Editing Princeton, New Jersey (section)

==Notable people==
{{see also|Category:People from Princeton, New Jersey|List of Princeton University people|Princeton Theological Seminary#Notable faculty|List of faculty members at the Institute for Advanced Study|Westminster Choir College#Notable alumni}}
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Princeton include:
''Note: this list does not include people whose only time in Princeton was as a student. Only selected faculty are shown, whose notability extends beyond their field into popular culture. See Faculty and Alumni lists above.''

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* [[Matthew Abelson]], [[hammered dulcimer]] player<ref>[http://www.fssgb.org/abelson.html Matthew Abelson (House Concert)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112104706/http://www.fssgb.org/abelson.html |date=January 12, 2016 }}, The Folk Song Society of Greater Boston. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Matthew Abelson grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and was introduced to the hammered dulcimer at age 6, when his father built one for his other brother."</ref>
* [[Robert Adrain]] (1775–1843), Irish-born mathematician known for his formulation of the [[method of least squares]]<ref>[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Adrain.html Robert Adrain] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191110160148/http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Adrain.html |date=November 10, 2019 }}, [[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive]]. Accessed September 8, 2019. "The United Irishmen provoked a rebellion in May 1798 and Adrain joined the rebels as an officer in their army. The rebellion was unsuccessful in general, but particularly so for Adrain who was shot in the back by one of his own men and badly wounded. After recovering his health Adrain escaped with his wife to the United States where they settled in Princeton, New Jersey."</ref>
* [[George Akerlof]] (born 1940), economist who shared the 2001 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]]<ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2001/akerlof-bio.html "George A. Akerlof - Biographical"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620074421/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2001/akerlof-bio.html |date=June 20, 2017 }}, [[Nobel Prize]]. Accessed September 21, 2015. "The idyllic life in Princeton in the large colonial house was, however, broken after one and a half years. My family would continue to live in Princeton, but in at least subtly different circumstances."</ref>
* [[Archibald Alexander]] (1772–1851), Presbyterian theologian and first professor at the [[Princeton Theological Seminary]]<ref>Jones, Andy. [http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/old-princeton-for-new-calvinists-the-legacy-of-archibald-alexander "Old Princeton for New Calvinists: The Legacy of Archibald Alexander"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112150330/http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/old-princeton-for-new-calvinists-the-legacy-of-archibald-alexander |date=January 12, 2016 }}, The Gospel Coalition, February 13, 2012. Accessed September 21, 2015. "They first met when Alexander moved to Princeton in 1812 and Hodge was a teenage student at a local academy."</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1851/10/23/archives/article-5-no-title.html "Death of Dr. Alexander"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726010628/https://www.nytimes.com/1851/10/23/archives/article-5-no-title.html |date=July 26, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 23, 1851. Accessed September 21, 2015. "The Venerable Archibald Alexander, D.D., died yesterday morning, at his residence at Princeton, N.J., in the eighty-first year of his age."</ref>
* [[James Waddel Alexander]] (1804–1859), Presbyterian minister and theologian<ref>Old, Hughes Oliphant. [https://books.google.com/books?id=g0VIuJJpEO8C&pg=PA249 ''The Modern Age, 1789-1889''], p. 249. [[Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing]], 2007. {{ISBN|9780802831392}}. Accessed September 21, 2015. "James Waddel Alexander was born in Virginia when his father was president of Hampden-Sydney College.... When his father founded the theological seminary in Princeton, he too, moved to Princeton and in time studied at the College of New Jersey, graduating in 1820."</ref>
* [[Joseph Addison Alexander]] (1809–1860), biblical scholar<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1860/01/30/news/obituary-1-no-title.html "Death Of Rev. J. Addison Alexander."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722124246/http://www.nytimes.com/1860/01/30/news/obituary-1-no-title.html |date=July 22, 2016 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 30, 1860. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Rev. Dr. Joseph Addison Alexander, Professor in the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church at Princeton, N.J., died at that place on Saturday afternoon."</ref>
* [[William Cowper Alexander]] (1806–1874), lawyer, politician and insurance executive, who served as President of the [[New Jersey Senate]] and as President of the [[AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company|Equitable Life Assurance Society]]<ref>Inniss, Lolita Buckner. [https://books.google.com/books?id=0IKlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT105 ''The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson''], p. 105. [[Fordham University Press]], 2019. {{ISBN|9780823285358}}. Accessed September 8, 2019. "Born in 1806 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, William Cowper Alexander came to Princeton in 1812, when his father was appointed to the seminary, and graduated from Princeton in 1824."</ref>
* [[Svetlana Alliluyeva]] (1926–2011), daughter of [[Joseph Stalin]], defected to United States and lived in Princeton<ref>Martin, Douglas. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/world/europe/stalins-daughter-dies-at-85.html "Lana Peters, Stalin's Daughter, Dies at 85"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201003059/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/world/europe/stalins-daughter-dies-at-85.html |date=February 1, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 28, 2011. Accessed July 30, 2013. "Settling in Princeton, N.J., Ms. Alliluyeva made a public show of burning her Soviet passport, saying she would never return to the Soviet Union."</ref>
* [[Lylah M. Alphonse]] (born 1972), journalist<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Over-Discrimination-Story-Farhang/dp/0970993706 ''Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Farhang Mehr''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505010532/http://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Over-Discrimination-Story-Farhang/dp/0970993706 |date=May 5, 2016 }}, [[Amazon.com]]. Accessed September 21, 2015. "About the Author: Lylah M. Alphonse was born and raised in Princeton, N.J."</ref>
* [[Saul Amarel]] (1928–2002), professor of computer science at [[Rutgers University]], best known for his pioneering work in [[artificial intelligence]]<ref>Nagourney, Eric. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/21/nyregion/saul-amarel-74-an-innovator-in-the-artificial-intelligence-field.html "Saul Amarel, 74, an Innovator In the Artificial Intelligence Field"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303065303/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/21/nyregion/saul-amarel-74-an-innovator-in-the-artificial-intelligence-field.html |date=March 3, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 21, 2002. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Dr. Saul Amarel, who helped develop the field of artificial intelligence and founded the computer science department at Rutgers University, died on Wednesday in Princeton, N.J., where he lived."</ref>
* [[Trey Anastasio]] (born 1964), of the band [[Phish]], lived in Princeton with his family and attended [[Princeton Day School]]<ref>Morse, Steve. [https://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2003/11/30/twenty_years_later_phish_still_moves_against_the_current/ "Twenty years later, Phish still moves against the current; Band's creativity thrives outside pop's boundaries"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304212415/http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2003/11/30/twenty_years_later_phish_still_moves_against_the_current/ |date=March 4, 2016 }}, ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', November 30, 2003. Accessed July 30, 2013. "The next summer they painted houses around Princeton, N.J., (where Anastasio grew up) and made enough money to go to Europe and play street music."</ref>
* Rose Allen (1885–1977), actress<ref>Rose Allen, The Silent Forgotten</ref>
* [[William H. Angoff]] ({{circa|1920}}–1993), research scientist who worked for the [[Educational Testing Service]], where he helped improve the [[SAT]]<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/07/obituaries/william-h-angoff-73-expert-on-sat-dies.html "William H. Angoff, 73, Expert on S.A.T., Dies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027061517/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/07/obituaries/william-h-angoff-73-expert-on-sat-dies.html |date=October 27, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 7, 1993. Accessed October 27, 2018. "William H. Angoff, whose work with the Scholastic Aptitude Test helped make it more understandable to millions of high school students and college admissions officers, died on Tuesday at his home in Princeton, N.J."</ref>
* [[James Isbell Armstrong]] (1919–2013), academic who was President of [[Middlebury College]] from 1963 to 1975<ref>[http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/node/464874 "James Armstrong, Middlebury's 12th President, Passes Away"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221002539/http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/node/464874 |date=December 21, 2013 }}, [[Middlebury College]], December 16, 2013. Accessed September 8, 2019. "Born and raised in Princeton, N.J., Armstrong prepared for college at the Taft School in Connecticut and returned home in 1937 to enroll at the university where his father, William P. Armstrong, was a member of the faculty."</ref>
* [[Milton Babbitt]] (1916–2011), composer and Princeton University professor<ref>[[Allan Kozinn|Kozinn, Allan]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/arts/music/30babbitt.html "Milton Babbitt, a Composer Who Gloried in Complexity, Dies at 94"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417172409/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/arts/music/30babbitt.html |date=April 17, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 29, 2011. Accessed July 30, 2013. "Milton Babbitt, an influential composer, theorist and teacher who wrote music that was intensely rational and for many listeners impenetrably abstruse, died on Saturday. He was 94 and lived in Princeton, N.J."</ref>
* [[William Bainbridge]] (1774–1833), [[Commodore (United States)|Commodore]] in the [[United States Navy]]<ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-people/b/bainbridge-william.html Bainbridge, William] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190913152701/https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-people/b/bainbridge-william.html |date=September 13, 2019 }}, [[Naval History and Heritage Command]]. Accessed September 8, 2019. "William Bainbridge was born in Princeton, New Jersey, on 7 May 1774."</ref>
* [[Molly Bang]] (born 1943), children's book illustrator<ref>[http://www.mollybang.com/Pages/biodetail.html Biographical Notes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906125240/http://www.mollybang.com/Pages/biodetail.html |date=September 6, 2013 }}, Molly Bang. Accessed July 30, 2013. "I was born in Princeton, New Jersey 1943, the second of three children."</ref>
* [[George Barna]] (born 1954), founder of [[The Barna Group]], a market research firm specializing in studying the religious beliefs and behavior of Americans<ref>Stafford, Tim. [https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/august5/third-coming-of-george-barna.html "The Third Coming of George Barna"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120051827/https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/august5/third-coming-of-george-barna.html |date=November 20, 2018 }}, ''[[Christianity Today]]'', August 5, 2002. Accessed September 8, 2019. "Barna grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, a cradle Catholic who went to Mass daily when he started college at Washington and Lee University."</ref>
* [[Chris Barron]] (born 1968), lead singer of the [[Spin Doctors]]<ref>Staff. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AC&p_theme=ac&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=127318FE5B0C2220&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Nightlife / Band of the Week: Chris Barron"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427000106/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AC&p_theme=ac&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=127318FE5B0C2220&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |date=April 27, 2014 }}, ''[[The Press of Atlantic City]]'', March 26, 2009. Accessed August 21, 2013. "Barron, who is originally from Princeton, isn't exactly sure how the folks who organize the Cape May SS showcase found him, but he's happy they did."</ref>
* [[Charles Clinton Beatty]] (1800–1880), Presbyterian minister, seminary founder and academic philanthropist<ref>[https://njcincinnati.org/charles-clinton-beatty-2/ The Reverend Charles Clinton Beatty DD, LLD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806114401/https://njcincinnati.org/charles-clinton-beatty-2/ |date=August 6, 2020 }}, The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey. Accessed September 8, 2019. "Born in Princeton, NJ on 4 Jan 1800 and died in Steubenville, OH on 30 Oct 1882."</ref>
* [[Saul Bellow]] (1915–2005), author and Princeton University professor<ref name=NYT1985>[[Eric P. Schmitt|Schmitt, Eric]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/21/nyregion/upton-sinclair-s-princeton-hideway.html "Upton Sinclair's Princeton Hideway"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203003102/http://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/21/nyregion/upton-sinclair-s-princeton-hideway.html |date=February 3, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 21, 1985. Accessed August 22, 2013. "They now know that Upton Sinclair, the muckraking author of ''The Jungle'' and other novels, built the cabin and lived there more than 80 years ago.... Ultimately, Mrs. Bowers would like to restore the cabin and have either Princeton Township or Princeton University maintain it, an idea suggested by John McPhee, the author, who lives in Princeton.... Alfred Bush, a curator in the rare books department of the Princeton University Library, said: 'Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot and Saul Bellow all lived and wrote here.{{'"}}</ref>
* [[Paul Benacerraf]] (1930–2025), philosopher and Princeton University professor<ref>[[Paul Goldberger|Goldberger, Paul]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/26/archives/architectures-5-make-their-ideas-felt-an-appraisal-all-are-young-a.html "Architecture's '5' Make Their Ideas Felt"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807222252/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/26/archives/architectures-5-make-their-ideas-felt-an-appraisal-all-are-young-a.html |date=August 7, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 26, 1973. Accessed August 7, 2018. "Michael Graves design for an addition to a house for Prof. and Mrs. Paul Benacerraf, Princeton, N.J."</ref>
