- Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. - Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won an Academy Award as well as awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, … - Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from the state of New York. Formerly Mayor of New York City Giuliani is currently seeking the Republican nomination for President. A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a Republican from the 1980s onward, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney. - Robert de Niro
Robert Mario De Niro Jr., credited professionally as Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943), is an American film actor, director, and producer. He is noted for his method acting and portrayal of conflicted, troubled characters, for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese and for his early work with director Brian De Palma. - Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti, June 7, 1917 - December 25, 1995) was an Italian American singer, film actor, and comedian. He was one of the most famous music artists in the 1950s and 1960s. His hit singles included songs such as "Memories Are Made Of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare", and "The Beast and the Harlot". Martin received a gold record in 2004 for his fastest-selling album ever, … - Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino (born April 26, 1940) is an Academy Award- Golden Globe, AFI, Bafta, Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor played such iconic roles as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather Trilogy" and Tony Montana in the 1983 film "Scarface". - Mario Batali
Mario Batali Mario, whose original career path had him studying the golden age of Spanish theater at Rutgers University, took his first bite of culinary training at Le Cordon Bleu in London, from which he withdrew almost immediately due to a "lack of interest." - Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi
Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, pressed the committee on Sunday to begin investigating and make a preliminary report within 10 days. She demanded to know who knew of the messages, whether Foley had other contacts with pages and when the Republican leadership was notified of Foley's conduct. - Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is most renowned for directing the highly regarded "Godfather" trilogy, "The Conversation", and the Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now". - Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 - January 25, 1947), popularly known as "Scarface" Al Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal trafficking of alcoholic beverages during the time of prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Neapolitan emigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone, … - 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. - Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2 1986) is an American actress and pop music singer. Lohan started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine ads and television commercials. At age ten, she began her acting career in a soap opera; at eleven, she made her motion picture debut by playing both twins in Disney's 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap". Lohan's breakout role as a leading actress came six years later with 2004's "Mean Girls", … - Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on August 3 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards and jazz who is widely considered to be one of the best interpretative singers in these genres. After having achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1950s and early 1960s, his career suffered an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era. Bennett staged a remarkable comeback, however, in the late 1980s and 1990s, … - Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
When Bruce Springsteen finally broke through to national recognition in the fall of 1975 after a decade of trying, critics hailed him as the savior of rock & roll, the single artist who brought together all the exuberance of '50s rock and the thoughtfulness of '60s rock, molded into a '70s style. He rocked as hard as Jerry Lee Lewis , his lyrics... Continue Bio >> - Mario Puzo
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 - July 2, 1999) was an American author known for his novels about the Mafia, especially "The Godfather" (1969). - Antonin Scalia
Antonin Gregory Scalia (born March 11, 1936) is an American jurist and the second most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Widely regarded as the intellectual anchor of the Court's conservative wing, he is a vigorous proponent of textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in constitutional interpretation, and a passionate critic of the idea of a Living Constitution. - James Gandolfini
Although he acted on Broadway and in various films in the 1990s, Gandolfini's most-acclaimed role is that of Tony Soprano, the Mafia boss and family man in the multi-award-winning HBO series The Sopranos, which debuted in 1999. He has since starred in films such as 8 MM and The Mexican. He was born in Westwood, New Jersey, grew up in New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City. - John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and singer. He established his career as a leading Hollywood actor with films such as "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease". Travolta enjoyed a career revival in the 1990s, stemming from his role in "Pulp Fiction". - Joe Pesci
Joseph Francesco DeLores Eliot Pesci (born February 9, 1943), commonly known as Joe Pesci, is an American Academy Award-winning actor, comedian and singer who is often typecast as a violent mobster, mafia thug, or a grouchy funnyman. - Rachael Ray
Rachael Domenica Ray (born August 25, 1968 in Glens Falls, New York) is an Emmy-award winning television personality and author, who currently hosts the syndicated talk/lifestyle program "Rachael Ray" and two Food Network series, "30 Minute Meals" and "Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels". Ray has also written a series of cookbooks based on the "30 Minute Meals" concept, and launched a magazine, "Every Day with Rachael Ray", in 2005. - David Chase
