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

Jennifer G. Wright is an American actress who made her film debut portraying the role of Cushie in the comedy-drama The World According to Garp in 1982. That same year she made an appearance in the live-action/animated musical drama film Pink Floyd – The Wall, playing an American groupie.

George Gallo, Jr. is an American screenwriter, film director, producer, painter and musician.

Chris C. Kemp is an American information technology executive and the founder, chairman and CEO of Astra, a publicly-traded space technology firm based in California. His career included serving as the Chief Information Officer for the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California and as NASA's first chief technology officer (CTO) for IT, as well as founding and leading several companies.

Eleanor Bergstein is an American writer, known for writing and co-producing Dirty Dancing, a popular 1980s film based in large part on her own childhood.

Clayborne Carson is a professor of history at Stanford University, and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. Since 1985 he has directed the Martin Luther King Papers Project, a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Martin Luther King Jr.

Nita Talbot is an American actress. She received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the 1967–68 season of Hogan's Heroes.

Lawrence Bender is an American film producer. Throughout his career, Bender-produced films have received 36 Academy Award nominations, resulting in eight wins.