Editing Highland Park, New Jersey (section)

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Highland Park, New Jersey}}
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Highland Park include:
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* [[Adele Astaire]] (1896–1981), acclaimed vaudeville and musical theater dancer, actress<ref>Adele appeared in ten Broadway musicals from 1917 to 1931 with her brother Fred, who credited her with initiating his career in show business. After birth as Adele Austerlitz in Omaha, she enrolled in Chambers’ Dancing Academy, relocated to New York City in 1904, participated in Claude Alvienne's dancing school, '''attended public school at Highland Park, New Jersey for two years''', enrolled in Ned Wayburn's dancing school in 1910, then began acting career. See Consult Annual Obituary 1981 (St. Martin's Press, 1982) 66-68 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol 1 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998) 20-22 and American National Biography, Vol 1 (1999) 692-693."</ref><ref name=DT2016>Donnelly, Marea. [https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/today-in-history/fred-astaires-sister-was-the-real-dance-and-vaudeville-star/news-story/231c3e70e80c939ceb029a46be661c49 "Fred Astaire's sister was the real dance and vaudeville star"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]]'', September 10, 2016. Accessed November 8, 2020. "When bookings dropped off from 1910 as they lost their cute appeal and Adele shot up over Fred, they attended classes at New Jersey's Highland Park public school for two years."</ref>
* [[Fred Astaire]] (1899–1987), dancer, singer, actor, recipient of three Emmy and three Golden Globe Awards and an honorary Academy Award<ref>After birth as Fred Austerlitz in Omaha, he enrolled in Chambers’ Dancing Academy, relocated to New York City in 1904, participated in Claude Alvienne's dancing school, '''attended public school at Highland Park, New Jersey for two years''', enrolled with his sister Adele in Ned Wayburn's dancing school in 1910, then began his acting career. See Consult Current Biography (1964) 13-14 and Lincoln Journal Star, May 9, 1999, pp. E-1, E-2 and American National Biography, Vol 1 (1999) 693-695 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol 2 (1999) 36-38."</ref><ref name=DT2016/>
* [[Jim Axelrod]] (born 1963), CBS news correspondent<ref name=HNT2005>Granieri, Laurie. "Actor, journalists honored as alumni", ''[[Home News Tribune]]'', May 6, 2005."On May 14, the borough high school will honor alumni Willie Garson, best known as Stanford Blatch on the former HBO series ''Sex and the City,'' CBS news correspondent Jim Axelrod and WNYC Public Radio news anchor and ''Morning Edition'' host Soterios Johnson."</ref><ref>Makin, Bob. [https://archive.today/20130104123647/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/mycentraljersey/access/1900069781.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+12,+2009&author=BOB+MAKIN&pub=Home+News+Tribune&desc=Levinson+Axelrod+celebrates+70+years+of+service&pqatl=google "Levinson Axelrod celebrates 70 years of service"], ''[[Home News Tribune]]'', November 12, 2009. Accessed August 17, 2012. "His son is with CBS News as their Washington reporter. He's writing a book that is out soon about his relationship with his father. His name is Jim Axelrod. He's well known. They're Highland Park people. Jim went to Highland Park High School."</ref>
* [[Harvey Jerome Brudner]] (1931–2009), engineer and inventor<ref>Staff. [http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/northjersey/obituary.aspx?n=harvey-j-brudner&pid=132930769 "Harvey J. Brudner: Obituary"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', September 16, 2009. Accessed February 2, 2015. "He was born and raised in New York City and lived for many years in Highland Park, NJ."</ref>
* [[David Clewell]] (1955–2020), poet and creative writing instructor at [[Webster University]] who served as the [[Poets Laureate of Missouri|Poet Laureate of Missouri]]<ref>[https://geosireads.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/interview-with-former-poet-laureate-of-missouri-david-clewell/ "Interview with Former Poet Laureate of Missouri, David Clewell"], Geosi Reads, October 16, 2016. Accessed February 7, 2020. "Shortly after the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, Bob Stephens read every word of Thoreau's ''Civil Disobedience'' out loud to his 8 a.m. Freshman English class at Highland Park High because he honestly believed that words, used well, had the power to change lives. Small wonder, then, that he was the person to show me the first poems I actually cared about in mine."</ref>
