- Philip van Cortlandt
Philip Van Cortlandt (August 21, 1749-November 21, 1831) was an American surveyor, land-owner, and politician from Westchester County, New York. During the Revolutionary War, Colonel Cortlandt commanded the 2nd New York Regiment in the Continental Army. He served in both houses of the New York State Legislature and represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 until 1809. - Mel Gibson
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3 1956) is an American-born actor, director, and producer raised primarily in Australia. After establishing himself as a household name with the "Mad Max" and "Lethal Weapon" series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning "Braveheart". Gibson's direction of "Braveheart" made him the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to receive an Oscar for Best Director. - Jay Leno
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC television's long-running variety and talk program "The Tonight Show". He also owns Big Dog Productions, a company that co-produces the show. He earns $30 million per year. - Sean Combs
Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969) is an American record producer, mogul, CEO, clothing designer, and a rapper. As of October 2006, his nickname and recording name is Diddy. Previously, he had been known as Puff Daddy and later as P. Diddy ("Puff" being often used as a nickname, but never as recording names). He is still called "P. - Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Herman Boone. - Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David Goodman, (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) was an American jazz musician, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman". - Bill W.
William Griffith Wilson (26 November 1895-24 January 1971) (also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W.), was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a fellowship of self-help groups dedicated to helping alcoholics recover from their addiction. According to the AA tradition of anonymity, Wilson was and still is commonly known as "Bill W." In 1934, in the course of his struggle with alcoholism, … - Adam Rodriguez
Adam Rodriguez (born April 2 1975 in Yonkers, New York) is an American actor of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent. He grew up in New York City, New York Rodriguez auditioned for "The Cosby Show" when he was 10 years old. He dreamed of being a professional baseball player, but was injured in high school. He then turned his attention to acting and performed in a children's theater in New York. Later he appeared on "Brooklyn South", "Law & Order", … - Katharine Graham
Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, "The Washington Post", for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. - Frank Abagnale
Frank William Abagnale, Jr. (born April 27, 1948) is a former cheque forger and impostor for five years in the 1960s. Currently he runs Abagnale and Associates, a financial fraud consultancy company. His life story provided the inspiration for the feature film "Catch Me if You Can", nominally based on his ghostwritten biography of the same name. Over five years he worked under no fewer than eight identities (though he used many more to cash checks), … - Robert Allen
Robert (Tex) Allen (also credited as Bob Allen) was an actor B-movie westerns between 1935 and 1944. Born Irvine E. Theodore Beahr on March 28, 1906 in Mount Vernon, New York USA, Allen went on to graduate from the New York Military Academy in 1924, where he rode in the academy cavalry and from Dartmouth College in 1929 with a degree in English. He worked for a bank which soon failed in the Great Depression. - Matt Dillon
Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teen idol during the 1980s, and developed a successful career as an adult actor in the decades following, culminating in an Oscar nomination for his performance in the film "Crash". - Christopher Reeve
Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 - October 10, 2004) was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He established himself early as a Juilliard-trained stage actor before portraying Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent in four films, from 1978 to 1987. In the 1980s, he starred in several films, including "Somewhere in Time" (1980), "Deathtrap" (1982), "The Bostonians" (1984), and "Street Smart" (1987). - Pete Rock
Pete Rock (born Peter Phillips, June 21, 1970) in Bronx, New York is an American hip hop DJ, producer and rapper. He rose to prominence in the early 90s as one half of the critically acclaimed group Pete Rock & CL Smooth. After the duo went their separate ways, Rock continued with a solo career that has garnered him worldwide respect, if little in the way of mainstream success. - Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica served as the national spokesperson for the 2006 Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF campaign ( unicefusa.org/trickortreat ). Throughout the month of October, Parker encouraged kids to get involved by raising funds for vulnerable children around the world with the time-honored orange Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF box. In 2005, she designed a limited edition Gap t-shirt to benefit UNICEF's tsunami relief and recovery efforts. - Lord Jamar
Lord Jamar (born Lorenzo Dechalus, September 17, 1968 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American rapper and actor. He is a member of the hip-hop group Brand Nubian, which formed in 1989. As an actor, he is best known for his role of Supreme Allah on the TV series "Oz". He has also appeared on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", "Third Watch" and "The Sopranos". He has also done production work for artists such as Dead Prez, … - Ricki Lake
Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress and tabloid talk show host, best known for her long-running "Ricki Lake" talk show and starring in the original version of the film "Hairspray". - Grand Puba
Grand Puba (born Maxwell Dixon March 4, 1966) is a rapper best known as a member of the group Brand Nubian. He debuted with the group Masters of Ceremony. Their album "Dynamite" (1988) was hailed by critics, but probably due to lack of sales the group soon disbanded, and Puba emerged as the lead rapper of Brand Nubian. - Dick Clark
Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an Emmy Award-winning American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman, serving as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions. He is best known for hosting long-running television shows such as "American Bandstand", five versions of the Pyramid game show, and "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve". Clark was long known for his signature closing catchphrase, "For Now, Dick Clark, … - Andy Milonakis
