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.
Ed Morgan (professor)
Born 1955
Robert Greenstein
Born 1946
Eliza Sproat Turner
1826 - 1903
Robert Clarkson Clothier
1885 - 1970
Robert Ellis (author)
Born 1954
Scott Martin Brooks
Born 1972
Mark Davis (basketball, born 1960)
Born 1960
Joe Brown (sculptor)
1909 - 1985
John Abadie
1854 - 1905
Chip Robinson
Born 1954
Persimmon Blackbridge
Born 1951
Jason Richwine
Born 1982
William Meredith (Schachkomponist)
1835 - 1903
Charles R. Doering
Born 1956
Henry Alexander Ogden
1856 - 1936
Matt Napoleon
Born 1977
Herbert Welsh
1851 - 1941
Michelle Vittese
Born 1989
Albert Laessle
1877 - 1954
Manolo Sanchez
Born 1991
Max Raab
1926 - 2008
Tony Bove
Born 1955
Mark Gubicza
Born 1962
Bob Finkel
1918 - 2012
Dave Sims
Born 1953
Charles Edward Knoeppel
1881 - 1936
Michael Sussman
Born 1967
John Vredenburgh Van Pelt
1874 - 1962
Philip R. McDevitt
1858 - 1935
Jim Cooper (American football)
Born 1955
Charlotte Serber
1911 - 1967
Anna C. Verna
Born 1931
George Sutor
1943 - 2011
Kenny Koplove
Born 1993
Tyrone Everett
1953 - 1977
Mike Gizzi
Born 1975
Alfred Shea Addis
1832 - 1886
Marc Galanter
Born 1931
Samuel Stillman
1737 - 1807
James Peller Malcolm
1767 - 1815
Stephen Costello
Born 1982
Robert Lee Davis
1893 - 1967
Troy Carter (music industry)
Born 1972
J. Malcolm Greany
1915 - 1999
Dirk Ballendorf
1939 - 2013
George Malcolm Laws
1919 - 1994
Katharine Elizabeth McBride
1904 - 1976
Henry Scattergood
1877 - 1953
Anthony G. Amsterdam
Born 1935
John Pittenger
1930 - 2009
Toukie Smith
Born 1955
Janet Bond Arterton
Born 1944
Francis X. Diebold
Born 1959
David Diamond (screenwriter)
Born 1965
William Beecher Scoville
1906 - 1984
Selene Johnson
1876 - 1960
Joseph Miller Huston
1866 - 1940
Neil Cooper (ROIR)
1930 - 2001
Robert B. Heilman
1906 - 2004
Frank Lenz (cyclist)
1867 - 1894
A. G. Heaton
1844 - 1930
Gil Patterson
Born 1955
Rebecca Kamen
Born 1950
Alex Berger
Born 1962
John F. Harvey
1918 - 2010
Harry Maslin
-
Josie Zec
Born 2000
Samuel Morris (soldier)
1734 - 1812
James Duncan (Pennsylvania)
1756 - 1844
Ryann Krais
Born 1990
Bernard Wilson (singer)
1946 - 2010
Ryan Mulhern
Born 1973
Hermann Vezin
1829 - 1910
George Coates
Born 1952
Walt Stickel
1922 - 1987
Jeffrey B. Berlin
Born 1946
Brian Baker (actor)
Born 1967
Aaron Owens
Born 1974
Teon Kennedy
Born 1986
Rene Cailliet
1917 - 2015
John M. Ackerman
-
Jimmie Wilson (baseball)
1900 - 1947
Harry Schuh
1942 - 2013
Eliza Cooper Blaker
1854 - 1926
Andrea Brady
Born 1974
Bobby Higginson
Born 1970
Rodman W. Paul
1912 - 1987
Jimmy Lyggett Sr
1897 - 1955
John Edwin Pomfret
1898 - 1981
Randolph Cohen
Born 1965
Ilene Busch-Vishniac
-
Wharton Barker
1846 - 1921
Anthony F. DePalma
1904 - 2005
John Lenahan
Born 1961
Jan E. DuBois
Born 1931
Anne Elise Thompson
Born 1934
Allan Randall Freelon
