Noted Newarkers
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- Jason Alexander - Actor
- John Amos - Actor
- Paul Auster - Author
- AJ Calloway - Former host of BET's 106 & Park
- Avalanche - Rapper, Freestyle Friday Hall of Famer
- Amiri Baraka - Poet
- Bill Bellamy - Actor/former MTV VJ
- Vivian Blaine - Actress
- Seth Boyden - Inventor, most well known for patent leather
- William J. Brennan - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Aaron Burr - Politician and Vice President of the United States
- Tisha Campbell-Martin - Actress
- Betty Carter - Jazz singer
- Martin Coleman (football) - College Football Player
- Silas Condit (1778-1861), represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1831 to 1833.[1]
- William A. Conway - Former CEO of Garden State National Bank
- Stephen Crane - Author
- Brian De Palma - Film director
- Rah Digga - Rapper
- David Donohue - Professional Race Car Driver
- Angelo Dos Santos - Composer/Musician. Founding member of the Brazilian harmonica trio "The Harmonikings".
- Peter Eisenman - Architect
- Faith Evans - Singer
- Randy Foye - Professional Basketball Player
- Connie Francis - Singer
- Fugees - Rap Group
- Pat Galo - Musician/Singer/Entertainer
- Allen Garfield - Actor
- Gloria Gaynor - Singer
- Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Poet.[2]
- Savion Glover - Tap Master/Actor
- John Gorka - American Folk Musician
- Marvin Hagler - former professional boxer
- George A. Halsey (1827-1894), represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1867 to 1869, and again from 1871 to 1873.[3]
- Billy Hamilton, major league baseball player[4]
- Stefon Harris, jazz vibraphonist.[5]
- Bradford Hayes - Jazz composer/Musician/Educator
- Cissy Houston - Singer
- Whitney Houston - Singer
- LeRoy P. Hunt - Military hero
- Ice T - Actor/Rapper
- Charles Jacobs – Political activist
- Wyclef Jean - international renowned artist, rapper, ex-member of the 90's rap group, the Fugees, originally from Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, lived in Brooklyn, New York, then Newark
- Kasino One - Lyricist/Spoken Word Poet
- Edward Koch - Former New York City Mayor
- Andre de Krayewski - Painter
- Queen Latifah - Actor/Rapper
- Jerry Lewis - Actor
- Ray Liotta - Actor
- Nick Massi - Artist/Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Four Seasons).
- Richard Matuszewski - Former professional tennis player
- Thomas N. McCarter, CEO of PSE&G Corporation, developer of Penn Station, and original benefactor of the McCarter Theatre in Princeton
- Richard Meier - Pritzker Prize-winning architect
- Miss Nana - Rapper
- Renaldo Nehemiah, Athlete, hurdler
- Jack Northrop - Aviation Pioneer
- Shaquille O'Neal - Professional Basketball Player
- Francis F. Patterson, Jr. (1867-1935), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1920 to 1927.[6]
- Outsidaz - Rap group
- Kal Penn - Actor
- Alexander C.M. Pennington (1810-1867), represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1853-1857.[7]
- Joe Pesci - Actor
- Keshia Knight Pulliam - Actor
- Redman - Rapper
- Marc Ribot - Musician
- Narciso Rodriguez (1961-), fashion designer.[8]
- Joe Rogan - Stand-up Comedian/Television Host (Fear Factor)
- Philip Roth - Author
- Eva Marie Saint - Actor
- Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf - First Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police and father of Desert Storm commander H. Norman Schwarzkopf
- Paul Simon - Singer/Songwriter
- Wayne Shorter - Jazz Composer/Musician
- Frankie Valli - Singer/Actor
- Sarah Vaughan - Jazz singer
- Jack Warden - Actor
- Gerard Way- My Chemical Romance frontman and singer
- Mikey Way - My Chemical Romance bassist and brother of Gerard Way
- Max Weinberg - Drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and The Max Weinberg 7 (On Late Night with Conan O'Brien)
- Richard Wesley - Playwright and Screenwriter
- Peter Westbrook - American sabre fencing champion and Olympian
- Greg White (1979-), defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.[9]
- J.D. Williams - Actor
- Larry Young - Jazz Composer/Musician
- Young Zee - Rapper
- Ian Ziering - Actor
- Douglas Kolk - Artist
[edit] References
- ^ Silas Condit, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 23, 2007.
- ^ Hampton, Wilborn. "Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70", The New York Times, April 6, 1997. Accessed December 4, 2007. "Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926, in Newark and grew up in Paterson, N.J., the second son of Louis Ginsberg, a schoolteacher and sometime poet, and the former Naomi Levy, a Russian emigree and fervent Marxist."
- ^ George Armstrong Halsey, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 26, 2007.
- ^ [1969] (1979) in Reichler, Joseph L.: The Baseball Encyclopedia, 4th edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8.
- ^ Wise, Brian. "Eclectic Sounds of New Jersey, Echoing From Coast to Coast", The New York Times, February 8, 2004. Accessed November 22, 2007.
- ^ Francis Ford Patterson, Jr., Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 26, 2007.
- ^ Alexander C.M. Pennington, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- ^ White, Constance C. R. "A Phoenix Rises to Take His Influence Global", The New York Times, December 30, 1997. Accessed January 11, 2008.
- ^ Greg White player profile, NFL.com. Accessed September 3, 2007.
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