List of Famous people born in New York, United States of America
Wolé Parks
Wolé Parks is an American actor, best known for roles as Dallas Griffin in the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns, and as Sam Alexander in the Lifetime comedy-drama series Devious Maids. In film, he starred in Premium Rush. He was also a regular in the 8th season of The Vampire Diaries, playing the role of 'Cade' and portrayed Captain Luthor in Superman & Lois.
Matt Flynn
Matthew Flynn is an American musician and record producer. He is the drummer for the pop rock band Maroon 5. In 2006, after being the band's touring drummer for two years, Flynn officially replaced the original drummer of Maroon 5, Ryan Dusick, who left the group due to serious wrist and shoulder injuries sustained from constant touring after the release of their first album, Songs About Jane in 2002.
Seth Gilliam
Seth Gilliam is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Ellis Carver on The Wire, Clayton Hughes on Oz, Dr. Alan Deaton on Teen Wolf, and Father Gabriel Stokes on The Walking Dead.
Ryan Kelly
Ryan Matthew Kelly is an American professional basketball player for the Sun Rockers Shibuya of the B.League in Japan. He played college basketball for Duke University.
Susan Kare
Susan Kare is an American artist and graphic designer best known for her interface elements and typeface contributions to the first Apple Macintosh from 1983 to 1986. She was employee #10 and Creative Director at NeXT, the company formed by Steve Jobs after he left Apple in 1985. She was a design consultant for Microsoft, IBM, Sony Pictures, and Facebook, and she is now an employee of Pinterest. As an early pioneer of pixel art and of the graphical computer interface, she has been celebrated as one of the most significant technologists of the modern world.
Case
Case Woodard, known mononymously as Case, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. A two-time Grammy Award nominee, he is best known for his late 1990s hits including "Touch Me, Tease Me", "Happily Ever After", "The Best Man", the early 2000's R&B number-one and top five pop hit, "Missing You", and "Livin' It Up" with rapper Ja Rule. The latter two earning him two Grammy Award nominations.
Rosemary M. Collyer
Rosemary Mayers Collyer is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and a Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Tommy Henriksen
Tommy Henriksen is an American musician from Port Jefferson, New York, best known for his work as a guitarist, bassist and songwriter with Alice Cooper, Hollywood Vampires and German metal band Warlock. He has also fronted punk rockers P.O.L. and released several albums as a solo artist. In addition, Henriksen is a songwriter, arranger, producer and mixer who has worked with artists such as Lady Gaga, Meat Loaf, Lou Reed, Halestorm, Kesha, and Daughtry. Henriksen is currently based out of Zurich, Switzerland where he lives with his family.
Ryan Simpkins
Ryan Simpkins is an American actor, known for her performances in films such as Pride and Glory, A Single Man and Revolutionary Road.
Andrew Capobianco
Andrew Capobianco is an American Olympic diver. In 2021 he qualified with his partner Michael Hixon for the U.S. Olympic Diving Team, competing in the 3m Synchronized Diving.Later during the Olympic Trials he qualified for the 2020/2021 Summer Olympic in Tokyo in the Individual 3m dive. He currently attends and competes for Indiana University Bloomington, where he has earned All-American honors 7 times.