Alumni and People Associated With MSU
- Kim Barnes Arico, current head women's basketball coach at the University of Michigan
- Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame baseball player, catcher for the New York Yankees
- Jason Biggs, actor; briefly attended as an English major
- Carol Blazejowski, basketball player and member of both the Naismith Memorial and Women's Basketball Halls of Fame; current General Manager and President of the New York Liberty
- Edna Buchanan, reporter and famed mystery writer
- Kevin Carolan, actor and comedian
- Andrew R. Ciesla, New Jersey State Senator, 10th District
- Marion Crecco, member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1986 to 2002.
- Lesley Choyce, author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, and poetry
- Wendy Coakley-Thompson (Class of 1989), writer, studied broadcasting
- Steve Covino, radio personality
- Warren Farrell, author
- Mike Fratello, NBA head coach, sports commentator
- Peter Gallagher, cartoonist, Heathcliff comic strip.
- Scott Garrett, New Jersey Congressman, 5th District
- Allen Ginsberg, poet; icon of the Beat Generation
- Camille Grammer, reality television personality
- Fred Hill, Rutgers University basketball coach
- Sharpe James, former mayor of Newark
- Paul J. Lioy, Professor, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Eugene Maleska (Class of 1937), New York Times crossword editor
- Tom Malloy (Class of 1997), film actor, writer, producer
- Brenda Miller Cooper, operatic soprano
- Jay Alders (Class of 1996), fine artist
- Brian Jude (Class of 1995), film director, writer, producer and actor
- Sam Mills, NFL linebacker, coach, member of College Football Hall of Fame
- Connie Myers, New Jersey Assemblywoman, 23rd District
- Christine Nagy, radio personality, studied broadcasting
- Reggie Noble a.k.a. Redman, rapper
- J. J. North, actress
- Chris Opperman, composer
- Michael Price (Class of 1981), television writer–producer
- Dania Ramirez, film and television actress
- Oscar Ravina, professor emeritus, classical violinist, concertmaster
- Lorene Scafaria, screenwriter and playwright
- Herman Sokol, a co-discoverer of tetracycline and president of Bristol-Myers Company
- Ray Toro, lead guitarist of My Chemical Romance
- Joan Voss, New Jersey Assemblywoman, 38th District
- Dave White, Derringer Award-winning mystery author
- Bruce Willis, actor; attended as a theatre major
Read more about this topic: Montclair State University
Famous quotes containing the word people:
“Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for our solacement? The sparrow seems always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie about. Yet there is a tragedy at the end of each one of their lives. They must perish miserably; not one of them is translated. True, “not a sparrow falleth to the ground without our Heavenly Father’s knowledge,” but they do fall, nevertheless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)