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Most Famous People Born in New York City, USA
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Robert Donner
1931 - 2006
Leslie West
Born 1945
Angela Goethals
Born 1977
William Lombardy
1937 - 2017
Roger Sessions
1896 - 1985
Inspectah Deck
Born 1970
Zoe Lister-Jones
Born 1982
Bitty Schram
Born 1968
Vincent Youmans
1898 - 1946
Sidney Hook
1902 - 1989
Michael Chapman (cinematographer)
1935 - 2020
Jim Wynorski
Born 1950
Edd Byrnes
1933 - 2020
Harold J. Stone
1913 - 2005
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Born 1957
Paul Cadmus
1904 - 1999
Clement Clarke Moore
1779 - 1863
Risë Stevens
1913 - 2013
Irwin Rose
1926 - 2015
David Moscow
Born 1974
Robert A. M. Stern
Born 1939
John Keel
1930 - 2009
Reginald Rose
1920 - 2002
Ellen Geer
Born 1941
Eric Schlosser
Born 1959
Lynn Conway
Born 1938
Michelle Hurd
Born 1966
Kent Smith
1907 - 1985
Barrett Foa
Born 1977
Brewster Kahle
Born 1960
Harris Wofford
1926 - 2019
Tom Dowd
1925 - 2002
Jonathan Carroll
Born 1949
Eric Bibb
Born 1951
David Eigenberg
Born 1964
Abby Elliott
Born 1987
Eliot Engel
Born 1947
Bill Williams (actor)
1915 - 1992
Charles Rosen
1927 - 2012
CoCo Vandeweghe
Born 1991
Joe Quesada
Born 1962
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Born 1970
Mike D
Born 1965
J. P. Morgan Jr.
1867 - 1943
Tony Roberts (actor)
Born 1939
Paul Castellano
1915 - 1985
Aisha Hinds
Born 1975
Robert Pine
Born 1941
Julie Carmen
Born 1954
Jerrold Nadler
Born 1947
Jerry Vale
1930 - 2014
Anna Schwartz
1915 - 2012
Louis Wolheim
1880 - 1931
Robert Littell (author)
Born 1935
Robert D. Kaplan
Born 1952
Irving Cummings
1888 - 1959
Warren Cuccurullo
Born 1956
Natalie Talmadge
1896 - 1969
Robert Thurman
Born 1941
Beatrice Rosen
Born 1984
Elmer Rice
1892 - 1967
Dennis Prager
Born 1948
Lisa Nicole Carson
Born 1969
Alison Arngrim
Born 1962
Arnold Stang
1918 - 2009
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Born 1940
John E. Mack
1929 - 2004
Ray Danton
1931 - 1992
Patrice O'Neal
1969 - 2011
Leo Gordon
1922 - 2000
Florence Eldridge
1901 - 1988
Nick Chinlund
Born 1961
Robert Harron
1893 - 1920
Julius J. Epstein
1909 - 2000
Helen Twelvetrees
1908 - 1958
Gerrit Graham
Born 1949
Eddie Hazel
1950 - 1992
Don Kirshner
1934 - 2011
Al D'Amato
Born 1937
Steve Franken
1932 - 2012
Jerome Cowan
1897 - 1972
Paul Attanasio
Born 1959
Alan Seeger
1888 - 1916
Nathan Rosen
1909 - 1995
Frank Belknap Long
1901 - 1994
Charlie Barnet
1913 - 1991
