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.
Lewis Edward Herzog
1868 - 1943
Joan Goodnick Westenholz
1943 - 2013
John E. Dowell Jr.
Born 1941
Nick Berk
Born 1980
B. F. Zeidman
1896 - 1970
Greg O'Connor
Born 1967
Jullian Taylor
Born 1995
Marcia Levin
1918 - 2006
Jim Knowles (American football)
Born 1965
Troy Singleton
Born 1973
Leighton Coleman
1837 - 1907
Jennifer Sciole
Born 1979
David Chackler
Born 1945
Tom Sealy
1921 - 2000
Dick Christy
1935 - 1966
Michael Driscoll (Pennsylvania politician)
Born 1960
Larry Cohen (union leader)
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John James Sweeney
Born 1927
Bob Grossman
1923 - 2002
George Bausewine
1869 - 1947
Dan Coogan
1875 - 1942
Maud Darwin
1861 - 1947
Ben Wilson (American artist)
1913 - 2001
Leon Bass
1925 - 2015
James Irvine (Pennsylvania)
1735 - 1819
Lawrence Frederik Schott
1907 - 1963
Michael Crescenz
1949 - 1968
Dean Demopoulos
Born 1954
Bill Hinchman
1883 - 1963
Kenneth Naylor
1937 - 1992
Scott A. Wyatt
Born 1951
Julian McCullough
Born 1979
Rip Egan
1871 - 1950
Eddie Bell (halfback)
1931 - 2009
Warren Lyford DeLano
1972 - 2009
Henry E. Petersen
1921 - 1991
Leigh Lisker
1918 - 2006
Buster Narum
1940 - 2004
Shari Albert
Born 1971
Adriana DeSanctis
Born 1988
T.A.M. Craven
1893 - 1972
Alexander Zatonski
1915 - 1941
John How
1813 - 1885
Tom Gilmore (American football)
Born 1964
Dan Landis
Born 1936
Helene Brandt
1936 - 2013
Henrietta Baker Chanfrau
1837 - 1909
Bill Adolph
Born 1949
Francis Lynch
1920 - 1993
Lois Wolk
Born 1946
Fred H. Madden
Born 1954
E Boyd
1903 - 1974
Laurence Haddon
1922 - 2013
Florence Denmark
Born 1932
Walter Hoban
1890 - 1939
Ruby Hoffman
1886 - 1973
John R. Leopold
Born 1943
Larry Anastasi
Born 1934
Reds Bassman
1913 - 2010
Charles Cist (editor)
1792 - 1868
Harry Winkler (handballer)
Born 1945
Helen Bershad
Born 1934
Bobby Norfleet
Born 1958
Edward King (jurist)
1794 - 1873
Frank Leskaj
Born 1971
Florian Kempf
Born 1956
David H. Geiger
1935 - 1989
Tyrone Simmons
Born 1949
Lisa Sigal
Born 1962
Cheryl Goldsleger
Born 1951
Anthony Hall (athlete)
Born 1950
Lotus Weinstock
1943 - 1997
Sarah Lee Lippincott
1920 - 2019
Phil Jasner
1942 - 2010
Rosita Youngblood
Born 1946
Richard W. Thorington
1937 - 2017
Ted Slampyak
Born 1965
Helen Raymond
1878 - 1965
Michael H. O'Brien
1954 - 2018
George Bishop (Musiker)
1947 - 2005
M. Robert Aaron
1922 - 2007
David Harris Ebenbach
Born 1972
Clayton Prince
Born 1965
Alexandria Riordan
Born 1990
Baruch Shemtov
Born 1987
Oscar Lerman
1919 - 1992
Nick Kossor
Born 1986
James McCrea
1848 - 1913
Marley Dias
Born 2005
Matthue Roth
Born 1978
Camillia Sanes
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Dominic Comperatore
Born 1969
Jack Thomas Smith
Born 1969
Monica Beletsky
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Henry Armitt Brown
1844 - 1878
Paul Dunn (American football)
Born 1960
Phenomenal Smith
1864 - 1952
Edwin Erickson
1938 - 2019
Alan Robbins
Born 1943
Jarrod Spector
Born 1981
Paul McDowell (rower)
1905 - 1962
Michael Cornacchia
Born 1975
Charles Brandt
1862 - 1924
Ce Roser
Born 1930
Dan Antoniuk
