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

Christopher David Simms is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas.

Stephen Douglas Sabol was an American filmmaker. He was the president and one of the founders of NFL Films, along with his father Ed. He was also a widely exhibited visual artist.

Sharife Omar Cooper is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Auburn Tigers.

John Leonard Morris was an American film, television, and Broadway composer, dance arranger, conductor, and trained concert pianist. He collaborated with filmmakers Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder.

Leonard Irving Weinglass was a U.S. criminal defense lawyer and constitutional law advocate. He was admitted to the bar in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and California. He taught criminal trial advocacy at the University of Southern California Law School from 1974 to 1976, and at the Peoples College of Law, in Los Angeles, California from 1974 to 1975.

Nicholas P. Tosches was an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet. His 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, Hellfire, was praised by Rolling Stone magazine as "the best rock and roll biography ever written."

Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

Rodney Roy Jerkins, also known by his stage name Darkchild, is an American record producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has collaborated with a broad range of popular artists, including Spice Girls, Brandy, Mary J. Blige, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Destiny's Child, The Pussycat Dolls, Monica, Utada Hikaru, Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Toni Braxton, TLC, Britney Spears, Ludacris, Ciara, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and Agnez Mo.

Chris Smith is an American-Israeli professional basketball player who most recently played for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League. He played college basketball for Manhattan and Louisville.

Walter Olkewicz was an American character actor. He played Marko in the short-lived TV series Wizards and Warriors and Coach Wordman in the feature film Making the Grade.