People of New York
| Humphrey Bogart |
New York City |
1899-1957 |
Actor |
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| James Cagney |
New York City |
1899-1986 |
Actor, dancer |
|
| William George Fargo |
Pompey |
1818-1881 |
Businessman |
|
| Millard Fillmore |
Summerhill |
1800-1874 |
U.S. President |
|
| Henry Louis (Lou) Gehrig |
New York City |
1903-1941 |
Baseball player |
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| George Gershwin |
Brooklyn |
1898-1937 |
Composer |
|
| Jackie Gleason |
Brooklyn |
1916-1987 |
Actor, comedian |
|
| Edward Henry Harriman |
Hempstead |
1848-1909 |
Financier |
|
| Julia Ward Howe |
New York City |
1819-1910 |
Author, social reformer |
|
| Charles Evans Hughes |
Glens Falls |
1862-1948 |
Chief Justice of the United States |
|
| George Inness |
Newburgh |
1825-1894 |
Artist |
|
| Washington Irving |
New York City |
1783-1859 |
Author |
|
| Henry James |
New York City |
1843-1916 |
Author |
|
| William James |
New York City |
1842-1910 |
Psychologist, Philosopher |
|
| Michael Jeffrey Jordan |
Brooklyn |
1963- |
Basketball player |
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| Herman Melville |
New York City |
1819-1891 |
Author |
|
| John Wesley Powell |
Mt. Morris, part of New York City |
1834-1902 |
Geologist, ethnologist |
|
| George Mortimer Pullman |
Brocton |
1831-1897 |
Inventor, industrialist |
|
| Frederic Remington |
Canton |
1861-1909 |
Artist |
|
| John Davison Rockefeller |
Richford |
1839-1937 |
Industrialist, philanthropist |
|
| Anna Eleanor Roosevelt |
Hyde Park |
1884-1962 |
Author, diplomat, humanitarian, first lady |
|
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Hyde Park |
1882-1945 |
U.S. President |
|
| Theodore Roosevelt |
New York City |
1858-1919 |
U.S. President |
|
| William Henry Seward |
Florida, NY |
1801-1872 |
Public official |
|
| Shenandoah |
Near Oneida Castle |
1706?-1816 |
Indian leader |
|
| Alfred Emanuel Smith |
New York City |
1873-1944 |
Political leader |
|
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Johnstown |
1815-1902 |
Suffragist |
|
| Barbra Streisand |
New York City |
1942- |
Actress, singer |
|
| Kateri Tekakwitha |
What is now Auriesville |
1656-1680 |
Religous figure |
|
| Louis Comfort Tiffany |
New York City |
1848-1933 |
Painter, craftsman, decorator |
|
| Samuel Jones Tilden |
Lebanon |
1814-1886 |
Public official |
|
| Martin Van Buren |
Kinderhook |
1782-1862 |
U.S. President |
|
| Walt Whitman |
West Hills |
1819-1892 |
Poet, philosopher |
|
| Frank Winfield Woolworth |
Rodman |
1852-1919 |
Merchant |
|
| Linus Yale |
Salisbury |
1821-1868 |
Inventor |
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Source:
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, Copyright 1996.
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