Charles W. Bailey (1929–2012), journalist, newspaper editor and novelist who co-wrote the 1962 best-selling political thriller novel Seven Days in May[12]
Ian O'Connor (born 1964), sports columnist; ESPN radio host; wrote books Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus & Golf's Greatest Rivalry and The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter[24]
David Stout (1942–2020), journalist, who was best known for his work with The New York Times, and author of mystery novels and of non-fiction about violent crime[26]
Fine arts
Serena Bocchino (born 1960), artist working primarily in the realm of abstract painting.[27]
Robert Whitman (1935–2024), visual and performance artist best known for his pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props[30]
Movies, radio, stage and television
Glenn Anders (1889–1981), actor best known for his work in Broadway theatre[31]
Justine Johnstone (1895–1982), stage and silent screen actress; later a pathologist and was part of the team that developed the modern intravenous drip technique[50]
Dick Button (born 1929), Olympic ice skater and commentator; ranked No. 11 on the Sports Illustrated list of "The 50 Greatest New Jersey Sports Figures"[146]
Maureen Orcutt (1907–2007), pioneer golfer and reporter for The New York Times who had 65 career amateur victories. Inducted into New Jersey Golf Association and New York State Halls of Fame. Named Women's Metropolitan Golf Association's Player of the Century[163]
Bill Willoughby (born 1957), former NBA basketball player; the first NBA player drafted out of high school when he was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in 1975[174]
Frye, Mark A.; and English, Teri. "Lori Altshuler", Neuropsychopharmacology, November 7, 2016. Accessed January 18, 2022. "The neuroscience community lost a gifted researcher when Lori Altshuler, MD, 58, of Manhattan Beach, CA, died peacefully at home after a long illness on 5 November 2015. Born 23 August 1957, in Englewood, NJ, Lori received her BA and MD degrees from Cornell University, and after her psychiatry residency at UCLA, completed a biological psychiatry fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health."
Staff. "Phi Betes Vote", The Harvard Crimson, November 25, 1958. Accessed November 2, 2012. "Phi Beta Kappa elected the Senior Sixteen in its annual fall election last night. Chosen were Gordon P. Baker of Lowell House and Englewood, N.J."
Levin, Jay. "Dr. Carolyn Denning of Englewood, pioneer in cystic fibrosis treatment, dies at 88", The Record, January 13, 2016. Accessed December 9, 2016. "Dr. Carolyn Denning of Englewood, a leader since the 1950s in the treatment of cystic fibrosis and the founder of a major care and research center focused on the life-threatening genetic disease, died Sunday at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center."
"Josephine English, one of first black, female OB/GYNs, not stopping at 89", New York Daily News, June 23, 2010. Accessed February 27, 2018. "Josephine English, who turns 90 this year, didn't set out to be a trail-blazing doctor or businesswoman. It just worked out that way. Raised in Englewood, N.J., English graduated from Hunter College, earned her medical degree in 1949, and became one of the first black, female OB/GYN doctors in New York."
"Foster R. Dulles, Historian, Dies", The New York Times, September 12, 1970. Accessed March 20, 2020. "He was born in Englewood, N. J., Jan. 24, 1900, and attended the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., graduated from Princeton in 1921 and received a Ph.D. degree from Columbia in 1940."
Savage, Lauren. "A Doctor's Living Legacy", Columbia Magazine, Spring / Summer 2105. Accessed June 14, 2020. "In 1968, as Polk and her husband were raising their two children in Englewood, she was promoted to director of pediatric ambulatory care. "
Elliott, Ann Brimacombe. Charming the Bones: A Portrait of Margaret Matthew Colbert, p. 80. Kent State University Press, 2000. ISBN0-87338-648-5. Accessed July 22, 2011. "The McKennas were not strictly Leonians. They lived in the next town, Englewood. Malcolm McKenna was a colleague of Ned's, a paleontologist at the American Museum. His wife, Priscilla, played the harpsichord professionally in New York and some years later became mayor of Englewood."
Levin, Jay. "Eli Sagan, 87, proud Nixon 'enemy'", The Record, January 9, 2015. Accessed January 18, 2015. "Mr. Sagan and his wife, Frimi, who taught English at Dwight-Englewood School, lived in Englewood for 55 years. They moved to Dedham, Mass., in 2011."
