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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.
Judd Ehrlich
Born 1971
David Karp (novelist)
1922 - 1999
A. Devitt Vanech
1906 - 1967
Winston Frederick Churchill Guest
1906 - 1982
Norman Brokaw
1927 - 2016
Leonard Koren
Born 1948
Louis L. Stanton
Born 1927
Henry Failing
1834 - 1898
John Johnson (reporter)
Born 1938
Alan Heyman
1931 - 2014
Irving Friedman
1920 - 2005
Joseph Egbert
1807 - 1888
Bill Thompson (New York politician)
Born 1953
Charlie Smith (drummer)
1927 - 1966
Afua Richardson
Born 1950
Lady Rizo
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Harvey Dinnerstein
Born 1928
Michael Tenzer
Born 1957
Alan Gussow
1931 - 1997
Don McPherson
Born 1965
Eddie Foy III
1935 - 2018
Asa Hoffmann
Born 1943
Susan J. Elliott
Born 1956
Judith Shuval
Born 1926
Jeffrey Mandula
Born 1941
Eugene Owen Smith
1929 - 2012
Beverly Ross
Born 1939
Harvey E. Schlesinger
Born 1940
Laurie Toby Edison
Born 1942
Ida Helen Ogilvie
1874 - 1963
Richard Dupont
Born 1968
Henry Nicoll (politician)
1812 - 1879
Donald B. Marron Jr.
Born 1950
Paul Lisicky
Born 1959
Francis Marvin
1828 - 1905
Stan Jefferson
Born 1962
Mickey Z
Born 1960
Joseph Baldwin
Born 1970
Edward Byrne (police officer)
1966 - 1988
Matt Tolmach
Born 1964
Michele Weiner-Davis
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Scott Lingamfelter
Born 1951
Adolfo Carrión Jr.
Born 1961
Frank T. Fitzgerald
1857 - 1907
Richard Kuh
1921 - 2011
Gene Zion
1913 - 1975
Rajee Narinesingh
Born 1967
Louis Saint-Gaudens
1854 - 1913
Hal E. Chester
1921 - 2012
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
1909 - 2004
Robertson Kirtland Mygatt
1861 - 1919
Ocey Snead
1885 - 1909
Catherine Porter
Born 1979
Nancy Giles
Born 1960
Radhika Jones
Born 1973
Ogden Mills Reid
1882 - 1947
Paul Hayes Tucker
Born 1950
John Fischetti
1916 - 1980
Martin Ragaway
1923 - 1989
Peter Braestrup
1929 - 1997
Yvonne Thornton
Born 1947
BB Jay
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Douglas Leigh
1907 - 1999
Ali Dee Theodore
Born 1970
Peter D. Kramer
Born 1948
Maria-Christina Oliveras
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Serena Wilson
1933 - 2007
Norm Sherry
Born 1931
Kenneth E. Tovo
Born 1961
Sara Miller McCune
Born 1941
Herbert Schilder
1928 - 2006
Ivan Lee
Born 1981
Loudon Wainwright Jr.
1924 - 1988
Jules Chametzky
Born 1928
Anna Alice Chapin
1880 - 1920
Melvin Metcalfe Sr.
