- Lorenzo Music
Gerald David Music, (better known as Lorenzo Music (May 2, 1937 - August 4, 2001 in Brooklyn, New York), was an American actor, voice actor, writer, television producer and musician. He may be best known as the original voice of the animated cartoon cat Garfield. Other notable roles includes the voice of Carlton the doorman on the television show "Rhoda", …
- Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress.
- Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American pop singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write many major hit songs for himself and others. Sedaka's voice is in the tenor and alto ranges.
- Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor from New York City.
- Edie Falco
Edith Falco (born July 5, 1963) is an American television, film and stage actress best known for her lead role as Carmela Soprano on HBO's award winning hit series "The Sopranos", as well as Diane Wittlesey on the HBO show "Oz".
- Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
- Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986) was an American writer.
- Harold Perrineau Jr.
Harold Perrineau Jr. (born August 7 1963) is an American actor, known for playing the character Link in the "Matrix" films and games, the character Augustus Hill in the American television series "Oz" (his character also serves as the narrator for the series), Mercutio in "Romeo + Juliet", and the role of Michael Dawson in the first two seasons of the American television series "Lost".
- Michael Angarano
Michael Anthony Angarano (born December 3, 1987) is an American actor.
- Sandy Koufax
Koufax attended Brooklyn's Lafayette High School. While there, he was better known for basketball and than for baseball. When he started high school, school sports were not available because the New York school teachers were refusing to supervise extracurricular activities without monetary compensation. As an alternative to school sports, Koufax started playing basketball for a local Jewish Community Center team.
- Monica Keena
Monica C. Keena (born May 28 1979) is an American actress, known for her role as Abby Morgan on "Dawson's Creek".
- Leah Remini
Leah Remini (born June 15, 1970 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Carrie Heffernan on the sitcom "The King of Queens".
- Steve Guttenberg
Steven Robert Guttenberg (born August 24 1958) is an American film and television actor. He became known during the 1980s, after a series of starring roles in major Hollywood films, including "Cocoon" and "Three Men and a Baby".
- Esai Morales
Esai Morales (born October 1, 1962) is an actor who was most recently cast to portray a priest in The Virgin of Juarez and as Lt. Tony Rodriguez on the long-running ABC television police drama "NYPD Blue". He also appeared in the PBS drama "American Family", which was rejected as a series by CBS and later picked up by KCET and PBS and the Showtime series "Resurrection Blvd.".
- Ray Barretto
Ray Barretto a.k.a. King of the Hard Hands born in New York City, was a Puerto Rican jazz musician, widely credited as the godfather of Latin jazz. He was also the first Hispanic to record a Latin song which became a "hit" in the American Billboard Charts. Barretto's parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico in the early 1920s, looking for a better life.
- Al Kooper
Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt, February 5 1944, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American songwriter, record producer and musician, probably best known for organizing the group Blood, Sweat & Tears, though he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity. He also joined guitarist Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills of CSNY fame and recorded the "Super Session" album.
- Memphis Bleek
Malik Thuston Cox (born on June 23, 1978), better known by his rap persona of Memphis Bleek, is a New York rapper who regularly came in contact with rap legends such as The Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z. After his childhood, he has collaborated with artists such as Beanie Sigel, Ja Rule and Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, among others.
- Rashad Haughton
Rashad Haughton (born August 6, 1977 in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer, actor, writer, film director and rapper. He is more notably the older brother of the late R&B/Pop singer, Aaliyah.
- Zero Mostel
Zero Mostel was a Brooklyn-born stage and film actor best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof", Pseudolus in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", and Max Bialystock in "The Producers". He had been blacklisted during the 1950s, and his testimony before HUAC was well-publicized. He was a Tony Award and Obie Award winner.
- Talisa Soto
Talisa Soto (born Miriam Soto on March 27, 1967) is an American model and actress of Puerto Rican descent
- Constantine Maroulis
Constantine James Maroulis (born September 17, 1975 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer, actor, and writer who was the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Pray for the Soul of Betty and the sixth-place finalist on the fourth season of the popular reality television series "American Idol". He was eliminated from "American Idol" on April 27, 2005.
- Tony Sirico
Genaro Anthony Sirico, Jr. (born July 29 1942), better known as Tony Sirico, is an American actor who is most famous for his role as Paulie Walnuts in the television series "The Sopranos".
