Founded 1766 as Queen's College.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Roger G. Ackerman |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Corning, 1996-2000 |
| Martin Agronsky |
Journalist |
12-Jan-1915 |
25-Jul-1999 |
Agronsky & Co. |
| Barry T. Albin |
Judge |
7-Jul-1952 |
|
Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court |
| John A. Allison |
Business |
14-Aug-1948 |
|
CEO of BB&T |
| Andrea Anders |
Actor |
10-May-1975 |
|
Alex Garrett on Joey |
| Robert E. Angelica |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of AT&T Investment Mgmt., 1999-2006 |
| Ken Bakshi |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Row2 Technologies |
| Edwin M. Banks |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
Washington Corner Capital Management |
| Roger Bart |
Actor |
29-Sep-1962 |
|
Stepford Wives remake |
| Bruce Bartlett |
Government |
11-Oct-1951 |
|
Conservative pundit |
| Mario Batali |
Chef |
9-Sep-1960 |
|
TV chef |
| Lawrence Bathgate |
Attorney |
17-May-1939 |
|
GOP activist |
| Lillian Bauder |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
Former VP at Masco |
| Candace K. Beinecke |
Attorney |
26-Nov-1946 |
|
Chairman of Hughes Hubbard & Reed |
| Bill Bellamy |
Comic |
7-Apr-1965 |
|
Deaq on Fastlane |
| James Blish |
Author |
23-May-1921 |
30-Jul-1975 |
Cities in Flight |
| Cory Booker |
Politician |
27-Apr-1969 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey |
| Joseph P. Bradley |
Judge |
14-Mar-1813 |
22-Jan-1892 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1870-92 |
| Avery Brooks |
Actor |
2-Oct-1948 |
|
Sisko on Star Trek: DS9 |
| Gregory Q. Brown |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CEO of Motorola |
| Lester R. Brown |
Activist |
28-Mar-1934 |
|
Earth Policy Institute |
| Frank R. Burns |
Football |
16-Mar-1928 |
14-Jul-2012 |
Rutgers Head Coach, 1973-83 |
| Gene Burns |
Radio Personality |
3-Dec-1940 |
25-May-2013 |
KGO-AM evening talk show host |
| William T. Cahill |
Politician |
25-Jun-1912 |
1-Jul-1996 |
Governor of New Jersey, 1970-74 |
| Asia Carrera |
Pornstar |
6-Aug-1973 |
|
Mensa member, pornstar |
| John A. Carrig |
Business |
14-Jan-1952 |
|
CFO of Conoco-Phillips |
| Frank Cassidy |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Public Service Enterprise Group |
| Ida L. Castro |
Government |
1953 |
|
Chairman of the EEOC, 1998-2001 |
| Kevin Chamberlin |
Actor |
25-Nov-1963 |
|
Bertram on Jessie |
| Stephen I. Chazen |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
President and CFO, Occidental Petroleum |
| Alan Cheuse |
Novelist |
23-Jan-1940 |
31-Jul-2015 |
The Bohemians |
| Carol T. Christ |
Educator |
21-May-1944 |
|
President, Smith College |
| Lawrence R. Codey |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
President of PSE&G, 1991-2000 |
| Stanley N. Cohen |
Biologist |
17-Feb-1935 |
|
Recombinant DNA |
| Benjamin Franklin Cooling III |
Historian |
8-Dec-1938 |
|
Gray Steel and Blue Water Navy |
| James G. Cullen |
Business |
1942 |
|
President and COO of Bell Atlantic, 1998-2000 |
| Robert Curvin |
Activist |
23-Feb-1934 |
29-Sep-2015 |
Former Black Power activist |
| Kristin Davis |
Actor |
23-Feb-1965 |
|
Good girl Charlotte on Sex and the City |
| Tim DeKay |
Actor |
12-Jun-1963 |
|
Carnivāle |
| Robert A. Druskin |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CFO of Shearson Lehman Brothers, 1984-91 |
| Keir Dullea |
Actor |
30-May-1936 |
|
2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Marc Ecko |
Fashion Designer |
1972 |
|
Founder, Ecko line of menswear |
| Janet Evanovich |
Novelist |
22-Apr-1943 |
|
Stephanie Plum mysteries |
| David G. Fairchild |
Botanist |
7-Apr-1869 |
6-Aug-1954 |
