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.
Charlie Shrem
Born 1989
Teddy Napoleon
1914 - 1964
Riley Thomas Stewart
Born 2002
Peter Sharpe
1777 - 1842
Richard Cullen (attorney)
Born 1948
Caldecot Chubb
Born 1950
Samuel E. Blum
1920 - 2013
Raphael Hayes
1915 - 2010
Frederick "Dennis" Greene
1949 - 2015
Richard Gilder
1932 - 2020
Norman Bogner
Born 1935
Stuart Sternberg
Born 1959
Janet Brandt
1914 - 2004
Ira Glasser
Born 1938
Edward B. Saff
Born 1944
Alfred DeGaetano
1894 - 1958
Keisuke Hoashi
Born 1967
Clark Hopkins
1895 - 1976
Richard J. Tonry
1893 - 1971
Andrea Modica
Born 1960
Coulby Gunther
1923 - 2005
Leroy Burgess
Born 1953
Jesse M. Furman
Born 1972
Dave Dreiwitz
Born 1966
Desiree Casado
Born 1985
Delia Salvi
1927 - 2015
Barbara Gelb
1926 - 2017
Barbara Herman
Born 1945
Lindsey Horner
Born 1960
Marcellus H. Evans
1884 - 1953
Sue Simmons
Born 1942
Jason Jorjani
Born 1981
Alfredo Da Silva
1935 - 2020
Thomas Jefferson Ryan
1890 - 1968
John Austin Stevens
1827 - 1910
Frank Brady (writer)
Born 1934
Lisa Albert
Born 1926
Nikki Grimes
Born 1950
Warren M. Hirsch
1918 - 2007
Jonathan Levi
Born 1955
Florence Shapiro
Born 1948
Robert Kimmel Smith
1930 - 2020
Tom Feelings
1933 - 2003
Sherrilyn Ifill
Born 1963
Michael Forrestal
1927 - 1989
Ed Kolman
1917 - 1985
Thomas G. Patten
1861 - 1939
Mary Jordan (filmmaker)
Born 1969
Albert Marrin
Born 1936
Eunice Reddick
Born 1951
Ed Morris (1880s pitcher)
1862 - 1937
Anna Ziegler
Born 1979
Lawrence W. Levine
1933 - 2006
Amit Majmudar
Born 1979
Michael McCurdy
1942 - 2016
Ray Raphael
Born 1943
Edward Bright Vedder
1878 - 1952
William Packard (author)
1933 - 2002
Richard J. Daronco
1931 - 1988
Sherry Chayat
Born 1943
Robert Sommer
Born 1929
H. B. Hollins
1854 - 1938
Chris Galya
Born 1987
Al Ferrara
Born 1939
Lee Farr
1927 - 2017
Albert B. Rossdale
1878 - 1968
John F. Mackie
1835 - 1910
Jim Turnesa
1912 - 1971
Henry Z. Steinway
1915 - 2008
Wallace Downey
1902 - 1967
Annette Michelson
1922 - 2018
Robert Towers
Born 1952
Claudia Weill
Born 1947
Norman Dello Joio (equestrian)
Born 1956
Archibald Bruce (mineralogist)
1777 - 1818
Yale Kamisar
Born 1929
Leonard Radinsky
1937 - 1985
Lester Holtzman
1913 - 2002
Thomas Fink
Born 1972
Paul Meltsner
1905 - 1966
Rocke Mastroserio
1927 - 1968
Charles H. Baldwin (admiral)
1822 - 1888
Alexander Hamilton (general)
1815 - 1907
C. A. Patrides
1930 - 1986
Angelo Garcia
Born 1976
Connie Russell
1923 - 1990
Mark Delpriora
Born 1959
Vernon Turner
Born 1967
John Steptoe
1950 - 1989
Pierre N. Leval
Born 1936
Henry W. Shoemaker
1880 - 1958
Sally Falk Moore
Born 1924
Schuyler Chapin
1923 - 2009
George Wyle
1916 - 2003
Harry Roseland
1867 - 1950
David Bergstein
Born 1963
Henry Kane
1908 - 1988
George Kleine
1864 - 1931
Babette Babich
Born 1956
Richard M. Lerner
Born 1946
Michael L. Stone
1949 - 2005
Tony Santiago
Born 1950
Vincent O'Sullivan (American writer)
1872 - 1940
David Van Nostrand
