- Lucky Luciano
Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania) (November 24, 1897 - January 26, 1962) was a Sicilian-American mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the international heroin trade. Time magazine has named Luciano amongst the top 20 most influential builders and titans of the 20th century. - Vincent Schiavelli
Vincent Andrew Schiavelli was an Italian-American character actor noted for his work in film, stage and television. He was often described as "the man with the sad eyes". - 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, … - 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". - Henry Hill
Henry Hill (born June 11, 1943) is an Irish/Italian American former mobster, Lucchese crime family associate, and FBI informant whose life was immortalized in the book "Wiseguy", written by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi, and the 1990 Martin Scorsese movie "Goodfellas", in which Hill was played by Ray Liotta. - Carlo Gambino
Carlo Gambino (August 24,1902 - October 15,1976) was a Mafioso who was boss of the Gambino crime family. Gambino was known for being low-key and secretive. Unlike many modern mafiosi Gambino served relatively little time in prison. He lived to the age of of 74, when he died of a heart attack while sleeping in his home. - Salvatore Maranzano
Salvatore Maranzano (1868-September 10, 1931) was an organized crime figure from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Mafia boss in the United States. He was known as a "Boss of Bosses" and controlled all Mafia activity within the US. As a youngster he had wanted to become a priest and even studied to become one, but later became associated with the Mafia in his homeland. - Joseph Bonanno
Giuseppe "Joseph/Joe" Bonanno (January 18, 1905 - May 12, 2002) was a Sicilian-born American Mafioso who became the boss of one of the infamous "five families" crime families of New York City. He was nicknamed "Joe Bananas", a name he hated due to the implication that he was crazy. - 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. - Santo Trafficante Jr.
Santo Trafficante, Jr. (November 15, 1914 - March 17, 1987) was one of the last of the old-time Mafia bosses in the United States. He controlled organized criminal operations in Florida, which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father, Santo Trafficante, Sr. He was also reputedly the most powerful mafioso in Batista-era Cuba. Trafficante maintained links to the Bonanno family in New York, … - Paul Castellano
Constantino Paul Castellano (June 26, 1915 - December 16, 1985), better known as Paul Castellano (or PC to his family), was a mafia boss in New York. He succeeded Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family, then one of New York's largest Mafia families. In early 1985, he was one of many Mafia bosses arrested on charges of racketeering, which was to result in the Mafia Commission Trial; in December of that year, while out on bail, … - Carmine Galante
Carmine Galante aka "Lilo," "Cigar" was the boss of the Bonanno crime family, a New York City Mafia crime organization from 1974 to 1979. He was rarely seen without a cigar clenched in his teeth, and, amazingly, died with a cigar still in his mouth, which led to his rather unimaginative nickname, "Cigar". The son of a fisherman who immigrated from Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Galante was born in an East Harlem tenement. - Chazz Palminteri
Chazz Palminteri (b. May 15, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer, best known for his performances in "The Usual Suspects", "A Bronx Tale" and "Mulholland Falls". - Joe Dimaggio
Joseph Paul DiMaggio, born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr. (November 25, 1914 - March 8, 1999) in Martinez, California, and moved to San Francisco at one year old. He was nicknamed Joltin' Joe and The Yankee Clipper, was a Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire MLB career (1936-1951) for the New York Yankees. He was the brother of Vince DiMaggio and Dom DiMaggio. - Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, film director, and satirist. In his more than 30-year long career, Frank Zappa established himself as one of the most prolific and distinctive musician-composer-band leaders of his era. Zappa worked in almost every musical genre and wrote music for rock bands, jazz ensembles, synthesisers and symphony orchestra, as well as radiophonic works constructed from pre-recorded, … - 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. - 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. - Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of legendary entertainer Judy Garland and her second husband, acclaimed film director Vincente Minnelli (who was of Italian and French descent). - Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody (April 3, 1904 - January 4, 1999) was an actor born in Gueydan, Louisiana. He was born Espera De Corti, the son of Sicilian immigrants Francesca Salpietra and Antonio De Corti. He was not born a Native American, but he claimed to be part Cherokee and part Cree. Cody and his wife Bertha Parker adopted children that were Native American. Cody began his acting career at the age of 12 and continued to work until the time of his death. - Sal Mineo
Salvatore "Sal" Mineo, Jr. was a Golden Globe-winning American movie and stage actor, best known for his Academy Award-nominated performance opposite James Dean in the film "Rebel Without a Cause". Mineo, born in The Bronx, New York City as the son of a Sicilian coffin maker, was enrolled by his mother in dancing and acting school at an early age. - 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. - Sylvester Stallone
SO IT'S LIKE THIS... - Joe Masseria
