38.4504° N, 76.6668° W
WILMINGTON
Most Famous People Born in Wilmington, United States
- Notable people
- 564
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1942
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 6.4×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Wilmington during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Wilmington Is Known For
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Politician is Wilmington's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (80).
Wilmington over-indexes on baseball — 6.4× the global rate.
Wilmington under-produces painter — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Wilmington's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Elisabeth Shue
Born 1963
Sugar Ray Leonard
Born 1956
Aubrey Plaza
Born 1984
Stoya
Born 1986
Judge Reinhold
Born 1957
Clifford Brown
1930 - 1956
John Gallagher Jr.
Born 1984
Stephen Marley (musician)
Born 1972
Valerie Bertinelli
Born 1960
Charlie Daniels
1936 - 2020
Cynthia Rothrock
Born 1957
Howard Pyle
1853 - 1911
George Thorogood
Born 1950
Sean Patrick Thomas
Born 1970
Thomas F. Bayard
1828 - 1898
Andrew Shue
Born 1967
Elena Delle Donne
Born 1989
Daniel Nathans
1928 - 1999
Estelle Taylor
1894 - 1958
Raúl Esparza
Born 1970
Meadowlark Lemon
1932 - 2015
Henry Heimlich
1920 - 2016
John P. Marquand
1893 - 1960
Sara Dylan
Born 1939
David Plouffe
Born 1967
Percy Heath
1923 - 2005
David Walker (abolitionist)
1785 - 1830
Ti West
Born 1980
John Carney (politician)
Born 1956
Sonny Jurgensen
Born 1934
Franz-Olivier Giesbert
Born 1949
Beau Biden
1969 - 2015
David Brinkley
1920 - 2003
Herta Ware
1917 - 2005
Mary Ann Shadd
1823 - 1893
Sam Jones (basketball)
Born 1933
Don Payne (writer)
1964 - 2013
Paul Goldschmidt
Born 1987
Diane Salinger
Born 1951
Jamie Wyeth
Born 1946
Mike Castle
Born 1939
Susan Stroman
Born 1954
Robert Milligan McLane
1815 - 1898
Louis Plack Hammett
1894 - 1987
Cheyenne Kimball
Born 1990
Henry Stommel
1920 - 1992
Walt Hazzard
1942 - 2011
Roman Gabriel
Born 1940
Cisco Houston
1918 - 1961
Yvette Freeman
Born 1957
B. J. Ward (actress)
Born 1944
Jacob Broom
1752 - 1810
Stephen K. Hayes
Born 1949
Sharyn McCrumb
Born 1948
Marshall Kirk McKusick
Born 1954
Matthew Shipp
Born 1960
Eldridge R. Johnson
1867 - 1945
Stephanie Hodge
Born 1956
Sarah McBride
Born 1990
Pete du Pont
Born 1935
Pierre S. du Pont
1870 - 1954
Richard Brandt
1910 - 1997
Barbara Guest
1920 - 2006
Joey Graham
Born 1982
Sammy Davis Sr.
1900 - 1988
Julianna Baggott
Born 1969
Betty Roché
1920 - 1999
Kathleen Widdoes
Born 1939
Tamera Young
Born 1986
Walter McCrone
1916 - 2002
Trevor Cooney
Born 1992
A. J. English
Born 1967
Isaac Lea
1792 - 1886
Hunter Biden
Born 1970
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler
1807 - 1834
A. J. English (basketball, born 1992)
Born 1992
Robert Ruark
1915 - 1965
Richard H. Bayard
1796 - 1868
Daniel Pfeiffer
Born 1975
Charles Kuralt
1934 - 1997
William Wing Loring
1818 - 1886
Neil Casey
Born 1981
Mark Eaton (ice hockey)
Born 1977
Tanner Roark
Born 1986
Jessica Darlin
Born 1976
Garrett Neff
Born 1984
Herbert Weir Smyth
1857 - 1937
James A. Bayard Jr.
