List of people from Orange, New Jersey

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

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32. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 206, Part 1, p. 239. J.A. Fitzgerald., 1994. Accessed June 8, 2020. "Assemblyman Colburn was born in Orange on Oct. 2, 1925. He attended Montclair High School, and was graduated from Princeton University in 1947."
33. Hatala, Greg. "Glimpse of History: The early days of a longtime public servant", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 4, 2016. Accessed July 30, 2019. "Born in Orange on Nov. 27, 1946, Codey is the longest-serving state legislator in New Jersey history, having served continuously since Jan. 8, 1974."
34. Steven A. Cohen, Columbia University. Accessed July 30, 2019. "Cohen was born in Orange, New Jersey, raised in Brooklyn, New York and now resides in New York City."
35. The Annual Report of the Connecticut Historical Society, p. 11. Connecticut Historical Society, 1970. Accessed July 30, 2019. "Mrs. Corinne Robinson Alsop Cole – Mrs. Francis W. Cole, a member of this Society since November 6, 1957... She was born in Orange, New Jersey, July 2, 1886, the daughter of Douglas and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson."
36. "Death Of Samuel Colgate.; The Well-Known Manufacturer and Philanthropist Falls a Victim to Henry Disease.", The New York Times , April 24, 1897. Accessed October 29, 2021. "Orange, N. J., April 23 - Samuel Colgate, head of the firm Samuel Colgate & Co., one of the largest soap and perfume houses in the country, died of heart trouble at his home in this city this afternoon."
37. John Condit, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Accessed August 21, 2007.
38. Silas Condit, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Accessed August 23, 2007.
39. Peter Cortes, Sports Reference. Accessed September 5, 2018. "Born: September 7, 1947 (Age 70.363, YY.DDD) in Orange, New Jersey, United States"
40. Bob Cottingham, Ivy@50. Accessed December 3, 2017. "Growing up in Orange, New Jersey, he 'played football and lacrosse, which is my favorite sport,' he says.... Cottingham began fencing at Montclair Kimberley Academy under Columbia grad Carmen Marnell and was named all-state."
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43. Smith, Greg. "An Interview with Bobby Czyz Part 1: Formative Years, Amateur Career, and The Rise and Fall of a Middleweight", Hard Core Boxing, September 14, 2005. Accessed July 31, 2014. "Bobby Czyz was born on February 10, 1962. I knew that Bobby spent the first few years of his life in Orange, New Jersey, but was essentially raised about 30 minutes away from Orange in the suburban enclave of Wanaque."
44. Davis, Stephen T.; Kendall, Daniel; and O'Collins, Gerald. The Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God, p. xix. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN   9780199275779. Accessed July 6, 2016. "Brian E. Daley – Born in Orange, New Jersey, he obtained his Bachelor's degree at Fordham University in 1961, and a BA (MA) in Classics and Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford, in 1964."
45. Staff. "Beverage Control Chief To Quit Post in Jersey", The New York Times , December 8, 1962. Accessed December 27, 2017. "William Howe Davis of Orange, director of the division of Alcohol Beverage Control since 1954, has notified Gov. Richard J. Hughes that he plans to resign.... He told the Governor that he was leaving for financial reasons. He will become a full partner in the Newark law firm of Shanley & Fisher."
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48. Wayne Dickens, TCNJ Lions. Accessed December 16, 2019. "Dickens, a native of Orange, New Jersey, received a degree in English from Rutgers College in 1973."
49. Thomas Jr., Robert McG. "S. Kip Farrington Jr. Is Dead; Was A Sportsman And Writer", The New York Times , February 8, 1983. Accessed July 6, 2016. "A native of Orange, N.J., Mr. Farrington joined his family's brokerage firm at the age of 16 and became a partner at 21, but when his family moved to East Hampton in the 1920s, he became enchanted with deep-sea fishing and decided to devote himself to sports."
50. "David Ferry", Boston Athenæum, April 3, 2012. Accessed May 19, 2024. "Ferry was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1924. He graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood-South Orange, New Jersey, and played the piano, which taught him a great deal about the metrical line in poetry."
51. Fischer, Dale S., Federal Judicial Center. Accessed March 29, 2023. "Born 1951 in Orange, NJ"
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60. Beatrice Alice Hicks, 1919–1979, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Accessed December 18, 2007. "Born in Orange, New Jersey in 1919, Beatrice Hicks displayed an affinity for and aptitude in math, Science, and engineering from an early age."
61. Resolution In Memoriam of Cleo Hill, Essex County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders. Accessed December 4, 2017. "Whereas, Cleo Hill of Orange, New Jersey, passed from this life on Monday, August 10, 2015, at the age of 77; and Whereas, Cleo Hill was born and reared in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Eighteenth Avenue Elementary School, Cleveland Junior High School, and South Side (Shabazz) High School"
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63. Goldstein, Richard. "Monte Irvin, Star Outfielder Who Lost His Prime to Racism, Dies at 96", The New York Times , January 12, 2016. Accessed June 2, 2017. "Monford Merrill Irvin was born on Feb. 25, 1919, in Haleburg, Ala., one of 11 children raised by Cupid Alexander Irvin, a sharecropper, and his wife, Mary Eliza. When he was 8, he and his family moved to Bloomfield, N.J., and they settled in Orange, N.J., two years later."
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66. Norman, Michael. "Man In The News; A New Top Command For The Port Authority: Philip David Kaltenbacker", The New York Times , September 13, 1985. Accessed July 28, 2025. "Philip David Kaltenbacher was born in Orange, N.J., on Nov. 7, 1937."
67. Astronaut Bio: Mark Kelly, NASA. Accessed February 24, 2008.
68. "Thomas Kiernan, 70, acclaimed biographer", New Jersey Hills, January 7, 2004. Accessed November 22, 2022. "Born in Jersey City, he grew up in Orange and attended Newark Academy."
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