Speer Family papers, University of Pennsylvania. Accessed November 3, 2020. "Margaret Bailey Speer (1900-1997) was also born in Englewood, the second child of Robert Elliott and Emma Bailey Speer."
Levin, Jay. "Pioneering geneticist Dorothy Warburton of Englewood dies at 80", The Record, May 4, 2016. Accessed June 10, 2016. "Dorothy Warburton, whose groundbreaking scientific research focused on fetal chromosomal abnormalities and shed light on the reasons for miscarriage, died April 26 at her Englewood home."
Dunlap, Charles W. "Charles W. Bailey, Journalist and Political Novelist, Dies at 82", The New York Times, January 4, 2012. Accessed December 5, 2013. Charles W. Bailey, who edited The Minneapolis Tribune for most of the 1970s, when it was among the most polished of the nation's midsize daily newspapers, after earlier winning renown as a co-author of the best-selling cold war novel "Seven Days in May," died on Tuesday in Englewood, N.J.... Mr. Bailey died at the Lillian Booth Actors Home."
Reading Guide for Paradise Alley, HarperCollins. Accessed February 14, 2012. "About the Author: Kevin Baker was born in 1958 in Englewood, New Jersey, but grew up mainly in Rockport, Massachusetts."
Levithan, Robert. "MLK, Selma, Marriage Equality, You and Me", Huffington Post, January 20, 2015. Accessed August 27, 2018. "Dr. Martin Luther King was only 39 when he was murdered in 1968. I remember that day clearly. I was a junior at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, New Jersey and I was amongst about ten students who were summoned to the vice principal's office to discuss how to 'not have an eruption of violence' in our school.... Englewood was an unusual place to grow up in the Fifties and Sixties."
"New Outlook", Time, August 29, 1932. Accessed May 21, 2007. "For nine days last fortnight a 'birth watch' of newshawks and cameramen camped outside the gates of the Morrow estate at Englewood, N. J., waiting to flash the news of the advent of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's second child."
Young, Elise. "Lindbergh Left Legacy As Famous Wife, Writer", News & Record, February 8, 2001, updated January 25, 2015. Accessed December 17, 2020. "Shortly before she married aviator Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in a secret ceremony at her parents' estate, Next Day Hill, on Lydecker Street in Englewood, N.J., in May 1929, Anne Morrow's personal writings chillingly foretold of tragedy and heartache to come.... The couple lived with her parents at the Englewood estate, but even the privacy of the compound offered little peace."
"Conversation with Sue Macy", Massachusetts Jewish Ledger, September 18, 2019. Accessed May 24, 2020. "Sue Macy, a former editor for Scholastic and the acclaimed author of many books for young readers, lives in Englewood, N.J."
Gussow, Mel. "William Marchant, 72, 'Desk Set' Playwright", The New York Times, December 20, 1995. Accessed August 12, 2018. "Mr. Marchant had been a resident of the Actors Fund of America Nursing and Retirement Home in Englewood, N.J., before moving to the hospital last year. Before that, he lived in Stanton, N.J., in a house owned by the actress Dorothy Stickney, said Kenneth Stadnik, a neighbor."
Brown, Peggy Ann. "Not Your Usual Boardinghouse Types: Upton Sinclair's Helicon Home Colony, 1906–1907"Archived March 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Department of American Studies, George Washington University, May 1993. Accessed June 29, 2011. "For five months more than seventy-five men, women, and children made Helicon their home for varying lengths of time. Their efforts received wide press coverage and attracted the attention of William James and John Dewey in addition to numerous curiosity-seekers. On March 16, 1907 a fire destroyed the main building, and the colony disbanded."
via Associated Press. "Glenn Anders", Toledo Blade, October 27, 1981. Accessed December 5, 2013. "Englewood, NJ–Glenn Anders, an actor on the Broadway stage who appeared in nearly 50 plays during his 40-year career, died Monday at age 92."
Nash, Margo. "Jersey Footlights", The New York Times, November 3, 2002. Accessed September 11, 2017. "When Julia Barr began playing Brooke English on ABC's All My Children in 1976, her character was a spoiled rich teenager.... Ms. Barr, meanwhile, received three Emmy Awards, married Richard Hirschlag, an oral surgeon in Englewood, and raised a daughter, Allison, who attended the Dwight Englewood School and plays Lizzie Spaulding on CBS's Guiding Light."
