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.
Kate Vrijmoet
Born 1966
Wes Lieberher
Born 1979
Steve Coleman (American football)
Born 1950
Henry Cadwalader Chapman
1845 - 1909
Erik Copes
Born 1993
Catherine Roma
Born 1948
John C. Bowers
1811 - 1873
Russell Melvin Shoats
Born 1943
J. Aubrey Tyson
1870 - 1930
Bill Harbridge
1871 - 1924
Harry Raymond Eastlack
1933 - 1973
Joey Coyle
1953 - 1993
William Henry Harrison Benyaurd
1841 - 1900
Thomas H. Neill
1826 - 1885
John A. Lawless
Born 1957
Wilhelm Hoyer
1854 - 1932
Francis X. McGraw
1918 - 1944
Wilmer Wise
1936 - 2015
Louis Charles Bechtle
Born 1927
Karen Ingenthron
Born 1945
Lizbeth Stewart
1948 - 2013
Mitchell S. Goldberg
Born 1959
Celeste O. Norfleet
Born 1959
Tom Brennan (ice hockey)
1922 - 2003
Nicholas Schorsch
Born 1961
Barrie Ciliberti
Born 1936
Kay Dickersin
Born 1951
Henry Myers (shortstop)
1858 - 1895
Brandon Shippen
Born 1994
Cynthia M. Rufe
Born 1948
Elizabeth Kite
1864 - 1954
Harold Lee Tichenor
Born 1946
Eli Lake
Born 1972
Kirk Hershey
1918 - 1979
Dap 'Sugar' Willie
1939 - 1994
Bill Britten
Died 2020
Bill Crowley (baseball)
1857 - 1891
Lou Pucillo
Born 1936
John M. Vanderslice
1846 - 1915
William Henry Gilder (clergyman)
1812 - 1864
Billy Root
1934 - 2013
David Gordon (tenor)
Born 1947
James R. Roebuck Jr.
Born 1945
Benjamin Tingley Rogers
1865 - 1918
Jeannette Walworth
1835 - 1918
Frances Carson
1895 - 1973
Grayson M.P. Murphy
1878 - 1937
Burton Goldfield
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Ruth Hale Oliver
1910 - 1988
Bruce Perry
Born 1981
Socks Seibold
1896 - 1965
George Aloysius Carrell
1803 - 1868
Marion Cuyjet
1920 - 1996
Mark Forstater
Born 1943
Christopher Williams (soccer)
Born 1984
Mike Moyer
Born 1971
Dominique Curry
Born 1988
Lowry Burgess
1940 - 2020
Louis R. Jones
1895 - 1973
Nathan Kleinman
Born 1982
William Axton Stokes
1814 - 1877
William Wilson (Medal of Honor)
1847 - 1895
Barbara Buckley
Born 1960
Jena Kraus
Born 1979
Tom Belling jun.
1873 - 1934
James Tayoun
1930 - 2017
Ed Carfrey
1863 - 1921
Lee R. Hartell
1923 - 1951
James "Quick" Parker
1958 - 2018
Cliff Roberts
Born 1933
Rick Fisher (lighting designer)
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Tommy Madden
1883 - 1930
Susan Braudy
Born 1941
Frederick Fraley
1804 - 1901
Brember Wills
1883 - 1948
Josh Kline (artist)
Born 1979
Harvey (announcer)
Born 1951
Ruth Mountaingrove
1923 - 2016
Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin
1792 - 1874
Frank Sprogell
1895 - 1978
Horatio B. Hackett
1880 - 1941
Francis E. Patterson
1821 - 1862
Carl Frederick Kauffeld
1911 - 1974
Israel Wilson Durham
1855 - 1909
Patsy O'Rourke
1881 - 1956
Timothy J. Savage
Born 1946
Edwin George Lutz
1868 - 1951
Glenn Brenner
1948 - 1992
Charles Jacobs Peterson
1818 - 1887
George Hewston
1826 - 1891
Willi Smith
1948 - 1987
John Knight (baseball)
1885 - 1965
John Milton Younge
Born 1955
Albert Giesecke
1883 - 1968
Rebecca Franks
1760 - 1823
Harry Arundel
1855 - 1904
Benjamin H. Oehlert Jr.
