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PHILADELPHIA
Most Famous People Born in Philadelphia, USA
- Notable people
- 5,575
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- Median birth year
- 1928
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 6.0×
The original American capital, then the capital of nothing in particular, then a sports town. Philadelphia's notables run thick through the 18th century — lawyers, philanthropists, financiers — and then settle into a long, steady output of baseball players, basketball players, jazz bandleaders, and character actors. The city has one of the highest shares of notables in organized labor of the early 20th century and one of the deepest benches of soul singers of the late 20th.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Philadelphia Is Known For
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Politician is Philadelphia's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (482).
Philadelphia over-indexes on baseball — 6.0× the global rate.
Philadelphia under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Philadelphia's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Solomon R. Guggenheim
1861 - 1949
Jessie Willcox Smith
1863 - 1935
Richard Harding Davis
1864 - 1916
William Wrigley Jr.
1861 - 1932
William Kemmler
1860 - 1890
Lightner Witmer
1867 - 1956
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
1863 - 1930
George Barbier (actor)
1864 - 1945
John B. Thayer
1862 - 1912
Simon Guggenheim
1867 - 1941
Boies Penrose
1860 - 1921
Witmer Stone
1866 - 1939
William Louis Abbott
1860 - 1936
Sheldon Lewis
1868 - 1958
George W. Pepper
1867 - 1961
Benjamin Guggenheim
1865 - 1912
George Dunton Widener
1861 - 1912
Kerry Mills
1869 - 1948
Ava Lowle Willing
1868 - 1958
Horace Trumbauer
1868 - 1938
Edgar Buckingham
1867 - 1940
Mary Vaux Walcott
1860 - 1940
Edward Percy Moran
1862 - 1935
Arthur Collins (singer)
1864 - 1933
Rodman Wanamaker
1863 - 1928
John William Harshberger
1869 - 1929
William Scott Vare
1867 - 1934
Frank A. Perret
1867 - 1943
Eleanor Everest Freer
1864 - 1942
Edward C. Stokes
1860 - 1942
John Exley
1867 - 1938
Elizabeth Wharton Drexel
1868 - 1944
Morris E. Leeds
1869 - 1952
John Nolen
1869 - 1937
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
1862 - 1935
Walter Elmer Schofield
1867 - 1944
James M. Beck
1861 - 1936
Mary Berenson
1864 - 1945
Ellen Biddle Shipman
1869 - 1950
Milton Work
1864 - 1934
Anita Hendrie
1863 - 1940
Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer
1868 - 1936
Ellen Hansell
1869 - 1937
Bertha Townsend
1869 - 1909
Jack Clements
1864 - 1941
Samuel Murray
1869 - 1941
Edwin Hedley
1864 - 1947
Helen Dunbar
1863 - 1933
Oyster Burns
1864 - 1928
Edmond Thomas Quinn
1868 - 1929
Matt Kilroy
1866 - 1940
Milton Rosenau
1869 - 1946
Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall
1861 - 1958
Charles Grafly
1862 - 1929
John M. Morin
1868 - 1942
Andrew Kay Womrath
1869 - 1939
Harry C. Ransley
1863 - 1941
Henry Boyle (baseball)
1860 - 1932
Edward H. Amet
1860 - 1948
Harry H. Seldomridge
1864 - 1927
F. M. Howarth
1864 - 1908
Henry Brown Floyd MacFarland
1861 - 1921
A. Edward Newton
1863 - 1940
William Draper Lewis
1867 - 1949
Minnie Palmer
1860 - 1936
James A. Gallagher
1869 - 1957
Charles Bingham Penrose
1862 - 1925
Alys Pearsall Smith
1867 - 1951
Tom Daly (infielder)
1866 - 1938
Eleanor Elkins Widener
1861 - 1937
James Washington Logue
1863 - 1925
Alfred M. Waldron
1865 - 1952
Helen Marot
1865 - 1940
Cyrus Woods
1861 - 1938
Walter Lowrie (author)
1868 - 1959
John W. Riddle
1864 - 1941
Joseph Berg Esenwein
1867 - 1946
Joseph Miller Huston
1866 - 1940
Frank Lenz (cyclist)
1867 - 1894
J. P. Lockney
Born 1867
Al Maul
1865 - 1958
George Howard Parker
1864 - 1955
Emily Ryerson
1863 - 1939
Charles Fromuth
1866 - 1937
Victory Bateman
1865 - 1926
Van Tassel Sutphen
1861 - 1945
Louis Glackens
1866 - 1933
James O'Neill (actor, born 1863)
1863 - 1938
Paul Laffitte (1864-1949)
1864 - 1949
May Lillie
1869 - 1936
Buster Hoover
1863 - 1924
Edgar Viguers Seeler
1867 - 1929
Alfred E. Aarons
1865 - 1936
Charles Hanford Henderson
1861 - 1941
Jocko Milligan
1861 - 1923
Monte Cross
1869 - 1934
John Joseph McCort
1860 - 1936
Warner Fite
1867 - 1955
John Coleman (pitcher)
1860 - 1915
Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr.
