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.
John Romita Jr.
Born 1956
Stephanie Zimbalist
Born 1956
Scott Brady
1924 - 1985
Evan Handler
Born 1961
Larry Hankin
Born 1940
Allan Arbus
1918 - 2013
James Coco
1930 - 1987
Melba Moore
Born 1945
John Oates
Born 1949
Billy Collins
Born 1941
Marv Wolfman
Born 1946
Al Lettieri
1928 - 1975
Susan Anspach
1942 - 2018
Mal Waldron
1925 - 2002
Wynter Gordon
Born 1985
Shelly Manne
1920 - 1984
Ferde Grofé
1892 - 1972
Robert R. Livingston (chancellor)
1746 - 1813
Deborah Lipstadt
Born 1947
Eileen Ryan
Born 1928
Don Winslow
Born 1953
Alice Pearce
1917 - 1966
Raquel Castro
Born 1994
Jerry Doyle
1956 - 2016
Jeff Corey
1914 - 2002
Moe Tucker
Born 1944
Annie Golden
Born 1951
Matthew Daddario
Born 1987
Frank H. Netter
1906 - 1991
Vernon A. Walters
1917 - 2002
Arnold Rothstein
1882 - 1928
Patsy Kelly
1910 - 1981
Wendy Makkena
Born 1963
Hugh David Politzer
Born 1949
Jack Gilford
1907 - 1990
J. P. Donleavy
1926 - 2017
Melvin Schwartz
1932 - 2006
Robert Darnton
Born 1939
Jim Palmer
Born 1945
Alan Reed
1907 - 1977
Doc Pomus
1925 - 1991
Ricardo Cortez
1900 - 1977
William Forsythe (choreographer)
Born 1949
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Born 1943
Nancy Carroll
1903 - 1965
Ben Schnetzer
Born 1990
Ellie Greenwich
1940 - 2009
Noureen DeWulf
Born 1984
Thomas Calabro
Born 1959
Rick Berman
Born 1945
Andrea Elson
Born 1969
Madeleine Martin
Born 1993
Mercedes de Acosta
1893 - 1968
Carmen Dell'Orefice
Born 1931
Clarence Williams III
Born 1939
Priscilla Pointer
Born 1924
Kool Moe Dee
Born 1962
Hayden Rorke
1910 - 1987
Jack Holt (actor)
1888 - 1951
Luther Adler
1903 - 1984
James Merrill
1926 - 1995
Billie Dove
1903 - 1997
Jacque Fresco
1916 - 2017
Harry Cohn
1891 - 1958
John Patitucci
Born 1959
Patti D'Arbanville
Born 1951
William Asher
1921 - 2012
Duane Jones
1937 - 1988
Brad Fiedel
Born 1951
James DeMonaco
Born 1969
Moses Finley
1912 - 1986
Gordon Douglas (director)
1907 - 1993
William Bennett
Born 1943
Maggie Wheeler
Born 1961
Helen Levitt
1913 - 2009
Constance Talmadge
1898 - 1973
Alan Oppenheimer
Born 1930
Stephanie Mills
Born 1957
Sumner Welles
1892 - 1961
Whit Bissell
1909 - 1996
Didi Conn
Born 1951
Adam Green (musician)
Born 1981
Nick Kroll
Born 1978
Candida Royalle
1950 - 2015
Budd Schulberg
1914 - 2009
Larry Storch
Born 1923
Chris Stein
Born 1950
Elvis Crespo
Born 1971
Memphis Bleek
Born 1978
Brian Robbins
Born 1963
Steve Israel
Born 1958
Maxwell Perkins
1884 - 1947
Glynn Turman
Born 1947
Nika Futterman
Born 1969
Jonathan Kellerman
Born 1949
Deborah Snyder
-
Jackie McLean
1931 - 2006
Carol Ann Susi
1952 - 2014
George W. De Long
