Eastside High School (Paterson, New Jersey) alumni

The list Eastside High School (Paterson, New Jersey) alumni includes Fetty Wap, Allen Ginsberg, Bernard Kerik, Rory Sparrow and Larry Doby. The list consists of 38 members.

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Eastside High School (Paterson, New Jersey)

High school in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States

1.

Fetty Wap

American rapper (born 1991)

Overview: Willie Junior Maxwell II (born June 7, 1991), known professionally as Fetty Wap, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence after his debut single "Trap Queen" reached number ...

Date of birth: 7 June 1991

Age: 34

Nationality: American

Occupation: Rapper

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Trap musicians 54T

21st-century male singers 6,386T

Mumble rappers 46T
2.

Allen Ginsberg

American poet and writer (1926–1997)

Overview: Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac ...

Date of birth: 3 June 1926

Date of death: 5 April 1997

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Pedophilia in the United States 6T

Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T

People from the East Village, Manhattan 100T
3.

Rory Sparrow

American basketball player

Overview: Rory Darnell Sparrow (born June 12, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Date of birth: 12 June 1958

Age: 67

Nationality: American

Occupation: Basketball

Gender: Male

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Sportspeople from Suffolk, Virginia 21T

Sportspeople from Paterson, New Jersey 104T

American men's basketball players 12,045T
4.

Bernard Kerik

American, Law Enforcement

Overview: Bernard Bailey Kerik (September 4, 1955 – May 29, 2025) was an American consultant and police officer who was the 40th Commissioner of the New York Police Department from 2000 to 2001.

Date of birth: 4 September 1955

Date of death: 29 May 2025

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Law Enforcement

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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People pardoned by Donald Trump 64T

American people convicted of making false statements 54T

New York City Department of Correction 15T
5.

Jerry Zaks

American actor

Overview: Jerry Zaks (born September 7, 1946) is an American stage and television director, and actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing The House of Blue Leaves ...

Date of birth: 7 September 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Actors from Paterson, New Jersey 25T

Film directors from New Jersey 142T

Male actors from Stuttgart 16T
6.

Larry Doby

American baseball player

Overview: Lawrence Eugene Doby (December 13, 1923 – June 18, 2003) was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball's ...

Date of birth: 13 December 1923

Date of death: 18 June 2003

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Baseball

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Military personnel from South Carolina 79T

Sportspeople from Essex County, New Jersey 178T

Sportspeople from Paterson, New Jersey 104T
7.

Ricardo McDonald

American football player

Overview: Ricardo McDonald (born November 8, 1969) is a former linebacker in the National Football League that played for the Cincinnati Bengals, Chicago Bears, and the Denver Broncos. He played college football ...

Date of birth: 8 November 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: Jamaican

Occupation: Football (American)

Gender: Male

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Sportspeople from Kingston, Jamaica 377T

Sportspeople from Paterson, New Jersey 104T

Twin people from Jamaica 6T
8.

Essence Carson

American basketball player

Overview: Essence Carson (born July 28, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for Rutgers ...

Date of birth: 28 July 1986

Age: 38

Nationality: American

Occupation: Basketball

Gender: Female

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New York Liberty draft picks 64T

Women's National Basketball Association All-Stars 117T

Sportspeople from Paterson, New Jersey 104T
9.

Joseph D. Pistone

American FBI agent

Overview: Joseph Dominick Pistone (born September 17, 1939), also known by his undercover alias Donnie Brasco, is an American former FBI agent who worked undercover between September 1976 and July 1981, as part ...

Date of birth: 17 September 1939

Age: 85

Nationality: American

Occupation: Agent

Gender: Male

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American men podcasters 467T

American male non-fiction writers 7,301T

Writers from Erie, Pennsylvania 18T
10.

Bob Giraldi

Film director

Overview: Bob Giraldi (born January 17, 1939) is an American film and television director known for directing the film Dinner Rush and the music video for Michael Jackson's song "Beat It". Giraldi has been inducted ...

Date of birth: 17 January 1939

Age: 86

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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Film directors from New Jersey 142T

American people of Italian descent 5,023T

Advertising directors 157T
11.