Brought exotic plants to America |
| Mark Fields |
Business |
24-Jan-1961 |
|
CEO of Ford Motor |
| John D. Finnegan |
Business |
31-Jan-1949 |
|
CEO of Chubb |
| Calista Flockhart |
Actor |
11-Nov-1964 |
|
Ally McBeal |
| James Florio |
Politician |
29-Aug-1937 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 1990-94 |
| Robert L. Fornaro |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of AirTran Holdings |
| Louis Freeh |
Government |
6-Jan-1950 |
|
FBI Director, 1993-2001 |
| Joshua B. Freeman |
Historian |
1949 |
|
In Transit |
| William M. Freeman |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Arbinet-thexchange, 2004-05 |
| Frederick T. Frelinghuysen |
Government |
4-Aug-1817 |
20-May-1885 |
US Secretary of State, 1881-85 |
| Milton Friedman |
Economist |
31-Jul-1912 |
16-Nov-2006 |
Free market economic theorist |
| Julio M. Fuentes |
Judge |
16-Feb-1946 |
|
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Albert R. Gamper, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of CIT Group, 1987-2004 |
| James Gandolfini |
Actor |
18-Sep-1961 |
19-Jun-2013 |
Tony Soprano wants his money |
| Scott Garrett |
Politician |
9-Jul-1959 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 5th |
| Nick Gillespie |
Journalist |
8-Jul-1963 |
|
Reason magazine |
| Judy Gold |
Comic |
15-Nov-1962 |
|
25 Questions for a Jewish Mother |
| Bernard Goldberg |
Journalist |
31-May-1945 |
|
Bias |
| John G. Graham |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
Utilities Mutual Insurance Company |
| J. Scott Gration |
Military |
? |
|
Major General, USAF (Ret.) |
| Anthony Grillo |
Business |
12-Jul-1955 |
|
American Securities Advisors |
| John J. Haley |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Watson Wyatt Worldwide |
| Mark Halperin |
Journalist |
11-Jan-1965 |
|
TIME senior political analyst |
| Fred A. Hartley |
Politician |
22-Feb-1902 |
11-May-1969 |
Congressman from New Jersey, 1929-49 |
| Wade Henderson |
Activist |
1948 |
|
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights |
| John F. Herma |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Former COO of Kohl's |
| George W. Hill |
Astronomer |
3-Mar-1838 |
16-Apr-1914 |
A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn |
| Robert H. Hotz |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Houlihan Lokey |
| James J. Howard |
Politician |
24-Jul-1927 |
25-Mar-1988 |
Congressman from New Jersey, 1965-88 |
| Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Hughes |
Diplomat |
1958 |
|
US Ambassador to Suriname |
| William J. Hughes |
Politician |
17-Oct-1932 |
|
Congressman from New Jersey, 1975-95 |
| Frank Iero |
Guitarist |
31-Oct-1981 |
|
My Chemical Romance |
| Nancy Isenberg |
Historian |
c. 1958 |
|
Fallen Founder |
| Ralph Izzo |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of PSEG |
| Ben Jelen |
Singer/Songwriter |
8-Jul-1979 |
|
Come On |
| Eddie Jordan |
Basketball |
29-Jan-1955 |
|
Retired NBA guard and coach |
| Steven T. Katz |
Author |
12-Aug-1944 |
|
Professor of Religion |
| James P. Kelly |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of UPS, 1997-2002 |
| David M. Kennedy |
Government |
21-Jul-1905 |
1-May-1996 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1969-71 |
| Kevin Kennedy |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of JDS Uniphase |
| Joyce Kilmer |
Poet |
6-Dec-1886 |
30-Jul-1918 |
Trees |
| Andrew Kohut |
Pundit |
2-Sep-1942 |
8-Sep-2015 |
Pew Research Center pollster |
| Murray Krieger |
Critic |
27-Nov-1923 |
5-Aug-2000 |
The Play and Place of Criticism |
| Barbara J. Krumsiek |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Calvert Group, Ltd. |
| Bert Lance |
Government |
3-Jun-1931 |
15-Aug-2013 |
