Sports
- Me'Lisa Barber (born 1980), track and field sprint athlete.
- Yogi Berra (born 1925), Baseball player and manager with the New York Yankees and New York Mets.
- Bob Bradley (born 1958), soccer coach of the Egypt national football team and former manager of the United States men's national soccer team.
- Peter A. Carlesimo (1915–2003), basketball coach.
- Leonard Coleman (born 1949), President of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs.
- Larry Doby (1923–2003), second African-American to play professional baseball in Major League Baseball.
- Alex Ferguson (1897–1976), right-handed pitcher, who played for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies, Brooklyn Robins, and played in 1925 World Series.
- Don Garber (born 1957), commissioner of Major League Soccer.
- Billy "Brud" Johnson (1918–2006), former New York Yankees third baseman who played nine seasons in the majors and missed two seasons for military service during World War II.
- Rees Jones (born 1941), golf course architect.
- Robert Trent Jones, Jr. (born 1939), golf course architect.
- Robert Trent Jones, Sr. (1906–2000), golf course architect, who moved here from England where he married and raised two sons, both following in their father's footsteps.
- Sean Jones (born 1962), defensive end who played for the Raiders, Oilers, and the Packers where he played in the 1997 Super Bowl championship.
- Rich Kenah (born 1970), middle distance runner who won bronze medals over 800 metres at the 1997 World Indoor Championships and at the 1997 World Championships in Athens, and was a member of the US Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
- Dave Meads (born 1964), signed as a 6th round pick in the January 1984 amateur draft by the Houston Astros, he won two-thirds of his major league games, going 8-4.
- John McMullen (1918–2005), naval architect and marine engineer, and former owner of the New Jersey Devils and Houston Astros.
- Scott Niedermayer (born 1973), retired hockey defenseman who played for the New Jersey Devils and Anaheim Ducks.
- William Steinitz (1836–1900), one of the greatest chess masters of the 19th century and first world champion, a genius widely known as the "Bohemian Caesar".
- Michael Strahan (born 1971), NFL defensive end for the New York Giants, holds single season sack record.
- Willie Taylor (born 1955), wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers.
- David Tyree (born 1980), NFL Wide receiver for the New York Giants, graduate of Montclair High School, '98.
- Earl Williams (born 1948), baseball player who was selected as the National League's rookie of the Year in 1971.
- Ingrid Wells (born 1989), soccer player.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)