List of sons and daughters of New York City
This article is a chronological list of the sons and daughters of New York City .
18th century
- Jane Colden (1724–1766), first American botanist
- John Jay (1745–1829), politician, lawyer, and Founding Father of the United States
- Philip Freneau (1752-1832), poet
- John Rutherfurd (1760-1840), politician
- David Hosack (1769–1835), physician and botanist
- Elisabeth Anna Bayley Seton (1774–1821), first American-born Roman Catholic saint
- Washington Irving (1783-1859), writer
- Joseph Wanton Morrison (1783–1826), British officer
- James W. Gazlay (1784–1874), politician
- Peter Cooper (1791–1883), industrialist, inventor and philanthropist
- Elias Kent Kane (1794–1835), politician
- Richard Delafield (1798–1873), military engineer and during the Civil War brigadier general on the side of the Northern States
- Charles Wilkes (1798–1877), naval officer and polar explorer
19th century
1801-1840
- John Hill Hewitt (1801–1890), composer, poet and newspaper publisher
- Dennis Hart Mahan (1802–1871), civil engineer and military theorist
- Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803–1848), Navy officer and military historian
- Ira Aldridge (1807-1867), actor
- Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), politician
- Peter G. Van Winkle (1808–1872), politician
- James Roosevelt Bayley (1814–1877), Roman Catholic Archbishop
- Thomas Crawford (1814-1857), sculptor
- David William Bacon (1815–1874), Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Portland
- Thomas Adams (1818–1905), inventor and entrepreneur
- Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819–1888), Roman Catholic people's missionary and founder of an order
- Tom Hyer (1819-1864), boxer
- Herman Melville (1819-1891), writer, poet and essayist
- Alexander Cartwright (1820-1892), firefighter and baseball pioneer
- Schuyler Colfax (1823-1885), politician
- Faustina Hasse Hodges (1823–1895), composer and organist
- Bernard John Joseph McQuaid (1823–1909), Roman Catholic Bishop of Rochester
- William Tweed (1823–1878), politician
- George Frederick Bristow (1825–1898), composer
- John Lawrence Le Conte (1825-1883), entomologist
- Eugene Schieffelin (1827–1906), drug manufacturer, introduced the starlings to North America
- John Henry Cornell (1828-1894), composer, organist and textbook author
- Thomas Houseworth (1828–1915), photo publisher and photographer
- Alexander Lawrie (1828-1917), painter
- Francis McNeirny (1828-1894), Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany
- William Backhouse Astor junior (1829-1892), entrepreneur
- William Wirt Allen (1835–1894), Brigadier General of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War
- Samuel Frost Johnson (1835–1879), genre painter
- John La Farge (1835–1910), painter, interior designer and writer
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870), writer
- Elihu Vedder (1836–1923), symbolist artist, book illustrator and poet
- Theodore M. Davis (1837–1915), financier of the excavations in the Valley of the Kings
- Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837–1914), ichthyologist and malacologist
- Mary von Waldersee (1837–1914), American-German philanthropist
- Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916), astronomer and first meteorologist
- George William Hill (1838–1914), astronomer and mathematician
1841-1870
- James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841-1918), newspaper publisher
- Eugene Delmar (1841–1909), chess player
- George Gossip (1841–1907), English chess player and chess author
- William James (1842–1910), psychologist and philosopher
- Henry James (1843-1916), writer
- George W. DeLong (1844–1881), navigator and polar explorer
- Maria Oakey Dewing (1845–1927), painter
- George Ferdinand Becker (1847–1919), geologist
- James A. Trimble (* 1847; † after 1869), tram manufacturer
- Charles Henry Colton (1848–1915), Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo
- Peter P. Mahoney (1848–1889), politician
- Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), painter and glass artist
- Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), poet
- WAB Coolidge (1850–1926), British mountaineer, theologian, and publicist
- Perry Belmont (1851–1947), politician, ambassador and officer
- Robert J. Wynne (1851-1922), politician
- William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922), surgeon
- August Belmont junior (1853–1924), banker and horse breeder
- Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936), furniture designer
- Stanford White (1853–1906), important architect
- Jennie Churchill (1854-1921), American-British philanthropist and author; Mother of Winston Churchill
- James Buchanan Brady (1856–1917), business manager, entrepreneur, and self-made millionaire
- Eddie Foy senior (1856–1928), actor, comedian and dancer
- George Templeton Strong (1856–1948), composer
- Ernest Flagg (1857-1947), architect
- Charles Herman Steinway (1857–1919), industrialist, piano maker and amateur composer and pianist
- Oliver Belmont (1858–1908), politician and millionaire
- Gus Hill (1858–1937), vaudeville artist and producer
- Wolfgang Kapp (1858–1922), German general landscape director in Königsberg
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), politician, President of the USA and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Marie van Zandt (1858–1919), opera singer
- Herbert Putnam (1861–1955), librarian
- Thomas Francis Cusack (1862-1918), Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany
- Edith Wharton (1862-1937), novelist
- John Bunny (1863–1915), film and stage actor
- Luis Senarens (1863-1939), writer
- Frank Eugene (1865–1936), photographer
- Madison Grant (1865–1937), lawyer and author of works on racial theory
- Harvey Worthington Loomis (1865-1930), composer
- Harry Davenport (1866-1949), actor
- Antonia Maury (1866–1952), astronomer
- James A. Marcus (1867–1937), actor
- Henry L. Stimson (1867–1950), politician, most recently US Secretary of War
- Mary Lawrence Tonetti (1868–1945), sculptor
- John H. Bieling (1869-1948), singer
- Hiram Percy Maxim (1869-1936), inventor
- Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938), lawyer, US Supreme Court Justice
- Joseph Patrick Donahue (1870–1959), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in New York
- Charles Murphy (1870–1950), cyclist
1871-1880
- Oliver Campbell (1871-1953), tennis player
- Douglas John Connah (1871–1941), landscape painter, portrait painter and illustrator
- Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), German-American-French caricaturist and painter
- Robert Lindneux (1871–1970), painter
- Alfred Montmarquette (1871–1944), Canadian folk composer and accordionist
- Frank Schlesinger (1871–1943), astronomer
- Beatrix Farrand (1872–1959), landscape architect
- Rubin Goldmark (1872–1936), pianist and composer
- Fitzhugh Townsend (1872-1906), fencer
- Anne Tracy Morgan (1873–1952), heiress to millions and philanthropist
- Wallace Morgan (1873-1948), painter, President of the Society of Illustrators
- John Russell Pope (1874–1937), architect
- Alfred Chester Beatty (1875–1968), mining engineer and collector
- Natalie Curtis (1875–1921), ethnographer
- Rita Lydig (1875–1929), Spanish high society lady and author
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), patron and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art
- Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960), cultural relativist and student of Franz Boas
- Arthur Lyon (1876–1952), fencer
- Albert Ferdinand Shore (1876–1936), metal lodge
- Charles Vanoni (1876–1970), racing cyclist
- Charles William Beebe (1877–1962), ornithologist, ichthyologist, deep-sea researcher and ecologist
- Kellogg Casey (1877-1938), marksman
- Lewis Einstein (1877-1967), diplomat
- William Holmes (1877-1946), film editor
- Frank Marshall (1877-1944), chess player
- Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877–1915), son of the railway mogul Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877–1964), Lady Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
- Malcolm Whitman (1877-1932), tennis player
- Edward Larrabee Adams (1878–1957), Romanist and Provençalist
- John J. Boylan (1878-1938), politician
- Edward Kasner (1878–1955), mathematician
- Holcombe Ward (1878-1967), tennis player
- Peter G. Gerry (1879–1957), politician
- Jacob Epstein (1880–1959), sculptor, draftsman
- William Varley (1880-1968), oarsman
1881-1890
1881-1885
- Harvey Bartlett Gaul (1881–1945), composer and organist
- Margaret Dumont (1882–1965), actress
- Arthur Duray (1882–1954), French-American racing driver
- James Gleason (1882–1959), actor, playwright and screenwriter
- Fiorello LaGuardia (1882–1947), longtime New York City Mayor
- Éamon de Valera (1882–1975), Irish politician, Prime Minister and President
- William Van Alen (1882–1954), architect
- Leo Goodwin (1883–1957), swimmer and water polo player
- Ralph Morgan (1883–1956), actor
- Jay O'Brien (1883-1940), bobsledder
- Nessa Cohen (1884–1976), sculptor
- Burrill Crohn (1884–1983), physician, first person to describe Crohn's disease
- Joe Fogler (1884-1930), track cyclist
- Ely Jacques Kahn (1884–1972), architect
- John Joseph Mitty (1884–1961), Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco
- Carl Osburn (1884–1966), marksman
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), human rights activist and diplomat, and wife of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Mae Murray (1885-1965), actress
- Louis Untermeyer (1885–1977), poet
1886-1890
- John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever (1886–1971), British businessman, racquet player and politician
- John Hayes (1886–1965), marathon runner and Olympic champion
- Charles King (1886–1944), theater and film actor and singer
- Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky (1886–1927), Austrian film pioneer
- James Francis McIntyre (1886–1979), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles and Cardinal
- Ruth Benedict (1887-1948), anthropologist
- Ray Cummings (1887-1957), author
- James Duncan (1887–1955), discus thrower
- Tim Mara (1887–1959), founder of the New York Giants
- Chico Marx (1887–1961), comedian and (family) member of the Marx Brothers
- Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), journalist
- Raoul Walsh (1887–1980), film director
- Alberto Colombo (1888–1954), conductor and film composer
- Irving Cummings (1888–1959), actor and director
- George Jay Gould II (1888–1935), sportsman ( Jeu de Paume )
- Jack Holt (1888–1951), Hollywood actor, best known for his westerns
- Harpo Marx (1888–1964), comedian and (family) member of the Marx Brothers
- Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), playwright
- Alex F. Osborn (1888–1966), author, is considered to be the inventor of brainstorming
- Alan Seeger (1888-1916), poet
- Harry Smith (1888–1961), long distance runner
- Monty Woolley (1888–1963), actor
- John Arnold (1889–1964), cameraman (two Oscars for technical merit)
- John Joseph Boylan (1889–1953), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Rockford
- Abem Finkel (1889–1948), screenwriter
- Walter Lippmann (1889–1974), writer
- Nathaniel Shilkret (1889–1982), composer, conductor and music producer
- Ted Wilde (1889–1929), director and screenwriter
- Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954), electrical engineer and inventor
- Edward Arnold (1890–1956), American actor of German descent
- Ludlow Griscom (1890–1959), ornithologist and botanist
- Groucho Marx (1890–1977), comedian and (family) member of the Marx Brothers
- Frank Morgan (1890-1949), actor
- Paul Strand (1890–1976), photographer
- Sol M. Wurtzel (1890-1958), film producer
1891-1900
1891
- Fanny Brice (1891–1951), comedian, singer and actress
- Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham (1891–1979), psychoanalyst
- Arthur Edeson (1891–1970), cameraman
- Edward J. Flynn (1891-1953), politician
- W. Averell Harriman (1891–1986), politician, businessman and diplomat
- Sam Jaffe (1891-1984), actor
- Alfred Lane (1891-1965), marksman
- Archie Mayo (1891–1968), film director, stage and film actor
- Henry Miller (1891–1980), writer
- Timothy Mather Spelman (1891-1970), composer
- Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1891–1968), editor of the New York Times (1935–1957)
1892
- Samuel Barlow (1892–1982), composer
- Alice Brady (1892–1939), theater and film actress
- Gilmore David Clarke (1892–1982), civil engineer and landscape architect
- Mike Connors (1892–1949), Australian actor and theater director
- Albert S. D'Agostino (1892–1970), production designer
- Donald Wills Douglas (1892–1981), engineer and aircraft manufacturer
- Seymour Felix (1892–1961), show dancer and choreographer, Oscar winner 1937
- Ferde Grofé (1892–1972), composer, arranger and conductor of Franco-Huguenot descent
- Gummo Marx (1892–1977), comedian and (family) member of the Marx Brothers
- Elmer Rice (1892–1967), playwright
- Joseph Seiden (1892–1974), director and producer of Yiddish films
- Pete Smith (1892–1979), film producer and Oscar winner
- Frank Tuttle (1892–1963), film director
1893
- Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968), writer, fashion designer
- Stephen Joseph Donahue (1893–1982), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in New York
- Joseph Michael Gilmore (1893–1962), Roman Catholic Bishop of Helena
- Robert Harron (1893-1920), silent film actor
- Florence Henri (1893–1982), painter and photographer
- Bernard Rogers (1893–1968), composer
- Mae West (1893–1980), film actress and screenwriter
1894
- Joseph Francis Flannelly (1894–1973), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in New York
- Michael Gold (1894–1967), writer and literary critic
- Ben Hecht (1894–1964), screenwriter
- Arthur Loesser (1894–1969), pianist, music teacher and writer
- Thomas John McDonnell (1894–1961), Roman Catholic Coadjutor Bishop of Wheeling
- Nita Naldi (1894–1961), actress during the silent film era
- Robert Nathan (1894–1985), writer
- Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976), poet
- Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), painter and illustrator
- William Aloysius Scully (1894–1969), Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany
- Andy Tipaldi (1894–1969), Canadian banjo player
1895
- Irving A. Aaronson (1895–1963), jazz pianist and band leader
- Richard Barthelmess (1895–1963), actor
- John Beckman (1895-1968), basketball player
- Abraham Binder (1895–1966), composer
- Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), producer and musical writer
- Sidney Hickox (1895–1982), cameraman
- Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985), philosopher
- Gertrude Purcell (1895–1963), screenwriter
- Harry Ruby (1895–1974), screenwriter, composer and lyricist
- Morrie Ryskind (1895–1985), Broadway librettist and director and screenwriter in Hollywood
- Nathan Schachner (1895–1955), writer
- Edward Snyder (1895–1982), cameraman and special effects artist
1896
- Constance Binney (1896–1989), actress of the silent film era
- George Burns (1896–1996), actor
- Mark W. Clark (1896-1984), General
- Hallowell Davis (1896-1992), physiologist, audiologist, and university professor
- Joe Davis (1896–1978), music publisher and producer
- Gerald Duffy (1896–1928), journalist and screenwriter
- Ira Gershwin (1896–1983), composer and songwriter
- Nat Holman (1896-1995), basketball player and coach
- Edwin Justus Mayer (1896–1960), screenwriter and comedy specialist
- J. Carrol Naish (1896–1973), actor
- Sigmund Neufeld (1896–1979), film producer
- Ida Rolf (1896–1979), founder of the Rolfing treatment named after her
- Roger Sessions (1896–1985), composer
1897
- Louis Buchalter (1897–1944), notorious gangster in New York
- Detlev Wulf Bronk (1897–1975), biophysicist and science manager
- Jesse Douglas (1897–1965), mathematician
- John Michael Fearns (1897–1977), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in New York
- Paul Gallico (1897–1976), writer
- Louis R. Loeffler (1897–1972), film editor
- Noel Madison (1897–1975), actor
- Arthur Ripley (1897–1961), screenwriter, film director and producer
- Robert Riskin (1897–1955), screenwriter and playwright; Film producer and director
- Steve Sullivan (1897-1979), boxer
