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

Hank Steinberg is an American television and film writer, producer and director.

Payman Maādi, also known as Peyman Moādi is an Iranian-American actor, screenwriter and director. He is best known for starring in the films A Separation and About Elly by director Asghar Farhadi and Last Knights with Morgan Freeman and the independent drama film Camp X-Ray. For his role in A Separation, as part of ensemble he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.

Kevin Thomas Shinick is an American writer, producer, director, actor and voice artist, as well as a comic book creator. Shinick received an Emmy award for his work on the stop motion animated series Robot Chicken, and an Emmy nomination for his work on Mad, the animated series based on the iconic humor magazine, before serving as showrunner and supervising producer for Disney XD's Emmy nominated animated series, Marvel's Spider-Man. Shinick also played a role as the ACME Time Net Squadron Leader of the PBS series Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?.

David Wohl is an American comic book writer and editor. He is best known as an editor at Marvel Comics and Top Cow Productions and, at the latter, writing The Darkness and Witchblade.

Edgar Barrier was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and was one of several actors who played Simon Templar on The Saint radio show. He also appeared in two films with Welles, Journey into Fear (1943) and Macbeth (1948). Barrier also appeared in the 1938 Welles-directed short, Too Much Johnson, which was long believed lost but was rediscovered in 2013.

Edward Joseph Gilbert is a 20th and 21st century American born bishop of the Catholic Church in the Antilles. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Roseau in Dominica, from 1994-2001. He was the Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago between 2001-2011.

Shavar Malik Ross is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, editor, photographer, author, and retail entrepreneur. He is known for his recurring television role as Dudley Johnson, Gary Coleman's best friend in the NBC sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, Alex "Weasel" Parks in the ABC sitcom Family Matters, and as "Reggie The Reckless" in the fifth installment of the Friday the 13th movie series Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985).

Douglas Geoffrey McGrath is an American screenwriter, film director, and actor. He also writes political commentary, such as "The Flapjack File", a column for The New Republic.

Cary Woods is an American film producer. In addition to producing worldwide blockbusters Scream and Godzilla, Woods also produced the directorial debuts of many notable filmmakers, including: Alexander Payne, Larry Clark, Doug Liman, James Mangold, Harmony Korine, and M. Night Shyamalan.

Cathy DeBuono is an American actress and practicing psychotherapist. DeBuono was born on March 20, 1970, in Yonkers, New York, and raised in Bronxville.