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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.
Eugene McDermott
1899 - 1973
Theodore Postol
Born 1946
Paula Kassell
1917 - 2012
Gilbert Price
1942 - 1991
Mel Karmazin
Born 1943
Seymour Cromwell
1934 - 1977
Lotti Golden
Born 1950
Edward Anthony (photographer)
1819 - 1888
Henry Crocheron
1772 - 1819
Aaron Columbus Burr
1808 - 1882
Bruce Jackson (scholar)
Born 1936
Don Beck (basketball)
Born 1953
Peter Farb
1929 - 1980
Donald Manes
1934 - 1986
Robert North
1884 - 1976
Maria Sansone
Born 1981
Arnold Friedman
1874 - 1946
Kristi Zea
Born 1948
David Kuo (author)
1968 - 2013
Michael Gargiulo (journalist)
Born 1960
Kenneth LaValle
Born 1939
Eugene Rosenberg
Born 1935
King Princess
Born 1998
Dennis Shasha
Born 1955
Roger Blank
Born 1938
Richard Worsam Meade
1837 - 1897
George Sakier
1897 - 1988
Loretta Schrijver
Born 1956
Richard Ouzounian
Born 1950
Henry Adler
1915 - 2008
Eleanor Cross Marquand
1873 - 1950
Charles Ardai
Born 1969
Tracy Price-Thompson
Born 1963
May Emory
1885 - 1948
Keith Bakker
Born 1960
Robert Spillane
1964 - 2010
Mary Shepard Greene
1869 - 1958
Montague Lessler
1869 - 1938
Lemon Andersen
Born 1975
Lisa Birnbach
Born 1957
Nora Raleigh Baskin
Born 1961
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (politician)
1849 - 1902
Jonathan Tiomkin
Born 1979
Anthony Strollo
1899 - 1962
Richard Bernstein
Born 1944
Alice Barrett
Born 1956
Johnny Glasel
1930 - 2011
Anita Simonis
1926 - 2011
Jerry Paulson
1935 - 1986
Malcolm Kilduff
1927 - 2003
Joe Moore (speed skater)
1901 - 1982
Izzy Slapawitz
1948 - 2019
Ursula Parrott
1900 - 1957
Jane Brody
Born 1941
Alexx Calise
Born 1985
Emerson John Moore
1938 - 1995
Everett Riskin
1895 - 1982
Oliver Ingraham Lay
1845 - 1890
Grace Arents
1848 - 1926
Walter Underhill
1795 - 1866
William J. McGill
1922 - 1997
Henry F. Pringle
1897 - 1958
Joel Chimelis
Born 1967
Joe Smyth (basketball)
1929 - 1999
Artie Cobb
Born 1942
Barry Slotnick
Born 1939
Marilyn Tyler
1926 - 2017
John Philip Newman
1826 - 1899
Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison
1872 - 1938
Charles Minthorn Murphy
1870 - 1950
Carmen Giménez Smith
Born 1971
Marie Ponsot
1921 - 2019
Hugh Fay
1882 - 1926
Maureen Corrigan
Born 1955
Michelle Lewis
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Stephen Birch
1872 - 1940
Frank Bonilla
1925 - 2010
Bob Glouberman
Born 1968
Patricia Thompson (writer)
1926 - 2016
Alexandra von Fürstenberg
Born 1972
Michael Lesch
1939 - 2008
Anthony Gaggi
1925 - 1988
Alan A. Altshuler
Born 1936
Perri Pierre
Born 1988
Albert Boni
1892 - 1981
Joe Brown (actor)
1884 - 1965
Eli Holzman
Born 1974
John Cook (Texas politician)
Born 1946
Jack Kamen
1920 - 2008
Harry E. Ahles
1924 - 1981
