Editing Asbury Park, New Jersey (section)

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

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* [[Bud Abbott]] (1895–1974), straight man for comedy team of [[Abbott and Costello]], born in Asbury Park<ref name=GloryDays>Pike, Helen-Chantal. "Asbury Park's Glory Days – The Story Of An American Resort", ''[[Gameroom magazine]]'' reviewed by Tim Ferrante. Accessed June 18, 2007. "I didn't know Bud Abbott was born there. It was also the home town of then hair stylist Danny DeVito (yes, there is a photo of the famed actor in his family's shop!) and the childhood stomping ground of Jack Nicholson."</ref>
* [[Soren Sorensen Adams]] (1879–1963), inventor and manufacturer of novelty products, including the [[joy buzzer]]<ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1963/10/21/archives/soren-s-adams-84-novelties-maker.html "Soren S. Adams, 84 Novelties Maker"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 21, 1963. Accessed September 17, 2015. "Asbury Park, N.J., Oct. 20 (AP)--Soren S. Adams, owner of a million-dollar novelty business who was known as "king of the professional pranksters," died today in his home."</ref>
* [[Stewart H. Appleby]] (1890–1964), represented {{ushr|New Jersey|3}} from 1925 to 1927<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000266 Stewart Hoffman Appleby], ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]''. Accessed August 30, 2007.</ref>
* [[T. Frank Appleby]] (1864–1924), represented {{ushr|New Jersey|3}} in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1921 to 1923, and was mayor of Asbury Park from 1908 to 1912<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000267 Theodore Frank Appleby], ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]''. Accessed August 30, 2007.</ref>
* [[Dave Aron]] (born 1964), [[recording engineer]], [[live music|live]] and studio [[Audio engineering|mixer]], record producer and musician<ref>Karas, Matthew. [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/144171840/ "Former city man new manager of Elvis' first studio"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', August 15, 1987. Accessed January 23, 2018. "Growing up in Asbury Park, Dave Aron didn't know much about Elvis Presley. When he wanted to get real, real gone, his preference was for Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd."</ref>
* [[Nicole Atkins]] (born 1978), singer-songwriter on [[Columbia Records]]<ref>Lustig, Jay. [http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2007/10/greetings_from_neptune_city_nj.html "Greetings From Neptune City, NJ"], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', October 27, 2007. Accessed January 18, 2008 "Atkins, who now lives in Asbury Park, says she considers herself a Jersey artist..."</ref>
* [[Ronald S. Baron]] (born 1943), mutual fund manager and investor<ref>Thomas Jr., Landon. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/business/why-are-mutual-fund-fees-so-high-this-billionaire-knows.html "Why Are Mutual Fund Fees So High? This Billionaire Knows"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 30, 2017. Accessed January 23, 2018. "A grandchild of immigrants from Poland and Russia, Mr. Baron grew up scraping for extra cash in Asbury Park, N.J."</ref>
* [[Frederick Bayer]] (1921–2007), [[marine biologist]] who served as curator of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s [[National Museum of Natural History]]<ref>Bernstein, Adam via ''[[The Washington Post]]''. [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/10/23/frederick_bayer_85_biologist_studied_corals_in_deep_sea/ "Frederick Bayer, 85; biologist studied corals in deep sea"], ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', October 23, 2007. Accessed June 15, 2014. "Frederick Merkle Bayer was born in Asbury Park, N.J., and raised in southern Florida, where he became an amateur naturalist and a collector of seashells."</ref>
*[[Knowledge Bennett]] (born 1976), visual artist who has served as Artist-in-Residence at [[Kean University]]<ref>Riefe, Jordan. [https://www.laweekly.com/know-contemporary-brings-knowledge-to-the-arts-district/ "Know Contemporary Brings Knowledge To The Arts District"], ''[[LA Weekly]]'', August 13, 2018. Accessed September 24, 2021. "Hailing from Asbury Park, New Jersey, and Harlem, the artist studied pre-law at the College of New Jersey and lists nightclubs, trucking and demolition companies as past interests, as well as time spent dabbling in film, music and fashion."</ref>
