Biographical Records

Notable People from New York

17,567 notable figures born in New York, showing page 149 of 352, ranked by historical prominence.

Raymond Murray
Raymond Murray
American speed skater (1910-1960)
1910 - 1960
speed skater
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet, critic and translator (1910–1985)
1910 - 1985
linguisttranslatorpoet
Robert Friend
Robert Friend
American-Israeli poet (1913-1998)
1913 - 1998
scholar of Englishliterary scholartranslator
Robert Smith
American actor (1912-2001)
1912 - 2001
television actoractor
Robert Snyder
Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker (1916–2004)
1916 - 2004
producerfilm producerfilm director
Eddie Sauter
Eddie Sauter
American composer and bandleader (1914-1981)
1914 - 1981
jazz musicianbandleadermusician
Emmett J. Rice
Emmett J. Rice
Governor of the Federal Reserve System (1919-2011)
1919 - 2011
university teachereconomist
John Cullen Murphy
illustrator (1919–2004)
1919 - 2004
comics artist
Ruth Abrams
painter (1912-1986)
1912 - 1986
painter
Ruth Gilbert
Ruth Gilbert
actress (1912-1993)
1912 - 1993
film actortelevision actorstage actor
Walter Doniger
American film director and screenwriter (1917–2011)
1917 - 2011
film directortelevision directorwriter
Walter Kent
Walter Kent
American architect, composer and conductor (1911–1994)
1911 - 1994
film score composerlyricistsongwriter
Walter Schumann
American composer for film, television, theater (1913–1958)
1913 - 1958
film score composercomposer
William Harlan Hale
William Harlan Hale
American radio journalist (1910–1974)
1910 - 1974
journalistbiographer
Winston Burdett
Winston Burdett
American journalist
1913 - 1993
journalistwar correspondent
Joe Connelly
scriptwriter (1917–2003)
1917 - 2003
film producerscreenwriter
Paul J. Krebs
Paul J. Krebs
American politician (1912-1996)
1912 - 1996
politician
Frank Delfino
Frank Delfino
American actor (1911-1997)
1911 - 1997
actor
Alfred Andriola
cartoonist (1912-1983)
1912 - 1983
pencillercartoonistcomics artist
Stanley Edgar Hyman
American literary critic
1919 - 1970
literary criticjournalistauthor
David H. Frisch
David H. Frisch
American physicist
1918 - 1991
physicist
Henry Hurwitz, Jr.
Henry Hurwitz, Jr.
American physicist
1918 - 1992
nuclear physicisttheoretical physicistphysicist
Matt Urban
Matt Urban
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1919–1995)
1919 - 1995
military personnel
Howard W. Robison
Howard W. Robison
American politician
1915 - 1987
politicianlawyer
Aaron Goldberg
American botanist (1917-2014)
1917 - 2014
botanist
Franklin Littel
Franklin Littel
Theologian, Holocaust scholar (1917-2009)
1917 - 2009
religious studies scholarchurch historiantheologian
Fred Freiberger
American film and television writer and television producer (1915–2003)
1915 - 2003
film screenwritertelevision writerscience fiction writer
Johnny Dio
American mobster (1914–1979)
1914 - 1979
trade unionist
Ray Rayner
Ray Rayner
American television presenter (1919-2004)
1919 - 2004
television presenter
Steven Anson Coons
American computer graphics pioneer
1912 - 1979
academiccomputer scientist
Liam O'Brien
American screenwriter and television producer (1913-1996)
1913 - 1996
television producerscreenwriter
Wm. Theodore de Bary
American sinologist and scholar of East Asian philosophy (1919–2017)
1919 - 2017
East Asian studies scholarsinologistuniversity teacher
Helen Farr Sloan
Helen Farr Sloan
educator, artist and philanthropist (1911–2005)
1911 - 2005
painterartist
Arnold Beichman
American journalist
1913 - 2010
journalistpolitical scientist
Oliver Haywood
Oliver Haywood
United States Air Force general (1911–2002)
1911 - 2002
military officer
Margaret Halsey
American writer (1910-1997)
1910 - 1997
writer
Sidney Carroll
American screenwriter
1913 - 1988
screenwriter
Paul Nixon
cyclist
1914 - 2008
sport cyclist
Ed Furgol
American professional golfer (1917–1997)
1917 - 1997
golfer
Carl Whitaker
Carl Whitaker
American psychiatrist
1912 - 1995
family therapistpsychotherapistpsychiatrist
Red Richards
American musician (1912–1998)
1912 - 1998
jazz musicianmusicianpianist
Robert Rosenthal
Robert Rosenthal
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1917-2007)
1917 - 2007
prosecutorlawyer
Margaret Morgan Lawrence
Margaret Morgan Lawrence
American psychiatrist
1914 - 2019
psychiatristscientist
Joseph Frank
American literary scholar (1918-2013)
1918 - 2013
philologistuniversity teacherbiographer
Warren M. Anderson
Warren M. Anderson
American politician (1915–2007)
1915 - 2007
soldierlieutenant governorjurist
William Copley
William Copley
American artist, art dealer, gallerist (1919-1996)
1919 - 1996
collagistserigraphergallerist
August Heckscher II
August Heckscher II
American writer (1913-1997)
1913 - 1997
university teacherjournalistpolitical scientist
Harold Chestnut
American electrical engineer (1917–2001)
1917 - 2001
engineer
Robert Moffat Palmer
American classical composer (1915–2010)
1915 - 2010
musicologistviolinistpianist
John Bagni
John Bagni
American actor
1910 - 1954
actorscreenwriter
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