* [[Earle Dickson]] (1892–1961), inventor of the Band-Aid<ref name=Mayor>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080522190418/http://www.highlandparkchamber.com/news/viewNews.asp?ID=187 The Mayor's Viewpoint: Celebrating a century of progress], Highland Park Chamber of Commerce, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of May 22, 2001. Accessed April 9, 2011.</ref>
* [[Nancy Dorian]] (1936–2024), [[linguistics|linguist]] who carried out research into the decline of the [[East Sutherland Gaelic|East Sutherland dialect]] of [[Scottish Gaelic]]<ref>Howard, Roberta. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-noted-f/146894239/ "Hoots from the Owl"], ''[[Home News Tribune|The Daily Home News]]'', November 16, 1955. Accessed May 9, 2024, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Nancy Dorian, also of the class of 1954, made the dean's list at Connecticut College for Women."</ref>
* [[Kirk Douglas]] (born Issur Danielovitch; 1916–2020), actor, producer, director, philanthropist and writer<ref>Jordan, Chris. [https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/02/05/remembering-kirk-douglas-his-three-greatest-fight-scenes-and-his-jersey-connection-watch/4674140002/ "Remembering Kirk Douglas: His three greatest fight scenes and his Jersey connection"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', February 5, 2020. Accessed February 7, 2020. "We also note that Douglas was a Jersey guy — sort of. His first wife Diana Dill, whom Douglas married in 1943, had a connection to the Johnson family of New Brunswick's Johnson & Johnson fame. Douglas and Dill lived briefly in the Johnson-built Merriwold Castle on River Road in Highland Park. Son Michael, also a noted actor, was born in New Brunswick in 1944."</ref>
* [[Michael Douglas]] (born 1944), actor, director and producer<ref>Dzielak, Kathy. [https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/2014/05/15/michael-douglas-comes-home-new-jersey/9143461/ "Michael Douglas comes home to New Jersey"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', May 15, 2014. Accessed February 7, 2020. "Born: Michael Kirk Douglas in St. Peter's Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., the son of actors Kirk and Diana Douglas. Lived the first six weeks of his life in Highland Park, N.J. at Merriewold, the former estate of the late J. Seward Johnson (Sr.), the Johnson & Johnson heir."</ref>
* [[Samuel G. Freedman]], author and columnist for ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref>Groner, Jonathan. [http://www.mainejewish.org/page.html?ArticleID=56315 "This Is Not Your Father's World: An Interview with Samuel G. Freedman"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516221310/http://www.mainejewish.org/page.html?ArticleID=56315 |date=May 16, 2008 }}, Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine. Accessed April 16, 2008. "Freedman himself grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey in a family that was, in his words, 'totally secular.'"</ref>
* [[Willie Garson]] (1964–2021), actor best known for his role as Stanford Blatch in ''[[Sex and the City]]''<ref name=HNT2005/>
* [[Israel Gelfand]] (1913–2009), renowned mathematician<ref>Kochman, Marilyn. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/nyregion/in-person-an-equation-for-success.html "In Person; An Equation for Success"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 5, 2003. Accessed April 9, 2011. "Dr. Gelfand, who lives in Highland Park, has made an indelible impact in such areas as functional analysis, representation theory, geometry and integrable systems."</ref>
* [[Rebecca Goldstein]] (born 1950), author, philosopher, and 1996 MacArthur "Genius Award" winner<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol22/vol22_iss2/Goldstein_Howard_Fellowships.html "Goldstein and Howard Receive MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowships"], ''[[Columbia University]] Record'', September 6, 1996. Accessed July 22, 2007. "Her works include The Mind-Body Problem (1983), The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind (1989), The Dark Sister (1991), Strange Attractors (1993) and Mazel (1995). She lives in Highland Park, N.J."</ref>
