List of people from South Orange, New Jersey

Notable current and former residents of South Orange, New Jersey include:

Paul Auster (born 1948), author known for works blending absurdism and crime fiction.^[1]
Louis Bamberger (1855-1944), department store founder and philanthropist.^[2]
Kelly Bishop (born 1944), actress, current resident.^[3]^[4]
Zach Braff (born 1975), actor on the TV series Scrubs and writer/director of the movie Garden State.^[5]
Andre Braugher (born 1962), actor, current resident.^[6]
Chris Broussard (born 1968), sports analyst for ESPN, current resident.^[7]
Chris Browne (born 1952), cartoonist, Hägar the Horrible.^[8]
Mark Bryant (born 1965), former NBA player.^[9]
James Delany (born 1948), commissioner of the Big Ten Conference.^[10]
John Dossett, actor, current resident.^[11]
Asher Brown Durand (1796–1886), painter.^[12]
John Franklin Fort (1852–1920), 33rd Governor of New Jersey, from 1908-1911.^[13]
Lauryn Hill (born 1975), musician, solo and with the The Fugees.^[14]
Wyclef Jean (born 1972), member of The Fugees.^[15]
James Kaplan (born 1951), novelist.^[16]
Stacey Kent (born 1968), singer and recording artist Blue Note Records.^[17]
Alfred Kinsey (1894–1956), sex researcher, who moved to the town in 1904.^[18]
Michael Lally, poet and author.^[19]
Frank Langella (born 1938), actor.^[20]
Lee Leonard (born 1929), journalist, current resident, husband of Kelly Bishop.^[3]
Sean McCourt, Broadway actor.^[11]
Walter I. McCoy (1859–1933), represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district from 1911 to 1913, and the 9th district from 1913 to 1914. Served as village trustee from 1893–1895, 1901–1905, and in 1910.^[21]
Michele Pawk, actor, current resident.^[11]
Thomas J. Preston, Jr. (1862–1955), Professor of Archeology at Princeton University. He married Frances Cleveland, widow of President Grover Cleveland.^[22]
James Rebhorn (born 1948), actor, Independence Day, Meet the Parents.^[23]
Vin Rock, member of rap group Naughty by Nature.^[24]
Andrew Shue (born 1967), actor and co-founder of CafeMom founder.^[25]
Elisabeth Shue (born 1963), actress.^[26]
Joel Silver (born 1952), director and producer.^[27]
Kiki Smith (born 1954), artist.^[28]
Tony Smith (1912–80), sculptor.^[29]
Kevin Spacey (born 1959), actor.^[30]
Noah Tarnow, host of the Big Quiz Thing, spent part of his childhood in South Orange.^[31]
Jeff Van Note (born 1946), former Atlanta Falcons player and Georgia Tech broadcaster.^[32]
Dionne Warwick (born 1940), singer.^[33]
Max Weinberg (born 1951), drummer for E-Street Band and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.^[34]
Aaron D. Wyner (1939–1997), information theorist noted for his contributions in coding theory.^[35]

References

^ Begley, Adam. "Case of the Brooklyn Symbolist", The New York Times, August 30, 1992. Accessed September 19, 2008. "The grandson of first-generation Jewish immigrants, he was born in Newark in 1947, grew up in South Orange and attended high school in Maplewood, 20 miles southwest of New York."
^ Staff. "GET GOOD-WILL CITATIONS; Three Essex County Residents Honored by Civic Groups", The New York Times, February 28, 1941. Accessed February 1, 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Theater; Two Mature Lives on Stage and Screen, Now Playing in New Jersey", The New York Times, September 19, 1999. "She and her husband, Lee Leonard, the host of Jersey Talking on News 12 in Edison, have been living in South Orange for four years."
^ Worth-Baker, Marcia."Mother's Always Right: Kelly Bishop has played the mother many times over", Maplewood matters, accessed April 22, 2007. ""Ask Kelly Bishop, South Orange resident and star of Gilmore Girls, what drew her to the role of Emily Gilmore, and she recalls, 'The pilot was simply the best script I ever read.'"
^ Scrubs cast profile of Zach Braff, accessed December 26, 2006
^ Andre Braugher, TV.com, accessed April 7, 2007. "Braugher has been busy at home as well; in 1991 he married writer/actress Ami Brabson, who portrayed his wife on Homicide, and they are currently residing in South Orange, New Jersey, with their two sons, Michael (born in 1992) and Isaiah (born in 1996)."
