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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.
John McSweeney Jr.
1915 - 1999
John Gilmary Shea
1824 - 1892
Barnett Rosenberg
1926 - 2009
Harry Schaare
1922 - 2008
Walter H. Rubsamen
1911 - 1973
William George McCloskey
1823 - 1909
Adam D. Weinberg
Born 1954
Thomas C. Cochran (historian)
1902 - 1999
Albert Diaz (judge)
Born 1960
Natalia Zukerman
Born 1975
Robert B. Shapiro
Born 1938
Leonard Sharrow
1915 - 2004
James E. Kelly (artist)
1855 - 1933
Elisse B. Walter
Born 1950
Alice Recknagel Ireys
1911 - 2000
Herbert Wechsler
1909 - 2000
Richard Bronson
Born 1941
William T. Lawrence
1788 - 1859
Thomas J. Kelly (aerospace engineer)
1929 - 2002
Tom Shroder
Born 1954
Fred Sommers
1923 - 2014
Hayley Faith Negrin
Born 2003
Richard Neely
1941 - 1999
Dave Deutsch
Born 1945
Jeff Van Drew
Born 1953
Lucille Dixon Robertson
1923 - 2004
Mark Oldman
Born 1969
Dana Valery
Born 1944
Martin Meyerson
1922 - 2007
Mark Weitz
Born 1945
Deirdre Imus
Born 1964
Danny Diablo
Born 1971
Corey Williams (basketball, born 1977)
Born 1977
Marvin Bell
Born 1937
Neil Canton
Born 1948
Milton Hanauer
1908 - 1988
Mark Bitterman
Born 1966
Tamir Bloom
Born 1971
Keli Price
Born 1990
Mike Holober
Born 1957
Brandon Reilly (musician)
Born 1981
Alfred Corning Clark
1844 - 1896
Félix Marcotte
1865 - 1953
Mary Ann Newman
Born 1951
Stanley Keleman
1931 - 2018
Alfred Holland Smith
1863 - 1924
Rose McClendon
1884 - 1936
Worthington C. Ford
1858 - 1941
Seth Berkley
Born 1956
Emanuel Parzen
1929 - 2016
John Dyneley Prince
1868 - 1945
Vincent Colyer
1825 - 1888
Henry C. Miner
1842 - 1900
John Palmer (politician)
1842 - 1905
Inez James
1919 - 1993
Arthur Hammerstein
1872 - 1955
Richard W. O'Neill
1898 - 1982
John R. Thurman
1814 - 1854
Jack Quinn (lawyer)
Born 1949
Claudia Shear
Born 1962
Stephen Hilbert
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John Henry Dick
1919 - 1995
Owen Davis Jr.
1907 - 1949
Richard F. McKiniry
1878 - 1950
Blanche Cornwall
Born 1868
Henry Osborn Taylor
1856 - 1941
Myron Fass
1926 - 2006
Carolyn Mackler
Born 1973
Norman Lewis (grammarian)
1912 - 2006
Tyce Diorio
Born 1970
John Armstrong Chaloner
1862 - 1935
Dennis Leonard
Born 1951
Bob Brunner
1934 - 2012
Matthew Josephson
1899 - 1978
Nick Testa
1928 - 2018
Rachel Isadora
Born 1953
Michael I. Miller
Born 1955
Irving Lehman
1876 - 1945
Thomas A. Tomlinson
1802 - 1872
Oliver Wakefield
1909 - 1956
Cliff Bayer
Born 1977
Peter Moore Speer
1862 - 1933
Carmen Guzman
Born 1985
Killa Sin
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Dove Bradshaw
Born 1949
Robert Sabino
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Jonny McGovern
Born 1975
Raymond R. Guest
1907 - 1991
Frank Potenza
1933 - 2011
Dave Stamper
1883 - 1963
Thomas Powers
Born 1940
Christopher McCann
Born 1952
Sydney Laurence
1865 - 1940
Richard M. Dolan
Born 1962
Howie Rader
1921 - 1991
Elizabeth Alderfer
Born 1986
Ladislava Bakanic
Born 1924
Howard Friedman
Born 1972
