The Brian Lehrer Show

YOGI BERRA -- # 8 --- Yoo-Hoo

No Frankie Valli?

whitney houston - Newark, if I'm not mistaken....

Count Basie, from Red Bank!

General Kazimierz Pułaski of skyway fame.

Bruce Springstein makes the Hall of Fame before Count Basie? No wonder Jersey has become a punchline.

Philip Roth of Newark

MUSIC - Phoebe Snow, Wayne Shorter, Blondie, Patti Smith, Ella and Sarah !

the smell

Trenton makes - the world takes!!

Jon Stewart!

Jon Stewart!!!!!! He is a proud New Jersian. He never forgets to give props to Jersey on his show.

Lou Costello ( Abbott & Costello). Born in my home town, Paterson, NJ.

Ozzie Nelson was also from my hometown of Ridgefield Park, NJ.

Is Bon Jovi Included??

William Carlos Williams

joe piscipo!

Longy Zwillman

george clinton and the misfits

Allen Ginsberg

William Carlos Williams

Edmund Wilson - literary critc

althea gibson

Tubman was in Cape May for all of 5 months and she's in a new jesery hall of fame...was she inducted just to have a black person in it....by the way i'm black

Jersey Joe Walcott Heavyweight Champ

The Matawan Man-Eater, aka Jaws. (Okay, not a person, but definitely famous.)

whilliam carlos whilliams, jimmy hoffa

russel simmons

Jim Cramer!

(And I like to second Philip Roth)

Woodrow Wilson

What about Phil Rizzuto ??

William Carlos Williams!

ANTHONY BOURDAIN

jersey joe walcott

Stephen Colbert!

Woodrow Wilson was a bigot!

walt whitman spent the last... more than five! years of his life in south jersey. =) he was pretty great.

PAUL ROBESON--a key figure in the history of the American Left, music, film and race relations. A powerful voice for liberty in every sense! And he grew up in NJ and attended Rutgers where he was a big football star too.

John Augustus Roebling -- designer of the Brooklyn Bridge -- from Trenton

Stephen Colbert has lived in NJ, but he's not from NJ originally. (My friend actually worked at the video store he used to go to).

Kazimierz Pułaski was from poland, not new jersey. I can't find any evidence he ever stepped foot in NJ

I was at the induction ceremony which was absolutely wonderful! All those luminaries who received the award (except for Bill Bradley and Meryl Streep) actually showed up to receive it personally-that says a lot. Best part of the evening--Bruce Springsteen's speech about growing up in NJ and his "Benediction." Does anyone knonw where I could get a copy of these???

Thanks,

Michele from NJ

Senator Frank Lautenburg, Born in Paterson started ADP.

Actress Elizabeth Shue. Born in SOuth Orange

Actress Valerie Harper AKA Rhoda Lived in Glen Rock.

Paul Robeson, Born in Princeton.

Phil 'The Scooter' Rizzuto from Hillside, NJ

Bucky Dent, lived in Wyckoff.

Willie Randolph Lives in Franklin Lakes

John Matthew Shippen, Jr. an African American competed in the 1896 U.S. Open, and was tied for the lead after 18 holes. He competed in four more U.S. Open Championships. He was the golf pro at the Shady Rest Golf Course in Scotch Plains from 1924 until his retirement in 1960. Shady Rest is now the Scotch Hills Country Club.

25, Mr. Simmons grew up in Hollis, Queens, NEW YORK.

Filmmaker Kevin Smith (Red Bank, NJ)

Tom Scharpling - The Best Show on WFMU

Celia Cruz lived in Fort Lee during her last years.

Reverend Run (of Run DMC) lives in Saddle River, NJ with his family.

The writers actually born in Jersey:

Robert Pinsky, Stephen Crane, William Carlos Williams, Amiri Baraka, Dorothy Parker, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg and, of course, John McPhee.