- Paul Robeson
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976) was a multi-lingual American actor, athlete, bass-baritone concert singer, writer, civil rights activist, Communist sympathizer, Spingarn Medal winner, and Stalin Peace Prize laureate. - Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, Friedman made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, … - Calista Flockhart
Calista Kay Flockhart (born on November 11, 1964) is an Emmy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress, primarily on soap operas and television. She is best known for her role as the title character in the 1997-2002 television show, "Ally McBeal". She now plays Sally Field's feuding daughter, Kitty Walker, on the hit ABC drama, "Brothers & Sisters", as a political campaign advisor. - James Gandolfini
Although he acted on Broadway and in various films in the 1990s, Gandolfini's most-acclaimed role is that of Tony Soprano, the Mafia boss and family man in the multi-award-winning HBO series The Sopranos, which debuted in 1999. He has since starred in films such as 8 MM and The Mexican. He was born in Westwood, New Jersey, grew up in New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City. - Joyce Kilmer
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (6 December 1886 - 30 July 1918) was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith, Kilmer is remembered most for a poem entitled "Trees" (1913) which was published in the collection "Trees and Other Poems" in 1914. - Avery Brooks
Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948 in Evansville, Indiana) is an accomplished stage and television actor and jazz and opera singer. Brooks is best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", and as Hawk on "Spenser: For Hire" and its spinoff "A Man Called Hawk". - Mario Batali
Mario Batali Mario, whose original career path had him studying the golden age of Spanish theater at Rutgers University, took his first bite of culinary training at Le Cordon Bleu in London, from which he withdrew almost immediately due to a "lack of interest." - Kristin Davis
Kristin Landen Davis (also listed as Kristin Lee Davis) (born February 23 or February 24, 1965 depending on the source) is an American Golden Globe and Emmy award-nominated actress best known for the role of Charlotte York on HBO's "Sex and the City". - Nicholas Sacco
Nicholas J. Sacco (born November 17 1946) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 1994, where he represents the 32nd Legislative District. Senator Sacco is the Chairman of the Transportation Committee, and is also a member of Law and Public Safety and Veterans' Affairs Committee. In addition to serving as a State Senator and as Mayor of North Bergen (since 1991), … - Eddie Jordan
Eddie Jack Jordan, Jr., (born 1952) is the sitting Democratic district attorney for Orleans Parish, Louisiana, the first African American to hold the elected position. Jordan was born to Mr. and Mrs. Eddie J. Jordan, Sr. He grew up in the middle class African American Pontchartrain Park neighborhood of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, … - Selman Waksman
Selman Abraham Waksman (22 July 1888 - 16 August 1973) was an Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances-largely into organisms that live in soil-and their decomposition lead to the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics. A professor of biochemistry and microbiology at Rutgers University for four decades, … - Louis Freeh
Louis Joseph Freeh (b. January 6, 1950) was the 10th Director of the F.B.I. He began his career as an agent of the F.B.I., and was later an assistant U.S. Attorney and a U.S. District Court judge. He is now a lawyer in the private sector. - David Stern
David Joel Stern (born on September 22, 1942) is an American lawyer, who has been commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) since 1984, when, via a successful coup d'etat he wrested control from the previous commissioner, Larry O'Brien. David Stern grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, and is a graduate of Teaneck High School. Stern attended Rutgers University on a full scholarship. - Ozzie Nelson
Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson (March 20, 1906 - June 3, 1975) was an American entertainer who originated and starred in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" radio and television series with his wife and two sons. The second son of Swedish parents, he was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and raised in the affluent suburb of Ridgefield Park, where the street of the high school he attended is now named after him. - Bob Menendez
Robert "Bob" Menendez (born January 1, 1954) is a Democratic Senator from New Jersey. In January 2006, he was appointed by Jon Corzine to fill the seat made vacant by Corzine's resignation from the Senate to serve as Governor of New Jersey; Menendez subsequently won the seat in the November 7<sup>th</sup> general election later that year. - Peter W. Rodino
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. (June 7, 1909 - May 7, 2005) was a Democratic United States Congressman from New Jersey from 1949 to 1989. Rodino rose to prominence as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where he was chair of the impeachment hearings that lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Rodino was born Pelligrino Rodino, Jr. in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were immigrants from Italy. - Scott Garrett
E. Scott Garrett (born July 9, 1959 in Englewood, New Jersey) is a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a Republican and has represented New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District seat since January 2003 (map). Prior to being elected to the House, Garrett served in the New Jersey General Assembly (the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature) from 1990 to 2002 representing the 24th legislative district, … - Robert Torricelli
Robert Guy Torricelli (born August 27, 1951), nicknamed "the Torch," is an American politician from the U.S. state of New Jersey. Torricelli, a Democrat, served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate. He was believed to have leaked classifed information during his tenure on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. - Asia Carrera
Asia Carrera (born Jessica Andrea Steinhauser on August 6, 1973 in New York City) is a former American pornographic actress. - John McWhorter
John H. McWhorter (1965-), was associate professor of linguistics at University of California, Berkeley until 2003, and is now a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute think tank and a columnist for the "New York Sun". He is the author of several books on language and race relations. McWhorter attended Friends Select School (a Quaker high school in Philadelphia) and was accepted to Simon's Rock College after tenth grade. - Sheryl Lee Ralph
Sheryl Lee Ralph (born on December 30, 1956, in Waterbury, Connecticut,) is a Tony Award-nominated Jamaican-American actress and singer. - Joanna Angel
Joanna Angel (born 25 December, 1980) is an American entrepreneur, alt porn model, pornographic actress, director, writer, and former exotic dancer. - Aaron Stanford
