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NEW YORK CITY
Most Famous People Born in New York City, USA
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Salvator Xuereb
Born 1965
Walter Flinsch
1903 - 1943
Richard Meltzer
Born 1945
Marcy Dermansky
Born 1969
William J. Higginson
1938 - 2008
Alissa J. Rubin
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Abraham J. Multer
1900 - 1986
Nick Stabulas
1929 - 1973
John Cruger Jr.
1710 - 1791
Horace F. Bartine
1848 - 1918
Mo Rothman
1919 - 2011
Michael Barbieri (actor)
Born 2001
Eric H. Davidson
1937 - 2015
David Gordon (novelist)
Born 1967
Michael F. Singer
Born 1950
Mark Withers (actor)
Born 1947
Alice Brock
Born 1941
Christopher D. Sullivan
1870 - 1942
Archibald L. Linn
1802 - 1857
Robert J. Frankel
1941 - 2009
Robert Swendsen
Born 1943
Charles Alderton
1857 - 1941
Susan Chira
Born 1958
James C. Mathis III
Born 1974
William Brice
1921 - 2008
Jonathan Charney
1943 - 2002
Gordon Van Gelder
Born 1966
John Vinocur
Born 1940
Steven F. Lawson
Born 1945
Sheldon H. Harris
1928 - 2002
Asher Edelman
Born 1939
Herbert Parsons (New York politician)
1869 - 1925
Linda Király
Born 1983
Augustus Braun Kinzel
1900 - 1987
Kimiko Gelman
Born 1966
Charles Snead Houston
1913 - 2009
Emma Catherine Embury
1806 - 1863
John Ahearn
Born 1951
James C. Healey
1909 - 1981
Marco Alverà
Born 1975
Louis Schanker
1903 - 1981
Dom Famularo
Born 1953
Florence Kaye
1919 - 2006
Paul Cantor
Born 1945
John H. Davis (author)
1929 - 2012
Henry Cohen (civil servant)
1922 - 1999
Seymour Hess
1920 - 1982
William C. Weldon
Born 1948
Jack Langrishe
1839 - 1895
Forrest B. Royal
1893 - 1945
Gerald Barbarito
Born 1950
Robert C. Schnitzer
1906 - 2008
Marty Markowitz
Born 1945
Jerome Ambro
1928 - 1993
Michael K. Lee
Born 1973
Bijou Heron
1863 - 1937
Henry Sharp
1894 - 1966
Lynne R. Parenti
Born 1954
Nedda Harrigan
1899 - 1989
Liliane Lijn
Born 1939
William Froug
1922 - 2013
William B. Kannel
1923 - 2011
Jonah Raskin
Born 1942
Jesse Drakes
1926 - 2010
Betty Twarog
1927 - 2013
Jon Harris (American football)
Born 1974
Gerald Schoenfeld
1924 - 2008
Irving Geis
1908 - 1997
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge
1882 - 1973
Francis Mahoney
1927 - 2008
Charles Evans (businessman)
1926 - 2007
Rita Zucca
1912 - 1998
George Bamberger
1923 - 2004
Robert Kipniss
Born 1931
Oscar Ratnoff
1916 - 2008
Cleve Gray
1918 - 2004
Dawn Ostroff
Born 1960
Leo F. Rayfiel
1888 - 1978
Jack Bernstein
1899 - 1945
George Milo
1909 - 1984
Cass Canfield
1897 - 1986
Burt Collins
1931 - 2007
Sabrina Sobhy
Born 1996
Stephen Orgel
Born 1933
