List of Famous people born in New York City, United States of America

Robert Kelly is an American poet associated with the deep image group. He is the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of Dutchess County, New York.

Michael Andrew Hollick is an American actor. He is best known for providing the voice and motion capture of Niko Bellic in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV.

Bertrand I. Halperin is an American physicist, former holder of the Hollis Chair of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy at the physics department of Harvard University.

Bob Dishy is an American actor of stage, film, and television.

Arnold J. Levine, is an American Molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1998 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry and was the first recipient of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research in 2001 for his discovery of the tumor suppressor protein p53.

Sara Miller McCune is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the co-founder and executive chair of SAGE Publishing.

Gus Trikonis is an American actor, dancer, and director.

Burgoyne A. Diller was an American abstract painter. Many of his best-known works are characterized by orthogonal geometric forms that reflect his strong interest in the De Stijl movement and the work of Piet Mondrian in particular. Overall, his Geometric abstraction and non-objective style also owe much to his study with Hans Hofmann at the Art Students League of New York. He was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists. Diller's abstract work has sometimes been termed "constructivist". He also did figurative and representational works early in his career working as a muralist for the New York City Federal Arts Project.

Michael Lee Moorer is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2008. He is a multiple-time world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO light heavyweight title from 1988 to 1991; the WBO heavyweight title from 1992 to 1993; the unified WBA, IBF and lineal heavyweight titles in 1994; and the IBF heavyweight title again from 1996 to 1997. He became the world's first southpaw heavyweight champion after defeating Evander Holyfield.

Mitzi Green was an American child actress for Paramount and RKO, in the early "talkies" era. She then acted on Broadway and in other stage works, as well as in films and on television.