- James Blake
James Riley Blake (born December 28, 1979 in Yonkers, New York, United States) is an American professional tennis player and is currently the 9th ranked player in the world (8th in the ATP Race points). He is the second-ranked American player behind Andy Roddick. Blake is known for his speed and powerful forehand. In 2006 he reached the final of the Tennis Masters Cup but lost to World No. 1 Roger Federer in three sets. - Steven Tyler
Stephen Victor Tallarico (born March 26 1948 in Yonkers, New York), better known as Steven Tyler (and often nicknamed The Demon of Screamin') is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith. He is renowned for his wide grin and big lips (a trait he shares with fellow rocker Mick Jagger). - Mary J. Blige
Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971), is an American R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, rapper, producer, and actress who has sold over 60 million records around the world since her career began in 1991. In that span she has had thirty-one charting hits on the U.S. pop charts. She has had forty hits on the R&B charts, seventeen of which were in the top ten and six which reached number one. She also has nine singles to reach number one on the dance charts, … - Styles P
David Styles (born November 28, 1974), better known as Styles P is an American based rapper. He was born to an American father and an African mother. He is a member of rap group D-Block, which includes Jadakiss, and Sheek Louch. He is known primarily for the hardcore lyrics and powerful messages in his music. - Tommy Dreamer
Thomas Laughlin, is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Tommy Dreamer. He is currently under contract to World Wrestling Entertainment and wrestling on the ECW brand. In addition to his current role, Dreamer is — arguably — best known for the time he spent in the Philadelphia based Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion, of which he has been called the "heart and soul". - Sheek Louch
Sean D. Jacobs (born November 9, 1976 in Yonkers, New York), better known as Sheek Louch, is a rapper and member of D-Block, the group formerly known as "The LOX", which includes Jadakiss and Styles. - Dmx
Earl Simmons (born on December 18, 1970), better known by his stage name, DMX, is an American rapper and actor who rose to popularity in the late-1990s. - Supa Mario
Supa Mario is the host DJ and record producer of the hip-hop group D-Block, born and raised in Yonkers, New York. - Lawrence Monoson
Lawrence Monoson (b. August 11, 1964 in Yonkers, New York, USA) is an American movie and television actor. His first film was the 1982 comedy "The Last American Virgin", in which he starred as Gary. His other well known film roles are in the 1984 horror movie "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter" as Ted, and the 1985 hit drama movie "Mask" as Rocky Dennis's friend, Ben. His most recent movie is 2005's "Guns Before Butter". - Linda Lovelace
Linda Susan Boreman, better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace, was a pornographic actress in the 1972 film "Deep Throat", who went on to leave the pornography industry and became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement. "Deep Throat" was notable for beginning a brief fad of porn chic; it was also the inspiration for Bob Woodward's name of his secret Watergate source, W. Mark Felt. - Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996), also known as "Lady Ella" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century. With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, near faultless phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. - Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa is an American R&B singer/songwriter. Her debut single was "Can't Be Wasting My Time" featuring Mr. Cheeks, a member of the Hip-Hop group Lost Boyz. The song was featured on the "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood" soundtrack as well as her debut album "11-20-79". The lead single from "11-20-79" was "You Said". - Steve Meretzky
Steven Eric Meretzky (born May 1, 1957) is an American computer game designer, with dozens of titles to his credit. He has been involved in almost every aspect of game development, from design to production to quality assurance and box design. He is best known for creating some of the famous Infocom games in the early 1980s, including collaborating with celebrated author Douglas Adams on the interactive fiction version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", … - David Berkowitz
David Richard Berkowitz (Born: June 1 1953), better known by his nickname Son of Sam, is an American serial killer who confessed to killing six people and wounding several others in New York City in the late 1970s. Though Berkowitz remains the only person charged or convicted in relation to the case, some law enforcement authorities suspect that there are unresolved questions about the crimes, … - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (born September 9 1923 in Yonkers, New York, USA) is an American physician and medical researcher of Slovakian-Hungarian descent, who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on kuru, the first prion disease ever described. His later life was marred by a criminal conviction for child molestation. - Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning American comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television series "Your Show of Shows", and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in "Grease" and "Grease 2". - Edwin Howard Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 - January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Armstrong was the inventor of the FM radio. - John Spencer