Wendy Doniger
Born 1940
John McGiver
1913 - 1975
Rick Pitino
Born 1952
Richmond Arquette
Born 1963
Jane Yolen
Born 1939
Ralph Morgan
1883 - 1956
Wolfman Jack
1938 - 1995
Martha Mansfield
1899 - 1923
Carl Davis
Born 1936
Thomas Kean
Born 1935
Lumidee
Born 1984
Al Lewis (actor)
1923 - 2006
Nicole Holofcener
Born 1960
Lilyan Tashman
1896 - 1934
Anna Thomson
Born 1953
Benny Leonard
1896 - 1947
Wendy Wasserstein
1950 - 2006
Charles P. Kindleberger
1910 - 2003
Bob Kulick
1950 - 2020
Robert Costanzo
Born 1942
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
1877 - 1940
Isaac Mizrahi
Born 1961
Bert Berns
1929 - 1967
Félix Sánchez
Born 1977
William Lee Scott
Born 1973
Michael Romeo
Born 1968
Robert Jay Lifton
Born 1926
Gregory Sierra
Born 1941
Halton Arp
1927 - 2013
G. Gordon Liddy
Born 1930
Moon Zappa
Born 1967
Ed Rendell
Born 1944
Adam Hann-Byrd
Born 1982
Ravi Coltrane
Born 1965
Douglas Kennedy (writer)
Born 1955
Paul Stewart (actor)
1908 - 1986
Henry Darrow
Born 1933
Joseph Valachi
1903 - 1971
Nicholson Baker
Born 1957
Erica Gimpel
Born 1964
Jeffrey Ullman
Born 1942
Alan Rubin
1943 - 2011
Mia Love
Born 1975
Freddie Prinze
1954 - 1977
Diana Nyad
Born 1949
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Born 1964
Nita Lowey
Born 1937
Toni Frissell
1907 - 1988
Todd Strasser
Born 1950
Harold Rosson
1895 - 1988
Iris Marion Young
1949 - 2006
John P. Hammond
Born 1942
May McAvoy
1899 - 1984
Gummo Marx
1893 - 1977
Sam Zimbalist
1904 - 1958
Machito
1912 - 1984
Sean Michaels (actor)
Born 1958
John La Farge
1835 - 1910
Philip Freneau
1752 - 1832
Amy Gutmann
Born 1949
Bobby Rondinelli
Born 1955
George Ritzer
Born 1940
Charles Walters
1911 - 1982
Zoë Lund
1962 - 1999
Peter Hermann (actor)
Born 1967
Steven Millhauser
Born 1943
Alan Gilbert (conductor)
Born 1967
Joey Silvera
Born 1951
Madge Evans
1909 - 1981
Wolfgang Kapp
1858 - 1922
Michael Parenti
Born 1933
Tony Orlando
Born 1944
Diane di Prima
1934 - 2020
Douglas Kennedy (actor)
1915 - 1973
Roger Sanchez
Born 1967
Mark Sandrich
1900 - 1945
Essence Atkins
Born 1972
Anna Katharine Green
1846 - 1935
Zac Posen
Born 1980
Bruce Vilanch
Born 1948
Donald A. Wollheim
1914 - 1990
Robert Longo
Born 1953
Steve James (actor)
1952 - 1993
Eric Fischl
Born 1948
Maria Muldaur
Born 1943
Jessica Tuck
Born 1963
Michael Bell (actor)
Born 1938
Ned Vizzini
1981 - 2013
Norm Coleman
Born 1949
Brenda K. Starr
Born 1966
Joshua Waitzkin
Born 1976
Angelina Armani
Born 1987
Reeves Gabrels
Born 1956
Pat Harrington Jr.