* [[Peter Benchley]] (1940–2006), author and screenwriter, ''[[Jaws (novel)|Jaws]]'', ''[[The Island (1979 novel)|The Island]]'', lived and died in Princeton<ref>Scott, Gale T. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/nyregion/jerseyana-where-they-give-a-dog-a-heap-of-socialization.html "Jerseyana; Where They Give a Dog A Heap of Socialization"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203003038/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/nyregion/jerseyana-where-they-give-a-dog-a-heap-of-socialization.html |date=February 3, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 27, 2002. Accessed August 22, 2013. "Parent-patrons here include Wall Street brokers, local judges, authors (most prominently, Peter Benchley, who lives in Princeton), housewives and grocery clerks, Ms. Lini said."</ref>
* [[Wendy Benchley]] (born 1941), marine and environmental conservation advocate and former Princeton Borough councilwoman who was the wife of author [[Peter Benchley]]<ref>Stratton, Jean. [http://www.towntopics.com/apr1608/stratton.php "Princeton personality"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127230954/http://www.towntopics.com/apr1608/stratton.php |date=January 27, 2021 }}, ''[[Town Topics (newspaper)|Town Topics]]'', April 16, 2008. Accessed November 6, 2019. "Outgoing Princeton Borough Councilwoman Wendy Benchley, soon to focus her career on ocean conservation issues, is shown in her Princeton home.... ''Jaws'' was published in 1974, and after the movie rights were later sold, the Benchleys decided to move to Princeton."</ref>
* [[Ed Berger]] (1949–2017), librarian, discographer, author, editor, historian, photographer, educator, jazz producer and record label owner<ref>Fitzgerald, Michael. [https://www.crj-online.org/v9/CRJ-Berger.php "Remembering Ed Berger"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801230541/http://www.crj-online.org/v9/CRJ-Berger.php |date=August 1, 2019 }}, ''Current Research in Jazz''. Accessed September 8, 2019. "The world of jazz research lost one of its stars on January 22, 2017 when Ed Berger died at home in Princeton, NJ."</ref>
* [[Stanley S. Bergen Jr.]] (1929–2019), [[physician]], [[university president]], and professor, who was President of the [[University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey]] from 1971 to 1998<ref>[https://news.rutgers.edu/news-release/stanley-bergen-jr-founding-president-university-medicine-and-dentistry-new-jersey-dies-89/20190501 "Stanley Bergen Jr., Founding President of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Dies at 89 Under Bergen's direction, the university became the largest freestanding health sciences university in the country and boosted medical access throughout the state"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501224111/https://news.rutgers.edu/news-release/stanley-bergen-jr-founding-president-university-medicine-and-dentistry-new-jersey-dies-89/20190501 |date=May 1, 2019 }}, [[Rutgers University]], May 1, 2019. Accessed September 8, 2019. "Bergen was a believer of health care as a basic human right and an advocate for health access and equity. He was born on May 2, 1929, in Princeton, N.J., and served as president of UMDNJ from 1971 to 1998."</ref>
* [[Laurie Berkner]] (born 1969), musician best known for her work as a [[children's music]]al artist<ref>Coughlin, Kevin. [https://morristowngreen.com/2017/10/13/laurie-berkner-rock-star-for-preschoolers-is-bringing-her-guitar-to-morristown-book-fest-and-mpac/ "Laurie Berkner, rock star for preschoolers, is bringing her guitar to Morristown Book Fest and MPAC"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421085926/https://morristowngreen.com/2017/10/13/laurie-berkner-rock-star-for-preschoolers-is-bringing-her-guitar-to-morristown-book-fest-and-mpac/ |date=April 21, 2019 }}, Morristown Green, October 13, 2017. Accessed September 8, 2019. "'The flip side of that is, if they do like something, you have the best audience imaginable, because there is no filter to cover up the fact that they're just totally enjoying themselves,' said Berkner, who grew up in Princeton and lives in New York with her husband and teenaged daughter."</ref>
* [[Geoffrey Berman]] (born 1959), lawyer currently serving as the Interim [[United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York]]<ref>Jackson, Herb. [https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/new-jersey/2017/08/07/report-nj-attorney-considered-top-manhattan-federal-prosecutor/546580001/ "Report: NJ attorney Berman being considered for top federal prosecutor in Manhattan"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180108120432/https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/new-jersey/2017/08/07/report-nj-attorney-considered-top-manhattan-federal-prosecutor/546580001/ |date=January 8, 2018 }}, ''[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]'', August 7, 2017. Accessed January 7, 2018. "Geoffrey Berman of Princeton was listed as a potential U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in a package of proposed candidates for New York judicial and prosecutorial vacancies sent to the state's U.S. senators in July, Buzzfeed said, citing a source familiar with the process."</ref>
* [[Garrett Birkhoff]] (1911–1996), [[mathematician]] best known for his work in [[lattice theory]]<ref>Staff. [https://library.ias.edu/files/pdfs/hs/cos.pdf#page=90 ''A Community Of Scholars: The Institute for Advanced Study Faculty and Members 1930-1980''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124234612/http://library.ias.edu/files/pdfs/hs/cos.pdf#page=90 |date=November 24, 2011 }}, p. 90. [[Institute for Advanced Study]], 1980. Accessed November 20, 2015. "Birkhoff, Garrett 40s M Born 1911 Princeton, NJ."</ref>
* [[Cyril Edwin Black]] (1915–1989), professor of history and international affairs, specializing in the modern history of Eastern Europe and, in particular, Russian history since 1700<ref>[[Joan Riddell Cook|Cook, Joan]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/19/obituaries/cyril-e-black-former-professor-of-history-at-princeton-dies-at-73.html "Cyril E. Black, Former Professor Of History at Princeton, Dies at 73"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326140027/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/19/obituaries/cyril-e-black-former-professor-of-history-at-princeton-dies-at-73.html |date=March 26, 2022 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 19, 1989. Accessed March 6, 2022. "Cyril E. Black, a history professor who was a member of the Princeton University faculty for 50 years, died of congestive heart failure yesterday at the Princeton (N.J.) Medical Center. He was 73 years old and lived in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Michael Bradley (soccer)|Michael Bradley]] (born 1987), soccer player<ref>Fensom, Michael J. [http://www.nj.com/soccer-news/index.ssf/2011/10/us_soccer_vs_ecuador_michael_b.html "U.S. Soccer vs. Ecuador: Michael Bradley moves on after his father's dismissal"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426235051/http://www.nj.com/soccer-news/index.ssf/2011/10/us_soccer_vs_ecuador_michael_b.html |date=April 26, 2014 }}, ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', October 11, 2011. Accessed August 22, 2013. "Having already positioned players to take Bradley's place, Mönchengladbach told the Princeton native he would not have a spot on the team if he returned."</ref>
* [[Avery Brooks]] (born 1948), actor, singer and educator<ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [http://seattletimes.com/avantgo/2017399301.html "'Star Trek' actor Brooks charged with DUI in Conn."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426235143/http://seattletimes.com/avantgo/2017399301.html |date=April 26, 2014 }}, ''[[The Seattle Times]]'', February 3, 2012. Accessed August 22, 2013. "Avery Brooks is set to be arraigned in state court in Norwalk next week in connection with his arrest last weekend in Wilton, a wealthy suburb about 50 miles northeast of Manhattan.... Local police say they pulled over the 63-year-old Princeton, N.J., resident shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday after receiving a complaint about his driving."</ref>
* [[George Harold Brown]] (1908–1987), research engineer at RCA, lived in Princeton<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/13/obituaries/dr-george-h-brown-led-research-at-rca.html "Dr. George H. Brown; Led Research at RCA"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202234018/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/13/obituaries/dr-george-h-brown-led-research-at-rca.html |date=February 2, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 13, 1987. Accessed August 22, 2013. "Dr. George H. Brown, former executive vice president for research and engineering at the RCA Corporation who led the company's development of color television, died Friday at the Princeton (N.J.) Medical Center after a long illness. He was 79 years old and lived in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Cameron Brink]] (born 2001), [[Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]] player for the [[Los Angeles Sparks]]<ref>[https://gostanford.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/cameron-brink/20068 Cameron Brink] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240308014445/https://gostanford.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/cameron-brink/20068 |date=March 8, 2024 }}, [[Stanford Cardinal women's basketball]]. Accessed March 7, 2024. "Born in Princeton, N.J., also lived in Amsterdam for three years"</ref>
* [[Aaron Burr]] (1756–1836), third Vice President of the United States (under [[Thomas Jefferson]]); killed [[Alexander Hamilton]] in a duel, grew up in Princeton and is buried there<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/11/archives/burr-portrait-highlight-of-newark-show-portrait-of-aaron-burr-at.html "Burr Portrait Highlight of Newark Show"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808011355/https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/11/archives/burr-portrait-highlight-of-newark-show-portrait-of-aaron-burr-at.html |date=August 8, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 11, 1974. Accessed August 7, 2018. "He spent most of his boyhood in Princeton, where his father was president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University."</ref>
* [[Aaron Burr Sr.]] (1715–1757), co-founder of [[Princeton University]] and its second president<ref>Lohr, Shelby. [https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/aaron-burr-sr "Aaron Burr Sr."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015194037/https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/aaron-burr-sr |date=October 15, 2018 }}, [[Princeton University]]. Accessed August 7, 2018. "Aaron Burr Sr. (1716-1757), an influential scholar and religious leader of the colonial period, served as Princeton's second president from 1748 to 1757. He oversaw the college's move to its permanent campus in Princeton, and owned slaves while living in the President's House."</ref>
* [[Lesley Bush]] (born 1947), [[Diving (sport)|diver]] who represented the United States at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]] in Tokyo, where she received a gold medal in the [[Diving at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform|10 meter platform]]<ref>Moylan, Kyle. [https://patch.com/new-jersey/princeton/princeton-s-bush-still-diving-into-history "Princeton Olympian Lesley Bush Dives into History; Bush, a 1964 gold medalist in diving, was honored by Lakewood Blueclaws this week."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115195013/https://patch.com/new-jersey/princeton/princeton-s-bush-still-diving-into-history |date=November 15, 2018 }}, Princeton Patch, June 16, 2012. Accessed November 22, 2017. "As a 16-year-old girl growing up and attending Princeton High School in the winter of 1964, Lesley Bush wasn't sure how many people knew her in her own hometown."</ref>
* [[Sim Cain]] (born 1963), drummer for [[Rollins Band]], grew up in Princeton<ref>Skelly, Richard. [http://www.app.com/story/entertainment/music/2014/08/01/kenny-stringbean-sorensen-drops-new-cd/13407037/ "Kenny 'Stringbean' Sorensen drops new CD"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', August 1, 2014. Accessed August 29, 2014. "Sorensen and Co. were scheduled to play a record-release party Monday, July 28, in Asbury Park, where he is accompanied Monday nights by drummer Sim Cain, a native of Princeton, bassist Dan Mulvey, raised in Old Bridge, and relative youngster Joe Murphy on guitar, who was raised in the Asbury Park area."</ref>
* [[Marsha Campbell]] (born 1946), politician who served in the [[Missouri House of Representatives]]<ref>[https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills01/member01/bio039.htm Rep. Marsha Campbell] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223083125/https://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills01/member01/bio039.htm |date=February 23, 2022 }}, [[Missouri General Assembly]]. Accessed February 23, 2022. "Born February 13, 1946, in Princeton, New Jersey, Rep. Campbell currently resides in the Brookside area of Kansas City."</ref>
* [[Melisa Can]] (born 1984 as Michelle Marie Campbell), professional [[basketball]] player at the [[Power forward (basketball)|power forward]] position who plays for [[Adana ASKİ SK|Adana ASKİ]]<ref>Franklin, Paul. [http://www.nj.com/times-sports/index.ssf/2013/06/after_long_journey_michelle_ca.html "After long journey, Michelle Campbell finds herself in the WNBA"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107031647/http://www.nj.com/times-sports/index.ssf/2013/06/after_long_journey_michelle_ca.html |date=November 7, 2017 }}, ''[[The Times (Trenton)|The Times]]'', June 3, 2013. Accessed November 2, 2017. "At Rutgers, even though she would be a 1,000-point scorer, Michelle Campbell never received the attention afforded to players like Cappie Pondexter and Chelsea Newton, or even younger teammates Essence Carson, Matee Ajavon and Kia Vaughn.... The Notre Dame High School graduate, who grew up in Princeton with three sisters, pursued her passion."</ref>
* [[Mary Chapin Carpenter]] (born 1958), country/folk singer, born and grew up in Princeton<ref>Belcher, David. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/arts/music/11carpenter.html "A Storyteller Back at Her Craft"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722124335/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/arts/music/11carpenter.html |date=July 22, 2016 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 10, 2010. Accessed October 12, 2013. "Ms. Carpenter, who was born in Princeton, N.J., and graduated from Brown, became a Nashville darling in 1989 with her second album, ''State of the Heart'' (CBS/Columbia), which spawned the hits 'Never Had It So Good' and 'Quittin' Time,' which became staples of mainstream country radio and two-step dance halls."</ref>
* [[William Ashburner Cattell]] (1863–1920), civil engineer and railroad company president; born in Princeton<ref name="ASCE1921">{{cite book|author=American Society of Civil Engineers|title=Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X21NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA820|edition=Public domain|year=1921|publisher=American Society of Civil Engineers|pages=820–}}</ref>
