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.
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Music
- Science
- Writing
- Other
Collins J. Seitz
1914 - 1998
Wayne Franklin
Born 1974
Samuel Bancroft
1840 - 1915
William Romaine Newbold
1865 - 1926
Edward Thomas Demby
1869 - 1957
James Wall (actor)
1917 - 2010
Raphael Xavier
Born 1970
Gerry Stahl
Born 1945
William Mercer Green
1798 - 1887
Jeremy Harris (politician)
Born 1950
Virginia A. Seitz
Born 1956
Christopher Castellani
Born 1972
Rodney Moore (boxer)
Born 1965
William W. J. Kelly
1814 - 1878
Timothy Szymanski
-
Tom Gallagher
Born 1944
Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster
1788 - 1855
William Poole Bancroft
1835 - 1928
Tom Hall (American football)
1940 - 2017
John Reed King
1914 - 1979
Nelson M. Ford
Born 1947
Scott Dettra
Born 1975
Melody Woodin
Born 1986
Henry G. Connor
1852 - 1924
Anthony Anderson (American football)
Born 1956
Ruth Randall Edström
1867 - 1944
John R. Ellis
Born 1955
Keith J. Gillespie
Born 1952
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr.
1937 - 2012
Alexandria Wailes
Born 1975
Thomas Clark (North Carolina)
1741 - 1792
Joseph J. Longobardi
Born 1930
Esther D. du Pont
1908 - 1984
James Saunders (Tänzer)
1946 - 1996
Helene Keeley
Born 1965
Robert Daniel Potter
1923 - 2009
Nicholas Miccarelli III
Born 1982
Sam Bowens
1938 - 2003
Ann Althouse
Born 1951
Gregory Lavelle
Born 1963
Charles I. Carpenter
1906 - 1994
John Mark Dougan
Born 1976
Ed Oliver
1916 - 1961
Glen Sturtevant
Born 1982
Cliff Rosenberger
Born 1981
Emory M. Sneeden
1927 - 1987
Edward E. David Jr.
1925 - 2017
Mike Vollmin
Born 1993
Ed Michaels
1914 - 1976
Bulldog Brower
1933 - 1997
Rob Smith (soccer)
Born 1973
John Larkin (actor, born 1877)
1877 - 1936
John Biggs Jr.
1895 - 1979
William Gordon Rutherfurd
1764 - 1818
Charles A. McClenahan
1941 - 2017
Leslie Butterscotch
-
Will Inman (poet)
1923 - 2009
Hans Lobert
1881 - 1968
Nick Becton
Born 1990
M. Jane Brady
Born 1951
Arthur Bluethenthal
1891 - 1918
Andrea Lauren Brown
Born 1973
Leon Mackey
Born 1989
Charles Sinek
Born 1968
Linda Holmes (writer)
-
Louis Dean
1874 - 1933
Robert I. Marshall
Born 1946
Keever Jankovich
1928 - 1979
Al Neiger
Born 1939
Caitlin Van Sickle
Born 1990
Dennis P. Williams
Born 1953
David Sokola
Born 1955
Bill Johnson (pitcher)
1960 - 2018
Joe Campbell (American football)
Born 1955
Walter Griffin (poet)
Born 1937
James Madison Lee
1926 - 2017
Michael Ramone
Born 1961
John Mitchell Jr. (politician)
Born 1954
Andrew Szczerba
Born 1988
Benjamin P. Ablao Jr.
Born 1974
Jeffrey Frederick
1950 - 1997
John O'Donoghue (1990s pitcher)
Born 1969
William McRee
1787 - 1833
Bryan Townsend (American politician)
Born 1981
S. Ward Casscells
1952 - 2012
Khadijah Rushdan
Born 1988
Patricia Blevins
Born 1954
Sid Jelinek
1899 - 1979
A. J. Bernheim Brush
-
Stephanie Bolden
Born 1946
Will Ludwigsen
Born 1973
Steve Smith (basket-ball, 1981)
Born 1981
Jenny Bartz
Born 1955
Herbert W. Briggs
1900 - 1990
Roxana Cannon Arsht
1915 - 2003
Emily McGary Selinger
1848 - 1927
Kevin Reilly (American football)
Born 1951
Mark McClafferty
-
Thomas P. Gordon
Born 1952
Jamie Duncan
Born 1975
Bert Cunningham
1865 - 1952
Jacob Walles
Born 1957
H. W. Bradley
1813 - 1891
Charles Potter Jr.
