Editing Bernardsville, New Jersey (section)

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Bernardsville, New Jersey}}
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Bernardsville include:

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* [[Walt Ader]] (1913–1982), race car driver who placed 22nd at the [[1950 Indianapolis 500]]<ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/15/archives/walt-ader-takes-auto-race-honors-jersey-driver-wins-feature-at.html "Walt Ader Takes Auto Race Honors; Jersey Driver Wins Feature at Williams Grove Before 41,743--Two Are Hurt"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 15, 1946. Accessed July 11, 2018. "The feature race was won by Walt Ader of Bernardsville, N. J., competing in the first big car race in this section."</ref>
* [[Brooke Astor]] (1902–2007), lived here during her marriage to [[John Dryden Kuser]] (1897–1964)<ref>[[Judith Miller (journalist)|Miller, Judith]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/17/magazine/old-money-new-needs.html "Old Money, New Needs"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 17, 1991. Accessed January 25, 2012. "Eventually Kuser fell in love with another woman and left his wife. She moved from Bernardsville, N.J., to New York and took up a career writing features and book reviews, and eventually became an editor at House & Garden."</ref>
* [[Roger Bart]] (born 1962), actor<ref>Gardner, Amanda. [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/03/nyregion/theater-tony-awards-new-jersey-ties.html "Theater; Tony Awards' New Jersey Ties"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 23, 2008. Accessed August 26, 2013. "Mr. Chamberlin met Roger Bart (hailing from Bernardsville and nominated in the category of best performance by a featured actor in a musical for ''The Producers'') early in his freshman year at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University."</ref>
* [[Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet|Sir Francis Bernard]] (1712–1779), British colonial administrator who served as governor of the provinces of [[Province of New Jersey|New Jersey]] and [[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts Bay]]
* [[C. Ledyard Blair]] (1867–1949), prominent resident and investment banker<ref name=":0" />
* [[Roger Bodman]] (born 1952), politician and political strategist who served in the cabinet of New Jersey Governor [[Thomas Kean]]<ref>Aron, Michael. [http://governors.rutgers.edu/testing/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/TR-Bodman-interview.pdf "Interview with Roger Bodman"], [[Rutgers University]], January 27, 2009. Accessed March 27, 2016.</ref>
* [[Philip Capice]] (1931–2009), Emmy Award-winning television producer<ref>Staff. [http://newjerseyhills.com/bernardsville_news/obituaries/philip-charles-capice/article_baf22877-d1ee-5db6-8554-3637964081f3.html "Philip Charles Capice; 78, Bernardsville native, noted television producer"], ''The Bernardsville News'', January 4, 2010. Accessed June 22, 2013. "Philip Charles Capice, 78, a native of Bernardsville and a notable television producer, died peacefully on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009, at his home in Los Angeles, Calif."</ref>
* [[Tommy Dorsey]] (1905–1956), jazz musician who lived at "Tall Oaks" in Bernardsville from 1935 to 1941<ref>Baratta, Amy. [http://www.newjerseyhills.com/bernardsville_news/news/big-band-leader-among-owners-of-historic-home-in-bernardsville/article_e615f6ba-88be-11e1-8b8a-0019bb2963f4.html "Big band leader among owners of historic home in Bernardsville; Dorsey hosted Frank Sinatra, other celebrities"], ''The Bernardsville News'', April 20, 2012. Accessed June 6, 2016. "Known as 'the sentimental gentleman of swing,' the musician purchased the 21-acre estate for $32,000 in 1935 and lived there with his first wife, Mildred 'Toots' Kraft, and their two children, Patricia and Tommy, for nearly a decade."</ref><ref>Menendez, Albert J.; and Menendez, Shirley. [https://archive.org/details/newjerseytrivia00alme ''New Jersey Trivia''], p. 51. [[Rutledge Hill Press]], 1993. {{ISBN|1-55853-223-4}}.</ref> 
* [[Forrest F. Dryden]] (1864–1932), President of [[Prudential Financial|Prudential Insurance Company]]<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1932/07/20/archives/forrest-f-dryden-financier-is-dead-former-head-of-the-prudential-in.html "Forrest F. Dryden, Financier, Is Dead; Former Head of the Prudential Insurance Company, Which Was Founded by His Father. Active In Jersey Utilities Also Served on Board of Newark Public Library - Was Long Active in National Guard."], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 20, 1932. Accessed July 11, 2018. "Bernardsville, N.&nbsp;J., July 19 - Forrest Fairchild Dryden, president of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, of Newark, N.&nbsp;J., from 1912 to 1922, and a figure in the investigation of insurance and banking conditions in New York by the Lockwood committee in 1921, died today of heart disease at his home here in his sixty-eighth year."</ref>
