- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee - Eddie Murphy
John Edward "Eddie" Murphy, nicknamed "Honest Eddie," was an American baseball player who played for three different Major League teams. In his 11-year career, Murphy played for the Philadelphia Athletics, the Chicago White Sox, and the Pittsburgh Pirates. He appeared in three World Series. His first two were with the Athletics in 1913 and 1914 World Series. Murphy appeared in the 1919 World Series as a member of the Chicago White Sox, … - John Adams
John Adams (August 26, 1778 Oak Hill, Durham, New York - September 25, 1854 Catskill, New York) was a United States Congressman from New York. He studied law, and taught school in Durham. He was admitted to the bar in 1805, and began to practice in Durham. He was appointed the surrogate of Greene County, New York in 1810. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1812 to 1813. - Alex Rodriguez
Alexander Emmanuel "Alex" Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975, in New York, New York), commonly nicknamed "A-Rod", is a Dominican-American baseball infielder. He is the starting third baseman for the New York Yankees, having played shortstop for the Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners. Since (his first full season) through he leads the major leagues in home runs (HR), runs scored, runs batted in (RBI), total bases and extra-base hits. - Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann (born January 27, 1959) is an American news anchor, commentator and radio sportscaster. He currently hosts "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on MSNBC, an hour-long nightly newscast that reviews the top news stories of the day along with political commentary by Olbermann. He also appears on "The Dan Patrick Show" on ESPN radio during the 2-3 PM EST hour. - Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Simon is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, both as half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel and as a solo artist. In 2006, "Time" magazine called him one of the "100 people who shape our world". He currently resides in New Canaan, Connecticut. - 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. - Chuck Schumer
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., will continue as the chairman of the party's campaign fundraising committee. Schumer also will add vice chairman to his title, making him No. 3 in the leadership and a chief strategist. - Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. He was one of President Kennedy's most trusted advisors and worked closely with the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His contribution to the African-American Civil Rights Movement is sometimes considered his greatest legacy. - John Williams
John Williams was an American merchant and miller from Rochester, New York. Born in Utica, New York, he served as mayor of Rochester in 1853, and represented in the United States House of Representatives in 1855 and 1856. - John Williams
John Williams was an American physician and statesman from Salem, New York. Born in Barnstable, England, he represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1795 to 1799. - Barbara Walters
Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows ("Today" and "The View"), evening news magazine ("20/20"), and on "The ABC Evening News", as the first female evening news anchor. Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's "Today", … - John Smith
John Smith (1858 - January 6, 1899) played one year of professional baseball in 1882 with the Troy Trojans and Worcester Ruby Legs. In his 54 games of play, Smith had 219 at bats, hitting .242. He was a first baseman. - John Smith
John Smith (February 12, 1752-August 12, 1816) was a politician from Mastic, New York. He served in the state assembly from 1784 until 1799. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan N. Havens and served from February 6, 1800 until his resignation, effective February 23, 1804. - John Brown
John Brown (1809-1876) was a Canadian builder of Scottish origin. He is best remembered today for building Ontario's Imperial Towers. Brown began his career as a stonemason's apprentice in Glasgow. At 23 he emigrated to the United States, to upstate New York. By 1838 he had moved again, this time to Thorold, Ontario, where he was to spend the remainder of his career. - 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. - George Clinton
George Clinton (June 6, 1771-September 16, 1809) was a Republican Representative from New York to the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth United States Congress. He was born and died in New York City, the son of New York Governor George Clinton (1739-1812) and a cousin of De Witt and James Graham Clinton. Clinton was a delegate to the New York State constitutional convention in 1801 and served in the New York State Assembly from 1804 to 1805. - Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. The offspring of a prominent political family, Gore is an outspoken critic of the American political establishment. Gore wrote the "The City and the Pillar" in 1948, which created controversy as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous homosexuality. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick “Pat” Moynihan was a United States Senator, Ambassador, and eminent sociologist. He was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected with the Democratic Party three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, … - Billy Graham
William Walter Graham Jr. (born September 9 1922 in New York, NY - died January 22 1992) was Welterweight boxing champion of the world. - Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold (October 5, 1780 - March 3, 1849) was an American politician from New York, and a member of the House of Representatives. He was born in Amsterdam, in modern Montgomery County, New York. He was named in honor of the famous Benedict Arnold; this later seemed quite surprising, as the American Revolutionary War was still raging in 1780. However, at the time he was still seen as a hero of the United States, stemming from the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. - James Monroe
