List of people from Brooklyn

A

• Aaliyah – actress, dancer and singer
• Cal Abrams – Major League Baseball player
• Lyle Alzado – NFL All-Pro football player
• Robert Asencio – Florida politician
• Romeo Alaeff – visual artist
• Marv Albert – sportscaster
• Tatyana Ali – actress
• Woody Allen – film director, actor and screenwriter
• Franco Ambriz – playwright
• Barbara Anderson – actress
• Carmelo Anthony – National Basketball Association player
• Jack Armstrong – sportscaster Toronto Raptors; former coach Niagara University
• Darren Aronofsky – film director
• Isaac Asimov – author and biochemist
• Madeline Astor – Titanic survivor, wife of John Jacob Astor IV
• W.H. Auden – poet
• Red Auerbach – National Basketball Association coach and general manager, member of Hall of Fame
• Ken Auletta – journalist and writer
• Paul Auster – author

  B

• Adrienne Bailon – actress
• Scott Baio – actor
• Ralph Bakshi – film director
• Jean-Michel Basquiat – artist
• Noah Baumbach – film director and writer
• Gary Becker – economist; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• Henry Ward Beecher – clergyman and social reformer
• Lyman Beecher – clergyman and father of Henry Ward Beecher, Thomas K. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Begushkin – folk rock band
• Joy Behar – comedian and talk-show host
• Paul Ben-Victor – actor
• Pat Benatar – singer
• Bill Benulis – penciller and inker
• Walter Berndt – cartoonist
• Paul Bettany - actor
• Bjork – singer-songwriter
• Lloyd Blankfein – investment banker; chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs
• Corbin Bleu – actor
• Emily Blunt – actress
• Joseph Bologna – actor
• Clara Bow – actress
• Riddick Bowe – boxer, heavyweight champion
• Barbara Boxer – politician; U.S. Senator from California
• Harry Boykoff – basketball player
• Steve Bracey — basketball player
• Scott Brady – actor
• Mark Breland – boxer; five-time New York Golden Gloves champion
• Shannon Briggs – boxer, heavyweight champion
• Gail Brodsky – tennis player
• Mel Brooks – actor, comedian, film director, film producer and screenwriter
• Foxy Brown – actress, model and rap artist
• Larry Brown – basketball player and coach, point guard, three-time All-Star, three-time assists leader, Olympic champion, NCAA and NBA head coach
• Elliott Buckmaster – U.S. Navy officer; naval aviator during World War I and World War II
• Buckshot – rapper
• Terry Burrus – musician; composer, conductor, producer
• Steve Buscemi – actor, film director and screenwriter
• Busta Rhymes – rapper

  C

• Red Cafe– rapper
• Charlie Callas – comedian
• Giovanni Capitello – actor/filmmaker
• Al Capone – gangster
• Truman Capote – writer
• Jack Carter – comedian
• Fabiano Caruana – youngest chess grandmaster in United States history
• Jack Catran – industrial designer and linguist
• Roz Chast – Cartoonist
• Bea Chester – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
• Shirley Chisholm – first female African American U.S. Representative and first African American major-party candidate for U.S. President
• Andrew Dice Clay – comedian
• Cheryl "Coko" Clemons – gospel singer and lead singer of R&B group SWV
• Abram Cohen – Olympic fencer
• David Cohen, a member of the US Army, a liberator of the Ohrdruf concentration camp, and a schoolteacher
• Herbert Cohen – Olympic fencer
• Maino – rapper
• Norm Coleman – U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 2003 until 2009
• Kim Coles – comedienne, actress from Living Single
• Jennifer Connelly - actress
• Chuck Connors – actor
• George H. Cooper – United States Navy rear admiral
• Pat Cooper – comedian
• Aaron Copland – composer
• Larry Corcoran – Major League Baseball player
• John Corigliano – Academy Award-, Pulitzer Prize for Music- and Grammy Award-winning composer
• Howard Cosell – sportscaster
• William R. Cosentini – Mechanical Engineer and founder of Cosentini Associates
• Delilah Cotto – dancer, model and actress
• Jonathan Coulton – musician
• Hart Crane – poet
• Melora Creager – singer
• Jimmy Crespo – former Aerosmith guitarist
• Peter Criss – musician