Joe Moglia
Born 1948
Joseph Nathan Kane
1899 - 2002
Jules Bergman
1929 - 1987
Marc Cavell (actor)
1939 - 2004
Larry Blackmon
Born 1956
Steve Gregory (American football)
Born 1983
Peter P. Mahoney
1848 - 1889
Thomas Sanzillo
Born 1955
Miriam Marx
1927 - 2017
Abem Finkel
1889 - 1948
Bill Giant
1930 - 1987
Jeffrey Skolnick
Born 1953
Jay Blackton
1909 - 1994
Nicholasa Mohr
Born 1938
Kevin Kelly (announcer)
Born 1967
Elisabeth Zetzel
1907 - 1970
James Searle
1730 - 1797
Richard P. Smiraglia
Born 1952
Ida Abelman
1910 - 2002
Johnny Duncan (actor)
1923 - 2016
Justin Francis
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Harold Friedman
1923 - 2005
Brad Jones (bassist)
Born 1963
William P. S. Earle
1882 - 1972
Graham Wiggins
1962 - 2016
Mari Gorman
Born 1944
Frances Faye
1912 - 1991
James Vila Blake
1842 - 1925
Sigmund Neufeld
1896 - 1979
James Thomas Flexner
1908 - 2003
Herbert H. Rowen
1916 - 1999
Corey Ford
1902 - 1969
Lawrence Dutton
Born 1954
Scott Dibble (politician)
Born 1965
Martín Espada
Born 1957
Sid Robin
1912 - 1985
Jim Creighton
1841 - 1862
Anne Roiphe
Born 1935
Beth Ames Swartz
Born 1936
Rosina Emmet Sherwood
1854 - 1948
Richard Lauterbach
1914 - 1950
Herbert L. Satterlee
1863 - 1947
Mitchell May
1870 - 1961
Daniel Algrant
Born 1959
Ed Kahn
1911 - 1945
Marilyn Chris
Born 1938
Howard Emmett Rogers
1890 - 1971
David M. Potts
1906 - 1976
Bernard Harcourt
Born 1963
Nina Berman
Born 1960
Eben Britton
Born 1987
Gary Legenhausen
Born 1953
Edward Keane (actor)
1884 - 1959
Mike Breen
Born 1961
Cheryl Pepsii Riley
Born 1961
Nancy E. Krulik
Born 1961
Ernest Hilliard
1890 - 1947
Isabella Damla Güvenilir
Born 2009
Lynette Nusbacher
Born 1966
Joseph Commings
1913 - 1992
Herman A. Metz
1867 - 1934
William H. Douglas
1853 - 1944
Eddie Martinez
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Seth Morgan (novelist)
1949 - 1990
Frank A. Oliver
1883 - 1968
Porter Collins
Born 1975
Bruce Kovner
Born 1945
Milton Hindus
1916 - 1998
Robin Clark
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Paul Rieckhoff
Born 1970
Leslie MacMitchell
1920 - 2006
Lisa Seagram
1936 - 2019
Edward Bernard Scharfenberger
Born 1948
John C. Tully
Born 1942
Mary Otis Stevens
Born 1928
Joe Bunn
Born 1975
Thomas Harrison Montgomery Jr.
1873 - 1912
Alan G. Rogers
1967 - 2008
Jeffrey Meyers
Born 1939
James Hart Wyld
1912 - 1954
Cristóbal de Losada y Puga
1894 - 1961
Grizz Chapman
Born 1974
Peter John Byrne
Born 1951
Noah Oppenheim
Born 1978
Bandy X. Lee
Born 1970
Dolores Dwyer
1934 - 2011
Lela Swift
1919 - 2015
Juan Roberto Melendez-Colon
Born 1951
John J. Bennett Jr.