1909 - 1985
George Weber (radio personality)
1961 - 2009
Dave Calhoun
Born 1957
Charles Goldhamer
1903 - 1985
Albert Barron
1888 - 1962
Ed Nottle
Born 1939
Jonathan Yudkin
Born 1960
George Ulrich
1869 - 1918
Hugh Reinagle
1790 - 1834
William Marriott Canby
1831 - 1904
Count Sensenderfer
1847 - 1903
Ed Cook (American football)
1932 - 2007
David Wike
Born 1969
George R. Christmas
Born 1940
Michael Wolf (Mathematiker)
Born 1960
Elizabeth Rastall
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Henry Luff
1856 - 1916
Kristen Welker
Born 1976
Dave LaCrosse
Born 1955
Thomas B. Smith
1868 - 1949
Lajuan Simon
Born 1979
Papo Vázquez
Born 1958
Joe Judge (American football)
Born 1981
Jim Fraser (American football)
1936 - 2020
John W. Comfort
1844 - 1893
William S. Duffey Jr.
Born 1952
Gerald J. Dolan
1945 - 2008
Edward L. Kaplan
1920 - 2006
Hugh Purvis
1843 - 1922
James Burke (bishop)
1926 - 1994
George Szabo III
Born 1970
Marty Brill (American football)
1906 - 1973
Stanley Woodward
1899 - 1992
Ron Bennington
Born 1959
David K. Israel
Born 1967
Murray Guggenheim
1858 - 1939
Henry Silver
1918 - 1991
John J. McVeigh
1921 - 1944
Nick Bremigan
1945 - 1989
George Emerick Essig
1838 - 1923
Rodney Green
Born 1988
Joker (wrestler)
Born 1983
Christine Wetherill Stevenson
1878 - 1922
George Riley (baseball)
Born 1956
William R. Rush
1857 - 1940
Octavio M. Salati
1914 - 2001
Merritt Yerkes Hughes
1893 - 1971
Steve Guyger
Born 1952
Sean Scott (American football)
Born 1978
Jean Wilson (politician)
Born 1928
Reds Bagnell
1928 - 1995
Joseph Bonnell
1802 - 1840
Brian J. O'Neill
Born 1949
Earl Lestz
1939 - 2017
John F. White Jr.
Born 1949
John P. Young
1849 - 1921
Samuel F. Bradford
1776 - 1837
John Cummings Howell
1819 - 1892
Mike Barwis
Born 1973
Art Allison
1849 - 1916
Rai Okamoto
1927 - 1993
John A. Dramesi
1933 - 2017
Carmen Cavalli
Born 1937
Mark Castillo
Born 1980
Jim Jackson (baseball)
1877 - 1955
David Flex
Born 1987
Howard MacNutt
1859 - 1926
Manuel Bennett
Born 1921
Christian Frederic Crusé
1794 - 1865
Frederick James (artist)
1845 - 1907
Carl Hering (Ingenieur)
1860 - 1926
Chris Mooney (basketball)
Born 1972
John R. Padova
Born 1935
Marvin Katz
1930 - 2010
Harold James (Pennsylvania politician)
Born 1942
Rod Coleman (American football)
Born 1976
Henry Cianfrani
1923 - 2002
Gerald Shapiro (composer)
Born 1942
John F. Dunn
1943 - 2018
Gerald McEntee
Born 1935
Jon Rubin
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Willard Nash
1898 - 1943
Robert Lowe Kunzig
1918 - 1982
Rennie Harris
Born 1964
Richie Rosati
-
Nick Yarris
Born 1961
Edward Jackson (photographer)
1885 - 1967
Richard Binder
1839 - 1912
Ellen Heber-Katz
-
Steven Drizin
-
George W. Strawbridge Jr.
Born 1937
Harp Vaughan
1903 - 1978
Joanna Pascale
Born 1979
Jacob R. Eckfeldt
1803 - 1872
George Gaul
1885 - 1939
Highball Wilson
1878 - 1934
Ben Clime
1891 - 1973
Tony Bruno
Born 1952
Andrea Clearfield
Born 1960
Ed Knouff
1868 - 1900
John Gallagher (athlete)
Born 1890
Samuel Gross (Medal of Honor)
1891 - 1934
Joe Del Campo
Born 1943
Norm Baker (baseball)
1863 - 1949
Kevin J. Schreiber
Born 1980
Daniel J. McCarty
Born 1928
Ashley Howard (basketball)
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Luigi Di Paolantonio
1921 - 1976
Adolph A. Hoehling Jr.