  D

• Da Beatminerz – hip-hop production team
• Da Bush Babees – hip-hop group
• Matt Damon – actor and screenwriter
• Dana Dane – rapper
• Tony Danza – actor
• John D'Aquino – actor
• John Henry Davis – U.S. weightlifter 6 time world champion and 2 time Olympic gold medalist
• Thomas Darden – U.S. Navy Rear admiral, 37th Governor of American Samoa
• Larry David – writer, producer, actor, and comedian
• Noach Dear - New York Supreme Court Judge
• Mos Def – actor and rapper
• David DeJesus – MLB player
• Dom DeLuise – comedian and actor
• Alan Dershowitz – lawyer, professor, author
• C.C. Deville – musician
• Kevin Devine – musician
• Neil Diamond – singer
• Mary E. Dillon an American engineer and President of Brooklyn Borough Gas Company
• Michael A. DiSpezio – writer, performer, and broadcast host
• Vincent D'Onofrio – actor
• Valerie D'Orazio – writer and blogger
• David Draiman – singer
• Richard Dreyfuss – actor
• Don Dubbins – actor
• Lena Dunham – actress and writer
• Kyle Bobby Dunn – composer, musician, artist
• Jimmy Durante – actor and comedian

  E

• Easy Mo Bee – hip-hop and R&B producer
• William J. Ecker – U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral
• Harry Eisenstat – Major League Baseball player
• Erick Arc Elliott – rapper, producer
• The Epochs – rock band, formed in 2002
• Etika – YouTuber and online streamer

  F

• Fab 5 Freddy – hip-hop pioneer
• Fabolous – rapper
• Edie Falco – actress
• Jimmy Fallon – actor and comedian
• Anthony Fauci – Infectious disease expert, director of NIAD at National Institutes of Health
• Lotta Faust – musical comedy actress
• Lillian Feickert – suffragette and politician
• Bob Ferguson – MLB player
• Jerry Ferrara – actor
• Frank Ferrer – Guns N' Roses drummer
• Lou Ferrigno – former bodybuilder, actor
• Martin Fettman – astronaut
• Ailene Fields – sculptor
• Harvey Fierstein – actor and playwright
• Bobby Fischer – champion chess player
• Percy Keese Fitzhugh – author of children's books
• Rolf G. Fjelde – playwright, educator and poet
• Farrah Fleurimond – singer, songwriter and member of R&B group Lyric
• James Florio – 49th Governor of New Jersey, 1990 until 1994
• Jonathan Safran Foer – novelist
• Cristina Fontanelli – opera singer
• Yuri Foreman – world champion boxer
• John Forsythe – actor
• Steve Franken – actor
• Bruce Franklin – professor
• Frank Frazetta – artist
• Gary William Friedman – composer
• Milton Friedman – Nobel Prize-winning economist
• Fu-Schnickens – rapper
• Full Force – 1980s R&B and production group

  G

• Ellis Gallagher – graffiti artist
• Vincent Gardenia – actor
• M. Elsa Gardner – Engineer
• Ina Garten – Food Network television chef, cookbook author; known as the Barefoot Contessa
• Shad Gaspard – professional wrestler
• David Geffen – media mogul
• Sylvia Gerrish – 19th-century musical comedy performer
• George Gershwin – composer and younger brother of Ira Gershwin
• Murray Gerstenhaber – mathematician and lawyer
• Deborah Gibson – singer and songwriter
• Taj Gibson – NBA player
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
• Johnny Gioeli – singer
• Rudy Giuliani – former United States Attorney, former Mayor of New York; 2008 Republican presidential candidate
• Jackie Gleason – actor and comedian
• Marty Glickman – Olympian and broadcaster
• James Newton Gloucester – African-American abolitionist
• Jerry Goldstein – physicist
• Ben Goldwasser – member of the band MGMT
• Sid Gordon – two-time All-Star baseball player
• Louis Gossett, Jr. – Oscar-winning actor
• Alfred Gottschalk – President of Hebrew Union College and leader in the Reform Judaism movement
• Elliott Gould – actor
• Yossi Green – composer
• Kai Greene – bodybuilder
• Adrian Grenier – actor
• Bill Griffith – cartoonist
• David Grimm – award-winning playwright and screenwriter
• Leib Groner - Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbai and secretary to Menachem Schneerson
• Robert Grossman – illustrator
• Bob Guccione – adult-magazine publisher
• Louise Gunning – singer, actress
• Sigrid Gurie – actress
• Arlo Guthrie – singer
• GZA – rapper
• Maggie Gyllenhaal – actress

