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.
John Brewer Brown
1836 - 1898
Edwin Pearce Christy
1815 - 1862
Harry H. Seldomridge
1864 - 1927
Bill Boggs
Born 1941
Charles Biddle
1745 - 1821
Sumi Tonooka
Born 1956
Richard Seminack
1942 - 2016
Raymond Pace Alexander
1898 - 1974
Gilbert Lewis (actor)
1941 - 2015
Arno Karlen
1937 - 2010
Bob Delegall
1945 - 2006
Jay Rosen (drummer)
Born 1961
Eleanor C. Donnelly
1838 - 1917
Elizabeth Topham Kennan
Born 1938
Ray Staszak
Born 1962
Bootsie Barnes
Died 2020
Ellendea Proffer
Born 1944
Ralph Morgan (basketball)
1884 - 1965
William Wright (author)
1930 - 2016
Francis Wilson (actor)
1854 - 1935
Pete Welding
1935 - 1995
David Leebron
Born 1956
Jim Bailey (entertainer)
1949 - 2015
AR-Ab
Born 1982
Ann Carr
Born 1958
Job Roberts Tyson
1803 - 1858
Walter Weyl
1873 - 1919
Daylin Leach
Born 1961
George Washington Toland
1796 - 1869
William Eckart Lehman
1821 - 1895
James Cutbush
1788 - 1823
Bob Brooks
1927 - 2012
P. Jackson Darlington, Jr.
1904 - 1983
Norman Clyde
1885 - 1972
George W. Cheyney
1853 - 1903
Matthew Drutt
Born 1962
Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown
1857 - 1944
George Brunner (composer)
Born 1951
Philip Tinari
Born 1979
José Antonio Rivera
Born 1973
John J. Taylor (Pennsylvania politician)
Born 1955
Dave Patten
Born 1988
F. M. Howarth
1864 - 1908
Nancy Hendrickson
Born 1950
Jacob Needleman
Born 1934
Mike Jones (boxer)
Born 1983
Ralph Harris (comedian)
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Rosanne Somerson
Born 1954
Clare G. Fenerty
1895 - 1952
Paul Chernoff
1942 - 2017
Jeff Segal
Born 1985
William Millward
1822 - 1871
Charles Ross (artist)
Born 1937
Samuel Bard (physician)
1742 - 1821
Arlin M. Adams
1921 - 2015
Robert Woodson
Born 1937
Lynne Abraham
Born 1941
Frederick Newmeyer
Born 1944
Mike Jarmoluk
1922 - 2004
Charles Pettigrew
1963 - 2001
Jamilia Craft
Born 1991
Tom Killion
Born 1957
Frank Stefanko
Born 1946
Jane Richards Roth
Born 1935
Mark Yudof
Born 1944
Henry Singlewood Bisbing
1849 - 1919
Graham Salisbury
Born 1944
Patrick Quinn
1950 - 2006
Adele Ritchie
1874 - 1930
William Dodge (bobsleigh)
1925 - 1987
Justin Herman
1907 - 1983
Michael A. Harrison
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George Yancy
Born 1961
Cornelia Adair
1837 - 1921
Robert Geddes (architect)
Born 1923
Buster West
1901 - 1966
Richard Maynard (television producer)
1942 - 2007
Henry Lorenz Viereck
1881 - 1931
Frank Wycheck
Born 1971
Howard Lanin
1897 - 1991
Charles F. Dougherty
Born 1937
Dorothy Green (tennis)
1897 - 1964
Oscar Fraley
1914 - 1994
Malerie Marder
Born 1971
Anna Whelan Betts
1875 - 1952
Joseph F. Smith (Pennsylvania politician)
1920 - 1999
Howard Schachman
1918 - 2016
Jimmie Baker (basketball)
Born 1953
Virginia Knauer
1915 - 2011
John Wood (congressman)
1816 - 1898
John Marzano
1963 - 2008
Cory Wade Hindorff
Born 1990
Roger D. Abrahams
1933 - 2017
Edwin Byrne
1891 - 1963
Chris Heinrich
Born 1977
Harry Fritz
1890 - 1974
George Howard Earle Jr.