1911 - 1977
Rory Singer
Born 1976
Mark Fields (businessman)
Born 1961
Sholom Rubashkin
Born 1959
Lee Lockwood
1932 - 2010
Ruth Cleveland
1891 - 1904
James G. Roche
Born 1939
Olivier Philip
1925 - 2013
Thomas DeLio
Born 1951
Michael Cisco
Born 1970
Michael Waller
Born 1985
Gerald Rafshoon
Born 1934
Haywood Nelson
Born 1960
Robert Lazzarini
Born 1965
Richard M. Ehrlich
Born 1938
Amy Harmon
Born 1968
Curt F. Bühler
1905 - 1985
Carolyn Leonhart
Born 1971
J. Malcolm Bird
1886 - 1964
Leonard R. Kahn
1926 - 2012
Hannah Tompkins (artist)
1920 - 1995
John S. Burgess
1920 - 2007
William Phillips (editor)
1907 - 2002
Dawson (actor)
Born 1973
Randi Kaye
Born 1967
Barbara Judge
1946 - 2020
Jane Miller
Born 1949
Tony Saletan
Born 1931
Andrew B. Sterling
1874 - 1955
Derrick Harmon
Born 1963
Walter C. Miller
1931 - 2020
Francis Tiso
Born 1950
Margaret Carnegie Miller
1897 - 1990
Erica Wilson
1928 - 2011
Jennings Michael Burch
1941 - 2013
Robert D. Farquhar
1872 - 1967
Matt Katz-Bohen
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Lawrence Riesner
1919 - 2004
Frederic Block
Born 1934
Geoffrey T. Hellman
1907 - 1977
Elliot Lurie
Born 1948
Max Mermelstein
1942 - 2008
Edward R. Korman
Born 1942
Nadine Jolie Courtney
Born 1980
Elinor Morgenthau
1891 - 1949
William Adams Walker
1805 - 1861
Harry Boatswain
1969 - 2005
Oscar Janiger
1918 - 2001
Edward Mead Earle
1894 - 1954
Herbert Zim
1909 - 1994
John H. G. Vehslage
1842 - 1904
Bobby Cole (musician)
1932 - 1996
Stanley Silverman
Born 1938
Grace Schulman
Born 1935
Kellogg Casey
1877 - 1938
Charles J. Sherr
Born 1944
Leila Philip
Born 1961
Charley Drayton
Born 1965
Cortlandt F. Bishop
1870 - 1935
Richard S. Salant
1914 - 1993
William Honan
1930 - 2014
Susan H. Schulman
Born 1947
William V. Brady
1811 - 1870
John Leggett
1917 - 2015
James Ferman
1930 - 2002
Eric Nadel
Born 1951
Abigail Thernstrom
1936 - 2020
Bob Kratch
Born 1966
Joyce Kaufman
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George Genovese
1922 - 2015
Jack Block
1924 - 2010
George Henry Lamson
1852 - 1882
Jerard Hurwitz
1928 - 2019
Lawrence M. Small
Born 1941
Harold Leventhal (judge)
1915 - 1979
Joseph Russillo
Born 1938
Bethany Donaphin
Born 1980
Michael Jefry Stevens
Born 1951
Tommy Holmes
1917 - 2008
James De Lancey (politician)
1732 - 1800
Laura Kaminsky
Born 1956
Robert C. Maynard
1937 - 1993
Benjamin (Benji) Ungar
Born 1986
Michael Weiss (journalist)
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Emil Mollenhauer
1855 - 1927
Gregory McMahon
1915 - 1989
Evan Mandery
Born 1967
Theodore Strongin
1918 - 1998
Charles Horan
1886 - 1928
Alexis Cole
Born 1976
Kangol Kid
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Bob Reifsnyder
Born 1937
Marvin Liebman
1923 - 1997
Sidney Harris (cartoonist)
Born 1933
Paul Ryan (video artist)
1943 - 2013
Fred Sands
1938 - 2015
Bob Stewart (television producer)
1920 - 2012
Dennis J. Selkoe
Born 1943
Sunny Hostin
Born 1968
Damion Hall
Born 1968
Seymour Itzkoff
Born 1928
Reggie Pearman
1924 - 2012
Graham Brown (actor)
1924 - 2011
Michael J. Ryan (athlete)
1889 - 1971
Kent Kresa
Born 1938
Sharissa
Born 1976
John Henry Hobart Haws
1809 - 1858
Henry Hering
1874 - 1949
Gleb Derujinsky
1925 - 2011
Tamara Horowitz
1950 - 2000
Charles DeLisi
Born 1941
Philip Moeller
1880 - 1958
Andre Sennwald
1907 - 1936
Jerry Lawson (engineer)
1940 - 2011
