• Baggetta, Vincent (1947 -  ) -  Actor
• Barrett, Lawrence (1838 -1891) - Stage and Shakespearian actor
• Brussels, Iris (1902(?) -1977) - Composer and teacher
• Connors ,Chuck (1921-1992) - Actor, played basketball for the    Paterson  Crescents in the 1940's
• Costello, Lou  (1908 -1959) - Comedian/actor, star of vaudeville, radio, movies, and television;  his partner was Bud Abbott
• Davis, Anthony (1951 -  ) - Jazz composer and pianist
• Fox, Sidney (1910 -1942) - Actress, star of movies and the theater in the 1930's
• Giraldi, Bob (19?? -  ) - Director/Producer of commercials, entrepreneur
• Gleckler, Robert P. (1887(?) -1939) - Character actor
• Langdon, Sue Ane (1936 -  ) - Actress, movies and television
• McNamara, Edward J. (1882(?)-1944) - former Paterson police officer, singer, actor
• Miller, David (1909 -1992) -  Director and actor
• Mooney, Joe (1910 -1975) - Jazz pianist, organist and singer
• Pizzarelli, Bucky (1926 -  ) - Jazz guitarist
• Pizzarelli, John (1960 -  ) - Jazz guitarist and singer
• Plishka, Paul (1941 -  ) - Metropolitan Opera star
• Ritvo, Rosemary (1940 -1997) - Screenwriter and teacher
• Ruiz, Frankie (1958 - 1998) - Latin musician, known as the "King of Salsa"
• Shane, Maxwell (1905 -1983) - Screenwriter, director and producer
• Stone, George E. (1905 -1967) - Character actor
• Spady, Clarence (1962 -  ) - R&B musician
• Vilanch, Bruce (19?? -  ) - Actor and scriptwriter for film, television and videos
• Weinrich, Carl (1904 -1991) - World-renowned organist and professor emeritus of music at Princeton University
• Wheeler, Bert (1895 -1968) - Comedian, actor and star of Vaudeville, movies, and theater,  his partner was Robert Woolsey.
• Wayne, Bernie (1921 -1993) - Songwriter, wrote "There She Is, Miss America"
• White, Alice (1907) - Movie actress in the 1920's and 1930's

May, 2002  mpw