Writers from New York (state)

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the only woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president. Clinton lost the United States Electoral College vote to Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. She is the only first lady of the United States to have run for elected office.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt was vice president for six months under William McKinley and became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. He was 42 years old upon his first inauguration, making him the youngest person to hold the office.

American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he is considered an icon of modern American liberalism in the 21st century.

American comedian, actress, and television host (1933–2014)

American poet (1892–1950)

American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher

American frontiersman and showman (1846–1917)

American sociologist (1916–1962)

American lawyer, orator, and politician (1833-1899)

American film director (1939–2022)

American actress

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services since 2025. A member of the prominent Kennedy family, he is a son of Senator and US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of US president John F. Kennedy and US senator Ted Kennedy.

American film director (1939–2016)

American tennis player

United States Navy admiral and historian (1840–1914)

American political commentator, television host and writer

American politician (1902–1971)

American politician (1864-1928)

American actress (1930–2011)

American actor (1933–2009)

First Lady of United States (1846-1918)

author, animal rights activist

American temperance activist and suffragist (1839–1898)

free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders

American actress (born 1981)

Italian-American middle distance runner and World War II veteran

American journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)

American feminist and author (1935–2025)

American far-right activist, blogger, commentator and conspiracy theorist

American pornographic actress, journalist and writer

American ornithologist, birdwatcher, and nature writer (1863 – 1948)

American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet (1890–1957)

American linguist (1914–2003)

American writer (1896–1955)

American financier and political figure (born 1964)

anti-war activist

American anthropologist (1793-1864)

American actress

American author, entrepreneur, angel investor and public speaker

self-help writer

American music critic, born 1925 (1925–2017)

American Presbyterian minister and socialist (1884-1968)

Union Army general

American television host, businesswoman, celebrity cook, and author

American photographer and writer (1938–2020)

Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies, Stanford University

Irish-American writer

American writer

American horticulturist, nurseryman and landscape architect (1815 - 1852)

United States Ambassador to Israel (2017–2021)

American fiction writer

American rapper from New York (born 1974)

American actor and writer (1791-1852)

American author

United States economist and author (1854–1943)

American fashion stylist

British-born American far-right political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer (born 1945)

Chinese actress