- 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. - Nita Lowey
Nita M. Lowey (born July 5, 1937) is a politician from the U.S. state of New York. Lowey was born Nita Sue Melnikoff in New York, New York and she graduated from Mount Holyoke College. She was first elected to the House of Representatives from the New York 20th district as a Democrat in 1988 and now serving in the 18th district (map). - Richard Brodsky
Richard Brodsky (b. 1946) represents District 92 in the New York State Assembly, which includes the towns of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant, the villages of Ardsley, Elmsford, Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, Tarrytown, as well as parts of Briarcliff and Yonkers, among other communities located in Westchester County, New York. A Democrat first elected in 1982, Brodsky is the current Chairman of the Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee. - Robert Moses
Robert Moses (December 18 1888-July 29 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County. As the shaper of a modern city, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. Although he never held elected office, Moses was arguably the most powerful person in New York City government from the 1930s to the 1950s. - Thomas Pell
Thomas Pell (1608 - 1669) was a physician who was famous for buying the area known as Pelham, Westchester, New York, as well as land that now includes the eastern Bronx and southern Westchester County. He is recorded as travelling from Fairfield, England to North America to attempt to set up new colonies. He was the brother of the mathematician John Pell and uncle of Sir John Pell, first Lord of the Manor of Pelham. - C. Scott Vanderhoef
C. Scott Vanderhoef is the County Executive of Rockland County, New York and was the Republican and Conservative Party nominee for Lieutenant Governor of New York in the 2006 statewide elections. He was the running mate of former State Assembly Minority Leader John Faso. Vanderhoef, an environmental attorney, has been county executive since 1994. In 2002, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress in a district encompassing parts of Rockland County, Westchester County, … - Jeffrey Klein
Jeffrey David Klein (born in the Bronx, New York on July 10, 1960) is a New York State Senator representing parts of Bronx County and Westchester County. He was elected to his first term in the Senate in 2004 after being advised to run for the seat by Democratic colleagues, who promised him campaign support and volunteers. A lifelong resident of the northeast Bronx, he was educated in Bronx public schools. Klein received a B.A. with honors from Queens College, … - Vincent Leibell
New York State Senator Vincent L. Leibell III was born in New York City on August 6, 1946. He was first elected to the New York State Senate in 1994 when he defeated a former New York State Lieutenant Governor. Previously, he had worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the Westchester County District Attorney's office and served five terms in the state Assembly, where he had risen to the position of Assistant Minority Leader "pro tempore". - Robert Jackson
Robert Jackson is a singer, songwriter and musician from Westchester County, New York. - William Rockefeller
William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. (May 31, 1841-June_24, 1922), American financier, was a cofounder with his older brother John D. Rockefeller of the prominent United States Rockefeller family. William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. was the son of William Avery Rockefeller, Sr. and Eliza (Davison) Rockefeller. William was born in Richford, New York and in 1853 his family moved to Strongsville, Ohio. He was to later build an ostentatious mansion called "Rockwood Hall", now demolished, … - Eliot L. Engel
Eliot Lance Engel (born February 18, 1947) is an American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of New York who currently represents the New York State 17th Congressional District (map). The district encompasses portions of the Bronx, Westchester County, and Rockland County. It includes such neighborhoods as Riverdale, Woodlawn, Norwood and Wakefield in the Bronx, Mount Vernon and parts of Yonkers in Westchester, and the towns of Ramapo, Orangetown, … - William Jay
William Jay (1789-1858) was an American reformer and jurist, the son of John Jay (1745-1829). He was born in New York City, graduated at Yale in 1808, and then studied law at Albany, though poor eyesight soon compelled him to give up the profession. He early became interested in various philanthropic enterprises and reforms and identified himself especially with the temperance, antislavery, and antiwar movements. - Tovah Feldshuh
Tovah Feldshuh (born December 27 1952) is an award-winning American actress, singer, and playwright. Born Terry Sue Feldshuh to a Jewish family in New York City, she was raised in an affluent community in Westchester County and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She started her career under British director Michael Langham at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where she was awarded the McKnight Fellowship in Acting. - Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins (June 21, 1774 - June 11, 1825) was an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, Governor of New York, and the sixth Vice President of the United States. - Paul J. Feiner
