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.
Howard Taylor (tennis)
1865 - 1920
Neal Shapiro (equestrian)
Born 1945
David Faber (CNBC)
Born 1964
Panchito Gómez
Born 1963
Irving Harper
1916 - 2015
Steph Geremia
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Alan B. Slifka
1929 - 2011
Walter Schloss
1916 - 2012
Rafael Tufiño
1922 - 2008
Denise Masino
Born 1968
Tom York (baseball)
1850 - 1936
Ashley Kelly (athlete)
Born 1991
Punishment Martinez
Born 1982
Marjorie Content
1895 - 1984
James Guyon Jr.
1778 - 1846
Raymond Lee (actor)
Born 1987
Frank Zarb
Born 1935
Emlen Roosevelt
1857 - 1930
Richard Peña
Born 1953
Michael J. Meade
Born 1944
Reggie Washington
Born 1962
Linda Manzanilla
Born 1951
Canan Gerede
Born 1948
Maria Мolina
Born 1987
Bernard Kirschenbaum
1924 - 2016
Seth Lerer
Born 1955
Christina Kirk
Born 1970
John Byrne Cooke
1940 - 2017
Joseph Gillespie
1809 - 1885
William Bell Dinsmoor Jr.
1923 - 1988
John Lefferts
1785 - 1829
Rosa Brooks
Born 1970
Wallace Terry
1938 - 2003
Allen George Newman
1875 - 1940
Loel Guinness (politician)
1906 - 1988
Ezra Swerdlow
1953 - 2018
Daniel Bukantz
1917 - 2008
Peter Morici
Born 1948
Mark Medal
Born 1957
Jack Heid
1924 - 1967
Florence Wald
1917 - 2008
Charles Altieri
Born 1942
Eric Olsen (American football)
Born 1988
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Born 1946
Arthur Ferrante
1921 - 2009
Ronald Malfi
Born 1977
Ramin Ganeshram
Born 1968
Burnet Tuthill
1888 - 1982
William Henry Stanton (congressman)
1843 - 1900
Alan Levin (filmmaker)
1926 - 2006
Charles Francis Murphy
1858 - 1924
Cooper Pillot
Born 1994
Linda Carbonetto
Born 1949
Janet McDonald
1953 - 2007
Josette Frank
1893 - 1989
Guillermo de Blanck y Menocal
1882 - 1978
Arthur Weisberg
1931 - 2009
Ida Darling
1875 - 1936
Austin Dowling
1868 - 1930
Zephyr (artist)
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Jamel Shabazz
Born 1960
John Matthew Cannella
1908 - 1996
Christopher d'Amboise
Born 1960
Peter Neufeld
Born 1950
Rich Vos
Born 1957
De Witt C. Flanagan
1870 - 1946
Raphaela Neihausen
Born 1976
Dave Katz
Born 1961
Thomas F. Burchill
1882 - 1955
Jaroslava Muchová
1909 - 1986
Michael Valvo
1942 - 2004
Joseph Fennimore
Born 1940
Alvin Schwartz (children's author)
1927 - 1992
Peter J. Dooling
1857 - 1931
Harvey Picker
1915 - 2008
Kipp Marcus
Born 1970
Eric Nagler
Born 1942
Laura-Ann Petitto
Born 1950
Irwin Freundlich
1908 - 1977
James Oddo
Born 1966
Larry LeSueur
1909 - 2003
Gladys Rockmore Davis
1901 - 1967
Ted Patton
Born 1966
Franz Schurmann
1926 - 2010
Wendy Starland
Born 1981
Nancy Marcus
1950 - 2018
Viola Harris
1926 - 2017
Paul Strauss
Born 1964
Ken Albala
Born 1964
Lennie Dale
1934 - 1994
Jan Pascale
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Albert Nofi
Born 1944
Robert E. Simon
1914 - 2015
Kathi Kamen Goldmark
1948 - 2012
Christopher Knowles
Born 1959
