Englewood Sports Heroes
Dick Button, Olympic Figure Skating Champion 1948, 1952
NY Football Giants Head Coach Jim Lee Howell (c.) with assistants Tom Landry (l.) and Vince Lombardi (r.) Howell and Lombardi were Englewood residents; Lombardi coached and taught at St. Cecelia H.S. in the 1930s.
Bruce Harper , NY Jets #42 (DMHS ’73)
Chris Hewitt (NOLA Saints player/Baltimore Ravens secondary coach)(DMHS ’93)
Jimmie Jones (DMHS ’65) Defensive lineman NY Jets, Washington Redskins
Bernarr Macfadden (founder of fitness and health movements)
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Women’s Tennis Champion
Artists and Entertainers
Sarah Vaughan (Learn more in the 2017 Calendar — June)
Dizzy Gillespie ((Learn more in the 2017 Calendar — May))
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Russell Malone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Malone
Born in Englwood 1914, attended DMHS
noted for “Flat Foot Floozie (with a floy floy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMXB3oatF1shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMXB3oatF1s
https://www.billmoring.com/recordings
noted for “Twist and Shout”
Dick Shawn on Johnny Carson (1986)
Joey Bishop on Dinah Shore show (1960)
Comic Relief
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Calvin Hill, Bassist
Billy Martin, drummer in Medski, Martin, and Wood
Sylvia Robinson
Record Producer
“La Lupe” Yoli “Queen of Salsa”
Other Notable Residents
General William Earl Brown (DMHS ’45)
Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History“