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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 1870s Clear ×
Lionel Barrymore
1878 - 1954
Ethel Barrymore
1879 - 1959
Maxfield Parrish
1870 - 1966
William Glackens
1870 - 1938
Albert C. Barnes
1872 - 1951
Billy Murray (singer)
1877 - 1954
Owen Roberts
1875 - 1955
Anna Coleman Ladd
1878 - 1939
Walter Evans Edge
1873 - 1956
Alexander Stirling Calder
1870 - 1945
Granville Redmond
1871 - 1935
John R. Neill
1877 - 1943
Elizabeth Shippen Green
1871 - 1954
Henry Weed Fowler
1878 - 1965
Bobby Burns
1878 - 1966
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
1877 - 1968
Fred Mace
1878 - 1917
Thomas Jaggar
1871 - 1953
Jack Norworth
1879 - 1959
David Landau (actor)
1879 - 1935
Marianna Török
1877 - 1968
Benjamin De Casseres
1873 - 1945
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
1878 - 1942
Truxtun Hare
1878 - 1956
Charley Ross
1870 - 1874
Charles Klauder
1872 - 1938
Harry Davis (1900s first baseman)
1879 - 1947
Frederic L. Paxson
1877 - 1948
William Duane (physicist)
1872 - 1935
A. W. Tillinghast
1874 - 1942
John Geiger
1877 - 1956
James Juvenal
1874 - 1942
William Welsh (actor)
1870 - 1946
Michael Gleason
1876 - 1923
Edward Marsh (rower)
1874 - 1932
Joseph Dempsey
1875 - 1942
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr.
1874 - 1948
John Grieb
1879 - 1939
Grace Drayton
1877 - 1936
Henry Shoemaker Conard
1874 - 1971
Harry DeBaecke
1879 - 1961
A. S. W. Rosenbach
1876 - 1952
Bessie Pease Gutmann
1876 - 1960
James Ramsay Hunt
1872 - 1937
Jack J. Clark
1879 - 1947
Joseph E. Widener
1871 - 1943
Meredith Colket
1878 - 1947
Bart King
1873 - 1965
Ray S. Bassler
1878 - 1961
Philip Powell Calvert
1871 - 1961
Isaac Bacharach
1870 - 1956
Dora Keen
1871 - 1963
Isador Coriat
1875 - 1943
Martha Walter
1875 - 1976
Henry Pancoast
1875 - 1939
Edward Childs Carpenter
1872 - 1950
Lillian Genth
1876 - 1953
Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts
1871 - 1927
Jack Egan (boxer)
1878 - 1950
Margaret Dale (actress)
1876 - 1972
Richard Neill
1875 - 1970
Edwin Milton Abbott
1877 - 1940
Catharine Macfarlane
1877 - 1969
John Haynes Holmes
1879 - 1964
Marian Thayer
1872 - 1944
William Remington (athlete)
1879 - 1963
Paul R. Heyl
1872 - 1961
Jerold T. Hevener
Born 1873
Charles Browne (politician)
1875 - 1947
Edward L. Bader
1874 - 1927
Camille Zeckwer
1875 - 1924
Laura Nelson Hall
1876 - 1936
J. Burrwood Daly
1872 - 1939
Danny Murphy (second baseman)
1876 - 1955
Craig Biddle
1879 - 1947
Walter Weyl
1873 - 1919
Adele Ritchie
1874 - 1930
Anna Whelan Betts
1875 - 1952
Gustavus Town Kirby
1874 - 1956
Ethel Franklin Betts
1877 - 1959
May Howard Jackson
1877 - 1931
Craig Wadsworth
1872 - 1960
George Landenberger
1879 - 1936
Paul Joseph Nussbaum
1870 - 1935
William H. Wilson
1877 - 1937
Joseph M. Corrigan
1879 - 1942
Frank Tinney
1878 - 1940
Edith Corse Evans
1875 - 1912
Herbert Langfeld
1879 - 1958
Margaret Bucknell Pecorini
1879 - 1963
C. Yarnall Abbott
1870 - 1938
Dorothea Wolbert
1874 - 1958
Townsend Whelen
1877 - 1961
H. Lyman Saÿen
1875 - 1918
Albert Laessle
1877 - 1954
John Vredenburgh Van Pelt
1874 - 1962
Henry Scattergood
1877 - 1953
Selene Johnson
1876 - 1960
Grace Nicholson
1877 - 1948
Albert Berry (parachutist)
Born 1878
Dick Harley
1872 - 1952
Theodore Wesley Koch
1871 - 1941
Katharine Blunt
1876 - 1954
Amy Williams (tennis)
1872 - 1969
Eddie Morton
1870 - 1938
Joe Sugden (baseball)
1870 - 1959
Horace Stern
1878 - 1969
Alfred Wilkinson Johnson
1876 - 1963
Bill Gray (baseball)
1871 - 1932
Dorothy Hahn
1876 - 1950
Anna Robeson Brown
1873 - 1941
Charles Guth
1877 - 1948
Bessie Clayton
1875 - 1948
John Brown (baseball)
1876 - 1908
Dan Coogan
1875 - 1942
Rip Egan
1871 - 1950
B. N. Wilson
1874 - 1948
Helen Raymond
1878 - 1965
Hugh J. Ward
1871 - 1941
Oscar Wenderoth
1871 - 1938
John Callahan (catcher)
1878 - 1952
Byron W. Dickson
1875 - 1930
George Connell (mayor)
1871 - 1955
Robert von Moschzisker
1870 - 1939
John Howard Redfield
1879 - 1944
Joe Yeager
1875 - 1937
Bill Clymer
1873 - 1936
Frank W. Creighton
1879 - 1948
J. Aubrey Tyson
1870 - 1930
Bill Harbridge
1871 - 1924
Grayson M.P. Murphy
1878 - 1937
Tom Belling jun.
