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Famous Residents

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Aaron Burr political leader, Newark
Albert Payson Terhune journalist, author, Newark
Amos Alonzo Stagg football coach, West Orange
Bruce Springsteen musician, Freehold
Bud Abbott comedian, Asbury Park
Charles Addams cartoonist, Westfield
Dave Thomas restaurateur, Atlantic City
David Copperfield magician, Metuchen
Dionne Warwick actress, singer, East Orange
Donald Fletcher Holmes inventor, Woodbury
Edwin Aldrin astronaut, Montclair
Eger V. Murphree inventor, Bayonne
Ernie Kovacs comedian, Trenton
Frank Sinatra singer, actor, Hoboken
Helen Gahagan Douglas representative, Boonton
Ice-T rapper, Newark
Jack Nicholson actor, Neptune City
Jerry Lewis comedian, film director, Newark
Joan Bennett actress, Palisades
Joe Piscopo comedian, actor, Passaic
Kevin Spacey actor, South Orange
Lou Costello comedian, Paterson
Meryl Streep actress, Summit
Norman Schwarzkopf army general, Trenton
Paul Robeson singer, actor, Princeton
Ray Liotta actor, Newark
Stephen Crane writer, Newark
Whitney Houston entertainer, Newark
William Count Basie band leader, Red Bank
William Frederick Halsey, Jr. admiral, Elizabeth
William Henry Vanderbilt financier, New Brunswick
Zebulon Mongomery Pike explorer, soldier, Lamberton