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.
Rachel Zoe
Born 1971
Emily Remler
1957 - 1990
Oliver La Farge
1901 - 1963
John McCloskey
1810 - 1885
A. J. Jacobs
Born 1968
Robert Durst
Born 1943
Irving Caesar
1895 - 1996
Adam Zamoyski
Born 1949
Laurance Rockefeller
1910 - 2004
Bruce Geller
1930 - 1978
Stephanie Faracy
Born 1952
Philip Dunne (writer)
1908 - 1992
Todd Akin
Born 1947
Joan Bennett Kennedy
Born 1936
Chris Kraus (American writer)
Born 1955
Juliana Harkavy
Born 1985
Lawrence Halprin
1916 - 2009
Melville Shavelson
1917 - 2007
Reri Grist
Born 1932
Barbara Jo Allen
1906 - 1974
John Boyd (actor)
Born 1981
Don Scardino
Born 1949
D. J. Strawberry
Born 1985
Kyle Anderson (basketball)
Born 1993
Emancipator (musician)
Born 1987
André Sogliuzzo
Born 1966
Michael Fairman
Born 1934
BarBara Luna
Born 1939
David Karp
Born 1986
Mike Mainieri
Born 1938
Robert P. Murphy
Born 1976
Mort Weisinger
1915 - 1978
Margaret Wise Brown
1910 - 1952
Sandra Gould
1916 - 1999
Alan Zweibel
Born 1950
Archer Milton Huntington
1870 - 1955
Maxine Singer
Born 1931
Dan Donovan (politician)
Born 1956
Paul O'Neill (rock producer)
1956 - 2017
Alex Désert
Born 1968
Anita Stewart
1895 - 1961
Dito Montiel
Born 1965
Van Alexander
1915 - 2015
Frank Henenlotter
Born 1950
John Verdon
Born 1942
Joseph W. Sarno
1921 - 2010
David Greenglass
1922 - 2014
George Bird Grinnell
1849 - 1938
Eric Gale
1938 - 1994
Chris Riggi
Born 1985
Joan Tetzel
1921 - 1977
Peter H. Gilmore
Born 1956
Billy Wirth
Born 1962
Lil' Cease
Born 1980
Leo Laporte
Born 1956
Constance Dowling
1920 - 1969
Andrew Talansky
Born 1988
Nathan Glazer
1923 - 2019
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Born 1937
Stephen Elliott (actor)
1918 - 2005
Mychal Judge
1933 - 2001
Peter Serkin
1947 - 2020
George Tooker
1920 - 2011
Spencer Fox
Born 1993
Allen Funt
1914 - 1999
Beverly Pepper
1922 - 2020
Henry Slesar
1927 - 2002
Helene Costello
1906 - 1957
Arthur Q. Bryan
1899 - 1959
Alysia Montaño
Born 1986
Amelia Rose Blaire
Born 1987
Kenny Rankin
1940 - 2009
Dolores Hope
1909 - 2011
Carrie Hamilton
1963 - 2002
Alain Elkann
Born 1950
Vincent Richards
1903 - 1959
Jon Carin
Born 1964
C.C. DeVille
Born 1962
Noam Elkies
Born 1966
Charlemagne Palestine
Born 1947
Charles Lederer
1906 - 1976
Glenn Fitzgerald
Born 1971
Diahnne Abbott
Born 1945
Robert Spitzer (psychiatrist)
1932 - 2015
Victoria Nuland
Born 1961
Harold C. Schonberg
1915 - 2003
Martin Bregman
1931 - 2018
Shareeka Epps
Born 1989
Julius Hodge
Born 1983
Evelyn Lear
1926 - 2012
Mary Carillo
Born 1957
Christine Vachon
Born 1962
Arthur Edeson
1891 - 1970
Howard Greenfield
1936 - 1986
Jackie Curtis
1947 - 1985
Richard Kline
Born 1944
Dave Sardy
Born 1967
Theodore Roosevelt Sr.