* [[John Fairfield Dryden]] (1839–1911), founder of Prudential Insurance Company and U.S. Senator<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1911/11/25/archives/john-f-dryden-dies-worth-50000000-exsenator-from-new-jersey.html "John F. Dryden Dies Worth $50,000,000; Ex-Senator from New Jersey Succumbs to Pneumonia, Following an Operation."], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 25, 1911. Accessed July 11, 2018. "At the time of his death Mr. Dryden had about completed the building of his property at High Point, N.&nbsp;J., which is the largest private estate in New Jersey and said to be one of the largest of its kind in the United States. This is apart from his large estate at Bernardsville, N.&nbsp;J."</ref>
* [[Ernest Duncan]] (1916–1990), mathematician<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/28/obituaries/dr-ernest-duncan-74-mathematics-professor.html "Dr. Ernest Duncan, 74, Mathematics Professor"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 28, 1990. Accessed January 25, 2012. "Dr. Ernest R. Duncan, professor emeritus of mathematics at Rutgers University and the author of several mathematics textbooks, died on Sunday at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. He was 74 years old and lived in Bernardsville, N.J. He died of leukemia, his family said."</ref>
* [[Marc Ecko]] (born 1972), fashion designer and entrepreneur<ref>Rockland, Kate. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/nyregion/by-the-way-a-monument-to-sagging.html "By The Way; A Monument to Sagging"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 12, 2006. Accessed July 11, 2018. "Mr. Ecko, a Rutgers dropout who was born and raised in Lakewood, recently bought a scandal-tainted villa in Bernardsville that completes the New Jersey spin to his Cinderella story."</ref>
* [[Millicent Fenwick]] (1910–1992), U.S. Congresswoman, United States representative to the United Nations [[Food and Agriculture Organization]]<ref>Lambert, Bruce. [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/17/nyregion/millicent-fenwick-82-dies-gave-character-to-congress.html "Millicent Fenwick, 82, Dies; Gave Character to Congress"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 17, 1992. Accessed January 25, 2012. "Millicent H. Fenwick, a retired Republican Congresswoman renowned for her political independence and championing of liberal causes, died yesterday at her home in Bernardsville, N.J. She was 82 years old. She died of heart failure, her family said."</ref><ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000078 Millicent Hammond Fenwick], ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]''. Accessed March 21, 2011. "was a resident of Bernardsville, N.J., until her death there on September 16, 1992."</ref>
* [[Zach Feuer Gallery|Zach Feuer]] (born 1978), art dealer, founder of [[New Art Dealers Alliance]] and owner of Zach Feuer Gallery<ref>Douglas, Sarah. [http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/36040/the-bumpy-adolescence-of-zach-feuer-a-story-of-the-art-market/ "The Bumpy Adolescence of Zach Feuer: A Story of the Art Market"], December 20, 2010 "By now, the broad outlines of his meteoric rise are well-known: the modest Bernardsville, New Jersey"</ref>
* [[Guy Gabrielson]] (1891–1976), politician who served as chairman of the [[Republican National Committee]] from 1949 to 1952, and was a member of the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] from 1925 to 1929<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/02/archives/guy-gabrielson-gop-figure-dies-national-chairman-in-1952-and-a.html "Guy Gabrielson, G.O.P. Figure, Dies; National Chairman in 1952 and a Jersey Leader, 84"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 2, 1976. Accessed July 11, 2018. "For the last 10 months, Mr. Gahrielson had lived at 965 East Avenue in Mantoloking, N.J. Earlier he had resided for about 35 years in Berriardsville, N.J."</ref>
* [[Alina Habba]] (born 1984), lawyer best known for representing former president of the United States, [[Donald Trump]].<ref>Larson, Erik. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-13/trump-true-believer-habba-fights-in-court-for-former-president "Trump's Lawyer Leads Counterattack From Her 5-Attorney Firm; Alina Habba is spearheading the former president’s aggressive legal tactics"], ''[[Bloomberg News]]'', May 13, 2022. Accessed January 22, 2023. "In the Bernardsville, New Jersey home she shares with her husband, a commercial real estate investor, she has two Make America Great Again hats signed by Trump and ensconced in glass boxes, as well as Trump-related books and a photo of the former president smiling with their children by a pool"</ref>
