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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.
Joe Roland
1920 - 2009
Faith Popcorn
Born 1947
Benjamin A. Willis
1840 - 1886
Veronica Ormachea Gutierrez
Born 1956
William Howe De Lancey
1778 - 1815
Suzanne Kaaren
1912 - 2004
Joseph Wanton Morrison
1783 - 1826
Marvin Goodfriend
1950 - 2019
Willoughby Sharp
1936 - 2008
Tom Gregorio
Born 1977
Sidra Stone
Born 1937
John Kogut
Born 1945
Viola Brothers Shore
1890 - 1970
Star Jasper
Born 1966
David Nekrutman
Born 1973
Kenneth Wapnick
1942 - 2013
Mildred Clinton
1914 - 2010
Ashley Putnam
Born 1952
Danny Alvin
1902 - 1958
George W. Plunkitt
1842 - 1924
Jack Greenhalgh
1904 - 1971
Catherine Butterfield
Born 1958
Rachel Crotto
Born 1958
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
1801 - 1889
William B. Maclay
1812 - 1882
Howard Wainer
Born 1943
Adele Diamond
Born 1950
Jon Sass
Born 1961
Russell Errett
1817 - 1891
Stephen F. Williams
1936 - 2020
Nicole Dubilier
Born 1957
Jacob Arlow
1912 - 2004
Howard Post
1926 - 2010
John Patler
Born 1938
Morris S. Miller
1779 - 1824
George DeLuca
1889 - 1983
Irving Mondschein
1924 - 2015
Haskell V. Anderson III
Born 1943
Vladimir Duthiers
Born 1969
Donald Cook (Medal of Honor)
1934 - 1967
Daniel C. Verplanck
1762 - 1834
Bill Whittle
Born 1959
Alfred S. Posamentier
Born 1942
Mary Callery
1903 - 1977
Doris Freedman
1928 - 1981
Megan McArdle
Born 1973
Jackson Haines
1840 - 1876
Ernestine Barrier
1908 - 1989
Sunshine Logroño
Born 1951
Scott Sánchez
Born 1959
Emily Vanderbilt Sloane
1874 - 1970
Jim Doughan
Born 1959
Jeffrey A. Bader
Born 1945
Theo Katzman
Born 1986
Loren MacIver
1909 - 1998
Erica Henderson
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Hobart Upjohn
1876 - 1949
Frances Halsband
Born 1943
Walter Abraham Jacobs
1883 - 1967
Lisle Atkinson
1940 - 2019
Frank J. Becker
1899 - 1981
Marshal Henry Wrubel
1924 - 1968
David Nichtern
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Ruth Shack
Born 1931
David Sive
1922 - 2014
Patricia Reilly Giff
Born 1935
Lizzie Grubman
Born 1971
Lora Aborn
1907 - 2005
Diarmuid O'Scannlain
Born 1937
Lester Lee
1903 - 1956
Arthur C. Martinez
Born 1939
William H. Morris
1827 - 1900
Edward Joseph Gilbert
Born 1936
Tom Frieden
Born 1960
Leon Klatzkin
1914 - 1992
Mike McCarron
1922 - 1991
Lee Abrams
1925 - 1992
Clinton Roosevelt
1804 - 1898
Clarence Manning
1893 - 1972
Maxwell L. Anderson
Born 1956
Maren Seidler
Born 1951
Dick DeBartolo
Born 1945
Louise Goffin
Born 1960
Herman Ridder
1851 - 1915
Oren Etzioni
Born 1964
Anthony Dryden Marshall
1924 - 2014
Leon Danielian
1920 - 1997
Sidney Beckerman (movie producer)
1920 - 2008
Ellen Hammer
1921 - 2001
Hassan Johnson
Born 1976
Edward Vincent Dargin
1898 - 1981
Helen Morgenthau Fox
1884 - 1974
Geezil Minerve
1922 - 1992
Agnes Geraghty
1907 - 1974
Renata Soñé
Born 1982
Yvette Brackman
Born 1967
Robert L. Stuart
1806 - 1882
Irwin Rosten
1924 - 2010
Anita de Caro
1909 - 1998
Peter Flanigan
1923 - 2013
Alex Ramos
Born 1961
John Wainwright Evans
1909 - 1999
Petey Scalzo
1917 - 1993
Jessica Blanche Peixotto
1864 - 1941
Mike Siani
Born 1950
Jack Cohen (rabbi)
1919 - 2012
Andrew Geller
1924 - 2011
Thomas Cusack (bishop)
1862 - 1918
Lilian Vaughan Morgan
1870 - 1952
Leonard Farbstein
1902 - 1993
Michael S. Roth
Born 1957
George Anderson (actor)
1886 - 1948
Nat Militzok
1923 - 2009
Maureen Paley
Born 1953
Josh White Jr.
