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

Christopher Ben Orbach is an American actor, voice actor and singer-songwriter who is the younger son of late Law & Order star Jerry Orbach and his first wife, Marta Curro.

Scott Hale Reiniger, Harlan Sahib Bahadur, Prince of Ghor is an American actor. He is best known as one of the stars of the 1978 classic horror film Dawn of the Dead.

Richard Michaels is a retired American film and TV show director and producer whose career spanned five decades.

Toby Emmerich, is an American producer, film executive, and screenwriter and the current chairman of the Warner Bros. Pictures Group.

Grethe Barrett Holby is an American theatre producer, stage director, choreographer, and dramaturge best known for her work in opera. Holby is noted as the founder of American Opera Projects, where she served as Artistic Director from 1988 until 2001. She currently serves as Executive Artistic Director of Family Opera Initiative which she founded in 1995, and Ardea Arts, Inc., which she founded in 2006. The Rockefeller Foundation awarded Holby a 2006 Creative Arts Residency The Bellagio Center.

Herbert Fields was an American librettist and screenwriter.

Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge II was an American writer and anthropologist. During 1925 he explored early Olmec sites in Mexico, and later studied additional sites in Central America and the American Southwest. In addition to more than 15 scholarly works, mostly about Native Americans, he wrote several novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Laughing Boy (1929). La Farge also wrote and published short stories, in such leading magazines as The New Yorker and Esquire.

Philip George Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticised for both ethical and scientific reasons. He has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project.

Robert LuPone is an American actor and artistic director. He works on stage, in film, and in television. He is the brother of actress Patti LuPone.