Stainsen, Laura Adams. "Shakira Barrera fights her way onto the hit Netflix show Glow", The Record, August 8, 2018. Accessed August 12, 2019. "Raised in Englewood, Barrera attended St. John The Evangelist School in Leonia and Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, where she studied theater."
Boyle, Hal. "Block, King of the Disk Jockeys", The Milwaukee Journal, October 26, 1949. accessed December 5, 2013. "He lives quietly in Englewood, N. J., and spends his spare time tinkering with his fancy Jaguar or working on his own ham radio station."
Green, Robin. "Naked Lunch Box: The David Cassidy story", Rolling Stone, May 11, 1972. Accessed May 13, 2007. "David Bruce Cassidy was born on April 12th, 1950 in Englewood, New Jersey. He moved to Hollywood with his mother after his parents, Broadway actors Evelyn Ward and Jack Cassidy, were divorced when he was five."
Peter Coyote BioArchived September 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Jack. Accessed November 25, 2007. "At fourteen he was a campaign worker in the Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign in his home town of Englewood, New Jersey."
Vince Curatola as Kohnny "Sack" Sacramoni, The Sopranos. Accessed December 15, 2007. "He was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, as a child his paper route customers included several actors and entertainers who influenced his love for the arts."
Schwartz, Tony. "Forever Young", New York, September 5, 1983, pp. 22–31. "He met Lucy Fisher in 1969. She was a sophomore at Radcliffe, and Peter had just graduated. Lucy grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, the oldest of three children in a family Peter described as 'aristocracy'."
Alexander, Rodi. "Genie Francis Returns To The Tube in 'The Note'"Archived July 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Hampton Independents, November 28, 2007. "Genie's first break into show business came about when her father Ivor (who was a renowned stage actor) decided he wanted to be a film actor. He packed up the family, left Englewood, N.J. and headed to California."
Hernandez, Ernio. "Playbill.com's Cue & A: Zach Grenier"Archived October 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Playbill, February 18, 2009. Accessed June 18, 2010. "I was born in Englewood, New Jersey, although my family moved four months later. Child of an electrical engineer, I moved once every year or so in the first 14 years of my life. I'd have to say that my hometown is Ann Arbor, though, which is where I went to high school."
Zayas, Javier. "'Wakko Yaks: A Conversation with Jess Harnell' by Javier Zayas", Fulle Circle Magazine, April 17, 2015. Accessed June 17, 2015. "Javier Zayas: So you were born in Teaneck, New Jersey? Jess Harnell: Actually it was Englewood Hospital, but right near Teaneck and that's where I lived so we'll stick with that."
About the Pod, The Sweetest Pod. Accessed November 19, 2023. "Seth was born in New Jersey (Englewood) and lived in Tenafly until he was 4 (save for a year in Holland, where his family tour windmills, sampled cheeses & started to speak Dutch). He and his family then moved to Princeton, where he was brought up & remained until he went off to college (and where his father and sister currently still live)."
Condran, Ed. "Richard Lewis: All Grown Up", New Jersey Monthly, October 20, 2015. Accessed October 2, 2017. "Richard Lewis came of age in Englewood, but the veteran comic insists he wasn't raised in New Jersey. Rather, he quips, 'I was lowered in New Jersey.' Still, the 68-year-old actor/comedian, a 1965 graduate of Dwight Morrow High School, has a soft spot for the town of his youth."
White, Liz. "He's With the Program: Bruce McKenna, Englewood native"Archived November 19, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, (201) magazine, January 2008, p. 54. Accessed June 29, 2011. "The standard he sets for himself in Hollywood took root in Englewood. A Dwight-Englewood alum, class of 1980, McKenna left a lasting impression on faculty there."
James, George. "Worth Noting; Eddie Murphy Is Trading Places", The New York Times, January 16, 2005. Accessed August 12, 2018. "The neighborhood is Englewood's tony East Hill, which over the years has been home to staid Wall Street financiers and flashy show business personalities, from the actress Gloria Swanson to the soul belter Wilson Pickett and the rapper Lil' Kim."