-
Lee Constantine
Born 1952
Stuart B. Levy
Died 2019
Henry Harnden
1823 - 1900
Edward Green Bradford II
1848 - 1928
Dwight Wallace
Born 1943
Bill Crouch (1940s pitcher)
1910 - 1980
Quadree Henderson
Born 1996
John Percy Nields
1868 - 1943
Thomas Dixon (architect)
Died 1886
John F. R. Seitz
1908 - 1978
Andrea Saemann
Born 1962
Brian O'Neill (American football)
Born 1995
Mike Bianco
Born 1967
Adrienne Arsht
Born 1942
Ross Tomaselli
Born 1992
Timothy Stickney
Born 1965
Leon Dombrowski
1938 - 1998
Ron Musselman
Born 1954
Samuel Sullivan (politician)
1773 - 1853
George A. Rothrock
1932 - 1993
Ralph Sasse
1889 - 1954
George Cutshaw
1887 - 1973
Thomas F. Stephenson
Born 1942
Kass Fleisher
Born 1959
Carol Rosin
Born 1944
Jean-François Vidal de Lingendes
1796 - 1857
Joan Goodfellow
Born 1950
Shannon Valentine
Born 1959
Henry Hemphill
1830 - 1914
Wes Curry
1860 - 1933
Michael Reed (American football)
Born 1972
Brian Foster (BMX rider)
Born 1972
James Phillip Connor
1919 - 1994
Kevin Ruf
Born 1961
Jimmy Jones (quarterback)
Born 1950
Thomas Atkinson Jenkins
1868 - 1935
Kirk Olivadotti
Born 1974
Elizabeth Humphreys Penrose
Born 1960
Dondi E. Costin
Born 1964
Colm Connolly
Born 1964
Dave Hackett
Born 1960
William W. Hartzog
Born 1941
Edward E. Haddock
1911 - 1996
George Prentiss
1876 - 1902
Nathan Gray
Born 1972
Pete Larson (American football)
Born 1944
Ike Gingrich
Born 1952
Shaqwedia Wallace
Born 1989
Rick Donnalley
Born 1958
Davy Williamson
Born 1979
Bart Chilton
1960 - 2019
Tony Goldman
1943 - 2012
J. Saunders Redding
1906 - 1988
David Fine
Born 1952
Ken Szotkiewicz
Born 1947
Jyler Noviello
Born 1984
Andre Patton
Born 1994
Victor Baynard Woolley
1867 - 1945
Greg Lindquist
Born 1979
Thomas H. Jones
Born 1806
Kitwana Jones
Born 1981
Paul Vandervoort
1846 - 1902
Steve Kenney
Born 1955
Stephen Speed
Born 1963
Melissa Helmbrecht
Born 1975
Maude Drein Bryant
1880 - 1946
Rebecca Grady Jennings
Born 1978
John Newell (baseball)
1868 - 1919
Pedro Swann
Born 1970
Ruly Carpenter
Born 1940
Ethel Cuff Black
1890 - 1977
Chris Obzansky
Born 1983
Ted Payseur
1901 - 1982
Charles Murphy (baseball)
1868 - 1931
Jane du Pont Lunger
1914 - 2001
Thomas Silicato
Born 1946
George Fisher (baseball)
1855 - 1937
Jim Norton (defensive lineman)
Born 1942
Joseph Myers (baseball)
1882 - 1956
Frank J. Canova
Born 1956
Mike Luzzi
Born 1969
Alan Foster (BMX rider)
Born 1970
Heather Mae Erickson
Born 1977
Wilby Fletcher
1954 - 2009
George Murphy (chimico)
1903 - 1968
Bankson T. Holcomb Jr.
1908 - 2000
Tre Whitted
Born 1984
Alfred Hennen Morris
1864 - 1959
James Robert Kirkland
1903 - 1958
Jim Krapf
Born 1950
Jeanne Bonds
-
Eugene Ashley Jr.
1930 - 1968
Herbert Rice
1876 - 1932
Shot Jackson
1920 - 1991
Jennifer Leigh
Born 1983
Harriet Thayer Durgin
-
Nick Screnci
Born 1957
Herman Postma
1933 - 2004
Thomas Guinn
1836 - 1908
Ryan Spahn
Born 1980
David Cloyd
Born 1976
William Hemphill Jones
1811 - 1880
Ted Davis Jr.
Born 1950
William Spencer Anderson
1832 - 1872
Clyde Bishop
-
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
Born 1958
William Stone Weedon
1908 - 1984
Sean Patrick Hazlett
Born 1975
Tim Quill
1962 - 2017
Jonathan C. Kirk
1836 - 1907
Betsy Thornton
-
Gary Graham (fashion designer)
Born 1969
Frank Holmes (athlete)
1885 - 1980
Ed Cihocki
1907 - 1987
Floyd Kemske
Born 1947
John Broujos
Born 1929
Mario G. Pino
Born 1961
Mary T. Wales
1874 - 1952
Earl Vann
1913 - 1985
Marc Egerson
Born 1986
Janine Jackson
Born 1965
Bill Carroll (musician)
Born 1966
Joseph del Pesco
Born 1975
Jackie Rogers
Born 1943
Marvin Allen (soccer)
1915 - 1996
Ed Koffenberger
1926 - 2014
Gus Brittain
1909 - 1974
Thomas Richard Purnell
1847 - 1908
Charles Hope (American football)
Born 1970
Bill Skinner
Born 1939
Charles Oberly
Born 1946
William J. Howard
1799 - 1862
Samuel Vestal
1844 - 1928
Gino Minutelli
Born 1964
John Cox (Virginia politician)
Born 1944
Al Cohen
Born 1926
Macdonald Benson
Born 1930
Dave Walls
Born 1977
Lyle Durgin
1850 - 1904
James E. Sheridan
1922 - 2015
John P. Gillis
1803 - 1873
Howard Franklin Clark
1914 - 1942
Barnacle Boi
Born 1992
Douglas W. Gillette
1918 - 1942
Kathy Jennings
Born 1952
Pete Cassidy
1873 - 1929
Paul Conway Leahy
1904 - 1966
Burt Keeley
1879 - 1952
Leonard Eugene Wales
1823 - 1897
Augie Walsh
1904 - 1985
V. Gilpin Robinson
1851 - 1942
Alice Cary Risley
1847 - 1939
Francis Kerschner Myers
1874 - 1940
Ronald H. Haines
1934 - 2008
Charlie Marshall (baseball)
1919 - 2007
Deon Jones
Born 1993
Floyd Standifer
1929 - 2007
Samuel Harrington Littell
1873 - 1967
Mary Ann Dunwell
-
Enoch H. Williams
1927 - 2012