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  1. Steve Levy

    Steven ("Steve") Levy (born 1959) is the seventh County Executive of Suffolk County, New York, elected on November 4 2003. His father was Jewish, though he attended Catholic school. Steve Levy is a graduate of Sachem High School, State University of New York at Stony Brook (Magna Cum Laude) and St. John's University Law School. In 1985, at the age of 26, he was elected to the Suffolk County Legislature. In 2000, after serving 15 years in the County Legislature, …

  2. William Floyd

    William Floyd (December 171734 - August 41821), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New York. He was born in Brookhaven, Long Island, New York, and took over the family farm when his father died. He was a member of the Suffolk County Militia in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War, becoming Major General. He was chosen to represent New York in the First Continental Congress in 1774 - 1776.

  3. Tim Bishop

    Timothy H. "Tim" Bishop (born June 1, 1950) is a politician from the U.S. state of New York and the current Congressman for New York's 1st congressional district (map), which includes most of Central and Eastern Suffolk County, including most of Smithtown, as well as the entirety of the towns of Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Southampton, East Hampton, and Shelter Island. The 1st Congressional district of New York encompasses super-wealthy enclaves such as the Hamptons, …

  4. Ward Melville

    John Ward Melville (January 5, 1887 - June 5, 1977) was an American philanthropist, and businessman. John Ward Melville was born in Brooklyn in 1887, son of Frank Melville, Jr. Ward Melville attended college at Columbia University, where he was active in the school newspaper and the Philolexian Society, and he continued to be involved with the university after graduation. After college, Melville joined his father's shoe company in 1909 and married Dorothy Bigelow.

  5. Steve Israel

    Steven "Steve" Israel (born May 30, 1958) is an American politician from the state of New York, currently representing the state's 2nd congressional district (map), in the U.S. House of Representatives

  6. 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.

  7. Robert J. Gaffney

    Robert J. Gaffney is President of Dowling College. The Dowling College Board of Trustees appointed Robert J. Gaffney, former Suffolk County Executive, and most recently a partner in the law firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., the College’s fourth president. Mr. Gaffney took office on October 1 succeeding Dr. Albert E. Donor, who has served since 1999 and will remain with the College in the role of advisor.

  8. Caesar Trunzo

    Caesar Trunzo (born May 11, 1926) is a member of the New York State Senate, representing the third district, which incorporates parts of the South Shore in Suffolk County. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Fort Hamilton High School and Heffley and Browne Business College. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He is a member of the Lions Club, Sons of Italy, and the Knights of Columbus, among other organizations.

  9. Andrea J. Cabral

    Andrea J. Cabral was elected on November 2, 2004 and sworn in on January 5, 2005 as the 30th Sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. She is the first female in the Commonwealth’s history to hold the position. Cabral is a graduate of Boston College (1981) with a Bachelor of Arts degree and Suffolk University Law School where she earned her Juris Doctor degree in 1986. Cabral is responsible for the operation of the House of Correction, the Suffolk County Jail, …

  10. Fred Thiele

    Fred Thiele (b. 1953) represents District 2 within the New York State Assembly. Originally from Sag Harbor, a town in which he has lived for most of his life, he is a graduate of Southampton College of Long Island University and Albany Law School and began his political career as counsel to former Assemblyman John Behan, a position in which he served until 1982.

  11. Patti Lupone

    Patti LuPone (born April 21 1949 in Northport, Long Island, New York) is a Tony Award-winning American singer and actress.

  12. Steven Englebright

    Steven Englebright (born August 24, 1946) represents District 4 in the New York State Assembly, which is comprised of several areas of Suffolk County Long Island and the North Shore, including Port Jefferson Station, parts of Coram, Centereach, Selden and Lake Grove. First elected to the New York State Assembly in 1992, Englebright currently serves as the Chairman of the Aging Committee, as well as being a member of the Standing Committee on Education, on Energy, …

  13. Patrick G. Halpin

    Patrick Goodchild Halpin was the fifth County Executive of Suffolk County, New York. Elected in 1987, he served one term from 1988 through 1991, when he was defeated by Robert J. Gaffney. He received a B.A. degree from Old Dominion University, majoring in political science and economics. His political career began at age 26 in 1979, when he was elected to represent the 13th District of the Suffolk County Legislature.