  H

• Buddy Hackett – actor and comedian
• Adelaide Hall – jazz singer, songwriter, actress
• Bobby Hambel – guitarist, Biohazard
• Marvin Hamlisch – Oscar-winning composer of film scores
• Andrew P. Harris – Maryland politician
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison – author
• Anne Hathaway – Oscar-winning actress
• Knut Haukelid – Norwegian resistance movement soldier
• Richie Havens – folk singer-songwriter, actor; first performer at the original Woodstock
• Susan Hayward – Oscar-winning actress
• Rita Hayworth – actress
• Leona Helmsley – businessperson and real estate investor
• Heltah Skeltah – hip-hop duo
• Sidney Hertzberg – pro basketball player
• Robert Hess – sculptor
• Robert Hess – President of Brooklyn College
• Henry Hill – mobster, subject of Goodfellas
• Russel Hobbs – drummer; member of Gorillaz
• William E. Hoehle – member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Steven Hoffenberg – fraudster
• Zander Hollander – sportswriter, journalist, editor and archivist
• Red Holzman – Hall of Fame NBA two-time All-Star and coach
• Homicide – ring name of Nelson Erazo, professional wrestler signed to Ring of Honor
• Lena Horne – singer and actress
• Curly Howard – comedian; member of The Three Stooges
• Moe Howard – comedian; leader of The Three Stooges
• Shemp Howard – comedian; member of The Three Stooges
• William G. Hundley – criminal defense attorney for high-profile clients, reared in Brooklyn

  I

• Anthony Ingrassia – playwright, producer and director
• Jimmy Iovine – entrepreneur, record producer and film producer
• Breuk Iversen – designer and writer

  J

• Mark Jackson – basketball player
• Cheryl James – rapper and actress
• Shawn James – basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv
• Tama Janowitz – novelist
• Jay Z – rapper and entrepreneur
• Jaz-O – rapper
• Charles Jenkins – NBA player
• Jennie Jerome – Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill
• Jeru the Damaja – rapper
• Joey Badass – rapper
• Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George – member of R&B group SWV
• Norah Jones – musician, actress
• Susannah Mushatt Jones – oldest living New Yorker
• E. Bernard Jordan – founder of Zoe Ministries
• Michael Jordan – basketball player
• Zab Judah – professional boxer
• Just-Ice – rapper

  K

• KA – rapper
• Meir Kahane – Orthodox Jewish rabbi, activist and founder of the Jewish Defense League
• Roger Kahn – sportswriter and author of The Boys of Summer
• Big Daddy Kane – rapper
• Eric Kaplan – writer
• Gabe Kaplan – actor and comedian
• KAWS, born Brian Donnelly – graffiti artist, limited-edition clothing and toy designer
• Danny Kaye – actor and comedian
• Lainie Kazan – actress and singer
• Monica Keena – actress
• Harvey Keitel – actor
• Steven G. Kellman – author and critic
• David M. Kennedy – professor of criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, author of Don't Shoot
• The Kid Gashi – rapper
• Jimmy Kimmel – comedian and television talk-show host
• Bernard King – NBA Hall Of Famer
• Carole King – singer-songwriter
• Larry King – television talk-show host and interviewer
• Marvin Kitman – television critic, humorist, and author
• Brian Kokoska – artist
• C. Everett Koop – U.S. Surgeon General
• Sandy Koufax – Hall of Fame baseball pitcher for Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers
• John Krasinski – actor and director
• Talib Kweli – rapper and producer

