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.
Hugh J. Grant
1858 - 1910
Irving Singer
1925 - 2015
Stephanie DeFina
Born 1946
Mark Gordon (politician)
Born 1957
Charles Loeser
1864 - 1928
Isaac Siegel
1880 - 1947
David E. Cane
Born 1944
William W. Cohen
1874 - 1940
Mollie King
1895 - 1981
Samuel Sanders
1937 - 1999
Alan Crosland Jr.
1918 - 2001
John Fell (judge)
1721 - 1798
Elizabeth Clementine Stedman
1810 - 1889
Julien Davies Cornell
1910 - 1994
George K. Hollister
1873 - 1952
David Epstein (conductor)
1930 - 2002
DM Ashura
Born 1986
Annette Kolodny
1941 - 2019
Herb Bushler
Born 1939
Elmer Ripley
1891 - 1982
Red Davis (basketball)
Born 1932
Avril Haines
Born 1969
Nick Fotiu
Born 1952
Benjamin Buttenwieser
1900 - 1991
Leroy Wright
1938 - 2020
B. H. Haggin
1900 - 1987
Carline Ray
1925 - 2013
Bowdoin B. Crowninshield
1867 - 1948
Elaine H. Kim
Born 1942
Johnny Reinhard
Born 1956
Merrill Markoe
Born 1948
Eleanor Margaret Green
1895 - 1966
Linda Connor
Born 1944
Héctor Soto
Born 1978
Jeffrey Shapiro
Born 1946
Ian Schrager
Born 1946
William "Stage" Boyd
1889 - 1935
Sidney Hertzberg
1922 - 2005
Charles Townsend (fencer)
1872 - 1906
Trina Parks
Born 1946
William Adams Delano
1874 - 1960
Claudia Morgan
1911 - 1974
Marc Tyler Arnold
Born 1992
Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola
1900 - 1966
Muriel Drazien
1938 - 2018
Ann Beha
Born 1950
Larry Aldrich
1906 - 2001
Albert Meyers
1932 - 2007
Patricia Hardy
1931 - 2011
Candida Alvarez
Born 1955
Marie Borroff
1923 - 2019
Dion Boucicault Jr.
1859 - 1929
John J. Snyder
1925 - 2019
Joan McCord
1930 - 2004
Sonny Fox
Born 1925
Nathalia Crane
1913 - 1998
Regis Henri Post
1870 - 1944
Dylan Lauren
Born 1974
Domino Kirke
Born 1983
Ollie Taylor
Born 1947
Adam Nagourney
Born 1954
Arthur Fagen
Born 1951
Eyal Megged
Born 1948
John Furia Jr.
1929 - 2009
David A. Bokee
1805 - 1860
Camillo Ricordi
Born 1957
Abraham Hecht
1922 - 2013
Daniel D. T. Farnsworth
1819 - 1892
Ruchoma Shain
1914 - 2013
Frederick I. Ordway III
1927 - 2014
Philip Rose (theatrical producer)
1921 - 2011
Harrison Chad
Born 1992
Curtis Yarvin
Born 1973
Richard Foronjy
Born 1937
Abraham S. Goldstein
1925 - 2005
Coralina Cataldi Tassoni
Born 1971
Roy Newell
1914 - 2006
Dan Reeves (American football executive)
1912 - 1971
Abraham Burton
Born 1971
Charles Lewis Bowman
1890 - 1971
Danny Arnold
1925 - 1995
Franklin Coen
1912 - 1990
Anthony L. Turkevich
1916 - 2002
Ed Friendly
1922 - 2007
Sheldon Datz
1927 - 2001
Herman Hartwich
1853 - 1926
Robert Plonsey
1924 - 2015
Boris Nachamkin
1933 - 2018
Mary C. McCall Jr.
