Patti Smith and Ron Jaworski, two public figures with close ties to the Philadelphia area, will enter the New Jersey Hall of Fame later this year.

Smith and Jaworski were among the 23 inductees into the National Hall of Fame’s 2021 Sacrifice Class on Tuesday.

Before becoming a New York punk icon in the 1970s, Smith spent most of his childhood in Pittman and Deptford in Gloucester County.

Jaworski played for the Hawks for 10 years from 1977 to 1986. His ten years in Philadelphia were notable for his selection to the Pro Bowl and the team’s first Super Bowl appearance in 1980. Jaworski, currently living in Voorhees, Camden County, continues to have a successful broadcasting career at ESPN and co-owns the Philadelphia Soul Arena football team.

Other shortlisted candidates with connections to South Jersey include Ocean City native and journalist Gay Talese, Atlantic City businesswoman Sara Spencer Washington, Haddenfield Bancroft Training School founder Margaret Bancroft and Salem County native and writer David Mixner.

Public figures such as Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be posthumously awarded.

The 23 winners are from 50 nominees in five different categories After a public vote in May. Nominees are usually born in New Jersey or have lived in that state.

The nominee who receives the most public votes in each category will automatically be added to the State Hall of Fame. The New Jersey Hall of Fame Board of Directors is then responsible for determining the remaining 18 candidates.

“We asked New Jersey people to help choose the next hero category, and they provided,” Jon Hansen, President of the New Jersey Hall of Fame Say. “We are honored to be able to celebrate the lives and contributions of these famous New Jersey celebrities and great men.“

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 13th annual induction ceremony will be held in October for the second consecutive year.The event will be broadcast on My9NJ.com on October 16, October 17, October 23, and October 24, And NJ PBS, radio and social media.

The 2021 enrollment courses for the entire New Jersey Hall of Fame are broken down by category as follows:

Art and literature

• Dorothea Lange: documentary photographer and photojournalist
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh: writer and pilot
• John Forbes Nash Jr.: A mathematician who has made basic contributions to the study of game theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations
• Gay Talese: writer and journalist

enterprise

• Madeline McWhinney Dale: the first female official and deputy governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States
• Ms. Louise Scott: Founder of Scott Beauty Culture Academy, owns a chain of beauty salons
• Paul Volcker: the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve, served under Presidents Carter and Reagan
• Sara Spencer Washington: founder of Apex news and hairdressing company in Atlantic City, was named one of the “most outstanding female entrepreneurs” at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Performance art

• George Benson: Jazz guitarist, singer and songwriter
• Sarah Dash: Award-winning singer who co-founded Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles
• Lesley Gore: singer, songwriter, actor and activist
• Buddy Hackett: actor and comedian
• Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye: Smith is a singer-songwriter, musician, writer, and poet who was part of the punk rock movement in New York City in the 1970s.Since the formation of the band in 1974, Kaye has been Smith’s musician, writer, record producer and guitarist
• Mary Chapin Carpenter: country music singer

Public Service

• Margaret Bancroft: Founder of the Bancroft Training School for the Disabled in Haddenfield
• Alexander Hamilton: Founding Father and First Secretary of the US Treasury Department
• David Mixner: political activist and writer
• William Patterson: Signator of the U.S. Constitution, Judge of the U.S. Supreme Court and the second governor of New Jersey
• Gustave F. Perna: Four-Star General of the US Army and Chief Executive Officer of Federal COVID-19 Vaccine and Therapeutic Response
• Antonin Scalia: Judge of the U.S. Supreme Court who died from 1986 to 2016

Sporty

• Val Ackerman: the first chairman of the WNBA
• Monte Irvin: Left and right outfielder in the Black League and Major League Baseball, played for the Newark Eagles, New York Giants and Chicago Cubs
• Ron Jaworski: former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and NFL analyst