Born 1981
Ed McCready
1930 - 2002
Eleanor Uhl
1902 - 1981
Gloria Casarez
1971 - 2014
Frank Richardson (director)
1898 - 1962
Hugh J. Ward
1871 - 1941
Erv Staggs
1948 - 2012
Samuel H. Turner
1790 - 1861
Celia Logan
1837 - 1904
Aaric Murray
Born 1989
Robert Schieler
Born 1950
Merwin Crawford Young
1931 - 2020
Celeste de Longpré Heckscher
1860 - 1928
Shannon Meehan
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Joe Wissert
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Chuck Weber
1930 - 2017
Joe Berry (second baseman)
1894 - 1976
Sylvia Wald
1915 - 2011
Teddy Walters
1920 - 1947
Jonathan Brown (Kameramann)
Born 1970
Armin Tehrany
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Harry Bischoff Weiss
1883 - 1972
Joe Isgro
Born 1948
Benjamin H. Rand
1827 - 1883
Miguel Jiménez (boxer)
Born 1970
Margaret Lawrence (actress)
1889 - 1929
Hardie Henderson
1862 - 1903
Tim Carpenter (fighter)
Born 1980
William H. Ginsburg
1943 - 2013
Mark Kramer (jazz pianist)
Born 1945
Charles Way
Born 1972
Mary A. McLaughlin
Born 1946
Thomas Cripps
1840 - 1906
Harold Rhode
Born 1949
Samuel R. Scottron
1841 - 1908
Oscar Wenderoth
1871 - 1938
Albert Branson Maris
1893 - 1989
Cyrus Leopold Sulzberger
1858 - 1932
Madge Macklin
1893 - 1962
John Callahan (catcher)
1878 - 1952
Fritzi Burr
1924 - 2003
Chappie Willett
1907 - 1976
William Swain Lee
Born 1935
Byron W. Dickson
1875 - 1930
Christopher Díaz (boxer)
Born 1994
Paul Rickert
Born 1947
Charles Winter (Philadelphia cricketer)
1890 - 1969
Charles E. Haldeman
Born 1948
Paul Makler Sr.
Born 1920
Rich Owens
Born 1972
Anthony Walters (American football)
Born 1988
Ron Kass
1935 - 1986
Donald E. Stokes
1927 - 1997
Vaughn Eshelman
1969 - 2018
Graeme Hammond
1858 - 1944
Russell Carter
Born 1962
Tom Quigley
Born 1961
Jim Morphesis
Born 1948
Deion Barnes
Born 1993
John Michels (guard)
1931 - 2019
Bruce E. Maryanoff
Born 1947
Carly Robyn Green
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Robin Johannsen
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Chris Conlin
Born 1965
Wheaton Chambers
1887 - 1958
Rasheed Brokenborough
Born 1976
Peter Mortimer (filmmaker)
Born 1974
James W. Pulley
1936 - 2008
George Connell (mayor)
1871 - 1955
Thomas Sadler Roberts
1858 - 1946
Megan Massacre
Born 1985
Chick Fulmer
1851 - 1940
Joseph James Farnan Jr.
Born 1945
Thomas W. Druce
Born 1961
Roberta Jonay
1921 - 1976
Joel Myers
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Allan McLane
1746 - 1829
Francis I. Gowen
1855 - 1927
Paul E. Burns
1881 - 1967
Walter Atlee Edwards
1886 - 1928
John Hare Powel
1786 - 1856
Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge
1860 - 1932
John Biddle (yachting cinematographer)
1925 - 2008
John Baltadonis
1921 - 1998
Richard Griffith (general)
1814 - 1862
Elida Morris
1886 - 1977
George Benjamin Jr.
1919 - 1944
Shawn Wooden
Born 1973
Edward Bennis
Born 1885
Robert von Moschzisker
1870 - 1939
Punk Berryman
1893 - 1988
Camillo Gonsalves
Born 1972
Tyrone Brown
Born 1940
Henry Samuel Morais
1860 - 1924
James Clark (college president)
1812 - 1874
Joel Salvi
Born 1978
John W. Lord Jr.
