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• [1] steve from prospect heights February 02, 2009 - 10:20AM

  Patti Smith

  
  
• [2] katie from brooklyn, ny February 02, 2009 - 10:26AM

  the fugees

  
  
• [3] seth from Long Island February 02, 2009 - 10:57AM

  Edmund Wilson (literary critic), Philip Roth, and Allen Ginsberg.

  
  
• [4] Phoebe in West Caldwell from West Caldwell, NJ February 02, 2009 - 11:04AM

  Jon Stewart!

  
  
• [5] Robert from NYC February 02, 2009 - 11:49AM

  Jon Stewart if he's not in there.

  
  
• [6] Robert from NYC February 02, 2009 - 11:50AM

  Althea Gibson, sure do!

  
  
• [7] Elsie from Brooklyn February 02, 2009 - 11:50AM

  What's the criteria here? Anyone who ever lived in Jersey? Because Walt Whitman was from NY.

  
  
• [8] A Listener in Chicago February 02, 2009 - 11:52AM

  jimmy hoffa (not a native, but a permanent resident).

  
  
• [9] severals from clifton, nj February 02, 2009 - 11:52AM

  Paul Robeson

  
  
• [10] Laura K from ny February 02, 2009 - 11:52AM

  Annie Oakley!

  
  
• [11] Laura K from ny February 02, 2009 - 11:52AM

  Martha Stewart

  
  
• [12] brianne from Harlem February 02, 2009 - 11:52AM

  Max Weinburg - The Boss's amazing drummer in the E Street band!!

  
  
• [13] Steven B. from New York, NY February 02, 2009 - 11:52AM

  where is Woodrow Wilson?

  
  
• [14] joli from Bloomfield NJ February 02, 2009 - 11:53AM

  Mark and Mark have done more for NJ than any of those other folks!

  
  
• [15] Manny Figueroa from Clifton, NJ February 02, 2009 - 11:53AM

  Philip Roth, not only because he was born in Jersey, but because NJ figures so prominently in his work.

  
  
• [16] JOSH KARAN from Manhattan February 02, 2009 - 11:54AM

  Stephen Colbert

  
  
• [17] Peter from Brooklyn February 02, 2009 - 11:55AM

  Also:

  Danny Devito, Jack Nicholson, William Carlos Williams, Count Basie, the Four Seasons, Bruce Springsteen & Steve Van Zandt, Robert Pinsky, Bud Abbott & Lou Costello, Sarah Vaughan, Dorothy Parker, Ernie Kovacs, Frank Sinatra, Meryl Streep.

  
  
• [18] Mark from Brooklyn February 02, 2009 - 11:56AM

  Rudy Van Gelder:

  as wikipedia says -- Frequently regarded as one of the most important recording engineers in music history,[1] Van Gelder is one of the legendary behind-the-scenes figures in jazz, recording several hundred jazz sessions, including many widely recognized as classics. Bringing an unprecedented clarity to jazz recording, Van Gelder has recorded many of the great names in the genre, including Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Joe Henderson, Grant Green, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, and many others.

  Recorded in Englewood Cliffs, NJ

  
  
• [19] mark February 02, 2009 - 11:57AM

  Arturo Gatti! He's from Canada but he fought his whole career in Jersey.

  And of course Redman, he kept Newark on the hip-hop map all through the 90s.

  
  
• [20] severals from clifton, nj February 02, 2009 - 11:58AM

  William Paterson

  
  
• [21] Barry Nelson from Foxboro, MA (formerly Long Branch) February 02, 2009 - 11:58AM

  Dorothy Parker, who apparently hated the fact that she was born in Long Branch---and moved as soon as she could to New York.

  Martha Stewart---a Jersey Girl through and through, from Nutley

  
  
• [22] Robert from Brooklyn February 02, 2009 - 11:58AM

  Muhammad Ali (lived in Cherry Hill beginning in 1971)

  
  
• [23] peter friedrich from Berkeley Heights February 02, 2009 - 11:58AM

  How 'bout Jean Sheppard... WOR host of 1960's-1970's, author of A Christmas Story... and much humor

  
  
• [24] Winston Smith from Minilov Room 101 February 02, 2009 - 11:58AM

  Peter Sagal

  
  
• [25] Mickey Bitsko from Downtown Manhattan February 02, 2009 - 11:59AM

  I nominate the Paterson punk rocker who broke my heart in the late seventies.

  Also, Lou Costello raised millions for charity, and there is a children's hospital named for him in Paterson.

  
  
• [26] Andy February 02, 2009 - 11:59AM

  John Travolta

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Eddie Murphy

  Glenn Miller

  
  
• [27] peter friedrich from Berkeley Heights February 02, 2009 - 11:59AM

  to Elsie from Brooklyn

  NO- a thousand times... from Camden!

  
  
• [28] Rick from Connecticut February 02, 2009 - 11:59AM

  Rupert Pupkin,from Clifton NJ the Comedian Robert Diniro played in the movie King of Comedy

  
  
• [29] Robert from Brooklyn February 02, 2009 - 12:00PM

  Muhammad Ali lived in Cherry Hill starting in 1971

  
  
• [30] KC Rice from Manhattan February 02, 2009 - 12:13PM

  Speaking of boxers who trained in NJ: During the Roaring Twenties Rock Lodge Club in Stockhom,NJ was a training camp for Jack Dempsey (and other boxers),and in 1932 it was established as a nudist club, which continues today.

  For more details, see:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Lodge_Club

  
  
• [31] Karl in NJ February 02, 2009 - 12:15PM

  How about John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain and William Shockley- inventors of the transistor. Dennis Ritchie- developer of UNIX and the C language. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson- first to hear the Big Bang. Science and Engineering in NJ has changed the world (Edison and Einstein are already in the NJ hall of fame).

  
  
• [32] Fred Plotkin from New York February 02, 2009 - 01:39PM

  Frederica von Stade, Eileen Farrell, Meryl Streep, Flip Wilson, Cissy Houston, Sarah Vaughan, Dionne Warwick