^ Smith, Brian. "Hoops for a haven: Game to benefit Project Oasis", The Montclair Times, May 6, 2010. Accessed June 3, 2011. "Cummings, Montclair born and bred, and ESPN colleague Chris Broussard, a South Orange resident, grew tired of jawing back and forth about which of their towns would win a pick-up hoops game. Spectators will, if enough creaky bodies remain upright, find out tomorrow."
^ “Hagar” Cartoonist Featured in Conference at Augustana, Augustana College (South Dakota) press release, dated September 6, 2005. Accessed August 19, 2007. "Browne was born in South Orange, N.J., in 1952, and grew up in suburban Wilton, Conn."
^ Martinez, Michael. "College Basketball '87: Seton Hall; Carlesimo starts to lookup", The New York Times, January 11, 1987. Accessed December 23, 2007. "The team's pivotal player is Mark Bryant, a 6-foot-9-inch junior from South Orange, who had 24 points and 15 rebounds against Georgetown."
^ Staff. "Big Ten Commissioner, Jim Delany", Chicago Tribune. Accessed July 28, 2011. "The 62-year old Delany is a native of South Orange, N.J. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of North Carolina in 1970 and juris doctorate degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1973."
^ ^a ^b ^c Rockland, Kate. "Where the Midtown Direct, Oz and Springsteen Meet", The New York Times, December 25, 2005. Accessed February 3, 2008. "But amid the hustle and bustle came the strains of the decidedly un-Oz-like Bruce Springsteen album The Rising. Following that music -- like the Yellow Brick Road -- led to the dressing room of the actor Sean McCourt, who lives in South Orange.... Mr. McCourt recently helped John Dossett and Michele Pawk, two stars of the Abba musical Mamma Mia! move into a house in his neighborhood."
^ "AN OLD-TIME ARTIST DEAD.; WHAT AMERICAN ART OWES TO ASHER BROWN DURAND.", The New York Times, September 20, 1886. Accessed July 15, 2008.
^ New Jersey Governor John Franklin Fort, National Governors Association. Accessed August 1, 2007.
^ That thing: Lauryn Hill sets Grammy record, CNN.com, February 24, 1999. "Hill, a native of South Orange, New Jersey, saw her musical career take off after critics heard her gritty alto performance on the Fugees' 1993 debut, 'Blunted on Reality.'"
^ Baker, Steven; and Hoppock, Julia. "Nightline Playlist: Wyclef Jean - The Haitian Hip-Hop Artist Shares the Inspiration Behind His Music", ABC News, December 8, 2007. Accessed December 28, 2008. "Jean was thrust into music at the age of 3 when he sang at his father's church. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1981, living in Brooklyn for a year and then moving to South Orange, N.J. "
^ Kaplan, James. "Hanging On In The Burbs; Too Rich For Their Blood", The New York Times, April 9, 2000. Accessed February 1, 2011. "Neighboring South Orange, where I grew up (the two communities shared a school system), was the first stop for Jewish Americans migrating west from Newark -- there was plenty of new money, and even a fancy neighborhood for it (piquantly named Newstead) at the top of the hill."
^ Radanovich, John. "Stacey Kent is the American Songbook idol", The Record (Bergen County), October 22, 2004.
^ Rhodes, Richard. "Father of the Sexual Revolution: A new biography of the man who studied sex the same way he studied insects.", The New York Times, November 2, 1997. Accessed July 30, 2007. "Kinsey suffered a rigid, inhibited childhood, growing up in Hoboken and South Orange, N.J., under the thumb of a dictatorial petit-bourgeois father who taught at the Stevens Institute."
^ Stewart, Susan. "Food, Drink, and Plenty of Literary Dish", The New York Times, November 25, 2007. Accessed July 28, 2011. "Michael Lally, a New Jersey poet, did not seem to be suffering from a surfeit of fame. He sat at the writers’ table and waited his turn at the lectern.... Mr. Lally read next, from a work-in-progress he called “Poor Moth Boy on the Moon,” about growing up Irish Catholic in South Orange, N.J."
^ Venutolo, Anthony. "From heroes to villains, Frank Langella finds the heart in them all", The Star-Ledger, November 29, 2008. Accessed June 14, 2011. "The family moved to South Orange, where Langella graduated from Columbia High School before heading off to Syracuse to study drama."
^ Walter Irving McCoy biography, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 3, 2007.
