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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.
Michael Paré
Born 1958
Steven Strait
Born 1986
Ricky Schroder
Born 1970
Rory Culkin
Born 1989
Robin Givens
Born 1964
Studs Terkel
1912 - 2008
Erica Jong
Born 1942
L. Sprague de Camp
1907 - 2000
Nana Visitor
Born 1957
Julia Ward Howe
1819 - 1910
David Graeber
1961 - 2020
Jon Seda
Born 1970
Tiny Tim (musician)
1932 - 1996
Robert Hofstadter
1915 - 1990
Henry Murray
1893 - 1988
John Carlos
Born 1945
Khandi Alexander
Born 1957
Louis Calhern
1895 - 1956
Morton Feldman
1926 - 1987
Margaret Colin
Born 1958
Lawrence Tierney
1919 - 2002
Henry Silva
Born 1928
Carmine Coppola
1910 - 1991
Gene Barry
1919 - 2009
Mark Isham
Born 1951
Robert Evans
1930 - 2019
Rakim
Born 1968
Gregory Corso
1930 - 2001
Robin Cook (American novelist)
Born 1940
Susan Strasberg
1938 - 1999
Taylor Dayne
Born 1962
Joe Torre
Born 1940
Robert Fogel
1926 - 2013
Steve Lawrence
Born 1935
Gene Tunney
1897 - 1978
Mia Sara
Born 1967
John Mearsheimer
Born 1947
Bruce Kulick
Born 1953
Leonard Susskind
Born 1940
Christian Camargo
Born 1971
Paul Rand
1914 - 1996
William Joyce
1906 - 1946
Alfred Bester
1913 - 1987
Andrew Dice Clay
Born 1957
Catherine Oxenberg
Born 1961
Tristan Wilds
Born 1989
Charles Krauthammer
1950 - 2018
Robert C. Merton
Born 1944
Tovah Feldshuh
Born 1952
Dick Wolf
Born 1946
Janice Dickinson
Born 1955
Anderson Cooper
Born 1967
Jessica Walter
Born 1941
Drew Gilpin Faust
Born 1947
Chuck Schuldiner
1967 - 2001
William Bendix
1906 - 1964
Vincent Pastore
Born 1946
Sean Hannity
Born 1961
Nicholas Negroponte
Born 1943
Murray Perahia
Born 1947
Elliott Carter
1908 - 2012
Stacey Dash
Born 1967
Marvin Harris
1927 - 2001
James Farentino
1938 - 2012
Paul Strand
1890 - 1976
Jerry Weintraub
1937 - 2015
James Maslow
Born 1990
James M. Gavin
1907 - 1990
Michael Walzer
Born 1935
Hubert Selby Jr.
1928 - 2004
Eva Amurri
Born 1985
Sheldon Whitehouse
Born 1955
Donna Murphy
Born 1959
Bert Lahr
1895 - 1967
Joanna Angel
Born 1980
Fred Gwynne
1926 - 1993
Stephon Marbury
Born 1977
Eddie Kaye Thomas
Born 1980
Nicky Hilton Rothschild
Born 1983
Gerry Goffin
1939 - 2014
June Lockhart
Born 1925
Alan Dean Foster
Born 1946
Ingrid Michaelson
Born 1979
Harold Robbins
1916 - 1997
Stella Adler
1901 - 1992
Herbert Ross
1927 - 2001
David Johansen
Born 1950
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
1927 - 2010
Dina Merrill
1923 - 2017
Patricia Morison
1915 - 2018
Kathy Acker
1947 - 1997
Erich Segal
1937 - 2010
Bob Guccione
1930 - 2010
Kelly LeBrock
Born 1960
Walt Whitman Rostow
1916 - 2003
Steny Hoyer
Born 1939
Leon Cooper
Born 1930
Gouverneur Morris
1752 - 1816
Adam Arkin
Born 1956
Elliot Goldenthal
Born 1954
Brooke Adams (actress)
Born 1949
Michael Lerner (actor)
Born 1941
Stephen Schwartz (composer)
Born 1948
Robert B. Sherman
1925 - 2012
Dean Winters
Born 1964
Sam Jaffe
1891 - 1984
Skylar Astin
Born 1987
Tony Gilroy
Born 1956
Edwin Howard Armstrong
1890 - 1954
Joseph Bologna
1934 - 2017
Michael Eisner
Born 1942
Jon Turteltaub
Born 1963
Eric Carr
1950 - 1991
Robert Alda
1914 - 1986
Nicholas Meyer
Born 1945
Ken Leung
Born 1970
Donald Trump Jr.
