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does anyone know famous people born in new jersey?
i live in NJ and i am wondering if anyone famouse lives or used to live in NJ or was born here. either one!! the persn with the most people will be chosen for "best answer" thanks a lott!!!<3
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- lol21tLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
http://www.50states.com/bio/newjerse.htm
Bud Abbott comedian, Asbury Park
Charles Addams cartoonist, Westfield
Edwin 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
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_N...
* Benjamin Abbott, Methodist preacher who converted much of southern New Jersey to Methodism[1]
* Bud Abbott (1895–1974), straight man to Lou Costello (Asbury Park)
* Joseph Alexander Adams (1803–1880), born in New Germantown, noted engraver[1]
* Liam Aiken (born 1990), actor (Englewood)
* Jason Alexander (born 1959), actor, Seinfeld (Newark)
* Samuel Alito (born 1950), U.S. Supreme Court justice (Trenton)
* David Ascalon (born 1945), sculptor (Cherry Hill)
* Maurice Ascalon (1913–2003), sculptor (Cherry Hill).[2]
* Amiri Baraka (born 1934), poet (Newark)
* Priscilla Barnes (born 1955), actress (Fort Dix)
* James J. Barry Jr (born 1946), Assemblyman, Director of Consumer Affairs.
* Count Basie (1904–1984), jazz pianist, organist, bandleader (Red Bank)
* Joan Bennett (1910-1990), actress (Palisades Park)
* Xander Berkeley (born 1955), actor, 24 (Mendham)
* Jason Biggs (born 1978), actor, American Pie (Hasbrouck Heights)
* Michael Ian Black (born 1971), actor Wet Hot American Summer (Hillsborough)
* Just Blaze, rap musician (Paterson)
* Zach Braff (born 1975), actor. (South Orange, New Jersey)
* Phil Bredesen (born 1943), Governor of Tennessee
* William J. Brennan, Jr. (1906–1997), U.S. Supreme Court justice (Newark)
* Tisha Campbell (born 1968), actress. (Newark)
* David Cassidy(born 1950), actor (Englewood)
* Lou Costello (1906–1959), comedian, actor (Paterson)
* Sandra Dee (1942-2005), actress (Bayonne)
* Danny DeVito [1](born 1944), actor (Neptune)
* Jim Dowd (born 1968), professional ice hockey player (Brick Township)
* Derek Drymon (born 1965), cartoon producer (most famous for producing SpongeBob SquarePants), Morristown
* Kirsten Dunst (born 1982), actress (Point Pleasant)
* Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886), artist (Maplewood)
* Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005), radical feminist and activist (Camden)
* Geoff Edwards (born 1931), actor, radio and television personality (Westfield)
* Róisín Egenton (born 1977), 2000 International Rose of Tralee (Fanwood)
* Alecko Eskandarian (born 1982), soccer player (Montvale)
* Donald Fagen (born 1948), musician (Passaic)
* James Gandolfini (born 1961), actor (Westwood)
* Gloria Gaynor (born 1949), singer (Newark)
* Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), poet (Paterson)
* Savion Glover (born 1973), American actor, tap dancer and choreographer. (Newark)
* Lauryn Hill (born 1975), musician (South Orange)
* John Harkes [2](born 1967), soccer player (Kearny)
* Wil Horneff (born 1979), actor (born in Englewood, New Jersey, raised in Saddle River)
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- mosby03Lv 41 decade ago
Bud Abbott comedian, Asbury Park
Charles Addams cartoonist, Westfield
Edwin 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
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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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Nick Jonas was born in Dallas, Texas not New Jersey. And Joe Jonas was born in Casa Grande, Arizona.
But Kevin Jonas was born in Teaneck, New Jersey.
All three Jonas Brothers grew up in Wyckoff, New Jersey where Frankie Jonas was later born.
- 1 decade ago
The Jonas Brothers. I used to live in the same neighborhood as them!
Source(s): Wycoff, NJ - 1 decade ago
Alan Alda - Leonia, New Jersey
Also, Gloria Swanson used to have a house in the Englewood area.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Jonas Brothers !
- Anonymous1 decade ago
♥Jonas Brothers♥