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

Talisa Soto is a former American actress and model. Soto is perhaps best known for portraying Princess Kitana in the 1995 fantasy action film Mortal Kombat and its 1997 sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Soto also starred as Lupe Lamora in the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill. Prior to her acting career, Soto began her career as a model, appearing in magazine issues such as Mademoiselle, Glamour and Elle.

Adam Pascal is an American actor, singer, and musician, known for his performance as Roger Davis in the original 1996 cast of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent on Broadway, the 2005 movie version of the musical, and the Broadway tour of Rent in 2009. He is also known for originating the role of Radames in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, for playing the Emcee from the 1998 revival of Cabaret, and for playing Huey Calhoun in the Broadway company of Memphis. Most recently, he played William Shakespeare in the Tony Award-winning musical Something Rotten!

Ilfenesh Hadera is an Ethiopian-American actress. She co-starred in the 2017 film Baywatch as Stephanie Holden.

Noah Fleiss is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor, making his film debut as the eponymous Sam in Josh and S.A.M. (1993). Subsequently, he played the title character in Joe the King (1999) and appeared in Brick (2005). Outside of his film roles, Fleiss portrayed one of the eight playable characters in the video game Until Dawn (2015).

Jacob Joseph "Jack" Lew is an American attorney and politician who served as the 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the 25th White House Chief of Staff from 2012 to 2013 and Director of the Office of Management and Budget in both the Clinton Administration and Obama Administration.

Chris Sullivan, known professionally as DJ Spinbad, was a DJ, producer, and remixer on New York City's radio station WHTZ.

Pamela Bellwood is an American actress best known for her role as Claudia Blaisdel Carrington on the 1980s prime time soap opera, Dynasty.

Lisa Simone Kelly is an American singer, composer and actress, known for her work on and off Broadway, in Rent, Lion King, Aida, and Les Miserables. She is the only child of the late musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone and is the executive producer of the Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? Simone's albums include Simone on Simone, All is Well, My World, and Live at the Edge.

Fred Melamed is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for portraying Sy Ableman in A Serious Man (2009), Sam Sotto in In a World... (2013), Bruce Ben-Bacharach in Lady Dynamite (2016–2017) and for appearing in seven films directed by Woody Allen.

Robert Joseph Cousy is a retired American professional basketball player. Cousy played point guard with the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963, and briefly with the Cincinnati Royals in the 1969–70 season. Making his high school varsity squad as a junior, he went on to earn a scholarship to the College of the Holy Cross, where he led the Crusaders to berths in the 1948 NCAA Tournament and 1950 NCAA Tournament, and won NCAA All-American honors for three seasons.