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.
Lou Stein
1922 - 2002
Brooke McCarter
1963 - 2015
Ron Previte
1943 - 2017
William Darke
1736 - 1801
Ron Richardson
1952 - 1995
Randy Grossman
Born 1952
E. D. Blodgett
1935 - 2018
Anna T. Jeanes
1822 - 1907
Joe Kerrigan
Born 1954
Kahleah Copper
Born 1994
Jimmy Wisner
1931 - 2018
Scott Paxson
Born 1983
Brent Grimes
Born 1983
Ernest Leo Unterkoefler
1917 - 1993
Patrick Brosnan
Born 1968
Tim Cochran
1955 - 2014
Gerald Vincent McDevitt
1917 - 1980
George Dempsey (basketball)
1929 - 2017
Sheila Ferguson
Born 1947
Terri Doty
Born 1984
Edward Childs Carpenter
1872 - 1950
Benjamin Odell (producer)
Born 1969
Herschel Grossman
1939 - 2004
Lewis Ferry Moody
1880 - 1953
Richard Painter
Born 1961
Ron Kersey
1949 - 2005
Skip Barber
Born 1936
Gwendolyn Killebrew
Born 1939
Ellie Daniel
Born 1950
Alison Klayman
Born 1984
Keith Robinson (comedian)
Born 1963
Sherman Ferguson
1944 - 2006
James Alfred Perkins
1911 - 1998
John Thornton (American football)
Born 1976
Richard Biddle
1796 - 1847
Steven Kampmann
Born 1947
Jamir Miller
Born 1973
Roger Gimbel
1925 - 2011
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Born 1947
Paul Fetler
1920 - 2018
Hubie White
Born 1940
Monnette Sudler
Born 1952
Edmond Thomas Quinn
1868 - 1929
Samuel Wharton
1732 - 1800
David E. Stone
Born 1947
Noah Spence
Born 1994
Dionna Harris
Born 1968
Louis A. DeSimone
1922 - 2018
W. Nelson Francis
1910 - 2002
Gary Fanelli
Born 1950
Gervase Peterson
Born 1969
Harold F. Levison
Born 1959
Benjamin Franklin Bache (journalist)
1769 - 1798
Joseph P. McFadden
1947 - 2013
Marian Barone
1924 - 1996
Stan Brown (basketball)
1929 - 2009
Pat Kelly (outfielder)
1944 - 2005
Don Gardner
1931 - 2018
Marc Zumoff
Born 1955
Divie Bethune McCartee
1820 - 1900
Howard G. Minsky
1914 - 2008
Mike Mayock
Born 1958
Alfred Harbage
1901 - 1976
Israel Goldstein
1896 - 1986
Lillian Genth
1876 - 1953
Henry Morris Naglee
1815 - 1886
Robert Perloff
1921 - 2013
Buddy Deppenschmidt
Born 1936
James White (North Carolina politician)
1749 - 1809
Robert A. Masciantonio
Born 1974
David DiVincenzo
Born 1959
Andy McKee (bassist)
Born 1953
Hank Gathers
1967 - 1990
Blair Thomas
Born 1967
Richard Lashof
1922 - 2010
Leonard Bosack
Born 1952
Paris Cullins
Born 1960
Bill Holland
1907 - 1984
Isaac Wayne
1772 - 1852
Matt Kilroy
1866 - 1940
Nora Levin
1916 - 1989
Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts
1871 - 1927
Herman Foster
1928 - 1999
Jacob Philadelphia
1735 - 1795
Ethel D. Allen
1929 - 1981
Earl Watford
Born 1990
Lee Phelps
1893 - 1953
Victor J. Katz
Born 1942
Johnny Dee (musician)
Born 1964
Robert Ames (CIA official)
1934 - 1983
William Milnor
1769 - 1848
Al Bates
1905 - 1999
Mathew Carey Lea
1823 - 1897
Tiki Fulwood
1944 - 1979
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs
1821 - 1874
Beryl Booker
1922 - 1978
Malcolm Bricklin
Born 1939
Angel Desai
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PnB Rock
Born 1991
Jack Egan (boxer)