- Gene Tunney (1897–1978), world heavyweight boxing champion
1898
- Shirley Booth (1898–1992), actress
- Harold Whaley Brown (1898–1978), ophthalmologist
- Doris P. Buck (1898–1980), science fiction writer
- Ruth Bunzel (1898–1990), anthropologist
- Edward Vincent Dargin (1898–1981), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in New York
- Bob Fuller (1898–?), Jazz musician
- George Gershwin (1898–1937), composer, pianist and conductor
- Abe Goldstein (1898–1977), bantamweight boxer
- Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979), art collector and gallery owner
- Fred Hall (1898–1954), musician and conductor
- Fritz Roethlisberger (1898–1974), economist
1899
- Léonie Fuller Adams (1899–1988), poet
- Otis Barton (1899–1992), deep-sea diver and inventor
- Howard P. Becker (1899-1960), sociologist
- Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), film actor
- James Cagney (1899–1986), actor
- Edward L. Cahn (1899–1963), film director and film editor
- Ricardo Cortez (1899–1977), actor
- George Cukor (1899–1983), film director
- Joseph Fuchs (1899–1997), violinist and music teacher
- Vincent Gallagher (1899-1983), rower
- Maude Hutchins (1899–1991), writer
- Gene Kardos (1899–1980), jazz musician and band leader
- Edwin H. Knopf (1899–1981), screenwriter, director and film producer
- Bill Springsteen (1899–1985), American football player
- Randall Thompson (1899–1984), composer and music teacher
- Genevieve Tobin (1899–1995), actress
- Paul Vogel (1899–1975), Oscar-winning cameraman
1900
- William E. Barrett (1900-1986), writer
- Benjamin Buttenwieser (1900–1991), banker
- Thomas Darden (1900–1961), naval officer
- Albert Hackett (1900–1995), silent film actor, screenwriter and playwright
- Don Hartman (1900–1958), composer, film director, film producer and screenwriter
- Frank Hotaling (1900–1977), film architect
- Cyril Hume (1900–1966), screenwriter
- Arthur Levitt senior (1900–1980), lawyer and politician
- James Aloysius McNulty (1900–1972), Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo
- Abraham J. Multer (1900–1986), lawyer and politician
- George Oppenheimer (1900–1977), screenwriter and songwriter
- Frederica Sagor Maas (1900–2012), screenwriter
- Mark Sandrich (1900–1945), film director
- Isadore Schwartz (1900–1988), flyweight boxer
- Caroline K. Simon (1900–1993), lawyer and politician
- Frank Paul Sylos (1900–1976), film architect
- Joseph A. Valentine (1900–1949), cameraman
- Albert Weisbord (1900–1977), trade unionist and political activist
- Vera West (1900–1947), costume designer
20th century
1901-1910
1901
- James Dunn (1901–1967), actor
- Frankie Genaro (1901-1966), boxer
- Virginia Grace (1901-1994), archaeologist
- Laura Guggenbühl (1901–1985), mathematician and university professor
- Adelaide Hall (1901-1993), jazz singer
- Sam Jaffe (1901-2000), acting manager and film producer
- Howard Koch (1901-1995), screenwriter
- William Kroll (1901–1980), violinist, composer and music teacher
- Oliver La Farge (1901–1963), anthropologist and author
- Frank Belknap Long (1901–1994), author of horror, science fiction, fantasy stories, poems and comics
- Zeppo Marx (1901–1979), comedian and (family) member of the Marx Brothers
- George Raft (1901–1980), actor
- William E. Snyder (1901-1984), cinematographer
- Ed Sullivan (1901–1974), entertainer and presenter
- George Tobias (1901–1980), actor
- Lawrence Edward Watkin (1901–1981), writer and screenwriter
1902
- Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902–2001), philosopher and writer
- David Bernard Ast (1902-2007), dentist and civil servant
- Moe Berg (1902–1972), baseball player
- Rube Bloom (1902–1976), pianist, singer and composer
- Elizabeth Frances Cope (1902–1982), mathematician
- Edward Eliscu (1902–1998), actor, screenwriter, film composer and songwriter
- Lulu Hofmann Bechtolsheim (1902–1989), mathematician and university professor
- Hugh O'Neill Hencken (1902–1981), prehistoric
- Eric Hoffer (1902–1983), socially critical philosopher and author
- Joe E. Lewis (1902–1971), singer, actor and comedian
- Richard Rodgers (1902–1979), musical composer
1903
- Luther Adler (1903–1984), film and theater actor
- Joseph F. Biroc (1903-1996), cameraman
- Nancy Carroll (1903-1965), actress
- Abram Chasins (1903–1987), composer, pianist and musicologist
- Billie Dove (1903-1997), actress
- Lou Gehrig (1903-1941), baseball player
- Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974), painter
- James Cowan Greenway (1903-1989), ornithologist
- Nanette Guilford (1903–1990), opera singer
- Lester Lee (1903-1956), composer
- Seymour Lipton (1903-1986), sculptor
- Joseph Francis McGeough (1903–1970), Roman Catholic Archbishop and Diplomat to the Holy See
- Abel Meeropol (1903–1986), writer and songwriter
- Ken Murray (1903–1988), entertainer, actor and author
- Fred Niblo Jr. (1903-1973), screenwriter
- Adrian Rollini (1903–1956), jazz and entertainment musician
- Sol C. Siegel (1903-1982), film producer
- Anthony Veiller (1903–1965), screenwriter, film producer and film director
- Nathanael West (1903-1940), writer
- Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968), crime novel writer
1904
- Constance Bennett (1904–1965), actress
- Alvah Bessie (1904–1985), actor, writer and screenwriter
- Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), photo reporter
- Paul Cadmus (1904–1999), painter
- Lester Cole (1904–1985), screenwriter
- Lillian Copeland (1904–1964), track and field athlete and Olympic champion
- Moss Hart (1904–1961), writer, screenwriter and playwright
- Howard Kingsbury (1904-1991), rower
- Helen Meany (1904–1991), water diver and Olympic champion
- Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), physicist
- James A. Shannon (1904-1994), medical doctor
- Pinky Silverberg (1904-1964), boxer
- Bernard Vorhaus (1904–2000), American-British film director, film producer and screenwriter
1905
- Carl David Anderson (1905-1991), physicist
- Eleanor Audley (1905–1991), actress and voice actress
- Ray Barbuti (1905-1988), sprinter
- Charles Edward Borden (1905–1978), archaeologist
- Jim Braddock (1905-1974), boxer
- William Cagney (1905–1988), actor and film producer
- Valentine Davies (1905–1961), screenwriter, film producer and film director
- Harry Eagle (1905-1992), medical doctor
- Gertrude Ederle (1905–2003), the first woman to swim across the English Channel
- Dante Fiorillo (1905–1995), composer
- John Gibson (1905–2006), track and field athlete, 440-yard hurdle world record holder
- Thomas Gomez (1905–1971), actor
- Isaac Kashdan (1905–1985), chess grandmaster and author
- John Kirkpatrick (1905–1991), pianist and musicologist
- Fred Kohlmar (1905–1969), film producer
- Barnett Newman (1905-1970), painter
- James Henry Oliver (1905–1981), ancient historian and epigraphist
- Luther George Simjian (1905–1997), inventor and designer
- Carleton Sprague Smith (1905–1994), music and cultural scientist, librarian, university professor and flautist
- Lionel Trilling (1905–1975), literary critic, writer and teacher
- Christopher Joseph Weldon (1905–1982), Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Springfield
- Lionel White (1905–1985), writer and journalist
1906
- Buddy Adler (1906–1960), film producer and screenwriter
- William Bendix (1906–1964), actor
- John Carradine (1906–1988), actor
- Katherine Cassavetes (1906–1983), actress
- Paul Creston (1906–1985), musician and composer
- Helen Deutsch (1906–1992), journalist, songwriter and screenwriter
- Al Duffy (1906-2006), jazz violinist
- Josephine Dunn (1906–1983), actress
- Herbert Ferber (1906–1991), sculptor
- Grace Hopper (1906–1992), computer scientist and computer pioneer
- Sidney Kingsley (1906-1995), playwright
- Normand Lockwood (1906–2002), composer and music teacher
- Sidney Meyers (1906–1969), director, screenwriter and film editor
- Charles Moran (1906–1978), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Helaine Newstead (1906–1981), American philologist
- Henri René (1906–1993), jazz and entertainment musician, music producer
- Bugsy Siegel (1906-1947), gangster
- Al Stillman (1906-1979), songwriter
- Frederick Zimmermann (1906–1967), double bass player and music teacher
1907
- Richard Archbold (1907–1976), zoologist, pilot and philanthropist
- Edgar Barrier (1907–1964), actor
- Lyon Sprague de Camp (1907–2000), engineer, science fiction writer, hobby historian and publisher
- Benny Carter (1907-2003), jazz saxophonist
- Jerome W. Conn (1907-1994), internist and endocrinologist
- George E. Diskant (1907–1965), cameraman
- Gordon Douglas (1907-1993), film director
- Sidney Fox (1907-1942), actress
- Varian Fry (1907–1967), journalist and escape helper in Vichy-France
- James M. Gavin (1907–1990), Lieutenant General
- Jack Gilford (1907–1990), actor
- Ruby Goldstein (1907–1984), boxer and referee
- James B. Gordon (1907–1972), special effects artist and film technician
- Canada Lee (1907–1952), boxer, actor and civil rights activist
- John Marley (1907-1984), actor
- Alan Reed (1907–1977), actor
- William Shea (1907-1991), lawyer
- William Steig (1907–2003), cartoonist
- Hassler Whitney (1907-1989), mathematician
1908
- Anne Anastasi (1908-2001), psychologist
- Milton Berle (1908–2002), actor, entertainer and comedian
- Norman Burnstine (1908-1964), screenwriter
- Elliott Carter (1908–2012), composer
- Stanley Cortez (1908-1997), cinematographer
- Joe Grant (1908-2005), Disney comic book writer
- William Kiernan (1908–1973), production designer
- Manny Klein (1908–1994), jazz trumpeter
- Irving Kolodin (1908–1988), music critic and music historian
- Melvin Spencer Newman (1908-1993), chemist
- Arthur O'Connell (1908-1981), actor
- Bob Olin (1908-1956), boxer
- Mae Questel (1908–1998), actress and voice actress
- Aubrey Schenck (1908-1999), film producer
- Gus Schilling (1908–1957), actor
- Myron Waldman (1908-2006), animation animator
1909
- Paul Ackerman (1909-1977), journalist
- Miriam Becker Mazur (1909–2000), mathematician and university professor
- Albert R. Broccoli (1909-1996), producer
- Jessie Cross (1909-1986), sprinter
- Jo Eisinger (1909–1991), screenwriter
- Julius J. Epstein (1909-2000), screenwriter
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000), film actor
- Jesse Leonard Greenstein (1909-2002), astronomer
- Herbert Haufrecht (1909–1998), composer
- Kenneth Hollon (1909–1974), jazz musician
- Dorothy Kingsley (1909–1997), screenwriter
- Richard Maibaum (1909–1991), screenwriter
- Barney Ross (1909-1967), boxer
- Sidney Salkow (1909–2000), director, screenwriter and producer
- Elie Siegmeister (1909–1991), composer and conductor
- Al Singer (1909-1961), boxer
- Richard H. Wilhelm (1909–1968), chemical engineer
1910
- Paul Bowles (1910–1999), writer and composer
- Carmine Coppola (1910–1991), musician and composer
- Frederick de Cordova (1910–2001), director and producer
- Frank De Kova (1910–1981), actor
- Mary Doran (1910–1995), actress
- John Hammond (1910–1987), record producer, musician and music critic
- Ace Harris (1910–1964), R&B and jazz musician
- Charles P. Kindleberger (1910–2003), national economist and economic historian
- George Kojac (1910–1996), swimmer
- Alexander Lowen (1910–2008), psychotherapist and author
- Anita Page (1910–2008), film actress
- Laurance Rockefeller (1910–2004), billionaire, patron of environmental protection, ecology and medical research
- George Rosen (1910–1977), doctor and medical historian
- Opilio Cardinal Rossi (1910–2004), Vatican diplomat and Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- William Schuman (1910-1992), composer
- Artie Shaw (1910-2004), jazz musician
- Julius Shulman (1910–2009), architectural photographer
- Paul Sweezy (1910-2004), economist
- Kirby Walker (born around 1910 - after 1949), musician
- Jimmy Walthour, Jr. (1910-1981), racing cyclist
1911-1920
1911
- Raymond Abrashkin (1911–1960), writer, screenwriter and director
- Joseph Barbera (1911–2006), animator and producer
- Mike Belloise (1911-1969), featherweight boxer
- Joseph Borkin (1911–1979), business lawyer and author
- Lee J. Cobb (1911-1976), actor
- Martin Denny (1911-2005), jazz pianist
- Len Duncan (1911-1998), racing car driver
- Harry Fisher (1911–2003), trade unionist, peace activist and volunteer in the Spanish Civil War
- Billy Fiske (1911–1940), bobsledder, Olympic champion and fighter pilot
- Gustave M. Gilbert (1911–1977), Professor of Psychology
- Paul Goodman (1911–1972), social philosopher and poet
- John Healy (1911–1986), film producer
- Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975), composer
- Ramey Idriss (1911–1971), songwriter, composer and musician
- Ed Kahn (1911-1945), American football player
- Danny Kaye (1911–1987), actor, comedian and singer
- Stephen McNally (1911-1994), actor
- Art Mooney (1911-1993), band leader
- Joseph Pevney (1911–2008), film director, actor, film producer and screenwriter
- Harvey Shapiro (1911–2007), cellist and music teacher
- William Howard Stein (1911–1980), biochemist
- OZ Whitehead (1911–1998), actor and author
1912
- Alfred Andriola (1912–1983), comic artist
- Julius Axelrod (1912-2004), physician and neurochemist
- Miriam Battista (1912–1980), actress, singer and television presenter
- Arthur Victor Berger (1912–2003), composer, music teacher and critic
- Steven Anson Coons (1912–1979), computer scientist and engineer
- Frances Drake (1912-2000), actress
- Ted Duncan (1912–1963), racing car driver
- Ann Dvorak (1912–1979), actress
- Moses I. Finley (1912–1986), American and British ancient historian
- Barbara Hutton (1912–1979), granddaughter and heiress of Frank Winfield Woolworth
- Jerry Jerome (1912-2001), jazz saxophonist
- William Lederer (1912-2009), author
- Frank Lovejoy (1912–1962), actor
- Thomas Mancuso (1912-2004), medic
- Daniel Mann (1912–1991), director
- Jimmy Phipps (1912–2007), jazz and rhythm and blues musician
- Clarence Profit (1912-1944), jazz pianist
- Red Richards (1912-1998), jazz pianist
- Sid Robin (1912–1985), lyricist and composer of the Tin Pan Alley era
- Edward H. Robitzek (1912–1984), pulmonologist and tuberculosis expert
- Arthur Rollini (1912–1993), jazz and entertainment musician
- Arthur Sarnoff (1912–2000), draftsman of cover illustrations, calendars, advertising and pin-ups
- George M. Smith (1912–1993), guitarist and composer
- Joseph Stein (1912–2010), playwright, musical writer and screenwriter
- Studs Terkel (1912–2008), writer and radio host
- Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), reporter and historian
1913
- Charlie Barnet (1913–1991), jazz musician
- Alfred Bester (1913–1987), science fiction author
- Carmen Cavallaro (1913–1989), musician and film actor
- Mildred Cohn (1913–2009), biochemist and biophysicist
- Dan Dailey (1913–1978), actor
- Norman Dello Joio (1913–2008), composer and professor
- Max Desfor (1913–2018), photographer
- John Garfield (1913–1952), actor
- Martin Goldsmith (1913–1994), screenwriter
- Burt Lancaster (1913-1994), actor
- Helen Levitt (1913–2009), photographer and filmmaker
- Charles Borromeo McLaughlin (1913–1978), Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint Petersburg
- Norman Rosten (1913–1995), writer
- Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966), poet and narrator
- Irwin Shaw (1913–1984), writer, playwright and screenwriter
- Netty Simons (1913–1994), composer
- Ira Wallach (1913–1995), screenwriter
1914
- Herbert L. Anderson (1914-1988), nuclear physicist
- Edna Anhalt (1914–1987), screenwriter and film producer
- Charles Berlitz (1914–2003), writer
- Irving Brecher (1914–2008), screenwriter and film director
- William Castle (1914–1977), film director and producer
- Norman Cazden (1914–1980), composer
- I. Bernard Cohen (1914–2003), historian of science
- John Dembeck (1914–1993), Canadian violinist and violist
- Arnold Denker (1914–2005), chess grandmaster
- Thomas Andrew Donnellan (1914–1987), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta
- Raoul Pene Du Bois (1914–1985), costume designer
- Howard Fast (1914-2003), writer
- Lou Fine (1914–1971), comic book artist and illustrator
- Reuben Fine (1914–1993), chess player and psychoanalyst
- Hugo Fiorato (1914–2012), violinist and conductor
- William Gibson (1914-2008), playwright
- Charlotte Henry (1914–1980), actress
- Walter Iooss (1914–1987), double bass player
- Rufus Isaacs (1914–1977), mathematician
- Elvin A. Kabat (1914-2000), chemist and immunologist
- Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), writer
- Anne Clark Martindell (1914–2008), diplomat and politician
- Kay Medford (1914–1980), actress
- Gerald Mohr (1914–1968), radio announcer and film actor
- Paul Rand (1914–1996), designer of company logos
- Martin Ritt (1914–1990), film director
- Max J. Rosenberg (1914-2004), film producer
- Jonas Salk (1914–1995), doctor and immunologist
- Budd Schulberg (1914–2009), writer and screenwriter
- Malcolm Wilson (1914–2000), politician, Governor of New York
1915
- Milton Abramowitz (1915-1958), mathematician
- Jerome Bruner (1915-2016), developmental psychologist
- Paul Castellano (1915–1985), Mafioso
- Joy Davidman (1915-1960), writer
- Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990), historian
- Dean Dixon (1915–1976), conductor
- Eddie Dougherty (1915-1994), jazz drummer
- Alice Faye (1915–1998), actress and singer
- Doris Fisher (1915–2003), singer and composer
- Daphne Hellman (1915-2002), jazz harpist
- Robert Hofstadter (1915–1990), physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1961)
- Theodore Holstein (1915–1985), physicist
- Bob Kane (1915–1998), comic book artist, writer and editor
- Jennings Lang (1915-1996), film producer
- Robert Lax (1915–2000), author, poet and publicist
- Ernest Lehman (1915–2005), actress
- Anita Louise (1915–1970), actress
- Joe Mantell (1915-2010), actor
- Arthur Miller (1915-2005), writer
- Patricia Morison (1915-2018), actress
- Edmond O'Brien (1915–1985), actor
- David Rockefeller Sr. (1915-2017), banker, billionaire, and statesman
- Oscar Schachter (1915–2003), lawyer
- Alvy West (1915–2012), jazz musician
- Herman Wouk (1915-2019), author
1916
- Slim Aarons (1916–2006), photographer
- Lucille Bliss (1916–2012), actress and voice actress
- Joe Bushkin (1916-2004), jazz pianist
- Eyvind Earle (1916–2000), painter, author and illustrator
- Richard Fleischer (1916–2006), film director and Oscar winner
- Frank Freidel (1916–1993), historian
- Jacque Fresco (1916-2017), social reformer
- Charles Kittel (1916–2019), physicist
- Howard W. Koch (1916–2001), film producer and film director
- Harry Lampert (1916–2004), cartoonist and author
- Wellington Mara (1916–2005), owner of the New York Giants
- Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist and conductor
- Ralph Nelson (1916–1987), director and screenwriter
- Harold Norse (1916–2009), lyric poet of the Beat Generation
- Victor Rendina (1916–1985), actor
- Harold Robbins (1916-1997), writer
- Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003), economist, economic historian and member of the government
- Mortimer Sackler (1916–2010), doctor and entrepreneur
- Terry Snyder (1916–1963), jazz musician
- Anselm L. Strauss (1916–1996), sociologist
- Anthony L. Turkevich (1916-2002), chemist
- Phil Walters (1916–2000), sailor and racing car driver
1917
- June Allyson (1917-2006), actress
- Sally Amato (1917–2000), singer and actress
- Robert Anderson (1917–2009), writer, playwright and screenwriter
- Red Auerbach (1917-2006), basketball coach
- Lillian Bassman (1917–2012), painter and photographer
- Mario Biaggi (1917–2015), lawyer and politician
- Jane Bowles (1917–1973), writer and playwright
- Edwin Bernard Broderick (1917-2006), Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany
- Dik Browne (1917–1989), comic book artist
- Lloyd Cutler (1917-2005), lawyer
- Will Eisner (1917–2005), comic artist
- John B. Fenn (1917-2010), chemist; Nobel Laureate 2002
- Herman Feshbach (1917-2000), theoretical physicist
- Katharine Graham (1917–2001), publisher, editor and author
- Hurd Hatfield (1917–1998), Irish film and stage actor of American descent
- Herbert A. Hauptman (1917–2011), mathematician and biophysicist
- Susan Hayward (1917–1975), film actress
- Celeste Holm (1917–2012), actress
- Lena Horne (1917–2010), singer and actress
- Lucy Jarvis (1917-2020), television producer
- Henry Jerome (1917–2011), big band leader, music producer
- Jack Kirby (1917-1994), comic book artist
- Arthur Laurents (1917-2011), writer
- Robert Merrill (1917-2004), opera singer
- Buddy Rich (1917-1987), jazz drummer
- Charlie Shavers (1917–1971), jazz trumpeter
- Bea Wain (1917–2017), pop and swing singer and presenter
1918
- Solomon Aaron Berson (1918-1972), medical doctor
- Joey Bishop (1918–2007), singer, actor and show host
- Barry S. Brook (1918–1997), musicologist and university professor
- John Dall (1918–1971), actor
- Daniel Drucker (1918–2001), engineering scientist
- Gertrude Belle Elion (1918–1999), biochemist, pharmacologist and Nobel Prize winner (1988)
- Stephen Elliott (1918-2005), actor
- Morris Engel (1918–2005), photographer, cameraman, screenwriter and director
- Richard Feynman (1918–1988), physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1965)
- Sidney Forrest (1918–2013), clarinetist and music teacher
- Daniel Glaser (1918–2017), sociologist and criminologist
- Irwin Hasen (1918–2015), comic artist
- Rita Hayworth (1918–1987), actress
- Henry Hurwitz (1918–1992), physicist
- Chubby Jackson (1918-2003), jazz bassist
- Jerome Karle (1918–2013), physical chemist
- Bruria Kaufman (1918-2010), theoretical physicist
- Lester Koenig (1918–1977), music producer
- Phil Kraus (1918–2012), percussionist
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007), writer
- Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986), author and songwriter
- Robert H. Lochner (1918–2003), journalist and translator
- Herb Lubalin (1918–1981), typographer and graphic artist
- Arnold Newman (1918–2006), portrait photographer
- Lewis Nixon (1918–1995), US Army captain
- Claiborne Pell (1918–2009), politician, Senator from Rhode Island (1961–1997)
- Philip Rastelli (1918-1991), Mafioso
- Julian Seymour Schwinger (1918–1994), physicist
- Philip Skell (1918-2010), chemist
- Mickey Spillane (1918-2006), crime novel writer
- Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985), science fiction writer
- Teresa Wright (1918–2005), actress
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (1918-2014), actor
1919
- Martin Balsam (1919–1996), actor
- Daniel Bell (1919–2011), sociologist
- Elkan Blout (1919-2006), biochemist
- Red Buttons (1919–2006), actor and comedian
- Shirley Clarke (1919–1997), director and film producer
- William Copley (1919–1996), painter
- Don Cornell (1919–2004), singer in the 1940s and 1950s
- Lawrence Dobkin (1919–2002), actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter
- Larry Eisenberg (1919-2018), science fiction author
- Bernard Feld (1919–1993), physicist
- Leon Festinger (1919–1989), social psychologist
- Nelson Gidding (1919–2004), screenwriter and writer
- Rocky Graziano (1919-1990), boxer
- Fred Katz (1919–2013), cultural anthropologist, composer and cellist
- Leon Kirchner (1919–2009), composer
- Robert R. Merhige Jr. (1919–2005), lawyer and federal judge
- Tony Miranda (1919-2001), horn player
- Robert M. Morgenthau (1919–2019), lawyer and public prosecutor
- Howard Morris (1919-2005), comedian
- John Cullen Murphy (1919-2004), comic book artist
- George Neikrug (1919–2019), cellist and string teacher
- Jerome David Salinger (1919-2010), writer
- Pete Seeger (1919-2014), folk musician
- Stephen Seymour (1919–1973), production designer
- Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017), mathematician and logician
- Jonathan Sternberg (1919–2018), conductor and music teacher
- John Taras (1919–2004), choreographer and ballet master
- Phil Terranova (1919-2000), boxer
- Max Waldman (1919–1981), photographer
1920
- Ray Abrams (1920-1992), jazz tenor saxophonist
- Bella Abzug (1920–1998), politician
- John Tyler Bonner (1920–2019), biologist
- Harry Braverman (1920–1976), communist and political writer
- Jack Cover (1920–2009), scientist and inventor of the stun gun (taser)
- Irene Dailey (1920–2008), actress
- Morton Deutsch (1920–2017), social psychologist and conflict researcher
- Constance Dowling (1920–1969), actress
- Gordon Gould (1920-2005), physicist
- Alvin W. Gouldner (1920–1980), sociologist
- Red Holzman (1920-1998), basketball coach
- Marjorie Hyams (1920–2012), jazz musician and arranger
- Irving Kristol (1920-2009), sociologist
- Melvin Lasky (1920-2004), publicist
- Jack Lord (1920–1998), actor and filmmaker
- Walter Matthau (1920–2000), actor
- Harold Michelson (1920–2007), production designer, art director and storyboard artist
- Charles Muscatine (1920–2010), literary scholar
- Howard Nemerov (1920–1991), literary professor and poet
- Mario Puzo (1920–1999), Italian-American writer
- Mickey Rooney (1920–2014), film and stage actor
- Reginald Rose (1920–2002), writer
- Raymond Sackler (1920–2017), doctor and entrepreneur
- Bob Shad (1920–1985), music producer and label owner
- George P. Shultz (* 1920), diplomat and US Secretary of State (1982–1989)
1921-1930
1921
- Richard Adler (1921–2012), composer and songwriter
- Steve Allen (1921-2000), comedian and musician
- Iris Apfel (* 1921), businesswoman, interior designer and fashion icon
- Kenneth Arrow (1921-2017), economist
- Donald Barr (1921-2004), educator and science fiction writer
- George Barrow (1921-2013), jazz musician
- Diana Barrymore (1921–1960), actress
- Seymour Benzer (1921-2007), biophysicist
- Murray Bookchin (1921-2006), anarchist
- Terence Cardinal Cooke (1921-1983), Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York
- Hal David (1921–2012), songwriter
- Dan Frazer (1921-2011), actor
- David Gale (1921–2008), mathematician and economist
- Bill Gold (1921-2018), graphic artist
- Judy Holliday (1921–1965), actress and singer
- Andrew Imbrie (1921-2007), composer
- Constance Keene (1921–2005), pianist and music teacher
- Allen Kent (1921–2014), professor of information technology and author
- Jake LaMotta (1921 / 22–2017), Italian-American middleweight boxer
- Harry Landers (1921-2017), actor
- Kalil Madi (1921-2007), jazz musician
- Walter Mirisch (* 1921), film producer
- Nancy Reagan (1921–2016), actress and first lady
- Roy Schechter (1921–2016), aviator and racing car driver
- Richard B. Setlow (1921-2015), biophysicist
- Jan Sterling (1921–2004), stage and film actress
- Milton Subotsky (1921–1991), film producer, screenwriter and songwriter
- Albert Tepper (1921–2010), composer and music teacher
- Joan Tetzel (1921–1977), actress
- Frankie Thomas (1921–2006), actor and author
- Bobby Wanzer (1921–2016), basketball player
- George David Weiss (1921-2010), songwriter and composer
- Richard Wilbur (1921–2017), poet and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Evelyn M. Witkin (* 1921), geneticist
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011), physicist and nuclear medicine specialist; Nobel Prize in Medicine (1977)
1922
- Norman Abbott (1922-2016), director and producer
- Beatrice Arthur (1922–2009), actress
- Danny Bank (1922-2010), jazz musician
- Meche Barba (1922–2000), Mexican actress and dancer
- Barbara Bel Geddes (1922–2005), actress
- Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004), film music composer
- Esther M. Conwell (1922-2014), physicist
- Joan Copeland (born 1922), actress
- Lou Duva (1922-2017), boxer, boxing trainer and manager
- William Gaddis (1922-1998), writer
- Leonard Gershe (1922–2002), playwright and screenwriter
- Billy Graham (1922-1992), boxer
- Gerald Green (1922-2006), writer
- Donald Hewitt (1922–2009), journalist and television producer
- Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019), historian
- William Kapell (1922-1953), pianist
- Donald Keene (1922-2019), Japanologist
- Stan Lee (1922-2018), comic book writer
- Len Lesser (1922-2011), actor
- Audrey Meadows (1922–1996), actress
- Grace Paley (1922-2007), writer
- Howard Reiss (1922-2015), physical chemist
- Regina Resnik (1922–2013), opera singer
- Jane Cronin Scanlon (1922–2018), mathematician
- Evelyn E. Smith (1922–2000), author of crossword puzzles, crime novels, and science fiction
- Gerry Wiggins (1922–2008), jazz pianist and organist
- Paul Winchell (1922–2005), comedian, actor and ventriloquist
- Sol Yaged (1922-2019), jazz clarinetist
1923
- Don Adams (1923-2005), actor
- Diane Arbus (1923–1971), photographer
- Richard Avedon (1923-2004), photographer
- Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua (1923–2012), Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Philadelphia
- Maria Callas (1923–1977), Greek soprano
- Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981), author
- Lucille Dixon (1923–2004), musician and band leader
- Alan Dugan (1923–2003), poet and university lecturer
- Paula Fox (1923-2017), writer
- Estelle Getty (1923–2008), actress
- Charles Grenzbach (1923-2004), sound engineer
- Joseph Heller (1923–1999), writer
- Julian Hochberg (* 1923), perceptual psychologist
- Ray Kidder (1923-2019), physicist
- Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923–1958), science fiction writer and member of the Futurians
- Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010), beatnik poet, author, cartoonist and editor and co-founder of the rock band The Fugs
- Bill Lloyd (* 1923), racing car driver
- Dina Merrill (1923–2017), actress and entrepreneur
- David Rayfiel (1923-2011), screenwriter
- Tony Schwartz (1923-2008), political advisor
- Jean Stapleton (1923–2013), actress
- Ludmila Ulehla (1923–2009), composer, music teacher and author
1924
- Michael Avallone (1924-1999), writer
- Lauren Bacall (1924-2014), actress
- Daniel Casriel (1924–1983), doctor, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005), politician
- Frank Corsaro (1924-2017), director
- Michael Goldberg (1924–2007), painter
- Jack Heid (1924–1987), track cyclist
- Lejaren Hiller (1924–1994), composer
- Maurice Karnaugh (* 1924), physicist
- Martin J. Klein (1924–2009), physicist and science historian
- Sonny Lester (* 1924), music producer
- Lee Marvin (1924–1987), actor
- Charlie Perry (1924-1998), jazz drummer
- Bud Powell (1924-1966), jazz pianist
- Nancy B. Reich (1924–2019), musicologist
- Peter Sandloff (1924–2009), German composer and film composer
- George Savalas (1924–1985), actor and brother of Telly Savalas (1922–1994)
- George Segal (1924-2000), artist
- Bobby Short (1924-2005), singer and pianist
- Charles Simmons (1924-2017), writer
- Joseph Smagorinsky (1924-2005), meteorologist
- Cicely Tyson (* 1924), actress and photo model
- Henry T. Weinstein (1924-2000), film producer
- Stanley Wolfe (1924–2009), composer and music teacher
1925
- Lee Abrams (1925-1992), jazz drummer
- Adele Addison (* 1925), soprano
- Maurice Binder (1925–1991), filmmaker, designer of the James Bond opening credits
- Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925–2011), physician
- Geraldine Brooks (1925–1977), actress
- William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008), author, journalist, and commentator
- Bernard Budiansky (1925–1999), engineering scientist
- T. Carmi (1925-1994), Israeli poet
- Al Cohn (1925–1988), jazz saxophonist
- Tony Curtis (1925-2010), actor
- Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925-1990), entertainer
- Eugene Garfield (1925-2017), information scientist
- Frank D. Gilroy (1925–2015), writer and director
- Roy Jay Glauber (1925-2018), physicist and Nobel Prize winner (2005)
- Lee Grant (born 1925), actress
- Paul Greengard (1925–2019), biochemist, Nobel laureate in medicine
- Harry Guardino (1925–1995), actor
- Eugene Istomin (1925-2003), pianist
- George Kennedy (1925-2016), actor
- Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. (1925-2015), businessman and billionaire
- Dave Kurtzer (1925–2014), bassoonist, oboist, saxophonist
- George J. Laurer (1925–2019), engineer and inventor
- Jan Merlin (1925–2019), actor and screenwriter
- Robert Mulligan (1925-2008), film director
- Al Porcino (1925–2013), jazz trumpeter
- James Salter (1925-2015), writer
- Gunther Schuller (1925–2015), horn player and composer
- John Joseph Snyder (1925-2019), Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint Augustine
- Donn A. Starry (1925–2011), general and military historian
- Morton "Morty" Trautman (≈1925–2012), musician
- Mal Waldron (1925–2002), jazz pianist
- Cara Williams (born 1925), actress
1926
- Frank Aletter (1926–2009), actor
- Rae Allen (born 1926), actress
- Tony Bennett (born 1926), jazz singer and entertainer
- Paul Berg (* 1926), biochemist and molecular biologist
