Notable People from New York

Duke Jordan

American jazz pianist (1922–2006)

Julian Roosevelt

American sailor and banker (1924–1986)

Ida Applebroog

American artist (1929–2023)

George David Weiss

American songwriter and arranger; President of the Songwriters Guild of America (1921-2010)

Terry Carter

American actor and filmmaker (1928–2024)

Sid Fleischman

American (1920–2010)

Pat Cooper

American comedian

James Cooley

American mathematician (1926-2016)

William Diehl

American writer (1924-2006)

Warren Anderson

American chemical executive (1921–2014)

Robert Jastrow

American astronomer (1925-2008)

Frank Aletter

American actor (1926-2009)

T. Carmi

Israeli poet (1925-1994)

Marie Van Brittan Brown

Nurse and an inventor

Jeremy Bernstein

American physicist

Margaret G. Kivelson

American geophysicist, planetary scientist

Tommy Kelly

actor from the United States (1925-2016)

Paul Pimsleur

American linguist (1927-1976)

Billy Halop

American actor (1920–1976)

Arthur Rankin Jr.

American director, writer and producer (1924–2014)

Joseph Francis Shea

aerospace engineer (1926-1999)

Dick Shawn

American actor (1923–1987)

Jason Wingreen

American actor (1920–2015)

Armando Robles Godoy

Peruvian-American film director

Stephen Macknowski

Canoe racer

George Laurer

American inventor

Huntz Hall

American actor (1920–1999)

Albert Axelrod

American fencer (1921-2004)

Bess Myerson

American model, city commissioner, TV show celebrity; first Jewish-American and first Miss New York elected Miss America (1924-2014)

Helena Carter

American actress (1923-2000)

Paula Jean Myers-Pope

American diver (1934–1995)

Barbara Colby

American actress (1939-1975)

Cliff Gorman

American actor (1936-2002)

Daniel Stern

American psychiatrist and psychoanalytic theorist (1934-2012)

Ray Felix

American basketball player (1930–1991)

Doris Troy

American actress and singer (1937-2004)

Robert Paul Wolff

American political philosopher (1933–2025)

Howard James Hubbard

Roman Catholic bishop (1938–2023)

Jerry Moss

American recording executive and co-founder of A&M Records

Kenneth McMillan

American actor (1932-1989)

David Kahn

American historian, journalist and writer (1930-2024)

Ivan Dixon

actor, director, producer (1931–2008)

Stuart A. Rice

American physical chemist

Sihugo Green

American basketball player (1933–1980)

Richard Levins

Mathematical ecologist, university professor at Harvard School of Public Health, and political activist, who is best known for his work on evolution in changing environments and on metapopulations.

Godfrey Cambridge

American stand-up comedian (1933-1976)

Alison Knowles

American mixed-media and performance artist (born 1933-2025)

Clifford Irving

American author and convicted fraudster (1930-2017)

Michael Rabin

American violinist (1936-1972)

Richard Burke

Irish Fine Gael politician (1932–2016)