Notable Long Island celebrities and their worldwide influence.
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Long Island has the popular "Anal Advisor" Tristan Taormino that went to Sayvillle.
http://puckerup.com/about/about-tristan/
http://puckerup.com/about/about-tristan/
What happened to the worldwide influence part of this thread...
Eddie Murphy clearly was a leader in comedy and so was Jerry Seinfeld in his own different way so they both had a great worldwide influence along with a few other names I have seen posted but most of the names have been disappointing to read.
Amy Schumer is just another run of the mill comedian getting some fame and notoriety with crappy cookie cutter humor and being cast in some good roles. The fool from bar rescue geesh what’s his world wide impact?
The only thing more frustrating than seeing the names of a bunch of Hollywood inflated airheads on a list of supposedly notable world wide influencers is that someone i would consider conversing with would actually know that all these people are from Long Island.
It’s like when people from New Jersey brag about being home to Camden the most dangerous city in the country.
I would love to hear about some business leaders, inventors or scientific inovators from your neck of the woods who might actually be influential on the future in a positive way????
Eddie Murphy clearly was a leader in comedy and so was Jerry Seinfeld in his own different way so they both had a great worldwide influence along with a few other names I have seen posted but most of the names have been disappointing to read.
Amy Schumer is just another run of the mill comedian getting some fame and notoriety with crappy cookie cutter humor and being cast in some good roles. The fool from bar rescue geesh what’s his world wide impact?
The only thing more frustrating than seeing the names of a bunch of Hollywood inflated airheads on a list of supposedly notable world wide influencers is that someone i would consider conversing with would actually know that all these people are from Long Island.
It’s like when people from New Jersey brag about being home to Camden the most dangerous city in the country.
I would love to hear about some business leaders, inventors or scientific inovators from your neck of the woods who might actually be influential on the future in a positive way????
As far as inventors go, you don't have to go further than looking at those who gave us the Segway, the MRI, Miracle-Gro, and the Miracle Mop.
And that's just the short list.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island...cle-mop-segway-and-more-inventions-1.12076544
And that's just the short list.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island...cle-mop-segway-and-more-inventions-1.12076544
Honoring the women, you have:
Hazel Dukes: Civil Rights Leader
Alicia Patterson: Publisher, Founder of NewsdayJoan
Whitney Payson: Mets Owner
Carolyn McCarthy: Long Island’s First Congresswoman
Elinor Smith Sullivan: Aviation Trailblazer
Judith Hope: Town Supervisor
Elaine Benson: Gallery Owner
Barbara McClintock: Nobel Prize-Winning Geneticist
Elizabeth Guanill: Community Leader
Ellen McCormack: Activist, Presidential Candidate
Christine Jorgensen: Transgender Pioneer
Christine Frederick: Household Engineer
https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/influential-women-long-island-history/
Hazel Dukes: Civil Rights Leader
Alicia Patterson: Publisher, Founder of NewsdayJoan
Whitney Payson: Mets Owner
Carolyn McCarthy: Long Island’s First Congresswoman
Elinor Smith Sullivan: Aviation Trailblazer
Judith Hope: Town Supervisor
Elaine Benson: Gallery Owner
Barbara McClintock: Nobel Prize-Winning Geneticist
Elizabeth Guanill: Community Leader
Ellen McCormack: Activist, Presidential Candidate
Christine Jorgensen: Transgender Pioneer
Christine Frederick: Household Engineer
https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/influential-women-long-island-history/
Other famous people from New York, who lived on Long Island include artist Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner and William DeKooning; and famous authors from New York State who lived or worked on Long Island include Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Aviation history was made here by the historical figure,Charles Lindbergh.
https://www.discoverlongisland.com/things-to-do/famous-long-island/historical-figures/
https://www.discoverlongisland.com/things-to-do/famous-long-island/historical-figures/
If we expand the thread to people who were not necessarily born and/or raised on Long Island (as I believe we should as we have thus far, including people who achieved only national celebrity and not worldwide celebrity) to people who have resided or worked on Long Island, then we can also include Roosevelts, Vanderbuilts, and Rockerfellas.
Also Nicolas Tesla with his Shoream lab and Albert Einstein who used to summer in Cuthogue and touted that he did some of his most ingenious thinking while on his small boat, relaxed and sailing on Peconic Bay.
And between the Hamptons and the "Gold coast" of Nassau County, there are a large population of notables.
Also Nicolas Tesla with his Shoream lab and Albert Einstein who used to summer in Cuthogue and touted that he did some of his most ingenious thinking while on his small boat, relaxed and sailing on Peconic Bay.
And between the Hamptons and the "Gold coast" of Nassau County, there are a large population of notables.