1864 - 1934
George W. Hoskins
1864 - 1958
Lewis Edward Herzog
1868 - 1943
George Bausewine
1869 - 1947
Maud Darwin
1861 - 1947
Phenomenal Smith
1864 - 1952
Charles Brandt
1862 - 1924
Celeste de Longpré Heckscher
1860 - 1928
Hardie Henderson
1862 - 1903
Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge
1860 - 1932
Henry Samuel Morais
1860 - 1924
William B. Guggenheim
1868 - 1941
Billy Earle
1867 - 1946
Jake Virtue
1865 - 1943
Barclay Harding Warburton I
1866 - 1954
Dave Oldfield
1864 - 1939
Elizabeth Kite
1864 - 1954
Benjamin Tingley Rogers
1865 - 1918
Ed Carfrey
1863 - 1921
Edwin George Lutz
1868 - 1951
George Ulrich
1869 - 1918
Thomas B. Smith
1868 - 1949
Carl Hering (Ingenieur)
1860 - 1926
Ed Knouff
1868 - 1900
Norm Baker (baseball)
1863 - 1949
Adolph A. Hoehling Jr.
1868 - 1941
Charlie Bastian
1860 - 1932
Emily Ray Gregory
1863 - 1946
Walter Plock
1869 - 1900
Heinie Kappel
1863 - 1905
Barney Gilmore
1869 - 1949
Jack O'Brien (catcher)
1860 - 1910
Dan Sweeney
1868 - 1913
Joe Gunson
1863 - 1942
David M. Buchanan
1862 - 1936
Charles John Hexamer
1862 - 1921
Maurice S. Campbell
1869 - 1942
John Riddle (baseball)
1864 - 1931
Henry Easterday
1864 - 1895
Lawrence Townsend
1860 - 1954
Tod Brynan
1863 - 1925
Jerry McCormick
1861 - 1905
Charles Strine
1867 - 1907
Taylor Shafer
1866 - 1945
Eli Kirk Price II
1860 - 1933
Charlie Manlove
1862 - 1952
George Wetzel
1868 - 1903
Andy Knox
1864 - 1940
Ed Whiting
Born 1860
George Carman (baseball)
1866 - 1929
Abe Wolstenholme
1861 - 1916
Billy Serad
1863 - 1925
George Henry (baseball)
1863 - 1934
Mike Trost
1866 - 1901
Lew Graulich
1862 - 1934
Fred Clement
1867 - 1930
Harry Koons
1862 - 1932
Bill Kienzle
1862 - 1910
Harry Morelock
1869 - 1949
Sara Dary Armbruster
Born 1862
Jim Hyndman
1866 - 1934
George C. Rickards
1860 - 1933
Austin J. Durney
1867 - 1926
John Strike
Born 1865
Tom Gillen
1862 - 1889
Jim Field
1863 - 1953
Bill Price (baseball)
1863 - 1922
Adolph Lessig
1869 - 1935
Jack McFetridge
1869 - 1917
Al Sauter
1868 - 1928
George L. Sargent
1863 - 1944
Charlie Gessner
1863 - 1922
Bart Cantz
1860 - 1943
Caroline Spencer (suffragist)
1861 - 1928
Henry Zeiher
1862 - 1951
Walter Schlichter
1866 - 1944
Bill Farmer (baseball)
1864 - 1928
Bill Shettsline
1863 - 1933
Jim McTamany
1863 - 1916
John Miller Carson Jr.
1864 - 1956
Ed Greer
1865 - 1890
Ed Sixsmith
1863 - 1926
Minna Antrim
1861 - 1950
Harry Hempstead
1868 - 1938
Sparrow McCaffrey
1868 - 1894
Fred Siegel (baseball)
1861 - 1916
Harry Clay Adler
1865 - 1940
John Hofford
1863 - 1915
Henry Meyers
1860 - 1898
John Deasley
1861 - 1910
John Hanna (baseball)
1863 - 1930
Adolph Otto Niedner
1863 - 1954
Horace Helmbold
1867 - 1939
Laura H. Carnell
1867 - 1929
Jack Clowes
1866 - 1927
John Rhea Barton Willing
1864 - 1913
Mike Kilroy
1869 - 1960
Margaret Redmond
1867 - 1948
Louis Graff
1866 - 1955
Alex Ferson
1866 - 1957
William Esling
1868 - 1946
Wilson Reiff Stearly
1869 - 1941
John Charles Groome (police officer)
1862 - 1930
Etta Wedell Mastbaum
1866 - 1953
Harry Adams (baseball umpire)
1863 - 1941
Bob Gamble
1867 - 1958
Charlie Hilsey
1864 - 1918
Ed Haigh
1867 - 1953