List of people from Hoboken, New Jersey explained
See also: Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. This is a list of notable people of Hoboken, New Jersey. (B) denotes that the person was born there.
- Nick Acocella (1943–2020), political journalist and author[1]
- Howard Aiken (1900–1973), pioneer in computing (B)[2]
- Richard Barone, musician; former frontman for Hoboken pop group The Bongos[3]
- William Beutenmuller (1864–1934), entomologist who was curator of entomology at the American Museum of Natural History (B)[4]
- Bob Borden (born 1969), writer for Late Show with David Letterman[5]
- Joanne Borgella (1982–2014), Miss F.A.T 2005 on Mo'Nique's Fat Chance and a contestant on American Idol, Season 7[6]
- Andre W. Brewster (1862–1942), Major General U.S. Army, recipient Medal of Honor (B)[7]
- Marques Brownlee (born 1993), technology reviewer, known for his YouTube channel, MKBHD[8]
- Michael Chang (born 1972), professional tennis player, French Open champion (B)[9]
- Irwin Chusid (born 1951), radio personality, author, historian[10]
- Vincent Cooke, S.J. (1936–2017), Jesuit priest and academic, President of Canisius College (1993–2010) (B)[11]
- Vincent Copeland (1915–1993), actor, labor official, writer and political activist[12]
- Jon Corzine (born 1947), Governor of New Jersey[13]
- L. Adele Cuinet (1854/55-1933), dental surgeon[14]
- Ronald Dario (1937–2004), politician who represented the 33rd Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1984 to 1986[15]
- Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), 20th-century painter[16]
- Anthony DePalma (born 1952), author, journalist and educator who was a foreign correspondent and reporter for The New York Times[17]
- Louise DeSalvo (1942–2018), writer, editor, professor, and lecturer who was a renowned Virginia Woolf scholar[18]
- Paul Aaron Langevin Doty (1869–1938), mechanical engineer who served as the 53rd president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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(B)- Luke Faust (born 1936), musician[25]
- Julio Fernández (born 1954), guitarist and composer best known as the current and longtime guitarist for the jazz-fusion band Spyro Gyra[26]
- Michele Fitzgerald (born 1990), winner of , second runner-up on , and contestant on MTV's The Challenge[27]
- Vicky Flynn (born 1972), lawyer and politician who has represented the 13th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002 (B)[28]
- Cristina Fontanelli, opera singer[29] [30]
- Ken Freedman (born 1959), radio executive and personality at WFMU[31]
- Bill Frisell (born 1951), avant-garde musician and composer[32]
- Thomas Gallo (1914–1994), politician who served 11 years in the New Jersey General Assembly, including five full terms representing the 33rd Legislative District (B)[33]
- Kyla Garcia, stage, film, and television actress and audiobook narrator (B)[34]
- Dorothy Gibson (1889–1946), pioneering silent film actress; Titanic survivor (B)[35]
- John Grefe (1947–2013), International Master of chess(B)[36] [37]
- Hetty Green (1834–1916), businesswoman/entrepreneur[38]
- Pia Guerra (born 1972), comic book artist and cartoonist, who is co-creator of Y The Last Man, cartoonist for The New Yorker and The Nib (B)[39]
- Reema Harrysingh-Carmona (born 1970), former First Lady of Trinidad and Tobago (B)[40]
- Nat Hickey (born 1902), oldest person to play an NBA game (B)[41]
- Chaim Hirschensohn (1857–1935), Chief Rabbi of Hoboken and early Zionist leader[42]
- Juliet Huddy (born 1969), Fox News personality[43]
- August William Hutaf (1879–1942), illustrator, commercial artist, and advertising executive (B)[44]
- Anthony Impreveduto (1948–2009), member of the New Jersey General Assembly 1987–2004[45]
- Kate Jacobs (born 1959), singer-songwriter who released her fifth album Home Game in 2011[46]
- Mike Jerrick (born 1954), host of the morning television series Fox & Friends[43]
- Carroll N. Jones III (1944–2017), artist in the style of American realism[47]
- Alfred Kinsey (1894–1956), psychologist who studied sexual behavior (B)[48]
- Jay I. Kislak (1922–2018), businessman, philanthropist, bibliophile, and aviator (B)[49]
- Mathias Kiwanuka (born 1983), linebacker who played for the New York Giants[50]
- Alfred L. Kroeber (1876–1960), anthropologist; first professor appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley; known for his association with the Native American man Ishi (B)[51] [52]
- Johnny Kucks (1933–2013), pitcher who won the World Series twice with the New York Yankees (B)[53]
- Artie Lange (born 1967), comedian, radio personality on The Howard Stern Show[54] [55]
- Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), photographer during the Great Depression for the FSA, and of the Japanese internment program[56] [57] [58]
- Jack Lazorko (born 1956), former pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners, and California Angels[59]
- Caroline Leavitt (born 1952), author[60]
- David Levithan (born 1972), young adult fiction author and editor[61]
- Mark Leyner (born 1956), post-modern author[62]
- G. Gordon Liddy (1930–2021), Watergate conspirator; radio talk show host (B)[63]
- William Lowell Sr. (1863–1954), dentist and an inventor of a wooden golf tee patented in 1921 (B)[64]
- Janet Lupo (1950–2017), Playboy Playmate for November 1975 (B)[65] [66]
- Eli Manning (born 1981), Super Bowl champion quarterback for the New York Giants[50] [67]
- Patrick McDonnell (born 1956), cartoonist, author and playwright who is the creator of the syndicated daily comic strip Mutts[68]
- Dorothy Blackwell McNeil (born 1940s), African-American nightclub owner[69]
- Bob Menendez (born 1954), United States Senator who served as mayor of Union City[70]
- Kawika Mitchell (born 1979), linebacker who played for the New York Giants[50]
- Natalie Morales (born 1972), television personality, NBC News and The Today Show[71]
- Keturah Orji (born 1996), track and field athlete specializing in the triple jump who was selected as part of the U.S. team at the 2016 Summer Olympics[72] (B)
- Jesse Palmer (born 1978), NFL quarterback featured on TV show The Bachelor[67]
- Joe Pantoliano (born 1951), actor[5] (B)
- Tom Pelphrey (born 1982), actor, won an Emmy for his role on Guiding Light[73]
- Maria Pepe (born 1960), first girl to play Little League baseball (B)[74]
- Daniel Pinkwater (born 1941), National Public Radio commentator; author[75]
- Anna Quindlen (born 1952), columnist, novelist[76]
- James Rado (1932–2022), co-creator of the Broadway Musical Hair[77]
- Gerome Ragni (1935–1991), co-creator of the Broadway Musical Hair[77]
- Robert Ranieri (born 1929), politician who represented the 33rd legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly (B)[78]
- Alex Rodriguez (born 1975), professional baseball player for the New York Yankees[79] [80]
- William Roerick (1912–1995), actor who appeared on Guiding Light (B)[81]
- Frederick H. Rohr (1896–1965), entrepreneur and engineer who founded Rohr Aircraft (B)[82]
- Carlos Saldanha (born 1965), director of animated films, including the Ice Age films and Rio[83] [84]
- Robert Charles Sands (1799–1832), writer[85]
- John Sayles (born 1950), filmmaker and author[3]
- Dave Schramm, musician who played with Yo La Tengo and the Schramms[46]
- Charles Schreyvogel (1861–1912), painter of Western subject matter in the days of the disappearing frontier[86]
- Steve Sesnick (1941–2022), rock club and rock band manager (B)[87]
- Steve Shelley (born 1963), drummer for rock band Sonic Youth[88]
- Frank Sinatra (1915–1998), singer and actor; winner of Academy Award and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; namesake of Hoboken's Frank Sinatra Park and Sinatra Drive (B)[3]
- Jack Stephans (1939–2020), American football coach who was head coach at Jersey City State College, William Paterson University and Fordham University (B)[89]
- Edwin Augustus Stevens (1795–1868), engineer, inventor and entrepreneur[90]
- Colonel John Stevens (1749–1838), inventor; founder of Hoboken[91]
- John Cox Stevens (1785–1857), first Commodore of the New York Yacht Club[92]
- Robert L. Stevens (1787–1856), inventor, who was the son of Colonel John Stevens (B)[93]
- Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), leading figure of 19th and early 20th-century American photography (B)[94]
- Joe Sulaitis (1921–1980), running back for the New York Giants of the NFL, 1943–1953[95]
- Jeff Tamarkin, editor, author and historian[60]
- Tyshawn Taylor (born 1990), basketball player with the Brooklyn Nets[96]
- Rosemarie Totaro (1933–2018), politician who served two separate stints in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 23rd Legislative District (B)[97]
- Buddy Valastro (born 1977), baker and television personality, known for Cake Boss (B)[98]
- Philip A. White (1823–1891), pharmacist, aristocrat, advocate and school board member[99]
- Blind Tom Wiggins (1849–1908), ex-slave; piano prodigy[100]
- Frank Winters (born 1964), NFL player for four teams[101]
- Edwin R. V. Wright (1812–1871), represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district, 1865–1867[102]
- Pia Zadora (born 1954), singer and actress (B)[103]
Notes and References
- Lissner, Caren. "Political And Baseball Writer Nick Acocella Of Hoboken Passes", Hoboken, NJ, Patch, June 21, 2020. Accessed March 6, 2023. "Hoboken-based political and baseball writer Nick Acocella has died at age 77."