Michael Montelongo
Born 1955
Chuck Hammer
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Aymar Embury II
1880 - 1966
Darien Sills-Evans
Born 1974
Jo Handelsman
Born 1959
Tony Dagradi
Born 1952
John Quayle (politician)
1868 - 1930
George Arnold (poet)
1834 - 1865
Gustave F. Touchard
1888 - 1918
Michael David (painter)
Born 1954
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Born 1937
Dorothy Arnold
1886 - 1910
Kavita Patil
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Rochelle Owens
Born 1936
Ben Starr
1921 - 2014
Elly Kleinman
Born 1952
Michael Oppenheimer
Born 1946
Ian Young (basketball)
Born 1981
Susan Stern
1943 - 1976
George L. K. Morris
1905 - 1975
Hugh Alessandroni
1908 - 1989
Angela Hunte
Born 1975
Douglas Townsend
1921 - 2012
Herbert Greene (Broadway conductor)
1921 - 1985
Wesley Augustus Williams
1897 - 1984
Edward Kosower
Born 1929
Robert Maxwell (songwriter)
1921 - 2012
Stanley Kaplan
1919 - 2009
Ann Rinaldi
Born 1934
John Marrant
1755 - 1791
Anthony Tommasini
Born 1948
James H. Fay
1899 - 1948
John L. Hess
1917 - 2005
Claudia Zaslavsky
1917 - 2006
Matthew Ross (filmmaker)
Born 1976
Sarma Melngailis
Born 1972
Frank Eliscu
1912 - 1996
Frances Lewine
1921 - 2008
Eric Chester
Born 1943
Ricky Marsh
Born 1954
Thomas Roma
Born 1950
Gregg Bordowitz
Born 1964
Hilborne Roosevelt
1849 - 1886
Alfred Lilienthal
1915 - 2008
Louis M. Kunkel
Born 1949
David Karsner
1889 - 1941
Steve Edwards (talk show host)
Born 1948
Robert J. Collier
1876 - 1918
Samuel Smith (chemist)
1927 - 2005
Leo Feist
1869 - 1930
Andrea Koppel
Born 1963
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
1940 - 2011
Olive Byrne
1904 - 1985
Phil Terranova
1919 - 2000
Robert S. Leiken
1939 - 2017
John Engh
1915 - 1996
Eleanor Butler Alexander-Roosevelt
1888 - 1960
Kwame Alexander
Born 1950
David Frye
1933 - 2011
B. W. Huebsch
1876 - 1964
Silas M. Stilwell
1800 - 1881
Robert F. Worth
Born 1965
Fred Marcellino
1939 - 2001
Dael Orlandersmith
Born 1959
Samuel Seabury (judge)
1873 - 1958
Dorothy Sterling
1913 - 2008
Betsy Gotbaum
Born 1938
Eileen Cowin
Born 1947
Theodora Keogh
1919 - 2008
Mike Kuchar
Born 1942
Ted Sperling
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Augustus W. Bennet
1897 - 1983
Reuben L. Haskell
1878 - 1971
Zolita
Born 1994
Gina Gionfriddo
Born 1969
Jon Lindbergh
Born 1932
Donald T. Farley
1933 - 2018
Henry Gurdon Marquand
1819 - 1902
Arnold Skolnick
Born 1937
Helen Tworkov
Born 1943
Beth Nolan
Born 1951
Ogden Pleissner
1905 - 1983
Lawrence L. Langer
Born 1929
Marc Levoy
Born 1953
Cathleen Cordell
1915 - 1997
Chloe Temtchine
Born 1980
David Lauren
Born 1971
Don Cowan
Born 1989
Belle Moskowitz
1877 - 1933
James Oakes (historian)
Born 1953
Charlie Grandy
Born 1974
Peter Winston (chess player)
Born 1958
Marlene Warfield
Born 1940
Gary Simmons (artist)
Born 1964
David Samuels (writer)
Born 1967
Herbert Franklin Solow
Born 1930
Robert Emmett Keane
1883 - 1981
Paul Hoffman (rowing)
Born 1946
Raymond T. Chen
Born 1968
