List of people from Orange, New Jersey
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People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Orange, New Jersey include:
- Anthony Accetturo (born 1938), former caporegime and leader of the New Jersey faction of the Lucchese crime family, The Jersey Crew[1]
- Robert Adams (born 1937), photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West[2]
- Stephanie Adams (1970–2018), model and author; November 1992 Playboy Playmate[3]
- Walter G. Alexander (1880–1953), first African-American member of the New Jersey Legislature[4][5]
- Jay Alford (born 1983), defensive tackle for the Oakland Raiders drafted in the third round of the 2007 NFL draft (81st overall)[6]
- Peter Allgeier, U.S. deputy trade representative 2001–2009[7]
- George Armstrong (1924–1993), catcher, played eight MLB games in 1946 with the Philadelphia Athletics[8]
- Tom Auth (born 1968), rower, competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics[9]
- Bobby Bandiera (born 1953), rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter; lead guitarist for Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes[10]
- James J. Barry Jr. (born 1946), politician, served in the New Jersey General Assembly, director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs[11]
- Dan Baum (1956–2020), journalist and author who wrote for The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Wired, Playboy, and The New York Times Magazine[12]
- Stephen J. Benkovic (born 1938), chemist[13]
- Douglas J. Bennet (1938–2018), political official, fifteenth president of Wesleyan University[14]
- John L. Blake (1831–1899), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district 1879–1881[15]
- Ken Blanchard (born 1939), author, works include The One Minute Manager[16]
- Thomas Aloysius Boland (1896–1979), prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; archbishop of Newark 1952–1974[17]
- Cory Boyd (born 1985), former starting tailback for the University of South Carolina[18] and drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 7th round (238th pick overall) of the 2008 NFL draft
- Sandra Boynton (born 1953), humorist, songwriter, director, music producer, children's author and illustrator[19]
- Roger Breslin (1937–2025), attorney; prosecutor of Bergen County, New Jersey 1977–1982[20]
- G. Michael Brown (1942–2025), gaming regulator in New Jersey, lawyer for the gaming industry, chief executive officer of Foxwoods Resort Casino[21]
- Garrett Brown Jr. (born 1943), former United States district judge and later chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[22]
- Lesley Bush (born 1947), diver, represented the United States at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where she received a gold medal in platform diving[23]
- Samuel P. Bush (1863–1948), industrialist and patriarch of the Bush political family[24]
- Bisa Butler (born 1973), fiber artist known for her quilted portraits and designs celebrating black life[25]
- Peter Cain (1959–1997), artist best known for his meticulously executed paintings and drawings of surreal and aberrant versions of automobiles[26]
- Ernest Trow Carter (1866–1953), organist and composer, won the Bispham Award[27]
- Herbert S. Carter (1869–1927), physician and writer[28]
- Dennis M. Cavanaugh (born 1947), retired United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[29]
- Robert Hett Chapman (1771–1833), Presbyterian minister and missionary and the second president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill[30]
- Evans Clark (1888–1970), writer strongly committed to first to Communist and Socialist causes and then liberal socio-economic issues[31][32]
- Richard Codey (1946–2026), politician; served in the New Jersey Legislature 1974–2024; 53rd governor of New Jersey 2004–2006[33]
- Steven A. Cohen (born 1953), academic who has taught public management and environmental policy at Columbia University since 1981[34]
- Harold L. Colburn Jr. (1925–2012), physician and politician; served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 8th Legislative District 1984–1995[35]
- Corinne Alsop Cole (1886–1971), politician, served two terms as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives[36]
- Samuel Colgate (1822–1897), manufacturer and philanthropist, headed the soap company that is now part of Colgate-Palmolive, benefactor of Colgate University[37]
- John Condit (1755–1834), politician, United States representative and senator from New Jersey[38]
- Silas Condit (1778–1861), politician; represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives 1831–1833[39]
- Peter Cortes (born 1947), rower, competed in the men's quadruple sculls event at the 1976 Summer Olympics[40]
- Bob Cottingham (born 1966), Olympic fencer, competed in the sabre events at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics[41]
- John Crotty (born 1969), former NBA basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail Blazers and Denver Nuggets[42][43]
- Bobby Czyz (born 1962), champion prizefighter[44]
- Brian E. Daley (born 1940), professor of theology, received the Ratzinger Prize in 2012[45]
- Pete D'Alonzo (1929–2001), football player, played two seasons with the Detroit Lions of the NFL[46]
- William Howe Davis (1904–1982), politician; mayor of Orange for 12 years; director of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control during the administration of Governor Robert B. Meyner[47]
- Constance Adams DeMille (1874–1960), actress and wife of director Cecil B. DeMille[48]
- Wayne Dickens, former American football player and coach; head football coach at Kentucky State University 2009–2012 and The College of New Jersey 2013–2015[49]
- S. Kip Farrington (1904–1983), sport fisherman and journalist[50]
- David Ferry (1924–2023), poet and translator, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2012[51]
- Dale S. Fischer (born 1951), United States district court judge[52]
- Gail Fisher (1935–2000), actress best known for her role on Mannix[53]
- Buddy Fortunato (born 1946), newspaper publisher and politician, served four terms in the New Jersey General Assembly[54]
- Charles N. Fowler (1852–1932), represented 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives 1895–1911[55]
- Tony Galento (1910–1979), heavyweight boxer[56]
- Robert E. Grady (born 1959), venture capitalist and investment banker[57]
- William Haddon (1926–1985), public health researcher and official[58]
- Al Harrington (born 1980), professional basketball player for the NBA's Denver Nuggets, Golden State Warriors and Washington Wizards[59]