- http://www.thocp.net/biographies/aiken_howard.html Howard Hathaway Aiken
- Narvaez, Alfonso A. "Hoboken", The New York Times, August 1, 1982. Accessed September 12, 2017. "Old-time residents boast of having had Frank Sinatra among their neighbors, while newcomers point to John Sayles, the writer and movie director; Glenn Morrow, the singer, and Richard Barone, principal songwriter for the musical group The Bongos."
- https://www.nytimes.com/1934/02/25/archives/w-beutenmuller-69-dies-entomologist-was-long-a-curator-at-natural.html "W. Beutenmuller, 69, Dies; Entomologist Was Long a Curator at Natural History Museum,"
- http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/wahoo/index/php/20030926.phtml This Week's Show Recap
- http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2008/02/hoboken_now_exclusive_joanne_b.html "Hoboken Now exclusive: Joanne Borgella interview"
- http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g2/general_a_w_brewster.htm General A. W. Brewster
- Yu, Roger. "20-year-old YouTuber is tech reviewing star", USA Today March 3, 2015. Accessed September 5, 2016. "Sitting in his bedroom in Hoboken, N.J., in June, 20-year-old YouTube tech reviewing sensation Marques Brownlee held a secretly leaked iPhone 6 screen up to a camera and began stabbing repeatedly at its supposedly indestructible glass surface."
- [George Vecsey|Vescey, George]
- Burr, Ty. "The worst of Irwin Chusid; Intriguing or just awful? A champion of 'outsider music' lets it speak for itself", The Boston Globe, November 17, 2003. Accessed February 6, 2013. "The chief standard-bearer of outsider music, and the man who coined the term in a 1996 article, is Irwin Chusid, a Hoboken, N.J.-based record producer, radio personality, and music historian."
- Anderson, Dale. "The Rev. Vincent M. Cooke, 81, 'visionary' Canisius president", The Buffalo News, June 23, 2017. Accessed August 8, 2018. "Born in New York City, he grew up in Hoboken, N.J., and entered the Society of Jesus in 1954 after graduating from Xavier High School in Manhattan."
- Lambert, Bruce. "Vincent Copeland, 77, Is Dead; Led Anti-War Protests in 1960's", The New York Times, June 10, 1993. Accessed January 1, 2018. "Vincent B. Copeland, a co-founder of the Workers World Party, former labor officer and a leader of protests against the Vietnam War, died on Monday at his home in Hoboken, N.J. He was 77. "
- Baldwin, Tom. "Corzine's condition upgraded to stable: Spokesman says he won't try to govern from hospital bed", Asbury Park Press, April 24, 2007, accessed April 26, 2007. "It's not clear where Corzine will reside once he is able to leave the hospital — at a rehabilitation center, his Hoboken condominium or Drumthwacket, the governor's mansion in Princeton Township."
- Book: Willard . Frances Elizabeth . Frances Willard . Livermore . Mary Ashton Rice . Mary Livermore . A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life . 1893 . . 218=19 . CUINET, Miss Louise Adele . 23 April 2024.
- Torres, Agustin C. "Ron Dario, 66; rode political whirlwind Once an ally, fought Menendez for mayoralty", copy of article from The Jersey Journal, July 2, 2004. Accessed January 17, 2022. "Born in 1937, Dario, a Hoboken native, attended Demarest High School, where he was an all-county athlete in football, basketball and baseball."
