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.
James M. Seymour
1837 - 1905
Will Roland
Born 1989
Evander Berry Wall
1860 - 1940
Iris Cantor
Born 1931
Dorothy Sucher
1933 - 2010
Lee S. Wolosky
Born 1968
Carl Person
Born 1936
Bobby Alto
1938 - 2012
Kent Moran
Born 1982
Joseph W. Pfeifer
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Tina Sharkey
Born 1964
June Kirby
Born 1928
George Lindemann
1936 - 2018
Joseph Uhl
1877 - 1945
Herbert Solomon
1919 - 2004
Andy Bellin
Born 1968
Alex Crisano
Born 1976
James T. Powers (actor)
1862 - 1943
Jennifer Scappettone
Born 1972
James Beekman
1732 - 1807
Chris Tardio
Born 1981
Brixton Karnes
1960 - 2012
James T. Moore
1952 - 2006
Wayland Trask Jr.
1887 - 1918
Kevin O'Connor (historian)
Born 1967
Aaron Schechter
Born 1928
Steven Weintraub
Born 1951
William Crumm
1919 - 1967
Paula Lobo Antunes
Born 1976
Tom Thorp
1884 - 1942
Donald S. Strong
1912 - 1995
Jim Gordon (sportscaster)
1927 - 2003
Henry Onderdonk
1789 - 1858
Miles Robbins
Born 1992
Robert Cornegy
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Yōsuke Kawasaki
Born 1977
Dave Pascal
1918 - 2003
David Lee (still photographer)
Born 1961
Samuel Burgess
1650 - 1716
Alison Gertz
1966 - 1992
John Jay (filmmaker)
1915 - 2000
Joe Scarpati
Born 1943
Gary Barnett (real estate developer)
Born 1956
Justus B. Entz
1867 - 1947
Isabelle de Silva
Born 1969
Ira Neimark
1921 - 2019
Lawrence Heyworth Mills
1837 - 1918
Mordecai Bauman
1912 - 2007
Michael Steinore
1901 - 1961
Charles-Richard Lambert
1800 - 1862
Lili Añel
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Jamie Kellner
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Ruth Yeazell
Born 1947
Ben Baldanza
Born 1961
Gina Luria Walker
Born 1942
Mike Longabardi
Born 1973
Richard Campagna
Born 1954
Jonathan Lippman
Born 1945
Hank Kaplan
1920 - 2007
David Law Proudfit
1842 - 1897
Howard Garfinkel
1929 - 2016
Jennifer Youngs
Born 1969
Irving Pincus
1914 - 1984
Bobby Pearce (designer)
Born 1961
Steven Goldstein (civil rights activist)
Born 1962
Warren B. Davis
1865 - 1928
Deming Chen
Born 1970
Helen Huntington Hull
1893 - 1976
Burton Blumert
1929 - 2009
Cat Greenleaf
Born 1972
Danny Simon
1918 - 2005
John C. Harkness
1916 - 2016
Yitzchok Adlerstein
Born 1950
Jake Smollett
Born 1989
Sophie Lyons
1848 - 1924
Richard Setlowe
Born 1933
Frederic Dannay
1905 - 1982
A. Thomas McLellan
Born 1949
Peter K. Leisure
1929 - 2013
Richard Rockefeller
1949 - 2014
Murray Bernthal
1911 - 2010
Elliott Organick
1925 - 1985
Frank Fleet
1848 - 1900
Thomas J. Kelly (Medal of Honor)
1923 - 1988
Lou Steele
1928 - 2001
Rudy Stevenson
1929 - 2010
Alfred E. Smith IV
1951 - 2019
Nick Pace
Born 1987
Matthew Maguire (labor activist)
1850 - 1917
Billy Drewes
