List of people from Brooklyn

This is a list of people who were either born or have lived in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City at some time in their lives.

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• John Badalamenti (born 1973) – federal judge (Gravesend)
• Adrienne Bailon (born 1983) – actress
• Scott Baio (born 1960) – actor (Dyker Heights)
• Ralph Bakshi (born 1938) – film director (Haifa, Israel–born and Brownsville-reared)
• Folarin Balogun (born 2001) – soccer player
• Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) – artist
• Noah Baumbach (born 1969) – film director and writer (Midwood)
• Gary Becker (1930–2014) – economist; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1992) (Madison)
• Francis J. Beckwith (born 1960) – philosopher at Baylor University
• Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) – clergyman and social reformer
• Lyman Beecher (1775–1863) – clergyman and father of Henry Ward Beecher, Thomas K. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Begushkin – folk rock band
• Joy Behar (born 1942) – comedian and talk-show host (Williamsburg)
• Paul Ben-Victor (born 1965) – actor (Midwood)
• Pat Benatar (born 1953) – singer (Greenpoint)
• Randy E. Bennett – educational researcher (Flatbush)
• Mary Crowell Van Benschoten (1840–1921), author, newspaper publisher, clubwoman
• Bill Benulis (1928–2011) – penciller and inker
• David Berkowitz (born 1953) – serial killer known as "Son of Sam"
• Walter Berndt (1899–1979) – cartoonist
• Paul Bettany (born 1971) – actor (Brooklyn Heights)
• Lloyd Blankfein (born 1954) – investment banker; chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs
• Corbin Bleu (born 1989) – actor
• George G. Bloomer (born 1963) – televangelist
• Emily Blunt (born 1983) – actress
• Joseph Bologna (1934–2017) – actor
• Clara Bow (1905–1965) – actress (Prospect Heights)
• Riddick Bowe (born 1967) – boxer, heavyweight champion (Brownsville)
• Barbara Boxer (born 1940) – politician; U.S. Senator from California (since 1993)
• Harry Boykoff (1922–2001) – basketball player
• Steve Bracey (1950–2006) — basketball player
• Scott Brady (1924–1985) – actor
• Mark Breland (born 1963) – boxer; five-time New York Golden Gloves champion
• Shannon Briggs (born 1971) – boxer, heavyweight champion
• Gail Brodsky (born 1991) – tennis player
• Mel Brooks (born 1926) – actor, comedian, film director, film producer and screenwriter (Williamsburg)
• Foxy Brown (born 1978) – actress, model and rap artist (Park Slope)
• Larry Brown (born 1940) – basketball player and coach, point guard, three-time All-Star, three-time assists leader, Olympic champion, NCAA and NBA head coach
• Elliott Buckmaster (1889–1976) – U.S. Navy officer; naval aviator during World War I and World War II
• Buckshot (born 1974) – rapper (Crown Heights)
• Terry Burrus – musician; composer, conductor, producer
• Steve Buscemi (born 1957) – actor, film director and screenwriter
• Busta Rhymes (born 1972) – rapper (East Flatbush and Bedford–Stuyvesant)

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• Anthony Ingrassia (1944–1995) – playwright, producer and director
• Jimmy Iovine (born 1953) – entrepreneur, record producer and film producer (Red Hook)
• Breuk Iversen (born 1964) – designer and writer

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• Peter Pace (born 1945) – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Shemuel Pagan (born 1988) – professional boxer
• Papoose (born 1978) – rapper
• Joseph Papp (1921–1991) – theatrical impresario who created New York City's Public Theater
• Lana Parrilla (born 1977) – actress
• Ben Parris (born 1961) – author
• Joe Paterno (1926–2012) – football coach at Penn State in College Football Hall of Fame
• Angela Paton (1930–2016) – theatre, TV and film actress
• Jayson Paul (born 1984) – professional wrestler
• Dickey Pearce (1836–1908) – MLB player
• Nelson Peltz (born 1942) – billionaire businessman and investor
• Rosie Perez (born 1964) – actress and choreographer (Bushwick and later Clinton Hill)
• Rhea Perlman (born 1948) – actress
• Harold Perrineau (born 1963) – actor
• Lip Pike – home run champion baseball player
• Michael Pitt (born 1981) – actor and musician
• Stacey Plaskett (born 1966) – politician and attorney
• Suzanne Pleshette (1937–2008) – actress (Brooklyn Heights)
• Robert Pollack (born 1940) – professor of biological sciences
• Mark F. Pomerantz (born 1951) – attorney, prosecutor
• Martin Pope (1918–2022) – physical chemist
• Charles Millard Pratt (1855–1935) – oil industrialist and philanthropist
• Frederic B. Pratt (1865–1945) – president of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute (1893–1937)
• George Dupont Pratt (1869–1935) – conservationist and philanthropist
• Harold Pratt (1877–1939) – oil industrialist
• Herbert L. Pratt (1871–1945) – oil industrialist
• John Pratt (1873–1927) – lawyer, philanthropist, music impresario and financier
• Marianne Preger-Simon (born 1929) – dancer, choreographer, writer, and psychotherapist
• DJ Premier (born 1966) – hip-hop disc jockey, producer, co-founder and member of hip-hop duo Gang Starr
• Priscilla Presley (born 1945) – businesswoman, actress
• Sean Price (1972–2015) – rapper (Brownsville)

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• Max Zaslofsky (1925–1985) – NBA guard/forward, one-time FT% leader, one-time points leader, All-Star, ABA coach
• Zombie Juice (born 1990) – rapper (Flatbush)
• Shirley Zussman (1914–2021) – sex therapist
• Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft (1915–2005) – rabbi

See also

• List of artists who have resided in Brooklyn
• List of people from New York City
  • List of people from the Bronx
  • List of people from Queens
  • List of people from Staten Island

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