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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.
Richard Genelle
1961 - 2008
Paul Falkowski
Born 1951
Paul Ziller (réalisateur)
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Valentine Hall
1867 - 1934
Bernard Maskit
Born 1935
Al Lewis (lyricist)
1901 - 1967
Ann Lauterbach
Born 1942
V.I.C. (rapper)
Born 1987
Frederick Zimmermann
1906 - 1967
L. Stephen Coles
1941 - 2014
Peter Abbay
Born 1966
Robert Stone (director)
Born 1958
Ali Vegas
Born 1983
Victor Amuso
Born 1934
Alice Lounsberry
1872 - 1949
Jo Sinclair
1913 - 1995
Roberta Frank
Born 1941
Charles L. Reason
1818 - 1893
Al Davis (boxer)
1920 - 1945
Steve Zolotow
Born 1945
Horace F. Graham
1862 - 1941
Terrence Flagler
Born 1964
Mick Hazen
Born 1993
Harry Lewis (boxer)
1886 - 1956
Rhoda Levine
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Richard Barrett (lawyer)
1943 - 2010
Mark H. Gelber
Born 1951
Lester Koenig
1918 - 1977
Michael Jeffrey Shapiro
Born 1951
Tonie Nathan
1923 - 2014
Joseph Cates
1924 - 1998
David Bratton
1869 - 1904
Jack Cutting (animator)
1908 - 1988
Al Eugster
1909 - 1997
Harold Scheraga
1921 - 2020
Sam Worthen
Born 1958
Harvey Worthington Loomis
1865 - 1930
Michael Oreskes
Born 1954
Ramsey Ann Naito
Born 1964
Keith Alexander (guitarist)
1963 - 2005
Anthony Heilbut
Born 1940
Donald L. Ritter
Born 1940
Richard Kotuk
1943 - 1998
Liam O'Brien (screenwriter)
1913 - 1996
Benjamin Zuckerman
Born 1943
George Barrow (musician)
1921 - 2013
Grace George
1879 - 1961
Robert Wynne
1851 - 1922
John Tasker Howard
1890 - 1964
Marcus J. Ranum
Born 1962
Jaz-O
Born 1964
Charles Russell (actor)
1918 - 1985
Joel M. Reed
1933 - 2020
Franziska Boas
1902 - 1988
Paul Di Leo
Born 1965
Andy Helfer
Born 1958
Kenneth R. Timmerman
Born 1953
Dick McDonough
1904 - 1938
Jennifer Arroyo
Born 1975
Naphtali Lewis
1911 - 2005
Ralph Mercado
1941 - 2009
William Abikoff
Born 1944
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Born 1948
Seymour Jonathan Singer
1924 - 2017
Stephen Davis (music journalist)
Born 1947
Abe Most
1920 - 2002
Camila Ashland
1918 - 2008
Seymour Halpern
1913 - 1997
Theodore J. Pahle
1899 - 1979
Joseph Berkson
1899 - 1982
James Wolcott
Born 1952
Paul Cohen (historian)
Born 1934
Corey Baker
Born 1989
Andy González (musician)
1951 - 2020
Mark J. Green
Born 1945
Charles H. Bonesteel III
1909 - 1977
Albert Wattenberg
1917 - 2007
Jessie Graff
Born 1984
Jordan Charney
Born 1937
Benjamin Ruggiero
1926 - 1994
Colby Minifie
Born 1992
Isabelle Caillat
Born 1978
Linda Marsh
Born 1939
Dominick Napolitano
1930 - 1981
Betty Morrissey
1908 - 1944
John Cangelosi
Born 1963
Welly Yang
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Julian Euell
1929 - 2019
Smith Ely Jelliffe
1866 - 1945
George Handy
1920 - 1997
Martin Elkort
1929 - 2016
Rolinda Sharples
1793 - 1838
Harry K. Thomas Jr.
