|
Name |
Occupation |
Lived in |
Born |
Died |
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F. Murray Abraham |
Actor |
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Joey Adams |
comedian, actor |
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Manson Adams |
Actor |
|
26 Feb 1919 |
26 April 2005 |
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Woddy Allen |
Filmmaker, comedian, actor |
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Issac Asimov |
Author |
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W.H Auden |
Poet, Author |
one of several famous residents of February House at 7 Middagh Street. |
21 Feb 1907 |
28 Sep 1973 |
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Paul Auster |
Author |
Park Slope |
3 Feb 1947 |
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Lauren Bacall |
Actress |
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Scott Baio |
Actor, Director |
|
1961 |
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Joseph Barbera |
Hanna and Barbera Cartoons |
|
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Dave Barry |
Writer |
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Gene Barry |
Actor |
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Jean-Michel Baequiat |
Artist |
|
22 Dec 1960 |
12 Aug 1988 |
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Daniel Benzali |
Actor |
Brownsville |
|
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Paul Bettany |
Actor |
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Dante Beze |
a.k.a. Mos Def |
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Eubie Blake |
Ragtime performer & composer |
Bedford-Stuyvesant |
7 Feb 1883 |
12 Feb 1983 |
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David Blaine |
Illusionist |
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Joe Bologna |
Actor |
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Clara Bow |
Actress |
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Jane Bowles |
Author and playwright |
One of several famous residents of February House . |
22 Feb 1917 |
4 May 1973 |
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Paul Bowles |
Composer and author |
One of several famous residents of February House . |
30 Dec 1910 |
18 Nov 1999 |
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Benjanin Britten |
British composer and pianist |
One of several famous residents of February House . |
22 Nov 1913 |
4 Dec 1976 |
|
Mel brookls |
Writer, Director |
Brownsville, Brighton Beach, and Williamsburg |
28 Jun 1926 |
|
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Larry Brown |
NY Nicks Basketball Coach |
|
14 Sep 1940 |
|
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Foxy Brown |
Rapper |
|
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Julie Budd |
Singer |
|
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Steve Buscemi |
Actor, Director, Writer |
|
13 Dec 1967 |
|
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Eddie Cantor |
Entertainer |
Born on the Lower East Side, attended business school in Williamsburg and was a singing waiter on Coney Island. |
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Alphonse Capone |
Mobster |
21 Garfeild Pl. |
17 Jan 1899 |
25 Jan 1947 |
|
Al Capone |
Mobster |
|
17 Jan 1899 |
25 Jan 1947 |
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Betty Carter |
Jazz Singer |
|
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Jack Carter |
Comedian |
|
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Shawn Carter |
a.k.a. Jay-Z |
|
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|
Harry Chapin |
Singer, Songwriter |
Killed in car accident on the Long Island Exwy |
Dec 7, 1942 |
July 16, 1981 |
|
Shirley Chisholm |
first black U.S. Congresswoman |
|
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Dane Clark |
Actor |
|
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Kim Coles |
Singer |
|
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Composer |
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Didi Conn |
Actor |
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Jennifer Connelly |
Actress |
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Pat Copper |
comedian |
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Aaron Copland |
Composer |
|
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John Corigiano |
Composer |
|
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Howard Cossell |
Sportscaster |
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Billy Cunningham |
Basketball Hall of Famer, Philly 76ers |
|
3 Jun 1943 |
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Vic demone |
Singer, actor |
|
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Tony Danza |
Entertainer |
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Larry David |
Comedian, actor, co-creator of Seinfeld |
|
2 July 1947 |
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Clive Davis |
Arista Records founder |
Crown Heights |
4 April 1934 |
|
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Calvert De Forest |
a.k.a. Larry Bud Melman from the Letterman Show |
|
1921 |
|
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Elaine DeKooning |
Painter |
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Dom Deluise |
Actor, Comedian |
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Alen M. Dershowitz |
