Famous New Jerseyites
These are just a few of the famous people who were either born in New Jersey or spent some important time in New Jersey.
Bud Abbott, comedian and actor
Charles Adams, cartoonist
Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
William F. Allen, inventor of Standard Time
John Bardeen, co-inventor of transistor
Count Basie, band leader
Mario Batali, chef and cookbook author
Peter Benchley, novelist
Joan Bennett, actress
Jeffrey Bewkes, media executive
Jason Biggs, actor
Robert Blake, actor
Zach Braff, actor and director
Walter Brattain, co-inventor of transistor
Avery Brooks, actor
Jon Bon Jovi, singer and actor
Bill Bradley, baskeball player and U.S. senator
William Brennan, U.S. supreme court jurist
Aaron Burr, political leader
Marc Charannes, co-inventor of Bubble Wrap
Grover Cleveland, U.S. president
Leon Cooperman, financier
John Corzine, U.S. senator and New Jersey
governor
Lou Costello, actor and comedian
Stephen Crane, novelist
Tom Cruise, actor
Danny DeVito, actor
Michael Douglas, actor
Theodore Draper, historian
Thomas Edison, inventor
Albert Einstein, physicist
Alfred Fielding, co-inventor of Bubble Wrap
John Forsythe, actor
William Parker Foulke, discovered the world's first complete dinosaur skeleton
Les and Sue Fox, bestselling authors
Connie Francis, actress and singer
Allen Ginsberg, poet
Kelsey Grammer, actor
William Frederick Halsey Jr., admiral
Alexander Hamilton, U.S. treasurer. Built the country's first planned industrial city in present-day Paterson.
John Holland, submarine inventor
Whitney Houston, singer
Henry Hudson, explorer
Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress
Joyce Kilmer, poet
Richard Kind, actor
Ernie Kovacs, comedian
Frank Lautenberg, U.S. senator
Jerry Lewis, actor and comedian
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author
Charles Lindbergh, aviator
Norman Mailer, novelist
Ron Martino Jr., filmmaker
Ron Martino Sr., educator
Patricia McBride, ballerina
Patrick McDonnell, comic strip creator
Dorian Missick, actor
Thomas Mitchell, actor
Jay Mohr, actor
Lewis Morris, first governor of New Jersey
Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph
Jack Nicholson, actor
Richard Nixon, U.S. president
Valerie Paik, author
Dorothy Parker, author
Les Paul, inventor of the first solid body electric guitar
Joe Pesci, actor
Thomas Pierce, author
Danny Pintauro, actor
Joe Piscopo, actor and comedian
Molly Pitcher, aka Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, Revolutionary War heroine
Kelly Ripa, actress and TV host
Paul Robeson, singer and actor
Joe Rogan, actor
Philip Roth, novelist
Eva Marie Saint, actress
Ruth St. Denis, dancer and choreographer
Antonin Scalia, U.S. supreme court jurist
H. Norman Schwarzkopf, general
Sheetal Sheth, actress
William Shockley, co-inventor of transistor
Andrew Shue, actor
Elizabeth Shue, actress
Paul Simon, singer and songwriter
Tom Sims, snowboarding pioneer
Frank Sinatra, singer
John Spencer, actor
Bruce Springsteen, rock singer and songwriter
Alfred Stieglitz, photographer
Meryl Streep, actress
Albert Payson Terhune, journalist and novelist
John Travolta, actor
William Trent, founder of Trenton
Lee Van Cleef, actor
Casper Van Dien, actor
Sarah Vaughan, singer
Giovanni da Verrazano, explorer
John von Neumann, physicist and mathematician
Dionne Warwick, singer
Christine Todd Whitman, New Jersey governor
William Carlos Williams, poet
Bruce Willis, actor
Edmund Wilson, literary critic and author
Woodrow Wilson, New Jersey governor and U.S. president
Pia Zadora, actress
Ian Ziering, actor