1811 - 1886
Richard Soto
Born 1968
David McCord
1897 - 1997
Joseph Twadell Shipley
1893 - 1988
Jeff Kwatinetz
Born 1965
Jeffrey Lesser (producer)
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Tony Mark
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Harry H. Dale
1868 - 1935
Daniel Rodríguez (tenor)
Born 1964
Rose Marie Bravo
Born 1951
Doris Doscher
1882 - 1970
Frederic de Peyster
1796 - 1882
Henry Bacon (New York politician)
1846 - 1915
Winand Wigger
1841 - 1901
Dick Kallman
1933 - 1980
Ben Jeby
1907 - 1985
Abraham Vanderveer
1781 - 1839
Vincent Godfrey Burns
1893 - 1979
Alphonse Gourd
1850 - 1925
Lawrence Otis Graham
Born 1962
Hamilton Easter Field
1873 - 1922
William Bayard Cutting
1850 - 1912
John Buffalo Mailer
Born 1978
Mel Haber
1936 - 2016
Michael Somoroff
Born 1957
Iñaki Uriarte
Born 1946
Tom Ferrick (baseball)
1915 - 1996
Steven A. Carter
Born 1958
Anthony DeStefano
Born 1965
Terre Roche
Born 1953
Rose Piper
1917 - 2005
Terry Larkin
1856 - 1894
Lawrence Van Gelder
1933 - 2016
C. J. Williams
1859 - 1945
Jazmine Sepúlveda
Born 1985
Marvin E. Frankel
1920 - 2002
Peggy Adler
Born 1942
Amit Tandon
Born 1979
Nathan Adler (psychologist)
1911 - 1994
Stacey Arceneaux
1936 - 2015
J. Van Vechten Olcott
1856 - 1940
Benjamin Ives Gilman
1852 - 1933
Lloyd Schwartz
Born 1941
Charles P. Daly
1816 - 1899
Michael J. Daly
1924 - 2008
Victor Matthews (artist)
Born 1963
Sidney Norman Bernstein
1911 - 1992
Dolores "LaLa" Brooks
Born 1947
Barry K. Schwartz
Born 1942
Lil' Eddie
Born 1988
Ricardo Carreras
Born 1949
Andrew Kleinfeld
Born 1945
Ernest Anthony Kehr
1911 - 1986
David Bruce (inventor)
1802 - 1892
Younglord
Born 1978
Mollie Orshansky
1915 - 2006
Ruth Dwyer
1898 - 1978
Mike DeVito
Born 1984
Italo Zanzi
Born 1974
Ella Maria Dietz Clymer
1847 - 1920
Bambi Linn
Born 1926
Robert H. Ellsworth
1929 - 2014
Irwin Altman
Born 1930
John Pappenheimer
1915 - 2007
Karla Kuskin
1932 - 2009
Mitchell Goodman
1923 - 1997
John Eugene Englekirk
1905 - 1983
Neil Mandt
Born 1969
Julia Hoyt
1897 - 1955
Val R. Lorwin
1907 - 1982
Penelope Windust
Born 1945
Marty Plissner
1926 - 2014
Henry John Whitehouse
1803 - 1874
Alan Shapley
1903 - 1973
Roy M. Goodman
1930 - 2014
Frederick James Hamilton Merrill
1861 - 1916
Joan Kahn
1914 - 1994
Mark Nepo
Born 1951
Bob Mayo
1951 - 2004
Katherine Kamhi
Born 1963
James Eugene Munson
1835 - 1906
David Helvarg
Born 1951
Anne Wexler
1930 - 2009
Edmund Cambridge
1920 - 2001
Barbara Nessim
Born 1939
Leon Glass
Born 1943
Martin Boykan
Born 1931
Samuel O. Thier
Born 1937
William Bentvena
1921 - 1970
Frank Paul Sylos
1900 - 1976
Robert L. Bernstein
1923 - 2019
Curt Blefary
1943 - 2001
Doug Davis (businessman)
Born 1974
Neil Jason
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Richard Termini
Born 1956
Al Kavelin
1903 - 1982
Edward Thomas Brady
Born 1943
Edward Sizzerhand
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Charles A. Voight
1887 - 1947
