40.7101° N, 74.0602° W

JERSEY CITY

Most Famous People Born in Jersey City, USA

Notable people
504
Peak decade
1940s
Median birth year
1934
Most distinctive
Baseball 5.6×

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Notable Births by Decade

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What Jersey City Is Known For

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Politician is Jersey City's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (64).

Jersey City over-indexes on baseball 5.6× the global rate.

Jersey City under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.

  1. Politician 64 1.1×
  2. Actor 50 1.9×
  3. Baseball 32 5.6×
  4. Basket 30 4.7×
  5. Football 29 0.5×
  6. Lawyer 22 2.5×
  7. Music 20 2.8×
  8. Writer 11 0.7×
  1. Baseball 32 5.6×
  2. Basket 30 4.7×
  3. Producer 5 3.5×
  4. Screenwriter 7 3.2×
  5. Music 20 2.8×
  6. Lawyer 22 2.5×
  7. Actor 50 1.9×
  1. Football 29 0.5×
  2. Painter 8 0.6×
  3. Writer 11 0.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Jersey City's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975
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  • Music
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Showing 43 of 504 notable people

0009 ACTOR

Norman Lloyd

Born 1914

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0010 FILM

Richard Conte

1910 - 1975

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0076 LIBRARIAN

Mortimer Taube

1910 - 1965

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0078 WRESTLER

Henry Wittenberg

1918 - 2010

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0099 ACTOR

Dennis James

1917 - 1997

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0122 EDITOR

Robert Giroux

1914 - 2008

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0130 EDUCATION

Cornelius L. Reid

1911 - 2008

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0143 JOURNALIST

Richard Rovere

1915 - 1979

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0147 ACADEMIC

Marshall D. Shulman

1916 - 2007

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0165 THEOLOGIAN

Vernon Grounds

1914 - 2010

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0169 MUSIC

Herbie Haymer

1915 - 1949

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0182 DRIVER

Art Cross

1918 - 2005

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0189 POLITICIAN

T. James Tumulty

1913 - 1981

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0193 BIOLOGIST

Gilbert Ashwell

1916 - 2014

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0197 ARCHITECT

John McMullen (engineer)

1918 - 2005

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0199 SONGWRITER

Cy Coben

1919 - 2006

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0213 POLITICIAN

Alfred Dennis Sieminski

1911 - 1990

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0214 HOCKEY

William Boddington

1910 - 1996

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0222 PRIEST

Walter William Curtis

1913 - 1997

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0256 BASEBALL

Ben Geraghty

1912 - 1963

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0264 EDITOR

Eugene T. Maleska

1916 - 1993

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0275 PAINTER

Eugene Leake

1911 - 2005

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0294 GUITAR

Dickie Thompson

1917 - 2007

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0300 BASEBALL

Walt Singer

1911 - 1992

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0316 POLITICIAN

Matthew Feldman

1919 - 1994

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0323 BUSINESS

S. Prestley Blake

Born 1914

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0329 BOTANIST

Dorothy Erna Beetle

1918 - 2005

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0334 SWIMMER

Lisa Lindstrom

1912 - 1994

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0340 ACTOR

Gerry Johnson

1918 - 1990

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0344 FOOTBALL

Paul Berezney

1915 - 1990

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0348 BASEBALL

George Fallon (baseball)

1914 - 1994

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0366 MUSIC

Bob Lido

1914 - 2000

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0380 AIRFORCE

Gertrude Tompkins Silver

1911 - 1944

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0390 POLITICIAN

Bernard J. Berry

1913 - 1963

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0393 MILITAR

John W. Meagher

1917 - 1996

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0433 WRITER

H. B. Fyfe

1918 - 1997

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0437 COMMUNIST

Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran)

1911 - 1995

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0461 CHEMIST

Sidney P. Solow

1910 - 1984

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0470 BASEBALL

Swede Larsen

1913 - 2005

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0473 BUSINESS

Curtis Blake

1917 - 2019

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0479 ACADEMIC

William L. Reilly

1916 - 2009

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0483 SCREENWRITER

Edward Schreiber

1913 - 1981

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0504 FOOTBALL

Vince Dennery

1916 - 1989

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