Englewood Sports Heroes

Dick Button, Olympic Figure Skating Champion 1948, 1952

 Sherman White

Dr. Fletcher Johnson (Cardiac surgeon and basketball star, who could outplay Sherman White in MacKay Park pickup games))

NY Footballl Giants Head Coach Jim Lee Howell (c.) with assistants Tom Landry (l.) and Vince Lombardi (r.) Howell and Lombardi wer Englewood residents; Lombardi coached and taught at St. Cecelia H.S. in the 1930s.

Bruce Harper , NY Jets #42 (DMHS ’73) 

Tony Tolbert (DMHS ’85)

Chris Hewitt (NOLA Saints player/Baltimore Ravens secondary coach)(DMHS ’93)

Jimmie Jones (DMHS ’65) Defensive lineman NY Jets, Washington Redskins

 Bill Willoughby 

Richie Scheinblum (DMHS ’60?)

Francis “Red” Garrity

Bernarr Macfadden (founder of fitness and health movements) 
  (Learn more in the 2017 Calendar–March) 

Ethel Bliss Platt

Women’s Tennis Champion

     Sister Souljah

Artists and Entertainers

Faith Ringgold

 Richard Anuszkiewicz, Artist

Sarah Vaughan  (Learn more in the 2017 Calendar — June) 

   Dizzy Gillespie   ((Learn more in the 2017 Calendar — May))
(Learn more in the 2017 Calendar — May)

Russell Malone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Malone

Isley Brothers

Dick Shawn

Joey Bishop

   Tony Bennett 

  Regina Belle

     Sylvia Robinson

     Sugarhill Gang

Calvin Hill, Bassist

Billy Martin, drummer in Medski, Martin, and Wood

Sylvia Robinson
Record Producer

     Sister Souljah

“La Lupe” Yoli “Queen of Salsa”

Other Notable Residents

General William Earl Brown (DMHS ’45)

Malcolm C. McKenna

Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History

“La Lupe” Yoli “Queen of Salsa”