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.
Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly
1854 - 1952
Stan Jolley
1926 - 2012
Arthur Goldberger
1930 - 2009
Michael Potts (actor)
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Thomas H. Cullen
1868 - 1944
Christina Weir
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Lawrence Carmichael Earle
1845 - 1921
Robert Langbaum
1924 - 2020
John Purcell (musician)
Born 1952
Alan Gelfand
Born 1963
Larry Block
1942 - 2012
Edarem
1932 - 2012
James Peck (pacifist)
1914 - 1993
Bryan Joseph McEntegart
1893 - 1968
Emily Mason
1932 - 2019
Robert Prince (composer)
1929 - 2007
Bob Grim (baseball)
1930 - 1996
Joseph James Ettor
1885 - 1948
Marc Coppola (actor)
Born 1958
Robert Sour
1905 - 1985
Himan Brown
1910 - 2010
Jacob H. Gilbert
1920 - 1981
Rafi Zabor
Born 1946
Sam Davis (producer)
Born 1964
Christopher Ferrara
Born 1952
John Doughty
1754 - 1826
Michael Dweck
Born 1957
Sy Kravitz
1924 - 2005
Benjamin Zablocki
1941 - 2020
Howard Crosby (minister)
1826 - 1891
Frederic René Coudert Jr.
1898 - 1972
Arthur Gelb
1924 - 2014
Seymour Felix
1892 - 1961
Paul Lipson
1913 - 1996
Janice Loeb
1902 - 1996
William Kelly Simpson
1928 - 2017
William Beckman
1881 - 1933
Sir James Horlick, 4th Baronet
1886 - 1972
Caroline Kirkland
1801 - 1864
John Murray (playwright)
1906 - 1984
Louis B. Heller
1905 - 1993
Steve Thompson (musician)
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Doug Jones (boxer)
1937 - 2017
Philip S. Foner
1910 - 1994
Gary Stephan
Born 1942
Dick Blau
Born 1943
David Mannes
1866 - 1959
Adam Gazzaley
Born 1968
Rebecca Cammisa
Born 1966
Eric Fisher Wood
1889 - 1962
Frank Worth
1923 - 2000
Arthur Kenney (basketball)
Born 1946
Roberta Kalechofsky
Born 1931
Vaclav Vytlacil
1892 - 1984
Igal Roodenko
1917 - 1991
Thomas Rivera Schatz
Born 1966
Mona Charen
Born 1957
Paul Mariani
Born 1940
Herbert Keppler
1925 - 2008
Marvin Greenberg
1935 - 2017
Hallie Foote
Born 1950
Peter Simon (actor)
Born 1943
Shirley Gorelick
1924 - 2000
Eric Schwartz (songwriter)
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Samuel Kohs
1890 - 1984
Kenneth F. Simpson
1895 - 1941
Marti Stevens (actress)
Born 1933
Nesbitt Blaisdell
Born 1928
Michael Lipsky
Born 1940
Curtis Lester Mendelson
1913 - 2002
Rick DeMarinis
1934 - 2019
John G. Dow
1905 - 2003
Hank Medress
1938 - 2007
Fred Kammer
1912 - 1996
Dermie O'Connell
1928 - 1988
Monica Aksamit
Born 1990
Meyer Jacobstein
1880 - 1963
Anne Preven
Born 1965
Ralph Stein
1909 - 1994
Cynthia Macdonald
1928 - 2015
Michael Goldfarb (author and journalist)
Born 1950
Trevor Pryce
Born 1975
Nate Ackerman
Born 1978
Rebecca Pawel
Born 1977
Arnold Federbush
1935 - 1993
Mariah Milano
Born 1979
Raymond Robins
1873 - 1954
Bruce Berman
Born 1952
Euna Kim
Born 1994
Kevin Kelley (boxer)
Born 1967
Jay Newman
1948 - 2007
James Sherwin
Born 1933
