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.
Arthur Winograd
1920 - 2010
Fernanda Eberstadt
Born 1960
Don Goldstein
Born 1930
Peter C. Schultz
Born 1942
Bill Nuss
Born 1950
Ezra F. Kysor
1835 - 1907
Henry Clews Jr.
1876 - 1937
George N. Seger
1866 - 1940
Peter Pennoyer
Born 1957
John M. Gamble
1791 - 1836
John Robert Boker Jr.
1913 - 2003
Arthur Lonergan
1906 - 1989
Mirjana Marić
Born 1970
Robert Ozn
Born 1950
Milt Okun
1923 - 2016
John B. L. Goodwin
1912 - 1994
Robert Lesser
Born 1942
David B. Coe
Born 1963
Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer
1839 - 1917
Alexis Glick
Born 1972
Grover Whalen
1886 - 1962
Murray Greenfield
Born 1926
Diane Burko
Born 1945
Tor Hamer
Born 1983
Denise Vasi
Born 1983
Dennis Joseph Sullivan
Born 1945
Artie Auerbach
1903 - 1957
Marco Rivera
Born 1972
Don Richardson (director)
1918 - 1996
Warren Benbow
Born 1954
Shawn Amos
Born 1967
Al Lucas (basketball)
1922 - 1995
Ron Moore (basketball)
Born 1962
Harvey J. Levin
1924 - 1992
Herbert Hill (labor director)
1924 - 2004
Sumner White
1929 - 1988
William C. Wallace
1856 - 1901
Ronnie MacGilvray
Born 1930
Dean De Benedictis
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Harvey Hubbell
1857 - 1927
Myron Weiner
1931 - 1999
Jon Bauman
Born 1947
Jackie Vernon (comedian)
1924 - 1987
Vincent DePaul Breen
1936 - 2003
Russ Banham
Born 1954
Laura Whitehorn
Born 1945
Martynka Wawrzyniak
Born 1979
Melvin Ember
1933 - 2009
Barbara Stoler Miller
1940 - 1993
Eli Gottlieb
Born 1969
Thomas Murphy (broadcasting)
Born 1925
Joe Rollino
1905 - 2010
Harry Shorten
1914 - 1991
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Born 1941
Pete Falcone
Born 1953
Michael Boudin
Born 1939
William M. Hoffman
1939 - 2017
Bernard Kalb
Born 1922
Don Joseph
1923 - 1994
Bob Mullens
1922 - 1989
Doris Fleischman
1891 - 1980
James Kerrigan
1828 - 1899
W. L. G. Joerg
1885 - 1952
Kenny Dino
1942 - 2009
Spliff Star
Born 1975
Kathy Willets
Born 1958
William Bayard Jr.
1761 - 1826
Alzira Peirce
1908 - 2010
Arnie Mausser
Born 1954
Ray Kidder
1923 - 2019
Benjamin Harkarvy
1930 - 2002
Jaime Peterson
Born 1971
Simcha Felder
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Alexander H. Cohen
1920 - 2000
Helen Rodríguez Trías
1929 - 2001
Glenn D. Lowry
Born 1954
Mel Zelnick
1924 - 2008
Sandra Hochman
Born 1938
Elmer Livingston MacRae
1857 - 1953
George Wood Wingate
1840 - 1928
Luigi Creatore
1921 - 2015
Jeffrey Hollender
Born 1954
John F. O'Ryan
1874 - 1961
Cordelia Ray
1849 - 1917
Junius Spencer Morgan III
1892 - 1960
Ruth Ray
1919 - 1977
Richard Lortz
1917 - 1980
Rona Barrett
Born 1936
Nancy Linehan Charles
Born 1942
Stephen Greene (artist)
1917 - 1999
Roy London
1943 - 1993
Diane Paulus
Born 1966
Mitzi Cunliffe
1918 - 2006
John Morton Blum
1921 - 2011
Teresa Bagioli Sickles
1836 - 1867
Patrick Dorismond
1974 - 2000
Marty Beller
Born 1967
Claudia Dreifus
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Bruce Elliott (writer)
1917 - 1973
Joseph V. Brady
1922 - 2011
Rudy Coby
Born 1964
Bill Todman
1916 - 1979
Sol Saks
1910 - 2011
Amy Vachal
Born 1988
Emmett Grogan
1944 - 1978
Grace McDonald
1918 - 1999
James J. Murphy
1898 - 1962
J. C. King
1900 - 1977
Harold Augenbraum
Born 1953
Christina Smith (make-up artist)
Born 1945
George H. Lindsay
1837 - 1916
Sidney A. Fine
1903 - 1982
Alison Bartlett-O'Reilly
Born 1971
Harold Vermilyea
1889 - 1958
Gloria Gordon Bolotsky
1921 - 2009
Lauriston S. Taylor
1902 - 2004
Barra Grant
Born 1948
Ashley Gerasimovich
Born 2004
Bob Guccione Jr.
