CELEBRITIES

Each of these celebrities has roots in New Jersey, and this is not a complete list!

Aaron Burr - Political leader, Newark
Al Leiter - Baseball Player, Bayville
Albert Payson Terhune - Journalist, author, Newark
Alfred C. Kinsey - Zoologist, Hoboken
Alfred Joyce Kilmer - Poet, New Brunswick
Alfred Stieglitz - Photographer, Hoboken
Ali Larter - Cherry Hill
Allen Ginsberg - Poet, Newark
Amos Alonzo Stagg - Football coach, West Orange
Andrew Shue - Actor, South Orange
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Author, Englewood
Antonin Scalia - Jurist, Trenton
Avery Brooks - Actor, professor
Bam Bam Bigelow - Wrestler, Asbury Park
Bette Midler - Singer, Paterson
Bebe Neuwirth - Actor, Princeton
Bill Evans - Musician, Plainfield
Bill Maher - Comedian, River Vale
Bill Parcells - Football Coach, Oradell
Bobby Thomson - Baseball Player, Watchung
Bonny Lee Bakley - Morristown
Brian De Palma - Director, Newark
Brooke Shields - Actress, Englewood
Bruce Springsteen - Singer, Musician, Freehold
Bruce Willis - Actor, Penns Grove
Bud Abbot - Comedian, Asbury Park
Carl Lewis - Runner, Olympic Medalist Willingboro
Charles Addams - Cartoonist, Westfield
Charles Lindbergh - Aviation Pioneer, Englewood
Chris Rock - Comedian, Alpine
Christina Ricci - Actor, Montclair
Christopher Reeve - Actor, Princeton
Connie Francis - Singer, Newark
Count Basie - Conductor, Musician, Red Bank
Daisy Fuentes - Newscaster, Actress, Model, Newark
Danny Aiello - Actor, Saddle River
Danny DeVito- Actor, Ashbury Park
Danny Kass - Professional Snowboarder, Vernon
Dave Thomas - Restaurateur, Atlantic City
David Copperfield - Magician, Metuchen
David Grisman - Musician, Passaic
Deborah Harry 'a.k.a. Blondie' - Singer, Hawthorne
Dennis Rodman - Basketball player, Trenton
Denzel Washington - Actor, Mt. Vernon
Derek Jeter - Baseball Player, Pequannock
Dionne Warwick - Actress, singer, East Orange
Dizzy Gillespie - Musician, Englewood
DMX - Rapper, Teaneck
Donald Fagen - Musician, Passaic
Donald Fletcher Holmes - Inventor, Woodbury
Doris Duke - Philanthropist, Hillsborough
Dorothea Lange - Photographer, Hoboken
Dorothy Parker - Author, West Bend
Drew Pearson - Football Player, South River
Dudley Moore - Actor, Scotch Plains
Ed Harris - Actor, Englewood
Eddie Murphy - Comedian/Actor, Englewood
Edmund Wilson - Literary Critic/Author Red Bank
Edward J. Rosinski - Inventor, Gloucester County
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin - Astronaut, Montclair
Eger V. Murphree - Inventor, Bayonne
Elizabeth Shue - Actor, South Orange
Ernie Kovacs - Trenton
Eva Marie Saint - Actor, Newark
Frank Sinatra - Singer, Actor, Hoboken
Frankie Muniz - Actor, Ridgewood
Frankie Vallie - Singer, Newark
Gil McDougald - Yankees Baseball Legend, Nutley
Grover Cleveland - 22nd US President, Caldwell
H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Army General, Trenton
Helen Gahagan Douglas - Representative, Boonton
Huey Lewis - Singer, Musician, Livingston
Ian Zering - Actor, West Orange
Ice-T - Rapper, Newark
Ja Rule - Rapper, Saddle River
Jack Nicholson - Actor, Neptune
James Avery - Actor, Atlantic City
James Fenimore Cooper - Novelist, Burlington
James Gandolfini - Actor, Westwood
James W. Marshall - Discovered gold in California, Hunterdon
Janeane Garofalo - Actor, Comedian, Newton
Jason Alexander - Actor, Newark
Jason Biggs - Actor, Pompton Plains
Jason Kidd - Basketball Player, Saddle River
Jay Mohr - Actor, Verona
Jerry Lewis - Comedian, Film Director, Newark
Jim Bouton - Baseball Player, Newark
Joan Bennett - Actor, Palisades Park
Joe Pantoliano - Actor, Hoboken
Joe Pesci - Actor, Penn's Grove
Joe Piscapo - Comedian, Livingston
Joe Stinson - 'Make my day' writer, Cape May
