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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.
Helen Grace Scott Keenan
1915 - 1987
Scott Ullger
Born 1955
Joshua Shelley
1920 - 1990
Michael Mazur
1935 - 2009
Chris Dagradi
Born 1954
Samantha Harvey (pentathlete)
Born 1972
Dadi Denis
Born 1976
Steve Brodie (bridge jumper)
1863 - 1901
Jonathan Lash
Born 1945
James Joseph Rowley
1908 - 1992
Caroline Manzo
Born 1961
Amram Ducovny
1927 - 2003
John Norton (water polo)
1899 - 1987
Anne Poor
1918 - 2002
Stanley Loomis
1922 - 1972
William L. Taylor
1931 - 2010
Stephen Katz (writer)
1946 - 2005
Young M.A
Born 1992
Alfred E. Bull
1867 - 1930
Evan Flatow
Born 1956
Ray Price (speechwriter)
1930 - 2019
Abner Dean
1910 - 1982
William Dudley Foulke
1848 - 1935
Theodore Sizer (art historian)
1892 - 1967
Ira Skutch
1921 - 2010
Joyce Sparer Adler
1915 - 1999
Holbrook Mann MacNeille
1907 - 1973
Nancy Sutley
Born 1962
Walter Kaner
1920 - 2005
Tommy Spider Kelly
1867 - 1927
Coreen Simpson
Born 1942
Leslie Cagan
Born 1947
Michael S. Cullen
Born 1939
Sonya Tayeh
Born 1977
Bobby Weinstein
Born 1939
Ira Brad Matetsky
Born 1962
Leonard D. Wexler
1924 - 2018
Dave Sheppard
1931 - 2000
Megan Rice
Born 1930
Ralph S. Larsen
1938 - 2016
Edward Fitzpatrick
1884 - 1960
Francis R. Valeo
1916 - 2006
George Rappleyea
1894 - 1966
John La Puma
Born 1957
Lillian Worth
1884 - 1952
David L. Spector
Born 1952
Arnold Elston
1907 - 1971
Robert J. Randisi
Born 1951
R. M. Koster
Born 1934
James F. Brennan
Born 1952
Arthur Daley (sportswriter)
1904 - 1974
Laurie Carlos
1949 - 2016
Charlotte Friend
1921 - 1987
Christopher Collier (historian)
1930 - 2020
Brenda Webster
Born 1936
Miranda Devine
Born 1960
Robin Herman
Born 1951
Eunice Golden
Born 1927
Mary Wilkinson Streep
1915 - 2001
William Waldren
1924 - 2003
Frank Van der Veer
1921 - 1982
Nancy Azara
Born 1939
Bouvier Beale
1922 - 1994
Seymour Boardman
1921 - 2005
Bill Schultz (producer)
Born 1960
Jack Marshall (author)
Born 1936
Jéssica de la Peña
Born 1977
Ray Reyes
Born 1970
Matthew Russell (triathlon)
Born 1983
Kyle Duncan (soccer)
Born 1997
David Attie
1920 - 1982
Nanette Guilford
1903 - 1990
Francis Alexander Shields
1941 - 2003
Robert C. Hilliard
1857 - 1927
Nancy Dwyer
Born 1954
Ian Woodner
1903 - 1990
Stephen Vitiello
Born 1964
Fred G. Meyer
1886 - 1978
Miguel Pedro Mundo
1937 - 1999
Stephen C. Robinson
Born 1957
Lester Kinsolving
1927 - 2018
Harold Tovish
1921 - 2008
Eric Litwin
Born 1966
Dov Shurin
Born 1949
Brian Doherty (drummer)
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Jack Catran