Attorney |
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Neil Dimond |
Singer, Songwriter |
|
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Mike Dimond |
one third of the Beastie Boys |
|
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Donald Wills Douglas |
aeronautical engineer, founder of Douglas Aircraft (later McDonnell Douglas) |
|
1892 |
1981 |
|
Richard Dreyfuss |
Actor |
|
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Allen B. DoMont |
Television Pioneer and inventor |
on Eastern Parkway |
29 Jan 1901 |
14 Nov 1965 |
|
Harry Eisenstat |
Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher |
|
10 Oct 1915 |
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Aprille Joy Jackson |
NASA Engineer |
Roosevelt projects, Bedford Styvesant |
|
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Edie Falco |
Actress |
|
5 July 1963 |
|
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Edie Falco |
Actress |
|
5 July 1963 |
|
|
|
Choreographer |
|
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Harvey Fierstein |
Actor, Playwright |
|
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Fyyush Finkel |
Actor |
Brownsville |
|
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Bobby Fischer |
Chess champion |
|
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Phil Foster |
Actor, Writer, Director, born Philip Feldman |
near Foster Avenue, from which he took his stage name. |
1913 |
1985 |
|
George Gershwin |
Composer |
East New York and Coney Island |
1898 |
1937 |
|
Vincent Gerdenia |
Actor |
|
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Jack Gilford |
Actor |
Williamsburg |
|
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Ruth Bader Ginberg |
Supreme Court Justice |
|
15 Mar 1933 |
|
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Ruth Bader Ginberg |
Supreme Court Justice |
|
15 Mar 1933 |
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Jackie Gleason |
Actor, Comedian |
|
|
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Marty Glickman |
Sportscaster |
Brownsville, East New York, Flatbush and Bensonhurst |
|
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Louis Gossett Jr |
Actor |
|
|
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Elliott Gould |
Actor |
|
29 Aug 1938 |
|
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Jerry Greenfield |
Jerry of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream |
|
1951 |
|
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Jerry Greenfield |
Jerry of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream |
|
1951 |
|
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Adrien Grenier |
actor |
|
10 July 1976 |
|
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Rudy Giuliani |
|
Born in Brooklyn |
1944 |
|
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Morty Gunty |
Actor, Comedian |
|
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Arlo Guthrie |
Singer, Songwriter |
|
|
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Woody Guthrie |
Poet, Folksinger, lived in Brooklyn |
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Buddy Hackett |
Comedian |
|
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Adelaide Hall |
Jazz singer, credited with invention of scat singing |
|
20 Oct 1901 |
7 Nov 1993 |
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Moss Hart |
Playwright, Lyricist |
|
|
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Connie Hawkins |
Basketball Hall of Famer |
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Graduate of Boys High School |
17 Jul 1942 |
|
|
Susan Hayward |
Actress |
|
30 Jan 1918 |
14 Mar 1975 |
|
Gil Hayward |
Actor |
|
|
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Rita Hayworth |
Actress |
|
|
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Joseph Heller |
Author, "Catch 22" |
Coney Island |
1 May 1923 |
12 Dec 1999 |
|
Gregory Hines |
Entertainer |
|
14 Feb 1946 |
9 Aug 2003 |
|
Gil Hodges |
Brooklyn Dodger |
|
|
|
|
Celeste Holm |
Actress |
Attended school in Brooklyn |
29 Apr 1919 |
|
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Sidney Hook |
Philosopher, Marxist scholar |
Bushwick Ave., then Locust St., and, in the 1930's, in Park Slope |
20 Dec 1902 |
12 Jul 1989 |
|
Lena Horne |
Singer |
|
|
|
|
Edward Everett Horton |
Actor |
|
18 Mar 1886 |
29 Sep 1970 |
|
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Escape Artist, Illusionist |
|
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|
Moe Howard |
of the Three Stooges |
born in Bensonhurst |
19 Jun 1897 |
4 May 1975 |
|
Curly Howard |
of the Three Stooges |
Bath Beach |
22 Oct 1903 |
18 Jan 1952 |
|
Shemp Howard |
of the Three Stooges |
|
17 Mar 1895 |
23 Nov 1955 |
|
Anne Jackson |
Actress |
grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from Franklin K. Lane High School |
|
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|
Michael Jordan |
Basketball superstar |
|
|
|
|
Danny Kaye |
Entertainer |
|
|
|
|
Lainie Kazan |
actress |
|
|
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|
Ezra Jack Keats |
Illustrator & Artist |
family lived at 438 Vermont Street, just off Granville Payne Ave. |
11 Mar 1916 |
6 May 1983 |
|
Harvey Keitel |
Actor |
|
13 May 1939 |
|
|
Alan King |
TV Host |
|
|
|
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Carole King |
