Paterson, New Jersey

Paterson is a city located in Passaic County, New Jersey. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 149,222, making it New Jersey's third largest city. It is the county seat of Passaic County{{GR|6}}. The City of Paterson is governed under the Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council) system of municipal government.

Famous Patersonians

• Garret A. Hobart, twenty-fourth Vice President of the United States
• Lou Costello, of the comedy duo Abbott and Costello
• Joe Clark, educator and former principal of Eastside High School, depicted by Morgan Freeman in the movie Lean on Me
• Larry Doby, Hall of Fame baseball player who broke the color barrier in the American League
• Frank Lautenberg, politician, currently represents New Jersey in the United States Senate
• Allen Ginsberg, writer and Beat Generation poet
• Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, boxer, subject of the Bob Dylan song "Hurricane" and the movie The Hurricane
• Tim Thomas, pro basketball player, currently on the New York Knicks
• Frederick Reines, awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for detection of the neutrino
• Gaetano Bresci, weaver and anarchist, assassinated Italian king Umberto I
• Bernie Wayne, songwriter, wrote "There She Is, Miss America"
• J. Michael Straczynski, science-fiction writer, creator and writer for Babylon 5
• Lawrence Barrett, actor, one of the leading American actors of the 19th century
• Elizabeth Vargas, ABC news anchor
• Maxine Jones, singer, member of En Vogue
• Just Blaze, hip hop music producer
• Patrick Warburton, actor, performs in movies and on television, famous for his roles in Seinfeld and Family Guy
• Sadie "The Lady" Wolf, famous grandmother