 1947
Laurence Traiger
Born 1956
Frank Barsalona
1938 - 2012
Anna Lehr
1890 - 1974
Murielle Telio
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Nellie Y. McKay
1930 - 2006
Anthony Joseph Tromba
Born 1943
Josie Sadler
1871 - 1927
David Valcin
Born 1964
Ray Barker
1889 - 1974
James Pattison Cockburn
1779 - 1847
Salvatore Tripoli
1904 - 1990
Gustave Solomon
1930 - 1996
Sheldon Katz
Born 1956
Joel Agee
Born 1940
James E. Davis (New York politician)
1962 - 2003
John A. Gotti
Born 1964
Homer Scott
1880 - 1956
Seward Collins
1899 - 1952
C. L. Sulzberger
1912 - 1993
Ann McGovern
1930 - 2015
Rachel Freier
Born 1965
Warren Samuels
1933 - 2011
Heinie Zimmerman
1887 - 1969
Jacob J. Shubert
1879 - 1963
Karen LaMonte
Born 1967
Abraham Klein (physicist)
1927 - 2003
Edward Charles Spitzka
1852 - 1914
Andy Frankenberger
Born 1973
Roberta Gellis
1927 - 2016
Phil Reeves
Born 1946
Henry LeTang
1915 - 2007
Shelley Hirsch
Born 1952
Henry Furst
1893 - 1967
Charles Muscatine
1920 - 2010
Olivier Busquet
Born 1981
Douglas R. Lowy
Born 1942
Eric Roche
1967 - 2005
Ingrid Wells
Born 1989
Rosamond Pinchot
1904 - 1938
Hamilton Castner
1858 - 1899
Jennifer Elie
Born 1986
Remo Palmier
1923 - 2002
Matthew Carlson
Born 1951
Matthew Winkler (journalist)
Born 1955
Bill Bollinger
1939 - 1988
Howard Storm (director)
Born 1939
Nicolas Collins
Born 1954
Calvin C. Moore
Born 1936
Jack Rovello
Born 1994
Deena Metzger
Born 1936
Mat Lucas
Born 1979
Charles Sullivan (musician)
Born 1944
Henry Beaumont Herts
1871 - 1933
John S. Marr
Born 1940
F. A. Turner
1858 - 1980
Ned Goldreyer
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Edmund Greacen
1877 - 1949
Larry Scott (sports administrator)
Born 1964
Tracie Morris
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Louis Auslander
1928 - 1997
Alan Kirschenbaum
1961 - 2012
Afërdita Dreshaj
Born 1986
Janice Baird
Born 1963
Milton Hebald
1917 - 2015
Doug Rauch
1950 - 1979
Stacy Barthe
Born 1985
Alix Dobkin
Born 1940
Larry Davis (New York criminal)
1966 - 2008
Boy Wonder (producer)
Born 1978
Edwin Kessler
1928 - 2017
Irving Fein
1911 - 2012
Morgan Fisher (artist)
Born 1942
Donald X. Vaccarino
Born 1969
Gene Pollar
1892 - 1971
Megan Ketch
Born 1982
Richard C. Hottelet
1917 - 2014
Mace Coronel
Born 2004
Ronald Ribman
Born 1932
Alice Amsden
1943 - 2012
Arnie Lawrence
1938 - 2005
Sanford Bookstaver
Born 1973
Joseph Swensen
Born 1960
Benjamin Lowy
Born 1979
Howard Korder
Born 1957
Frank Conniff
Born 1956
David Virelles
Born 1983
James Allen Hardie
1823 - 1876
Bob Reiss
Born 1951
William Dickey (diver)
1874 - 1944
Nicolette Pierini
Born 2003
Sam Shaw (Fotograf)
1912 - 1999
Daniel Nagrin
1917 - 2008
James Quinn (athlete)
1906 - 2004
Francis Frederick Reh
1911 - 1994
Lenny Fontana
Born 1968
David Stahl (conductor)
1949 - 2010
Maggie Betts
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Matthew Sussman
Born 1958
Phil Markowitz
Born 1952
William Carney (politician)
1942 - 2017
Alex Kotzky
1923 - 1996
Richard Parke
1893 - 1950
Specs Powell
1922 - 2007
J. P. McCarthy
1933 - 1995
Bruce Solomon
Born 1944
Ralph Grimaldi
Born 1943
Jake Pelkington
1916 - 1982
David M. Goldschmidt
Born 1942
Frederick Sheffield
1902 - 1971
Megan Hollingshead
Born 1968
Henry Rutgers Marshall
1852 - 1927
Arnold Weinstein
1927 - 2005
Paul Guyer
Born 1948
Jean-Claude La Marre
Born 1973
Luther Green
1946 - 2006
Harold Michelson
1920 - 2007
Oliver Mack
Born 1957
Frank J. Corr
1877 - 1934
Daniel de los Reyes
Born 1962
Leonard Kastle
1929 - 2011
Winston Lord
Born 1937
Mary Alexander
1694 - 1760
Robert Moskowitz
Born 1935
William S. Gray (film editor)
1896 - 1946
Ashley Higginson
Born 1989
Victor Calderone
Born 1967
Raoul Whitfield
1896 - 1945
Teunis G. Bergen
1806 - 1881
Jive Jones
Born 1980
Herb Wallerstein
1925 - 1985
Magda Foy
1906 - 1972
Sonny Russo
1929 - 2013
Alvin Schwartz (comics)
1916 - 2011
Ruby Goldstein
1907 - 1984
Allen Shields
1927 - 1989
Steven Toushin
Born 1946
Joan Murray
Born 1945
Julius Hegyi
1923 - 2007
Tom Kelly (basketball)
1924 - 2008
Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard
1843 - 1924
James H. R. Cromwell
1896 - 1990
Andre Riddick
Born 1973
Norman Lessing
1911 - 2001
Edward Anthony Spitzka
1876 - 1922
Steve Katz (writer)
Born 1935
Robert Hoe III
1839 - 1909
Jeff Dinitz
Born 1952
Leigh Wiener
1929 - 1993
Marilyn Sokol
Born 1937
Sidney Weintraub (economist born 1914)
1914 - 1983
Washington Irving Bishop
1856 - 1899
Loni Harwood
Born 1990
Morton Brown
Born 1931
Fred Wilpon
Born 1936
Alan Weiss (musician)
Born 1950
Gregory Siff
Born 1977
Galen Spencer
1840 - 1904
Liz Hannah
Born 1985
Raymond D. Little
1880 - 1932
Altina Schinasi
1907 - 1999
Steve Gorn
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George Ferdinand Becker
1847 - 1919
Lincoln Maazel
1903 - 2009
George Lowther (writer)
1913 - 1975
Gary Schuster
Born 1946
Kyra T. Inachin
1968 - 2012
Francis Mugavero
1914 - 1991
Kevin Zeese
1955 - 2020
Diedre Murray
Born 1951
Christopher Chadman
1948 - 1995
William R. Roberts
1830 - 1897
Ivan Brandon
Born 1976
Amanda Anka
Born 1968
Adam Weissman
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Gloria D. Miklowitz
1927 - 2015
Henry Peters Gray
1819 - 1877
Herbert Tenzer
1905 - 1993
Tom Mason (actor)
Born 1949
Christopher Gordon (squash player)
Born 1986
Anita de Braganza
1886 - 1977
Tom Sherak
1945 - 2014
Ed Newman
Born 1951
Cole Hawkins
Born 1991