- Jay-Z
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4 1968), better known as Jay-Z, is an American rapper and current president and CEO of Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella Records. In addition, he co-owns The 40/40 Club, and is co-owner of the New Jersey Nets NBA team. He is one of the most financially successful American hip-hop artists. Known for his flow and blending of street and popular rap, Jay-Z has become one of the best-selling rappers in the hip hop industry. - Mos Def
Mos Def (born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA), is an American rapper and actor. Mos Def started his rap career as a member of the Native Tongue Posse collective and by guesting on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. He released a well-received album with Talib Kweli as Black Star, and was a major force in the late 90s underground hip hop explosion spearheaded by Rawkus Records. - Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli (born Talib Kweli Greene in Brooklyn, New York City on October 3, 1975) is an American MC from Brooklyn, New York. He is one of the best-known rappers in alternative hip hop, and is frequently critically acclaimed, despite not having seen significant commercial success. His name in Arabic means "student", his last name in Swahili means "true". Talib and fellow rapper artist Mos Def purchased Nkiru, … - Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. He also teaches film at New York University and Columbia University. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983. - Busta Rhymes
Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr. (born on May 20 1972), better known as Busta Rhymes, is an American hip hop musician and actor of Jamaican descent. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the name Busta Rhymes (from former NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes) after watching him perform. He is also a follower of the Nation of Islam offshoot, The Nation of Gods and Earths. - Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard Tyson, (born June 30, 1966) is a former American world heavyweight boxing champion. To date Tyson is the youngest man to have won a boxing world heavyweight title belt. During his prime in the late 1980s and early 1990s Tyson was one of the most recognizable athletes in the world. Nicknamed "Iron Mike Tyson", "Kid Dynamite", and "The Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson adopted the Muslim name, Malik Abdul Aziz, … - Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, … - Foxy Brown
Inga Marchand (born September 6 1979, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York), better known as Foxy Brown, is an American rapper of Afro-Trinidadian and Indo-Trinidadian descent known for her solo work as well as numerous collaborations and a brief stint as part of hip-hop musicgroup The Firm She has released three albums: "Ill Na Na" (1996), "Chyna Doll" (1999), and "Broken Silence" (2001) while also being featured on "Nas, Foxy Brown, … - Mae West
Mae West (August 17, 1893 - November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol. Famous for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on the legitimate stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become renowned as a comedienne, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. One of the most controversial stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship. - Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson became the first African-American professional baseball player of the modern era in 1947. While not the first African American professional baseball player in history, his Major League debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers ended approximately eighty years of baseball segregation, also known as the baseball color line. The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Robinson in 1962 and he was a member of six World Series teams. - Danny Kaye
David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 - March 3, 1987) was a Golden Globe-winning American actor, singer and comedian. - Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (born March 2 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. Reed first found prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground (1965 - 1973). The band gained relatively little notice during its life, but is widely considered by some to be one of the seeds of alternative rock music. - La La
Alani "La La" Vasquez (born in June 25, 1979, in Brooklyn) is an American disc jockey, television personality and MTV VJ. - Larry King
Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on November 19, 1933) is an iconic award-winning American writer, journalist and broadcaster. He currently hosts a nightly interview program on CNN called "Larry King Live", one of the longest running talk shows on air. - Marty Markowitz
Marty Markowitz is the Borough President of Brooklyn, New York City. He received his bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College, in Political Science, in 1970. Prior to being elected Borough President, he spent over two decades as a New York State Senator for Brooklyn. During his time as a state senator, he was known for creating a series of oceanfront concerts and other festivals rather than drafting legislation. Markowitz believes that all politics are local. - Chris Rock
Christopher Julius Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was described by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time. - Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer and songwriter. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Diamond was one of the more successful pop music performers, scoring a number of hits in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. As critic William Ruhlmann writes, "as of 2001, he claimed worldwide record sales of 115 million copies, and as of 2002 he was ranked third, behind only Elton John and Barbra Streisand, … - Spot
Spot (born Harkeem James in New York, New York on August 9, 1984) is an American rapper signed to record label, King Day Records and is managed by Czar Entertainment. - Lil' Kim
Kimberly Denise Jones (born July 11, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York), better known by her stage name Lil' Kim or her nickname Queen Bee, is a Grammy Award winning rap artist. Kim rose to fame in the mid 1990s and has become one of the two best selling female rappers of all time (along with Missy Elliott). - Michael Jordan
Mike's wife Jill is a mathematician, recently achieving her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. They are expecting their first child in late April or early May 2006. Mike is a graduate of Houghton College in New York and Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Liturgical Studies at Drew University in Madison, NJ. - Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. She has won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Original Song as well as multiple Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards. Streisand has ranked as the best selling female album artist of all-time in the United States, according to the RIAA, for over thirty years. - Adam Richard Sandler
