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.
Archibald H. Gillespie
1810 - 1873
Elspeth Rostow
1917 - 2007
Robert Singer (American politician)
Born 1947
John Allman (poet)
Born 1935
David Weil
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Hugh O'Connell
1898 - 1943
Mike Yung
Born 1959
Dave Dictor
Born 1956
Matthew Titone
Born 1961
John J. Clayton
Born 1935
Brian Clifford
Born 1970
Arnold Shaw (author)
1909 - 1989
William Sohmer
1852 - 1929
James William Colbert Jr.
1920 - 1974
William L. Hudson
1794 - 1862
Sal Iacono
Born 1971
Mallory Lewis
Born 1963
Sam Thorne
1873 - 1930
Maxwell Arnow
1902 - 1984
Jan Egleson
Born 1946
Andrew McKelvey
1934 - 2008
David Fried
Born 1962
Arthur G. Miller
Born 1942
Merle Feld
Born 1947
Max D. Raiskin
1919 - 1978
Barry Michael Harman
Born 1952
Harry Kim (musician)
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Alan Tomidy
Born 1974
Herman Eisen
1918 - 2014
Andrew Lanza
Born 1964
Matt Roy (bobsleigh)
Born 1959
Harry Bowen (actor)
1888 - 1941
Anne S. K. Brown
1906 - 1985
Heather Lechtman
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Matthew Mellon
1964 - 2018
Jef Poskanzer
Born 1958
George W. G. Boyce Jr.
Died 1944
Michael von Burg
Born 1977
David Mindich
Born 1963
Matthew Mirones
Born 1956
Ronald Greenwald
1934 - 2016
Danica Phelps
Born 1971
Alfred A. DelliBovi
Born 1946
James Coonan
Born 1946
Alex Meruelo
Born 1960
Chuck Thompson
Born 1926
Ryan Powell (lacrosse)
Born 1978
Ruth Whitman
1922 - 1999
Babette Josephs
Born 1940
George Michael Cuomo
1929 - 2015
Frank Garcia (magician)
1927 - 1993
P. M. Sampson
Born 1960
Harold O. Levy
1952 - 2018
Raffi Krikorian
Born 1978
Robert Herzstein
1940 - 2015
Linda R. Greenstein
Born 1950
Albert Rosenblatt
Born 1936
Eddie Brill
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Charles Gordon (journalist)
Born 1940
Richard LeFrak
Born 1945
Suzanne Parish
1922 - 2010
Richard Frankel (producer)
Born 1947
Henry Y. Satterlee
1843 - 1908
Nathan Mantel
1919 - 2002
Michel Martin
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Mendy Werdyger
Born 1959
Sal Landi
Born 1951
Joseph Walsh
Born 1937
Haleek Maul
Born 1996
Isadore Bernstein
1876 - 1944
Vy Higginsen
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Shaun Smith (defensive lineman)
Born 1981
Rosemary De Angelis
1933 - 2020
Lee Magid
1926 - 2007
Charles Borromeo McLaughlin
1913 - 1978
Alan B. Miller
Born 1937
Gale D. Candaras
Born 1949
Ralph Della Cava
Born 1934
Eric Villency
Born 1975
Haig Mardirosian
Born 1947
Ben Smith (journalist)
Born 1976
Gerald Gutierrez
1950 - 2003
Ben Schonzeit
Born 1942
Joseph Campbell (accountant)
1900 - 1984
Jeffrey P. Buzen
Born 1943
Monte Brice
1891 - 1962
Rita Hazan
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Gary Felsenfeld
Born 1929
Henry Erben
1832 - 1909
Peter A. A. Berle
1937 - 2007
Diana Raab
Born 1954
Tara Monroe
Born 1973
J. Herbert Frank
1885 - 1926
Frank Garcia (basketball)
1918 - 1956
Tommy Sandt
Born 1950
Avery Rockefeller
1903 - 1986
Harry Gardiner
Born 1871
Daniel Katz (environmental activist)
Born 1962
Blaise Ingoglia
Born 1970
Bill Barth
1942 - 2000
Elaine Wynn
Born 1942
Lou Perez (musician)
1928 - 2005
Robert A. Daly
Born 1936
Marion Cothren
1880 - 1949
Vince Camuto
1936 - 2015
Elinor Guggenheimer
1912 - 2008
Robert P. Goldberg
1944 - 1994
Frank Cuprien
1871 - 1948
Frank Ochberg
Born 1940
Lou Limmer
1925 - 2007
Linda Rosenthal
Born 1957
Herschel Schacter
1917 - 2013
Gordon Gottlieb
Born 1948
Joseph Cayre
Born 1941
Antonino Virduzzo
1926 - 1982
Jane Stafford
1899 - 1991
Helen Safa
1930 - 2013
Thurgood Marshall Jr.