1831 - 1878
Nano (singer)
Born 1988
Lois Frankel
Born 1948
Franklyn Ajaye
Born 1949
Annette Peacock
Born 1941
Carlos Gómez (actor)
Born 1962
Flex Alexander
Born 1970
Robert F. Wagner Jr.
1910 - 1991
Stan Dragoti
1932 - 2018
S. J. Perelman
1904 - 1979
Solomon Feferman
1928 - 2016
A+ (rapper)
Born 1982
David Eisenbud
Born 1947
Maurice Harkless
Born 1993
Harvey Lembeck
1923 - 1982
Tim Bogert
Born 1944
Valerie Landsburg
Born 1958
Lee Philips
1927 - 1999
Glynnis O'Connor
Born 1956
Bruce Kirby (actor)
Born 1928
Roy Webb
1888 - 1982
Carly Rose Sonenclar
Born 1999
Elliot Tiber
1935 - 2016
Norman Burton
1923 - 2003
Vincent J. McMahon
1914 - 1984
Gilbert Cates
1934 - 2011
Ralph Rainger
1901 - 1942
Junior Durkin
1915 - 1935
Giorgos Kaminis
Born 1954
Albert Benjamin Simpson
1843 - 1919
Eugenie Clark
1922 - 2015
Rohan Chand
Born 2004
Michael Kimmel
Born 1951
Will Calhoun
Born 1964
Marcus Loew
1870 - 1927
Martina Arroyo
Born 1936
Peggy Noonan
Born 1950
Ina Garten
Born 1948
Philipp Meyer
Born 1974
Alfred Kazin
1915 - 1998
Fab Five Freddy
Born 1959
Papoose (rapper)
Born 1978
June Collyer
1906 - 1968
John Linnell
Born 1959
Alfred Chester Beatty
1875 - 1968
Richard Lazarus
1922 - 2002
Alice McDermott
Born 1953
John Mackey (American football)
1941 - 2011
Shalom Auslander
Born 1970
Edward Lazear
1948 - 2020
Peter Lerangis
Born 1955
Mickey Marcus
1901 - 1948
Sigrid Gurie
1911 - 1969
Aleisha Allen
Born 1991
Slim Aarons
1916 - 2006
Bertrice Small
1937 - 2015
John P. Ryan
1936 - 2007
Kim Hill (soul musician)
Born 1972
Geoffrey Owens
Born 1961
Randee Heller
Born 1947
Thomas Crawford (sculptor)
1814 - 1857
Neil Shicoff
Born 1949
Brian Garfield
1939 - 2018
Michelle Hurst
Born 1942
Maurice Obstfeld
Born 1952
Dick Richards
Born 1936
Helen Schucman
1909 - 1981
Jamie Rose
Born 1959
Scott William Winters
Born 1965
Steve Carr
Born 1962
Lawrence Dobkin
1919 - 2002
Lee Rocker
Born 1961
Thomas H. Cormen
Born 1956
Ilka Chase
1900 - 1978
Anne Seymour (actress)
1909 - 1988
James Whitmore Jr.
