•
Platt Adams (1885–1961), American Olympic athlete and member of the New Jersey State Assembly from Essex County •
Jim Barnes (1886–1966), golfer •
John L. Blake (1831–1899), represented
New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1879 to 1881 •
Dudley Buck (1839–1909), organist, composer, and writer •
Samuel Colgate (1822–1897), founder of
Colgate-Palmolive •
Lee Crystal (1956-2013), drummer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Member •
Mary Fenn Robinson Davis (1824–1886), a spiritualist and feminist who was a poet, author, editor, and lecturer •
Sarah Jane Corson Downs (1822-1891), president, New Jersey
Woman's Christian Temperance Union •
Charles Edison (1890–1969), son of
Thomas Edison and the 42nd
Governor of New Jersey •
Frank Emil Fesq (1840–1920),
American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient •
Wilfred J. Funk (1883–1965), lexicographer (
Funk & Wagnalls) •
Althea Gibson (1927–2003), the first
African American woman to be a competitor on the world
tennis tour • Henry Judd Gray (1892–1928), murderer of
Albert Snyder •
George Huntington Hartford (1833–1917),
Mayor of Orange, New Jersey, from 1878 to 1890 and owner of
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, the country's largest food retailer at the time of his death •
Frances Cox Henderson (1820–1897), wife of Governor James Pinckney Henderson of Texas, retired in East Orange, established Good Shepherd home for aged women •
James Curtis Hepburn (1815–1911), physician, philologist, and missionary •
George Inness (1825–1894), painter •
George Inness Jr. (1854–1926), painter •
Frank Louis Kramer (1880–1958), cyclist • Hazel May Kuser (?–1924),
Radium Girl •
Mary Artemisia Lathbury (1841–1913), poet and hymnwriter • Amelia Maggia (?–1922),
Radium Girl •
Lowell Mason (1792–1872), hymn composer and music educator • Quinta Maggia McDonald (?–1929),
Radium Girl •
Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), architect •
George W. Merck (1894–1957), pharmacist, president of
Merck & Co. • John Pingry (1818–1894), minister, founder of the
Pingry School • Ruth A. Saxer (?–1942),
Radium Girl •
George J. Seabury (1844–1909), chemist and pharmacist •
Michelle Thomas (1968–1998), American actress best known for roles in
Family Matters and
The Cosby Show •
George C. Tichenor (1838–1902), member and president of the
Board of General Appraisers •
Aaron B. Tompkins (1844–1931),
American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient •
Martha Van Marter (1839-1931), editor and writer •
William A. Wachenfeld (1889 – 1969), Justice of the
New Jersey Supreme Court from 1946 to 1959 •
George James Webb (1803–1887), composer •
William H. Wiley (1842–1925), represented
New Jersey's 8th congressional district from 1909 to 1911 •
Earl Williams (1948–2013), professional baseball player • Three British
Commonwealth war servicemen – a
Royal Air Force officer and
Canadian Army Sergeant of
World War I and a
Canadian airman of
World War II ==References==