* [[Alan Guth]] (born 1947), physicist and [[cosmologist]]<ref>[http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/alan_guth.html Alan H. Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907023326/http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/alan_guth.html |date=September 7, 2014 }}, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. Accessed June 11, 2007. "Professor Alan Guth was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1947. He grew up and attended the public schools in Highland Park, NJ, but skipped his senior year of high school to begin studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."</ref>
* [[Dwayne Haskins]] (1997–2022), American football [[quarterback]]<ref>Hunt, Todderick. [https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2014/05/dwayne_haskins_one_of_the_top_quarterbacks_in_the_country_recaps_recent_rutgers_visit.html "Dwayne Haskins Jr., one of the top quarterbacks in the country, recaps recent Rutgers visit"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], May 29, 2014. Accessed September 17, 2018. "Dwayne Haskins, the Bullis School (Potomac, Md.) sophomore quarterback, has been one of the hottest recruits throughout the entire country during the spring evaluation period. The 6-3, 185-pounder has multiple ties to the Scarlet Knights program as he grew up in Highland Park, N.J."</ref>
* [[Amy Herzog]], playwright<ref>Catton, Pia. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303807404577432530247461256 "The Lights Are Bright Off-Broadway"], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', May 28, 2012. Accessed January 4, 2022. "Even if Hollywood beckons, Ms. Herzog's roots are firmly in the theater, a community she has been long been a part of, even before she realized it. A native of Highland Park, N.J., she had an early exposure to New York theater through her grandparents, who were in the industry."</ref>
* [[John Hulme (author)|John Hulme]] (born 1987), author of the book series ''[[The Seems]]'' and director of the documentary ''Blood, Sweat & Tears: A Basketball Exorcism''<ref>Makin, Bob. [http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/how-we-live/2017/01/12/makin-waves-highland-park-filmmaker-john-hulme/96487248/ "Makin Waves with Highland Park filmmaker John Hulme"], ''[[Courier News]]'', January 12, 2017. Accessed June 7, 2017. "Longtime borough resident, filmmaker and former basketball star John Hulme chronicles the intense feelings that accompanied the Owls' Rocky-like game against New Brunswick's Zebras in the 1987 Central Jersey Group I championship basketball game in his new documentary ''Blood, Sweat & Tears: A Basketball Exorcism.''... At first, the local filmmaker focuses on the lifelong pain he has felt about New Brunswick freshman Cassius 'Money' Hargrove swishing the game-winning jump shot and snuffing victory from the underdogs as the ball cascaded just out of the reach of Hulme's long arms into the basket."</ref>
* [[John Seward Johnson II]] (1930–2020), sculptor and founder of the Johnson Atelier in [[Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey]]<ref>Horner, Shirley. [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/15/nyregion/about-books.html "About Books"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 15, 1987. Accessed June 11, 2015. "After J. Seward's 1937 divorce from their mother ended a 13-year marriage, the four children of that marriage were forced by necessity to live in a garage next to the chicken coop of a spacious estate, their former home in Highland Park. J. Seward's second child, J. Seward Johnson Jr., founder of the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture in Princeton, told the author that 'since the age of 7, I'd felt disenfranchised.'"</ref>
* [[Robert Wood Johnson II]] (1893–1968), Johnson & Johnson President, general and philanthropist, who served as mayor of Highland Park from 1920 to 1922<ref>Gardner, Joel R. and Harrison, Andrew R. [http://www.rwjf.org/files/publications/books/2005/chapter_07.pdf "The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: The Early Years"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007212221/http://www.rwjf.org/files/publications/books/2005/chapter_07.pdf |date=October 7, 2007 }}, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2005, p. 2. Accessed July 22, 2007. "Johnson married Elizabeth Dixon Ross, of New Brunswick, in 1916, and their wedding was the social event of the year. They moved into Bellevue, an estate in Highland Park, and their son, Robert Wood Johnson III, was born in 1920. While living in Highland Park, Johnson became involved in local politics and served a term as mayor while he was still in his twenties."</ref>
