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

Douglas Joseph Bennet Jr. was an American political official and college president. He was the fifteenth president of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut, from 1995 to 2007. Before that, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs in the Clinton Administration (1993–95) and Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs in the Carter administration (1977–79), was the President and CEO of National Public Radio (1983–93), and ran the United States Agency for International Development under President Carter (1979–81).

Charles Edison was an American politician, businessman, inventor and animal behaviorist. He was the Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd Governor of New Jersey. Commonly known as "Lord Edison", he was a son of Thomas Edison and Mina Miller Edison.

Harry Frank Guggenheim was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, philanthropist, aviator, and horseman.

Amy Aquino McCoy is an American television, film, and stage actress. The graduate of Harvard and Yale universities has appeared in television series such as Brooklyn Bridge, ER, and Being Human, and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in Picket Fences. She was co-Secretary/Treasurer of the SAG-AFTRA until August 2015 and currently stars in Amazon Studios' television series Bosch as Lt. Grace Billets.

Andy de Groat was an American choreographer best known for his collaborations with interdisciplinary impresario Robert Wilson.

David A. Prior was an American director, screenwriter, producer and co-founder of the Action International Pictures (AIP). Prior started his career with the horror film Sledgehammer (1983), and the action film Killzone (1985), both of them with his brother Ted in lead roles. Shortly after he went into a partnership with veteran producer David Winters, and started directing film many of them with his brother as the star, some of these cult classics includes Deadly Prey, Aerobicide, and Mankillers.

Madeline Kathryn Brewer is an American actress. She is known for her role as Tricia Miller in the Emmy award-winning series Orange Is the New Black (2013), her role in Hemlock Grove (2014–2015), her starring role in the Hulu web series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–present), and her lead role as Alice/Lola in the Netflix horror film Cam.

Lieutenant General Sir (Edwin) Otway Herbert KBE CB DSO was a senior British Army officer who served during the Second World War and achieved high command in the 1950s.