List of Famous people born in New York, United States of America
Brian Kelleher
Brian Matthew Kelleher is an American professional mixed martial artist, currently competing in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional competitor since 2011, Kelleher has also competed for Bellator and CES MMA.
Doug Davis
Doug Davis is an American music industry executive, entertainment lawyer and Grammy Award-winning record producer.
Craig Mazin
Craig Mazin is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for creating the five-part miniseries Chernobyl, based on the nuclear disaster of the same name in 1986. His work earned him two Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and Outstanding Limited Series.
David O. Russell
David Owen Russell is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His early directing career includes the comedy films Spanking the Monkey (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Three Kings (1999), and I Heart Huckabees (2004). He gained recent critical success with biographical sports drama The Fighter (2010), the romantic comedy drama Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and the crime film American Hustle (2013). All three of the films were commercially successful and acclaimed by critics, having earned Russell three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, as well as a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for Silver Linings Playbook and a Best Original Screenplay nomination for American Hustle. Russell received his seventh Golden Globe nomination for the semi-biographical comedy-drama Joy (2015).
Shera Danese
Shera Danese is an American actress and the widow of actor Peter Falk.
Joe Donnelly
Joseph Simon Donnelly Sr. is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 2013 to 2019.
Rebekah Neumann
Rebekah Victoria Neumann is an American entrepreneur and businesswoman. Until September 22, 2019, she served as WeWork's chief brand and impact officer and CEO of WeGrow.
Claude Littner
Claude Littner is an American-born British business executive and the former chairman of Viglen, Powerleague ASCO, Azzuri Communications, Deputy Chairman of Blacks Leisure and former chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur. He is also known from his appearances on the British version of The Apprentice, interviewing for his former boss Alan Sugar. Claude Littner became one of Sugar's aides from the 2015 series onwards.
Lorraine Gary
Lorraine Gary is a retired American actress, best known for her role as Ellen Brody in the Jaws film series. She also appeared in 1941 and Car Wash.
Henry Wolfe Gummer
Henry Wolfe Gummer is an American musician and actor based in Los Angeles, California.