Women | US-NJ | New Jersey

1750s

Temperance [Tempe] Wick Tuttle (30 oct 1758 – 26 apr 1822 | Mendham NJ – Morristown NJ) American Revolutionary War folk figure


1760s


1770s


1780s

Jarena Lee (11 feb 1783 – 1855 | Cape May NJ – New Jersey US) memoirist, religious writer, autobiographical author, pioneering female traveling African Methodist Episcopal (AME) minister

Silvia Dubois (05 mar 1788 – 27 may 1888 | Sourland Mountain NJ – Sourland Mountain NJ) domestic, fieldworker, freed slave, tavern owner, ferrywoman, oral historian, subject of Silvia Dubois: A Biografy of the Slav who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom by C. W. Larison


1790s


1800s


1810s

Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore (21 oct 1813 – 11 aug 1881 | Morristown NJ – Buffalo NY) heiress, eccentric, second wife of former US President Millard Fillmore

Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier (11 dec 1813 – 26 apr 1888 | Plainfield NJ – New York NY) feminist, suffragist, physician, founded / directed New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, president of New York City Suffrage League and National Women’s Suffrage Association

Louise Amelia Knapp Clappe Smith (28 jul 1819 – 09 feb 1906 | Elizabeth NJ – Morristown NJ) author, memoirist, schoolteacher, letter correspondent, pen name: Dame Shirley


1820s


1830s

Helen Almira Shafer (23 sep 1839 – 20 jan 1894 | Newark NJ – Wellesley MA) mathematician, mathematics professor, president of Wellesley College


1840s

Cornelia Hancock (08 feb 1840 – 31 dec 1927 | Hancock’s Bridge NJ – Atlantic City NJ) author, memoirist, social activist, Civil War Union nurse, educator, school founder

Amanda Belle [Anna] Brewster Morgan (10 dec 1844 – 11 jul 1902 | Atlantic City NJ – Topeka KS) folk figure, captured in Cheyenne raid, rescued after 6 months captivity


1850s

Henrietta Christian Wright (18 feb 1854 – 1899 | Old Bridge Township NJ – Old Bridge Township NJ) children’s science / history / literature author

Sophie Adelaide Radford de Meissner (17 nov 1854 – 17 apr 1954 | Morristown NJ – Washington DC) author, socialite, playwright, Spiritualist, Red Cross nurse [1905] Russo-Japanese War

Mary Stilwell Edison (09 sep 1855 – 09 aug 1884 | Newark NJ – Newark NJ) folk figure, first wife of inventor Thomas Alva Edison

Alice Stone Blackwell (14 sep 1857 – 01 mar 1950 | Orange NJ – Cambridge MA) feminist, suffragist, journalist, social reformer, human rights advocate

Alice Barber Stephens (01 jul 1858 – 13 jul 1932 | Salem NJ – Rose Valley PA) painter, engraver, illustrator 

Christine Terhune Herrick (13 jun 1859 – 02 dec 1944 | Newark NJ – Washington DC) cook, journalist, magazine writer, prolific cookbook author 

Caroline Bayard Stevens Alexander Wittpenn (21 nov 1859 – 04 dec 1932 | Hoboken NJ – Hoboken NJ) welfare worker, social / political activist


1860s

Mary Schenck Raphael Woolman (26 apr 1860 – 01 aug 1940 | Camden NJ – unknown) author, lecturer, home economist, women’s sewing / clothing expert

Carolyn Wells (18 jun 1862 – 26 mar 1942 | Rahway NJ – New York NY) poet, author

Helen Abbot Merrill (30 mar 1864 – 01 may 1949 | Llewellyn Park NJ – Wellesley MA) educator, mathematician, textbook author

Eva Lawrence Watson-Schütze (16 sep 1867 – 01 may 1935 | Jersey City NJ – Chicago IL) painter, photographer, Photo-Secession movement co-founder


1870s

Florence Scovel Shinn (24 sep 1871 – 17 oct 1940 | Camden NJ – New York NY) artist, book illustrator, New Thought teacher / writer

Elizabeth Coleman White (05 oct 1871 – 11 nov 1954 | New Lisbon NJ – Whitesbog NJ) agricultural specialist, child care / child labor educational activist, co-developer of commercialized cultivated blueberry, first female in American Cranberry Association, organized New Jersey Blueberry Cooperative Association

Anne Douglas Sedgwick (28 mar 1873 – 19 jul 1935 | Englewood NJ – Hampstead UK) American-British novelist

Kristine Mann (29 aug 1873 – 12 nov 1945 | Orange NJ – Chicago IL) writer, editor, professor, women’s health activist, pioneer Jungian analytical psychologist

Violet Oakley (10 jun 1874 – 25 feb 1961 | Bergen Heights NJ – Philadelphia PA) painter, muralist, printmaker, stained glass artist, Christian Scientist, first American woman to receive a public mural commission 

Mary Teresa Norton (07 mar 1875 – 02 aug 1959 | Jersey City NJ – Greenwich CT) politician, memoirist [unpublished], co-founded Queen’s Daughters Day Nursery, child labor / minimum wage / women’s rights activist / legislator

