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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.
George W. McClusky
1861 - 1912
Robert Hess (artist)
1935 - 2014
Tom West
1939 - 2011
Zev Taublieb
Born 1993
Phil Reardon
1883 - 1920
Philip Smith (theater owner)
Died 1961
Patricia Wheel
1925 - 1986
Susan Lipper
Born 1953
Dee Shapiro
Born 1936
Chris Jones (bluegrass)
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Tak Toyoshima
Born 1971
Antonio Peña (baloncestista)
Born 1986
Joey Fink
Born 1951
Dick Butler (baseball)
1869 - 1917
Sam B. Jacobson
1893 - 1946
Ariel Mortman
Born 1994
Hunter Walker
Born 1984
William Plant
1892 - 1969
Irving Leroy Ress
1904 - 1962
Ken Thomson
Born 1976
Valentine Dudensing
1892 - 1967
Al MacDowell
Born 1958
Geoffrey Mandel
Born 1959
Terence Smith (journalist)
Born 1938
Emily Fuller
Born 1941
Peter J. Taub
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Amelia Penichet
Born 1916
Herman Pfisterer
1866 - 1905
Dylan Murray
Born 1995
Dave Levin
1913 - 2004
John Edgar McCafferty
1920 - 1980
Lauren Cornell
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Sidney Nagel
Born 1948
Burt Boyar
1927 - 2018
Spanish Louie
Died 1910
Charles Navarro
1904 - 2005
Owen Witte
Born 1949
John Tilley (baseball)
1854 - 1927
Martin Breidenbach
Born 1943
Mark A. Patterson
Born 1961
Gregg Wenzel
1969 - 2003
Andrew Carnegie Whitfield
Born 1910
Matthew Daniels
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William Frisby
Born 1981
Rawlins Lowndes Cottenet
1866 - 1951
Robert Knight Rudolph
1906 - 1986
J. Hunter Wickersham
1890 - 1918
Louis Richards
1835 - 1894
Duane Singleton
Born 1972
Overton Tremper
1906 - 1996
Mitchel B. Wallerstein
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Thomas Cunningham
1852 - 1941
Marian Harris
Born 1941
Tommy Thompson (racing driver)
1943 - 1978
Frederick Z. Rooker
1861 - 1907
Seymour Schwartzman
1930 - 2009
Mary Louise Coulouris
1939 - 2011
Keith Rowen
Born 1952
David S. Guzick
Born 1952
George G. Grainger
1876 - 1945
Keith Powers (politician)
Born 1983
Roy Mankovitz
1941 - 2011
Al Bendich
1929 - 2015
Mattathias Pearson
1939 - 2017
Robert Morrison Olyphant
1824 - 1918
Tighe O'DonoghueRoss
Born 1942
Bernie Fliegel
1918 - 2009
Bob Lawrence
1899 - 1983
Samuel S. Slater
1870 - 1916
Henry Kerner
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Mary Pinkett
Died 2003
Lawrason Riggs
1861 - 1940
Michael Weitzman
Born 1948
Sherry Gong
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William J. Barker (Denver mayor)
1832 - 1900
Mark E. Kingdon
Born 1942
Walter Murphy (baseball)
1907 - 1976
Anson F. Keeler
1887 - 1943
Christine Kilduff
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Bernard F. Martin
1845 - 1914
Khari Samuel
Born 1976
Leandro Rizzuto Jr.
Born 1962
Arik Roper
Born 1973
Charles B. Finch
1920 - 1996
Peter Campbell Brown
1913 - 1994
James Brady (criminal)
1875 - 1904
Norman Sas
1925 - 2012
Allan Maraynes
Born 1950
Chris Christian (soccer)
Born 1989
Keith Van Eron
Born 1955
Peter L. Cunningham
1814 - 1899
Daffin Backstrom
1916 - 1993
Lin Brehmer
Born 1954
Bathsheba Garnett
Born 1925
Keith Glauber
Born 1972
Pimm Fox
Born 1960
Al Posen
1895 - 1960
George H. Streeton
Born 1864
Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg
Born 1940
Simcha Eichenstein
Born 1983
Ira Wheeler
1920 - 2002
Filippo D'Acquarone
Born 1957
Carl Muschenheim
1905 - 1977
Ralph Perlman
1917 - 2013
Ernest T. Attwell
1877 - 1949
Alfred Wagstaff Jr.
