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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.
Roy Cohn
1927 - 1986
Robert Rubin
Born 1938
Daniella Alonso
Born 1978
Jorja Fox
Born 1968
Lisa Fischer
Born 1958
Jon Abrahams
Born 1977
Carol Gilligan
Born 1936
Bella Abzug
1920 - 1998
Connor Paolo
Born 1990
Audrey Meadows
1922 - 1996
Holt McCallany
Born 1963
Zak Penn
Born 1968
Sean S. Cunningham
Born 1941
Paul Morrissey
Born 1938
Mark Rydell
Born 1934
Marky Ramone
Born 1956
Julius Axelrod
1912 - 2004
Harry Guardino
1925 - 1995
Walter Winchell
1897 - 1972
Sara Rue
Born 1979
Peter Segal
Born 1962
Paul Dini
Born 1957
Noah Emmerich
Born 1965
Nicolas Jaar
Born 1990
J. Carrol Naish
1896 - 1973
Perrey Reeves
Born 1970
Rochelle Aytes
Born 1976
Erik Estrada
Born 1949
George Wald
1906 - 1997
Joan Van Ark
Born 1943
Robert Iler
Born 1985
Joseph Campanella
1924 - 2018
Ronnie Spector
Born 1943
Janet Napolitano
Born 1957
Trini Alvarado
Born 1967
Susan Oliver
1932 - 1990
Lorraine Gary
Born 1937
Paul Greengard
1925 - 2019
Diana Barrymore
1921 - 1960
Cynthia Weil
Born 1940
Juelz Santana
Born 1982
Everett Sloane
1909 - 1965
Nicholas Pileggi
Born 1933
Gunther Schuller
1925 - 2015
Michael Weston
Born 1973
Paul Sweezy
1910 - 2004
Gene Saks
1921 - 2015
Joyce Van Patten
Born 1934
Ezra Koenig
Born 1984
Michael Rockefeller
1938 - 1961
Eric Roth
Born 1945
James Dunn (actor)
1901 - 1967
David Silverman (animator)
Born 1957
Bebel Gilberto
Born 1966
Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Born 1930
Garry Trudeau
Born 1948
Andres Serrano
Born 1950
Shafi Goldwasser
Born 1958
Madison Grant
1865 - 1937
Noah Hawley
Born 1967
John Mott
1865 - 1955
Mark Boal
Born 1973
Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Born 1972
Rob Brown (actor)
Born 1984
Martin Hellman
Born 1945
Joe Budden
Born 1980
Gordon Matta-Clark
1943 - 1978
Doris Duke
1912 - 1993
Garry Winogrand
1928 - 1984
Julia Alvarez
Born 1950
Jonathan Haidt
Born 1963
Gertrude Ederle
1905 - 2003
Reuben Fine
1914 - 1993
Robert Barro
Born 1944
William Beebe
1877 - 1962
Terry Melcher
1942 - 2004
Anita Louise
1915 - 1970
Stubby Kaye
1918 - 1997
Melonie Diaz
Born 1984
Mike Mansfield
1903 - 2001
Arthur Laurents
1917 - 2011
Joe Roth
Born 1948
Vonda Shepard
Born 1963
Alex Katz
Born 1927
Erin Moriarty (actress)
Born 1994
Dinah Manoff
Born 1958
Frank Perry
1930 - 1995
Richard Wilbur
1921 - 2017
Whitey Ford
1928 - 2020
James Gleason
1882 - 1959
William Safire
1929 - 2009
Keith Gordon
Born 1961
David Frankel
Born 1959
William Zabka
Born 1965
Edward Brophy
1895 - 1960
Earl Boen
Born 1945
Jeanna Fine
Born 1964
Antonio Fargas
Born 1946
Richard Lewontin
Born 1929
Charles Berlitz
1914 - 2003
Maggie McNamara
1928 - 1978
John Fenn (chemist)
1917 - 2010
Joanna Russ
1937 - 2011
Noah Beery Jr.
