The multi-tasking Rowley is a fashion designer, author, TV personality and all-round lifestyle guru.

A designer of classically conventional American fashion, Kors has become a household name since his turn as the resident bitch on Project Runway.

Kate Spade is the handbag designer whose simple but elegant purses have spawned countless knockoffs.

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Al Goldstein, who once sat atop a multi-million dollar fortune, is the pioneering smut peddler best known for his porno mag, Screw, and his long-running cable access show, Midnight Blue.

The former dean of NYU Law, John Sexton is the 15th president of New York University, and one of the highest paid university leaders in the nation (he earned $849,121 from NYU in 2006).

A onetime news anchor and TV reporter, Hanover is most famous for having been married to Rudy Giuliani for 18 years and bearing his two children.

Colicchio is the founder of the Craft restaurant empire, and the voice of reason on Bravo's Top Chef.

Phillip Lim is a Cambodian-American fashion designer of Chinese ancestry made famous for his eponymous fashion line 3.1 Phillip Lim. His upscale (yet affordable) line of "street elegance" is the reason so many up-and-coming fashion kids still get to wear nice clothes.

John Mara is the president, CEO and co-owner of the New York Giants, just like his father and grandfather before him. He also has a couple of famous nieces, one very and one slightly.

A former staffer at the New Yorker, Lemann is the dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, where he currently supervises some 300 students and oversees the Columbia Journalism Review.

With partner Noah Tepperberg, Jason Strauss formed the Strategic Group, which manages the nightspots Marquee, Avenue, Tao (in NYC and Las Vegas), and Lavo, which is located in Vegas' Palazzo Hotel.

With partner Jason Strauss, Tepperberg is founder of the marketing firm Strategic Group and has managed nightspots like Marquee and Avenue in Chelsea, Tao in Midtown, an outpost of Tao in Las Vegas, and Lavo, a club in the Las Vegas' Palazzo Hotel.

A 30-year ABC News veteran, Gibson was the anchor of the network's nightly newscast from 2006 to 2009, when he retired and handed over the show to Diane Sawyer.

Tyson, a Bronx native, is an award-winning astrophysicist and currently serves as the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. Tyson has gained mainstream notoriety as a science communicator, best-selling author, television host, internet meme, and perhaps most importantly, as 2000's "sexiest astrophysicist alive" by People magazine.

Bill O'Reilly is the hot-headed conservative TV host of The O'Reilly Factor, currently rated the most-watched news program on cable TV. He has also dabbled in semi-pro baseball, writing, and allegedly, the art of sexual harassment.

A professor of religion at Princeton University, West is one of the foremost—and most controversial—African-American scholars in the country.

Rudy Giuliani's scandal-ridden third wife, Judi served as the former mayor's arm candy during his ill-fated bid for the presidency in 2008.

Stuart has been dressing uptown girls who go downtown to shop for two decades.

Saltzman is executive director of the Robin Hood Foundation, the hedge fund-heavy non-profit that supports education and anti-poverty programs in New York City.