- Norman Birnbaum (1926–2019), sociologist and author
- George Brecht (1926–2008), Fluxus artist
- Martin Bregman (1926-2018), film producer
- Gene Colan (1926-2011), comic book artist
- JP Donleavy (1926-2017), Irish-American writer
- Robert Falkenburg (* 1926), American and Brazilian tennis player
- Morton Feldman (1926-1987), composer
- Robert Fogel (1926–2013), economist and Nobel Prize winner
- Helen Gallagher (* 1926), actress, dancer and singer
- Norman Geschwind (1926–1984), neurologist and neuroscientist
- Alan Greenspan (born 1926), economist
- Fred Gwynne (1926–1993), actor and author
- Ernie Henry (1926–1957), alto saxophonist
- Evelyn Lear (1926–2012), opera and operetta singer
- Paul A. Marks (1926-2020), medical doctor
- Ed McBain (1926-2005), writer and screenwriter
- Bernard Nathanson (1926–2011), doctor and life rights activist
- Jerome K. Percus (* 1926), physicist and mathematician
- Jack Priestley (1926-1993), cinematographer
- Don Rickles (1926-2017), comedian and actor
- Murray Rosenblatt (1926–2019), mathematical statistician and professor at UCSD
- Jerry Ross (1926–1955), composer and songwriter
- Sol Schlinger (1926–2017), jazz musician
- Morgan Stars (1926-2011), actor
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (1926–2012), newspaper editor
- Fernando Valenti (1926–1990), harpsichordist
- Fran Warren (1926–2013), jazz and pop singer
- Randy Weston (1926-2018), jazz musician
1927
- Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927–1993), jazz musician
- Halton Arp (1927-2013), astronomer
- Harry Belafonte (* 1927), singer and actor
- Joan Birman (* 1927), mathematician
- Harold Brown (1927–2019), nuclear physicist and politician
- Martin Canin (1927-2000), painter
- Jack Cassidy (1927–1976), singer and television actor
- Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020), crime novel writer
- James Clements (1927-2005), ornithologist
- Roy Cohn (1927–1986), lawyer
- Dovima (1927–1990), photo model
- Mike Esposito (1927-2010), comic book artist
- Peter Falk (1927–2011), actor
- Jeremy Gaige (1927–2011), chess journalist and historian
- Richard Hugo Gallagher (1927–1997), civil engineer
- Harvey Murray Glatman (1927-1959), serial killer
- Joan Gould (* 1927), journalist and writer
- Marvin Harris (1927-2001), anthropologist
- Arthur Herzog (1927-2010), writer and journalist
- Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008), political scientist and author
- Charlie Kennedy (1927–2009), jazz musician
- Alan King (1927-2004), actor
- Robert Ludlum (1927–2001), writer, actor and producer
- Howie Mann (1927-2001), jazz drummer and band leader
- Peggy McCay (1927-2018), actress
- Jack Minker (* 1927), computer scientist
- Marvin Minsky (1927–2016), researcher in the field of artificial intelligence
- Red Mitchell (1927-1992), jazz bassist
- Gerry Mulligan (1927–1996), jazz musician and composer
- Martin L. Perl (1927–2014), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Brock Peters (1927–2005), actor and singer
- Harriet Serr (1927–1989), pianist and music teacher
- Neil Simon (1927–2018), playwright and screenwriter
- Samuel Smith (1927–2005), chemist and inventor
- Jerry Stiller (1927-2020), actor
- Austin Bernard Vaughan (1927–2000), Roman Catholic clergyman and auxiliary bishop in New York
- Arnold Zellner (1927-2010), economist
1928
- Bruce Bilson (* 1928), director, screenwriter and film producer
- William Peter Blatty (1928–2017), author, screenwriter and director
- Leo Breiman (1928–2005), statistician
- Alexander Breslow (1928-1980), pathologist
- Robert Brout (1928–2011), American-Belgian physicist
- Robert Byrne (1928-2013), chess player
- Paul Calle (1928-2010), artist
- Bob Cousy (born 1928), basketball player and coach
- Gerard Damiano (1928–2008), film director
- Vic Damone (1928–2018), singer and actor
- Martin Davis (* 1928), logician and computer scientist
- Fred Ebb (1928-2004), songwriter
- Vince Edwards (1928–1996), actor and director
- Anthony Franciosa (1928–2006), actor
- Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), painter
- Frank Frazetta (1928-2010), fantasy and science fiction illustrator
- Morty Geist (1928–2017), jazz and entertainment musician
- Harvey Hart (1928–1989), film director and film producer
- Bruce Kirby (born 1928), actor
- William Klein (* 1928), painter, film director and photographer
- Joseph Kruskal (1928-2010), mathematician and statistician
- Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), film director, producer and screenwriter
- Tom Lehrer (* 1928), singer, songwriter, satirist and mathematician
- Al Lettieri (1928–1975), Italian-American actor
- Virginia López (born 1928), Puerto Rican singer
- Stephen Marlowe (1928-2008), writer
- Maggie McNamara (1928–1978), actress
- Mace Neufeld (* 1928), film producer
- Alan J. Pakula (1928-1998), filmmaker
- Harold Prince (1928–2019), theater director and producer
- Ray Santos (1928–2019), musician and record producer of Latin Music
- Andrew Sarris (1928–2012), film critic
- Dolph Schayes (1928–2015), basketball player and coach
- Maurice Sendak (1928–2012), illustrator and children's book author
- Robert Sheckley (1928-2005), writer
- Richard Stone (1928–2019), diplomat, Democratic Party politician and senator
- William Sydeman (* 1928), composer and music teacher
- Alvin Toffler (1928-2016), futurologist
- Emily Vermeule (1928–2001), Classical Archaeologist
- Fred Weintraub (1928–2017), night club entrepreneur, film producer and screenwriter
- Camilla Wicks (* 1928), violinist and music teacher
- Bob Wilber (1928-2019), jazz clarinetist
- Garry Winogrand (1928–1984), photographer
1929
- Marilyn Bergman (* 1929), songwriter and songwriter
- Pat Crawford Brown (1929-2019), actress
- Timothy Carey (1929–1994), actor and director
- John Cassavetes (1929–1989), director, screenwriter, producer and actor
- Marvin J. Chomsky (* 1929), film director and film producer
- Michael D. Coe (1929–2019), anthropologist and ancient Americanist
- Cy Coleman (1929-2004), composer
- Gerald M. Edelman (1929–2014), physician and Nobel Prize winner (1972)
- Harold Farberman (1929–2018), composer and conductor
- David Foster (1929-2019), film producer
- Marilyn French (1929–2009), writer, literary scholar and feminist
- Irwin Fridovich (1929-2019), biochemist
- Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019), physicist
- Milton Glaser (1929-2020), graphic designer, illustrator and teacher
- Gene Hairston (born 1929), boxer
- Nicholas von Hoffman (1929–2018), journalist, author and columnist
- John Hollander (1929-2013), poet
- Willie Jones (1929-1993), jazz musician
- Robert W. Kates (1929–2018), geographer and environmental scientist
- Karl Katz (1929–2017), art historian, museum director and film producer
- Ira Levin (1929-2007), writer
- Gloria Lynne (1929–2013), jazz and soul singer
- Anne Meara (1929–2015), actress
- Vic Morrow (1929–1982), actor
- Seymour Sack (1929-2011), physicist
- Denis Sanders (1929–1987), filmmaker and Oscar winner
- Beverly Sills (1929–2007), opera singer
- Frank Springer (1929–2009), comic artist
- Sam Steiger (1929–2012), politician
- Art Taylor (1929–1995), jazz drummer
- Cecil Taylor (1929-2018), jazz pianist
- Willie Torres (born 1929), Puerto Rican singer
1930
- Cecile Abish (* 1930), installation and land art artist and photographer
- Souren Baronian (* 1930), musician
- Harold Bloom (1930–2019), literary scholar and critic
- Nicholas F. Brady (born 1930), politician
- Donald Byrne (1930–1976), chess player
- Martin Canin (1930–2019), pianist and music teacher
- James Coco (1930–1987), actor
- Leon Neil Cooper (* 1930), physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1972)
- Richard Davalos (1930-2016), actor
- Paul Davidson (* 1930), economist
- Eric Dixon (1930–1989), jazz musician, arranger and composer
- Richard Donner (* 1930), director and actor
- Mildred Dresselhaus (1930–2017), physicist
- Robert Evans (1930–2019), film producer, actor and presenter
- John Frankenheimer (1930–2002), director and producer
- Ben Gazzara (1930–2012), actor
- Bruce Geller (1930–1978), screenwriter, film producer and film director
- Joey Giardello (1930-2008), middleweight boxer
- Bob Guccione (1930–2010), magazine founder and editor
- Benjamin Harkarvy (1930–2002), dance teacher, ballet master and choreographer
- Buck Henry (1930–2020), actor, director and screenwriter
- Paul Horn (1930–2014), jazz musician
- Clifford Irving (1930-2017), author
- David Kahn (* 1930), historian, journalist and writer
- Myron Levoy (1930-2019), writer
- Jackie Loughery (born 1930), actress and beauty queen
- William MacSems (* 1930), composer, conductor and music teacher
- Herbie Mann (1930–2003), jazz flutist
- Sabu Martinez (1930–1979), percussionist
- Theodore Edgar McCarrick (* 1930), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington (2000–2006)
- Frank McCourt (1930-2009), writer
- Richard R. Nelson (* 1930), economist
- Donald Newman (1930-2007), mathematician
- Maurice Peress (1930–2017), conductor
- Faith Ringgold (* 1930), painter, writer, performance artist
- Sonny Rollins (* 1930), tenor saxophonist
- Stephen Sondheim (* 1930), musical composer and lyricist
- René Arnold Valero (1930–2019), Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Brooklyn
- Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019), social scientist
- Michael Zwerin (1930–2010), jazz musician
1931-1940
1931
- Bob Arum (born 1931), boxing promoter
- Bernie Brillstein (1931–2008), film and television producer
- Morton Brown (born 1931), mathematician
- Joseph A. Califano (* 1931), lawyer and politician
- Joe Cuba (1931–2009), Puerto Rican musician
- Carmen Dell'Orefice (* 1931), model and actress
- EL Doctorow (1931-2015), author and editor
- Robert Donner (1931-2006), actor
- Audrey Flack (* 1931), painter
- Raymond Gniewek (* 1931), violinist
- Jerry Herman (1931–2019), Broadway Music Theater composer
- Nan Hoover (1931–2008), Dutch media artist
- Tab Hunter (1931–2018), actor and pop singer
- Donald Kennedy (1931-2020), biologist and editor
- John Kerr (1931-2013), actor
- Jeannette Lander (1931–2017), German writer
- Jackie McLean (1931-2006), jazz musician
- Linda Nochlin (1931–2017), art historian
- Joseph O'Hare (1931-2020), Jesuit, President of Fordham University
- Neil Postman (1931–2003), media scholar and critic
- Lindy Remigino (1931-2018), sprinter
- Burton Richter (1931-2018), physicist
- Mary Rodgers (1931–2014), musical composer and writer
- Richard Rorty (1931–2007), philosopher and comparativeist
- Philippa Schuyler (1931–1967), pianist, journalist and author
- Larry Silverstein (born 1931), real estate entrepreneur
- Hamilton Othanel Smith (* 1931), biochemist, molecular geneticist and Nobel Prize winner for medicine
- Lee Tanner (1931-2013), photographer
1932
- Marcus Alexis (1932–2009), economics professor
- Edd Byrnes (1932-2020), actor and singer
- Sonny Costanzo (1932–1993), jazz trombonist and big band leader
- Larry Evans (1932-2010), chess player, author and journalist
- Sheldon Lee Glashow (* 1932), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Bo Goldman (born 1932), screenwriter
- Alan Levy (1932-2004), journalist
- Martin Mailman (1932–2000), composer and professor
- Ernest Martin (* 1932), theater director, artistic director and actor
- Richard Mulligan (1932-2000), actor
- Susan Oliver (1932–1990), film actress, film director and pilot
- Anthony Perkins (1932–1992), actor and director
- Edward J. Philbin (1932-2014), military and government official
- Bob Said (1932–2002), racing car driver and film producer
- Melvin Schwartz (1932-2006), physicist
- Donald Solitar (1932–2008), mathematician
- Robert Vaughn (1932-2016), actor
- Sidney Verba (1932-2019), political scientist
- Stanley Walden (* 1932), composer
- John Williams (* 1932), composer
1933
- Danny Aiello (1933-2019), actor
- Borah Bergman (1933-2012), jazz pianist
- Arthur Butz (* 1933), electrical engineer and Holocaust denier
- Adolph Caesar (1933–1986), actor
- Henry Darrow (born 1933), actor
- Dom DeLuise (1933–2009), actor
- Kenneth B. Eisenthal (* 1933), physical chemist
- Louis Farrakhan (* 1933), leader of the Afro-American religious-political movement Nation of Islam
- Sihugo Green (1933-1980), basketball player
- Daniel Greenberger (* 1933), physicist
- Elizabeth Hubbard (born 1933), actress
- Laurence M. Janifer (1933-2002), science fiction writer
- Mychal Judge (1933-2001), Roman Catholic priest
- Dick Kallman (1933–1980), actor and singer
- Alison Knowles (* 1933), artist of the Fluxus movement
- David Lewin (1933–2003), music theorist, musicologist, pianist and composer
- Bruce J. Malina (1933-2017), Roman Catholic theologian
- Stanley Milgram (1933-1984), psychologist
- Bob Rafelson (born 1933), film director
- Ronald Roseman (1933–2000), oboist, music teacher and composer
- Eric Salzman (1933-2017), composer
- Robert Shea (1933-1994), writer
- Susan Sontag (1933–2004), writer, essayist and publicist
- Mike Stoller (* 1933), music producer and songwriter
- Steven Weinberg (* 1933), physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1979)
- Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008), writer
- Philip Zimbardo (* 1933), psychologist
1934
- Alan Arkin (born 1934), actor and director
- Abraham Ashkenasi (1934–2016), political scientist
- Willie Bobo (1934-1983), percussionist
- Samuel Bonis (* 1934), geologist and volcanologist
- Leonard Dinnerstein (1934–2019), historian
- Diane DiPrima (* 1934), writer
- Michael J. Flynn (* 1934), electrical engineer and professor
- Herb Gardner (1934-2003), writer
- Leonard Goldberg (1934–2019), film and television producer
- Joan Hackett (1934–1983), actress
- David Halberstam (1934–2007), journalist and writer
- Charles Jenkins Sr. (* 1934), sprinter and Olympic champion
- Paul Kay (* 1934), linguist and anthropologist
- Leonard Kleinrock (* 1934), electrical engineer and computer scientist
- Steve Lacy (1934-2004), jazz musician and soprano saxophonist
- Audre Lorde (1934–1992), writer and activist
- Tina Louise (born 1934), actress
- Patricia Marand (1934–2008), actress
- Andrew McKelvey (1934-2008), entrepreneur
- Robert Moog (1934–2005), pioneer of electronic music, inventor of one of the first synthesizers
- Carl Sagan (1934–1996), astronomer, television presenter and writer
- Lesley Sibner (1934–2013), mathematician
- John Varick Tunney (1934-2018), politician
- Joyce Van Patten (* 1934), theater and film actress
1935
- Sayyd Abdul Al-Khabyyr (1935-2017), musician
- Peter Achinstein (* 1935), philosopher and science historian
- Stephen Addiss (* 1935), art and musicologist, university professor, musician, composer, poet, painter, graphic artist, calligrapher and ceramicist
- Jed Allan (1935-2019), actor
- Woody Allen (born 1935), comedian, actor and director
- Gordon Baym (* 1935), theoretical physicist
- Arnold Federbush (1935–1993), science fiction author
- Jerry Fodor (1935–2017), philosopher and cognitive scientist
- Kitty Genovese (1935–1964), murder victim
- Isidore Haiblum (1935–2012), science fiction and crime writer
- Michael Kahn (* 1935), film editor
- Gilbert Kalish (* 1935), pianist and music teacher
- Thomas Kean (* 1935), politician
- Arnold Kopelson (1935–2018), film producer
- Erich Kunzel (1935–2009), conductor
- Robert Littell (* 1935), writer
- Richard A. Lupoff (* 1935), writer
- Ronnie Mathews (1935-2008), jazz pianist
- Jerry Orbach (1935-2004), actor
- Barry Rogers (1935–1991), trombonist and music producer
- Hiroshi Wakasugi (1935–2009), Japanese conductor
- Michael Walzer (* 1935), social philosopher and important intellectual
1936
- Alan Alda (* 1936), actor, screenwriter and director
- CDB Bryan (1936–2009), author and journalist
- Joe Buzzetta (* 1936), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Ron Carey (1936-2008), trade unionist
- Carl Heinz Choynski (* 1936), German actor
- Bobby Darin (1936–1973), pop musician
- Carl Davis (* 1936), composer
- Don DeLillo (born 1936), writer
- Hector Elizondo (born 1936), Puerto Rican actor
- Robert Floyd (1936-2001), computer scientist
- Shirley Bunnie Foy (1936-2016), jazz singer
- John Giorno (1936–2019), performance artist and poet
- Joan Jonas (* 1936), video and performance artist
- Carl Kaufmann (1936–2008), German athlete
- Evelyn Fox Keller (* 1936), physicist and biologist, author
- Burt Levy (1936–2010), composer and music teacher
- Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017), actress
- Shelley Morrison (1936-2019), actress
- Eddie Palmieri (* 1936), singer, pianist and orchestra leader
- Michael Rabin (1936–1972), violinist
- Jimmy Sabater (1936–2012), Latin jazz musician and songwriter
- Joe Spinell (1936–1989), actor
- Ronald Tavel (1936–2009), playwright and screenwriter
- Roderick Thorp (1936-1999), writer
- Barbara Turner (1936–2016), screenwriter
- Henry Christian Wente (1936–2020), mathematician
- Chris White (1936-2014), jazz bassist
- Paul Zindel (1936–2003), writer
1937
- Donald Arthur (1937–2016), actor, opera singer and voice actor
- Angelo Badalamenti (* 1937), Italian-American composer
- Karol J. Bobko (* 1937), American astronaut of Lithuanian-Polish origin
- George Carlin (1937–2008), comedian, actor, social critic and author
- Frank J. Coppa (* 1937), historian
- Cora Diamond (* 1937), philosopher
- Jane Fonda (born 1937), film actress
- Lorraine Gary (born 1937), actress
- John Hartford (1937-2001), songwriter
- Doug Jones (1937-2017), boxer
- Richard Jordan (1937-1993), actor
- Leo Kadanoff (1937–2015), physicist
- Al Kasha (* 1937), composer and songwriter
- Ron Leibman (1937-2019), actor
- William Lombardy (1937-2017), chess grandmaster
- Winston Lord (born 1937), government official and diplomat
- Nita Lowey (born 1937), US Congresswoman
- Jack Nicholson (born 1937), actor
- Colin Powell (* 1937), US politician and Secretary of State (2001-2005)
- Marc Rieffel (* 1937), mathematician
- Gene Scott (1937-2006), tennis player
- Robert H. Socolow (* 1937), physicist
- Peter White (born 1937), actor
- Lenny Wilkens (* 1937), basketball player and coach
- Jack Zipes (* 1937), literary scholar, fairy tale researcher and translator
1938
- Robert Abrams (* 1938), politician
- Joey Archer (born 1938), boxer
- David Baltimore (* 1938), microbiologist
- Peter Beard (1938–2020), photographer, artist and author
- Richard Benjamin (* 1938), actor and director
- Lester Bird (born 1938), Antiguan politician
- Joseph Brooks (1938–2011), screenwriter, director, film producer and composer
- John Corigliano (* 1938), composer
- Joe Dassin (1938–1980), French chanson singer of American origin
- Spencer Dryden (1938-2005), drummer
- John Guare (* 1938), playwright
- Maurice Hinchey (1938–2017), politician and member of the House of Representatives
- Robert E. Kahn (* 1938), computer scientist
- Bernard L. Madoff (* 1938), entrepreneur, investment fraud and stock broker
- Jon Mayer (* 1938), jazz musician
- Joel Meyerowitz (* 1938), photographer
- Emerson John Moore (1938–1995), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of New York
- Paul Morrissey (born 1938), film director
- Diana Muldaur (born 1938), actress
- Penny Pitou (* 1938), ski racer
- James B. Pollack (1938–1994), astrophysicist and planetologist
- Mort Shuman (1938–1991), songwriter and singer
- Charles Wuorinen (1938-2020), composer
- Paul D. Zimmerman (1938–1993), film critic and screenwriter
1939
- Stephen Adler (* 1939), physicist
- Denise Alexander (* 1939), actress
- Rosalyn Baxandall (1939–2015), activist and historian of the women's movement
- Herb Bushler (* 1939), jazz bassist
- Peter Camejo (1939–2008), politician and environmentalist
- Michael Cimino (1939–2016), film director
- Barbara Colby (1939–1975), actress
- Robert Darnton (* 1939), historian
- Edward Djerejian (* 1939), diplomat
- Martin S. Feldstein (1939–2019), economist
- Bernard Glassman (1939–2018), Zen master and non-fiction author
- John Gordon (1939–2003), jazz musician
- Sheila A. Greibach (* 1939), mathematician
- Jack Herer (1939-2010), hemp activist and author
- Steny Hoyer (* 1939), politician
- Harvey Keitel (born 1939), actor
- Louise Lasser (born 1939), actress
- Arthur Martinez (born 1939), businessman, former CEO of Sears
- Bernard J. Matkowsky (1939-2020), mathematician
- Bob May (1939–2009), actor and stunt man
- J. Richard McIntosh (* 1939), cell biologist and biophysicist
- Fred Milano (1939–2012), singer
- Sal Mineo (1939–1976), Italian-American actor and singer
- Mike Morgenstern (* 1939), jazz musician
- John O'Keefe (* 1939), British-American neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner
- John Pfahl (1939-2020), photographer
- Peter Revson (1939–1974), racing driver
- Doris Schattschneider (* 1939), mathematician
- Joel Schumacher (1939–2020), director, screenwriter and producer
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz (* 1939), writer
- Phil Spector (* 1939), music producer
- Ian Underwood (born 1939), musician
1940
- Vito Acconci (1940–2017), architect
- Joel Agee (* 1940), writer and translator
- Lisle Atkinson (1940-2019), jazz bassist
- René Auberjonois (1940–2019), actor
- Peter Benchley (1940-2006), author
- Barbara Boxer (* 1940), politician
- James Caan (born 1940), actor
- Robin Cook (* 1940), doctor and writer
- Ed Curran (* 1940), jazz musician
- Gertrude Degenhardt (* 1940), German draftsman and lithographer
- Peter A. Diamond (* 1940), economist
- Joseph J. DioGuardi (* 1940), politician
- Wendy Doniger (* 1940), religious historian and Sanskritologist
- William Finley (1940–2012), actor
- Peter Fonda (1940–2019), actor
- Charles Fox (* 1940), composer and songwriter
- Sid Ganis (* 1940), film producer and actor
- Peter Gregg (1940–1980), racing car driver
- Lainie Kazan (born 1940), actress
- Linda Keen (* 1940), mathematician
- Gloria Leonard (1940-2014), porn actress
- Frank Lorenzo (* 1940), manager
- John S. Marr (* 1940), physician and writer
- Dennis Moorman (1940–2002), jazz pianist, arranger and university professor
- Al Pacino (* 1940), actor, director and producer
- Kenny Rankin (1940–2009), pop and jazz singer and songwriter
- George A. Romero (1940–2017), director, writer and actor
- Larry Rosen (1940–2015), music producer and media entrepreneur
- Edward Soja (1940–2015), geographer and urban researcher
- Norman Spinrad (born 1940), science fiction author
- Steve Swallow (* 1940), jazz musician
- John M. Wallace (* 1940), geophysicist and meteorologist
- Hannah Wilke (1940–1993), artist
- Susan Zuccotti (* 1940), historian
1941-1950
1941
- Neal Adams (* 1941), draftsman and graphic artist
- Joan Baez (born 1941), folk singer
- Earl Boen (born 1941), actor and voice actor
- Sean S. Cunningham (born 1941), director and film producer
- Christopher Czaja Sager (* 1941), pianist
- Eddie Daniels (* 1941), jazz clarinet and saxophonist
- Neil Diamond (born 1941), singer and songwriter
- Nora Ephron (1941–2012), screenwriter and film director
- Patricia Field (* 1941), costume designer, stylist and fashion designer
- Eddie Gale (* 1941), jazz trumpeter
- Art Garfunkel (* 1941), singer and actor
- Ellen Geer (* 1941), actress
- Philip Gossett (1941–2017), musicologist and professor
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), paleontologist, geologist and evolutionary researcher
- Richie Havens (1941-2013), folk singer
- Richard Holbrooke (1941–2010), diplomat, UN ambassador and ambassador to Germany
- Gilbert Kaplan (1941–2016), entrepreneur and business journalist
- Sally Kirkland (* 1941), actress and film producer
- Leslie Lamport (* 1941), computer scientist and Turing Prize winner
- John Mackey (1941-2011), American football player
- Esmond Bradley Martin (1941-2018), animal rights activist
- Paul Mendes-Flohr (* 1941), Jewish historian
- Terry Winter Owens (1941–2007), composer, pianist and harpsichordist
- Annette Peacock (* 1941), musician
- Lenny Popkin (* 1941), jazz musician
- Samuel Rhodes (* 1941), violist, composer and music teacher
- Bernie Sanders (* 1941), politician, member of the House of Representatives
- Pete Yellin (1941–2016), jazz saxophonist, flutist and clarinetist
1942
- Michael Abene (* 1942), jazz pianist, arranger, composer and producer
- Gary Ackerman (* 1942), US Congressman
- Tobin Bell (born 1942), actor
- David Berlinski (* 1942), mathematician
- Lenore Blum (* 1942), logician and computer scientist
- Thomas Buchanan (* 1942), computer scientist
- Charles R. Cantor (* 1942), molecular biologist and biotechnologist
- Harry Chapin (1942–1981), singer, songwriter and director
- Artie Cobb (born 1942), poker player
- Kevin Conway (1942-2020), actor and director
- Gray Davis (born 1942), Governor of California
- Brandon De Wilde (1942–1972), actor
- Roy DeMeo (1942-1983), Mafioso
- Bob Gaudio (* 1942), singer, keyboardist, songwriter and music producer
- Verna Gillis (* 1942), ethnomusicologist, music producer
- Eugene Robert Glazer (born 1942), actor
- Mark S. Gordon (* 1942), chemist
- John Paul Hammond (* 1942), blues singer and guitarist
- Adam Hochschild (* 1942), journalist and writer
- Erica Jong (* 1942), writer
- John Kagel (* 1942), economist
- Danny Kalb (* 1942), guitarist
- Carole King (* 1942), musician, songwriter, singer and pianist
- Calvin Klein (* 1942), fashion designer
- Nancy Kopell (* 1942), mathematician
- George Kuchar (1942–2011), film director
- Jacqueline Lichtenberg (* 1942), science fiction author
- Douglas R. Lowy (* 1942), virologist and oncologist
- Carol Lynley (1942–2019), actress
- Terry Melcher (1942–2004), music producer and songwriter
- Meredith Monk (* 1942), singer, composer, choreographer and performance artist
- Ken Morris (* 1942), bobsledder
- Bill Polian (born 1942), American football player
- Johnny Rivers (born 1942), rock 'n' roll musician
- Andrew Robinson (born 1942), actor, director and writer
- Gary Stephan (* 1942), painter
- David Stern (1942-2020), Manager, Commissioner of the NBA
- Barbra Streisand (* 1942), singer, actress, producer and film director
- Taj Mahal (born 1942), blues musician
- Larry Taylor (1942-2019), bassist
- Andrew Vachss (* 1942), crime writer and lawyer for children and young people
- Gerald Thomas Walsh (* 1942), Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop emeritus in New York
- Martin Weitzman (1942–2019), economist and professor at Harvard University
- Larry Willis (1942–2019), jazz pianist
- Lester Wilson (1942–1993), singer, dancer and choreographer
- Michael G. Wilson (* 1942), British film producer
1943
- Barry Altschul (* 1943), jazz musician
- Gil Amelio (* 1943), physicist and manager
- Steven Bochco (1943-2018), television screenwriter and producer
- Robert Paul Brenner (* 1943), historian
- John Bryson (* 1943), entrepreneur and politician
- Lynn Burke (born 1943), swimmer
- Allen Coage (1943-2007), wrestler and judoka
- Linda S. Cordell (1943–2013), archaeologist and anthropologist
- Billy Cunningham (born 1943), basketball player and coach
- Robert De Niro (* 1943), actor and producer
- Nelson DeMille (born 1943), writer
- Augustine Di Noia (* 1943), Roman Catholic religious, archbishop of the curia
- Kevin Dobson (* 1943), actor and film director
- Bill Drayton (born 1943), entrepreneur
- Jamie Gillis (1943-2010), porn actor
- Louise Glück (* 1943), poet
- Hendrik Hertzberg (* 1943), journalist
- Martín von Hildebrand (* 1943), ethnologist
- Melvin Hochster (* 1943), mathematician
- Peter Hyams (* 1943), film director
- Anthony Iannaccone (* 1943), composer and music teacher
- Antonia Johnson (* 1943), Swedish entrepreneur
- Leslie Kaplan (* 1943), French writer
- Benjamin Klein (* 1943), economist
- Kenneth Kunen (1943-2020), Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Robert Lefkowitz (* 1943), biochemist; Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2012)
- Fred Lipsius (* 1943), musician
- David Zane Mairowitz (* 1943), writer
- Barry Manilow (born 1943), musician
- Steven Millhauser (* 1943), writer
- Dom Minasi (* 1943), jazz guitarist
- Alexandra Navrotsky (* 1943), geochemist
- Nicholas Negroponte (* 1943), computer researcher, intelligence director, former ambassador, a. a. in Iraq
- Jimmy Owens (* 1943), jazz trumpeter
- Jef Raskin (1943-2005), computer scientist
- Wallace Shawn (born 1943), actor
- Ronnie Spector (born 1943), singer
- Richard Tee (1943–1993), pianist, organist and arranger
- Richard P. Turco (* 1943), climate scientist
- Leslie Uggams (born 1943), singer and actress
- Joan Van Ark (born 1943), actress
- Haskell Vaughn Anderson (born 1943), film and stage actor
- Jeff Wayne (* 1943), composer and musician
- Alan Weinstein (* 1943), mathematician
- Tuesday Weld (born 1943), actress
- Paul Wolfowitz (* 1943), politician, President of the World Bank (2005–2007)
1944
- Robert J. Barro (* 1944), economist
- Spencer Bloch (* 1944), mathematician
- Tim Bogert (* 1944), rock musician (bass)
- Harvey Brooks (born 1944), rock bassist
- Mark A. Cane (* 1944), climate researcher and oceanographer
- Stockard Channing (born 1944), actress
- Jill Clayburgh (1944-2010), actress
- Jay Cocks (* 1944), screenwriter and film critic
- Glen Cook (born 1944), fantasy author
- Larry Ellison (* 1944), founder of the software company Oracle
- David Friedman (* 1944), jazz musician
- Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012), composer
- John Jenik (* 1944), Roman Catholic bishop
- Ralph MacDonald (1944–2011), drummer and composer
- William Margolis (1944-2004), writer
- Robert C. Merton (* 1944), finance scientist and Nobel Prize winner
- Marty Morell (* 1944), jazz musician
- Richard A. Muller (* 1944), physicist
- Francis P. Mulvey (* 1944), economist
- Ursula Oppens (* 1944), pianist
- Tony Orlando (born 1944), singer
- Julia Phillips (1944–2002), film producer
- Felice Picano (* 1944), writer and publisher
- Sam Posey (* 1944), racing car driver
- Steve Reid (1944-2010), jazz drummer
- Edward Rendell (* 1944), Governor of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2011
- Joshua Rifkin (* 1944), conductor and musicologist
- Edward B. Saff (* 1944), mathematician
- Jonathan Sanger (* 1944), director and film producer
- John Sebastian (* 1944), rock musician
- Charles J. Sherr (* 1944), cancer researcher
- Richard P. Stanley (* 1944), mathematician
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum (* 1944), computer scientist
- Dave Taylor (* 1944), bass trombonist
- James Toback (* 1944), screenwriter and film director
- Tony Visconti (* 1944), British-American music producer and musician
1945
- Diahnne Abbott (* 1945), actress and jazz singer
- Mark Jay Ablowitz (* 1945), mathematician
- Ramsey Ameen (1945–2019), mathematician and jazz musician
- Tina Barney (* 1945), photographer
- Rick Berman (* 1945), film producer
- Steve Berrios (1945–2013), percussionist and drummer
- Michael Boskin (* 1945), economist, business manager and entrepreneur
- Sy Brandon (* 1945), composer and music teacher
- Catherine Burns (1945-2019), actress
- Peter Criss (* 1945), drummer for the rock group Kiss
- June Gable (born 1945), actress
- Ronald J. Grabe (* 1945), astronaut
- Douglas Gresham (* 1945), British writer and film producer
- Stefan Grossman (* 1945), guitarist, textbook author and producer
- Bob Gruen (* 1945), photographer
- Robert Guglielmone (* 1945), Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston (since 2009 )
- Lloyd Kaufman (* 1945), producer, director, screenwriter and actor of independent films
- Nicholas Kazan (* 1945), dramaturge, screenwriter, film director and film producer
- Tracy Kidder (* 1945), book author
- Richard LeFrak (born 1945), businessman
- Patty McCormack (born 1945), actress
- Thomas Pasatieri (* 1945), composer
- Howard Rosenman (* 1945), film producer, screenwriter and actor
- Carly Simon (* 1945), singer and songwriter
- Christina Smith (* 1945), makeup artist
- Richard John Tarrant (* 1945), classical philologist
- Richard Taruskin (* 1945), musicologist and music critic
- Jerry Tilitz (* 1945), jazz musician
- Paula Weinstein (* 1945), television and film producer
- Leslie West (born 1945), rock musician
- Peter Lamborn Wilson (* 1945), writer
- Henry Winkler (* 1945), actor, director and film producer
- Eliot Zigmund (* 1945), jazz drummer
1946
- Richard Axel (* 1946), physician, Nobel Prize winner
- Bob Beamon (born 1946), athlete
- Francine Blau (* 1946), economist
- Luiz Augusto Saint-Brisson de Araújo Castro (* 1946), Brazilian diplomat
- Keith Copeland (1946–2015), modern jazz drummer
- Marion Cowings (* 1946), singer
- Alan Dean Foster (* 1946), writer of science fiction and fantasy novels
- Rodney Frelinghuysen (born 1946), politician
- Claudia Goldin (* 1946), economist
- Lesley Gore (1946–2015), singer and songwriter
- Gregory Hines (1946–2003), tap dancer and actor
