Notable residents and natives of Cherry Hill, New Jersey

The following is a list of notable residents and natives of Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
* Muhammad Ali (born 1942), former heavyweight boxing champion. [ [http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014057.html Ali's camp now a bed and breakfast] , ESPN.com, accessed December 6, 2006.]
* Maurice Ascalon (1913-2003) and David Ascalon, noted sculptors and co-founders of Ascalon Studios, and the contemporary industrial designer Brad Ascalon. [ [http://www.sculpture.org/portfolio/sculptorPage?sculptor_id=1000872 David Ascalon profile] , International Sculpture Center, accessed May 3, 2007. "David, a longtime resident of the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was born in Israel in 1945."]
* Brian Baldinger (born 1960), former National Football League player and television sportscaster. [ [http://www.golfpodium.com/Brian_Baldinger.htm Brian Baldinger speaker profile] , accessed December 6, 2006.]
* James Barbour (born 1966), Broadway Actor, grew up in Cherry Hill, attended Cherry Hill High School East. [ [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2006/12/10/2006-12-10_out_for_my_money_beast_rages_at_his_accu.html "OUT FOR MY MONEY. 'Beast' rages at his accuser"] , "New York Daily News", December 10, 2006, accessed April 29, 2007. "Barbour attended high school in Cherry Hill and when his mom, who worked many years as a nurse, died this year it was covered prominently by a local paper, Fischetti said.']
* Lawrence Bender (born 1957), Academy Award-winning film and television producer whose credits include "Reservoir Dogs", "Pulp Fiction", "Good Will Hunting", "An Inconvenient Truth". [Klein, Michael. [http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20070227_Inqlings___Stove_going_cold_at_Deux_Chemines.html "Inqlings | Stove going cold at Deux Cheminées"] , "The Philadelphia Inquirer", February 27, 2007. Accessed May 3, 2007. "Also, Cherry Hill native Lawrence Bender, 49, was a producer of Al Gore's best-documentary winner An Inconvenient Truth."] Attended Cherry Hill High School East.
* Mike Bibby (born 1978), National Basketball Association basketball player who currently plays for the Atlanta Hawks. [ [http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3245 Mike Bibby player profile] at ESPN.com, accessed December 6, 2006.]
* Susan Borowitz (born 1959), writer of television shows.
* D. Michael Briglia (1929-2006), college professor who was athletic director and baseball coach at Rowan University (then Glassboro State College) for 25 years until his retirement in 1988, who won two NCAA Div. III championships in 1978,1979 and was named national coach of the year in 1979 and was named to the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1989.Fact|date=April 2008 http://www.rowanmagazine.com/features/feature31/Rowan Diamonds, Profs Baseball History/Rowan University/retrieved 2008-05-22
* Jim Bunning (born 1931), former major league baseball pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies and current United States Senator from Kentucky. [Fitzpatrick, Frank. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB95F720C26E751&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "AN AFTERNOON OF SHEER PERFECTION BUNNING BROKE TRADITION AND A HALF-CENTURY OF HISTORY"] , "The Philadelphia Inquirer", June 22, 1989. Accessed June 28, 2007, "It was a sultry Father's Day in the Philadelphia area, and babysitter Mary Fran Hoffman was happy to be spending it in Jim Bunning's air-conditioned Cherry Hill apartment."]
* Sarah Chang (born 1980), violinist.
* Tony Chimel (born 1967), ring announcer for WWE's "ECW" brand.
* Bobby Clarke (born 1949), former hockey player and former general manager for the Philadelphia Flyers, three-time NHL Hart Memorial Trophy winner, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
* Sherry Coben, creator of the 1980s situation comedy "Kate & Allie". [Bianculli, david. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2977FAC455BCD&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "'KATE/ALLIE' IS RENEWED, CREATOR TOLD"] , "The Philadelphia Inquirer", April 28, 1984. Accessed December 1, 2007. "Although CBS won't announce its fall lineup until late next week, "Kate & Allie" creator Sherry Coben learned yesterday her New York-based sitcom has been picked up for 13 additional episodes. 'I'm thrilled,' said Coben, a Cherry Hill West High School graduate. 'I hope we can keep the quality up. I don't want anybody to be disappointed.'"]