Boone, Roderick. "Marist rookie was on 'Sesame Street'", Poughkeepsie Journal, February 18, 2004. Accessed February 17, 2011. "But for Miles Orman, who hails from Englewood N.J. and went to Bergen Catholic High School, the thing he enjoyed most was going to work with his father every day."
Staff. "'Gordon' visits hospital ward", Toledo Blade, June 27, 1990. Accessed February 17, 2011. "Kim Burkholder Archbold, and her children Ryane, 3, and Michael, 7, share a laugh with a character from Sesame Street as Roscoe Orman, of Englewood, N.J., who plays Gordon on the popular children's television show, makes a visit to the pediatric ward at Toledo Hospital."
Parisi, Albert J. "New Jersey Q & A: Charles Osgood; A New Face at CBS 'Sunday Morning'", The New York Times, April 24, 1994. Accessed August 12, 2018. "Charles Osgood will be saying a lot more than that in his new, high-visibility television assignment, one he says fills him with pride, joy, and a bit of anxiety about long hours at work and responsibilities at home in Englewood."
Klein, Alvin. "Actress, 18, Has Some Regrets", The New York Times, October 30, 1983. Accessed February 14, 2012. "Before attending Hollywood High School, she was a student at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood.... After living for a while on Roosevelt Island, between Manhattan and Queens, Mr. and Mrs. Forste bought a house in Englewood."
Viders, Hillary. "Extraordinary Englewood: Stephan Marcellus", Northern Valley Press, February 28, 2018. Accessed December 15, 2021. "Stephan Marcellus was born and raised in Englewood. Last year, the 27-year-old singer rocketed to fame as a breakout star on NBC's hit show The Voice."
Rosenblatt, Gary. "Joining 'Gangs' to Work With the Best: Executive producer Rick Schwartz savors a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese and others.", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, January 2, 2003. Accessed October 22, 2011. "When the now-legendary film director Martin Scorsese first discovered Herbert Asbury's book, Gangs of New York, in 1970 and decided to make it into a film, Rick Schwartz was a 2-year-old growing up in a modern Orthodox home in Teaneck, N.J.... During several recent interviews, Schwartz, 34, who now lives in Englewood, N.J., spoke about the 'incredible opportunity' of spending much of the last three years working closely with Scorsese and actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis and Cameron Diaz on the film, an almost three-hour depiction of the brutal and bruising life in Lower Manhattan during the Civil War period, little explored in American movies."
Staff. "Sharpton to run for U.S. Senate", The Pittsburgh Press, January 21, 1992. Accessed February 17, 2011. "Sharpton, who lives with his wife and two daughters in Englewood, N.J., and also shares an apartment in Brooklyn with a friend, said his legal residence was New York."
Lewis, Dan. "Dick Shawn: Mixed-Media Man", The Baltimore Sun, November 28, 1971. Accessed February 17, 2011. "Dick Shawn left the comforts of his 14-room home in Englewood, NJ, one recent Sunday and flew to Hollywood to start work on a movie for television."
Nieves, Evelyn. "It Takes a Lot More Than a Mall to Make a Real Jersey Girl", The New York Times, November 17, 1996. Accessed February 14, 2012. "Jersey girls will often stay in Jersey even after they've made it big, like Whitney Houston, who'd rather buy half of Mendham Township than quit the state, or Brooke Shields, who commutes to work from Englewood."
Lynn, Kathleen. "Looking to trade up? $39M sought for Englewood estate", The Record, March 18, 2013. Accessed January 3, 2015. "Looking to trade up? If you've got $39million, you might take a gander at Gloria Crest, a 1926 Italianate castle on Englewood's East Hill, which was once occupied by the movie star Gloria Swanson."
Wallace, Ken. "Lead Role Of 'Irma' For Ellen Travolta", The Record, May 29, 1963. Accessed September 1, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "If you should happen to meet Ellen Travolta of Englewood one of these days and she responds with accents which sound suspiciously French, you'll understand when you learn the gifted young actress is probably prepping for her forthcoming portrayal of Irma La Douce."
Sweathog Heartthrob, Time, July 26, 1976. "The urge to perform runs in the Travolta family. John's mother, Helen Burke, an actress in Englewood, N.J., urged all her six children to take part in local theater."