* [[Henry Janeway Hardenbergh]] (1847–1918), architect<ref>[[Christopher Gray (architectural historian)|Gray, Christopher]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/realestate/streetscapes-henry-janeway-hardenbergh-architect-who-left-indelible-imprint.html "Streetscapes/Henry Janeway Hardenbergh; An Architect Who Left an Indelible Imprint"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 7, 2000. Accessed January 25, 2012. "He alternated living in New York and New Jersey, at first at 121 West 73rd Street, in Jersey City and Bernardsville, and in a big town house of his own design at 12 East 56th Street."</ref>
*<!-- Alphabetized as "Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline"--> [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]] (1929–1994), former first lady, who lived in Bernardsville with her husband [[Aristotle Onassis]] (1906–1975)<ref>Cheslow, Jerry. [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/07/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-peapack-gladstone-fox-hunting-high-priced-homes.html "If You're Thinking of Living In/Peapack and Gladstone; Fox-Hunting and High-Priced Homes"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 7, 1994. Accessed January 25, 2012. "She does have a story about Aristotle Onassis, who rented a home in neighboring Bernardsville with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis."</ref>
* [[Elmer Matthews]] (1927–2015), lawyer and politician who served three terms in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]]<ref>Staff. [http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/local-obituaries/elmer-m-matthews-veteran-lawyer-and-former-nj-legi/nj6np/ "Elmer M. Matthews, veteran, lawyer and former N.J. legislator, dies"], ''[[Palm Beach Daily News]]'', February 7, 2015. Accessed November 23, 2015. "Elmer M. Matthews of Palm Beach and Sea Girt, N.J., died Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, after a brief illness. He was 87. Born in Orange, N.J., Mr. Matthews lived in South Orange, Verona, Bernardsville and Sea Girt, N.J., before moving to Palm Beach."</ref>
* [[Andrew McCarthy]] (born 1962), actor<ref>Newman, Melinda. [https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/from-brat-pack-to-backpack/ "From Brat Pack to Backpack; Andrew McCarthy still acts and directs, but the Summit native has won new acclaim writing about his global travels."], ''[[New Jersey Monthly]]'', August 15, 2011. Accessed November 1, 2016. "Born in Summit, McCarthy grew up in Westfield, the third of four boys.... The family moved to Bernardsville when he was 14: 'Apparently, it's where Meryl Streep was from. I never saw her.'"</ref>
* [[Katie Meyler]] (born 1982), 2014's [[Time Person of the Year]] for Ebola Fighters<ref>Staff. [http://www.newjerseyhills.com/bernardsville_news/news/katie-meyler-featured-at-benefit-march-in-bernardsville/article_52926320-9b59-5996-aa88-831cc7302974.html "Katie Meyler featured at benefit March 16 in Bernardsville"], ''The Bernardsville News'', March 9, 2015. Accessed March 24, 2017. "A Bernardsville native, Meyler is a Bernards High School graduate and founder of the More Than Me Foundation, a non-profit organization that educates girls in Liberia. She was named a 2014 Time magazine 'Person of the Year' for her work in this impoverished West African nation, which has been hit hard by the deadly Ebola virus."</ref>
* [[Bill Moyers]] (born 1934), journalist and commentator<ref>Staff. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PD&s_site=twincities&p_multi=SP&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F53E10C1CEE1B71&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "DWI For Moyers"], ''[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]]'', August 3, 2002. Accessed March 21, 2011. "Moyers, 68, of Bernardsville, N.J., who served as special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson and publisher of ''Newsday'' before turning to public TV in the '70s, was stopped by state police last Saturday in Arlington, Vt."</ref>
* [[Bob Nash (American football)|Bob Nash]] (1892–1977), pioneering football player in the earliest days of the [[National Football League]]<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/02/archives/robert-nash-dies-at-84-served-as-first-captain-of-football-giants.html "Robert Nash Dies at 84"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 2, 1977. Accessed July 11, 2018. "Born in Ireland, Mr. Nash spent his early years in Bernardsville, N. J."</ref>
* [[Frederic P. Olcott]] (1841–1909), financier, politician, and philanthropist<ref>{{cite news |author=Staff |title=Frederic P. Olcott, Financier, Is Dead.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/04/16/archives/frederic-p-olcott-financier-is-dead-he-was-expresident-of-the.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 16, 1909 |quote=Frederic P. Olcott, a former Controller of the State of New York and the ex-President of the Central Trust Company, died at his home in Bernardsville, N. J., yesterday.}}</ref>
* [[George B. Post]] (1837–1913), Beaux-Arts style architect,<ref>{{Cite web|last=L|first=Zach|title='Kenilwood'|url=http://www.beyondthegildedage.com/2012/12/kenilwood.html|access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> and early developer of Bernardsville<ref>Schleicher, William A.; Winter, Susan J. (1997). ''Images of America: In The Somerset Hills, The Landed Gentry''. Dover, New Hampshire: [[Arcadia Publishing]]. pp. 8, 10, 11. {{ISBN|0-7524-0899-2}}.</ref>