Clara Maass (28 jun 1876 – 24 aug 1901 | East Orange NJ – Havana, Cuba) nurse, medical martyr, victim of yellow fever human research experiments

Madeleine Zabriserkie Doty (24 aug 1877 – 14 oct 1963 | Bayonne NJ – Greenfield MA) lawyer, teacher, pacifist, prison reformer, World War I correspondent, co-founded WILPF [Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom]

[Edna] Marion Nicholl Rawson (24 jun 1878 – 04 dec 1956 | Plainfield NJ – Providence RI) artist, author, lecturer, illustrator

Marion Nicholl Rawson (21 oct 1878 – 04 dec 1956 | Plainfield NJ – Providence RI) artist, author, lecturer, illustrator

Ruth Saint Denis (20 jan 1879 – 21 jul 1968 | Newark NJ – Hollywood CA) ballerina, modern dance pioneer, founding director Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts

Anna Easter Brown (13 apr 1879 – 05 mar 1957 | West Orange NJ – Rocky Mount NC) educator, history teacher, one of original founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority for female African-American students


1880s

Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge (28 jul 1884 – 26 may 1962 | Elberon NJ – Bedford NY) socialite, activist, first woman to fly dirigible aircraft solo, eyecare advocate, first US eye bank founder / director

Alice Stokes Paul (11 jan 1885 – 09 jul 1977 | Moorestown NJ – Moorestown NJ) suffragist, feminist, women’s rights activist, 19th Amendment leader / strategist

Mary O’Hara Alsop (10 jul 1885 – 14 oct 1980 | Cape May Point NJ – Chevy Chase MD) author, screenwriter

Elinor Morton Hoyt Wylie (07 sep 1885 – 16 dec 1928 | Somerville NJ – New York NY) poet, novelist

Corinne Douglas Robinson Alsop Cole (02 jul 1886 – 23 jun 1971 | Orange NJ – Avon CT) state politician, national political family member

Alice Huyler Ramsey (22 nov 1886 – 10 sep 1983 | Hackensack NJ – Covina CA) memoirist, automotive pioneer, first woman to drive coast-to-coast USA, first female Automotive Hall of Fame inductee [posthumously in 2000]

Anna Case (29 oct 1888 – 07 jan 1984 | Clinton NJ – New York NY) operatic soprano, silent film actress, documentarian

Dorothy Gibson (17 may 1889 – 17 feb 1946 | Hoboken NJ – Paris, France) actress, scriptwriter, Titanic survivor, acted in first Titanic film, alleged WWII intelligence operative

Anne Ryan McFadden (20 jul 1889 – 18 apr 1954 | Hoboken NJ – Morristown NJ) artist, painter, collagist, printmaker


1890s

Frances Goodrich (21 dec 1890 – 29 jan 1984 | Belleville NJ – New York NY) playwright, screenwriter

Kathryn Scola (06 nov 1891 – 04 jan 1982 | Paterson NJ – San Diego CA) author, early pioneering female film screenwriter

[Amy] Gordon Hamilton (26 dec 1892 – 10 mar 1967 | Tenafly NJ – British Columbia, Canada) author, social work educator

Dorothy Violet Snell Fuldheim (26 jun 1893 – 03 nov 1989 | Passaic NJ – Cleveland OH) news anchor, interviewer, broadcast journalist

Dorothy [Dottie] Rothschild Parker (22 aug 1893 – 07 jun 1967 | Long Branch NJ – New York NY) poet, critic, satirist, screenwriter, short story writer

Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (11 dec 1893 – 27 mar 1982 | Newark NJ – Tewksbury NJ) Nancy Drew juvenile mystery fiction author, pen name: Carolyn Keene

Norma Talmadge (02 may 1894 – 24 dec 1957 | Jersey City NJ – Las Vegas NV) film producer, silent film actress

Justine Johnstone Wanger (31 jan 1895 – 04 sep 1984 | Englewood NJ – Santa Monica CA) US stage / film actress, pathologist, syphilis expert, scientific researcher, modern intravenous drip development team member

Dorothea Lange (26 may 1895 – 11 oct 1965 | Hoboken NJ – San Francisco CA) photographer, photojournalist

Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (05 nov 1895 – 05 feb 1977 | Nutley NJ – Southampton NY) American socialite, eccentric, amateur singer, film / literary figure

Jessica Ware Granville-Smith (29 nov 1895 – 17 oct 1983 | Madison NJ – New Jersey) editor, author, suffragist, Quaker activist, American Friends Service relief worker, co-founded National Council of American-Soviet Friendship

Minna Wright Citron (15 oct 1896 – 23 dec 1991 | Newark NJ – New York NY) painter, printmaker, muralist, art teacher

Joy Bright Hancock (04 may 1898 – 20 aug 1986 | Wildwood NJ – Bethesda MD) pilot, WAVES activist, early female Naval officer, autobiographical author


1900s

Wilhelmina Marguerita Crosson (26 apr 1900 – 28 may 1991 | Rutherford NJ – Boston MA) author, educator, school administrator, pedagogy expert, one of first African-American female schoolteachers in Boston

