page_title: New Brunswick, New Jersey
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: New Brunswick, New Jersey / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, is Arrested in front of White House WASHINGTON, DC-- Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, was arrested in front of the White House, in an effort to urge President Obama to reject the Keystone pipeline. She was arrested along with 139 others who also engaged in civil disobedience on August 29th, 2011. From August 20th-September 3rd, hundreds of people are sitting-in at the White House to tell President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Visit http://www.tarsandsaction.org for more details. Photo Credit: Josh Lopez
context_page_description: New Brunswick is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, in the New York metropolitan area. The city is the county seat of Middlesex County, and the home of Rutgers University. New Brunswick is on the Northeast Corridor rail line, 27 miles southwest of Manhattan, on the southern bank of the Raritan River.
  For 2019, New Brunswick had a Census-estimated population of 55,676, representing a 0.9% increase from the 55,181 people enumerated at the 2010 United States Census, which in turn had reflected an increase of 6,608 from the 48,573 counted in the 2000 Census. Due to the concentration of medical facilities in the area, including Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Saint Peter's University Hospital, as well as Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey's Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick is known as both the Hub City and the Healthcare City. The corporate headquarters and production facilities of several global pharmaceutical companies are situated in the city, including Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
  New Brunswick is noted for its ethnic diversity.
context_section_description: People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the City of New Brunswick include:
  David Abeel (1804–1846), Dutch Reformed Church missionary.
  Garnett Adrain (1815–1878), member of the United States House of Representatives.
  Charlie Atherton (1874–1934), major league baseball player.
  Jim Axelrod, national correspondent for CBS News, and reports for the CBS Evening News.
  Catherine Hayes Bailey (1921–2014), plant geneticist who specialized in fruit breeding.
  Joe Barzda (1915–1993), race car driver.
  John Bayard (1738–1807), merchant, soldier and statesman who was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1785 and 1786, and later mayor of New Brunswick.
  John Bradbury Bennet (1865–1940), United States Army officer and brigadier general active during World War I.
  James Berardinelli (born 1967), film critic.
  James Bishop (1816–1895), represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1855 to 1857.
  Charles S. Boggs (1811–1877), Rear Admiral who served in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.
  PJ Bond, singer-songwriter.
  Jake Bornheimer (1927–1986), professional basketball player for the Philadelphia Warriors.
  James Bornheimer (1933–1993), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1972 to 1982 and in the New Jersey Senate from 1982 to 1984.
  Brett Brackett (born 1987), football tight end.
  Derrick Drop Braxton (born 1981), record producer and composer.
  Sherry Britton (1918–2008), burlesque performer and actress.
  Gary Brokaw (born 1954), former professional basketball player who played most of his NBA career for the Milwaukee Bucks.
  Jalen Brunson (born 1996), basketball player.
  William Burdett-Coutts (1851–1921), British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1921.
  Darhyl Camper (born 1990), singer-songwriter and record producer.
  Arthur S. Carpender (1884–1960), United States Navy admiral who commanded the Allied Naval Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area during World War II.
  Jonathan Casillas (born 1987), linebacker for the NFL's New Orleans Saints and University of Wisconsin.
  Joseph Compton Castner (1869–1946), Army general
  Andre Dixon (born 1986), former professional football running back.
  Wheeler Winston Dixon (born 1950), filmmaker, critic, and author.
  Michael Douglas (born 1944), actor.
  Linda Emond (born 1959), actress.
  Jerome Epstein (born 1937), politician who served in the New Jersey Senate  from 1972 to 1974 and later went to federal prison for pirating millions of dollars worth of fuel oil.
  Anthony Walton White Evans (1817–1886), engineer.
  Robert Farmar (1717–1778), British Army officer who fought in the Seven Years' War and served as interim governor of British West Florida.
  Mervin Field (1921–2015), pollster of public opinion.
  Louis Michael Figueroa (born 1966), arguably the most prolific transcontinental journeyman.
  Margaret Kemble Gage (1734–1824). wife of General Thomas Gage, who led the British Army in Massachusetts early in the American Revolutionary War and who may have informed the revolutionaries of her husband's strategy.
  Morris Goodkind (c. 1888–1968), chief bridge engineer for the New Jersey State Highway Department from 1925 to 1955 (now the New Jersey Department of Transportation), responsible for the design of the Pulaski Skyway and 4,000 other bridges.
  Vera Mae Green (1928–1982), anthropologist, educator and scholar, who made major contributions in the fields of Caribbean studies, interethnic studies, black family studies and the study of poverty and the poor.
  Alan Guth (born 1947), theoretical physicist and cosmologist best known for his theory of cosmological inflation.
  All involved in the Hall-Mills Murder case of the 1920s.
  Augustus A. Hardenbergh (1830–1889), represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1875 to 1879, and again from 1881 to 1883.
  Mel Harris (born 1956), actress.
  Mark Helias (born 1950), jazz bassist / composer.
  Susan Hendricks (born 1973), anchor for HLN and substitute anchor for CNN.
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caption: Phil Radford, former executive director of Greenpeace USA
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