Passow, Sam. "Forward Direction: Abi Varghese", The Record, April 4, 2017. Accessed May 16, 2017. "'We always thought the Indian community was not represented in the comedy platform, especially the Indian diaspora who are from abroad,' says Varghese, a Norwood resident who grew up in Englewood after his family immigrated here when he was a kid."
Attrino, Anthony G. "28 celebrities who were born in Bergen County", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 5, 2016, updated May 16, 2019. Accessed May 26, 2020. "Born Harold Thomas Wright in Englewood on Nov. 29, Tom Wright is known for his work on Broadway, in 2002's Barbershop and the TV series Seinfeld, where he played Mr. Morgan, Yankees co-worker of character George Costanza."
Lustig, Jay. "Ronettes singer Estelle Bennett dies at age 67", The Star-Ledger, February 12, 2009. Accessed December 5, 2013. "She sang on '60s rock hits like 'Be My Baby,' 'Baby, I Love You' and 'Walking in the Rain,' and toured with groups like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. But fame was fleeting for Estelle Bennett of The Ronettes.... Police found Bennett dead Wednesday, at her Englewood apartment."
Woliver, Robbie. "Music; Bennett Stepping Out With Studio And Dropping in for a Performance", The New York Times, August 27, 2000. Accessed August 12, 2018. "Tony Bennett certainly lives the good life. And he is about to share some of his sweet fortune with his former hometown of Englewood.... Mr. Bennett lived in Englewood from 1957 to 1971, and Dae Bennett operates a successful recording studio there."
Proctor, Owen. "Author explores folk music roots in NJ", The Record, April 20, 2017. Accessed September 15, 2017. "New Jersey's role in what is recognized as folk's roots goes back to the early 1900s, when St. Louis native William Foden moved to Englewood. He was a guitar virtuoso, noted Gabriele."
Wilner, Paul. "Isley Brothers: A Family Affair", The New York Times, March 13, 1977. Accessed May 1, 2008. "WHEN Sallye Isley moved her brood of children from Cincinnati to Englewood in the summer of 1959, she was participating in a show-business phenomenon."
Kenney, Kevin. "Swan Song premature for Kitty Kallen", The Record, April 20, 1991. Accessed May 13, 2007. "During a career of singing with Jimmy Dorsey, Harry James, and other stars from the big-band era, silky-voiced Kitty Kallen of Englewood got used to reading her reviews."
Matthews, Adam. "And Then What"Archived April 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, XXL, July 2005. Accessed May 13, 2007. "Kim sped off in a limo. But police paid a visit to her home in Englewood, N.J., the next day and soon arrested her associate Suif 'C Gutta' Jackson and her former manager and housemate, Damion 'D. Roc' Butler."
Jaeger, Barbara. "Rebuilding A Foundation", The Record, May 22, 1994. Accessed October 20, 2007. "Veteran songwriter, record producer, and music publisher Clyde Otis of Englewood, whose song Take a Look won a Grammy this year for best jazz vocal performance by Natalie Cole, has announced the reactivation of the Take a Look Foundation."
Daly, Steven. "Hip-Hop Happens; Released in 1979, the single "Rapper's Delight" launched hip-hop as a multi-billion-dollar phenomenon.", Vanity Fair, November 1, 2005. Accessed July 4, 2008. "One evening in late June 1979, she found herself attending a party in Manhattan, 30 minutes from her home in Englewood, New Jersey, at an uptown club named Harlem World. Sylvia Robinson is now retired from the music game, but she will never forget the sights and sounds that assailed her senses when she took her seat in the club's balcony."
Blackstreet, laurentpoms.com. Accessed June 7, 2007. "Blackstreet est un groupe américain de heavy-r'n'b et de hip-hop-soul fondé en 1992 à New York par Teddy Riley (chant, né le 08/10/1967 à Harlem, ex-Guy), Mark Middleton (chant, né un 4 juin à Brooklyn), Chauncey "Black" Hannibal (chant, né un 24 novembre à Patterson) et Eric Williams (chant, né un 6 janvier à Englewood)."