1878 - 1950
Dorothy Bar-Adon
1907 - 1950
Cal Abrams
1924 - 1997
Phil Walker (basketball)
Born 1956
Robert Armbruster
1897 - 1994
Francis Swaine Muhlenberg
1795 - 1831
Caroline Still Anderson
1848 - 1919
Tucker Smith
1935 - 1988
Parker Kindred
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David First
Born 1953
Sigmund Spaeth
1885 - 1965
Bucko Kilroy
1921 - 2007
Ibraheim Campbell
Born 1992
Jena Osman
Born 1993
Jeffrey Leonard
Born 1955
James B. Carey
1911 - 1973
Ollie Johnson (basketball, born 1949)
Born 1949
Wallace F. Johnson
1889 - 1971
Alan Bridge
1891 - 1957
Rick Potts
Born 1953
Gabrielle D. Clements
1858 - 1948
Jim Washington
Born 1943
Lawrence Davidson
Born 1945
George Gray Leiper
1786 - 1868
Matthew F. McHugh
Born 1938
Alan Trachtenberg
1932 - 2020
Rick Schu
Born 1962
John Payne Todd
1792 - 1852
Michael Alec Rose
Born 1959
Clara Schroth
1920 - 2014
Isidore Dyen
1913 - 2008
John Hunt (publisher)
1775 - 1848
Charles G. Dahlgren
1811 - 1888
Alan Kotok
1941 - 2006
Joseph Schauers
1909 - 1987
Sheri Martinelli
1918 - 1996
Don Moore
Born 1932
Milton Rosenau
1869 - 1946
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
1737 - 1801
Antoine Roney
Born 1963
Edgar T. Wherry
1885 - 1982
Robert Battle (basketball)
Born 1981
Carl Upchurch
1950 - 2003
Edward Humes
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Bob Schafer
1933 - 2005
Nelson Bobb
1924 - 2003
Tiffany Stansbury
Born 1983
Brian Shorter
Born 1968
George Wetherill
1925 - 2006
Pendarvis Williams
Born 1991
Petey Rosenberg
1918 - 1997
William Milnor Roberts
1810 - 1881
Jenn Bostic
Born 1986
Peter Shub
Born 1957
Morton Hunt
1920 - 2016
Margaret Dale (actress)
1876 - 1972
Malik Scott
Born 1980
Tony Verna
1933 - 2015
Kent V. Flannery
Born 1934
Stacy Levy
Born 1960
Jacob Shallus
1750 - 1796
Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall
1861 - 1958
Jason Love (basketball)
Born 1987
Gaeton Fonzi
1935 - 2012
Laura Scudder
1881 - 1959
August E. Johansen
1905 - 1995
Elizabeth Osborne
Born 1936
Thomas Meehan III
1921 - 1944
Ollie Kirkby
1886 - 1964
Ali Curtis
Born 1978
Stephen Simpson (writer)
1789 - 1854
Clarence Gaskill
1892 - 1947
Doug Allison
1846 - 1916
Richard Hudnut
1855 - 1928
Louis Adolphus Duhring
1845 - 1913
William J. Green III
Born 1938
Sarah Franklin Bache
1743 - 1808
Effie Ellsler
1855 - 1942
Noel Ignatiev
1940 - 2019
Lisa Lane
Born 1938
Francesca Rochberg
Born 1952
Angela Nissel
Born 1978
Juan'ya Green
Born 1992
Del Ennis
1925 - 1996
John Mercanti
Born 1943
Richard Alsop Wise
1843 - 1900
Piera Coppola
Born 1968
Walter Leighton Clark
1859 - 1935
Susan Delano McKelvey
1883 - 1964
Maddy Evans
Born 1991
Tony Carr (basketball)
Born 1997
Richard Neill
1875 - 1970
Robert Conti
Born 1945
Pamala Stanley
Born 1952
Pat Croce
Born 1954
Jesse Ferguson
Born 1957
John O'Neill (congressman)
1822 - 1905
Edwin Milton Abbott
1877 - 1940
Paul Smith (artist)
1921 - 2007
Emilio Núñez Portuondo
1898 - 1978
Tomas Sinisalo
Born 1986
Gladys Huntington
1887 - 1959
