List of Famous people born in New Jersey, United States of America

Paul Greco was an American actor and musician.

Joseph Minion is an American screenwriter, best known for his screenplay for the 1985 film After Hours.

Fulvio Chester "Chet" Forte Jr. was an American television director and sports radio talk show host. He was also a standout college basketball player for Columbia and was the UPI Player of the Year in 1956–57. He was portrayed by Nicholas Turturro in Monday Night Mayhem

Daniel Gray "Dan" Quillen was an American mathematician. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978.

Gary Bruce Williams is an American university administrator and former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Maryland, the Ohio State University, Boston College, and American University. In 2002, he led Maryland to win the NCAA Tournament Championship. Williams retired after the 2010–11 season, and is now a college basketball analyst for the Big Ten Network.

Glenn Taranto is an American actor and screenwriter. He played Gomez Addams on The New Addams Family and Ennio Salieri in Mafia: Definitive Edition. Glenn was born and raised in New Jersey. He resided in Brooklyn, NY from July 1981 until September 1992 and has lived in Los Angeles since October 1992.

James Ortlieb is an American film, television and theatre actor known for his roles in Roswell and Felicity. Ortlieb has also appeared in Broadway productions of Guys and Dolls and Of Mice and Men, Billy Elliot the Musical, and The Farnsworth Invention.

Jo Champa is an actress, producer and model.

John Herzfeld is an American film and television director, screenwriter, actor and producer. His feature film directing credits include Two of a Kind (1983), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), 15 Minutes (2001) and The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007). He has also directed numerous made-for-television movies, including The Ryan White Story (1989), The Preppie Murder (1989), Casualties of Love: The "Long Island Lolita" Story (1993), and Don King: Only in America (1997) for which he was nominated for an Emmy and won the DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for directing the 1980 ABC Afterschool Special titled "Stoned".

Robert Smithson was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums and is held in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Tate Modern, London, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. He was one of the founders of the Land Art movement whose best known work is the Spiral Jetty.