Paul J. Feiner (b. February 14, 1956) is an American public servant from New York. He has been Town Supervisor (an elected office with a two-year term) of Greenburgh, New York in Westchester County since 1991. He unsuccessfully ran for United States Congress twice. - 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. - Joseph J. Dioguardi
Joseph J. DioGuardi is an American Republican politician from the state of New York. Born in the Bronx, New York, Joseph J. DioGuardi moved to Westchester County with his immigrant parents, brother, and sister in 1957. He is a 1958 graduate of Fordham Preparatory School, and in 1962 he graduated with honors from Fordham University. His parents were of Arbëreshë origin. DioGuardi served for twenty-two years, twelve of them as a tax partner, … - Charles L. Brieant
Charles L. Brieant (born 1923 in Ossining, New York) is a Federal District Judge in the Southern District of New York. He received his BA from Columbia University in 1947 and his LLB from Columbia Law School in 1949. He also served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, from 1943 to 1946. While practicing in White Plains, New York, Brieant served Water Commissioner for Ossining from 1949 to 1951, at which point he was elected Town Justice. - Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (born September 16, 1927) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, six-time Emmy Award-winning American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Lt. Columbo in the television series "Columbo". Falk's unusual gaze is due to a glass eye that he has had for most of his life. - Adam Savage
Adam John Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American television co-host on the program "MythBusters" on the Discovery Channel. - Ashley Williams
Ashley Williams (born 12 November 1978 in Westchester County, New York, USA) is an American actress. Her father is a freelance medical journalist and her mother is a fundraiser for The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. She is the younger sister of Kimberly Williams-Paisley, also an actress. Her older brother, Jay Williams, is a firefighter and paramedic in Southern California (Los Angeles County). Williams attended Rye High School in Rye, New York. - Richard J. Daronco
Richard Joseph Daronco (August 1, 1931 - May 21, 1988) was a federal judge in the United States. Daronco was born in New York City. He graduated from Providence College and Albany Law School, and practiced law in White Plains, New York from 1959 to 1971. In 1971, Daronco began his judicial career as a Judge of the New York Family Court for Westchester County, on which he served from 1971 to 1974. Daronco served on the Westchester County Court from 1974 to 1979, … - Hachaliah Bailey
Hachaliah Bailey (1774-1845) (pronounced "heck-a-LIE-uh") is the eponym of Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia and a relative to several famous individuals involved in early American circuses (having founded one of his own). Bailey moved to Northern Virginia in 1837 from Westchester County, New York, and, on December 19, 1837, bought the land at the intersection of Leesburg Pike and Columbia Pike in Fairfax County, Virginia just outside Falls Church, Virginia, … - Ali Macgraw
Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1938 in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe award winning American actress. - Delaune Michel
DeLauné Michel was raised in south Louisiana in a literary family which includes her uncle Andre Dubus, her mother Elizabeth Nell Dubus, and her cousins James Lee Burke and Andre Dubus III. She has worked as an actor in theater, television, and film. The first two stories Ms. Michel wrote won recognition by the Thomas Wolf Short Fiction Award, and later work won the Pacificus Foundation Literary Award. - Whitelaw Reid
Whitelaw Reid (October 27, 1837 - December 15, 1912) was a U.S. politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War. A native of Ohio, Reid graduated from Miami University with honors in 1856. At Miami, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and lobbied for the expulsion of the six members who ultimately went on to found Sigma Chi. - Philip Pell
Philip Pell was an American politician and lawyer from Pelham Manor, New York. He was a delegate for New York to the Continental Congress in 1788 and 1789. Philip was born to the aristocratic Pell family, at the manor house in what is now Pelham. The family had established itself in the area in 1654 when Thomas Pell bought nearly 10,000 acres (40 km²) from the Indians. Thomas' nephew John, named the entire tract "Pelham Manor", … - Tyler James Williams