Giuseppe "Joe The Boss" Masseria (c. 1869-April 15, 1931) was an early Mafia don in the United States. Masseria controlled all organized crime in New York City from 1920 until his assassination by Lucky Luciano's underlings in 1931 during the Castellammarese War. After immigrating to the United States in 1903 to avoid murder charges in Sicily, Masseria became an enforcer for the Morello Gang in the Lower East Side of New York City. - Tommy Lucchese
Gaetano "Tommy" Lucchese (December 1, 1899 - July 13, 1967) was the boss of the Lucchese crime family, one of the five Mafia families ruling the New York underground. He was popular and well-liked among his men, and known to value their welfare highly. Lucchese also enjoyed close relations with mayors and other politicians, including Mayor William O'Dwyer and Mayor Vincent Impellitteri. He ultimately became one of the most well-respected Mafia bosses of the era. - Sonny Bono
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (–) was an American record producer, singer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades. - Stefano Magaddino
Stefano Magaddino was an American mafia boss in the Buffalo, New York area. Born in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, birthplace of numerous Mafiosi (including his cousin, Joseph Bonanno), Magaddino emigrated to the United States sometime in the early to mid 1910's and settled in Brooklyn, New York. Magaddino was arrested for alleged involvement in the murder of a man in Avon, New Jersey in 1921, who was the member of the rival Buccellato clan from Castellammare del Golfo, … - Sam Giancana
Sam "Momo" Giancana ((born Salvatore Guingano) June 15, 1908 - June 19, 1975) was a famous and powerful mafioso and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957-66. Among his nicknames included "Mo", "Mooney" and "Sam the Cigar" - Joe Profaci
Giuseppe "Joe" Profaci (October 2, 1897-June 7, 1962) was a New York Mafia boss who was the founder and head of the Profaci crime family (known today as the Colombo crime family) for over three decades. Joseph Profaci was born in Villabate in the province of Palermo, Sicily. He immigrated to the United States and was naturalized as a citizen on September 27, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York. Joseph Profaci was known for his racketeering in and around Brooklyn. - Frank Vincent
Frank Vincent (born Frank Vincent Gattuso on August 4, 1939) is an Italian-American actor. He was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, but was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. His father was also called Frank. Frank has two brothers: Nick and Jimmy. Frank's father was one of six children, all born in the United States to Sicilian immigrants Nicolo Gattuso and Francesca di Peri. He is Sicilian and Neapolitan. - Louis Prima
Louis Prima (December 7, 1910 - August 24, 1978) was an American entertainer, singer, actor, and trumpeter. He was referred to as the King of the Swingers. Prima rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his seven-piece New Orleans style jazz band in the 1920s, then successively leading a Swing combo in the 1930s, a Big Band in the 1940s, a Vegas lounge act in the 1950s, and a pop-rock go-go band in the 1960s. - Vito Cascio Ferro
Vito Cascio Ferro (January 22, 1862 - 1943), known as Don Vito, he was a prominent Sicilian mafioso who also operated for a time in the United States, where he was a "pioneer" of sorts in the American Mafia. Cascio Ferro was born in Bisacquino in the province of Palermo and worked in his early adulthood as a revenue collector, which provided a cover for his protection racket. He traveled to New York City in 1901, … - Frank Nitti
Francesco Raffaele Nitto, better known as Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti was an Italian/American gangster, one of the top henchmen of Al Capone and later a mob boss in his own right. - Tommy Gagliano
Gaetano "Tommy" Gagliano (1884 - 16 February, 1951) became the head of the former Reina crime family in 1931. Gaetano or "Tommy" as he was known retired and relinquished control of the Gagliano crime family allegedly in 1953 to his Underboss, Gaetano "Tommy Brown" Luchese, while some have 1951 as the year. The Lucchese crime family would go on to become one of the most powerful criminal organizations in America, … - Frank Viviano
Frank Viviano (born Francesco Paolo Viviano in Detroit, Michigan in 1947) is a Sicilian-American journalist and foreign correspondent. He attended De La Salle High School in Detroit and the University of Michigan. He traveled widely for many years as the at-large foreign correspondent for the "San Francisco Chronicle", covering events across Asia and Europe, … - 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. - Tony Accardo
Antonino Leonardo Accardo, aka "Joe Batters" and "Big Tuna", (April 28, 1906 - May 22, 1992) was the boss of the Chicago Outfit from about 1945 until shortly before he died of natural causes in 1992. By keeping a low profile and allowing flashier figures such as Sam Giancana to attract attention, Accardo intermittently ran the Chicago Outfit for much longer than Al Capone, … - 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. - Chuck Mangione
Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione (born November 29, 1940) is a flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good", in 1978. He has released more than 30 albums from the early 1960s to today. Born and raised in Rochester, New York, Mangione and his pianist brother Gap led the Jazz Brothers group which recorded three albums for Riverside Records. He attended the Eastman School of Music from 1958 to 1963, … - Carlos Marcello
Carlos Marcello (Calogero Minacore ) was born in Tunis, North Africa, on 6th February, 1910. Marcello emigrated to the United States and in 1929 was arrested for bank robbery by the police in New Orleans . These charges were later dropped but the following year he was convicted of assault and robbery and was sentenced to the State penitentiary for 9 years (served 5 years). In 1938 Marcello was arrested and charged with the sale of more than 23 pounds of narcotics.
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