- Marty Hinze (* 1946), racing car driver and drug dealer
- Maeve Kinkead (born 1946), actress
- Eric Kroll (* 1946), photographer
- Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), photographer
- Oliver Martin (* 1946), racing cyclist and cycling trainer
- Arthur Max (* 1946), production designer
- René McLean (* 1946), jazz musician
- Marc Neikrug (* 1946), composer and pianist
- Yonatan Netanyahu (1946–1976), Israeli lieutenant colonel who died while rescuing an airplane hijacked by terrorists
- Stephen Pisano (1946–2019), religious and Roman Catholic theologian
- Susan Sarandon (born 1946), actress and Oscar winner
- Ron Silver (1946–2009), actor
- Mark Snow (* 1946), composer for film music
- Sylvester Stallone (* 1946), actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer and entrepreneur
- Oliver Stone (* 1946), director, screenwriter and producer
- John Tropea (born 1946), fusion guitarist
- Donald Trump (* 1946), entrepreneur and current President of the United States of America
- Jim Valvano (1946-1993), basketball coach
- Joelle Wallach (* 1946), composer
- Lesley Ann Warren (born 1946), actress
- Jann Wenner (* 1946), journalist, publicist
- Dick Wolf (* 1946), producer of crime series
- Janet Yellen (* 1946), economist and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
1947
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born 1947), basketball player
- Kathy Acker (1947–1997), writer
- Todd Akin (born 1947), politician
- Marisa Berenson (born 1947), actress
- Noël Carroll (* 1947), philosopher
- Gayle Dixon (1947-2008), violinist
- Richard Dreyfuss (* 1947), actor
- Eliot Engel (* 1947), US Congressman
- Eugène Green (* 1947), French theater and film director
- Karla Jay (* 1947), university professor and author
- John D. Joannopoulos (* 1947), physicist
- Andy LaVerne (* 1947), jazz pianist
- Robert D. Levin (* 1947), pianist, music teacher and scholar
- Jeff Lieberman (born 1947), director, screenwriter and producer
- Bob Magnusson (* 1947), jazz musician
- Saoul Mamby (1947-2019), boxer
- Dale McCormick (born 1947), politician
- Barry Melton (born 1947), guitarist
- Joe Morton (born 1947), actor
- Jerrold Nadler (* 1947), US Congressman
- Jane Olivor (born 1947), pop singer
- Rikky von Opel (* 1947), Liechtenstein car racing driver
- Murray Perahia (* 1947), pianist and conductor
- Alan Perelson (* 1947), biophysicist
- Alice Playten (1947–2011), actress and singer
- Harry Reems (1947–2013), theater and porn actor
- Rob Reiner (* 1947), film director, producer and actor
- Laura Schlessinger (* 1947), radio presenter and author
- Assata Shakur (* 1947), civil and human rights activist
- Ben Shneiderman (* 1947), computer scientist
- Stephen Shore (born 1947), photographer
- Faye-Ellen Silverman (* 1947), composer, pianist and music teacher
- Dava Sobel (* 1947), science editor and writer
- Danielle Steel (born 1947), writer
- Glynn Turman (born 1947), actor
- Frank Tusa (* 1947), jazz bassist
- Bruce Wasserstein (1947–2009), banker
- Robert Jeffrey Zimmer (* 1947), mathematician
1948
- Nate Archibald (born 1948), basketball player
- Bonnie Bedelia (born 1948), actress
- Nydia Caro (* 1948), Puerto Rican actress and singer
- Howard Dean (born 1948), politician, Governor of Vermont 1991–2002
- Akua Dixon (* 1948), cellist, singer, composer
- Eric Fischl (* 1948), painter, graphic artist and sculptor
- Canan Gerede (* 1948), Turkish film director and screenwriter
- Robert Ginty (1948–2009), actor, director and screenwriter
- Gordon Gottlieb (* 1948), percussionist and music teacher
- Christopher Guest (* 1948), Anglo-American actor, author, director, composer and musician
- Fern Hunt (* 1948), mathematician
- Jeff Jost (* 1948), bobsleigh athlete
- Michael Kamen (1948–2003), composer
- Catherine Malfitano (* 1948), soprano
- Joe Napolitano (1948-2016), television director
- Karl J. Niklas (* 1948), botanist
- Angelo Parra (* 1948), playwright
- Spider Robinson (* 1948), Canadian science fiction writer of American origin
- Mercedes Ruehl (* 1948), actress
- Edward Scharfenberger (* 1948), Roman Catholic bishop
- Vincent Schiavelli (1948–2005), actor
- Robert FX Sillerman (1948-2019), media entrepreneur
- Raymond Singer (* 1948), actor and screenwriter
- Garry Trudeau (* 1948), cartoonist and comic author
- Arnie Zane (1948–1988), photographer, dancer and choreographer
- Efraim Zuroff (* 1948), Israeli historian
1949
- Brooke Adams (born 1949), actress
- Armand Assante (born 1949), actor
- Tom Banks (* 1949), theoretical physicist
- William H. Baxter (* 1949), linguist
- Jim Carroll (1949–2009), writer, musician and punk
- Jonathan Carroll (born 1949), fantasy writer
- Maury Chaykin (1949–2010), American-Canadian actor
- Anthony John Denison (born 1949), actor
- Marc Edwards (* 1949), jazz drummer
- Anna Lee Fisher (* 1949), astronaut
- Robert Folk (* 1949), film music composer, songwriter and music producer
- William Forsythe (* 1949), dancer and choreographer
- Onaje Allan Gumbs (1949-2020), jazz musician
- Amy Gutmann (* 1949), political scientist, President of the University of Pennsylvania
- Billy Joel (born 1949), musician
- Kieran Kane (born 1949), country singer and songwriter
- Andy Kaufman (1949–1984), comedian and entertainer
- Bruno Kirby (1949-2006), actor
- Linda Lovelace (1949-2002), porn actress
- Peggy Lukac (* 1949), actress, director and fashion designer
- Eddie Money (1949-2019), rock musician
- John Oates (born 1949), singer
- Bill O'Reilly (born 1949), television presenter
- Bill Owens (born 1949), US Congressman
- David Politzer (* 1949), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Neil Shicoff (born 1949), opera singer
- Elizabeth Spelke (* 1949), developmental psychologist and cognitive scientist
- Sigourney Weaver (born 1949), actress
1950
- Julia Alvarez (* 1950), author
- Roger Ballen (* 1950), photographer
- William Barr (* 1950), politician and attorney general
- Charles Bernstein (born 1950), poet
- Randy Brooks (born 1950), actor
- Eric Carr (1950-1991), musician
- David Cassidy (1950–2017), actor and singer
- Jeff Conaway (1950-2011), actor
- James Conlon (born 1950), conductor
- Howard Deutch (born 1950), film director
- Armen Donelian (born 1950), jazz pianist
- Erroll Fraser (1950–2002), speed skater
- Michael Guido (born 1950), actor
- James Glickenhaus (born 1950), director, screenwriter, producer and investment manager
- Eddie Hazel (1950-1992), guitarist
- Russell Hulse (* 1950), physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1993)
- Laura Kelly (* 1950), politician
- Joey Kramer (* 1950), musician
- Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018), columnist
- Huey Lewis (born 1950), musician and actor
- Leonard Maltin (* 1950), film critic
- Bobby McFerrin (* 1950), vocal artist
- Lynda Obst (* 1950), film producer and writer
- Christina Onassis (1950–1988), Greek daughter of the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis
- Ron Perlman (born 1950), actor
- Morton Rhue (born 1950), writer
- Candida Royalle (1950–2015), porn film producer, director and actress
- David Shifrin (* 1950), clarinetist and music teacher
- Alan Silvestri (born 1950), composer
- Michael F. Singer (* 1950), mathematician
- Phoebe Snow (1950–2011), singer and composer
- Frank Stallone (born 1950), actor and singer
- Mike Starr (born 1950), actor
- Paul Hayes Tucker (* 1950), art historian
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006), playwright
- Christopher Wilkinson (* 1950), film director, screenwriter and film producer
1951-1960
1951
- Bruce Arena (* 1951), football coach
- Obba Babatundé (born 1951), actor
- Frankie Banali (1951-2020), rock drummer
- Robin Bartlett (born 1951), actress
- Pamela Bellwood (born 1951), actress
- Martin Brest (* 1951), film director, screenwriter and producer
- Peter Byrne (* 1951), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop
- Sean Daniel (* 1951), film producer
- Patti D'Arbanville (born 1951), actress
- Eddie Dibbs (born 1951), tennis player
- Brad Fiedel (* 1951), film composer
- Samantha Fox (1951-2020), porn actress
- Al Franken (* 1951), comedian, radio presenter and politician
- Michael Franzese (* 1951), former mobster and Capo of the Cosa Nostra
- Mark H. Gelber (* 1951), literary scholar
- Steve Grossman (1951-2020), jazz saxophonist
- Nicholas Guest (* 1951), actor and voice actor
- Catherine Hicks (born 1951), actress
- Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013), writer
- Mark Isham (* 1951), film music composer and trumpeter
- Howard Levy (* 1951), harmonica player and pianist
- Joey Ramone (1951-2001), singer with the Ramones
- Eunice Reddick (* 1951), diplomat
- Julian Schnabel (* 1951), painter and film director
- Roy Schoeman (born 1951), author
- Michael Jefry Stevens (* 1951), jazz musician
- George Tsontakis (* 1951), composer and conductor
- Jai Uttal (* 1951), fusion musician
- Luther Vandross (1951-2005), rhythm and blues singer
- Bill Viola (* 1951), video and installation artist
- Steven Weintraub (* 1951), mathematician
- Frank Wilczek (* 1951), physicist; 2004 Nobel Prize Winner
1952
- Kenny Aaronson (* 1952), electric bass player
- Rick Aviles (1952–1995), stand-up comedian and actor
- Jacqueline K. Barton (* 1952), chemist
- Leo Bassi (* 1952), clown
- Gary Bettman (born 1952), sports official
- Gerry Conway (* 1952), comic, SF and screenwriter
- Irene Dische (* 1952), German-American writer
- Billy Drewes (* 1952), jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist
- Diane Duane (* 1952), science fiction and fantasy writer and screenwriter
- Tovah Feldshuh (* 1952), actress
- John Finn (born 1952), actor
- Andrew Horn (1952–2019), film director
- Katya Gibel Mevorach (* 1952), anthropologist
- Perry Goldstein (* 1952), composer and music teacher
- Howard Haber (* 1952), physicist
- Alice Hoffman (* 1952), author
- Steve James (1952-1993), actor
- Alan Kaufman (born 1952), writer
- Muhtar Kent (* 1952), Turkish-American manager; from 2008 to 2017 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the beverage company Coca-Cola
- William Kristol (* 1952), political commentator and columnist
- Phil Markowitz (* 1952), jazz musician
- Sam McMurray (born 1952), actor
- Maurice Obstfeld (* 1952), economist
- Chazz Palminteri (* 1952), actor and writer
- William Parker (* 1952), jazz bassist
- Rick Pitino (* 1952), basketball coach
- Marky Ramone (* 1952), drummer with the Ramones
- Christopher Reeve (1952–2004), actor, director and author
- Nile Rodgers (* 1952), musician and record producer
- Clifford Ross (* 1952), photographer, photo artist and painter
- Bob Stoloff (* 1952), jazz musician
- Roger Tsien (1952-2016), Sino-American cell biologist
- Dave Valentin (1952-2017), jazz flutist
- Harvey Weinstein (* 1952), film producer
1953
- Elizabeth Arthur (* 1953), writer
- Jane Badler (born 1953), actress
- Bob Boilen (* 1953), radio presenter, musician and author
- Kvitka Cisyk (1953–1998), coloratura soprano
- Robert Davi (* 1953), actor and opera singer
- Louis F. DiMauro (* 1953), physicist
- Ronnie Earl (* 1953), blues guitarist
- Jeffrey Epstein (1953-2019), investment banker
- Robert Fleisher (* 1953), composer and music teacher
- Alex Gibney (* 1953), director, screenwriter and film producer
- Ron Jeremy (born 1953), porn actor
- Paul Krugman (* 1953), economist and writer
- Cyndi Lauper (* 1953), singer and songwriter
- Anna Levine (* 1953), actress
- Carol Liebowitz (* 1953), jazz musician
- Gregory Meeks (born 1953), US Congressman
- Alexander J. Motyl (* 1953), scientist and artist
- Michael Newdow (* 1953), lawyer and doctor
- Irene Rosenfeld (* 1953), manager
- Barry Sonnenfeld (* 1953), cameraman and film director
- Mark Soskin (* 1953), jazz musician
- Tico Torres (* 1953), drummer in the rock band Bon Jovi
- Don Winslow (born 1953), writer
- John Zorn (* 1953), composer and band leader
1954
- Gregory Abbott (* 1954), musician, singer, composer and music producer
- Jill Ellen Abramson (born 1954), journalist
- Douglas Arnold (* 1954), mathematician
- Shari Belafonte (* 1954), actress and singer
- Warren Benbow (* 1954), jazz musician
- Angela Bofill (* 1954), R&B and jazz singer
- Fred Borchelt (* 1954), rower
- Jake Burton Carpenter (1954-2019), snowboarder
- Carter Burwell (* 1954), actor, musician, conductor and orchestrator
- James Gleick (* 1954), author, journalist and essayist
- Elliot Goldenthal (* 1954), composer
- Kip Hanrahan (* 1954), music producer and percussionist
- Amy Heckerling (* 1954), film director and screenwriter
- Giorgos Kaminis (* 1954), Greek constitutional lawyer
- Allan Kozinn (* 1954), journalist and music critic
- Andy Narell (* 1954), jazz drummer
- Donna Pescow (born 1954), actress and television director
- Tobias Picker (* 1954), composer
- Theresa Saldana (1954–2016), actress
- John Serry (* 1954), jazz musician and composer
- Sonia Sotomayor (* 1954), lawyer and judge at the Supreme Court
- Don Stark (born 1954), actor
- Howard Stern (* 1954), talk radio host
- Wesley Strick (born 1954), screenwriter
- Bob Weinstein (* 1954), film producer
- Julius Penson Williams (* 1954), conductor, composer and music teacher
1955
- Bruce Altman (born 1955), actor
- Clem Burke (* 1955), drummer
- Caleb Carr (* 1955), writer and historian
- Bill Condon (* 1955), film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Griffin Dunne (* 1955), actor, director and film producer
- Peter Gallagher (* 1955), actor
- Jeanne Galway (* 1955), flautist
- Whoopi Goldberg (* 1955), actress, comedian and singer
- Gene Grossman (* 1955), economist
- Rhonda Heath (born around 1955), singer
- Jeff Hirshfield (born 1955), jazz drummer
- Marilyn Mazur (* 1955), Danish jazz musician
- Christopher McDonald (born 1955), actor
- Bruce Molsky (* 1955), fiddle and banjo player
- Adam Nussbaum (* 1955), jazz drummer
- Michael Oren (* 1955), Israeli diplomat, author, historian and politician
- Tanya Roberts (born 1955), actress
- Michael Schudrich (* 1955), Chief Rabbi of Poland
- Lee Smolin (* 1955), physicist
- Steven Wright (born 1955), actor, writer and stand-up comedian
1956
- Blanche Baker (born 1956), actress
- Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018), cook and author
- David Caruso (born 1956), actor
- Gerry Cooney (* 1956), heavyweight boxer
- Thomas H. Cormen (* 1956), computer scientist
- Tim Daly (* 1956), actor, voice actor and film producer
- Howard Davis (1956-2015), boxer
- Dana Delany (born 1956), actress
- James Dimon (* 1956), economic manager
- Deborah Drattell (* 1956), composer
- Mitchel Forman (* 1956), jazz and fusion musician
- Tony Gilroy (* 1956), screenwriter, film director and film producer
- Geoff Goodman (* 1956), jazz musician
- Bernard King (born 1956), basketball player
- Tony Kushner (* 1956), writer and screenwriter
- John R. MacArthur (born 1956), journalist
- Fred Melamed (born 1956), actor
- Johnny Reinhard (* 1956), bassoonist and composer
- Jordan Rudess (* 1956), keyboardist
- Joan Slonczewski (* 1956), molecular biologist and author
- David Tanenbaum (* 1956), guitarist
- Chloe Webb (born 1956), actress
- Michael J. Weithorn (* 1956), author, director and producer
- Stephanie Zimbalist (* 1956), actress
1957
- Khandi Alexander (* 1957), actress
- Vinny Appice (born 1957), drummer
- Nicholson Baker (born 1957), writer
- Afrika Bambaataa (* 1957), hip-hop DJ
- Jennifer Batten (* 1957), guitar player
- Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (* 1957), diplomat; Kennedy's surviving daughter
- Leslie Browne (* 1957), ballet dancer and film actress
- Steve Buscemi (* 1957), film and stage actor
- Mark Gordon (* 1957), politician
- Melanie Griffith (* 1957), film actress
- Mark Hurd (1957-2019), manager
- Jeh Johnson (born 1957), politician
- James McBride (born 1957), writer
- Mark Medal (born 1957), boxer
- Joe Mullen (born 1957), ice hockey player and coach
- Janet Napolitano (* 1957), politician
- Ray Romano (born 1957), actor
- Bobby Sanabria (* 1957), jazz musician
- Harris Savides (1957-2012), cinematographer
- Russell Simmons (* 1957), music and fashion entrepreneur
- Linda Catlin Smith (* 1957), Canadian composer
- Patty Smyth (born 1957), singer
- Alexander Stille (* 1957), journalist and writer
- Robert Trowers (* 1957), jazz trombonist
- John Turturro (born 1957), actor
- Nana Visitor (born 1957), actress
1958
- Marc Abrams (* 1958), jazz bassist
- Angela Bassett (born 1958), actress
