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.
Fairman Rogers
1833 - 1900
James Flanagan (rower)
1884 - 1937
Karen Cellini
Born 1958
Seymour S. Kety
1915 - 2000
Lois Hamilton
1952 - 1999
William E. Kaufman
Born 1932
John G. Johnson
1840 - 1917
Mary Rockefeller
1907 - 1999
Samuel Rhoads
1711 - 1784
Midget Wolgast
1910 - 1955
Lisa Oz
Born 1963
Russ Brown (actor)
1892 - 1964
Daniel Dombrowski
Born 1953
Robert Fagles
1933 - 2008
Harry DeBaecke
1879 - 1961
Napoleon LeBrun
1821 - 1901
Jerry Rullo
1923 - 2016
Francis De Sales (actor)
1912 - 1988
Barry Parkhill
Born 1951
Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer
1868 - 1936
John Biddle (Michigan politician)
1792 - 1859
Mary Jane Reoch
1945 - 1993
David Lawrence (publisher)
1888 - 1973
A. S. W. Rosenbach
1876 - 1952
E. Urner Goodman
1891 - 1980
Mike Rossman
Born 1955
Milton Frome
1909 - 1989
Dexter Wansel
Born 1950
Edna Mayo
1895 - 1970
Samuel Powel
1738 - 1793
Henry George Fischer
1923 - 2006
Albert Fishlow
Born 1935
Bobby Gregg
1936 - 2014
Andy Greenwald
Born 1977
Roscoe Brady
1923 - 2016
Louisa Hall
Born 1982
Michael Philip Mossman
Born 1959
Jerry Yulsman
1924 - 1999
Robin Stille
1961 - 1996
Lauren Berlant
Born 1957
Spanky DeBrest
1937 - 1973
Lurlene McDaniel
Born 1944
John Olive
Born 1955
Stephen Rerych
Born 1946
John Hesselius
1728 - 1778
Sarina Valentina
Born 1988
Laurence B. Keiser
1895 - 1969
John Connell (actor)
1923 - 2015
Noah Buschel
Born 1978
Horace Binney
1780 - 1875
Steve Courson
1955 - 2005
Walter Reckless
1899 - 1988
Elisa Fiorillo
Born 1969
Irene Guest
1900 - 1970
Bruce Lincoln
Born 1948
Robert Pearsall Smith
1827 - 1898
Robert Adams Jr.
1849 - 1906
Jesse Biddle
Born 1991
Louis Mitchell
1885 - 1957
Mark Braverman
Born 1948
Glenn Ochal
Born 1986
Debbie Black
Born 1966
Peter Nowell
1928 - 2016
Jill Godmilow
Born 1943
Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston
1903 - 1989
Abby Huntsman
Born 1986
William Shippen Sr.
1712 - 1801
Wilson Brown (admiral)
1882 - 1957
William Liller
Born 1927
Oliver Payne Pearson
1915 - 2003
Francis Xavier Dercum
1856 - 1931
Kermit Gordon
1916 - 1976
Alexander J. Dallas (United States Navy officer)
1791 - 1844
Robin Wasserman
Born 1978
Robert Maskell Patterson
1787 - 1854
Robin Carpenter
Born 1992
Alvan Feinstein
1925 - 2001
Willie Sojourner
1948 - 2005
Bessie Pease Gutmann
1876 - 1960
Juliet Richardson
Born 1980
William Gambel
1823 - 1849
Peter Conover Hains
1840 - 1921
Eddie Phillips (actor)
1899 - 1965
Dwayne Davis
Born 1989
Linda Sharrock
Born 1947
Mike Richmond (musician)
Born 1948
Paul Graham (basketball)
Born 1967
Andrew Natsios
Born 1949
Paul Garrin
Born 1957
Francis Henry Taylor
1903 - 1957
Daniel J. Terra
1911 - 1996
Jo Heims
1930 - 1978
Tony Costner
Born 1962
James Ramsay Hunt
1872 - 1937
Andrew Allen (Pennsylvania)
1740 - 1825
Harry Revier
1890 - 1957
Annie Gosfield
Born 1960
Marc Mezvinsky
Born 1977
Walter Yust
1894 - 1960
Barry Bloom
Born 1937
Lewis Wolfley
1839 - 1910
Joseph Martino
Born 1946
Keisha Hampton
Born 1990
Chris Beetem
Born 1969
Victoria Pedretti
Born 1995
Ellen Hansell
1869 - 1937
Cal Massey
1927 - 1972
John C. Bell Jr.