David Chase (born David DeCesare—although some sources list his birth name as David Del Cesare—August 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known as the creator and head writer of the highly acclaimed HBO series "The Sopranos." - Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur indie filmmaker whose films used postmodern nonlinear storylines, and stylized violence interwoven with often-obscure cinematic references. His films include "Reservoir Dogs" (1992), " Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Jackie Brown" (1997), "Kill Bill" (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. - Samuel Alito
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is the junior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Educated at Yale Law School, Alito served as a United States attorney and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit prior to joining the Supreme Court. - John Gotti
John Joseph Gotti, Jr. (October 27, 1940 - June 10, 2002), also known as The Dapper Don and The Teflon Don, was an American mobster and boss of the Gambino Crime Family, one of the Five Families in New York City. He became widely known for his outspoken personality and flamboyant style that made him the poster child for mobsters, an image that persists even today. - Sylvester Stallone
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Alicia Keys (born Alicia J. Augello-Cook on January 25 1980) is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress, philanthropist, and author who has won numerous awards, including nine Grammy Awards, eleven Billboard Music Awards, and three American Music Awards. - Leonardo Wilhelm Dicaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor well known for his roles in blockbuster movies such as "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" (1996), "Titanic" (1997), "The Beach" (2000), "Catch Me If You Can" (2002), "Gangs of New York" (2002), "The Aviator" (2004), "The Departed" (2006), and "Blood Diamond" (2006), and was, … - John Turturro
John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Emmy Award-winning Italian-American film and stage actor noted for his performances in "To Live and Die in L.A." (1985), "The Color of Money" (1986), "Five Corners" (1987), "Men of Respect" (1991), "Monday Night Mayhem" (1999), "Secret Window" (2004), and a variety of collaborations with Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers. - Danny Aiello
Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr. is an Italian-American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures, including "Once Upon a Time in America", "Ruby", "The Godfather: Part II", "Hudson Hawk", "The Purple Rose of Cairo", "Moonstruck", "Léon: The Professional", "Two Days in the Valley", and "Dinner Rush". He is perhaps most famous for his role in the 1989 Spike Lee film "Do the Right Thing". - Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American film actor and director who is perhaps best known for playing intense, often humorless and unsympathetic characters. - Frank Capra
Frank Capra (18 May 1897 - 3 September 1991) was an Academy Award winning Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", among others. - Tony Danza
Tony Danza (born Anthony Salvatore Iadanza April 21, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American actor best known for starring in two popular TV series, "Taxi" and "Who's the Boss?", as well as appearing in the Academy Award-winning motion picture, "Crash". He also hosted his own talk show, "The Tony Danza Show". - Lorraine Bracco
Lorraine Bracco , of Italian-American father and British mother, grew up in Hicksville, near New York. Top model, France's Jean Paul Gaultier and Wilhelmina, in the last year the College was, paradoxically, voted among the most ugly girls of his course [without source]. - Alyssa Milano
Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in the sitcom "Who's the Boss?" and on the supernatural series "Charmed". - Jimmy Kimmel
James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American comedian, writer, talk show host and producer. - Michael Imperioli
James Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966 in Mount Vernon, New York), commonly known as Michael Imperioli, is an Emmy-Award winning Italian-American actor who is best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on "The Sopranos". He also appears as Det. Ed Green's temporary replacement, Det. Nick Falco, in the popular TV drama series "Law & Order". In addition to his role on "The Sopranos", … - Michael Chiarello
Michael Chiarello (born January 26, 1962 in Red Bluff, California, USA) is an American celebrity chef specializing in Italian-influenced California cuisine. He hosts the cooking show, "Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello", on the Food Network and hosts "NapaStyle" on the Fine Living Network. Chiraello owns a winery, Chiarello Family Vineyards, and NapaStyle, a purveyor of food, cookware, and furniture. - Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli (born May 3, 1934 in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey as Francis Stephen Castelluccio) is best known as the lead singer of The Four Seasons, a music act of the 1960s, which continued from then to the 1970s disco scene to the present day. Valli scored over 25 Top-40 hits with The Four Seasons, a handful of Top-40 hits dubbed as a solo act in the late 1960s, one dubbed as "The Wonder Who?" in 1965 and again in the mid to late 1970s. - Gwen Stefani
Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer and occasional actress. Stefani debuted in 1992 as the frontwoman of the third wave ska band No Doubt, whose 1995 album "Tragic Kingdom" propelled them to stardom, selling sixteen million copies worldwide. It spawned the singles "Just a Girl", "Spiderwebs", and the airplay number-one "Don't Speak". The band's popularity went into decline with its third album "Return of Saturn" (2000), … - Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 - November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics and statistical mechanics. Fermi won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.
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