Famous People from New Jersey

New Jersey Biographies, Famous People from New Jersey

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William (Bud) Abbott (1895 - 1974) Comedian made famous in the popular team Abbott and Costello with routines such as Whos on First; born in Asbury Park.

Charles Addams (1912 - 1988) Cartoonist that created The Addams Family; born in Westfield.

Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin (1930 - ) First astronaut to leave a spacecraft and walk in space, he later became the second person to walk on the moon; born in Montclair.

Judy Blume (1938 - ) Fiction writer for youth with well-known books such as Superfudge and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing; born in Elizabeth.

Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi) (1962 - ) Musician, born in Perth Amboy.

Aaron Burr (1756 - 1836) Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson, born in Newark.

Joseph Campbell (1817 - 1900) Founder of the Campbell Soup Company; born in Camden County.

Grover Cleveland (1837 - 1908) The 22^nd and 24^th President of the United States; born in Caldwell.

Lou Costello (1906 - 1959) Comedian made famous in the popular team Abbott and Costello with routines such as Whos on First; born in Paterson.

Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900) Author most famous for The Red Badge of Courage; born in Newark.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Famous Physicist, lived in Princeton.

Whitney Houston (1963 - ) Popular singer and actor that was the first to sell 10 million copies of her first two albums; born in Newark.

Jerry Lewis (1926 - ) Popular comedian during the 1950s and 1960s famous for The Nutty Professor and hosting the Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy; born in Newark.

Jack Nicholson (1937 - ) Actor and Academy Award winner for One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest made famous in Chinatown and The Shining; born in Neptune.

Paul Robeson (1898 - 1976) The first black all-American football player, famous singer and actor; born in Princeton.

Paul Simon (1941 - ) Popular singer in the 1960s made famous with songs like Mrs. Robinson; born in Newark.

Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) Actor and Singer starting in the 1940s; born in Hoboken.

Bruce Springsteen (1949 - ) Singer made famous with album Born in the U.S.A.; born in Freehold.

John Travolta (1954 - ) Actor made famous in Grease and Saturday Night Fever; born in Englewood.

More Famous People of New Jersey

William Count Basie band leader, Red Bank

Joan Bennett actress, Palisades

William J. Brennan jurist, Newark

Lloyd H. Conover inventor, Orange

James Fenimore Cooper author, Burlington

David Copperfield magician, Metuchen

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

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

Dorothy Parker author, West Bend

Zebulon Mongomery Pike explorer, soldier, Lamberton

Joe Piscopo comedian, actor, Passaic

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

Kevin Spacey actor, South Orange

Amos Alonzo Stagg football coach, West Orange

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

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