Brown is the founder of the massive makeup and skincare product line that bears her name.

Moore's place in history was cemented with her beloved, groundbreaking series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Tim Quinn is the resident makeup guru at Giorgio Armani.

Banchet Jaigla

Possibly New York's most famous hair stylist, Frédéric Fekkai's been cutting hair in the city for a quarter century. If you're a beautiful socialite, chances are he's also tried to hit on you.

The master hairstylist and makeover guru owns two salons in the city—one on the East Side and one on the West.

An alumnus of Steve Cohen's SAC Capital, Sender is the founder of Exis Capital Management and an obscenely prolific collector of contemporary art.

Possibly the most in-demand hair stylist in New York, Hershberger owns the exclusive Meatpacking District salon that bears her name.

Henry Kallan

Randel is the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic groups in the U.S. The $5.6 billion foundation doles out cash to hundreds of education, art conservation, performing arts, and environmental organizations.

The French make-up artist makes actresses camera-ready-and her cosmetics and skincare line is purchased by decidedly non-superstar women everywhere.

Since achieving overnight fame at age 21 with his debut, Less Than Zero, Ellis has been one of America's most talked-about novelists—and possibly its most reviled.

New York's "tourism czar," George Fertitta is in charge of packaging and marketing New York City to tourists and corporations alike.

A member of the literary "brat pack" of the '80s, McInerney shot to fame with his novel Bright Lights, Big City. He's married to Anne Hearst.

The former president of Epic Records, Walk now oversees his own entertainment company, CWE Media.

Pessl is the author of the 2006 novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

Freudenberger is a literary prodigy who rose from assistant at the New Yorker to award-winning author with astonishing (and jealousy-inducing) speed.

Gladwell is known for his book The Tipping Point, which made him into a journo-celebrity and provided the world's marketers and executives a trendy new cliché.

A British expat who first made a splash chronicling her life as a single Manhattanite, Zoë Heller is best-known for writing 2003's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, which was turned into a film in 2006.

If you've been in a bookstore, you've seen his work: Kidd has designed iconic covers for books by the likes of Dean Koontz, David Sedaris, and Donna Tartt.