Joe Theismann - Football Player, South River
John Forsythe - Actor, Penns Grove
John McGinley - Actor, Short Hills
John Travolta - Actor, Englewood
Jon Bon Jovi - Singer, Musician, Sayreville
Jon Forsythe - Penns Grove
Jon Stewart - Comedian, Lawrenceville
Joyce Carol Oates - Author, Princeton
Judy Blume - Author, Elizabeth
Karen Duffy - Model, Actor, Park Ridge
Kevin Smith - "Silent Bob" - Director, Red Bank
Kevin Spacey - Actor, South Orange
Kirsten Dunst - Actor, Point Pleasant
Kreskin 'The Amazing' - Entertainer, Montclair
Larry Doby - Baseball Player, Paterson
Laura San Giacomo - Actress, West Orange
Lauryn Hill - Singer, South Orange
Leslie Gore - Singer, Tenafly
Lil' Kim - Rapper, Alpine
Linda Fiorentino - Actor, Turnersville
Lloyd H. Conover - Inventor, Orange
Loretta Swit - Actor, Passaic
Lou Costello - Comedian, Paterson
Malcolm-Jamal Warner - Actor, Jersey City
Martha Stewart - Cook, Host, Jersey City
Mary Higgins Clark - Author, Saddle River
Max Weinburg - Musician, South Orange
Meryl Streep - Actor, Summit
Michael Douglas - Actor, New Brunswick
Michael Ian Black - Comedian, Hillsborough
Michael Strahan - Football Player, Montclair
Molly Pitcher - Revolutionary War hero
Nathan Lane - Actor, Jersey City
Norman Mailer - Poet, Long Branch
Orel Hershiser - Baseball Player, Cherry Hill
Patricia McBride - Ballerina, Teaneck
Patti Smith - Musician, Woodbury
Paul Robeson - Singer, Actor, Princeton
Paul Simon - Singer, Musician, Hoboken
Phil Rizzuto - Baseball Player, Broadcaster, Hillside
Phil Simms - Football Player, Franklin Lakes
Philip Milton Roth - Author, Newark
Prepon Laura - Actor, Watchung
Queen Latifah - Actress, Singer, Newark
Randolph Bourne - Bloomfield
Ray Liotta - Actor, Union
Redman - Rapper, Newark
Rick Barry - Basketball Player, Roselle Park
Ricky Nelson - Singer, Musician, Teaneck
Robert Blake - Actor, Nutley
Robert Pinsky - Poet, Long Branch
Robert Proskey - Actor, Cape May
Robert Sean Leonard - Actor, Westwood
Ron Dayne - Football Player, Berlin
Ron Rollet - Writer, Cape May
Ruth St. Denis - Dancer, Choreographer, Newark
Sandra Dee - Actor, Bayonne
Sarah Vaughan - Singer, Newark
Savron Glover - Choreographer, Newark
Scott Wolf - Singer, West Orange
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs - Rapper, Producer, Alpine
Shaquil O'Neil - NBA Basketball Star, Newark
Stephen Crane - Author, Newark
Steve Forbes - Publisher, Commentator, Morristown
Steven Speilberg - Film Director, Montclair
Susan Sarandon - Actor, Edison
Tara Reid - Actor, Wyckoff
Tasha Smith - Sitcom Actress, Newark
Thomas Alva Edison - Inventor, West Orange
Thomas Mitchell - East Orange
Tom Cruise - Actor, Glen Ridge
Tommy Page - Singer, Caldwell
Valerie Solanas - Author, Ventnor
Vince Lombardi - Football Coach, Englewood
Walt Whitman - Poet, Camden
Washington Irving - Author, Newark
Whitney Houston - Singer, Newark
William Carlos Williams - Physician, Poet, Rutherford
William Frederick Halsey Jr. - Admiral, Elizabeth
William Henry Vanderbilt - Financier, New Brunswick
William J. Brennan - Supreme Court Justice, Newark
Wyclef Jean - Rapper, Newark
Yogi Berra - Baseball Player, Montclair
Zack Braff - Actor, Director, South Orange
Zebulon Mongomery Pike - Explorer, Soldier, Lamberton

Links to more information on New Jersey Celebrities
http://www.who2.com/state_newjersey.html
http://www.njgang.com/historic_nj/entertainers.htm
http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/kids/people.htm
http://www.state.nj.us/travel/facts&fun/madeinnj.html
http://www.classbrain.com/artstate/publish/article_529.shtml
http://www.50states.com/bio/newjerse.htm
http://www.state.nj.us/hangout/njinventor.html


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