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.
Harold Lawson
1937 - 2019
Lorraine Ellison
1931 - 1983
Melvyn B. Nathanson
Born 1944
Duke Worne
1888 - 1933
Philip Loeb
1891 - 1955
Kevin Cossom
Born 1984
David Reid (boxer)
Born 1973
Carmen Mathews
1911 - 1995
John Church Hamilton
1792 - 1882
Christopher Ferguson
Born 1961
T. Hayes Hunter
1884 - 1944
Tommy Bryant
1930 - 1982
Dorothy Lavinia Brown
1919 - 2004
Edith Jones
Born 1949
Jeff Chandler (boxer)
Born 1956
David Bushnell (historian)
1923 - 2010
Walter B. Miller
1920 - 2004
Steven Balbus
Born 1953
Reuven Amitai
Born 1955
Joni Sledge
1956 - 2017
Henry Roberts (architect)
1803 - 1876
William H. Meyer
1914 - 1983
Dorothy Short
1915 - 1963
Sydney Walker
1921 - 1994
William Duane (physicist)
1872 - 1935
Wali Jones
Born 1942
John McDermott (golfer)
1891 - 1971
Edwin Sydney Stuart
1853 - 1937
Raymond Louis Kennedy
1946 - 2014
Omar Thomas
Born 1982
Vivian Rich
1893 - 1957
Betty Holberton
1917 - 2001
Ingrid Croce
Born 1947
Tim Story (composer)
Born 1957
Jodi Magness
Born 1956
A. W. Tillinghast
1874 - 1942
Kara Vallow
Born 1967
William P. C. Barton
1786 - 1856
Ronald Moore (basketball)
Born 1988
Samuel Nicholas
1744 - 1790
Carson Parks
1936 - 2005
F. O. C. Darley
1822 - 1888
Bill Gunn (writer)
1934 - 1989
Eddie Chambers
Born 1982
Chuck Sheetz
Born 1960
Tony DiLeo
Born 1955
Carl Kaysen
1920 - 2010
Joshua Wurman
Born 1960
Charles Ferguson Smith
1807 - 1862
Joe Verdeur
1926 - 1991
Jason Lawson
Born 1974
Ida Craddock
1857 - 1902
Charlie O'Donnell
1932 - 2010
John Renshaw Thomson
1800 - 1862
Lisa Bloom
Born 1961
John Geiger
1877 - 1956
Benjamin Stoloff
1895 - 1960
James Juvenal
1874 - 1942
Michael Nutter
Born 1957
Bucky Walters
1909 - 1991
David Berenbaum
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George Henry Horn
1840 - 1897
Nancy Kilpatrick
Born 1946
Peggy Shippen
1760 - 1804
John C. Allen
1907 - 1979
Warder Cresson
1798 - 1860
Doug Overton
Born 1969
Barbara Crossette
Born 1939
Benjamin Chew Tilghman
1821 - 1901
Anna Alcott Pratt
1831 - 1893
Harry Elfont
Born 1968
Elizabeth Wharton Drexel
1868 - 1944
Mark Matkevich
Born 1978
John Ernest
1922 - 1994
Patrick Gass
1771 - 1870
William Welsh (actor)
1870 - 1946
Horace Howard Furness
1833 - 1912
Amos E. Joel Jr.
1918 - 2008
Iggie Wolfington
1920 - 2004
Michael Barr (mathematician)
Born 1937
Eric Gravatt
Born 1947
Mark Rosenthal
Born 1950
Morris E. Leeds
1869 - 1952
John Hennigan (poker player)
Born 1970
James Frederick Wood
1813 - 1883
Shaun Phillips
Born 1981
Gideon Glick
Born 1988
Joseph Barnes
1817 - 1883
John Macionis
1916 - 2012
Raffy Lopez
Born 1987
Martin Agronsky
1915 - 1999
Eve Merriam
1916 - 1992
Rodney Kendrick
Born 1960
Elinor Burkett
Born 1946
Steve Berlin
Born 1955
Richard Stone (composer)
1953 - 2001
Cynthia DeFelice
Born 1951
Joey Crawford
Born 1951
Steady B
Born 1969
Randy Woods
Born 1970
Matt Guokas Sr.
