List of Famous people born in New York, United States of America
Curtis Yarvin
Curtis Guy Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right blogger and software developer. Yarvin and his ideas are often associated with the alt-right. From 2007 to 2014, he authored a blog called "Unqualified Reservations", which argued that American democracy is a failed experiment, and that it should be replaced by monarchy or corporate governance. He is known, along with fellow neo-reactionary Nick Land, for developing the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas behind the Dark Enlightenment.
Lenny Cooke
Leonard Cooke is an American former high school and professional basketball player.
June Diane Raphael
June Diane Raphael is an American actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She has starred in TV comedy programs Burning Love, Adult Swim's NTSF:SD:SUV::, and Grace and Frankie. Notable film work includes supporting roles in Year One and Unfinished Business, as well as her 2013 Sundance film Ass Backwards, which she co-wrote and starred in with her creative partner Casey Wilson. She also co-hosts the movie discussion podcast How Did This Get Made? alongside Jason Mantzoukas and her husband Paul Scheer.
Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomo is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter of the rock band Weezer.
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld is a retired American actress. She began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade, she established a career playing dramatic roles in films.
Matt Centrowitz
Matthew Centrowitz is a two-time Olympic distance runner, a four-time United States champion, a collegiate All-American, a nationally renowned high school athlete, and a collegiate cross country and track coach.
Tonya Lewis Lee
Tonya Lewis Lee is an American film and television producer, author, entrepreneur and advocate for women and infant health. Since founding her production company, Madstone Company Inc. in 1998 she has been a constant fixture in media for young people publishing the children’s books Please Baby Please and creating content for Nickelodeon (Television).
Adam Saleh
Adam Mohsin Yehya Saleh is a Yemeni-American YouTube personality from New York City.
Zack Hample
Zachary Ben Hample is an American baseball collector. He claims that he has collected more than 11,000 baseballs from major league stadiums in North America, including Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th career hit and Mike Trout's first career home run.
Caroline Ghosn
Caroline Ghosn is an American businesswoman. She is the eldest child of former Nissan and Renault CEO, Carlos Ghosn. In 2011, she founded Levo, a professional network dedicated to helping millennials navigate the workplace, and has been managing its development since then.