- George Brooks (* around 1958), jazz musician and composer
- Don Byron (* 1958), jazz musician (clarinetist, composer)
- Eddie Dekel (* 1958), economist
- Kenny Drew Jr. (1958-2014), jazz pianist
- John Fedorowicz (* 1958), chess master
- Béla Fleck (* 1958), bluegrass musician
- Virginia Gilder (* 1958), rower
- Shafrira Goldwasser (* 1958), computer scientist
- Steve Guttenberg (* 1958), actor
- Adam Holzman (* 1958), fusion musician
- Steve Israel (* 1958), US Congressman
- Charlie Kaufman (* 1958), screenwriter and film director
- Adam Kolker (* 1958), jazz musician
- Al MacDowell (* ≈1958), bassist and composer
- Bob Merrill (* 1958), jazz musician
- Alan Meyerson (* 1958), music producer and sound engineer
- Thurston Moore (* 1958), guitarist and singer
- Viggo Mortensen (* 1958), Danish-American actor, photographer, poet, painter and musician
- Mark Moses (born 1958), actor
- Anna Politkowskaja (1958–2006), Russian-American journalist, author and human rights activist
- David O. Russell (* 1958), director, film producer and screenwriter
- Mala Waldron (* 1958), jazz and R&B musician
- Kenny Washington (* 1958), jazz musician, radio presenter
1959
- Rosanna Arquette (born 1959), actress
- Talia Balsam (born 1959), actress
- Kurtis Blow (* 1959), rap pioneer
- Charles Brown (* 1959), Roman Catholic Archbishop and Diplomat of the Holy See
- Irene Cara (* 1959), singer and actress
- Nick Cassavetes (* 1959), actor, director and screenwriter
- Perry Farrell (born 1959), rock musician
- Ray Gillen (1959-1993), hard rock singer
- Omar Hakim (* 1959), jazz drummer
- Nick Hanauer (* 1959), entrepreneur
- John C. McGinley (born 1959), actor, producer and writer
- Deirdre Murphy (1959-2014), racing cyclist
- Keith Olbermann (* 1959), presenter of news and sports programs on television and radio
- Ving Rhames (born 1959), actor
- Matt Roy (* 1959), bobsledder
- Dan Shak (* 1959), hedge fund manager and poker player
- Steve Stevens (born 1959), musician
- Brian Tarantina (1959-2019), actor
- Leo Traversa (* 1959), jazz bassist
1960
- Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), graffiti artist, painter and draftsman
- Jason Beghe (born 1960), actor
- Robert John Burke (born 1960), actor
- Chuck D (born 1960), rapper
- Robert von Dassanowsky (* 1960), Austrian-American cultural and film historian, writer and film producer
- David Duchovny (born 1960), actor
- Jennifer Gray (born 1960), actress
- Graham Brentley Haynes (* 1960), jazz musician
- Adam Holzman (* 1960), classical guitarist
- Alex Jacobowitz (* 1960), xylophone player
- Elena Kagan (* 1960), lawyer
- Brewster Kahle (* 1960), computer scientist, entrepreneur and activist
- Popa Chubby (* 1960), blues musician
- Rammellzee (1960–2010), graffiti artist and hip-hop musician
- John M. Richardson (born 1960), Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations
- Jennifer Rush (born 1960), singer
- Anton Sanko (* 1960), film composer, music arranger and music producer
- Andrea Scrima (* 1960), installation artist, art critic and writer
- Nelson Vails (* 1960), track cyclist
1961-1970
1961
- Ann Cusack (born 1961), actress
- Gene Calderazzo (born 1961), drummer
- Chris Dahlgren (* 1961), jazz bassist
- Peter Diamandis (* 1961), aerospace engineer and founder of the X-Prize Foundation
- Keith Gordon (* 1961), actor, director, film producer and screenwriter
- Greg Hetson (born 1961), guitarist
- Lowell Liebermann (* 1961), composer, pianist and conductor
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (* 1961), actress, film producer, comedian and singer
- Linda Manz (1961-2020), actress
- Isaac Mizrahi (* 1961), fashion designer
- Victoria Nuland (* 1961), diplomat
- Catherine Oxenberg (* 1961), actress, screenwriter and producer
- Jon Sass (* 1961), tuba player
- Campbell Scott (born 1961), actor and director
- Aaron Sorkin (* 1961), screenwriter and film producer
- Danny Tenaglia (* 1961), DJ and music producer
- Nancy Travis (born 1961), actress
- Gary Valentine (born 1961), comedian and actor
- Ray Vega (* 1961), jazz musician
- Kim Wayans (born 1961), actress
1962
- Matthew Broderick (* 1962), theater and film actor
- Joe Crowley (born 1962), US Congressman
- Joan Cusack (born 1962), actress
- David DeFeis (* 1962), front man and singer of the heavy metal band Virgin Steele
- Emilio Estevez (* 1962), film actor
- Akiva Goldsman (* 1962), screenwriter and film producer
- Carlos Gómez (born 1962), actor
- Sakina Jaffrey (born 1962), actress
- Alexa Kenin (1962–1985), actress
- Fred Maher (* ≈1962), drummer and music producer
- Will McIntosh (* 1962), writer and psychologist
- Rebecca Miller (* 1962), director, actress, sculptor and painter
- Ben Monder (* 1962), jazz guitarist
- Esai Morales (born 1962), actor
- Al Pitrelli (* 1962), guitarist
- Rachel Z (* 1962), jazz pianist
- Lisa Randall (* 1962), theoretical physicist
- Robin S. (* 1962), pop singer
- Alex Shapiro (* 1962), composer
- Matthew Sharpe (born 1962), author
- Ally Sheedy (born 1962), actress
- Reggie Washington (* 1962), jazz and fusion musician
1963
- David Bindman (* 1963), jazz musician
- Madelyn Byrne (* 1963), composer and music teacher
- Phoebe Cates (born 1963), actress
- Jay Cochran (* 1963), racing car driver
- Laura Dean (* 1963), dancer, actress and voice actress
- Susannah Grant (* 1963), screenwriter and director
- Brian Greene (* 1963), physicist
- Greg Howe (born 1963), guitarist
- Susi Hyldgaard (* 1963), Danish jazz musician
- Scott Ian (born 1963), rock musician
- Marc Jacobs (* 1963), fashion designer
- Michael Jordan (born 1963), basketball player
- Paul Klebnikov (1963-2004), journalist
- Anne-Marie McDermott (* 1963), pianist
- Allison Shearmur (1963-2018), film producer
- Kevin Shields (* 1963), singer, guitarist and music producer
- Vinny Testaverde (born 1963), American football player
- Jon Turteltaub (* 1963), film director and producer
- Vanessa Lynn Williams (born 1963), actress and singer
1964
- Wendell Alexis (born 1964), basketball player
- Hank Azaria (born 1964), actor
- Peter Berg (* 1964), actor
- Troy Beyer (* 1964), actress, director and screenwriter
- Will Calhoun (* 1964), rock and jazz drummer
- Yvette Clarke (born 1964), US Congressman
- Debórah Dwork (* 1964), historian
- Jeanna Fine (* 1964), porn actress and stripper
- Eytan Fox (born 1964), Israeli director
- Zach Galligan (born 1964), actor
- Gerry Gibbs (* 1964), jazz musician
- Erica Gimpel (* 1964), television actress
- Robin Givens (born 1964), actress
- Crispin Glover (born 1964), actor
- Ian Gomez (born 1964), actor
- Alon Greenfeld (* 1964), Israeli chess player
- Charles Jenkins Jr. (born 1964), sprinter
- Boris Johnson (* 1964), British publicist and politician
- Laura Linney (born 1964), actress
- Gordon Lueckel (* 1964), non-fiction author
- Tom Morello (born 1964), guitarist
- Rosie Perez (born 1964), actress
- Astrid Schween (* 1964), cellist and music teacher
- Roy Tarpley (1964-2015), basketball player
- Marisa Tomei (born 1964), actress
- David Weiss (* 1964), jazz musician
1965
- James J. Collins (* 1965), medical and bio engineer
- Jon Cryer (born 1965), actor, screenwriter and comedian
- Robert Downey Jr. (born 1965), actor
- Noah Emmerich (* 1965), actor and film producer
- Miles Evans (* 1965), jazz musician
- Andrea Ghez (* 1965), astronomer
- Frank Grillo (* 1965), actor
- Booker Huffman (born 1965), wrestler Booker T
- Diane Lane (born 1965), actress
- Mary LaRose (* around 1965), painter and singer
- Jeremy Levy (* 1965), child actor, later physicist
- Doug Liman (born 1965), director and producer
- Moby (* 1965), musician, singer, guitarist, DJ and music producer
- Kathrine Narducci (* 1965), actress
- Tom Piccirilli (1965-2015), writer
- Jeremy Piven (born 1965), actor
- Terry Richardson (born 1965), photographer
- Matt Ruff (born 1965), writer
- Lou Savarese (born 1965), boxer
- Kyra Sedgwick (born 1965), actress
- Charlie Sheen (born 1965), actor
- Brooke Shields (born 1965), actress
- Bryan Singer (born 1965), director, producer and screenwriter
- Ben Stiller (* 1965), actor, screenwriter, film director and producer
- Eric Thal (* 1965), film actor and wrestler
- Kris Tomasson (* 1965), industrial designer
- Lisa Vidal (born 1965), actress
- Paul Weitz (* 1965), screenwriter, director and film producer
- William Zabka (born 1965), actor
1966
- JJ Abrams (* 1966), film and television producer
- Pamela Adlon (* 1966), actress and voice actress
- John Alroy (* 1966), paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
- Dana Barron (* 1966), television and film actress
- JD Cullum (born 1966), film actor
- Larry Davis (1966–2008), criminal who shot six police officers in 1986
- Peter DeLuise (* 1966), actor, producer and director
- Shaun Donovan (born 1966), politician
- Billy Gallo (born 1966), actor
- Bebel Gilberto (* 1966), Brazilian singer and songwriter
- Gary Glasberg (1966–2016), television producer and screenwriter
- Jon Gordon (* 1966), jazz musician
- Jason Gould (born 1966), actor, singer, director, screenwriter and film producer
- Gary Grice (born 1966), rapper
- Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane (1966–2000), rabbi and extremist Zionist
- Téa Leoni (* 1966), actress
- Robert MacNaughton (born 1966), film actor
- Karen Mantler (* 1966), jazz musician
- Robert Maschio (born 1966), actor
- Mary Stuart Masterson (born 1966), actress
- Cynthia Nixon (born 1966), actress
- Jason Patric (born 1966), actor
- Ben Perowsky (* 1966), jazz musician
- Adam Sandler (born 1966), actor
- David Schwimmer (born 1966), actor
- Sam Seder (* 1966), actor and presenter
- Cheryl Shepard (born 1966), actress
- Christopher Thompson (born 1966), French actor and screenwriter
- Rachel True (born 1966), actress
- Mike Tyson (* 1966), world heavyweight boxing champion
- Christopher A. Wray (born 1966), lawyer, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1967
- Trini Alvarado (born 1967), actress
- Lynn Appelle (* 1967), film producer
- Dan Ariely (* 1967), US-Israeli psychologist and university professor
- Glen Benton (* 1967), bass player and singer
- Mika Brzezinski (* 1967), TV presenter and journalist
- Nestor Carbonell (* 1967), actor and voice actor
- Marc Cary (* 1967), jazz musician
- Stacey Dash (born 1967), actress
- Drena De Niro (born 1967), actress
- Melissa De Sousa (born 1967), actress
- Reed Diamond (born 1967), actor
- Vin Diesel (born 1967), actor
- July Furtado (* 1967), cyclist
- Alan Gilbert (* 1967), conductor
- Glenn Greenwald (* 1967), journalist, blogger, writer and lawyer
- Kevin Kelley (born 1967), boxer
- Jimmy Kimmel (* 1967), comedian, author, producer and host of talk and game shows
- Jonathan Littell (* 1967), French-American writer
- Kristen Pfaff (1967-1994), musician
- Judy Reyes (* 1967), actress and screenwriter
- Eric Roche (1967-2005), Irish guitarist
- Adam Savage (* 1967), special effects expert, product designer and actor
- Gillian Welch (* 1967), songwriter
- Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020), author, journalist and lawyer
- Moon Zappa (* 1967), actress and musician
1968
- Marc Anthony (* 1968), Puerto Rican-American composer, singer and actor
- Yasmine Bleeth (* 1968), actress
- Riddick Bowe (born 1968), boxer
- Cherito (1968–2019), Dominican singer, songwriter, arranger and composer
- Eric Correa (* 1968), percussionist
- Funkmaster Flex (* 1968), DJ and radio host
- Jorja Fox (* 1968), actress
- Seth Gilliam (* 1968), film and theater actor
- Kevin Hays (* 1968), jazz musician and composer
- Kyra T. Inachin (1968–2012), German historian
- AJ Jacobs (* 1968), journalist and essayist
- Stan Kirsch (1968–2020), actor
- Lucy Liu (* 1968), actress
- Romany Malco (* 1968), actor and rapper
- Tracy Morgan (* 1968), actor and comedian
- Ol 'Dirty Bastard (1968-2004), rapper
- Michael James Romeo (* 1968), guitarist
- Bitty Schram (* 1968), actress
- Erick Sermon (* 1968), rapper and music producer
- Tracy Vilar (born 1968), actress
- Michael Weatherly (born 1968), actor
1969
- Lisa Arrindell Anderson (born 1969), actress
- Dimitri Ashkenazy (* 1969), clarinetist
- Christina Cabot (born 1969), actress
- Shawn Carter aka Jay-Z (* 1969), rapper and music producer
- Sean Combs aka P. Diddy (* 1969), rapper, music producer, fashion designer
- Jennifer Elise Cox (born 1969), actress
- Robert Diggs (* 1969), rap musician
- Victoria Dillard (born 1969), actress
- David Anthony Durham (born 1969), author
- Andrea Elson (* 1969), actress
- Everlast (born 1969), rapper
- Joel Fan (* 1969), pianist
- Diane Farr (born 1969), actress
- Jamie Gold (born 1969), television producer and poker player
- Tracey Gold (born 1969), actress
- Jonah Goldberg (* 1969), publicist and commentator
- F. Gary Gray (born 1969), director
- Miles Griffith (* 1969), jazz singer
- Avril Haines (* 1969), Deputy National Security Advisor, former Deputy Director (DD / CIA) of the CIA
- Heather Hunter (* 1969), porn actress, dancer and singer
- Mat Maneri (* 1969), jazz musician
- Masta Killa (born 1969), rapper
- Christian Slater (born 1969), actor
- Ron Thal (* 1969), guitarist
- Gina Torres (* 1969), actress
- Chris Weitz (* 1969), screenwriter, director and producer
1970
- Tyson Beckford (* 1970), model, actor and television presenter
- David Benioff (* 1970), writer, screenwriter and film producer
- Yancy Butler (born 1970), actress
- Joseph Cartagena aka Fat Joe (* 1970), rapper
- Chris Cuomo (* 1970), television journalist
- Rivers Cuomo (* 1970), singer, guitarist and songwriter for the alternative rock band Weezer
- Bethenny Frankel (* 1970), TV personality, author and entrepreneur
- Bart Freundlich (* 1970), film director, screenwriter and producer
- John Frusciante (* 1970), rock guitarist
- Claudia Gray (* 1970), novelist
- Gregory Hutchinson (* 1970), jazz musician
- Inspectah Deck (born 1970), rapper
- Bill Konigsberg (* 1970), author
- Laurel Korholz (* 1970), rower
- Ken Leung (born 1970), actor of Asian descent
- Hannah Marcus (* ≈1970), singer, songwriter and musician
- Roy Mayorga (* 1970), drummer
- Eric McPherson (* 1970), jazz musician
- Seth Peterson (born 1970), actor
- Catherine Pickstock (* 1970), British Anglican theologian
- Q-Tip (* 1970), rapper
- Raekwon (born 1970), rapper
- Jeremy Shamos (born 1970), actor
- Jonathan Tropper (* 1970), writer and screenwriter
- U-God (born 1970), rapper
- Luca Venantini (* 1970), film actor
1971-1980
1971
- Kirk Acevedo (born 1971), actor
- Mary J. Blige (* 1971), singer and songwriter
- John Ross Bowie (born 1971), actor
- Abraham Burton (* 1971), jazz musician
- Christian Camargo (* 1971), actor
- Sofia Coppola (* 1971), actress, screenwriter and director
- Elvis Crespo (* 1971), Puerto Rican singer
- Damon Dash (* 1971), entrepreneur, actor and film producer
- Mark Feuerstein (* 1971), actor
- Lawrence Gilliard junior (born 1971), actor
- Anthony Katagas (* 1971), film producer
- Andrew Kavovit (born 1971), actor
- Sanaa Lathan (born 1971), actress
- Kristine Lilly (* 1971), soccer player
- Angie Martínez (* 1971), rapper, TV and radio presenter and model
- Idina Menzel (* 1971), musical artist and film actress
- Jared Palmer (born 1971), tennis player
- Adina Porter (* 1971), actress
- Christopher Lee Rios (1971-2000), rapper ( Big Punisher )
- Tupac Shakur (1971-1996), rapper
- Rachel Zoe (* 1971), stylist
1972
- Kristen Anderson-Lopez (* 1972), actress, screenwriter and music producer
- Chris Armas (* 1972), soccer player
- Max Brooks (* 1972), writer and screenwriter
- Missy Giove (* 1972), mountain biker
- Ian Kahn (born 1972), actor
- Brian A. Kates (born 1972), film editor
- Jonathan Kreisberg (* 1972), jazz guitarist and composer
- Drea de Matteo (born 1972), actress
- Hurvin McCormack (born 1972), football player
- Alyssa Milano (* 1972), actress, producer, fashion designer and singer
- Amanda Peet (born 1972), actress
- Busta Rhymes (born 1972), rapper
- Arianna Zukerman (* 1972), singer and music teacher
1973
- AZ (* 1973), rapper
- Anthony Azizi (born 1973), actor
- Mark Boal (* 1973), journalist and screenwriter
- Adrien Brody (born 1973), actor
- Kareem Campbell (* 1973), professional skateboarder
- Asia Carrera (* 1973), porn actress
- Jennifer Esposito (born 1973), actress
- Andy Frankenberger (* 1973), poker player
- George Hincapie (* 1973), racing cyclist
- Demetri Martin (* 1973), actor and comedian
