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.
Leon Schlesinger
1884 - 1949
William Barton Rogers
1804 - 1882
Kevin Eubanks
Born 1957
Maxine Kumin
1925 - 2014
Michael Swanwick
Born 1950
Kate Gosselin
Born 1975
Marion Ramsey
Born 1947
Marshall Herskovitz
Born 1952
Brian Klugman
Born 1975
William Link
Born 1933
Marjorie Liu
Born 1979
Frank R. Stockton
1834 - 1902
David Brenner
1936 - 2014
Schoolly D
Born 1962
Alvin Sargent
1927 - 2019
Paul Arizin
1928 - 2006
David Amram
Born 1930
Richard Levinson
1934 - 1987
David Goodis
1917 - 1967
Joe Venuti
1903 - 1978
Joseph Wharton
1826 - 1909
DJ Drama
Born 1978
Edward S. Herman
1925 - 2017
Sonny Fortune
1939 - 2018
Guion Bluford
Born 1942
William Keighley
1889 - 1984
Jimmy Heath
1926 - 2020
Colin Campbell Cooper
1856 - 1937
Uri Caine
Born 1956
L. L. Langstroth
1810 - 1895
Jack Sholder
Born 1945
Laird Cregar
1913 - 1944
Steven Levy
Born 1951
Dawn Staley
Born 1970
Willam Belli
Born 1982
Robert Serber
1909 - 1997
James DePreist
1936 - 2013
Molly Ephraim
Born 1986
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Charles Godfrey Leland
1824 - 1903
Pamela Fryman
Born 1959
Kurt Rosenwinkel
Born 1970
Katrina Law
Born 1985
Nicholas Biddle (banker)
1786 - 1844
Herbert Biberman
1900 - 1971
Christine O'Donnell
Born 1969
Jerry Ragovoy
1930 - 2011
Anthony Joseph Drexel
1826 - 1893
Emmaline Henry
1928 - 1979
Rodney Harvey
1967 - 1998
Fernando Wood
1812 - 1881
John Laurinaitis
Born 1962
Rashied Ali
1933 - 2009
Jane McGonigal
Born 1977
Sarah Steele
Born 1988
Michael Medved
Born 1948
Thomas Horsfield
1773 - 1859
Monica Calhoun
Born 1971
Jobriath
1946 - 1983
Ken Ono
Born 1968
Tom Rooney (Florida politician)
Born 1970
Mark Levin
Born 1957
Louis Fischer
1896 - 1970
Edwin Boring
1886 - 1968
Teller (magician)
Born 1948
Reggie Workman
Born 1937
Colman Domingo
Born 1969
Shirley Scott
1934 - 2002
Walter E. Williams
1936 - 2020
Connie Mack III
Born 1940
Marcus Morris Sr.
Born 1989
Josh Cooke
Born 1979
Jeff Bergman
Born 1960
Peter Mark Richman
Born 1927
Dan Bricklin
Born 1951
Rasual Butler
1979 - 2018
Bob Brady
Born 1945
Joe Madureira
Born 1974
Helen Broderick
1891 - 1959
Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1946)
Born 1946
Dion Waiters
Born 1991
Lawrence Venuti
Born 1953
James K. Morrow
Born 1947
William Wrigley Jr.
