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

Ashrita Furman is a Guinness World Records record-breaker. As of 2017, Furman has set more than 600 official Guinness Records and currently holds 226 records, thus holding the Guinness world record for the most Guinness world records. He has been breaking records since 1979.

Elizabeth Harrison Walker was the fourth and final child of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison, and the only child of his second wife, Mary Scott Lord Dimmick.

Robert Maschio is an American actor. He is known for playing Dr. Todd 'The Todd' Quinlan in the American comedy-drama Scrubs.

Timothy Van Patten is an American television director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He has directed episodes of Perry Mason, Boardwalk Empire, Black Mirror, Deadwood, Ed, Game of Thrones, The Pacific, Rome, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, and The Wire.

Harper James Simon is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. Simon's talents have appeared on several studio albums, and has been featured in various feature films and television shows, including HBO's critically acclaimed series Girls. In 2010, Simon released his critically lauded self-titled solo album, followed by his second album Division Street released in 2013.

Theodor Holm Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson coined the terms transclusion, virtuality, and intertwingularity. According to a 1997 Forbes profile, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'."

Michael Daniel Penn is an American singer-songwriter and composer. He is noted for the 1989 single "No Myth", a top 20 hit in the US and successful in several other countries.

James Lane Buckley is an American jurist, politician, civil servant, attorney, businessman, and author.

Mizuo Peck is an American actress. She is best known for playing Sacagawea in the Night at the Museum film series.