"Certified Servants", Time, December 4, 1933. "Englewood. N. J., on the highlands opposite Manhattan, is a community of wealthy burghers, like Banker Seward Prosser, Editor Bertie Charles Forbes, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, Mental Hygienist Clifford Whittingham Beers, onetime Second Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow."
James, George. "Malcolm Forbes, Publisher, Dies at 70", The New York Times, February 25, 1990. Accessed November 25, 2017. "Born in Englewood, N.J., on August 19, 1919, Mr. Forbes was the third son of Bertie Charles Forbes, a Scottish emigrant who founded Forbes magazine in 1917."
Trowbridge, Francis Bacon. The Hoadley Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of William Hoadley of Branford, Connecticut, Together with Some Account of Other Families of the Name. New Haven, Conn.: Francis Bacon Trowbridge, 1894.
"50 Wealthiest New Jerseyans". Newswire from InsuranceNewsNet.com. July 23, 2015. Archived from the original on January 25, 2016. Daniel E. and Moshael Straus; Net Worth: $905 million; Age: Daniel, 58; Moshael, 63; Residence: Englewood (both brothers live there)
Stewart, Nikita. "A man on a mission: Cory Booker", The Star-Ledger, October 3, 2000. Accessed September 2, 2007. "'I knew him when no cameras were rolling,' said Boteach, who lives in Englewood and sees Booker frequently."
Dumas, Ernest. Interview with Howard W. Brill, Arkansas Supreme Court Project of the Arkansas Supreme Court Historical Society, May 19, 2017. Accessed May 14, 2023. "ED: Howard Walter Brill. You were born . . . HB: I was born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1943. ED: The date? HB: October 18, 1943."
City Manager's Office: Wayne A. CauthenArchived November 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 13, 2007. "A native of Englewood, N.J., Cauthen came to Kansas City from Denver, where he was chief of staff to Mayor Wellington E. Webb from March 1997 to March 2003."
Staff. Ron De Lugo, Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822–1995. Accessed November 2, 2012. "Ron de Lugo was born in Englewood, New Jersey on August 2, 1930."
Dyer, Zach. "White House names Democratic donor as nominee for ambassador to Costa Rica", The Tico Times, July 8, 2014. Accessed June 6, 2018. "The Obama administration named S. Fitzgerald Haney, an international businessman with experience in marketing, financial services and manufacturing in Latin America, as its pick for the next ambassador to Costa Rica.... Fitzgerald and Andrea Haney live in Englewood, New Jersey, with their four children."
Ackerman, Lauren. A. L. Jackson (1891–1973), BlackPast.org, March 19, 2016. Accessed August 24, 2022. "Alexander Louis Jackson II was born on March 1, 1891, in Englewood, New Jersey."
Diduch, Mary. "FTC chairman returns home to Bergen", The Record, June 20, 2012. Accessed June 21, 2012. "When Jon Leibowitz was growing up in Englewood, his friends and classmates at Dwight Morrow High School knew him as smart kid who didn't flaunt his intelligence, and who was friends with everyone. Few could have imagined he would end up running the Federal Trade Commission, a powerful federal agency with more than 1,000 employees."
Award-Winning AlumniArchived July 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Bostonia, Fall 2004. Accessed September 20, 2007. "Sylvia Pressler (CAS'55) of Englewood, N.J., received the New Jersey State Bar Foundation's Medal of Honor for her contributions to improving the justice system."
Bill Rosendahl (1945-2016), The Lavender Effect. Accessed October 29, 2020. "From an early age, Bill felt he was destined to make a difference in the world. Growing up in Englewood, New Jersey, the sixth of eight children in a close-knit, devoutly Roman Catholic family, he drew spiritual sustenance from his faith; it instilled in him a passion to be of service."
EnglewoodArchived October 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Congressman Steve Rothman. Accessed June 29, 2011. "Congressman Rothman was born there and was proud to have served as Mayor of Englewood from 1983 to 1989, during which time he earned a reputation as an effective and fiscally responsible leader."
Rothman, Steve. Home Page, Congressman Steve Rothman. Accessed October 21, 2020. "In his two terms as Mayor of Englewood from 1983 to 1989... he was instrumental in cutting Englewood's crime rate, lowering its tax rate, taking the city from near bankruptcy to a five million dollar surplus, raising its bond rating to the highest since 1938 and shepherding a $22 million public-private partnership that ended Englewood's time as a “food desert” by bringing a supermarket complex to the West Street area in need of redevelopment. His tenure was described as “effectuating one of the most significant and important changes in Englewood's history.”
