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.
Arthur Lester Benton
1909 - 2006
Paddy DeMarco
1928 - 1997
David Harbater
Born 1952
Jaiquawn Jarrett
Born 1989
Stevan Larner
1930 - 2005
Mary von Waldersee
1837 - 1914
Chris Reccardi
1964 - 2019
Ira Eisenstein
1906 - 2001
William August Kobbé
1840 - 1931
Robert Wilensky
1951 - 2013
Joey Archer
Born 1938
Ron Jefferson
1926 - 2007
Armstrong Williams
Born 1959
Lillian Blauvelt
1873 - 1947
Gideon J. Tucker
1826 - 1899
Bruce Ricker
1942 - 2011
John W. Wydler
1924 - 1987
Xaviera Simmons
Born 1974
Stuart Pivar
Born 1930
Alan Kalter
Born 1943
Adeline Oppenheim Guimard
1872 - 1960
John Crosby (conductor)
1926 - 2002
Rusty Magee
1955 - 2003
Paul Gerken
Born 1950
Nat Shapiro
1922 - 1983
Woody Kling
1925 - 1988
M. J. Rose
Born 1953
Fred Kida
1920 - 2014
Christopher Collet
Born 1968
Edward Taub
Born 1931
James C. Auchincloss
1885 - 1976
Stephen Mailer
Born 1966
Howard Ben Tré
Born 1949
Schelte J. Bus
Born 1956
Hannah Tompkins
1781 - 1829
Simon Boerum
1724 - 1775
Burton Wendroff
Born 1930
George R. Caron
1919 - 1995
Samuel Jefferson Mason
1921 - 1974
Harry Fraud
Born 1987
Neil Dorfsman
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Charles Eugene Flandrau
1828 - 1903
Sal Restivo
Born 1940
John Hein (wrestler)
1886 - 1963
James Johnson Sweeney
1900 - 1986
Lillian de la Torre
1902 - 1993
David Yazbek
Born 1960
Alan E. Steinweis
Born 1957
Al Fitch
1912 - 1981
Josephine Preston Peabody
1874 - 1922
Lillian Hoddeson
Born 1940
Dana Hall (musician)
Born 1969
Jason Marin
Born 1974
Percy Avery Rockefeller
1878 - 1934
Hallam Cooley
1895 - 1971
John Kohn
1925 - 2002
Jay Traynor
1943 - 2014
Jonathan Hurst
Born 1966
Edward A. Frieman
1926 - 2013
Dave Newmark
Born 1946
Marvin Zelen
1927 - 2014
Sandy Gennaro
Born 1951
Harry Miller (basketball, born 1923)
1923 - 2007
Nina Totenberg
Born 1944
Beatrice Wright (psychologist)
1917 - 2018
Haylynn Cohen
Born 1980
Archibald Cary Smith
1837 - 1911
Sam Katzman
1901 - 1973
Henry Roberts (governor)
1853 - 1929
Henry Kunkel
1916 - 1983
Paul Lawrence Farber
Born 1944
Ernest A. Gross
1906 - 1999
John Bigelow Jr.
