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

Barbara Pepper was an American stage, television, radio, and film actress. She is best known as the first "Doris Ziffel" on the sitcom Green Acres.

Tyrone Walker, known by his stage name ASAP TyY, is an American rapper from the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. He is a member of the Harlem, New York based hip hop collective A$AP Mob, from which he adopted his "A$AP" moniker.

Hugh David Politzer is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics.

Sheldon Lee Glashow is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University and Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and is a member of the Board of Sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Heywood Gould is an American screenwriter, journalist, novelist and film director. He has penned screenplays for the films Rolling Thunder, The Boys from Brazil, Fort Apache, The Bronx, Streets of Gold, Cocktail and directed the films One Good Cop, Trial by Jury, Mistrial and Double Bang.

Laurette Spang-McCook is an American television actress. She is best known for playing the character Cassiopeia on the original Battlestar Galactica (1978).

Boston Teran is the pseudonymous American author of thirteen novels.

Arabella Field is an American actress and film producer known for her roles in films such as Dante's Peak, Feeling Minnesota, Godzilla, National Treasure, Paper Man and as Melinda Bitterman in the animated television version of Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott's daily comic strip Baby Blues.