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- Holl, John. "Hoboken in the ’70s: Stayin’ Alive", The New York Times, February 25, 2007. Accessed October 22, 2018. "A companion book, From Another Time: Hoboken in the 1970s ($25), features all the photographs in the exhibition (and quite a few more) and essays by Sada Fretz, a local resident, and Anthony DePalma, a reporter for The New York Times and a Hoboken native who now lives in Montclair."
- Seelye, Katharine Q. "Louise DeSalvo, Memoirist and Virginia Woolf Scholar, Dies at 76", The New York Times, November 11, 2018. Accessed December 25, 2023. "Her early life was spent in the hardscrabble milieu of Hoboken, N.J., tenements, but in the postwar boom her family moved to a house in Ridgefield, a more suburban New Jersey town."
- Matthews, John. Complete American Armoury and Blue Book: Combining 1903, 1907 and 1911-23 Editions, p. 118. Genealogical Publishing Company, 2009. . Accessed September 12, 2017. "Doty, Paul Aaron Langevin, Born at Hoboken, N. J., May 30, 1869"
- https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DOnoMa20.htm Mark D'Onofrio
- Feiden, Douglas. "Sun Sets On 6,000 'Chainsaw Al' Says: I'm A Superstar", New York Daily News November 13, 1996. Accessed September 12, 2017. "He also has earned a slew of other monickers for purging workers, including Darth Vader, The Shredder, Rambo in Pinstripes. Dunlap, 59, was born in Hoboken and graduated from West Point."
- http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000001 John Joseph Eagan
- Staff. &id=23552827 "An unlikely convert; Former rock-and-roll writer finds faith in the arms of the saints", The Hudson Reporter, September 8, 2013. Accessed September 12, 2017. "Eden, a former staff writer for the Hudson Reporter and former Hoboken resident, was a well-known chronicler of pop music starting in the mid-1980s."
- Web site: The AFI Interview: MR. ROBOT Creator Sam Esmail American Film Institute. Hurwitz. Neal. en. 2019-11-05.
- http://www.furious.com/perfect/lukefaust.html "The Insect Trust; Luke Faust"
- https://www.hobokennj.gov/events/concert-in-sinatra-park-julio-fernandez-and-friends-2 Concert In Sinatra Park: Julio Fernandez And Friends
- https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/216308/ Michele Fitzgerald
- Difilippo, Dana. "New Monmouth assemblywoman sets sights on pandemic recovery", New Jersey Monitor, January 18, 2022. Accessed May 2, 2023. "Born in Hoboken, Flynn is a lifelong New Jersey resident who graduated from Rutgers and Seton Hall Law School."
- http://www.cristinafontanelli.com/bio.html Biography page
- "Christina Fontanelli sings 'Christmas in Italy' program" The Union City Reporter, November 28, 2010, Page 20
- Gialanella, Donna. "Ken Freedman", The Star-Ledger at NJ.com, October 14, 2007. Accessed November 9, 2016. "He brings the garbage cans in from the curb of the station's Jersey City brownstone. He carts the mail from the post office box near his home in neighboring Hoboken."
- Barnes, Danny. "Music Is Good: A Conversation with Bill Frisell", Fretboard Journal, Issue 4, Winter 2006. Accessed February 6, 2013. "But it was hard to live; I never even made it to New York! I was actually living in New Jersey. We couldn't even afford to live in New York so we lived most of the time in Hoboken."
- via Associated Press. "Thomas A. Gallo, Legislator, 80", The New York Times, December 12, 1994. Accessed August 5, 2019. "Mr. Gallo, a lifelong resident of Hoboken, was secretary to the city's Board of Education. He represented Hudson County in the Assembly from 1973 to 1984. Prior to his time in the Legislature, he served as Council president, the city's director of finance and a city commissioner."
- Hack, Charles. "Hoboken native wins Black Hollywood Film Festival talent slam", The Jersey Journal, October 20, 2013. Accessed October 8, 2022. "Born and raised in Hoboken, Garcia moved to Hollywood to pursue an acting career in 2011. She was chosen from hundreds of entrants who submitted monologue entries on YouTube.com for this year's Slam."