  L

• Jeffrey Laitman – anatomist
• Pierre Lallement – inventor
• Sylven Landesberg – American-Israeli basketball shooting guard
• Abbe Lane – singer, dancer, actress
• Rudy LaRusso – five-time All-Star NBA basketball player
• Reuben Lasker – marine biologist
• Arthur Laurents – writer and director
• Steve Lawrence – singer and actor
• Heath Ledger – actor
• Spike Lee – film director, screenwriter and actor
• Shulem Lemmer - singer
• Jonathan Lethem – author
• Andrew Levane – NBA basketball player
• Lewis – former 19th-century professional baseball player
• Emmanuel Lewis – actor
• Tillie Ehrlich Lewis – businesswoman
• Nancy Lieberman – WNBA basketball player, coach and broadcaster; Hall of Fame
• Lil' Kim, born Kimberly Denise Jones – Grammy Award-winning rapper
• Lil Mama – rapper
• O. Winston Link – photographer
• Paul Lo Duca – MLB baseball player
• Robert Logan – actor
• Robert K. Logan – scientist
• "The Brooklyn Brawler" Steve Lombardi – professional wrestler
• Vince Lombardi – Pro Football Hall of Fame coach
• Nia Long – actress
• Jackie Loughery – Miss New York USA 1952, Miss USA 1952
• Mynette Louie – film producer
• Low Ki – ring name of Brandon Silvestry, professional wrestler
• Sid Luckman – NFL quarterback and Pro Football Hall of Fame
• MC Lyte – actress and rapper

  M

• M.O.P. – hip-hop duo
• John Buffalo Mailer – playwright and youngest child of author Norman Mailer
• Norman Mailer – author and playwright
• Paul Malignaggi – boxer
• Barry Manilow – singer-songwriter
• Stephon Marbury – NBA player
• Mario – fictional video-game character
• Marty Markowitz – Borough President of Brooklyn, New York City
• Constantine Maroulis – singer
• Branford Marsalis – saxophonist
• Duane Martin – actor
• George Willard Martin – mycologist
• Angie Martinez – radio personality, former rapper and actress
• Amy Upham Thomson McKean – pianist, songwriter and composer
• Masta Ace – rapper
• Carson McCullers – writer
• Meechy Darko – rapper
• Ronald Mellor – historian
• Boyd Melson – boxer
• Richard Merkin – painter and illustrator
• Robert Merrill – opera singer
• Debra Messing – actress
• Sean Michaels – pornographic actor and director
• Thomas Mignone – film director, music video director, screenwriter
• Alyssa Milano – actress
• Arthur Miller – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• Henry Miller – author and raconteur
• Jarrell Miller – kickboxer
• Matthew Paul Miller – reggae singer
• Walter Miller – jockey
• Wentworth Miller – actor
• Stephanie Mills – singer
• Irv Mondschein – track and field champion
• Lenny Montana – actor and professional wrestler
• Mary Tyler Moore – actor
• Esai Morales – actor
• Ed Morris – 19th-century MLB pitcher
• Joel Moses – former provost, MIT
• Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire – rapper
• Chris Mullin – NBA player and executive, Hall of Fame
• Uncle Murda – rapper
• Charlie Murphy – actor and comedian
• Eddie Murphy – actor and comedian
• Maxwell – singer-songwriter, producer, musician

  N

• Boris Nachamkin – NBA basketball player
• Sam Nahem – Major League Baseball pitcher
• Larry Namer – founder of E! Entertainment TV networks
• Nas – rapper, born Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
• Jack Newfield – writer
• Mark Newgarden – artist, cartoonist, writer, creator of Garbage Pail Kids, author of We All Die Alone and How to Read Nancy
• Ed Newman – NFL All-Pro football player
• Harry Nilsson – singer-songwriter
• Joakim Noah – NBA basketball player
• Peggy Noonan – author, columnist
• The Notorious B.I.G. – rapper, born Christopher George Latore Wallace; Biggie, Biggie Smalls
• Lupita Nyong'o – actress