Martin Blackman
Born 1970
Gianna Rolandi
Born 1952
James Dobbins (diplomat)
Born 1942
George T. Downing
1819 - 1903
Nitza Villapol
1923 - 1998
John Hostetter
1946 - 2016
William T. Pheiffer
1898 - 1986
John Allan Wyeth (poet)
1894 - 1981
Brian Hooker (poet)
1880 - 1946
Benjamin Bratton
Born 1985
Jerome Liebling
1924 - 2011
Josephine Clara Goldmark
1877 - 1950
Kermit Bloomgarden
1904 - 1976
Georgina Jones (tennis)
1882 - 1955
Jerome Herbert Skolnick
Born 1931
Kenneth M. Quinn
Born 1942
Kenneth H. Keller
Born 1934
Les Goldman
1913 - 1983
Jim Gianopulos
Born 1951
Bernice McFadden
Born 1965
Lela Ivey
Born 1958
Frank Parker (singer)
1903 - 1999
Joan Howard Maurer
Born 1927
Jeffrey Lyons
Born 1944
Solomon Fabricant
1906 - 1989
David Ignatow
1914 - 1997
Stephen Lichtenbaum
Born 1939
Golan Levin
Born 1972
Raymond Sackler
1920 - 2017
Francis Crowley
1911 - 1932
Ann Marie Flynn
Born 1938
Ben Yagoda
Born 1954
Lawrence Salander
Born 1949
Rick Schwartz
Born 1971
Laurie Rozakis
Born 1952
Orvil Dryfoos
1912 - 1963
Rawle Alkins
Born 1997
Paul Christie (voice actor)
Born 1951
Leonard E. Baum
1931 - 2017
Paul Brach
1924 - 2007
Edgar Villchur
1917 - 2011
Nancy Drexel
1910 - 1989
John Shaban
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Lee Dixon (actor)
1914 - 1953
Brian Tarquin
Born 1965
Suzanne Massie
Born 1931
John Schmitt (American football)
Born 1942
Rudolph Contreras
Born 1962
David Zabel
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Jock Gaynor
1929 - 1998
Benjamin I. Taylor
1877 - 1946
William Rossa Cole
1919 - 2000
Shirley Bunnie Foy
1936 - 2016
Cecil Mack
1883 - 1944
Richard N. Gottfried
Born 1947
Irwin Thomas
Born 1971
William A. M. Burden
1906 - 1984
Georgess McHargue
1941 - 2011
John Evangelist Walsh
1927 - 2015
Justus Buchler
1914 - 1991
W. Langdon Kihn
1898 - 1957
Fabián Bastidas
Born 1993
Nathan Straus Jr.
1889 - 1961
Cornelius V.S. Roosevelt
1915 - 1991
Dan Jiggetts
Born 1954
Joan Murray (art historian)
Born 1943
Joseph Curran
1906 - 1981
Michael Singer
Born 1945
Emily Warren
Born 1992
Yoichi Okamoto
1915 - 1985
Spivy
1906 - 1971
Robert Rodale
1930 - 1990
Bob Aspromonte
Born 1938
George Bruns (basketball)
Born 1946
Jerry Gershwin
1926 - 1997
Jharrel Jerome
Born 1997
Robin Hemley
Born 1958
Rosalie Edge
1877 - 1962
Marja-Lewis Ryan
Born 1985
Glenn Scarpelli
Born 1966
Sharon Oster
Born 1948
Christophe Riboud
1950 - 1987
James R. Howe
1839 - 1914
Iris Stuart
1903 - 1936
Randy Altschuler
Born 1970
Willie Sims (basketball)
Born 1958
Philip Hamilton (the second)
1802 - 1884
Philip H. Frohman
1887 - 1972
Neva Gilbert
Born 1929
George Ludlum Hartford
1864 - 1957
Anthony Melchiorri
Born 1965
Dick Rudolph
1887 - 1949
Ruth L. Kirschstein
1926 - 2009
Doon Arbus
Born 1945
Park Benjamin Jr.
