Statistics for Famous People Born in New York

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Description	Famous Person	Birth City	% Correct
Star of Madagascar and Night at the Museum	Ben Stiller	New York	68%
Singer of Piano Man and We Didn't Start the Fire	Billy Joel	Bronx	61%
Comedienne of I Love Lucy	Lucille Ball	Jamestown	58%
45th and current president	Donald Trump	New York	55%
Actor as Kevin in Home Alone	Macaulay Culkin	New York	55%
Pop star of All I Want for Christmas is You	Mariah Carey	Huntington	55%
Singer of Sweet Caroline	Neil Diamond	Brooklyn	55%
Star of Raging Bull and Shark Tale	Robert De Niro	New York	55%
Annie Hall director, Antz actor	Woody Allen	New York	55%
CEO and founder of Facebook	Mark Zuckerberg	White Plains	53%
Ear-biter boxer	Mike Tyson	Brooklyn	53%
Star of Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes	Robert Downey Jr.	New York	53%
Pop star of Genie in a Bottle	Christina Aguilera	Staten Island	50%
Singer of Poker Face and Bad Romance	Lady Gaga	Manhattan	50%
Wife of the 40th president	Nancy Reagan	New York	50%
Actor of Happy Gilmore and Hotel Transylvania	Adam Sandler	Brooklyn	47%
Host of The Tonight Show (1992-2014)	Jay Leno	New Rochelle	45%
Child star of The Parent Trap and Freaky Friday	Lindsay Lohan	Bronx	45%
Creator of Marvel Comics	Stan Lee	New York	45%
Wife of the 41st president	Barbara Bush	Queens	42%
Star of Two and a Half Men and Major League	Charlie Sheen	New York	42%
Paralyzed Superman actor	Christopher Reeve	New York	42%
Comedian as Donkey in Shrek	Eddie Murphy	Brooklyn	42%
32nd president	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Hyde Park	42%
Current host of The Tonight Show	Jimmy Fallon	Brooklyn	42%
Greatest basketball player of all time, star of Space Jam	Michael Jordan	Brooklyn	42%
Actor of Antz and Rambo	Sylvester Stallone	New York	42%
26th president	Theodore Roosevelt	New York	42%
The Way we Were actress/singer	Barbra Streisand	Brooklyn	39%
Actress of a bug's life and Planes	Julia Louis-Dreyfus	New York	39%
Late actor of Capote and The Hunger Games	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Fairport	39%
The Candy Man singer	Sammy Davis Jr.	Harlem	39%
Star of Vacation, SNL and Caddyshack	Chevy Chase	Manhattan	37%
Wife of the 35th president	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis	Southampton	37%
Actress of Barbarella and Klute	Jane Fonda	New York	37%
Anaconda and Selena actress	Jennifer Lopez	Bronx	37%
Star of Bee Movie	Jerry Seinfeld	Brooklyn	37%
Singer of Girl on Fire	Alicia Keys	Manhattan	34%
Anchor of CNN 360	Anderson Cooper	Manhattan	34%
Senator of VT since 2007	Bernie Sanders	New York	34%
Former host of The Daily Show (1999-2015)	Jon Stewart	New York	34%
Star of Alien and WALL-E	Sigourney Weaver	Manhattan	34%
Actress of Dead Man Walking and Thelma & Louise	Susan Sarandon	New York	34%
Actress of Ugly Betty and Soul Food	Vanessa Williams	Bronx	34%
Star of The Mighty Ducks and The Breakfast Club	Emilio Estevez	Staten Island	32%
Author of Moby Dick	Herman Melville	New York	32%
8th president	Martin Van Buren	Kinderhook	32%
Actor of The Boss Baby and Madagascar 2	Alec Baldwin	Amityville	29%
Actress of The Princess Diaries and Rio	Anne Hathaway	New York	29%
Actor of The Godfather and Elf	James Caan	Bronx	29%
Star of own show (1970-1977)	Mary Tyler Moore	Brooklyn	29%
Director of Young Frankenstein	Mel Brooks	Brooklyn	29%
13th president	Millard Fillmore	Moravia	29%
Weatherman of NBC's Today	Al Roker	Queens	26%
Author of Charlotte's Web	E.B. White	Mount Vernon	26%
Seven dirty little words comedian	George Carlin	Manhattan	26%
Sirius radio host since 2006	Howard Stern	Queens	26%
Actress as Arwen in The Lord of the Rings	Liv Tyler	New York	26%
