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

Norman Joseph Woodland was an American inventor, best known as one of the inventors of the barcode, for which he received a patent in October 1952. Later, employed by IBM, he developed the format which became the ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) of product labeling and check-out stands.

Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won many poetry awards. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award, 2003 and in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The 2012 film Tar related aspects of Williams' life using his poetry.

Florence Sally Horner was a girl abducted by serial child molester Frank La Salle in 1948. It is possible that Vladimir Nabokov drew on the details of her case in writing his famous novel Lolita.

William Campbell was an American actor who appeared in supporting roles in major film productions, and also starred in several low-budget B-movies and horror films.

Katrina Bowden is an American actress. She is known for playing Cerie on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2006–2013). She has also appeared in the films Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Sex Drive, Piranha 3DD, and Scary Movie 5, and has starred as Flo Fulton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful since 2019.

Philip Morrison was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics.

Sidney David Drell was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.

Kate Claxton was an American actress.

Dexter Darden is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Walter Hill in Joyful Noise and Frypan in the Maze Runner film series.

H. Jay Melosh was an American geophysicist specialising in impact cratering. He earned a degree in physics from Princeton University and a doctoral degree in physics and geology from Caltech in 1972. His PhD thesis concerned quarks. Melosh's research interests include impact craters, planetary tectonics, and the physics of earthquakes and landslides. His recent research includes studies of the giant impact origin of the moon, the Chicxulub impact that is thought to have extinguished most dinosaurs, and studies of ejection of rocks from their parent bodies. He was active in astrobiological studies that relate chiefly to the exchange of microorganisms between the terrestrial planets.