New Jersey is hoping The Boss, the Chairman of the Board, the Wizard of Menlo Park, the second man on the Moon and Yogi can help showcase its better side to the world. Those five otherwise known as singers Bruce Springsteen and Frank Sinatra, inventor Thomas Edison, astronaut Edwin ”Buzz’’ Aldrin and baseball great Yogi Berra are among the New Jersey Hall of Fame’s inaugural class announced last month by Gov. Jon S. Corzine at a Statehouse ceremony. The goal of the yet-to-be-built facility: To highlight the Garden State’s positive contributions, a lofty endeavor for a state renowned for corrupt politicians, belching refineries, stereotypical gangsters and novel smells. ``This state has just been filled with people who made enormous contributions, not just to the state but to the country and the world,’’ Corzine said. ``It is a great group of people who do, I think, capture the incredible power of this state.’’ Under the hall’s rules, inductees must have lived in the state for at least five years. The hall’s first class of 15, chosen among 25 nominees by the public through online voting, includes: Springsteen, Sinatra and actress Meryl Streep in the arts and entertainment category. Edison, scientist Albert Einstein and famed nurse Clara Barton in the history category. Berra, former Princeton University basketball player and U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, and football coach Vince Lombardi in the sports category. Aldrin and business leaders Malcolm Forbes and Robert Wood Johnson II in the enterprise category. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, author Toni Morrison and abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the general category. The New Jersey Hall of Fame plans a gala induction ceremony for May 4 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. The hall itself will exist only on the Web for an estimated three to five years while organizers try to raise $10 million to build a 50,000-square-foot museum at the Meadowlands sports complex. Organizers said the online voting was especially welcomed by schools, many of which ran mock campaigns and elections for the inductees.