Born 1956
Grasshopper (musician)
Born 1967
Gilbert Colgate
1899 - 1965
Edmund Grainger
1906 - 1981
Norman Dorsen
1930 - 2017
Frances Robinson (actress)
1916 - 1971
Toby Saks
1942 - 2013
Traci Paige Johnson
Born 1969
Mickey Appleman
Born 1946
Ron Cooper (artist)
Born 1943
Ann Mara
1929 - 2015
J. Merrill Knapp
1914 - 1993
Mike Davis (basketball, born 1946)
Born 1946
Ruth Gay
1922 - 2006
Todd Kessler
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Milton J. Rosenberg
1925 - 2018
Lee Bryant
Born 1945
Gouverneur Kemble
1786 - 1875
William W. Fitzhugh
Born 1943
Jason Somerville
Born 1987
John J. Rooney
1903 - 1975
Allan Kozinn
Born 1954
Theodore Reff
Born 1930
Dominic Duval
1945 - 2016
Michael St. Gerard
Born 1961
Lucy Komisar
Born 1942
James J. Delaney
1901 - 1987
Joel Smoller
1935 - 2017
Bobby Henderson (musician)
1910 - 1969
Rudy Collins
1934 - 1988
Howard Breslin
1912 - 1964
Rachel Williams
Born 1967
Andrew Horn (filmmaker)
1952 - 2019
Katy Selverstone
Born 1966
Walt Levinsky
1929 - 1999
John J. Boylan
1878 - 1938
Sheila Bond
1928 - 2017
Helen Hellwig
1874 - 1960
Brian Tarantina
1959 - 2019
Ernst Freund
1864 - 1932
Edward Chodorov
1904 - 1988
Jason Mattera
Born 1983
Edson Raff
1907 - 2003
John R. Coryell
1851 - 1924
Katharine Balfour
1921 - 1990
Theodore Pell
1879 - 1967
Mark Alan Stamaty
Born 1947
Michael McCarthy (cyclist)
Born 1968
Arthur J. Deikman
1929 - 2013
Angela Raiola
1960 - 2016
Frank von Zerneck
Born 1940
Robert I. Levy
1924 - 2003
John Dalzell
1845 - 1927
Andrea Scrima
Born 1960
Lionel Abel
1910 - 2001
Emelyn Whiton
1916 - 1962
Alan Edelman
Born 1963
Thomas Adams (chewing gum maker)
1818 - 1905
Charles H. Tuttle
1879 - 1971
Stephen Rucker
Born 1948
Edward Stanley Kellogg
1870 - 1948
Arthur D. Howden Smith
1887 - 1945
Atina Grossmann
Born 1950
Aaron Shurin
Born 1947
Douglas H. Bosco
Born 1946
Franklin Gardner
1823 - 1873
Vincent Viola
Born 1956
Everett Peter Greenberg
Born 1948
Harry A. Fisher
1882 - 1967
Eugene James Keogh
1907 - 1989
Lynbert Johnson
Born 1957
Al Brodax
1926 - 2016
Hermann Hagedorn
1882 - 1964
Ethel Schwabacher
1903 - 1984
Leo Gottlieb
1920 - 1972
Carl Gershman
Born 1943
Martin Baum (agent)
1924 - 2010
Howard Crampton
1865 - 1922
Raymond O'Connor
Born 1952
Linda Catlin Smith
Born 1957
Bob Avian
Born 1937
Isaac Levi
1930 - 2018
Sheck Wes
Born 1998
James Rosen (journalist)
Born 1960
Mary Abbott (artist)
1921 - 2019
Frederick S. Armitage
1874 - 1933
Cate Bauer
Born 1922
Erna Gunther
1896 - 1982
Mary Glasspool
Born 1954
William Churchill (ethnologist)
1859 - 1920
Jerry Seelen
1912 - 1981
Deborah Gregory
Born 1950
Caroline Baron
Born 1961
Robert J. Kelleher
1913 - 2012
Rita Carewe
1909 - 1955
Pete Yellin
1941 - 2016
David H. Frisch
1918 - 1991
Isidore Haiblum
1935 - 2012
Jerry Sheindlin
Born 1933
Mike Bloom (basketball)
1915 - 1993
Malcolm Smith (American politician)
Born 1956
Bess Mensendieck
1864 - 1957
Stephen H. Davis
Born 1939
Jack Zelig
1888 - 1912
Laleh Bakhtiar
1938 - 2020
Gertrude Niesen
1911 - 1975
Adepero Oduye
Born 1977
Philip Needleman
Born 1939