Born 1956
William Emerson (American architect)
1873 - 1957
Heike Koschyk
Born 1967
Sherman Garnes
1940 - 1977
Kenneth S. Warren
1929 - 1996
Shaemas O'Sheel
1886 - 1954
James Lechay
1907 - 2001
Alfred John Markiewicz
1928 - 1997
Dave Palumbo
Born 1968
Steven Rothenberg
1958 - 2009
Emanuel Rund
Born 1946
John Ardito
1919 - 2006
David Buskin
Born 1943
David Barkin
Born 1942
Edwin Malave
Born 1950
Lillian Barylli-Fayer
1917 - 2014
Charles D. Breitel
1908 - 1991
Kristina Pardalos
Born 1973
Leib Groner
1932 - 2020
Daniel Goode
Born 1936
Anthony Keane
1928 - 2016
Florina Kaja
Born 1977
Steven Reinemund
Born 1948
Jason Schneiderman
Born 1976
Barbara Sommers
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Linda Laurie
1941 - 2009
Henry Hope Reed Jr.
1915 - 2013
Julie Opp
1871 - 1921
Khary Campbell
Born 1979
Sandy Stern
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Jonathan Pontell
Born 1950
George Barrie
1912 - 2002
John Isaiah Northrop
1861 - 1891
John Joseph Boylan (bishop)
1889 - 1953
William H. Hallahan
1925 - 2018
Alan H. Schoenfeld
Born 1947
Diana Quinby
Born 1967
Warren H. Phillips
1926 - 2019
Kevin Avruch
Born 1950
Sharon Gold
Born 1949
Pincus Green
Born 1936
Susan Rosenberg
Born 1955
Eugene Hecht
Born 1931
Bryan Hearne
Born 1988
Danuta Shanzer
Born 1956
Meyer Kestnbaum
1896 - 1960
William Goforth (doctor)
1766 - 1817
Kate Macy Ladd
1863 - 1945
Mark Gustavson
Born 1959
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz
Born 1975
Alan Blinken
Born 1937
Jeffrey L. Gurian
Born 1956
Charlie Fox
1921 - 2004
Henry Silverman
Born 1940
Donald Cogsville
Born 1965
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel
1842 - 1939
Marian Skinner
1880 - 1963
Josephine Lazarus
1846 - 1910
Robert Alexander (photographer)
1943 - 1989
Laurence Brahm
Born 1961
Janet Grillo
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James E. Ware
1846 - 1918
Kevin J. Taylor
Born 1963
Mark Rudman
Born 1948
Diana Gould (writer)
Born 1944
Erica Lennard
Born 1950
Bob Foster (politician)
Born 1947
Richard H. Stern
Born 1931
James Felder
Born 1971
Edward R. Finch
1873 - 1965
Frank Davis (American football)
Born 1981
Leane Zugsmith
1903 - 1969
Vincent F. Seyfried
1918 - 2012
Edwin M. Schur
Born 1930
Patricia S. Cowings
Born 1948
Louis Sorin
1893 - 1961
Iván Maldonado
Born 1980
Vivien Marx
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Marian Hannah Winter
1910 - 1981
Harold F. Linder
1900 - 1981
Bernard Botein
1900 - 1973
Louis Hodes
1934 - 2008
Joseph Weinberg
1917 - 2002
Nikki Franke
Born 1951
Águeda Pizarro
Born 1941
George Spitz
1912 - 1986
Christine Berl
Born 1943
John McDermott (runner)
1880 - 1948
Thomas Egleston
1832 - 1900
Iris Owens
1929 - 2008
Nicky McCrimmon
Born 1972
V. Everit Macy
1871 - 1930
Sam Vernon
Born 1987
Desireé Vignolli
1965 - 2018
Charles Richard Mulrooney
1906 - 1989
