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

Irving Reis was a radio program producer and director, and a film director.

John Gatins is an American screenwriter, director, and actor. For writing the drama film Flight (2012), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

India Ennenga is an American actress.

Howard William Gutman is a lawyer, actor and former United States Ambassador to Belgium. After being nominated as Ambassador by United States President Barack Obama, Gutman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 29, 2009, and sworn in as Ambassador on August 14, 2009.

Joseph Andrew "Jay" Hughes Paulson is an American actor.

Roger S. H. Schulman is an American film and television screenwriter and producer. He co-wrote the animated feature Shrek, for which he won the British Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing.

Herman Raucher is an American author and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the autobiographical screenplay and novel Summer of '42, which became one of the highest-grossing films and one of the best selling novels of the 1970s, respectively. He began his writing career during the Golden Age of Television, when he moonlighted as a scriptwriter while working for a Madison Avenue advertising agency. He effectively retired from writing in the 1980s after a number of projects failed to come to fruition, though his books remain in print and a remake of one of his films, Sweet November, was produced in 2001.

Ashley Monique Clark is an American television actress best known for her role as Sydney Hughley on the ABC and UPN television program, The Hughleys.