1915 - 1993
Ervin Hall
Born 1947
Jahri Evans
Born 1983
Charles Epstein (geneticist)
1933 - 2011
Steve Sansweet
Born 1945
Franklin Davenport
1755 - 1832
Dorothy Kelly
1894 - 1966
Chubby Cox
Born 1955
Alex Zamm
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Marcus Tracy
Born 1986
Eric Owens (bass-baritone)
Born 1970
Judy Landers
Born 1958
John Nolen
1869 - 1937
Joseph Auslander
1897 - 1965
Ernie Beck
Born 1931
Judith Klinman
Born 1941
Randi Ingerman
Born 1967
Edward Biddle
1738 - 1779
Nathan S. Kline
1916 - 1983
Michael Gleason
1876 - 1923
Jade Cole
Born 1979
Joe Hoeffel
Born 1950
Karen Kilimnik
Born 1955
Eleanor Sayre
1916 - 2001
Mark Tyndale
Born 1986
Lari Ketner
1977 - 2014
Todd Komarnicki
Born 1965
William P. Biddle
1853 - 1923
Edna Campbell
Born 1968
Kristie Lu Stout
Born 1974
Frank Geyer
1853 - 1918
Mary Ann McCall
1919 - 1994
Rick Jackson
Born 1989
Ted Harris (mathematician)
1919 - 2005
Edward Marsh (rower)
1874 - 1932
Alexis Fawx
Born 1975
Derrick Hodge
Born 1979
Jack Whitaker
1924 - 2019
Clifford Thornton
1939 - 1989
Carol Goodman
Born 1959
Edward Clark (architect)
1822 - 1902
Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
1862 - 1935
Demetra Hampton
Born 1968
Ellen Forney
Born 1968
James C. Greenwood
Born 1951
Edmund Burns
1892 - 1980
Nick Travis
1925 - 1964
Lesley Ashburner
1883 - 1950
Dorothy Burr Thompson
1900 - 2001
Richie Barrett
1933 - 2006
Ellen Bass
Born 1947
Donya Feuer
1934 - 2011
Walter Elmer Schofield
1867 - 1944
Lewis Lloyd
1959 - 2019
Arthur Fields
1888 - 1953
Sarai Sherman
1922 - 2013
Tana Hoban
1917 - 2006
James M. Beck
1861 - 1936
George Kauffman
1930 - 2020
Edwin De Haven
1816 - 1865
LaMont Smith
Born 1972
Mary Berenson
1864 - 1945
Warren Covington
1921 - 1999
Warren Zimmermann
1934 - 2004
Stevie Williams
Born 1979
Paul DiMaggio
Born 1951
Edward Joseph Adams
Born 1944
Richard Theodore Greener
1844 - 1922
William M. Bunn
1842 - 1923
Daniel Kevles
Born 1939
Archer Taylor
1890 - 1973
Gail Kane
1887 - 1966
Jack Bernhard
1914 - 1997
Jay Mehler
Born 1981
Charles Armstrong (rower)
1881 - 1952
Henny Backus
1911 - 2004
Jarvis Tyner
Born 1941
Barbara J. Grosz
Born 1948
Donald Kohn
Born 1942
E. Haldeman-Julius
1889 - 1951
Richard T. Schulze
Born 1929
Calvin Jackson
1919 - 1985
Jeanne Birdsall
Born 1951
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
1932 - 2020
John Cadwalader (jurist)
1805 - 1879
Max Goberman
1911 - 1962
Gregory Herbert
1947 - 1978
Thomas Morris (New York politician)
1771 - 1849
Carolyn Goodman (politician)
Born 1938
Gerald Early
Born 1952
Lee Felsenstein
Born 1945
David M. O'Connell
Born 1955
Berl Senofsky
1926 - 2002
Howard Schmidt
1949 - 2017
John Howard Van Amringe
1835 - 1915
James Green (bishop)
Born 1950
James Nelson Barker
1784 - 1858
Bob McNeill
Born 1938
Herman Strecker
1836 - 1901
Joseph Dempsey
1875 - 1942
William A. Brock
Born 1941
Samuel Zygmuntowicz
Born 1956
Brandon McManus
Born 1991
Nancy F. Cott
Born 1945
Kirk Simon
1954 - 2018
George Cadwalader
1806 - 1879
J. C. Spink
1972 - 2017
Bob Morse
Born 1951
Robert Leslie Bellem
1902 - 1968
Wayne Hightower
1940 - 2002
Joseph de Pasquale
1919 - 2015
Bob Marcucci
1930 - 2011
Joseph Hopkinson
1770 - 1842
Murray Waas
Born 1961
Arthur Beecher Carles
1882 - 1952
Elliott Cresson
1796 - 1854
Herman Lukoff
1923 - 1979
William Gardner Smith
1927 - 1974
Vivienne Segal
1897 - 1992
Lindsay Pagano
Born 1986
Nathan Fine
1916 - 1994
Maggie Lucas
Born 1991
Rob Hardy
Born 1971
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr.
