Famous People From Your Place of Residence / Hometown

[STDzRus]

I just found out that Twista is from my city. Thought that was pretty cool.

STDzRus Reviewed by STDzRus on 02-14-2006. Famous People From Your Place of Residence / Hometown I just found out that Twista is from my city. Thought that was pretty cool. Rating: 5

[insanity]

Matt Groening (creator of the Simpsons) went to highschool across the street from my current house.

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Ozzy Osbourne used to live 5 minutes from me when he was a kid.

[endo..jay]

there are alot of famous people from jersey but none from around here

the rock (wwf) was 20 mins from me, my old coach played football against him

doug e doug (cosby show, and cool runnings guy) his mother live here
I see him every now and again at the store

[Nochowderforyou]

In the city I live in now, Olympic skater Jeremy Wotherspoon is from here.

Plus newscaster Ron McLean is from here as well.

Musician KD Lang went to college here, but is not from this city, which is good, because her music sucks

[endo..jay]

here is a list of ppl form jersey, no one from my home town tho...boo!!!!


Famous People from New Jersey
Bud Abbott Comedian Asbury Park
Jason Alexander Actor Linvingston
Charles Addams Cartoonist Westfield
Edwin Aldrin Astronaut Montclair
James Avery Actor Atlantic City
William Count Basie Band leader Red Bank
Joan Bennett Actress Palesades
Yogi Berra Yankees Baseball Legand Montclair
Judy Blume Author Elizabeth
Jon Bon Jovi Musician Sayreville
William J. Brennan Jurist Newark
Aaron Burr Political leader Newark
Grover Cleveland President Caldwell
Lloyd H. Conover Inventor Orange
Tom Cruise Actor Glen Ridge
James Fenimore Cooper Author Burlington
Lou Costello Comedian Paterson
Stephen Crane writer Newark

Danny DeVito Actor Asbury Park
Helen Gahagan Douglas Representative Boonton
Thomas Edison Inventor West Orange
Daisy Fuentes Newscaster/Actress/Model Newark
Allen Ginsberg Poet Newark
Savron Glover Choreographer Newark
Leslie Gore Singer Tenafly
William Frederick Halsey Jr. Admiral Elizabeth
Lauryn Hill Rapper South Orange
Whitney Houston Singer/Actress Newark
Donald Fletcher Holmes Inventor Woodbury
Ice-T Rapper Newark
Jon Bon Jovi Musician Sayreville
Alfred Joyce Kilmer Poet New Brunswick
Alfred C. Kinsey Zoologist Hoboken
Ernie Kovacs Comedian Trenton
Dorothea Lange Photographer Hoboken
Huey Lewis Singer Livingston
Jerry Lewis Comedian/Film director Newark
Anne Morrow Lindbergh Author Englewood
Norman Mailer Author Long Branch
James W. Marshall Discovered gold in California Hunterdon
Patricia McBride Ballerina Teaneck
Gil McDougald Yankees Baseball Legend Nutley
Jay Mohr Actor Verona
Eger V. Murphree Inventor Bayonne
Ricky Nelson Actor/Singer Teaneck
Jack Nicholson Actor Neptune City
Shaquille O'Neill NBA Basketball Star Newark
Tommy Page SInger Caldwell
Dorothy Parker Author West Bend
Joe Pesci Actor/Comedian
Zebulon Mongomery Pike Explorer/Soldier Lamberton
Joe Piscopo Actor/Comedian Passaic
Paul Robeson Singer/Actor Princeton
Edward J. Rosinski Inventor Gloucester
Philip Milton Roth Author Newark
Ruth St. Denis Dancer/Choreographer Newark
Antonin Scalia Jurist Trenton
Norman Schwarzkopf Army General Trenton
Brooke Shields Actress Englewood
Frank Sinatra Singer/Actor Hoboken
Kevin Spacey Actor South Orange
Steven Spielberg Movie Director/Producer Montclair
Bruce Springsteen Musician Freehold
Amos Alonzo Stagg Football Coach West Orange
Alfred Stieglitz Photographer Hoboken
Meryl Streep Actress Summit
Albert Payson Terhune Journalist/Author Newark
Dave Thomas Restauranteur Atlantic City
John Travolta Actor Englewood
Frankie Vallie Singer Newark
William Henry Vanderbilt Financier New Brunswick
Sarah Vaughan Singer Newark
Dionne Warwick Actress/Singer East Orange
Denzell Washington Singer Mt. Vernon
William Carlos Williams Physician/Poet Rutherford
Edmund Wilson Literary Critic/Author Red Bank

[mr pink06]

Leicester is famous for Gary Lineker (Ex Leicester City and England football star) er.....that bloke from Big Brother, that rapper who got chucked in prison!! er.........and me!

[digweed]

The beatles, L.F.C.,The zootons,Frankie goes to hollywood,the farm,,.

[spatte21]

im from Cincinnati and I think George Clooney is from there, Carmen Electra, Nick Leche or however you spell that douches name, i think thats about it

[Fan o KmK]

the band Trapt graduated from the highschool in my town, i dont go to it tho. Dredg also went to the same school as trapt but graduated more recently. haha its kinda cool, i know chicks that are like "yea i used to date taht guy, he was cool until they released headstrong then it was like 'im too cool for your pussy, i got groupies now'" lol