Ruth Messinger
Born 1940
Jimmie Reese
1901 - 1994
Edna Luby
1884 - 1928
Juan Sanchez (artist)
Born 1954
Frederic Adrian Delano
1863 - 1953
J. Edward Meyer
Born 1935
Joe Fogler
1884 - 1930
Al Gafa
Born 1941
Mike Lipskin
Born 1942
Robert Goelet
1841 - 1899
Jamaal Westerman
Born 1985
Ricky Blaze
Born 1988
Sol Goldman
1917 - 1987
Leston Havens
1924 - 2011
Mae Coughlin
1897 - 1986
Ursula Parker
Born 2003
Peter Helck
1893 - 1988
Lorraine Fox
1922 - 1976
Robert Livingston Schuyler
1883 - 1966
Specs Toporcer
1899 - 1989
Kianna Underwood
Born 1992
Edith Kingdon
1864 - 1921
Warren Delano Robbins
1885 - 1935
Richard Elman
1934 - 1997
Albert Lorey Groll
1866 - 1952
Richard Price (American anthropologist)
Born 1941
Aaron Bates
Born 1984
Craig Austrie
Born 1987
Zina Rachevsky
1930 - 1973
Henry Pearlman
1895 - 1974
Wilder Hobson
1906 - 1964
Cynthia Meyer
Born 1965
Robert M. Lindner
1914 - 1956
Seth M. Siegel
Born 1953
Jeff Nimoy
Born 1966
Carole Migden
Born 1948
Sol Brodsky
1923 - 1984
La Sylphe
1883 - 1968
Charles E. Rice
1931 - 2015
Zachary Fisher
1910 - 1999
George E. Waldo
1851 - 1942
Butch Seewagen
Born 1946
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker
Born 1947
Charles Green Shaw
1892 - 1974
Lena Farugia
1951 - 2019
Carol Weiss King
1895 - 1952
Chip Fields
Born 1951
Sally Binford
1924 - 1994
Julie Goldman (producer)
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Ruth Greenglass
1924 - 2008
Ralph Borsodi
1886 - 1977
Kat Walsh
Born 1982
Susan Louise Shatter
1943 - 2011
Bill Cayton
1918 - 2003
Linda Wolfe
1932 - 2020
Herbert Warren Wind
1916 - 2005
Martin Behrman
1864 - 1926
David Wilson (actor)
Born 1949
Vic Rodriguez
Born 1961
Laurel Korholz
Born 1970
Beatrice Colen
1948 - 1999
A. W. Merrick
1839 - 1902
David Provost
1672 - 1724
Jerry Kelly (basketball)
1918 - 1996
William S. McFeely
1930 - 2019
Morgan Dix
1827 - 1908
Charles S. Zimmerman
1896 - 1983
Burton Silverman
Born 1928
Warren Fenley
1922 - 2009
Lester S. Hill
1891 - 1961
Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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Benjamin Ward
1926 - 2002
Gertrude Degenhardt
Born 1940
Larry Weinberg
1926 - 2019
Stanley Marcus (judge)
Born 1946
Beatrice Alexander
1895 - 1990
Carol Wax
Born 1953
Trevor Scott
Born 1984
Faith McNulty
1918 - 2005
Elizabeth Whelan
1943 - 2014
Carleton G. Young
1907 - 1971
Charles M. Goodman
1906 - 1992
Max Kampelman
1920 - 2013
Rika Lesser
Born 1953
Isaac C. Delaplaine
1817 - 1866
Adam Saleh
Born 1993
Lee Oser
Born 1958
Anne Harriman Vanderbilt
1861 - 1940
Ben Lanzarone
Born 1938
Sharyn November
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Carl Hermann Kraeling
1897 - 1966
Lou Holtz (actor)
1893 - 1980
Suzanne Anker
Born 1946
Jim Brochu
Born 1946
Shirley Burden
1908 - 1989
Paul Sprachman
Born 1947
Rachel Hadas
Born 1948
Lou Lilly
1909 - 1999
John Bell Young
1953 - 2017
Ellen Shipley
Born 1949
Matthew J. Merritt
1895 - 1946
John B. Robbins
1932 - 2019
Marcel Philippe (athlete)
Born 1951