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Neighborhood Guides > Jersey City > Noteworthy residents
Noteworthy residents
- Akon, rap artist and R&B singer
- John Bachmann, lithographer, pioneered "bird's-eye view" prints, especially of New York City
- Paul Banks, lead singer, lyricist and guitarist of the New York City based band Interpol
- Robert "Kool" Bell, musician and founder of Kool & the Gang
- Joe Budden, rap artist
- Heather Gardner, hip-hop music artist who was a castmember on the first season of the MTV reality television show, The Real World.
- George Catlin, painter
- Terry Dehere, NBA basketball player
- Dom Flora, All-America basketball player, late 1950s, at Washington & Lee; holds their scoring record.
- Arturo Gatti, Professional Boxer.
- Paul Gleason, film and television actor
- Bobby Hurley, NBA and Duke University basketball player
- Malcolm Jamal-Warner, The Cosby Show
- Dennis James, television game show host and telethon emcee.
- Joseph Krumgold, winner of two Newbery Awards
- Nathan Lane, actor
- James Jonas Madison, awarded the Medal of Honor for service in World War I
- Louis Manna, known as "Bobby"; former Consiglere of the Genovese Crime Family
- Roshown McLeod, NBA basketball player
- Marilyn McCoo, singer, was with group The Fifth Dimension.
- Walter Dean Meyers, bestselling author of young adult/children's books.
- Christina Milian, singer
- "Newsboy" Moriarty who ran the numbers game in Hudson County, New Jersey and left $2.5 million dollars in the trunk of a car while he was in jail.
- Mary Philbrook, champion of equal rights for women.
- Stanley Poreda, heavyweight boxer in the 1930s.
- Kevin Powell, journalist, poet, author and activist who was a castmember on the first season of the MTV reality television show, The Real World.
- Rodrick Rhodes, NBA basketball player
- David Rivers, NBA basketball player
- Eddie August Schneider, pilot who set airspeed records
- Martha Stewart, entrepreneur
- Nadine Strossen, Professor of Law, head of the ACLU
- Paul Tagliabue, Commissioner of the National Football League from 1989-2006
- Flip Wilson, comedian
- Roberto Inclan, author
- Al Di Meola, fusion jazz guitarist
- Patrice Oneal, comedian
- Queen Latifah, hip hop MC
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