Aaron Stanford (born December 27, 1976) is an American actor. - Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich, born April 22, 1943 in South River, New Jersey (USA), is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job. The thirteen novels in this series consistently top the New York Times Best Seller list. - David Dejesus
David Christopher DeJesus (born December 20, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York) is a center fielder currently with the Kansas City Royals. DeJesus was raised in Manalapan, New Jersey. In 1997, he was drafted out of high school by the New York Mets in the 43rd round of the 1997 amateur draft. However, DeJesus did not sign. He attended Rutgers University, and was drafted in the 4th round of the 2000 amateur draft by the Kansas City Royals. - Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky is the author of six books of poetry including The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 , which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize nominee. He has also published four books of criticism, two books of translation, and a computerized novel, Mindwheel . His honors include awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America. - Garret Hobart
Garret Augustus Hobart (June 3 1844 - November 21 1899) was the twenty-fourth Vice President of the United States. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Marlboro Township. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1863 and was a member of The Delta Phi Fraternity. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Paterson. Hobart served in the Paterson city counsel in 1871 before serving in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1872 to 1876, … - Jeff Torborg
Jeffrey Torborg (born November 26, 1941 in Plainfield, New Jersey) is a former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball. Torborg was signed by Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1963. On September 9, 1965, Torborg caught Sandy Koufax's perfect game. On May 15, 1973, Torborg also caught the first of Nolan Ryan's 7 no-hitters. After a successful ten-year career as a catcher with the Dodgers and Angels, Torborg switched to coaching. - Bill Bellamy
Bill Bellamy (born April 7, 1965 in Newark, New Jersey) is an African American actor and stand-up comedian. He gained national notoriety on HBO's Russell Simmons"'Def Comedy Jam", where he is credited for creating or uttering before a televised audience, the phrase "booty call", described as a late night call to a potential paramour with the intention of meeting strictly for coition. For many years, Bellamy was a staple on MTV, … - Alexi Lalas
Panayotis Alexander (Alexi) Lalas (b. June 1 1970, Birmingham, Michigan) is a former Greek-American football defender, who became one of the most famous soccer players in the United States after he played in the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He became the first modern-era American soccer player to play in the Italian Serie A - an honor recently matched by New York City-born Gabriel Ferrari of Sampdoria- and in 2006, he was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame. - Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen
Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (August 4 1817 - May 20 1885) was a member of the United States Senate representing New Jersey and a United States Secretary of State. - James Blish
James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr. - William Mastrosimone
William Mastrosimone is an American playwright (born 1947), he attended high school at The Pennington School and received a graduate degree in playwrighting from Mason Gross School of the Arts, a part of Rutgers University. His plays include "The Woolgatherer", "Extremities", "Shivaree", and "Cat's Paw". He also wrote "Bang Bang You're Dead," which can be downloaded from the Internet and performed by students for no fee. - A. Harry Moore
Arthur Harry Moore (Jersey City, New Jersey in July 3, 1879 - Branchburg Township, New Jersey in November 18, 1952) was a Democrat who was the 39th Governor of New Jersey, serving three terms between 1926 and 1941. He was the longest serving New Jersey Governor in the 20th century and the only New Jersey Governor elected to serve three separate non-consecutive terms. Moore represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from January 3, 1935, to January 17, 1938, … - James J. Howard
James John Howard (July 24, 1927 in Irvington, New Jersey - March 25, 1988 in Washington, DC) was an American educator and political figure, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives (1965-1988) as a Democrat from the State of New Jersey. Howard graduated from St. Rose School, Belmar, in 1941, Asbury Park High School in 1947, St. Bonaventure University, in 1952; and earned a Master of Education degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1958. - Kevin Chamberlin
Kevin Chamberlin (born November 25, 1963) is an American actor. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Moorestown, New Jersey, Chamberlin graduated from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. He was nominated for a Tony and Drama Desk Award for both "Dirty Blonde" and "Seussical". Additional Broadway theatre credits include "My Favorite Year", "Triumph of Love", … - Frederick Frelinghuysen
Frederick Frelinghuysen (September 30, 1848 - January 1, 1924) was the president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Newark, New Jersey for 25 years. He was the son of Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, and was born in Newark, New Jersey. His brother was George Griswold Frelinghuysen (1851-1936). He graduated from Rutgers College in 1868 and was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1871 and as a counselor in 1874. He married Estelle B. Kinney on July 23, … - Ben Jelen
Ben Jelen (born 8 July 1979), born Benjamin Ivan Jelen in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a singer-songwriter who plays the piano, violin, and guitar. He has lived in Scotland, England, Texas, New Jersey, and New York. Jelen attended high school in San Antonio, Texas briefly, as a freshman at Northside Health Careers High School. He completed high school in Princeton, New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University, the state university of NJ, … - John Carpenter
John Carpenter (born 1967) was the first $1,000,000 winner on the United States version of the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". The historic event occurred on November 19, 1999. He held the record for the largest single win in United States game show history, until it was broken by Rahim Oberholtzer on another U.S. quiz show, "Twenty One". - William B. Ziff Jr.
William B. Ziff, Jr. was an American publishing executive. His father, William B. Ziff, Sr., was the co-founder of Ziff Davis Inc. and when the elder Ziff died in 1953, Ziff took over the management of the company. After buying out partner Bernard G. Davis, he led Ziff Davis to become the most successful publisher of technology magazines in the 1970s and 1980s.
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