William H. Janeway
Born 1943
Denise Miller
Born 1963
Eric Drysdale
Born 1969
James H. Torrens
1874 - 1952
Maude Maggart
Born 1975
Tony Windis
Born 1933
John Ordronaux (doctor)
1830 - 1908
Paul Torgersen
1931 - 2015
Norma Klein
1938 - 1989
Saul Rogovin
1923 - 1995
Edgar Bonsak Schieldrop
1891 - 1965
Irving Lefkowitz
1921 - 2015
Johnny Murphy
1908 - 1970
Doug Shapiro
Born 1959
Mike Alexander (gridiron football)
Born 1965
John Lamb (general)
1735 - 1800
Michelle Ongkingco
Born 1988
Ricardo M. Urbina
Born 1946
J. H. Hobart Ward
1823 - 1903
Claire Kahane
Born 1938
Diane Kochilas
Born 1960
Barry G. Silverman
Born 1951
Ralph Wheelwright
1898 - 1971
Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko
1896 - 1969
Daniel Celentano
1902 - 1980
Howard Moss
1922 - 1987
Richard Bernstein (artist)
1939 - 2002
Afrika Baby Bam
Born 1970
Melvin Cohn
1922 - 2018
Allan Benny
1867 - 1942
Ilsley Boone
1879 - 1968
Johnny Dark
Born 1940
Michael P. Steinberg
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Rolfe Kanefsky
Born 1969
Hank Greenspun
1909 - 1989
George Olesen
1924 - 2013
Hamilton Holt
1872 - 1951
Evie Sands
Born 1946
Max Porter (animator)
Born 1981
David A. Garvin
1952 - 2017
Laura Taylor Swain
Born 1958
Albert C. Cohn
1885 - 1959
Adam Yarmolinsky
1922 - 2000
William Ingraham Kip
1811 - 1893
Mary Orr
1910 - 2006
Clint Johnston
1915 - 1975
Harry Hurwitz
1938 - 1995
Paul A. Engelmayer
Born 1961
Ralph Munroe
1851 - 1933
Madeline Weinstein
Born 1990
George Cates
1911 - 2002
Francis Cabot
1925 - 2011
Sylvia Woods
1926 - 2012
W. C. Robinson
1873 - 1942
Marisa Ryan
Born 1974
Sophie Braslau
1892 - 1935
Chloe Aridjis
-
Gene Malin
1908 - 1933
Suzan Johnson Cook
Born 1957
Joanne M. Cohoon
1954 - 2016
George Neikrug
1919 - 2019
Lou Johnson (singer)
1941 - 2019
Lois Wright
Born 1928
Maureen Gray
1948 - 2014
Robert J. Coyle
Born 1964
Leon Bankoff
1908 - 1997
Tom J. Donohue
Born 1938
Raymond L. Acosta
1925 - 2014
Steven Anson Coons
1912 - 1979
Siobhan Vivian
Born 1979
Molly Kazan
1906 - 1963
Taurus Sykes
Born 1975
Ian Ballantine
1916 - 1995
Bobby Astyr
1937 - 2002
Dorothy Block
1904 - 1984
Eftychia Papavasilopoulou
Born 1981
Elliott Arnold
1912 - 1980
Judith Stein (historian)
1940 - 2017
Joseph Rowan
1870 - 1930
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin
1944 - 2018
Joseph A. Mussomeli
Born 1952
Ronn Owens
Born 1945
Fay Victor
Born 1965
Paul Rader
Born 1934
Barbara Ess
Born 1948
Nicolas Surovy
Born 1944
James Kaplan
Born 1951
Stuart Diamond
Born 1942
Max Waldman
1919 - 1981
Jack Burnham
1931 - 2019
Bob Cobert
1924 - 2020
Owen Dodson
1914 - 1983
Andrew Varick Stout Anthony
1835 - 1906
John Fine (politician)
1794 - 1867
Robert Fleisher
Born 1953
Stephen A. Rudd
1874 - 1936
Thomas F. Magner
1860 - 1945
Charles Chadwick (athlete)
1874 - 1953
Ian Sander
1947 - 2016
Mary Guinan
Born 1939
Robert H. Smith (philanthropist)
