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.
Yolanda Wisher
Born 1976
Bill Lewis (American football coach)
Born 1941
Rookie Brown
1925 - 1971
Robert Curtis Ogden
1836 - 1913
Joe Conwell
Born 1961
Alexander C. McClurg
1832 - 1901
Hector Tyndale
1821 - 1880
Sheinelle Jones
Born 1978
Vanessa L. Brown
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Simon Sterne
1839 - 1901
Mark R. Kravitz
1950 - 2012
Jay Bezel
Born 1983
Persis Foster Eames Albee
1836 - 1914
Stephen Freind
Born 1944
Stefon Jackson
Born 1985
John Randolph Clay
1808 - 1885
Daniel Dougherty
1826 - 1892
Samuel Rosenberg (artist)
1896 - 1972
Benton Murdoch Spruance
1904 - 1967
Tim Settle
Born 1997
Hampton L. Carson (lawyer)
1852 - 1929
Wrath James White
Born 1970
Bascove
Born 1946
George Bechtel
1848 - 1921
Henry Wikoff
1813 - 1884
Mike Darnell
Born 1962
Kevin Dougherty
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Alfred H. Love
1830 - 1913
Harry Kramer (American artist)
Born 1939
Robert H. Cox
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Eddie Morton
1870 - 1938
Laura Barney Harding
1902 - 1994
Jacqueline Osherow
Born 1956
Harriet Forten Purvis
1810 - 1875
William Warren (actor)
1812 - 1888
John Carlin
1813 - 1891
Leah Shore
-
Al Spangler
Born 1933
Frank Eliason
Born 1972
Tom Filer
Born 1956
Jesse Benton
Born 1977
Dave Lieberman
Born 1980
Avi Katz
Born 1949
Robert Parris
1924 - 1999
Henry C. Mustin (1874–1923)
1854 - 1923
Robin Arzon
Born 1981
Susan Wheeler Duff
Born 1958
Kidder Breese
1831 - 1881
Paul Bechly
Born 1958
Don Donaghy
1936 - 2008
Robert Martin (singer)
Born 1948
Catherine Ann Janvier
1841 - 1922
Justin Renfrow
Born 1989
Rutherford Boyd
1882 - 1951
Vincent Hughes
Born 1956
David Barr Kirtley
Born 1977
Ralph Young (baseball)
1888 - 1965
James S. Green (attorney)
1792 - 1862
Amy Eilberg
Born 1954
Walter C. Righter
1923 - 2011
John Syng Dorsey
1783 - 1818
Washington Carroll Tevis
1828 - 1900
Adena Halpern
Born 1968
William Henry Odenheimer
1817 - 1879
Anna Sofaer
Born 1940
Ralph Jarvis
Born 1965
Pete DeCoursey
1961 - 2014
Malcolm Hoenlein
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William McCandless
1834 - 1884
Jack Meyer
1932 - 1967
Louis Glackens
1866 - 1933
James O'Neill (actor, born 1863)
1863 - 1938
Bob Dobkin
Born 1944
Arlene Zallman
1934 - 2006
Vince Fumo
Born 1943
Annie Traquair Lang
1885 - 1918
William J. Castagna
Born 1924
Angelo Coia
1938 - 2013
Tommy Cairo
Born 1958
Marc Lafia
Born 1955
Moose McCormick
1881 - 1962
Diane B. Snelling
Born 1952
Thomas Bigelow Craig
1849 - 1924
William H. Scheide
1914 - 2014
John H. Brinton
1832 - 1907
William Coleman (judge)
1704 - 1769
George Tunnell
1912 - 1975
Joe Sugden (baseball)
1870 - 1959
Cora Sternberg
Born 1951
John Kennedy (rowing)
1900 - 1971
Andre Fluellen
Born 1985
John Gray (athlete)
1894 - 1942
Christopher Davis
Born 1928
Alfred Wilkinson Johnson