* [[Soterios Johnson]], [[WNYC]] radio host<ref name=HNT2005/>
* [[Seth Kaper-Dale]], [[Protestant]] [[pastor]] who was a [[Green Party of the United States|Green Party candidate]] in the [[New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2017]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2016/11/highland_park_pastor_announces_hes_running_for_gov.html |title=N.J. pastor ready to take on the establishment in run for governor |date=November 3, 2016 |publisher=NJ.com |access-date=April 11, 2017 }}</ref>
* [[Sacha Killeya-Jones]] (born 1998), American-British basketball player for [[Hapoel Gilboa Galil]] of the [[Israeli Basketball Premier League]]<ref>[https://ukathletics.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/sacha-killeya-jones/4123 Sacha Killeya-Jones], [[Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball]]. Accessed March 22, 2020. "Born Aug. 10 in Highland Park, New Jersey"</ref>
* [[Sheldon Lavin]] (1932–2023), CEO and chairman of meat processor [[OSI Group]]<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/profile/sheldon-lavin/ #278 Sheldon Lavin], ''[[Forbes]]''. Accessed November 8, 2020. "Residence: Highland Park, New Jersey"</ref>
* [[Jerry Levine]] (born 1957), actor and director of television and theater, best known for appearing on ''[[Will & Grace]]'' and in the films ''[[Teen Wolf]]'' and ''[[Casual Sex?]]''<ref>Seiler, Andy. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-jerry-l/149695911/ "''Casual Sex?'' role marks change for H. Park actor"], ''[[Home News Tribune|Central New Jersey Home News]]'', May 6, 1988. Accessed June 20, 2024, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Levine, who grew up in Highland Park, has starred in two television series, both times as a youngster."</ref>
* [[Roy Lichtenstein]] (1923–1997), pop artist who moved to a home at 66 South Adelaide Avenue in 1960<ref name=Mayor/><ref>[http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org Chronology], Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. Accessed April 3, 2017. "1960:... Moves into a house at 66 S. Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, New Jersey, where he sets up his studio in the bedroom."</ref>
* [[Seth Mandel]] (born 1982), [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] author who is editor of ''[[The Washington Examiner]]''<ref>Amato, Jennifer. [http://www.centraljersey.com/news/sentinel_east_brunswick/parents-celebrate-baby-s-birth-at-body-shop/article_97b697c6-18b3-50b7-97c5-e95a735ff18e.html "Parents celebrate baby's birth at body shop"]{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, CentralJersey.com, May 2, 2017. Accessed September 28, 2018. "Little did Seth Mandel know that 10 years after leaving Greater Media Newspapers, a precursor of Newspaper Media Group, that his family would make its own headlines. Seth and his wife Bethany thought their third child was going to arrive on April 27, a day after Bethany's due date, so they headed from their home in Highland Park to the hospital in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Tomás Eloy Martínez]] (1934–2010), journalist and writer, professor and director of the department of Latin American Studies at Rutgers, author of ''Santa Evita'' and ''The Peron Novel''<ref>Ojito, Mirta. [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/tampatribune/access/38270339.html?dids=38270339:38270339&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+10%2C+1997&author=MIRTA+OJITO&pub=Tampa+Tribune&desc=Author+didn't+seek+tie-in+to+Madonna&pqatl=google "Author didn't seek tie-in to Madonna"]{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''[[The Tampa Tribune]]'', January 10, 1997. Accessed April 9, 2011. "Soon after, Martinez began work on the book, which he completed in his new home in Highland Park, NJ..."</ref>
* [[Suzy Parker]] (1932–2003), fashion model and actress<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117313494/suzy-parker-of-highland-park/ ""Round About Town"],''[[Home News Tribune|The Daily Home News]]'', May 4, 1960. Accessed January 26, 2023, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Dario would be the first to take issue with former Highland Park-iie Suzy Parker who declared on the Jack Paar program last night that 'the French are a mean people.'"</ref>