Born 1952
Natalie Paul
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Born 1974
John Sobel
Born 1964
Henry Buttelmann
1929 - 2019
Malcolm Diamond
1924 - 1997
Gerald Marwell
1947 - 2013
Ruthann Aron
Born 1942
Jack Lembeck
Born 1942
John Ellis Roosevelt
1853 - 1939
Richard Corman (photographer)
Born 1954
Christopher Rose (electrical engineer)
Born 1957
Richard Strohman
1927 - 2009
Stephen Joseph Donahue
1893 - 1982
Otto G. Obermaier
Born 1936
Joseph Hoffman
1909 - 1997
Susan T. Sommer
1935 - 2008
Ian Heath Gershengorn
Born 1967
Thomas Fararo
1933 - 2020
Bruce Lanoil
Born 1960
Loretta Ford
Born 1920
George Masin
Born 1947
Jonathan Gregg
Born 1955
James Molinaro
Born 1931
Raul Danny Vargas
Born 1965
Henry Foner
1919 - 2017
Mark Sarvas
Born 1964
Mike Siegel
Born 1945
Kevin Zucker
Born 1976
Keith Murray
Born 1978
Daniel S. Lehrman
1919 - 1972
Will Ryman
Born 1969
Joe Maniaci
1914 - 1996
Dennis Tinerino
1945 - 2010
David M. Smolin
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Ryah Nixon
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J. C. Julius Langbein
1845 - 1910
Henry Rapoport
1918 - 2002
Laurie Rosenwald
Born 1955
Irvin Bomb
Born 1967
Aja Monet
Born 1987
Jack Solomon
1896 - 1963
William Paret
1826 - 1911
David Shafer (author)
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Barry Levinson (producer, born 1932)
1932 - 1987
Michael Shure
Born 1966
Samuel D. Leidesdorf
1881 - 1968
Ray Reinhardt
Born 1930
Vincent John Baldwin
1907 - 1979
Dave Kerpen
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Donald Richards
1919 - 1953
Guy Raymond
1911 - 1997
Christopher Duffy (baseball)
Born 1987
Don McMahon
1930 - 1987
Nicholas Springer
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Alfred P. Wolf
1923 - 1998
Jessie Stevens
1869 - 1922
Joseph D. Schulman
Born 1941
Michael D'Asaro Sr.
1938 - 2000
Elizabeth D'Onofrio
Born 1957
Arthur Ashley
1886 - 1970
Matt Lenski
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Paul Byard
1939 - 2008
Jon D. Levy
Born 1954
Oscar Maurer
1870 - 1965
Charles Wood (actor)
1916 - 1978
David Todd (architect)
1915 - 2008
Francis Levy
Born 1948
Julio Cruz (baseball)
Born 1954
Lee Anne Wong
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Abraham Zelmanowitz
1945 - 2001
Dante Rivera
Born 1974
William Lorenz
1882 - 1958
Charles Randolph Butler Jr.
Born 1940
Jack Burdock
1852 - 1931
Nicholas Merrill
Born 1972
Thomas Gaetano LoMedico
1904 - 1985
Max E. Youngstein
1913 - 1997
Geoff Goodman
Born 1956
Robert A. Dillon
1889 - 1944
Augustus G. Paine Jr.
1866 - 1947
Jeffrey White
Born 1945
Hack Miller
1894 - 1971
Felix Grant
1918 - 1993
Bernard Schwartz (Filmproduzent)
1917 - 2003
Roy Turnbull Black
1888 - 1962
Robert Bowne Minturn Jr.