1901 - 1972
William B. Guggenheim
1868 - 1941
Taj Sangara
Born 1992
Charlie Householder
1854 - 1913
Raven Hart
Born 1977
Lee Solomon
Born 1954
John Tracey
1933 - 1978
John Howard Redfield
1879 - 1944
Ollie Dobbins
Born 1941
Noah K. Davis
1830 - 1910
John Kennedy Barton
1853 - 1921
J. C. Amberchele
Born 1940
Mike DiFelice
Born 1969
Jack Gargan (politician)
1930 - 2018
Billy Earle
1867 - 1946
Eleanor Ragsdale
1926 - 1998
Alexander M. Phillips
1907 - 1991
Richard Roberts (pharmaceutical executive)
Born 1957
Benny Payne
1907 - 1986
Russell T. Gordon
1936 - 2013
James Carroll (actor)
1956 - 2016
Evan C. Horning
1916 - 1993
Roland Wommack
1936 - 2018
Irving L. Lichtenstein
1920 - 2000
Jackson Miles Abbott
1920 - 1988
Charles Katz
Born 1927
Mike McGeary
1847 - 1916
Dennis Norman
Born 1980
David Montgomery (baseball)
1946 - 2019
Buddy Harris
Born 1948
Allen Sapp (composer)
1922 - 1999
George Guida
1924 - 2015
Andrew Thomas DelGiorno
Born 1940
Mark Vaillant
Born 1989
Raymond G. Perelman
1917 - 2019
Brooke Lewis
Born 1975
Marion Couthouy Smith
1853 - 1931
Barclay Harding Warburton II
1898 - 1936
Jake Virtue
1865 - 1943
Arthur Byne
1883 - 1935
Gillian Roberts
Born 1939
Irvin J. Borowsky
1924 - 2014
Jean Chandler Smith
1918 - 1999
Bonnie MacLean
1939 - 2020
Alvin Mitchell (defensive back)
Born 1943
Ralph Remington
Born 1963
Joan Specter
Born 1934
Darrell L. Clarke
Born 1940
Earl Bradley
Born 1953
Asali Solomon
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Hannah Mary Bouvier Peterson
1811 - 1870
Ted Blunt
Born 1943
Robert N. C. Nix Jr.
1928 - 2003
Stephen Carr (attore)
1906 - 1986
Robert X. Golphin
Born 1982
Alan Butkovitz
Born 1952
John Hobbs (baseball)
Born 1956
Juan Covington
Born 1962
Joseph Roman
1927 - 2018
Joe Yeager
1875 - 1937
Jonathan Blum (writer, born 1967)
Born 1967
Edward M. Bernstein
Born 1949
Joe Bonikowski
Born 1941
Mary M. Cohen
1854 - 1911
Philip Siekevitz
1918 - 2009
James T. Lane
Born 1977
David Laventhol
1933 - 2015
Nick Bibbs
Born 1991
Steve Vasturia
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Josh Ockimey
Born 1995
Nolan Jones
Born 1998
Anne Forrester
1941 - 2006
Nick DeWolf
1928 - 2006
Petrese B. Tucker
Born 1951
Laura Shay
Born 1982
Barclay Harding Warburton I
1866 - 1954
Wanda Nesbitt
Born 1956
Dave Oldfield
1864 - 1939
Jim Eisenhower
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Bobby Lewis (basketball, born 1946)
Born 1946
Herbert J. Hutton
1937 - 2007
Steven P. Perskie
Born 1945
Bill Clymer
1873 - 1936
S. Howard Woodson
1916 - 1999
Demetrius Hopkins
Born 1980
Joe Lunardi
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Ray Abruzzese
1937 - 2011
Lefty Hoerst
1917 - 2000
Kevin Burwell
Born 1989
Giora Schmidt
Born 1983
Frank W. Creighton
1879 - 1948
Rick Lackman
1910 - 1990
Bushrod Washington James
1836 - 1903
John Thomas Taylor
1886 - 1965
Bob O'Donnell
Born 1943
James Brown (offensive tackle)
Born 1970
Allan Porter
Born 1934
Amy Westcott
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Alexander A. Aarons
1890 - 1943
Jill Wolfson
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