Famous People from New York

• Aaliyah (New York City)

  Pop singer and actress who sang "Try Again"

• Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (New York City)

  The sky-hooking center for the Los Angeles Lakers

• Abrams, J.J. (New York City)

  The creator of TV's Alias and Lost

• Aguilera, Christina (Staten Island)

  The crooner of "Genie In a Bottle" and "Beautiful"

• Alda, Alan (New York City)

  Hawkeye Pierce on TV's M*A*S*H

• Allen, Steve (New York City)

  The original host of The Tonight Show

• Allen, Woody (Brooklyn)

  The director and star of Annie Hall

• Anderson, Brad (Jamestown)

  The creator of the comic Marmaduke

• Anthony, Carmelo (New York City)

  Forward for the NBA's Denver Nuggets since 2003

• Apatow, Judd (Syosset)

  The guy who made The 40 Year-old Virgin and Knocked Up

• Arbus, Diane (New York City)

  New York photographer of oddball humans

• Arkin, Alan (New York City)

  The foul-mouthed grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine

• Aronofsky, Darren (New York City)

  The Oscar-nominated director of Black Swan

• Arquette, Rosanna (New York City)

  Star of Desperately Seeking Susan

• Ashanti (Glen Cove)

  Singer of "Foolish" and "Rock Wit U (Awww Baby)"

• Aster, Ari (New York City)

  The director of 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar'

• Auberjonois, René (New York City)

  Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

• Avi (New York City)

  The author of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

• Awkwafina (Queens)

  Comic rapper turned actress who starred in 'The Farewell'

• Azaria, Hank (Forest Hills)

  The voice of Apu and Chief Wiggum on TV's The Simpsons

• Bacall, Lauren (New York City)

  Bogart's co-star in To Have and Have Not

• Baez, Joan (Staten Island)

  Folk singer who did "Diamonds & Rust"

• Baio, Scott (New York City)

  Star of TV's Joanie Loves Chachi and Charles in Charge

• Baldwin, Alec (Massapequa)

  The goofy boss, Jack Donaghy, on TV's 30 Rock

• Baldwin, James (New York City)

  Author of Go Tell It On The Mountain

• Ball, Lucille (Jamestown)

  The red-headed star of TV's I Love Lucy

• Bancroft, Anne (The Bronx)

  Mrs. Robinson in the movie The Graduate

• Barkin, Ellen (The Bronx)

  Slinky-eyed star of The Big Easy and Sea of Love

• Barry, Dave (Armonk)

  Goofy humor columnist for The Miami Herald, 1983-2005

• Bassett, Angela

  The Stella from How Stella Got Her Groove Back

• Bateman, Jason (Rye)

  Michael Bluth on TV's Arrested Development

• Baumbach, Noah (Brooklyn)

  The director of 'The Squid and the Whale and 'Marriage Story'

• Beastie Boys (Brooklyn)

  Funky, sarcastic white-boy rappers who did "Sabotage"

• Belafonte, Harry (New York City)

  The calypso crooner who sang "The Banana Boat Song"

• Bell, Lake (New York City)

  The writer, director and star of In a World...

• Bennett, Tony (New York City)

  The crooner who sang "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"

• Berg, Peter (New York City)

  Dr. Billy Kronk on TV's Chicago Hope

• Berle, Milton (New York City)

  "Mister Television" of the 1950s

• Best, Ahmed (New York City)

  Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace

• Billy the Kid (New York City)

  Baby-faced outlaw of the 19th-century American West

• Birdseye, Clarence (Brooklyn)

  The man who figured out how to flash-freeze foods

• Bishop, Joey (The Bronx)

  Comedian member of the Rat Pack

• Blaine, David (Brooklyn)

  The stunt magician who was once buried alive in New York City

• Bleeth, Yasmine (New York City)

  Caroline Holden on the series Baywatch

• Bleu, Corbin (Brooklyn)

  Chad from Disney's High School Musical

• Blige, Mary J. (New York City)

  The "Queen of Hip-Hop and Soul"

• Bloom, Harold

  The literary critic who wrote 1973’s The Anxiety of Influence

• Bogart, Humphrey (New York City)

  Rick Blaine in Casablanca

• Bogdanovich, Peter (Kingston)

  Director of The Last Picture Show

• Bourdain, Anthony (New York City)

  The celebrity chef who starred in the TV shows No Reservations and Parts Unknown

• Bowles, Paul (Jamaica)

  Author of The Sheltering Sky

• Breslin, Abigail (New York City)

  Olive, the nerdy little girl in the movie Little Miss Sunshine

• Brice, Fanny (New York City)

  The vaudeville star who was the basis for the musical Funny Girl

• Broderick, Matthew (New York City)

  Ferris in the movie Ferris Beuller's Day Off

• Brody, Adrien (New York City)

  Oscar-winning star of The Pianist

• Brooks, Mel (Brooklyn)

  The guy who made Blazing Saddles and The Producers

• Brothers, Joyce (Brooklyn)

  The blond pop psychologist from the 1960s

• Brown, Antoinette (Henrietta)

  The first clergywoman in the United States

• Brown, Foxy (Brooklyn)

  The sassy rapper of Ill Na Na

• Bruce, Lenny (Mineola)

  Edgy, arrest-prone 1960's comedian

• Bryson, John (New York City)

  U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 2011-2013

• Burke, Tarana (The Bronx)

  The woman credited with starting the Me Too movement

• Burns, Ken (Brooklyn)

  The director of the TV documentaries The Civil War and Baseball

• Buscemi, Steve (Brooklyn)

  Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs

• Bush, Barbara Pierce (Rye)

  U.S. First Lady, 1989-93

• Byrne, Ethel Higgins (Corning)

  Margaret Sanger’s sister and co-founder of the first birth control clinic

• Caan, James (The Bronx)

  Sonny Corleone in The Godfather

• Cagney, James (New York City)

  Star of the movies Public Enemy and Yankee Doodle Dandy

• Capone, Al (New York City)

  The American gangster known as "Scarface"

• Capriati, Jennifer (New York City)