Helen Gahagan Douglas (25 nov 1900 – 28 jun 1980 | Boonton NJ – New York NY) author, actress, politician, women’s rights advocate, third woman and first Democratic woman elected to Congress from California

Miriam Teresa Demjanovich (26 mar 1901 – 08 may 1927 | Bayonne NJ – Convent Station NJ) author, teacher, American Ruthenian Catholic Sister of Charity, beatified by Roman Catholic Church

Jean Van Kirk Dalrymple (05 sep 1902 – 15 nov 1998 | Morristown NJ – New York NY) playwright, publicist, manager, memoirist, theatre producer, instrumental in founding New York City Center

Barbara McLean (06 nov 1903 – 28 mar 1996 | Palisades Park NJ – Newport Beach CA) American film editor / producer

Barbara McLean (16 nov 1903 – 28 mar 1996 | Palisades Park NJ – Newport Beach CA) pioneering female film editor

Elizabeth Hawes (16 dec 1903 – 06 sep 1971 | Ridgewood NJ – New York NY) stylist, author, copyist, sketcher, journalist, fashion designer, union organizer, fashion industry critic, gender equality / political activist

Helen Knothe Nearing (23 feb 1904 – 17 sep 1995 | Ridgewood NJ – Brooksville ME) author, lecturer, simple living proponent

Irene Craigmile Bolam (01 oct 1904 – 07 jul 1982 | Newark NJ – Belford NJ) pilot, banker, alleged to be Amelia Earhart

Bertye Lou Wood (28 apr 1905 – 07 mar 2002 (Newark NJ – New York NY) dancer, choreographer, Harlem Renaissance dancer, member of African-American female tap dancing troupe The Silver Belles

Catherine Krause Bauer Wurster (11 may 1905 – 21 nov 1964 | Elizabeth NJ – Mount Tamalpais CA) author, low-income housing activist

Dorothy Fields (15 jul 1905 – 28 mar 1974 | Allenhurst NJ – New York NY) lyricist, librettist

Mary Gindhart Herbert Roebling (29 jul 1905 – 25 oct 1994 | West Collingswood NJ – Trenton NJ) banker, first female president of major US bank, first female governor of American Stock Exchange

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (22 jun 1906 – 07 feb 2001 | Englewood NJ – Passumpsic VT) poet, author, aviator, memoirist, mother of kidnapped / murdered child

Lucy Taxis Shoe Meritt (07 aug 1906 – 13 apr 2003 | Camden NJ – Austin TX) author, classical archaeologist, scholar of Greek architectural ornamentation

Molly Kazan (16 dec 1906 – 14 dec 1963 | Orange NJ – New York NY) dramatist, playwright, born Mary Day Thacher

Mildred Lisette Norman (18 jul 1908 – 07 jul 1981 | Egg Harbor City NJ – Knox IN) mystic, pacifist, memoirist, spiritual teacher, peace / vegan activist, first woman to walk entire length of Appalachian Trail in one season, aka The Peace Pilgrim

Virginia Apgar (07 jun 1909 – 07 aug 1974 | Westfield NJ – New York NY) author, physician, developed Apgar test for newborn infants


1910s

Joan Geraldine Bennett (27 feb 1910 – 07 dec 1990 | Palisades NJ – Scarsdale NY) author, actress, memoirist, tv show panelist

Margaret Antoinette Clapp (11 apr 1910 – 03 may 1974 | East Orange NJ – Tyringham MA) author, scholar, educator, biographer, Wellesley College president, US cultural attaché to India, Pulitzer Prize in Biography laureate, US Information Agency Public Affairs minister-councilor

Marion Post Wolcott (07 jun 1910 – 24 nov 1990 | Montclair NJ – Santa Barbara CA) photographer, photojournalist

Dorothy Kirsten (06 jul 1910 – 18 nov 1982 | Montclair NJ – Los Angeles CA) operatic lirico spinto soprano, autobiographical author

Rachel Lambert Mellon (09 aug 1910 – 17 mar 2014 | Princeton NJ – Upperville VA) gardener,  horticulturist, philanthropist, fine arts collector

Gertrude [Tommy] Vreeland Tompkins Silver (16 oct 1911 – 26 oct 1944 | Jersey City NJ – Los Angeles CA) WWII pilot, only Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) to go missing during WWII

Dorothy Fosdick (17 apr 1913 – 05 feb 1997 | Montclair NJ – Washington DC) author, foreign affairs expert

Muriel Sophronia Sutherland Snowden (14 jul 1916 – 30 sep 1988 | Glen Ridge NJ – Boston MA) community activist, co-founder / director Freedom House

[Olive] Deborah Juanita Cannon Partridge Wolfe (22 dec 1916 – 03 sep 2004 | Cranford NJ – Monroe Township NJ) African-American academic, educator, social activist, suffragist, rural education reformer

Gladys Engel Lang (07 aug 1919 – 23 mar 2016 | Atlantic City NJ – Cambridge MA) author, sociologist, professor emerita of sociology / political science / communications