* [[Arno Allan Penzias]] (1933–2024), physicist and a co-winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics<ref>Horner, Shirley. [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/nyregion/about-books.html "About Books"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 3, 1993. Accessed December 19, 2007. "Previous recipients of the award, which has come to be known as the Michael, include Mary Higgins Clark of Saddle River, Belva Plain of Short Hills, Wende and Harry Devlin of Mountainside, the Nobel laureate Dr. Arno Penzias of Highland Park and Gay Talese of Ocean City."</ref>
* [[Susan Pitt]] (1948–2024), competition [[swimming (sport)|swimmer]] and world record-holder in the [[World record progression 200 metres butterfly|200-meter butterfly]]<ref>[https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/explore/alphabetical-index/interviewees/64-text-html/2657-anderson-sue-pitt-part-one Anderson, Sue Pitt (Part One)], [[Rutgers University]] Oral History Archives, August 29, 2022. Accessed December 3, 2024. "KR: You grew up in Highland Park. Is that correct? SA: In Highland Park, yes."</ref>
* [[Stav Prodromou]] (born 1944), businessman who was the [[Entrepreneur|founder]] and former [[chief executive officer]] of [[Poqet Computer]] Corporation<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117312343/stavro-prodromou-graduate-of-highland/ "Communion Action"], ''[[Home News Tribune|The Daily Home News]]'', December 8, 1960. Accessed January 26, 2023, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Stavro E. Prodromou, 17, center, recipient of the Highland Park Fire Department scholarship at Rutgers University, looks on as Louis Figle, fire chief, presents $400 check to Dr. Mason W. Cross, president of the university.... Prodromou, son of Mr. and Mrs. Evangelo Prodromou of 218 Magnolia St., Highland Park, was graduated from Highland Park High School in June."</ref>
* [[George T. Reynolds]] (1917–2005), [[physicist]] best known for his work in [[particle physics]], [[biophysics]] and [[environmental science]]<ref>[https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/interviewees/30-interview-html-text/293-reynolds-george George Reynolds], [[Rutgers University]] Oral History Archives, October 29, 1999. Accessed June 28, 2019. "I was born in 1917, in Trenton. Soon after that, I guess I was two years old, we moved to Highland Park, New Jersey, and that's where I lived my early life."</ref>
* [[Susana Rotker]] (1954–2000), Venezuelan journalist, columnist, essayist and writer<ref>Saxon, Wolfgang. [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/02/nyregion/susana-rotker-martinez-46-language-professor-at-rutgers.html "Susana Rotker-Martinez, 46, Language Professor at Rutgers"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 2, 2000. Accessed August 12, 2018. "Dr. Susana Rotker-Martinez, director of the Rutgers Center for Hemispheric Studies, was hit by a truck and fatally injured Monday while crossing a road in Piscataway, N.J. She was 46 and lived in Highland Park."</ref>
* [[Rudy Rucker]] (born 1946), [[mathematician]], computer scientist and [[science fiction]] author, best known for the novels in the [[Ware Tetralogy]]<ref>[[Rudy Rucker|Rucker, Rudy van Bitter]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bWwfAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Rudy+Rucker%22+%22highland+park%22 ''All the visions''], p. 102. Ocean View Books, 1991. {{ISBN|9780938075097}}. Accessed February 28, 2018. "Audrey and I were newlyweds there in Highland Park, and we used to watch ''The Newlywed Game'' on TV every week."</ref>
* [[Neil Sloane]] (born 1939), mathematician, creator and maintainer of the [[On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences]]<ref>[http://neilsloane.com Home Page], Neil J. A. Sloane. Accessed May 30, 2015.</ref> 
* [[L. J. Smith]] (born 1980), former [[NFL]] [[tight end]]<ref>[http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/team/teamRosterDetails.jsp?id=563 L.J. Smith profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103113226/http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/team/teamRosterDetails.jsp?id=563 |date=January 3, 2007 }}, [[Philadelphia Eagles]]. Accessed June 9, 2007. "Growing up in the small town of Highland Park, NJ (2 square miles, population 14,500), Smith graduated from the local high school as part of a 115-person class.</ref>
