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Famous New Yorkers by Picture

Can you name these famous New Yorkers, past and present?
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Last updated: February 4, 2020
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First submittedNovember 24, 2019
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Level 78
Nov 24, 2019
"That chick from Seinfeld" or "that dude from the Mentalist, damn didn't know he was Australian!" should be perfectly acceptable answers. Knowing their names is well beyond me, I am proud to just recognise faces.
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Level 87
Nov 24, 2019
And I remembered vaguely of who Lin-Manuel Miranda was from Curb Your Enthusiasm when Larry David made the God awful choice of putting Broadway musical crap in his show.
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Level 73
Nov 26, 2019
He was the only one I missed. I thought when I saw his name it would be a headslap moment but, no, don't know him.
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Level 76
Nov 30, 2019
Was just coming to comment that this Lin fellah cannot be famous. Never heard of him in any connection... :D
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Level 65
Feb 4, 2020
I thought that "Fatwa" was hilarious.
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Level 76
Feb 4, 2020
I wondered if I was the only one who never heard of him.
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Level 69
Feb 5, 2020
Have you not heard of Hamilton? The extremely successful broadway show that he wrote and starred in?
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Level 87
Oct 7, 2021
@tom88 It's a musical, automatically filed under "never watch". Larry David couldn't even make a musical tolerable.
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Level 72
Nov 25, 2019
Wow, I couldn't recognize Anne Hathaway from that angle.
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Level 68
Feb 4, 2020
Ditto.
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Level 70
Feb 4, 2020
tritto
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Level 76
Feb 4, 2020
Quatto
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Level 83
Nov 29, 2019
Are you sure that's Lady Gaga? I don't remember her looking like that.
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Level 74
Dec 5, 2019
Yes, it is.
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Level 81
Dec 26, 2019
You just have to imagine her draped in meat.
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Level 66
Feb 4, 2020
That's one of the few I was very confident about.
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Level 75
Feb 4, 2020
The i and u are switched around in Giuliani
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Level ∞
Feb 4, 2020
Fixed
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Level 84
Feb 4, 2020
Had no idea who Miranda was. I think I saw an interview with him once.
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Level 71
Feb 4, 2020
Mixed bag of passing fame, No Woody Allen, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Tom Cruise, Al Pacino, Maria Callas, Michael Jordan, President Trump, FDR, Al Capone, F. Scott Fitzgerald etc. etc........some of those given will be forgotten before next year.
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Level 69
Feb 5, 2020
Not really, with the exception of lady gaga and Lin-Manuel Miranda these people have all been famous for 20+ years
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Level 66
Feb 4, 2020
Only 51% knew Billy Joel?
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Level 69
Sep 27, 2021
I would have got it if the picture was from 30 years earlier
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Level 60
Feb 5, 2020
Oh come on! Why is Ben Stiller not here? He is literally the person that comes in mind when someone says "New Yorker"
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Level 69
Feb 5, 2020
Really? I would never have made that connection, if someone says New Yorker I think Robert Deniro
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Level 77
Nov 17, 2020
i typed Woody Allen before i even saw the pictures. I was surprised when it wasn't one of the answers.
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Level 66
Jul 28, 2020
Got Vera Wang just by remembering that "Wang" is the most common last name in China lol
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Level 74
Oct 29, 2021
I tried every way to spell "Scott Baio" before realizing it was not, in fact, Scott Baio. Well... all in a day's work.
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Level 62
Sep 25, 2022
Accept Stefani Germanotta for Lady Gaga