Marianne Legato
Born 1935
Kent M. Keith
Born 1949
Jonas C. Greenfield
1926 - 1995
Catya Sassoon
1968 - 2002
Emily Robinson
Born 1998
Kira Kazantsev
Born 1991
Arnold Daly
1875 - 1927
Kathryn Fiore
Born 1979
Brosl Hasslacher
1941 - 2005
John F. Kurtzke
1926 - 2015
Rashad Haughton
Born 1977
Joel H. Ferziger
1937 - 2004
Judith Brown (sculptor)
1931 - 1992
Annette Aiello
Born 1941
Steve Seymour
1920 - 1973
Lawrence Ritter
1922 - 2004
Diane Noomin
Born 1947
Joey Franco
Born 1951
John Stevens (New Jersey)
1716 - 1792
Frank Caggiano
Born 1959
Michael N. Nagler
Born 1937
Klara Barlow
1928 - 2008
John Tansey
1901 - 1971
Robert Branner
1927 - 1973
Frank Capone
1895 - 1924
Frank DeCaro
Born 1962
Pam Conrad
1947 - 1996
Harvey Shapiro (musician)
1911 - 2007
Tony Humphries (musician)
Born 1957
Gilbert Vernam
1890 - 1960
James Edward McManus
1900 - 1976
Eugene Mullin
1894 - 1967
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Born 1946
Malvin Ruderman
Born 1927
Gaetano Faillace
1904 - 1991
Mary Goelet
1878 - 1937
Stuart Beck
1946 - 2016
Elvera Sanchez
1905 - 2000
Yak Ballz
Born 1982
Malcolm Grant (basketball)
Born 1988
Charles Heidelberger
1920 - 1983
Frances McLaughlin-Gill
1919 - 2014
James Martin Gray
1851 - 1935
Miguel Ibarra (footballer, born 1984)
Born 1984
Reynolds Beal
1867 - 1951
Arthur Haggerty
1931 - 2006
John Ames Mitchell
1845 - 1918
Selden Rodman
1909 - 2002
Robert Scholes
1929 - 2016
Robert O. Mendelsohn
Born 1952
Meg Donnelly
Born 2000
Norman Cohn (film producer)
Born 1946
Tony Price (basketball)
Born 1957
Peter Manuel
1927 - 1958
Daniel Swern
1916 - 1982
Henry L. Jost
1873 - 1950
James Roosevelt (1760–1847)
1760 - 1847
Stanley Burnshaw
1906 - 2005
Wordsworth (rapper)
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Sylvia Marlowe
1908 - 1981
Ned O'Gorman
1929 - 2014
Theodore Rosengarten
Born 1944
Alex Shapiro
Born 1962
Evelyn Dall
1918 - 2010
Darryl Cherney
Born 1956
Jack Richardson (writer)
1934 - 2012
Fred Wise (songwriter)
1915 - 1966
Ray Abrams (musician)
1920 - 1992
William Michael Boyle
Born 1978
Mike Maloy
1949 - 2009
George Clinton Jr.
1771 - 1809
Allan Robert Phillips
1914 - 1996
Gloria Parker
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Robert H. Socolow
Born 1937
Eugenie Forde
1879 - 1940
Steven Sharfstein
Born 1942
George White (producer)
1892 - 1968
Kenneth Juster
Born 1954
Justin Robinson (musician)
Born 1968
Sarah Ratner
1903 - 1999
Philip Skell
1918 - 2010
Theodore E. Steinway
1883 - 1957
Eli Gold
Born 1953
Joseph Wershba
1920 - 2011
Paul Baum (mathematician)
Born 1936
Gene Towne
1904 - 1979
Alvin Hellerstein
Born 1933
Allison Abbate
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Nick Movshon
Born 1982
Bernard Durning
1893 - 1923
Ali Ryerson
Born 1952
Gordon Tucker
Born 1951
Jessie Cross
1909 - 1986
Smoothe da Hustler
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John A. Garraty
1920 - 2007
Doris P. Buck
1898 - 1980
Terry Winter Owens
1941 - 2007
Julius Marshuetz Mayer
1865 - 1925
Roy Stuart (actor)
1927 - 2005
Loretta McNeil
1907 - 1988