Famous People from The Bronx, New York

• Bancroft, Anne

  Mrs. Robinson in the movie The Graduate

• Barkin, Ellen

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

• Bishop, Joey

  Comedian member of the Rat Pack

• Burke, Tarana

  The woman credited with starting the Me Too movement

• Caan, James

  Sonny Corleone in The Godfather

• Cardi B

  The rapper of the hit song "Bodak Yellow"

• Doctorow, E.L.

  The author of the 1975 novel Ragtime

• Farrakhan, Louis

  Head of the Nation of Islam, 1978-

• Hirsch, Judd

  The star of the TV sitcom Taxi

• Holder, Eric

  Attorney General of the United States, 2009-2015

• Joel, Billy

  Pianist and singer of the tune Piano Man

• Kubrick, Stanley

  The director of 2001: A Space Odyssey

• Lovelace, Linda

  The star of the sexually explicit film Deep Throat

• Mukasey, Michael

  Attorney General of the United States, 2007-

• Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria

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

• Punisher, Big

  Super-sized Latin rapper

• Simon, Neil

   The Broadway legend who wrote The Odd Couple

• Sotomayor, Sonia

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

• Spitzer, Eliot

  Governor of New York, 2007-2008

• Vazquez, Mario

  The contestant who dropped out of 2005's American Idol

• Washington, Kerry

  Olivia Pope on TV's Scandal

See also: Born in New York