Christine Quinn is the speaker of the New York City Council, a mayoral-candidate-in-training, and the most powerful lesbian in New York. Long Island-born Quinn got her start in politics in 1989, working in grassroots housing activism. Two years later she went to work as chief of staff for Tom Duane, the openly gay councilman in Chelsea, leaving in the mid-'90s to head up the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. In 1999, Quinn won a Council seat representing Chelsea, succeeding her old boss. As a councilmember, Quinn was defiantly independent, pushing to provide health care benefits to domestic partners even though Mayor Bloomberg was opposed, and opposing the proposed West Side Stadium, one of the mayor's pet projects. When elected as speaker in 2006, Quinn was the first woman speaker, the first gay speaker, and, as her father insisted on pointing out, the first Irish-American speaker in Council history. She proved herself a canny politician in this speaker role, cozying up to the city's business establishment and supporting various big development projects. The transition wasn't altogether surprising considering her hopes to take over from Bloomberg as mayor. In 2008, Quinn became entangled in a federal probe exposing a longstanding City Council practice of appropriating funds to fake organizations. Though she apologized for permitting the practice and quickly reformed the discretionary spending process, the scandal left her a bit tainted, particularly in the wake of embarrassing revelations from fellow politicians like Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson. Quinn lives with her partner, attorney Kim Catullo, and their two dogs, Andy and Sadie. Aptly, the housing crusader's place in Chelsea is rent-stabilized.

Amy Poehler was Saturday Night Live's resident quirky blonde from 2001 to 2008, and currently stars in (and occasionally writes for) Parks & Recreation on NBC. Massachusetts native Poehler honed her chops on the improv circuit, performing with comedy troupes Second City and Improv Olympic before moving to New York to co-found the Upright Citizens Brigade in the mid-1990s with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh. UCB later earned a slot on Comedy Central and Poehler also had roles on several other TV shows (Spin City, Late Night with Conan O'Brien) and movies (Deuce Bigalow, Wet Hot American Summer) but her big break came when pal Tina Fey recruited her to join the cast of Saturday Night Live in 2001. When Jimmy Fallon relinquished his "Weekend Update" post in 2004, Fey picked Poehler to be her co-anchor, launching her to a prominent position on the show. Although Poehler stayed on at SNL when Fey left in 2006, Poehler used this shift to branch out into more movie work, picking up roles in Fey's Mean Girls and Baby Mama, as well as Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny, the third installment of the Shrek franchise, and the figure skating comedy Blades of Glory. Poehler left SNL in 2008 to helm Parks & Recreation. In 2011, Time Magazine listed her as one of the world's most influential people. Poehler married actor Will Arnett, of Arrested Development fame (she also played his wife in the show), in 2003. They have two children together, Archie and Abel.

Robert Wilson

The daughter of former President George W. Bush, Barbara's the smarter, skinnier Bush twin.

Nadler represents New York's 8th congressional district, which includes the West Side and lower Manhattan, along with a chunk of southern Brooklyn that includes Coney Island and Bay Ridge.

Pauline Pitt is a socialite, heiress, and interior designer. She's also the mother of high-profile socialites Serena Boardman and Samantha Boardman Rosen—the wife of real estate mogul Aby Rosen.

Formerly one of Mayor Bloomberg's top lieutenants as the city's deputy mayor for economic development and rebuilding, Doctoroff is now president of Bloomberg L.P.

Edie Falco is a film, TV, and stage actress best known as Mrs. Carmela Soprano.

Possibly the most famous chef in New York, Batali is the carrot-topped maestro of Italian cuisine behind such eateries as Babbo, Lupa, Esca, Otto, and Del Posto.

Rege has been hamming it up on TV for close to five decades. He left his day job on Live! With Regis & Kelly in 2011, but he shows no signs of slowing down.

Voted "Most Like Estée" by the other Lauders, Aerin is considered the public face of her grandmothers cosmetics brand, and is handsomely compensated for her work—with a family fortune estimated at 3.2 billion— she is one of the world's richest heiresses.

The niece of former President of the United States, Bush is a fashion model, social fixture, and wife of fashion heir David Lauren.

An heir to the Hearst family fortune, Gillian Hearst is an omnipresent young social fixture.

Lauren is the daughter of Ronald V. Davis, the former CEO of the Perrier Group of America. Raised in Greenwich and following a short-lived stint at the now-defunct firm Network PR, she joined Vogue as a fashion assistant and was later promoted to associate market editor. These days she's a Vogue contributing editor, one of Anna Wintour's favorite young socials, occasional model, and co-founder of modaoperandi.com. In 2008, Lauren married Andrés Santo Domingo, who hails from one of Colombia's richest and most prominent families.

A longtime Upper East Side social fixture and former model, Griscom is the daughter of Elizabeth Rohatyn and wife of financier Felix Rohatyn.

A longtime presence in fashion and society circles, Annette a socialite, philanthropist, and the wife of fashion designer Oscar de la Renta.

Lydia Hearst is an heiress, social fixture, model, columnist, and aspiring actress. The great-granddaughter of media titan William Randolph Hearst, Lydia is the daughter of infamous kidnappee Patty Hearst and Bernard Shaw, her mom's former bodyguard. She was raised in suburban Connecticut and attended Sacred Heart University in Fairfield before beginning a career as a model during her freshman year. In 2004, she landed her first cover, with Vogue Italia, and has since modeled (topless more than once) for Vogue, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, and numerous fashion designers. She's had a long partnership with Puma that, along with modeling, has included a few design projects, most notably a sporty purse collaboration. Her acting credits include an episode of Gossip Girl, a handful of indie films, and a music video for a cover of the Talking Heads' "This Must Be The Place." Continuing the family media line, she briefly wrote a column for the New York Post's Page Six Magazine.

Anne Hearst, heir to the Hearst family fortune (and sister of notorious kidnappee Patty), is a socialite and a contributing editor at Town & Country. The granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, the publishing titan who inspired Citizen Kane, Anne was born in Beverly Hills and raised in the suburbs of San Francisco. After a stint in college and a little trouble with the law (she was arrested in 1975 for trying to cross U.S.-Canadian border with a bag of amphetamines in the car), Anne settled in New York in the early '80s and soon became a regular presence at galas and parties around town. She met her eventual third husband, author Jay McInerney, at a club in 1986, but lost touch with him until 2005, when the two met again in the Hamptons and were soon married in a 2007 ceremony officiated by Rudy Giuliani. She's been a contributing editor at Town & Country, a Hearst Corp.-owned title, since the 1990s.

The former wife of billionaire oil tycoon Sid Richardson Bass, Mercedes Bass is one of the city's most prominent socialites and philanthropists.

The daughter of Veronica Hearst, Fabiola was once one of the city's most active social butterflies.