Celebrities Born in the Great State of New York Quiz

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- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (New York City) is a former American basketball player who is considered one of the sport's greatest players ever. The NCAA outlawed the dunk shot for a time because of his dominance at center for UCLA.

- Lucille Ball (Jamestown) was an American actress, comedian, producer, and studio executive. She was the first pregnant actress to play a pregnant woman on television.

- Humphrey Bogart (New York City) was an American actor. His gravelly voice, love of whiskey, and morally ambiguous characters made him a legendary Hollywood icon, with a legacy that continues to inspire.

- Jackie Gleason (New York City) was an American actor, comedian, writer, and composer also known as "The Great One". He gained nationwide recognition for his portrayal of Ralph Kramden on the television sitcom "The Honeymooners."

- Millard Fillmore (Moravia) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, and was the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while in office. He was born in a log cabin, and spent much of his youth clearing land and raising crops on the 130-acre farm that his father leased in New York's Finger Lakes region.

- Edward Hopper (Nyack) was an American realist painter and print maker. He is generally considered the foremost realist painter of 20th-century America. His height and skinny physique, which had earned him the nickname "Grasshopper" from derisive classmates, reinforced his individualistic mindset.

- Washington Irving (New York City) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and was the first person to refer to New York City as "Gotham City"'.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt (Hyde Park) was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was an avid stamp collector who started collecting them as a child and later attended stamp shows, bought rarities from stamp dealers, and joined stamp clubs.

- Barbara Stanwyck (New York City) was an American actress, model and dancer. Stanwyck had a rough childhood during which her mother died when she was just 4 years old and her father left the family, leaving the young Stanwyck to be raised in various foster homes.

- Barbra Streisand (New York City) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. At Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, she sang in the chorus with Neil Diamond. President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2015.

- Jonas Salk (New York City) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. During testing, Salk injected himself, his wife and his three sons in his kitchen after boiling the needles and syringes on his stove top. Salk announced the success of the initial human tests to a national radio audience on March 26, 1953.

- Mickey Rooney (New York City) was an American actor. He met Judy Garland very early on in his career, and the two first worked together in the musical "Babes in Arms" (1939), which earned Rooney his first-ever Oscar nomination. The duo would go on to star in nine more films together between 1937 and 1947.

- Norman Rockwell (New York City) was an American painter and illustrator. He painted portraits of five presidents, namely Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.

- Christopher Reeve (New York City) was an American actor, activist, director, and author. While in college Reeve was one of two people selected for Juilliard's Advanced program. The second was none other than Robin Williams. The pair became very close friends in college, and stayed in touch after their time at Juilliard was over.

- Sammy Davis Jr. (New York City) was an American singer, actor, musician, comedian, and dancer. His nickname was "Mr. Show Business," but Sammy Davis Jr. fondly called himself "the only Black, Puerto Rican, one-eyed, Jewish entertainer in the world."