List of people from Englewood, New Jersey


List of people from Englewood, New Jersey


The people that are listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Englewood, New Jersey, United States.

Academics, medicine and science

  • Lori Altshuler (1957–2015), Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
  • Gordon Park Baker (1938–2002), philosopher
  • Carolyn Denning (1927–2016), pediatrician and pioneer in cystic fibrosis treatment
  • Josephine English (1920–2011), gynecologist who was one of the first black women to open a private practice in New York state
  • Foster Rhea Dulles (1900–1970), journalist, history professor and author
  • Gene-Ann Polk Horne (1926–2015), physician and hospital administrator, director of pediatric ambulatory care at Harlem Hospital and professor of pediatrics at Columbia University
  • Malcolm McKenna (1930–2008), paleontologist, whose wife, Priscilla, served as mayor of Englewood
  • Robert Mills (1927–1999), physicist
  • Eli Sagan (1927–2015), clothing manufacturer; lecturer and author in cultural anthropology; political activist; served on the national finance committee for George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, a role that earned him a spot on Richard Nixon's Enemies List in 1973
  • Margaret Bailey Speer (1900–1997), educator and teaching missionary
  • Dorothy Warburton (1936–2016), geneticist

Arts

Authors

Fine arts

  • Serena Bocchino (born 1960), artist working primarily in the realm of abstract painting.
  • Faith Ringgold (1930–2024), African-American artist, best known for her narrative quilts
  • Frederick Roth (1872–1944), sculptor and animalier, well known for his statues of animals, including the statue of the sled dog Balto in New York City's Central Park
  • Robert Whitman (1935–2024), visual and performance artist best known for his pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props

Movies, radio, stage and television

Music

Business and industry

  • Robert Bakish (born 1963), President and CEO of Paramount Global
  • John Crowley (born 1967), biotech executive who helped develop a treatment for Pompe disease after his children were diagnosed with the condition
  • Victor Farris (1910–1985), inventor and businessman; credited with inventing the paper milk carton
  • B. C. Forbes (1880–1954), founder of Forbes magazine
  • Malcolm Forbes (1919–1990), entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B. C. Forbes
  • David Hoadley (1806–1873), businessman who served as president of the Panama Railway
  • Elaine Romagnoli (1942–2021), owner of several lesbian bars in New York City
  • Daniel E. Straus (born 1957), business executive who is co-founder of CareOne LLC and Vice Chairman of the Memphis Grizzlies
  • Cyma Zarghami (born 1962), president of Nickelodeon and MTV Networks' Kids & Family Group

Government and politics

Sports

Other

  • Clifford Whittingham Beers (1876–1943), founder of the American mental hygiene movement
  • George B. Cheever (1807–1890), abolitionist minister and writer
  • Sophie Clark (1943–1962), the only African American victim of the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo
  • Arthur Hertzberg (1921–2006), Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist
  • John Lattimer (1914–2007), urologist; conducted extensive research on the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations
  • Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974), aviator
  • Bernarr Macfadden (1868–1955), physical culture advocate
  • Calvin J. Spann (1924–2015), original Tuskegee Airman and fighter pilot with the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group
  • Jayadvaita Swami (born 1949), writer, editor, publisher, and Hare Krishna spiritual leader.

References


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