  14. Owen H. Johnson

    Owen H. Johnson is a Republican, New York State Senator representing the 4th State Senate district which includes mostly the Town of Babylon in south-west Suffolk County. He was first elected to the New York State Senate in 1972 and is currently the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

  15. William Heath

    William Heath was an American farmer, soldier, and political leader from Massachusetts. He served as a Major General in the Continental Army during the Revolution. Heath made his home for his entire life at his family’s farm in Roxbury, Massachusetts. His family started the farm in 1636, and he was born there on March 7, 1737. He became active in the militia, and was a captain in the Suffolk County militia in 1760. By 1770 he was a colonel and its leader.

  16. David B. Axelrod

    David B. Axelrod is an award-winning poet and educator. He was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, where he lived until his college years. His education included a B. A. from University of Massachusetts, 1965; M. A. from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, 1966; M. F. A. from the University of Iowa Writing Workshops, 1967; and his Ph. D. from Union Institute, 1977.

  17. Michael F. Flaherty

    Michael F. Flaherty (b. 1969) is an at-large member of the Boston City Council. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party. He was elected as City Council President in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Flaherty is from South Boston. His father, Michael F. Flaherty, Sr. is an associate justice on the Boston, Massachusetts Municipal Court and a former state representative. Flaherty is a graduate of Boston College High School and Boston College, …

  18. James Lloyd

    James Lloyd (December, 1769-April 5, 1831) was a Federalist United States Senator from Massachusetts during the early years of the United States. Born in Suffolk County, Lloyd attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, graduating in 1787. A merchant by trade, he was a Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1800-01 and served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1804. In 1808, upon the resignation of Senator John Quincy Adams, …

  19. William Carney

    William Carney (born July 1, 1942) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. Carney was born in Brooklyn. From 1960 until 1961 he attended Florida State University. He served in the United States Army Medical Corps from 1961 until 1964. He was a member of the Suffolk County legislature from 1976 until 1979.

  20. Italo Zanzi

    Italo Zanzi is Vice President, International Broadcast Sales & Latin American / US Hispanic Marketing for Major League Baseball. In this capacity, Italo oversees three of Major League Baseball’s business functions - international television and radio sales, Latin American marketing and sponsorship, and United States Hispanic marketing initiatives. Italo has negotiated numerous seven-figure media rights agreements in Latin America, Asia, Europe, Canada, and Oceania.

  21. Michael J. Fitzpatrick

    Michael J. Fitzpatrick is a New York State Assemblyman elected in 2002, representing the 7th district, which is in Suffolk County.

  22. W. Kingsland Macy

    William Kingsland "King" Macy (November 21, 1889 - July 15, 1961) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in New York City, he graduated from Groton School (in Groton, Massachusetts in 1908 and from Harvard University in 1912. He engaged in wholesaling and importing from 1912 to 1915, served with the United States Food Administration and War Trade Board from 1917 to 1919, was president of Union Pacific Tea Co. from 1919 to 1922, …

  23. Victor Yannacone

    Victor Yannacone is a controversial, pioneering environmental attorney, who played leading roles in successful campaigns to ban DDT and expose the effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam vets. Yannacone's involvement with DDT began around 1965, when his wife Carol expressed dismay at dead fish in Yaphank Ponds, her childhood swimming holes in Suffolk County, Long Island, NY. The young attorney developed some novel arguments and legal strategies, …

  24. Silas Halsey

    Silas Halsey (October 6, 1743 old style - November 19, 1832) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Southampton, he attended the public schools and studied medicine at Elizabethtown, New Jersey (later Elizabeth.) He returned to Southampton and practiced medicine from 1764 to 1776; he then resided three years in Killingsworth, Connecticut during the Revolutionary War, when he again returned to Southampton.

  25. Henry Gardner

    Henry Joseph Gardner (June 14, 1819 - July 21, 1892) was the Governor of Massachusetts from 1855-1858. Gardner was the candidate of the Know-Nothing movement, and was elected governor as part of the sweeping victory of Know-Nothing candidates in the Massachusetts elections of 1854. In line with the nativist and anti-Catholic politics of the Know-Nothing movement, …

  26. Lorna Salzman

    Lorna Salzman has been an environmental activist, writer, lecturer and organizer since the mid-1960s and was a candidate for the 2004 presidential nomination of the Green Party (GPUS). Salzman was hired by the late David Brower, founder and president of Friends of the Earth (FOE), as the regional representative of FOE and held that position for nearly ten years, concentrating on anti-nuclear work and on coastal zone and wetlands protection on eastern Long Island.

