Category: Thinkers
Martin Scorsese
Company: World Cinema Foundation
Industry: Film
What makes them Haute: Critics and film scholars have called him the greatest living American director, several of his movies occupy spots on the AFI’s list of greatest movies, he finally got that Oscar, and, thankfully, there are no signs of him slowing down.

Category: Power Couples
Mercedes & Sid Richardson Bass
Company: Bass Brothers Enterprises
Industry: Oil
What makes them Haute The billionaire oil tycoon and his philanthropist and socialite wife split their time between their Texas and New York homes.

Category: Billionaires
Michael Bloomberg
Company: New York City and Bloomberg LP
Industry: Politics
What makes them Haute: The popular current mayor has just convinced the City Council to extend the two-term limit, allowing him to run for a third term. He earned his multi-billion dollar fortune by selling financial data and analytic tools to Wall Street. This lucrative business evolved into Bloomberg LP, which now has a magazine, cable network, and radio station. It has been reported that the philanthropic Bloomberg will sell his 68 percent stake one day and perhaps give away the fortune.

Category: Entrepreneurs
Michael I. Sovern
Company: Sotheby’s and Comcast
Industry: Business Services
What makes them Haute: The former president of Columbia University is currently the director and chairman of the board at Sotheby’s as well as the director of Comcast Corporation.

Category: Entrepreneurs
Millard S. Drexler
Company: J. Crew Group and Apple, Inc.
Industry: Apparel
What makes them Haute: The chairman of J.Crew also serves as a director of Apple, Inc.

Category: Entrepreneurs
Mortimer Zuckerman
Company: Boston Properties, U.S. News & World Report and the New York Daily News
Industry: Real Estate & Media
What makes them Haute: Zuckerman is chairman of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate developers in the United States, and the owner of U.S. News & World Report and the New York Daily News.

Category: Power Couples
Oscar & Annette de la Renta
Company: Oscar de la Renta
Industry: Fashion
What makes them Haute: The de la Rentas are eminent fixtures of New York society and the fashion world.

Category: Socialites
Patricia Hearst
Company: Hearst
Industry: Media
What makes them Haute: She’s the heiress to the Hearst fortune.

Category: Billionaires
Paul Milstein
Company: Milstein Properties
Industry: Real Estate
What makes them Haute: This billionaire owns apartment towers from Battery Park City to the Upper East Side, offices in Midtown, and several undeveloped lots across Manhattan.

Category: Billionaires
Paul Tudor Jones II
Company: Tudor Investment Corp.
Industry: Finance
What makes them Haute: The self-made hedge fund billionaire founded New York City poverty-fighting group Robin Hood Foundation in 1988, which raised $70 million at a single banquet last May.