- Rufus Wainwright (* 1973), Canadian-American singer-songwriter and composer
- Marissa Jaret Winokur (* 1973), actress and Broadway star
1974
- Jennifer Blanc (* 1974), actress, film director and film producer
- Donald Faison (born 1974), actor
- Peter Grosz (* 1974), actor and screenwriter
- Nicole Krauss (* 1974), novelist
- Omar Metwally (born 1974), actor
- Jerry O'Connell (* 1974), actor and screenwriter
- Ruth Robbins (* 1974), installation artist
1975
- Francis Bouillon (* 1975), American-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- Taffy Brodesser-Akner (* 1975), journalist
- Louis Ozawa Changchien (born 1975), actor
- Maryam Myika Day (* 1975), actress, film producer and screenwriter
- Reggie Freeman (born 1975), basketball player
- Nell Freudenberger (* 1975), writer
- Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent (* 1975), gangsta rapper and member of the rap group G Unit
- Maryam Keshavarz (* 1975), film producer and screenwriter
- John King junior (* 1975), politician
- Sean Lennon (born 1975), musician
- Jeffrey Lewis (* 1975), singer-songwriter, comic artist and part of the anti-folk movement
- Adam Rodriguez (born 1975), actor
- Scott Weinger (* 1975), actor
1976
- Rafer Alston (born 1976), basketball player
- Joy Bryant (born 1976), actress
- Peter Delano (* 1976), jazz pianist and composer
- James Dooley (* 1976), film music composer
- John Elkann (* 1976), Italian manager and industrialist
- Kimberly Denise Jones ( Lil 'Kim ; * 1976), rapper, singer and actress
- NORE (born 1976), rapper
- Amanda Palmer (* 1976), musician, poet and cabaret artist
- Merlin Santana (1976-2002), actor
- Aris Sas (* 1976), Austrian singer and actor
- Josh Saviano (* 1976), film actor, then lawyer
- Scott Snyder (born 1976), author
- Chris Terrio (* 1976), director, screenwriter and Oscar winner
- Ken Thomson (* 1976), fusion musician and composer
- Joshua Waitzkin (* 1976), chess player and Taijiquan athlete
1977
- Jon Avery Abrahams (born 1977), actor
- Fiona Apple (* 1977), musician
- Joe Bonamassa (* 1977), blues guitarist, singer and composer
- Lapo Elkann (* 1977), Italian entrepreneur and designer
- Barrett Foa (born 1977), actor
- Sarah Michelle Gellar (born 1977), actress
- Angela Goethals (* 1977), actress
- Maggie Gyllenhaal (born 1977), actress
- Zab Judah (born 1977), boxer
- Matt Matros (born 1977), poker player
- Devin Ratray (born 1977), actor
- Félix Sánchez (* 1977), Dominican hurdler
- China Shavers (born 1977), actress
- Vanessa Trump (* 1977), model, actress and psychologist
- Liv Tyler (born 1977), actress
- Tom Welling (born 1977), actor
1978
- Nathanael Ackerman (* 1978), British-American freestyle wrestler
- Daniella Alonso (* 1978), actress and model
- Marlyne Barrett (born 1978), actress
- Eddie Cahill (born 1978), actor
- Julian Casablancas (* 1978), singer and songwriter with The Strokes
- James Badge Dale (born 1978), actor
- Billy Eichner (* 1978), comedian and actor
- David Krumholtz (* 1978), actor
- Jesse Lacey (* 1978), singer in the band Brand New
- Steve Lehman (* 1978), jazz saxophonist and composer
- Timothy Morehouse (* 1978), fencer
- Tony Yayo (* 1978), gangsta rapper and member of the rap group G Unit
1979
- Aaliyah (1979–2001), singer and actress
- Lake Bell (born 1979), actress
- Eric Buchman (born 1979), poker player
- Claire Danes (* 1979), actress
- Rosario Dawson (born 1979), actress
- Christopher Dorner (1979–2013), Los Angeles Police Department officer
- Jerry Ferrara (born 1979), actor
- Elizabeth Hendrickson (born 1979), actress
- Carlos Henriquez (* 1979), jazz musician
- Norah Jones (* 1979), musician
- Kelis (* 1979), singer
- Natasha Lyonne (* 1979), actress
- Lamar Odom (born 1979), basketball player
- Metta World Peace (* 1979), basketball player and rapper
1980
- Christina Aguilera (* 1980), singer, actress, songwriter
- Malcolm Barrett (born 1980), actor
- Ryan Carniaux (* 1980), jazz musician
- Macaulay Culkin (born 1980), child actor
- Caitlin Gregg (* 1980), cross-country skier and biathlete
- Vanessa Johansson (* 1980), actress
- Maya Lawrence (* 1980), fencer
- Joe Letz (* 1980), drummer and DJ
- Zac Posen (* 1980), fashion designer
- Indra Rios-Moore (* 1980), jazz singer
- Erinn Smart (* 1980), fencer
- Merritt Wever (born 1980), actress
- Katherine Young (* 1980), improvisation musician and composer
1981-1990
1981
- Koko Archibong (* 1981), Nigerian basketball player
- John Boyd (born 1981), actor
- Olivier Busquet (* 1981), poker player
- Adam Green (* 1981), singer and songwriter
- Paris Hilton (* 1981), photo model, entrepreneur and entertainer
- Charlie Hofheimer (* 1981), film and theater actor
- Alicia Keys (* 1981), singer, producer, actress, songwriter
- Sienna Miller (* 1981), British-American actress and fashion designer
- Casey Neistat (* 1981), film director and film producer
- Dash Snow (1981-2009), artist
- Julia Stiles (* 1981), actress
- Kara Taitz (* 1981), actress
- Ivanka Trump (* 1981), businesswoman and model
- Ned Vizzini (1981-2013), writer
1982
- Devon Aoki (* 1982), actress and model
- Kieran Culkin (* 1982), film actor
- Yaya DaCosta (* 1982), actress and photo model
- Alexander DiPersia (* 1982), actor
- Justin Gatlin (* 1982), track and field athlete
- Adam Hann-Byrd (* 1982), film actor
- Max Joseph (* 1982), producer, actor and author
- Ibram X. Kendi (* 1982), racism researcher
- Christopher Lloyd aka Lloyd Banks (* 1982), gangsta rapper and member of the rap group G Unit
- Josh Ostrovsky (* 1982), internet comedian
- Wolé Parks (* 1982), actor
- Lily Rabe (born 1982), actress
- Jamil Walker Smith (* 1982), actor and voice actor
- Jon Van Fleet (born 1982), poker player
- Tommy Vext (born 1982), singer
- David Wong (* 1982), jazz musician
1983
- Georgina Bloomberg (* 1983), show jumper
- Francis Capra (born 1983), actor
- Peter Cincotti (* 1983), songwriter, singer and pianist
- Lucy DeVito (born 1983), actress
- Marié Digby (* 1983), singer and songwriter
- Eamon (* 1983), singer and musician
- Jesse Eisenberg (born 1983), actor
- Mamie Gummer (born 1983), actress
- Chelsea Hammond (born 1983), Jamaican long jumper
- Nicky Hilton (* 1983), photo model, entrepreneur and designer
- Gabourey Sidibe (born 1983), actress
- Leelee Sobieski (born 1983), actress
- Hikaru Utada (* 1983), Japanese singer
1984
- Quinton Aaron (born 1984), actor
- Desiree Akhavan (* 1984), Iranian-American actress, director and screenwriter
- Carmelo Anthony (born 1984), basketball player
- Rob Brown (born 1984), actor
- Steven Burtt (born 1984), basketball player
- April Centrone (* 1984), musician
- Paul Dano (* 1984), actor and rock musician
- Noureen DeWulf (born 1984), actress
- Melonie Diaz (* 1984), actress
- Alexis Dziena (* 1984), film and television actress
- Jessie Graff (* 1984), athlete and stunt woman
- Elizabeth Jagger (* 1984), model
- Scarlett Johansson (* 1984), American-Danish actress and singer
- Lumidee (* 1984), R&B singer
- Nick McDonell (* 1984), writer
- Paul Nedzela (* 1984), jazz musician
- Ashley Peldon (born 1984), actress
- Nick Schulman (* 1984), poker player
- Olivia Wilde (* 1984), actress
1985
- Eva Amurri (* 1985), actress
- Halley Feiffer (born 1985), actress
- Taj Gibson (born 1985), basketball player
- Liz Hannah (* 1985), screenwriter and film producer
- Juliana Harkavy (born 1985), actress
- Isaac Haxton (born 1985), poker player
- András Kállay-Saunders (* 1985), Hungarian-American pop singer
- Kristina Klebe (* 1985), actress
- Arkady Martine (* 1985), historian and writer
- Leyla McCalla (* 1985), singer-songwriter, cellist
- Joakim Noah (* 1985), basketball player
- Lana Del Rey (born 1985), singer
- Michelle Trachtenberg (* 1985), actress
- Leila Vaziri (* 1985), swimmer
- Mukul Pahuja (* 1985 or 1986), poker player
1986
- Asa Akira (* 1986), Japanese-American porn actress and model
- Alexandra Daddario (* 1986), actress
- Afërdita Dreshaj (* 1986), Albanian singer and model
- Michael Drayer (* 1986), actor
- Lena Dunham (* 1986), actress, film producer, film director and screenwriter
- Elio Fox (* 1986), poker player
- Lady Gaga (* 1986), singer and songwriter
- Betty Gilpin (* 1986), actress
- Grace Gummer (* 1986), actress
- Roy Hibbert (* 1986), Jamaican basketball player
- David Karp (* 1986), web developer and entrepreneur
- Jack Kesy (born 1986), actor
- Lindsay Lohan (* 1986), actress and pop singer
- Matt McGorry (born 1986), actor
- Ashley Olsen (born 1986), actress
- Mary-Kate Olsen (* 1986), actress
- BJ Raji (born 1986), football player
- Emmy Rossum (* 1986), actress
- Benny Safdie (* 1986), actor and director
- Michael James Shaw (born 1986), actor
- Steven Strait (* 1986), actor and musician
- Olivia Thirlby (* 1986), actress
- Camille Thurman (* 1986), jazz musician
- Eli Wallace (* 1986), jazz musician
1987
- Ari Aster (* around 1987), director and screenwriter
- Elsa Baquerizo Macmillan (* 1987), Spanish beach volleyball player
- Amelia Rose Blaire (born 1987), actress
- Spencer Treat Clark (born 1987), film actor
- Matthew Daddario (born 1987), actor
- Abby Elliott (born 1987), actress
- Ronan Farrow (* 1987), lawyer, journalist and book author
- Cory Henry (* 1987), jazz and gospel musician
- Daniel Jacobs (* 1987), professional boxer and world champion of the WBA middleweight division
- Mohammad Yusef Mashriqi (* 1987), football player
- Jesse McCartney (* 1987), actor and musician
- Alexandra Singer (* 1987), soccer player
- Joseph Walker (* 1987), actor and musical performer
1988
- Capri Anderson (* 1988), porn actress
- A $ AP Rocky (born 1988), rapper
- Michelle Betos (* 1988), soccer goalkeeper
- Tina Charles (* 1988), basketball player
- Corey Fisher (born 1988), basketball player
- Ryu Goto (* 1988), violinist
- Raeden Greer (* 1988), actress
- Zena Gray (born 1988), actress
- Elisabeth Kanettis (* 1988), actress
- Sarah Kay (* 1988), poet
- Jonathan Keltz (* 1988), film actor
- Jiah Khan (1988-2013), Indian actress
- Jamel McLean (born 1988), basketball player
- Tyrone Nash (* 1988), basketball player
- Veronica Roth (* 1988), writer
- Kaze Uzumaki (* 1988), German actor and voice actor
1989
- Corbin Bleu (* 1989), actor
- Yin Chang (* 1989), actress
- Rory Culkin (born 1989), film actor
- Meredith Deane (born 1989), actress
- Nyle DiMarco (* 1989), deaf actor, model and activist for the deaf culture and the LGBT community
- Priscilla Frederick (* 1989), Antiguan high jumper
- Emma Greenwell (born 1989), actress
- Loni Harwood (* 1989), poker player
- JPEGMAFIA (* 1989), rapper and music producer
- Lil 'Mama (* 1989), rapper
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (* 1989), politician of the Democratic Party
- Bryan Piccioli (* 1989), poker player
- Bebe Rexha (* 1989), singer
- Anthony Wallace (* 1989), American football player of Jamaican origin
- Ingrid Wells (* 1989), soccer player
- Jacqueline Wong (* 1989), Canadian actress, television presenter, model and singer
1990
- Liam Aiken (* 1990), actor
- Monica Aksamit (* 1990), fencer
- Tara Isabella Burton (* 1990), journalist
- Emory Cohen (born 1990), actor
- Melissa Farman (born 1990), actress
- Michael Foster (* around 1990), jazz and improvisation musician
- Miguel Ibarra (* 1990), football player
- Nicolas Jaar (* 1990), musician
- Marc John Jefferies (born 1990), actor
- Shanica Knowles (* 1990), actress
- James Maslow (* 1990), actor, model, dancer and singer
- Connor Paolo (* 1990), film actor
- Josephine Pucci (* 1990), ice hockey player
- Ben Schnetzer (* 1990), actor
- Keith Tapia (* 1990), Puerto Rican boxer
- Murielle Telio (born 1990), actress
- Zelina Vega (* 1990), wrestler
- Kemba Walker (* 1990), basketball player
- Madeline Weinstein (* 1990), actress
- Devann Yao (* 1990), American-French soccer player
1991-2000
1991
- Aleisha Allen (born 1991), actress
- Emily DiDonato (born 1991), model
- Christina Epps (* 1991), triple jumper
- Bjørn Maars Johnsen (* 1991), Norwegian-American football player
- Christian Navarro (* 1991), actor
- Dylan O'Brien (born 1991), actor
- Fafà Picault (* 1991), American-Haitian soccer player
- Samantha Robinson (born 1991), actress
- Gōtoku Sakai (* 1991), Japanese football player
- Abby Stein (born 1991), transgender activist
- Coco Vandeweghe (* 1991), tennis player
- Jeremy Allen White (born 1991), actor
1992
- Spencer Breslin (* 1992), film actor
- Jay Bromley (born 1992), American football player
- Chris Carter (* 1992), basketball player
- Andrea Collarini (* 1992), tennis player
- Maya Hayes (* 1992), soccer player
- Charlie Ray (born 1992), actress
- Miles Robbins (born 1992), actor
- Michael Salazar (* 1992), football player
1993
- Taro Daniel (* 1993), Japanese tennis player
- Chukwuebuka Enekwarti (* 1993), Nigerian-American shot putter
- Spencer Fox (born 1993), musician, voice actor and actor
- Maurice Harkless (born 1993), basketball player
- Aliana Lohan (* 1993), singer, actress and model
- Madeleine Martin (* 1993), actress, singer and voice actress
- Haley Mendez (* 1993), squash player
- Nolan Paige (* 1993), tennis player
- Cayman Togashi (* 1993), Japanese football player
1994
- Moises Arias (* 1994), actor
- Zach Aston-Reese (born 1994), ice hockey player
- Jake T. Austin (born 1994), actor
- Thomas Batuello (* 1994), actor and musician
- Lucy Boynton (born 1994), British actress
- Raquel Castro (* 1994), actress
- Ansel Elgort (* 1994), actor and singer
- India Ennenga (* 1994), actress
- Mobi Fehr (* 1994), soccer player
- Erin Moriarty (* 1994), actress
- Adam O'Farrill (* 1994), jazz musician
- Danny Rogers (* 1994), Irish football goalkeeper
- Saoirse Ronan (born 1994), Irish actress
1995
- Melanie Martinez (* 1995), singer
- Quinn Shephard (born 1995), actress
1996
- Abigail Breslin (* 1996), film actress
- Maxwell Jacob Friedman (born 1996), wrestler
- Dakota Lohan (* 1996), model
- Yūka Momiki (* 1996), Japanese soccer player
- CJ Wallace (* 1996), actor and entrepreneur
1997
- Tyler Alvarez (born 1997), actor
- Jonah Bobo (born 1997), actor
- Desiigner (* 1997), rapper and songwriter
- Elena Kampouris (* 1997), actress
- Edan Leshem (* 1997), Israeli tennis player
- Teófimo López (* 1997), boxer
- Giorgia Whigham (born 1997), actress
1998
- Mohamed Bamba (* 1998), basketball player
- William Blumberg (* 1998), tennis player
- Rachel Covey (born 1998), actress
- Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick (born 1998), film actor
- Nolan Gould (born 1998), actor
- Maya Hawke (* 1998), actress and model
- Ruby Jerins (born 1998), actress
- Jorid Paulus (* 1998), singer
- King Princess (* 1998), musician
- Ryan Simpkins (born 1998), actress
1999
- Emma Kenney (* 1999), actress
- Kayla Maisonet (* 1999), actress
2000
- Autumn Falls (* 2000), porn actress
- Aboubacar Keita (* 2000), American-Guinean soccer player
- Timothy Weah (* 2000), soccer player
Year of birth unknown
- April Centrone (* 20th century), multi-instrumentalist, music teacher and composer
- Melanie JB Charles (* 1988 or 1989), jazz musician and songwriter
- Doreen DeFeis (* 20th century), opera singer
- Daniel Druckman (* 20th century), percussionist and music teacher
- Julie Goldman (* 20th century), documentary filmmaker
- Steve Gorn (* 20th century), jazz and world musician
- Sondra James (* before 1982), actress and voice actress
- Eric Kim , cellist and music teacher
- Vivien Marx (* 20th century), American-German science journalist
- Reggie Nadelson (* 20th century), journalist and novelist
- Tony Ray Rossi (* before 1994), actor and hairstylist
- Seth Rothstein († 2013), music producer and manager
- Christina Wayne (* 20th century), producer, screenwriter and film director
21st century
- Emma Navarro (* 2001), tennis player
- Ashima Shiraishi (* 2001), climber
- Mina Sundwall (* 2001), actress
- Skai Jackson (* 2002), child actress and actress
- Oona Laurence (* 2002), actress
- Neel Sethi (* 2003), child actor
- Malina Weissman (* 2003), child actress and model
- Mace Coronel (* 2004), actor
- Alex R. Hibbert (* 2004), child actor
- Sterling Jerins (* 2004), actress
- Noah Schnapp (* 2004), Canadian-American actor
- Alison Fernandez (* 2005), actress
- Jack Gore (born 2005), actor
- Lulu Wilson (* 2005), actress
- Blue Ivy Carter (* 2012), singer, daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z
- Leonore von Schweden (* 2014), daughter of Madeleine von Schweden and Christopher O'Neill
See also
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