Biographical Records
Notable People from Delaware
345 notable figures born in Delaware, showing page 5 of 7, ranked by historical prominence.
Thomas Robinson
1800 – 1843
politicianlawyer
Bill McGowan
1896 – 1954
baseball playerbaseball umpire
Stephen Bruton
1948 – 2009
film actorlyricisttelevision actor
John A. Nicholson
1827 – 1906
politicianlawyer
Daniel Ullman
1810 – 1892
military officerlawyer
Thomas Culbreth
1786 – 1843
politicianlawyerjudge
William G. Whiteley
1819 – 1886
politicianlawyerjudge
James P. Heath
1777 – 1854
politician
Caleb S. Layton
1798 – 1882
politicianlawyerjudge
Eugene Reybold
1884 – 1961
military engineer
Henry A. Houston
1847 – 1925
politician
Samuel Miller
1769 – 1850
Protestant theologianuniversity teachertheologian
Samuel Sullivan
1773 – 1853
ceramicisttreasurerpolitician
Bart Chilton
1960 – 2019
television presenter
George David Cummins
1822 – 1876
Anglican priest
John B. Penington
1825 – 1902
politicianlawyer
Kathleen Cassello
1958 – 2017
opera singer
Isaac J. MacCollum
1889 – 1968
politicianphysician
James R. Lofland
1823 – 1894
politicianlawyer
Isaac Griffin
1756 – 1827
politician
George Morgan
1854 – 1936
film directoractorscreenwriter
George Truitt
1756 – 1818
politician
John Walter Bratton
1867 – 1947
composeractor
Emma Louise Ashford
1850 – 1930
organistcomposer
John Biggs Jr.
1895 – 1979
judge
James Garretson
1829 – 1895
dentist
William Gibson Arlington Bonwill
1833 – 1899
dentist
John H. Knight
1836 – 1903
lawyer
Henry R. Horsey
1924 – 2016
lawyerjudge
Peggy Etter
1943 – 1992
chemist
Bill Higgins
1859 – 1919
baseball player
George Fisher
1855 – 1937
baseball player
Arthur Francis Buddington
1890 – 1980
geologistuniversity teacher
William Romaine Newbold
1865 – 1926
cryptographerphilosophertheologian
Green Peyton Wertenbaker
1907 – 1968
science fiction writerjournalistwriter
Florence Bayard Hilles
1865 – 1954
suffragist
Alfred Wells
1814 – 1867
journalistpoliticianlawyer
Alfred Irénée du Pont
1864 – 1935
entrepreneurcomposer
George Read, Jr.
1765 – 1836
politicianlawyer
Richard Chichester du Pont
1911 – 1943
aircraft pilotbusinessperson
Alexis I. du Pont Bayard
1918 – 1985
politicianlawyer
Chris Short
1937 – 1991
baseball player
John Read
1769 – 1854
bankerpoliticianlawyer
Samuel Davies
1723 – 1761
hymnwriterpoetpriest
Emily Bissell
1861 – 1948
social activistsocial worker
Dottie Leonard Miller
1945 – 2024
singer
Collins J. Seitz
1914 – 1998
lawyerjudge
Henry Seidel Canby
1878 – 1961
non-fiction writerliterary criticuniversity teacher
Kensey Johns, Jr.
1791 – 1857
politicianlawyerjudge
James M. Broom
1776 – 1850
politicianlawyer