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

Jason McCourty is an American football cornerback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round, 203rd overall, in the 2009 NFL Draft and has also played for the Cleveland Browns. He played college football at Rutgers.

Javier Muñoz is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his performances on Broadway as Usnavi de la Vega in the 2008 musical In the Heights and as Alexander Hamilton in the 2015 musical Hamilton, in which he played the title role from July 11, 2016 until January 14, 2018.

Richard Preston Carlisle is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also served as head coach of the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons. As a player, Carlisle played for the Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, and New Jersey Nets. He is also one of only eleven people to win an NBA championship both as a player and as a coach.

Reginald VelJohnson is an American actor. He is best known for playing policeman characters such as Carl Winslow on the sitcom Family Matters, which ran from 1989 to 1998, and LAPD Sgt. Al Powell in the films Die Hard and Die Hard 2. He played air traffic controller, Bob Abbot, in the 2012 film Air Collision.

Devin D. Ratray is an American actor, producer and writer. He is known for his role as Buzz McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, as well as the films Nebraska and Blue Ruin. His television work includes The Tick.

Anthony Hale is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his role in the Fox comedy series Arrested Development as the neurotic Buster Bluth. Hale played Gary Walsh on the HBO comedy Veep from 2012 until its conclusion in 2019, for which he won the 2013 and 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Shana Diane Madoff, sometimes referred to as Shana Madoff Skoller Swanson, is an American attorney who is now a yoga teacher.

Ty Simpkins is an American actor. His major film roles include Insidious (2011), its sequel Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), Iron Man 3 (2013) and Jurassic World (2015). He makes a minor cameo appearance in Avengers: Endgame (2019), reprising his Iron Man 3 role as Harley Keener.

Stuart Damon is an American actor. He is known for his 30-year portrayal of Alan Quartermaine, on the American soap opera General Hospital, for which he won an Emmy Award in 1999. Outside the United States, he is better known for the role of Craig Stirling in The Champions.

Angela Patrice Hill is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the strawweight division. She was formerly signed with the Invicta Fighting Championships, of which she was the strawweight champion. She is also a former World Kickboxing Association champion. Hill currently fights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As of April 25, 2022, she is #13 in the UFC women's strawweight rankings