  The comeback kid who won the Australian Open in 2001 and 2002

• Carey, Mariah (Huntington)

  The pop diva who sang "We Belong Together"

• Carle, Eric (Syracuse)

  Author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar

• Carlin, George (New York City)

  The profane comedian known for his "7 Dirty Words" routine

• Caruso, David (New York City)

  That redheaded guy who quit N.Y.P.D. Blue

• Cassidy, David (New York City)

  The hunky star of TV's 'The Partridge Family'

• Cates, Phoebe (New York City)

  The fantasy girl in Fast Times At Ridgemont High

• Chalamet, Timothée (New York City)

  The young star of 'Call Me By Your Name'

• Chandor, J.C. (New York City)

  The director of All Is Lost

• Chapin, Harry (New York City)

  Singer of the 1972 hit "Taxi"

• Chisholm, Shirley (Brooklyn)

  The first African-American woman to run for U.S. president

• Chung Ling Soo (Westchester County)

  The fake Chinese magician killed on stage during a trick in 1918

• Chyna (Rochester)

  Burly former female champion of the WWF

• Cimino, Michael (New York City)

  The director of 'The Deer Hunter' and 'Heaven's Gate'

• Clark, Dick (Mt. Vernon)

  The host of American Bandstand and New Year's Rockin' Eve

• Clark, Mary Higgins (New York City)

  The author of Where Are the Children? and other suspense stories

• Cleveland, Frances Folsom (Buffalo)

  President Grover Cleveland's young wife

• Clinton, George (Little Britain)

  United States vice president under Jefferson and Madison

• Coffin, William Sloane (New York City)

  The Yale chaplain who opposed the U.S. war in Vietnam

• Cohen, Michael (Long Island)

  Donald Trump's personal lawyer who pled guilty to breaking campaign finance laws

• Comey, James (Yonkers)

  Director of the FBI, 2013-17

• Connelly, Jennifer (New York City)

  The Oscar-winning co-star of A Beautiful Mind

• Cook, Robin (New York City)

  The author of Coma

• Cooper, Anderson (New York City)

  The silver-haired host of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°

• Copland, Aaron (New York City)

  American composer who wrote Appalachian Spring

• Coppola, Sofia (New York City)

  The writer and director of Lost in Translation

• Crudup, Billy (Manhasset)

  Dr. Manhattan in the film version of Watchmen

• Cruise, Tom (Syracuse)

  Star of the Mission Impossible movie series

• Cryer, Jon (New York City)

  Alan Harper on the sitcom Two and a Half Men

• Crystal, Billy (Long Beach)

  Meg Ryan's co-star in When Harry Met Sally

• Curtis, Tony (Bronx)

  The star of Some Like it Hot

• Daly, Mary (Schenectady)

  The feminist professor who battled Boston College

• Danes, Claire (New York City)

  Angela Chase on TV's My So-Called Life

• Dangerfield, Rodney (Babylon)

  The comedian who said "I don't get no respect"

• David, Larry (Brooklyn)

  The guy from Curb Your Enthusiasm

• Davis, Ann B. (Schenectady)

  Alice the housekeeper on The Brady Bunch

• Davis, Sammy Jr. (New York City)

  Singer of "The Candy Man"

• Davuluri, Nina (Syracuse)

  Miss America of 2014

• Day, Dorothy (Brooklyn)

  Laywoman who co-founded The Catholic Worker

• Dean, Howard (East Hampton)

  Former governor of Vermont and outspoken 2004 candidate for U.S. president

• DeFeo Family (Amityville)

  The famous ghosts from The Amityville Horror

• Delany, Dana (New York City)

  Nurse Colleen McMurphy on TV's China Beach

• Delany, Samuel R. (New York City)

  Author of Dhalgren and Babel-17

• DeLillo, Don (New York City)

   The author of White Noise and Underworld

• De Long, George (New York City)

  The polar explorer who led the U.S.S. Jeannette

• De Matteo, Drea (Queens)

  Adriana on TV's The Sopranos

• Demme, Jonathan (Baldwin)

  The director of 'Silence of the Lambs'

• De Niro, Robert (New York City)

  The intense star of Taxi Driver

• Denison, Anthony (New York City)

  Ray Luca on TV's Crime Story

• Denver, Bob (New Rochelle)

  Gilligan on TV's Gilligan's Island

• Dewey, Melvil (Adams Center)

  Inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification System

• Diamond, Neil (Brooklyn)

  The pop musician who sang "Sweet Caroline"

• Diesel, Vin (New York City)

  Star of the hot-rod thriller The Fast and the Furious

• Dillon, Matt (New Rochelle)

  Star of Rumble Fish and Wild Things

• DioGuardi, Kara (Scarsdale)

  The fourth judge on TV's American Idol

• Doctorow, E.L. (The Bronx)

  The author of the 1975 novel Ragtime

• Donovan, Shaun (New York City)

  U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 2009-14

• Douglas, Kirk (Amsterdam)

  Dimple-chinned star of Spartacus

• Downey, Robert Jr. (New York City)

  Star of the movie Iron Man

• Dreyfuss, Richard (Brooklyn)

  The star of Jaws and Close Encounters

• Duchovny, David (New York City)

  F.B.I. Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files

• Duke, Patty (New York City)

  Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker

• Dunham, Lena (New York City)

   The creator and star of the TV series Girls

• Durante, Jimmy (Brooklyn)

  Big-nosed comedian of 20th-century radio and TV

• Durst, Robert (New York City)

  The eccentric killer featured in the HBO show The Jinx

• Ederle, Gertrude (New York City)

  The first woman to swim the English Channel

• Edward, John (New York City)

  The spiritualist host of Crossing Over

• Edwards, Vince (Brooklyn)

  TV's Dr. Ben Casey

• Eisenberg, Jesse (Queens)

  The one who played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network

• Eisner, Michael (Mount Kisco)

  CEO of Walt Disney Company, 1984-2005

• Eisner, Will (Brooklyn)

  Creator of the comic The Spirit

• Elgort, Ansel (New York City)

  Augustus in the movie The Fault in Our Stars

• Emhoff, Douglas (Brooklyn)