- Jonah Falcon
Jonah Falcon is best known for owning the reputedly largest documented penis in the world at 13.5 inches (measured on camera by HBO and British TV's Rapido TV/Yankee Panky.) Reputed in OUT magazine to be the biological son of John Holmes. Bronx High School of Science alumnus, Class of 1988.
- Dan Hedaya
Dan Hedaya (July 24, 1940) is a prolific American character actor.
- Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan is an American film critic who was born in Brooklyn, New York. A reviewer for the "Los Angeles Times", he also provides regular reviews for "Morning Edition" on National Public Radio.
- Paul Sorvino
Paul Anthony Sorvino (born April 13, 1939) is an American character actor whose career has largely been the portrayal of authority figures, both as legal enforcer and criminal, in television, stage, and film.
- Don Most
Don Most (b. August 8, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American actor best known for his role as Ralph Malph on the long-running television series "Happy Days". He is also known for his voice roles on several Saturday morning cartoon series. Among them, Ralph Malph on "Fonz and the Happy Days Gang" (1980); Eric the Cavalier in "Dungeons & Dragons" (1983); and Stiles on "Teen Wolf" (1986-1989).
- Richard Jeni
Richard John Colangelo (April 14, 1957 - March 10 2007), better known by the stage name of Richard Jeni, was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
- Constance Talmadge
Constance Talmadge (April 19, 1897-November 23, 1973) was a silent movie star born in Brooklyn, New York, USA, and was the sister of fellow actresses Norma Talmadge and Natalie Talmadge.
- Harvey Lembeck
Harvey Lembeck (15th April, 1923-5th January, 1982) was an American comedic actor best remembered for his role as Cpl. Rocco Barbella on "The Phil Silvers Show" (a.k.a. "Sgt. Bilko") in the late 1950s, and as the stumbling, overconfident outlaw biker Eric Von Zipper in the "Beach Party" movie series during the 1960s. He also turned in noteworthy performances in both the stage and screen versions of "Stalag 17".
- Dan Lauria
Dan Lauria (born April 12, 1947) is an American television and film actor. Lauria, an Italian-American, was born in Brooklyn, New York. He also, lived in Lindenhurst, NY for a period of time. He is best known for his portrayal of Jack Arnold in the TV series "The Wonder Years", that ran from 1988 to 1993. He also played James Webb in the 1998 TV miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon" and "Independence Day" in 1996.
- Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin (born July 27, 1949) is a Canadian/American actor. He is known for his work as a character actor in many films and television series.
- Ellie Greenwich
Eleanor Louise Greenwich, known as Ellie Greenwich (born October 23, 1940, Brooklyn, New York), is an American pop music singer, songwriter, and record producer, who wrote some of the most recognizable songs of the 1960s.
- David Proval
David Proval (born May 20, 1942 as David Aaron Proval) is an American actor, known for his role as Richie Aprile on the HBO television series "The Sopranos". Proval was born in Brooklyn, New York of Jewish heritage. He has appeared in such feature films as "The Shawshank Redemption", "Four Rooms", "UHF", "Mean Streets", "The Siege", a cameo appearance in "Smoking Aces", …
- Rhea Perlman
Rhea Perlman (born March 31, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress, best known for her role as Carla Tortelli on the popular sitcom "Cheers". She is the sister of Heide Perlman, who worked as a writer, story editor and producer on the show, and the daughter of Phil Perlman, who occasionally appeared as bar regular Phil. She is married to actor Danny DeVito, with whom she has three children - Lucy Chet DeVito (born March 1983), …
- Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem Author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and other novels & the recipient of the 1999 National Book Critic's Circle Award for fiction
- Albert Salmi
Albert Salmi was an American actor.
- Xander Berkeley
Xander R. Berkeley (born December 16, 1958) is an American actor.
- Carl Sigman
Carl Sigman (September 24, 1909 - September 26, 2000) was a major American songwriter. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York. Instead of law, encouraged by friend, Johnny Mercer, he embarked on a songwriting career that saw him become one of the most prominent and successful in American music history.
- Ray Sharkey
Ray Sharkey (November 14, 1952 - June 11, 1993) was an American actor. Born in Brooklyn, New York the son of Ray Sharkey, Sr. and Cecelia Sharkey. His father a professional drummer abandoned the family when Ray was 5 years old leaving his mother to rear him as a single parent with her parents. His father died in 1984. Ray was a poor kid from a tough neighborhood.