- Daughtry, Greg. "For One Jersey Passenger, Survival Brought a Flicker of Silent-Film Stardom; A movie studio in Fort Lee released the first and only movie about the Titanic to feature an actual survivor of the disaster.", New Jersey Monthly, March 12, 2012. Accessed February 6, 2013. "Gibson was born in Hoboken in 1889 at her parents' home on Willow Avenue, according to Titanic historian Phil Gowan.... A Titanic survivor and 'daughter of Hoboken,' she played herself in the first film made about the mid-ocean tragedy."
- Kennedy, Ray. "Making All the Right Moves", Sports Illustrated, January 12, 1976. Accessed February 20, 2022. "John Grefe, 28, of Hoboken, N.J., who prepared for a game by sitting at the board with his shoes off, back straight and eyes staring into the beyond."
- http://www.uschess.org/index.php/December/US-Champion-John-Grefe-Dies-at-66.html "US Champion John Grefe Dies at 66"
- [Constance Rosenblum|Rosenblum, Constance]
- Ferreras, Jesse. "How a B.C. cartoonist sketched an enduring memorial to Florida school shooting victims", Global News, February 24, 2018. Accessed August 26, 2018. "Guerra, a Vancouver resident, was born in Hoboken, N.J., the daughter of a musician from Chile and a mother from Finland."
- Web site: Harrysingh-Carmona, Reema. Reema Harrysingh-Carmona. LinkedIn. June 2, 2018.
- https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/hickena01c.html Nat Hickey
- Weiss, Adam. "Jewish Life in Hudson County, Past and Present", copy of article from Jewish Standard, February 1, 2008. Accessed February 6, 2013. "Hoboken and its neighbors once even had their own Chief Rabbi, the illustrious Rabbi Chaim Hirschensohn (1857–1935), who migrated from his native Palestine in 1904 to serve the Hoboken-area Jewish community."
- Garrets, C. "Mother's Day with Mike (and Juliet!)", NJ.com, May 9, 2008. Accessed November 9, 2016. "In addition to those Hoboken politicians, we also asked Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy - co-hosts of Fox's 'late night' morning show - what they had planned this weekend.The two share not just the stage on the Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, but also the city of Hoboken, where they both live. (Separately.)"
- Web site: August William Hutaf. 2018-09-21. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. en. 2020-02-14. Hutaf was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1879..
- Staff. "Impreveduto dies from heart complications", The Hudson Reporter, August 7, 2009. Accessed August 8, 2009.
- Testa, Jim. "Hoboken singer/songwriter Kate Jacobs releasing new album, returning to live performance", The Jersey Journal, November 5, 2010. Accessed January 21, 2018. "It's been six years since singer/songwriter Kate Jacobs released her last album, time she's spent raising two sons in her Hoboken apartment.... Another longtime Hobokenite, guitarist Dave Schramm (who's worked with Jacobs for over a decade,) produced the new album, which Jacobs says strays from her usual country/folk stylings a bit.... Jacobs recorded four albums for Hoboken's Bar None Records, the last in 2004, but Home Game will be released on Small Pond Music."
- Smith, Ray. "Hoboken through the eyes of an artistJersey City painter's work shows scenes of the city as Americana", The Hudson Reporter, September 9, 2010. Accessed November 9, 2016. "Jones grew up in New Providence, N.J., but attended school in New York City.... Jones, 66, has been painting since he was 20-years-old, and now resides in Jersey City.... Jones lived in Hoboken for 15 years beginning in 1977."
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kinsey/timeline/index.html Timeline: Alfred Kinsey's Life, and Sex Research and Social Policies in America
- https://www.loc.gov/item/n2020042474/jay-i-kislak/ Jay I. Kislak
- Mullins, Michael D. "Was it the shoes? Local fan says he has secret of Giants' success, as city plans celebration", The Hudson Reporter, February 19, 2008. Accessed February 6, 2013. "City officials said that besides quarterback Eli Manning, who lives in the Hudson Tea Building on 15th Street, linebackers Kawika Mitchell and Mathias Kiwanuka are Hoboken residents."