1929 - 2016
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor
1879 - 1952
Tom Drake
1918 - 1982
Richard Lewis (comedian)
Born 1947
Paul Schulze
Born 1962
James Rizzi
1950 - 2011
Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)
1927 - 2019
Bo Goldman
Born 1932
Cy Coleman
1929 - 2004
Steven Meisel
Born 1954
William Blum
1933 - 2018
Julie Warner
Born 1965
Peter Billingsley
Born 1971
Albert Maltz
1908 - 1985
Leonard Frey
1938 - 1988
Julia Phillips
1944 - 2002
Jsu Garcia
Born 1963
U-God
Born 1970
Jonelle Allen
Born 1944
Jordan Mechner
Born 1964
Adolph Caesar
1933 - 1986
Eric Lander
Born 1957
Helen Merrill
Born 1930
David Baddiel
Born 1964
Robert Riskin
1897 - 1955
Garland Jeffreys
Born 1943
William Gibson (playwright)
1914 - 2008
Tico Torres
Born 1953
Anthony Lake
Born 1939
Mims (rapper)
Born 1981
E. Elias Merhige
Born 1964
Mohamed A. El-Erian
Born 1958
Harold Becker
Born 1928
Al Sapienza
Born 1962
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
Born 1971
Leonardo Cimino
1917 - 2012
Jacob Javits
1904 - 1986
John Ventimiglia
Born 1963
William S. Paley
1901 - 1990
Masta Killa
Born 1969
Joyce Brothers
1927 - 2013
Adrian Piper
Born 1948
Henry Hill
1943 - 2012
Ellen Meiksins Wood
1942 - 2016
George William Hill
1838 - 1914
Theodore Melfi
Born 1971
William Redfield (actor)
1927 - 1976
Stephen Shore
Born 1947
Spencer Dryden
1938 - 2005
Martha Rosler
Born 1943
Jason Gould
Born 1966
Benjamin Barber
1939 - 2017
Steven Lisberger
Born 1951
Rhys Chatham
Born 1952
Shelley Morrison
1936 - 2019
John Guare
Born 1938
Joe Mantell
1915 - 2010
Andrew Solomon
Born 1963
Hugh Carey
1919 - 2011
Bernard Nathanson
1926 - 2011
Randy West (actor)
Born 1947
Delmore Schwartz
1913 - 1966
Simon Oakland
1915 - 1983
Arnold Newman
1918 - 2006
Roger Ballen
Born 1950
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Born 1946
Jennifer Batten
Born 1957
Leonard Warren
1911 - 1960
D-Von Dudley
Born 1972
Louise Glück
Born 1943
Erik Larson (author)
Born 1954
John Russell Pope
1874 - 1937
William Howard Stein
1911 - 1980
Alex Toth
1928 - 2006
Bert Stern
1929 - 2013
William Kunstler
1919 - 1995
Mary Mapes Dodge
1831 - 1905
Linda Nochlin
1931 - 2017
Cara Williams
Born 1925
Spider Robinson
Born 1948
John Hartford
1937 - 2001
Charles Drake (actor)
1917 - 1994
Clarence Birdseye
1886 - 1956
Capri Anderson
Born 1988
Gaius Charles
Born 1983
Allen Jenkins
1900 - 1974
Gary Valentine
Born 1961
Joseph Brooks (songwriter)
1938 - 2011
Carl Gottlieb
Born 1938
Alvah Bessie
1904 - 1985
Matthew Wilder
Born 1953
Noah Segan
Born 1983
Joe Turkel
Born 1927
Marié Digby
Born 1983
April Winchell
Born 1960
Catherine Scorsese
1912 - 1997
Gwen Ifill
1955 - 2016
Norman Whitfield
1940 - 2008
Ill Bill
Born 1972
Brian O'Halloran
Born 1969
Deborah Tannen
Born 1945
Tod Williams (filmmaker)
Born 1968
Diane Duane
Born 1952
Elizabeth Eisenstein
1923 - 2016
Steven Mnuchin
Born 1962
Justin Nozuka
Born 1988
Allyce Beasley
Born 1954
John Hamburg
Born 1970
Will Gluck
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Cappadonna
Born 1969
Jack Herer
1939 - 2010
Desiigner
Born 1997
Joe Grant
1908 - 2005
Doug E. Doug
Born 1970
Richard A. Falk
Born 1930
Barrie M. Osborne
Born 1944
Eytan Fox
Born 1964
Daniel Mann
1912 - 1991
David Landes
1924 - 2013
Virginia Foxx
Born 1943
Chung Ling Soo
1861 - 1918