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

Danielle Rose Russell is an American actress. She is known for playing supporting roles in films such as A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), Aloha (2015), Pandemic (2016) and Wonder (2017). In 2018, Russell joined the fifth and final season of The CW supernatural drama series The Originals as teenage Hope Mikaelson, and reprised her role as the star of its spinoff series, Legacies, which premiered on October 25, 2018.

Soraya Raquel Lamilla Cuevas was a Colombian-American singer/songwriter, guitarist, arranger and record producer.

Ruth St. Denis was an American pioneer of modern dance, introducing eastern ideas into the art. She was the co-founder of the American Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts and the teacher of several notable performers.

Warren Burton Murphy was an American author, most famous as the co-creator of The Destroyer series, the basis for the film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.

Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. A crew member on three Space Shuttle missions, she was the first American woman to walk in space on October 11, 1984. On June 7, 2020, she became the first woman to dive to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth's oceans. She was Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 6, 2014. Sullivan's tenure ended on January 20, 2017, with the swearing in of President Donald Trump. Following completion of her service at NOAA, she was designated as the 2017 Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, and has also served as a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.

Conor Marie Leslie is an American actress. Her first major role was in the film Chained (2012), which was followed by appearances as a series regular on Klondike (2014), Other Space (2015), and Shots Fired (2017) and a recurring role on The Man in the High Castle (2015–2018). She gained further prominence for portraying Donna Troy / Wonder Girl on the series Titans (2018–present), where she was part of the main cast during the second season.

Darrion Caldwell is an American mixed martial artist and graduated collegiate wrestler, who currently competes in the bantamweight division of Bellator MMA, where he is the former Bellator Bantamweight World Champion. A professional since 2012, he has also competed for Legacy FC. As a folkstyle wrestler, Caldwell was the 2009 NCAA Division I National Champion, and a two-time All-American at 149 pounds out of the North Carolina State University. He was also a four-time ACC Conference champion. As of May 25, 2021, he is #10 in the Bellator Bantamweight Rankings.

Mindy Lee Sterling is an American actress. She portrayed Frau Farbissina in the Austin Powers film series (1997–2002), and starred in the web series Con Man (2015–2017), the latter of which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She also provided the voices of Ms. Endive in the Cartoon Network series Chowder (2007–10), and the voice of Lin Beifong in the Nickelodeon series The Legend of Korra (2012–2014), and had recurring roles as Principal Susan Skidmore on the Disney Channel series A.N.T. Farm (2011–13), Miss Francine Briggs on the Nickelodeon series iCarly (2007–12).

Donald George Bragg was an American athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault and won a gold medal in that event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Allen M. Davey was an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer who had a long career in Hollywood, starting in the silent era and going through the mid-1940s. He was an early member of the American Society of Cinematographers and a longtime director of photography at Technicolor.