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.
Rusty Warren
Born 1931
Bill Perkins (politician)
Born 1950
Michael Hafftka
Born 1953
James Forman Jr.
Born 1967
Harvey S. Ladew
1887 - 1976
Cecil Morgan
1898 - 1999
Edith Haldeman
1905 - 1984
Andy Blitz
Born 1971
Louis Moeller
1855 - 1930
Mark Saltzman
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Eugenie McEvoy
1879 - 1975
Stanley Prager
1917 - 1972
Hugh Stanislaus Stange
1894 - 1966
Barry Meyer
Born 1946
Gary Komarin
Born 1951
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
1941 - 2018
Ralph Gilles
Born 1970
DJ Cocoa Chanelle
Born 1971
Michael Buscemi
Born 1960
David Ginsburg (lawyer)
1912 - 2010
Marc Seifer
Born 1948
Tom Laris
Born 1940
Irving Bieber
1909 - 1991
Tor Ragnar Gerholm
1925 - 2007
Jeff Alm
1968 - 1993
Frank Delfino
1911 - 1997
Marcia Resnick
Born 1950
Earl Ubell
1926 - 2007
Richard Harison
1748 - 1829
Stephen J. Lukasik
1931 - 2019
Bill Thompson (television host)
1931 - 2014
Lawrence Wien
1905 - 1988
Margo Davis
Born 1944
Dayal Kaur Khalsa
1943 - 1989
John Levi Martin
Born 1964
Samuel J. LeFrak
1918 - 2003
Michael Page (equestrian)
Born 1938
Dorothy Hukill
1946 - 2018
Jada Rowland
Born 1943
Robert Russin
1914 - 2007
Sean Fletcher
Born 1974
Renée Girard
1927 - 2009
Paul M. Herzog
1906 - 1986
Athan Maroulis
Born 1964
Eric Shawn
Born 1957
Willy Murphy
1937 - 1976
Bronwen Maddox
Born 1963
Laurence Duggan
1905 - 1948
Claude Littner
Born 1949
Leo Rangell
1913 - 2011
Charles Seliger
1926 - 2009
Peter Feibleman
1930 - 2015
George Pastushok
1922 - 2003
Ruby Smith
1903 - 1977
Double-O
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Rachel Wetzsteon
1967 - 2009
Ted Steinberg
Born 1961
Allen Tucker
1866 - 1939
Stephen Lee (chemist)
Born 1956
Giovanni Capitello
Born 1979
David Tobey
1898 - 1988
John Wallach
1943 - 2002
Ogden Goelet
1851 - 1897
Helen Valentine
1893 - 1986
Jimmy Wood
1842 - 1927
Richard Russell (Dow Theory)
1924 - 2015
Jay Kennedy
1956 - 2007
Daniel G. McGowan
Born 1974
Phoebe Knapp
1839 - 1908
Philip Egner
1870 - 1956
Judith Walzer Leavitt
Born 1940
Tod A. Maitland
Born 1957
Burton B. Roberts
1922 - 2010
Helen Evans Brown
1904 - 1964
Moses Taylor Pyne
1855 - 1921
Richard Egielski
Born 1952
Charles Christopher Mierow
1883 - 1961
Maggie Anderson
Born 1948
David Fintz Altabé
1929 - 2008
Michele Molese
1928 - 1989
Anna Rochester
1880 - 1966
Walter Latham
Born 1970
William Henry Hines
1856 - 1914
Arthur Edgehill
Born 1926
Charlotte Epstein
1884 - 1938
Hyatt Bass
Born 1969
Thomas Agro
1931 - 1987
Edward Judson
1844 - 1914
Anita Finlay
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Thomas W. Hanshew
1857 - 1914
Nyan Boateng
Born 1987
Benjamin Bronfman
Born 1982
Mabel Wayne
1904 - 1978
Shelly Silver
Born 1957
Kathryn Abbe
1919 - 2014
Mitchell Stephens
Born 1949
Louise Seaman Bechtel
1894 - 1985
Maria Leach
1892 - 1977
Alvin Slaughter
Born 1955
Meade Roberts
1930 - 1992
Joan Peyser
1930 - 2011
Robert Warshow
1917 - 1955
Jay Greene
1942 - 2017
Ed Koren
Born 1935
Ellen Lipton Hollander
Born 1949
Maritcha Remond Lyons
1848 - 1929
Bobbie Kilberg
Born 1944
Bennett Boskey
1916 - 2016
Brian Delaney
Born 1967
Alexi Worth
Born 1964
Irwin Sherman
Born 1933
Kenneth Case
1923 - 2006
Rob Sorcher
Born 1961
Ambersunshower
Born 1950
Mina F. Miller
Born 1949
Philip S. Goodman
1926 - 2015
Eugene Kusielewicz
1930 - 1996
Annette D'Agostino Lloyd
Born 1962
Bill Baird (activist)
Born 1930
David Schnarch
1946 - 2020
Jacqueline Ayer
1930 - 2012
Spencer S. Wood
1861 - 1940
Satara Murray
Born 1993
Eric M. Nelson
Born 1977
John Robert Hoffman
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Charles J. Dougherty
Born 1949
Patrick Sheridan
1922 - 2011
Jesse H. Ausubel
Born 1951
Richard Alba
Born 1942
Jennifer Vanderbes
Born 1974
Jacob Tyson
1773 - 1848
Tazewell Thompson
Born 1948
Bobby Wine
Born 1938
David Thompson (attore)
1884 - 1957
Harold H. Schlosberg
1904 - 1964
Joseph J. Nazzaro
1913 - 1990
Bart Burns
1918 - 2007
John Moráles
Born 1939
Phil Dusenberry
1936 - 2007
Donald Sanborn
Born 1950
Virginia Naumann-Gungl
1848 - 1915
Charles Kernaghan
Born 1948
Arthur Adel
1908 - 1994
Bill Rogers (voice actor)
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Janice H. Levin
1913 - 2001
Nikko London
Born 1975
Helen Yglesias
1915 - 2008
Marcus Jansen
Born 1968
Charles Owen Rice
1908 - 2005
Ed Pincus
1938 - 2013
Matthew Weinstein
Born 1964
Dave Jennings (American football)
1952 - 2013
Lenore Terr
Born 1936
Tiger Smalls
Born 1969
John M. Corridan
1911 - 1984
Lawrence Cook (actor)
1930 - 2003
Susan Jane Gilman
Born 1924
Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge
1969 - 2007
Joe Sambito
Born 1952
Thomas Beller
Born 1965
Burt Styler
1925 - 2011
Steven Berk
Born 1949
Joe Tacopina
Born 1966
Robert Rosen (writer)
Born 1952
Angus Dun
1892 - 1971
Roy Wood Jr.
Born 1978
David Yezzi
Born 1966
Joi Cardwell
Born 1967
Kim Ng
Born 1968
Sumner Hunt
1865 - 1938
Richard Garth Henning
Born 1964
Peter Jeffery
Born 1953
Néstor Cora
Born 1956
Ariel S. Leve
Born 1968
Philip Baruth
Born 1962
Moshe Koppel
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Lester Persky
1925 - 2001
Maud Morgan
1900 - 1999
Marie Zimmermann
1879 - 1972
Chet Simmons
1928 - 2010
Walter J. Burghardt
1914 - 2008
Steven Klepper
1949 - 2013
Jim Dvorak
Born 1948
Robert B. Fiske
Born 1930
Lester Markel
1894 - 1977
Raymond Luedeke
Born 1944
James David Smillie
1833 - 1909
Jim Yardley
Born 1964
Tor Hyams
Born 1969
Anne Chu
1959 - 2016
Carl Schall (Chemiker)
1856 - 1939
William McCarty Little
1845 - 1915
Sigmund Abeles
Born 1934
Willie Pile
Born 1980
Jilly Rizzo
1917 - 1992
Elena Goode
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Charles O. Rossotti
Born 1941
Luis de Florez
1889 - 1962
Arnie Kogen
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Anna Hall Roosevelt