  O

• O.C. – rapper
• Henry Obst – football player
• Tasker Oddie – 12th Governor of Nevada and a United States Senator; born in Brooklyn
• Ol' Dirty Bastard – rapper
• Originoo Gunn Clappaz – hip-hop group
• Dave Orr – born in Brooklyn, MLB player
• Joell Ortiz – rapper and producer
• Adam Ottavino – MLB pitcher for the New York Yankees

  P

• Peter Pace – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Papoose – rapper
• Joseph Papp – theatrical impresario who created New York City's Public Theater
• Lana Parrilla – actress
• Ben Parris – author
• Joe Paterno – football coach at Penn State in College Football Hall of Fame
• Angela Paton – theatre, TV and film actress
• Jayson Paul – professional wrestler
• Dickey Pearce – MLB player
• Rosie Perez – actress and choreographer
• Rhea Perlman – actress
• Harold Perrineau – actor
• Lip Pike – home run champion baseball player
• Michael Pitt – actor and musician
• Suzanne Pleshette – actress
• Charles Millard Pratt – oil industrialist and philanthropist
• Frederic B. Pratt – president of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute
• George Dupont Pratt – conservationist and philanthropist
• Harold Pratt – oil industrialist
• Herbert L. Pratt – oil industrialist
• John Pratt – lawyer, philanthropist, music impresario and financier
• DJ Premier – hip-hop disc jockey, producer, co-founder and member of hip-hop duo Gang Starr

  R

• Eddie Rabbitt – singer-songwriter
• Marky Ramone – drummer of the punk band The Ramones
• Lou Reed – singer-songwriter
• Paul Regina – actor
• Leah Remini – actress
• Bebe Rexha – singer, songwriter and record producer
• Buddy Rich – drummer and big-band leader
• Adam Richman – actor, host of reality-television series Man vs. Food
• Joan Rivers – comedian
• Phil Rizzuto – Major League Baseball player and broadcaster
• Mary Fanton Roberts – journalist, writer
• Chris Rock – actor and comedian
• Tony Rock – actor and comedian
• Steve Rogers – American Hero, federal official, intelligence operative, former soldier
• Saul Rogovin – Major League Baseball pitcher
• Mickey Rooney – five-time Oscar-nominated actor
• Mike Rosen – radio talk show host and newspaper columnist
• Wayne Rosenthal – Major League Baseball pitcher and coach
• Steve Ross – chairman of Time Warner
• Mark Roth – bowler
• Rowdy Rebel – rapper from GS9
• David Ruggerio – chef
• Brenda Russell – singer
• Chris Rush – stand-up comedian
• Sam Rutigliano – football coach
• Carl Hancock Rux – writer, actor, and director
• RZA – rapper