* [[Damien Chazelle]] (born 1985), film director, producer, and writer. Youngest winner of the [[Academy Award for Best Director]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bauer|first1=Patricia|title=Damien Chazelle|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Damien-Chazelle|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=13 April 2018|archive-date=April 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413193727/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Damien-Chazelle|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Blair Clark]] (1917–2000), journalist and political activist who was general manager / vice president of [[CBS News]] and Senator [[Eugene McCarthy]]'s national campaign manager for the [[1968 United States presidential election|1968 presidential nomination]]<ref>Pace, Eric. [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/08/us/blair-clark-82-cbs-executive-who-led-mccarthy-s-68-race.html "Blair Clark, 82, CBS Executive Who Led McCarthy's '68 Race"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421144435/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/08/us/blair-clark-82-cbs-executive-who-led-mccarthy-s-68-race.html |date=April 21, 2023 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 8, 2000. Accessed September 8, 2019. "Blair Clark, an influential executive at CBS News, a former editor of the Nation and the campaign manager for Eugene J. McCarthy in his unsuccessful bid for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination, died on Tuesday in Princeton, N.J. He was 82 and lived in Princeton and the Turtle Bay section of Manhattan."</ref>
* [[Patrick Clark (chef)|Patrick Clark]] (1955–1998), chef<ref>[[Eric Asimov|Asimov, Eric]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/13/nyregion/patrick-clark-42-is-dead-innovator-in-american-cuisine.html "Patrick Clark, 42, Is Dead; Innovator in American Cuisine"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626115741/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/13/nyregion/patrick-clark-42-is-dead-innovator-in-american-cuisine.html |date=June 26, 2015 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 13, 1998. Accessed November 29, 2014. "Patrick Clark, a chef who helped lead a generation of Americans to embrace a new style of casual but sophisticated French cooking in the early 1980s, and then helped lead them back to the ingredients and preparations of their own country, died late Wednesday night at Princeton Medical Center in Princeton, N.J. He was 42 and lived in Plainsboro, N.J."</ref>
* [[Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston|Frances Folsom Cleveland]] (1864–1947), [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]], died in and is buried in Princeton<ref>[http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=23 Frances Cleveland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009204412/http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=23 |date=October 9, 2018 }}, National First Ladies' Library. Accessed October 12, 2013. "Following her permanent departure from the White House in 1897, she joined the former President and their children in creating a new life in Princeton, New Jersey for what was the second period of her life s a former First Lady."</ref>
* [[Grover Cleveland]] (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th President of the United States, retired to, died in, and buried in Princeton<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/presidents/grover_cleveland_home.html Grover Cleveland Home] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903123659/http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/presidents/grover_cleveland_home.html |date=September 3, 2014 }}, [[National Park Service]]. Accessed August 29, 2014. "After leaving the White House for a second time, Cleveland retired to this home in Princeton, New Jersey in 1897. The elegant stone antebellum mansion was perfect for the active role the Clevelands played in Princeton society."</ref>
* [[Ruth Cleveland]] (1891–1904), daughter of Grover and Frances Cleveland born between Cleveland's two terms in office, died at age 12 and is buried at [[Princeton Cemetery]]<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1904/01/08/archives/ruth-cleveland-dead-eldest-child-of-expresident-cleveland-dies.html "Ruth Cleveland Dead.; Eldest Child of ex-President Cleveland Dies Suddenly at Princeton Home."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726104250/https://www.nytimes.com/1904/01/08/archives/ruth-cleveland-dead-eldest-child-of-expresident-cleveland-dies.html |date=July 26, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 8, 1904. Accessed October 12, 2013.</ref>
* [[Chris Conley (musician)|Chris Conley]] (born 1980), lead singer of [[Saves the Day]], born and grew up in Princeton<ref>Fiorletta, Alicia. [http://www.theaquarian.com/2011/11/09/interview-with-chris-conley-from-saves-the-day-breaking-through-moving-forward/ "Interview with Chris Conley from Saves The Day: Breaking Through, Moving Forward"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601093836/http://www.theaquarian.com/2011/11/09/interview-with-chris-conley-from-saves-the-day-breaking-through-moving-forward/ |date=June 1, 2013 }}, ''[[The Aquarian Weekly]]'', November 9, 2011. Accessed October 12, 2013. "Chris Conley, singer, guitarist and lyricist for Saves The Day, particularly remembers his upbringing in Princeton, NJ, as a time of personal growth and musical discovery."</ref>
* [[Archibald Crossley]] (1896–1985), pollster, statistician and pioneer in public opinion research<ref>Greer, William R. [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/02/nyregion/archibald-crosley-dies-at-88-helped-develop-scientific-polling.html "Archibald Crosley Dies At 88; Helped Develop Scientific Polling"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210523020718/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/02/nyregion/archibald-crosley-dies-at-88-helped-develop-scientific-polling.html |date=May 23, 2021 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 2, 1985. Accessed May 23, 2021. "Archibald M. Crossley, one of the founders of modern public-opinion polling, died yesterday at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 88 years old.... Mr. Crossley, who lived in Princeton from 1923 until his death, retired in 1962, but continued to research polling methods."</ref>
* [[John Crowley (biotech executive)|John Crowley]] (born 1967), biotechnology executive and entrepreneur and the chairman and CEO of [[Amicus Therapeutics]]<ref>Kerwick, Mike. [http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2017/02/28/archive-father-uses-business-saavy-fight-his-kids-rare-disease/98536210/ "Archive: Father uses business savvy to fight his kids' rare disease"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329002512/http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2017/02/28/archive-father-uses-business-saavy-fight-his-kids-rare-disease/98536210/ |date=March 29, 2017 }}, ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', February 28, 2017. Accessed January 5, 2018. "Crowley has been up for hours. A few miles down the road, at his Princeton home, the 42-year-old CEO of Amicus Therapeutics was helping his teenage daughter.... Their survival is in many ways a tribute to their father, an Englewood native who has spent the last decade raising money to fund research for lifesaving drugs."</ref>
* [[Whitney Darrow Jr.]] (1909–1999), cartoonist at ''[[The New Yorker]]''<ref>[[Mel Gussow|Gussow, Mel]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/12/arts/whitney-darrow-jr-89-gentle-satirist-of-modern-life-dies.html&pagewanted=all "Whitney Darrow Jr., 89, Gentle Satirist of Modern Life, Dies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203003029/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/12/arts/whitney-darrow-jr-89-gentle-satirist-of-modern-life-dies.html%26pagewanted%3Dall |date=February 3, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 12, 1999. Accessed October 12, 2013. "Mr. Darrow was born in Princeton, N.J., where his father was one of the founders of the Princeton University Press."</ref>
* [[Jon Drezner]], architect and designer<ref>[http://princetoninfo.com/index.php/component/us1more/?key=03-19-2008_f_01 "On the Move"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316151940/http://princetoninfo.com/index.php/component/us1more/?key=03-19-2008_f_01 |date=March 16, 2018 }}, ''U.S. 1 Newspaper'', March 19, 2008. Accessed March 15, 2018. "Drezner is a native of Princeton, where his grandfather was a cardiologist and his father a surgeon. He went to Princeton Day School, graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1985, and earned his master's degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture."</ref>
* [[Howard Duffield]] (1854–1941), [[Presbyterian Church in the United States of America|Presbyterian]] minister<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/06/archives/dr-h-duffield-86-noted-clergyman-minister-of-the-old-first.html "Dr. H. Duffield, 86; Noted Clergyman; Minister of the 'Old First' Presbyterian Church Here, 1891-1918, Is Dead; Raised $300,000 Fund; He Began Meetings on Steps of Church in 1911 - Was Author of 'Wartime Prayers{{'"}}] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629152659/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/06/archives/dr-h-duffield-86-noted-clergyman-minister-of-the-old-first.html |date=June 29, 2020 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 6, 1941. Accessed June 29, 2020. "Born at Princeton, N. J., April 9, 1854, he was the son of Dr. John T. Duffield, who was Professor of Mathematics there for fifty years."</ref>
* [[Freeman Dyson]] (1923–2020), theoretical physicist and fellow at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]]<ref>[[Nicholas Dawidoff|Dawidoff, Nicholas]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html "The Civil Heretic"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917122214/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html |date=September 17, 2019 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 25, 2009. Accessed October 12, 2003. "For more than half a century the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Princeton, N.J., on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study, this country's most rarefied community of scholars."</ref>
* [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]] (1703–1758), [[Congregational church|Congregationalist Church]] theologian, Princeton University's third president<ref name=princeton.edu>{{cite web | title = Jonathan Edwards at the College of New Jersey | type = exhibit | publisher = Princeton University | url = https://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/exhibits/edwards/case3.html | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121224131533/http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/exhibits/edwards/case3.html | archive-date = December 24, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Albert Einstein]] (1879–1955), physicist, fellow at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]]<ref>Blackwell, Jon. [http://www.capitalcentury.com/1933.html "1933: The genius next door"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014174432/http://www.capitalcentury.com/1933.html |date=October 14, 2013 }}, ''[[The Trentonian]]''. Accessed October 12, 2013. "From the moment Albert Einstein arrived in Princeton in 1933, a shaggy, sweater-wearing genius with a pipe in one hand and a sheaf of papers in the other, stories like the one about the girl's homework got a good laugh. And the amazing thing is, they were true."</ref>
* [[Maria (Maja) Einstein]] (1881–1951), German Romanist and the younger sister of Albert Einstein<ref>Calle, Carlos I. [https://books.google.com/books?id=EDM0fx8N3rAC&pg=PA331 ''Einstein for Dummies''], p. 331. [[John Wiley & Sons]], 2011. {{ISBN|9781118054482}}. "After the war, Maja wanted to return to Europe and to her husband, but her own health prevented her from travelling, Instead, she went to live with her brother in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Kate Elderkin]] (1897–1962), art historian and archaeologist<ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-obituar/156848898/ Mrs. George Elderkin"], ''[[Home News Tribune|The Daily Home News]]'', February 17, 1962. Accessed October 9, 2024, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Princeton - Kate McKnight Elderkin, former Vassar College instructor and trustee of Miss Fine's School here, died today at her home, 11 Hazlet Ave."</ref>
* [[T. S. Eliot]] (1888–1965), author<ref name=NYT1985/>
* [[Elmer William Engstrom]] (1901–1984), President and CEO of [[Radio Corporation of America|RCA]]<ref>[http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Elmer_W._Engstrom Elmer W. Engstrom] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410010321/http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Elmer_W._Engstrom |date=April 10, 2014 }}, IEEE Global History Network. Accessed June 15, 2014. "In honor of his community activities at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, Dr. Engstrom was named Man of the Year for 1964 by the Princeton Chamber of Commerce and Civic Council."</ref>
* [[Daniel Errico]], children's book author and children's media content creator who is the creator and executive producer of Hulu's kids TV series ''[[The Bravest Knight]]''<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98068735/daniel-errico-of-short-hills/ "Town native's children's story to be released Oct. 1"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321120348/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98068735/daniel-errico-of-short-hills/ |date=March 21, 2022 }}, ''The Item of Millburn and Short Hills'', September 22, 2011. Accessed March 21, 2022, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Errico grew up in Short Hills. After graduating from Villanova University, he worked in New York City at an investment bank and mechanical engineering firm. The author recently returned to New Jersey, where he lives in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Katherine Ettl]] ({{circa|1912}}–1993), sculptor best known for her monumental bronzes<ref>Via [[Associated Press]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/12/obituaries/katherine-r-s-ettl-a-sculptor-81-dies.html "Katherine R. S. Ettl, A Sculptor, 81, Dies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223102823/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/12/obituaries/katherine-r-s-ettl-a-sculptor-81-dies.html |date=February 23, 2020 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 12, 1993. Accessed February 23, 2020. "Mrs. Ettl lived in Princeton, N.J., from 1972 until September, when she returned to Jackson."</ref>
* [[Charles Evered]] (born 1964), playwright, screenwriter and director, resident of Princeton<ref>Fowler, Linda. [http://www.nj.com/inside-jersey/index.ssf/personalities/charles-evered-has-a-wonderful-life.html "Charles Evered has a Wonderful Life"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020072603/http://www.nj.com/inside-jersey/index.ssf/personalities/charles-evered-has-a-wonderful-life.html |date=October 20, 2013 }}, ''[[Inside Jersey]]'', September 2011. Accessed October 12, 2013. "Content when he's surrounded by history, Evered, a native Jerseyan, lives in a townhouse in Colonial-era Princeton Township with his wife, actress Wendy Rolfe Evered, and their kids, Margaret and John; they like to call it Olympic Village because of the diversity of its residents."</ref>
* [[Henry B. Eyring]] (born 1933), Second Counselor in the [[First Presidency (LDS Church)|First Presidency]] of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] and president of [[Ricks College]], born in Princeton<ref>[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/leader/henry-b-eyring?lang=eng President Henry B. Eyring] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716042918/https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/leader/henry-b-eyring?lang=eng |date=July 16, 2019 }}, [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. Accessed October 12, 2013. "Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on May 31, 1933, he has served the Church as a regional representative, a member of the general Sunday School board, and a bishop."</ref>
