The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Passaic, New Jersey. For a similar list organized alphabetically by last name, see the category page People from Passaic, New Jersey.
Rita Deanin Abbey (1930–2021), multidisciplinary abstract artist who was among the first art professors at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Mitch Albom (born 1958), sports journalist and author of Tuesdays With Morrie Brant Alyea (born 1940), former MLB outfielder, who played with four different teams from 1965 to 1972, and is one of nine players to hit a home run on his first MLB pitch Ronnie Ash (born 1988), track and field athlete specializing in hurdles who was selected as part of the U.S. team at the 2016 Summer Olympics John Barbata (born 1945), drummer for The Turtles William J. Bate (1934–2011), politician who served as a state senator, assemblyman, and judge Joan Berger (1933–2021), former infielder and outfielder who played from 1951 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Peg Blitch (1934–2021), politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives and Georgia State Senate Ernest Blood (1872–1955), high school and college men's basketball coach who was best known for his "Wonder Teams" at Passaic High School, which lost only one game in the span of a decade and set an American high school record for most consecutive victories Warren Bogle (born 1946), former Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in 16 games played for the Oakland Athletics during the 1968 season Terrence Boyle (born 1945), judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina George Breeman (1880–1937), sailor and Medal of Honor recipient Herbert Brucker (1898–1977), journalist, teacher, and national advocate for the freedom of the press, who served as editor-in-chief of the Hartford Courant Bob Butterworth (born 1942), former Florida Attorney General Jim Castiglia (1918–2007), football fullback who played in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles Arthur K. Cebrowski (1942–2005), United States Navy admiral and senior U.S. Department of Defense official Morris Cerullo (1931–2020), Pentecostal televangelist Robert L. Clifford (1924–2014), associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court Alan N. Cohen (1930–2004), former co-owner of the Boston Celtics and the New Jersey Nets T. Zachary Cotler (born 1981), poet and novelist Howard Crook (born 1947), opera singer, tenor Edwin Decena, music video and independent film director Mark DeRosa (born 1975), Major League Baseball infielder Beatie Deutsch (née Rabin; born 1989), ultra-Orthodox Jewish American-Israeli marathon runner Joel Diamond, record producer Paul DiGaetano (born 1953), politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 36th Legislative District from 1992 to 2006 and again from 1986 to 1987 Dow H. Drukker (1872–1963), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1914 to 1919 Evelyn Dubrow (1911–2006), lobbyist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Peter Enns (born 1961), Bible scholar Charles Evered (born 1964), playwright Donald Fagen (born 1948), musician and co-founder of Steely Dan George Feifer (1934–2019), journalist, novelist, and historian, known for his autobiographical novels chronicling life in the Soviet Union Amod Field (born 1967), former wide receiver who played for the Phoenix Cardinals of the National Football League Jack Fina (1913–1970), pianist and orchestra leader known as "The ten most talented fingers on radio" Dorothy Fuldheim (1893–1989), journalist and anchor best known for her work for The Cleveland Press and WEWS-TV Joel Gersmann (1942–2005), experimental theatre playwright Ralph Giacomarro (born 1961), former American football punter who played in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons and Denver Broncos Paul Goldberger (born 1950), Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Rafe Gomez (born ), business writer, sales support consultant, lecturer, music producer and DJ Thaddeus Gromada (born 1929), Polish-American historian Hezekiah Griggs (born 1988), entrepreneur, philanthropist, and investor who became the youngest African-American venture capitalist when he founded H360 Capital in 2011 David Grisman (born 1945), bluegrass musician and former member of Old & In the Way with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead Reed Gusciora (born 1960), former minority leader of the New Jersey General Assembly Beth Gylys (born 1964), poet and professor<ref>Walsh, William J. (editor) [https://books.google.com/books?id=iiG_MOtag50C&q=Beth+Gylys%27%27Under&pg=PA145 the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets, 1951–1977], p. 145. Mercer University Press, 2006. .