Born 1940
Julie Klausner
Born 1962
Albert Rees
1921 - 1992
Perry Chen
Born 1976
Jesse Benedict Carter
1872 - 1917
Howard Brenner
1929 - 2014
Stephen T. Hopkins
1849 - 1892
Buzzie Bavasi
1914 - 2008
George Thompson (basketball)
Born 1947
Richie Zito
Born 1952
Ricky Powell
Born 1961
Elliott Buckmaster
1889 - 1976
Edna Kramer
1902 - 1984
Alan N. Shapiro
Born 1956
Peter Duchin
Born 1937
John Bieling
1869 - 1948
Lexton Moy
Born 1985
Edward Haight (politician)
1817 - 1885
Edgar White
1929 - 2014
James Maurice
1814 - 1884
Mary Heaton Vorse
1874 - 1966
Thomas Henry Barclay
1753 - 1830
Jeffrey Schwarz
Born 1969
David Ginsburg (chemist)
1920 - 1988
Julie Restifo
Born 1958
Chesa Boudin
Born 1980
Mark Zoback
Born 1948
John Dockery
Born 1944
Caroline K. Simon
1900 - 1993
Victoria Shaw (singer)
Born 1962
Arthur A. Cohen
1928 - 1986
R. O. Blechman
Born 1930
Joi Harris
1977 - 2017
Howard V. Lee
1933 - 2019
Dorothy McGowan
Born 1939
Felix S. Cohen
1907 - 1953
Steven Fox
Born 1978
Grenville Clark
1882 - 1967
Jerry Della Femina
Born 1936
Helen Miller (songwriter)
1925 - 2006
Peter A. Olsson
Born 1941
Fred Herko
1936 - 1964
Arthur Hawley Scribner
1859 - 1932
Dre (Produzent)
Born 2006
Jan Heller Levi
Born 1954
Jermaine Crawford
Born 1992
Edward K. Barsky
1895 - 1975
Ludwig Lore
1875 - 1942
Alan M. Kriegsman
1928 - 2012
Aja (drag queen)
Born 1994
Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Born 1950
Richard M. Berman
Born 1943
Sybilla Sorondo Myelzwynska
Born 1963
Rod E. Geiger
1915 - 2000
Israel F. Fischer
1858 - 1940
Peter Spiegelman
Born 1958
Dick Berg
1922 - 2009
Arthur Nersesian
Born 1958
Odo Deodatus I. Tauern
1885 - 1926
Peter Riva
Born 1950
Thomas R. Ball
1896 - 1943
Susan Peretz
1940 - 2004
Philip Cahn
1894 - 1984
Meredith Rainey-Valmon
Born 1968
Pablo Marquez
Born 1979
Sara Moulton
Born 1952
Marty Friedman (basketball)
1889 - 1986
Evelien Gans
1951 - 2018
Aaron D. Panken
1964 - 2018
Sol Schiff
1917 - 2012
Warren Forma
1923 - 2014
Andrew Onderdonk
1848 - 1905
Gloria Emerson
1929 - 2004
Miles Aiken
Born 1941
Murray Gershenz
1922 - 2013
Philip Eaton
Born 1936
Dick Duckett
Born 1933
Tony Azito
1948 - 1995
William A. Carroll
1875 - 1928
Joan Blos
1928 - 2017
Herman Slater
1935 - 1992
Paul Starr
1949 - 2008
Neva Small
Born 1952
Lyor Cohen
Born 1959
William Remington
1917 - 1954
Edward Field (poet)
Born 1924
Jonathan Lubin
Born 1936
Nir Rosen
Born 1977
Ilene Beckerman
Born 1935
Judith Bernstein
Born 1942
John Candelaria
Born 1953
J. Bowyer Bell
1931 - 2003
Adam MacDougall (musician)
Born 1974
Charles Daniels (New York politician)
1825 - 1897
Peter J. Ortiz
1913 - 1988
Nicole Duplaix
Born 1943
Manish S. Shah