1928 - 2009
Jay Belasco
1888 - 1949
Evan Smith (journalist)
Born 1966
Thelma Estrin
1924 - 2014
Richard G. Taranto
Born 1957
Edward L. Morse
Born 1942
Dino Kartsonakis
Born 1942
Johnnie Dodge
1894 - 1960
Joseph V. Flynn
1883 - 1940
Lou Bernstein
1911 - 2005
Scott Snibbe
Born 1969
Marian Salzman
Born 1959
Robert Alvarez
Born 1948
Steve Grilli
Born 1949
Azie Faison
Born 1964
Tere Ríos
1917 - 1999
Pop Goodwin
1920 - 2005
Bob Cortes
Born 1963
Gladys Frazin
1901 - 1939
Henry Hornbostel
1867 - 1961
Azizi Johari
Born 1948
George Feigenbaum
1928 - 2000
Joseph Thomas Dimino
1923 - 2014
Mark Kelman
Born 1951
Leonard M. Kravitz
1931 - 1951
Andrew J. Sommese
Born 1948
Grace Hoadley Dodge
1856 - 1914
John Shelton Reed
Born 1942
Charlotte Canda
1828 - 1845
Robert Weisberg
Born 1946
Lansing Colton Holden
1896 - 1938
Bernie Privin
1919 - 1999
Antonia Handler Chayes
Born 1929
Dorothy Andrus
1908 - 1989
Cathy Bissoon
Born 1968
Frank Gari
Born 1942
James J. Tietjen
1933 - 2016
Harriet Dinerstein
-
Michael Smith (chef)
Born 1966
Paul Joskow
Born 1947
Arthur Hornbui Bell
1891 - 1940
Willa Schneberg
Born 1952
Norman M. Klein
-
Henry Reed Stiles
1832 - 1909
Jessica Diamond
Born 1957
Nicholas Wahl
1928 - 1996
Jennifer Rubell
Born 1970
Billy Faier
1930 - 2016
Kevin Duffy
1933 - 2020
Paul Schmidt (translator)
1934 - 1999
Hugh John Casey
1898 - 1981
Katherine C. Hughes
Born 1995
John C. Osgood
1851 - 1926
John Bonacic
Born 1942
Jason Harris Katz
Born 1969
John Sinibaldi
1913 - 2006
Harry Julian Fink
1923 - 2001
Mark D. Naison
Born 1946
Edward N. Hall
1914 - 2006
Alan E. Cober
1935 - 1998
Eugene P. Trani
Born 1939
Katherine Bradford
Born 1942
Lucien Vogt
1891 - 1968
Tom Gorman (umpire)
1919 - 1986
Paul Alan Levi
Born 1941
Charles Brown (Medal of Honor)
Born 1849
Maurice Valency
1903 - 1996
Charles McEwen Hyde
1832 - 1899
Charles C. Haight
1841 - 1917
Bennett Reimer
1932 - 2013
James L. Wells
1843 - 1928
Mandy Leon
Born 1992
Isaac L. Varian
1793 - 1864
Hank Whitney
Born 1939
Margaret Lefranc
1907 - 1998
Richard Roth (journalist)
Born 1955
Dean Parrish
Born 1942
Adeo Ressi
-
Phil Farbman
1924 - 1996
Neith Nevelson
Born 1946
Saul Tepper
1899 - 1987
Ty Fyffe
-
John Henry Hill
1791 - 1882
Oliver De Lancey (American loyalist)
1718 - 1785
Gene Gotti
Born 1946
Irving Taylor (songwriter)
1914 - 1983
Jerome Witkin
Born 1939
Bryce Wilson
Born 1972
Sarah Blake
Born 1960
Sharon Brown (actress)
Born 1962
Richard Grayson (writer)
Born 1951
Henry Sherwood Lawrence
1916 - 2004
Matt Cohen (ice hockey)
Born 1985
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
Born 1939
Michele Fiore
Born 1970
Michael Huger
Born 1970
Carlton Aaron
Born 1979
Thomas E. Stewart
1824 - 1904
Tony Salerno
Born 1965
Ken Hamblin
Born 1940
David Schizer
Born 1968
Theodore H. Schwartz
Born 1965
Aaron Kramer
1921 - 1997
Albert Pinkus
1903 - 1984
Elisha I. Winter
1781 - 1849