1913 - 1994
Michael Kahn (film editor)
Born 1935
M. Scott Peck
1936 - 2005
David Dorfman
Born 1993
Leslie Uggams
Born 1943
John Holt (educator)
1923 - 1985
Elizabeth Monroe
1768 - 1830
Awkwafina
Born 1989
Jerry Herman
1931 - 2019
Richard C. Sarafian
1930 - 2013
Varian Fry
1907 - 1967
Lee Friedlander
Born 1934
Bill Kristol
Born 1952
Donald Keene
1922 - 2019
Harry Hammond Hess
1906 - 1969
John Giorno
1936 - 2019
Victor Rasuk
Born 1984
Paul Winchell
1922 - 2005
Glen Cook
Born 1944
Vera Wang
Born 1949
Ann Dvorak
1911 - 1979
Clifford Irving
1930 - 2017
David Herman
Born 1967
Evan Handler
Born 1961
Larry Hankin
Born 1940
Allan Arbus
1918 - 2013
James Coco
1930 - 1987
Melba Moore
Born 1945
John Oates
Born 1949
Al Lettieri
1928 - 1975
Susan Anspach
1942 - 2018
Mal Waldron
1925 - 2002
Wynter Gordon
Born 1985
Shelly Manne
1920 - 1984
Ferde Grofé
1892 - 1972
Robert R. Livingston (chancellor)
1746 - 1813
Deborah Lipstadt
Born 1947
Eileen Ryan
Born 1928
Don Winslow
Born 1953
Alice Pearce
1917 - 1966
Raquel Castro
Born 1994
Moe Tucker
Born 1944
Matthew Daddario
Born 1987
Vernon A. Walters
1917 - 2002
Hugh David Politzer
Born 1949
Melvin Schwartz
1932 - 2006
Robert Darnton
Born 1939
Jim Palmer
Born 1945
Alan Reed
1907 - 1977
Ricardo Cortez
1900 - 1977
William Forsythe (choreographer)
Born 1949
Nancy Carroll
1903 - 1965
Ben Schnetzer
Born 1990
Noureen DeWulf
Born 1984
Rick Berman
Born 1945
Andrea Elson
Born 1969
Mercedes de Acosta
1893 - 1968
Carmen Dell'Orefice
Born 1931
Clarence Williams III
Born 1939
Priscilla Pointer
Born 1924
Kool Moe Dee
Born 1962
Jack Holt (actor)
1888 - 1951
Luther Adler
1903 - 1984
James Merrill
1926 - 1995
Billie Dove
1903 - 1997
Harry Cohn
1891 - 1958
Patti D'Arbanville
Born 1951
William Asher
1921 - 2012
Duane Jones
1937 - 1988
Brad Fiedel
Born 1951
Moses Finley
1912 - 1986
Gordon Douglas (director)
1907 - 1993
Alan Oppenheimer
Born 1930
Sumner Welles
1892 - 1961
Whit Bissell
1909 - 1996
Adam Green (musician)
Born 1981
Nick Kroll
Born 1978
Candida Royalle
1950 - 2015
Larry Storch
Born 1923
Elvis Crespo
Born 1971
Maxwell Perkins
1884 - 1947
Glynn Turman
Born 1947
Nika Futterman
Born 1969
Jonathan Kellerman
Born 1949
Deborah Snyder
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Jackie McLean
1931 - 2006
George W. De Long
1844 - 1881
Barry Mazur
Born 1937
Emily Meade
Born 1989
Gene Raymond
1908 - 1998
Christine Todd Whitman
Born 1946
John Finn
Born 1952
Peter Cooper
1791 - 1883
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Born 1944
Ty Hardin
1930 - 2017
Gerald Mohr
1914 - 1968
Fred Ebb
1928 - 2004
Bea Benaderet
1906 - 1968
Anne Sinclair