* [[Wilda Bennett]] (1894–1967), actress<ref>Staff. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18540729/wilda_bennett_1914/ "Praise Wilda Bennett"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', October 17, 1914. Accessed March 23, 2018.</ref>
* [[Richard Biegenwald]] (1940–2008), [[serial killer]] who killed at least nine people, and he is suspected in at least two other [[murder]]s<ref>[[M. A. Farber|Farber, M. A.]] [https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/09/nyregion/five-killings-a-fearful-silence-is-broken.html "Five Killings: A Fearful Silence Is Broken"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 9, 1983. Accessed January 23, 2018. "Around May 1982, Mr. Biegenwald and his wife moved to Asbury Park and settled into a first-floor apartment in a three-story Victorian house at 507 Sixth Avenue."</ref>
* [[Bam Bam Bigelow|Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow]] (1961–2007), professional wrestler<ref>[http://ps2.ign.com/articles/744/744189p1.html SmackDown Countdown 2006: Bam Bam Bigelow – The Beast from the East comes out of retirement], November 6, 2006.</ref>
* [[Elizabeth Ann Blaesing]] (1919–2005), daughter of [[Warren G. Harding]], the 29th [[President of the United States]], and his mistress, [[Nan Britton]]<ref>Larsen, Erik. [https://www.app.com/story/news/history/erik-larsen/2014/07/17/erik-larsen-jersey-roots-history/12797135/ "This president kept mistress & child in Asbury Park"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', July 17, 2014. Accessed January 23, 2018. "When the relationship began, Nan Britton was 20 and Harding was 52 and a married man. Two years into the tryst, their daughter Elizabeth Ann Blaesing was born in Asbury Park on Oct. 22, 1919."</ref>
* [[Daniel Boyarin]] (born 1946), historian of religion who is Professor of Talmudic Culture at [[University of California, Berkeley]]<ref>Wall, Alix. [https://www.jweekly.com/2015/03/12/daniel-boyarin-the-talmudist-feminist-anti-zionist-only-in-berkeley-orthodo/ "Daniel Boyarin: Talmudist, feminist, anti-Zionist, only-in-Berkeley Orthodox Jew"], ''[[J. The Jewish News of Northern California]]'', March 12, 2015. Accessed January 23, 2018. "Boyarin was raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and yes, he knew Bruce Springsteen, who was a few years behind him at Freehold High School."</ref>
* [[James A. Bradley]] (1830–1921), financier and real estate developer who founded the city and served as its mayor<ref>Bogues, Austin. [https://www.app.com/story/news/local/communitychange/2017/09/27/asbury-park-historical-society-statue/704323001/ "Don't tear down Asbury Park founder statue, history group pleads"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', September 27, 2017. Accessed January 23, 2018. "The Asbury Park Historical Society says people should never forget the city's late founder James Bradley's 'advocacy of segregation,' but it draws the line on removing the statue erected in his honor near Convention Hall.... Werner Baumgartner, city historian for Asbury Park, said in addition to being the city's founder Bradley served as the city's mayor for several terms."</ref>
* [[Kurt Braunohler]] (born 1976), comedian<ref>Keller, Ilana. [https://www.app.com/story/news/local/eatontown-asbury-park/2019/11/18/comedian-kurt-braunohler-launches-search-mystery-asbury-bee-dancers/4224876002/ "Comedian Kurt Braunohler wants to recreate this Asbury Park dance studio photo. Can you help?"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', November 18, 2019. Accessed December 30, 2023. "Braunohler estimates the photo was taken around 1981 or 1982. He lived in Asbury Park until moving to Neptune, and was a member of Christian Brothers Academy's Class of 1994."</ref>
* [[Charles H. Brower]] (1901–1984), [[advertising]] executive, [[copywriter]] and author<ref>Waggoner, Walter H. [https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/26/obituaries/charles-h-brower-dies-at-82-ex-chief-of-bbdo-agency.html "Charles H. Brower Dies At 82; Ex-Chief Of B.B.D.O. Agency"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 26, 1984. Accessed January 23, 2018. "Charles H. Brower, former president and chairman of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, the advertising agency, died Monday at his home in Brielle, N.J. He was 82 years old.... He was born in Asbury Park, N.J., grew up near Pasadena, Calif., returned to New Jersey while a high school student and graduated from Rutgers University."</ref>