Bruce Marks (ballet)
Born 1937
Robert Rosenthal (USAAF officer)
1917 - 2007
Nina Winthrop
Born 1956
Paul J. Fishman
Born 1957
Esther Shemitz
1900 - 1986
Harvey Schiller
Born 1940
Elizabeth Blodgett Hall
1909 - 2005
Kelly Wallace
Born 1966
Saint Jhn
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Prince Edouard de Lobkowicz
1926 - 2010
John E. Sprizzo
1934 - 2008
Diana Higbee
Born 1979
Mary Jo Slater
Born 1946
Grace Leboy
1890 - 1983
Adrian Adams
1945 - 2000
Tracy 168
Born 1958
Lester White
1907 - 1958
Al Silvani
1910 - 1996
Saul J. Turell
1921 - 1986
Urmila Devi Dasi
Born 1955
Randy Reutershan
Born 1955
John J. Lyons
1881 - 1945
Nancy B. Reich
1924 - 2019
Jerry Hirsch
1922 - 2008
Lewis Charles
1920 - 1979
Alan Schwartz
Born 1950
Claire Fagin
Born 1926
Elizabeth Acevedo
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Lucius Horatio Biglow
1885 - 1961
James Harvey Young
1915 - 2006
Joseph Maguire
Born 1952
Bill Samuels
Born 1943
Tyrone Curnell
Born 1988
Percy Rivington Pyne 2nd
1882 - 1950
Eric Himy
Born 1950
Emile Henry Lacombe
1846 - 1924
Frederick Ballard Williams
1871 - 1956
Joshua Bekenstein
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Edna Beilenson
1909 - 1981
Cyndi Grecco
Born 1952
Helene Schneider
Born 1970
Martha Morton
1865 - 1925
Edward E. Potter
1823 - 1889
Frances Cope
1902 - 1982
Anson Dodge
1834 - 1918
Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout
1871 - 1964
Lola Ogunnaike
Born 1975
Kevin Parker (New York politician)
Born 1967
Byron Rushing
Born 1942
Robert Jackson (New York politician)
Born 1950
William Wagner (actor)
1883 - 1964
Basya Schechter
Born 1969
Ken Hirschkop
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Tim Jordan (baseball)
1879 - 1949
Walter Abell
1897 - 1956
Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer
1894 - 1957
Claire Burch
1925 - 2009
Catherine Hiller
Born 1946
Paul K. Stumpf
1919 - 2007
Victor Mapes
1870 - 1943
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (1821–1863)
1821 - 1863
Terry Tornek
Born 1945
Jeb Rosebrook
1935 - 2018
Marvin Minoff
1931 - 2009
Whitney Crothers Dilley
Born 1950
Cheryl B
1972 - 2011
Michael Gallagher (writer)
Born 1951
Francis Cunningham (painter)
Born 1931
Hector A. Cafferata Jr.
1929 - 2016
Herb Vollmer
1895 - 1961
Lovette George
1961 - 2006
Jim Morris (bodybuilder)
1935 - 2016
Tony Perkins (news anchor)
Born 1959
Hugh Mason Wade
1913 - 1986
Steven Matteo
Born 1977
Chris Stone (entrepreneur)
1935 - 2016
Young Dirty Bastard
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J. Tomilson Hill
Born 1948
Pippo Lionni
Born 1954
Herbert Fensterheim
1921 - 2011
Bert R. Bulkin
1929 - 2012
Conrad Wells
1901 - 1930
George Morel
Born 1967
Jim Alers
Born 1986
Frank McMahon (author)
1919 - 1984
Tom Gorman (right-handed pitcher)
1925 - 1992
Tram-Anh Tran
Born 1979
Craig Rivera
Born 1954