John Spencer (born November 17, 1946) is the former Mayor of Yonkers, New York (1995-2003) and the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat held by incumbent Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. Prior to entering politics as a member of the Yonkers City Council in 1991, he worked in retail, food service, construction, waste management, and banking. - Jadakiss
Jason T. Phillips (born May 27 1975), also known by his rap name Jadakiss, is an American rapper. He is part of the crew known as D-Block (consisting of Jadakiss, Styles P, Sheek Louch, & J-Hood) and was a part of "The LOX" (with the same MCs, except for J-Hood). - Will Rahmer
"Will Rahmer" (September 30,1969, Yonkers, New York) is an American musician. Will was the vocalist of the death metal band Incantation, then he founded his own band Mortician along with Matt Sicher. He writes the lyrics of the band and takes inspiration from horror movies. He is the co-founder of the New York Death Militia and has his own record label called Redrum Records. He is a horror movie fan, and has over 500 original horror films. - Thomas Blake
Thomas Blake, Jr. (born 29 December 1976) is an American professional tennis player. Blake was born in Yonkers, New York to Thomas Sr. (who is African-American) and Betty (who is English). He has a younger brother, James Blake, who is also a professional tennis player, as well as three half-brothers, Jason, Howard and Christopher, and a half-sister, Michelle. Blake grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut and attended Fairfield Warde High School. - Eddie Kingston
Eddie Kingston (born in Yonkers, NY) is an American independent professional wrestler who most notably performs for CHIKARA, Combat Zone Wrestling, IWA Mid-South, Westside Xtreme Wrestling, and made an appearance as part of the Cage of Death match in Ring of Honor. - Marcus Molinaro
Marcus J. Molinaro (b. 1975), originally from Yonkers, New York, represents District 103 in the New York State Assembly. He is a Republican. In 1994, when he was just 18, Molinaro was elected to the Tivoli Village Board of Trustees-making him the youngest person ever elected to office in the State of New York. The very next year, he became the youngest mayor in the United States. He was re-elected mayor five times and elected four times to the Dutchess County Legislature. - Jason Cerbone
Jason Cerbone (born November 2, 1977) is an actor from Yonkers, New York. He got his start acting at age 2, appearing on a commercial for "Sesame Street". He signed with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York City at age 7. Jason later appeared in Bon Jovi's "Silent Night" music video, as well as the title character in Suzanne Vega's video for the song "Luka". He attended Sacred Heart High School and Concordia College in New York and received a degree in biology. - Ed Dee
Ed Dee is an author, born in Yonkers, New York on February 3, 1940. He graduated from Sacred Heart High School, then served two years in the United States Army. In 1962 in joined the New York City Police Department (NYPD). He earned a BA from Fordham University. He retired from the NYPD as a lieutenant and then he began to write. He earned an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University. - John Howard Northrop
John Howard Northrop (July 5 1891 - May 27 1987) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 (with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley) for purifying and crystallizing certain enzymes. Northrop was born in Yonkers, New York and educated at Columbia University, where he earned his PhD in chemistry in 1915. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"' Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling"' on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house; the store and publishing company that published early literary works of the Beat generation, and helped to launch the careers of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. - Phil Amicone
Philip A. Amicone is the forty first Mayor of the City of Yonkers, NY. He took office January 1, 2003 after serving eight years as Deputy Mayor. As Deputy Mayor he was involved in all phases of the city’s redevelopment. He was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the city departments. Prior to becoming Deputy Mayor of Yonkers, Mayor Amicone was Commissioner of the Department of Building for the City of White Plains. - John B. Taylor
John B. Taylor (born December 8, 1946) is an economics professor at Stanford University. Born in Yonkers, New York, he earned his A.B. from Princeton University in 1968 and Ph.D. from Stanford in 1973, both in economics. He taught at Columbia University from 1973-1980 and the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton from 1980-1984 before returning to Stanford. He has received several teaching prizes and used to teach Stanford's introductory economics course. - Lillo Brancato Jr.
