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.
Richard Miniter
1967 - 2017
Emanuel B. Hart
1809 - 1897
Irving Millman
1923 - 2012
Muriel Vanderbilt
1900 - 1972
Bernard Nedell
1898 - 1972
Eddie Williams (saxophonist)
1910 - 1977
Jose Peralta
1971 - 2018
Marcia Marcus
Born 1928
Oliver Martin (cyclist)
Born 1946
Christopher C. McGrath
1902 - 1986
John Basedow
-
Brian P. Kavanagh
Born 1967
Len Berman
Born 1947
Peter A. Quinn
1904 - 1974
Alexandra Kazan
Born 1959
Marc Alpozzo
Born 1969
Lisa Nelson
Born 1949
Ron Fassler
Born 1957
Kathryn Kates
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Steve White (actor)
Born 1961
Jeromus Johnson
1775 - 1846
Ed Searcy
Born 1952
John F. Warren
1909 - 2000
Gerard Washnitzer
1926 - 2017
Robert Alexander Cameron
1828 - 1894
Blanchette Ferry Rockefeller
1909 - 1992
William DeMeo
Born 1971
Leslie D. Gottlieb
1936 - 2012
Edward J. Dunphy
1856 - 1926
Miles Bonny
Born 1980
Merrill Heatter
1926 - 2017
Kathy Halbreich
Born 1949
William Earl Dodge Scott
1852 - 1910
Ken Corday
Born 1950
Henry J. Latham
1908 - 2002
Leonard Garment
1924 - 2013
Bruce Weintraub
1952 - 1985
John Huh
Born 1990
Matt Centrowitz
Born 1955
Sean Maluta
Born 1988
Randolph Apperson Hearst
1915 - 2000
Josiah Sutherland
1804 - 1887
Malvina Longfellow
1889 - 1962
Whitman Knapp
1909 - 2004
Zvi Keren
1917 - 2008
Jacqueline Wong
Born 1989
Robert Lee Wolff
1915 - 1980
Angela Devi
1975 - 2006
Ralph Berkowitz
1910 - 2011
Warren Berlinger
1937 - 2020
Cora Cohen
Born 1943
Royal Hurlburt Weller
1881 - 1929
Ed Kirkeby
1891 - 1978
Max Kennedy
Born 1965
Gina Trapani
Born 1975
Glenn Patrick
Born 1950
Donald Lawrence O'Toole
1902 - 1964
Liz Feldman
Born 1977
Buffie Johnson
1912 - 2006
Awon
Born 1980
Marty Appel
Born 1948
David Harris (advocate)
Born 1949
Joseph Michael Sullivan
1930 - 2013
Floyd Skloot
Born 1947
Thomas James O'Leary
Born 1956
Sedric Webber
Born 1977
Stumpy Cromer
1921 - 2013
Joe Andruzzi
Born 1975
John Devereaux
Born 1962
Sloane Crosley
Born 1978
Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson
1916 - 2008
Melville Gideon
1884 - 1933
Jimmy Magee
1935 - 2017
Richard Heermance
1910 - 1971
Joe Sclafani
Born 1990
Nathaniel Peffer
1890 - 1964
Otto Maass
1890 - 1961
Oscar L. Auf der Heide
1874 - 1945
Willie Bosket
Born 1962
Edward Nolan (actor)
1888 - 1943
Henry Shrady
1871 - 1922
Mary Curtis Richardson
1848 - 1931
Rosa Clemente
Born 1972
James M. Nack
1809 - 1879
Louis Rosen
1918 - 2009
Irwin D. Davidson
1906 - 1981
Bruce Eisner
1948 - 2013
William Bradford (printer, born 1719)
1719 - 1791
Barry S. Brook
1918 - 1997
Bruce Degen
Born 1945
Kevin Breznahan
Born 1968
Dawn Eden Goldstein
Born 1968
Timothy Mather Spelman
1891 - 1970
Francine Beers
1924 - 2014
Kim Paffenroth
Born 1966
Victoria Macaulay
Born 1990
Matt McGinley
Born 1983
Sherman Yellen
Born 1932
John Quinn (New York politician)
