Notable People from Pennsylvania

Jacob Hibshman

American politician (1772-1852)

Frank E. Buttolph

American collector known for initiating the Miss Frank E. Buttolph American Menu Collection, 1851-1930 at New York Public Library in 1899. (1844–1924)

Mike McGeary

Major League Baseball player

James Bernard Reilly

American politician (1845-1924)

Steve Courson

Player of American football (1955-2005)

J. Edward Addicks

American political candidate (1841-1919)

Isaac Smith

United States Representative from Pennsylvania

James McGranahan

American hymnwriter (1840–1907)

Hosea H. Rockwell

American politician (1840-1918)

Harry Schafer

Major League Baseball third baseman (1846–1935)

Hamilton Disston

American industrialist and real-estate developer

George Wilkins Guthrie

American diplomat

Celestine Tate Harrington

American musician

Chalmers Alford

American jazz guitarist (1955-2008)

George W. Cutter

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient

Charles R. Doering

American mathematician

David Douglas Wagener

American politician

Daniel F. Clark

American politician

Dave Hoover

American comic book artist and animator (1955-2011)

George Snyder

American baseball player

David Logan

American football player (1956-1999)

Roger Miller

American baseball player (1954–1993)

George Deardorff McCreary

American congressman for Pennsylvania (1846-1915)

Daniel McCook

Union Army officer

Stacey Bentley

American bodybuilder

George Bretz

American photographer (1842-1895)

Catherine A. Janvier

American artist, writer and translator (1841–1922)

C. E. Forsyth

American politician

J. W. Morgan

American politician

John Peter Smith

American mayor

Norman von Heldreich Farquhar

United States Navy admiral (1840–1907)

Philip Fishbourne Wharton

American painter (1841-1880)

Harry Arundel

Major League Baseball player

Alexander Montgomery Thackara

United States Army officer (1848–1937)

Clay MacCauley

American minister and missionary (1843–1925)

John W. Comfort

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

Daniel Hiester

American politician (1774-1834)

Miriam Engelberg

American comics artist (1958–2006)

Nathan Cook

American actor (1950–1988)

Charles Brown

American soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor

Benjamin Matthias Nead

American historian (1847–1923)

Wilmon W. Blackmar

Medal of Honor recipient and Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic (1841-1905)

William G. Thompson

Union Army officer and mayor of Detroit, Michigan

Walter Steding

American artist, musician and actor (1950–2025)

Moses Hampton Todd

American lawyer (1845-1935)

Dean Young

American poet

Herbert T. Ames

American politician (1844-1936)

Dennis Franks

American football player

Dexter Wansel

American musician

Andy Rymarczuk

American soccer player (1951-1997)