OMB Director, 1977 |
| Kurt M. Landgraf |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Educational Testing Service |
| J. D. Lasica |
Author |
? |
|
Darknet |
| Jaynee LaVecchia |
Judge |
9-Oct-1954 |
|
Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court |
| Walter Liedtke |
Curator |
28-Aug-1945 |
3-Feb-2015 |
Curator of European Paintings at the Met, 1980-2015 |
| Virginia Long |
Judge |
1-Mar-1942 |
|
Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court |
| Bernie Marcus |
Business |
12-May-1929 |
|
Co-Founder of Home Depot |
| Ernest Mario |
Business |
12-Jun-1938 |
|
CEO of Alza Corporation, 1993-2001 |
| William Martini |
Politician |
10-Jan-1947 |
|
Congressman from New Jersey, 1995-97 |
| Craig G. Matthews |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
COO of KeySpan, 1999-2002 |
| Tony Mauro |
Journalist |
c. 1949 |
|
Legal Times reporter |
| Joseph W. McGrath |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Unisys |
| Timothy McSweeney |
Relative |
1943 |
24-Jan-2010 |
Namesake of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern |
| John McWhorter |
Linguist |
c. 1963 |
|
Linguist, social critic |
| Bob Menendez |
Politician |
1-Jan-1954 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey |
| Adolphe Menjou |
Actor |
18-Feb-1890 |
29-Oct-1963 |
A Farewell to Arms |
| Anne Milgram |
Attorney |
c. 1970 |
|
Attorney General of New Jersey, 2007-10 |
| Natalie Morales |
Journalist |
6-Jun-1972 |
|
Today |
| Rowland T. Moriarty |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CRA International |
| Joseph A. Mussomeli |
Diplomat |
26-May-1952 |
|
US Ambassador to Cambodia |
| Patricia Nachtigal |
Business |
? |
|
Senior VP at Ingersoll-Rand |
| Susan Ness |
Government |
? |
|
FCC Commissioner, 1994-2001 |
| Roy Franklin Nichols |
Historian |
3-Mar-1896 |
12-Jan-1973 |
The Disruption of American Democracy |
| Lawrence C. Nussdorf |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Clark Enterprises, Inc. |
| James O'Keefe |
Activist |
28-Jun-1984 |
|
ACORN, Planned Parenthood sting videos |
| Hazel O'Leary |
Government |
17-May-1937 |
|
US Secretary of Energy 1993-97 |
| William Palatucci |
Attorney |
c. 1958 |
|
Dughi Hewit & Palatucci |
| Frank Pallone |
Politician |
30-Oct-1951 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 6th |
| Thomas H. Patrick |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch, 2002-03 |
| Scott Patterson |
Actor |
11-Sep-1958 |
|
Luke Danes on Gilmore Girls |
| Gary R. Petersen |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
EnCap Investments |
| Dominic J. Pileggi |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Thomas & Betts |
| Robert Pinsky |
Poet |
20-Oct-1940 |
|
US Poet Laureate, 1997-2000 |
| William Pollack |
Scientist |
26-Feb-1926 |
3-Nov-2013 |
Treatment for Rh Disease |
| J. Thomas Presby |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
COO of Deloitte and Touche, 1995-2001 |
| Molly Price |
Actor |
15-Dec-1966 |
|
Faith Yokas on Third Watch |
| Jackson Publick |
Cartoonist |
14-Sep-1971 |
|
Co-Creator of The Venture Bros. |
| Sheryl Lee Ralph |
Actor |
30-Dec-1956 |
|
Ginger St. James on It's a Living |
| Eugene A. Renna |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
EVP at Exxon Mobil, 2001-02 |
| Thomas A. Renyi |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Chairman of Bank of New York Mellon |
| Joseph M. Rigby |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of Pepco |
| Matthew Rinaldo |
Politician |
1-Sep-1931 |
|
Congressman from New Jersey, 1973-93 |
| Paul Robeson |
Singer |
9-Apr-1898 |
23-Jan-1976 |
20th Century renaissance man |
| Gary M. Rodkin |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of ConAgra |
| Heinrich Rohrer |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1933 |
16-May-2013 |
Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope |
| Philip Roth |
Novelist |
19-Mar-1933 |
|
Portnoy's Complaint |
| Marge Roukema |
Politician |
19-Sep-1929 |
12-Nov-2014 |
Congresswoman from New Jersey, 1981-2003 |
| Rudy Rucker |
Novelist |
22-Mar-1946 |
|
Author of Wetware series |
| William J. Ryan |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Toronto-Dominion Bank executive |
| Carl Safina |
Author |
23-May-1955 |
|
Song for the Blue Ocean |
| Roy Scheider |
Actor |
10-Nov-1932 |
10-Feb-2008 |
Jaws |
| Marvin O. Schlanger |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Cherry Hill Chemical Investments, LLC |
| Henry Selick |
Film Director |
30-Nov-1952 |
|
The Nightmare Before Christmas |
| Michael Shaara |
Author |
23-Jun-1929 |
5-May-1988 |
The Killer Angels |
| Robert Shea |
Author |
14-Feb-1933 |
10-Mar-1994 |
Illuminatus Trilogy |
| Thomas E. Shenk |
Biologist |
c. 1947 |
|
Princeton Molecular Biologist |
| Martin Silverstein |
Diplomat |
1954 |
|
US Ambassador to Uruguay, 2001-05 |
| Sebastian Stan |
Actor |
13-Aug-1983 |
|
Captain America: The First Avenger |
| Aaron Stanford |
Actor |
27-Dec-1976 |
|
Pyro in X-Men |
| David J. Stern |
Basketball |
22-Sep-1942 |
|
Commissioner of the NBA |
| Philip Van Doren Stern |
Author |
10-Sep-1900 |
31-Jul-1984 |
It's A Wonderful Life |
| Anne Stevens |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Carpenter Technology |
| Lynne Stewart |
Attorney |
8-Oct-1939 |
|
Attorney convicted of supporting the Islamic Group |
| Mike Straka |
Columnist |
10-Oct-1969 |
|
Grrr! columnist for Fox News |
| Kurt Sutter |
Screenwriter |
5-May-1960 |
|
Creator, Sons of Anarchy |
| Herbert H. Tate, Jr. |
Attorney |
22-Feb-1953 |
|
President, NJ Board of Public Utilities, 1994-2001 |
| Steven H. Temares |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Bed Bath and Beyond |
| Robert Torricelli |
Politician |
27-Aug-1951 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey, 1997-2002 |
| James Tupper |
Actor |
4-Aug-1965 |
|
Jack Slattery on Men in Trees |
| Jim Valvano |
Basketball |
10-Mar-1946 |
28-Apr-1993 |
NCSU Basketball Coach, 1980-89 |
| Lois M. Van Deusen |
Attorney |
c. 1939 |
|
Partner, McCarter & English |
| Selman A. Waksman |
Scientist |
22-Jul-1888 |
16-Aug-1973 |
Streptomycin and other antibiotics |
| Elizabeth Warren |
Educator |
22-Jun-1949 |
|
US Senator from Massachusetts |
| Alex Wellen |
TV Personality |
? |
|
CNN Legal Analyst |
| Margita E. White |
Government |
27-Jun-1937 |
20-Nov-2002 |
FCC Commissioner, 1976-79 |
| Frank G. Wobst |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
CEO of Huntington Bancshares, 1981-2001 |
| Karen Young |
Actor |
29-Sep-1958 |
|
Heading South |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Léonie Adams |
Poet |
9-Dec-1899 |
27-Jun-1988 |
Those Not Elect |
| Robert E. Andrews |
Politician |
4-Aug-1957 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 1st |
| Toni Cade Bambara |
Novelist |
25-Mar-1939 |
9-Dec-1995 |
Gorilla, My Love |
| Amiri Baraka |
Author |
7-Oct-1934 |
9-Jan-2014 |
Hated Whitey |
| Benjamin R. Barber |
Scholar |
2-Aug-1939 |
|
Jihad vs. McWorld |
| P. George Benson |
Educator |
3-Jun-1946 |
|
President, College of Charleston |
| Henry Blumenthal |
Historian |
21-Oct-1911 |
17-Feb-1987 |
France and the United States |
| Arthur F. Burns |
Economist |
27-Apr-1904 |
6-Jun-1987 |
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1970-78 |
| José A. Cabranes |
Judge |
22-Dec-1940 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Helen Caldicott |
Activist |
7-Aug-1938 |
|
Anti-nuclear crusader |
| Ida L. Castro |