1844 - 1921
Lewis J. Liman
Born 1960
George Martinez (activist)
Born 1974
William H. Murray (Medal of Honor)
1876 - 1923
Sybil Shainwald
Born 1928
Abe Eliowitz
1910 - 1981
Henry Jackson (businessman)
Born 1964
Cliff Viner
Born 1949
Concetta M. Tomaino
Born 1954
Mike Ferrara
Born 1958
Franz Habich
1852 - 1937
Cory McFarlane
Born 1980
Gregory Francis Noonan
1906 - 1964
K. S. Brooks
Born 1963
Peter Shaindlin
Born 1957
Charles J. McDonnell
Born 1928
Walter D. Binger
1888 - 1979
Joseph Borg (regulator)
Born 1951
Bugs Reisigl
1887 - 1957
William K. Thierfelder
Born 2004
James A. Trimble
1847 - 1869
Dan Brenner
Born 1963
Lisa Lucas (publisher)
Born 1980
Andy Allison
1848 - 1897
Michael Counts
Born 1970
Albert Strauss
1876 - 1963
Red Connally
1863 - 1896
Russell Deyo
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Judy Craig
Born 1946
Paul Housberg
Born 1953
Heather Heart
Born 1971
Audrey S. Penn
Born 1934
Roy Wagelein
1943 - 2008
Robert L. Gerry III
Born 1937
Ozzie Melendez
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Millie Deegan
1919 - 2002
Joseph Teller
Born 20
Vincent A. Calarco
Born 1942
Jonny Podell
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James T. Woodward
1837 - 1910
Nona Faustine
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Elinor Tatum
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Lynn Neary
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Eliot A. Jardines
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James Bowen (railroad executive)
1808 - 1886
Bill Loughran
1862 - 1917
Daniel J. Murphy
1922 - 2001
Martin Goldstein (Physiker)
1919 - 2014
Marco Glorious
Born 1984
James White (engineer)
1938 - 2009
Josh X
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Shaggy Flores
Born 1973
Thana Alexa
Born 1987
Nate Hirsch
1947 - 2016
Maggie Cogan
Born 1943
Peter Cotton
Born 1839
John Hunter (Westchester County, NY)
1778 - 1852
Nelson Harding
1879 - 1944
June Shagaloff Alexander
Born 1928
Robert K. Hur
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Lil’ Dap
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Terrence Samuel
Born 1994
Walter Tuckerman
1881 - 1961
Gary Apple
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Philip Cohen (Krimineller)
1906 - 1949
Zachary Fisk
Born 1941
Fred W. Preller
1902 - 1974
Leo Smith (baseball)
1859 - 1935
Rosalind A. Segal
Born 1958
Phillip Goldstein (investor)
Born 1945
Mary Bowman
1908 - 2002
Laura Spurr
1945 - 2010
Jim Prendergast
1917 - 1994
Willie Harmon
Born 1899
John Dailey (baseball)
Born 1853
Ralph Rodríguez
Born 1941
Jeff Gomez
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Glenn Kirschner
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Ernie Lindemann
1878 - 1951
Jessica Lynch (Miss New York)
Born 1979
Rae L. Egbert
1891 - 1964
Aditi Kinkhabwala
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Elan Carr
Born 1968
Art Zeller
1930 - 1990
Joseph A. O'Hare
1931 - 2020
Jon Caramanica
Born 1975
Arn Shein
1928 - 2007
Sandy Piez
1899 - 1930
Hugh H. Bownes
1920 - 2003
Mary Kay Vyskocil
Born 1958
Marty Holmes
1925 - 2001
A. Dale "Bud" Mayo
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Constance Ortmayer
1902 - 1988
Harry De Vere
1870 - 1923
Jack McDonald (baseball)
1844 - 1880
Stephen Arnold (scientist)
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Paddy Ruschitzko
