Character, Profession (Place of Origin)
Othmar Ammann, Designer & Engineer, GW Bridge (Schaffhausen, Switzerland)
Elizabeth Arden, Cosmetics Entrepreneur (Ontario, Canada)
Hattie Carnegie, Fashion Entrepreneur (Vienna, Austria)
Irwin S. Chanin, Architect/Builder (Brooklyn, NYC)
Walter P. Chrysler, Founder, Chrysler Motors (Warnego, KS)
Frank Costello. Bootlegger/Mobster (Calabria, Italy)
Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight Boxer (Manassa, CO)
William “Big Bill” Dwyer, Bootlegger (Hell’s Kitchen, NYC)
Duke Ellington, Jazz Musician & Composer (Washington, D.C.)
Fred F. French, Builder (Manhattan, NYC)
Adam Gimbel, President, Saks Fifth Avenue (Philadelphia, PA*)
Edwin Goodman, Department Store Mogul (Rochester, NY)
“Texas” Guinan, Night Club Hostess (Waco, TX)
Clifford M. Holland, Chief Engineer, Holland Tunnel (Somerset, MA)
Raymond M. Hood, Architect (Pawtucket, RI)
Abraham E. Lefcourt, Real Estate Developer (Birmingham, England)
Horace Liveright, Publisher and Broadway Producer (Philadelphia, PA)
Lois Long, Writer, The New Yorker (Stamford, CT)
Owney Madden, Bootlegger/Mobster (Leeds, England)
William S. Paley, Founder, CBS (Chicago, IL)
Joseph Medill Patterson, Founder, CBS (Chicago, IL)
George “Tex” Rickard, Boxing Promoter (Sherman, TX**)
Emery Roth, Builder (Galszecs, Slovakia)
Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel, Theatrical Impresario (Bromberg, Germany***)
Helena Rubinstein, Cosmetics Entrepreneur (Krakow, Poland)
Babe Ruth, New York Yankee (Baltimore, MD)
David Sarnoff, Founder, NBC (Uzlyany, Belarus)
Ruth Snyder, Executed Murderer (Queens, NYC)
Gene Tunney, Heavyweight Boxer (Greenwich Village, NYC)
Anne Harriman Vanderbilt, Philanthropist (Manhattan, NYC)
James J. Walker, Mayor, NYC (Greenwich Village, NYC)
William J. Wilgus, Engineer (Buffalo, NY)
Florenz Ziefeld, Jr., Broadway Impresario (Chicago, IL)