List of people from Cherry Hill, New Jersey

The following is a list of notable people and natives of Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

• John Adler (1959–2011), Congressman for New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 2009 until his death.^[1]
• Muhammad Ali (1942–2016), former heavyweight boxing champion.^[2]
• Maurice Ascalon (1913–2003) and David Ascalon, noted sculptors and co-founders of Ascalon Studios, and the contemporary industrial designer Brad Ascalon.^[3]
• Brian Baldinger (born 1960), former National Football League player and television sportscaster.^[4]
• James Barbour (born 1966), Broadway Actor, grew up in Cherry Hill, attended Cherry Hill High School East.^[5]
• Lawrence Bender (born 1957), Academy Award-winning film and television producer whose credits include Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, An Inconvenient Truth.^[6]
• James Berardinelli (born 1967), film critic.^[7][8]
• Barbara Berman (born 1937/38), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly for a single term, where she represented the 6th Legislative District from 1978 to 1980.^[9]
• David Bianculli, TV critic, columnist, radio personality, non-fiction author and university professor.
• Mike Bibby (born 1978), National Basketball Association basketball player who currently plays for the Miami Heat.^[10][11]
• Mickey Briglia (1929–2006), college baseball coach at Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) who had an overall record of 502-258-9 in his 25 years coaching the Rowan Profs baseball team from 1964 to 1988.^[12]
• Jim Bunning (born 1931), former major league baseball pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies and former United States Senator from Kentucky.^[13]
• Sarah Chang (born 1980), violinist.^[14]
• Tony Chimel (born 1961), former ring announcer for WWE's SmackDown brand.
• Bobby Clarke (born 1949), former hockey player and former general manager for the Philadelphia Flyers, three-time NHL Hart Memorial Trophy winner, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.^[15]
• Sherry Coben, creator of the 1980s situation comedy Kate & Allie.^[16]
• Lauren Cohan (born 1982), actress.^[17]
• Major Coxson, "...who was murdered in 1973, was simultaneously `a mayoral candidate, flamboyant entrepreneur, media darling, civil rights activist, inner city power broker, fraudster, drug financier, and intermediary between Italian-American and African-American gangsters` according to (Penn State Professor Sean Patrick) Griffin"^[18]
• Randall Cunningham, former quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.
• Dick Curl (born 1940), first Varsity Football Head Coach at Cherry Hill High School East, 1968–73, now coaching for the St. Louis Rams.^[19]
• Eric Dezenhall (born 1962), author of fiction and nonfiction, books include Glass Jaw: A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in an Age of Instant Scandal, Money Wanders, The Devil Himself and CEO of Dezenhall Resources, Ltd. Graduate of Cherry Hill West.^[20][21]
• Andrea Dworkin, feminist and writer.^[22]
• Marissa Dyan (born 1975), American actress best known for playing Cassidy Giuliani on City Guys on NBC.
• Hank Eskin, founder and creator of the popular currency tracking website. Attended Cherry Hill High School West
• Siggy Flicker (born 1967), cast member on the seventh season of Bravo's reality television series The Real Housewives of New Jersey.^[23]
• Rick Folbaum, co-anchor for WNYW-TV New York's weekday 6PM newscasts. Attended Cherry Hill High School West
• Glenn Foley (born 1970), former NFL quarterback. Cherry Hill HS East Class of 1989.^[24]
• Casey Fossum (born 1978), Major League Baseball pitcher who played at Cherry Hill American Little League.^[25]
• Eric Goldberg (born 1955), animator and film director best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios.^[26]
• Bob Greene, personal trainer, frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show.^[27]
• Tommy Gunn (born 1967), pornographic actor.^[28]
• Gene Hart (1931–1999), longtime Philadelphia Flyers announcer.^[29]
• Orel Hershiser (born 1958), former professional baseball pitcher, who attended Cherry Hill High School East Class of 1976.^[30]
• Todd Hollandsworth (born 1973), Major League Baseball outfielder and 1996 MLB rookie of the year. Lived in Cherry Hill through middle-school.
• Tim Howard (born 1979), Everton FC and USA National team goalkeeper.
• Adam Jasinski (born 1978), winner of Big Brother 9.
• Ali Larter (born 1976), model, actress, and star of Heroes.^[31]
• Lee B. Laskin (born 1936), attorney, politician and judge who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature before being appointed to serve on the New Jersey Superior Court.^[32]
• Aaron Lazar, actor and singer.^[33] Attended Cherry Hill High School West.
• Amos Lee, singer-songwriter.^[34]
• Toby Lightman, singer-songwriter and Atlantic Records recording artist.
• Paul Lisicky (born 1959), novelist and memoirist.^[35]
• Donovan McNabb (born 1976), former quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.^[36]
• Barry Migliorini (born 1966), American Basketball Association (2000–present) Head Coach
• Cristin Milioti (born 1985), Broadway and film actress, who received a 2012 Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in Once (musical).