^ "New York Times," December 26, 1955, obituary of Thomas J. Preston
^ Filichia, Peter. "Actor reflects on 'Luck,' parenthood and hard work", The Star-Ledger, May 3, 2002. Acecssed August 1, 2007. "James Rebhorn, 53, is one of those actors whose name you may not know, but you never forget his face, from such films as 'Meet the Parents,' 'The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle' and 'The Talented Mr. Ripley.' Now the South Orange resident is appearing on Broadway in Arthur Miller's first play, 'The Man Who Had All the Luck,' which closed after only four performances in 1944."
^ Roberts, Lee. "Not as naughty as they might be; Naughty by nature's hometown value keep them anchored in a stormy hip-hop world". The Star-News, August 25, 1995. Accessed August 2, 2007. "The three men have not only refused to leave their South Orange, N.J., neighborhood for more glamorous spots, they've also kept living with their families and have hired friends and family members to run their hometown businesses."
^ Zimbabwe RPCV Andrew Shue founds "Do Something", Horizon magazine, September 1, 2003. "Shue and Do Something president Sanchez grew up together in South Orange, N.J., where, at 14, Shue became a Boy Scout dropout, mostly because the troop's weekend excursions cramped his soccer schedule."
^ A new Shue, South Orange Journal, June 27, 2006. "Belated congratulations to South Orange's own Elisabeth Shue and her husband, film director Davis Guggenheim--they recently became third-time parents with the birth of their daughter Agnes."
^ Madigan, Nick. "Producer honoree Silver agonizes over 'the process': The 'gyroscopic force of inertia' in films make filmmaking difficult", Variety (magazine), August 27, 2001. Accessed July 30, 2007. "Silver acknowledges that his movies may not leave the same legacy as the classics he watched growing up in South Orange, N.J., like The Guns of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia or The Dirty Dozen."
^ Tony Smith Sculpture Project, Lennie Pierro Memorial arts Foundation. Accessed August 31, 2011. "Today Kiki Smith, Tony’s daughter, is one of the foremost artists of her generation. Her sister, Seton, a photographer, is also well known in the art world. Both grew up in South Orange and attended Columbia High School."
^ McGlone, Peggy. "Tony Smith's sculpture 'TAU' installed in South Orange", The Star-Ledger, November 19, 2008. Accessed July 28, 2011. "Despite the set-back, Judy Wukitsch is extactic [sic]. Co-founder (with her husband, the late Lennie Pierro) of the town's municipal art gallery, Wukitsch is the driving force behind the effort to bring a Tony Smith sculpture to South Orange. Smith -- renowned teacher, architect, sculptor and painter -- was born, raised, lived and worked in South Orange. To have his massive work installed in the town park is a dream that's six years in the making."
^ "Kevin Spacey: The unusual suspect", BBC News, February 5, 2003, accessed April 22, 2007. "Kevin Spacey was born Kevin Spacey Fowler in South Orange, New Jersey in 1959, the son of a secretary and a technical writer."
^ "My full day's supply of Red 40.", August 23, 2009, accessed July 28, 2011. "But Tahitian Treat punches a few nostalgia buttons for me. Stopping at the South Orange Community Center to play foosball after school, we'd get Tahitian Treat from the soda machine that offered only weirdo Canada Dry brands, including something called Hi-Spot (cheapo Sprite)."
^ Jeff Van note, database Football. Accessed December 23, 2007.
^ Suhay, Lisa. "Jerseyana; Uncovering the Tracks Left by State's Women", The New York Times, December 12, 1999. Accessed March 26, 2008. "So such prominent New Jerseyans as the author Judy Blume from Elizabeth; the choreographer Ruth St. Denis and the ballerina Patricia McBride of Newark; the singers Lauren Hill and Dionne Warwick of South Orange, Whitney Houston, Connie Francis and Sarah Vaughan, all of Newark; the actresses Brooke Shields of Englewood and Daisey Fuentes of Newark, and the author Ann Morrow Lindbergh must die before qualifying for a stop on the tour."
^ Hoffman, Jan. "PUBLIC LIVES; A Drummer on a Roll Revisits His Past Life", The New York Times, June 29, 2000. Accessed July 28, 2011. "But when Mr. Springsteen bade the band adieu, Mighty Max reverted to Max Weinberg from South Orange, N.J., becoming just another unemployed drummer with a sore back and seven hand surgeries."
^ Burkhart, Ford. "Aaron D. Wyner, 58; Helped Speed Data Around the Globe", The New York Times, October 13, 1997. Accessed July 28, 2011. "Aaron D. Wyner, an information theorist at Bell Laboratories whose research is central to the way data move through through a modem or satellite network, died on Sept. 29 at Morris Hills Nursing Home in Morristown, N.J. He was 58, and lived in South Orange, N.J."