Adam Sandler was born on September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. He has seven brothers. He was always the class clown in school. When Adam Sandler turned 17 years old, at the advice of his brother he tried out for a comedy club. That's how he came to recognize his true talent as a comedian. He started acting in the Cosby Show and then wen on to movies. - Joe Torre
The classic example of an affiliative leader - and the one often cited by Goleman - is Joe Torre , the ex-manager of the New York Yankees. Just think about the challenges faced by the manager of a professional baseball team. And the New York Yankees are not just any team. Joe Torre was the manager of one of the most talented teams in all of baseball. And with all that talent come a lot of ego-centric players. - Gza
GZA (pronounced "Jiz-uh"), aka The Genius, (born Gary Grice August 22, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American hip hop artist. He is most well known as a founding member of the seminal hip hop group the Wu-Tang Clan. In addition to appearing on all the Wu-Tang Clan albums he has released five solo albums and has appeared on many other Clanmate's solo releases. - Jerry Seinfeld
Jerome Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy award-winning American comedian, actor, and writer. Seinfeld is often described as an observational comedian. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the long-running sitcom "Seinfeld", which he co-created, helped write, and executive produced. - Dj Premier
Christopher Edward Martin (born March 21, 1966), better known as DJ Premier (and affectionately "Premo"/"Primo"/"Preem" by his fans, fellow musicians and critics) is a prominent American hip hop producer and DJ, and the instrumental half of the duo Gang Starr, together with MC Guru on the lyrical side. Originally from Houston, he has lived in Brooklyn, New York virtually his entire professional career. - Rock
Rock, also known as the Rockness Monstah, is an American Rapper, famous as a member of Hip Hop collective Boot Camp Clik and the duo Heltah Skeltah along with Ruck. After releasing two albums with Heltah Skeltah, "Nocturnal" and "Magnum Force", Rock left Duck Down Records and pursued a solo career. He signed to DJ Lethal's Lethal Records and recorded a solo album titled "Planet Rock", which was never released after the label folded. - Big Daddy Kane
Antonio Hardy (born September 10, 1968), better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is a record producer/rapper from the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn, New York. He worked with artists including Big L, Biz Markie, Marley Marl, Public Enemy, Teddy Riley, Rudy Ray Moore and Barry White. Heavily influenced by Grandmaster Caz in his earlier years, he continued to improve his fast flow and freestyle battle techniques. - David Paterson
David A. Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and the current Lieutenant Governor of New York. He is the first African American to hold this position. He was selected as running mate by New York Attorney General and Democratic Party nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. Paterson was born legally blind in Brooklyn in 1954. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1977 and later his law degree from Hofstra Law School. - George Harrison
George Harrison (1915 - 2004) was a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Born in Shammer, Kilkelly, County Mayo, Harrison immigrated to the United States to facilitate arms transfers to IRA operatives within Northern Ireland. - Anne Hathaway
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American film and stage actress. Hathaway made her acting debut in the 1999 television series "Get Real", but her first prominent role was in Disney's family comedy "The Princess Diaries" (2001), which established her career. She continued to appear in Disney films in the next three years, … - Lil' Mama
Lil' Mama (born Niatia Kirkland in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rapper currently signed to Jive Records. Lil' Mama was raised in a large family, which faced many financial difficulties. She attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn. In 2006 Li'l Mama partnered with Ali Samii, who once managed DMX, and recorded several songs with producer James "Groove' Chambers. One of the songs they recorded was Lil' Mama's first single, "Lip Gloss". - Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American director, writer, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. - Rza
RZA (born Robert Diggs, July 5, 1969 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American hip hop producer, rapper and actor. He is the "de facto" leader of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, and was also a member of Gravediggaz. He has produced almost all of Wu-Tang Clan's albums as well many Wu-Tang solo and affiliate projects. Lately he has gained more attention for his work in films, … - Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is a Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. - Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 - January 25, 1947), popularly known as "Scarface" Al Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal trafficking of alcoholic beverages during the time of prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Neapolitan emigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone, … - Wyclef Jean
Nelust Wyclef Jean (born October 17, 1972) is a Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Haitian-born American rapper, producer, and member of the hip hop trio The Fugees. - David Yassky
David Yassky is a member of the New York City Council. First elected in 2001, he represents the 33rd Council District, which includes parts of downtown Brooklyn, including Brooklyn Heights, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, DUMBO, Boerum Hill and Park Slope. He previously served chief counsel to the House Subcommittee on Crime, a Subcommittee chaired by Rep. Charles Schumer. He was also previously a member of the faculty of the Brooklyn Law School. - The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 - March 9, 1997), popularly known as Biggie Smalls (after a gangster in the 1975 film "Let's Do It Again"), Big Poppa, Frank White (from the film "King of New York"), and his primary stage name, The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game), was an American rapper and hip hop artist. - Willie Randolph
Willie Larry Randolph (born July 6, 1954, in Holly Hill, South Carolina), is the current manager of the New York Mets and former Major League Baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, and New York Mets.
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