List of Famous people born in New York City, United States of America
Charles Camarda
Charles Joseph "Charlie" Camarda is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who flew his first mission into space on board the Space Shuttle mission STS-114. He served as Senior Advisor for Engineering Development at NASA Langley Research Center. and was a senior advisor for innovation at the office of Chief Engineer in the Johnson Space Center.
Eleanor Bergstein
Eleanor Bergstein is an American writer, known for writing and co-producing Dirty Dancing, a popular 1980s film based in large part on her own childhood.
Franklyn Ajaye
Franklyn Ajaye is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. His nickname is "The Jazz Comedian" for his distinctive jazz-inflected style of delivery, timing, and astute use of silence. He released a series of comedy albums starting in 1973 and has acted in film and television shows from the 1970s through the present, including as a primary character in the 1976 ensemble comedy Car Wash and a supporting role in Sam Peckinpah's Convoy (1978).
Barbara Anderson
Barbara Jeanne Anderson is an American retired actress. She is best known for her role as police officer Eve Whitfield on the television series Ironside (1967–1971), which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award.
Darnell Martin
Darnell Martin is an American television and film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
Robert Funaro
Robert Funaro is an American film and television actor. Funaro is best known for the role of Eugene Pontecorvo in the Emmy Award-winning television series The Sopranos.
Gregory Olsen
Gregory Hammond Olsen is an American entrepreneur, engineer and scientist who, in October 2005, became the third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the International Space Station with the company Space Adventures.
Catherine Kellner
Catherine Kellner is an American character actress, perhaps best known for appearing in Daft Punk's music-video for their song Da Funk.
Mel Damski
Melvin "Mel" Damski is an American director and producer of film and television.
Roy Bittan
Roy J. Bittan is an American keyboardist and pianist, best known as a long-time member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Bittan, nicknamed The Professor, joined the E Street Band on August 23, 1974, and plays the piano, organ, accordion and synthesizers. Bittan was inducted as a member of the E Street Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014.