1844 - 1881
Cyril M. Kornbluth
1923 - 1958
Barry Mazur
Born 1937
El-P
Born 1975
Paul Bartel
1938 - 2000
Alan Vega
1938 - 2016
Emily Meade
Born 1989
Gene Raymond
1908 - 1998
Christine Todd Whitman
Born 1946
John Finn
Born 1952
Stuart Rosenberg
1927 - 2007
Peter Cooper
1791 - 1883
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Born 1944
Ty Hardin
1930 - 2017
Ted Post
1918 - 2013
Gerald Mohr
1914 - 1968
Fred Ebb
1928 - 2004
Bea Benaderet
1906 - 1968
Anne Sinclair
Born 1948
Jill Abramson
Born 1954
Sam McMurray
Born 1952
Paul Kelly (actor)
1899 - 1956
James Roosevelt
1907 - 1991
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever
1886 - 1971
Leonard Rosenman
1924 - 2008
William James Sidis
1898 - 1944
Rachel True
Born 1966
Rick Hoffman
Born 1970
Eleanor Audley
1905 - 1991
James Truslow Adams
1878 - 1949
David Berkowitz
Born 1953
Jerome Karle
1918 - 2013
Robert Kerman
1947 - 2018
Chester Morris
1901 - 1970
Peter Yarrow
Born 1938
Skai Jackson
Born 2002
Molly Picon
1898 - 1992
Billy Hayes (writer, born 1947)
Born 1947
Lindsay Sloane
Born 1977
Cynthia Ozick
Born 1928
Herbert A. Hauptman
1917 - 2011
Michelle Borth
Born 1978
Richard LaGravenese
Born 1959
Barry Sullivan (American actor)
1912 - 1994
Bernie Kopell
Born 1933
Johnny Mandel
1925 - 2020
Nita Naldi
1894 - 1961
Aleksa Palladino
Born 1980
Moss Hart
1904 - 1961
Joan Wallach Scott
Born 1941
David Morales
Born 1961
Carmine Infantino
1925 - 2013
Sakina Jaffrey
Born 1962
Caldwell Esselstyn
Born 1933
Jock Sturges
Born 1947
John Hammond (record producer)
1910 - 1987
Dan Lauria
Born 1947
Alex Gibney
Born 1953
Winthrop Rockefeller
1912 - 1973
Ian Gomez
Born 1964
Patty Smyth
Born 1957
Carla Gallo
Born 1975
Ahmed Best
Born 1973
Omar Hakim
Born 1959
Gale Gordon
1906 - 1995
Barbi Benton
Born 1950
Adam Lamberg
Born 1984
Alice Hoffman
Born 1952
Jenji Kohan
Born 1969
Alexander Cartwright
1820 - 1892
Theo Rossi
Born 1975
James Gleick
Born 1954
George Plimpton
1927 - 2003
Edward Kasner
1878 - 1955
Herbert H. Lehman
1878 - 1963
Rick Aviles
1952 - 1995
Stanford White
1853 - 1906
Charles R. Knight
1874 - 1953
Ann Cusack
Born 1961
Teddy Riley
Born 1967
Leila Hyams
1905 - 1977
Keith Green
1953 - 1982
Suze Rotolo
1943 - 2011
John D. Rockefeller III
1906 - 1978
Darryl McDaniels
Born 1964
Jane Bowles
1917 - 1973
Jack Lew
Born 1955
Jon Huertas
Born 1976
Rick Rosenthal
Born 1949
Thomas Gomez
1905 - 1971
Red Holzman
1920 - 1998
Robin Bartlett
Born 1951
Ivan Dixon
1931 - 2008
Caresse Crosby
1891 - 1970
Joe Crowley
Born 1962
Henry Dreyfuss
1904 - 1972
Masta Ace
Born 1966
Lawrence Weiner
Born 1942
Ronan Farrow
Born 1987
Adolph Gottlieb
1903 - 1974
