In this group of ten Brooklynites we have a high-school basketball star who went on to become a baseball legend, and a high-school baseball star who went on to become a basketball star. Oh, and a comedic genius, too. To check out slightly less great Brooklynites, peruse the links below...

100 Greatest Brooklynites, Part One: 100 to 91
100 Greatest Brooklynites, Part Two: 90 to 81
100 Greatest Brooklynites, Part Three: 80 to 71
100 Greatest Brooklynites, Part Four: 70 to 61
100 Greatest Brooklynites, Part Five: 60 to 51
100 Greatest Brooklynites, Part Six: 50 to 41
100 Greatest Brooklynites, Part Five: 40 to 31

30. Vince Lombardi
Sheepshead Bay’s Lombardi is the greatest football coach of all-time. He never had a losing season, won the first two Super Bowls ever (to round out his five championships in seven years), and is generally considered the finest grid-iron strategist of any era (and he didn’t even have an iPad!). But perhaps the greatest thing about Lombardi was his forthright position on discrimination: in the late 50s and early 60s he insisted that all his players be allowed to stay in the same hotels, and that any business in Green Bay that gave trouble to black players would be cut off from anything Packer-related. He famously said "my players are neither black nor white, but Packer green."


29. Moss Hart
Hart bounced around New York City as a kid, and spent some time living in Seagate. He's best remembered as writing partners with George S. Kaufman, collaborating throughout the 1930s on stageplays like You Can't Take It With You, later adapted into a film by Frank Capra. When the two split at the end of the decade, Hart made a name for himself as a director, eventually helming My Fair Lady and Camelot. He also wrote screenplays, like those for Gentleman's Agreement and A Star is Born.


28. Paul Auster
When Auster moved to Park Slope in the 80s—it's "like a miniature Upper West Side, it has that kind of bustle and density to it," he told us two years ago—he'd already been living in Brooklyn a while, which is to say he's lived here since before Kings County acquired its current reputation as a literary hot spot. Many of his books have been set in his home borough: Ghosts in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn Follies in Park Slope, Sunset Park in Sunset Park. As such, he might be our biggest literary booster, now that Lethem is gone and Ames's show got canceled; in fact, an Italian scientist recently told us he moved to Brooklyn because he was such a big Paul Auster fan!


27. Gil Hodges
There are some very good arguments to be had (preferably in the bar) about Hodges vs. Snider vs. Campanella on this list. But here’s the thing about Hodges (second only to Snider in the 1950s in RBIs and home runs): in the 2-0 game-seven World Series win over the Yankees, Hodges batted in both runs; and threw out Elston Howard at first for the final out. Oh, and he managed the Mets—repository for all the bittersweet hopes of brokenhearted Dodgers fans—in the 1969 miracle run to the championship.


26. Sandy Koufax
You know what Borough Park’s Koufax did after Dodger teammate Gil Hodges made the last out of the 1955 World Series? Drove up to Columbia to attend night school classes in architecture. So no, the odd an unlovable Koufax isn’t on this list because he was a Brooklyn Dodger (his most notable appearance for the team in Brooklyn was as its last ever pitcher). Nope, he’s on this list because most baseball aficionados would still pick him—if they could pick one single pitcher, in his prime—to win tomorrow’s game. He was that good.


25. Lauren Bacall
We always assumed Bacall came from Old European aristocracy. But she's actually Jewish, born Betty Perske, and spent her first few years in Brooklyn, like so many children of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century did. Younger than her first husband Humphrey Bogart—with whom she memorably starred in films like To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep and Key Largo—by 25 years, Bacall is still alive and working, most notably in recent years in both parts of Lars von Trier's aborted USA: Land of Opportunities trilogy.


24. Larry David
The Seinfeld show still holds up, but Jerry can be kind of grating—he's still so goofily 90s, so garishly wealthy. His co-creator Larry David on the other hand reestablished himself in the aughts with the hilarious HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, in which the Sheepshead Bay native plays an exaggerated version of himself, the biggest asshole on American television. Seinfeld bought himself 1,000 cars; David created another sitcom that we'll still be watching decades from now.


23. Michael Jordan
You might say it’s cheating to claim Jordan—that most famous of Tar Heels—as a Brooklynite, but the greatest basketball player of all time learned to walk on the streets of Brooklyn, and if you can’t walk, you can’t win six NBA championships (and championship MVP awards), five regular-season MVP awards, ten league scoring titles, and basically every other individual and team trophy it’s possible to win playing basketball. So, yeah, he’s a Brooklynite.


22. Howard Zinn
We don't think it's exaggeration to say that Howard Zinn changed the way America thinks about itself. His People's History of the United States, first published in 1980, tells the history of the country from the points of view of its oppressed peoples—Native Americans, slaves, workers, women; it sells 100,000 copies a year, blowing the minds of countless college frosh.


21. Joseph Heller
We don't think it's exaggeration to say that Coney Island’s Joseph Heller changed the way America thinks about itself. His masterwork of military absurdity, Catch-22, first published in 1961, tells a story of the Second World War from the manic, paranoid point of view of Air Corps Captain John Yossarian. It was one of the first honest American accounts of the hell of war (even the last just war!) to pervade public consciousness, and gave us a pretty useful way of paraphrasing “shit is fucked.”