Born 1955
Arthur French (actor)
Born 1931
Tom Almadon
Born 1984
Hugh Aitken
1924 - 2012
James Margolis
Born 1936
Alexander DiPersia
Born 1982
Michael Ross (screenwriter)
1919 - 2009
Matthew White (basketball)
1957 - 2013
Murray Golden
1912 - 1991
William Spier
1906 - 1973
Vinnette Justine Carroll
1922 - 2002
Henry Metcalfe (military officer)
1847 - 1927
Muffie Meyer
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Adele Farrington
1867 - 1936
Arianna Zukerman
Born 1972
Ruth Fainlight
Born 1931
Paul Kent (actor)
1930 - 2011
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Born 1940
Rainy Davis
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John Charles Dunne
Born 1937
Vic Dibitetto
Born 1961
Robert J. Vance
1854 - 1902
Anne Tabachnick
1927 - 1995
Gerard Arpey
Born 1958
Lillo Thomas
Born 1961
Robert Tishman
1916 - 2010
Howard Safir
Born 1941
Lori A. Clarke
Born 1970
Steven Schwartz (psychologist)
Born 1946
Harrison Tweed
1885 - 1969
Sam Mattis
Born 1994
Bob Olin
1908 - 1956
Bob Tough
1920 - 1999
Luis de Borbón y Vargas
Born 2010
Alex Timbers
Born 1978
Margaret Mitchell (actress)
1832 - 1918
William Charles Schroeder
1895 - 1977
James Jay
1732 - 1815
Don Digirolamo
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Irene Morra
1893 - 1978
Alfred Herman
1889 - 1973
Ming (DJ)
Born 1972
Damion Poitier
Born 1982
Manny Quezada
Born 1985
Daniel Robbins (art historian)
1932 - 1995
King Levinsky
1910 - 1991
Fred Borchelt
Born 1954
John Joseph Jenik
Born 1944
Kenneth A. Walsh
1916 - 1998
Henry James Anderson
1799 - 1875
Michael Lomonaco
Born 1955
Alex Prud'homme
Born 1962
Michael Hiltzik
Born 1952
Ed Metzger
Born 1946
Parris Mosteller
Born 2001
Art Napoleon
1920 - 2003
Pinky Silverberg
1904 - 1964
Blackie Whiteford
1889 - 1962
Jeffrey Bloom
Born 1945
Donald Aronow
1927 - 1987
William Foerste
1911 - 1967
Seymour Simon (author)
Born 1931
Max Salazar
1932 - 2010
William Melvin Kelley
1937 - 2017
Michael Friedsam
1860 - 1931
Peter Tarnoff
Born 1937
Bruce Crane
1857 - 1937
Gaylord Wilshire
1861 - 1927
Sammy Lee (choreographer)
1890 - 1968
Pat Lipsky
Born 1941
Michael Salzhauer
Born 1972
Howard Menger
1922 - 2009
David Shepard (film preservationist)
1940 - 2017
George W. Lindsay
1865 - 1938
Earle F. Zeigler
1919 - 2018
Carl F. Nathan
Born 1946
Gerald Thomas Walsh
Born 1942
Charles Lane (filmmaker)
Born 1953
Henry S. Harper
1864 - 1944
Eric James Stone
Born 1967
Gerard Vultee
1900 - 1938
John H. McCarthy
1850 - 1908
Ralph Solecki
1917 - 2019
Jaleel Johnson
Born 1994
Solly Krieger
1909 - 1964
Arthur L. Carter
Born 1931
Gordon Heath
1918 - 1991
Alexander Woo
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David M. Bunis
Born 1952
Frank Joseph McNulty
1872 - 1926
Ronald Paul Bucca
