Boxing
- Ray Arcel — trainer, HoF
Greg Lobel -Heavy Weight
- Bob Arum — promoter, HoF
- Abe Attell — world featherweight champion, HoF
- Max Baer — world heavyweight champion. HoF
- Benny Bass — world featherweight champion, HoF
- Samuel Berger — first Olympic heavyweight champion
- Jack Bernstein — world junior lightweight champion
- Mushy Callahan — world junior-welterweight champion, HoF
- Joe Choynski — heavyweight fighter, HoF
- Al "Bummy" Davis, "The Brownsville Bum", controversial lightweight and welterweight boxer of the 1930s and 1940s
- Yuri Foreman – Former Super Welterweight Champion
- Benny Goldberg — Bantamweight amateur turned pro
- Charley Goldman — trainer, HoF
- Abe Goldstein — world bantamweight champion
- Ronnie Harris — A three time U.S. National Lightweight Champion and a gold medalist in Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Mike Jacobs — promoter, HoF
- Ben Jeby — world middleweight champion
- Zab Judah- former junior welterweight champion
- Jackie Kallen — promoter
- Kid Kaplan — world featherweight champion, HoF
- Herbie Kronowitz — middleweight champion, ranked tenth in the world in the 1940s, native of Brooklyn, New York, later a boxing referee
- Solly Krieger — world middleweight champion
- Benny Leonard — world lightweight champion, HoF
- Battling Levinsky — world light-heavyweight champion, HoF
- Ted "Kid" Lewis — World Welterweight Champion, HoF
- Saoul Mamby — world junior-welterweight champion
- Al McCoy — world welterweight champion
- Samuel Mosberg — Olympic light-heavyweight gold medalist at the 1920 Olympics where he scored the quickest knock-out in history
- Bob Olin — world light-heavyweight champion
- Charlie Phil Rosenberg — world bantamweight champion
- Dana Rosenblatt — world middleweight champion
- Maxie Rosenbloom — world light-heavyweight champion, HoF
- Barney Ross — world lightweight and welterweight champion, HoF
- Mike Rossman — world light-heavyweight champion
- Corporal Izzy Schwartz — world flyweight champion
- Al Singer — world lightweight champion, HoF
- Lew Tendler — "greatest southpaw in ring history", HoF
- Benny Valger- nicknamed "The French Flash"
Dmitriy Salita, Brooklyn Boxer, Born April 4, 1982
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Famous quotes containing the word boxing:
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing—for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)