1868 - 1941
Diana Cavallo
1931 - 2017
Rob Sasser
Born 1975
Tom Bagley
Born 1939
Chris Hurst (Virginia politician)
Born 1987
Lafayette Harris
Born 1963
Michael Baum (entrepreneur)
Born 1962
Charlie Bastian
1860 - 1932
Rachel Levin
Born 1995
Emily Ray Gregory
1863 - 1946
Walter Plock
1869 - 1900
Madge Macbeth
1878 - 1965
Robert Douglass Jr.
1809 - 1887
Richard Conner
1843 - 1923
Dave Douglas (golfer)
1918 - 1978
Leland Beloff
Born 1942
Wendell Holland
Born 1984
Derrick Murdock
Born 1957
James R. Fitzgerald
Born 1953
Edwin Horace Bryan junior
1898 - 1985
Jacob Ford Kent
1835 - 1918
Dick Kravitz
Born 1941
Glen Osbourne
Born 1971
Heinie Kappel
1863 - 1905
Bruce Graham (Drehbuchautor)
Born 1957
Clarence Stanley Fisher
1876 - 1941
Steve DeAngelo
Born 1958
Charles Louis McKeehan
1876 - 1925
Barney Gilmore
1869 - 1949
Joseph Reed (lawyer)
1771 - 1846
Jeff Jones (outfielder)
Born 1957
Vic Bellamy
Born 1963
Jim Tyng
1856 - 1931
William Carleton Watts
1880 - 1956
Gustave Tassell
1926 - 2014
Darius Madison
Born 1994
Bill White (wrestler)
Born 1945
Jasmine Solano
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Lawrence Addicks
1878 - 1964
Joanne Boyle
Born 1963
Walt Masterson
1920 - 2008
Ed Savitz
1942 - 1993
Jeffrey Gangwisch
Born 1985
Lobo Nocho
1919 - 1997
Denique Graves
Born 1975
Dick Koecher
1926 - 2020
Scott Northey
Born 1946
Gerry Czarnecki
Born 1940
Ross Hunter (politician)
Born 1961
Frank Rizzo Jr.
Born 1943
David Burpee
1893 - 1980
Friedrich von Schirach
1870 - 1924
Hardy Williams
1931 - 2010
Robert Foster (baseball)
1856 - 1921
Robert L. Barchi
Born 1946
Flawless Sabrina
1939 - 2017
David Evangelista
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Ken Simendinger
1899 - 1972
Herbert Wertheim
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Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt
1901 - 1978
Wid Conroy
1877 - 1959
Mal Arnold
Born 1933
Bert Kuczynski
1920 - 1997
Helen Knipe Carpenter
1881 - 1959
Florence Kirk
1909 - 1999
James L. Lardner
1802 - 1881
Lou Young
1894 - 1948
Bernard D. Meltzer
1914 - 2007
Barbara Handman
1928 - 2013
Mary Schmidt Campbell
Born 1947
David P. Richardson (Pennsylvania politician)
1948 - 1995
Bruce Parkhill
Born 1949
Jimmy Haggerty
Died 1871
John William Ditter Jr.
1921 - 2019
Sam Field
1848 - 1904
Jack O'Brien (catcher)
1860 - 1910
Harold E. Pierce
1922 - 2006
Fred Anton
Born 1934
Kempton Greene
1890 - 1939
Emma Garrett
1840 - 1893
Michael Caruso (musician)
Born 1954
Thomas W. Blackwell
1958 - 2017
Clifford Grayson
1857 - 1951
Peter S. Kraus
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Lois Pope
Born 1933
Tom Laputka
Born 1947
Dan White (magician)
Born 1981
Bryan Anderson (American football)
Born 1980
Gino Jennings
Born 1962
Wendell Tucker
Born 1943
Steven Ward (TV personality)
Born 1980
Joe McGrail
Born 1964
Edward Julian Nally
1859 - 1953
Bob Grupp
Born 1955
Darryl Hall
Born 1963
Robert G. Lewis
1916 - 2011