* [[Billy Brown (singer)|Billy Brown]] (born 1944), singer, songwriter, and record producer, who was an original member of the R&B vocal group, [[Ray, Goodman & Brown]]<ref>Jordan, Chris. [https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/07/14/ray-goodman-brown-billy-asbury-park-nj-free-concert-moments/65371004007/ 'Asbury Park music legend Billy Brown returns for free Ray, Goodman and Brown show"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', July 14, 2022. Accessed July 14, 2023. "Brown grew up in the 'country,' the son of a preacher. As such, he had a song in his heart, and he came to Asbury Park from Farmingdale to let it be heard."</ref>
* [[Ernest Carter (drummer)|Ernest "Boom" Carter]], drummer who has toured and recorded with, among others, [[Bruce Springsteen]], with whom he played the drums on the song "[[Born to Run (song)|Born to Run]]"<ref>Jordan, Chris via ''[[Asbury Park Press]]''. [https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/04/08/ernest-boom-carter-rock-hall/7481171/ "'Boom' Carter: 'Born to Run' but out of the Rock Hall"], ''[[USA Today]]'', April 8, 2014. Accessed January 23, 2018. "Ernest 'Boom' Carter was there — on drums — during the protracted recording sessions, over six months in 1974 at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, N.Y. Carter, along with bassist Garry Tallent, provided the hemi-powered underpinning to Born to Run, and Carter's deftly played skip beats and drum shuffles are the accents of a masterpiece.... Carter, an Asbury Park native, joined the E Streeters after the departure of Vini 'Mad Dog' Lopez in early '74."</ref>
* [[Marie Castello]] (1915–2008), longtime boardwalk [[fortune-telling|fortuneteller]] known as "Madam Marie"<ref>Staff. [http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080701/NEWS/80701031 "Boardwalk fortune teller Madam Marie dies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121206044133/http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080701/NEWS/80701031 |date=December 6, 2012 }}, ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', July 1, 2008. Accessed December 2, 2012. "Marie Castello, who had told fortunes since the 1930s and became famous for her presence and predictions on the Asbury Park boardwalk, died Friday, her great-granddaughter, Sally Castello said today."</ref>
* [[Edna Woolman Chase]] (1877–1957), editor in chief of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' magazine from 1914 to 1952<ref>Blackwell, Jon. [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=10065C511447308D&p_docnum=1&p_queryname=NaN&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=A74Y5CVUMTE4NTg0NzQ0OS4yODY4NjU6MTo3OnJhLTE4ODg "She kept America in Vogue"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', May 14, 2001. Accessed July 31, 2007. "Born in Asbury Park on March 14, 1877, Edna barely knew her father, who split up with her mom while she was still an infant."</ref>
* [[James M. Coleman]] (1924–2014), politician who served in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]] and as a judge in [[New Jersey Superior Court]]<ref>[http://aphshalloffame.com/Inductees/JamesMColemanJr.html "James M. Coleman - Class of 1942"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202134142/http://aphshalloffame.com/Inductees/JamesMColemanJr.html |date=February 2, 2016 }}, Asbury Park High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. Accessed January 23, 2018. "James M. Coleman - Class of 1942; Inducted: 2003. After graduating Asbury Park High School in 1942, the Honorable James M. Coleman Jr. joined the Army Air Force from 1943 until 1945 and served in Italy. He then furthered his education graduating from Dartmouth College in 1948, and Cornell Law School in 1951."</ref>
* [[Stephen Crane]] (1871–1900), author of ''[[The Red Badge of Courage]]''<ref>[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1060 Stephen Crane], ''[[The Literary Encyclopedia]]''. Accessed December 10, 2006.</ref>
* [[Cookie Cuccurullo]] (1918–1983), MLB pitcher who played for the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] from 1943 to 1945<ref>[http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/50d81492 Cookie Cuccurullo], [[Society for American Baseball Research]]. Accessed January 24, 2018.</ref>
* [[Holmes E. Dager]], (1893–1973), U.S. Army major general, born in Asbury Park,<ref name="Post">{{cite news |date=August 6, 1956 |title=General Dager Gets Top Post In Civil Defense |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/reno-gazette-journal-post/147712306/ |work=[[Reno Gazette-Journal|Reno Gazette]] |location=Reno, NV |page=10 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