1904 - 1986
Saul Mariaschin
1924 - 1990
Steve Chubin
Born 1944
Frankie Sardo
1936 - 2014
William Francis Pepper
Born 1937
Martha Edelheit
Born 1931
Angelo Reyes (basketball)
Born 1981
Billy Williams (basketball)
Born 1958
Hymie Shertzer
1909 - 1977
Dan Abrams
Born 1966
Kathleen Meyer
Born 1942
John J. Boyle
1851 - 1917
Vincenzo Aloi
Born 1933
Harold Meltzer
Born 1966
Tracy Pratt
Born 1943
Harvey Cohn
1884 - 1965
Mari Devon
Born 1960
Jack Grimes (actor)
1926 - 2009
Philip Bonsal
1903 - 1995
Herb Abramson
1916 - 1999
Rick Elice
Born 1956
Lucille Lortel
1900 - 1999
Benny Moten
1916 - 1977
Ted Beniades
1922 - 2014
Daniel J. Griffin
1880 - 1926
Theodore Wilson
1943 - 1991
Greg Fitzsimmons
Born 1966
Gilbert P. Hamilton
1890 - 1962
Jonathan Santlofer
Born 1946
Harry Fisher (Gewerkschafter)
1911 - 2003
Martin Greif
1938 - 1996
Amanda Aday
Born 1981
Martin Canin
Died 2019
Bobby Stark
1906 - 1945
Sally Hamlin
1902 - 1987
Béatrice Thomas
Born 1984
Dickie Goodman
1934 - 1989
Seymour Reit
1918 - 2001
Jill Krementz
Born 1940
David S. Jackson
1813 - 1872
Stuyvesant Fish
1851 - 1923
Coro (singer)
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Sidney Udenfriend
1918 - 1999
Nancy Lang
Born 1976
Otto Kinkeldey
1878 - 1966
Geoffrey Gould
Born 1957
Theodorus B. M. Mason
1848 - 1899
Peter Bart
Born 1932
Esther Schiff Goldfrank
1986 - 1997
John L. Tishman
1926 - 2016
Carl Heinz Choynski
Born 1936
Sol Libsohn
1914 - 2001
Richard Kinon
1924 - 2004
Paul J. Krebs
1912 - 1996
Ralph Emerson (botanist)
1912 - 1979
Gus Hill
1858 - 1937
Charles Elmer
1872 - 1954
Lathrop Brown
1883 - 1959
C. J. Wallace (actor)
Born 1996
David Lichtenstein
Born 1960
James Bama
Born 1926
Dave Itzkoff
Born 1976
Henry Wolfe
Born 1979
Bamie Roosevelt
1855 - 1931
Claudia Mason
Born 1973
Katherine Emmons Force
1890 - 1956
Bonnie Prudden
1914 - 2011
Jerry Denny
1859 - 1927
Saul Steinberg (businessman)
1939 - 2012
Sam Rutigliano
Born 1933
Albert H. Bosch
1908 - 2005
Clarence Profit
1912 - 1944
Patricia Marand
1934 - 2008
Jean Allison
Born 1929
Frank Maharajh
Born 1974
Ellsworth Fredericks
1904 - 1993
Ilene Kristen
Born 1952
Bob Massie (politician)
Born 1956
Robert Bowne Minturn
1805 - 1866
Helen Cohan
1910 - 1996
Harvey Eisenberg
1911 - 1965
Donald Newhouse
Born 1930
Mike Tress
1909 - 1967
Mavis Freeman
1918 - 1988
Robert V. Remini
1921 - 2013
Allan Franklin
Born 1938
Joe Conason
Born 1954
Kate Walbert
Born 1961
Barry Robins
1945 - 1986
John Bancker Aycrigg
1798 - 1856
Joe Palma
1905 - 1994
Larry Hryb
Born 1976
Danny Miranda
Born 1964
George Starke
Born 1948
Eric Sloane
1905 - 1985
Charles G. Bennett
1863 - 1914
Amanda Burden
Born 1944
Norman Cazden
1914 - 1980
James Roosevelt Roosevelt
1854 - 1927
Dean Mathey
1890 - 1972
Paul Shapiro (musician)
Born 1956
Jobst Brandt
1935 - 2015
Frank McCarthy (artist)
1924 - 2002
Vince Gallagher
1899 - 1983
Frederic Brewster Loomis
1873 - 1937
Eva Puck
1892 - 1979
Blanche Walsh
1873 - 1915
Marcia Neugebauer
Born 1932
Russell A. Kirsch
1929 - 2020
Jim Gurfein
Born 1961
Rosemarie Castoro
1939 - 2015
Harry Semels
1887 - 1946
Margaretta Faugères
1771 - 1801
Franklin D. Israel
1945 - 1995
Gertrude Greene
1904 - 1956
Jimmy Casella
1924 - 1976
Arthur Levitt Sr.
