List of Famous people born in New York, United States of America
Caldwell Esselstyn
Caldwell Blakeman Esselstyn Jr. is an American physician, author and former Olympic rowing champion.
Ignacio Uriarte
Ignacio Uriarte is a New York-based Singer-songwriter. Since 2015 he is singing under the name Lions Head
Marc Kroon
Marc Jason Kroon is an American former right-handed relief pitcher. He served as the closer for the Yomiuri Giants of Japan's Central League.
Oona Laurence
Oona Laurence is an American actress. She is best known for the role of Matilda Wormwood in Matilda on Broadway alongside Bailey Ryon, Milly Shapiro, and Sophia Gennusa. She began her career as a New York City-based child actress, with credits in film, theatre, and television.
Ed Benguiat
Ephram Edward Benguiat was an American typographer and lettering artist. He crafted over 600 typeface designs including Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Souvenir, Edwardian Script, and the eponymous Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic.
Chris Stein
Christopher Stein is the co-founder and guitarist of the new wave band Blondie. He is also a producer and performer for the classic soundtrack of the hip hop film, Wild Style, and writer of the soundtrack for the film Union City. as well as an accomplished photographer.
Nicholas Guest
The Hon. Nicholas Haden-Guest is an American actor who has appeared in various movie and television roles, including that of Headmaster Patrick James Elliot in the teen sitcom USA High. Since 2000, he has primarily worked as a voice actor.
Luke Halpin
Luke Austin Halpin is an American actor, stuntman, marine coordinator, diver and pilot. He became a child actor at the age of eight and is widely known for his role as Sandy Ricks in the feature films Flipper and Flipper's New Adventure, as well as for reprising his role for the NBC television series adaptation, also called Flipper.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize (2019). Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000) and short story collections The Wheel of Love (1970) and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
Duane Martin
Duane Martin is an American actor.