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

Julius Winfield Erving II, commonly known by the nickname Dr. J, is an American retired basketball player. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential basketball players of all time, Erving helped legitimize the American Basketball Association (ABA) and was the best-known player in that league when it merged into the National Basketball Association (NBA) after the 1975–76 season.

Michael Cudlitz is an American actor and director, known for portraying John Cooper on the TNT drama series Southland for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2013, Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, and Sergeant Abraham Ford on the AMC horror series The Walking Dead.

Kevin Patrick Dobson was an American film and television actor, best known for his roles as Detective Bobby Crocker, the trusted protege of Lt. Theo Kojak in the CBS crime drama Kojak (1973–1978), and as M. Patrick "Mack" MacKenzie in the prime time soap opera Knots Landing (1982–1993).

Noah Egidi Galvin is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing Kenny O'Neal in the ABC sitcom The Real O'Neals and the titular role in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen.

Gloria Anne Borger is an American political pundit, journalist, and columnist. Borger is the chief political analyst at CNN. Since joining CNN in 2007, she has appeared on a variety of their shows, including The Situation Room.

Patricia Smyth is an American singer and songwriter. She first came into national attention with the rock band Scandal and went on to record and perform as a solo artist. Her distinctive voice and new wave image gained broad exposure through video recordings aired on cable music video channels such as MTV. Her debut solo album Never Enough was well received, and generated a pair of Top 100 hits. In the early 1990s she reached the Top 10 with the hit single "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough," a duet with Don Henley of the Eagles. She performed and co-wrote with James Ingram the song "Look What Love Has Done" for the 1994 motion picture Junior. The work earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. Smyth married retired tennis player John McEnroe in 1997.

Bethenny Frankel is an American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author. She rose to prominence as a contestant on the reality competition series The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, in which she was the runner-up, in 2005. She later became a main cast member in the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City; she has starred in eight of its twelve seasons since its premiere in 2008. She also starred in her own spin-off series Bethenny Ever After (2010–2012), Bethenny & Fredrik (2018), and the daytime talk show Bethenny (2013–2014).

Margaret Cushing Whitman is an American business executive, former political candidate, and philanthropist. She is a board member of Procter & Gamble and Dropbox. Whitman was previously president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She was also the CEO of Quibi before its closure in October 2020. Whitman was a senior member of Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns in both 2008 and 2012 and ran for governor of California as a Republican in 2010, but supported Democrats Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020.

Luis Armando Lozada Cruz, better known by his stage name Vico C, is an American born-Puerto Rican rapper, composer and record producer. Widely regarded as the "Father of Latin Hip Hop", as well as the founding father of reggaeton, Vico C has played an influential role in the development of Latin American hip hop and urban music.

Peter Mark Brant, Sr. is an American industrialist, as well as a magazine publisher, film producer, and art collector. He is married to model Stephanie Seymour.