The widow of John Lennon, Ono was the most-loathed Beatle bride—until Heather Mills came along. Her son is Sean Lennon.

The most prominent African-American interior designer in the city, Bridges's career peaked in the 1990s with boldface clients like Diddy and Tom Clancy and a show on the Fine Living channel.

Long known as the "first woman of finance," Mickie Siebert was the first woman to purchase a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. She continues to run the discount brokerage she founded, the Siebert Financial Corporation.

The man behind the "Doonesbury," Trudeau is probably the most famous comic strip artist in America. He's also the husband of erstwhile NBC anchor Jane Pauley.

Fashion icon Norma Kamali earned fame in the '70s for her sleeping bag coat, and introduced parachute pants and high-heeled sneakers to fashion slaves in the '80s. The designer has faded from prominence over the past decade or so, but continues to preside over her eponymous, New York-based company.

Although he's retreated from the spotlight in recent years, the diminutive folk singer remains as New York as Woody Allen (Simon appeared in Annie Hall) and Central Park (the site of his most famous concert).

Shockey is the former bad-boy tight end for the New York Giants who spends as much time gracing the sports section as the gossip pages. He was traded to the New Orleans Saints in 2008 and the Carolina Panthers in 2011.

One of the most prominent business journalists in town, Serwer is the managing editor of Fortune and a regular on CNN's American Morning.

Suzyn Waldman is a Yankees radio commentator and occasional TV correspondent. She's one of the first woman to hold a full-time position as a Major League Baseball play-by-play broadcaster.

A sex symbol in the 1940s, legendary husky-voiced actress Lauren Bacall lit up the big screen in countless classics, including To Have or Have Not, The Big Sleep, How to Marry a Millionaire, and Written on the Wind. She had an equally exciting time off-screen: Bacall was married to Humphrey Bogart until his death in 1957, had a high-profile affair with Frank Sinatra shortly thereafter, and was married to actor Jason Robards in the '60s. [Image via AP]

Stevens is best known to New Yorkers as the gatekeeper at Marquee and Avenue, the nightspots owned by Jason Strauss and Noah Tepperberg. He's also an actor with a long list of bit television and movie credits to his name and a former lawyer.

A web guru, viral media expert, and occasional social activist, Peretti is a partner in Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer's HuffingtonPost.com and the founder of viral content aggregate BuzzFeed.com. He's also known for his online prankery: With his comedian sister Chelsea Peretti, he created viral sites like BlackPeopleLoveUs.com and the New York City Rejection Line.

The son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Sean is a musician, visual artist, and occasional tabloid staple, famous for his relationship with fellow wounded celebrity scion Bijou Phillips.

Marchetto is the resident cartoonist at Glamour and the author of the 2006 graphic novel Cancer Vixen. She's married to Silvano Marchetto, the owner of West Village Italian eatery Da Silvano.

A fashion columnist for the Village Voice until late 2009, Yaeger is hard to miss at fashion shows around town thanks to her signature doll-like look.

The son of Colombian-Jewish cloth magnate-turned-art collector Jose Mugrabi, "Tico" is the public face of the Warhol-collecting Mugrabi clan and a fixture on the contemporary art social scene.

New York's 106th mayor—and first black mayor—Dinkins wrested the mayoralty from fellow Democrat Ed Koch in 1989, but lost his bid for reelection in 1993 to Rudy Giuliani following a gloomy term marked by the Crown Heights riots and out of-control crime.

Don Imus witnessed his career nearly implode when he made racist on-air comments in 2006, but the cadaver-faced shock jock has since returned to helm his nationally syndicated radio show Imus in the Morning.

Arden Wohl is the headband-obsessed, spotlight-hungry girl-about-town who describes herself as a filmmaker, dessert maven, and philanthropist these days. She's the daughter of real estate developer Larry Wohl and social fixture/Kabbalah enthusiast Denise Wohl.

Formerly the chef of Daniel Boulud's Café Boulud, and the three-star Italian restaurant A Voce, Carmellini now heads up the kitchen at Locanda Verde and The Dutch.