Born 1948
Joseph R. Gannascoli
Born 1959
Stan Kirsch
1968 - 2020
Richard Levins
1930 - 2016
Sheek Louch
Born 1976
James Conlon
Born 1950
Bobby Wanzer
1921 - 2016
Steven Shapin
Born 1943
David Nelson (actor)
1936 - 2011
Andrew Klavan
Born 1954
Blockhead (music producer)
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Michel Gill
Born 1960
John Hollander
1929 - 2013
Herbert Friedman
1916 - 2000
Sophie Auster
Born 1987
Jude Watson
Born 1956
Alice Lake
1895 - 1967
Mary Alden
1883 - 1946
Joel Brooks
Born 1949
Andrew Litton
Born 1959
Victor Williams
Born 1970
Leslie Browne
Born 1957
Scott Atran
Born 1952
Charles Bernstein
Born 1950
Sid Luckman
1916 - 1998
Doris Singleton
1919 - 2012
David Groh
1939 - 2008
Janet Lee Bouvier
1907 - 1989
Jason Katims
Born 1960
Alice Duer Miller
1874 - 1942
Marina Squerciati
Born 1984
Jack Carter (comedian)
1922 - 2015
Judith Krantz
1928 - 2019
Mike Gold
1894 - 1967
Ken Murray (entertainer)
1903 - 1988
Jane Harman
Born 1945
David Krakauer
Born 1956
Shirley Mason (actress)
1900 - 1979
E.D.I. Mean
Born 1974
George Kuchar
1942 - 2011
Adrian Martinez (actor)
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Sal Buscema
Born 1936
Allison Smith (actress)
Born 1969
Patrick Joseph Hayes
1867 - 1938
Nathaniel Shilkret
1889 - 1982
Shock G
Born 1963
Judith Jarvis Thomson
1929 - 2020
Joe Gallo
1929 - 1972
Jamal Woolard
Born 1975
Daniel Kleppner
Born 1932
Christopher Thompson (actor)
Born 1966
Max Joseph
Born 1982
Stefan Gierasch
1926 - 2014
Emily DiDonato
Born 1991
Beatrix Farrand
1872 - 1959
Harold Rosenberg
1906 - 1978
Eugene Istomin
1925 - 2003
Lucinda Childs
Born 1940
John Frizzell (composer)
Born 1966
Carol Shea-Porter
Born 1952
Ari Fleischer
Born 1960
Allen Coage
1943 - 2007
Lucille Bliss
1916 - 2012
Robert Folk
Born 1949
Riddick Bowe
Born 1967
Morgan Paull
1944 - 2012
Elmo Hope
1923 - 1967
Salaam Remi
Born 1972
Alice Davenport
1864 - 1936
Jeremy Steig
1942 - 2016
Andrea Marcovicci
Born 1948
Robert Alter
Born 1935
Michael Maltese
1908 - 1981
Alfred Lee Loomis
1887 - 1975
Annette Hanshaw
1901 - 1985
Anne Anastasi
1908 - 2001
Larry Levan
1954 - 1992
Ron Chernow
Born 1949
Alexie Gilmore
Born 1976
Jamie Renée Smith
Born 1987
Bjørn Maars Johnsen
Born 1991
Randy Graff
Born 1955
Chuck Fleischmann
Born 1962
Al Matthews (actor)
1942 - 2018
Marvin J. Chomsky
Born 1929
Veronica Taylor
Born 1965
Nathan Barr
Born 1973
Lee David Zlotoff
Born 1954
William Browder (mathematician)
Born 1934
Jim Ward (voice actor)
Born 1959
DJ Whoo Kid
Born 1972
Randy Brooks (actor)
Born 1950
Tony Darrow
Born 1938
Tony Ganios
Born 1959
Isaiah Whitehead
Born 1995
Tuli Kupferberg
1923 - 2010
Fred Steiner
1923 - 2011
Claudia Gray
Born 1970
Larry Taylor
1942 - 2019
Shaun Donovan
Born 1966
Killah Priest
Born 1970
Danny Tenaglia
Born 1961
Robert Brenner
Born 1943
Albert Popwell
1926 - 1999
John Frederick Coots
1897 - 1985
David Peel (musician)
1943 - 2017
Mickey Shaughnessy
1920 - 1985
Howard W. Koch
1916 - 2001
Robert MacNaughton
Born 1966
Wilson Jermaine Heredia
Born 1971
Bruce Malmuth
1934 - 2005
Mildred Cohn
1913 - 2009
Franky G
Born 1965
Francis C. Barlow
1834 - 1896
Brooke Bundy
Born 1944
Connie Gilchrist
1901 - 1985
Ben Schwartz
Born 1981
Peter Brown (actor)
1935 - 2016
Gerald B. Greenberg
1936 - 2017
Gabe Kaplan
Born 1945
Eileen Ford
1922 - 2014
Lou Monte
1917 - 1989
Michael Fried
Born 1939
Homicide (wrestler)
Born 1977
Eric Schneiderman
Born 1954
Stephen D. Krasner
Born 1942
David Grann
Born 1967
Bob Marshall (wilderness activist)
1901 - 1939