People from Brooklyn

American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor (1930-2014)

British occultist mystic, poet and writer (1857–1942)

American factory superintendent and lynching victim (1884–1915)

American world record holder for the most world record holder

American politician (1975–2025)

American biologist

16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

American politician and diplomat (1903–2001)

American philosopher (1902–1989)

American film critic

American photographer (born 1939)

American pornographic director, producer and actor

American bodybuilder

American ornithologist and museum curator (1887–1973)

American sociologist

Jamaican freestyle skier

American chess author, teacher, and coach

brother of Al Capone

American economist (1930–2024)

American fashion designer (1923–1974)

American writer and art critic (1906–1978)

American communist who served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, and in World War II (1915–2008)

American actor (1909-1997)

American publisher, known for EC Comics and Mad Magazine

American statistician (1920–2016)

American cinematographer (1894-1963)

American lawyer, politician and writer

American computer scientist (1963–2023)

American businessperson (1930-2025)

Norwegian resistance member (1911–1994)

American photographer and filmmaker (born 1942)

American geologist (1871–1951)

American fitness professional

Mother of Francis Ford Coppola (1912-2004)

American bridge player (1902–1984)

American model and activist

American art historian

art director (1898-1968)

American academic (1929–2016)

American record producer

American Master Tailor

American historian (1896-1977)

wife of Al Capone (1897-1986)

Korean-American chef, restaurateur author and television personality

an American-born Israeli theater director and acting teacher.

American social worker and college president

American aviator

heaviest man in the world

American Shakespeare collector, philanthropist, and co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library

American anthropologist (1922–2005)

film director

American health statistician

Pornographic film director and performer (1929-2002)

American director and theoretician of performance (1926–2013)

stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini (1876-1943)

American dance critic (1928-2012)

American mycologist (1886-1971)

American sociologist and social psychologist (1920-2010)

American photographer (1822–1908)

aircraft designer, founder of Vultee Aircraft Corp.