- Staff. "Dr. Kroeber Dies; Anthropologist; Authority on Indians Taught at California 45 Years - Wrote Standard Text", The New York Times, October 6, 1960. Accessed August 8, 2018. "A native of Hoboken, N.J., Dr. Kroeber was graduated from Columbia in 1896."
- Steward, Julian H. Julian H. Steward, "Alfred L. Kroeber 1876–1960: Obituary", American Ethnography, first published in American Anthropologist, October 1961, New Series 63(5:1):1038-1087. Accessed November 9, 2016. "Alfred was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, June 11, 1876, but his family moved to New York City when he was very young."
- Weber, Bruce. "Johnny Kucks, Who Pitched Yanks to Title, Dies at 81", The New York Times, November 1, 2013. Accessed November 3, 2013. "John Charles Kucks Jr. was born in Hoboken, N.J., on July 27, 1932. His father was a butcher. He graduated from Dickinson High School in Jersey City and played one year of minor league ball in the Yankees' organization before serving in the Army.... He had lived for many years in Hillsdale, N.J."
- Edelstein, Jeff. "Artie Lange Steps up to the plate", New Jersey Monthly, December 2005. Accessed July 18, 2007. "The 38-year-old comedian, a Union native who lives in Hoboken, has been doing daily radio shtick alongside Howard Stern for the past four years."
- Hortillosa, Summer Dawn. "Artie Lange -- loving life in Hoboken and heading to Comedy Festival", The Jersey Journal, September 27, 2013. Accessed November 9, 2016. "SDH: You've been in Hoboken for 12 years. Do you like it? AL: I love it. I love the fact that you can see New York, but you're not in it ... It's perfect. I love Hoboken. It's a great community with great food and great people."
- Lurie, Maxine N. and Mappen, Marc. "Lange, Dorothea", Encyclopedia of New Jersey, p. 455. Rutgers University Press, 2004. . Accessed February 6, 2013.
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- Galant, Debra. "In Person; The Parent Not Chosen", The New York Times, April 25, 2004. Accessed February 6, 2013. "Ms. Leavitt and her husband, Jeff Tamarkin, who edits Global Rhythm, a world music magazine, did not get nearly as far as the adoptive parents in Girls in Trouble.... The 48-year-old Ms. Leavitt -- who grew up in Waltham, Mass., and moved to Hoboken in 1992 -- is no stranger to tragedy."
- http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/nickandnorah/home.php Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
- [William Grimes (journalist)|Grimes, William]
- Grove, Lloyd. "The Reliable Source", The Washington Post, August 16, 2001. Accessed February 6, 2013. "When G. Gordon Liddy was a puny lad in Hoboken, N.J., he roasted and ate a rat -- 'to demonstrate to myself my lack of fear,' the convicted Watergate burglar explained in his 1980 autobiography, Will."
- Staff. "Gold Tee Designer Dead. Dr. William Lowell of Jersey Patented Reddy Device in '21", The New York Times, June 25, 1954. Accessed August 6, 2019. "East Orange, N.J., June 24- Dr. William Lowell, designer of the Reddy Golf Tee, which came into universal use in the sport, died yesterday at Orange Memorial Hospital after a short illness.... Born in Hoboken, he lived in South Orange, Maplewood and Summit before moving here four years ago."
- http://www.janetlupo.com/bio.htm Biography
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- Conte, Annemarie. "His Name is Earl", New Jersey Monthly, February 6, 2008. Accessed September 6, 2020. "After graduating from New York’s School of Visual Arts in the early 1980s, McDonnell moved to Hoboken, where there was a community of underground cartoonists.... 'When Earl and Mooch go into town, you can see the influence of Hoboken in things like the Fatty Snax deli.'"
- Web site: Club Zanzibar: Recollections of Dorothy McNeil. Foster. Robert. Metz. Holly, Interviewers. 2006. Hoboken Museum.org. Vanishing Hoboken: The Hoboken Oral History Project. Hoboken Historical Museum and Friends of the Hoboken Public Library. 21 April 2020.
- Rappaport, Melissa. "In defense of immigrants; Senator from UC authors book about Latino success in America", The Hudson Reporter, October 18, 2009. Accessed November 9, 2016. "He received a degree from St. Peter's College in Jersey City and a law degree Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey. Menendez now lives in Hoboken."