1854 - 1936
Jerry Spagnoli
Born 1956
Ray Corley
1928 - 2007
Sal Viscuso
Born 1948
William Dayas
1863 - 1903
Cadence Lux
Born 1992
Fredric Kroll
Born 1945
Joseph Ridgway
1783 - 1861
Allan McLane Hamilton
1848 - 1919
Betty Rollin
Born 1936
Deborah Sussman
1931 - 2014
Chelsea Hammond
Born 1983
Giorgia Whigham
Born 1997
Myra Turley
Born 1947
Aaron Refvem
Born 1997
Phil Charig
1902 - 1960
Philip Yampolsky
1920 - 1996
Carleton Putnam
1901 - 1998
Marco Vassi
1937 - 1989
Duane Ackerson
Born 1942
Mousa Kraish
Born 1975
Ethel Myers
1881 - 1960
Oscar Saul
1912 - 1994
Clark Voorhees
1871 - 1933
John Pasta
1918 - 1984
Vivian Liska
Born 1956
Seymour Geisser
1929 - 2004
Allie McGuire
Born 1951
Gouverneur Morris (novelist)
1876 - 1953
Ernest Robinson Ackerman
1863 - 1931
Abram Duryée
1815 - 1890
Anthony Maglica
Born 1930
Frank J. Brasco
1932 - 1998
Jay Belsky
Born 1952
MC Mazique
Born 1975
Melville Jacobs
1902 - 1971
Harry Lubin
1906 - 1977
Rosita Fornés
1923 - 2020
Charley Foy
1898 - 1984
Carol Goodner
1904 - 2001
Frank Stiefel
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Arthur Bienenstock
Born 1935
Sal Abruscato
Born 1970
Nonny Hogrogian
Born 1932
John Cregan (athlete)
1878 - 1965
Chester J. Straub
Born 1937
Vasily Strelnikov
Born 1962
Frank Cali
1965 - 2019
David Miner (television producer)
Born 1969
John O'Brien (basketball, born 1888)
1888 - 1967
Johnny Varro
Born 1930
James Walker Benét
1914 - 2012
Charles S. Wainwright
1826 - 1907
Gary Gubner
Born 1942
Sylvie Weil
Born 1942
Henry M. Goldfogle
1856 - 1929
T. K. Blue
Born 1953
Henry Lascoe
1912 - 1964
Al Indelicato
1931 - 1981
W. Kingsland Macy
1889 - 1961
Mika Urbaniak
Born 1980
Laura Kelly
Born 1950
Ida Lorentzen
Born 1951
Chitra Ganesh
Born 1975
Steve Bing
1965 - 2020
Edgar Tafel
1912 - 2011
Anthony Velonis
1911 - 1997
Dave Dreyer
1894 - 1967
Jim Bostic
Born 1953
William W. Dixon
1838 - 1910
Marcia Pally
-
Katherine Cassavetes
1906 - 1983
Allan Grant
1919 - 2008
Bonnie Bernstein
Born 1970
Kyle Jean-Baptiste
1993 - 2015
Zélie de Lussan
1861 - 1949
Corina (singer)
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Mike Smith (drummer)
Born 1970
Ruby R. Levitt
1907 - 1992
Ernest Sachs
1879 - 1958
Gene Byrnes
1889 - 1974
Lewis Samuel Feuer
1912 - 2002
Lenny McBrowne
Born 1933
Evelyn S. Lieberman
1944 - 2015
Lionel Malamed
1924 - 1989
Alexander Masters
Born 1965
Joseph Horowitz
Born 1948
Fitz W. Guerin
1846 - 1903
Christopher Gérard
Born 1962
Ignacio Uriarte (singer-songwriter)
Born 1986
Chester Schaeffer
1902 - 1992
Moshe David Tendler
Born 1927
Edward Jacobson
1891 - 1955
Dilone
Born 1994
Victor Axelrod
Born 1972
William Eastlake
1917 - 1997
Andrea Rosen
Born 1974
Albert Weisbord
1900 - 1977
Johnny Ezersky
1922 - 2012
Joseph Olshan
Born 1958
Beatrice Blyth Whiting
1914 - 2003
Dewey Bozella
Born 1959
Don Lincoln
Born 1964
Gordon Zubrod
1914 - 1999
Karim Metwaly
Born 1992
Donald Marquardt
1929 - 1997
Charles Radin
Born 1945
Tatyana Sarycheva
Born 1949
Andrea Sartoretti (attore)
Born 1971
Paul Marks (scientist)
1926 - 2020
Joseph Verner Reed Jr.
