Notable People from New Jersey

Tony Mottola

American guitarist (1918-2004)

Gertrude Tompkins Silver

WASP pilot (1911-1944)

Naomi Stevens

actress (1926-2018)

Frank Saul

American basketball player (1924–2019)

Tony Williams

American singer (1928–1992)

Allard K. Lowenstein

American politician

Cleve Backster

Introduced polygraph or "lie-detector" tests, worked in the CIA. Later performed experiments and theorized "plant perception". (1924-2013)

Nick Massi

American musician (1927-2000)

Peggy Pope

American actress (1929–2020)

Don Elliott

jazz musician (1926–1984)

Faye Adams

American singer

Helen Schifano

Olympic gymnast (1922-2007)

Erick Friedman

American violinist (1939-2004)

Natalie de Blois

American architect (1921-2013)

Buzz Kulik

American film director and producer (1922–1999)

Robert Weber

American astronomer

Joe Caroff

American graphic designer (1921–2025)

Cliff Osmond

American actor and writer (1937-2012)

William J. Hughes

American politician (1932-2019)

Don Martin

American cartoonist (1931–2000)

Don Sebesky

American jazz musician (1937–2023)

Roy Adler

American mathematician

John Mortimer Smith

Catholic bishop (1935-2019)

Peter F. Secchia

American businessman and diplomat

David J. Farber

American computer scientist (1934–2026)

Mickey Deans

American musician and entrepreneur; fifth husband of Judy Garland (1934–2003)

Dalton Baldwin

American musician (1931-2019)

Andy Bey

American musician

Herbert Klein

American politician (1930-2023)

John Calley

American film studio executive and producer (1930–2011)

Robert Ridgely

American actor (1931-1997)

Joanna Lee

American actress (1931-2003)

Gabriel Kolko

American historian (1932-2014)

Jerry Hopkins

American journalist and author (1935–2018)

Frankie Randall

American singer (1938-2014)

Willie Hobbs Moore

American physicist

Dave Draper

American bodybuilder, actor, and author (1942–2021)

Barbara Park

American juvenile author (1947-2013)

Pat Stevens

American actress (1945-2010)

Dan Hennessey

Canadian actor

David S. Ware

American jazz saxophonist (1949–2012)

Kathleen Collins

American poet, writer and filmmaker (1942-1988)

Charles L. Grant

American writer (1942-2006)

Sarah Dash

American singer (1945–2021)

Chris Browne

American comic strip artist and cartoonist (1952–2023)

Larry Sharpe

American professional wrestler

Sheila Oliver

Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey from 2018 to 2023

Paul Greco

American actor (1955-2008)

Danielle Spencer

American actress and former child star (born 1965)

Elias Petty Seeley

American politician (1791-1846)