Andrew Michael Milonakis (born January 30, 1976, in Katonah, New York) is a Greek American comedian who plays the role of a pre-pubescent boy on his television show, "The Andy Milonakis Show", which is now mostly played on MTV2. He has a congenital growth-hormone condition that gives him the outward appearance and voice of a pre-adolescent boy, when he is in fact an adult man. - Dana Reeve
Dana Reeve (March 17 1961 - March 6 2006) was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes. She was also the wife of actor Christopher Reeve. - Jerry Orbach
Jerome Bernard Orbach was an American actor best known for his starring role as Det. Lennie Briscoe in the "Law & Order" television series and for his musical theater roles. - Cl Smooth
C.L. Smooth (born Corey Penn, October 8 1968) in New Rochelle, New York is an American rapper from Mount Vernon, New York and the vocal half of the influential hip-hop duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth. After the pair split in 1995 Pete Rock, whose work with CL had garnered him a reputation as one of the finest producers in hip-hop, went on to produce (and remix) tracks for dozens of marquee-name and/or well-respected acts, … - Jason Scott Sadofsky
Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13 1970 in Hopewell Junction, New York), more commonly known as Jason Scott, (also known by the pseudonyms "Sketch", "SketchCow" and previously "The Slipped Disk.") is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems. He is also the creator of a 2005 documentary film about BBSes, "BBS: The Documentary". - Jesse McCartney
Jesse A. McCartney (born April 9, 1987) is an American pop singer and Daytime Emmy-nominated actor. McCartney initially came to fame in the early 2000s, as a member of the boy band Dream Street, and subsequently branched out into a solo career, having appeared on the television series "Summerland" and released two music albums, "Beautiful Soul" and "Right Where You Want Me". - Douglas Rye
Douglas Forsythe Rye (Born November 6, 1950 in Westchester, New York) is a Los Angeles-based voice actor who has done Narration for such notable companies as Bank of America, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, NBC, The Playboy Channel, Qwest, Carl's Jr. and DaimlerChrysler. Rye has been acting since he was a child, he beat out Christopher Reeve for a role in a summer production at The Lawrenceville School, during his four years there. - Robert Pine
Robert Pine (b. Granville Whitelaw Pine on July 10, 1941 in Scarsdale, New York) is an American actor who has starred on television and in film. He is probably best known for his role as Sgt. Joseph Getraer on the hit NBC television series "CHiPs" from 1977 to 1983. Robert also starred on the soap operas "Days of Our Lives" as Walker Coleman in 1987 and on "The Bold and the Beautiful" as Stephen Logan in 1988, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, … - Kevin Dillon
Kevin Dillon (born August 19, 1965) is an American actor. Born in Mamaroneck, New York, he is the younger brother of actor Matt Dillon. Dillon began acting in both television and films in the 1980s and first received wide attention for his role as Bunny in the 1986 film "Platoon." In 1988, he portrayed Brian Flagg in a remake of the 1958 American science fiction film "The Blob". - Sadat X
Sadat X (born Derek Murphy) is an American rapper, most famed as a member of Alternative hip hop group Brand Nubian. Originally known as Derek X, Sadat takes his name from former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. The X is taken from the Nation of Islam practice of members changing their surnames simply to X. He is well known for his unique, high-pitched voice, as well as his Pro-Black, and at times controversial, lyrical content. - Art Carney
Arthur William Matthew Carney (November 4, 1918 - November 9, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American actor in film, stage, television, and radio. - Dave Barry
David Barry, Jr. (born July 3, 1947) is a bestselling American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist who wrote a nationally syndicated column for the "The Miami Herald" from 1983 to 2005. - Jeanine Pirro
Jeanine Ferris Pirro (born June 2, 1951) is an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician from the state of New York. A Republican from Westchester County, Pirro served as a county judge before serving as the elected District Attorney of Westchester County for twelve years. As a District Attorney she gained considerable visibility, especially in cases regarding domestic abuse and violence against women. - Ezra Cornell
Ezra Cornell (January 11, 1807 - December 9, 1874) was an American businessman and, with Andrew Dickson White, was the founder of Cornell University. - Michael Eisner
Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) was CEO of The Walt Disney Company from September 22, 1984 to September 30, 2005. He began his career at ABC, became President of Paramount Pictures in 1976, and then assumed the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Co. in 1984. - Ogden Nash
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 - May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse. - Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld on August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, and comedian, known professionally for his character Pee-wee Herman. As Pee-wee, Reubens starred in the television series "Pee-wee's Playhouse" from 1986 until 1990. He also starred in an HBO special called "The Pee-wee Herman Show", the 1985 movie "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and the 1988 movie "Big Top Pee-wee". - Ari Fleischer
Lawrence Ari Fleischer (born October 13 1960) was the press secretary for U.S. President George W. Bush from January, 2001 to July, 2003. Fleischer was born in Pound Ridge, New York. He graduated from Fox Lane High School in Bedford, New York in 1978, and graduated from from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1982. - Rosemarie Panio
Hon. RoseMarie Panio is a Republican politician that ran the Westchester County, New York Republican Committee from 2004 to 2007. She was unanimously elected Secretary for the State GOP in 2006. Panio owns a liquor store in Peekskill, New York, and is a grandmother. She resides in Yorktown Heights, New York and is currently the Republican candidate for Town Supervisor. - Felicity Huffman
Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress. She is well known for her role as Lynette Scavo, the hectic busy Super-Mom on the ABC hit show "Desperate Housewives" which debuted in 2004. A year later, her role as a transwoman in the independent film "Transamerica" was praised by many critics and earned her a Golden Globe Award. - Rob Reiner
Robert "Rob" Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence as Carroll O'Connor's and Jean Stapleton's son-in-law, Michael "Meathead" Stivic, on "All in the Family" in a role which earned him two Emmy Awards during the 1970s. As director, the Directors Guild of America recognized him with nominations for his work on "Stand By Me", "When Harry Met Sally...", …
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