and Her Grandson
Winston'' by
John Singer Sargent (1906/07) •
Jean Aberbach (1910–1992), Austrian-born American art collector, founder of
Hill & Range music publishers that controlled much of the
Elvis Presley catalog •
Carol Alt (born 1960),
supermodel, television personality •
Frank Altimari (1928–1998), judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit •
Jerome Ash, owner of
Sam Ash Music stores •
Doe Avedon (1925–2011), fashion model and actress, wife of
Richard Avedon, the inspiration for
Audrey Hepburn's character in
Funny Face (Avedon was legally adopted by the wealthy employer of her biological father who served as a butler until his death) •
Robert Low Bacon (1884–1938), banker and congressman •
Florence Bellows Baker (1876–1936), philanthropist and horticulturist •
Charles T. Barney (1851–1907), president of
Wells Fargo & Company, president of the
Knickerbocker Trust Company •
Alva Belmont (1853–1933), socialite, woman's suffragist •
Oliver Belmont (1858–1908), son of
August Belmont •
Harvey R. Blau (1935–2018), former mayor and deputy mayor; chairman and former CEO of
Griffon Corporation •
Vira Boarman Whitehouse (1875–1957), woman suffragist, birth control proponent •
Albert C. Bostwick, Jr., steeplechase jockey, Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder/trainer, heir to the
Standard Oil Trust •
Dunbar Bostwick, horseman, pilot, sportsman, heir to the Standard Oil Trust •
George Herbert Bostwick (1909–1982), tennis player, jockey, trainer •
Pete Bostwick, Standard Oil heir, tennis champion •
Carl Andrew Capasso, NYC contractor involved in bribery and tax evasion scandal •
Arielle Charnas (born 1987), fashion designer and blogger •
Michael Cimino (1939–2016), film writer and director •
F. Ambrose Clark, equestrian, heir to
Singer Sewing Machine Co. •
Eliot Cross, architect and owner of
Cross and Cross •
Marguerite Sawyer Hill Davis, socialite and one of the wealthiest women of her time •
Herman Duryea, thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder •
Herman Edwards (born 1954),
Kansas City Chiefs coach •
Hervé Filion (1940–2017), Canadian harness racing driver •
Floyd H. Flake (born 1945), member of
U.S. House of Representatives •
Max Fortunoff, founder/owner of
Fortunoff department stores •
Bethenny Frankel (born 1970), SkinnyGirl cocktail founder, television personality (
Real Housewives of New York City,
Bethenny Ever After), author of multiple titles making
The New York Times Best Seller list •
Robert L. Gerry, Jr.,
polo champion, real estate investor •
Erica Gimbel, socialite, reality television star on
Princesses: Long Island •
Anson Goodyear, philanthropist, chairman of
Gaylord Container Corporation, director of
Paramount Pictures, director of the
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, first president of the
Museum of Modern Art •
Victoria Gotti (born 1962), daughter of
John Gotti, reality television star, author •
Michael P. Grace, Irish-American chairman of
W. R. Grace and Company (NYC) and Grace Brothers & Co. Ltd. (London, England) •
C. Z. Guest, socialite,
Truman Capote swan, celebrity gardener, author •
Cornelia Guest (born 1963), socialite, crowned "Deb of the Decade" by
Andy Warhol (1980s), author •
Frederick Guest, British polo player, philanthropist, British politician and peer •
Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, Anglo-American polo champion,
Phipps family heir •
Marie Norton Harriman (1903–1970),
First Lady of New York, wife of
W. Averell Harriman, art collector •
Thomas Hastings (1860–1929), architect, partner of
Carrère and Hastings •
Leila Hadley (1925–2009), socialite, author •
Gustave Maurice Heckscher (1884–1967), pioneer seaplane aviator •
W. Barklie Henry (1867–1930), stockbroker, yachtsman •
Frederick Hicks (1872–1925), congressman, diplomat •