1876 - 1963
Mel Davis (musician)
1955 - 2004
Martha Zweig
Born 1942
Loretta Perfectus Walsh
1896 - 1925
Zaire Franklin
Born 1996
Jamar Nicholas
Born 1973
Frances Marie Burke
1922 - 2017
Tito Nanni
Born 1959
Bill Brill
1931 - 2011
Tyler Lepley
Born 1987
Wallis Annenberg
Born 1939
Frederick Grinnell (biologist)
Born 1945
James Claypoole
1720 - 1784
Frances Cox Henderson
1820 - 1897
Cub Stricker
1859 - 1937
Sydney George Fisher
1856 - 1927
Thomas Harrison Montgomery
1830 - 1905
Zaire Anderson
Born 1992
Tim McCreight
Born 1951
Ken Fox
Born 1970
Bill Gray (baseball)
1871 - 1932
Andrea Heinemann Simon
1909 - 1994
Joe Cascarella
1907 - 2002
Joseph V. Noble
1920 - 2007
Fredric Hobbs
1931 - 2018
Joseph P. Remington
1847 - 1918
Charles Lewis Fussell
1840 - 1909
Frank Card
Born 1944
Stewart Cheifet
Born 1938
Stephen Kinsey
Born 1958
Martha Rhoads Bell
1941 - 1991
Kevin J. Boyle
Born 1980
Steve Veltman
Born 1969
Steve Hopkins
1929 - 1971
Naz Edwards
Born 1952
Charles M. Wetherill
1825 - 1871
John Schmitt (rower)
1901 - 1991
Samuel Gibson Dixon
1851 - 1918
Chuck Kress
1921 - 2014
Richard Maury
1882 - 1950
Mark Goodman
Born 1952
James Earle Ash
1884 - 1986
Johnathan Blake
Born 1976
Lon Knight
1853 - 1932
John Watkinson Douglass
1827 - 1909
Dorothy Hahn
1876 - 1950
Elizabeth Marshall (pharmacist)
1768 - 1836
Oliver Perry-Smith
1884 - 1969
George Meade Easby
1918 - 2005
David Fine (acteur)
Born 1955
Thomas Welsh (rower)
Born 1977
Shag Crawford
1916 - 2007
Rasheed Bailey
Born 1993
Henry Farrell (footballer)
1902 - 1980
Nina Harmer
Born 1945
Curtis Thomas
Born 1948
Paul Laffitte (1864-1949)
1864 - 1949
Elliot Abrams (meteorologist)
Born 1947
Margaretta Morris
1797 - 1867
Beth Lipman
Born 1971
Carol Gould (writer)
Born 1953
May Lillie
1869 - 1936
Scott Stankavage
Born 1962
Andy Kravitz
Born 1966
Mary L. Washington
Born 1962
Clark Polak
1937 - 1980
Allan Murnane
1882 - 1950
Peter York Solmssen
Born 1955
Florence Melton
1911 - 2007
John A. Shaw
1939 - 2020
Eileen McDonough
1962 - 2012
Lardner Vanuxem
1792 - 1848
Karl Dargan
Born 1985
Henry Phipps Jr.
1839 - 1930
Buster Hoover
1863 - 1924
E. Keith Eddington
1923 - 2007
Wayne Marshall (basketball)
Born 1986
Jeanne Silverthorne
Born 1950
Catherine Littlefield
1905 - 1951
Jesse Levis
Born 1968
Michael Barbieri
Born 1949
Barclay White
1821 - 1906
Thomas Pennant Barton
1803 - 1869
Al-Hajj Shabazz
Born 1992
Edgar Viguers Seeler
1867 - 1929
Alfred E. Aarons
1865 - 1936
Richard Bloom
Born 1953
Lorenzo Bundy
Born 1959
Bob Brinker
Born 1941
Anthony Morrison
Born 1984
Milne Ramsey
1847 - 1915
Lori Fullington
Born 1967
Bill Dietrich
1910 - 1978
Angel Cruz
-
Charles Hanford Henderson
1861 - 1941
R. W. Schambach
1926 - 2012
Sue Ball
Born 1967
Joey B. Ellis
-
Fursaxa
Born 1969
Audrey Chapman
1899 - 1993
Maxon Crumb
Born 1945
Vivian Burey Marshall
1911 - 1955
Eric Lugosch
-
Gerald Austin McHugh Jr.
