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List of famous New Yorkers: Encyclopedia II - List of famous New Yorkers - Native New Yorkers

List of famous New Yorkers - Native New Yorkers

The following were born in New York City. Some became famous after they moved away.

List of famous New Yorkers - A

Aaliyah - singer
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - basketball player
Bella Abzug - feminist activist and politician
Christina Aguilera - singer
Marv Albert - sports announcer
Danny Aiello - actor
Woody Allen - film director
Alexander Anderson - illustrator
Carmelo Anthony - basketball player
Kenneth J. Arrow - economist; Nobel laureate (Economics, 1972)
Beatrice Arthur - actress
Red Auerbach - basketball coach
Hank Azaria - actor

List of famous New Yorkers - B

Anne Bancroft - actress
Harry Belafonte - actor and singer
Pat Benatar - singer
Moe Berg - baseball player and spy
David Blaine - magician
Yasmine Bleeth - actress
Humphrey Bogart - film actor
Margaret Bourke-White - photographer
Clara Bow - actress
Barbara Boxer - Senator from California
James J. Braddock - boxer (aka 'Cinderella Man')
Matthew Broderick - actor
Mel Brooks - film director
William F. Buckley, Jr. - author and conservative commentator
Steve Buscemi - actor

List of famous New Yorkers - 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
Jeff Chandler - 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
George Cukor - film director
Mario Cuomo - governor of New York
Tony Curtis - actor

List of famous New Yorkers - D

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
Neil Diamond - singer and composer
P. Diddy - rap artist
Vin Diesel - actor
Richard Dreyfuss - actor

List of famous New Yorkers - E

Gertrude Ederle - swimmer

List of famous New Yorkers - F

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - actor
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
Al Franken - comedian and radio host
Milton Friedman - economist
John Frusciante - artist

List of famous New Yorkers - 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
Elliott Gould - actor
Rocky Graziano - boxer (real name Thomas Rocco Barbella)
Hank Greenberg - baseball player
Melanie Griffith - actress
Bob Guccione - publisher
Peggy Guggenheim - art collector
Maggie Gyllenhaal - actress

List of famous New Yorkers - H

Armand Hammer - industrialist and philanthropist
Oscar Hammerstein II - composer
W. Averell Harriman - diplomat and governor of New York
Susan Hayward - actress
Rita Hayworth - actress
Anthony Hecht - poet
Carol Heiss - Olympic figure skater (silver 1956, gold 1960)
Joseph Heller - author
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

List of famous New Yorkers - I

Washington Irving - author

List of famous New Yorkers - 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
Norah Jones - singer
Michael Jordan - basketball player
William Joyce - Nazi broadcaster (Lord Haw-Haw)

List of famous New Yorkers - 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

List of famous New Yorkers - L

Fiorello LaGuardia - mayor of New York
Veronica Lake - actress
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

List of famous New Yorkers - M

Frank McCourt - author
Bernard Malamud - author
Melissa Manchester - singer
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
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

List of famous New Yorkers - N

Nordstrom Sisters - American sister act, international cabaret singers
Dagmar Nordstrom - American composer, pianist, one of The Nordstrom Sisters

List of famous New Yorkers - O

Eugene O'Neill - playwright
Robert Oppenheimer - physicist; 'father of the atomic bomb'
Bill O'Reilly (journalist) - Fox News anchor and journalist

List of famous New Yorkers - P

Al Pacino - actor
Joe Paterno - football coach
James Patterson - novelist
Amanda Peet - actress
Claiborne Pell - Senator from Rhode Island
Chaim Potok - author
Colin Powell - army general and Secretary of State
Priscilla Presley - actress
Tito Puente - band leader
Mario Puzo - author

List of famous New Yorkers - 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
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

List of famous New Yorkers - S

Carl Sagan - physicist and astronomer
J. D. Salinger - author
Jonas Salk - medical researcher
Adam Sandler- actor, comedian
Francesco Scavullo - photographer
Dick Schaap - journalist
Vincent Schiavelli - actor
Rick Schroeder - 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
Jon Stewart - (ne Jonathan Stewart Leibowitz) comedian
Henry L. Stimson - politician and diplomat
Oliver Stone - film director
Susan Strasberg - actress
Barbra Streisand - singer and actress

List of famous New Yorkers - T

Irving Thalberg - film producer
Johnny Thunders - rock musician
Louis Comfort Tiffany - artist
Joe Torre - baseball player and coach
Donald Trump - businessman
Gene Tunney - 1926-28 heavyweight boxing champion
John V. Tunney - former U.S. Senator
John Turturro - actor
William Tweed - politician
Mike Tyson - professional boxer

List of famous New Yorkers - V

Luther Vandross - singer
Cornelius Vanderbilt - businessman

List of famous New Yorkers - W

Christopher Walken - actor
Jimmy Walker - mayor of New York City
Eli Wallach - actor
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
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - sculptor and art patron
Vanessa Lynn Williams - singer and actress

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