1917 - 2004
Robert A. Bernhard
1928 - 2019
Pierre de Chaignon la Rose
1871 - 1940
Tisha Lewis
Born 1982
Laura Moore
Born 1963
J. Sinclair Armstrong
1915 - 2000
Phil Hey
Born 1953
Ed Kent
Born 1859
Susan Marqusee
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Dutch Mele
1915 - 1975
Ellis Miah
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Allen Kaufman
Born 1933
Kirt Bennett
1967 - 2010
Larry Pasquale
Born 1941
Ivan Leshinsky
Born 1947
Michael Woulfe
1918 - 2007
Andrew J. McGonnigle
1829 - 1901
Jerry Mackey
Born 1984
Isabelle Kinsolving
Born 1979
Charles Vanoni
1876 - 1970
John Carlo Bertot
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Daniel J. Bernstein (businessman)
1918 - 1970
Thom Calandra
Born 1956
Paul Binder
Born 1942
Melissa Russo
Born 1968
Helen Tronstad
Born 1952
Eli K. Cole
1867 - 1929
Emily Winthrop Miles
1893 - 1962
Jonathan Corbblah
Born 1979
William H. Day
1825 - 1900
Jack Vaughn Jr.
Born 1974
Randy Haykin
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John Thomas McCarthy
Born 1939
Frank Carpin
Born 1938
Terry Randolph
Born 1955
Robert Carroll (American politician)
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Pete Lamer
1873 - 1931
William H. Townsend
1812 - 1873
Roy Van Graflan
1894 - 1953
Lila Rose Kaplan
Born 1980
Julius Harburger
1850 - 1914
Joe Sheehan
Born 1971
Michelle De La Isla
Born 1975
Terry Marks
Born 1960
Moira Gunn
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Karl P. Cohen
1913 - 2012
Irving Briskin
1903 - 1981
Michael Anthony Pegues
Born 1962
John Lowenthal
1925 - 2003
Steve Siegel (tennis)
Born 1948
Daphne Hellman
1915 - 2002
James Gopsill
1823 - 1884
Al Taylor (politician)
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Otis Livingston
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Tony Elliott (defensive lineman)
1959 - 2007
Jeffrey Flier
Born 1948
Chloe Dolandis
Born 1985
Wanda Perry
1917 - 1985
Hank Schwartz
Born 1927
Neal Sher
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Deborah Orin
1947 - 2007
Dinny Meehan
1889 - 1920
Edward Hopper (pastor)
1818 - 1888
John Tee-Van
1897 - 1967
David Torrance (banker)
1805 - 1876
Joe Gingras
1894 - 1947
Chris Fouch
Born 1990
Edna e Alice Nash
1898 - 1985
Mike Murphy (American football)
Born 1944
Ismael Ahmed
Born 1947
John C. Lawn
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Francis L. Kellogg
1917 - 2006
Wayne Barrow
Born 1965
Harry Schwartz (American football)
1906 - 1970
Gabo Arora
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William Benswanger
1892 - 1972
William Corey (Medal of Honor)
Born 1853
Harold Maurice Kennedy
1895 - 1971
Laura Lawless
Born 1979
Lisbeth Hedendahl
1913 - 1994
Michael Jabara Carley
Born 1945
John-Paul Lee
Born 1978
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
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Robert Cohan
Born 1925
Mingo Lewis
Born 1940
Rick Lombardo
Born 1959
Ralph McDaniels
Born 1962
Michael Gershman
1939 - 2000
Charles Dieges
1865 - 1953
Al Moore
1902 - 1974
Peter Phok
Born 1981
Avraham Bromberg
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John Burns (baseball)
Born 1861
George Young (baseball)
1890 - 1950
George A. Murphy
1923 - 2015
Martin J. Knorr
1906 - 1989
David Worby
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Charlie Niebergall
1899 - 1982
Frank T. Stack
1891 - 1956