List of people from New York City
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This is a list of famous people from New York City.
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[edit] Native New Yorkers
The following were born in New York City. Some became famous after they moved away.
[edit] A
- Aaliyah - singer killed in plane crash on August 25, 2001
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - basketball player
- George Abernethy - (1807-1877), first provisional governor of Oregon[1]
- Bella Abzug - feminist activist and politician
- Garnett Adrain, (1815-1878), member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey[1]
- Cornelius Rea Agnew, (1830-1888), noted ophthamologist [1]
- Eliza Agnew, (1807-1883), noted American Presbyterian missionary[1]
- Christina Aguilera - singer
- Danny Aiello - actor
- Marv Albert - sports announcer
- Anne Revere Aldrich - (1866-1892), noted poet and author[1]
- Ira Aldridge - (1805-1867), stage actor[1]
- William Alexander (aka Lord Stirling), (1726-1783), American major general in the American Revolutionary War[1]
- Andrew Jackson Allan, (1776-1853), noted actor, theatre director, and costumer [1]
- Woody Allen - film director
- Alexander Anderson - illustrator[1]
- Charles Anthon, classical scholar[1]
- Carmelo Anthony - basketball player
- Diane Arbus
- Kenneth J. Arrow - economist; Nobel laureate (Economics, 1972)
- Beatrice Arthur - actress
- William H. Aspinwall - railroad promoter[1]
- William Backhouse Astor, Sr. - businessman and member of the Astor family[1]
- Red Auerbach - basketball coach
- Hank Azaria - actor
[edit] B
- William Bliss Baker - painter
- Anne Bancroft - actress
- Jeff Barry - songwriter and record producer
- Harry Belafonte - actor and singer
- Pat Benatar - singer
- Moe Berg - baseball player and spy
- Des Bishop - comedian
- David Blaine - magician
- Yasmine Bleeth - actress
- Humphrey Bogart - film actor
- Margaret Bourke-White - photographer
- Clara Bow - actress
- Riddick Bowe - boxer
- Barbara Boxer - Senator from California
- James J. Braddock - boxer (aka 'Cinderella Man')
- Matthew Broderick - actor
- Mel Brooks - film director
- Julia Brown - madam and prostitute
- Larry Brown - basketball player and coach
- William F. Buckley, Jr. - author and conservative commentator
- Steve Buscemi - actor
- Lloyd Banks - rap artist
[edit] C
- James Caan - actor
- Joseph A. Califano - former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Maria Callas - opera singer
- Al Capone - gangster
- Benjamin Cardozo - Supreme Court Justice
- Hugh Carey - governor of New York
- George Carlin - comedian
- John Cassavetes - actor
- Jeff Chandler - actor
- Frank Chanfrau - actor
- Paddy Chayefsky - author
- Julie Chen - anchorwoman
- Shirley Chisholm - politician
- Schuyler Colfax - Vice President of the United States
- Anderson Cooper - CNN anchorman
- Peter Cooper - inventor
- Aaron Copland - composer
- Bob Costas - sports announcer
- Bob Cousy - basketball player
- Ann Coulter - political pundit
- James Creighton, major league baseball player[2]
- George Cukor - film director
- Mario Cuomo - governor of New York
- Tony Curtis - actor
[edit] D
- Claire Danes - actress
- Ron Dante - singer, songwriter, and record producer
- Bobby Darin - singer, entertainer, actor, songwriter
- Marion Davies - actress
- Sammy Davis, Jr. - singer and entertainer
- Rosario Dawson - actress
- Al D'Amato - politician
- Dorothy Day - Catholic social activist
- Robert De Niro - actor