James N. Hill, Canadian-American
Great Northern Railway heir, son of "the empire builder"
James J. Hill and
Margaret Sawyer Hill •
Abraham Hirschfeld, real estate developer and Broadway producer •
Thomas Hitchcock, polo champion •
Adam C. Hochfelder (born 1971), real estate magnate •
Rick Hoffman (born 1970), actor •
Edward Francis Hutton (1875–1962), financier and co-founder of
E. F. Hutton & Co. •
Matthew Ianniello (1920–2012), restaurateur, alleged
Genovese crime family acting boss. •
Kevin James (born 1965), actor •
Reza Jarrahy (born 1956), plastic surgeon, former husband of actress
Geena Davis •
Peter S. Kalikow (born 1942), real estate magnate, car collector, former
Forbes 400 member,
New York Post owner,
Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman, and
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioner •
Foxhall Keene (1867–1941), champion automobile racer, polo player, thoroughbred breeder, purported original namesake for "
Chicken à la King" •
Charles Kelman (1930–2004), eye surgeon, medical pioneer •
Ed Kranepool (1944–2024),
New York Mets first baseman •
Nicole Krauss (born 1974), author, wife of
Jonathan Safran Foer •
James Lanier (1800–1881), entrepreneur, banker, founder of
Winslow, Lanier & Co., owner of
Lanier Mansion •
John LeBoutillier (born 1953), U.S. congressman •
Jack Liebowitz (1900–2000), original co-owner of
DC Comics •
William Goadby Loew (1875–1955), financier and stockbroker •
James Brown Lord (1859–1902), architect •
Charles B. Macdonald, builder of first U.S. 18-hole golf course and other courses, founder of
United States Golf Association •
Jack Martins (born 1967), NYS Senator, former mayor of
Mineola •
Shep Messing (born 1949), soccer goalkeeper, broadcaster, and chairman of the
Major Arena Soccer League •
Marvin Middlemark (1919–1989), inventor of/patent-holder for the "rabbit ears" television antenna •
Devereux Milburn, champion polo player, attorney at
Carter Ledyard & Milburn, son of
John G. Milburn •
E.D. Morgan III,
Morgan family heir,
Pioneer Fund director, grandson/namesake of the NY governor and U.S. Senator •
Bess Myerson (1924–2014),
Miss America (1945) •
Nas (born 1973), rapper •
Brandon Nimmo (born 1993),
MLB outfielder for the
New York Mets •
John Parisella (born 1940), horse trainer •
Darragh Park (1939–2009), artist, executor of the
James Schuyler estate •
Angel Penna, Sr. (1923–1992), Argentine-born thoroughbred horse trainer •
Murray Pergament, founder of
Pergament Home Centers •
Henry Phipps, Jr.,
Carnegie Steel Company partner, philanthropist •
Henry Carnegie Phipps, Carnegie Steel Company heir, Phipps family heir, sportsman,
Wheatley Stable owner •
Hubert Beaumont Phipps, Phipps family and
Grace family heir, publisher, thoroughbred breeder •
John Shaffer Phipps, director of
U.S. Steel and
W. R. Grace & Co. •
Lillian Bostwick Phipps, socialite, thoroughbred horse stable owner •
Michael Grace Phipps, polo champion, Phipps family and Grace family heir, board member of
Bessemer Trust and
W.R. Grace & Co. •
Ogden Phipps, Carnegie Steel heir, tennis champion, philanthropist •
Leonard Pines (1911–2001), owner of
Hebrew National •
Fred Plum (1924–2010),
neurosurgeon, developed the term "
persistent vegetative state" and treated
President Nixon •
Lilly Pulitzer (1931–2013), designer, socialite •
Aby Rosen (born 1960), German and American art collector and real estate mogul with holdings including the
Seagram Building,
Lever House,
W South Beach,
Gramercy Park Hotel,
Paramount Hotel, and
Planet Hollywood Miracle Mile Shops •
Steven Rubenstein (1962–2012), anthropologist •
Ely Sakhai, notorious gallery owner and art forger •
David B. Samadi, former chairman of Urology and Chief of Robotic Surgery at
Lenox Hill Hospital • Harvey Sanders,
Nautica CEO, chairman of the board and president,
