List of people from Montclair, New Jersey

Notable current and former residents of Montclair, New Jersey, include:
Academics and science
H. Bruce Franklin (born 1934), author and historian who was expelled from his Stanford University professorship for involvement in a leftist group
Joshua Lederberg (1925-2008), geneticist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work in bacterial genetics; born in Montclair
Ronald T. Raines (born 1958), chemical biologist and expert on the chemistry and biology of proteins
Kenneth B. Smith (1931-2008), President of the Board of Education of the Chicago Public Schools; President of the Chicago Theological Seminary
Dr. Leo Sternbach (1908-2005), chemist, invented precursor to Valium
Edward Weston (1850-1936), electrical engineer and inventor whose Weston Electrical Instrument Company won the contract to illuminate the Brooklyn Bridge
Arts
Authors and journalists
Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913-2004), poet
Jonathan Alter (born 1957), Newsweek magazine journalist
Jim Axelrod, national correspondent for CBS News; reporter for the CBS Evening News
Eric Boehlert, journalist, author, frequent contributor to The Huffington Post and contributing editor to Rolling Stone
David Carr (1956-2015), media and culture columnist for The New York Times
Wendy Coakley-Thompson (born 1966), author of the novel Back to Life
Cojo, Art Juggernaut (born 1977), artist, writer, cartoonist
Fleur Cowles (1908-2009), painter, journalist, hostess, socialite and founder of Flair magazine; claimed to have been born in Montclair but records from the United States Census Bureau indicate that she was born in New York City
Louise DeSalvo (born 1942), author
Christopher Durang (born 1949), contemporary playwright
Edward S. Ellis (1840-1916), teacher, school administrator, journalist; author of hundreds of publications under his name and many pseudonyms
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961), novelist, poet, literary critic for The Crisis; later teacher
Ian Frazier (born 1951), writer, humorist, and essayist
Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1868-1924) and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972), and their twelve children, featured in the autobiography Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey and Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr.
Bob Herbert, (born 1945), syndicated op-ed columnist for The New York Times
Ken Johnson, (born 1953), art critic for The New York Times
Jon Katz (born 1947), author
Peter King (born 1957), journalist and Sports Illustrated senior writer
Michael Laser (born 1954), author
Donna Leon (born 1942), novelist
Arthur Levine (born 1962), editor, author, and publisher of children's books, including the American editions of the Harry Potter series
Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011), a prolific writer of fantasy and science fiction best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series
Susan Meddaugh, author of the Martha Speaks series of children's books, whose first home in Montclair was 33 Fairfield Street, where Martha the talking dog "lives" now
Isabel Paterson (1886-1961), journalist, novelist, political philosopher, author of The God of the Machine
Andrew Rosenthal (born 1956), editorial page editor of The New York Times; son of the paper's former executive editor A.M. Rosenthal
Lee Siegel (born 1957), writer and cultural critic
Richard Wesley (born 1945), screenwriter and playwright
Valerie Wilson Wesley (born 1947), mystery writer
Jana Winter, Fox News Channel reporter
Fashion
Bobbi Brown (born 1957), makeup artist
Jack McCollough (born 1978), fashion designer; co-creator of Proenza Schouler
Louise Vyent, Dutch-born fashion model and portrait photographer
Fictional characters
Paul Kinsey, on Mad Men
Millicent Kent, in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest
Jennifer Melfi, on The Sopranos
Marnie Michaels, on Girls
Carmela Soprano, on The Sopranos, attended Montclair State University
Fine arts
Thomas Ball (1819-1911), sculptor
William Couper (1853-1942), sculptor
Harry Fenn (1845-1911), was an English-born illustrator, primarily of landscapes
George Inness, (1825-1894), landscape painter
Joe McNally (born 1952), photographer
Dorothy Canning Miller (1904-2003), art curator
Movies, stage and television
Richard E. Besser (born 1959), former acting director of Centers for Disease Control; current Senior Health and Medical Editor at ABC News
Richard Burgi (born 1958), actor
John Callahan (born 1953), actor, Falcon Crest, Santa Barbara, All My Children, Days of Our Lives
Stephen Colbert (born 1964), television personality, host of The Colbert Report
Margaret Colin (born 1957), actress, Gossip Girl, The Edge of Night, Something Wild, Independence Day
R.J. Colleary (1928-2012), Peabody and Emmy Award-winning comedy writer and producer for M*A*S*H and Barney Miller; produced Benson and It's a Living
Kristen Connolly (born 1980), actress
Justin Deas (born 1948), actor
Dagmara Dominczyk (born 1976), actress
Olympia Dukakis (born 1931), Academy Award-winning actress, Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland's Opus
Allen DuMont (1901-1965), television pioneer
Beth Ehlers (born 1968), actress on Guiding Light and All My Children
Frankie Faison (born 1949), actor, The Silence of the Lambs
Frank Field (born 1923), meteorologist, former resident
Savion Glover (born 1974), tap dancer and choreographer
Peter Greene (born 1965), actor, Pulp Fiction, The Mask
Sterling Hayden (1916-1986), actor, Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather, The Asphalt Jungle, 9 to 5
Anthony Heald (born 1944), actor, The Silence of the Lambs, Boston Public
Shuler Hensley (born 1967), actor; won a Tony Award for Oklahoma!