1920s

Elizabeth Lindley Post (07 may 1920 – 24 apr 2010 | Edgewood NJ – Naples FL) etiquette editor / author / columnist

Bernice [Bee] Falk Haydu (15 dec 1920 – 30 jan 2021 | Montclair NJ – Montclair NJ) aviator, memoirist, oral historian, women’s advocate, WWII Women Airforce Service Pilot [WASP], independent documentary filmmaker

Barbara Farrell Vucanovich (22 jun 1921 – 10 jun 2013 | Camp Dix NJ – Reno NV) co-author, politician, women’s rights activist, first female US Representative from Nevada

Gloria Monty (16 aug 1921 – 30 mar 2006 | Weehawken NJ – Rancho Mirage CA) executive tv producer

Marjorie Eilers [Nonnie] Moore (21 jan 1922 – 19 feb 2009 | Plainfield NJ – Manhattan NY)  fashion editor at Mademoiselle, Harper’s Bazaar and GQ

Margherita Marchione (19 feb 1922 – 20 may 2021 | Little Ferry NJ – Morristown NJ) author, teacher, apologeticist, political activist, Roman Catholic nun, member of Religious Teachers Filippini, aka The Fighting Nun

Joan Margaret Clark (27 mar 1922 – Ridgefield Park NJ) retired US Ambassador, member of American Academy of Diplomacy

Grace Hartigan (28 mar 1922 – 15 nov 2008 | Newark NJ – Baltimore MD) abstract expressionist painter

Lily Auchincloss (05 apr 1922 – 06 jun 1996 | Newark NJ – Manhattan NY) writer, editor, journalist, art collector, philanthropist

Eleanor Burke Leacock (02 jul 1922 – 02 apr 1987 | Weehawken NJ – Honolulu HI) author, feminist, gender equality researcher, social / cultural anthropology theorist

Dorothy Edith Gilman (25 jun 1923 – 02 feb 2012 | New Brunswick NJ – Rye Brook NY) art teacher, memoirist, women’s mystery novelist, known for Mrs. Pollifax series

Eva Marie Saint (04 jul 1924 – Newark NJ) actress, film producer

Katherine Anne MacLean (22 jan 1925 – 01 sep 2019 | Glen Ridge NJ – US) novelist, memoirist, short fiction / science fiction author

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (13 jan 1926 – 09 oct 2003 | East Orange NJ – New York NY) academic, feminist, nonfiction author, mystery novelist, women’s rights activist, penname Amanda Cross, first tenured female in English Department at Columbia University, end-of-life-choice advocate

Erna Schneider Hoover (19 jun 1926 – Irvington NJ) inventor, mathematician, invented computerized telephone switching method

Mary Jane Russell (10 jul 1926 – 20 nov 2003 | Teaneck NJ – Charleston SC) fashion model, zoning / environmental activist

Jean Featherly Byrne (17 oct 1926 – 09 aug 2015 | Newark NJ – Princeton NJ) educator, First Lady of New Jersey

Mary Ellen Avery (06 may 1927 – 04 dec 2011 | Camden NJ – West Orange NJ) author, pioneering pediatrician, infants’ disease researcher

Doris Louise Wethers 14 dec 1927 – 28 jan 2019 | Passaic NJ – Yonkers NY) pediatrician, sickle-cell anemia researcher, first black attending physician at Saint Luke’s Hospital, co-founded Foundation for Research and Education in Sickle Cell Disease

Nel Noddings (19 jan 1929 – Irvington NJ) author, feminist, educationalist, philosopher of ethics / caring / education

Rita E. [Betty] Paraskevas (08 apr 1929 – 07 apr 2010 | Linden NJ – Southampton NY) lyricist, playwright, children’s author

Aliki Liacouras Brandenberg (03 sep 1929 – Wildwood Crest NJ) children’s book author / illustrator

Virginia Potter Held (28 oct 1929 – Mendham NJ) author, professor, researcher, leading moral / social / political / feminist philosopher, focus on ethics of care for others / traditional roles of women in society


1930s

Ruth Kligman (25 jan 1930 – 01 mar 2010 | Newark NJ – Bronx NY) Jewish-American writer, abstract artist

Gloria Lane Krachmalnik (06 jun 1930 – 22 nov 2016 | Trenton NJ – Los Angeles CA) operatic mezzo-soprano, private voice teacher

Grace Mirabella (10 jun 1930 – Newmark NJ) autobiographical author, fashion magazine editor / publisher

Myrna Lamb (03 aug 1930 – 15 sep 2017 | Newark NJ – Point Pleasant Beach NJ) feminist, playwright, screenwriter

Lee Lozano (05 nov 1930 – 02 oct 1999 | Newark NJ – Dallas TX) painter, visual / conceptual artist

Louise Audino Tilly (13 dec 1930 – 27 mar 2018 | Orange NJ – New York NY) author, editor, scholar, historian, interdisciplinary researcher

Nancy Van de Vate (30 dec 1930 – Plainfield NJ) American-Austrian pianist, composer

Jane Rule (28 mar 1931 – 27 nov 2007 | Plainfield NJ – Galiano Island BC) lesbian activist, novelist, nonfiction author