- Edward V. Hartford (1870–1922), founder and president of the Hartford Suspension Company who perfected the automobile shock absorber[60]
- George Huntington Hartford (1833–1917), mayor 1878–1890; owner of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, the country's largest food retailer at the time of his death[61]
- Beatrice Hicks (1919–1979), founder of the Society of Women Engineers in 1950[62]
- Cleo Hill (1938–2015), professional basketball player, played one season in the NBA for the St. Louis Hawks[63]
- Dulé Hill (born 1975), actor, known for starring in TV series Psych and The West Wing[64]
- Monte Irvin (1919–2016), former Negro leagues and MLB outfielder, MLB executive and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame[65]
- Bobby M. Jones (born 1972), pitcher, played for the New York Mets during his MLB career[66][67]
- Philip D. Kaltenbacher (born 1937), former chairman and CEO of Seton Company; former chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey[68]
- Mark Kelly (born 1964), astronaut; first went into space as the pilot for STS-108 Endeavour (December 5–17, 2001), and returned to space with STS-121 in 2006 as the pilot; his twin brother, Scott Kelly, is also in the Astronaut Corps[69]
- Thomas Kiernan (1933–2003), writer of biographies of Laurence Olivier, Jane Fonda, John Steinbeck, and Yasser Arafat[70]
- Jay Lynch (1945–2017), cartoonist best known for his comic strip Nard n' Pat[71]
- Phyllis Mangina (born 1959), college basketball coach, assistant women's basketball coach at Saint Peter's[72]
- William F. Marsh (1916–1995), politician, served in the California State Assembly for the 42nd district 1953–1959[73]
- John B. Mason (1858–1919), stage actor[74]
- Lowell Mason (1792–1872), composer of over 1600 hymn tunes, including his arrangement of "Joy to the World"[75][76]
- Elmer Matthews (1927–2015), lawyer and politician, served three terms in the New Jersey General Assembly[77]
- George McClellan (1826–1885), American Civil War general and later governor of New Jersey, died here[78][79]
- Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898–1969), neurophysiologist and cybernetician who made contributions to artificial intelligence and cybernetics
- Donald W. McGowan (1899–1967), United States Army major general and chief of the National Guard Bureau[80]
- James T. McHugh (1932–2000), prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; bishop of Camden (1989–1998) and bishop of Rockville Centre (2000)[81]
- John Milnor (born 1931), mathematician known for his work in differential topology, K-theory, and dynamical systems; recipient of the Fields Medal, Wolf Prize, and Abel Prize[82]
- Daniel F. Minahan (1877–1947), mayor of Orange 1914–1919; represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district 1919–1921 and 1923–1925[83]
- Tina Nenoff (born 1965), materials scientist and chemical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories[84]
- Gordon Allen Newkirk Jr. (1928–1985), astrophysicist best known for his research on the solar corona[85]
- Yosh Nijman (born 1995), American football offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League[86]
- Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, first well-known person of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism, helped create a Buddhist renaissance, assisted in designing the Buddhist flag, a national hero of Sri Lanka[87]
- Chris Petrucelli (born 1962), soccer manager; head coach of the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League[88]
- Joel A. Pisano (1949–2021), district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey 2000–2001[89]
- Carolyn Plaskett (1917–2001), American-born illustrator, international scholar and former first lady of Barbados[90]
- Nicole Pride, academic administrator, twelfth president of West Virginia State University[91]
- Daniel Quillen (1940–2011), mathematician known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory and recipient of the Fields Medal[92]
- Bill Raftery (born 1943), basketball analyst and former college basketball coach[93]
- Jim Ringo (1931–2007), NFL player for the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame[94]
- Stuart Risch, retired United States Army major general; 41st Judge Advocate General of the United States Army[95]
- Ta'Quan Roberson (born 2000), American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bulls[96]
- Jack Robinson (1921–2000), professional baseball pitcher whose MLB career consisted of three games played for the Boston Red Sox in 1949[97]
- Robert E. Rose (1939–2022), politician; 26th lieutenant governor of Nevada 1975–1979[98]
- Johnny Sansone (born 1957), electric blues singer, songwriter, harmonicist, accordionist, guitarist and piano player[99]
- Dick Savitt (1927–2023), tennis player, reached a ranking of No. 2 in the world[100]
- Roy Scheider (1932–2008), actor known for films such as Jaws, All That Jazz and The French Connection[101]
- Morton Schindel (1918–2016), educator, producer, and founder of Weston Woods Studios, which specializes in adapting children's books into animated films[102]
- Peter Shapiro (born 1952), financial services executive and former politician; youngest person ever elected to the New Jersey General Assembly; Essex County executive[103]
- John M. Smith (1935–2019), prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; ninth bishop of Trenton 1997–2010[104]
- John B. Stetson (1830–1906), hat manufacturer, invented the Stetson hat[105]
- Leigh Howard Stevens (born 1953), marimba artist best known for developing, codifying and promoting the Stevens technique[106]
- Lucy Stone (1818–1893), abolitionist and suffragist who staged a tax protest in 1857 over her lack of representation as a homeowner in Orange[107]
- Gregory J. Studerus (born 1948), prelate of the Roman Catholic Church; auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Newark[108]
- Salamishah Tillet (born 1975), feminist activist, scholar and writer[109]
- Robert F. Titus (1926–2024), United States Air Force brigadier general and fighter pilot[110]
- George Tully (1904–1980), NFL player with the Frankford Yellow Jackets[111]
- Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III (1925–2008), scholar of ancient art; curator of classical art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1957–1996[112]
- Dionne Warwick (born 1940), singer, actress, television host, and former Goodwill Ambassador for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization[113]
- Khalil Wheeler-Weaver (born 1996), serial killer[114]