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

John Byner is an American actor, comedian, and impressionist who has had a lengthy television and movie career. His voice work includes the cartoon series The Ant and the Aardvark, in which the title characters are voiced by Byner's impressions of Dean Martin and Jackie Mason, respectively.

Willie Colon is a former American football player. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He was part of the Steelers' Super Bowl XLIII victory over the Arizona Cardinals. He played college football at Hofstra University. He currently works for Barstool Sports.

Robert Morris Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University. In addition, he is a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya.

Mohandas Dewese, better known by his stage name Kool Moe Dee, is a Grammy winner American rapper, writer and actor. Considered one of the forerunners of the New Jack Swing sound in Hip hop, gained fame in the 1980s as a member of one of the pioneering groups in Hip hop music, the Treacherous Three, and for his later solo career. During his career he published a total of 7 studio albums, with 1994's Interlude being the last to date.

Jeffrey Harold Loria is an American art dealer, author, and the former owner of the Montreal Expos and Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball.

Tiffany Cabán is an American attorney, politician, and political organizer. She was a candidate in the Democratic primary for Queens County's District Attorney in the State of New York, which she narrowly lost to Queens Borough president Melinda Katz.

Curtis Delroy Stevens is an American professional boxer. He is a former NABF middleweight champion, having held the title twice in 2013, and in the same year challenged for the WBA and IBO middleweight titles.

Harold "Hype" Williams is an American music video director, film director, film producer, and screenwriter.

Richard Scott Proehl is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. Proehl played 17 seasons with the Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears, St. Louis Rams, Carolina Panthers, and Indianapolis Colts. He played in four Super Bowls and won two: Super Bowl XXXIV with the Rams and Super Bowl XLI with the Colts. He is remembered as a member of “The Greatest Show on Turf”.

Lisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist working in particle physics and cosmology. She is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science on the physics faculty of Harvard University. Her research includes elementary particles, fundamental forces and dimensions of space. She studies the Standard Model, supersymmetry, possible solutions to the hierarchy problem concerning the relative weakness of gravity, cosmology of dimensions, baryogenesis, cosmological inflation, and dark matter. She contributed to the Randall–Sundrum model, first published in 1999 with Raman Sundrum.