Omar Sheika

American boxer

Overview: Omar Sheika (born February 20, 1977) is an American former professional boxer and multiple time super middleweight world title challenger. He is of Palestinian descent.

Date of birth: 20 February 1977

Age: 48

Nationality: American

Occupation: Boxing

Gender: Male

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Sportspeople from Paterson, New Jersey 104T

People from Woodland Park, New Jersey 12T

American male boxers 1,913T
12.

Henry Taub

American businessman and philanthropist

Overview: Henry Taub (September 20, 1927 – March 31, 2011) was an American businessman and philanthropist of Hungarian-Jewish descent who was a co-founder of ADP.

Date of birth: 20 September 1927

Date of death: 31 March 2011

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Hungarian

Occupation: Business

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20th-century philanthropists 1,966T

Payroll 12T

ADP (company) 8T
13.

Glenn Borgmann

American baseball player

Overview: Glenn Dennis Borgmann (born May 25, 1950) is an American former professional baseball player. He played nine seasons in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1972 until 1980. He played the majority of ...

Date of birth: 25 May 1950

Age: 75

Nationality: American

Occupation: Baseball

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

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Sportspeople from Paterson, New Jersey 104T

Miami Dade Sharks baseball players 58T

South Alabama Jaguars baseball players 30T
14.

James Scott

American basketball player

Overview: James Lamont Scott (born June 30, 1972) in Paterson, New Jersey is an American former professional basketball player.

Date of birth: 6 June 1972

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Basketball

Gender: Male

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Levallois Sporting Club Basket players 9T

Montpellier Paillade Basket players 31T

Guaiqueríes de Margarita players 69T
15.

Tony Murphy (basketball)

American basketball player and school teacher

Overview: Tony Murphy (born April 15, 1957) is a retired American basketball player. He is best known for leading NCAA Division I in scoring in 1979–80 with a 32.1 points per game average. Murphy played ...

Date of birth: 15 April 1957

Age: 68

Nationality: American

Occupation: Basketball

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

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Sportspeople from Paterson, New Jersey 104T

American men's basketball players 12,045T

Southern Jaguars basketball players 15T
16.

Frank X. Graves, Jr.

American politician

Overview: Frank Xavier Graves Jr. (November 4, 1923 – March 4, 1990) was an American Democratic Party politician who is best known for serving two separate terms as Mayor of Paterson, New Jersey. He also served ...

Date of birth: 4 November 1923

Date of death: 4 March 1990

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Politician

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Burials at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (Totowa, New Jersey) 11T

United States Army personnel of World War II 4,472T

County commissioners in New Jersey 264T
17.

Joseph Weber

American physicist

Overview: Joseph Weber (May 17, 1919 – September 30, 2000) was an American physicist. He gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser and developed the first gravitational wave ...

Date of birth: 17 May 1919

Date of death: 30 September 2000

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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20th-century American physicists 853T

Cosmos Club members 108T

Gravitational-wave astronomy 15T
18.

Gary Jennings

Novelist

Overview: Gary Jennings (September 20, 1928 – February 13, 1999) was an American author who wrote children's and adult novels. In 1980, after the successful novel Aztec, he specialized in writing adult historical ...

Date of birth: 20 September 1928

Date of death: 13 February 1999

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male writers 6,911T

Novelists from New Jersey 239T

Writers from Paterson, New Jersey 44T
19.

John Briggs

American baseball player

Overview: John Edward Briggs (born March 10, 1944) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (1964–1971), Milwaukee Brewers ...

Date of birth: 10 March 1944

Age: 81

Nationality: American

Occupation: Baseball

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Sportspeople from Paterson, New Jersey 104T

African-American baseball players 1,170T

Bakersfield Bears players 44T
20.

Paul Plishka

Operatic bass

Overview: Paul Plishka (August 28, 1941 – February 3, 2025) was an American operatic bass based at the Metropolitan Opera (Met) in New York City where he appeared first in 1967 and last in 2018, in 88 roles and ...

Date of birth: 28 August 1941

Date of death: 3 February 2025

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Opera singer

Gender: Male

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21st-century American male opera singers 93T

20th-century American male opera singers 307T

21st-century American male singers 2,696T