39.9528° N, 75.1636° W — 5,498 FAMOUS PEOPLE
PHILADELPHIA
Most Famous People Born in Philadelphia, USA
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Jessica Helfand
Born 1960
Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher
1892 - 1975
Clarence Bloomfield Moore
1852 - 1936
Malcolm H. Stern
1915 - 1994
Carson Van Osten
1946 - 2015
Samuel Messick
1931 - 1998
Joseph Fitzmartin
Born 1943
Ethelind Terry
1899 - 1984
Fred Lieb
1888 - 1980
Paul Lazarus
Born 1954
William S. Reyburn
1882 - 1946
Frank Bender
1941 - 2011
Dave Appell
1922 - 2014
J.T. Smith (wrestler)
Born 1967
Daniel Udree
1751 - 1828
John McLure Hamilton
1853 - 1936
Joseph M. Corrigan
1879 - 1942
Mark Gerban
Born 1979
Owen Thomas Edgar
1831 - 1929
Randal Pinkett
Born 1971
Andrea Garner
Born 1979
Henry D. Phillips
1882 - 1955
Sidney George Fisher
1809 - 1871
Willard Sterne Randall
Born 1942
Lee Kalcheim
Born 1938
Lorenzo Tucker
1907 - 1986
John Wallowitch
1926 - 2007
James Hall (writer)
1793 - 1868
Mortimer Sellers
Born 1959
Ruth Marcus (journalist)
Born 1958
Paul Neill
1882 - 1968
Frank Tinney
1878 - 1940
Ivy Pochoda
Born 1977
Samuel Crowther (journalist)
1880 - 1947
Donald Dorfman
1933 - 2001
Little Joe Cook
1922 - 2014
Samuel Bookatz
1910 - 2009
Katie Reinprecht
Born 1989
Kerry Simon
1955 - 2015
Alys Pearsall Smith
1867 - 1951
Phil Roy
Born 1959
Larry Chance
Born 1940
Stanley Sporkin
1932 - 2020
Larry Winters
1960 - 2015
George Krause
Born 1937
Leon Bates (pianist)
Born 1949
Sabian (wrestler)
Born 1979
William Savery
1750 - 1804
Thomas Sergeant
1782 - 1860
Edith Corse Evans
1875 - 1912
Clarence B. Jones
Born 1931
Frank Gasparro
1909 - 2001
R. Foster Winans
Born 1948
Richie Rome
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Brian L. Roberts
Born 1959
Zane Massey
Born 1957
Augustine Schulte
1856 - 1937
Bruiser Flint
Born 1965
Martín Perna
Born 1975
Roger Gregory
Born 1953
Jake Berthot
1939 - 2014
Scott Rosenbaum
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Jerome Toobin
1919 - 1984
Ray Lucia
Born 1950
George Azar
Born 1959
James Hyde (artist)
Born 1958
Nathan Gershman
1917 - 2008
Susan Swain
Born 1954
James J. Connolly
1881 - 1952
Douglas Brunt
Born 1971
Margaret Katherine Majer
1898 - 1990
Eugene Nicholas Myers
Born 1933
David Nalle
1924 - 2013
Carmelo Marrero
Born 1981
John Balaban
Born 1943
John Bernadou
1858 - 1908
Susan Starr
Born 1942
Lüpüs Thünder
Born 1972
Roberts Vaux
1786 - 1836
David Claypoole Johnston
1798 - 1865
Georgia Lee
Born 1976
Jerry Segal (musician)
1931 - 1974
Ruth Faden
Born 1949
Robert T. Conrad
1810 - 1858
Bill Conlin
1934 - 2014
Al Atkinson
Born 1943
Lloyd M. Mustin
1911 - 1999
Sherwin Raiken
1928 - 2009
Editta Sherman
1912 - 2013
Charles Harper Webb
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E. B. Lewis (illustrator)
Born 1956
Ethel V. Ashton
1896 - 1975
Dennis M. O'Brien
Born 1952
Scott Wesley Brown
Born 1952
Tom Daly (infielder)
1866 - 1938
Anthony Thompson (boxer)
Born 1981
Will Parks
Born 1994
Jane M. Oppenheimer
1911 - 1996
Fran Ross
1935 - 1985
Dennis Sandole
1913 - 2000
Brendon Walsh
Born 1973
Cyrus Levinthal
1922 - 1990
Isaac J. Wistar
1827 - 1905
Jonathan Elliott
Born 1962
Matthew J. Ryan
1932 - 2003
Barney Berlinger
1908 - 2002
DJ Bonics
Born 1980
Herbert Langfeld
1879 - 1958
Arthur "Bugs" Baer
1886 - 1969
Pamela Williams
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Robert H. Adleman
1919 - 1995
George Middleton (American politician)
1809 - 1888
Frank J. G. Dorsey
1891 - 1949
Steven Snyder
Born 1954
Raymond Pitcairn
1885 - 1966
Margaret Gibson (poet)
Born 1944
James St. Clair Morton
1829 - 1864
Paul Redmond Michel
Born 1941
Robin Becker
Born 1951
Henry Clarence Pitz
1895 - 1976
George Creamer
1855 - 1886
Frank A. Mathews Jr.