• Fred Neulander (born 1941), former rabbi of the Congregation M'Kor Shalom, convicted of the 1994 contract killing of his wife Carol Neulander.
• George Norcross III (born 1957), local Democratic party political leader and chief executive of Commerce National Insurance.
• Vince Papale (born 1946), former professional football player, Philadelphia Eagles. Papale was the oldest non-kicker rookie in the NFL and the inspiration for the 2006 film, Invincible.
• Bernie Parent, (born 1945), retired ice hockey goalie.^[37]
• Mikael Renberg (born 1972), played for the Philadelphia Flyers.
• Keith Richards, guitarist of the Rolling Stones lived in Cherry Hill while undergoing treatment for heroin addiction in Philadelphia.
• Ron Rivera (born 1962), former Super Bowl-winning Chicago Bears linebacker. Worked as the Linebacker Coach for the Philadelphia Eagles before going back to the Chicago Bears as their Defensive Coordinator.
• "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers (1921–1992), professional wrestler, first World Wide Wrestling Federation World Heavyweight Champion, first man to hold both the World Wide Wrestling Federation and National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Championships
• Leon Rose (born c. 1961), agent for LeBron James.^[38]
• J. D. Roth (born 1968), host of Endurance.^[39]
• Kal Rudman, broadcast pioneer and publisher of the music industry trade journal Friday Morning Quarterback, who assisted the rise of the careers of artists including Bruce Springsteen.^[40]
• Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (born 1961), violinist.^[41]
• Bobby Ryan (born 1987), professional ice hockey forward for the Ottawa Senators.^[42]
• L. J. Smith (born 1980), former tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles.^[43]
• Stephen A. Smith (born 1967), Journalist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and ESPN television personality.^[44]
• Scott Storch (born 1973), producer and keyboardist who has written for many artists.
• Michelle Vittese (born 1989), field hockey player selected as part of the U.S. team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[45]
• William 'Worldwide Wes' Wesley (born 1964), NBA insider who is a mysterious yet influential figure across the league.
• Alexa Wilkinson, singer-songwriter who was born in Cherry Hill but moved to Park City, Utah aged 12.^[46]

References

1. Katz, Matt. "John Adler, former NJ congressman, is dead", The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 4, 2011. Accessed August 25, 2011. "Former U.S. Rep. John Adler, a tireless politician from Cherry Hill who carved out a centrist voting record over two decades in the state senate and one term in Congress, died Monday at the age of 51."
2. "Ali's camp now a bed and breakfast", ESPN.com. Accessed August 25, 2011.
3. David Ascalon profile, International Sculpture Center, accessed May 3, 2007. "David, a longtime resident of the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was born in Israel in 1945."
4. Brian Baldinger speaker profile, accessed December 6, 2006.
5. "OUT FOR MY MONEY. 'Beast' rages at his accuser", New York Daily News, December 10, 2006, accessed April 29, 2007. "Barbour attended high school in Cherry Hill and when his mom, who worked many years as a nurse, died this year it was covered prominently by a local paper, Fischetti said.'
6. Klein, Michael. "Inqlings | Stove going cold at Deux Cheminées", The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 27, 2007. Accessed May 3, 2007. "Also, Cherry Hill native Lawrence Bender, 49, was a producer of Al Gore's best-documentary winner An Inconvenient Truth."
7. Schneider, Dan. "The Dan Schneider Interview 16: James Berardinelli", Cosmoetica.com, December 12, 2008. Accessed July 14, 2016. "I was born in New Brunswick, lived in Old Bridge for a year, then spent my childhood in Morristown and my teenage years in Cherry Hill. I went to college at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, then returned to New Jersey to live in Bridgewater, Hillsborough, and Mount Laurel, where I currently reside."
8. Boatman, Gail T. "When the lights go down, his work begins", Burlington County Times, February 18, 2015. Accessed July 14, 2016. "While growing up in Cherry Hill, Berardinelli had only a casual interest in films."
9. Waldron, Martin. "Trenton Topics: Assembly Will Have 12 Women Members - A Record", The New York Times, November 12, 1977. Accessed November 27, 2016. "Two women were elected from one district—the Sixth, which consists of parts of Camden and Burlington Counties. This has never happened before. They are Mary Keating Croce of Pennsauken and Barbara Berman of Cherry Hill, both Democrats."
10. Nuhn, Gary. "A Sad Tale for Bibby and Father", Dayton Daily News, March 30, 1997. Accessed August 25, 2011. "Henry Bibby was near the end of an undistinguished pro career when Mike Bibby was born in Cherry Hill, NJ, in May 1978."