Meredith Deane
Born 1989
Abraham Tesser
Born 1941
Joan Edwards (radio singer)
1919 - 1981
Ben Raab
Born 1970
Ed Posner
1933 - 1993
Gabriel Laderman
1929 - 2011
Joe Aillet
1904 - 1971
Archibald S. Alexander
1906 - 1979
Jane Dudley
1912 - 2001
Charles Rose (architect)
Born 1960
Barry Sobel
Born 1964
Bill Pemberton
1918 - 1984
Michael Delano
Born 1940
Ellen Jaffee
Born 1944
Martín Hopenhayn
Born 1955
Arthur Leo Zagat
1896 - 1949
Frank G. Burke
1927 - 2015
Ted Shapiro
1899 - 1980
Peter Bien
Born 1930
Bill Lann Lee
Born 1949
Michael Isaacson
Born 1946
Dorothy Woolfolk
1913 - 2000
Ed Feingersh
1925 - 1961
Anthony Papa
Born 1960
Selim E. Woodworth
1815 - 1871
Mark Nelson (scientist)
Born 1947
Alva Rogers
Born 1959
Mike Errico
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Judith G. Voet
Born 1941
Alex Turner (director)
Born 1971
Grace Andreacchi
Born 1954
Sarah Herring Sorin
1861 - 1914
Tomie Arai
Born 1949
John Loengard
1934 - 2020
Julia Pace Mitchell
Born 1985
James William Beekman
1815 - 1877
Carl Spielvogel
Born 1930
John Nucatola
1907 - 2000
Samuel Appleton (merchant)
1766 - 1853
James Wechsler
1915 - 1983
Marion Sims Wyeth
1889 - 1982
Richard Gilman
1923 - 2006
Christopher Joseph Weldon
1905 - 1982
Louis H. Pollak
1922 - 2012
William T. Doyle
Born 1926
Lawrence Grant White
1887 - 1956
Henry Martin (soccer)
Born 1997
Jane Vongvorachoti
Born 1984
Harold Jaffe
Born 1944
Randii Wessen
Born 1958
Frank Marino (female impersonator)
Born 1963
Kevin A. Cahill
Born 1955
William R. Rhodes
Born 1935
Fred Meyer (gymnast)
1910 - 1996
Matthew Clarkson (mayor)
1733 - 1800
James D. Zirin
Born 1940
Richard L. Brodsky
1946 - 2020
Aprille Ericsson-Jackson
Born 1963
Irwin Redlener
Born 1944
Augusta Huiell Seaman
1879 - 1950
Joseph Berger (sociologist)
Born 1924
William Weston Patton
1821 - 1889
Erica Garner
1990 - 2017
Marshall Field IV
1916 - 1965
William Wheaton
1814 - 1888
Fran Fraschilla
Born 1958
Donald S. Lopez Sr.
1923 - 2008
Angela Alvarado
Born 1972
Hy Turkin
1915 - 1955
DeForest Soaries
Born 1951
Seymour Harris
1897 - 1975
I. Leo Glasser
Born 1924
Audrey Wood (literary agent)
1905 - 1985
Shaun George (boxer)
Born 1979
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Born 1964
William Mayer (composer)
1925 - 2017
Melvin L. Kohn
Born 1928
Rachel Vail
Born 1966
Lorraine Vélez
Born 1964
Frank Macchiarola
1941 - 2012
Ben Lessy
1902 - 1992
Rich Ross
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Gerald Cardinale
Born 1934
Jay Cantor
Born 1948
Sholam Weiss
Born 1954
Mitchell Siporin
1910 - 1976
Sari Schorr
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Elisheva Carlebach Jofen
Born 1950
Charles O'Conor (American politician)
1804 - 1884
Herbert Romerstein
1931 - 2013
Theophilus W. Smith
1784 - 1846
Edward Ballinger
Born 1951
Kenny Kramer
Born 1943
Lynn Stern
Born 1942
Israel Lugo
Born 1973
Frank J. Hogan
1877 - 1944
Doree Shafrir
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Fred F. French
1883 - 1936
Edward Ernest Swanstrom
1903 - 1985
Stephen Straus
1946 - 2007
John Kissel (New York)
1864 - 1938
David V. Ragone
Born 1930
Eric Naposki
Born 1966
Lee Konstantinou
Born 1978
Benjamin Abramowitz
1917 - 2011
Sol Worth
1922 - 1977
Daniel C. Oliver
1865 - 1924
Bernard Zuckerman
Born 1943
Gloria Pall
1929 - 2012
Anthony Bleecker
1770 - 1827
David William Bacon
1813 - 1874