Notable People from New York

Reuben Ottenberg

American physician (1882–1959)

Gustave E. Steinback

architect (1878–1959)

Gus Williams

American baseball pitcher

Gordon Brown

American football player (1879-1911)

George Washington Olvany

American political figure (1876–1952)

George Washington Martin II

American jurist (1876–1948); member of the Democratic Party in Brooklyn, New York

Wyandanch

Native American sachem

Ed Murphy

American baseball player (1877-1935)

Ed Donnelly

American baseball player (1879-1957)

Harry Horowitz

American gangster

Dummy Deegan

American baseball player (1874–1957)

Doc Parker

American baseball player (1872–1941)

Deke White

American baseball player

Henry Travers Summersgill

American baseball player (1876-1931)

Andy Dunning

American baseball player

Andrew R. Cobb

Canadian architect (1876-1943)

Alex Farmer

American baseball player (1877-1920)

Albert Strauss

American fencer (1876–1963)

A. B. Morrison, Jr.

College football and basketball coach (1878-1967)

Cornelius Newton Bliss Jr.

American merchant, humanitarian and art collector

Jeromus Johnson

American politician (1775-1846)

Charles S. Schepke

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient

Charles M. Lefferts

American artist (1873–1923)

Charles H. Tuttle

activist, lawyer and politician (1879-1971)

Cy Ferry

Major League Baseball pitcher (1878-1938)

Louis Lipsky

American Zionist leader

Merwin K. Hart

American politician (1881-1962)

Myron Grimshaw

American baseball player

Robert H. Stanley

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1881-1942)

Robert Kernan

American football player (1881-1955)

William Caunitz

American novelist (1933–1996)

Wilfred Johnson

American mobster (1935-1988)

Alan Landsburg

American television writer, producer and director (1933-2014)

Alan Brice

Major League Baseball pitcher (1937–2016)

Walter Karp

American journalist (1934-1989)

Henry Grossman

American photographer

Al Lerner

American businessman (1933–2002)

Ulric Haynes

American diplomat (1931–2020)

Abigail Thernstrom

American political scientist, writer, academic (1936–2020)

Tony Rampino

American mobster

Iris Long

American chemist and HIV/AIDS activist

Tom Murphy

American middle-distance runner

Tom Kahn

U.S. social democrat, strategist in civil rights movement, supporter of Solidarity, and Director of AFL–CIO Department of International Affairs (1938-1992)

Tom Jolls

American actor

William Uttal

American psychologist and engineer

Carl Ray Proffer

Russian publisher (1938–1984)

Thomas Rockwell

American children's writer

Thomas Michael Whalen III

American politician (1934-2002)

J. B. Schneewind

American philosopher (1930–2024)

Thomas E. Dewey, Jr.

American businessman (1932-2021)