* Lauren Cohan (born 1982), actress. [ [http://www.ajlmagazine.com/archivesblog/2007/09/fall-tv-preview-lauren-cohan.html "Fall TV Preview: Lauren Cohan"] , "American Jewish Life", September / October 2007. Accessed December 5, 2007. "Moving to England from the Philly suburb of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where half her friends were Jewish, she was surprised to find that the only Jews in her school 'were myself and the headmaster.'"]
* Major Coxson, "...who was murdered in 1973, was simultaneously `a mayoral candidate, flamboyant entrepreneur, media darling, civil rights activist, inner city power broker, fraudster, drug financier, and intermediary between Italian-American and African-American gangsters` according to (Penn State Professor Sean Patrick) Griffin" [Marley, Mike. [http://www.fightnightnews.com/mm15.html Mike Marley's FightNightNews.com] "Major Coxson, who was murdered in 1973, was simultaneously "a mayoral candidate, flamboyant entrepreneur, media darling, civil rights activist, inner city power broker, fraudster, drug financier, and intermediary between Italian-American and African-American gangsters" according to (Penn State Professor Sean Patrick) Griffin who uses primary law enforcement records and crime reporting to make the case.]
* Randall Cunningham, former quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.
* Andrea Dworkin, feminist and writer. [Miller, Stephen. [http://www.nysun.com/article/12084 "Andrea Dworkin, 58, Feminist Thinker Wrote Against Pornography, Violence"] , "The New York Sun", April 12, 2005. Accessed June 28, 2007. "Dworkin was raised in Camden and Delaware Township (now Cherry Hill), N.J., in a leftist-leaning working-class family; her father was a guidance counselor, her mother a secretary."]
* Hank Eskin, founder and creator of the popular currency tracking website. Attended Cherry Hill High School West
* Rick Folbaum, co-anchor for WNYW-TV New York's weekday 6PM newscasts. Attended Cherry Hill High School West
* Glenn Foley (born 1970), former NFL quarterback. [ [http://www.sportstalk950.com/Roster/SR950MorningShow/Bio/tabid/94/Default.aspx About the Morning Show] , WPEN (AM). Accessed July 28, 2007. "Glenn Foley... A native of Cherry Hill, N.J., Glenn looks forward to sharing his sports opinions and insight each morning on The New Sports Radio 950."]
* Casey Fossum (born 1978), Major League Baseball pitcher. Played at Cherry Hill American Little League.
* Bob Greene, personal trainer, frequent guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show". [Burkhart, Michael T. [http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080122/LIVING/801220310 "Greene makes Oprah sweat: Winfrey's personal trainer, a Cherry Hill native, returns to area to promote new book"] , "Courier-Post", January 22, 2008. Accessed January 23, 2008. "Greene, 50, a 1976 graduate of Cherry Hill High School East, returns to South Jersey Wednesday to promote the "Best Life Challenge" diet and accompanying book."]
* Tommy Gunn (born 1967), pornographic actor.Fact|date=July 2008
* Craig Harris, nationally published video game reviewer and one of the founding editors of entertainment website IGN.
* Gene Hart (1931-1999), longtime Philadelphia Flyers announcer. [Panaccio, Tim. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB5CE6B762414B5&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "GENE HART, LONGTIME VOICE OF FLYERS, DIES"] , "The Philadelphia Inquirer", July 15, 1999. Accessed December 17, 2007. "Mr. Hart, 68, who lived in Cherry Hill, had been in the critical-care unit of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden since Saturday."]
* Orel Hershiser (born 1958), former professional baseball pitcher, who attended Cherry Hill High School East.
* Todd Hollandsworth (born 1973), Major League Baseball outfielder and 1996 MLB rookie of the year. Lived in Cherry Hill through middle-school.
* Tim Howard (born 1979), Everton FC and USA National team Goalkeeper
* Adam Jasinski (born 1978), winner of "Big Brother 9".Fact|date=May 2008
* Ali Larter (born 1976), model and actress. [ [http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/bios/niki.shtml NBC cast profile for Ali Larter] from "Heroes", accessed December 24, 2006.] Attended Cherry Hill High School West.