1799 - 1880
Stephen Graham (basketball)
Born 1982
Clarence Kea
Born 1959
Michael A'Hearn
1940 - 2017
Jane Barnell
1871 - 1951
Bill Press
Born 1940
Rick Wagoner
Born 1953
Roxanne Modafferi
Born 1982
Kenny Gattison
Born 1964
Kathleen Cassello
1958 - 2017
George Davis (American politician)
1820 - 1896
John D. Barry
1839 - 1867
Libby Larsen
Born 1950
Alton Lennon
1906 - 1986
Patrick Kerr
Born 1956
Derek Brunson
Born 1984
Katharine Pyle
1863 - 1938
Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš
Born 1964
Kristen Dalton (Miss USA)
Born 1986
David Hurwitz (music critic)
Born 1961
Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller
Born 1959
William Gilpin (governor)
1813 - 1894
William Poole (economist)
Born 1937
Kevin Mench
Born 1978
David Weigel
Born 1981
Norris Turney
1921 - 2001
Preston Lea
1841 - 1916
Ellen J. Kullman
Born 1956
Nancy J. Currie-Gregg
Born 1958
Jonathan Cooper
Born 1990
Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
Born 1941
Joey Wendle
Born 1990
Mary Ann Caws
Born 1933
Clement Woodnutt Miller
1916 - 1962
Thomas F. Bayard Jr.
1868 - 1942
Barbara Lindquist
Born 1969
J. George Stewart
1890 - 1970
Sara Lazarus
Born 1962
Thomas Frederick Price
1860 - 1919
William D. Rogers
1927 - 2007
Bernie McInerney
Born 1936
Johnny Neel
Born 1954
Thomas W. Miller
1886 - 1973
Henry Seidel Canby
1878 - 1961
Cliff Brumbaugh
Born 1974
Vaughn Wilson
Born 1976
Louise Dolan
Born 1950
Lara Trump
Born 1982
Alice M. Batchelder
Born 1944
Sam Pellom
Born 1951
John Ancrum Winslow
1811 - 1873
Tory Dent
1958 - 2005
Dexter Boney
Born 1970
Ethel du Pont
1916 - 1965
Briana Venskus
Born 1984
Brett Lunger
Born 1945
Arthur Francis Buddington
1890 - 1980
Billy Bland
1932 - 2017
John Hathorn
1749 - 1825
Chris Widger
Born 1971
Aldis Berzins
Born 1956
James Garretson
1829 - 1895
Stephen Bruton
1948 - 2009
Ty Walker (basketball)
Born 1989
Bill McGowan
1896 - 1954
James Singleton (musician)
Born 1955
Addison Peale Russell
1826 - 1912
Gideon Jacques Denny
1830 - 1886
Robert W. Field
Born 1944
Wendell Smallwood
Born 1994
Richard Chichester du Pont
1911 - 1943
Daniel Ullman
1810 - 1892
Kadeem Allen
Born 1993
Midge Rendell
Born 1947
Charles Q. Hildebrant
1864 - 1953
Rod Delmonico
Born 1958
Matthew Denver
1870 - 1954
A. Felix du Pont
1879 - 1948
William H. Keating
1799 - 1840
Clare Victor Dwiggins
1874 - 1958
Reuben Jeffery III
Born 1953
Amir Mansour
Born 1972
Robert P. Robinson
1869 - 1939
James M. Broom
1776 - 1850
Paul Worrilow
Born 1990
William R. Myers
1836 - 1907
Din Thomas
Born 1976
James Owen (American politician)
1784 - 1865
H. Houston Merritt
1902 - 1979
Matthew Denn
Born 1966
Brett Breeding
Born 1961
Mike Nifong
Born 1950
Calvin Cowgill
1819 - 1903
Andrew J. Harlan
1815 - 1907
John Dillard Bellamy
1854 - 1942
Isaac Arthur Abt
1867 - 1955
Andy McGhee
1927 - 2017
Robert E. Doan
1831 - 1919
Ezra Otis Kendall
1818 - 1899
Kayvon Zand
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John L. Anderson
Born 1945
Lucien C. Gause
1836 - 1880
Simon Diamond
Born 1960
Richard Lankford
1914 - 2003
James Thorington
1816 - 1887
Tom Douglas
Born 1958
Gloria Warren
Born 1926
Pud Brown
1917 - 1996
Andrea Bowers
Born 1965
James Henry Garland
Born 1931
William E. McVey
1885 - 1958
Phineas Banning
1830 - 1885
Philip A. Traynor
1874 - 1962
Harry G. Haskell Jr.