Born 1977
Brandon deWilde
1942 - 1972
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
1891 - 1967
Shemp Howard
1895 - 1955
Yaya DaCosta
Born 1982
Moisés Arias
Born 1994
Alan Jay Lerner
1918 - 1986
Nathanael West
1903 - 1940
Spencer Breslin
Born 1992
Nancy Lieberman
Born 1958
George Tenet
Born 1953
Mark Frost
Born 1953
Robert Mulligan
1925 - 2008
Robert Downey Sr.
Born 1936
Chris Terrio
Born 1976
Joey Badass
Born 1995
Andrew Robinson (actor)
Born 1942
Barbara Hutton
1912 - 1979
Richard Jordan
1937 - 1993
Steve Schirripa
Born 1958
Lloyd Kaufman
Born 1945
Chris Messina
Born 1974
Susan Sullivan
Born 1942
Ana Ortiz
Born 1971
Cecil Taylor
1929 - 2018
Neil Postman
1931 - 2003
Joy Bryant
Born 1974
Burton Richter
1931 - 2018
William Steig
1907 - 2003
Jef Raskin
1943 - 2005
Irwin Allen
1916 - 1991
Yasmine Bleeth
Born 1968
Patti Austin
Born 1950
Big Daddy Kane
Born 1968
Justin Gatlin
Born 1982
Richard Posner
Born 1939
Peter Strauss
Born 1947
Nestor Carbonell
Born 1967
Leonard Kleinrock
Born 1934
Whitfield Diffie
Born 1944
Geraldo Rivera
Born 1943
Leslie Lamport
Born 1941
Grace Gummer
Born 1986
Laura Benanti
Born 1979
Mark Z. Danielewski
Born 1965
James Russo
Born 1953
Yancy Butler
Born 1970
Monica Keena
Born 1979
Vic Damone
1928 - 2018
Kirk Acevedo
Born 1971
John Dall
1918 - 1971
William Castle
1914 - 1977
Len Wein
1948 - 2017
Nicole Krauss
Born 1974
William Stewart Halsted
1852 - 1922
Lainie Kazan
Born 1940
David Paymer
Born 1954
Richard Masur
Born 1948
Bill de Blasio
Born 1961
Bob Weinstein
Born 1954
Carole Bayer Sager
Born 1947
Frank Loesser
1910 - 1969
Mike Starr (actor)
Born 1950
Mark Moses
Born 1958
Craig Bierko
Born 1964
Roger Y. Tsien
1952 - 2016
Brock Peters
1928 - 2005
Jakob Dylan
Born 1969
Lee Smolin
Born 1955
Jam Master Jay
1965 - 2002
Ellen Greene
Born 1951
Sophie B. Hawkins
Born 1967
Paula Fox
1923 - 2017
Bob Kahn
Born 1938
Eric Maskin
Born 1950
Robert Rossen
1908 - 1966
Neal Adams
Born 1941
Joakim Noah
Born 1985
Paul Gallico
1897 - 1976
Lil Mama
Born 1989
Ron Leibman
1937 - 2019
Edward Arnold (actor)
1890 - 1956
Jay Rockefeller
Born 1937
Vince Lombardi
1913 - 1970
John Sebastian
Born 1944
Mike Bongiorno
1924 - 2009
Johnny Rivers
Born 1942
Steven Bochco
1943 - 2018
Hal David
1921 - 2012
Jonathan Lethem
Born 1964
Anne Revere
1903 - 1990
Marian Seldes
1928 - 2014
Peter Hyams
Born 1943
Joe Paterno
1926 - 2012
Eddie Cahill