- Eamon de Valera - Prime Minister of Ireland
- Samuel R. Delany - author and critic
- Don DeLillo - author
- Jerry Denny, major league baseball player[2]
- Neil Diamond - singer and composer
- P. Diddy - rap artist
- Vin Diesel - actor
- Phoebe Doty - prostitute and madam
- Joseph Dunninger - mentalist
- Richard Dreyfuss - actor
[edit] E
- Gertrude Ederle - swimmer
[edit] F
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - actor
- Louis Farrakhan - Leader of the nation of islam
- Morton Feldman - Composer
- Richard Feynman - Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- 50 Cent - rap artist
- Harvey Fierstein - actor
- Hamilton Fish - governor of New York and Secretary of State
- Jane Fonda - actress
- Peter Fonda - actor
- Malcolm Forbes - publisher
- Davy Force - major league baseball player[2]
- Anthony Franciosa - actor
- Al Franken - comedian and radio host
- Milton Friedman - economist
- John Frusciante - musician, artist
[edit] G
- John Garfield - actor
- Art Garfunkel - songwriter
- Lou Gehrig - baseball player
- George Gershwin - composer
- Ira Gershwin - lyricist
- Vitas Gerulaitis - tennis player
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Supreme Court Justice
- Rudolph Giuliani - mayor of New York
- Jackie Gleason - comedian
- Whoopi Goldberg - comedian and actress
- Daniel S. Goldin - NASA director
- Cuba Gooding Jr. - actor
- Doris Kearns Goodwin - author
- Victor Gotbaum - labor leader
- Elliott Gould - actor
- Rocky Graziano - boxer (real name Thomas Rocco Barbella)
- Hank Greenberg - baseball player
- Alan Greenspan - economist, former Federal Reserve Chairman
- Melanie Griffith - actress
- Bob Guccione - publisher
- Peggy Guggenheim - art collector
- Maggie Gyllenhaal - actress
[edit] H
- Armand Hammer - industrialist and philanthropist
- Oscar Hammerstein II - composer
- Frank Hankinson - major league baseball player[2]
- W. Averell Harriman - diplomat and governor of New York
- Francis L. Hawks, reverend
- Susan Hayward - actress
- Rita Hayworth - actress
- Anthony Hecht - poet
- Carol Heiss - Olympic figure skater (silver 1956, gold 1960)
- Joseph Heller - author
- Jim Hellwig - (Warrior) pro wrestler
- Lance Henriksen - actor
- Peter Cooper Hewitt - inventor
- Hildegarde - American cabaret singer
- Gregory Hines - dancer and actor
- Judd Hirsch - actor
- Lena Horne - singer
- Edward Everett Horton - actor
- Tab Hunter - actor
- Moe, Curly and Shemp Howard - the Three Stooges
[edit] I
- Washington Irving - author
[edit] J
- Wolfman Jack - radio personality
- Henry James - author
- William James - philosopher
- John Jay - governor of New York and Supreme Court Chief Justice
- Jay-Z - rap artist
- Billy Joel - singer
- David Johansen - singer, songwriter, actor
- Scarlett Johansson - actress and my mom
- Kimberly Denise Jones "Lil Kim" - rapper
- Nasir Jones - rap artist
- Norah Jones - singer
- Michael Jordan - basketball player
- William Joyce - Nazi broadcaster (Lord Haw-Haw)
[edit] K
- Philip Mayer Kaiser -U.S. Diplomat
- Danny Kaye - actor and comedian
- Thomas Kean - governor of New Jersey
- Harvey Keitel - actor
- Jerome Kern - composer
- Alicia Keys - R&B singer
- Calvin Klein - fashion designer
- Ed Koch - mayor of New York City
- E. L. Konigsburg - author
- C. Everett Koop - physician
- Lenny Kravitz - singer
- Stanley Kubrick - film director
- William Kunstler - lawyer
- Tony Kushner - playwright
[edit] L
- Fiorello LaGuardia - mayor of New York
- Veronica Lake - actress
- Andrew Lalka - politician
- Jake LaMotta - boxer