David H. Porter
1935 - 2016
Ruth A. M. Schmidt
1916 - 2014
Tobi Kahn
Born 1952
James McManus
Born 1951
Morgan Pehme
Born 1978
Michael Zorek
Born 1960
Bob Bralove
Born 1955
Jerry Torre
Born 1953
Melanie Pullen
Born 1975
Ed Lynch (baseball)
Born 1956
Eugenia Sheppard
1900 - 1984
Sean Garrison
1937 - 2018
James V. Ganly
1878 - 1923
Pete Panto
1911 - 1939
Ralph Morse
1917 - 2014
Richard H. Wilhelm
1909 - 1968
Robert Philipp
1895 - 1981
Felice Frankel
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Patricia A. Adler
Born 1951
Rosemary Davies
1903 - 1963
Augustus Richard Norton
1946 - 2019
Stephen L. Hauser
Born 1949
Richard J. Kaufman
Born 1958
Tracy Jaeckel
1905 - 1969
Susan B. Landau
1952 - 2017
James Jacobus Roosevelt
1759 - 1840
Terry Schappert
Born 1962
Jeannette Lander
1931 - 2017
Pat Cleveland
Born 1950
Lucy Knisley
Born 1985
James J. Walsh (New York)
1858 - 1909
Flip Mark
Born 1948
Bill Gallo
1922 - 2011
Frank Mangiapane
1925 - 2005
Lilian Moore
1909 - 2004
Jennifer Derevjanik
Born 1982
Joe Start
1842 - 1927
Bashiri Johnson
Born 1955
Joan Retallack
Born 1941
Loring M. Black Jr.
1886 - 1956
Hope Edelman
Born 1964
Charlotte E. Ray
1850 - 1911
Joel Carmichael
1915 - 2006
Marga Gomez
Born 1960
Helen Keane (jazz)
1923 - 1996
Chris Miller (writer)
Born 1942
Frank Fahrenkopf
Born 1939
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe
1828 - 1887
Dude Esterbrook
1857 - 1901
H. B. Gilmour
1939 - 2009
Richard Rubin (writer)
Born 1967
Arleen Schloss
Born 1943
Gregorio Prestopino
1907 - 1984
Ralph Evans (sailor)
1924 - 2000
Robert Lekachman
1920 - 1989
Frederick Gebhard
1860 - 1910
Esther Newton
Born 1940
Lila Garrett
1925 - 2020
Richard Arum
Born 1963
Isaac Walthour
1928 - 1977
John Gordon (trombonist)
1939 - 2003
Perry J. Kaufman
Born 1943
Michael Whalen (composer)
Born 1965
Nicole Galland
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Gary Mokotoff
Born 1937
Jean Copans
Born 1942
William Kaufmann
1918 - 2008
Jacob Brackman
Born 1943
Robert Vickrey
1926 - 2011
Marty Panzer
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Robin Koval
Born 1955
Eduardo López Rojas
1937 - 1999
Joan Franks Williams
1930 - 2003
Charles R. Rogers
1892 - 1957
Jack Norton
1882 - 1958
Kati Székely
Born 1941
Earl Gardner (musician)
Born 1950
Albert Dorne
1906 - 1965
Eugene M. Luks
Born 1940
John Flaherty
Born 1967
Carter Harman
1918 - 2007
Martha Redbone
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Lindsay Lindley
Born 1989
Carleton Sprague Smith
1905 - 1994
Dan Halsted
Born 1962
Giles Healey
1901 - 1980
Robert Gerringer
1926 - 1989
Scott Leibfried
Born 1971
Charlie Phil Rosenberg
1902 - 1976
Charles Russhon
1911 - 1982
Laura Jean Libbey
1862 - 1924
Caroline Thompson (psychologue)
Born 1964
Matthew Clarkson
1758 - 1825
Christopher Sorrentino
Born 1963
David Maisel (visual artist)
Born 1961
Nina Olivette
1910 - 1993
Chris Orbach
Born 1968
Obadiah Bowne
1822 - 1874