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

Mary Stuart Masterson is an American actress and director. She has starred in the films At Close Range (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Chances Are (1989), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Benny & Joon (1993). She won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1989 film Immediate Family, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the 2003 Broadway revival of Nine.

Armand Anthony Assante is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film Gotti, as Nietzsche in When Nietzsche Wept, and as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in 1982's I, the Jury. His performance in Gotti earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award.

Peter Clarke, known professionally as Clarke Peters, is an American actor, singer, writer and director. He starred as detective Lester Freamon and Albert "Big Chief" Lambreaux in the David Simon HBO dramas, The Wire and Treme, Alonzo Quinn in the CBS crime drama Person of Interest, Isaiah Page in The Divide, and Otis in Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (2020).

Daymond Garfield John is an American businessman, investor, television personality, author, and motivational speaker. He is best known as the founder, president, and CEO of FUBU, and appears as an investor on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank. Based in New York City, John is the founder of The Shark Group.

Sadam Ali is an American professional boxer who held the WBO junior middleweight title from 2017 to 2018.

Andrew Velazquez is an American professional baseball infielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Indians, and Baltimore Orioles.

Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl". Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.

Elizabeth Scarlett "Lizzy" Jagger is a British-American activist, model and actress.

Michael Jai White is an American actor and martial artist. He was one of the first African Americans to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film Spawn. White appeared as Marcus Williams in the Tyler Perry films Why Did I Get Married? and Why Did I Get Married Too?, and starred as the character on the TBS/OWN comedy-drama television series Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse. White portrayed Jax Briggs in Mortal Kombat: Legacy and the Cyborg Seth in Universal Soldier: The Return. He portrayed boxer Mike Tyson in the 1995 HBO television movie Tyson. He also played the title role in the blaxploitation parody film Black Dynamite, as well as the animated series of the same name.

Tanya Haden is an American artist, cellist, and singer. She is one of the triplet daughters of jazz bassist Charlie Haden. She is married to actor, comedian and musician Jack Black.