Famous People

Famous People & Where They’re From:

Bud Abbott, comedian, Asbury Park

Charles Addams, cartoonist, Westfield

Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, astronaut, Montclair

William Count Basie, band leader, Red Bank

Joan Bennett, actress, Palisades

Judy Blume, author, Elizabeth

Jon Bon Jovi, musician, Sayreville

William J. Brennan, jurist, Newark

Aaron Burr, political leader, Newark

Lloyd H. Conover, inventor, Orange

James Fenimore Cooper, author, Burlington

David Copperfield, magician, Metuchen

Lou Costello, comedian, Paterson

Stephen Crane, writer, Newark

Helen Gahagan Douglas, representative, Boonton

Allen Ginsberg, poet, Newark

Savron Glover, choreographer, Newark

William Frederick Halsey, Jr., admiral, Elizabeth

Lauryn Hill, rapper, South Orange

Donald Fletcher Holmes, inventor, Woodbury

Whitney Houston, entertainer, Newark

Ice-T, rapper, Newark

Alfred Joyce Kilmer, poet, New Brunswick

Alfred C. Kinsey, zoologist, Hoboken

Ernie Kovacs, comedian, Trenton

Dorothea Lange, photographer, Hoboken

Jerry Lewis, comedian, film director, Newark

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, Englewood

Norman Mailer, author, Long Branch

James W. Marshall, discovered gold in California, Hunterdon

Patricia McBride, ballerina, Teanick

Eger V. Murphree, inventor, Bayonne

Jack Nicholson, actor, Neptune City

Dorothy Parker, author, West Bend

Zebulon Mongomery Pike, explorer, soldier, Lamberton

Joe Piscopo, comedian, actor, Passaic

Paul Robeson, singer, actor, Princeton

Edward J. Rosinski, inventor, Gloucester County

Philip Milton Roth, author, Newark

Ruth St. Denis, dancer, choreographer, Newark

Antonin Scalia, jurist,Trenton

Norman Schwarzkopf, army general, Trenton

Frank Sinatra, singer, actor, Hoboken

Kevin Spacey, actor, South Orange

Bruce Springsteen, musician, Freehold

Amos Alonzo Stagg, football coach, West Orange

James Gandolfini, actor, Westwood 

Alfred Stieglitz, photographer, Hoboken

Meryl Streep, actress, Summit

Albert Payson Terhune, journalist, author, Newark

Dave Thomas, restaurateur, Atlantic City

William Henry Vanderbilt, financier, New Brunswick

Sarah Vaughan, singer, Newark

Dionne Warwick, actress, singer, East Orange

William Carlos Williams, physician, poet, Rutherford

Ray Liotta, actor, Newark

Edmund Wilson, literary critic, author, Red Bank

Nicole Auerbach and Daniel Gentile, webdesigners and travellers, Somerset County

Chris Chomiak and Kevin Suyo, podcasters, Neshanic Station and Princeton

George Sanderson, well-respected teacher at Princeton Day School and hopeless Red Sox fan, Pennington

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