Dolores Alexander (10 aug 1931 – 13 may 2008 | Newark NJ – Palm Harbor FL) author, lesbian, feminist, reporter, women’s rights activist, co-founded Mother Courage feminist restaurant

Caroline Stuart Littlejohn Herzenberg (25 mar 1932 – East Orange NJ) author, physicist, historian of women in science, peace / justice / human rights activist

Noel Phyllis Birkby (06 dec 1932 – 13 apr 1994 | Nutley NJ – Great Barrington MA) educator, architect, feminist, filmmaker, founder of Women’s School of Planning and Architecture

Teri Shields (01 aug 1933 – 31 oct 2012 | Newark NJ – Manhattan NY) model, actress, socialite, film producer, mother of Brooke Shields, born Theresia Anna Lilian Maria Schmon

Barbara Halloran Gibbons(09 aug 1934 – 26 mar 2014 | East Orange NJ – Dallas TX) US cookbook author, food columnist / humorist, aka The Slim Gourmet

Naomi Wilzig (05 dec 1934 – 07 apr 2015 | Newark NJ – Miami FL) author, art collector, owner / director World Erotic Art Museum

Nancy [Nan] Florence Earl-Brooks (15 jan 1935 – 25 feb 2018 | Cape May NJ – Philadelphia PA) children’s book illustrator, devotee of Eastern religions, known for contributions to Little Golden Books

Judith Ann Reisman (11 apr 1935 – 09 apr 2021 | Newark NJ – unconfirmed) nonfiction writer, conservative cultural critic, anti-LGBT and anti-Kinsey activist

Denise O’Connor (18 may 1935 – Bayonne NJ) US Olympic fencer, college fencing coach

Elizabeth Jones (31 may 1935 – Montclair NJ) engraver / designer / medalist, eleventh Chief Engraver of United States Mint

Sylvia Alice Reade Earle (30 aug 1935 – Gibbstown NJ) author, explorer, lecturer, oceanographer, children’s book writer

Joan Edna Hult Lippincott (25 dec 1935 – Kearny NJ) concert organist, former head of organ department at Westminster Choir College

Valerie Solanas (09 apr 1936 – 25 apr 1988 | Ventnor City NJ – San Francisco CA) author, radical feminist, schizophrenic

Sandra Scoppettone (01 jun 1936 – Morristown NJ) adult mystery / young adult novelist, pen name Jack Early

Marisa Galvany (19 jun 1936 – Paterson NJ) concert / operatic soprano, born Myra Beth Genis

Stephanie Rothman (09 nov 1936 – Paterson NJ) film director / producer / screenwriter

Carol Collier Kuhlthau (02 dec 1937 – New Brunswick NJ) author, educator, school libraries / information literacy / information seeking behavior lecturer and researcher

Anne Frank Lewis (19 dec 1937 – Jersey City NJ) US Democratic political strategist / communicator, president of Joint Action Committee Education Foundation

Jean Van Leeuwen (26 dec 1937 – Rutherford NJ) children’s book author

Judith Sussman [Judy] Blume (12 feb 1938 – Elizabeth NJ) children’s book author, adult and young adult novelist, intellectual freedom advocate / activist

Vera King Farris (18 jul 1938 – 28 nov 2009 | Atlantic City NJ – Pomona NJ) zoologist, professor, academic administrator, one of first female African-American US public college presidents

Edna Rydzik Buchanan (16 mar 1939 – Paterson NJ) memoirist, journalist, true crime / mystery writer

Dorothy Catherine [D. C.] Fontana (25 mar 1939 – 02 dec 2019 | Sussex NJ – Los Angeles CA) television scriptwriter / story editor

Nelle Nugent (24 may 1939 – Jersey City NJ) independent Broadway play producer

Elizabeth [Liz] McAlister (17 nov 1939 – Montclair NJ) peace activist, former nun, married fellow activist Philip Berrigan, both excommunicated by Catholic Church, co-founded / facilitated Jonah House resistance commune

Nathalie Dupree (23 dec 1939 – New Jersey US) Southern chef, author, tv cooking show host


1940s

Jill Krementz (19 feb 1940 – Morristown NJ) author, photographer, photojournalist, widow of Kurt Vonnegut, specialist in photographing writers, portrait / children’s book photographer

Janet Noble (04 mar 1940 – Grovers Mill NJ) journalist, playwright, screenwriter

Maria Mazziotti Gillan (12 mar 1940 – Paterson NJ) poet, editor, anthologist, watercolorist, founder / executive director of community college Poetry Center

Joan Snyder (16 apr 1940 – Highland Park NJ) painter, autobiographical / confessional artist

Nancy Sinatra (08 jun 1940 – Jersey City NJ) singer, actress, biographer, memoirist

Thea Ruth Zitzner White (16 jun 1940 – Newark NJ) voice actress, public librarian, outreach specialist

Barbara Hall Partee (23 jun 1940 – Englewood NJ) author, linguist, professor emerita, one of the founders of US contemporary formal semantics