Sergeant Peter F. Secchia U.S. Marine Corps, Michigan Military and Veterans Hall of Honor. Accessed October 21, 2020. "Peter F. Secchia, of Grand Rapids, Michigan was born on Thursday, April 15, 1937 in Englewood, New Jersey."
Brody, Leslie. "Souljah's Roots Reach Englewood", The Record, June 18, 1992. Accessed November 11, 2007. "Sister Souljah, the rap singer who accused Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton of racism, began her activist days as a student in Englewood."
Auster, Elizabeth. "Some Bad Blood In The Clinton Camp", The Record, June 28, 1992. Accessed April 21, 2008. "Some of the gossip from the Clinton campaign these days could be mighty interesting to New Jersey Democrats – especially those acquainted with Susan Thomases, formerly of Englewood, and Rep. Robert Torricelli, currently of Englewood."
Fabrikant, Mel. "Attorney to the Stars, Michael Wildes, Retained By Best-Selling Artist Sarah Brightman", Paramus Post, October 22, 2010. Accessed October 18, 2015. "Michael has become internationally renowned for having represented the United States Government in immigration proceedings, and in private practice, for the successful representation of several defectors who have provided hard-to-obtain national security information to the United States and, most recently during as former mayor of Englewood, NJ, for obtaining an injunction to prevent Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi from residing in New Jersey during the 2009 UN Summit."
Adamek, Steve. "Armstrong Disarms Mets", The Record, May 4, 1990. Accessed October 24, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "OK, let's get the obvious out of the way. Born in Englewood and a star at Neptune High School who went on to pitch at Rider College and the University of Oklahoma, 6-foot-5, 220-pound Cincinnati right-hander Jack Armstrong fulfills the qualifications for the obvious nickname, 'All-American Boy,' like the fictional character of the same name."
Vitale, Dick. "Focusing on pros might cost Banks NBA dream", ESPN, January 19, 2005. Accessed February 16, 2011. "A 6-foot-8 sophomore forward from Englewood, N.J., Banks was one of America's premier diaper dandies a year ago. In fact, ESPN.com named him the best freshman in the nation last season, when he averaged 17.4 points and 6.5 rebounds while shooting 43 percent from the field."
Fensom, Michael J. "Englewood native Alejandro Bedoya hoping to earn spot on U.S. World Cup roster", Inside Jersey, May 23, 2010, updated January 18, 2019. Accessed February 17, 2020. "Even Alejandro Bedoya will admit he had, to borrow his words, 'come out of nowhere' to earn an invitation to the United States men's soccer World Cup training camp.... But the soccer pedigree of the 23-year-old Englewood native indicates he belongs with the national team, if not at this World Cup then at the next one, in 2014."
via Associated Press. "Columbus Crew hire Gregg Berhalter as coach", Sports Illustrated, November 6, 2013. Accessed December 5, 2013. "The Columbus Crew hired former U.S. men's national team and Major League Soccer player Gregg Berhalter as their seventh head coach. The Englewood, N.J., native replaces interim coach Brian Bliss, who took over during the recently completed Crew season for the fired Robert Warzycha, who had led the team the past five years."
"Kin Conducts Rites For Mrs. Harriet B. Morrow", The Record, May 13, 1935. Accessed May 17, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Mrs. Harriet Butler Morrow, wife of General Jay J. Morrow of 71 Franklin Street, Englewood, and an aunt of Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, died Saturday at Interlaken, N. J., of a heart attack while visiting her niece, Mrs. Garth Shamel."
La Monica, Mark. "Back to the octagon for Nick Catone in UFC 128", Newsday, March 17, 2011. "'My girl thought I was nuts in the beginning,' Nick Catone said. But if that's the best way for the mixed martial artist from Englewood, N.J., to lessen the pain of herniated discs in his back..."
Popper, Steve. "While Giants work, Garrett Dickerson waiting for his chance", The Record, July 30, 2018. Accessed October 10, 2018. "But for Garrett Dickerson, who grew up just a few miles away in Englewood and spent his high school years playing for Bergen Catholic, the goal is to make the Giants’ roster, not the National Football League."