Government |
1953 |
|
Chairman of the EEOC, 1998-2001 |
| John Ciardi |
Poet |
24-Jun-1916 |
30-Mar-1986 |
How Does a Poem Mean? |
| Jeffery M. Dorwart |
Historian |
1944 |
|
The Pigtail War |
| William C. Dowling |
Educator |
5-Apr-1944 |
|
Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris |
| Ralph Ellison |
Novelist |
1-Mar-1914 |
16-Apr-1994 |
Invisible Man |
| Norman Finkelstein |
Scholar |
8-Dec-1953 |
|
The Holocaust Industry |
| James Florio |
Politician |
29-Aug-1937 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 1990-94 |
| Philip S. Foner |
Historian |
14-Dec-1910 |
13-Dec-1994 |
History of the Labor Movement in the United States |
| Susan Fuhrman |
Educator |
c. 1943 |
|
President, Teachers College, Columbia |
| Paul Fussell |
Historian |
22-Mar-1924 |
23-May-2012 |
The Great War and Modern Memory |
| Israel Gelfand |
Mathematician |
2-Sep-1913 |
5-Oct-2009 |
Banach algebras, Lie groups |
| Eugene D. Genovese |
Historian |
19-May-1930 |
26-Sep-2012 |
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made |
| John R. Gillis |
Historian |
13-Jan-1939 |
|
Islands of the Mind |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Judge |
15-Mar-1933 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Annette Gordon-Reed |
Historian |
19-Nov-1958 |
|
The Hemingses of Monticello |
| Ronald Graham |
Mathematician |
31-Oct-1935 |
|
Mathematician, Computer Scientist |
| William H. Gray |
Politician |
20-Aug-1941 |
1-Jul-2013 |
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-91 |
| Sebastian de Grazia |
Author |
11-Aug-1917 |
31-Dec-2000 |
Machiavelli in Hell |
| Elizabeth Grosz |
Educator |
14-Oct-1952 |
|
Volatile Bodies |
| Starr Roxanne Hiltz |
Sociologist |
c. 1943 |
|
Mother of on-line education |
| Shirley A. Jackson |
Physicist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
NRC Chairman, 1995-99 |
| Franklyn G. Jenifer |
Educator |
26-Mar-1939 |
|
President of UT-Dallas, 1994-2003 |
| Robert A. Kann |
Historian |
11-Feb-1906 |
30-Aug-1981 |
The Multinational Empire |
| Kevin Kennedy |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of JDS Uniphase |
| Richard H. Kohn |
Historian |
29-Dec-1940 |
|
Eagle and Sword |
| David Lereah |
Economist |
? |
|
National Association of Realtors |
| Roy Lichtenstein |
Painter |
27-Oct-1923 |
29-Sep-1997 |
Whaam! |
| William D. Lutz |
Linguist |
? |
|
Doublespeak |
| Richard L. McCormick |
Educator |
26-Dec-1947 |
|
President, Rutgers University |
| Theodore A. McKee |
Judge |
5-Jun-1947 |
|
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Timothy McSweeney |
Relative |
1943 |
24-Jan-2010 |
Namesake of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern |
| Ashley Montagu |
Anthropologist |
28-Jun-1905 |
26-Nov-1999 |
The Natural Superiority of Women |
| William L. O'Neill |
Historian |
18-Apr-1935 |
29-Mar-2016 |
Coming Apart |
| Frank Pallone |
Politician |
30-Oct-1951 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 6th |
| Richard Poirier |
Critic |
9-Sep-1925 |
15-Aug-2009 |
Raritan, A Quarterly Review |
| Richard W. Rahn |
Economist |
c. 1941 |
|
The End of Money |
| Nathan Seiberg |
Physicist |
22-Sep-1956 |
|
String theorist at Princeton |
| Elaine Showalter |
Critic |
21-Jan-1941 |
|
Lead alpha Gynocritic |
| Neil J. Sullivan |
Author |
24-Feb-1948 |
|
The Diamond in the Bronx |
| Lionel Tiger |
Educator |
1937 |
|
The Decline of Males |
| Selman A. Waksman |
Scientist |
22-Jul-1888 |
16-Aug-1973 |
Streptomycin and other antibiotics |
| Michael Warner |
Scholar |
c. 1958 |
|
Fear of a Queer Planet |
| Elizabeth Warren |
Educator |
22-Jun-1949 |
|
US Senator from Massachusetts |
| Donald Weinstein |
Historian |
13-Mar-1926 |
13-Dec-2015 |
Savonarola and Florence |
