List of Famous people born in New Jersey, United States of America
Marvin Davis
Marvin H. Davis was an American industrialist. He made his fortunes as the chair of Davis Petroleum and at one time owned 20th Century Fox, the Pebble Beach Corporation, the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the Aspen Skiing Company.
Jim Perry
Jim Perry was an American-Canadian television game show host, singer, announcer, and performer in the 1970s and 1980s.
Cesar Ruiz
Cesar Ruiz is an American football guard for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Michigan and was drafted by the Saints in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft.
Alice Huyler Ramsey
Alice Huyler Ramsey was the first woman to drive across the United States from coast to coast on August 7, 1909.
Bill Evans
William John Evans was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines continues to influence jazz pianists today.
Darren Drozdov
Darren Adrian Drozdov is an American essayist, former football player and former professional wrestler who competed in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1998 to 1999 under the ring names Puke and Droz.
Louis Freeh
Louis Joseph Freeh is an American attorney and former judge who served as the fifth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from September 1993 to June 2001. Freeh began his career as a special agent in the FBI, and was later an Assistant United States Attorney and United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A Republican, he was later appointed as FBI director by President Bill Clinton. He is now a lawyer and consultant in the private sector.
Dan Le Batard
Daniel Thomas Le Batard is an American newspaper sportswriter, radio host, and television reporter based in Miami, Florida. He has also worked at ESPN, and for his hometown paper, the Miami Herald, for which he wrote from 1990 to 2016.
Judy Blume
Judy Blume is an American writer of children's, young adult and adult fiction. In 1969, Blume began writing and has published over 25 novels since then. Some of her best known works are Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (1970), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972), Deenie (1973), and Blubber (1974). Blume's books have significantly contributed to children's and young adult literature.
Haason Reddick
Haason Samir Reddick is an American football linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Temple, and was drafted by the Cardinals in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft.