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.
Peter Allen (physician)
1921 - 2014
Anna Lukens
1844 - 1917
Bart Cantz
1860 - 1943
William J. Schwartz
Born 1950
Pete Donnelly (baseball)
1849 - 1890
Lenny Seidman
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Martin A. Herman
Born 1939
William Lyshon
1887 - 1918
Caroline Spencer (suffragist)
1861 - 1928
William C. Pfefferle
1923 - 2010
Francis Tenaglio
Born 1949
Vince Ratti
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Horace Hodes
1907 - 1989
A. King Dickson
1876 - 1938
Ed Irvin
1882 - 1916
Gerald Nugent
1892 - 1970
Henry Zeiher
1862 - 1951
Walter Schlichter
1866 - 1944
Samuel Rappaport
1932 - 2016
Warren Miller (baseball)
1885 - 1956
Gerald Bowman
Born 1989
Art McNally
Born 1925
Jennifer Stefano
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I Michael Leitman
Born 1959
Chris Vincent (American football)
Born 1981
Lefty Herring
1880 - 1965
Bill Farmer (baseball)
1864 - 1928
Bill Shettsline
1863 - 1933
Harry Snodgrass
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David M. Hall
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Miriam Balaban
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Jessica Czop
Born 1986
David Antonio Cruz
Born 1974
Kathy Flores
Born 1955
Stephen Silvasy Jr.
Born 1941
Maury Henry Biddle Paul
1890 - 1942
Tonyelle Cook-Artis
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Dalex
Born 1990
Bernie Kaplan
1913 - 1992
John P. Moon
Born 1938
Edith Longstreth Wood
1885 - 1967
Ken McDonald (soccer)
Born 1957
Ryshiem Henderson
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Victor H. Blanc
1897 - 1968
De'Andre Hunter
Born 1997
Joseph Mitchell (Medal of Honor)
1876 - 1925
Bernie Agrons
1922 - 2015
Julien Aklei
Born 1975
Denise King
Born 1954
John Ziegler (guitarist)
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Minnie Dessau Louis
1841 - 1922
Debbie Goddard
Born 1980
Reggie Barnes
Born 1967
Betty Johnson (physicist)
1936 - 2003
Rick Ney
1961 - 2017
Jonathan Dordick
Born 1959
Peter O. Price
Born 1940
Allen Harvin
Born 1959
Ida Dixon
1854 - 1916
T'Melle
Born 1988
Byron Landham
Born 1969
Jim McTamany
1863 - 1916
Young Jack O'Brien
Born 1894
Richard Waller
Born 1929
William Allen (soldier)
1845 - 1882
Diehl Mateer
1928 - 2012
Sam Greenblatt
-
Woody Wheaton
1914 - 1995
Carmen Tyson-Thomas
Born 1991
Kelly O'Dell
Born 1973
Frederick F. Woerner Jr.
Born 1933
Japhia Life
Born 1977
Hermon Hitson
Born 1943
John Miller Carson Jr.
1864 - 1956
William Rupp
1927 - 2002
Roy Reinard
Born 1954
J. Edward Addicks
1841 - 1919
Dylan Cunningham
Born 1994
Joe Logan
Born 1974
Thomas McCreesh
1928 - 2016
Roy Neal
1921 - 2003
Dawn Noel
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Tony Bono
Born 1963
Walter Bortz II
Born 1930
William G. Taylor
1829 - 1910
Lynwood Savage
Born 1954
Harry Crafton
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Albert Hoskins
Born 1899
Stephen Stewart (basketball)
Born 1970
Thomas R. Potts
1810 - 1874
Lamar Stevens
Born 1997
Eugene Freedman
1925 - 2008
Marty Watt
Born 1952
Alicia Levy
1963 - 2007
Tom McDonald (soccer)
Born 1959
Sylvia Hassenfeld
1920 - 2014
Connie Morgan
1935 - 1996
Nick Falcon
Born 1968
Mark Reed (academic)
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Henry A. Lyons
1809 - 1872
Alan J. Gould
1898 - 1993
Marc Kligman
Born 1970
Wally Andrews
1859 - 1940
Isaac Sapp
1844 - 1913
Moses Williams (artist)
1777 - 1825
Joseph Simon Lord III
1912 - 1991
Tom Nussbaum
Born 1953
Bubba Torres
Born 1991
Ívar DeCarsta Webster
Born 1955
Washington Fulmer
1840 - 1907
Glenn Schwartz (meteorologist)
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Martin Laub
Born 1944
Phil Baker (baseball)
1856 - 1940
Adele Berlin
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Gene Shay
1935 - 2020
Sondra Sherman
Born 1958
William H. Ginn Jr.