1892 - 1974
Donald Kerr
Born 1939
Matthew Stolper
Born 1944
John Medora
Born 1936
Bertha Townsend
1869 - 1909
Dave Jones (politician)
Born 1962
Sandy Stewart (singer)
Born 1937
Tom Lewis (American politician)
1924 - 2003
Jack J. Clark
1879 - 1947
David White (musician)
1939 - 2019
Charles John Biddle
1819 - 1873
Lester Luborsky
1920 - 2009
Jerome Ravetz
Born 1929
Henry Martyn Baird
1832 - 1906
Lynda Laurence
Born 1949
Bill Kennedy (basketball)
1938 - 2006
Samuel Meredith
1741 - 1817
Dan Gargan
Born 1982
Peter Lesley
1819 - 1903
Cliff Anderson
Born 1944
Frankie Smith
1953 - 2019
Ginger Gilmour
Born 1949
Mike Costanzo
Born 1983
Jack Clements
1864 - 1941
Joseph E. Widener
1871 - 1943
Kal Mann
1917 - 2001
Ora Washington
1898 - 1971
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Born 1986
Erdne Ombadykow
Born 1972
Ramón Martínez (infielder)
Born 1972
Harold M. Williams
1928 - 2017
Mike Shepherd (author)
Born 1947
Tom Ingelsby
Born 1951
Meredith Colket
1878 - 1947
Nate Blackwell
Born 1965
Leon Kelly
1901 - 1982
Albert C. Baugh
1891 - 1981
Muna AbuSulayman
Born 1973
Brad Raider
Born 1975
Ralph Lewis (basketball)
Born 1963
Louis Sokoloff
1921 - 2015
Bart King
1873 - 1965
John M. Read
1797 - 1874
Jackie Saunders
1892 - 1954
Rich Laurel
Born 1954
Scott Sorry
Born 1978
Joshua Eilberg
1921 - 2004
Salvatore Sincere
Born 1966
Frederick Vezin
1859 - 1933
Mike Geier
Born 1965
Jumbo Elliott (coach)
1915 - 1981
Keith (singer)
Born 1949
Andre McCarter
Born 1953
Jaelen Strong
Born 1994
Olga Printzlau
1891 - 1962
Mary Young Pickersgill
1776 - 1857
Jim Devlin
1849 - 1883
Molly McCloskey
Born 1964
Samuel Murray
1869 - 1941
Mike Gale
1950 - 2020
Ray S. Bassler
1878 - 1961
Erin Hartwell
Born 1969
Bill Fiedler
1910 - 1985
Daphne Oz
Born 1986
Jim Boyd (actor)
1933 - 2013
Jan Peter Toennies
Born 1930
Ms. Jade
Born 1979
Eric Froehlich
Born 1984
Linda Addison (poet)
Born 1952
Elyn Zimmerman
Born 1945
Mike Koplove
Born 1976
Joseph R. Cistone
1949 - 2018
Bruce Rind
Born 1953
Rashid Atkins
Born 1975
Quade Green
Born 1998
Enrico Di Giuseppe
1932 - 2005
Christiane Delyne
1902 - 1966
Philip Powell Calvert
1871 - 1961
Greg Irons
1947 - 1984
Mary Ewing Outerbridge
1852 - 1886
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
1886 - 1946
Fran Wilde (author)
Born 1972
Francis Baring, 3rd Baron Ashburton
1800 - 1868
Jimmy Dykes
1896 - 1976
Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson
1847 - 1906
Edward Julius Berwind
1848 - 1936
Edwin Hedley
1864 - 1947
John Blake Jr.
1947 - 2014
Helen Dunbar
1863 - 1933
Vincent Montana Jr.
