Bess Myerson
Model
I've Got a Secret panelist and also the first Jewish Miss America in the history of the competition.
She entered pageants to win the scholarship money so that she could study to become a symphony conductor.
She wouldn't change her name to sound less Jewish, but still won beauty pageants.
She had a daughter, Barbara, during her first marriage to Allen Wayne.
She was New York's Commissioner on Consumer Affairs while Richard Nixon was President.