Meryl Streep, Debbie Harry from Blondie, Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band and Buddy "Cake Boss" Valastro are among the inductees for the 2017 class of the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

Gov. Phil Murphy announced the 21 inductees -- seven women and 14 men -- at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton on Tuesday.

All inductees, living and dead -- some voted by the public into the hall in previous years -- will be honored at a ceremony celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the hall of fame at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park on May 6.

"The hall exists to celebrate some of the most famous and most impactful," Murphy said. "The New Jersey Hall of Fame is where their story is told and retold to inspire."

Along with Streep, several of the inductees were not among the 51 nominees announced and put to a vote in November. That's because Streep, Harry and Valastro, for instance, were voted in for earlier classes (2008 for Streep), but never inducted as part of an official ceremony because they weren't able to attend at that time. (Celebrity foodie Anthony Bourdain was originally nominated but said that he could not make the ceremony and was replaced by businessman Joe Buckelew.)

Here's the full list:

Arts and letters

Author

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Anna Quindlen (South Brunswick).

Enterprise

Real estate developer

Steve Forbes, a Morristown native, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine and former Republican presidential candidate.

Joe Buckelew, of Lakewood and Manasquan, a GOP powerbroker and chairman of Conner Strong & Buckelew, an insurance and risk management firm.

"Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro, owner of Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken.

Performing arts

Oscar champion

Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band and "Sopranos" (Middletown).

"I Will Survive" singer Gloria Gaynor (Newark).

Newark's The Four Seasons (Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, Nick Massi and Joe Long).

Debbie Harry of Blondie (Hawthorne).

Public service

Astronauts Mark and

East Orange native Clara Maass, an Army nurse who died in 1901 as a medical test volunteer in the study of yellow fever.

Republican Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick (Bernardsville), who also worked as an editor at Vogue and served as the U.S. ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Gov. Phil Murphy announces the 2017 New Jersey Hall of Fame class at the State Museum in Trenton. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)

Sports

Baseball's Al Leiter (Yankees and Mets; Berkeley Township).

Mary Decker, also known as Mary Slaney, a middle distance running champion born in Bunnvale.

There will also be an "unsung hero" inductee announced in April.

The original group of nominees for the 2017 class of the hall of fame was made up of 41 men and 10 women (one nomination, for Ozzie and Ricky Nelson, included two men), both alive and dead, in the same five categories: arts and letters, enterprise, performing arts, public service and sports. Among those who didn't make the cut: "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert and Olympian Carli Lloyd.

The 2016 inductees to the New Jersey Hall of Fame included Chuck Wepner, Ray Liotta, Wyclef Jean and Kelly Ripa.

The New Jersey Hall of Fame, which is currently looking for a permanent space, has no physical home but does have a mobile museum housed in a trailer. On Dec. 19, Gov. Chris Christie announced that a New Jersey Hall of Fame exhibit featuring celebrity holograms would be installed at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Murphy noted that while New Jersey is small in size -- the fourth-smallest in terms of land size -- it has produced a sizable amount of celebrities and titans in their fields.

"Our reach has been far greater and our output of influencers and history-makers far more prolific than others that are many times our size," the governor said.

The first New Jersey Hall of Fame class was inducted in 2008 and included Bruce Springsteen.

NJ Advance Media staff writers Matt Arco and Brent Johnson contributed to this report.

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