name principal accomplishment birthplace or principal residence
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Bud Abbot comedian Asbury Park
Charles Addams cartoonist
Edwin Aldrin astronaut Montclair

William Count Basie band leader Red Bank
Joan Bennett actress Palisades
Judy Blume author Elizabeth
Jon Bon Jovi rock musician Sayreville
William J. Brennan jurist Newark
Aaron Burr revolutionary politician Newark

Lloyd H. Conover inventor Orange
James Fenimore Cooper author Burlington
David Copperfield magician Metuchen
Lou Costello comedian Paterson
Stephen Crane author Newark

Thomas Alva Edison inventor Menlo Park

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 Newark
Anne Morrow Lindbergh author Englewood
Ray Liotta actor Newark

Norman Mailer author Long Branch
James W. Marshall discoverer of gold in California Hunterdon
Patricia McBride ballerina Teaneck
Eger V. Murphree inventor Bayonne

Jack Nicholson actor Neptune City

Dorothy Parker author West Bend
Zebulon Montgomery Pike explorer, soldier Lamberton
Joe Piscopo comedian 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 general Trenton
Frank Sinatra singer Hoboken
Kevin Spacey actor South Orange
Bruce Springsteen rock musician Freehold
Amos Alonzo Stagg football coach West Orange
Alfred Stieglitz photographer Hoboken
Meryl Streep actress Summit

Albert Payson Terhune journalist Newark
Dave Thomas founder of the Wendy's hamburger chain Atlantic City

William Henry Vanderbilt financier New Brunswick
Sarah Vaughan singer Newark

Dionne Warwick singer East Orange
William Carlos Williams physician, poet Rutherford
Edmund Wilson literary critic Red Bank

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