• Source: 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
Alan Bersin (born 1946) - President Obama's "Border Czar," US Attorney for the Southern District of California, California Secretary of Education, Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection, US Department of Homeland Security Secretary for International Affairs, and INTERPOL vice president
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




References

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