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

John Peter Petrucci is an American guitarist, composer and producer. He is best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. He produced or co-produced all of Dream Theater's albums from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999) to Distance Over Time (2019), and has been the sole producer of the band's albums released since A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011). Petrucci has also released two solo albums: Suspended Animation (2005) and Terminal Velocity (2020).

Tom Mason is an American actor.

Paul Pape is an American voice, film and television actor known for the role of Double J in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever. Post Saturday Night Fever, he has appeared in over 20 films. He also played a supporting role in the 2008 racing video game Need for Speed: Undercover as Lt. Jack M. Keller.

Peter R. Deutsch is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. Deutsch was a Democratic Representative from Florida's 20th congressional district from 1993 until 2005.

Trevor Marsicano is an American speed skater and silver medalist in the Winter Olympics.

Barry Charles Scheck is an American lawyer. He received national media attention while serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team, collectively dubbed the "Dream Team", helping to win an acquittal in the highly publicized murder case. Scheck is the director of the Innocence Project and a professor at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.

Barry Stuart Sternlicht is an American billionaire and the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, an investment fund with over $60 billion in assets under management. He is also chairman of Starwood Property Trust. He is the co-founder of Starwood and served as its CEO from 1995 to 2005.

Robert Harland Reifsnyder is a retired American football player. An All-American at the United States Naval Academy, he won the Maxwell Award in 1957. He went on to play professionally for the American Football League's New York Titans (1960–1961). Reifsnyder was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997. He has also coached high school football. He coached the Bisons of Alfred G. Berner High School in Massapequa, New York, where actor Alec Baldwin was one of his players. He won the "Thorp Award" in 1954; joining fellow "Thorp Award" winners: Jim Brown-1952, John Mackey-1958 and Matt Snell-1959.

Raquel Jaramillo, better known by her pen name R.J. Palacio, is an American author and graphic designer.