- Martin Landau - actor
- Diane Lane - actress
- Cyndi Lauper - singer
- Ralph Lauren - fashion designer
- Emma Lazarus - author and poet
- Steve Lawrence - singer
- Madeleine L'Engle - author
- Roy Lichtenstein - artist
- John Lindsay - mayor of New York
- Peggy Lipton - actress
- Robert R. Livingston - Founding Father and diplomat
- Vince Lombardi - football coach
- Lindsay Lohan - actress and singer
- Jennifer Lopez - singer and actress
- Lucky Luciano - gangster
- Sid Luckman - football player and coach
- Derek Lee - baseball player
[edit] M
- Frank McCourt - author
- Bernard Malamud - author
- Melissa Manchester - singer
- Barry Manilow - singer, songwriter, musician
- Mike Mansfield - Senator from Montana
- Stephon Marbury - professional basketball player
- Constantine Maroulis - American Idol finalist
- Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo and Gummo Marx - the Marx Brothers
- Walter Matthau - actor
- Herman Melville - author
- Yehudi Menuhin - violinist
- Ethel Merman - singer and actress
- Adeline Miller - prostitute and madam
- Arthur Miller - playwright
- Sienna Miller - actress
- Sal Mineo - actor
- Isaac Mizrahi - fashion designer
- Mary Tyler Moore - actress and producer
- Tom Morello - guitarist
- Gouverneur Morris - Founding Father and Senator
- Zero Mostel - actor and comedian
- Charlie and Eddie Murphy - actors and comedians
[edit] N
- Nordstrom Sisters - American sister act, international cabaret singers
- Dagmar Nordstrom - American composer, pianist, one of The Nordstrom Sisters
[edit] O
- Eugene O'Neill - playwright
- Robert Oppenheimer - physicist; 'father of the atomic bomb'
- Bill O'Reilly - Fox News anchor and journalist
[edit] P
- Al Pacino - actor
- Joe Paterno - football coach
- James Patterson - novelist
- Amanda Peet - actress
- Richard Pelham - blackface performer
- Claiborne Pell - Senator from Rhode Island
- Sam Perkins - basketball player
- Lip Pike - major league baseball player[2]
- Chaim Potok - author
- Bud Powell - jazz pianist
- Colin Powell - army general and Secretary of State
- Priscilla Presley - actress
- Tito Puente - band leader
- Mario Puzo - author
[edit] R
- Joey Ramone and Marky Ramone - punk rock musicians
- Lou Reed - rock musician, songwriter
- Christopher Reeve - actor
- Paul Reiser - actor
- Buddy Rich - jazz drummer
- Burton Richter - Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- Thelma Ritter - actress
- Laurance Rockefeller - conservationist and philanthropist
- Winthrop Rockefeller - governor of Arkansas
- Norman Rockwell - artist
- Alex Rodriguez - baseball player
- Sonny Rollins - jazz saxophonist
- Ray Romano - actor
- Mickey Rooney - actor
- Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady and human rights activist
- Theodore Roosevelt - President of the United States
- Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg - convicted spy
- Julius Rosenberg - convicted spy
- Mercedes Ruehl - actress
- Louis Rukeyser - business columnist; economic commentator
[edit] S
- Carl Sagan - physicist and astronomer
- J. D. Salinger - author
- Jonas Salk - medical researcher
- John Salley - basketball player
- Adam Sandler- actor, comedian
- Francesco Scavullo - photographer
- Dick Schaap - journalist
- Vincent Schiavelli - actor
- Rick Schroder - actor
- Charles Schumer - Senator
- Julius Schwartz - comic book editor
- Martin Scorsese - film director
- Vin Scully - sports radio announcer
- Jerry Seinfeld - comedian
- Maurice Sendak - author and illustrator