1900 - 1980
J. J. Philbin
Born 1974
John Templeton Jr.
1940 - 2015
Jim Bianco
Born 1976
Gene Gabriel
Born 1970
Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Born 1961
Jim Brasco
1931 - 2014
Wendy Long
Born 1960
Gerson D. Cohen
1924 - 1991
Ralph Young (singer)
1918 - 2008
Georgie Price
1901 - 1964
Walter A. Lynch
1894 - 1957
Eric Schiller
1955 - 2018
Helen Reilly
1891 - 1962
Laura Numeroff
Born 1953
Agim Kaba
Born 1980
Reuven Ben-Yosef
1937 - 2001
Arlene McQuade
1936 - 2014
John Berry (musician)
1963 - 2016
Walter D. Knight
1919 - 2000
Michael S. Harper
1938 - 2016
Noah Weinberg
1930 - 2009
Chris Rush
1948 - 2018
Mary Harriman Rumsey
1881 - 1934
Rodgers Grant
1936 - 2012
Alan Veingrad
Born 1963
Herschel Silverman
1926 - 2015
John Jay Chapman
1862 - 1933
Irv Kluger
1921 - 2006
Barry Rohrssen
Born 1960
Bill McCadney
1935 - 2009
Bernard L. Schwartz
Born 1926
Fred Espenak
Born 1953
John Joannopoulos
Born 1947
Jon Korkes
Born 1945
Paul N. Lazarus III
Born 1938
Joel Thorne
1914 - 1955
Nachman Kahana
Born 1937
Tom Kahn
1938 - 1992
Frank Tieri (writer)
Born 1970
Thomas Henry Selby
1820 - 1875
Denis McGrath
1972 - 2017
Ken Keller
1922 - 1983
Arthur M. Wolfe
1939 - 2014
Arthur Rollini
1912 - 1993
Rico Petrocelli
Born 1943
Jeffrey Rauch
Born 1945
Arthur R. Miller
Born 1934
Robert Amsterdam
Born 1956
Thomas Pitera
Born 1954
Mike Bernard (musician)
1881 - 1936
William Ireland Knapp
1835 - 1908
Alice Rich Northrop
1864 - 1922
Willa Shalit
Born 1955
Mack Gray
1905 - 1981
Deborah Offner
Born 1951
Barbara Garson
Born 1941
John Thomas Underwood
1857 - 1937
Robert M. Miller
Born 1927
Hadley Delany
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Shirley Abrahamson
Born 1933
Edwin Blashfield
1848 - 1936
Mike Lupica
Born 1952
Robert Lipsyte
Born 1938
Lee Pressman
1906 - 1969
Jimmy Butts
1917 - 1998
Hurvin McCormack
Born 1972
Susan Weber (historian)
Born 1954
Jesse Roth
Born 1934
Paul Robeson Jr.
1927 - 2014
Philip W. Anderson (film editor)
1915 - 1980
Lew Hayman
1908 - 1984
Robert Meeropol
Born 1947
Vincent Council
Born 1990
Renee Godfrey
1919 - 1964
Roger Williams Straus Jr.
1917 - 2004
Winifred Holt
1870 - 1945
Charles Daniel Balvo
Born 1951
Jay Russell (writer)
Born 1961
Edmund H. Driggs
1865 - 1946
Marc Jordan
Born 1947
Charles W. Juels
1944 - 2009
Billy Ruge
1885 - 1955
Roy Cortina
Born 1964
Dick Miles
1925 - 2010
Julius Youngner
1920 - 2017
Dave Barry (actor)
1918 - 2001
Paul Martin (illustrator)
1883 - 1932
Meta Brevoort
1825 - 1876
Michael Hebranko
1953 - 2013
Marjorie Welish
Born 1944
Gary A. Klein
Born 1944
Stanley Nelson Jr.
Born 1951
John C. Meyer
1919 - 1975
Karina Canellakis
Born 1981
Leonard Mirman
Born 1940