  S

• Peter Sarsgaard – actor
• Carl Sagan – scientist, author, educator
• Saigon – actor and rapper
• Dmitri Salita – boxer
• Bernie Sanders – Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont
• Adam Sandler – actor and comedian
• Evie Sands – singer, songwriter and musician
• Roger Schank – education reformer, artificial-intelligence expert
• Kenny Scharf – graffiti artist
• Ossie Schectman – NBA basketball guard
• Thomas D. Schiano – organ-transplantation specialist
• Vincent Schiavelli − actor, food writer
• Steve Schirripa – actor
• Andre-Michel Schub – pianist
• Chuck Schumer – U.S. Senator from New York
• Seymour Schwartzman – opera singer and cantor
• Raymond Scott – composer, bandleader, pianist, electronic-music pioneer
• Neil Sedaka – singer-songwriter
• Alonzo Bertram See — businessman
• Erich Segal – author, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, and educator
• Jerry Seinfeld – actor and comedian
• Hubert Selby, Jr. – author
• Cletus Seldin – boxer
• Phil Sellers – former NBA player
• Greg Serano – actor
• Shabazz the Disciple – rapper
• Ruth Shafer, engineer
• Neal Shapiro – equestrian and Olympic medalist
• Francis Ethelbert Sharkey – fictional character played by Terry Becker in the 1964–68 ABC television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
• Judith Sheindlin – television personality, Judge Judy
• Allie Sherman – NFL player and coach
• Bobby Shmurda – rapper from GS9
• Michael Showalter – actor and comedian
• Gabourey Sidibe – actress
• Bugsy Siegel – gangster
• Raymond Siller – television writer, political consultant
• Beverly Sills – opera singer
• Dean Silvers – film director, film producer, screenwriter, and author
• Phil Silvers – actor and comedian
• David Sive – attorney, environmentalist, and professor of environmental law
• Skoob – half of rap duo Das EFX
• Justine Skye – singer, songwriter, dancer and model
• Smif-n-Wessun – hip-hop duo
• Jimmy Smits – actor
• Smothers Brothers born on Governors Island
• Ralph Snyderman – physician, scientist, administrator
• Robert Solow – economist; winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• Paul Sorvino – actor
• Carl Søyland – editor-in-chief of Nordisk Tidende
• Paul Spatola – musician
• DJ Spinderella – DJ and rapper
• Barbara Stanwyck – Oscar-winning actress
• Peter Steele – bassist and singer
• Gary Stephan – artist
• Lance Stephenson – basketball player
• Stuart Sternberg – owner of the Tampa Bay Rays
• Connie Stevens – actress and singer
• Neil M. Stevenson – Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Navy
• Sticky Fingaz born Kirk Jones – of the rap group Onyx
• Jerry Stiller – actor, father of Ben Stiller
• David Stones – rapper
• Barbra Streisand – Oscar-winning actress, singer, director, political activist
• Eric Stuart – voice actor, voice director, musician, singer and songwriter
• Ray Suarez – journalist
• Jason Sudekis – actor and comedian
• Harold Syrett – President of Brooklyn College

  T

• Sid Tannenbaum – professional basketball player
• Tazz – ring name of Peter Senerchia, former professional wrestler
• Sebastian Telfair – NBA player
• Roy M. Terry – Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force
• Tanisha Thomas – reality television participant, television show host
• Adrianne Tolsch – Comedian, writer and graphic artist
• Marisa Tomei – Oscar-winning actress
• Joe Torre – Major League Baseball player, New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers manager, Hall of Fame
• Rachel Trachtenburg – actress, singer, musician
• John Turturro – actor and director
• Nicholas Turturro – actor
• Mike Tyson – heavyweight boxing champion

  U

• Uncle Murda – gangster rapper
• UTFO – 1980s rap group

  V

• Lou Vairo – ice hockey coach and inductee into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame
• Andrew VanWyngarden – member of MGMT
• Alan Veingrad – NFL player
• Guido Verbeck - political advisor, educator, and missionary
• Edward Vick – former CEO of Young & Rubicam
• Idara Victor – actress
• Tony Visconti – musician, producer

  W

• Eli Wallach – actor
• Mickey Welch – MLB player
• Mae West – actress, playwright, and comedian
• Randy Weston – pianist and composer
• Colson Whitehead – novelist and MacArthur Fellow
• Walt Whitman – poet, best known for Leaves of Grass; journalist and Brooklyn Eagle editor; essayist and humanist
• Whodini – 1980s rap group
• Olivia Wilde – actress
• Michael K. Williams – actress
• Michelle Williams – actress
• Jan Wilsgaard – chief automotive designer, Volvo Cars, 1950–1990
• Robert Anton Wilson – author
• Shelley Winters – Oscar-winning actress
• Paula Wolfert – cookbook author, specialist in Mediterranean cuisines
• Wolfman Jack – 1970s disc jockey
• BD Wong – actor
• Lloyd R. Woodson – arrested in 2010 with military-grade weapons and a detailed map of the Fort Drum military installation
• Harold G. Wren – dean of three law schools

  Y

• Adam Yauch – rapper, founding member of the Beastie Boys
• Henny Youngman – comedian

  Z

• Max Zaslofsky – NBA guard/forward, one-time FT% leader, one-time points leader, All-Star, ABA coach
• Zombie Juice – rapper
• Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft - Rabbi