* [[Robert Fagles]] (1933–2008), professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek and Roman classics, especially his translations of the epic poems of Homer<ref>McGrath, Charles. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/books/29fagles.html?_r=0 "Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722124358/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/books/29fagles.html?_r=0 |date=July 22, 2016 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 29, 2008. Accessed November 22, 2014. "Robert Fagles, the renowned translator of Latin and Greek whose versions of Homer and Virgil were unlikely best sellers and became fixtures on classroom reading lists, died on Wednesday at his home in Princeton, N.J., where he was an emeritus professor at Princeton University."</ref>
* [[Mervin Field]] (1921–2015), public opinion pollster whose career in polling began with a poll of Princeton High School students in a class election<ref>[[Adam Nagourney|Nagourney, Adam]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/us/politics/mervin-field-dies-at-94-took-political-pulse-of-california-as-pollster.html "Mervin Field Dies at 94; Took Pulse of California as Pollster"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002220529/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/us/politics/mervin-field-dies-at-94-took-political-pulse-of-california-as-pollster.html |date=October 2, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 11, 2015. Accessed October 2, 2017. "Mervin Field was a college dropout. He had no formal training in polling or statistics. He bagged groceries while growing up in Princeton, N.J."</ref>
* [[Abner S. Flagg]] (1851–1923), businessman and politicians, served in the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]] and as Mayor of [[Edgerton, Wisconsin]]<ref>Casson, Henry (ed.) [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=goto&id=WI.WIBlueBk1897&page=693&isize=L ''The blue book of the state of Wisconsin''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112135136/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=goto&id=WI.WIBlueBk1897&page=693&isize=L |date=January 12, 2016 }}, p. 693. Henry Gugler Company, 1897. Accessed October 10, 2015.</ref>
* [[Richard Ford]] (born 1944), writer, taught at Princeton University, wrote several books set in a fictionalized Haddam, New Jersey, based in part on Princeton<ref name=Haddam>McGrath, Charles. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/books/25ford.html "A New Jersey State of Mind"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220094448/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/books/25ford.html |date=February 20, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 25, 2006. Accessed August 29, 2014. "Mr. Ford, who was born and reared in Mississippi, discovered the Jersey Shore in the late 1970s, when he and his wife were living in Princeton, where he had a teaching job.... "In ''Independence Day,'' which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996, Frank sold real estate — made a bundle, in fact — in the prosperous, leafy town of Haddam, N.J., a fictional composite of Princeton, Hopewell and Pennington."</ref>
* [[Colette Fu]], photographer, book artist and paper engineer<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20161106013013/https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/colette-fu Colette Fu], [[National Museum of Women in the Arts]]. Accessed July 26, 2019. "Birth Place: Princeton, New Jersey"</ref>
* [[N. Howell Furman]] (1892–1965), professor of [[analytical chemistry]] who helped develop the electrochemical [[uranium]] separation process as part of the [[Manhattan Project]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1965/08/03/archives/dr-n-howell-furman-73-dies-chemist-worked-on-a-tom-bomb-responsible.html "Dr. N. Howell Furman, 73, Dies; Chemist Worked on Atom Bomb; Responsible for Analytical Separation of Uranium-At Princeton 41 Years"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725192011/https://www.nytimes.com/1965/08/03/archives/dr-n-howell-furman-73-dies-chemist-worked-on-a-tom-bomb-responsible.html |date=July 25, 2020 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 3, 1965. Accessed July 26, 2020. "Dr. N. Howell Furman, a distinguished analytical chemist and educator who took part in the development of the atomic bomb, died today in Mary Fletcher Hospital at the age of 73. He lived at 19 South Stanworth Drive, Princeton, N. J., and had a summer home in Charlotte, Vt."</ref>
* [[George Gallup]] (1901–1984), statistician and creator of the [[Gallup poll]], lived and is buried in Princeton<ref>[http://www.gallup.com/corporate/21364/george-gallup-19011984.aspx George Gallup, 1901–1984 Founder] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604154652/http://www.gallup.com/corporate/21364/george-gallup-19011984.aspx |date=June 4, 2011 }}, The Gallup Organization. Accessed November 2, 2013. "Dr. Gallup founded the American Institute of Public Opinion, the precursor of The Gallup Organization, in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1935."</ref>
* [[George Gallup Jr.]] (1930–2011), pollster and author<ref>[[Kate Zernike|Zernike, Kate]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/us/george-gallup-jr-of-polling-family-dies-at-81.html "George Gallup Jr., of Polling Family, Dies at 81"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021040534/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/us/george-gallup-jr-of-polling-family-dies-at-81.html |date=October 21, 2020 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 22, 2011. Accessed November 2, 2013. "George Gallup Jr., who led the firm that his father made all but synonymous with polling and expanded it to become a barometer of Americans' views on religion as well as their political attitudes, died on Monday in Princeton, N.J. He was 81 and lived in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Evan Gershkovich]] (born 1991), journalist for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' who was detained by Russia as a spy<ref>Grantham-Philips, Wyatte. [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/30/who-is-evan-gershkovich-wall-street-journal-reporter-arrested/11568190002/ "Who is Evan Gershkovich? What we know about WSJ reporter arrested by Russia for espionage"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330223622/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/30/who-is-evan-gershkovich-wall-street-journal-reporter-arrested/11568190002/ |date=March 30, 2023 }}, ''[[USA Today]]'', March 30, 2023. Accessed March 31, 2023. "Where is Gershkovich from? How old is he? Gershkovich grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and attended Bowdoin College in Maine, where he played soccer."</ref>
* [[Donald Gips]] (born 1960), Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore and appointed [[United States Ambassador to South Africa]] by Barack Obama<ref>[https://www.towntopics.com/nov1109/people.php "People"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314162621/https://www.towntopics.com/nov1109/people.php |date=March 14, 2023 }}, ''[[Town Topics (newspaper)|Town Topics]]'', November 11, 2009. Accessed March 14, 2023. "Princeton native Donald Gips, son of Stonebridge resident Ann Gips, was recently appointed Ambassador to South Africa by President Barack Obama.... 'When I visited South Africa over a decade ago,' said the Princeton Day School graduate, 'I fell in love with its people, its story and its beauty.{{'"}}</ref>
* [[Kurt Gödel]] (1906–1978), Austrian-American logician, mathematician and philosopher, fellow at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]]<ref>Gödel, Kurt; and Feferman, Solomon. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gDzbuUwma5MC&pg=PA5 ''Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume III: Unpublished Essays and Lectures''], p. 5. [[Oxford University Press]], 1995. {{ISBN|9780195147209}}. Accessed November 2, 2013. "Photographs of the Godel home in Princeton at 145 Linden Lane."</ref>
* [[Caroline Gordon]] (1895–1981), novelist, lived in Princeton from 1956 to 1975<ref>{{cite book|title=New Jersey Trivia|date=1993|publisher=Rutledge Hill Press|isbn=1-55853-223-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/newjerseytrivia00alme/page/135 135]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/newjerseytrivia00alme/page/135}}</ref> 
* [[Michael Graves]] (1934–2015), architect, lived and worked in Princeton<ref>Bear, Rob. [http://curbed.com/archives/2012/04/23/dwell-takes-a-look-inside-michael-graves-princeton-home.php "Dwell Takes a Look Inside Michael Graves' Princeton Home"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502102852/http://curbed.com/archives/2012/04/23/dwell-takes-a-look-inside-michael-graves-princeton-home.php |date=May 2, 2012 }}, Curbed, April 23, 2012. Accessed November 2, 2013. "The architect and industrial designer Michael Graves was walking one Sunday with his daughter, when he spotted a 'a ruin in Princeton, N.J.,' that was, in fact, an abandoned warehouse built and once used by the Italian masons brought in to build the stone dormitories at Princeton University. Graves transformed The Warehouse, as it is now known, into a magnificent home for himself and his family."</ref>
* [[Fred Greenstein]] (1930–2018), [[Political science|political scientist]]<ref>Saxon, Jamie. [https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/12/10/fred-greenstein-world-class-scholar-american-presidency-dies-88 "Fred Greenstein, 'world-class scholar' of the American presidency, dies at 88"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210212048/https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/12/10/fred-greenstein-world-class-scholar-american-presidency-dies-88 |date=December 10, 2018 }}, [[Princeton University]], December 10, 2018. Accessed December 11, 2018. "Fred Greenstein, professor of politics, emeritus, and one of the nation's leading experts on the American presidency, died from complications from a form of Parkinson's disease at home in Princeton, New Jersey, on Dec. 3. He was 88."</ref>
* [[Ariela Gross]] (born 1965), historian who is the John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History at the [[USC Gould School of Law|University of Southern California Gould School of Law]]<ref>Ben-Itzak, Paul. [https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/17/nyregion/freeze-girl-backed-on-views.html "'Freeze Girl' Backed On Views"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611025047/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/17/nyregion/freeze-girl-backed-on-views.html |date=June 11, 2020 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 17, 1983. Accessed June 10, 2020. "'This is the first time I saw Ariela totally concentrate on one thing she cared a lot about,' said Mrs. Gross, a statistics professor at the City University of New York, during a recent interview at the Gross home in Princeton Township."</ref>
* [[Chris Harford]], self-taught singer, songwriter, guitarist and painter<ref>Sander, Logan. [https://planetprinceton.com/2015/06/03/princeton-people-musician-chris-harford/ "Princeton People: Musician Chris Harford"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806161029/https://planetprinceton.com/2015/06/03/princeton-people-musician-chris-harford/ |date=August 6, 2020 }}, Planet Princeton, June 3, 2015. Accessed December 10, 2018. "Chris Harford is a musician who was born and raised in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Ethan Hawke]] (born 1970), actor<ref>Dutka, Elaine. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-20-ca-25053-story.html "The Acting Bug Bites Ethan Hawke"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119172101/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-20-ca-25053-story.html |date=November 19, 2023 }}, ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'', February 20, 1994. Accessed November 19, 2023. "Acting was a refuge for this self-described 'terrible student,' a way to get out in the world for a kid who couldn't wait for life to start. Hawke's family eventually moved to Princeton, N.J., where, as a 13-year-old, he made his stage debut in the McCarter Theater's production of ''St. Joan.''"</ref>
* [[Sarah Hay]] (born 1987), actress and [[ballet dancer]] with the [[Semperoper]] in [[Dresden]]<ref>Kanter, Sharon Clott. [http://www.instyle.com/news/sarah-hay-ballerina-starz-new-drama-flesh-bone-interview "Who Is Sarah Hay? Get to Know the Ballerina of Starz's New Drama Flesh & Bone"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222123857/http://www.instyle.com/news/sarah-hay-ballerina-starz-new-drama-flesh-bone-interview |date=December 22, 2015 }}, ''[[InStyle]]'', November 7, 2015. Accessed December 12, 2015. "In real life, the 28-year-old Princeton, New Jersey native is much more grounded than her character, though she can sympathize with the craziness that actually goes on in the ballet world."</ref>
* [[Seth Herzog]] (born 1970), comedian<ref>[https://www.thesweetestpod.com/about About the Pod] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119135927/https://www.thesweetestpod.com/about |date=November 19, 2023 }}, The Sweetest Pod. Accessed November 19, 2023. "Seth was born in New Jersey (Englewood) and lived in Tenafly until he was 4 (save for a year in Holland, where his family tour windmills, sampled cheeses & started to speak Dutch). He and his family then moved to Princeton, where he was brought up & remained until he went off to college (and where his father and sister currently still live)."</ref>
* [[Joseph Hewes]] (1730–1779), signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]], born in Princeton<ref>Elliott, Khristine. [https://www.proquest.com/docview/443197540 "Historical Ties"], ''[[Battle Creek Enquirer]]'', July 4, 2003. Accessed November 2, 2013. "Joseph Hewes isn't one of the most well-known signers of the Declaration of Independence, but he's got a built-in fan base in Calhoun, Branch and Barry counties.... Born in Princeton, NJ, in 1730, he went on to graduate from Princeton College."</ref>
* [[Charles Hodge]] (1797–1878), theologian and Principal of [[Princeton Theological Seminary]]<ref>Anderson, Robert W. [http://www.wrs.edu/Materials_for_Web_Site/Journals/4-2%20Aug-1997/Anderson%20-%20Charles%20Hodge.pdf "A Short Biography of Charles Hodge"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104184840/http://www.wrs.edu/Materials_for_Web_Site/Journals/4-2%20Aug-1997/Anderson%20-%20Charles%20Hodge.pdf |date=November 4, 2013 }}, ''WRS Journal'' 4/2 (August 1997) 9–13, [[Western Reformed Seminary]]. Accessed November 2, 2013. "His son and biographer, A. A. Hodge, recorded that he 'reached his home, in Princeton, about the 18th of September 1828 Where There Was Joy.' His son, then being five years of age, added that this was 'the first abiding image of his father.{{'"}}</ref> 
* [[Herbert Huffman]] (1905–1968), musician and choir director, founder of the [[American Boychoir School]]<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/article/marysville-journal-tribune-herbert-huffm/135439300/ "Personal Mention"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119172101/https://www.newspapers.com/article/marysville-journal-tribune-herbert-huffm/135439300/ |date=November 19, 2023 }}, ''Marysville Journal-Tribune'', May 17, 1951. Accessed November 19, 2023, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Huffman left Sunday evening with the Boy Choir for their home in Princeton, N. J., after spending the Mother's Day week-end in Marysville with their mothers, Mrs. H. I. Huffman and Mrs. B. J. Southard, and other relatives."</ref>