1921 - 2020
Charles B. Timberlake
1854 - 1941
Jack Eckerd
1913 - 2004
Connor Barth
Born 1986
Alexis I. du Pont Bayard
1918 - 1985
Alfred G. Allen
1867 - 1932
Brickhouse Brown
1958 - 2018
Robert F. Tinker
1941 - 2017
Henry du Pont
1812 - 1889
Allyn King
1899 - 1930
Frank Masley
1960 - 2016
Steve Gregg
Born 1955
Clarence Clyde Ferguson Jr.
1924 - 1983
James B. Dudley
1859 - 1925
John Goddard Watmough
1793 - 1861
Anna McNeill Whistler
1804 - 1881
Samuel D. Purviance
1774 - 1806
Peter Ruckman
1921 - 2016
Edwin Alderman
1861 - 1931
Jonathan Bragdon
Born 1944
George Alexis Weymouth
1936 - 2016
Zach Clark
Born 1983
John J. Feely
1875 - 1905
Joseph McNeil
Born 1942
Chris Welsh
Born 1955
John Mabry
Born 1970
Briean Boddy-Calhoun
Born 1993
Gardner Lindzey
1920 - 2008
A. Felix du Pont Jr.
1905 - 1996
David Johnson (swimmer)
Born 1947
Michael Gibson (musician)
1944 - 2005
Edwin Anderson Jr.
1860 - 1933
Stephen Biddle
Born 1959
Emily Bissell
1861 - 1948
Robert Robinson Taylor
1868 - 1942
Mabel Vernon
1883 - 1975
Clarence Jones (musician)
1889 - 1949
Sean Price Williams
Born 1977
Anthony Monaco
Born 1959
Joseph diGenova
Born 1945
Ed Hinton (actor)
1927 - 1958
William F. Harrity
1850 - 1912
William H. Heald
1864 - 1939
Elliott Loughlin
1910 - 1989
Jesse Ehrenfeld
Born 1978
Fostina Dixon
Born 1956
Ryan Frazier
Born 1977
Joshua Hill (Pitcairn Island leader)
1773 - 1840
Alice du Pont Mills
1912 - 2002
Thomas Gibson Lea
1785 - 1844
Steve Mintz
Born 1968
Katelyn Falgowski
Born 1988
Hugh Morton (photographer)
1921 - 2006
Frederic Kimber Seward
1878 - 1943
Teana Miller
Born 1980
Michael Lovato
Born 1973
Jay Ross (American football)
Born 1987
Bill Marsilii
Born 1962
Ariana DeBose
Born 1991
Sadie McMahon
1867 - 1954
Frank L. McVey
1869 - 1953
Stanton Heck
1877 - 1929
J. Gordon Edwards (entomologist and mountaineer)
1919 - 2004
Vicki Huber
Born 1967
Herbert Warburton
1916 - 1983
Lammot du Pont II
1880 - 1952
Justin Perillo
Born 1991
John T. Chain Jr.
Born 1934
Sha-Rock
Born 1962
Bill Saffo
Born 1960
Brian Christian
Born 1984
John Bonifaz
Born 1966
Phillip Clay
Born 1946
Kara Farnandez Stoll
Born 1968
Tom Conte
Born 1964
Kate Bohner
Born 1967
Eli Harvey
1860 - 1957
Edward L. Loper Sr.
1916 - 2011
William MacRae
1834 - 1882
Montell Owens
Born 1984
Michael Wilson (offensive lineman)
Born 1947
William Francis Strudwick
1765 - 1812
Tyrell Godwin
Born 1979
Beth Kephart
Born 1960
R. R. M. Carpenter Jr.
1915 - 1990
David McBride
Born 1942
Terry R. Spence
Born 1941
Don Schiff
Born 1955
Derek Kerswill
Born 1973
Roland Grubb Kent
1877 - 1952
Kevin Whitted
Born 1957
Suzanne Savoy
Born 1955
Daniel Short
Born 1961
Charles J. Mendelsohn
1880 - 1939
Timothy Walker (judge)
1806 - 1856
Peggy Payne
Born 1949
Amy Elizabeth du Pont
1880 - 1962
Anthony Spadaccini
Born 1982
Terry Plank
Born 1963
Massey H. Shepherd
1913 - 1990