1836 - 1889
Vaughn Harper
1945 - 2016
Terry Lesser Morris
1914 - 1993
Barbara Byrd-Bennett
Born 1951
Robert Conroy Goldston
Born 1927
Joseph M. McShane
Born 1949
Timothy F. O'Keefe
1919 - 1984
Dorian Crozier
Born 1972
Garry St. Leger
Born 1985
Devika Bhise
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Robert Ensko
1855 - 1934
David Sanjek
1952 - 2011
John H. Collins
1889 - 1918
Jeff Bakalar
Born 1982
Clarence Max Fowler
1918 - 2006
Angie Paccione
Born 1960
Stanley Brock
1931 - 1991
Albert Campbell (singer)
1872 - 1947
Herbert Tarr
1929 - 1993
Stuart C. Sealfon
Born 1956
Alfred R. Kahn
Born 1947
Devale Ellis
Born 1984
Ally Acker
Born 1954
Harry Borden
Born 1965
Murray Sargent
Born 1941
Terry Crowley
Born 1947
Robert A. LeVine
Born 1932
Carl Borack
Born 1947
Dan Schneider (writer)
Born 1965
Ian Monroe
Born 1972
Edward Donofrio
Born 1951
William Gorham
Born 1930
Shariann Lewitt
Born 1954
Edi Birsan
Born 1949
Hassan Martin
Born 1995
angel Kyodo Williams
Born 1969
Leyna Weber
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Leslie Barrett
1919 - 2010
John Kingsman Beling
1919 - 2010
Stanislaus A. Blejwas
1941 - 2001
Wee Willie Davis
1906 - 1981
Moshe Rubashkin
Born 1958
Elliot Offner
1931 - 2010
John Ferguson (New York politician)
1777 - 1832
Lud Kramer
1932 - 2004
Rusty Jacobs
Born 1967
C. Bernard Jackson
1927 - 1996
Michael Cusick
Born 1969
William Levington
1793 - 1836
Bonnie Bluh
1926 - 2008
Lester Shum
Born 1993
Karen Friedman Hill
Born 1946
Levance Fields
Born 1987
James Robert Madison Mullany
1818 - 1887
John Becht
Born 1886
Yale Udoff
1935 - 2018
Mark Connor
Born 1949
Andrea Bonomi
Born 1965
John Daniel Hayes
1902 - 1991
Charles Lord
1928 - 1993
Gerrianne Raphael
Born 1925
Kenneth Waltzer
Born 1942
Euphemia Vale Blake
1825 - 1904
Eugene Glazer
Born 1939
Warwick Sabin
Born 1976
Maury Deutsch
1918 - 2007
Lynn Hoffman (author)
Born 1944
Adam Shapiro (activist)
Born 1972
Bruce J. Oreck
Born 1953
Inez Dickens
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Edward Elkas
1862 - 1933
Michael Dowd (police officer)
Born 1961
Sheldon Whitehouse (diplomat)
1883 - 1965
Thomas J. Barrett
Born 1947
Christopher Fabian
Born 1980
David Lund
Born 1925
Isabelle Urquhart
1865 - 1907
Ferdinand Zinsser
1865 - 1952
Al Naples
Born 1926
Danny Gardella
1920 - 2005
Alexander Holtzoff
1886 - 1969
Matthew Rosenberg
Born 1974
Doggie Miller
1864 - 1909
Bernard Bierman
1908 - 2012
William C. Wilson (New York politician)
1900 - 1906
Susan Bluestein
Born 1946
Alice Gore King
1914 - 2007
Cey Adams
Born 1962
Ed Sciaky
1948 - 2004
Joe Wallach
Born 1923
Kathryn Bache Miller
1896 - 1979
John A. Russo (politician)
Born 1959
Jennifer Militello
Born 1972
Henry Inman (U.S. Army officer and author)
1837 - 1899
Lily Lodge
Born 1932
Myles Wilder
1933 - 2010
Julia Jacquette
Born 1964
Jim Fleming (American football)
Born 1959
Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
Born 1959
Michael Yessis
Born 1932
Peter F. Dailey
1868 - 1908
Anton Roux
Born 1981
John J. Phelan Jr.
1931 - 2012
Craig Slocum
1934 - 1978
William Salter (minister)
1821 - 1910
Ethan Strimling
Born 1967
Lesley Cohen
Born 1970
Rebecca Oppenheimer
Born 1972
Sinta Tantra
Born 1979
Wylie Cameron Grant
1879 - 1968
Joseph P. Knapp
1864 - 1951
Zachary Vlahos
Born 1988
Angie Xtravaganza
1964 - 1993
Newton Henry Mason
1918 - 1942
Jack Chapman
1843 - 1916
Evangeline Montgomery
Born 1933
Christie Desir
Born 1989
Jeffrey Potter
1918 - 2012
Peter Knobler
Born 1946
Bob Davis (pitcher)
1933 - 2001
Elizabeth Sharland
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Jonathan V. Sweedler
Born 1961
Aileen Lee
Born 1970
Jerry Craft
Born 1963
George Taylor (baseball)
1853 - 1911