1928 - 2010
Gary Catona
Born 1952
Joe Williams (defensive end)
Born 1942
Dave Dunaway
1945 - 2001
Joe Ward (baseball)
1884 - 1934
Dewey Lee Yoder Jr
Born 1930
John Nanoski
1918 - 2011
Amin Ali
Born 1956
Edna Buckman Kearns
1882 - 1934
Frank Seravalli
Born 1988
Sean Davis (photographe)
Born 1969
James M. Trout
1850 - 1910
Dwayne White
Born 1967
Audrey Bleiler
1933 - 1975
Charles Hammock
1941 - 2014
Andrew Kahn
Born 1952
Cecil Clay
1842 - 1903
Walter Stocker
1925 - 2003
Edward Wiggins
1933 - 2015
Charles D. Worthington
1928 - 1999
Tim McGinley
1854 - 1899
Joe Dougherty (rower)
1901 - 1981
Rose Toll
1911 - 1997
Dave Magarity
Born 1950
Hollie Mershon
Born 1990
John Mulligan (baseball)
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Lois Sherman Hagarty
Born 1948
Joe Kohlman
1913 - 1974
William Wagner (philanthropist)
1796 - 1885
Ed Greer
1865 - 1890
Lydia Artymiw
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Harriet Zeitlin
Born 1929
Charles S. Trimmier
1918 - 1967
Bruce Beall
Born 1951
James T. Nulty
Born 1857
Diane Braceland
Born 1950
Dick Steinberg
1935 - 1995
Cy Malis
1907 - 1971
Edward Marshall (rower)
Born 1908
Gerard Kosinski
Born 1954
Otis Johnson (athlete)
Born 1932
John Boake
1841 - 1912
Edgar R. Bassett
1914 - 1942
William Steel Creighton
1902 - 1973
James Moroney
Born 1953
Joseph Toland
1928 - 2002
Ann Wood-Kelly
1918 - 2006
Lester Shubin
1925 - 2009
Scott Lenet
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Paul Makler Jr.
Born 1946
Patrick B. Gillespie
Born 1945
James M. McIntyre
1918 - 1991
Godfrey Diamond
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Randolph Zane
1887 - 1918
Bob Rickenbach
Born 1950
Norman Sussman
1905 - 1969
Mary Ann Arty
1926 - 2000
Fortunato Perri
Born 1936
Bill Black (baseball)
1899 - 1968
W. Coleman Nevils
1878 - 1955
Matthew Cianciulli
1942 - 2008
Melvyn J. Shochet
Born 1944
John Waldron (lawyer)
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Tom Kirk (baseball)
1927 - 1974
Ed Sixsmith
1863 - 1926
Seth Meisterman
Born 1975
Jim McGarr
1888 - 1981
Nicholas Maiale
Born 1951
Eric Battle
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Brendan Walter
Born 1986
Jimmy Vass
1937 - 2006
James Anthony Wills
1912 - 1993
John Renninger
1924 - 2005
Minna Antrim
1861 - 1950
George W. Jackson
Born 1924
P. T. Ricci
Born 1987
Harry Hempstead
1868 - 1938
Grace Gemberling
1903 - 1997
Samuel Goodman (cricketer)
1877 - 1905
Peter Daniel Truman
1935 - 2018
William S. Stokley
1823 - 1902
Joseph C. Boyle
1888 - 1972
Jillian Shea Spaeder
Born 2002
Earl Greenburg
1947 - 2008
Richard Hayden (Pennsylvania politician)
Born 1956
Wesley S. Williams Jr.