James Monroe (born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on September 10, 1799, died 1870) was an American politician who served as the United States Congressman from New York (1839-1841). - Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26, 1935) is a Democratic politician and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She is best known as the first and only woman to date to represent a major U.S. political party as a candidate for Vice President. Ferraro and running mate Walter Mondale were defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush in the 1984 election. - Ed Koch
Edward Irving Koch (born December 12, 1924; pronounced to rhyme with "Scotch") was a United States Congressman from 1969 to 1977 and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. - Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New York City) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy Award winning American musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter movement. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994. - Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 - November 29, 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Republican party, reformer and politician. His "New York Tribune" was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day." Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as antislavery and a host of reforms. - Michael Brown
Michael Brown (born Michael Lookofsky in New York, April 25, 1949), son of violinist and arranger Harry Lookofsky, was a gifted American singer-songwriter. He worked with Elkie Brooks on her 1975 album Rich Man's Woman. Brown has been the prime mover and leader in bands such as the Left Banke, Stories, the Beckies and Montage. - John Glenn
John W. Glenn (born January, 1850 in Rochester, New York; died November 10, 1888 in Sandy Hill, New York) was a player for Major League Baseball in the 19th century. - Jason Bateman
Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor. After starring in several 1980s films, Bateman became known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom "Arrested Development". Since the show's end, he has also appeared in several Hollywood films. - Ilan Hall
Ilan D. Hall is an American chef, best known as the winner of the second season of the Bravo television network's reality series "Top Chef," ahead of Marcel Vigneron. Hall's hometown is Great Neck, New York, USA. As a child, he attended Elizabeth Miller (E.M) Baker elementary school and Temple Israel Hebrew school, a conservative Jewish temple. Now as of 2007, Ilan resides and works in New York City. Ilan’s parents were both immigrants: his father from Scotland, … - Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Lewis Nadler, sometimes called Jerry Nadler (born June 13, 1947) is an American politician from New York City. A Democrat, Nadler represents New York's 8th congressional district which includes parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City. Nadler's district includes most of midtown Manhattan, including the site where the World Trade Center stood. It also includes the lower Manhattan neighborhoods of Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, … - Vito Fossella
Vito John Fossella, Jr. (born March 9, 1965), is a Republican politician from the state of New York who has represented the state's 13th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. The district includes Staten Island and the Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst and Gravesend neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Fossella, A Staten Island native, was born to a family that included several politicians. - Timothy McVeigh
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 - June 11, 2001), commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City bomber, was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role on the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. The bombing, which claimed 168 lives, was the deadliest act of terrorism in American history until the September 11, 2001 attacks and remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the United States. - Jacob K. Javits
Jacob Koppel "Jack" Javits (May 18, 1904 - March 7, 1986) was a liberal Republican New York politician originally allied with Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, fellow U.S. Senators Irving Ives and Kenneth Keating, and Mayor John V. Lindsay. Javits graduated from New York University and its law school in Manhattan. He was admitted to the bar in 1927. During World War II, he was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. - Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton . He has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations , which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet , and his most recent book, Supercapitalism . - John Young
John Young (June 12, 1802 - April 23, 1852) was an American politician. He was born in Chelsea, Vermont. As a child, he moved to Freeport (now Conesus), Livingston County, New York. He had only basic schooling but, by self-study accumulated a knowledge of classics and became a law clerk, becoming admitted to the bar in 1829. He entered politics as a Jacksonian Democrat, and shortly afterward moved to the Anti-Masonic Party, … - David E. Sanger
David E. Sanger — born on July 5, 1960 in White Plains, New York — is White House correspondent for "The New York Times". A 1982 graduate of Harvard College, Sanger has been writing for "The New York Times" for over 24 years covering New York, Tokyo and, most recently, Washington, D.C.. He has reported on such issues as foreign policy, globalisation, nuclear proliferation, Asian affairs, and the revitalisation of Boston's Parker House Hotel. - William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst I (April 29, 1863 - August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate. - Rick Lazio
Enrico Anthony "Rick" Lazio (born March 13, 1958) is a former U.S. Representative from the state of New York. A Republican, he is most known for having run unsuccessfully against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate election. Lazio was born in Amityville, New York in Suffolk County. He graduated from West Islip High School in 1976. - Tony Yayo
Marvin Bernard (born March 31 1978 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti), better known by his stage name Tony Yayo, is an American rapper and is part of the popular rap group G-Unit.
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