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

Selenis Leyva is an American actress. She is known for her role as Gloria Mendoza in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black, and she currently stars on the Disney+ comedy-drama series Diary of a Future President.

Donatella Arpaia Stewart is an American restaurateur and a television personality who appears on The Food Network. Arpaia is a regular judge on The Food Network's Iron Chef America and The Next Iron Chef. She has also appeared on The Isaac Mizrahi Show, The Martha Stewart Show, The Tony Danza Show, The Today Show and iVillage.

Mark Alexander Knox, better known as Flex Alexander or Flex, is an American actor, comedian and dancer.

Lisa Vidal is an American actress of Puerto Rican heritage. She starred in the Lifetime crime drama series The Division (2001–2004) and BET drama series Being Mary Jane (2013–2019). Vidal also starred in the short-lived series include High Incident (1996–97) and The Event (2010–11), and had major recurring roles on Third Watch (1999–2001), and ER (2001–04).

Charlene M. Amoia is an American actress. She is best known for her recurring role as Wendy the Waitress in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Her film credits include American Reunion (2012), Authors Anonymous (2014), Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (2020) and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021).

Louis Lombardi is an American actor.

George Hertzberg is an American actor best known for his portrayal of the cyber-demonic soldier Adam in the fourth season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Hertzberg, who was born in Glens Falls, New York, has made appearances in several television shows, including 3rd Rock from the Sun and That's My Bush!, and wrote and produced the movie Too Much Magic.

Suzie Plakson is an American actress, singer, writer, poet, artist and coach.

Jason Cerbone is an American actor. He played Jackie Aprile Jr. on the HBO series The Sopranos.

Ethan Phillips is an American actor and playwright. He is best known for his television roles as Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager and PR man Pete Downey on Benson.