Born 1978
Tyler James Williams
Born 1992
Alexandra Paul
Born 1963
Necro (rapper)
Born 1976
Anne Shirley (actress)
1918 - 1993
Tony Sirico
Born 1942
John Marley
1907 - 1984
Jonathan Coulton
Born 1970
James Salter
1925 - 2015
William Klein (photographer)
Born 1928
Gōtoku Sakai
Born 1991
Jim Jones (rapper)
Born 1976
Aida Turturro
Born 1962
Richard Barthelmess
1895 - 1963
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
1875 - 1942
William M. Tweed
1823 - 1878
Jan Sterling
1921 - 2004
Robert Metcalfe
Born 1946
Aldis Hodge
Born 1986
Joe Spinell
1936 - 1989
Merritt Wever
Born 1980
Harry Chapin
1942 - 1981
Martin Ritt
1914 - 1990
Mort Shuman
1936 - 1991
A. E. Waite
1857 - 1942
Cliff Martinez
Born 1954
Joseph Greenberg
1915 - 2001
Leon Thomas III
Born 1993
John Randolph (actor)
1915 - 2004
Jacob Epstein
1880 - 1959
Julian Beck
1925 - 1985
Eve Ensler
Born 1953
Dan Dailey
1915 - 1978
Eliot Spitzer
Born 1959
Tony Visconti
Born 1944
Thomas McDonell
Born 1986
Michael Badalucco
Born 1954
James Foley (director)
Born 1953
Hamilton Fish
1808 - 1893
Reed Diamond
Born 1967
Peggy Wood
1892 - 1978
Dan Hedaya
Born 1940
Robert John Burke
Born 1960
Vincent Spano
Born 1962
Béla Fleck
Born 1958
Zelda Williams
Born 1989
Marcia Strassman
1948 - 2014
Rocky Graziano
1919 - 1990
Dan Ariely
Born 1967
Richard Lynch
1940 - 2012
William Baumol
1922 - 2017
Bonnie Somerville
Born 1974
Gillian Welch
Born 1967
Al Kooper
Born 1944
Mark Snow
Born 1946
Caleb Carr
Born 1955
Irwin Winkler
Born 1931
Peter Diamond
Born 1940
Bob Rafelson
Born 1933
Tim Van Patten
Born 1959
Larry Charles
Born 1956
Romany Malco
Born 1968
Chuck McCann
1934 - 2018
Kevin Sussman
Born 1970
Martin Lewis Perl
1927 - 2014
Fred Tatasciore
Born 1967
John Romita Sr.
Born 1930
Sammy Cahn
1913 - 1993
Royal Dano
1922 - 1994
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
1925 - 2011
Dean Devlin
Born 1962
Michael G. Wilson
Born 1942
Herman J. Mankiewicz
1897 - 1953
Monty Woolley
1888 - 1963
Jonathan Littell
Born 1967
Ricky Jay
1948 - 2018
Alexis Dziena
Born 1984
Edward Everett Horton
1886 - 1970
Judith Miller
Born 1948
Gardner Fox
1911 - 1986
Marin Alsop
Born 1956
Asia Carrera
Born 1973
Eric Hoffer
1898 - 1983
Seth Gilliam
Born 1968
William Gaddis
1922 - 1998
Benjamin N. Cardozo
1870 - 1938
Brooke Smith (actress)
Born 1967
Lucy Boynton
Born 1994
Jamie Gillis
1943 - 2010
Yonatan Netanyahu
1946 - 1976