  27. K. C. Armstrong

    Kyle Casey (K.C.) Armstrong (born July 17, 1975) is an actor, amateur bodybuilder, model, and comedian. He grew up in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. His father was the head wrestling coach at Port Jefferson High School. He was formerly a quarterback for the Western Kentucky University football team, and associate producer and on-air personality on The Howard Stern Radio Show. During the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City, …

  28. Kene Holliday

    Kene Holliday (born Kenneth Earl Holliday on June 25, 1949 in Copiague, Suffolk County, New York) is a prominent character actor best known for his role as Andy Griffith's first private investigator, Tyler Hudson, on the TV series "Matlock" (1986-1989). He was fired from the show, due to his battle with drugs, which led to his arrest, also arriving on the show late and skipping his lines.

  29. Salvatore Avellino

    Salvatore "Sal" Avellino (b. 1936) is a New York mobster and caporegime in the Lucchese crime family. He was involved in labor racketering in the garbage and waste management industry in Long Island, New York, and served as right-hand man and chauffer to boss Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo. For nearly 15 years, Avellino used aggressive strongarm tactics to keep Long Island's garbage hauling industry under Lucchese family control.

  30. Edgar A. Sharp

    Edgar Allan Sharp (June 3, 1876 - November 27, 1948) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Patchogue, Suffolk County, he attended the public and high schools, engaged as a clerk in the post office at Patchogue from 1898 to 1906 and served as assistant postmaster from 1906 to 1918.

  31. William Heyen

    William Helmuth Heyen (born November 1, 1940) is an American poet, editor, and literary critic. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Suffolk County. He received a BA from the State University of New York at Brockport; in 2007 he was awarded a doctorate in English from Ohio University. He taught American literature and creative writing at his undergraduate alma mater for over 30 years before retiring in 2000.

  32. Josiah Gardner Abbott

    Josiah Gardner Abbott (November 1, 1814 - June 2, 1891) was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts General Court and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Abbott was born in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and attended the Chelmsford Academy in Concord. He graduated from Harvard University in 1832 with an LL.D. degree, and then attended Williams College in Williamstown.

  33. Ernest Greenwood

    Ernest Greenwood (November 25, 1884 - June 15, 1955) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Yorkshire, England, he attended the public schools of Halifax and the Evening Technical Institute and College. He was employed with engineering firms in Sheffield in 1905 and 1906, and Halifax from 1907 to 1910. He immigrated to the United States in 1910 and worked for the General Electric Co. in Schenectady from 1910 to 1914.

  34. Selah B. Strong

    Selah Brewster Strong (May 1, 1792 - November 29, 1872) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, he received a preliminary education and was graduated from Yale College in 1811. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1814 and began practice in New York City. During the War of 1812 he was commissioned as an ensign and quartermaster in the Tenth Regiment, Third Brigade, New York City and County Troops, …

  35. Samuel Riker

    Samuel Riker was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He was born on April 8, 1743 in Newtown, Long Island, New York. He attended the common schools, was a member of the Newtown committee of correspondence in 1774, and was supervisor of Suffolk County in 1783. He was the lieutenant of Light Horse during the American Revolution. Samuel Riker was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1784.

  36. Francis Barretto Spinola

    Francis Barretto Spinola (March 19, 1821 - April 14, 1891) was the first Italian American to be elected to the United States House of Representatives, serving as a representative from New York from 1887 to 1891. He also served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Spinola was born in Stony Brook, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

  37. Charles Tillinghast James

    Charles Tillinghast James (September 15, 1805 - October 17, 1862) was a United States Democratic Senator from the state of Rhode Island from 1851 to 1857. He was born in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. James died of wounds that he received from the explosion of a cannon shell of his own manufacture, with which he was experimenting, at Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York.

  38. Jonathan Landman

    Johnathan Landman is an American journalist and deputy managing editor at "The New York Times." Landman became deputy managing editor responsible for digital journalism for The Times in August 2005. He had become assistant managing editor and member of The Times masthead in May of 2005. Prior to that, Landman had been acting culture editor from 2004 to 2005. Previously, he was the assistant managing editor for enterprise from 2003 to 2004.

  39. Steven Palacios

    I am SP, 'Just Chillin'! Finishing up school and launching Palacios Funding Group in the near future, I am also the manager at Palacios Realty. Its all about family, those few friends, and having a good time. Work very hard, enjoy alot more, and find what your looking for. Any other information needed will require proper identification...

  40. Elias Papadopoulos

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