- http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14489924&BRD=1291&PAG=461&dept_id=523585&rfi=6 "Having it all: Anchor and Hoboken resident Natalie Morales reflects on motherhood, juggling family and career, and the birth of her son"
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160730122130/http://www.teamusa.org/usa-track-and-field/athletes/Keturah-Orji Keturah Orji
- Basford, Mike. "Tom Pelphrey, Actor: Television's Hottest Bad Boy", Rutgers University Alumni Success. Accessed August 20, 2008. "A typical day for Pelphrey begins very early. He commutes to the midtown Manhattan studio everyday from Hoboken, where he shares an apartment with his best friend from Rutgers."
- http://www.fdu.edu/newspubs/magazine/fw98/alumniprofilepepe.html "Alumni Profile: Maria Pepe"
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- Kurtz, Howard. "Pulitzer-Winner Anna Quindlen to Leave N.Y. Times", Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1994. Accessed August 20, 2008. "But Quindlen, who works out of her Hoboken, N.J., home and prizes her time with her three children, ages 11, 9 and 5, decided the price was too high."
- Cogswell, David. "Hit musical 'Hair' was written in Hoboken", The Hudson Reporter, October 2, 2005. Accessed August 20, 2008. "The book and lyrics of Hair were conceived and written on the top floor of a Hoboken apartment building by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, two out-of-work actors."
- https://books.google.com/books?id=D36HAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Assemblyman+Ranieri+was+born+in+Hoboken%22 Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 201, Part 2
- Widdicombe, Ben. "New York Minute: Gallo bails on 'Giallo'", New York Daily News, February 7, 2008. Accessed August 20, 2008. "A-Rod closed a deal on two multimillion-dollar apartments in Hoboken's Hudson Tea complex (which is also home to Giants QB Eli Manning), reports Chaunce Hayden in Steppin' Out magazine."
- Conley, Kevin. "Perfect Ten: How Peyton's baby brother conquered New York, stuffed Tom Brady, and took over an American football dynasty.", Men's Vogue, September 2008. Accessed August 20, 2008. "While it hardly seems like a big-thumbs-up first-choice destination for a Super Bowl MVP ("I'm going to Hoboken!"), Manning's adopted home, the refuge for indie scenesters like Yo La Tengo, has gone upscale of late.... Manning can now borrow sugar from neighbors like Governor Jon Corzine or Alex Rodriguez."
- https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1995/rt9512/951221/12210055.htm "A Star That Was Part Of Guiding Light Will Shine No More"
- Seracini, Debbie. Descriptive Finding Guide for Rohr Aircraft Corporation, San Diego Air & Space Museum, June 20, 2013. Accessed August 8, 2018. "Frederick Hilmer Rohr (born Hoboken, New Jersey, May 10, 1896; died San Diego, California, November 8, 1965) entered the aircraft industry as an independent metal parts manufacturer in 1923 and in 1925 became a general superintendent of the Prudden (later Solar) Aircraft Company for four years where he developed a punch-and-die 'drop hammer' system."
- Baldassari, Arlene Phalon. "The Road from Rio; From the Marvelous City to the Mile Square City", The Hudson Reporter, December 30, 2012. Accessed November 9, 2016. "How do you get from Rio De Janeiro to Hoboken? For Carlos Saldanha, the answer was not one you could find on Google Maps. The director of three Ice Age movie blockbusters, as well as the critically acclaimed Rio, drew up his own map to success. Fortunately for us, he makes Hoboken his home and shared with us the story of this journey."
- Lowe, R. Kinsey. "Ice Age: It came, thawed, conquered; Taking in an estimated $70.5 million, the animated sequel is March's best debut.", Los Angeles Times, April 3, 2006. Accessed December 19, 2012. "'This is completely out of the ballpark, beyond my expectations,' director Carlos Saldanha said Sunday from his home in Hoboken, N.J. 'They called me Friday night, and when I heard the number, I couldn't believe it.'"
- https://books.google.com/books?id=YCb8RdsaF6kC&pg=PA273 Cyclopaedia of American Literature
- Hughes, Robert. "How The West Was Spun", Time magazine, May 13, 1991. Accessed August 14, 2007. "It is of Charles Schreyvogel, a turn-of-the-century Wild West illustrator, painting in the open air. His subject crouches alertly before him: a cowboy pointing a six-gun. They are on the flat roof of an apartment building in Hoboken, N.J."
