List of People From New Jersey - Born Elsewhere, Grew Up in New Jersey

Born Elsewhere, Grew Up in New Jersey

• Soren Sorensen Adams (1878–1963), inventor of the Joy buzzer, (born Aarhus, Denmark, grew up Perth Amboy, died Asbury Park)
• Juan Agudelo (born 1992), soccer player for the New York Red Bulls and the U.S. men's national team (born in Colombia, raised in Barnegat)
• Akon, (born 1973), platinum R&B singer. (Born in St.Louis, MO, partly raised in Senegal and then moved to Jersey City)
• Carlo Alban, (born 1979), actor, Prison Break (born in Ecuador, grew up in Sayreville)
• Jeff Anderson (born 1970), actor, Randal Graves in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse (born in Connecticut, raised in Atlantic Highlands)
• Mark Attanasio, owner of the Milwaukee Brewers (The Bronx, raised in Tenafly)
• Joe Bastardi (born 1955), weather forecaster (Providence, Rhode Island, partly raised in Somers Point)
• Laura Benanti (born 1979) Tony Award-winning Broadway actress (New York City, grew up in Kinnelon)
• Moe Berg (1902–1972), MLB catcher and spy during World War II (New York City, raised in Newark)
• Steve Berman, (born 1968) gay author (Philadelphia, raised in Cherry Hill)
• Ahmed Best, (born 1973), voice actor, Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (New York City, raised in Maplewood)
• Margaret Wang born 2002
• Michael Ian Black (born 1971), comedian, actor, Ed, The State, Viva Variety (Chicago, raised in Hillsborough)
• Anthony Bourdain, (born 1956) chef, author and television personality (New York City, grew up in Leonia, New Jersey)
• James L. Brooks, (born 1940), film & television producer & director (Brooklyn, grew up in North Bergen)
• Joe Budden, (born 1980) rap musician (Spanish Harlem, raised in Jersey City)
• Tisha Campbell-Martin (born 1968), actress (Oklahoma City, raised in Newark)
• David Cassidy (born 1950), actor/singer (New York City, grew up in West Orange)
• Luis Castillo (born 1983), NFL defensive end, formerly of the San Diego Chargers (Brooklyn, raised in Garfield)
• Kevin Chamberlin (born 1963), actor, Road to Perdition, Die Hard with a Vengeance (Baltimore, MD, raised in Moorestown)
• Mona Charen (born 1957), columnist, political analyst, author (New York City, raised in Livingston)
• David Chase (born 1945), creator, The Sopranos (Mount Vernon, New York, grew up in Clifton and North Caldwell)
• Chino XL (born 1971), rapper/actor (Bronx, grew up in East Orange)
• Rhys Coiro (born 1979), actor, Billy Walsh on Entourage (Calabria, Italy, moved to Princeton)
• Monica Crowley (born 1968), radio and television commentator (born in Arizona, raised in Warren Township)
• Tom Cruise (born 1962), actor (Syracuse, New York, grew up in Glen Ridge)
• Michael Cudlitz (born 1964), actor, Southland, Standoff, Beverly Hills, 90210 (Long Island, NY, raised in Lakewood)
• David DeJesus (born 1979), right fielder for the Chicago Cubs, (Brooklyn, grew up in Manalapan Township)
• Kat DeLuna (born 1987), pop and R&B singer (Bronx, NY, partly raised in Newark)
• William Demarest (1892–1983), character actor (St. Paul, MN, grew up in New Bridge in Bergen County)
• Rosemarie DeWitt (born 1974), actress, United States of Tara, Standoff (Queens, NY, raised in Hanover Township)
• Tate Donovan (born 1963), actor, Damages, The O.C., Hercules (New York City, raised in Englewood and Tenafly)
• Karen Duffy (born 1961), model/actress (New York City, grew up in Park Ridge)
• Andrew Fastow (born 1961), former CFO at Enron and convicted felon (Washington, D.C., grew up in New Providence)
• Linda Fiorentino (born 1958), actress (Philadelphia, grew up in Turnersville)
• Oscar Fraley (1914–1994), co-author of Eliot Ness's memoir, The Untouchables (Philadelphia, grew up in Woodbury)
• Lawrence Frank (born 1970), head coach for the Detroit Pistons (New York City, raised in Teaneck)
• Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel Prize-winning economist, statistician, and public intellectual (Brooklyn, grew up in Rahway)
• Daisy Fuentes (born 1966), model/TV personality (Havana, Cuba, grew up in Newark and Harrison)
• Junior Galette (born 1988), defensive end and linebacker for the New Orleans Saints (Port-au-Prince, Haiti, grew up in Montvale)