Under Armour director •
Vito Schnabel (born 1986), art dealer, actor, writer and producer, son of
Julian Schnabel • Steven Schonfeld,
billionaire, ranked 371 on
Forbes 400 •
Eleanor Searle (1908–2002), philanthropist, singer •
John Shalam, founder and CEO of
Audiovox •
Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972), Russian-American airplane developer and first major producer of helicopters •
David Simon (born 1960), CEO of
Simon Property Group •
Bernice Steinbaum (born 1941), gallerist, dealer, curator, juror, speaker, author •
Howard Stern (born 1954), entertainer •
Beatrice Straight, member of
Whitney family,
Academy Award-winning actress •
Willard Dickerman Straight, banker, diplomat, co-founder of
The New Republic magazine •
Harold E. Talbott, early aviator, president of
Dayton-Wright Airplane Company, third
United States Secretary of the Air Force. •
Seabury Tredwell, future owner of what is now the
Merchant's House Museum in Manhattan •
Barry Van Gerbig (born 1939), socialite, son-in-law of
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
NHL owner •
Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877–1964),
Vanderbilt family heiress, wife of, firstly,
Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough and, secondly, record-breaking pilot
Jacques Balsan •
Gloria Vanderbilt (1924–2019), Vanderbilt family heiress, clothing and perfume designer •
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt family heir, prominent railroad industrialist, philanthropist and yachtsman •
William Kissam Vanderbilt II, Vanderbilt family heir, prominent motor racer and yachtsman •
Francis Skiddy von Stade, Sr. (1884–1967), polo champion,
Saratoga Race Course president •
Ira Waldbaum, built up the
Waldbaum's supermarket chain from a six store operation into one of the largest in the Northeast •
George Herbert Walker (1875–1953), banker and businessman, namesake and grandfather of U.S. president
George H. W. Bush, namesake and great-grandfather of U.S. President
George W. Bush •
Jimmy Walker (1881–1946), flamboyant
New York City Mayor, part of the powerful
Tammany Hall machine •
Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960), collector, philanthropist, founder of the
Shelburne Museum •
James Watson Webb (1802–1884), owner of
New York Courier and Enquirer newspaper, politician •
J. Watson Webb, Jr. (1916–2000), film editor, heir to both the
Havemeyer and Vanderbilt families •
William Collins Whitney (1841–1904), founder of the
Whitney family, financier, U.S. Cabinet member, thoroughbred stable owner •
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Vanderbilt family and Whitney family heir, financier, philanthropist •
Dorothy Payne Whitney, Whitney family heiress, co-founder of
The New Republic magazine and the
Dartington School •
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Vanderbilt family heiress, founder of the
Whitney Museum of American Art •
Harry Payne Whitney, member of Whitney family, thoroughbred horse breeder •
Marylou Whitney, socialite, philanthropist, thoroughbred stable owner •
John Wilmerding (1938–2024), art collector, curator and professor,
Havemeyer and Vanderbilt family heir •
Charles E. Wilson (1890–1961), president of
General Motors, U.S. Cabinet member • Robert Winthrop, member of the Dudley–Winthrop family, banker, philanthropist, namesake of
Winthrop-University Hospital •
Steve Witkoff (born 1957),
Special Envoy to the Middle East for U.S. President
Donald Trump; real estate investor and developer, founder of the Witkoff Group, attorney •
Louis Wolfson (1912–2007), financier, thoroughbred horse owner •
Raphael Yakoby, creator of
Hpnotiq •
Alexei Yashin (born 1973), Russian professional hockey player,
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