* [[Donald Roebling]] (1908–1959), inventor of the [[amphtrack]]<ref name=Roebling/>
* [[John A. Roebling II]] (1867–1952), engineer and philanthropist<ref name=Roebling>Roan, Richard W. [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/ref/Roebling/Roebling.html "Roebling's Amphibian: The Origin Of The Assault Amphibian"]. Accessed March 21, 2011. "By the end of World War I, John A. Roebling II had concentrated his efforts on banking and the management of the Roebling family fortune, leaving the leadership of the John A. Roebling's Sons plants to other family members. John and his wife, Margaret, built a sprawling estate called the Boulderwood Mansion in Bernardsville, New Jersey, only thirty miles west of John's office complex in New York City.... Donald Roebling was born in New York City on 15 November 1908. Young Roebling, strong-willed, temperamental, and overweight, spent his childhood in the luxury of his parents' Bernardsville, New Jersey, mansion."</ref><ref>Lohrer, Fred E. [http://www.archbold-station.org/documents/publicationspdf/JARoebling2-biography.pdf "John A. Roebling, II (1867-1952), Builder of the Red Hill Estate (1929-1941), Lake Placid, Florida"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402225521/http://www.archbold-station.org/documents/publicationspdf/JARoebling2-biography.pdf |date=April 2, 2018 }}, [[Archbold Biological Station]], October 2, 2006, last updated July 17, 2017. Accessed October 24, 2018.</ref>
* [[Carol Stiff]], women's basketball executive, who is vice president of programming and acquisitions at [[ESPN]] and president of the [[Women's Basketball Hall of Fame]]'s board of directors<ref>Baratta, Amy. [https://www.newjerseyhills.com/bernardsville_news/news/bernards-high-grad-now-a-leader-at-espn/article_421b5be4-cb9f-11e1-9f5b-0019bb2963f4.html "Bernards High grad now a leader at ESPN"], ''The Bernardsville News'', July 13, 2012. Accessed October 15, 2020. "Former Bernardsville resident Carol Stiff, shown here in her high school yearbook photo, has made her mark in women’s basketball, first as a player at Bernards High School and Southern Connecticut State University, then as a coach at Western Connecticut State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic University and Brown University, and now as a programming executive at ESPN."</ref>
* [[Suzanne Scott]] (born 1965/66), CEO of [[Fox News]]<ref>[https://www.newjerseyhills.com/bernardsville_news/news/fox-news-ceo-now-calls-bernardsville-home/article_230bee4f-6090-5c51-9374-94d0213e6dd3.html "FOX News CEO now calls Bernardsville home"], ''The Bernardsville News'', December 9, 2021. Accessed November 17, 2022. "The latest media leader to call Bernardsville home is FOX News CEO Suzanne Scott, who moved here in 2020."</ref>
* [[Meryl Streep]] (born 1949), actress<ref>Schneider, Wolf. [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000528264 AFI Award: Meryl Streep], ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', June 10, 2004. "A New Jersey girl made good, Streep grew up middle-class and mousy-haired in Summit and Bernardsville, suburbs in which those around her would remember Streep as a bossy child."</ref>
* [[Mike Tyson]] (born 1966) and [[Robin Givens]] (born 1964)<ref>Gross, Ken. [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20100208,00.html "As Wife Robin Givens Splits for the Coast, Mike Tyson Rearranges the Furniture"], ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'', October 17, 1998. Accessed March 21, 2011. "The food lies untouched. The only sounds across the breakfast table in the Bernardsville, N.J., mansion are the loud silences of words being swallowed. Finally, Robin Givens, 24, star of the ABC-TV sitcom Head of the Class, pushes herself away from the table and announces, 'I have to pack.' 'Me, too,' says her husband, Mike Tyson, 22, the world heavyweight boxing champion. Suddenly the Sunday morning atmosphere is tense and full of menace."</ref><ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [https://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-chronology_x.htm Mike Tyson Chronology], ''[[USA Today]]'', June 12, 2005. Accessed March 21, 2011. "Oct. 2, 1988 — Police go to Tyson's Bernardsville, N.J., home after he hurls furniture out the window and forces Givens and her mother to flee the house."</ref>
* [[Jean Villepique]], actress known for her roles in ''[[BoJack Horseman]]'', ''[[A.P. Bio]]'' and [[Up All Night (TV series)|''Up All Night'']]<ref>Low, Stuart. [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/137708334/ "Rochester: the spoof"], ''[[Democrat and Chronicle]]'', January 2, 2011. Accessed October 26, 2021, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "'There's a lot of change in the city,' says writer Jean Villepique, 37, of Bernardsville, N.J."</ref>
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