Born 1948
Jill Abramson
Born 1954
Sam McMurray
Born 1952
James Roosevelt
1907 - 1991
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever
1886 - 1971
Rachel True
Born 1966
Rick Hoffman
Born 1970
Eleanor Audley
1905 - 1991
Jerome Karle
1918 - 2013
Chester Morris
1901 - 1970
Skai Jackson
Born 2002
Molly Picon
1898 - 1992
Billy Hayes (writer, born 1947)
Born 1947
Lindsay Sloane
Born 1977
Cynthia Ozick
Born 1928
Herbert A. Hauptman
1917 - 2011
Michelle Borth
Born 1978
Barry Sullivan (American actor)
1912 - 1994
Nita Naldi
1894 - 1961
Moss Hart
1904 - 1961
Caldwell Esselstyn
Born 1933
Jock Sturges
Born 1947
John Hammond (record producer)
1910 - 1987
Alex Gibney
Born 1953
Winthrop Rockefeller
1912 - 1973
Ian Gomez
Born 1964
Patty Smyth
Born 1957
Ahmed Best
Born 1973
Omar Hakim
Born 1959
Gale Gordon
1906 - 1995
Barbi Benton
Born 1950
Adam Lamberg
Born 1984
Alice Hoffman
Born 1952
Jenji Kohan
Born 1969
Alexander Cartwright
1820 - 1892
James Gleick
Born 1954
George Plimpton
1927 - 2003
Edward Kasner
1878 - 1955
Stanford White
1853 - 1906
Teddy Riley
Born 1967
Leila Hyams
1905 - 1977
Suze Rotolo
1943 - 2011
John D. Rockefeller III
1906 - 1978
Darryl McDaniels
Born 1964
Jane Bowles
1917 - 1973
Jack Lew
Born 1955
Jon Huertas
Born 1976
Rick Rosenthal
Born 1949
Thomas Gomez
1905 - 1971
Robin Bartlett
Born 1951
Ivan Dixon
1931 - 2008
Caresse Crosby
1891 - 1970
Joe Crowley
Born 1962
Ronan Farrow
Born 1987
Adolph Gottlieb
1903 - 1974
Mark Neveldine
Born 1973
Martin Feldstein
1939 - 2019
Leon Robinson
Born 1962
Lennie Hayton
1908 - 1971
Claiborne Pell
1918 - 2009
Leon Shamroy
1901 - 1974
Devin Ratray
Born 1977
Scott Snyder
Born 1976
Kevin Conway (actor)
1942 - 2020
Jerry Schatzberg
Born 1927
Ernest Lehman
1915 - 2005
Tony Leondis
Born 1967
Gene Anthony Ray
1962 - 2003
Frank Oppenheimer
1912 - 1985
Sherry Turkle
Born 1948
Boaz Yakin
Born 1966
Richard Perle
Born 1941
Berry Berenson
1948 - 2001
Russell Alan Hulse
Born 1950
Andrew Vachss
Born 1942
Raymond E. Brown
1928 - 1998
David Ausubel
1918 - 2008
Ashley Massaro
1979 - 2019
Gary Winick
1961 - 2011
William Waldorf Astor
1848 - 1919
Robert Smigel
Born 1960
John Ross Bowie
Born 1971
Stephen McNally
1913 - 1994
James Drury
1934 - 2020
Lee Patrick (actress)
1901 - 1982
Brian G. Hutton
1935 - 2014
Leo Kadanoff
1937 - 2015
Michael H. Hart
Born 1932
Jimmy Walker
1881 - 1946
Daniel Stern (psychologist)
1934 - 2012
Jack Kelly (actor)
1927 - 1992
Ira Aldridge
1807 - 1867
Josh Pais
Born 1964
Phoebe Snow
1950 - 2011
David X. Cohen
Born 1966
Hassler Whitney
1907 - 1989
Mike Garson
Born 1945
Payman Maadi
Born 1970
Dave Fleischer
1894 - 1979