11. Mike Bibby, ESPN.com. Accessed August 25, 2011.
12. Staff. "D. Michael 'Mickey' Briglia", Courier-Post, January 5, 2006. Accessed July 14, 2016.
13. Fitzpatrick, Frank. "AN AFTERNOON OF SHEER PERFECTION BUNNING BROKE TRADITION AND A HALF-CENTURY OF HISTORY", The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 22, 1989. Accessed June 28, 2007, "It was a sultry Father's Day in the Philadelphia area, and babysitter Mary Fran Hoffman was happy to be spending it in Jim Bunning's air-conditioned Cherry Hill apartment."
14. Webster, Daniel. "Sarah Chang Soloist At Mann Concert", The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 7, 1995. Accessed August 25, 2011. "Two days before her concert, she was sleeping in, luxuriating in the chance to open her eyes around 10 in the bedroom of her family's Cherry Hill home."
15. Clarke, Bob. "Good Neighbor PolicyCanadian Bob Clarke was known as Bobby when he arrived as a rookie with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1969. Now the team's senior vice president calls Haddonfield home.", New Jersey Monthly, November 15, 2000. Accessed September 30, 2016. "The bars would close up and all the young kids decided to stop over. So we bought a house in Cherry Hill. That house, though, became a little too private. We lived in Wilderness Acres, which was beautiful, the home and an acre-and-a-half in a wooded area."
16. Bianculli, david. "'KATE/ALLIE' IS RENEWED, CREATOR TOLD", The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 28, 1984. Accessed December 1, 2007. "Although CBS won't announce its fall lineup until late next week, Kate & Allie creator Sherry Coben learned yesterday her New York-based sitcom has been picked up for 13 additional episodes. 'I'm thrilled,' said Coben, a Cherry Hill West High School graduate. 'I hope we can keep the quality up. I don't want anybody to be disappointed.'"
17. "Fall TV Preview: Lauren Cohan", American Jewish Life, September / October 2007. Accessed December 5, 2007. "Moving to England from the Philly suburb of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where half her friends were Jewish, she was surprised to find that the only Jews in her school 'were myself and the headmaster.'"
18. Marley, Mike.Mike Marley's FightNightNews.com "Major Coxson, who was murdered in 1973, was simultaneously "a mayoral candidate, flamboyant entrepreneur, media darling, civil rights activist, inner city power broker, fraudster, drug financier, and intermediary between Italian-American and African-American gangsters" according to (Penn State Professor Sean Patrick) Griffin who uses primary law enforcement records and crime reporting to make the case.
19. Dick Curl, St. Louis Rams.
20. Maffucci, Nancy. Book Review: Glass Jaw. November 5, 2014. "When I first heard about Glass Jaw: A Manifesto for Defending Fragile Reputations in the Age of Instant Scandal, by Eric Dezenhall, I knew it was going to be 'required reading.'
21. Riordan, Kevin. Cherry Hill native tells tale of gangster who did good. The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 19, 2011. "The new book by Eric Dezenhall, a nice guy from Cherry Hill, is about a wiseguy from the past."
22. Miller, Stephen. "Andrea Dworkin, 58, Feminist Thinker Wrote Against Pornography, Violence", The New York Sun, April 12, 2005. Accessed June 28, 2007. "Dworkin was raised in Camden and Delaware Township (now Cherry Hill), N.J., in a leftist-leaning working-class family; her father was a guidance counselor, her mother a secretary."
23. Rohan, Virginia. "Two new Real Housewives of New Jersey stars want to bring positive light back to show", The Record (Bergen County), July 6, 2016. Accessed July 6, 2016. "When she was five years old, her family moved to Cherry Hill."
24. About the Morning Show, WPEN. Accessed July 28, 2007. "Glenn Foley... A native of Cherry Hill, N.J., Glenn looks forward to sharing his sports opinions and insight each morning on The New Sports Radio 950."
25. Prunty, Brendan. "New York Mets designate Nelson Figueroa for assignment; call up Casey Fossum", The Star-Ledger, April 19, 2009. Accessed September 30, 2016. "Fossum -- who was born in Cherry Hill, before moving to Texas as a youngster -- is expected to give the Mets the option of using a left-handed pitcher against a St. Louis Cardinals lineup that is rife with left-handed and switch-hitting batters."
26. Gaul, Lou. "FILM CLIPS Animator Eric Goldberg: This 'Pooh' is an uplifting work", Burlington County Times, July 12, 2011. Accessed August 25, 2011. "According to Goldberg, who was born in Levittown, Bucks County, and in 1961 moved to Cherry Hill, much of the visual beauty in "Winnie the Pooh" results from employing an artistic old-school process."
