A former local TV host and longtime social fixture, Licht is married to ad man Jerry Della Femina.

One of the best pitchers in baseball, powerhouse left-hander Santana was signed by the Mets to a $137.5 million, six-year deal in 2008 in order to help Mets fans forget the team's pitiful late season collapse in 2007.

Girardi is the man who was tapped by George Steinbrenner to replace Joe Torre as the manager of the Yankees in 2007.

The longtime business partner of Marc Jacobs, it's Duffy who keeps the business afloat as Jacobs dies his hair various colors, cavorts with young men, and—yes—designs clothes.

Congresswoman Clarke represents New York's eleventh district, which includes Brooklyn neighborhoods like Brownsville, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, and Kensington.

Previously Newsweek's editor-in-chief, Jon Meacham is an executive editor and vice president at Random House. His books include American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, American Gospel, and Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of An Epic Friendship.

One of the world's most famous models, Gisele is as well known for her Victoria's Secret ads as she is for her dalliances with any number of boldface names.

Woody Allen is celebrated as New York's greatest filmmaker.

With his popular parodies of music videos and TV commercials, Samberg has become a bright spot on Saturday Night Live.

The high-profile former creative director of Gucci is now the creator of Tom Ford fragrances as well as a stratospherically expensive eponymous menswear line.

A young social fixture, Olivia Palermo grew up in Connecticut and attended the New School, but quickly finagled her way on to the society "It" list. Her aggressive attempts to scale the social ladder landed her on the cover of New York Magazine in May 2007 after Palermo was at the center of vapid socialite controversy…

A fixture at events around town, Genevieve Jones is one of the few young African-American women on the social scene and one of the more controversial, too. Once described by Vogue as the "Girl of the Moment," Jones's "It" girl status dissipated in late 2006 after a series of articles revealed she'd been lying about…

A former model and flight attendant, Grace Hightower is the second wife of Robert De Niro and the mother of De Niro's son, Elliot, and daughter, Helen.

Via her eponymous firm, Schelter dabbles in photography, marketing and design for the likes of Zac Posen and Victoria's Secret, but she's better known for her busy social calendar and prodigious party planning abilities.

Evans lets viewers know what meteorological mediocrities Mother Nature has in store for the tri-state region as the weatherman for WABC.

The former president of NBC News, Shapiro is the president of public television channel Thirteen/WNET.

Flamboyantly attired R&B icon Erykah Badu has released multiple multi-platinum albums since her watershed 1997 record Baduizm.

A social fixture and pal of Barbara Bush, Betts is the daughter of Chelsea Piers developer Roland Betts, a Bush BFF himself.

Celebrity neurologist Oliver Sacks is known for the non-fiction books that detail his cerebrally irregular patients, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (featuring the most famous account of visual agnosia ever put to paper) and An Anthropologist on Mars. Now a professor of clinical psychiatry and…

Reverend Billy is the kitschy faux-preacher who organizes rallies against consumerism and corporate monoliths like Starbucks and Disney. The Reverend and his 40-member Earthalujah Choir tour the world (but primarily the United States), racking up arrests as they spread the gospel of their Church of Stop Shopping.