Category: Entrepreneurs
Peter Chernin
Company: News Corp.
Industry: Media
What makes them Haute: News Corp.’s president and CEO is the consummate media exec and has overseen a successful move into digital properties, like MySpace.

Category: Philanthropists
Petra Nemcova
Company: Happy Hearts Fund
Industry: Fashion
What makes them Haute: The supermodel turned philanthropist started the Happy Hearts Fund in 2005 to aid children in need who have suffered loss or hardship as a result of natural, economic, or health related disasters.

Category: Originators
Richard Meier
Company: Richard Meier & Partners, Architects LLP
Industry: Architecture
What makes them Haute: The starchitect is the brainchild behind the three glass towers at 173 and 176 Perry Street and 165 Charles Street in the West Village, which have attracted the likes of Martha Stewart, Natalie Portman, and Calvin Klein.

Category Entrepreneurs
Richard Parsons
Company: Time Warner
Industry: Media
What makes them Haute: The lawyer-turned-banker-turned-media executive is now the chairman of the board at Time Warner, and he sits on the board of many of the city’s famed cultural institutions.

Category: Philanthropists
Richard Gilder
Company: Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co.
Industry: Finance
What makes them Haute: A trustee of Morgan Library and Museum, Central Park Conservancy, American Museum of Natural History, and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Gilder, along with Lewis Lehman, received the National Humanity Medal in 2005 for their work promoting education in American History.

Category: Entertainers
Robert De Niro
Industry: Film
What makes them Haute: Arguably the finest actor of his generation, he’s also a force in Tribeca real estate and dining.

Category: Originators
Robert A.M. Stern
Company: Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Industry: Architecture
What makes them Haute: Stern is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and received the AIA New York its Medal of Honor in 1984 and the Chapter’s President’s Award in 2001. Stern is the architect behind the Zeckendorf’s 15 Central Park West.

Category: Entrepreneurs
Roger Ailes
Company: Fox Television
Industry: Media
What makes them Haute: The czar of cable news, Ailes has taken both CNBC and Fox News to the top of the media industry.

Category: Billionaires
Ronald Perelman
Company: Scientific Games Corp.
Industry: Finance
What makes them Haute: Yet another self-made billionaire on our list, Perelman made his fortune through leveraged buyouts. He currently owns more than 75 acres of property in East Hampton.

Category: Entrepreneurs
Rudy Giuliani
Company: Giuliani Partners LLC
Industry: Politics
What makes them Haute: The former mayor is still the national face of New York’s post-9/11 comeback.