1874 - 1948
Francis Johnson (composer)
1792 - 1844
Angelo Musi
1918 - 2009
Charles W. Sandman Jr.
1921 - 1985
Ellen Biddle Shipman
1869 - 1950
Francis Ryan
1908 - 1977
William Lashner
Born 1956
Kenneth Frazier
Born 1954
Barry Jenner
1941 - 2016
Catherine Feeny
Born 1976
Julian Williams (boxer)
Born 1990
Joseph Addison Alexander
1809 - 1860
John W. Wells
1907 - 1994
John Grieb
1879 - 1939
Alan Needleman
Born 1944
Hamilton Disston
1844 - 1896
Stephen Goldin
Born 1947
Milton Work
1864 - 1934
Emanual Davis
Born 1968
Frank Shakespeare (rower)
Born 1930
James Kinsey
1731 - 1803
Harry Lott
1880 - 1949
Albert Innaurato
1947 - 2017
Lambert Orkis
Born 1946
George Washington Bush
1779 - 1863
Judi Silvano
Born 1951
Robert Gover
1929 - 2015
Johnny Hotbody
Born 1963
Jackie Moore (basketball)
Born 1932
Herbert Muschamp
1947 - 2007
Eugene Galanter
1924 - 2016
Willie Dennis
1926 - 1965
Nicholas Biddle (naval officer)
1750 - 1778
Arthur Knight (film critic)
1916 - 1991
Thomas Forrest
1747 - 1825
George Rex Graham
1813 - 1894
Dwayne Burno
1970 - 2013
Ramone Moore
Born 1989
Terquin Mott
Born 1974
Earle K. Bergey
1901 - 1952
Lawrence Zazzo
Born 1970
John Adriano Acea
1917 - 1963
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Born 1978
Dennis DeTurck
Born 1954
Steven Feld
Born 1949
Jonathan Bayard Smith
1742 - 1812
Samuel G. Armistead
1927 - 2013
Joe Burke (composer)
1884 - 1950
Matthew Pratt
1734 - 1805
Bobak Ferdowsi
Born 1979
Karen Abbott
Born 1973
Wesley Morris
Born 1975
Bill Barron (musician)
1927 - 1989
Charles Crumb
1942 - 1992
Kate Braverman
1950 - 2019
Hershy Kay
1919 - 1981
Grace Drayton
1877 - 1936
Michael Francis Burbidge
Born 1957
John Sylvester White
1919 - 1988
Laura Harper (basketball)
Born 1986
Steven Plaut
1951 - 2017
Walter Seltzer
1914 - 2011
Sidney Blatt
1928 - 2014
Henry Shoemaker Conard
1874 - 1971
Rasheim Wright
Born 1981
Luke Witte
Born 1950
James Wolcott Wadsworth
1846 - 1926
Margaret Schlauch
1898 - 1986
Peter J. Jannetta
1932 - 2016
Jeanne Behrend
1911 - 1988
Paul Anthony Stewart
Born 1970
Leslie Esdaile Banks
1959 - 2011
Leonard Carlitz
1907 - 1999
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Born 1944
Abigail Hopper Gibbons
1801 - 1893
Francis Davis
Born 1946
Anita Hendrie
1863 - 1940