- Elizabeth Ann Seton - first American Catholic saint
- Tupac Shakur - rap artist
- Artie Shaw - band leader
- Judith Sheindlin - judge (aka 'Judge Judy')
- Daniel Sickles - Civil War general
- Bugsy Siegel - gangster
- Beverly Sills - opera singer
- Robert Silverberg - author
- Carly Simon - singer, songwriter
- Neil Simon - playwright
- John Slidell - Senator from Louisiana and Confederate diplomat
- Al Smith - governor of New York and presidential candidate
- Phoebe Snow - singer, songwriter
- Stephen Sondheim - songwriter
- Mickey Spillane - author
- Sylvester Stallone - actor
- Barbara Stanwyck - actress
- Joe Start - major league baseball player[2]
- Julia Stiles - actress
- Henry L. Stimson - politician and diplomat
- Oliver Stone - film director
- Susan Strasberg - actress
- Barbra Streisand - singer and actress
[edit] T
- Studs Terkel - author
- Irving Thalberg - film producer
- Johnny Thunders - rock musician
- Louis Comfort Tiffany - artist
- Joe Torre - baseball player and coach
- Donald Trump - businessman
- Barbara Tuchman - historian; author
- Gene Tunney - 1926-28 heavyweight boxing champion
- John V. Tunney - former U.S. Senator
- John Turturro - actor
- William Tweed - politician
- Mike Tyson - professional boxer
[edit] U
- Leslie Uggams - singer; actress
- Hikaru Utada - musician
[edit] V
- Luther Vandross - singer
- Cornelius Vanderbilt - businessman
[edit] W
- Christopher Walken - actor
- Jimmy Walker - mayor of New York City
- Christopher Wallace - rapper
- Eli Wallach - actor
- Fats Waller - jazz pianist
- Vera Wang - fashion designer
- Sigourney Weaver - actor
- Steven Weinberg - Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- Eric West - actor, pop singer
- Leslie West - rock musician
- Nathanael West - author
- Edith Wharton - author
- Billy Whitlock - blackface performer
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - sculptor and art patron
- Vanessa Lynn Williams - singer and actress
[edit] Y
- Tony Yayo - rap artist
[edit] Other New Yorkers
These people were not born in New York City but are or were well-known for living there.
- Samuel Adler, rabbi, born in Worms, Germany [1]
- William Adams, born in Colchester, Connecticut, one of the founders and later the president of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York[1]
- Frederick Styles Agate, born in England, noted painter. [1]
- Thomas Peter Akers, born in Knox County, Ohio, vice president of the gold board[1]
- Jason Alexander - television actor, born in New Jersey
- Jennifer Aniston - comedienne, actress, born in Sherman Oaks, California
- Chester A. Arthur - President of the United States, born in Vermont
- Isaac Asimov - author, born in Russia
- John Jacob Astor - First multimillionaire of the US, born in Germany
- Lucille Ball - comedienne, actress, born in Jamestown, New York
- Count Basie - jazz pianist and band leader, born in New Jersey
- Irving Berlin - composer, lyricist, born in Temun, Russia
- Lewis Black - comedian, born in Silver Spring, Maryland
- Mary J. Blige - R&B singer, born in Georgia
- Michael Bloomberg - businessman and mayor, born in Massachusetts
- Marlon Brando, Jr. - actor, born in Omaha, Nebraska
- Tom Brokaw - television news anchor, born in Webster, South Dakota
- Brandy - singer, born in Mississippi
- Mariah Carey - singer, born on Long Island
- Wendy Carlos - musician, born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
- Art Carney - actor, born in Mount Vernon, New York
- Connie Chung - anchorwoman, born in Washington D.C.