1861 - 1932
Andy Breckman
Born 1955
The Sandman (wrestler)
Born 1963
Rachelle Ferrell
Born 1961
William Bradford (Attorney General)
1755 - 1795
Lyle Bettger
1915 - 2003
Joseph Stefano
1922 - 2006
Markieff Morris
Born 1989
Michelle Malkin
Born 1970
Road Warrior Animal
1960 - 2020
Michael Tollin
Born 1955
Morton Smith
1915 - 1991
David Bromberg
Born 1945
Jim McKay
1921 - 2008
Herbert Scarf
1930 - 2015
Michael Rady
Born 1981
Alexander Dallas Bache
1806 - 1867
Anna Lea Merritt
1844 - 1930
Herbert Rudley
1910 - 2006
Sonya Smith
Born 1972
Tamara Jenkins
Born 1962
Sydney Park (actress)
Born 1997
Rasheed Wallace
Born 1974
Julia Wolfe
Born 1958
William Kemmler
1860 - 1890
Rex Stewart
1907 - 1967
Nia Ali
Born 1988
Tom Gola
1933 - 2014
Bernard Hopkins
Born 1965
Ted Curson
1935 - 2012
Titian Peale
1799 - 1885
Tom Corbett
Born 1949
Glen Keane
Born 1954
Carol Chomsky
1930 - 2008
Joseph McKenna
1843 - 1926
Jennifer Shahade
Born 1980
John Lehman
Born 1942
Morgan Griffith
Born 1958
Billy Murray (singer)
1877 - 1954
Silas Weir Mitchell (physician)
1829 - 1914
Lightner Witmer
1867 - 1956
John Heysham Gibbon
1903 - 1973
Ted Kaufman
Born 1939
Kate Douglas Wiggin
1856 - 1923
Joseph Jefferson
1829 - 1905
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
1863 - 1930
Lisa P. Jackson
Born 1962
Daniel Guggenheim
1856 - 1930
Ross Katz
Born 1971
George Clymer
1739 - 1813
Kate McNeil
Born 1959
Josh Wink
Born 1970
Joseph Fitzmyer
1920 - 2016
Jules Bass
Born 1935
Edward S. Aarons
1916 - 1975
C. West Churchman
1913 - 2004
Paul Wendkos
1925 - 2009
Rebecca Creskoff
Born 1971
Vic Seixas
Born 1923
Kitty Kallen
1922 - 2016
Buddy Greco
1926 - 2017
William Bingham
1752 - 1804
Ryan Arcidiacono
Born 1994
Owen Roberts
1875 - 1955
Richard Corliss
1944 - 2015
Patrick Murphy (Pennsylvania politician)
Born 1973
Willie Mosconi
1913 - 1993
Martin Sherman
Born 1938
Anna Coleman Ladd
1878 - 1939
Charli Baltimore
Born 1974
Bryshere Y. Gray
Born 1993
Thomas Doughty (artist)
1793 - 1856
Hakim Warrick
Born 1982
Brendan Boyle
Born 1977
Walter Isard
1919 - 2010
Jimmy Young (boxer)
1948 - 2005
John Wray (actor)
1887 - 1940
Ja'Net DuBois
1945 - 2020
John A. Dahlgren
1809 - 1870
George Kelly (playwright)
1887 - 1974
Mike Fitzpatrick
1963 - 2020
Hugh McDonald (American musician)
Born 1950
Joan La Barbara
Born 1947
Josiah Harmar
1753 - 1813
Kate Flannery
Born 1964
Kyle Hines
Born 1986
Mardy Collins
Born 1984
Neil Shubin
Born 1960
Louis J. Mordell
1888 - 1972
Tatiana (singer)
Born 1968
Malcolm Atterbury
1907 - 1992
Linda Creed
1948 - 1986
Walter Evans Edge
1873 - 1956
Mitchell Feigenbaum
1944 - 2019
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
1925 - 1983
Elaine Brown
Born 1943
Alexander Stirling Calder
1870 - 1945
James Fallows
Born 1949
Edwin Forrest
1806 - 1872
Granville Redmond
1871 - 1935
George Barbier (actor)
1864 - 1945
Samuel J. Randall
1828 - 1890
Charles Coles
1911 - 1992
Herbert E. Ives
1882 - 1953
Eddie Rouse
1954 - 2014
Maureen Johnson
Born 1973
Stevie Richards
Born 1971
William Stanley Haseltine