Shannon Day
1896 - 1977
John Feinstein
Born 1956
James W. Gazlay
1784 - 1874
Ray Rayner
1919 - 2004
Marc Trachtenberg
Born 1946
Albert Marre
1924 - 2012
Gloria Coleman
1931 - 2010
Anthony Iannaccone
Born 1943
Elisabeth Achelis
1880 - 1973
James Thomson (entomologist)
1828 - 1897
Azazel Jacobs
Born 1972
Paul Linke
Born 1948
William T. Golden
1909 - 2007
Johnny Most
1923 - 1993
Marc Stevens (actor)
1943 - 1989
Jerry Kasenetz
Born 1943
Chic Stone
1923 - 2000
John McNulta
1837 - 1900
Ari Aster
Born 1987
Allen Boretz
1900 - 1986
Ronn Torossian
Born 1974
Mushy Callahan
1905 - 1986
Lydia Jordan
Born 1994
Ruste Juxx
Born 1978
Jacob A. Cantor
1854 - 1921
George de la Peña
Born 1955
Barney Sedran
1891 - 1964
Robert Livingston Beeckman
1866 - 1935
Joan Kennedy Taylor
1926 - 2005
Lee Albert Rubel
1928 - 1995
Garnett Adrain
1815 - 1878
Collier Schorr
Born 1963
Arthur Jacobson
1901 - 1993
Nancy Harrow
Born 1930
Arbie Orenstein
Born 1937
Bruce Malina
1933 - 2017
Mark Brunswick
1902 - 1971
Lawrence C. Katz
1956 - 2005
Kevin Whitehead
Born 1952
Bob Holiday
1932 - 2017
John DeMita
Born 1959
Carrie Dobro
Born 1957
Paul McCracken (basketball)
Born 1950
Helen Miller Shepard
1868 - 1938
Elizabeth Daly
1878 - 1967
The Real Roxanne
Born 1963
Anissa Naouai
Born 1982
Sam Register
Born 1969
Darwin Ortiz
Born 1948
Herbert Mitgang
1920 - 2013
Branden Frazier
Born 1992
Susan Folkman
Born 1938
Agnes Tait
1894 - 1981
Michael Rosenberg
Born 1954
Elaine Sterne Carrington
1891 - 1958
Charles O. Baumann
1874 - 1931
Stella Chess
1914 - 2007
John Bonetti
1928 - 2008
Jeff Weiner
Born 1970
Miles Kreuger
Born 1934
Luis Lopez (third baseman)
Born 1973
David Downing (actor)
Born 1943
Robert Malley
Born 1963
Peter S. Albin
1934 - 2008
William Hobart Royce
1878 - 1963
Harry Woolf (historian)
1923 - 2003
Jim Rivera
1922 - 2017
Herman Affel
1893 - 1972
Emanuel Weiss
1906 - 1944
George Bunny
1867 - 1952
Apollo Smile
Born 1967
George Fissler
1906 - 1975
Bessie McCoy
1888 - 1931
Rube Oldring
1884 - 1961
Helaine Blumenfeld
Born 1942
Nina Starr Braunwald
1928 - 1992
Jordan Dickerson
Born 1993
Alexis Rockman
Born 1962
James Henry Hackett
1800 - 1871
Norman Garbo
Born 1919
Tally Brown
1934 - 1989
Patrick Zimmerli
Born 1968
Edward Farhi
Born 1952
Harvey Miller
1935 - 1999
Fern Hunt
Born 1948
Al Ferrari
1933 - 2016
Harold Corsini
1919 - 2008
Jeremy Avigad
Born 1968
Herbert Wolcott Bowen
1856 - 1927
Achille Rivarde
1865 - 1940
Matthew Sharpe
Born 1962
Alia Sabur
Born 1989
Michael Cherry (athlete)
Born 1995
Carolyne Barry
1943 - 2015
Andrew J. Rogers
1828 - 1900
John McIntosh (farmer)
1777 - 1846
Jerry Jerome (saxophonist)
1912 - 2001
Savannah Dooley
Born 1985
Robert W. Bonynge
1863 - 1939
Moe Becker
1917 - 1996
Jeffrey Mass
1940 - 2001
Francis B. Cutting
1804 - 1870
Joseph A. Gavagan
1892 - 1968
Robert M. Knapp
1831 - 1879
Jon Gordon (musician)
Born 1966
Mark Slouka
