List of Famous people born in New Jersey, United States of America
Mark Rudd
Mark William Rudd is a political organizer, mathematics instructor, anti-war activist and counterculture icon most well known for his involvement with the Weather Underground.
Pete DePaolo
Pete DePaolo was an American race car driver who won the 1925 Indianapolis 500.
Arthur J. Serratelli
Arthur Joseph Serratelli is the former bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson in northern New Jersey, United States. He served in this position from 2004 to 2020 and also served as an Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of Newark between 2000 and 2004.
Jason Thompson
Jason Carlton Thompson is an American professional basketball player for Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association. He was a starting center playing college basketball for the Rider Broncs from 2004 to 2008, and was drafted in the first round of the 2008 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings.
Kazimieras G. Prapuolenis
Kaz is an American cartoonist and illustrator. In the 1980s, after attending New York City's School of the Visual Arts, he was a frequent contributor to the comic anthologies RAW and Weirdo. Since 1992, he has drawn Underworld, an adult-themed syndicated comic strip that appears in many alternative weeklies.
Mike Vallely
Mike Vallely, also known as Mike V, is an American professional skateboarder and singer. Since November 2013, he has been the lead vocalist of hardcore punk band Black Flag.
Henry Levin
Henry Levin began as a stage actor and director but was most notable as an American film director of over fifty feature films. His best known credits were Jolson Sings Again (1949), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) and Where the Boys Are (1960).
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli is an American film critic and former engineer. His criticism is based on the Web, where he produces the blog ReelThoughts. Approved as a critic by the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, he has published two collections of reviews of movies on DVD and video. He is also known as a fantasy novelist, publishing a trilogy from 2015 through 2016 known as The Last Whisper of the Gods.
Gregory T. Linteris
Gregory Thomas Linteris, Ph.D. is an American scientist who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1997
John Farmer
John J. Farmer Jr. is an American author, lawyer, politician and jurist. He is the director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, where he also leads the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience (CPR). He served as Acting Governor of New Jersey for 90 minutes on January 8, 2002, by virtue of his status as New Jersey Attorney General.