* [[Harold L. Humes]] (1926–1992), novelist who was the originator of ''[[The Paris Review]]'' literary magazine<ref>Teicholz, Tom. [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-teicholz/doc-on-pbs-the-life-and-f_b_149538.html "''Doc'' on PBS: The life and fictions of Harold Humes"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212051615/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-teicholz/doc-on-pbs-the-life-and-f_b_149538.html |date=February 12, 2016 }}, ''[[Huffington Post]]'', May 25, 2011. Accessed December 10, 2018. "Harold L. Humes was born in 1926 in Douglas, Arizona. His father was a chemical engineer. The family moved to Princeton New Jersey where Humes attended high school and got the nickname 'Doc', based on the crazy scientist character 'Doc Huer' in the Buck Rogers comics."</ref>
* [[Guy Hutchinson (comedian)|Guy Hutchinson]] (born 1974), author, broadcaster, theme park historian and comedian<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/unofficial-sesame-place-podcast-guy-MaV1LO7SdUv/|title=Unofficial Sesame Place Podcast|website=Listen Notes|date=May 14, 2019 |language=en|access-date=2020-01-17}}</ref><ref>English, Chris. [https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/article/20150702/NEWS/307029891 "New book on Sesame Place coming out Monday"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806120030/https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/article/20150702/NEWS/307029891 |date=August 6, 2020 }}, ''[[Bucks County Courier Times]]'', July 2, 2015. Accessed January 17, 2020. "It's written by Guy Hutchinson and Chris Mercaldo, who both used to visit the park as children. Hutchinson, who grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and now lives in East Windsor, New Jersey, has also been back several times as a parent, he said."</ref>
* [[Micky James]] (born 1993), singer, songwriter and musician<ref>Olivier, Bobby. [https://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/2015/07/must-hear_nj_the_karma_killers_warped_tour.html "Must-hear N.J.: Princeton rockers The Karma Killers live the Warped Tour dream"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312122217/https://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/2015/07/must-hear_nj_the_karma_killers_warped_tour.html |date=March 12, 2021 }}, NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], July 16, 2015, updated January 17, 2019. Accessed December 5, 2020. "Micky James, Karma's flamboyant frontman, says he's happy to be near home, but life on the road has been surreal.... Vocals: Micky James, 22, of Princeton"</ref>
* [[Barbara Piasecka Johnson]] (1937–2013), Polish-born American humanitarian, philanthropist, art connoisseur and collector<ref>Tagliabue, John. [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/11/world/a-us-angel-with-millions-helps-walesa.html "A U.S. Angel With Millions Helps Walesa"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203003031/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/11/world/a-us-angel-with-millions-helps-walesa.html |date=February 3, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 11, 1989. Accessed August 22, 2013. "On June 1, the Solidarity leader signed a letter of intent with Czeslaw Tolwinski, the director of the big Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, and Barbara Piasecka Johnson, a Polish-born American heiress who lives in Princeton, to create a shipbuilding company."</ref>
* [[Hallett Johnson]] (1888–1968), career diplomat who served as the [[United States Ambassador to Costa Rica]]<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/08/12/76961447.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 "Hallett Johnson, Served As Diplomat 36 Years"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 12, 1968. Accessed June 13, 2022. "Hallett Johnson, a career foreign service officer who was Ambassador to Costa Rica from 1945 to 1947, died yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital. Mr. Johnson, who was 81 years old and lived in Princeton, N. J., was traveling to his summer home in Bar Harbor, Me., when he was stricken."</ref>
* [[Robert Wood Johnson II]] (1893–1968), Chairman of [[Johnson & Johnson]] lived in [[Morven (Princeton, New Jersey)|Morven]]<ref>Gardner, Joel R.; and Harrison, Andrew R. [http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/web-assets/2005/01/the-robert-wood-johnson-foundation "The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: The Early Years"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103224614/http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/web-assets/2005/01/the-robert-wood-johnson-foundation |date=November 3, 2013 }}, [[The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]]. Accessed November 2, 2013. "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. His marriage broke up in 1930, and his wife and child remained at Bellevue, while he relocated with his new wife, Margaret, to Morven, in Princeton, which later became the governor's mansion."</ref>
* [[John Katzenbach]] (born 1950), author of popular fiction<ref>[http://www.johnkatzenbach.com/faq/ FAQs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220114202339/http://www.johnkatzenbach.com/faq/ |date=January 14, 2022 }}, JohnKatzenbach.com. Accessed January 14, 2022. "He was born in Princeton, New Jersey, attended The Phillips Exeter Academy (barely graduating by the skin of his teeth) and Bard College."</ref>
* [[Nick Kovalakides]] (born 1939/1940), [[javelin throw]]er<ref>Motsinger, Caleb. [https://www.yourobserver.com/news/2014/oct/22/your-neighbor-nick-kovalakides/ "Your Neighbor: Nick Kovalakides"], ''[[Observer Media Group|Observer]]'', October 22, 2014. Accessed October 13, 2024. "He grew up in Princeton, N.J., were he graduated from Princeton High School in 1957 after winning the state championship in the javelin three years in a row, as well as becoming state discus champion his senior year."</ref>
* [[George F. Kennan]] (1904–2005), diplomat, historian, fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study<ref>[[Tim Weiner|Weiner, Tim]]; and [[Barbara Crossette|Crossette, Barbara]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/politics/18kennan.html "George F. Kennan Dies at 101; Leading Strategist of Cold War"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502184313/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/politics/18kennan.html |date=May 2, 2015 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 18, 2005. Accessed November 2, 2013. "George F. Kennan, the American diplomat who did more than any other envoy of his generation to shape United States policy during the cold war, died on Thursday night in Princeton, N.J. He was 101."</ref>
* [[Gina Kolata]] (born 1948), reporter for ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_reporters/kolata.html "Ask a Reporter: Gina Kolata"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113142833/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_reporters/kolata.html |date=November 13, 2012 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]''. Accessed August 22, 2013. "Ms. Kolata is married and has two children. She lives in Princeton, N.J."</ref>
* [[Barbara Krauthamer]] (born 1967), historian and author<ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brattleboro-reformer-nh-students-r/125173305/ "N.H. students rally against South Africa"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530234441/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brattleboro-reformer-nh-students-r/125173305/ |date=May 30, 2023 }}, ''[[Brattleboro Reformer]]'', October 11, 1986. Accessed November 19, 2023, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "The summer was kind of latent but everybody is back up this fall, said Barbara Krauthamer, a sophomore from Princeton, N.J., who organized the Dartmouth rally attended by about 150 people."</ref>
* [[Paul Krugman]] (born 1953), Nobel Prize winner, economist, professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University<ref>Staff. [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june12/krugman_06-18.html "Paul Krugman's Solution to Getting Fiscal Stimulus? It Involves Aliens"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122012000/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june12/krugman_06-18.html |date=January 22, 2014 }}, ''[[PBS NewsHour]]'', June 18, 2012. Accessed August 22, 2013. "The easy economics, Krugman told us at his home in Princeton, is that government should spend to goose the economy, because the private sector, for various reasons, simply won't."</ref>
* [[Matt Lalli]] (born 1986), professional lacrosse player for the [[Boston Cannons]] of [[Major League Lacrosse]]<ref>[http://www.gocolgateraiders.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=240 Matt Lalli] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112133143/http://www.gocolgateraiders.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=240 |date=January 12, 2016 }}, [[Colgate Raiders men's lacrosse]]. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Hometown: Princeton Junction, N.J. High School: West Windsor Plainsboro... Born on March 27, 1986 in Princeton, N.J."</ref>
* [[Chang-Rae Lee]] (born 1965), writer, Princeton University professor<ref>McGrath, Charles. [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/magazine/deep-in-suburbia.html "Deep In Suburbia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722124437/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/magazine/deep-in-suburbia.html |date=July 22, 2016 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 29, 2004. Accessed November 2, 2013. "Lee now lives, with his wife and two young daughters, in Princeton, N.J. -- just a stone's throw, not accidentally, from a golf course."</ref>
* [[Arthur Lithgow]] (1915–2004), actor, director, educator, and managing director of Princeton's [[McCarter Theatre]]<ref>Staff. [http://m.npr.org/news/Books/143147964 "Lessons From John Lithgow's Onstage 'Education'"], [[NPR]], December 5, 2011. Accessed November 2, 2013. "You have just made a huge splash on Broadway, just won your first Tony Award, gone on to success that your father could never have dreamed, in fact you never really thought possible, a repertory actor. And at the same time you are living at his home in Princeton, and he has just been fired."</ref>
* [[John Lithgow]] (born 1945), actor, lived in Princeton in his late teens<ref>Ouzounian, Richard . [https://www.proquest.com/docview/438805489 "Shameless lunacy; John Lithgow wild and crazy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Actor has loosened with time, writes Richard Ouzounian"], ''[[Toronto Star]]'', April 11, 2005. Accessed November 2, 2013. "Lithgow travelled constantly during the first 16 years of his life thanks to his father's vagabond thespian activities, finally settling down in Princeton, NJ when his dad became head of the university theatre there."</ref>
* [[Emily Mann (director)|Emily Mann]] (born 1952), artistic director of Princeton's [[McCarter Theatre]]<ref>Plump, Wendy. [http://www.princetonmagazine.com/emily-manns-mccarter-magic/ "Emily Mann's McCarter Magic"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203022807/http://www.princetonmagazine.com/emily-manns-mccarter-magic/ |date=December 3, 2013 }}, ''Princeton magazine''. Accessed November 30, 2013. "This is the setting recently encountered at Emily Mann's Mercer Street home in Princeton: A warm kitchen on a cold winter morning; staffers from McCarter Theatre filling bowls with fruit and setting out muffins; the playwright herself over in a corner wrestling an espresso machine into submission."</ref>
* [[Thomas Mann]] (1875–1955), author<ref name=NYT1985/><ref>Leitch, Alexander. [http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/mann_thomas.html "Mann, Thomas"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701000437/http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/mann_thomas.html |date=July 1, 2014 }}, from ''A Princeton Companion'', [[Princeton University Press]] (1978). Accessed November 30, 2013. "During their stay in Princeton Mr. and Mrs. Mann lived in the red brick Georgian house at the corner of Stockton Street and Library Place. Here, working three or four hours every morning, seven days a week, he completed ''Lotte in Weimar'' and started the fourth volume of the ''Joseph'' tales."</ref>
* [[Jumana Manna]] (born 1987), [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] visual artist<ref>Heinrich, Will. [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/arts/design/jumana-manna-film-foragers-review.html "In Jumana Manna’s Film, a Wild Plant Crosses the Political Line"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119193739/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/arts/design/jumana-manna-film-foragers-review.html |date=January 19, 2023 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 29, 2022. Accessed April 19, 2024. "''Wild Relatives'' doesn’t hit quite as hard as ''Foragers,'' perhaps because its content isn’t quite as personal for Manna, who was born in Princeton, N.J., but raised in Jerusalem."</ref>
* [[Henry Martin (cartoonist)|Henry Martin]] (1925 2020), cartoonist at ''[[The New Yorker]]'', lived and worked in Princeton<ref>Staff. [https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S27/07/02O04/index.xml?section=topstories "Cartoonist Henry Martin donates art, books"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413210758/https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S27/07/02O04/index.xml?section=topstories |date=April 13, 2016 }}, ''News at Princeton'', April 7, 2010. Accessed November 30, 2013. "The cartoonist Henry Martin, a 1948 graduate of Princeton University, has donated nearly 700 original drawings along with some of his humor books to the Princeton University Library.... Martin, a longtime Princeton resident, continues to draw a cartoon for the Office of Development each November."</ref>
* [[Alpheus T. Mason]] (1899–1989), legal scholar and biographer<ref>[[Joan Riddell Cook|Cook, Joan]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/01/obituaries/alpheus-mason-an-ex-professor-and-author-90.html "Alpheus Mason, An Ex-Professor And Author, 90"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525104206/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/01/obituaries/alpheus-mason-an-ex-professor-and-author-90.html |date=May 25, 2015 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 1, 1989. Accessed February 13, 2022. "Alpheus Thomas Mason, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Princeton University and one of the country's foremost judicial biographers, died yesterday at his home in Princeton, N.J., after a long illness."</ref>
* [[John McPhee]] (born 1931), writer, lives in Princeton<ref name=NYT1985/><ref>Hessler, Peter. [http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5997/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-3-john-mcphee "John McPhee, The Art of Nonfiction No. 3"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926100528/http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5997/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-3-john-mcphee |date=September 26, 2013 }}, ''[[The Paris Review]]'', Spring 2010, No. 192. Accessed November 30, 2013. "John Angus McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1931, attended college in his hometown, and still lives there today."</ref>
* [[Brad Mays]] (born 1955), screenwriter, award-winning stage and film director.
