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Gender Diversity
Allen Ginsberg
(1926-1997)
poet
Bix Beiderbecke
(1903-1931)
pianist
Brooks Atkinson
(1894-1984)
New York Times drama critic
Dylan Thomas
(1914-1953)
poet
Thomas Wolfe
(1900-1938)
author
Horace Greeley
(1811-1872)
founder of the New-York Tribune
Edith Wharton
(1862-1937)
writer
Mae West
(1893-1980)
singer
Marcus Garvey
(1887-1940)
Pan-Africanist leader
Federico GarcĂa Lorca
(1898-1936)
poet
Edward Livingston
(1764-1836)
United States Senator
Humphrey Bogart
(1899-1957)
actor
Brendan Behan
(1923-1964)
republican
Hotel Chelsea, New York
(1884-present)
hotel
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892-1950)
poet
Andy Warhol
(1928-1987)
Pop artist
Scott Joplin
(1868-1917)
King of Ragtime
Cecil B. DeMille
(1881-1959)
director of silent epic films
John Dewey
(1859-1952)
influential educator
Victor Herbert
(1859-1924)
conductor
Harry Houdini
(1874-1926)
magician
George Gershwin
(1898-1937)
composer
Ira Gershwin
(1896-1983)
lyricist
John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)
author
John J. Fitzgerald
(1894-1963)
turf reporter
Malvina Hoffman
(1887-1966)
sculptor
James Cagney
(1899-1986)
actor
Margaret Hamilton
(1902-1985)
actor
Emma Thursby
(1845-1931)
soprano
Hart Crane
(1899-1932)
poet
Charles Ives
(1874-1954)
composer
Edwin Arlington Robinson
(1869-1935)
poet
Willa Cather
(1873-1947)
author
Richard Wright
(1908-1960)
author of Native Son
Dawn Powell
(1896-1965)
novelist
Beatrix Farrand
(1872-1959)
landscape gardener
Joseph Papp
(1921-1991)
founder and impresario of the New York Shakespeare Festival / Public Theater
Henry Miller
(1891-1980)
author
Marianne Moore
(1887-1972)
poet
Jackie Robinson
(1919-1972)
Brooklyn Dodgers infielder
Lady Deborah Moody
(1586-1659)
Lady
Lou Gehrig
(1903-1941)
"The Iron Horse"
E. E. Cummings
(1894-1962)
poet
George Grosz
(1893-1959)
painter
Claudio Arrau
(1903-1991)
pianist
James J. Corbett
(1866-1933)
world heavyweight boxing champion
Alfred Butts
(1900-1993)
architect
Roy Wilkins
(1901-1981)
civil rights leader
Thomas Paine
(1737-1809)
author of Common Sense
Jacob von Hogflume
(1864-1909)
inventor of time travel
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849)
writer
Clement Clarke Moore
(1779-1863)
poet
General George Washington
(1732-1799)
Father of his country
Eugene O'Neill
(1888-1953)
playwright
Harold Ross
(1892-1951)
magazine editor
Dorothy Parker
(1893-1967)
poet
Harpo Marx
(1888-1964)
Marx Brother
Orson Welles
(1915-1985)
actor
Marian Anderson
(1897-1993)
contralto
Dorothy Thompson
(1893-1961)
journalist
J. Henry Rothschild
Fiorello Henry La Guardia
(1882-1947)
one of the first Italian-Americans elected to Congress
Sergei Rachmaninoff
(1873-1943)
composer
Jack Kerouac
(1922-1969)
poet
Washington Irving
(1783-1859)
writer
Kim Hunter
(1922-2002)
actor
Robert Emmett
playwright
Fred Christ Trump
(1905-1999)
Thomas Edison
(1847-1931)
Sid Caesar
(1922-2014)
comic actor
Carl Reiner
(1922-2020)
Mel Brooks
(1926-present)
actor
Neil Simon
(1927-2018)
playwright
Howard Morris
(1919-2005)
Mel Tolkin
(1913-2007)
Lucille Kallen
(1922-1999)
writer
Tony Webster
(1922-1987)
Danny Simon
(1918-2005)
Max Liebman
(1902-1981)
Woody Allen
(1935-present)
Joseph Stein
(1912-2010)
Fats Waller
(1904-1943)
composer
Margaret Wise Brown
(1910-1952)
author of Goodnight Moon
Herman Melville
(1819-1891)
author of Moby Dick
George Herman Ruth
(1895-1948)
baseball player
Al Hirschfeld
(1903-2003)
Master of Caricature
Frank O'Hara
(1926-1966)
poet
John Davison Rockefeller Jr.
(1874-1960)
financier
Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962)
politician
John Pierpont Morgan
(1837-1913)
banker
Robert Benchley
(1889-1945)
wit
William Faulkner
(1897-1962)
literary luminary
Alexander Woollcott
(1887-1943)
wit
Sinclair Lewis
(1885-1951)
literary luminary
Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946)
literary luminary
James Thurber
(1894-1961)
literary luminary
Donald Trump
(1946-present)
television celebrity
Emma Goldman
(1869-1940)
anarchist
Levi Parsons Morton
Nathan Hale
(d.1776)
James Baldwin
(1924-1987)
civil rights activist
Edna Ferber
(1887-1968)
novelist