Born 1942
Francis Lund Van Dusen
1912 - 1993
Harry R. J. Comer
1912 - 1990
Nicholas Pucciarelli
1923 - 1983
Shelley Spector
Born 1960
Stephen S. Aichele
Born 1948
Mike Robinson (soccer)
Born 1958
Roland Greenfield
1919 - 1997
Sparrow McCaffrey
1868 - 1894
Bernie Snyder
1913 - 1999
Thomas Mack (rowing)
1913 - 2002
John K. Cheyney
1858 - 1939
Lois Fernandez
1936 - 2017
Freddy Winnai
1905 - 1977
William Culbertson III
1905 - 1971
Benjamin Donolow
1917 - 1972
H. Boyd McKeen
1835 - 1864
Robert J. Sinclair
1932 - 2009
Thomas McIntosh
1921 - 2005
Frances Weston
1954 - 2005
George C. Prendergast
Born 1961
Fred Siegel (baseball)
1861 - 1916
Dave Mazzoni
Born 1979
Aaron Fenton
Born 1982
Harold Kaese
1909 - 1975
Leonard W. Riches
Born 1939
Whitey Ritterson
1855 - 1917
David Savitt
1928 - 2018
Ed Watkins
1877 - 1933
Harry Clay Adler
1865 - 1940
Harry O'Donnell
1894 - 1958
George Snyder (baseball)
1848 - 1905
Ed Lennon
1897 - 1947
Wilmer G. Crowell
Born 1884
William D. Strecker
Born 1944
Joe Kappel
1857 - 1929
Matt Goodwin (Canadian football)
Born 1970
Ollie Luba
Born 1964
John Hofford
1863 - 1915
Austin Meehan
1897 - 1961
Brian Duffy (chef)
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Dave Stilley
Born 1974
Felix Rappaport
1953 - 2018
Barry Gerson
Born 1939
Francis Shunk Brown
1858 - 1940
Barry Barto
Born 1950
Alvin Katz
Born 1936
Willie Jensen
1889 - 1917
Augustus Goetz
1904 - 1976
Samuel Tranks
Born 1986
Joseph Howlett
Born 1943
Henry Meyers
1860 - 1898
Edgar Johnson
1905 - 1977
Leonard Apt
1922 - 2013
Rob Rogers (cartoonist)
Born 1959
Alfred Leopold Luongo
1920 - 1986
Brian Sullivan (Manager)
Born 1962
Isabella Fitzgerald
Born 1949
Alfred D. Jones
1814 - 1902
Reggie Showers
Born 1964
Joe Roseman
1888 - 1944
Frederick Pitts
1898 - 1988
Bernard Gross
Born 1935
Marshall Quinton
1852 - 1904
Max Gergel
1920 - 2015
Mae Kernaghan
1901 - 1980
Jack Dunn (soccer)
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Eddie Silber
1914 - 1976
Leonard Gruppo
Born 1942
Jesse Ceci
1924 - 2006
C. Clement French
1901 - 1988
Charles Duccilli
Born 1946
Mark Nathan Cohen
Born 1943
Bruce L. Gewertz
Born 1949
Peter E. Perry
1901 - 1993
Harry C. Egbert
1839 - 1899
Tom Ferrick
Born 1949
Jane Amsterdam
Born 1951
Marvin Hargrove
Born 1968
Daniel Holloway (admiral)
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Mike Roman
-
John Deasley
1861 - 1910
Thomas E. Franklin (lawyer)
1810 - 1884
Dominick DeJoseph
1915 - 2000
Charles Drueding
1913 - 1970
Aaron E. Wasserman
1920 - 2015
Ethan Watts
Born 1972
John Swaim
1949 - 2013
Susette Schultz Keast
1892 - 1932
Dan McGarvey
1887 - 1947
Hal Marnie
1918 - 2002
John Jackson (baseball)
1909 - 1956
John Karst
1893 - 1976
Moses Levy
1757 - 1826
Adam Holland
Born 1971
Jonathan Watling
Born 1976
Nelson Greene (baseball)
1900 - 1983
Marie Ciocca
1929 - 1968
James W. McCulloh
1789 - 1861