- Members have included Arthur Kane, David Johansen, Steve Conte, Brian Delaney, Sami Yaffa, Sylvain Sylvain, Brian Koonin, Kenny Aaronson, Earl Slick, Johnny Thunders, Billy Murcia, Rick Rivets, Jerry Nolan, Peter Jordan, Blackie Lawless, Chris Robison, Tony Machine, Bobby Blaine, Gary Powell, Frank Infante, Jason Hill, Jason Sutter.
- Jerry Nolan died from a stroke on Jan. 14, 1992, at age 45. Billy Murcia died of accidental suffocation Nov. 6, 1972, in London, England, at age 21 (he had partied after a show the night before and passed out in bed from a combination of drugs and alcohol; his girlfriend tried to wake him up by pouring coffee down his throat, which suffocated him).
- Their first album, New York Dolls (1973), is ranked number 215 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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