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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.
Jill Farren Phelps
Born 1950
Bobby Gustafson
Born 1965
George Henry Smillie
1840 - 1921
William Ard
1922 - 1960
James A. Stillman
1873 - 1944
Peter Sears (poet)
1937 - 2017
Norm Drucker
1920 - 2015
Lennie Mace
Born 1965
George J. Hazel
Born 1975
Judith Kelman
Born 1945
Reinhard H. Luthin
1905 - 1962
John Rossant
Born 1955
Phil Lempert
Born 1953
Benedetto Aloi
1935 - 2011
Frank Brooks (baseball)
Born 1978
Arnaud Cazin d'Honincthun
Born 1949
Russell A. Rourke
1931 - 2003
Holly Sklar
Born 1955
Jumaane Williams
Born 1976
Johnny Roventini
1910 - 1998
Morton Marcus
1936 - 2009
Vivian Ostrovsky
Born 1945
Gerald Klerman
1928 - 1992
David Norton Edelstein
1910 - 2000
Chef Tony
Born 1954
Samuel Adler (artist)
1898 - 1979
Joseph Behar
1933 - 2003
James Taft Hatfield
1862 - 1945
Cindy Nemser
Born 1937
Edwin Gould Sr.
1866 - 1933
Brenda Lane
1910 - 1942
Martine Aballéa
Born 1950
John Francis Neylan
1885 - 1960
Bernard Nussbaum
Born 1937
Clarkson Crolius
1774 - 1843
Erroll Fraser
1950 - 2002
Judy Green (socialite)
1931 - 2001
Bob Lockwood
1954 - 1989
Lew Palter
Born 1928
Richard H. Frenkiel
Born 1943
Abe Bernstein
1892 - 1968
Andrew Silver (producer)
Born 1942
Big Guido
Born 1964
Stephen Duneier
Born 1967
Kenneth Brown (playwright)
Born 1936
Kathryn Minner
1892 - 1969
Michael Kahn (theatre director)
Born 1937
Frank H. Schwarz
1894 - 1951
William Henry Drake (painter)
1856 - 1926
Tracy Almeda-Singian
Born 1979
Helen Willa Samuels
Born 1943
Eugene Schieffelin
1827 - 1906
Hugh E. Conway
Born 1942
Steven Kroll
1941 - 2011
JoAnne Carson
Born 1953
Pierre Lorillard III
1796 - 1867
Vladas Jankauskas (cyclist)
1903 - 1969
Eytan Schwartz
Born 1974
Elle Schneider
Born 1985
Steve Freund
Born 1952
Eric Delson
Born 1945
Henry Wilson Savage
1859 - 1927
Arthur J. Krener
Born 1942
Julia Landauer
Born 1991
Elena Ford
Born 1966
Al Lerner
1933 - 2002
William Sylvester Silkworth
1884 - 1971
Carlo Pittore
1943 - 2005
Justin Rhodes
Born 1972
Dimitri Devyatkin
Born 1949
Nicholas P. Dallis
1911 - 1991
Frederic L. Chapin
1929 - 1989
Bob Blumenfield
Born 1967
Serena Altschul
Born 1970
Melinda Wang
Born 1990
Phofo
Born 1974
Mark Ballou
Born 1971
Archibald E. Stevenson
1884 - 1961
James R. Benn
Born 1949
Franca Duval
Born 1925
Charles Freeman Lee
1927 - 2007
Harris Rosen
Born 1939
Robert Pack (poet)
Born 1929
Kathleen McEnery
1888 - 1971
Harold Hyman (journalist)
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Gustave E. Steinback
1878 - 1959
Everett Stern
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Don Kent (blues historian)
1944 - 2015
Dana Beyer
Born 1952
Juan Sastoque
Born 1977
Paul LaRosa
Born 1953
Ken Roberts (announcer)
1910 - 2009
Altoon Sultan
Born 1948
Stanley Beck
Born 1936
Irving Terjesen
1915 - 1990
Frank Weil
1894 - 1957
Todd Martinez
Born 1968
Muriel Castanis