  The first-ever "second gentleman" of the United States

• Ephron, Nora (New York City)

  The writer and director of Sleepless In Seattle

• Erving, Julius (East Meadow)

  Hall of Fame basketball star

• Espada, Martín (Brooklyn)

  The Latino poet who wrote "Alabanza" and "Floaters"

• Estevez, Emilio (New York City)

  The Martin Sheen son who was in Breakfast Club and Repo Man

• Evans, Robert (New York City)

  The fast-living movie producer who made Chinatown

• Facinelli, Peter (New York City)

  The dad vampire in the Twilight films

• Fadiman, Anne (New York City)

  Author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

• Fadiman, Clifton (Brooklyn)

  Host of the radio quiz show Information Please

• Fallon, Jimmy (Brooklyn)

  The host of The Tonight Show, 2014-present

• Farrakhan, Louis (The Bronx)

  Head of the Nation of Islam, 1978-

• Farrow, Ronan (New York City)

  Mia Farrow's son who's on MSNBC

• Faust, Drew Gilpin (New York City)

  The first woman president of Harvard University

• Favreau, Jon (Queens)

  The guy who made Swingers with Vince Vaughn

• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (New York City)

  Beat poet/publisher and co-founder of City Lights Books

• Ferraro, Geraldine (Newburgh)

  The first woman to be a major-party candidate for U.S. vice president

• Ferrigno, Lou (Brooklyn)

  Muscular star of TV's The Incredible Hulk

• Feynman, Richard (New York City)

  The Nobel-winning author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman

• Fillmore, Abigail Powers (Stillwater)

  President Millard Fillmore's wife

• Fillmore, Millard (Cayuga County)

  President of the United States, 1850-53

• Flay, Bobby (New York City)

  The celebrity chef of TV's Boy Meets Grill and Throwdown

• Fleischer, Richard (Brooklyn)

  The director of 'Doctor Doolittle' and 'Soylent Green'

• Fleming, Art (New York City)

  The of TV's Jeopardy!

• Fonda, Jane (New York City)

  Outspoken Oscar-winning actress and Ted Turner's ex-wife

• Fonda, Peter (New York City)

  The star of Easy Rider and Ulee's Gold

• Forster, Robert (Rochester)

  Max Cherry in the movie 'Jackie Brown'

• Fort, Charles (Albany)

  Researcher and reporter of anomalous phenomena

• Fosdick, Harry Emerson (Buffalo)

  Liberal Protestant preacher who wrote, "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?"

• Fox Sisters, The

  The toe-cracking teens who claimed to be spiritualists

• Franken, Al (New York City)

  The liberal comedian who was elected senator from Minnesota in 2008

• Funny Cide (Saratoga Springs)

  Winner of the 2003 Kentucky Derby

• GaGa, Lady (New York City)

  The pop singer who co-starred in the 2018 film 'A Star Is Born'

• Garfield, Eugene (New York City)

  Founder of the Institute for Scientific Information

• Garner, Julia (Riverdale)

  Sly criminal Ruth on the TV series 'Ozark'

• Gazzara, Ben (New York City)

  The stage and screen actor who starred in the 1970 film Husbands

• Geffen, David (Brooklyn)

  The billionaire entertainment mogul behind Geffen Records and Dreamworks

• Gehrig, Lou (New York City)

  The New York Yankee hero known as "The Iron Horse"

• Geithner, Timothy (Brooklyn)

  U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 2009-2013

• Gellar, Sarah Michelle (New York City)

  The star of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Gershwin, George (Brooklyn)

  Composer of Rhapsody in Blue

• Gibson, Mel (Peekskill)

  The writer and director of The Passion of the Christ

• Ginsburg, Ruth Bader (Brooklyn)

  The second woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court

• Giuliani, Rudy (Brooklyn)

  Mayor of New York City, 1994-2001

• Gleason, Jackie (Brooklyn)

  Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners

• Glück, Louise (New York City)

  The Nobel Prize winning poet who wrote “Mock Orange”

• Goddard, Paulette (Whitestone Landing)

  Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in Modern Times

• Goldberg, Whoopi (New York City)

  Star of the Hollywood comedy Sister Act

• Gooding, Cuba (Jr.) (New York City)

  The guy who said "Show me the money!" in Jerry Maguire

• Gottfried, Gilbert (Brooklyn)

  The comedian who voiced Iago in 'Aladdin'

• Grace, Topher (New York City)

  The star of That '70s Show

• Graham, Katharine (New York City)

  Publisher of the Washington Post

• Greenspan, Alan (New York City)

  Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors, 1987-2006

• Griffith, Melanie (New York City)

  The star of the film Working Girl

• Gyllenhaal, Maggie (New York City)

  Star of the 2002 movie Secretary

• Haley, Alex (Ithaca)

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the book Roots

• Hamlisch, Marvin (New York City)

  Composer of A Chorus Line

• Hammerstein, Oscar II (New York City)

  Co-writer of Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music

• Hannity, Sean (New York City)

  The right-leaning TV host from Hannity & Colmes

• Harper, Valerie (Suffern)

  Rhoda on TV's Mary Tyler Moore Show

• Hart, Johnny (Endicott)

  Creator of the strip B.C.