1839 - 1903
David Wise (writer)
1955 - 2020
Peter O'Malley
Born 1937
Karen Karnes
1925 - 2016
Gerard E. Lynch
Born 1951
Leo Marx
Born 1919
Reed Kessler
Born 1994
Kenneth S. Goldstein
1927 - 1995
Alan Hirschfield
1935 - 2015
Herman Winick
Born 1932
Matthew Miller (journalist)
Born 1962
Andrew Weiss (economist)
Born 1947
John Beckman
1895 - 1968
David Stuart (brigadier general)
1816 - 1868
Tony Kappen
1919 - 1993
Cole Kimball
Born 1985
Spencer Trask
1844 - 1909
Grace Van Patten
Born 1996
Asa Bird Gardiner
1839 - 1919
Hank Rosenstein
1920 - 2010
Robert Trowers
Born 1957
Scott Stringer
Born 1960
Red Dehnert
1924 - 1994
Susan Schwalb
Born 1944
Dennis Jacobs
Born 1944
Kenneth B. Wiberg
Born 1927
Nick Meglin
1935 - 2018
Burt Wolf
Born 1938
Malcolm Peyton
Born 1932
Ron Ramin
Born 1953
Robert Anthony Brucato
1931 - 2018
Rachael Madori
Born 1993
Jeremy Nathans
Born 1958
Nancy Grossman
Born 1940
Samo Sound Boy
Born 1984
Robert J. Bronner
1907 - 1969
Jerome H. Lemelson
1923 - 1997
David E. Bloom
Born 1955
Mary Calvi
Born 1969
Arent DePeyster
1736 - 1822
Harold E. B. Pardee
1886 - 1973
Eliot Asinof
1919 - 2008
David J. O'Connell
1868 - 1930
Harry Manning
1897 - 1974
Kenneth Weiss
Born 1963
Jonny King
Born 1965
Stanley Edgar Hyman
1918 - 1970
Simi Linton
Born 1947
Ricky Lauren
Born 1943
Stanley Sjöberg
Born 1936
Cornelius Rea Agnew
1830 - 1888
Jay S. Fishman
1952 - 2016
Maude Nugent
1873 - 1958
Robert Greenberger
Born 1958
Tarell Brown
Born 1985
DJ Megatron
1978 - 2011
William Henry Aspinwall
1807 - 1875
Eugene O'Neill Jr.
1910 - 1950
Robert Lindneux
1871 - 1970
Enrica Soma
1929 - 1969
Sol Schlinger
1926 - 2017
Wilfred Feinberg
1920 - 2014
Melvin Konner
Born 1946
Edgar Samuel Paxson
1852 - 1919
Charlene Aspen
Born 1973
Jimmy Thordsen
Born 1948
Grace Greenwood Ames
1905 - 1979
Henry Smith Munroe
1850 - 1933
Yitzchak Berkovits
Born 1953
Margaret Randall
Born 1936
Brian MacWhinney
Born 1945
Adelaide Bishop
1928 - 2008
Michael A. Burstein
Born 1970
Noel Perrin
1927 - 2004
Walter Licht
Born 1946
Edward Snyder (cinematographer)
1895 - 1982
Sandra Fisher
1947 - 1994
Richard Supa
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Bill Springsteen
1899 - 1985
Michael Lloyd (music producer)
Born 1948
Ron Field
1933 - 1989
Temple Prime
1832 - 1903
William H. F. Fiedler
1847 - 1919
William Prusoff
1920 - 2011
James Hayman (écrivain)
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Joey Carbone
-
L. Gary Clemente
1908 - 1968
Stuart Ewen
Born 1945
Arthur Altschul
1920 - 2002
Lou Silver
Born 1953
Judith Coplon
1921 - 2011
Edward Mendelson
Born 1946
Emily King
Born 1985
Amir Obè
Born 1989
Nicholas Tsoucalas
1926 - 2018
Scott Rayow
Born 1971
Bernard Waldman
1913 - 1986
Ben Grauer
1908 - 1977
David Bennett Cohen
Born 1942
Jane Tompkins
Born 1940
Hannah Bronfman
Born 1987
Angelo Parra
Born 1948
Joseph Mezzara