* [[Rachel Lambert Mellon]] (1910–2014), horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist and art collector<ref>[[Robert D. McFadden|McFadden, Robert D.]] [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/us/rachel-mellon-heiress-known-for-garden-designs-is-dead-at-103.html?_r=0 "Rachel Mellon, an Heiress Known for Her Green Thumb, Dies at 103"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814054733/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/us/rachel-mellon-heiress-known-for-garden-designs-is-dead-at-103.html?_r=0 |date=August 14, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 17, 2014. Accessed July 23, 2015. "Rachel Lowe Lambert was born in Princeton on Aug. 9, 1910, one of three children of Gerard Barnes Lambert and the former Rachel Lowe."</ref>
* [[Lyle and Erik Menendez]] (born 1968 and born 1970), two brothers convicted of murdering their parents in 1989<ref>Helping, Steve. [https://people.com/crime/menendez-brothers-murders-30-years-later/ "30 Years After the Menendez Brothers Murders, Read People's 1990 Cover Story"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220613012930/https://people.com/crime/menendez-brothers-murders-30-years-later/ |date=June 13, 2022 }}, ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'', August 20, 2019. Accessed June 12, 2022.</ref>
* [[Buddy Miller|Steve "Buddy" Miller]] (born 1952), Nashville session musician, grew up in Princeton and attended Princeton High School<ref>Dougherty, Steve. [https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324616604578304381471557880 "In Nashville, the Buddy System"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112220833/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324616604578304381471557880 |date=January 12, 2014 }}, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', February 21, 2013. Accessed November 30, 2013. "Mr. Miller, an Air Force brat who was born in Ohio and grew up in Maryland and Princeton, N.J., where he attended high school, sees no contradiction between his Yankee roots and his love for country music."</ref>
* [[E. Spencer Miller]] (1817–1879), Dean of the [[University of Pennsylvania Law School]]<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19709051/the_times/ "E. Spencer Miller. Death Without a Bit of Warning"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817182454/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19709051/the_times/ |date=August 17, 2019 }}, ''[[The Times (Philadelphia)|The Times]]'', March 7, 1879. Accessed August 19, 2019. "E. Spencer Miller was born at Princeton, N. J., sixty - two years ago, his father, Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D., being at the time professor of ecclesiastical history in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, a chair which he filled with great ability for many years, besides being a distinguished Presbyterian divine."</ref>
* [[Jeannette Mirsky]] (1903–1987), author who was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in 1947 for her biographical writings on the history of exploration<ref>McDowell, Edwin. [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/20/arts/jeannette-m-ginsburg-83-author-and-editor.html "Jeannette M. Ginsburg, 83, Author and Editor"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125043143/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/20/arts/jeannette-m-ginsburg-83-author-and-editor.html |date=January 25, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 20, 1987. Accessed November 7, 2016. "Born in Bradley Beach, N.J., and raised in New York City, Mrs. Ginsburg graduated from Barnard College in 1924. After her marriage to Edward B. Ginsburg, an industrial engineer in the clothing industry, she lived in South Carolina, moving to Princeton in 1950."</ref>
* [[Toni Morrison]] (1931–2019), author, Nobel Laureate, Princeton University professor<ref>Abel, David. [https://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/07/31/romney_apologizes_for_use_of_expression/ "Romney apologizes for use of expression; To some, 'tar baby' is racial pejorative"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222501/http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/07/31/romney_apologizes_for_use_of_expression/ |date=March 4, 2016 }}, ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', July 31, 2006. Accessed November 30, 2013. "In 1981, author Toni Morrison published a novel titled ''Tar Baby'', and she has compared the expression to other racial epithets.... Reached at her home near Princeton University, where she teaches, Morrison called the expression 'antiquated' and one that's 'attractive to some people, when they begin to search for hints of racism.{{'"}}</ref><ref>[[Hilton Als|Als, Hilton]]. [https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/10/27/031027fa_fact_als "Ghosts in the House"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621123809/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/10/27/031027fa_fact_als |date=June 21, 2014 }}, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', October 27, 2003. Accessed November 30, 2013. "Morrison owns a home in Princeton, where she founded the Princeton Atelier."</ref>
* [[Paul Muldoon]] (born 1951), Irish poet<ref>Pristin, Terry. [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/02/nyregion/new-jersey-daily-briefing-princeton-poet-wins-prize.html "New Jersey Daily Briefing; Princeton Poet Wins Prize"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202233305/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/02/nyregion/new-jersey-daily-briefing-princeton-poet-wins-prize.html |date=February 2, 2017 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 2, 1997. Accessed August 22, 2013. "Mr. Muldoon, who lives in Princeton Township, has won numerous prizes for his work, including the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and the Irish Literature Prize."</ref>
* [[Jeanette Mundt]] (born 1982), painter, best known for her works in the 2019 [[Whitney Biennial]]<ref>Hockley, Rujeko; Panetta, Jane. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7xupDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 ''Whitney Biennial 2019''], p. 86. [[Yale University Press]], 2019. {{ISBN|9780300242751}}. Accessed October 29, 2019. "Jeanette Mundt - Born 1982 in Princeton, NJ; lives in Somerset, NJ"</ref>
* [[James Murray (comedian)|James Murray]] (born 1976), improvisational comedian, author and actor who has starred on ''[[Impractical Jokers]]''<ref>Anthes, Rob. [https://www.communitynews.org/archives/impractical-jokers-james-murray-talks-about-living-in-princeton-his-new-novel-don-t-move/article_eaa91bc8-f951-5c89-ac9f-06c31ac668e2.html "Impractical Jokers’ James Murray talks about living in Princeton, his new novel ''Don’t Move''"], ''Community News'', October 4, 2020, updated January 11, 2022. Accessed February 3, 2025. "Murray, 44, has been busy away from his role with Impractical Jokers, too. He moved to Princeton last year, a relocation that also saw him purchase his first car."</ref>
* [[John Forbes Nash Jr.]] (1928–2015), mathematician, Nobel Prize winner, subject of ''[[A Beautiful Mind (book)|A Beautiful Mind]],'' Princeton University professor<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/filmmore/pt.html ''A Brilliant Madness'' Transcript] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307140915/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/filmmore/pt.html |date=March 7, 2017 }}, [[American Experience]]. Accessed November 30, 2013. "Narrator: John Nash lives in Princeton with Alicia and their son Johnny, who is also a mathematician and suffers from schizophrenia."</ref>
* [[Charles Neider]] (1915–2001), author, Twain scholar; resided on Southern Way<ref>[http://www.towntopics.com/jul0809/book.php Town Topics (Princeton) DVD Review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011055648/http://www.towntopics.com/jul0809/book.php |date=October 11, 2014 }} Retrieved, 11/27/2020</ref> 
* [[John von Neumann]] (1903−1957), Hungarian-American mathematician at [[Princeton University]] and [[Institute for Advanced Study]]
* [[Bebe Neuwirth]] (born 1958), actress, grew up in Princeton<ref>Scott, Debra. [https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,318915,00.html "Bebe Neuwirth: Close-up on Bebe Neuwirth -- ''Green Card'' is her first big movie role"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702110000/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,318915,00.html |date=July 2, 2014 }}, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', December 21, 1990. Accessed November 30, 2013. "When director Peter Weir's film ''Green Card'' opens this week, the Princeton, N.J.-born, bicoastal actress, who is married to actor-director Paul Dorman, may get her wish again."</ref>
* [[Joyce Carol Oates]] (born 1938), writer, Princeton University professor<ref>Nutt, Amy Ellis. [http://www.nj.com/insidejersey/index.ssf/2010/03/joyce_carol_oates_profile.html "Joyce Carol Oates: Princeton's 'dark lady of fiction' comes shining"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202024459/http://www.nj.com/insidejersey/index.ssf/2010/03/joyce_carol_oates_profile.html |date=December 2, 2013 }}, ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', March 15, 2010. Accessed November 30, 2013. "Sitting in her bucolic backyard in Princeton, Joyce Carol Oates shimmers with a kind of delicate intensity."</ref>
* [[John O'Hara]] (1905–1970), author, lived in and is buried in Princeton<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/17/archives/joan-ohara-buried-in-princeton-rites.html "John O'Hara Buried in Princeton Rites"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723064748/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/17/archives/joan-ohara-buried-in-princeton-rites.html |date=July 23, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 17, 1970. Accessed November 30, 2013. "Princeton, N.J., April 16 John O'Hara, the novelist, was buried here today after a funeral service in the Princeton University Chapel. Mr. O'Hara had lived here since 1953."</ref>
* [[Charles Smith Olden]] (1799–1876), Governor of New Jersey during the [[American Civil War]]<ref>[http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_new_jersey/col2-content/main-content-list/title_olden_charles.html New Jersey Governor Charles Smith Olden] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031024853/http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_new_jersey/col2-content/main-content-list/title_olden_charles.html |date=October 31, 2014 }}, [[National Governors Association]]. Accessed June 15, 2014. "Charles S. Olden, the twenty-fourth governor of New Jersey, was born in Princeton, New Jersey on February 19, 1799."</ref>
* [[A. Dayton Oliphant]] (1887–1963), Associate Justice of the [[New Jersey Supreme Court]] from 1945 to 1946, and from 1948 to 1957<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1963/06/27/archives/dayton-oliphant-exjudge-75-dies-headed-court-of-errors-and-appeals.html "Dayton Oliphant, Ex-Judge, 75, Dies; Headed Court of Errors and Appeals in New Jersey"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703022009/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/06/27/archives/dayton-oliphant-exjudge-75-dies-headed-court-of-errors-and-appeals.html |date=July 3, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 27, 1963. Accessed July 2, 2016.</ref>
* [[Gregory Olsen]] (born 1945), entrepreneur, engineer and scientist who, in October 2005, became the third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the [[International Space Station]]<ref>George, Jason. [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/nyregion/from-a-c-student-to-a-celestial-traveler.html "From a C Student to a Celestial Traveler"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722124506/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/nyregion/from-a-c-student-to-a-celestial-traveler.html |date=July 22, 2016 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 16, 2004. Accessed December 14, 2013. "'I want to share the experience with school groups, especially in the inner cities and more remote areas,' Mr. Olsen, who lives in Princeton, N.J., said recently by telephone and e-mail from Star City, Russia, where he began training last month."</ref>
* [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] (1904–1967), theoretical physicist, director of the Institute for Advanced Study<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0422.html "J. Robert Oppenheimer, Atom Bomb Pioneer, Dies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120135726/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0422.html |date=January 20, 2012 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 19, 1967. Accessed June 15, 2014. "Princeton, N. J., Feb. 18 -- Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist, died here tonight at the age of 62. A spokesman for the family said Dr. Oppenheimer died at 8 o'clock in his home on the grounds of the Institute for Advanced Study."</ref>
* [[Alicia Ostriker]] (born 1937), poet and scholar who writes Jewish [[feminist poetry]]<ref>[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alicia-ostriker Alicia Ostriker] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114152228/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alicia-ostriker |date=November 14, 2017 }}, [[Poetry Foundation]]. Accessed January 26, 2020. "She lives in Princeton, NJ, is professor emerita of English at Rutgers University."</ref>