1954 - 2001
Al Hill (actor)
1892 - 1954
John Esposito (pianist)
Born 1953
Lisle Wilson
1943 - 2010
Paul R. Verkuil
Born 1939
Frank Hotaling
1909 - 1977
Alison Fernandez
Born 2005
Harriette Tarler
1920 - 2001
Bobby Barber
1894 - 1976
Lucy Jarvis (producer)
1917 - 2020
William Golden (graphic designer)
1911 - 1959
Herman D. Stein
1917 - 2009
Danny Fingeroth
Born 1950
Isidore Dollinger
1903 - 2000
Judith McHale
Born 1946
Richie Zisk
Born 1949
Ellis Horowitz
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Sylva Kelegian
Born 1962
George Washington Peck
1818 - 1905
Millicent Hearst
1882 - 1974
Jamie Livingston
1956 - 1997
Gary Winnick
Born 1948
Thomas J. Bradley
1870 - 1901
Nathan O. Kaplan
1917 - 1986
James De La Montanya
1798 - 1849
William Pierson
1926 - 2004
Beri Weber
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Olive, Lady Baillie
1899 - 1974
Bud Duncan
1883 - 1960
George Rousseau
Born 1941
Howard Stansbury
1806 - 1863
Ellen L. Weintraub
-
John Banzhaf
Born 1940
Joy Philbin
Born 1941
Harold Medina
1888 - 1990
James J. Lanzetta
1894 - 1956
Leonard Lomell
1920 - 2011
Albane Valenzuela
Born 1997
Art Saaf
1921 - 2007
Edward Ludlow Mooney
1813 - 1887
Mitch Snyder
1943 - 1990
Francis Delafield
1841 - 1915
Louis M. Heyward
1920 - 2002
Scott Jacoby (producer)
Born 1971
Douglas Sadownick
Born 2006
Ida Hill
1875 - 1954
Joseph Brennan (basketball)
1900 - 1989
George McNeil (artist)
1908 - 1995
Nicholas Roosevelt (inventor)
1767 - 1854
Bob Fass
Born 1933
Percy Brice
Born 1923
Pearl Perlmuter
1915 - 2008
Henry Boltinoff
1914 - 2001
Steven Schrader
Born 1935
Miriam Freund-Rosenthal
1906 - 1999
Yoel Lerner
1941 - 2014
Clifford Frondel
1907 - 2002
Yaakov Lemmer
Born 1983
Blake Morgan
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John Clarkson Jay
1808 - 1891
Jack Adler
1917 - 2011
Barbara Clare Foley
Born 1948
Martin Berkeley
1904 - 1979
Joan Berkowitz
Born 1931
Muhammad Oliver
Born 1969
David Seyfort Ruegg
Born 1931
Rolando Illa
1880 - 1937
Sechew Powell
Born 1979
Naomi Siegmann
1933 - 2018
Bruce F. Caputo
Born 1943
Shaun Baker (actor)
Born 1990
Al Sarrantonio
Born 1952
Haynes Johnson
1931 - 2013
Kris Delmhorst
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John Nicholas Brown II
1900 - 1979
Charles Finch
Born 1980
Herbert Jay Stern
Born 1936
Phil Regan (actor)
1906 - 1996
Karl Kroeber
1926 - 2009
Donald Goldfarb
Born 1941
John N. Luff
1860 - 1938
India Menuez
Born 1993
John G. Koeltl
Born 1945
Greg Jackson (basketball, born 1952)
1952 - 2012
Antonieta Sosa
Born 1940
James Weekes
1911 - 1977
Emile Capouya
1925 - 2005
Alice S. Rossi
1922 - 2009
Thomas Storm
1749 - 1833
Joe Jones (Fluxus musician)
1934 - 1993
Michael J. Hogan
1871 - 1940
Daniel F. Tiemann
1805 - 1899