* [[Danny DeVito]] (born 1944), actor<ref>Shaw, David. [http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,8,00.html "DeVito! Although He Has a Penchant for Dark Comedies, Actor-Director Danny DeVito Is Serious About His Craft, His Family and His Cigars"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404023422/http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,8,00.html |date=April 4, 2007 }}, ''[[Cigar Aficionado]]'' profile, accessed May 2, 2007. "Danny DeVito was born in 1944 in the shore town of Neptune, New Jersey—hence the name of his production company—and raised in neighboring Asbury Park, the youngest of five children (two of whom died before he was born)."</ref>
* [[Les Dugan]] (1921–2002), [[American football]] coach who was the first head football coach at [[Buffalo State College]], serving from 1981 to 1985<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67993037/asbury-park-press/ "Lester J. 'Coach' Dugan"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', February 10, 2002. Accessed January 19, 2021, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Lester J. 'Coach' Dugan, 80, raised in Neptune City, died Jan. 25 at Lockport Memorial Hospital after a short illness.... He was born in Asbury Park"</ref>
* [[Fletcher (singer)|Cari Fletcher]] (born 1994), actress, singer, and songwriter<ref>Michael, Michael Love. [https://www.papermag.com/fletcher-interview-2640441429.html "A Day With Fletcher, Ex-Homecoming Queen Turned Queer Pop Star"], ''[[Paper (magazine)|Paper]]'', October 2, 2019. Accessed December 18, 2020. "Cari Fletcher, the rising pop singer-songwriter who goes by her last name professionally, is visibly anxious, and she's not hiding it. We're spending this midsummer day in her hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey, an idyllic place as beloved for its quaint streets, white-sand beaches, and boardwalks as it is for birthing Bruce Springsteen."</ref><ref>Aramesh, Waiss. [https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/features/fletcher-almost-lost-it-all-interview-miley-cyrus-38168/ "Fletcher almost lost it all"], ''[[Rolling Stone UK]]'', March 26, 2024. Accessed May 9, 2025. "Fletcher, who was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and raised on Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen, moved back home for treatment, posting up in her childhood bedroom."</ref>
* [[Tim Hauser]] (born 1941), member of [[The Manhattan Transfer]]<ref>Williams, Candy. [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/s_656223.html "Manhattan Transfer keeps it swinging with Greensburg show"]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, ''[[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]]'', December 4, 2009. Accessed July 28, 2011. "Even before he founded the quartet, Hauser was singing professionally since age 15, when as a teenager living with his family in Asbury Park, N.J., he started up a rock 'n' roll quintet called the Criterions."</ref>
* [[Leon Hess]] (1914–1999), oil magnate and founder of the [[Hess Corporation]], began his business in the city<ref>[[Dave Anderson (sportswriter)|Anderson, Dave]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/09/sports/sports-of-the-times-hess-mulled-the-return-of-the-jets.html "Sports of The Times; Hess Mulled The Return Of the Jets"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 9, 1999. Accessed February 9, 2012. "'I was born and brought up in Asbury Park, N.J.,' Hess said that day in a rare appearance at a news conference."</ref>
* [[Robert Hess (college president)|Robert Hess]] (1932–1994), scholar of [[History of Africa|African history]] who served as the sixth President of [[Brooklyn College]]<ref>Lambert, Hess. [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/13/nyregion/robert-hess-59-historian-dies-was-brooklyn-college-president.html "Robert Hess, 59, Historian, Dies; Was Brooklyn College President"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 13, 1992. Accessed July 12, 2019. "Dr. Hess was born in Asbury Park, N.J."</ref>
* [[Joey Janela]] (born 1989), professional wrestler{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
* [[Richard Jarecki]] (1931–2018), physician who won more than $1 million from a string of European casinos after cracking a pattern in [[roulette]] wheels<ref>Slotnik, Daniel E. [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/obituaries/richard-jarecki-doctor-who-conquered-roulette-dies-at-86.html "Richard Jarecki, Doctor Who Conquered Roulette, Dies at 86"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 8, 2018. Accessed August 12, 2018. "He grew up in Asbury Park, N.J., where he graduated from high school and then studied at Duke University before returning to Germany to earn his medical degree at the University of Heidelberg in 1958."</ref>
