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

Joshua Cole Hamilton is an American actor. He received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in hit indie film Eighth Grade.

Jeff Orlowski is an American filmmaker. He is best known for both directing and producing the Emmy Award-winning documentary Chasing Ice (2012) and Chasing Coral (2017).

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

Pippin Parker is an American playwright and theatre director. He is Dean of The New School for Drama.

Carl Wunsch was the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, until he retired in 2013. He is known for his early work in internal waves and more recently for research into the effects of ocean circulation on climate.

Anthony Katagas is a Greek-American film producer.

Martin Edward Hellman is an American cryptologist, best known for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman is a longtime contributor to the computer privacy debate, has applied risk analysis to a potential failure of nuclear deterrence, and in 2016 wrote a book with his wife, Dorothie Hellman, that links creating love at home to bringing peace to the planet.

Judy Becker is a production designer. Becker, along with set decorator Heather Loeffler, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Production Design for the 2013 film American Hustle.

Tom Fontana is an American screenwriter, writer and television producer. An Emmy winner, Fontana worked on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street and created HBO's Oz.

Jane Jebb Mansbridge is an American political scientist. She is the Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.