Blenda Jacqueline Wilson (28 jan 1941 – Perth Amboy NJ) retired university administrator / educational executive, first African-American woman to become president of US university larger than 25,000 students

Susan McIlvaine Kenney (28 apr 1941 – Summit NJ) novelist, short story writer

Harriet Ziefert (07 jul 1941 – North Bergen NJ) children’s board book author

Martha Kostyra Stewart (03 aug 1941 – Jersey City NJ) writer, tv personality, magazine publisher, convicted / served time for financial fraud scandal

Sherry Beth Ortner (19 sep 1941 – Newark NJ) author, professor, cultural anthropologist, practice theory proponent

Lynne Taetzsch (24 sep 1941 – East Orange NJ) essayist, abstract artist, short fiction writer

Naomi Jakobsson (28 sep 1941 – Somerville NJ) educator, state politician, social / community activist

Carole Dawn Reinhart (20 dec 1941 – Roselle NJ) memoirist, trumpet soloist, Fulbright Scholar, retired international master teacher

Susan Subtle (30 dec 1941 – 11 may 2020 | Atlantic City NJ – Berkeley CA) author, curator, reviewer, columnist, product designer, known for focus on recycled and outsider art

Carol Bellamy (14 jan 1942 – Scotch Plains NJ) author, political activist, former Director of Peace Corps, Executive Director of UNICEF, CEO / President and CEO World Learning, first female President of New York City Council

Janine Pommy Vega (05 feb 1942 – 23 dec 2010 | Jersey City NJ – Willow NY) Beat poet, women’s / prisoners rights activist, arts educator with Incisions/Arts organisation, PEN Prison Writing Committee member / practitioner

Constance Joan McNeely Horner (24 feb 1942 – Summit NJ) scholar, businesswoman, foundation trustee, former Republican political appointee

Patricia McBride (23 aug 1942 – Teaneck NJ) ballerina, master teacher

Wendy Bean Barker (22 sep 1942 – Summit NJ) poet, academic

Donna Leon (28 sep 1942 – Montclair NJ) serial crime novelist

Judith Bernstein (14 oct 1942 – Newark NJ) artist, author, outspoken feminist, anti-war activist, known for phallic drawings / paintings, founding member all-women’s NYC cooperative A.I.R. Gallery, member of Guerilla Girls / Art Workers’ Coalition / Fight Censorship Group

Diane Wolkstein (11 nov 1942 – 31 jan 2013 | Newark NJ – Kaohsiung, Taiwan) folklorist, children’s book author, New York City’s official storyteller

Jan Groover (24 apr 1943 – 01 jan 2012 | Plainfield NJ – Montpon-Ménestérol, France) artistic photographer

Marion [Mimi] Alford (07 may 1943 – Red Bank NJ) memoirist, political figure, autobiographical author, aka Marion Beardsley Alford, Marion Fahnestock

Molly Garrett Bang (29 dec 1943 – Princeton NJ) children’s book author / artist / editor

Alice Waters (28 apr 1944 – Chatham Borough NJ) chef, author, activist, restaurateur

Joanna Cole (11 aug 1944 – 12 jul 2020 | Newark NJ – Sioux City IA) children’s book author

Nona Hendryx (09 oct 1944 – Trenton NJ) actress, vocalist, musician, songwriter, record producer, children’s book author, bisexuality / LGBT rights activist

Barbara Kruger (26 jan 1945 – Newark NJ) author, collagist, arts professor, conceptual artist, tv / film / culture critic, large-scale mixed-media installation artist

Janet Gezari (27 jan 1945 – Newark NJ) scholar, professor, literary critic

Bonnie Watson Coleman (06 feb 1945 – Camden NJ) state politician, first African-American female from NJ in US Congress, co-founded Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls, co-sponsored International Megan’s Law

Eve Elizabeth Slater (16 mar 1945 – West Orange NJ) physician, cardiologist, professor of medicine, past US Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services

Anne Waldman (02 apr 1945 – Millville NJ) poet, editor, writer, scholar, professor, performer, collaborator, cultural / political activist, member of Outrider experimental poetry community

Frederica von Stade (01 jun 1945 – Somerville NJ) operatic mezzo-soprano

Janet Hamill (29 jul 1945 – Jersey City NJ) poet, spoken word artist

Nora Kelly (29 aug 1945 – Paterson NJ) American-born Canadian librettist, mystery fiction author, founding president of City Opera Vancouver

Barbara Wiedemann (30 oct 1945 – Somerville NJ) poet, co-editor, former professor

Verandah Porche (08 nov 1945 – Teaneck NJ) poet, author, memoirist, born Linda Jacobs, founding member Total Loss Farm ongoing commune in Guilford VT

Linda Bove (30 nov 1945 – Garfield NJ) actress, librarian, sign language activist, deaf theater founder, deaf child activist / advocate

Diana G. Gallagher (14 mar 1946 – Paterson NJ) children / young adult novelist

Diana Catani-Soviero (19 mar 1946 – Jersey City NJ) operatic soprano

Karen Elva Zerby (31 jul 1946 – Camden NJ) former stenographer, new religious movement leader, head of The Family International [TFI] [formerly the Children of God], aka Maria, Mama Maria, Maria David, Queen Maria, legally changed name to Katherine Rianna Smith [1997]