* [[Lou Liberatore]] (born 1959), actor, has a second home in Asbury Park<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://thecoaster.net/wordpress/2008/03/20/do-you-know-lou-libatore/ |title="Do You Know? Lou Liberatore", ''The Coaster'', March 20, 2008. Accessed 2011-02-13. |access-date=January 19, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724095209/http://thecoaster.net/wordpress/2008/03/20/do-you-know-lou-libatore/ |archive-date=July 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* [[Robert Melee]] (born 1966), artist<ref>[[Benjamin Genocchio|Genocchio, Benjamin]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/nyregion/art-making-art-amid-the-ruins.html "Art; Making Art Amid The Ruins"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 22, 2005. Accessed December 30, 2007. "Mr. Melee took his money and bought a house in Asbury Park, after falling in love with the decaying grandeur of the Jersey Shore."</ref>
* [[Vic Morrow]] (1929-1982), actor<ref>[https://www.jerseyshoreonline.com/toms-river/jersey-shore-native-vic-morrow-remembered-40-years-after-tragic-death/ "Jersey Shore Native Vic Morrow Remembered 40 Years After Tragic Death"], ''[[Micromedia Publications]]'', July 22, 2022. Accessed July 22, 2022. "Vic Morrow and his family lived in Asbury Park for a number of years around the time he became a Hollywood star"</ref>
* [[Arthur Pryor]] (1870–1942), bandleader<ref>[http://www.njn.net/artsculture/starts/season05-06/2412.html "Greetings From Asbury Park"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080110071157/http://www.njn.net/artsculture/starts/season05-06/2412.html |date=January 10, 2008 }}, [[New Jersey Network|NJN]]. Accessed June 18, 2007. "Rick Benjamin, founder of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, and a specialist in the music of Arthur Pryor – an Asbury Park musical superstar long before Bruce Springsteen – who transformed the forbidden music of Ragtime into wholesome popular entertainment."</ref><ref>Mikle, Jean. [http://www.app.com/story/news/local/eatontown-asbury-park/asbury-park/2014/08/03/asbury-music-history-pryor/13527769/ "Arthur Pryor, Asbury Park's first musical superstar"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', August 3, 2014. Accessed October 25, 2015. "The next year, Pryor moved to Asbury Park. That summer marked the beginning of the nearly two decades that Pryor's band made the city its summer home. Pryor eventually bought a farm in West Long Branch, then a sparsely populated, rural community.... Pryor was working on a conducting comeback in 1942, when he suffered a stroke and died at his West Long Branch home."</ref>
* [[Nazreon Reid]] (born 1999), [[power forward (basketball)|power forward]] for the [[Minnesota Timberwolves]] team<ref>Edelson, Stephen. [https://www.app.com/story/sports/high-school/2015/06/02/roselle-catholic-us-basketball-nazreon-reid/28342227/ "Asbury Park's Nazreon Reid makes the most of his experiences"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', June 2, 2015. Accessed July 18, 2018. "It's been a heck of a ride over the past year for Nazreon Reid, the 6-8 Asbury Park native who has had intriguing college coaches since he was in middle school."</ref>
* [[Charles J. Ross]] (1859–1918), vaudeville performer<ref>Staff. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/06/16/102710198.pdf "Charles J. Ross Dead. Prominent Travesty Actor Succumbs at 59 at Ross-Fenton Farm"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 16, 1918. Accessed February 9, 2012. "Charles J. Ross, many years ago a member of the Weber and Fields Company and later a headliner in vaudeville in the team of Ross and Fenton, died at his home in North Asbury Park today."</ref>
* [[David Sancious]] (born 1953), early member of the [[E Street Band]]<ref>Lustig, Jay. [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=10B5FF5E7A39D688&p_docnum=1&p_queryname=NaN&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=A6FJ57QPMTE4NTg0NzQ0OS4yODY4NjU6MTo3OnJhLTE4ODg "Revisiting E Street: Ex-Springsteen sideman looks forward to Shore gig"], "[[The Star-Ledger]]", July 15, 2005. Accessed July 30, 2007. "Sancious grew up in Asbury Park and Belmar. The E Street Band was named after the address of his mother's Belmar home, where they sometimes practiced. Sancious lived in Red Bank in the late '70s, before relocating to his current hometown, Woodstock, N.Y."</ref>