1849 - 1922
Nicholas B. Doe
1786 - 1856
Frank Scoblete
Born 1947
Lee Jussim
Born 1955
David Michaels (epidemiologist)
Born 1954
Richard Irving
1917 - 1990
Andrew Freedman
1860 - 1915
Mary Petty
1899 - 1976
Ignatius J. Galantin
1910 - 2004
George Pearce (actor)
1865 - 1940
Eliza Hamilton Holly
1799 - 1859
Edith Master
1932 - 2013
Stanley Boxer
1926 - 2000
Kovas (musician)
Born 1984
Mustafa Shakir
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Jennifer Macdonald
Born 1958
Mark Josephson
1943 - 2017
Christian Monzon
Born 1977
Edward Loines Pemberton
1844 - 1878
Michael Port
Born 1970
John Goetz
Born 1962
Gaspar Saladino
1927 - 2016
George Earnshaw
1900 - 1976
Cusi Cram
Born 1967
Amanda Minnie Douglas
1831 - 1916
Chris Hanson (squash player)
Born 1990
Margaret Farrar
1897 - 1984
Gordon M. Johnson
Born 1949
Jonathan Mendelsohn
Born 1980
Thane Rosenbaum
Born 1960
Thomas Oliphant
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Jacob Crocheron
1774 - 1849
Martin Trow
1926 - 2007
Lauren Duca
Born 1991
Monica Rich Kosann
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Bartholomew J. Eustace
1887 - 1956
Abigail Pogrebin
Born 1965
Mickey Sheen
1927 - 1987
Avery Waddell
Born 1962
Jose Gutierez Xtravaganza
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Joel Wright
Born 1990
Evelyn Hu
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P. J. Brennan
Born 1986
Nancy Tuckerman
1928 - 2018
Laura Levine
Born 1943
Sharon Green
Born 1942
Nicholas Sand
1941 - 2017
Oren Bloedow
Born 1965
Mary Young (actress)
1879 - 1971
Richard Levine
Born 1939
John Cassisi
Born 1962
Thomas Darden
1900 - 1961
Peter Mensch
Born 1953
Kingdon Gould Jr.
1924 - 2018
Vincent Reinhart
Born 1957
John Callahan (actor)
1953 - 2020
Arnold Beichman
1913 - 2010
David Bradshaw
Born 1944
Toni Wine
Born 1947
Louise Odes Neaderland
Born 1932
Lillian Bostwick Phipps
1906 - 1987
Karen Civil
Born 1986
Tammany Young
1886 - 1936
Howard Rich
Born 1940
Thomas Commerford
1855 - 1920
Henry Knox Sherrill
1890 - 1980
Elijah Tillery
Born 1957
Howard E. Haber
Born 1952
Elektra (wrestling)
Born 1970
Ira Rennert
Born 1934
Sebastian Suhl
Born 1969
Pip Chodorov
Born 1965
Harry Mazer
1925 - 2016
Dora Kaminsky
1909 - 1977
Nessa Cohen
1885 - 1976
Kathan Brown
Born 1935
Roseann Quinn
1944 - 1973
Adrian Chen
Born 1984
Orrin Devinsky
Born 1957
Johnny Messner (musician)
1909 - 1986
Hugh O’Neill Hencken
1902 - 1981
Larry Magid
Born 1947
Richard Linn
Born 1944
William T. Manning
1866 - 1949
Alf Hiltebeitel
Born 1942
Eric Estorick
1913 - 1993
Max Yavno
1911 - 1985
Robert B. Daroff
Born 1936
Emmanuel Ubilla
Born 1986
Bob Boilen
Born 1950
Sewell Chan
Born 1977
Curtis Samuel
Born 1996
Elizabeth A. Wood
1912 - 2006
William C. Fields
1804 - 1882
Denice Duff
Born 1965
Dottie Lamm
Born 1937
Adele Cohen
1942 - 2002
Tasha Voux
Born 1958
D. Brainerd Holmes
1921 - 2013
James T. Brady
1815 - 1869
Sabina Ott
1955 - 2018
James Rosati
1911 - 1988
James McCourt (writer)
Born 1941
Michael Elkins
1917 - 2001
Joe L. Brown
1918 - 2010
R. Kent Greenawalt
Born 1936
Alfred Charles Post
1806 - 1886
Folco Terzani
Born 1969
Beedie (rapper)
Born 1988
Chris DeRose
Born 1948
Farrand Stewart Stranahan
1842 - 1904
Earl G. Graves Sr.
1935 - 2020
Dwight Townsend
1826 - 1899
Alfred F. Young
1925 - 2012
Lewis A. Kaplan
Born 1944
Amos Clark Jr.
1828 - 1912