Andrea Dworkin (26 sep 1946 – 09 apr 2005 | Camden NJ – Washington DC) poet, author, speaker, essayist, radical feminist,  autobiographical writer, anti-pornography movement leader

Lynne Russell (01 nov 1946 – Orange NJ) former journalist, autobiographical author

Susan Bordo (24 jan 1947 – Newark NJ) Jewish-American, author, feminist philosopher, contemporary body / cultural studies specialist

Cathy Minehan (15 feb 1947 – Jersey City NJ) editor, federal bank president, women’s leadership activist

Deborah Katherine [DK] Holland (26 mar 1947 – Metuchen NJ) writer, educator, graphic designer, community activist, ethics / design thinking professor, co-founder of Inquiring Minds, founding member National Graphic Artists Guild

Sarah Edwards Charlesworth (29 mar 1947 – 25 jun 2013 | East Orange NJ – Hartford CT)  photographer, conceptual artist

Barbara Lynne Tidswell Park (21 apr 1947 – 15 nov 2013 | Mount Holly Township NJ – Scottsdale AZ) children’s book author

Nancy Lee Andrews (14 may 1947 – Jersey City NJ) author, photographer, former international model

Laura D’Andrea Tyson (28 jun 1947 – Bayonne NJ) author, economist

Janice Kent (08 jul 1947 – Plainfield NJ) actress, director, life management coach

Maureen Seaton (20 oct 1947 – Elizabeth NJ) LGBT poet, activist, memoirist, professor of English

Susan M. Love (09 feb 1948 – Little Silver NJ) author, surgeon, prominent advocate of preventive breast cancer research, medical director of Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation

Tobe Levin Freifrau von Gleichen (16 feb 1948 – Long Branch NJ) editor, author, essayist, translator, research fellow, multi-lingual scholar, advocate against female genital mutilation [FGM], founded UnCUT/VOICES Press & Feminist Europa Review of Books

Nancy Affleck McKenzie (19 feb 1948 – Princeton NJ) Arthurian / historical novelist, former freelance desktop publisher

Robin Maxwell (26 feb 1948 – Plainfield NJ) historical novelist, screenwriter, political blogger, specialist in Tudor period

Amy Robinson (13 apr 1948 – Trenton NJ) actress, film producer, Sundance Film Festival juror

Ntozake Shange (18 oct 1948 – 27 oct 2018 | Trenton NJ – Bowie MD) poet, playwright, black feminist, born Paulette L. Williams

Alexandra Eldridge (02 nov 1948 – Mountainside NJ) mixed-media artist, contemporary painter

 

Janice Radway (29 jan 1949 – Englewood NJ) author, literary / cultural studies scholar

Judith Light (09 feb 1949 – Trenton NJ) actress, producer, LGBT activist

Barbara Ann Corcoran (10 mar 1949 – Edgewater NJ) author, speaker, investor, consultant, businesswoman, syndicated columnist, television personality

Cherie Elizabeth Untermeyer Carter-Scott (30 may 1949 – Long Branch NJ) author, life coach, lecturer, consultant, teacher / trainer, curriculum designer

Mary Louise [Meryl] Streep (22 jun 1949 – Summit NJ) stage / film actress, philanthropist, theatre activist, children’s book narrator, female empowerment advocate, women’s screenwriter collective founder

Gail Harris (23 jun 1949 – East Orange NJ) memoirist, intelligence consultant, contributing non-fiction author, first black female US Navy Squadron intelligence officer

Hedwig Gorski (18 jul 1949 – Trenton NJ) scholar, avant-garde artist, performance poet

Leah H. Jamieson (27 aug 1949 – Trenton NJ) author, professor, engineering educator, focus on signal processing, founded Engineering Projects in Community Service [EPICS]

Lucy Fisher (02 oct 1949 – Englewood NJ) film producer, social activist, philanthropist


1950s

Marilyn Suzanne Miller (03 jan 1950 – Neptune NJ) tv writer, humorist, producer

Nadine Strossen (18 aug 1950 – Jersey City NJ) author, attorney, first woman / youngest-ever President of American Civil Liberties Union

Frances Ann [Fran] Lebowitz (27 oct 1950 – Morristown NJ) author, speaker, social commentator

Debra Hill (10 nov 1950 – 07 mar 2005 | Haddonfield NJ – Los Angeles CA) actress, director, film producer, screenwriter

Virginia Sapiro (28 feb 1951 – East Orange NJ) author, professor, political psychologist

Neale Sheila Godfrey (04 mar 1951 – West Caldwell NJ) author, focus on money / life skills / value issues, weekly contributor to Forbes.com, web discussion host at NealeGodfrey.com

Louise Fili (12 apr 1951 – Orange NJ) graphic designer, non-fiction author

Jill Tracy Jacobs Stevenson Biden (03 jun 1951 – Hammonton NJ) incoming US First Lady, former US Second Lady, reading activist, children’s book author, educator / professor