1895 - 1960
Lew Bloom
1859 - 1929
Markus Redmond
Born 1971
Vikter Duplaix
Born 1983
Henry Brainerd McClellan
1840 - 1904
Marilyn Ware
1943 - 2017
John Perzel
Born 1950
Charles Karle
1898 - 1946
Vanita Gupta
Born 1974
John Armstrong Drexel
1891 - 1958
Lise Menn
Born 1941
Caspar F. Goodrich
1847 - 1925
Eckley Brinton Coxe
1839 - 1895
Gordon Waterman Chaplin
Born 1945
William Davis Gallagher
1808 - 1894
Jan Randall
Born 1952
William Doughty (naval architect)
1773 - 1859
Paul Roebling
1934 - 1994
Jonnu Smith
Born 1995
Richard Penn Smith
1799 - 1854
Ann Agee
Born 1959
Jodi Letizia
Born 1963
Richard E. Sprague
1921 - 1996
Skip Heller
Born 1965
Sarah Arvio
Born 1954
W. Michael Reisman
Born 1939
Ernest Bayer
1904 - 1997
Frederick C. Neidhardt
1931 - 2016
Curtis Brinkley
Born 1985
Truesdell Sparhawk Brown
1906 - 1992
Jay Rabinowitz (jurist)
1927 - 2001
Martin Gibbs
1922 - 2006
Michael L. Littman
Born 1966
Harold A. Fidler
1910 - 2004
George M. Willing
1829 - 1874
Charles Burleigh Purvis
1842 - 1929
Florence Bird
1908 - 1998
Samuel Cummings
1927 - 1998
John Africa
1931 - 1985
Jim Hayward
1900 - 1981
Lise Funderburg
Born 1959
Marguerite Quinn
-
William Sartain
1843 - 1924
Omillio Sparks
Born 1974
Grace Nicholson
1877 - 1948
J. P. Lockney
Born 1867
Charles Custis Harrison
1844 - 1929
Zeinabu irene Davis
Born 1961
Ernest Leiser
1921 - 2002
Sarah Anderson (curler)
Born 1995
Gus Cifelli
1926 - 2009
John Aglialoro
Born 1943
Kylie Maria
Born 1991
Arn Tellem
Born 1954
Vickilyn Reynolds
Born 1955
Johannes von Trapp
Born 1939
Wharton Tiers
Born 1953
Doug Camilli
Born 1936
Al Maul
1865 - 1958
Edward William Barankin
1920 - 1985
Shelly Gross
1921 - 2009
Kirk Shelmerdine
Born 1958
Gayraud Wilmore
1921 - 2020
John E. Murray Jr.
1932 - 2015
Susan Lynn
-
Andrea Kremer
Born 1959
Dan Borislow
1961 - 2014
Constance Clayton
Born 1937
Ernie Padgett
1899 - 1957
Theodore Pitcairn
1893 - 1973
Dan Wolf
Born 1957
Albert Berry (parachutist)
Born 1878
Najai Turpin
1981 - 2005
Dick Harley
1872 - 1952
George Howard Parker
1864 - 1955
Edmund Gilchrist
1885 - 1953
Shawn Oakman
Born 1992
Tim Rogers (journalist)
Born 1979
Allan Felder
1943 - 1999
Emily Ryerson
1863 - 1939
Christine Tartaglione
Born 1960
George Reinholt
1939 - 2013
Blanche Merrill
1883 - 1966
Thomas Devaney
Born 1969
Mark A. Kearney
Born 1962
Charles Merrill Hough
1858 - 1927
George Healis
1906 - 1990
Robert J. McCloskey
1922 - 1996
Earl Banks
1924 - 1993
Frederick J. Kimball
1844 - 1903
E. B. Bensell
1842 - 1894
Thomas Bellerby Wilson
1807 - 1865
David L. Reich
Born 1960
Jake O'Donnell
Born 1939
Bruce Smith (poet)
Born 1946
Bathsheba Bowers
1671 - 1718
William Wall Fortenbaugh
Born 1936
J. Meredith Read
1837 - 1896
Frank Knox Morton Rehn
1848 - 1914
Billy Maharg
1881 - 1953
Frank Cappuccino
1929 - 2015
Harry Schafer
1846 - 1935