1856 - 1928
Robert N. McGarvey
1888 - 1952
Judith Orloff
Born 1951
Henry Brown Floyd MacFarland
1861 - 1921
Gustavus Town Kirby
1874 - 1956
Sally Wister
1761 - 1804
Ayoka Chenzira
Born 1953
Alice Gale
1858 - 1941
Jeff Jones (activist)
Born 1947
Henry Louis Stephens
1824 - 1883
Dick Harlow
1889 - 1962
Sam Kimber
1854 - 1925
Philip Jamison
Born 1925
Raheem Brock
Born 1978
Bill Whitaker (journalist)
Born 1951
Frank Chirkinian
1926 - 2011
Fayette Pinkney
1948 - 2009
George Winokur
1925 - 1996
John J. McIntyre (bishop)
Born 1963
Xanthus Russell Smith
1839 - 1929
Kenneth Sokoloff
1952 - 2007
Mary Meigs
1917 - 2002
Chapman Freeman
1832 - 1904
Charles Mitchell Thomas
1846 - 1908
A. Edward Newton
1863 - 1940
William Draper Lewis
1867 - 1949
Melissa Bulanhagui
Born 1990
Jacob Swoope
1770 - 1832
Freaky Flow
Born 1977
James Hugh Joseph Tate
1910 - 1983
James Landy
1813 - 1875
William Ward (Pennsylvania)
1837 - 1895
Alexander H. Leighton
1908 - 2007
Major Jackson
Born 1968
Marion Boulton Stroud
1939 - 2015
Dolores Donlon
1920 - 2012
Mark K. Updegrove
Born 1961
Jeff Barnes
Born 1955
John V. Creely
1839 - 1900
Willie L. Williams
1943 - 2016
William Sitgreaves Cox
1790 - 1874
Susanne Mentzer
Born 1957
Virginia Kidd
1921 - 2003
Sarah Mapps Douglass
1806 - 1882
Eric Gregg
1951 - 2006
Lloyd Quarterman
1918 - 1982
Charlie Brown (boxer)
Born 1958
Sharon Louden
Born 1964
James Hankins
Born 1955
Cherokee Fisher
1844 - 1912
George P. Scriven
1854 - 1940
Azalia Snail
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Daniel H. Miller
Died 1846
Jowharah Jones
Born 1982
Kermit Lipez
Born 1941
Bonnie Sherr Klein
Born 1941
Charles Alan Wright
1927 - 2000
William Bradford Reed
1806 - 1876
Jacob Landau (artist)
1917 - 2001
Tyler Fullington
Born 1989
Lewis Packard
1836 - 1884
Cary Nelson
Born 1946
Deborah Batts
1947 - 2020
Marc Brickman
Born 1953
Justin Levens
1980 - 2008
Orator Shafer
1851 - 1922
Minnie Palmer
1860 - 1936
R. H. Robertson
1849 - 1919
Lorene Cary
Born 1957
Sally Engle Merry
1944 - 2020
Hasaan Ibn Ali
1931 - 1980
Bob Gibson (1980s pitcher)
Born 1957
Tom Hamilton Jr.
Born 1978
Joseph Parrish Thompson
1819 - 1879
Robert Donatucci
1952 - 2010
Jimmy Rowser
1926 - 2004
Chuck Clark
Born 1995
Barry Schwartz (sociologist)
Born 1938
Ray Fulmer
Born 1933
Cadwalader Morris
1741 - 1795
Leonard Silk
1918 - 1995
Thomas Allibone Janvier
1849 - 1913
George Avery (professor)
1927 - 2004
Howard Shelanski
Born 1964
Gerald M. Levin
Born 1939
Edward L. Stokes
1880 - 1964
Joe Battin
1852 - 1937
Earl Chudoff
1907 - 1993
Ray Didinger
Born 1946
Carolyn Haywood
1898 - 1990
John Fox (basket-ball)
Born 1965
Malik B.