27. Burkhart, Michael T. "Greene makes Oprah sweat: Winfrey's personal trainer, a Cherry Hill native, returns to area to promote new book", Courier-Post, January 22, 2008. Accessed January 23, 2008. "Greene, 50, a 1976 graduate of Cherry Hill High School East, returns to South Jersey Wednesday to promote the "Best Life Challenge" diet and accompanying book."
28. "Tommy Gunn was born Thomas Joseph Strada in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.", imdb.com. Accessed November 12, 2011.
29. Panaccio, Tim. "GENE HART, LONGTIME VOICE OF FLYERS, DIES", The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 1999. Accessed December 17, 2007. "Mr. Hart, 68, who lived in Cherry Hill, had been in the critical-care unit of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden since Saturday."
30. Orel Hershiser Stats, Baseball Almanac. Accessed September 30, 2016.
31. NBC cast profile for Ali Larter from Heroes. Accessed December 24, 2006.
32. Staff. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey; 1990 Edition, p. 208. J.A. Fitzgerald, 1990. Accessed September 28, 2016. "Mr. Laskin was born June 30, 1936, in Atlantic City. He was graduated from Camden High School in 1954."
33. The New York Pops, Carnegie Hall. Accessed April 28, 2008. "A native of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Aaron Lazar garnered critical acclaim for his performance as Enjolras in the 2006 Broadway revival of Les Misérables, earning a 2007 Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical."
34. Moon, Tom. "Philadelphia's emerging musical talents", The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 26, 2003. Accessed October 17, 2007. "Lee, 25, grew up in South Philadelphia and Cherry Hill (he's a Cherry Hill East graduate)..."
35. Korman, Nina. "Lawnboy's Own Story: The Miami Book Fair International", Miami New Times, November 11, 1999. Accessed November 29, 2008. "Lisicky's book, a six-year project, is an evocative, sensitively rendered portrait of a young gay man coming of age in our parts. The author grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, lives most of the year in Houston, Texas, where he teaches, and spends the summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts."
36. "PLUS: PRO FOOTBALL -- PHILADELPHIA; McNabb Signed but Not in Uniform", The New York Times, August 1, 1999. Accessed November 12, 2007. "But McNabb was excused from the morning workout, staying at his Cherry Hill, N.J., home until midmorning while several teammates were knocked out of practice with heat exhaustion."
37. Fitzgerald, Barbara; and Strauss, Robert. "WORTH NOTING; And a Team in Pennsauken Loses Its Owner", The New York Times, April 13, 2003. Accessed February 18, 2008. "Mr. Parent, who lives in Cherry Hill, is a marketing account executive in the insurance division at Commerce and has long been an investor in the team."
38. Leon Rose: Class of 2011, Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Accessed August 25, 2011. "Leon Rose grew up in Cherry Hill, played varsity basketball in high school and is a member of the Cherry Hill East Basketball Hall of Fame."
39. Pensiero, Nicole. "As Seen on TV", South Jersey magazine, May 2011. Accessed September 30, 2016. "A passion for entertaining propelled reality TV producer and The Biggest Loser creator JD Roth from Cherry Hill to Hollywood—and he hasn't looked back since."
40. Riordan, Kevin. "Kal Rudman, music maven, philanthropist (and legend)", The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 7, 2016. Accessed September 30, 2016. "He and I are chatting in the gracious Cherry Hill home he shares with Lucille, his wife of 58 years."
41. State of the Arts: nadja salerno-sonnenberg, violinist, New Jersey Network. Accessed July 28, 2007. "Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where she took part in a talent competition that won her the chance to play with the Philadelphia Orchestra when she was only 12 years old."
42. Bobby Ryan, Hockey-Reference.com. Accessed September 30, 2016.
43. L.J. Smith profile, Philadelphia Eagles. Accessed June 9, 2007. "Growing up in the small town of Highland Park, NJ (2 square miles, population 14,500), Smith graduated from the local high school as part of a 115-person class....Single and lives in Cherry Hill, NJ, in the offseason.
44. Fiorillo, Victor. "Stephen A. Smith Suspended for Domestic Violence Comments; Did ESPN make the right call?", Philadelphia (magazine), July 30, 2014. Accessed August 10, 2016. "ESPN sportscaster and Cherry Hill resident Stephen A. Smith has been suspended for one week by the network for comments he made suggesting that female victims of domestic violence should examine their own role in the abuse."
45. Michelle Vittese, United States Olympic Committee. Accessed August 10, 2016. "Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pa.; Hometown: Cherry Hill, N.J.; High School: Camden Catholic ('08)"
46. "Interviewing Lelia Broussard + Alexa Wilkinson", Hollywood the Write Way, August 19, 2008. Accessed August 10, 2016. "A native of Cherry Hill, NJ, Alexa moved to Utah at 12 years old, but has since lived in both Los Angeles and New York. Her songs, 'Just Gone' and 'Miles Away' have both appeared on The Hills (MTV)."