Editing Cranbury, New Jersey (section)

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

* [[Melanie Balcomb]] (born 1962), head coach of the [[Vanderbilt Commodores]] women's basketball team<ref>Konick, Emery Jr. [https://archive.today/20130131200830/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/mycentraljersey/access/1799558811.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+17,+2004&author=EMERY+KONICK+JR&pub=Home+News+Tribune&desc=Women's+sports+at+center+court&pqatl=google "Women's sports at center court"], ''[[Home News Tribune]]'', August 17, 2004. Accessed July 14, 2011. "Melanie Balcomb of Cranbury is the head women's basketball coach at Vanderbilt and one of the most successful young women's coaches in the nation."</ref>
* [[Todd Beamer]] (1968–2001), passenger aboard [[United Airlines Flight 93]], who said "[[Let's roll]]" to fellow passengers with whom he was planning an attack on terrorists who had taken over the cockpit<ref>[http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20010922gtenat4p4.asp 13-minute call bonds her forever with hero], ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'', September 22, 2001. "Beamer, 32, of Cranbury, N.J., was the only passenger who dialed zero for the Airfone operator."</ref>
* [[Scott Brunner]] (born 1957), [[quarterback]] who played in the NFL from 1981 to 1986, most notably for the [[New York Giants]]<ref>[http://www1.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/oct/halloffame100504.html "UD Hall of Fame names nine new members"], [[University of Delaware]], October 5, 2004. Accessed February 19, 2020. "Scott Brunner... He currently resides in Cranbury, N.J., and has three children, daughters Ashley (20) and Whitney (16) and son Adam (16)."</ref>
* [[Ronald C. Davidson]] (1941–2016), physicist, professor and scientific administrator who served as the first director of the [[MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center]] and as director of the [[Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory]]<ref>Chang, Kenneth. [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/science/ronald-c-davidson-pioneer-of-fusion-power-dies-at-74.html "Ronald C. Davidson, Pioneer of Fusion Power, Dies at 74"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 29, 2016. Accessed May 30, 2016. "Ronald C. Davidson, who oversaw one of the biggest advances in fusion energy research, attempting to replicate the power of the sun, died on May 19 at his home in Cranbury, N.J. He was 74."</ref>
* [[Wendy Gooditis]] (born Gwendolyn Wallace in 1960), politician who represents [[Virginia's 10th House of Delegates district]] in the [[Virginia House of Delegates]]<ref>[https://www.wendygooditis.com/about About], Wendy Gooditis. Accessed February 19, 2020. "Wendy was raised to work hard and serve others. She grew up in Cranbury, New Jersey with two older brothers."</ref>
* [[Noah Harlan]], [[independent film]]maker<ref>Rubin, Debra. [https://njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/day-school-and-punk-rock-collide-in-teen-novel/ "Day school and punk rock collide in teen novel"], ''[[New Jersey Jewish News]]'', December 6, 2010. Accessed February 19, 2020. "The South Orange native author spoke to NJJN by phone from her Manhattan home, where she lives with her Emmy Award-winning filmmaker husband Noah Harlan, a Cranbury native who grew up attending Congregation Beth Chaim in Princeton Junction."</ref>
* [[Ralph Izzo]], businessman and former nuclear physicist; chairman, president and CEO of [[Public Service Enterprise Group]]<ref>Johnson, Tom. [https://www.njspotlight.com/2013/07/13-0710-1452/ "Profile: Ralph Izzo — Chairman, President, Chief Executive of PSEG"], NJ Spotlight News, July 24, 2013. Accessed September 23, 2021. "Hometown: Cranbury Township, where he lives with his wife and son and daughter."</ref>
* [[Hughie Lee-Smith]] (1915–1999), artist<ref>Raynor, Vivien. [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/12/nyregion/art-review-a-painter-s-evolution-visual-and-political.html "Art Review; A Painter's Evolution, Visual and Political"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 12, 1995. Accessed July 5, 2012. "Hughie Lee-Smith was born in Florida and schooled in Ohio and Michigan, notably at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Wayne State University in Detroit. He is nonetheless a New Jersey artist, and not just because of the many years he has lived in Cranbury."</ref>
* [[Cicero Hunt Lewis]] (1826–1897), merchant<ref>Gaston, Joseph. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bG4UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA106 ''Portland, Oregon, its history and builders:in connection with the antecedent explorations, discoveries, and movements of the pioneers that selected the site for the great city of the Pacific, Volume 2''], [[S. J. Clarke Publishing Company]], 1911. Accessed July 5, 2012. "The width of the continent separated Mr. Lewis from his birthplace after he came to the northwest for he was a native of Cranbury, Middlesex county, New Jersey, his birth having there occurred on the 22d of November, 1826."</ref>
* [[Robert Lougy]], judge on the [[New Jersey Superior Court]] who served as acting [[New Jersey Attorney General]] in 1996<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases16/pr20160229c.html "Governor Christie Names Robert Lougy as Acting State Attorney General"], [[Attorney General of New Jersey]], press release dated February 29, 2016. Accessed February 19, 2020. "A resident of Cranbury, Lougy graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1994 and received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 2002."</ref>
* [[Charles McKnight]] (1750–1791), physician during and after the American Revolutionary War<ref>[http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=718 Charles McKnight's Surgical Kit], [[Smithsonian Institution]]. Accessed May 30, 2016. "Charles McKnight was born in Cranbury, New Jersey, 10 October 1750."</ref>
* [[Jan Morris]] (1926–2020), Welsh travel writer and historian, lived in Cranbury for several months in the 1950s whose impressions of the town are recorded in the book ''Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America''<ref>[[Jan Morris|Morris, Jan]]. [http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto050920082057343308&page=1 "Once upon a time in America"]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''[[Financial Times]]'', May 9, 2008. Accessed August 27, 2008. "When I was resident in Cranbury more than half a century ago, it was a rustic haven in flat farmland country, with the remains of slave shacks, an 18th century inn, proud memories of the revolutionary war and a firehouse where firemen chewed the cud on kitchen chairs on the sidewalk outside, exchanging bucolic prejudices."</ref>
* [[Henry Perrine]] (1797–1840), physician, horticulturist and enthusiast for introducing tropical plants into cultivation in the US<ref>Wilkinson, Jerry. [http://www.keyshistory.org/IK-dr-perrine1.html "Dr. Henry Perrine of Indian Key"], Florida Keys History Museum. Accessed November 13, 2016. "Henry Edward Perrine was a descendant of a French Huguenot family who settled in New Jersey around 1665. He was born April 5, 1797 at Cranbury, New Jersey and taught school in Rockyhill, N.J. as a youth."</ref>
* [[Jessica Ware|Jessica Lee Ware]] (born 1977), Canadian-American [[Evolutionary biology|evolutionary biologist]] and [[Entomology|entomologist]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jessica L. Ware {{!}} Entomological Society of America |url=https://www.entsoc.org/jessica-l-ware |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=www.entsoc.org |language=en}}</ref>