Elvira Woodruff (19 jun 1951 – Somerset County NJ) non-fiction author, fantasy / history children’s writer

Connie Jost (10 aug 1951 – 09 jan 1998 | Vineland NJ – Port Elizabeth NJ) artist, punster, environmentalist

Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (03 oct 1951 – Paterson NJ) geologist, former NOAA scientist / administrator, chair of Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution

Jan Lisa Huttner (10 dec 1951 – Newark NJ) film critic, feminist, columnist, journalist, women artists’ activist / advocate

Cynthia Knott (20 mar 1952 – Newark NJ) artist, multi-form painter

Diane E. Meier (15 apr 1952 – Princeton NJ) author, essayist, professor, geriatrician, palliative care specialist, director of Center to Advance Palliative Care [CAPC]

Anne Flournoy (28 apr 1952 – Plainfield NJ) writer, director, producer

Patricia Fiorello Russo (12 jun 1952 – Trenton NJ) business executive, former CEO of Lucent Technologies, current chair of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, chair of non-profit Partnership at Drugfree.org

Suzanne Muldowney (13 aug 1952 – Camden NJ) seamstress, performance artist, aka Underdog Lady

Francess Lin Lantz (27 aug 1952 – 22 nov 2004 | Trenton NJ – Santa Barbara CA) children’s librarian, children’s / young adult novelist

Laurie S. Sutton (19 mar 1953 – Woodbury NJ) comic book writer, children’s author

Sandra Keith Boynton (03 apr 1953 – Orange NJ) humorist, songwriter, director, music producer, children’s author / illustrator

Denise Morrison (13 jan 1954 – Elberon NJ) business executive, former president / CEO of Campbell Soup Company

Cynthia Morris [Cindy] Sherman (19 jan 1954 – Glen Ridge NJ) author, film director, photographer, MacArthur Fellow, conceptual photography portrait artist

Heidi Neumark (09 mar 1954 – Summit NJ) pastor, memoirist, storyteller, spiritual author

Lynn Forester de Rothschild (02 jul 1954 – Bergen County NJ) American-British,  businesswoman, CEO of The Economist Group, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism founder / leader

Amy Wilentz (01 sep 1954 – Perth Amboy NJ) author, journalist

Sally M. Walker (16 oct 1954 – East Orange NJ) literature consultant, juvenile nonfiction author, children’s book specialist

Wendy Neuss (24 oct 1954 – Livingston NJ) tv / film producer

Jeane Liedtka (02 mar 1955 – Trenton NJ) author, strategist, professor of business administration, focus on strategic thinking / design thinking / organic growth

Barbara McClintock (06 may 1955 – Flemington NJ) children’s book author / illustrator

Sara Driver (15 dec 1955 – Westfield NJ) independent filmmaker, coined term necro-tourism after increase in NYC tourism to Ground Zero of Twin Towers

Betsy Leondar-Wright (15 jan 1956 – Summit NJ) author, sociologist, economic justice activist, focus on class and economic inequalities

Barbara Bonney (14 apr 1956 – Montclair NJ) operatic soprano

Paula Hart (25 apr 1956 – New Jersey US) movie / television producer

Cheryl Chase (14 aug 1956 – New Jersey US) aka Bo Laurent, intersex activist, graphic artist, translator, documentary filmmaker, editor of Hermaphrodites with Attitude journal, Intersex Society of North American founder

Elisabeth Anne Lloyd (03 sep 1956 – Morristown NJ) author, academic, philosopher of biology

Deborah Anne [Debby] Boone Ferrer (22 sep 1956 – Hackensack NJ) singer, actress, children’s book writer, autobiographical author

Donna Fiducia (05 dec 1956 – Essex County NJ) speaker, actress, lecturer, media coach, political advisor, production company founder / director

Madeleine [Mandy] Grunwald (23 jan 1957 – Morristown NJ) US Democratic media advisor, professional political consultant

Karen A. Cerulo (25 jan 1957 – Perth Amboy NJ) author, sociologist, professor of sociology, Sociological Forum journal editor, culture / cognition / communication specialist

Yolanda Cuomo (07 jun 1957 – Jersey City NJ) artist, educator, art director, know for collaborations / intuitive design work with visual and performing artists

Carol Plum-Ucci (16 aug 1957 – Atlantic City NJ) essayist, young adult novelist

Lori Altshuler (23 aug 1957 – 05 nov 2015 | Englewood NJ – Manhattan Beach CA) author, mentor, essayist, professor, psychiatrist, mood disorder researcher

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (02 dec 1957 – Ridgewood NJ) American-Italian writer, curator, art historian

Mary Chapin Carpenter (21 feb 1958 – Princeton NJ) author, musician, singer-songwriter, music / political columnist

Roberta Naas (19 mar 1958 – Hawthorne NJ) author, journalist

Terri Windling (03 dec 1958 – Fort Dix NJ) artist, editor, essayist, adult / children’s author

Anne Garefino (01 jul 1959 – Lambertville NJ) tv / film / South Park producer

Patricia N. [Pat] Battle (09 dec 1959 – Neptune Township NJ) tv journalist