Isabella Cannuscio
Born 1990
Anna Willess Williams
1857 - 1926
Ignatius Frederick Horstmann
1840 - 1908
Mary Hinkson
1925 - 2014
Jamie Geller
-
Andrea Nahrgang
Born 1978
Carol Sauvion
Born 1947
Beatrice Fenton
1887 - 1983
Stephen K. Klasko
Born 1953
Frank Naylor (American football)
Born 1959
Safiya Songhai
Born 1984
Clayton Morris
Born 1976
Bill Sharpe (athlete)
Born 1932
Terrence Roderick
Born 1988
Pete Cimino
Born 1942
Carl Lerner
1912 - 1973
Bill Purcell (mayor)
Born 1953
Theodore Wesley Koch
1871 - 1941
Louis Karchin
Born 1951
Robert Mezey
1935 - 2020
Charles Hutchison Clark
1920 - 2009
Jeff Myers (basketball)
Born 1974
Dimitrius Underwood
Born 1977
Lewis M. Haupt
1844 - 1937
Gilroy Roberts
1905 - 1992
Mindy Aloff
Born 1947
Charles Fromuth
1866 - 1937
Donald Gaines Murray
1914 - 1986
Alfred Guzzetti
Born 1942
Robert Maitland O'Reilly
1845 - 1912
Dada Maheshvarananda
Born 1953
Fred Smalls
Born 1963
Victory Bateman
1865 - 1926
Celestine Tate Harrington
1956 - 1998
Rhoda Gemignani
Born 1940
Mark A. Gluck
Born 1960
Rachel Browne
1934 - 2012
George Litto
Died 2019
Dick McBride
1847 - 1916
Rose Eytinge
1835 - 1911
Jack Polito
Born 1941
F. Carroll Brewster
1825 - 1898
Ida Waterman
1852 - 1941
Christine Zukowski
Born 1989
Micki Marlo
1928 - 2016
Katharine Blunt
1876 - 1954
Rodelle Weintraub
Born 1933
Charles Semser
1922 - 2011
Harry Shoulberg
1903 - 1995
Edwin North McClellan
1881 - 1971
Moe Brooker
Born 1940
William Goforth
1731 - 1807
Aaron Levinson
-
Van Tassel Sutphen
1861 - 1945
Ruth Petroff
Born 1965
Brett Hextall
Born 1988
Jay Scott Pike
1924 - 2015
Betty Broadbent
1909 - 1983
William Appleton Lawrence
1889 - 1968
Sonya Sklaroff
Born 1970
Rick Holmes
Born 1963
David R. Gibson
Born 1969
Jerry Ricks
1940 - 2007
Don Cooney
Born 1937
Carol Diehl
-
Jay Samit
Born 1961
Gordon Avil
1899 - 1970
Samuel Bryan
1759 - 1821
William F. Keller
Born 1951
Merrill Reese
Born 1942
Marvin Mudrick
1921 - 1986
Barbara Schwartz (artist)
1949 - 2006
R. Heber Newton
1840 - 1914
Garrett Miller
Born 1977
William Henry Gilder
1838 - 1900
Rebecca Welles
1928 - 2017
Jacob Green
1790 - 1841
James Lavino
Born 1973
Bob File
Born 1977
William Kinderman
Born 1952
Ellen Urbani
Born 1969
Sam Dalrymple
1901 - 1981
Andy Strenk
Born 1949
Henry Carvill Lewis
1853 - 1888
Carol Lynn Maillard
Born 1951
Tony Stetson
Born 1959
Carol H. Beck
1859 - 1908
George W. Sarbacher Jr.
1919 - 1973
Rosetta Hightower
1944 - 2014
John Trautwine
1810 - 1883
Joan Hutchinson
Born 1945
Eugene Taylor (psychologist)
1946 - 2013
John Papit
1928 - 2015
Scootie Randall
Born 1990
Amy Williams (tennis)
1872 - 1969
Thomas Messinger Drown
1842 - 1904
Adam Aron
Born 1954
George Frederick Bensell
1837 - 1879
George Bethune Adams
1845 - 1911
Daniel B. Smith
1792 - 1883
Sandra Knight
Born 1940
Andrea Lee (author)
Born 1953