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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Esther Dyson has been a leading technology visionary for decades. In fact, she was working with the internet years before you even knew it existed.

Indie darling Noah Baumbach is to film what Jonathan Lethem is to books-a Brooklynite who's built a career out of remembering what the borough was like before it became chic.

Gondry is a director known for the dreamlike sensibility he brings to music videos, commercials, and feature films alike. He's probably best known for 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

NBC fixture Bob Costas' trademark boyish good looks and reassuring baritone made him a sports broadcasting icon. But after 25 years of having him shoved down their throats every time they try to watch a sporting event, viewers may be forgiven for wanting to hurl the remote at the TV when they see his face.

The Nobel Prize winning scientist is the former president of Rockefeller University, the highly respected biomedical research center on the Upper East Side, and current director and CEO of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation.

Once-foxy actor Kyle MacLachlan, depending on who you're talking to, is best known either for his affiliation with David Lynch or for playing the perfect WASP husband on shows like Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives.

Showbiz spawn Mark Ronson is a music producer and turntablist to the stars.

The famously volatile owner of the New York Yankees, Steinbrenner had been the terror of rivals and underlings for over three decades. He passed away in 2010.

Best known for her role as Dr. Melfi on The Sopranos, Bracco also has an impressive resume when it comes to marrying and divorcing character actors and going broke.

"PrezBo" is the president of Columbia University and a member of its law school faculty. He's known for his work on free speech and First Amendment issues.