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page 1People from Flushing, Queens
Nancy Reagan
First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989
John Williams
American composer and conductor (born 1932)
John McEnroe
American former tennis player (born 1959)
David Schwimmer
American actor
Mary Tyler Moore
American actress and television producer (1936-2017)
Jon Favreau
American actor and filmmaker (born 1966)
Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. In 1979, Weinstein and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989); The Crying Game (1992); Pulp Fiction (1994); Heavenly Creatures (1994); Flirting with Disaster (1996); and Shakespeare in Love (1998). Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love and also won seven Tony Awards for plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded the Weinstein Company (TWC), a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Gregg L. Semenza
American physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers
Amy Ryan
American actress (born 1968)
Neil Postman
American writer and academic (1931-2003)
Judd Apatow
American comedian and filmmaker (born 1967)
Steve Guttenberg
American actor
Rosemarie DeWitt
American actress
Anita Page
American actress (1910-2008)
Jeff Conaway
American actor (1950–2011)
Anthony Cumia
American talk radio broadcaster
Stanley Schachter
American psychologist
James Gray
American filmmaker
Mike Starr
American actor (born 1950)
Carol Alt
American top model and actress
Richard F. Outcault
American cartoonist (1863-1928)
James Russo
American film and television actor
Action Bronson
American rapper
Ken Levine
American video game developer
Lennie Tristano
American jazz pianist and composer (1919–1978)
Reggie Lucas
American musician, songwriter, record producer (1953–2018)
Kevin Shields
Irish musician and record producer
Lou Pearlman
American talent manager and fraudster (1954–2016)
Franky G
American actor
Gary Ackerman
American politician
Mary van Kleeck
American social reformer and social worker
Grace Wong
Hong Kong actress and singer
Yaeji
Kathy Yaeji Lee (;, born August 6, 1993), known professionally as Yaeji, is an American singer, DJ, and producer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her style blends elements of house music and hip hop with mellow, quiet vocals sung in both English and Korean.
Nathan Sanford
American politician (1777-1838)
Richard Glatzer
American writer and director
Victor LaValle
American writer
Dan Meuser
American businessman and politician
Cornelia Barns
American illustrator and cartoonist (1888-1941)
Sandra Lee
American dermatologist and YouTuber
Arthur Blank
American businessman and sports team owner
Richard Riordan
American businessman and politician
Owen Kline
American actor
Annet Artani
American singer
Robert Levinson
FBI and CIA agent
Billy Jayne
American actor
Marshall Rogers
American comics artist (1950–2007)
Cornelius Lawrence
American politician (1791-1861)
Joy Harmon
American actress and pastry chef
Reby Sky
American professional wrestler
Walter Bowne
American politician (1770-1846)
May Hong
South Korean-American actress model, actress and artist (born 1988)
Art Hsu
American actor
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
American writer
Cadwallader David Colden
American politician (1769-1834)
John W. Lawrence
American politician (1800-1888)
Florence K. Upton
American English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer (1873-1922)
Tara Donovan
American artist (born 1969)
Gino Quilico
Canadian opera singer
Michael Manning
American artist
Danske Dandridge
American poet, writer, historian, gardener (1854–1914)