* [[Jeremiah P. Ostriker]] (born 1937), astronomer<ref>[https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/entertainment/2014/09/20/alicia-ostriker-speak-highland-park/15670621/ "Poet Alicia Ostriker to read in Highland Park"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930094050/https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/entertainment/2014/09/20/alicia-ostriker-speak-highland-park/15670621/ |date=September 30, 2020 }}, ''[[Courier News]]'', September 20, 2014. Accessed January 26, 2020. "She still lives in Princeton with her husband of 56 years, astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker."</ref>
* [[Unity Phelan]] (born 1994 or 1995), ballet dancer who joined the [[New York City Ballet]] in 2013 and was promoted to soloist in 2017<ref>Amato, Jennifer. [https://centraljersey.com/2020/05/12/princeton-ballet-soloist-teaches-virtual-class-for-new-york-city-ballet/ "Princeton ballet soloist teaches virtual class for New York City Ballet"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724064418/https://centraljersey.com/2020/05/12/princeton-ballet-soloist-teaches-virtual-class-for-new-york-city-ballet/ |date=July 24, 2021 }}, CentralJersey.com, May 12, 2020. Accessed March 21, 2021. "The New York City Ballet is offering virtual ballet dance classes weekly as part of its new 'digital season' in the wake of COVID-19. Pictured is Unity Phelan of Princeton, who began her dance training at the age of five at the Princeton Ballet School."</ref>
* [[John Popper]] (born 1967), lead singer of the band [[Blues Traveler]]<ref>Vanderbeek, Brian via [[McClatchy Newspapers]]. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/2013/11/14/blues-traveler-is-the-rare-jam-band-with-chart-topping-hits/ "Blues Traveler is the rare jam band with chart-topping hits"], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', November 14, 2013. Accessed June 15, 2014. "And such peace befits a band that traces its roots to the idyllic New Jersey town of Princeton. It's home to a great Ivy League university and apparently — at least in the 1970s — as a breeding ground for jam band leaders. Phish frontman Trey Anastasio attended preppy Princeton Day School just a couple years before Popper and Spin Doctors founder Chris Barron were classmates at Princeton High."</ref>
* [[Andy Potts]] (born 1976), triathlete who represented the United States in [[triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics]]<ref>Alden, Bill. [http://www.towntopics.com/jul2104/sports1.html "PHS Alum Potts Finds Direction In Triathlon; Now Aims to Soar at Athens Summer Games"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918115601/http://www.towntopics.com/jul2104/sports1.html |date=September 18, 2020 }}, ''[[Town Topics (newspaper)|Town Topics]]'', July 21, 2004. Accessed December 10, 2018. "After completing a stellar swimming career at the University of Michigan, Andy Potts found himself drifting.... As a kid growing up in Princeton, Potts focused his efforts on becoming a top swimmer."</ref>
* [[Pete Raymond]] (born 1947), former [[rowing (sport)|rower]] who competed in the [[1968 Summer Olympics]] and in the [[1972 Summer Olympics]]<ref>Fremon, Suzanne S. [https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/13/archives/state-has-13-on-olympic-team.html "State Has 13 on Olympic Team"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623070724/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/13/archives/state-has-13-on-olympic-team.html |date=June 23, 2019 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 13, 1972. Accessed November 22, 2017. "Peter Raymond, 25, of Princeton, a member of the Olympic eight‐oar crew, may be the New Jerseyan who is most likely to come home with a medal, perhaps even a gold medal.... Mr. Raymond has been rowing since his prep school days at South Kent School, and, as he said, 'rowed all through Princeton,' where he was stroke and captain of the varsity crew in his senior year. He was a member of the 1968 Olympic team, in the four without coxswain."</ref>
* [[Christopher Reeve]] (1952–2004), actor, grew up in Princeton, attended [[Princeton Day School]]<ref>Hillier, Jordan. [http://www.princetonmagazine.com/christopher-reeve/ "Christopher Reeve"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415002326/http://www.princetonmagazine.com/christopher-reeve/ |date=April 15, 2014 }}, ''Princeton Magazine''. Accessed June 15, 2014. "Born in New York City in 1952 and raised from the age of four in Princeton, Reeve's love of acting was evident from the days when he and his brother Benjamin turned large cardboard boxes into pirate ships for their own action adventures."</ref>
* [[Paul Robeson]] (1898–1976), singer, actor, athlete, civil rights activist, born and raised in Princeton<ref>[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/singer-actor-athlete-activist-paul-robeson-dies " Jan 23, 1976: Singer, actor, athlete, activist Paul Robeson dies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140925093720/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/singer-actor-athlete-activist-paul-robeson-dies |date=September 25, 2014 }}, [[History (U.S. TV channel)|The History Channel]]. Accessed November 22, 2014. "Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, the son of a father born into slavery and a mother raised as a vocal abolitionist."</ref>
* [[Arnold Roth]] (born 1929), cartoonist, longtime Princeton resident<ref>Dube, Ilene. [http://www.princetoninfo.com/index.php/component/us1more/?key=3-21-12roth "Arnold Roth Brings His Gags Back to Princeton"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220072822/http://www.princetoninfo.com/index.php/component/us1more/?key=3-21-12roth |date=December 20, 2014 }}, ''U.S.1 Newspaper'', March 21, 2012. Accessed November 22, 2014. "Roth, who lived in Princeton from 1963 to 1984, will present an illustrated lecture and sign copies of his books at the opening reception March 24."</ref>
* [[William E. Schluter]] (1927–2018), politician who served in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] and the [[New Jersey Senate]]<ref>Shea, Kevin. [https://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2018/08/bill_schluter_former_state_senator_who_ran_for_governor_dies_at_90.html "Bill Schluter, former state senator who ran for governor, dies at 90"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807190053/https://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2018/08/bill_schluter_former_state_senator_who_ran_for_governor_dies_at_90.html |date=August 7, 2018 }}, NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], August 6, 2018. Accessed August 7, 2018. "Born in Bronxville, New York and raised in Princeton, Schluter graduated from Princeton University in 1950, where he played varsity hockey all four years."</ref>
* [[Ralph Schoenstein]] (1933–2006), writer, lived in Princeton up to his death<ref>Lavietes, Stuart. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/arts/28scho.html "Ralph Schoenstein, Humorist and Author, Is Dead at 73"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722124532/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/arts/28scho.html |date=July 22, 2016 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 28, 2006. Accessed November 22, 2014. "Ralph Schoenstein, a humorist who was a commentator on National Public Radio's ''All Things Considered,'' a prolific contributor to magazines and newspapers, the author of 18 books, and a ghostwriter whose works included Bill Cosby's ''Fatherhood,'' died on Thursday in Philadelphia. He was 73 and lived in Princeton, N.J."</ref>
* [[John Schneider (baseball)|John Schneider]] (born 1980), [[professional baseball]] [[Coach (baseball)|coach]] for the [[Toronto Blue Jays]]<ref>Johnson, Greg. [https://www.trentonian.com/sports/lawrence-high-grad-john-schneider-rising-in-blue-jays-system/article_6ff0782f-0862-5127-9e88-ddb648d12f1e.html "Lawrence High grad John Schneider rising in Blue Jays' system as a manager"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128122619/https://www.trentonian.com/sports/lawrence-high-grad-john-schneider-rising-in-blue-jays-system/article_6ff0782f-0862-5127-9e88-ddb648d12f1e.html |date=November 28, 2018 }}, ''[[The Trentonian]]'', April 10, 2018. Accessed December 5, 2018. "During John Schneider's sixth season as a prospect in the Toronto Blue Jays organization, his career in professional baseball took a twist. A series of concussions and other injuries piled up, and the Princeton native steadily came to the realization that his playing days were almost over."</ref>
* [[Bill Schroeder (baseball)|Bill Schroeder]] (born 1958), [[Major League Baseball]] player for the [[Milwaukee Brewers]] and [[California Angels]], Brewers commentator for [[Fox Sports Wisconsin]]<ref>[http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/team/broadcasters.jsp?c_id=mil Broadcasters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141122201343/http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/team/broadcasters.jsp?c_id=mil |date=November 22, 2014 }}, [[Milwaukee Brewers]]. Accessed November 29, 2014. "Born in Baltimore and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, Schroeder graduated from West Windsor Plainsboro High School, where he earned All-State honors his junior and senior years."</ref>
* [[Roger Sessions]] (1896–1985), composer, Princeton University professor<ref>Olmstead, Andrea. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1jOvpanYR5EC&pg=PA368 ''Roger Sessions: A Biography''], p. 368. Accessed December 11, 2018. [[Routledge]], 2008. {{ISBN|9780415977135}}. "After Lisl's death, July 9, 1982, Sessions lived alone at 63 Stanworth Lane in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Tsutomu Shimomura]] (born 1964), Japanese-American scientist and computer security expert<ref>[http://www.takedown.com/bio/tsutomu.html "Tsutomu Shimomura"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104055525/http://www.takedown.com/bio/tsutomu.html |date=November 4, 2020 }}, Takedown. Accessed December 11, 2018. "A Japanese citizen, Shimomura was raised in Princeton, New Jersey."</ref>
* [[Andrew Shue]] (born 1967), actor and professional soccer player, grew up in northern New Jersey with sister, actress [[Elisabeth Shue]], lives in Princeton<ref>Stetler, Carrie. [http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/actor_andrew_shue_becomes_inte.html "Actor Andrew Shue becomes internet mogul with CafeMom"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214143557/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/actor_andrew_shue_becomes_inte.html |date=December 14, 2014 }}, [[NJ.com]], March 24, 2009. Accessed November 29, 2014. "'I'd describe myself now as more of as a social media entrepreneur,' said Shue, 42, who grew up in South Orange and now lives in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Michael Showalter]] (born 1970), comedian, actor, writer, and director, born in Princeton, attended Princeton High School<ref>Sirucek, Stefan. [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-sirucek/michael-showalter_b_2287283.html "An Interview With Michael Showalter"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202235000/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-sirucek/michael-showalter_b_2287283.html |date=February 2, 2017 }}, ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', December 18, 2012. Accessed November 29, 2014. "[Q] Your parents were both Ivy League professors and you grew up in Princeton, NJ. How nerdy do you consider yourself on a scale of 1 to Spock? [A] 'Tribble.' Is that an acceptable answer?"</ref>
* [[Barbara Boggs Sigmund]] (1939–1990), mayor of Princeton<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/11/obituaries/barbara-boggs-sigmund-mayor-of-princeton-and-ex-teacher-51.html "Barbara Boggs Sigmund, Mayor Of Princeton and Ex-Teacher, 51"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225062918/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/11/obituaries/barbara-boggs-sigmund-mayor-of-princeton-and-ex-teacher-51.html |date=December 25, 2022 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 11, 1990. Accessed November 29, 2014. "Barbara Boggs Sigmund, the Mayor of Princeton and a member of one of the nation's best-known political families, died of cancer yesterday at her home in Princeton, N.J. She was 51 years old."</ref>
* [[Peter Singer]] (born 1946), moral philosopher, bioethicist and Princeton University professor<ref>Bailey, Ronald. [http://reason.com/archives/2000/12/01/the-pursuit-of-happiness-peter "The Pursuit of Happiness, Peter Singer interviewed by Ronald Bailey; Controversial philosopher Peter Singer argues for animal rights, utilitarian ethics, and A Darwinian Left."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128020824/http://reason.com/archives/2000/12/01/the-pursuit-of-happiness-peter |date=November 28, 2014 }}, ''[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]'', December 2000. Accessed November 29, 2014. "Aside from the Manhattan apartment — he asked me not to give the address or describe it as a condition of granting an interview - he and his wife Renata, to whom he has been married for some three decades, have a house in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Shelley Smith (actress)|Shelley Smith]] (1952–2023), actress<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/9495819/ "'The Associates' suits Shelley Smith"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222075719/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/9495819/ |date=December 22, 2015 }}, ''[[The Paris News]]'', November 9, 1979. Accessed December 12, 2015. "Born in Princeton, N.J., Smith graduated from Connecticut College with a degree in Art History."</ref>