1890 - 1964
Lance Clemons
1947 - 2008
Debra Chasnoff
1957 - 2017
Richard Howell Gleaves
1819 - 1907
Hy Hirsh
1911 - 1961
Charles Guillou
1813 - 1899
Rosellen Brown
Born 1939
Carl Reindel
1935 - 2009
Robert Hines (boxer)
Born 1961
Morton Ira Greenberg
Born 1933
Alexandra Pierce
Born 1934
John F. Carr
Born 1944
Hart Wood
1880 - 1957
Will Keenan
Born 1974
Stephen William White
1840 - 1914
Margaret Bucknell Pecorini
1879 - 1963
Joe Belmont
1934 - 2019
Raúl Hellmer
1913 - 1971
Dan Walsh
Born 1960
Mike Richmond
Born 1964
George Hugh Smith
1834 - 1915
William Schimmel
Born 1946
Steve Javie
Born 1955
Frank Reagan
1919 - 1972
Jef Lee Johnson
1958 - 2013
Bennett Lorber
Born 1943
Luke Chueh
Born 1973
Ralph Pallen Coleman
1892 - 1968
John Rogers (baseball)
1844 - 1910
Glenn A. Fine
Born 1950
Brian Anthony Wilson
Born 1960
C. Yarnall Abbott
1870 - 1938
George Eiferman
1925 - 2002
Fred C. Gartner
1896 - 1972
Charles Stockton
1845 - 1924
Browning Nagle
Born 1968
James Kelly (abstract expressionist artist)
1913 - 2003
James Abercrombie (Episcopal priest)
1758 - 1841
Samuel Leeds Allen
1841 - 1918
Lavinia Williams
1916 - 1989
William Ashbrook
1922 - 2009
Bill Mackrides
1925 - 2019
Earl Young (drummer)
Born 1940
Greg Fillmore
Born 1947
William W. Park
Born 1947
Joey Merlino
Born 1962
Bonnie Scott
Born 1941
Coleman Dupont Donaldson
1922 - 2009
Lawrence W. Pierce
1924 - 2020
Gerald M. Feierstein
Born 1951
Jack A. Apsche
1947 - 2014
Valerie Worth
1933 - 1994
Dick Stockton
Born 1942
Amos Deacon
1904 - 1982
Dorothea Wolbert
1874 - 1958
J. Delano Ellis
1944 - 2020
Eleanor Elkins Widener
1861 - 1937
James Washington Logue
1863 - 1925
Jim Brown (basketball)
1912 - 1991
Amy Wynn Pastor
Born 1976
Edward Cutbush
1772 - 1843
Thomas C. McGrath Jr.
