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

Tom Mardirosian is an Armenian-American actor. He is known for playing Agamemnon Busmalis in the HBO show Oz and Agt. Kristos Koutris in the HBO show The Wire.

Tom Lazarus is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He is best known for writing the 1999 horror film Stigmata, and is the author of the screenwriting manuals, Secrets of Film Writing and The Last Word: Definitive Answers to All Your Screenwriting Questions.

Tom Keene was an American actor known mostly for his roles in B Westerns. During his almost 40-year career in motion pictures Tom Keene worked under three different names. From 1923, when he made his first picture, until 1930 he worked under his real name George Duryea. The last film he made under this name was Pardon My Gun. Beginning with the 1930 film Tol'able David, he used Tom Keene as his moniker. This name he used up to 1944 when he changed it to Richard Powers. The first film he used this name in was Up in Arms. He continued to use this name for the rest of his film career.

Stan Ivar is an American actor who is best known for his role as John Carter in Little House on the Prairie, and also known for his roles as Ben Robinson in NCIS, Daniel Scott in Days of Our Lives, Mark Johnson in Star Trek: Voyager, and as Captain Mike Davison in the cult movie Creature (1985).

Tim Kelleher is an American writer, actor and director.

Tiffany Helm is an American film and television actress. Her best known role was in the 1985 horror film Friday the 13th: A New Beginning as Violet. She also starred in The Zoo Gang (1985) and Reform School Girls (1986) a B movie spoof of women in prison films.

Thom Beers is an American television producer and narrator/voice-over artist.

Avery Corman is an American novelist. He is known for the books Oh, God! (1971) and Kramer Versus Kramer (1977), each adapted into a successful film.

Greg Costikyan, sometimes known under the pseudonym "Designer X", is an American game designer and science fiction writer. Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming, including: hex-based wargames, role-playing games, boardgames, card games, computer games, online games and mobile games. Several of his games have won Origins Awards. He co-founded Manifesto Games, now out of business, with Johnny Wilson in 2005.