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==Notable people== {{Category see also|People from East Newark, New Jersey}} People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with East Newark include: * [[Davey Brown]] (1898–1970), professional soccer player inducted into the [[National Soccer Hall of Fame]] in 1951<ref>[http://national.soccerhall.org/famers/davey_brown.htm Davey Brown] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20081208192921/http://national.soccerhall.org/famers/davey_brown.htm |date=2008-12-08 }}, [[National Soccer Hall of Fame]]. Accessed October 13, 2007.</ref> * [[Jimmy Douglas (American soccer)|Jimmy Douglas]] (1898–1972), soccer [[goalkeeper (football)|goalkeeper]] who spent his career in the first [[American Soccer League (1921-1933)|American Soccer League]]<ref>McCabe, Tom. [http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/the-gloved-ones/?_r=0 "The (G)loved Ones"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 21, 2013. Accessed April 18, 2016. "East Newark's Jimmy Douglas played for a string of teams in the American Soccer League (Harrison New York Nationals and Fall River Marksmen, among others) before guarding the net in the 1924 Olympic Games and the inaugural World Cup, in 1930."</ref> * [[Philip Kearny]] (1815–1862), [[United States Army]] officer, notable for his leadership in the [[Mexican–American War]] and [[American Civil War]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1862/09/05/archives/the-late-gen-kearney.html "The Late Gen. Kearney."], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 5, 1862. Accessed July 30, 2018. "The funeral of Major-Gen. Philip Kearney will take place at Trinity Church, in this City, on Saturday, Sept. 6, inst., at 3 P.M. He will be interred in his family vault in Trinity Churchyard. His relatives are invited to attend at his residence in East Newark, N.J., at 1 P.M., to accompany the remains to New-York."</ref> * [[Cornelius Augustine McGlennon]] (1878–1931), represented {{ushr|New Jersey|8}} from 1919 to 1921 and was [[Mayor of East Newark, New Jersey]], from 1907 to 1919<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000450 Cornelius Augustine McGlennon], ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]''. Accessed October 2, 2007.</ref> * Dina M. Grilo (born 1971), first female Mayor of East Newark, NJ * [[Erika Vogt]] (born 1973), sculptor, printmaker and video artist<ref>[http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/erika-vogt-stranger-debris-roll-roll-roll "'Stranger Debris Roll Roll Roll' will be the first solo museum presentation of the work of Erika Vogt."], [[New Museum]]. Accessed November 18, 2015. "Erika Vogt (b. 1973 East Newark, NJ) received her BFA from New York University and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts."</ref> *
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