1972 - 2020
Harry Swayne
Born 1965
Mary Norris Dickinson
1740 - 1803
Michael J. Bradley
1897 - 1979
Joe Maneely
1926 - 1958
Chris McKendry
Born 1968
Leo Braudy
Born 1941
Bernard Waber
1924 - 2013
Roger David Nussbaum
Born 1944
William Herrmann (gymnast)
1912 - 2003
Clayton Barney Vogel
1882 - 1964
Warren Teitelman
1941 - 2013
Ethel Franklin Betts
1877 - 1959
May Howard Jackson
1877 - 1931
Steve Bisciotti
Born 1960
Henry Darwin Rogers
1808 - 1866
Linda Lee Alter
Born 1939
Howard Hendricks
1924 - 2013
James Lee Stanley
Born 1946
Chicita F. Culberson
Born 1931
Anna Rosemond
1886 - 1966
E. W. Etchells
1911 - 1998
Raj Bhakta
Born 1975
George Tyne
1917 - 2008
Randy Cain
1945 - 2009
Dolores Sloviter
Born 1932
James Bryson
Born 1971
William H. Milliken Jr.
1897 - 1969
Emerson Treacy
1900 - 1967
Mildred Walker
1905 - 1998
Da'Shawn Hand
Born 1995
Amit Schejter
Born 1961
Adele Griffin
Born 1970
Michael Corbett (actor)
Born 1956
Craig Wadsworth
1872 - 1960
Dave Miller (producer)
1925 - 1985
Thomas Biddle
1790 - 1831
Randy Brock
Born 1943
Judith Shea
Born 1948
Felice Pazner Malkin
Born 1929
Jerry Blavat
Born 1940
Edward Biberman
1904 - 1986
Katie McGinty
Born 1963
Dewey Johnson
1939 - 2018
Dick Spalding
1893 - 1950
Owen Biddle Sr.
1737 - 1799
Lauren Willig
Born 1977
Andy Stapp
1944 - 2014
Andrew Sherman
Born 1961
Gary H. Gibbons
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Henry Benbridge
1743 - 1812
Starletta DuPois
Born 1941
Daniel Carmick
1772 - 1816
Jack H. Harris
1918 - 2017
George Landenberger
1879 - 1936
Isaiah Wilson
Born 1948
Peter Courtney
Born 1943
Leon Sacks
1902 - 1972
Olaf Storaasli
Born 1943
Michael Schoettle
Born 1936
John Guier Scott
1819 - 1892
Sidney Glazier
1916 - 2002
Al Jones (drummer)
1930 - 1976
Jonathan H. Adler
Born 1969
Kelly Cassidy
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Jake Fogelnest
Born 1979
Marvin Kaye
Born 1938
Tanya Berezin
Born 1941
William Anastasi
Born 1933
Steve Tobin
Born 1957
Paul Joseph Nussbaum
1870 - 1935
Crawford Ker
Born 1962
Ernest Hilbert
Born 1970
William H. Wilson
1877 - 1937
James A. Gallagher
1869 - 1957
Victoria Carroll
Born 1940
Joe Bonsall
Born 1948
Lucky Oceans
Born 1951
Lud Wray
1894 - 1967
Francis R. Smith
1911 - 1982
Emlen Etting
1905 - 1993
Joe Stefanelli (painter)
1921 - 2017
Chuck Brodsky
Born 1960
Charles Bingham Penrose
1862 - 1925
Steve Andriole
Born 1949
Jeff Stein (author)
Born 1944
Sacha Jenkins
Born 1972
Stephen Parrish
1846 - 1938
Joel Fein
1944 - 2007
Angelo DiGeorge
1921 - 2009
Robert A. Rescorla
1940 - 2020
Francis Anthony Drexel
1824 - 1885
Leonard Burman
Born 1953
John Sandusky
1925 - 2006
Norwood Penrose Hallowell
1839 - 1914
Frederick Moosbrugger
1900 - 1974
Francis Richter
1854 - 1926
John F. Francis
1808 - 1886
William Wall (U.S. politician)
1800 - 1872
Kathleen McGahey
Born 1960
Diana Perez
Born 1981
Francis Edward Hyland
1901 - 1968
Susan Miller (playwright)
Born 1944
John McClintock (theologian)
1814 - 1870
Gary Goldschneider
1939 - 2019
Skip Alexander
1918 - 1997
Deborah Holland
Born 1954
William Morgan (architect)
1930 - 2016
Thornel Schwartz
1927 - 1977
Joseph George Rosengarten
1835 - 1921
Michael M. Baylson
Born 1939
Egypt Sherrod
Born 1976
Josselyn Van Tyne
1902 - 1957