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

Peter Bernstein is an American film score composer, and is the son of Academy Award-winning composer and conductor Elmer Bernstein, with whom he frequently collaborated.

Lisa Marie Henson is an American television and movie producer and former actress who has been involved in television shows such as Sid the Science Kid.

Anthony Joseph Gilroy is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He wrote the screenplays for the first four films of the Bourne series starring Matt Damon, among other successful films, and directed the fourth film of the franchise. He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director, and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Michael Clayton. Gilroy wrote and directed Duplicity, starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, and co-wrote Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Tamara de Braga Taxman is a Brazilian American actress, singer, television presenter and writer. She is best known for portraying the witch Leocádia, in the children's TV series Detetives do Prédio Azul.

Nancy Anne Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo- and Nebula-winning 1991 novella Beggars in Spain, which became a novel in 1993. She also won the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 2013 for After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, and in 2015 for Yesterday's Kin.

Naomi Foner is an American screenwriter, director, and former wife of Stephen Gyllenhaal. She is the mother of actors Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Donald Edward Newhouse is an American billionaire heir and business magnate. He owns Advance Publications, founded by his father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., in 1922, whose properties include Condé Nast, dozens of newspapers across the US, cable company Bright House Networks and a controlling stake in Discovery Communications. According to Bloomberg, he has an estimated net worth of $19.4 billion. He resides in New York City.