Tyler James Williams (born October 9, 1992) is an American actor. He is most recognizable for his current role as the title character in the TV series "Everybody Hates Chris". He was born in Westchester County, New York. Williams previously starred in "Little Bill" as the voice of Bobby, briefly replacing Devon Malik Beckford in 2000, and played himself (or an eponymous character "Tyler") on the children's show "Sesame Street" from 2002 to 2005. - Alton Tobey
Alton S. Tobey (5 November 1914 - 4 January 2005), the American artist, was a painter, historical artist, muralist, portraitist, illustrator, and teacher of art. He was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and in 1934 won a scholarship to the Yale University School of Fine Arts. After his military service, he completed his masters degree at Yale and taught there for a period. - Ogden R. Reid
Ogden Rogers Reid (born June 24, 1925) was a member of the House of Representatives. Reid was born in New York, New York and he graduated from Deerfield Academy and Yale University. He was widely known by his nickname, "Brownie." His family owned the New York Herald Tribune and, before that the New York Tribune. From 1959 to 1961, Reid was the U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Reid was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1962. - Ed Barrow
Edward Grant Barrow (May 10, 1868 - December 15, 1953) was an American manager and executive in Major League Baseball who guided the Boston Red Sox to the 1918 World Series title, then built the New York Yankees into baseball's premier franchise and greatest dynasty as their top executive from 1921 to 1945. - Ethan Bronner
Ethan Bronner (born 1954) is deputy foreign editor of "The New York Times", and a frequent essayist on foreign affairs. Bronner previously served as assistant editorial page editor of the "Times", and before that worked in the paper's investigative unit, focusing on the attacks of Sept. 11. A series of articles on al Qaeda that Bronner helped edit during that time was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. - Thomas Mott Osborne
Thomas Mott Osborne (1859 - 1926) was a U.S. prison reformer, industrialist and New York State political reformer. He was also known as "Tom Brown", his alias when he had himself incarcerated for a week in the Auburn Prison in New York state in 1913. Osborne was appointed warden of Sing Sing prison on December 1, 1914 for almost 15 months; however, a part of that time he had taken leave to defend himself against sensational Grand Jury charges, … - William H. Robertson
William H. Robertson (1823-98) was an American politician, born at Bedford, Westchester Co., N. Y. He received an academic education, studied law, and began practice in his native town. His political career began in 1849 with his election as a Whig to the State Assembly. In 1854 he was elected to the State Senate and in the same year was elected county judge of Westchester County and remained on the bench until 1866. - Pierre van Cortlandt Jr.
Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr. (August 29, 1762 - July 13, 1848) was a United States Representative from New York. A member of New York's Van Cortlandt family, he was the son of Pierre Van Cortlandt, an early New York political figure, and brother of Philip Van Cortlandt, who was also a U.S. Representative from New York. Pierre Van Cortlandt was born at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton, Westchester County. - Edward Haight
Edward Haight (March 26, 1817 - September 15, 1885) was an American politician and businessman from New York. He served in Congress during the American Civil War. Haight was born on Park Place in New York City. He attended the common schools and was employed in a countinghouse early in life. In 1838, he entered the firm of "Cromwell, Haight & Co.", dry goods importers on Maiden Lane. In 1839, Haight married Sarah Louise Burgoyne, of Charleston, South Carolina. - Mark Guglielmo
Mark Anthony Alexander Guglielmo was born on December 12, 1968 in Westchester County, New York. On June 21, 1994, a grand jury in Volusia County, Florida indicted him with the first-degree murder of his wife Kimberly Anne Guglielmo. He was accused of cutting her body in half, putting her corpse into the trunk of his car, driving to New York and then dumping the lower half of his wife's body into the Hudson River and top half in a forest twenty miles away. - Robert K. Massie
Robert K. Massie (born 1929) is an American historian, writer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and a Rhodes Scholar. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1929, Massie spent much of his youth in Nashville, Tennessee and currently resides in Westchester County, New York in the village of Irvington. He studied American history at Yale University and modern European history at Oxford University on his Rhodes Scholarship. - Marie Killilea
Marie Lyons Killilea (b. June 28 1913, New York City - d. October 23 1991) is the mother of Karen Killilea and an American author, activist, and lobbyist for the rights of people with cerebral palsy. Her work culminated in the formation of the Cerebral Palsy Association of Westchester County. Later, she was a co-founder of the National United Cerebral Palsy Foundation.
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