• Jim Gary (1939-2006), sculptor, (born in Sebastian, Florida from infancy grew up in Colts Neck) and resided in New Jersey for the rest of his life
• Camille Grammer (born 1963), cast member on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Newport Beach, CA, raised in Jersey City)
• Bob Guccione (1930–2010), founder and publisher of Penthouse magazine (Brooklyn, raised in Bergenfield)
• Vida Guerra (born 1980), model (Havana, raised in Perth Amboy)
• Debbie Harry (born 1945), singer/actress (Miami, raised in Hawthorne)
• Anne Hathaway, (born 1982), actress (born in Brooklyn, raised in Millburn)
• Ethan Hawke, (born 1970), actor, (Austin, Texas, partly raised in West Windsor)
• Bob Herbert (born 1945), op-ed columnist for The New York Times (Brooklyn, raised in Montclair)
• Orel Hershiser (born 1958), former Cy Young-winning baseball pitcher and ESPN baseball analyst (Buffalo, New York, raised in Cherry Hill)
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves, (born 1953), President of Estonia (Stockholm, Sweden, raised in Leonia)
• Sheena Iyengar (born 1969), professor at Columbia Business School, specializing in research on choice (born in Toronto, grew up in Flushing, Queens and Elmwood Park)
• Millie Jackson (born 1944), R&B/soul singer-songwriter (Thomson, Georgia, raised in Newark and Brooklyn)
• Chris Jent (born 1970), retired NBA player and current assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers (Orange, California, grew up in Sparta)
• Joe Jonas (born 1989), singer/member of the Jonas Brothers (Casa Grande, Arizona, grew up in Wyckoff)
• Nick Jonas, (born 1992), singer/member of the Jonas Brothers (Dallas, grew up in Wyckoff)
• Brian Joo (born 1981), Korean singer (Los Angeles, raised in Absecon)
• Ryan Kalish (born 1988), outfielder with the Boston Red Sox (Los Angeles, raised in Shrewsbury)
• Kevin Kelly (born 1952), founding executive editor of Wired magazine (born in Pennsylvania, grew up in Westfield)
• Ezra Koenig (born 1984), musician, Vampire Weekend (New York City, raised in Northern New Jersey)
• Denyce Lawton (born 1978), actress / model, Tyler Perry's House of Payne (Seoul, South Korea, partly raised in Neptune)
• Ted Leo (born 1970), indie rock musician (South Bend, Indiana, raised in Bloomfield)
• Samm Levine (born 1982), actor, Freaks and Geeks, Inglourious Basterds (Chicago, raised in Fort Lee)
• Carl Lewis (born 1961), track and field legend, nine-time Olympic gold medalist (Birmingham, Alabama, grew up in Willingboro)
• G. Gordon Liddy (born 1930), chief operative for the White House Plumbers unit under the Nixon administration (Brooklyn, raised in Hoboken and West Caldwell)
• Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett (born 1923), poet (Norfolk, Virginia, partly raised in East Orange)
• Bill Maher (born 1956), stand-up comedian, TV host, left wing pundit, Real Time with Bill Maher (New York City, grew up in River Vale)
• Michelle Malkin (born 1970), conservative pundit (Philadelphia, grew up in Absecon)
• Constantine Maroulis (born 1975), singer (New York City, grew up in Wyckoff)
• Devin McCourty (born 1987), cornerback for the New England Patriots (Nyack, New York, raised in Montvale)
• John C. McGinley (born 1959), actor, Perry Cox on Scrubs (New York City, grew up in Millburn)
• Natalia Alexandra Mitsuoka (born 1988), Argentinian figure skater (born in Argentina, raised in New Providence)
• Matt Mulhern (born 1960), actor, filmmaker, Major Dad (Philadelphia, raised in Montvale)
• Brittany Murphy (1977–2009), actress, King of the Hill, Happy Feet, 8 Mile (Atlanta, grew up in Edison and Burbank, California)
• Jim Nantz (born 1959), sportscaster for CBS Sports (Charlotte, North Carolina, grew up in Colts Neck Township)
• Jack Nicholson (born 1937), Oscar-winning actor (New York City, grew up in Neptune City)
• J. J. North, actress, (Philadelphia, raised in New Jersey)
• Karen O (born 1978), lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (born in South Korea, raised in Englewood)
• Christine O'Donnell (born 1969), 2010 Republican candidate for Senator of Delaware (Philadelphia, grew up in Moorestown)
• Brian O'Halloran (born 1969), actor in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse (Manhattan, partly raised in Old Bridge)
• Rick Overton (born 1954), actor, comedian (Forest Hills, raised in Englewood)