- https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/stephen-sesnick-obituary?id=37154012 "Stephen Eugene 'Steve' Sesnick Jr."
- Garetts, C. "Meet Your Neighbor: Steve Shelley", NJ.com, June 21, 2007. Accessed November 9, 2016. "Shelley -- who turns 44 on Saturday -- was born in Michigan but now lives somewhere in the Mile Square City; Smells Like Records, which he founded in 1992, also is based here."
- Moquin, Patrick. "Jack Stephans, ‘The Transparent Coach,’ Passes Away at 81", Fordham Observer, December 3, 2020. Accessed January 19, 2021. "Born in 1939 in Hoboken, New Jersey, Stephans grew up playing football and was known for his talent."
- Staff. "The Will of the Late Edwin A. Stevens.", The New York Times, September 20, 1868. Accessed October 7, 2017. "The will of the late Edwin A. Stevens, of Hoboken, was opened and read in the presence of his family on Thursday afternoon. His real estate in Hoboken and Weehawken is estimated to be worth from $28,000,000 to $27.000,000, and altogether it is estimated that he was worth upward of $50,000,000."
- http://www.stevens.edu/sit/about/col_john.cfm Colonel John Stevens, III
- Verde, Tom. "The View From/Mystic; New York Yacht Club Reclaims Its Clubhouse", The New York Times, December 26, 1999. Accessed February 6, 2013. "Built in 1845 at the Hudson River estate of the club founder, John Cox Stevens (now the site of the Stevens Institute of Technology), in Hoboken, N.J., the 987 square-foot, chapel-like building served as the organization's clubhouse until 1868, when the yacht club moved its headquarters to Staten Island."
- Staff. "New York City: Death of Robert L. Stevens", The New York Times, April 21, 1856. Accessed October 7, 2017. "Robert L. Stevens died a this residence, at Hoboken, at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning. The flags of the Hoboken boats were worn at half-mast during the day, and a very general expression of sorrow at Hoboken indicated that the residence there recognized his departure as that of one who had been best benefactor of the place. Mr. Stevens was born at Hoboken, at or near his last of residence, in the year 1798 and is consequently about 68 years old."
- Gomez, John. "Alfred Stieglitz -- Hoboken native -- featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Legends & Landmarks", The Jersey Journal, January 2, 2012. Accessed November 9, 2016. "I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession."
- http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=SULAIJOE01 Joe Sulaitis
- Caldwell, David. "This Net Is Staying In New Jersey: Tyshawn Taylor Stays Put; Hoboken native Tyshawn Taylor will remain in the Garden State despite the Nets moving to Brooklyn.", New Jersey Monthly, October 12, 2012. Accessed February 6, 2013. "But that same day, Portland traded the Hoboken native to the Brooklyn Nets — the team that until this season was known as the New Jersey Nets. Still, it made sense for Taylor, who led the University of Kansas to the national collegiate championship game in March, to move back to Hoboken."
- https://books.google.com/books?id=FyhMAAAAMAAJ&q=totaro+klein Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey,, 1975
- Staff. "The Cake Boss is just everyone's Buddy", Little Ferry Local, October 23, 2009. Accessed September 5, 2016. "Valastro was born in Hoboken and moved to Redneck Drive in Little Ferry when he was just 1 year old."
- https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/trailblazingvillagers/people/demelio-urbano-black-aristocracy-in-greenwich-village-at-the-turn-of-the-19th-century/ "Philip A. White Prominent Black Aristocrat of New York (1823-1891)"
- Baldwin, Carly. "From Slave to Stage Star: "Blind Tom" Wiggins at the Hoboken Museum", The Star-Ledger, November 28, 2007. Accessed February 6, 2013. "This Saturday, December 1, at 4 p.m., the Hoboken Historical Museum welcomes scholar and musician John Davis back to Hoboken for a talk and to play recordings of the music of the 1850s pianist and music savant 'Blind Tom' Wiggins, who retired in Hoboken at the end of his career."
- https://archive.today/20130415004822/http://hudsoncountysportshalloffame.org/_2012/2012_wintersfrank.html Frank Winters - Class of 2012
- http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000758 Edwin Ruthvin Vincent Wright
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