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

Jenny Lumet is an American actress and screenwriter. She is the daughter of director Sidney Lumet and granddaughter of Lena Horne. Lumet is perhaps most known for writing the original screenplay of the 2008 Jonathan Demme film Rachel Getting Married.

Cyrus Roberts Vance Jr. is an American attorney and politician serving as the District Attorney of New York County, New York. He was previously a principal partner at the law firm of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello, & Bohrer, P.C. He is the son of Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter.

William J. Hochul Jr. is an American lawyer who was United States Attorney for the Western District of New York from 2010 to 2016. Hochul currently serves as the Second Gentleman of New York as the spouse of Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul and will become the first First Gentleman of New York on August 24, 2021, should Andrew Cuomo step down as Governor of New York, as he announced he would on August 10, 2021.

Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.

Craig Harris Carton is an American radio personality best known as the co-host of the Carton and Roberts sports radio program on WFAN (AM) in New York City. He was arrested in September 2017 on charges of securities fraud and wire fraud, before he re-signed with the station in October 2020 after his release from prison.

John B. King Jr. is an American civil servant and former government official who is the President and CEO of The Education Trust. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 10th United States Secretary of Education from 2016 to 2017 under President Barack Obama.

Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand, better known by her stage name Foxy Brown, is an American rapper. After signing to Def Jam in 1996, she released her debut album, Ill Na Na, that same year, and was also part of the short-lived rap group the Firm.

Lindsay Anne Shookus is an American television producer. She has been nominated for ten Emmy Awards, winning four times, for her work on Saturday Night Live.

iO Tillett Wright is an American author, photographer, TV and podcast host, and activist. After growing up in New York City, he founded street art magazine Overspray and served as its editor-in-chief until 2009. At the age of 22, he became a featured columnist for T Magazine, where he had two regular blogs. In 2016, he began co-hosting MTV show Suspect along with Nev Schulman.

Amy Heckerling is an American film director. An alumna of both New York University and the American Film Institute, she directed the commercially successful films Fast Times at Ridgemont High, National Lampoon's European Vacation, Look Who's Talking, and Clueless.