Search the Kids Internet
Encyclopedia > List of people from New York
Article Content
List of people from New York State
Redirected from List of people from New York
People from the state of New York who have achieved fame or note include:
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, (born 1947), NBA player
- Woody Allen, (born 1935), actor, director and writer
- Louis Armstrong, (1901-1971), jazz musician
- Count Basie, (1904-1984), jazz musician
- Humphrey Bogart, (1899-1957), actor
- James Cagney, (1899-1986), actor
- Maria Callas, (1923-1977), opera singer
- John Coltrane, (1926-1967), jazz musician
- Sean Combs, music producer, performer
- Aaron Copland, (1900-1990), composer
- Claire Danes, (born 1979), actor
- Sammy Davis, Jr, actor, singer
- Robert De Niro, (born 1943), actor
- Melvil Dewey, (1851-1931), originator of the Dewey Decimal System
- Ella Fitzgerald, (1918-1996), singer
- Henry Louis Gehrig, MLB player
- George Gershwin, (1898-1937), composer
- Rudolph Giuliani, (born 1944), former mayor
- Jackie Gleason, actor
- Billie Holiday, (1915-1959), singer
- Harry Houdini, (1874-1926), magician
- Henry James, (1843-1916), author
- John Jay, (1745-1829), first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Sandy Koufax, (born 1935), MLB player
- Jennifer Lopez, (born 1970), music performer
- Norman Mailer, (born 1923), author
- Chico, Groucho, Harpo, Zeppo Marx, comedians
- Herman Melville, (1819-1891), writer
- Ethel Merman, (1908-1984), actor
- Notorious BIG, rapper
- Eugene O'Neill, (1888-1953), playwrite
- Christopher Reeve, (born 1952), actor
- Mickey Rooney, (born 1920), actor
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, former US President
- Jonas Salk, (1914-1995), scientist
- Martin Scorsese, (born 1942), director
- Jerry Seinfeld, (born 1954), comedian
- Barbara Stanwyck, (1907-1990), actor
- Barbra Streisand, (born 1942), singer, actor
- Sting, musician (The Police)
- Louis Comfort Tiffany, (1848-1933), artist
- Donald Trump[?]
- Mae West, (1893-1980), actor
- Edith Wharton, (1862-1937), author
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
|
Search Encyclopedia
|
Featured Article
|