1937 - 2016
Sonya Dorman
1924 - 2005
Don Valentine
1932 - 2019
Donald R. Bensen
1927 - 1997
Gabriel Scognamillo
1906 - 1974
Randi Rhodes
Born 1959
Huntington Hartford
1911 - 2008
Robert E. Guglielmone
Born 1945
Heinrich Ries
1871 - 1951
Charles Waldo Haskins
1852 - 1903
Irving Green
1916 - 2006
Mario Murillo
-
Julia V. Taft
1942 - 2008
Edward Bartels
1925 - 2007
Seth Raynor
1874 - 1926
Junior Jones
Born 1970
Patty Mullen
-
Charles Neidich
Born 1953
Deborah Hautzig
Born 1956
Pauline Payne Whitney
1874 - 1916
Harold Chapin
1886 - 1915
Sattawat Pongnairat
Born 1990
Nick Cuti
1944 - 2020
Donald Solitar
1932 - 2008
J. Harvie Wilkinson III
Born 1944
André Robert
1929 - 1993
Edwin Borchard
1884 - 1951
Zachary Cole Smith
Born 1984
J. C. Khoury
-
Sol Yaged
1922 - 2019
Ralph J. Roberts
1920 - 2015
Howard Austen
1929 - 2003
William Hoffman (United States Army)
1807 - 1884
Anna Hope Hudson
1869 - 1957
Stanley L. Klos
Born 1954
John Brockington
Born 1948
Francis E. Dorn
1911 - 1987
Nancy Overton
1926 - 2009
Ben Lewis
1894 - 1970
Edward A. Tenenbaum
1922 - 1975
Jake Goldberg
Born 1996
Alisa Kwitney
Born 1964
Sam Ulano
1920 - 2014
Michael Friendly
Born 1945
Norma Donaldson
1928 - 1994
John M. Freeman
1933 - 2014
Alejandro Santo Domingo
Born 1977
Timothy A. McDonnell
Born 1937
Robert Fischell
Born 1930
Marx W. Wartofsky
1928 - 1997
Robert Boris
Born 1945
Ernest Riedel
1901 - 1983
Frank Menechino
Born 1971
Corey Albano
Born 1975
Christiane Noll
Born 1968
Bill Easley
Born 1943
Woody Gelman
1915 - 1978
Dan Rattiner
Born 1939
June Tarpé Mills
1912 - 1988
Peggy Charren
1928 - 2015
Rudolph Binion
1927 - 2011
Alfred E. Santangelo
1912 - 1978
David Neft
Born 1937
Steve Stoute
Born 1971
Abraham Abraham
1843 - 1911
Remedy (rapper)
Born 1972
Bill Saxton
Born 1946
Jennifer Hyman
-
Steve Jordan (guitarist)
1919 - 1993
Stephen Coronel
Born 1951
Pirie MacDonald
1867 - 1942
Mildred Adams
1894 - 1980
Jane Aaron
1948 - 2015
Arthur Altman
1910 - 1994
Nancy K. Miller
Born 1941
John Halama
Born 1972
Chris Chase
1924 - 2013
Nathan D. Perlman
1887 - 1952
Samuel Ward (banker)
1786 - 1839
David Lerner
1951 - 1997
Selwyn Raab
Born 1934
Carmine Tramunti
1910 - 1978
Mady Hornig
Born 1957
Fred Hall (musician)
1898 - 1954
Magda Bogin
Born 1950
Peggy Miley
Born 1941
Mary Bunting
1910 - 1998
Susan Bee
Born 1952
Bobby Hollander
1929 - 2002
Joel Fan
Born 1969
Robert Allan Ackerman
Born 1944
Albert Russell (director)
1890 - 1929
Latarsha Rose
-
Gladys Portugues
Born 1957
Donald Beer
1935 - 1997
Aladdin (performer)
1912 - 1970
Joan E. Goody
1935 - 2009
Sy Weintraub
1923 - 2000
Terry Semel
Born 1943
Frank Valentino
1907 - 1991
Luis Collazo
Born 1981
Sarah Tueting
Born 1976
Nina Axelrod
Born 1955
John Kilpatrick
1889 - 1960
Jill Latiano
Born 1981
Dennis C. Liotta
Born 1949
Zeke Zawoluk
1930 - 2007
James Joseph Daly
1921 - 2013
Steven Schneider
Born 1974
Herman Jay Cohen
Born 1932
Whitney Bourne
1914 - 1988
Dale McCormick
Born 1947
Michael Menaker
Born 1934
Frederick A. Stokes
1857 - 1939
Julian Rubinstein
Born 1968
Nicole Berger (American actress)
Born 2003
Rob Schultheis
Born 1943
Martin B. Gold
Born 1947