1873 - 1934
Christine Wetherill Stevenson
1878 - 1922
Jim Jackson (baseball)
1877 - 1955
Highball Wilson
1878 - 1934
Madge Macbeth
1878 - 1965
Clarence Stanley Fisher
1876 - 1941
Charles Louis McKeehan
1876 - 1925
Lawrence Addicks
1878 - 1964
Friedrich von Schirach
1870 - 1924
Wid Conroy
1877 - 1959
Charlie Nyce
1870 - 1908
Amelia Smith Calvert
1876 - 1965
Louis Fred Pfeifer
1876 - 1949
Harry L. MacNeal
1875 - 1950
Pete Loos
1878 - 1956
Nancy Maybin Ferguson
1872 - 1967
Harry Hinchman
1878 - 1933
Pete Childs
1871 - 1922
Tom Fleming (baseball)
1873 - 1957
Zeke Wrigley
1874 - 1952
Bill Massey (baseball)
1871 - 1940
Ira Davis (baseball)
1870 - 1942
William Wallace Gilchrist junior
1879 - 1926
Dan Kerwin
1874 - 1960
Tom Messitt
1874 - 1934
Thomas Bluett (politician)
1879 - 1958
Thomas Sovereign Gates
1873 - 1948
Ben Conroy
1871 - 1937
M. Delmar Ritchie
1875 - 1916
Malcolm MacDonald (baseball)
1872 - 1946
Laura Henson
1872 - 1961
Charlie Jordan (baseball)
1871 - 1928
Tom Maher (baseball)
1870 - 1929
Jesse Whiting
1879 - 1937
Charlie Heard
1872 - 1945
Frank Patterson (Komponist)
1871 - 1966
Butch Rementer
1878 - 1922
Jules Mastbaum
1872 - 1926
Bill Hallman (outfielder)
1876 - 1950
George Charles Boldt Jr.
1879 - 1958
John F. De Swan
1876 - 1956
A. King Dickson
1876 - 1938
Joseph Mitchell (Medal of Honor)
1876 - 1925
W. Coleman Nevils
1878 - 1955
Samuel Goodman (cricketer)
1877 - 1905
Ed Watkins
1877 - 1933
Jay Parker
1874 - 1935
Arthur Redner
1879 - 1973
Art Wheeler
1872 - 1917
Mabel Marks Bacon
1876 - 1966
Ida B. Wise
1871 - 1952
Bradford Fraley
1878 - 1942
Doc Parker
1872 - 1941
George A. May
1872 - 1948
Harry L. Cooper
1870 - 1935
Edgar M. Church
Born 1874
John Russell Young Blakely
1872 - 1942
Harry Thayer (American football)
1873 - 1936
William Francis (baseball)
1879 - 1942
Frederick Taylor Pusey
1872 - 1936
Bert Conn
1879 - 1944
Arabella Fields
1879 - 1932
Ellen Giles
1874 - 1914
Harry Off
Born 1874
William T. Ramsey
1873 - 1937
Mark McGrillis
1872 - 1935
George C. Thomas junior
1873 - 1932
John Hill (baseball)
1876 - 1922
Thomas Frederick Davies Jr.
1872 - 1936