1835 - 1900
David H. Keller
1880 - 1966
Scott Aaronson
Born 1981
Marvin Harrison
Born 1972
Elizabeth Gray Vining
1902 - 1999
William Trost Richards
1833 - 1905
D'or Fischer
Born 1981
Philip Francis Nowlan
1888 - 1940
Andrew A. Humphreys
1810 - 1883
Red Rodney
1927 - 1994
Wilhelmenia Fernandez
Born 1949
Harry Elkins Widener
1885 - 1912
Charles A. Ferguson
1921 - 1998
Kathryn Walker
Born 1943
Nedrick Young
1914 - 1968
Ruth Plumly Thompson
1891 - 1976
Anna Quindlen
Born 1952
Mordecai Manuel Noah
1785 - 1851
Anne Spielberg
Born 1949
Wallace Roney
1960 - 2020
Leroy Burrell
Born 1967
Henry Charles Lea
1825 - 1909
Marjorie Margolies
Born 1942
Gladys Bentley
1907 - 1960
Elias Boudinot
1740 - 1821
Joe McCarthy (manager)
1887 - 1978
Mustafa Shakur
Born 1984
Joe Bryant
Born 1954
James Mtume
Born 1947
Herbert Wilf
1931 - 2012
Harry Gold
1910 - 1972
Albert Heath
Born 1935
Stanley Coren
Born 1942
Cyrus H. Gordon
1908 - 2001
Lisa Blunt Rochester
Born 1962
Wanya Morris
Born 1973
Jean Vander Pyl
1919 - 1999
Jacob Druckman
1928 - 1996
Rudy Bond
1912 - 1982
Steve Alten
Born 1959
Herman Haupt
1817 - 1905
Michael Callan
Born 1935
Blake Bashoff
Born 1981
Michael Grant Terry
Born 1984
Dennis Patrick
1918 - 2002
Frank Rizzo
1920 - 1991
Lisa Scottoline
Born 1955
Charles Dera
Born 1978
William Rush
1756 - 1833
William Franklin
1731 - 1813
Guy Rodgers
1935 - 2001
Philip Gourevitch
Born 1961
Eddie Alvarez
Born 1980
A. B. Frost
1851 - 1928
Lynn Greer
Born 1979
Clara Ward
1924 - 1973
William Woodville Rockhill
1854 - 1914
Charles Darrow
1889 - 1967
Alice Rivlin
1931 - 2019
Jon Drummond
Born 1968
John R. Neill
1877 - 1943
Brandon Davies
Born 1991
Jimmy Woode
1929 - 2005
El Brendel
1890 - 1964
George Ord
1781 - 1866
Alison Gopnik
Born 1955
Walter Bahr
1927 - 2018
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Born 1947
Alan Goodrich Kirk
1888 - 1963
Bahamadia
Born 1972
Joseph Breen
1890 - 1965
Frank Furness
1839 - 1912
Aaron Jay Kernis
Born 1960
Ira Einhorn
1940 - 2020
Gail Zappa
1945 - 2015
Kathy Sledge
Born 1959
Eric Bazilian
Born 1953
Chris Albright
Born 1979
Norman Connors
Born 1947
Thomas G. Waites
Born 1955
Lee Ving
Born 1950
Bill Toomey
Born 1939
Dillan Lauren
Born 1982
William Williams Keen
1837 - 1932
Frankie Beverly
Born 1946
Oscar Goodman
Born 1939
William Elliot Griffis
1843 - 1928
Vittorio Giannini
1903 - 1966
Marc Nelson
Born 1971
Erin Krakow
Born 1984
Joe Beck
1945 - 2008
Marc Lamont Hill
Born 1978
William M. Meredith
1799 - 1873
Frank Piasecki
1919 - 2008
Frank Wolf (politician)
Born 1939
Thomas W. Evans
1823 - 1897
Tommy Potter
1918 - 1988
Meldrick Taylor
Born 1966
Bil Keane
1922 - 2011
John L. Balderston
1889 - 1954
Douglas Lenat
Born 1950
Page McConnell
Born 1963
Fred Raskin
Born 1973
Joseph Pennell
1857 - 1926
Willie Alexander
Born 1943
Mark Adamo
Born 1962
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.
1920 - 2017
Marion Martin
1909 - 1985
Dee Dee Sharp
Born 1945
Michael Kaplan (costume designer)
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