Famous Pennsylvanians


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Born and/or residents
  • Alan Beckwith - actor/aerospace engineer
  • Alexander Haig, secretary of state
  • Andrew Mellon, financier
  • Andrew Wyeth, painter
  • Anthony Wayne, general
  • Arnold Palmer, golfer
  • Andrew Carnegie, industrialist/philanthropist
  • Betsy Griscom Ross, flag maker
  • Bill Cosby, actor
  • Charles Goodyear, inventor
  • Daniel Boone, frontiersman
  • Dick Clark, television pioneer
  • Dr. Benjamin Rush, father of American Psychiatry
  • Dr. Jonas Salk, founder of the Polio Vaccine
  • Dwight David Eisenhower, general, President
  • Edward Goodrich Acheson, inventor
  • Ethel Waters, singer and actress
  • Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina
  • Gene Kelly, dancer and actor
  • General George G. Meade, Civil War general
  • George C. Marshall, five-star general
  • George Catlin, Indian expert, poet
  • George McClellan, general
  • George R. Stibitz, inventor
  • Gertrude Stein, author
  • Gifford Pinchot, conservationist
  • Grace Kelly, actress, Princess of Monaco
  • Henry Clay Frick, industrialist
  • Henry J. Heinz, industrialist
  • Henry Harley "hap" Arnold, Air Force hero
  • Henry Steele Commager, historian
  • Hezekiah Niles, journalist
  • James Buchanan, U.S. president
  • James Stewart, actor
  • Jeff Lynn Goldblum, actor
  • Jim Thorpe, athlete
  • Jimmy Dorsey, band leader
  • Jimmy Stewart, actor
  • Joe Montana, athlete
  • Joe Namath, athlete
  • Joe Paterno, football coach
  • John Barrymore, actor
  • John Fulton Reynolds, Civil War general
  • John Updike, author
  • Julius Erving, basketball player
  • Julius Sturgis, pretzel baker
  • Lee Iacocca, auto executive
  • Louisa May Alcott, novelist
  • Lucretia Mott, anti-slavery and Women's Rights Leader
  • Marian Anderson, contralto
  • Mario Lanza, actor and singer
  • Martha Graham, choreographer
  • Michael Keaton, actor
  • Milton Hershey, philanthropist, businessman
  • Molly Pitcher, Revolutionary War heroine
  • Perry Como, singer
  • Pearl Buck, author
  • Reggie Jackson, baseball player
  • Robert E. Peary, explorer
  • Robert Fulton, inventor
  • Robinson Jeffers, poet
  • S. S. Kresge, merchant
  • Samuel Barber, composer
  • Stephanie Louise Kwolek, inventor
  • Stephen Foster, composer
  • Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, author
  • Tom Mix, actor
  • Tommy Dorsey, bandleader
  • W. C. Fields, comedian
  • Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor
  • Walter E. Diemer, inventor
  • William Edward Hanford, inventor
  • William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania
  • Winfield Scott Hancock, Civil War general
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