St. Albans
Jazz Musician
|
|
Oscar
|
Hammerstein
|
Whitestone
|
Composer
|
Yes
|
Parry
|
Shen
|
Queens
|
Actor/Drama Teacher
|
|
Patricia Reilly
|
Giff
|
St. Albans
|
Author/Illustrator
|
Yes
|
Patty Duke
|
Astin
|
Sunnyside
|
Actress
|
Yes
|
Paul
|
Gibson
|
Jamaica
|
VP of American Airlines
|
|
Paul
|
Gonzalez
|
Cambria Heights
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
Paul
|
Newman
|
Fresh Meadows
|
Actor
|
Yes
|
Paul
|
Simon
|
Forest Hills
|
Singer/Song Writer
|
Yes
|
Paul
|
Stanley
|
Queens
|
Guitarist/Member of Rock Band Kiss
|
Yes
|
Paula
|
Fox
|
Kew Gardens
|
Author/Illustrator
|
Yes
|
Percy
|
Heath
|
St. Albans
|
Jazz Musician
|
Yes
|
Perry
|
Bradford
|
St. Albans
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
Perry
|
Como
|
Queens
|
Singer
|
Yes
|
Peter
|
Munro
|
Flushing
|
Houston Astros Pitcher
|
|
Peter F.
|
Vallone
|
Astoria
|
Speaker NYC Council
|
|
Phil
|
Rizzuto
|
Glendale
|
Baseball Player
|
Yes
|
Phil
|
Schapp
|
Hollis
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
Pia
|
Zadora
|
Forest Hills
|
Actress
|
|
Rae
|
Dooley
|
Bayside
|
Actress
|
|
Ralph
|
Bunche
|
Kew Gardens
|
United Nations Official/ Nobel Prize Winner
|
Yes
|
Ray
|
Bryant
|
Corona
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
Ray
|
Felix
|
East Elmhurst
|
Basketball Player
|
|
Ray
|
Romano
|
Forest Hills
|
Actor/Comedian
|
Yes
|
Red
|
Nichols
|
Forest Hills
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
Red
|
Norvo
|
Forest Hills
|
Jazz Musician
|
Yes
|
Reginald
|
Veljohnson
|
Queens
|
Actor
|
|
Reri
|
Grist
|
Flushing
|
Opera Singer
|
Yes
|
Richard
|
Charles
|
Corona
|
Computer Industry
|
|
Richard
|
Dreyfuss
|
Bayside
|
Actor
|
Yes
|
Richard P.
|
Feynman
|
Far Rockaway
|
Physicist
|
Yes
|
Rise
|
Stevens
|
Elmhurst
|
Opera Singer
|
Yes
|
Robert
|
Bowne
|
Flushing
|
Abolitionist
|
|
Robert
|
Davi
|
Astoria
|
Actor/Director
|
|
Robert
|
Mapplethorpe
|
Glen Oaks
|
Photographer
|
Yes
|
Robert
|
Moog
|
Flushing
|
Created the Modular Synthesizer
|
Yes
|
Rocco
|
Di Spirito
|
Jamaica
|
Restauranteur
|
|
Rodney
|
Dangerfield
|
Kew Gardens
|
Comedian
|
|
Ron
|
Brown
|
Jamaica
|
United States Secretary of Commerce
|
Yes
|
Ronnie
|
Artest
|
Queensbridge
|
Professional Basketball Player
|
|
Ronnie
|
Harmon
|
Bayside
|
Football Player
|
|
Roone
|
Arledge
|
Forest Hills
|
Television Producer
|
Yes
|
Rosco
|
Gordon
|
Queens
|
Blues Musician
|
|
Roscoe
|
Brown
|
Whitestone
|
Tuskegee Airmen
|
|
Rose
|
Murphy
|
St. Albans
|
Singer
|
|
Rosemarie
|
Dewitt
|
Flushing
|
Actress
|
|
Roy
|
Campanella
|
St. Albans
|
Baseball Player
|
Yes
|
Roy
|
Eldridge
|
Hollis
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
Roy
|
Wilkins
|
Flushing
|
Civil Rights Leader
|
Yes
|
Roy O.
|
Haynes
|
Hollis
|
Jazz Musician
|
Yes
|
Royal
|
Ivey
|
St. Albans
|
NBA Basketball Player
|
|
Rufus
|
King
|
Jamaica
|
U.S. Senate
|
|
Russell
|
Simmons
|
Hollis
|
Founder and CEO Rush Communications
|
Yes
|
Samuel
|
Bowne
|
Flushing
|
Abolitionist
|
|
Selma
|
Gore
|
Sunnyside
|
Press Agent
|
|
Sheila Lee
|
Jackson
|
Jamaica
|
Congress Woman
|
Yes
|
Sidney
|
Leviss
|
Queens
|
Frmr Queens Borough President/State Justice
|
|
Sidney
|
Poitier
|
Elmhurst
|
Actor
|
Yes
|
Slam
|
Stewart
|
St. Albans
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
Sri
|
Chinmoy
|
Jamaica
|
Spritual Leader
|
|
Stack
|
Bundles
|
Far Rockaway
|
Rapper
|
|
Starr
|
Danias
|
Jamaica Estates
|
Ballet Dancer
|
|
Stephen Jay
|
Gould
|
Fresh Meadows
|
Paleontologist
|
Yes
|
Urban C.
|
Green
|
Queens
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
Vincent
|
Ford, Jr.
|
South Jamaica
|
Actor
|
|
W.C.
|
Fields
|
Bayside
|
Comedian
|
Yes
|
Warren
|
Lehrer
|
Queens
|
Writer/Photographer
|
|
Wendell
|
Marshall
|
St. Albans
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
Whitey
|
Ford
|
Astoria
|
Baseball Player
|
Yes
|
Wild Bill
|
Davis
|
St. Albans
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
William
|
Davis
|
St. Albans
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
William Grant
|
Still
|
Jamaica
|
Jazz Musician
|
|
William J.
|
Casey
|
Elmhurst
|
Chairman Stock Exchange Commision
|
Yes
|
Willie
|
Mays
|
East Elmhurst
|
Baseball Player
|
Yes
|
Willilam
|
Diehl
|
Jamaica
|
Actor/Writer
|
|
Willilam Edward B
|
Du Bois
|
St. Albans
|
Historian
|
Yes
|
Woody
|
Guthrie
|
Howard Beach
|
Singer/Composer
|
Yes
|
Woody
|
Herman
|
Jackson Heights
|
Jazz Musician/Band
|
|
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