1918 - 2001
Stephen Victor Wilson
Born 1941
Anthony M. Johnson
Born 1954
Janet Yang
Born 1956
Lena Levine
1903 - 1965
Sidney Mashbir
1891 - 1973
Kenward Elmslie
Born 1929
Yvonne Ciannella
Born 1926
Raymond Singer
Born 1948
Ari Taub (director)
Born 1965
Tom Cooper (cyclist)
1874 - 1906
Charles Edward Glass
1934 - 1998
Channing E. Phillips
1928 - 1987
Paul Scheurich
1883 - 1945
Rowland Scherman
Born 1937
Sarah Lewitinn
Born 1980
Dina Manzo
Born 1972
Jane Kim
Born 1977
Jennifer Elster
Born 1970
Darren Ockert
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Rose Jackson (actress)
Born 1966
Judith Edelman
1923 - 2014
Nadine Renee
1972 - 2004
Violet Barclay
1922 - 2010
Walter Galenson
1914 - 1999
Michael Jaffe
Born 1945
Seymour Topping
1921 - 2020
Leonard I. Garth
1921 - 2016
Elizabeth Gould (psychologist)
Born 1962
Mike Orlando
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Amy Antin
Born 1955
William Scully (bishop)
1894 - 1969
Juliette Powell
Born 1976
Eddie Rivera
Born 1970
Francis Keppel
1916 - 1990
Phillip Sprangle
Born 1944
Edmund Marion Ashe
1867 - 1941
Jackie Sumell
Born 1973
George Burns (golfer)
Born 1949
Gerald Blidstein
1938 - 2020
Edwin Burr Babbitt
1862 - 1939
Laura Dave
Born 1977
Ann Shoket
Born 1972
Constantine Gregory
Born 1942
John Mara
Born 1954
Samuel Purdy
1819 - 1882
Richard Michelson
Born 1953
Mel Miller
1939 - 2019
James Mapes
1806 - 1866
Robert Karvelas
1921 - 1991
Alexander Hamilton Jr. (1816–1889)
1816 - 1889
Betsy Joslyn
Born 1954
Roy Welland
Born 1962
Peter Ungar
Born 1963
Donald S. Klopfer
1902 - 1986
Nina Tichman
Born 1949
David Randolph
1914 - 2010
Michael Stern (journalist)
1910 - 2009
Elizabeth Miklosi
Born 1983
Stuart H. Walker
1923 - 2018
Charles Barron
Born 1950
Mario Gabelli
Born 1942
Louis Calabro
1926 - 1991
Gandy Brodie
1924 - 1975
Carol Ann Abrams
1942 - 2012
Anita B. Brody
Born 1935
Charles Herbert Moore
1840 - 1930
Joe Yukl
1909 - 1981
Len Steckler
1930 - 2016
Mimi Gross
Born 1940
Owen Kildare
1864 - 1911
Phyllis Krasilovsky
1926 - 2014
Cynthia Propper Seton
1926 - 1982
Lillian Friedman Astor
1912 - 1989
Frank Rodriguez
Born 1972
Bobby Slayton
Born 1955
Roland Hinton Perry
1870 - 1941
Patrick H. Reason
1816 - 1898
Byron Vazakas
1905 - 1987
Joe Brandt
1882 - 1939
Irene Franklin
1876 - 1941
Benedict Freedman
1919 - 2012
Crystal Kiang
Born 1990
E.V. Day
Born 1967
Martin Mayer
1928 - 2019
JayVaughn Pinkston
Born 1991
May Singhi Breen
1891 - 1970
Sebastian Blanck
Born 1976
Robert Boardman Howard
1896 - 1983
Robert Livingston Gerry Sr.