Singer, Songwriter |
|
|
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Larry King |
TV Host |
|
|
|
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Bernie Kopell |
Actor, Comedian |
Attended Erasmus High |
21 Jun 1933 |
|
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Sandy Koufax |
Hall of Fame pitcher |
|
|
|
|
Lee Krasner |
Painter, wife of Jackson Pollock |
|
1908 |
1984 |
|
Martin Landau |
Actor |
|
|
|
|
Julius LaRosa |
Singer |
|
2 Jan 1930 |
|
|
Jacob Lawrence |
Painter |
Taught at Pratt Institute, 1955-1970 |
7 Sep 1917 |
9 Jun 2000 |
|
Steve Lawrence |
Entertainer |
|
|
|
|
Heath Ledger |
Actor |
Carroll Gardens |
|
|
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Gypsy Rose Lee |
Actress and burlesque entertainer |
One of several famous residents of February House . |
9 Feb 1911 |
26 Apr 1970 |
|
Spike Lee |
Filmmaker |
Born in Atlanta, moved to Chicago and then to Ft. Greene in 1959. |
20 Mar 1957 |
|
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Richard Lewis |
Comedian |
|
29 June 1947 |
|
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Harvey Lichtenstein |
Brooklyn Academy of Music executive director for 32 years |
|
|
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Lil Kim |
Rapper |
|
|
|
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Tony LoBianco |
actor |
|
|
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Vince Lombardi |
Football coach |
|
|
|
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Leonard Lopate |
Broadcaster, WNYC-FM |
|
|
|
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Phillip Lopate |
Author |
|
|
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Norman Mailer |
Author |
|
|
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Barry Manilow |
Singer, Songwriter |
|
|
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Paule Marshell |
Author |
|
|
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Peter Max |
Painter |
|
|
|
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Carson McCullers |
Southern Gothic Author, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe |
One of several famous residents of February House |
19 Feb 1917 |
29 Sep 1967 |
|
Frank McCourt |
Author, born in Brooklyn, moved to Ireland at age 4 |
|
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Anne Meara |
Actress, Comedienne |
|
20 Sep 1929 |
|
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Robert Merrill |
singer |
|
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Henry Miller |
Author, Painter |
Born in Manhattan, grew up in Williamsburg. Author of "Tropic of Cancer", which led to a series of obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography. |
26 Deck 1891 |
7 Jun 1980 |
|
Arthur Miller |
playwright |
|
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Stephanie Mills |
Singer |
|
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Alyssa Milano |
Actress |
|
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Marianne Moore |
Poet, lived in Brooklyn |
|
1887 |
1972 |
|
Mary Tyler Moore |
Actress |
|
|
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Esia Morales |
Actor |
|
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Cousin Brucie Marrow |
Radio Personality |
|
|
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|
|
Performer, writer, Broadway producer |
|
1910 |
1989 |
|
Zero Mostel |
Actor |
|
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Eddie Murphy |
Actor, Comedian |
|
|
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Nasir Jones, AKA Nas |
Rapper |
|
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Harry Nilsson |
Singer, Songwriter |
|
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Joseph Papirofsky |
a.k.a. Joe Papp, founder of the New York Public Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival |
|
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Floyd Patterson |
Boxer, born in North Carolina, raised in Brooklyn |
|
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Beverly Pepper |
Sculptor |
|
1924 |
|
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S.J. Perelman |
Cartoonist, Writer |
|
1904 |
1979 |
|
Rosie Perez |
Actress |
|
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Noel W. Pointer Sr. |
Violinist |
|
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Willie Randolph Jr. |
NY Mets manager |
Born in Holly Hill, South Carolina, lived in Tilden Houses, Brownsville |
6 Jul 1954 |
|
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Martha Raye |
Actress, Singer, Comedienne |
|
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Busta Rhymes |
Rapper |
|
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Sal Richards |
actor |
|
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The Ritz Brothers |
movie comedians |
|
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Joan Rivers |
comedienne |
|
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Max Roach |
Drummer, born in N.C., raised in Brooklyn |
|
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Lucille Roberts |
fitness guru |
|
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Jackie Robinson |
First African-American Major League baseball player (1947) |
born in Cairo, Georgia, Robinson played his entire career within the Brooklyn Dodgers organization. |
|
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Chris Rock |