Lola Glaudini
Born 1971
Mark Neveldine
Born 1973
Martin Feldstein
1939 - 2019
Leon Robinson
Born 1962
Jordana Spiro
Born 1977
Lennie Hayton
1908 - 1971
Claiborne Pell
1918 - 2009
Leon Shamroy
1901 - 1974
George Washington Goethals
1858 - 1928
Tony Lo Bianco
Born 1936
Randy Weston
1926 - 2018
Richard Tucker
1913 - 1975
Devin Ratray
Born 1977
Scott Snyder
Born 1976
Angie Martinez
Born 1971
Kevin Conway (actor)
1942 - 2020
Jerry Schatzberg
Born 1927
Ernest Lehman
1915 - 2005
Tony Leondis
Born 1967
Charles Van Doren
1926 - 2019
Max Schneider
Born 1992
Eric Trump
Born 1984
Theresa Saldana
1954 - 2016
Gene Anthony Ray
1962 - 2003
Frank Oppenheimer
1912 - 1985
Sherry Turkle
Born 1948
Boaz Yakin
Born 1966
Richard Perle
Born 1941
David Margulies
1937 - 2016
Olivia (singer)
Born 1981
Berry Berenson
1948 - 2001
Slim Jim Phantom
Born 1961
Russell Alan Hulse
Born 1950
Andrew Vachss
Born 1942
Raymond E. Brown
1928 - 1998
Donald Petrie
Born 1954
David Ausubel
1918 - 2008
Ashley Massaro
1979 - 2019
Ed Powers
Born 1954
Gary Winick
1961 - 2011
William Waldorf Astor
1848 - 1919
Jon Avnet
Born 1949
Robert Smigel
Born 1960
Carmen Luvana
Born 1981
John Ross Bowie
Born 1971
Stephen McNally
1913 - 1994
Brad Meltzer
Born 1970
James Drury
1934 - 2020
Lee Patrick (actress)
1901 - 1982
Brian G. Hutton
1935 - 2014
Diane Farr
Born 1969
Robert Merrill
1917 - 2004
Leo Kadanoff
1937 - 2015
Michael Stuart Brown
Born 1941
Mickey Cohen
1913 - 1976
Michael H. Hart
Born 1932
Ted de Corsia
1903 - 1973
Jimmy Walker
1881 - 1946
Helen Fisher (anthropologist)
Born 1947
Bruce Paltrow
1943 - 2002
Todd Graff
Born 1959
Daniel Stern (psychologist)
1934 - 2012
Elaine de Kooning
1918 - 1989
Jack Kelly (actor)
1927 - 1992
Jimmy Iovine
Born 1953
Ira Aldridge
1807 - 1867
Marilyn French
1929 - 2009
Josh Pais
Born 1964
Michael Kidd
1915 - 2007
Richard Portnow
Born 1947
Phoebe Snow
1950 - 2011
David X. Cohen
Born 1966
Hassler Whitney
1907 - 1989
Mike Garson
Born 1945
Kether Donohue
Born 1985
Payman Maadi
Born 1970
Dave Fleischer
1894 - 1979
Tazz
Born 1967
George Macready
1899 - 1973
Ray Sharkey
1952 - 1993
Betty Comden
1917 - 2006
Gerry Conway
Born 1952
Robert Strauss (actor)
1913 - 1975
Ross Alexander
1907 - 1937
Kenny Drew
1928 - 1993
Robert W. Floyd
1936 - 2001
James Toback
Born 1944
Erick Morillo
1971 - 2020
Frances Bavier
1902 - 1989
Peter Orlovsky
1933 - 2010
Galo Plaza
1906 - 1987
Michael De Luca
Born 1965
Abbe Lane
Born 1932
David Hess
1936 - 2011
John Salley
Born 1964
Joe Santos
1931 - 2016
Sammy Gravano
Born 1945
C. J. Ramone
Born 1965
Jason Fuchs
Born 1986
Jed Whedon
Born 1974
Renée Estevez
Born 1967
Oscar Hijuelos
1951 - 2013