1877 - 1957
Michael Campus
1935 - 2015
Jeremiah Morris
1929 - 2006
Ben Belitt
1911 - 2003
Arielle Tepper Madover
Born 1972
Elaine Barrie
1915 - 2003
Alice Mann
1900 - 1986
Hilda Van Siller
1911 - 1982
Lawrence Fuchs
1927 - 2013
Gordon P. Robertson
Born 1958
Robert A. King
1862 - 1932
Paul Carter Harrison
Born 1936
Cristina Perez (judge)
Born 1968
Jed Babbin
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Edward Weinfeld
1901 - 1988
Boaz Lavie
Born 1974
Joseph Michael Gilmore
1893 - 1962
Carl Kruger
Born 1949
Sherwood MacDonald
1880 - 1968
Jimmy Savo
1895 - 1960
Andrew L. Riker
1868 - 1930
Philip Galanes
Born 1962
Lucy Fox
1897 - 1970
Menasha Skulnik
1890 - 1970
Irving Moskowitz
1928 - 2016
Jack Lait
1883 - 1954
Paul Schutzer
1930 - 1967
Marjorie Gubelmann
Born 1969
Paul Henry Walsh
1937 - 2014
Robert Sussman
1941 - 2016
Jerome Percus
Born 1926
Sheppard Solomon
Born 1969
Augustus Post
1873 - 1952
Robert Walton Goelet
1880 - 1941
Tom Wiggin
Born 1955
Thomas Gambino
Born 1929
Billy Gallo
Born 1966
Richard C. Steiner
Born 1945
William Tilden Blodgett
1823 - 1875
Abbe Lowell
Born 1952
Ken Birman
Born 1955
Adrienne Asch
1946 - 2013
John Miller (musician)
Born 1945
Sam Schulman
1910 - 2003
Isadore Gilbert Mudge
1875 - 1957
Lisa Oppenheim
Born 1975
Virginia Vestoff
1939 - 1982
Winifred Lenihan
1898 - 1964
David B. Allison
Born 1963
Alan Abelson
1925 - 2013
Alex Roshuk
1956 - 2014
Nancy Kissinger
Born 1934
Louis Logic
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Frank Proto
Born 1941
Joseph Blumenthal (printer)
1897 - 1990
Mortimer M. Elkind
1922 - 2000
Martin A. Pomerantz
1916 - 2008
Daniel S. Greenberg
1931 - 2020
Abram Isaac Elkus
1867 - 1947
Richard A. Lutz
Born 1949
Sean MacFarland
Born 1959
Ted Ashley
1922 - 2002
Paul Jacobs (composer)
Born 1950
Bohdan Andrusyshyn
Born 1958
Tudor Jenks
1857 - 1922
Hilary Thayer Hamann
Born 1962
Eugene M. Travis
1863 - 1940
Steven M. Zeitels
Born 1957
Pete Axthelm
1943 - 1991
Nicola Kraus
Born 1974
Jedd Novatt
Born 1958
Moses Rischin
1925 - 2020
Barbara Slater (actress)
1920 - 1997
Ann Brewster
1918 - 2005
Rory O'Connor (filmmaker)
Born 1951
Robert Perless
Born 1938
John S. Norris
1804 - 1876
Heide Perlman
Born 1951
Leo Berman
1935 - 2015
Richard Behar
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Herbert Ratner
1907 - 1997
Rufus McCain
1903 - 1940
Roland Hooks
Born 1953
Rebecca Wolff
Born 1967
Alden R. Hatch
1898 - 1975
William Sanders (basketball)
Born 1972
Peter Ruehl
1947 - 2011
Olamide Faison
Born 1983
Chris Manhertz
Born 1992
Philip Sterling
1922 - 1998
Daniel Gordon (artist)
Born 1980
Rosalind Bengelsdorf
1916 - 1979
David Graham Baird
1854 - 1913
Stanley Fink
1936 - 1997
Brian Lehrer
Born 1952
Pierce Rafferty
Born 1952
Robert Goldwin
1922 - 2010
Scott Bloch
-
Mindy Alper
Born 1959
Stuart Milk
Born 1960
Thomas Henry Barry
1855 - 1919
Frederick Paul Keppel
1875 - 1943
John Curl
Born 1940
Estelle Liebling
1880 - 1970
Bernard Punsly
1923 - 2004
Ruth Vollmer
1903 - 1982
Bernard Zaslav
1926 - 2016
Mara Liasson
Born 1955
Shloime Dachs
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Leigh Raven
Born 1991
Heather Henson
Born 1970
Topo Swope
Born 1948
Lou Fleischer
1889 - 1976
Turk Lown
1924 - 2016
Thomas Bird Mosher
1852 - 1923
Monét X Change
Born 1990
Joseph Francis Flannelly
1894 - 1973
Charles Edward McDonnell
1854 - 1921
Daniel Andler
Born 1946
Joseph Byron Totten
1870 - 1946
Walter Karp
1934 - 1989
Iris Burton
1930 - 2008
Jack Manning (actor)
1916 - 2009
Elaine Kaufman
1929 - 2010
Steve Chapin
Born 1946
John W. Cooper
1873 - 1966