1820 - 1901
Clay Constantinou
Born 1951
Matt Flynn (politician)
Born 1947
Stanley Bing
1951 - 2020
Leonard B. Sand
1928 - 2016
Wally Vernon
1905 - 1970
Matty Matthews
1873 - 1948
Henry Hudson Holly
1834 - 1892
Morgan Matson
Born 1981
Lewis Ginter
1824 - 1897
Amy Totenberg
Born 1950
Steve Knight (musician)
1935 - 2013
John W. Marshall
Born 1958
Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
1830 - 1912
William B. Ruger
1916 - 2002
Steven M. Cohen
Born 1950
Charles Moose
Born 1953
Jim Steyer
Born 1956
Laura McPhee
Born 1958
Akeem Scott
Born 1983
Paulding Farnham
1859 - 1927
Sid Gordon
1917 - 1975
Devann Yao
Born 1990
Ursula Nordstrom
1910 - 1988
Edwin Turney
1929 - 2008
Edward E. Kramer
Born 1961
Les Fradkin
Born 1951
Nicolas Carone
1917 - 2010
Joan Gero
1944 - 2016
Thomas Hastings (architect)
1860 - 1929
Sara Nelson
Born 1956
Dick Noel
1927 - 2017
Andrew H. Mickle
1805 - 1863
Ian North
Born 1952
James J. Heffernan
1888 - 1967
Rosemary S. Pooler
Born 1938
Gilbert Rohde
1894 - 1944
Gabriel Katzka
1931 - 1990
Katherine B. Forrest
Born 1964
Kat Coiro
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William Randolph Hearst Jr.
1908 - 1993
Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad
Born 1945
Richard Hayes (singer)
1930 - 2014
Charles Edward Borden
1905 - 1978
Dorothy Kenyon
1888 - 1972
Paul Boesch
1912 - 1989
Michael Greif
Born 1959
Ruth White (Bahá'í author)
Born 1867
Kimberly Russell
Born 1964
Arnold Manoff
1914 - 1965
Thomas E. Jackson
1886 - 1967
Henry Ginsberg
1897 - 1979
Stephen B. Leonard
1793 - 1876
Paul Theodore Arlt
1914 - 2005
Arthur Lyon (fencer)
1876 - 1952
Bobby Notkoff
Died 2018
Alfred Lichtenstein (philatelist)
1876 - 1947
Helen Schnabel
1911 - 1974
David Manson (producer)
Born 1952
Geoffrey O'Brien
Born 1948
Paul Regina
1956 - 2006
Arthur Jackson (sport shooter)
1918 - 2015
Melvin Small
Born 1939
Caryn Navy
Born 1953
Justine Cassell
Born 1960
Tom McCleister
Born 1949
Jason Buxton
-
Kevin Rooney
Born 1956
Caraun Reid
Born 1991
Peter Swerling
1929 - 2000
Dan Budnik
1933 - 2020
Julie Budd
Born 1954
Robb Banks
Born 1994
Melvin Sokolsky
Born 1933
Phyllis Kahn
Born 1937
Daniel J. Riordan
1870 - 1923
Nancy Youdelman
Born 1948
Albert Mayer (planner)
1897 - 1981
Zalman Bernstein
1926 - 1999
Sylvan Barnet
1926 - 2016
Richard King (entrepreneur)
1824 - 1885
Dan Bobish
Born 1970
Evert Augustus Duyckinck
1816 - 1878
John Washington Baird
1852 - 1923
Bill Leonard (journalist)
1916 - 1994
Marco Oppedisano
Born 1971
Lester D. Volk
1884 - 1962
Joseph Borkin
1911 - 1979
Joe Glazer
1918 - 2006
Claude Brown
1937 - 2002
Thomas Francis Smith
1865 - 1923
Maitland McDonagh
-
Haig P. Manoogian
1916 - 1980
David Kriegel
Born 1969
Loni Ackerman
Born 1949
Mary Semans
1920 - 2012
Hilda Grossman Morris
1911 - 1991
Ruth Jacoby
Born 1949
Marty Golden
Born 1950
Jessica Caban
Born 1982