1928 - 2013
Marki Bey
Born 1947
Burt Grossman
Born 1967
Francis B. Schulte
1926 - 2016
Phil Boutelje
1895 - 1979
Richard Wall Lyman
1923 - 2012
Margaretta Angelica Peale
1795 - 1882
Ned Williamson
1857 - 1894
Katherine Milhous
1894 - 1977
Allan Slutsky
Born 1950
Isaac Starr
1895 - 1989
Franklin Wharton
1767 - 1818
Sabir Mateen
Born 1951
Mary Testa
Born 1955
Billy Beck
1920 - 2011
Benny McLaughlin
1928 - 2012
Oscar Shaw
1887 - 1967
Will S. Davis
1880 - 1920
Isaac Bacharach
1870 - 1956
Kermit Gosnell
Born 1941
Howard Ronald Kaback
1936 - 2019
Edmund Clowney
1917 - 2005
J. Scott Smart
1902 - 1960
George Matthews Harding
1882 - 1959
Edward Joy Morris
1815 - 1881
Francis Wharton
1820 - 1889
Morris Weiss
1915 - 2014
Chazz Witherspoon
Born 1981
Gil Stein (ice hockey)
Born 1928
Dora Keen
1871 - 1963
Al Harker
1910 - 2006
Alfred C. Redfield
1890 - 1983
Chuck Nice
Born 1966
Specs Wright
1927 - 1963
Richard Vaux
1816 - 1895
Rolfe Humphries
1894 - 1969
Magnus Miller Murray
1787 - 1838
Raymond Lederer
1938 - 2008
Benjamin Henry Latrobe II
1806 - 1878
Mary T. Clark
1913 - 2014
Billy Bean (musician)
1933 - 2012
Will Fuller
Born 1994
Isador Coriat
1875 - 1943
Don Cannon
Born 1979
James Warren (publisher)
Born 1930
April Clough
1953 - 2006
Hazel Shermet
1921 - 2016
Geoffrey Mason
1902 - 1987
Molly Bair
Born 1997
Fred F. Fielding
Born 1939
Martha Walter
1875 - 1976
David Starr (wrestler)
Born 1991
Joseph Kramm
1907 - 1992
Henry Pancoast
1875 - 1939
Jules Eskin
1931 - 2016
Pete Kugler
Born 1959
Paul T. Bateman
1919 - 2012
Marty Golubitsky
Born 1945
Jonathan Yudis
Born 1971
George Benton
1933 - 2011
Francis X. DiLorenzo
1942 - 2017
Cynthia Heimel
1947 - 2018
Jack Thayer
1894 - 1945
William G. Schilling
1939 - 2019
Arthur S. Obermayer
1931 - 2016
Virginia M. Alexander
1900 - 1949
Joseph Anthony Galante
1938 - 2019
Milton A. Rothman
1919 - 2001
Bob Kortman
1887 - 1967
John McShain
1898 - 1989
Marielle Hall
Born 1992
Murray Grand
1919 - 2007
Oyster Burns
1864 - 1928
Levi Meyerle
1849 - 1921
David Bispham
1857 - 1921
John Richter
1937 - 1983
Orlando Cole
1908 - 2010
Lon Satton
Born 1929
Scott Wiener
Born 1970
George Law Curry
1820 - 1878
George A. Bicknell
1815 - 1891
Louis Douglas
1889 - 1939
Joseph A. Pepe
Born 1942
Johnny Baum
Born 1946
Michael Myers (politician)
Born 1943
Edmund Darch Lewis
1835 - 1910
Evelyn Berckman
1900 - 1978
Joseph Dubin
1900 - 1961
Max C. Freedman
1893 - 1962
Joseph Andorfer Ewan
1909 - 1999
James A. Byrne
1906 - 1980
Philip Rabinowitz (mathematician)
1926 - 2006
Mark Fisher (songwriter)
1895 - 1948
Charles Kieffer
1910 - 1975
Bree Sharp
Born 1975
William Moore (statesman)
1735 - 1793
Horatio C Wood Jr.
1841 - 1920
William Rawle
1759 - 1836
Norman Rose
1917 - 2004
Jimmy Nelson (singer)
1919 - 2007
Joseph Esherick (architect)
1914 - 1998
Kathryn Meisle
1899 - 1970
Jeffrey McDaniel
Born 1967
Joseph R. Garber
1943 - 2005