Director of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese	New York	26%
Comedian star of Caddyshack	Rodney Dangerfield	Deer Park	26%
Host of Today from 1997-2017	Matt Lauer	New York	24%
Star of The Goodbye Girl and Mr. Holland's Opus	Richard Dreyfuss	Brooklyn	24%
Actor as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz	Bert Lahr	New York	21%
Current anchor of ABC World News	David Muir	Syracuse	21%
Actress of Unfaithful and Inside Out	Diane Lane	New York	21%
Simpsons actor as Moe, Chief Wiggum, etc	Hank Azaria	Queens	21%
Actress of The Miracle Worker and Antz	Anne Bancroft	Bronx	18%
Comedian as Mike in Monsters Inc	Billy Crystal	Manhattan	18%
Voice of Elsa in Frozen	Idina Menzel	Queens	18%
Host of a live show on ABC	Jimmy Kimmel	Brooklyn	18%
Actress of Cars 3 and Scandal	Kerry Washington	Bronx	18%
Actor best known as Manny in Ice Age	Ray Romano	Queens	18%
Star of A Few Good Men and Home on the Range	Cuba Gooding Jr.	Bronx	16%
Comedian with cigar smoke punctuation	George Burns	New York	16%
Live host on CNN (1985-2010)	Larry King	Brooklyn	16%
Actress as Rebecca in Full House	Lori Loughlin	Queens	16%
Large New England Patriots player	Rob Gronkowski	Amherst	16%
Star of Lost in Translation and Sing	Scarlett Johansson	New York	16%
Actor as Nick in Zootopia	Jason Bateman	Rye	13%
Host of her own show (1989-1993)	Joan Rivers	Brooklyn	13%
Star of Barnyard and Hotel Transylvania	Kevin James	Mineola	13%
Star of Chicken Run and Pocahontas	Mel Gibson	Peekskill	13%
Star of show 1996-2002 and Tarzan	Rosie O'Donnell	Commack	13%
Actress as Daphne in live Scooby Doo film	Sarah Michelle Gellar	New York	13%
Star of Casper and Independence Day	Bill Pullman	Hornell	11%
Actor best known as Melman in Madagascar	David Schwimmer	Queens	11%
Late comedian as Mr. Potato Head	Don Rickles	New York	11%
Actress as Mrs. Potato Head	Estelle Harris	Manhattan	11%
Director of Pretty Woman	Garry Marshall	Bronx	11%
Frosty the Snowman voice with big nose	Jimmy Durante	Manhattan	11%
Actress as Jessie in Toy Story	Joan Cusack	New York	11%
Actor as Farquaad in Shrek	John Lithgow	Rochester	11%
Star of a bug's life and Toy Story 2	Jonathan Harris	Bronx	11%
Cartoon artist of Scooby-Doo, etc.	Joseph Barbera	Manhattan	11%
Star of Crash and You Me and Dupree	Matt Dillon	New Rochelle	11%
Actor of Pete's Dragon and Night at the Museum	Mickey Rooney	Brooklyn	11%
Actor of Tarzan and Toy Story 2	Wayne Knight	New York	11%
Star of a bug's life and Treasure Planet	David Hyde Pierce	Saratoga Springs	8%
Actor as Blu in Rio	Jesse Eisenberg	Queens	8%
Actress as Viper in Kung Fu Panda	Lucy Liu	Queens	8%
Actor of The Lion King and Bee Movie	Matthew Broderick	Manhattan	8%
Actor as Gordon on Sesame Street	Roscoe Orman	Bronx	8%
Actress of The Lion King and Toy Story 3	Whoopi Goldberg	New York	8%
Late singer of Age Ain't Nothing but a Number	Aaliyah	Brooklyn	5%
Star of The Sting and The Muppet Movie	Charles Durning	Highland Falls	5%
Star of Antz and Pulp Fiction	Christopher Walken	Queens	5%
Star of The Flintstones and Finding Nemo	Elizabeth Perkins	Queens	5%
Go-to critic for major film studios	Leonard Maltin	New York	5%
Voice of Bobby in King of the Hill	Pamela Adlon	Albany	5%
Actor of Monsters Inc and The Boss Baby	Steve Buscemi	Brooklyn	5%
Voice of SpongeBob	Tom Kenny	Syracuse	5%
Singer of The Beat of my Heart	Tony Bennett	Queens	5%
Actor as Rex in Toy Story	Wallace Shawn	New York	5%
Co-founder of Blue Sky Studios	Chris Wedge	Binghamton	3%
Star of many Don Bluth films	Dom DeLuise	Brooklyn	3%
Actress as Dot in a bug's life	Hayden Panettiere	Palisades	3%
Actress of How to Train Your Dragon and Despicable Me	Kristen Wiig	Canandaigua	3%
Original voice of Tigger	Paul Winchell	New York	3%