1926 - 2006
George Rosener
1884 - 1945
Erin B. Mee
Born 1963
David Coleman (education)
Born 1970
Peter J. Feibelman
Born 1942
Clarence D. Tuska
1896 - 1985
Arturo Sergi
1925 - 2006
Stirling Colgate
1925 - 2013
Jane Rosen
Born 1950
Barry T. Albin
Born 1952
John Quinn (physicist)
1933 - 2018
Anna Lord Strauss
1899 - 1979
Carmen Fariña
Born 1942
Marjorie Torrey
1891 - 1964
Gilbert Green
1914 - 1984
Mike Bellamy
Born 1966
Ray Osrin
1928 - 2001
Warren Heywood Williams
1844 - 1888
William Schaap
1940 - 2016
Chief Roseman
1856 - 1938
Greg Lashutka
Born 1944
Susan Unterberg
Born 1941
Jill Enfield
Born 1954
Rich Conaty
1954 - 2016
John Henry Cornell
1828 - 1894
John Cortes (Florida politician)
Born 1961
Johnny Sanchez
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Eugene A. Philbin
1857 - 1920
Stephen D. Koch
1940 - 2017
Reina (musician)
Born 1978
Harold Mirisch
1907 - 1968
John Rodney
1914 - 1996
Kathryn Mullen
Born 1940
Rick Gotkin
Born 1959
Adele Simpson
1903 - 1995
James Kwak
Born 1950
Marie Wallace
1939 - 2013
Lillian Birnbaum
Born 1955
Richardson Hitchins
Born 1997
Mary M. Crawford
1884 - 1972
Emily Yancy
Born 1939
Bethann Hardison
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Sean Albertson
Born 1968
Sandy Reed
Born 1968
Carola Dibbell
Born 1945
Roger Berlind
Born 1930
Charles Knapp (scholar)
1868 - 1936
Fred Aldrich
1904 - 1979
Heiri Känzig
Born 1957
Josefina Villalobos
Born 1924
Elizabeth Cushier
1837 - 1931
Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson
Born 1972
Dick Sabot
1944 - 2005
Andrew Nusca
Born 1985
Fred O'Connor
Born 1939
Ester Goldfeld
Born 1993
Nan Rich
Born 1942
Charles Rollinson Lamb
1860 - 1942
Gillian Einstein
Born 1950
James Mellon
Born 1942
Olga Viscal Garriga
1929 - 1995
Methodios Tournas
Born 1946
Nick Salvatore
Born 1943
George Mandel
Born 1920
Harry Eisenstat
1915 - 2003
Rosanna Scotto
Born 1958
Ejovi Nuwere
Born 1980
Yehuda Fulda
Born 1975
Louis Silberkleit
1900 - 1986
Marianne Githens
1936 - 2018
Duane James
Born 1983
George Zimmer
Born 1948
Henry Drisler
1818 - 1897
Tom Meany
1903 - 1964
Edwin Joseph O'Malley
1881 - 1953
Marshall Perlin
1920 - 1998
Donald S. Baim
1949 - 2009
James Ciccone
Born 1963
Jules Dubois
1910 - 1966
Luchi De Jesus
1923 - 1984
Eric C. Bauman
Born 1958
S. Roy Luby
1904 - 1976
Jerome Guardino
Born 1923
Tony Fabrizio
Born 1960
Jerry Clack
1926 - 2019
Gian Alberto Blanc
1879 - 1966
Warren Hellman
1934 - 2011
James Henry Darlington
1856 - 1930
Douglas N. C. Lin
Born 1949
Matthew Astor Wilks
1844 - 1926
Benjamin Klein
Born 1943
John Dirks (cartoonist)
1917 - 2010
Bernie Fine
Born 1945
Minetta Good
1895 - 1946
William Wallace Sanger
1819 - 1872
Larry Loupolover
Born 1999
John L. Broome
1824 - 1898
Nicholas Nayfack
1909 - 1958
Philip Morehead
Born 1942
Judith Gamora Cohen
Born 1946
John Nogrady
1913 - 2007
Paul J. Curran
1933 - 2008
Francis T. Purcell
1918 - 2014
Stephan Loewentheil
Born 1950