- Dick Clark - born in Mount Vernon, New York
- Anthony Comstock - reformer, born in New Canaan, Connecticut
- Bill Cosby - actor/comedian, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Fanny Crosby - hymn writer, born in Southeast, New York
- Tom Cruise - actor, born in Syracuse, New York
- Bill Cullen - radio host, born in Pennsylvania
- Joe DiMaggio - professional baseball player, born in California
- George Washington Dixon - performer, newspaper editor
- David Dinkins - former mayor of New York City, born in New Jersey
- Frederick Douglass - abolitionist, born in Maryland
- Patrick Ewing - former NBA All-Star center, born in Jamaica
- Millard Fillmore - President of the United States, born in Summerhill, New York
- Bobby Fischer - chess champion, born in Chicago, Illinois
- Steve Forbes - publisher, born in Morristown, New Jersey
- Felix Frankfurter - US Supreme Court Associate Justice, born in Vienna, Austria
- Henry Clay Frick - businessman, born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
- Dizzy Gillespie - jazz trumpet player, born in South Carolina
- Thomas S. Hamblin - actor and manager of the Bowery Theatre
- Alexander Hamilton - Founding Father, born in the West Indies
- Townsend Harris - first US diplomat in Japan; one of the founders of CCNY, born in Sandy Hill, New York
- Deborah Harry - singer, actress, born in Union City, New Jersey
- O. Henry - author, born in North Carolina
- Tommy Hilfiger - fashion designer, born in Elmira, New York
- Herman Hollerith - inventor, born in Buffalo, New York
- Langston Hughes - poet, born in Joplin, Missouri
- Kevin James - actor, born on Long Island
- Peter Jennings - television news anchor, born in Toronto, Ontario
- Derek Jeter - professional baseball player, born in New Jersey
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - first lady, born in Southampton, New York
- Tom Kennedy - game show host
- Lisa Kudrow - actress, born in California
- John Layfield - professional wrestler, born in Sweetwater, Texas
- Spike Lee - film director, born in Georgia
- John Lennon - singer/songwriter, born in Liverpool, England
- Ralph Macchio actor, born in Long Island, New York
- Ali MacGraw - actress, born in Pound Ridge, New York
- Mickey Mantle - professional baseball player, born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma
- Dean Martin - singer, born in Ohio
- Ricky Martin - singer, born in Puerto Rico
- John McEnroe - professional tennis player, born in Germany
- Zubin Mehta - orchestra conductor, born in Bombay, India
- Bette Midler - singer and actress
- Moondog (Louis Hardin) - eccentric musician & street Viking
- Garry Moore - TV show host and producer, born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Robert Moses - NYC urban planner and developer, born in New Haven, Connecticut
- Joe Namath - professional football player, born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
- Soledad O'Brien - CNN anchorwoman, born in Saint James, New York
- Rosie O'Donnell - comedian, born on Long Island
- Yoko Ono - artist/musician, born in Tokyo, Japan
- Itzhak Perlman - violinist, born in Jaffa, Israel
- David Hyde Pierce - actor, born in Saratoga Springs, New York
- John Pierpont Morgan - businessman, born in Hartford, Connecticut
- Lorenzo da Ponte - librettist to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, professor of Italian at Columbia.
- Tony Randall - actor, born in Oklahoma
- Dan Rather - television news anchor, born in Texas
- Chris Rock - comedian, born in South Carolina
- John D. Rockefeller - businessman, born in Richford, New York
- Richard Rodgers - composer, born in Long Island, New York
- Andrew Rooney - CBS 60 Minutes commentator, born in Albany, New York
- Franklin D. Roosevelt - US President, born in Hyde Park, New York
- Babe Ruth - professional baseball player, born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Telly Savalas - actor, born in Long Island, New York
- Bobby Short - jazz musician, born in Danville, Illinois
- Paul Simon - songwriter, born in Newark Heights, New Jersey
- Patti Smith - singer, songwriter, poet, born in New Jersey
- Frank Sinatra - singer, born in Hoboken, New Jersey
- Upton Sinclair - author, born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Wilhelm Steinitz - world chess champion, born in Prague, Czech Republic
- Howard Stern - radio personality, born in Roosevelt, New York
- Sting - rock star
- Jon Stewart - comedian, born in Trenton, New Jersey
- Martha Stewart - home interior designer, born in Jersey City, New Jersey
- Lee Strasberg - acting teacher, born in Budanov, Ukraine
- Meryl Streep - actress, born in Summit, New Jersey
- Samuel J. Tilden - presidential candidate, born in New Lebanon, New York
- Daniel D Tompkins - Vice President of the United States, born in Westchester County
- Martin Van Buren - US President, born in Kinderhook, New York
- Suzanne Vega - singer, songwriter, born in Santa Monica, California
- Jon Voight - actor, born in Yonkers, New York
- Barbara Walters - anchorwoman, born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Andy Warhol - artist, born in Forest City, Pennsylvania
- Denzel Washington - actor, born in Mount Vernon, New York
- Walt Whitman - poet, author, born in Long Island, New York