1894 - 1967
Bill Lignante
1925 - 2018
Belle Cole
1853 - 1905
Jon O. Newman
Born 1932
Dorothy Kunhardt
1901 - 1979
Sam Hollander
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Henry Gross
Born 1951
Alfred J. Marrow
1905 - 1978
Jane Velez-Mitchell
Born 1955
Newbold Morris
1902 - 1966
Curtis Gans
1937 - 2015
Peter S. Prescott
1935 - 2004
Marie Norton Harriman
1903 - 1970
John Huyler
1808 - 1870
Roberta Sklar
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John J. Delaney
1878 - 1948
Jake Cannavale
Born 1995
Yozo Yokota
1940 - 2019
Beverly Peer
1912 - 1997
A. J. Weberman
Born 1945
Alexander Cameron Hunt
1825 - 1894
Neema Barnette
Born 1949
Art Davie
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George Cardona
Born 1936
David McHugh
Born 1941
Mary Jane Peale
1827 - 1902
Simon Dinnerstein
Born 1943
Jon Feltheimer
Born 1951
Renn Hawkey
Born 1974
Noel Rockmore
1928 - 1995
Nat Fein
1914 - 2000
Bernard Schubert
1895 - 1988
Carole Demas
Born 1940
Robert Carmody
1938 - 1967
Abigail Savage
Born 1984
Jermaine Turner
Born 1974
Jack Reilly (musician)
1932 - 2018
Emma Homan Thayer
1842 - 1908
James D-Train Williams
Born 1962
Thomas J. Barr
1812 - 1881
Edward Zander
Born 1947
Mimi Jones
Born 1972
Alexander Kevitz
1902 - 1981
Ernest Waddell
Born 1982
Daniel Lang (writer)
1913 - 1981
Randy Cross
Born 1954
Robert M. Wachter
Born 1957
Mark Janicello
Born 1962
Alicia Svigals
Born 1963
David Granger (bobsleigh)
1903 - 2002
Anson Rabinbach
Born 1945
Tippy Walker
Born 1947
Mark Barkan
1934 - 2020
Jay Blumler
Born 1924
George Firestone
1931 - 2012
Reena Raggi
Born 1951
Evelyn Wang
Born 1978
E. R. Squibb
1819 - 1900
Raymond Weinstein
Born 1941
Michael Kaiser
Born 1953
Eliana Menassé
Born 1930
Walter Cartier
1924 - 1995
John M. Mitchell
1858 - 1905
James Warner Bellah
1899 - 1976
Arline Fisch
Born 1931
Lawrence Korb
Born 1939
Bertram Millhauser
1892 - 1958
Philippe Aronson
Born 1967
Robert S. Gelbard
Born 1944
Joseph Lehner
1912 - 2013
Bern Nadette Stanis
Born 1953
Mike Danzi
1898 - 1986
Nina Albright
1907 - 1997
Ruth McKenney
1911 - 1972
William Wurtenburg
1863 - 1957
Andrew D. Hurwitz
Born 1947
Robin Kelley
Born 1962
Judith W. Rogers
Born 1939
Abe Goldstein
1898 - 1977
Robert Willner
1929 - 1995
John Howard Raymond
1814 - 1878
Jenni Konner
Born 1971
Charlotte Boyle (swimmer)
1899 - 1990
Russ Altman
Born 1961
Gordon Davidson (director)
1933 - 2016
Meyer Berger
1898 - 1959
Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet
1916 - 2016
Raphael Montañez Ortiz
Born 1934
Oday Aboushi
Born 1991
Christopher McCulloch
Born 1971
Wolcott Gibbs
1902 - 1958
Bayard Clarke
1815 - 1884
Stewart F. Lane
Born 1951
Len Duncan
1911 - 1998
Immy Humes
-
Henry Cotto
Born 1961
William Janney
1908 - 1992
Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg
Born 1971
George W. Loft
1865 - 1943
Lawrence J. Fogel
1928 - 2007
Talbot Hamlin
1889 - 1956
Laura Esterman
Born 1945
John Hart Ely
1938 - 2003
Larry Kane
Born 1942
Ramey Idriss
1911 - 1971
Matthew Barzun
Born 1970
Lenny Lipton
Born 1940
Ron Sanford
Born 1946
Luis Castillo (American football)
Born 1983
Arnold Johnson (actor)
1921 - 2000
Myke Cole
Born 1973
Kief Davidson
Born 1970
Mark Rogowski
Born 1966
Larry Sharpe (politician)
Born 1968
Renée Fox
1928 - 2020
P. Henry Dugro
1855 - 1920
Sérgio Hondjakoff
Born 1984
JonOne
Born 1963
Norma Maldonado
Born 1962
Ronnie Abrams
Born 1968
Peter Parnell
Born 1953
Frank Tusa
Born 1947
Christina Curry
Born 1990
Daniel Evan Weiss
Born 1953
Jonathan Baumbach
1933 - 2019
Loretta Weinberg
Born 1935
Louis K. Church
1846 - 1898
Alexander Barrett Klots
1903 - 1989