Notable People from Pennsylvania

Merrill Cook

United States Congressman from Utah

Larry Miller

American basketball player

Robert W. Edgar

American politician (1943–2013)

Walter Charles

American actor (1945-2023)

Joseph P. McFadden

Catholic bishop (1947-2013)

Joey Covington

American drummer (1945–2013)

B. Smith

American restaurateur, model, author, businesswoman, and television host

Barbara Neely

American novelist

Jim Baen

American publisher and editor (1943-2006)

Ralph J. Cicerone

American academic administrator (1943-2016)

James Mtume

American jazz and R&B musician, songwriter, record producer, activist and radio personality (1947–2022)

Tanya Berezin

actress

R. L. Ryan

American actor (1946-1991)

Allan Sekula

American photographer (1951–2013)

Steven Plaut

Israeli economist, academic and writer

Stephen W. Burns

American actor (1954-1990)

Bebe Moore Campbell

American novelist, journalist, teacher (1950–2006)

Smokin' Joe Kubek

American electric blues guitarist (1956–2015)

Jim Beard

American jazz pianist (1960–2024)

Jeff LaBar

American rock guitarist

Robin Stille

American actress (1961–1996)

Hank Gathers

American basketball player (1967–1990)

Lari Ketner

American basketball player

Kenny Easterday

American amputee (1973-2016)

Sean Costello

American blues musician (1979-2008)

Jimmy Wopo

American rapper (1997-2018)

Pat Cummings

American basketball player (1956–2012)

George Howard

American jazz saxophonist (1956–1988)

John Sergeant

American politician (1779-1852)

Francis Johnson

African American musician and composer (1792–1844)

Thomas Butler

American politician (1785-1847)

Andrew Ellicott

American surveyor (1754–1820)

John Hesselius

American artist (1728-1778)

Robert M. Patterson

Director of the US Mint (1787-1854)

William Franklin

American soldier, attorney, and colonial administrator

John M. Snowden

American mayor (1776-1845)

Joshua Humphreys

American shipbuilder

John Andrew Shulze

Sixth Governor of Pennsylvania (1774-1852)

William Smith

American politician and representative of the fourth congressional district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives (1728-1814)

Christopher Rankin

American politician (1788-1826)

David Emanuel

American governor of Georgia (1744-1808)

Joseph Hemphill

American politician (1770-1842)

Joseph Hopkinson

American politician, Representative from Pennsylvania and United States District Judge (1770-1842)

Samuel Maclay

American politician (1741–1811)

James Kinsey

American politician

William Addams

American politician

Jenkin Whiteside

American politician (1772-1822)

Alexander McNair

American politician (1775–1826)