• Hathaway, Anne (New York City)

  The Oscar-winning star of Les Miserables

• Hayward, Susan (Brooklyn)

  The redhead who won an Oscar for 'I Want To Live'

• Hayworth, Rita (Brooklyn)

  1940s bombshell who ended sadly with Alzheimer's

• Hecht, Ben (New York City)

  The prolific Hollywood screenwriter who did The Front Page

• Hedges, Lucas (Brooklyn)

  The Oscar-nominated co-star of the 2016 film 'Manchester by the Sea'

• Heller, Joseph (Brooklyn)

  The author of Catch-22

• Helmsley, Leona (New York City)

  The hotelier called the "Queen of Mean"

• Henry, Buck (New York City)

  The screenwriter of 'The Graduate'

• Hewitt, Don (New York City)

  Creator and executive producer of TV's 60 Minutes

• Hijuelos, Oscar (New York City)

  The author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

• Hilfiger, Ally (New York City)

  Designer Tommy Hilfiger's daughter

• Hilfiger, Tommy (Elmira)

  Fashion mogul with the blue-white-red rectangle logo

• Hilton, Nicky (New York City)

  Hotel heiress and sister to socialite Paris Hilton

• Hirsch, Judd (The Bronx)

  The star of the TV sitcom Taxi

• Hoffman, Philip Seymour (Fairport)

  Oscar-winning star of the 2005 movie Capote

• Holder, Eric (The Bronx)

  Attorney General of the United States, 2009-2015

• Holm, Eleanor (Brooklyn)

  The Olympic swimmer kicked off the 1936 American team for partying

• Hopper, Edward (Nyack)

  The painter of that lonely diner scene, Nighthawks

• Horne, Lena (Brooklyn)

  Singer of the jazz standard "Stormy Weather"

• Howe, Julia Ward (New York City)

  The abolitionist who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic

• Huffman, Felicity (Bedford)

  Lynette on the TV show Desperate Housewives

• Hughes, Sarah (Great Neck)

  2002 Olympic figure skating gold medalist

• Hunter, Tab (New York City)

  The blonde box office idol of the 1950s who also sang "Young Love"

• Irving, Clifford (New York City)

  Author of the fake Howard Hughes biography

• Irving, Washington (New York City)

  Author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

• Jackson, Curtis (Queens)

  The rapper who made the hit album Get Rich or Die Tryin

• James, Henry (New York City)

  Author of The Ambassadors

• James, Rick (Buffalo)

  Funky singer of "Super Freak"

• Jay, John (New York City)

  One of the authors of The Federalist Papers

• Jay-Z (Brooklyn)

  Rapper of "Empire State of Mind"

• Jenner, Caitlyn (Mount Kisco)

  The Olympic decathlete who transitioned from man to woman 

• Joel, Billy (The Bronx)

  Pianist and singer of the tune Piano Man

• Johansson, Scarlett (New York City)

  The actress who plays Black Widow in the Marvel superhero universe

• Johnson, Boris (Manhattan)

  Prime Minister of the U.K. from 2019-2022

• Johnson, Crockett (New York City)

  The author of Harold and the Purple Crayon

• Jones, Norah (New York City)

  Grammy-winning singer of "Don't Know Why"

• Jordan, Michael (Brooklyn)

  The super-duper-star guard for the Chicago Bulls

• Judge Judy (Brooklyn)

  The stern, lace-collared TV judge

• Kagan, Elena (New York City)

  Barack Obama's 2010 nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court

• Kaiser, Henry J. (Sproutbrook)

  The shipbuilder who founded Kaiser-Permanente

• Kamen, Dean

  Inventor of the Segway transporter

• Kamen, Jack (Brooklyn)

  Cover artist for EC Comics

• Kauffmann, Stanley (New York City)

  The film reviewer for The New Republic, 1958-2013

• Kaufman, Andy (New York City)

  The 1970s weirdo comedian extraordinaire

• Kaye, Danny (Brooklyn)

  Song-and-dance star of The Court Jester

• Keeshan, Bob (New York City)

  TV's Captain Kangaroo

• Keitel, Harvey (Brooklyn)

  The greasy pimp in Taxi Driver

• Kelly, Alvin 'Shipwreck' (New York City)

  World-champion flagpole sitter of the 1920s

• Kelly, Megyn (Syracuse)

  Host of The Kelly File on Fox News (2013-17)

• Kennedy, Caroline (New York City)

  The oldest child of John and Jackie Kennedy

• Kennedy, Carolyn Bessette (White Plains)

  Wife of John F. Kennedy Jr.

• Kennedy, George (New York City)

  The con against Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke

• Keyes, Alan (New York City)

  African-American conservative and sometime presidential candidate

• Keyes, Daniel (Brooklyn)

  The author of Flowers for Algernon

• Keys, Alicia (New York City)

  Singer of the hit R&B single "Fallin'"

• Kim, Lil' (Brooklyn)

  The controversial female rapper of "No Time"

• Kimmel, Jimmy (Brooklyn)

  The late-night host of Jimmy Kimmel Live

• King, Carole (Brooklyn)

  Singer of "It's Too Late"

• King, Larry (Brooklyn)

  Suspender-clad chat show host on CNN

• Klein, Calvin (New York City)

  The designer with the famous underwear ads

• Konigsburg, E.L. (Manhattan)

  The author of The View From Saturday

• Kopple, Barbara (New York City)

  The documentary maker who did Harlan County, USA

• Kotto, Yaphet (New York City)

  Parker in the movie 'Aliens' and Idi Amin in 'Raid on Entebbe'

• Kravitz, Lenny (New York City)

  The pop singer who plays Cinna in The Hunger Games

• Kubrick, Stanley (The Bronx)

  The director of 2001: A Space Odyssey

• La Guardia, Fiorello (New York City)

  The New York mayor they named the airport after

• Lake, Ricki (New York City)

  Television talk-show host

• Lancaster, Burt (New York City)

  The star of From Here to Eternity

• Landau, Martin (Brooklyn)

  Bela Lugosi in the 1994 movie 'Ed Wood'

• Lane, Diane (New York City)

  Star of the 2002 movie Unfaithful

• Lauer, Matt (New York City)

  The NBC anchor fired in 2017 for sexual misconduct

• Lazarus, Emma (New York City)

  Author of the poem on the Statue of Liberty

• Lee, Stan (New York City)

  The leader of Marvel Comics and co-creator of Spider-Man

• Lehman, Ernest (New York City)

   The guy who wrote Hitchcock's North by Northwest

• Lehrer, Tom (New York City)

  Composer of the satirical tune "The Vatican Rag"

• L'Engle, Madeleine (New York City)

  The author of A Wrinkle in Time

• Leno, Jay (New Rochelle)

  The host of TV's The Tonight Show, 1992-2009 and 2010-2014

• Leo, Melissa (New York City)

  The Oscar-winning mom from The Fighter

• Leonhart, Carolyn (New York City)

  Vocalist with Lyn Leon and Steely Dan

• Leoni, Téa (New York City)

  The star of the TV show The Naked Truth

• Lethem, Jonathan (Brooklyn)

  Author of The Fortress of Solitude

• Lewis, Edmonia

  The woman sculptor who did 1876's 'The Death of Cleopatra'

• Lew, Jack (New York City)

  U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 2013-2017

• Lichtenstein, Roy (Manhattan)

   The Pop Art master who did the comic-style Whaam!

