African-American actor and singer-songwriter Herb Jeffries was born Umberto Alexander Valentino (alternately spelled Balentino) in Detroit, Michigan in 1913. Jeffries was "Hollywood's first singing black cowboy."

Linera was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. She earned her B.A. in Communications at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon in Puerto Rico. In Las Vegas she has worked for Telemundo 39 and Univision as news reporter and producer.

David London was a Las Vegas entertainer that performed a morning radio show in the 1970s called "Coffee with the Londons" and co-starred his wife, Nancy London. London passed away on August 30, 2015.

Eugene Brandise was born in Denver, Colorado on January 14, 1913. He relocated to Nevada in January of 1956. He was a construction worker and eventually owned his own construction company. Brandise passed away in 2013.

Jeanne P. Chretien was born August 07, 1923 in Marshalltown, Iowa. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1939. She held careers as a telephone operator, an English teacher, and an English department head in Las Vegas.

Betty Ciliax was born in Bisbee, Arizona. She moved to the Las Vegas area in 1932 when her father found work in Goodsprings, Nevada. Ciliax graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1938.

Sharon Hwang arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1993. Her father Henry Hwang built the Chinatown Plaza in Las Vegas.