List of people from Teaneck, New Jersey


List of people from Teaneck, New Jersey


The following is a list of notable current and former residents of Teaneck, New Jersey.

(B) denotes that the person was born in Teaneck.

Academics and science

  • Robert S. Browne (1924-2004), economist who founded African-American self-help programs
  • Frank Chapman (1864–1945), ornithologist
  • Stephen P. Cohen (1945–2017), scholar on Middle Eastern affairs who founded the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development
  • Herbert Dardik (1935–2020), vascular surgeon who served as the chief of vascular surgery at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
  • Frank Gill (born 1941), ornithologist
  • Alan Kadish (born 1956), president and CEO of Touro College
  • Peter Kenen (1932–2012), economist who served as provost of Columbia University
  • Karl Meyer (1899–1990), German-born biochemist
  • Clifford Nass (1958–2013), professor at Stanford University; expert on human-computer interaction
  • Jane S. Richardson (born 1941), biochemist and developer of ribbon diagrams of protein structure
  • Jacob J. Schacter (born 1950), senior scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University; editor of a number of volumes about Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
  • Lawrence Solan (1952–2024), Don Forchelli Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition at Brooklyn Law School
  • Benjamin Sommer (born 1964), Professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute
  • Yvonne Thornton (born 1947), physician and author
  • Helen M. Walker (1891–1983), statistician and researcher; first female president of the American Statistical Association
  • Alan Westin (1929–2013), Columbia University professor; pioneer in studying issues related to information privacy

Arts

Architecture

  • Louis Bourgeois (1856–1930), architect of the Bahá'í House of Worship
  • Alan Hantman (born 1942), architect who served as the 10th Architect of the Capitol, from February 1997 until February 2007

Authors, journalists and publishers

Fine arts

  • Robert Barry (born 1936), conceptual artist
  • Charles Harbutt (1935–2015), photographer
  • Renaldo Kuhler (1931–2013), scientific illustrator(B)
  • Thomas Nozkowski (1944–2019), contemporary painter(B)
  • Frank R. Paul (1884–1963), illustrator of science fiction
  • Claire Porter (born 1942), choreographer
  • Paul Shambroom (born 1956), photographer
  • Chuck Stewart (1927–2017), photographer
  • Henry Wessel Jr. (1942–2018), photographer

Fashion

  • Rachel Antonoff (born 1981), fashion designer(B)
  • Marc Jacobs (born 1963), designer and artistic director for Louis Vuitton
  • Lynn Kohlman (1946–2008), fashion model

Movies, stage and television

Music

Business and industry

  • Bob Beaumont (1932–2011), founder of Citicar, an electric automobile manufacturer from 1974 to 1977
  • Matthew Hiltzik (born 1972), CEO and president of Hiltzik Strategies, a strategic consulting and communications firm
  • Les Otten (born 1949), former CEO of the American Skiing Company
  • John G. Ryan (1910–1989), publisher who was president of P.F. Collier and Son Corporation, which distributed the Collier's Encyclopedia
  • Paul Singer (born 1944), founder of Elliott Management Corporation
  • Lynn Tilton (born 1959), businesswoman
  • Bill Zanker (born 1954), creator of The Learning Annex

Government and politics

Sports

Giuseppe Zanotti Luxury Sneakers

Other

  • Mickey Featherstone (born 1949), mobster and leader of The Westies gang
  • Martin Fleisher (born 1958), bridge player and attorney; won bridge world championship in 2017
  • Rabbi Howard Jachter, specialist in Jewish divorce procedure
  • Frank Lucas (1930–2019), drug lord in Harlem in the 1970s, and the subject of the 2007 biopic American Gangster
  • Marty Ravellette (1938–2007), armless hero
  • David Sklansky (born 1947), professional poker player and author
  • Rabbi Jeremy Wieder (born 1971), rosh yeshiva and instructor at Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

References


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