* [[Arthur Siegel]] (1923–1994), songwriter<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/17/obituaries/arthur-siegel-song-composer-and-pianist-70.html "Arthur Siegel, Song Composer And Pianist, 70"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 17, 1994. Accessed May 20, 2012. "Mr. Siegel, whose career in show business spanned nearly five decades, was born in Lakewood, N.J., on Dec. 31, 1923, and grew up in Asbury Park, N.J."</ref>
* [[Thomas S. Smith (New Jersey)|Thomas S. Smith]] (1917–2002), former mayor of Asbury Park who served in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/smitht.asp |title=Tom Smith's legislative web page |access-date=November 8, 2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021108003448/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/smitht.asp |archive-date=November 8, 2002 }}, [[New Jersey Legislature]]. Accessed April 23, 2008.</ref>
* [[Bruce Springsteen]] (born 1949), singer-songwriter, whose debut album was titled ''[[Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.]]''<ref>McAlpine, Ken. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gf-8PljnRboC&pg=PA227 ''Off-Season: Discovering America on Winter's Shore''], p. 227. [[Random House]], 2010. {{ISBN|9780307539038}}. Accessed June 15, 2014. "Bruce Springsteen lived in Asbury Park. He used what he inhaled there — the boardwalk, Madam Marie's, every beach town's drifters and dreamers — to touch his first tentaive fingers to the pulse of life at the Jersey Shore and, Given man's common desires, beyond."</ref>
* [[Ja'Sir Taylor]] (born 1999), [[American football]] [[cornerback]] for the [[Los Angeles Chargers]] of the [[National Football League]]<ref>[https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/TaylJa04.htm Ja'Sir Taylor], [[Pro-Football-Reference.com]]. Accessed May 3, 2022. "Born: January 8, 1999 (Age: 23-115d) in Asbury Park, NJ"</ref>
* [[Lenny Welch]] (born 1940), pop singer<ref>Mullen, Shannon. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33016048/lenny_welch/ "All About Lenny Welch; Future is still bright for '60s hitmaker from Asbury Park"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', November 13, 2015. Accessed June 24, 2019. "A decade before Bruce Springsteen released his debut album, "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.," Lenny Welch was that city's pop-music hero, particularly within Asbury Park's black community. 'He was the one who put the map,' says Carl Williams, 64, of Lakewood, who attended Asbury Park High School a year behind Welch in the late '50s and remembers how the city stood still during the singer's first appearance on Dick Clark's ''American Bandstand.''"</ref>
* [[Margaret Widdemer]] (1884–1976), [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning poet<ref>Lucia, Peter. {{cite web|url=http://homepage.mac.com/peterlucia/noweverthen/asbury/widde/widde.html |title="Asbury Park Life Stimulus For Author" |access-date=April 10, 2008 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080614170331/http://homepage.mac.com/peterlucia/noweverthen/asbury/widde/widde.html |archive-date=June 14, 2008 }}, ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', October 2, 1995. Accessed April 9, 2008.</ref>
* [[Wendy Williams]] (born 1964), talk show host and [[New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' bestselling]] author, born in Asbury Park<ref>Cotter, Kelly-Jane. [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/app/access/1928564551.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+27%2C+2009&author=KELLY-JANE+COTTER&pub=Asbury+Park+Press&desc=THE+YEAR+IN+ENTERTAINMENT&pqatl=google "The Year in Entertainment"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105121514/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/app/access/1928564551.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+27,+2009&author=KELLY-JANE+COTTER&pub=Asbury+Park+Press&desc=THE+YEAR+IN+ENTERTAINMENT&pqatl=google |date=November 5, 2012 }}, ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', December 27, 2009. Accessed February 2, 2011. "Radio personality Wendy Williams who grew up in Asbury Park and Ocean Township became a TV star this year with her syndicated talk show."</ref>
* [[Arthur Augustus Zimmerman]] (1869–1936), the first world cycling champion, grew up here and owned a hotel after retiring from racing<ref>Nye, Peter Joffre. [http://www.usbhof.com/news/article1.cfm "Newark, N.J., Started a National Cycling Tradition"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720005859/http://www.usbhof.com/news/article1.cfm |date=July 20, 2008 }}, [[United States Bicycling Hall of Fame]]. Accessed July 21, 2008.</ref>
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