• Lillis, Sophia (New York City)

  Beverly in the ‘It’ films and star of 'I Am Not Okay With This'

• Linney, Laura (New York City)

  Oscar-nominated star of You Can Count on Me

• Lippmann, Walter

  Influential 20th century columnist who did “Today and Tomorrow” (1931-67)

• Lipton, Peggy (New York City)

  A star of TV's Mod Squad

• Liu, Lucy (Queens)

  O-Ren Ishii in the movie Kill Bill

• Lochte, Ryan (Rochester)

  The Olympic swimmer who did not really get robbed in Rio de Janiero

• Lohan, Lindsay (New York City)

  The actress who starred in Mean Girls (2004)

• Lombardi, Vince (Brooklyn)

  The head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s

• Lonergan, Kenneth (New York City)

  The director of 'You Can Count on Me'

• Lopez, Jennifer (New York City)

  The star of Selena and Maid in Manhattan

• Lord, Jack (New York City)

  Steve McGarrett on TV's Hawaii Five-O

• Louis-Dreyfus, Julia (New York City)

  Elaine on the sitcom Seinfeld

• Louise, Tina (New York City)

  Ginger on the TV sitcom Gilligan's Island

• Lovelace, Linda (The Bronx)

  The star of the sexually explicit film Deep Throat

• Lucci, Susan (Westchester)

  Erica Kane on ABC's All My Children from 1970-2011

• Luce, Clare Boothe (New York City)

  Socialite, playwright, ambassador and wife of publisher Henry Luce

• Madoff, Bernard (New York City)

  The Wall Street money manager who swindled $50 billion

• Maher, Bill (New York City)

  Former host of ABC's Politically Incorrect

• Manilow, Barry (Brooklyn)

  Singer of the 1974 hit tune "Mandy"

• Manz, Linda (New York City)

  The young narrator of 'Days of Heaven'

• Mara, Kate (Bedford)

  Zoe Barnes, the reporter on House of Cards

• Mara, Rooney (Bedford)

  The American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

• Margulies, Julianna (Spring Valley)

  The star of the TV series The Good Wife

• Marshall, Garry (New York City)

  The creator of the TV show 'Happy Days'

• Marvin, Lee (New York City)

  Rugged star of The Dirty Dozen

• Marx, Groucho (New York City)

  The mustachioed leader of the Marx Brothers

• Maslow, Abraham (Brooklyn)

  Creator of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

• Matthau, Walter

  Curmudgeonly star of the film The Odd Couple

• Matthiessen, Peter (New York City)

  The author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord

• Mazursky, Paul (Brooklyn)

  The director of An Unmarried Woman

• McCartney, Jesse (New York City)

  Pop singer of "Beautiful Soul"

• McKinnon, Kate (Sea Cliff)

  The SNL star who impersonates Justin Bieber and Hillary Clinton

• McLean, Don (New Rochelle)

  The guy who did "American Pie" and "Starry, Starry Night"

• McVeigh, Timothy (Pendleton)

  The Oklahoma City bomber

• Melville, Herman (New York City)

  The author of Moby-Dick

• Menken, Alan (New Rochelle)

  The composer behind The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast

• Merman, Ethel (New York City)

  The brassy star of Annie Get Your Gun

• Merrill, Dina (New York City)

  The sophisticated blond in 'Operation Petticoat'

• Merwin, W. S. (New York City)

  The author of the collection The Carrier of Ladders

• Messing, Debra (Brooklyn)

  The star of Will & Grace and Smash

• Michele, Lea (New York City)

  Rachel Berry on the TV series Glee

• Milano, Alyssa (Brooklyn)

  The co-star of TV's Charmed

• Milk, Harvey (Woodmere)

  The gay San Francisco city official gunned down in 1978

• Miller, Arthur (New York City)

  The author of Death of a Salesman

• Miller, Bennett (New York City)

  Director of the 2005 movie Capote

• Miller, Christa (New York City)

  Jordan Sullivan on TV's Scrubs

• Miller, Henry (New York City)

  Author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn

• Miller, Sienna (New York City)

  Jude Law's ex-girlfriend and star of Factory Girl

• Milonakis, Andy (Katonah)

  Youthful-looking MTV prankster who did "The Superbowl Is Gay"

• Miranda, Lin-Manuel (New York City)

  The creator and star of the musical Hamilton

• Moby (New York City)

  The bald techno artist who recorded Play

• Money, Eddie (Brooklyn)

  The rocker who did "Two Tickets to Paradise" and "Take Me Home Tonight"

• Monroe, Elizabeth Kortright (New York City)

  First Lady of the United States, 1817-25

• Moog, Robert (New York City)

  The guy who invented the Moog synthesizer

• Moore, Mary Tyler (Brooklyn)

  Star of TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show

• Morgan, Tracy (New York City)

  Tracy Jordan on TV's 30 Rock

• Mortensen, Viggo (New York City)

  Aragorn in the movie series The Lord of the Rings

• Mos Def (Brooklyn)

  The rapper and actor formerly known as Mos Def

• Moses, Grandma (Greenwich)

  The American folk artist who started painting in her seventies

• Mueller, Robert (New York City)

  The Director of the FBI, 2001-13

• Mukasey, Michael (The Bronx)

  Attorney General of the United States, 2007-

• Muldowney, Shirley (Schenectady)

  The professional drag racer once known as "Cha-Cha"

• Murch, Walter (New York City)

  Ace editor of the 1974 film The Conversation

• Murphy, Eddie (Brooklyn)

  The star of the Beverly Hills Cop films

• Murray, Chad Michael (Buffalo)