* Aaron Lazar, actor and singer. [ [http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_9719_ma.html?selecteddate=04042008 The New York Pops] , Carnegie Hall. Accessed April 28, 2008. "A native of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Aaron Lazar garnered critical acclaim for his performance as Enjolras in the 2006 Broadway revival of Les Misérables, earning a 2007 Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical."] Attended Cherry Hill High School West.
* Toby Lightman, singer-songwriter and Atlantic Records recording artist.
* Amos Lee, singer-songwriter. [Moon, Tom. [http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Amos+Lee%22+%22cherry+hill%22++east+graduate&btnG=Search+Archives&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&um=1 "Philadelphia's emerging musical talents"] , "The Philadelphia Inquirer", January 26, 2003. Accessed October 17, 2007. "Lee, 25, grew up in South Philadelphia and Cherry Hill (he's a Cherry Hill East graduate)..."]
* Paul Lisicky (born 1959), novelist and memoirist.
* Donovan McNabb (born 1976), quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E1DA1031F932A3575BC0A96F958260 "PLUS: PRO FOOTBALL -- PHILADELPHIA; McNabb Signed but Not in Uniform"] , "The New York Times", August 1, 1999. Accessed November 12, 2007. "But McNabb was excused from the morning workout, staying at his Cherry Hill, N.J., home until midmorning while several teammates were knocked out of practice with heat exhaustion."]
* George Norcross III (born 1957), local Democratic party political leader and chief executive of Commerce National Insurance.
* Vince Papale (born 1946), former professional football player, Philadelphia Eagles. Papale was the oldest non-kicker rookie in the NFL and the inspiration for the 2006 film, "Invincible".
* Bernie Parent, (born 1945), retired ice hockey goalie. [Fitzgerald, Barbara; and Strauss, Robert. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E3DC143BF930A25757C0A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22bernie+parent%22+%22cherry+hill%22&st=nyt "WORTH NOTING; And a Team in Pennsauken Loses Its Owner"] , "The New York Times", April 13, 2003. Accessed February 18, 2008. "Mr. Parent, who lives in Cherry Hill, is a marketing account executive in the insurance division at Commerce and has long been an investor in the team."]
* Mikael Renberg (born 1972), played for the Philadelphia Flyers
* Ron Rivera (born 1962), former Super Bowl-winning Chicago Bears linebacker. Worked as the Linebacker Coach for the Philadelphia Eagles before going back to the Chicago Bears as their Defensive Coordinator.
* "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers (1921-1992), professional wrestler, first World Wide Wrestling Federation World Heavyweight Champion, first man to hold both the World Wide Wrestling Federation and National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Championships
* Leon Rose (born c. 1961), agent for Lebron James attended Cherry Hill High School East.
* J. D. Roth (born 1968), host of "Endurance"
* Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (born 1961), violinist. [ [http://www.njn.net/artsculture/starts/season05-06/2403.html#4 State of the Arts: nadja salerno-sonnenberg, violinist] , New Jersey Network. Accessed July 28, 2007. "Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where she took part in a talent competition that won her the chance to play with the Philadelphia Orchestra when she was only 12 years old."]
* L. J. Smith (born 1980), tight end who currently plays for the Philadelphia Eagles. [ [http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/team/teamRosterDetails.jsp?id=563 L.J. Smith profile] , Philadelphia Eagles. Accessed June 9, 2007. "Growing up in the small town of Highland Park, NJ (2 square miles, population 14,500), Smith graduated from the local high school as part of a 115-person class....Single and lives in Cherry Hill, NJ, in the offseason.]
* Stephen A. Smith (born 1967), Journalist for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and ESPN television personality.
* Jerry Stackhouse (born 1974), National Basketball Association basketball player who now plays for the Dallas Mavericks.
* Scott Storch (born 1973), a well-known producer and keyboardist who has written for many artists.
* William 'Worldwide Wes' Wesley (born 1964), NBA insider; mysterious yet influential figure across the league.
* Alexa Wilkinson [ [http://www.alexawilkinson.com/ : Alexa Wilkinson : ] ] , American singer-songwriter, was born in Cherry Hill but moved to Park City, Utah aged 12. [Alexa's Facebook page: [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alexa-Wilkinson/21063662344] ]

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