Born 1958
Louis M. Hacker
1899 - 1987
Bunny Hoest
Born 1932
Robert Howard (athlete)
1975 - 2004
Augusta Emma Stetson
1842 - 1928
Frank Losee
1856 - 1937
Roy Harte
1924 - 2003
Eugene Goldwasser
1922 - 2010
Aaron Goldberg (botanist)
1917 - 2014
Leona Rostenberg
1908 - 2005
Kathy Brier
Born 1975
Kelsey Fowler
Born 1996
Stephen Bayard
1700 - 1757
Mary Lawrence (sculptor)
1868 - 1945
Clark Williams
1870 - 1946
Boileryard Clarke
1868 - 1959
Leslie Dunner
Born 1956
Lee Castle
1915 - 1990
Richard Liboff
1931 - 2014
Eugene I. Gordon
1930 - 2014
Justus Drew Doenecke
Born 1938
Arnold Brackman
1923 - 1983
Eddie Buczynski
1947 - 1989
Frank J. Coppa
Born 1937
Frederick R. Lehlbach
1876 - 1937
Matthew Klein (writer)
Born 1968
Amy Taubin
Born 1939
Ruth Wallis
1920 - 2007
Rudolph Edgar Block
1870 - 1940
Harry Strauss
1909 - 1941
Andrew Lippa
Born 1964
Netty Simons
1913 - 1994
Allan Trautman
Born 1955
David Hunter Miller
1875 - 1961
Vincent Alo
1904 - 2001
Jonathan Hoefler
Born 1970
Freddie Gruber
1927 - 2011
Miguel Mejía (pitcher)
Born 1988
John Reiner
Born 1956
Joel Klein
Born 1946
Lucianne Walkowicz
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John Whetton Ehninger
1827 - 1889
Joseph Bernard (actor)
1923 - 2006
Lloyd B. Carleton
1872 - 1933
Matthew Arkin
Born 1959
Roger Mayer (film industry executive)
1926 - 2015
Benjamin Busch
Born 1968
Lila R. Gleitman
Born 1929
Ray Kassar
1928 - 2017
Bob Stillman
Born 1954
Moshe Sherer
1921 - 1998
Jessica Voorsanger
Born 1965
Arthur Rosenkampff
1884 - 1952
Matt Fallon
Born 1965
Rob Stoner
Born 1948
Dave MacMillan
1886 - 1963
Alma Tell
1898 - 1934
Corinne Marrinan
Born 1974
Tobias Stone
1921 - 2012
Andrew D. Weyman
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Jimmy Nottingham
1925 - 1978
Charles Evans Hughes Jr.
1889 - 1950
William E. Snyder
1901 - 1984
Charles McGregor
1922 - 1996
Bruce Baron
1949 - 2013
Wolé Parks
Born 1982
Daniel Ferro
1921 - 2015
George Jarvis Brush
1831 - 1912
Frank Whitson
1877 - 1946
John Ryder (scholar)
Born 1951
Roy Campanella II
Born 1948
Max Marek
Born 1957
Eric West
Born 1983
Jud Kinberg
1925 - 2016
Philip Strax
1909 - 1999
Robert Langs
1928 - 2014
Carmine Rojas
Born 1953
Eddie Lopat
1918 - 1992
Divino
Born 1977
Maximilian Toch
1864 - 1946
Irving Brokaw
1870 - 1939
Harry Horowitz
1889 - 1914
Richard Horowitz
Born 1949
Larkin Malloy
1954 - 2016
J. A. Lawrence
Born 1940
Laine Selwyn
Born 1981
Esther Wojcicki
Born 1941
Marc Rieffel
Born 1937
Edward Pimental
1965 - 1985
Alexandra Barreto
Born 1982
Angna Enters
1897 - 1989
Charles S. Haas
Born 1952
Ted Stamm
1944 - 1984
William Randolph Steele
1842 - 1901
Jack Prelutsky
Born 1940
John Balossi
1931 - 2007
Sidney Clare
1892 - 1972
Electus D. Litchfield
1872 - 1952
Adelaide Lawson
1889 - 1986
Howard Shanet
1918 - 2006
Man Mountain Dean
1891 - 1953
Brinsley Shaw
1876 - 1931
Gil Cates Jr.
Born 1969