1927 - 1994
Lionel Pincus
1931 - 2009
Caridad Svich
Born 1963
Clement Biddle
1740 - 1814
Tony Devon
Born 1951
Joseph R. Conlin
Born 1940
Dave Heath
1931 - 2016
Elliot Ruiz
Born 1985
Judy Toll
1958 - 2002
David Newman (singer)
Born 1963
Townsend Whelen
1877 - 1961
J. David Stern
1886 - 1971
Samuel Jay Keyser
Born 1935
Dean Kramer
Born 1952
Rebecca Cole
1846 - 1922
Omar Tyree
Born 1969
James Otto Lewis
1799 - 1858
Michael Joseph Muldowney
1889 - 1947
Robert Magaw
1738 - 1790
Johnny Lange
1905 - 2006
Mae Virginia Cowdery
1909 - 1953
Michael Seidman
Born 1959
Albert Cardozo
1828 - 1885
William Siri
1919 - 2004
Dean Davidson
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Ange Mlinko
Born 1969
Alfred M. Waldron
1865 - 1952
Justin Mortelliti
Born 1980
Taylor Hardwick
1925 - 2014
Thacher Longstreth
1920 - 2003
David Ricketts
Born 1954
Sharon Tyndale
1816 - 1871
Ed Mitchell (rower)
1901 - 1970
Herbert J. McGlinchey
1904 - 1992
John R. Paul
1893 - 1971
Randy Griffin
Born 1976
Alexander Donski
Born 1998
Alison Nathan
Born 1972
Sarah Tyson Hallowell
1846 - 1924
Franklin J. Maloney
1899 - 1958
Bruce Kuklick
Born 1941
Aiden James
Born 1982
Fran McCaffery
Born 1959
Barbara Nissman
Born 1944
Helen Marot
1865 - 1940
LaVaughn Robinson
1927 - 2008
Adam Eckfeldt
1769 - 1852
Ed. Weinberger
Born 1945
Philip Syng
1703 - 1789
Reuben Greene
Born 1938
Cyrus Woods
1861 - 1938
Gerald Nobles
Born 1971
Richard H. Collin
1932 - 2010
Ray King (artist)
Born 1950
Regine Nehy
Born 1987
Peter C. Mancall
Born 1959
Raymond A. Thomas
Born 1958
Aaron Ward (sailor)
1851 - 1918
Richard Trexler
1932 - 2007
Walter Lowrie (author)
1868 - 1959
John W. Riddle
1864 - 1941
Conrad Hyers
1933 - 2013
David R. Soll
Born 1942
Lillian Harmer
1883 - 1946
Tony Luke Jr.
Born 1962
Jack Pleis
1917 - 1990
Natalie Nevins
1925 - 2010
Dick Whittington (DJ)
Born 1934
Edward Needles Hallowell
1836 - 1871
Oscar Zimmerman
1910 - 1987
Bill Roper (American football)
1880 - 1933
Dave Black (drummer)
1928 - 2006
Joseph Berg Esenwein
1867 - 1946
Tim Seibles
Born 1955
Emily Grosholz
Born 1950
Jack Kraft
1921 - 2014
Levi Fontaine
Born 1948
Hiram Corson
1828 - 1911
Thomas Marshal Bibighaus
1817 - 1853
Sarah Ewing Hall
1761 - 1830
Charles F. Warwick
1852 - 1913
Al Brancato
1919 - 2012
Polly Rowles
1914 - 2001
Chaino
1927 - 1999
Samuel Harrison Smith (printer)
1772 - 1845
Joseph Janvier Woodward
1833 - 1884
Peter Morris (playwright)
Born 1973
Edward Hornor Coates
1846 - 1921
J. Carroll McCormick
1907 - 1996
Tyrone Britt
Born 1944
Billie Seward
1912 - 1982
J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat
Born 1970
Charles Santore
1935 - 2019
Lynard Stewart
Born 1976
David Bustill Bowser
1820 - 1900
Will Yip
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Herman H. Fussler
1914 - 1997
Edward Roy Becker
1933 - 2006
Sammy Zeglinski
Born 1988
David Harris Willson
1901 - 1973
Edward Parrish
1822 - 1872
Don Wildman
Born 1961
H. Lyman Saÿen
1875 - 1918
Toni D'Alto
1964 - 2012
Richard A. Long
1927 - 2013
D. J. Moore (wide receiver)
Born 1997
John Nixon (financier)
1733 - 1808
Franklin Ruehl
Died 2015
D. J. Harrison
Born 1979
Peter S. Eagleson
Born 1928
Janis Lynn Sammartino
Born 1950
Claire Polin
1926 - 1995
Dan Faulk
Born 1969
Mary Aloe
Born 1969
Erica Rivera
Born 1988
Gertrude Bustill Mossell
1855 - 1948
Cecelia Condit
Born 1947
Eddie Barry (actor)
1887 - 1967