New Jersey Famous People

Famous Americans: History and Biographies

Links to histories and biographies of the famous people of New Jersey. Many famous people of New Jersey have made significant contributions to the history of our nation and the state of New Jersey. These famous Americans, famous entertainers, famous players, famous scientist, famous singers, famous statesmen, famous women, heroes, great explorers, and others New Jersey famous Americans have all made New Jersey their home. This list includes New Jersey historical figures, celebrities and those individuals of New Jersey who have influenced the lives of others.

• William (Bud) Abbott (1895 - 1974) Comedian made famous in the popular team Abbott and Costello with routines such as "Who's 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 "Who's 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 Cuckoo's 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 USA.; 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
• Tom Cruise, actor
• Danny DeVito, actor
• 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, vocalist
• Ice-T rapper, Newark
• Alfred Joyce Kilmer poet, New Brunswick
• Alfred C. Kinsey zoologist, Hoboken
• Ernie Kovacs comedian, Trenton
• Dorothea Lange photographer, Hoboken
• Queen Latifah, actress
• 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
• Richard Nixon, US president
• Dorothy Parker author, West Bend
• Joe Pesci, actor
• Zebulon Mongomery Pike explorer, soldier, Lamberton
• Joe Piscopo comedian, actor, Passaic
• Edward J. Rosinski inventor, Gloucester County
• Philip Milton Roth author, Newark
• Caesar Romero, actor
• Carl Sagan, writer, astronomer
• Ruth St. Denis dancer, choreographer, Newark
• Susan Sarandon, actress
• 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