Born 1972
John Mott-Smith
1824 - 1895
Bert Salzman
Born 1931
Gregory Rozakis
1943 - 1989
Cecile de Wentworth
1853 - 1933
David Ritz
Born 1942
Eileen Simpson
1918 - 2002
Neil David Levin
1954 - 2001
Richard Garfinkle
Born 1961
Danny Meyer
Born 1958
Eric Buchman
Born 1980
Leland B. Harrison
1883 - 1951
Mary Miss
Born 1944
Gertrude Friedberg
1908 - 1989
Jessica Leccia
Born 1976
Jackie Mills
1922 - 2010
Fred Keating
1897 - 1961
Frank Mitchell (actor)
1905 - 1991
Geraldine Bonner
1870 - 1930
Pete Morisi
1928 - 2003
Percy Haughton
1876 - 1924
Herbert Fingarette
1921 - 2018
Michael Mooney (sailor)
1930 - 1985
Larry Fink (photographer)
Born 1941
Nat Frankel
1913 - 2006
Stephen A. Smith
Born 1967
William Jerome McCormack
1924 - 2013
Sister Parish
1910 - 1994
Grace Mott Johnson
1882 - 1967
William Hughes Mulligan
1918 - 1996
Jerry Bush
1914 - 1976
Eddie Dougherty
1915 - 1994
Charles K. Graham
1824 - 1889
Harry Tiebout
1896 - 1966
Albert J. Friscia
1911 - 1989
Katya Gibel Mevorach
Born 1952
Jeffrey Isaac
Born 1956
Peter Gomez
Born 1963
Pamela Redmond Satran
Born 1953
Paul Sanchez (bishop)
Born 1946
Alexander Hamilton Jr.
1786 - 1875
Francis Beer
Born 1939
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
1921 - 2000
George Gladir
1925 - 2013
Jerome Levine
1937 - 2006
Charles North (poet)
Born 1941
Irvin Leigh Matus
1941 - 2011
Robert Michael Lewis
Born 1934
Adam Badeau
1831 - 1895
Arlene Alda
Born 1933
Lizette Carrión
Born 1972
Warren Neidich
1958 - 1962
David Walsh (writer)
Born 1949
Ted Donaldson
Born 1933
Kenneth R. Valpey
Born 1950
Robert Bella
Born 1963
Ira Heiden
Born 1966
Nelson Peltz
Born 1942
Michael Bach (rower)
Born 1960
John Crown
Born 1957
Mike Wallace (historian)
Born 1942
Nell Bryden
Born 1977
James Lopez Watson
1922 - 2001
Edwin P. Fischer
1873 - 1947
William Blumberg
Born 1998
Alan Siegel
Born 1938
Frank Doyle (writer)
1917 - 1996
Patricia Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere
1933 - 1992
Archibald M. Bliss
1838 - 1923
Jack O'Brian
1914 - 2000
James P. Maher
1865 - 1946
Tessa Albertson
Born 1996
Miles Chapin
Born 1954
Neil Portnow
Born 1948
Lyman Bloomingdale
1841 - 1905
Lita Milan
Born 1933
Archie Rand
Born 1949
Charlie Kennedy (saxophonist)
1927 - 2009
Samuel Cutler Ward
1814 - 1884
Samuel L. Gouverneur
1799 - 1865
Jonathan Schwartz (radio)
Born 1938
Frank Gorman (diver)
Born 1937
Katie Ford (screenwriter)
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Maurice H. Rindskopf
1917 - 2011
Arthur J. Bressan Jr.
1943 - 1987
William Seward Webb
1851 - 1926
Alyssa A. Goodman
Born 1962
Steven Pressman (economist)
Born 1952
Emil L. Smith
1911 - 2009
Buz Kohan
Born 1933