  Basketball hero Lucas Scott in TV's One Tree Hill

• Napolitano, Janet (New York City)

  Governor of Arizona, 2003-2009

• Nash, Ogden (Rye)

  Author of the funny poem "The Lama"

• Neuman, Alfred E. (New York City)

  MAD magazine's "What -- Me Worry?" kid

• Nidetch, Jean (Brooklyn)

  Founder of the Weight Watchers diet program

• Nilsson, Harry (New York City)

  The guy who sang "Jump into the Fire"

• Nixon, Cynthia (New York City)

  Miranda on HBO's Sex and the City

• Oates, Joyce Carol (Lockport)

  The author of Bellefleur and Them

• Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria (The Bronx)

  The youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress

• Odom, Leslie Jr. (Queens)

  Aaron Burr in the musical 'Hamilton'

• O'Donnell, Rosie (Commack)

  Host of TV's The Rosie O'Donnell Show

• O'Donoghue, Michael (Utica)

  Writer / performer on Saturday Night Live

• Oliver, Susan (New York City)

  Vina in the episode "The Menagerie" of the TV series Star Trek

• Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy (Southhampton)

  Wife of president John F. Kennedy

• O'Neill, Eugene (New York City)

  The author of the play Long Day's Journey Into Night

• Oppenheimer, J. Robert (New York City)

  The physicist who directed the Manhattan Project

• O'Reilly, Bill (New York City)

  The bombastic and political host of The O'Reilly Factor

• Pacino, Al (New York City)

  Star of The Godfather and Scent of a Woman

• Paglia, Camille (Endicott)

  The professor-author of 1990’s Sexual Personae

• Pakula, Alan J. (New York City)

  The director of All the President's Men

• Panettiere, Hayden (Palisades)

  Cheerleader Claire Bennet on the TV series Heroes

• Paterno, Joe (New York City)

  The head football coach at Penn State University, 1966-2011

• Paterson, David (Brooklyn)

  The New York governor who replaced Eliot Spitzer in 2008

• Patterson, James (Newburgh)

  The author of all those Alex Cross mysteries

• Paul, Alexandra (New York City)

  The actress who played Lt. Stephanie Holden on Baywatch

• Paul, Caroline (New York City)

  Author of Fighting Fire

• P. Diddy (New York City)

  Rapper known as Puff Daddy, then P. Diddy, then Diddy, then P. Diddy again

• Peck, George W. (Henderson)

  Author of the "Peck's Bad Boy" stories

• Peele, Jordan (New York City)

  The comedian who wrote and directed the horror film 'Get Out'

• Peet, Amanda (New York City)

  Jacqueline "Jack" Barrett in TV's Jack & Jill

• Pell, Claiborne (New York City)

  The creator of so-called Pell grants for college students

• Perelman, S.J. (Brooklyn)

  Humorist for The New Yorker and Marx Bros. writer

• Perlman, Ron (New York City)

  Star of the Hellboy movies

• Peterson, Roger Tory (Jamestown)

  The author of Field Guide to Birds

• Petraeus, David H. (Cornwall-on-Hudson)

  The former CIA director who commanded U.S. forces in Iraq

• Philbin, Regis (New York City)

  Host of the TV morning show Live With Regis And..., 1988-2011

• Phillips, Todd (New York City)

  The director of 'The Hangover' and 'Joker'

• Piven, Jeremy (New York City)

  Scheming Ari Gold on TV's Entourage

• Pohl, Frederik (Brooklyn)

  The sci-fi author of The Space Merchants and Gateway

• Powell, Colin (New York City)

  U.S. Secretary of State, 2001-2004

• Prinze, Freddie (New York City)

  Comedian and star of TV's Chico and the Man

• Punisher, Big (The Bronx)

  Super-sized Latin rapper

• Pynchon, Thomas (Glen Cove)

  Reclusive author of Gravity's Rainbow

• Rafelson, Bob (New York City)

  The director of the film Five Easy Pieces

• Ramone, Joey (Queens)

  Lead singer of The Ramones

• Ramones, The (Forest Hills)

  Punk band who did "Beat on the Brat"

• Reagan, Nancy (New York City)

  First Lady of the United States, 1981-89

• Reed, Lou (Brooklyn)

  Co-founder of The Velvet Underground

• Reeve, Christopher (New York City)

  The Superman star who later was paralyzed

• Reilly, Charles Nelson (New York City)

  The wackiest panelist on TV's Match Game

• Reiner, Carl (New York City)

  Creator of TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show

• Remington, Frederic (Canton)

  Popular painter of the American west

• Reubens, Paul (Peekskill)

  The comedian who created the alter ego Pee-wee Herman

• Rhames, Ving (New York City)

  Marsellus Wallace in the movie Pulp Fiction

• Rhymes, Busta (Brooklyn)

  Rubbery-faced, raspy-voiced Brooklyn rapper

• Rice, Ray (New Rochelle)

  The NFL running back who was suspended in 2014 after hitting his wife

• Rickles, Don (New York City)

  The insult comic who used "dummy" and "hockey puck"

• Rivera, Geraldo (New York City)

  Mustachioed muckraker of TV news

• Rivers, Joan (Brooklyn)

  The TV talk-show host with the catch-phrase "Can we talk?"