* [[Joan Snyder]] (born 1940), pioneering neo-expressionist feminist artist and 2007 MacArthur "Genius Award" winner<ref>Ronnen, Meir. [https://www.jpost.com/Arts-and-Culture/Arts/Joan-Snyder-at-the-Jewish-Museum "Joan Snyder at the Jewish Museum; New York's Jewish Museum is currently presenting Joan Snyder: A Painting Survey, 1969-2005 through October 23."], ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', February 18, 2010. Accessed August 12, 2018. "Born in Highland Park, New Jersey in 1940, Snyder was the middle child of Jewish parents who never lost a sense of their immigrant heritage."</ref>
* [[Ulrich P. Strauss]] (1920–2015), [[Rutgers University]] chemist and 1971 [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim Fellow]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ulrich P. Strauss Obituary (2015) Asbury Park Press |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/app/name/ulrich-strauss-obituary?id=11037703 |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=Legacy.com}}</ref>
* [[Darrell K. Sweet]] (1934–2011), illustrator best known for cover art for science fiction and fantasy novels<ref>Gray, Kristy. [http://trib.com/features/range/article_2ae0251c-6271-512f-82d7-616e90f23153.html "Peek into the imagination of Cody sci-fi artist Darrel K. Sweet: Mind Traveler"], ''[[Casper Star-Tribune]]'', January 21, 2007. Accessed April 9, 2011. "Sweet was drawing at age 3½ growing up in Highland Park, N.J. His mother still has some of these pictures, nearly seven decades old."</ref>
* [[Endre Szemerédi]] (born 1940), mathematician who was the 2012 winner of the [[Abel Prize]]<ref>Staff. [http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/common/apps/webarch/data/RSVpYSXpnzxXqSdBIbpF/ "Math drives this Rutgers professor"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203065446/http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/common/apps/webarch/data/RSVpYSXpnzxXqSdBIbpF/ |date=February 3, 2011 }}, copy of article from ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', March 23, 2008. Accessed July 4, 2012. "Endre Szemeredi 67, Highland Park "</ref>
* [[Norman Tanzman]] (1918–2004), politician who served in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] from 1962 to 1968 and in the [[New Jersey Senate]] from 1968 to 1974<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/319894786/ "Norman Tanzman, 85, once Middlesex state senator"]. ''[[Home News Tribune]]'', June 7, 2004. Accessed March 1, 2021, via [[Newspapers.com]].  "Born in New York City, Mr. Tanzman moved to New Brunswick when he was 4, and then to Highland Park."</ref>
* [[Olga Von Till]] (1897–1996), classical pianist and piano teacher<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/315413202/?terms=%22Olga%2BVon%2BTill%22 "Hugh Kormos, Publisher, Dies; Funeral Will Be Held Tomorrow"], ''The Central Jersey Home News'', December 3, 1951. Accessed May 31, 2020. "Born in Zsambek, Hungary, Mr. Kormos came to the community in 1921, shortly after his marriage to Miss Olga Von Till of Highland Park, whom he met in Budapest while she was studying music abroad."</ref>
* [[Alan Voorhees]] (1922–2005), engineer and [[urban planner]]<ref>[http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/1386 Greats go down - Alan Voorhees, Rand Brown] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928161727/http://www.tollroadsnews.com/node/1386 |date=September 28, 2007 }}, Tollroadsnews. December 24, 2005. Accessed July 22, 2007. "Born in Highland Park NJ, he was a distinguished Navy Seal in World War II, part of a team that regularly reconnoitered enemy occupied shores mapping beaches for good landing sites - for which he was awarded a Silver Star."</ref>
* [[Selman Waksman]] (1888–1973), biochemist and microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on antibiotics including Streptomycin for treating tuberculosis<ref>Cheslow, Jerry. [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/21/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-highland-park-well-established-but-unpretentious.html?module=Search&pagewanted=all "If You're Thinking of Living in/Highland Park; Well-Established, but Unpretentious"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 21, 1993. Accessed September 8, 2014. "Highland Park has been home to two Nobel laureates. The late Selman A. Waksman was awarded the prize in medicine and physiology in 1952 for his work with antibiotics and Dr. Arno A. Penzias, who shared the 1978 prize in physics for his work related to the big bang theory, still lives there."</ref>
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