The people that are listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Englewood, New Jersey, United States.
Academics, medicine and science Lori Altshuler (1957–2015), professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral SciencesFrye, 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." Gordon Park Baker (1938–2002), philosopherStaff. "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." Ed Barnhart (born 1968), archaeologist and explorer specializing in ancient civilizations of the AmericasBarnhart, Edwin Lawrence. The Palenque Mapping Project: Settlement and Urbanism at an Ancient Maya City, University of Texas at Austin, December 2021. Accessed September 16, 2025. "Edwin Lawrence Barnhart was born in Englewood New Jersey on October 29th, 1968 to Joan Francis Ryder Barnhart and Edwin Louis Barnhart." Carolyn Denning (1927–2016), pediatrician and pioneer in cystic fibrosis treatmentLevin, 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." Foster Rhea Dulles (1900–1970), journalist, history professor and author"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." Josephine English (1920–2011), gynecologist who was one of the first black women to open a private practice in New York state"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." Gene-Ann Polk Horne (1926–2015), physician and hospital administrator, director of pediatric ambulatory care at Harlem Hospital and professor of pediatrics at Columbia UniversitySavage, 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. " Robert Stell Lemmon (1885–1964), naturalist and authorClayton, Virginia Tuttle. The Once & Future Gardener: Garden Writing from the Golden Age of Magazines, 1900-1940, p. 234. David R. Godine Publisher, 2000. . Accessed September 20, 2024. "Robert Stell Lemmon, born in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1885, served as associate editor of House and Garden from 1915 to 1918, and as managing editor from 1918 to 1937." Malcolm McKenna (1930–2008), paleontologist, whose wife, Priscilla, served as mayor of EnglewoodElliott, Ann Brimacombe. Charming the Bones: A Portrait of Margaret Matthew Colbert, p. 80. Kent State University Press, 2000. . 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." Robert Mills (1927–1999), physicistvia The New York Times. "Dr. Robert Mills, 72, Contributed to Study Of Subatomic Particles", South Florida Sun-Sentinel, October 31, 1999. Accessed November 2, 2012. "Dr. Mills, who lived in Columbus, was born on April 15, 1927, in Englewood, N.J." Eli Sagan (1927–2015), clothing manufacturer; lecturer and author in cultural anthropology; political activist; served on the national finance committee for George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, a role that earned him a spot on Richard Nixon's Enemies List in 1973Levin, 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." Margaret Bailey Speer (1900–1997), educator and teaching missionarySpeer 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." Dorothy Warburton (1936–2016), geneticistLevin, 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."
Arts Authors
Miriam Anzovin, writer, artist and social media personalitySackett, Shelley A. "Millennial brings Talmud to TikTok", The Jewish Journal, March 3, 2022. Accessed October 30, 2024. "It’s not easy to pigeon-hole Miriam Anzovin of Natick. The middle of three children, Anzovin, 36, was born in Englewood, NJ and grew up in Amherst in a ba’al teshuva family, moving from secular to orthodox Judaism by her 11th birthday." Charles W. Bailey (1929–2012), journalist, newspaper editor and novelist who co-wrote the 1962 best-selling political thriller novel Seven Days in MayDunlap, 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." Kevin Baker (born 1958), novelist and journalistReading 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." Alex Berenson (born 1973), novelist and former reporter for The New York TimesFreedlander, David. "Does the King of the COVID-19 Contrarians Have a Case? Alex Berenson, thriller writer, former Timesman, and marijuana alarmist, thinks scientists, politicians, and the media are fueling coronavirus hysteria. Some scientists think he's dead wrong. 'He should go back to school to learn some science,' says one.", Vanity Fair, April 16, 2020. Accessed August 31, 2021. "Berenson's upbringing seems tailor-made for the media elite, growing up in Englewood, New Jersey, and attending Horace Mann and then Yale, where he graduated in 1994." Claudia Cohen (1950–2007), socialite and gossip columnistFox, Margalit. "Claudia Cohen, 56, Socialite And a Reporter of Gossip, Is Dead", The New York Times, June 16, 2007. Accessed August 12, 2018. "Claudia Lynn Cohen was born on Dec. 16, 1950, in Englewood, N.J." Brian Daley (1947–1996), science fiction novelistBiography, Brian-Daley.com. Accessed August 12, 2015. "Brian was born in Englewood Hospital in Englewood, New Jersey on Dec. 22, 1947." Anna Dewdney (1965–2016), author and illustrator of children's books, including Llama Llama Red PajamaLevin, Jay. "Anna Dewdney, children's author, illustrator of Llama Llama stories, dies at 50", The Record, September 7, 2016. Accessed September 7, 2016. "That's doubly appropriate: The charming picture book deals with a little llama's separation anxiety on the first day of preschool. And Dewdney grew up in Englewood." Robert Levithan (1951–2016, class of 1969), writer and HIV/AIDS activistLevithan, 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." Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), author and aviator; wife of Charles Lindbergh and daughter of Dwight Morrow"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." James Lord (1922–2009), biographerGrimes, William. "James Lord, Biographer and Memoirist, Is Dead at 86", The New York Times, August 27, 2009. Accessed November 2, 2012. "Mr. Lord was born and reared in Englewood, N.J. His father was a stockbroker, and until the Wall Street crash the family lived, as Mr. Lord put it, in 'the lower echelons of the upper classes.'" Sue Macy (born 1954), author, whose 2019 book, The Book Rescuer, won the Sydney Taylor Book Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries"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." William Marchant (1923–1995), playwright and screenwriter, best known for writing the play that served as the basis for the 1957 Walter Lang movie The Desk SetGussow, 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." 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 JeterStaff. "Bergen Celebrity Signing: Former Record columnist Ian O'Connor will sign his new book The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter", Bergen.com, April 24, 2011. Accessed November 5, 2013. "Ian O'Connor, Englewood native and current River Vale resident, will be signing his new book "The Captain" and speaking about the Yankee icon's career at Bookends in Ridgewood on May 19 at 7:30 pm"