• Robbins, Harold (New York City)

  The author of The Betsy

• Roberts, John G. (Buffalo)

  17th U.S. Chief Justice of the United States

• Rockefeller, David (New York City)

  Leader of Chase Manhattan Bank, 1969-81

• Rockefeller, John D. Sr. (Richford)

  Standard Oil tycoon and big-time philanthropist

• Rockwell, Norman (New York City)

  Cover artist for The Saturday Evening Post

• Rodgers, Richard (New York City)

  Composer of Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music

• Rodriguez, Alex (New York City)

  The quarter-billion-dollar superstar known as "A-Rod"

• Rollins, Sonny (New York City)

  The bop-era saxophonist who did "St. Thomas"

• Romano, Ray (Queens)

  The star of TV's Everybody Loves Raymond

• Romero, George (New York City)

  The director of the Night of the Living Dead films

• Ronan, Saoirse (New York City)

  The Irish actress who played Jo in Little Women

• Rooney, Andy (Albany)

  The star of the 60 Minutes segment "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney"

• Rooney, Mickey (Brooklyn)

  Star of the Andy Hardy movies

• Roosevelt, Eleanor (New York City)

  First Lady of the United States, 1933-45

• Roosevelt, Franklin (Hyde Park)

  The president who led the U.S. through World War II

• Roosevelt, Theodore (New York City)

  President of the United States, 1901-1909

• Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel

  The New Yorkers executed as Soviet spies in 1953

• Rossum, Emmy (New York City)

  Gerard Butler's co-star in The Phantom of the Opera

• Roundtree, Richard (New Rochelle)

  The star of the 1971 movie Shaft

• Rourke, Mickey (Schenectady)

  The star of the 2008 film The Wrestler

• Rudin, Scott (Baldwin)

  High-powered producer of 'No Country for Old Men'

• Rule, Ja (Queens)

  Tough-talking rapper of the hit singles "Holla Holla" and "Clap Back"

• Russell, David O. (New York City)

  The Oscar-nominated director of The Fighter

• Russert, Tim (Buffalo)

  Host of TV's Meet the Press, 1991-2008

• Ryan, Amy (Queens)

  That terrible mom in Gone Baby Gone

• Safire, William (New York City)

  Political columnist for The New York Times, 1973-2005

• Sagan, Carl (Brooklyn)

   The astronomer who did the TV series Cosmos

• Salinger, J.D. (New York City)

  The author of The Catcher In the Rye

• Salk, Jonas (New York City)

  Developer of the polio vaccine

• Salmi, Albert (Brooklyn)

  The TV character actor who played Bo in the original Broadway production of Bus Stop

• Sanders, Bernie (Brooklyn)

  U.S. Senator from Vermont, 2006-present

• Sandler, Adam (Brooklyn)

  The star of Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer

• Sanger, Margaret (Corning)

  Co-founder of what became Planned Parenthood

• Sara, Mia (Brooklyn Heights)

  Ferris's girlfriend in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

• Sarandon, Susan (New York City)

  The co-star of Thelma and Louise

• Savalas, Telly (Garden City)

  TV's Kojak

• Schlessinger, Laura (Brooklyn)

  The radio advice-giver known as "Dr. Laura"

• Schultz, Howard (Albany) (Brooklyn)

  The CEO who made Starbucks an international company

• Schumacher, Joel (New York City)

  The director of St. Elmo's Fire and Batman Forever

• Schumer, Amy (New York City)

  The raunchy comedy star of Trainwreck and Inside Amy Schumer

• Schwartz, Stephen (New York City)

  Composer of the Broadway hits Wicked and Godspell

• Scorsese, Martin (Queens)

  The director of Taxi Driver and Goodfellas

• Sedaris, Amy (Endicott)

  The star of the oddball TV comedy Strangers With Candy

• Sedaris, David (Johnson City)

  Author of the essay collection Me Talk Pretty One Day

• Sedgwick, Kyra (New York City)

  Star of the 1992 film Singles

• Seinfeld, Jerry (Brooklyn)

  Star of the TV sitcom Seinfeld

• Sendak, Maurice (Brooklyn)

  The illustrator who created Where the Wild Things Are

• Serling, Rod (Syracuse)

  The creator and host of The Twilight Zone

• Serpico, Frank (Brooklyn)

  Whistleblowing New York cop who inspired a 1973 movie

• Shakur, Tupac (Brooklyn)

  Late rapper of 2Pacalypse Now

• Sharpton, Al (Brooklyn)

  New York's African-American preacher, activist and presidential candidate 

• Shavitz, Burt (New York City)

  The Burt of Burt's Bees personal care products

• Shaw, Artie (New York City)

  The clarinet-playing big band leader who recorded Begin the Beguine

• Sheen, Charlie (New York City)

  The fast-living ex-star of the TV comedy Two and a Half Men

• Sherwood, Robert E. (New Rochelle)

   The playwright who wrote the movie The Best Years of Our Lives

• Shulman, Julius (New York City)

   Los Angeles photographer of great 20th century architects

• Shultz, George (New York City)

  United States Secretary of State, 1982-89

• Sidibe, Gabourey (New York City)

  The newcomer star of the 2009 film Precious

• Simon, Carly (New York City)

  The singer of "You're So Vain"

• Simon, Neil (The Bronx)

   The Broadway legend who wrote The Odd Couple

• Singer, Isaac Merritt (Pittstown)

  The maker of the first popular household sewing machine

• Slater, Christian (New York City)

  Wild-eyebrowed star of Heathers and Broken Arrow

• Sobieski, Leelee (New York City)

  She was Joan on TV in 1999's Joan of Arc

• Sondheim, Stephen (New York City)

  West Side Story lyricist and superstar Broadway composer

• Sorrentino, Mike "The Situation" (Staten Island)

  The guy who shows off his abs on TV's Jersey Shore

• Sorvino, Paul (Brooklyn)

  He played mob boss Paulie in the movie Goodfellas

• Sotomayor, Sonia (The Bronx)

  The first Latina justice on the U.S. Supreme Court

• Soto, Talisa (Brooklyn)

  Lupe Lamora from the Bond movie Licence to Kill

• Spitzer, Eliot (The Bronx)

  Governor of New York, 2007-2008

• Stallone, Sylvester (New York City)

  Star of the Rocky and Rambo movies

• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (Johnstown)

  Co-founder of the Seneca Falls Convention

• Stanwyck, Barbara (Brooklyn)

  The dangerous femme fatale in the film Double Indemnity

• Steel, Danielle (New York City)

  Author of the romance novels Jewels and Crossings

• Steiger, Rod (Westhampton)

  Star of In the Heat of the Night

• Stern, David (New York City)

  Commissioner of the National Basketball Association, 1984-2014

• Stern, Howard (Jackson Heights)

  'Shock jock' host of radio's The Howard Stern Show

• Stewart, Jon (New York City)