comedian, actor |
Bedford-Stuyvesant |
7 Feb 1966 |
|
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Mickey Rooney |
actor |
|
|
|
|
Barry M. Rosen |
Press Attach?oo the US Embassy to Iran; was held hostage in Tehran for 444 days between 1979 and 1980 |
Gravesend |
|
|
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Stanley Ralph Ross |
actor |
|
|
|
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Carl Sagan |
Astronomer, author |
Bensonhurst, Bay 37th Street, later Bay Parkway |
9 Nov 1934 |
20 Dec 1996 |
|
Adam Sandler |
Actor, Comedian |
|
|
|
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John Saxon |
actor |
|
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Jack Scalia |
actor |
|
|
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Charles Schumer |
U.S. Senator |
|
|
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Vincent Schiavelli |
Actor, known for character parts in movies such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", etc. |
|
1948 |
2005 |
|
Howard Schultz |
Founder of Starbucks Coffee |
Bayview Houses, Canarsie |
19 July 1953 |
|
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U.S. Senator |
|
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Howard Schultz |
Founder of Starbucks Coffee |
Bayview Houses, Canarsie |
19 July 1953 |
|
|
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singer, songwriter |
|
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|
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Jerry Seinfeild |
Comedian |
Born in Borough Park, then moved to Long Island |
29 Apr 1954 |
|
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Maurice Sendak |
author, illustrator |
|
|
|
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Roger Sessions |
composer |
|
1896 |
1985 |
|
Ben Shahn |
artist |
|
1899 |
1969 |
|
Judge Judy Sheindlin |
judge, author, tv personality |
|
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Beverly Sills |
Opera Singer |
|
|
|
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Phil Silvers |
Broadway, film, and TV star |
|
1911 |
1985 |
|
Neil Simon |
Playwright, Author |
|
|
|
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Robert Weston Smith |
a.k.a. Wolfman Jack, Radio Personality |
|
21 Jan 1939 |
1 Jul 1995 |
|
Betty Smith |
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn author |
|
|
|
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Jimmy Smits |
Actor |
|
|
|
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Robert Solow |
Economist, Nobel Laureate |
|
23 Aug 1924 |
|
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Paul Sorvino |
actor |
|
|
|
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Mickey Spillane |
author |
|
9 Mar 1918 |
|
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Barbara Stanwyck |
actress |
|
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John Steptoe |
Author, Illustrator |
|
|
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Connie Stevens |
film, Broadway star, recording artist |
|
|
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Jerry Stiller |
actor, comedian |
|
|
|
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Barbra Streisand |
singer |
|
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Irving Thalberg |
movie producer |
|
|
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Gene Tierney |
actress |
|
|
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Marise Tomei |
actress |
|
|
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George Tooker |
Painter |
|
|
|
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Joe Torre |
NY Yankees manager |
|
|
|
|
Richard Tucker |
singer |
|
|
|
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John Turturro |
actor |
|
|
|
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Mike Tyson |
Boxer |
178 Amboy Street, Brownsville |
30 Jun 1966 |
|
|
Brenda Vaccaro |
actress |
|
|
|
|
Michael Vale |
Actor, famous for Dunkin Donuts ad campaign line "Time to make the Donuts", which ran for 15 years |
|
|
28 Dec 2005 |
|
Ben Vereen |
Entertainer |
|
|
|
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Abe Vigoda |
Actor |
|
|
|
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Joe Viterelli |
actor |
|
|
|
|
Christopher Wallace |
a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G. - rapper |
Bedford-Stuyvesant |
21 May 1972 |
9 Mar 1997 |
|
Eli Wallach |
actor |
|
|
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Harry Warren |
composer |
|
|
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Wendy Wasserstein |
Playwright |
|
18 Oct 1950 |
|
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Randy Weston |
Jazz pianist and composer |
|
|
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Mae West |
Actress |
|
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|
Walt Whitman |
author, poet |
|
|
|
|
Lillias White |
Singer, actress |
|
|
|
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Michelle Williams |
Actress |
Carroll Gardens |
|
|
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Lenny Wilkens |
NBA hall of fame player and coach |
|
|
|
|
Shelley Winters |
Actress |
|
|
|
|
Adam Yauch |
one third of the Beastie Boys |
|
|
|
|
Henny Youngman |
comedian |
|
|
|
|
Max "Slats" Zaslosky |
Professional basketball player and coach. |
Brownsville |
7 Dec 1925 |
15 Oct 1985 |