Lillo Brancato, Jr. (born August 19, 1976) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role of Calogero Anello in Robert De Niro's 1993 directorial debut, "A Bronx Tale." He also played a young wannabe mobster on "The Sopranos". In December 2005, Brancato was charged with second-degree murder for his role in a burglary in the Bronx in which an off-duty police officer, Daniel Enchautegui, was fatally shot. - Lil' Zane
Zane Copeland, Jr. (July 11, 1982), better known as Lil' Zane, was a rapper out of Atlanta, Georgia, although he was born in Yonkers, New York. He is arguably best known for his "Young World: The Future", released in 2000. The album's single, "Callin' Me," featuring 112 is widely considered his best. The album has an almost cult following, praising Lil' Zane's deep lyrics on songs such as "Ways Of The World", and "Beautiful Feeling". - George Wright
George Wright (January 28 1847 - August 21 1937) played shortstop for the original Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional baseball team, when he was probably the game's best player. In 1868, George Wright won the Clipper Medal for being the best shortstop in baseball. He was one of five men to play regularly for both the Cincinnati and the Boston Red Stockings, the latter winning six championships during his eight seasons to 1878. - Clifton Powell
Clifton Powell (born August 31, 1947) is an American actor. Powell was born in Liberia Yonkers, New York. In addition to several films and television programs, he also was a voice actor for the computer game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas", playing Big Smoke. He has won several NAACP Awards. - Michael Fox
Michael Fox (February 27, 1921 - June 1, 1996) was an American character actor born in Yonkers, New York. Two of his regular TV roles were as the coroner in the courtroom drama Perry Mason, and as Saul Feinberg on the CBS soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" from 1989-1996. He is also notable for being the reason Michael J. Fox registered his name with a middle initial when he first joined the Screen Actors Guild (to differentiate his name from "Michael Fox"). - J-Hood
J-Hood (born Joshua Hood in January 23 1984 in Newport, North Carolina, USA) is the youngest member of D-Block. - Warren Casey
Warren Casey (1935 - November 8, 1988) was an American theatre composer, lyricist, writer, and actor. Born in Yonkers, New York, Casey received his Fine Arts Degree from the Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts in 1957. In the mid-1960s, Casey met Jim Jacobs while acting with the Chicago Stage Guild, and the two began collaborating on a play about high school life during the golden age of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s. - Fred Epstein
Fred J. Epstein, MD (July 26 1937 - July 9 2006) was an internationally renowned pediatric neurosurgeon credited for the development of pioneering neurosurgical techniques to treat children threatened by brain and spinal-cord tumors. His surgical techniques and commitment to patient care saved thousands of children's lives and earned him a reputation as one of the world's leading pediatric neurosurgeons. - Joe Lapchick
Joseph Bohomiel Lapchick (b. April 12, 1900 in Yonkers, New York - d. August 10, 1970 in New York City) was a professional basketball player, mostly known for playing with the Original Celtics in the 1920s and 30s. He is commonly regarded as the best center of his era, overshadowed (if anything) in his later years only by Tarzan Cooper. After ending his playing career in 1937, Lapchick became head coach at St. John's University, a position he held until 1947, … - Michel Fokine
Michel Fokine or Mikhail Mikhailovich Fokin - August 22, 1942) was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer. He was born in St.Petersburg as son of a prosperous, middle-class merchant, and at the age of 9 he was accepted into the St. Petersburg theatrical school. In 1898, on his 18th birthday, he debuted on the stage of the Maryinsky theatre in the ballet "Pakhit" with the Imperial Russian Ballet (now the Mariinsky Ballet). - Jack Lambert
Jack Lambert (April 13 1920 - February 18 2002) was an American character actor born in Yonkers, New York specializing in playing movie tough guys and heavies. Following a stint on Broadway, Lambert moved to Hollywood and began working in films in 1943. Lambert was a familiar figure in Westerns and crime dramas after World War II, in such movies as "Kiss Me Deadly", "Vera Cruz", "The Killers", "How the West Was Won", and "The Enforcer".
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