Let Me Just Make This Statement Loud And Clear, Jersey’s Here.

So I want to make this perfectly clear before I begin, I have nothing against Jersey Shore, Jerseylicious, or The Real House Wives Of New Jersey.  So now that we have that out of the way, I’m writing this because DJ Pauly D was in San Francisco recently, spinning at one of the largest clubs in the bay.  (And congrats to him, I spun that club when I was 21, but it only took him 2 years of being famous and 30 years of life to get on the same tables).  But after his club appearance, I was hit with a blazing tempest of questions about New Jersey from people… Questions like if everyone in NJ is like the cast of Jersey Shore/Jerseylicious, or folks asking me how it feels to have the most influential people out of New Jersey to be J-Wow and Snookie.  I even had someone ask if my mother was like one of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey”.  So I just want to make this clear to a few folks, and make a ”short” list of people who have done something substantial that were born or raised in New Jersey, just so were clear.  Check the method below.

People From New Jersey.

People NOT from New Jersey…

AkonAnne HathawayBill MaherBon JoviBruce WillisBuzz AldrinChelesy HandlerDanny DeVitoDavid AliDJ StormEd HarrisEnglewodEnglewoodJack NicklesonJersey CityJoe BuddensJoe JonasJoe PesciJoel SilverJohn TravotaJon StewartJust BlazeKesha Knight PulliamKevin SpaceyKirsten DunstLauryn HillLawrenceLivingstonMalcom Jamal WarnerMartha StewartMillburnMontclairNathan LaneNeptune CityNewarkNick JonasNorth PlainfieldPatersonPenns GrovePerth AmboyPoint PleasantQueen LatifahRah DiggaRay LiottaRedmanRiver ValeSough OrangeSouth PlainfieldTara ReidUnion Shaquille O'NealVida GurerraWyckoff