• Scott Patterson (born 1958), actor, Gilmore Girls, The Event, Aliens in America (Philadelphia, raised in Haddonfield)
• Piper Perabo (born 1976), actress, Cheaper by the Dozen (Dallas, grew up in Toms River)
• Maxwell Perkins (1884–1947), editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe (New York City, grew up in Plainfield)
• Clarke Peters (born 1952), actor, Det. Lester Freamon on The Wire (New York City, grew up in Englewood)
• Shaun Phillips (born 1981), outside linebacker for the San Diego Chargers (Philadelphia, raised in Willingboro Township)
• Carol Potter (born 1948), actress, Beverly Hills, 90210, Sunset Beach (New York City, grew up in Tenafly)
• Dwight Muhammad Qawi (born 1953), former world boxing champion and Boxing Hall of Famer (Baltimore, grew up in Camden)
• Rebecca Quick (born 1972), co-anchorwoman of CNBC's Squawk Box (born in Indiana, raised in Medford)
• Anna Quindlen (born 1953), author, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, (Philadelphia, graduated from South Brunswick High School in South Brunswick)
• B. J. Raji (born 1986), nose tackle for the Green Bay Packers (New York City, raised in Washington Township)
• Christopher Reeve (born 1952), actor (New York City, grew up in Princeton)
• Christina Ricci (born 1980), actress (Santa Monica, California, grew up in Montclair)
• Cameron Richardson (born 1979), actress/model, Cover Me, Point Pleasant, Alvin and the Chipmunks (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, raised in Old Bridge Township)
• Ian Roberts (born 1965), actor, comedian, Upright Citizens Brigade, Reno 911! (Queens, NY, raised in Secaucus)
• Michelle Rodriguez (born 1978), actress, Avatar, the Fast and the Furious movies, S.W.A.T. (Bexar County, TX, partly raised in Jersey City)
• Carl Sagan (1934–1996), astronomer/astrochemist/author (Ithaca, New York, grew up in Rahway)
• Samardo Samuels (born 1989), player for the Cleveland Cavaliers (Trelawny, Jamaica, raised in Newark)
• Gabe Saporta (born 1979), singer/musician, currently for the pop rock band Cobra Starship (Montevideo, Uruguay, grew up in Springfield Township)
• Susan Sarandon (born 1946), actress (New York City, grew up in Edison)
• Jessica Savitch (1947–1983), TV broadcaster and news reporter (Kennett Square, PA, partly raised in Margate City)
• Jon Seda (born 1970), actor, Homicide: Life on the Street, Kevin Hill, Close to Home (New York City, grew up in Clifton)
• Brooke Shields (born 1965), actress, Suddenly Susan (New York City, grew up in Englewood)
• Andrew Shue (born 1967), actor, Melrose Place (Wilmington, DE, raised in South Orange)
• Elisabeth Shue (born 1963), actress, Back to the Future Part II (Wilmington, DE, raised in South Orange)
• Bryan Singer (born 1965), director (New York City, grew up in Princeton Junction)
• Patti Smith (born 1946), rock musician (Chicago, grew up in Woodbury)
• John Spencer, (1946–2005), actor, The West Wing, L.A. Law, The Rock (New York City, grew up in Totowa)
• Steven Spielberg (born 1946), legendary Hollywood director and producer (Cincinnati, partly raised in Haddon Township)
• Jon Stewart (born 1962), comedian/actor (New York City, grew up in Lawrence Township)
• Jack Tatum (1948–2010), NFL safety primarily with the Oakland Raiders (Cherryville, NC, grew up in Passaic)
• Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (born 1941), Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist (Philadelphia, raised in Cinnaminson)
• Lance Thomas (born 1988), player for the New Orleans Hornets (Brooklyn, NY, raised in Scotch Plains)
• Steven Van Zandt (born 1950), rock musician, actor, The Sopranos, (Winthrop, Massachusetts, grew up in Middletown)
• Bruce Vilanch (born 1948), comedy writer (New York City, raised in Paterson)
• Frank Vincent (born 1932), actor, (North Adams, Massachusetts, grew up in Jersey City)
• Voltaire (born 1967), musician (Havana, Cuba), unknown which city he grew up in.
• Bruce Willis (born 1955), actor (Idar-Oberstein, Germany, grew up in Penns Grove)
• Scott Wolf (born 1968), actor, Party of Five, Everwood, The Nine (Boston, raised in West Orange)
• Teresa Wright (1918–2005), Oscar-winning actress, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Pride of the Yankees (New York City, grew up in Maplewood)