Borzi, Pat. "A Touch of Lombardi in Norfolk State's Past", The New York Times, March 18, 2012. Accessed December 17, 2019. "The Norfolk State basketball arena, Joseph G. Echols Memorial Hall, is named for the former Norfolk State coach and athletic director who was a native of Englewood, N.J."
Coutros, Evonne. "Pro Athletes Help Train Tomorrow's Heroes", The Record, January 7, 1999. Accessed May 1, 2016. "Harper, who grew up in Englewood and now lives in Norwood, was one of the shortest players on the Jets for eight years."
DeMarzo, John. "How Richie Incognito became the NFL's No. 1 villain", New York Daily News, November 5, 2013. Accessed September 7, 2017. "The nine-year pro — born in Englewood, N.J., and raised in Glendale, Ariz. — had developed a nasty reputation as a dirty player prone to fits of violence on and off the field."
Berger, Eric. "Cardinals’ Jewish left-hander Kaminsky hopes for a playoff role", St. Louis Jewish Light, August 27, 2020, updated February 11, 2021. Accessed March 8, 2021. "Tell me a little about where you're from and your Jewish upbringing. I grew up in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and live in Englewood now. I moved a nice, five-minute drive from the parents, so that's nice. I went to Solomon Schechter [Day School of Bergen County] pre-K through eighth grade and had a great, great time there."
Weber, Bruce. "Phil Pepe, Longtime New York Sportswriter, Dies at 80", The New York Times, December 14, 2015. Accessed March 29, 2016. "Phil Pepe, a popular New York sportswriter who covered the Yankees for city newspapers, delivered radio commentary and wrote dozens of books with, and about, major league stars, died on Sunday at his home in Englewood, N.J."
"Englewood's Rich Scheinblum Is Named Post's Top Athlete", The Record, May 23, 1964. Accessed June 26, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Senior Richard Scheinblum of Englewood, N. J., outstanding baseball and basketball star at C. W. Post College, was the recipient of the Dr. Roy Ilowit Athletic Achievement Award at the college's annual sports awards dinner last night."
Moss, Irv. "Education continues to stoke former Steeler", The Denver Post, January 22, 2008. Accessed January 1, 2015. "The experience took Tepe back to his roots in Englewood, N.J., and to a time when he needed the incentive of playing football to keep him in school.... Born: June 18, 1930, North Bergen, N.J. High school: Dwight Morrow, Englewood, N.J., 1946–48"
Medcalf, Myron. "Get to know: Seton Hall's Jordan Theodore", ESPN, December 28, 2011. Accessed March 27, 2016. "So the single parent sent the Seton Hall senior from Englewood, N.J., to Paterson Catholic high school in Paterson, N.J., where he blossomed during the final two years of his prep career."
Staff. "Tolbert Wins First Trip To Honolulu", The Record, December 13, 1996. Accessed June 29, 2011. "Englewood native Tony Tolbert was among nine Dallas Cowboys selected Thursday to the Pro Bowl.... The eight-year veteran played at Dwight Morrow High School before attending Texas-El Paso."
"News of the Day", The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 2, 1890. Accessed April 26, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "George B. Cheever, D. D., LL. D., well known as both clergyman and author, died at his home In Englewood, N. J. He was conscious up to the last hour of his illness."
Hevesi, Dennis. "John K. Lattimer, Urologist of Varied Expertise, Dies at 92", The New York Times, May 13, 2007. Accessed February 14, 2012. "John K. Lattimer, a prominent urologist, ballistics expert and collector of historical relics who treated top-ranking Nazis during the Nuremberg war crimes trials and was the first nongovernmental medical specialist allowed to examine the evidence in President John F. Kennedy's assassination, died Thursday at a hospice near his home in Englewood, N.J. He was 92."
Cowen, Richard. "Rutherford native Calvin Spann, famed Tuskegee Airman, dies at age 90", The Record, September 7, 2015, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 4, 2016. Accessed October 29, 2017. "Calvin Spann, a Rutherford native and former Englewood resident who was one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the trailblazing group of African-American military pilots during World War II, died Sunday at his home in Allen, Texas."