Thomas John McDonnell
1894 - 1961
Prescott Niles
Born 1954
Ernest Chiriaka
1913 - 2010
Alan Briskin
Born 1954
George R. Stark
Born 1933
Sandra Fong
Born 1990
Artie Kaplan
Born 1945
Eric Mingus
Born 1964
Nancy Friedman Atlas
Born 1949
Elliott Naishtat
Born 1945
Brian Cronin
Born 1970
Mark Chironna
Born 1954
Mike Petri
Born 1984
Antonio Anderson (American football)
Born 1973
Gail Koff
1945 - 2010
Catherine Jansen
Born 1950
Paris Theodore
1943 - 2006
William B. Renshaw
1816 - 1863
Patricia Beck
1924 - 1978
Fanny White
1823 - 1860
Robert Temple Emmet
1854 - 1936
Patrick Connors
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Harry Feldman
1919 - 1962
Pat Harper
1935 - 1994
Zainab Ahmad
Born 1980
Benny Safdie
Born 1986
Siraj Wahhaj
Born 1950
Hans Wolfgang Singer (Kunsthistoriker)
1867 - 1957
Thomas F. Darcy
1932 - 2000
Phil Schiliro
Born 1956
James Boorman Colgate
1818 - 1904
Adam Cohen (scientist)
Born 1979
Maxwell Geismar
1909 - 1979
Dick Kleiner
1921 - 2002
Paul Apostol
Born 1945
Margot Botsford
Born 1947
Hannah Kahn
1911 - 1988
Craig Beardsley
Born 1960
Johannes de Peyster
1666 - 1719
Robert Lewis Shayon
1912 - 2008
Lydia Longacre
1870 - 1951
Charles P. Howland
1869 - 1932
Ronald B. Herberman
1940 - 2013
Wayne Cohen
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Earl Schenck Miers
1910 - 1972
Stephen Pisano
1946 - 2019
Frank Testa
1903 - 2000
Eleanor Clymer
1906 - 2001
Herbert H. Lang
1921 - 2006
Sharon Gans
Born 1932
Jesse Hamilton
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Peter Barnes (entrepreneur)
Born 1940
Matt Odmark
Born 1974
Thomas Houseworth
1828 - 1915
Ezra Schabas
1924 - 2020
Walter Satterlee
1844 - 1908
Thomas Duane
Born 1955
Joseph Arkin
1923 - 2002
Scott Milne
Born 1959
Clarence Winthrop Bowen
1852 - 1935
Rhonda Heath
Born 1955
Alvin Singleton
Born 1940
Jules Halfant
1909 - 2001
Sylvia Glickman
1932 - 2006
Walter Ackerman
1881 - 1938
Karl Drews
1920 - 1963
Todd Schnitt
Born 1966
Kick Kelly
1856 - 1926
Valerie Smith (academic)
Born 1956
Bryce Vine
Born 1988
E. Bernard Jordan
Born 1959
Joseph Fontano
Born 1950
Hal Plotkin
Born 1957
George Musulin
1914 - 1987
James A. Foley
1882 - 1946
Bruce Pasternack
Born 1947
Douglas Richman
Born 1943
Bill Horvitz
1947 - 2017
Anya Taranda
1915 - 1970
Michael Benedikt (poet)
1935 - 2007
Gene Carr (cartoonist)
1881 - 1959
Meyer Levin (military)
1918 - 1943
Edgar Franklin Wittmack
1894 - 1956
Charles Sargent (politician)
1945 - 2018
David Ancrum
Born 1958
Zander Hollander
1923 - 2014
Herbert Seidman
1920 - 1995
Burton Edelson
1926 - 2002
Alexander Goodwin
Born 1987
Yisroel Eliyahu Weintraub
1932 - 2010
William M. Jennings
1920 - 1981
William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950)
1927 - 1950
Hank Behrman
1921 - 1987
George Savitsky
1924 - 2012
Peter O. Steiner
1922 - 2010
Samuel Isham
1855 - 1914
Sal Randolph
Born 1959
Tito Puente Jr.
Born 1971
Sol Marcus
1912 - 1976