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

James Handy is an American film actor. He appeared in more than eighty films and television serials between 1977 and 2011. His most notable appearances are as Arthur Devlin in Alias and Lou Handleman in Profiler.

Paul Morrissey is an American film director, best known for his association with Andy Warhol. He was also director of the first film in which a transsexual actress, Holly Woodlawn, starred as a girlfriend of the main character played by Joe Dallesandro in Trash (1970).

Zane R. Copeland Jr., better known as Lil Zane, is an American rapper and comedian known for his debut album Young World: The Future, released in 2000, which featured the hit single "Callin' Me" featuring 112.

Laurence T. Fessenden is an American actor, producer, writer, director, film editor, and cinematographer. He is the founder of the New York based independent production outfit Glass Eye Pix. His writer/director credits include No Telling, Habit (1997), Wendigo (2001), and The Last Winter, which is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum Of Modern Art. He has also directed the television feature Beneath (2013), an episode of the NBC TV series Fear Itself (2008) entitled "Skin and Bones", and a segment of the anthology horror-comedy film The ABCs of Death 2 (2014). He is the writer, with Graham Reznick, of the BAFTA Award-winning Sony PlayStation video game Until Dawn. He has acted in numerous films including Like Me (2017), In a Valley of Violence (2016), We Are Still Here (2015), Jug Face (2012), and Broken Flowers (2005).

Amanda Evora is an American pair skater. She competed with Mark Ladwig. They are two-time U.S. silver medalists, 2012 U.S. bronze medalists and two-time U.S. pewter medalists.

Ian Matthias Bavitz, better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American hip hop recording artist and producer residing in Portland, Oregon. He was at the forefront of the new wave of underground and alternative hip hop acts that emerged during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was signed to El-P's Definitive Jux label until it went on hiatus in 2010. betterPropaganda ranked him at number 19 at the Top 100 Artists of the Decade.

Kevin Brown is an American comedian, film, and television actor, best known for his role on the series 30 Rock as "Dot Com".

Kenneth Kimmins is an American film, television and theatre actor. He is perhaps best known for playing "Howard Burleigh" in the American sitcom television series Coach.

Judy Kuhn is an American actress and singer, known for her work in musical theatre. A four-time Tony Award nominee, she has released four studio albums and sang the title role in the 1995 film Pocahontas, including her rendition of the song "Colors of the Wind", which won its composers the Academy Award for Best Original Song.