Dorothy Dare
1911 - 1981
William Allen (loyalist)
1704 - 1780
N. Paul Kenworthy
1925 - 2010
Don Cohan
1930 - 2018
Kevin Roth
Born 1957
James Wallington
1944 - 1988
Edwin Rolfe
1909 - 1954
Nate Miller (boxer)
Born 1963
Zahir Raheem
Born 1976
Catharine Macfarlane
1877 - 1969
Jaleel Shaw
Born 1978
Liam Wilson
Born 1979
Anastasia Cannuscio
Born 1992
Charlie Rice
1920 - 2018
Diana Son
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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
1898 - 1989
Cornelia Connelly
1809 - 1879
Jane Piper
1916 - 1991
Irv Docktor
1918 - 2008
Richard Compton
1938 - 2007
Charlie Johnson (bandleader)
1891 - 1959
George Berrell
1849 - 1933
John I. Beggs
1847 - 1925
Tim (singer)
Born 1981
David F. Girard-diCarlo
Born 1943
Sarah Schachner
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Jodie Sands
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Risa Vetri Ferman
Born 1965
Calvin Weston
Born 1959
Edward Williams Clay
1799 - 1857
Mark Tulin
1948 - 2011
Frederick Graff
1775 - 1847
Spanky Wilson
Born 1947
Frank Wu (artist)
Born 1964
Henry Horn
1786 - 1862
Hugo Albert Rennert
1858 - 1927
William Miller (rower)
1905 - 1985
John Scott (writer)
1912 - 1976
Christian Meoli
Born 1972
Franklin B. Gowen
1836 - 1889
Brian Keane
Born 1953
David Koff
1939 - 2014
Peter Ryan (racing driver)
1940 - 1962
Ryan C. Gordon
Born 1978
Joe Carroll (singer)
1919 - 1981
Sean Evans (basketball)
Born 1988
Thomas Lee (New Jersey)
1780 - 1856
Seth Winston
1950 - 2015
Joseph R. Lakowicz
Born 1948
Ben Fletcher
1890 - 1949
Samme Givens
Born 1989
John Haynes Holmes
1879 - 1964
Mo Howard (basketball)
Born 1954
Robert Espeseth
Born 1953
Paul Volpe (poker player)
Born 1981
Deborah Willis (artist)
Born 1948
William J. Green Jr.
1910 - 1963
Tyrone Garland
Born 1992
Ann Willing Bingham
1764 - 1801
Doc Bushong
1856 - 1908
Matt Mulhern
Born 1960
Gabriel Harrison
1818 - 1902
Micah Hauptman
Born 1973
Tevin Farmer
Born 1990
David Drasin
Born 1940
John McGill (bishop)
1809 - 1872
Nathan Cook (actor)
1950 - 1988
Jerry Baskerville
Born 1951
Maurice Whitfield
Born 1973
Sign Guy Dudley
Born 1972
Adam Seybert
1773 - 1825
Frank J. Webb
1828 - 1894
James Woodhouse
1770 - 1809
Anne Hampton Brewster
1818 - 1892
Alfred Bloom (Buddhist)
1926 - 2017
Daniel Traub
Born 1971
Charles Naylor
1806 - 1872
Robert P. Maginnis
Born 1933
Chris Culliver
Born 1988
Natalie Kampen
1944 - 2012
Alexander Montgomery Thackara
1848 - 1937
David Bar Katz
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John Cecil Holm
1904 - 1981
Charles O'Neill (Pennsylvania politician)
1821 - 1893
Lee Elia
Born 1937
Judy Stone (journalist)
1924 - 2017
Marian Thayer
1872 - 1944
Art Spector
1920 - 1987
George Scott Graham
1850 - 1931
Herb Sargent
1923 - 2005
Joel Cook
1842 - 1910
William Shippen Jr.
1736 - 1808
Paul Ryan (actor)
1945 - 2015
Noam Pitlik
1932 - 1999
George Biddle
1885 - 1973
Nah-Shon Burrell
Born 1990
Barnett Rubin
Born 1950
Eddie Stanky
1916 - 1999
Danny Rapp
1941 - 1983