1863 - 1892
Saul Sternberg
Born 1933
Ramfis Domínguez-Trujillo
Born 1970
Adam Hasner
Born 1969
Joe Quigg
Born 1937
Bob Mann (guitarist)
Born 1944
Douglas Wood (naturalist)
Born 1951
Eddie Martin (boxer)
1903 - 1968
Sophie Cabot Black
Born 1958
Abraham Cooper (Rabbiner)
Born 1950
Murray Boltinoff
1911 - 1994
Richard Dimitri
Born 1942
James Tierney (attorney)
Born 1947
Nore Davis
Born 1984
John G. Bernander
Born 1957
Patty Dann
Born 1953
John Garrett Underhill
1876 - 1946
Sydney Beck
1906 - 2001
Warren Sonbert
1947 - 1995
Winifred Milius Lubell
1914 - 2012
George Burroughs Torrey
1863 - 1942
Reginald Shepherd
1963 - 2008
Henry Morton (scientist)
1836 - 1902
Carol Anthony
Born 1943
Herbert Gelernter
1929 - 2015
Samuel Blumenfeld
1927 - 2015
Frank Biondi
1945 - 2019
Jus Addiss
1917 - 1979
Peter Katis
Born 1966
Milt Machlin
1924 - 2004
David Rosen (businessman)
Born 1930
Robert Mandell (conductor)
1929 - 2020
Robert Nodar Jr.
1916 - 1974
Louise Kramer
Born 1923
Claudia Hart
Born 1955
Toni Seven
1922 - 1991
Robert Braucher
1916 - 1981
Marie Shotwell
1880 - 1934
Irene Lewisohn
1886 - 1944
Alan Patricof
Born 1935
Regina Richards
Born 1954
Gene Frankel
1919 - 2005
Mark Davis (American football)
Born 1954
Stuart Ostrow
Born 1932
Sue Schell
Born 1950
Billy Jones (1930s singer)
1889 - 1940
William Vitarelli
1910 - 2010
Sam Zoldak
1918 - 1966
Katharine Bishop
1889 - 1975
John Cenatiempo
Born 1963
Liborio Bellomo
Born 1957
Donald Saff
Born 1937
Alexander Brook
1898 - 1980
Susi Hyldgaard
Born 1963
Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz
1853 - 1921
Matthew T. Abruzzo
1889 - 1971
Winn Schwartau
Born 1952
Matty Simmons
Died 2020
Charles Scribner II
1854 - 1930
Ira J. Kurzban
Born 1949
Mike Papantonio
Born 1953
Ethel Remey
1895 - 1979
Lance Goulbourne
Born 1989
Salvatore Murdocca
Born 1943
Cy Schindell
1907 - 1948
John Maguire (coadjutor archbishop of New York)
1904 - 1989
Johnny Stewart
Born 1934
Gabriel P. Weisberg
Born 1942
Thomas Francis Murphy
1905 - 1995
William Willett Jr.
1869 - 1938
Zelma Wilson
1918 - 1996
Arthur H. Wicks
1887 - 1985
Steve Carter (playwright)
1929 - 2020
Ann Grifalconi
1929 - 2020
Ellen Gould Zweibel
Born 1952
Ronnie Bright
1938 - 2015
Donald M. Frame
1911 - 1991
Josephine Earle
1892 - 1929
Steve Lieberman
Born 1958
John Bahler
Born 1940
Alexandra Kenworthy
Born 1932
Allen Weisselberg
Born 1947
DeWitt Clinton Cregier
1829 - 1898
Kenny Albert
Born 1968
Donald Bamberg
1920 - 2013
Lee Simonson
1888 - 1967
Sophie Beem
Born 1999
Elaine D. Kaplan
Born 1955
Lauren Grodstein
Born 1975
Iris Love
1933 - 2020
William Heyen
Born 1940
Laurence Hutton
1843 - 1904
Louis Hostlot
1848 - 1884
Edward Delafield
1794 - 1875
David Siegel (screenwriter)
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Gavrik Losey
Born 1938
Arthur Carpenter
1920 - 2006
Curt Stone
Born 1922
Koby Altman
Born 1982
William Glen (geologist)
Born 1932
E. L. Katz
Born 1981