List of Famous people born in New York, United States of America
Alec John Such
Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey. It consists of singer Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, guitarist Phil X, and bassist Hugh McDonald. Original bassist Alec John Such quit the band in 1994, and longtime guitarist and co-songwriter Richie Sambora left in 2013.
John F. Carroll
John F. Carroll (1932–1969) was one of 23 known people in medical history to have reached a height of 8 feet (240 cm) or more. He suffered from severe, 2-dimensional spinal curvature (Kyphoscoliosis) and acromegalic gigantism. He had a standing height of 8 ft 1⁄4 in (244 cm) on October 14, 1959, at age 27 but, according to calculations by an engineer, his height would have been 8 ft 7+3⁄4 in (264 cm), assuming normal curvature of the spine. He was later measured at 7 ft 10+1⁄2 in (240 cm) in 1968, having shrunk in stature due to his worsening spinal condition.
Kurt Beyer
Kurt Beyer is a semi-retired American professional wrestler who competed in Japanese and international promotions during the 1990s, most notably teaming with his father The Destroyer during his last tour with All Japan Pro Wrestling in 1993.
Stephen Blackehart
Stephen T. Blackehart is an American character actor, author, and producer.
David Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower II, better known as David Eisenhower, is an American author, public policy fellow, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and eponym of the U.S. presidential retreat Camp David. He is the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon.
Prince Louis de Bourbon
Louis Alphonse de Bourbon (Spanish: Luis Alfonso Gonzalo Víctor Manuel Marco de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú, French: Louis Alphonse Gonzalve Victor Emmanuel Marc de Bourbon; born 25 April 1974, in Madrid is the head of the House of Bourbon by primogeniture. The Bourbons are the royal family of Spain. Members of the family formerly ruled France and other countries. As a pretender to the French throne, he is styled Louis XX and Duke of Anjou.
Frank Loesser
Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows as well as shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the latter. He also wrote songs for over 60 Hollywood films and for Tin Pan Alley, many of which have become standards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards for best song, winning once for "Baby, It's Cold Outside".
Nicolas Surovy
Ethan Cohn
Ethan Cohn is an American actor.
Donna Zuckerberg
Donna Zuckerberg is an American classicist, feminist, writer, and editor-in-chief of the journal Eidolon, a peer-reviewed classics journal. Zuckerberg is also author of the book Not All Dead White Men (2018) on the appropriation of classics by misogynist groups on the Internet.