* [[Tom Snow]] (born 1947), musician<ref>[http://www.tomsnowmusic.com/bio Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118213501/http://www.tomsnowmusic.com/bio |date=November 18, 2013 }}, Tom Snow Music. Accessed November 22, 2014. "Tom was born in 1947, in Princeton, NJ. In 1965 he entered the Berklee College of Music in Boston with the hope of becoming a jazz pianist."</ref>
* [[Gennady Spirin]] (born 1948), artist<ref>Norrie, Helen. [http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol10/no19/thelittleblackhen.html "Review of ''The Little Black Hen.''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112221410/http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol10/no19/thelittleblackhen.html |date=January 12, 2016 }}, ''CM Magazine'', May 21, 2004. Accessed August 29, 2014. "Gennady Spirin, the Moscow born artist who has done the artwork, is an accomplished and celebrated illustrator who now lives in Princeton, New Jersey."</ref>
* [[Doreen Canaday Spitzer]] (1914–2010), archaeologist<ref>[https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/archives/doreen-canaday-spitzer-papers Doreen Canaday Spitzer Papers], [[American School of Classical Studies at Athens]]. Accessed October 19, 2024. "In 1948, they move their growing family at Princeton, where they live the rest of their lives, he as Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University, she raising their four children and devoting herself to a wide variety of volunteer activities."</ref>
* [[Betsey Stockton]] ({{circa|1798}}–1865), educator and missionary, manumitted from slavery and later retired to and died in Princeton<ref>[https://www3.amherst.edu/~aardoc/Betsey_Stockton_Journal_1.html African-American Religion; A Historical Interpretation with Representative Documents - Betsey Stockton's Journal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112155249/https://www3.amherst.edu/~aardoc/Betsey_Stockton_Journal_1.html |date=January 12, 2016 }}, [[Amherst University]]. Accessed August 29, 2014. "In 1860 the son bought her a house in Princeton, close to the church."</ref>
* [[John P. Stockton]] (1826–1900), U.S. senator from New Jersey, lived in Princeton<ref>[http://www.nj.gov/lps/oag/ag_1877-1897_stockton_bio.htm John P. Stockton Attorney General 1877-1897] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903080630/http://www.nj.gov/lps/oag/ag_1877-1897_stockton_bio.htm |date=September 3, 2014 }}, Office of the [[Attorney General of New Jersey]]. Accessed August 29, 2014. "John P. Stockton was born in Princeton, New Jersey on August 2, 1826."</ref>
* [[Richard Stockton (Continental Congressman)|Richard Stockton]] (1730–1781), signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]], lived in and is buried in Princeton<ref>[http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/stockton_richard.html Stockton, Richard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915061539/http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/stockton_richard.html |date=September 15, 2015 }}, [[Princeton University]]. Accessed August 29, 2014. "Stockton, Richard 1748 (1730–1781), a member of the first graduating class, and the first alumnus elected a trustee, was born in Princeton of a Quaker family that was among the community's earliest settlers.... His health shattered, his estate pillaged, his fortune depleted, he continued to live in Princeton, an invalid, until his death from cancer on February 28, 1781, in his fifty-first year."</ref>
* [[Richard Stockton (U.S. senator)|Richard Stockton]] (1764–1828), U.S. senator from New Jersey, lived in Princeton<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=s000941 Stockton Richard (1764 - 1828)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080524023558/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000941 |date=May 24, 2008 }}, ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]''. Accessed August 29, 2014. "born in Princeton, N.J., April 17, 1764"</ref>
* [[Robert F. Stockton]] (1795–1866), [[United States Navy]] commodore, U.S. Military [[Governor of California]], lived in Princeton<ref>[http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-s/r-stockn.htm Captain Robert F. Stockton, USN (1795-1866)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141001234837/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-s/r-stockn.htm |date=October 1, 2014 }}, [[Naval Historical Center]]. Accessed August 29, 2014. "Robert Field Stockton was born in Princeton, New Jersey, on 20 August 1795."</ref>
* [[Janet Sorg Stoltzfus]], (1931–2004), educator, who established the Ta'iz Cooperative School, the first non-religious school in north Yemen<ref>Vogt, Ginna. [http://b-ys.org.uk/journal/obituaries/stoltzfus-janet-sorg "Janet Sorg Stoltzfus (1931–2004)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023140304/http://b-ys.org.uk/journal/obituaries/stoltzfus-janet-sorg |date=October 23, 2022 }}, The British-Yemeni Society. Accessed October 23, 2022. "When Bill retired from the foreign service in 1976, the Stoltzfuses moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where Janet taught English and Religion at the local independent school."</ref>
* [[Robert Stone (director)|Robert Stone]] (born 1958, class of 1976), director and [[documentary film]]maker<ref>Mroz, Jacqueline. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/nyregion/new-jersey/15sundancenj.html?_r=0 "Sundance Honor for Film of Early Save-the-Earth Activists"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211010455/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/nyregion/new-jersey/15sundancenj.html?_r=0 |date=December 11, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 13, 2009. Accessed December 10, 2018. "When he was just 11 years old and living in Princeton, Robert Stone borrowed his parents' Super 8 camera and made his first film, about the pollution he saw around him.... After attending Princeton High School, Mr. Stone studied history in college."</ref>
* [[Jon Tenney]] (born 1961), actor, born and raised in Princeton<ref>Cerasaro, Ashley J. [http://njmonthly.com/articles/lifestyle/people/closing-the-deal.html "Closing the Deal; Jon Tenney, Princeton-born star of TV's The Closer, has a knack for turning small roles into big breaks."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905005809/http://njmonthly.com/articles/lifestyle/people/closing-the-deal.html |date=September 5, 2014 }}, ''[[New Jersey Monthly]]'', November 14, 2011. Accessed August 29, 2014. "It's probably not a good idea to challenge a writer's vision when auditioning for a part on his television series, but that's exactly what Princeton native Jon Tenney did when he read for the role of Sergeant David Gabriel on TNT's hit drama ''The Closer.''"</ref>
* [[Paul Tulane]] (1801–1887), benefactor and namesake of [[Tulane University]]<ref>Hillier, Jordan. [http://www.princetonmagazine.com/vintage-princeton-paul-tulane/ "Vintage Princeton: Paul Tulane"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720183736/http://www.princetonmagazine.com/vintage-princeton-paul-tulane/ |date=July 20, 2014 }}, ''Princeton Magazine''. Accessed August 29, 2014. "When Tulane retired in 1857, after operating his business for close to 40 years, he bought the Walter Lowrie House at 83 Stockton Street in Princeton, where he then lived for 20 years until his death."</ref>
* [[Immanuel Velikovsky]] (1895–1979), controversial theorist and acquaintance of Albert Einstein<ref>Stevens, Ruth. [https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S12/26/63M02/index.xml "Library acquires papers of scientist and author Velikovsky"], ''News at Princeton'', July 29, 2005. Accessed August 29, 2014. "He lived first in New York City and later in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Brandon Wagner (baseball)|Brandon Wagner]] (born 1995), professional baseball player<ref>Johnson, Greg. [https://www.trentonian.com/2018/07/28/hopewell-native-brandon-wagner-hits-walk-off-single-for-thunder/ "Hopewell native Brandon Wagner hits walk-off single for Thunder"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111005413/https://www.trentonian.com/2018/07/28/hopewell-native-brandon-wagner-hits-walk-off-single-for-thunder/ |date=November 11, 2021 }}, ''[[The Trentonian]]'', July 28, 2018, updated August 25, 2021. Accessed November 10, 2021. "Wagner, who was born in Princeton and attended Immaculata High School in Somerville, said his mom, dad, sister and other relatives attended Saturday's game."</ref>
* [[Susie Ione Brown Waxwood]] (1902–2006), clubwoman and [[YWCA]] official in Princeton<ref>[https://www.towntopics.com/feb0806/story2.html "Longtime Resident Susie Waxwood Dies at 103"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407154708/https://www.towntopics.com/feb0806/story2.html |date=April 7, 2022 }}, ''[[Town Topics (newspaper)|Town Topics]]'', February 8, 2006. Accessed February 13, 2022. "Susie Waxwood, 103, the first African American to serve as executive director of the Princeton YWCA, died January 30 at The Pavilions at Forrestal, an assisted living facility in Plainsboro.... In 1925 she graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in English Literature. She married Howard B. Waxwood Jr. in 1929 and five years later moved to Princeton."</ref>
* [[Andrew Wiles]] (born 1953), mathematician who proved [[Fermat's Last Theorem]], Princeton University professor<ref>[[Gina Kolata|Kolata, Gina]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/28/science/a-year-later-snag-persists-in-math-proof.html "A Year Later, Snag Persists In Math Proof"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826043652/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/28/science/a-year-later-snag-persists-in-math-proof.html |date=August 26, 2016 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 28, 1994. Accessed August 29, 2014. "Dr. Wiles himself will not talk about his work on the proof. He did not answer telephone messages left at his office or a letter hand-delivered to his home in Princeton."</ref>
* [[Woodrow Wilson]] (1856–1924), 28th President of the United States, 13th president of Princeton University, [[Governor of New Jersey]]<ref>[http://www.princetonhistory.org/collections/historic-sites.cfm Princeton's Historic Sites and People], Historical Society of Princeton. Accessed August 29, 2014. "Prospect House and Garden (1851)... Woodrow Wilson occupied the house when he was president of the University between 1902 and 1910.... In addition to Prospect, Woodrow Wilson occupied three houses during his time in Princeton: 72 Library Place, 82 Library Place, and 25 Cleveland Lane."</ref>
* [[John Witherspoon]] (1723–1794), signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]], president of Princeton University<ref>[https://www.princeton.edu/pub/presidents/witherspoon/ John Witherspoon], [[Princeton University]]. Accessed August 29, 2014.</ref>
* [[Edward Witten]] (born 1951), mathematician and physicist, fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study<ref>Chau, Ethan. [https://prezi.com/fmztn6fbmgvj/edward-witten-by-ethan-chau/ "The Life, Times, and Work of Edward Witten"], [[Prezi]], May 9, 2013. Accessed October 18, 2015. "Witten currently lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife, Chiara Nappi, another physicist at Princeton University."</ref>
* [[Richard L. Wright]] (born 1943), political leader who held a number of positions at both the state and national level<ref>Dao, James. [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/24/nyregion/homecoming-bill-bradley-campaign-celebration-affirmation-garden-state.html "Homecoming; The Bill Bradley Campaign as a Celebration and Affirmation of the Garden State"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 24, 1999. Accessed October 18, 2015. "Richard Wright, 56, the national finance director, met Mr. Bradley at Princeton, where they played together on the basketball team.... A Princeton resident, he is a lawyer who ran an energy company before joining the campaign."</ref>
* [[Sarah Zelenka]] (born 1987), rower at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]<ref>[http://www.usrowing.org/Pressbox/AthleteBios/SarahZelenka.aspx Sarah Zelenka] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729203958/http://www.usrowing.org/Pressbox/AthleteBios/SarahZelenka.aspx |date=July 29, 2012 }}, [[USRowing]]. Accessed August 29, 2014. "Current Residence: Princeton, N.J."</ref>
* [[Vladimir K. Zworykin]] (1888–1982), Russian-American engineer, inventor and television pioneer<ref>[[Robert McG. Thomas Jr.|Thomas Jr., Robert McG.]] [https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/01/obituaries/vladimir-zworykin-television-pioneer-dies-at-92.html "Vladimir Zworykin, Television Pioneer, Dies At 92"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 1, 1982. Accessed July 30, 2013. "Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born scientist whose achievements were pivotal to the development of television, died Thursday at the Princeton (N.J.) Medical Center. He was 92 years old and lived in Princeton."</ref>
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