Notable People from Pennsylvania

Jack J. Clark

American actor and filmmaker (1879-1947)

H. T. Lowe-Porter

American translator (1876-1963)

Annie Funk

American missionary (1874–1912)

Henry Shoemaker Conard

U.S. botanist & bryologist (1874–1971)

Helen Raymond

American actress (1878-1965)

Emma Bell Clifton

American screenwriter (1874-1922)

C. Yarnall Abbott

American photographer and painter (1870-1938)

William Parke

American film director (1873-1941)

Hannah Clothier Hull

American clubwoman, feminist and pacifist

David Lawrence

American publisher (1888-1973)

Spencer Wishart

American racecar driver (1889–1914)

Louis Mitchell

American musician (1885–1957)

Frederick J. Jackson

American screenwriter and playwright

Richard A. Rowland

American film producer and studio executive (1880-1947)

Susan Delano McKelvey

American botanist (1883-1964)

Florence Moore

American actress (1886-1935)

Walter Woods

American screenwriter (1881–1942)

Harold Knerr

cartoonist (1882–1949)

Margaret Irving

American actress (1898-1988)

Alexander R. Bolling

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

David Gaul

American swimmer (1886–1962)

Henry Cadbury

Quaker, peace activist, biblical scholar, historian (1883–1974)

E. Newton Harvey

American zoologist

Lillian Harmer

American actress (1883-1946)

Margaret Reed Lewis

American cell biologist

James W. Mott

American politician (1883-1945)

Russ Brown

American actor (1892–1964)

Alfred Irving Hallowell

American anthropologist (1892–1974)

Jimmy Dykes

American baseball player, coach, manager (1896-1976)

George Grant Blaisdell

Inventor of the Zippo lighter (1895–1978)

Earl G. Harrison

American attorney, academician, and public servant (1899-1955), U.S. representative on the Intergovernmental Commission on Refugees in 1945 and producer of the "Harrison Report"

Claude Beck

American cardiac surgeon and professor of cardiovascular surgery (1894–1971)

Lew Tendler

American boxer (1898-1970)

Ethelind Terry

American stage and film actress (1899-1984)

Cumberland Posey

American basketball and baseball player

Earl Carroll

American theatrical producer, director, songwriter and composer (1893-1948)

Olga Printzlau

American screenwriter (1891-1962)

Elmer J. Holland

American politician

Alfred Raymond Bellinger

American archaeologist and numismatist

Mildred Trotter

American anthropologist

Archer Taylor

American folklorist (1890–1973)

John S. Fine

American politician (1893–1978)

David Widder

American mathematician (1898–1990)

John Quincy Stewart

American astrophysicist (1894-1972)

Emilio Núñez Portuondo

Cuban politician (1898-1978)

Harry Revier

film director (1890–1957)

James Edward Van Zandt

politician and United States Navy officer (1898–1986)

Stephen Stanislaus Woznicki

American Roman Catholic bishop (1894–1968)

Kenneth Thomson

American actor (1899-1967)

Sally Starr

American actress