Born 1954
Susan R. Bolton
Born 1951
Margo L. Davidson
Born 1962
Tom Gill (writer)
1891 - 1972
Robert Burns Beath
1839 - 1914
Maggie Lettvin
Born 1927
LeAnna Washington
Born 1945
Dinavon Bythwood
Born 1967
J. R. Mitchell
1937 - 2004
Isaac L. Auerbach
1921 - 1992
Bob Wian
1914 - 1992
Paul McNally (astronomer)
1890 - 1955
David Williams (running back)
Born 1994
Philip Freelon
1952 - 2019
Frank Coleman
1912 - 2008
Andrew von Eschenbach
Born 1941
Bill Magarity
Born 1952
Susan E. Dickinson
1832 - 1915
Tony Voce
Born 1980
Jocko Milligan
1861 - 1923
Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach
1831 - 1890
Jack Crimian
1926 - 2019
Gilly Lane
Born 1985
Saul Andrew Blinkoff
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Marion Stokes
1929 - 2012
Alan Richman
Born 1944
Lewis Jacobs
1904 - 1997
James Blythe Rogers
1802 - 1852
Jason Van Hollander
Born 1949
Rensselaer W. Lee
1898 - 1984
Ron Villanueva
Born 1970
Fred W. Allendorf
Born 1947
Monte Cross
1869 - 1934
Freddie Bell
1931 - 2008
Robb Armstrong
Born 1962
Joseph Green (producer)
1934 - 2017
Jess Richardson
1930 - 1975
Peter Schwartzkopf
Born 1955
Dwight M. Bullard
Born 1977
Washington Harrison Donaldson
1840 - 1875
Hank Laventhol
1927 - 2001
Tiffany Joh
Born 1986
Albert F. Sabo
1920 - 2002
John Joseph McCort
1860 - 1936
Gwen Margolis
1934 - 2020
David Hahn
Born 1956
Russell Thompkins Jr.
Born 1951
Anna Robeson Brown
1873 - 1941
Sabrina Jones
Born 1960
Brooke Makler
1951 - 2010
Diana Reiss
Born 1948
Francis Elliott Drouet
1907 - 1982
Raymond Hornberger
1898 - 1976
Nathaniel J. McFadden
Born 1946
Joan Carroll (soprano)
Born 1932
Warner Fite
1867 - 1955
Anne Moen Bullitt
1924 - 2007
Howard Baker (poet)
1905 - 1990
Darryl Reynolds
Born 1993
John Coleman (pitcher)
1860 - 1915
Mister G (children's performer)
Born 1967
Spencer Wishart
1889 - 1914
Jordan Morgan (American football)
Born 1994
Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr.
1864 - 1934
George W. Hoskins
1864 - 1958
Bill Sweeney (pitcher)
1858 - 1903
Al Taubenberger
Born 1953
James P. Blair
Born 1931
Thomas Godfrey (writer)
1736 - 1763
Frank Oski
1932 - 1996
Sal Ponti
1935 - 1988
Ralph Mattis
1890 - 1960
John F. Benton
1931 - 1988
George Anastasia
Born 1948
Alexander Starne
1813 - 1886
Maurice Stovall
Born 1985
Dorothy Walcott Weeks
1893 - 1990
William J. Campbell (Illinois politician)
1850 - 1896
Bas Sheva
1925 - 1960
Durham Smythe
Born 1995
Trevor Guyton
Born 1990
Steven J. Green
Born 1945
Charles Lagrand
1920 - 2004
Tom Houghton
-
William Craig Smith
1918 - 1986
Ukee Washington
Born 1958
Howard Malcom
1799 - 1879
Charles Guth
1877 - 1948
Wilton Blancké
1908 - 1971
Maria Quiñones-Sanchez
Born 1968
Alexandra Riley (Tennisspielerin)
Born 1991
Aubertine Woodward Moore
1841 - 1929
Peter Dirck Keyser
1835 - 1897
Annie Lederman
-
Frank Dobson (American football)
1885 - 1959
Catherine Austin Fitts
Born 1950
Maureece Rice
Born 1984
Bessie Clayton
1875 - 1948
Jonathan Shurberg
1963 - 2017
Rick DeJesus
Born 1983
Big Jay Oakerson
Born 1977
John Brown (baseball)
1876 - 1908
Richard Nanes
1941 - 2009
John H. B. Latrobe
1803 - 1891