  Host of The Daily Show, 1999-2015

• Stiles, Julia (New York City)

  Nicky Parsons in The Bourne Identity movies

• Stiller, Ben (New York City)

  The star of There's Something About Mary and Zoolander

• Stone, Oliver (New York City)

  Controversial director of JFK and Natural Born Killers

• Streisand, Barbra (Brooklyn)

  The Oscar-winning star of Funny Girl

• Sturgeon, Theodore (Staten Island)

  The science fiction author of 'More Than Human'

• Sullivan, Ed (New York City)

  Host of TV's The Ed Sullivan Show, 1948-71

• Thalberg, Irving (Brooklyn)

  "The Boy Wonder" movie producer of old MGM

• The Strokes (New York City)

  Rock band who did the song "Last Nite"

• Toles, Tom (Buffalo)

  Editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post (2002- )

• Tomei, Marisa (Brooklyn)

  The Oscar-winning actress from My Cousin Vinny

• Tompkins, Daniel D. (Westchester County)

  U.S. vice president under James Monroe, 1817-1825

• Torres, Gina (Manhattan)

  Zoë in Firefly and Serenity

• Treadwell, Timothy (Long Island)

  Bear-loving mauling victim from the documentary Grizzly Man

• Trump, Barron (New York City)

  The youngest child of former President Donald Trump

• Trump, Donald (New York City)

  President of the United States, 2017-2021

• Trump, Donald Jr. (New York City)

  The oldest son of former President Donald Trump

• Trump, Eric (New York City)

  The third child of Donald Trump

• Trump, Ivanka (New York City)

  The daughter of former President Donald Trump

• Truth, Sojourner (Hurley)

  The freed slave and activist who said "Ain't I a Woman?"

• Tucci, Stanley (Peekskill)

  Nigel, the fashion consultant in The Devil Wears Prada

• Tuchman, Barbara (New York City)

  Author of The Guns of August

• Tyler, Julia Gardiner (Gardiners Island)

  President John Tyler's second wife

• Tyler, Steven (New York City)

  The lead singer for the rock band Aerosmith

• Tyson, Cicely

  The star of 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman'

• Tyson, Mike (Brooklyn)

  "Iron Mike," the controversial boxing champ of the 1980s

• Tyson, Neil DeGrasse (New York City)

  The astrophysicist-slash-TV-star who became director of the Hayden Planetarium 

• Van Buren, Hannah (Kinderhook)

  Wife of U.S. president Martin Van Buren

• Van Buren, Martin (Kinderhook)

  President of the United States, 1837-1841

• Vanderbilt, Cornelius (Staten Island)

  19th century transport magnate known as "Commodore"

• Van Doren, Charles (New York City)

  Ill-fated star of the 1950s game show Twenty-One

• Vandross, Luther (New York City)

  The R&B singer of Dance With My Father

• Van Praagh, James (Bayside)

  Author of Talking to Heaven

• Vazquez, Mario (The Bronx)

  The contestant who dropped out of 2005's American Idol

• Vidal, Gore (West Point)

  The smart and sassy author of Burr and Myra Breckinridge

• Vigoda, Abe (New York City)

  Detective Fish on TV's Barney Miller

• Visitor, Nana (New York City)

  Major Kira Nerys on Deep Space Nine

• Walken, Christopher (New York City)

  The Russian roulette guy in The Deer Hunter

• Wallace, David Foster (Ithaca)

  The author of the novel Infinite Jest

• Wallach, Eli (Brooklyn)

  The "Ugly" of the movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

• Waller, Fats (New York City)

  The joyous piano player who wrote the song "Ain't Misbehavin'"

• Walsh, M. Emmet (Ogsdensburg)

  The cynical head cop in the sci-fi film Blade Runner

• Wambach, Abby (Rochester)

  The soccer player with the most international goals in history

• Washington, Denzel (Mt. Vernon)

  Star of Malcolm X and Training Day

• Washington, Kerry (The Bronx)

  Olivia Pope on TV's Scandal

• Weaver, Sigourney (New York City)

  Ripley in the Alien film series

• Weiner, Anthony (Brooklyn)

  The New York congressman who resigned over sexting in 2011

• Weinstein, Harvey (Flushing)

  The accused rapist who produced 'Pulp Fiction' and 'Shakespeare in Love'

• Welling, Tom (Putnam Valley)

  Clark Kent in the TV series Smallville

• Wenner, Jann (New York City)

   Founder and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine

• Westinghouse, George (Central Bridge)

  Air brake inventor and Edison's AC rival

• West, Mae (Brooklyn)

  Early Hollywood sex symbol

• Wharton, Edith (New York City)

  Author of Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence

• Whedon, Joss (New York City)

  The guy behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Whitehead, Colson (New York City)

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Underground Railroad'

• Whitman, Walt (Long Island)

  The poet who wrote Leaves of Grass

• Wiig, Kristen (Canandigua)

  The enthusiastic Target clerk on Saturday Night Live

• Wilde, Olivia (New York City)

  The wild doctor "Thirteen" on the TV series House, M.D.

• Williams, Dar (Mount Kisco)

  Singer of "Spring Street"

• Williams, John (Floral Park)

  Composer of the themes from Jaws and Star Wars

• Williams, Vanessa (Millwood)

  The first African-American to become Miss America

• Willig, George (New York City)

  The guy who climbed the World Trade Center in 1977

• Willis, Gordon (Queens)

  The cinematographer of The Godfather movies

• Wilson, Robert Anton (Brooklyn)

  Co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy

• Yale, Linus Jr. (Salisbury)

  The inventor of the cylinder lock

• Yauch, Adam (New York City)

  MCA from the rap group Beastie Boys

• Yellen, Janet (Brooklyn)

  President Biden's Secretary of the Treasury

• Yellow Kid (New York City)

  Early comic strip star by R.F. Outcault

• Zeitlin, Benh (New York City)

   The director of Beasts of the Southern Wild

• Zinn, Howard (New York City)

  Boat-rocking U.S. historian

• Zuckerberg, Mark (White Plains)

  The CEO of Facebook

See also: Index of all US States