Biographical Records
Notable People from Pennsylvania
7,577 notable figures born in Pennsylvania, showing page 50 of 152, ranked by historical prominence.
Richard B. Mellon
1858 – 1933
banker
Francis Xavier Dercum
1856 – 1931
neurologist
George Bradley
1852 – 1931
baseball player
Mary Hiester Reid
1854 – 1921
painterteacher
Augustin Joseph Schulte
1856 – 1937
Catholic priest
John Adam Ryder
1852 – 1895
ichthyologistzoologist
Jack Rowe
1856 – 1911
baseball player
Minnie Palmer
1857 – 1936
stage actoractor
Robert E. Evans
1856 – 1925
politicianlawyerjudge
Belle Archer
1859 – 1900
stage actoractor
Charlotte Porter
1859 – 1942
literary historianjournalisttranslator
John Drew Jr.
1853 – 1927
stage actoractor
John George Alexander Leishman
1857 – 1924
diplomat
Aaron Ward
1851 – 1918
military officer
Mary M. Cohen
1854 – 1911
wood carverwriter
Frank W. Blackmar
1854 – 1931
sociologistuniversity teacherpedagogue
Franklin Menges
1858 – 1956
politician
Evan John Jones
1872 – 1952
politicianlawyer
Lavinia L. Dock
1858 – 1956
suffragistmedical writerauthor
Katherine M. Cohen
1859 – 1914
sculptorpainterartist
Henry Pancoast
1875 – 1939
radiologistuniversity teacher
J. Scott Wolff
1878 – 1958
politicianlawyerdentist
E. W. Marland
1874 – 1941
governorpoliticianbusinessperson
Rube Ferns
1873 – 1952
boxer
Amy Williams
1872 – 2000
tennis player
Danny Murphy
1876 – 1955
baseball player
Edward Cooper
1873 – 1928
politicianlawyer
William P. Remington
1879 – 1963
athletics competitorAnglican priest
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.
1874 – 1948
geographermilitary officerwriter
Arthur Byron Coble
1878 – 1966
university teachermathematician
Bruce Foster Sterling
1870 – 1945
politicianlawyer
A. S. W. Rosenbach
1876 – 1952
antiquarian booksellerantiquarian seller
Edward Childs Carpenter
1872 – 1950
directorplaywrightwriter
John de Saulles
1878 – 1917
real-estate agentactor
Margaret G. Hays
1874 – 1925
comics writerillustratorpoet
James Alexander Robertson
1873 – 1939
archivisttranslatorhistorian
Clarence Stanley Fisher
1876 – 1941
anthropologistarchaeologist
Clark Moses Leiblee
1877 – 1917
athletics competitor
Bessie Clayton
1875 – 1948
Ziegfeld girlballet dancer
Robert Hood Bowers
1877 – 1941
conductorcomposer
Olive Swezy
1878 – 1963
phycologistzoologist
Edith Corse Evans
1875 – 1912
Chester H. Gross
1888 – 1973
real-estate agentfarmerpolitician
Childs Frick
1883 – 1965
patron of the artscollectorpaleontologist
Clarence Dennis Coughlin
1883 – 1946
bankerpoliticianlawyer
Doc Winner
1885 – 1956
comics artist
Joe Burke
1884 – 1950
songwriterpianistcomposer
Frank Laubach
1884 – 1970
mysticmissionary
John Kelso Ormond
1886 – 1978
urologist
John J. Phillips
1887 – 1983
rancherbusiness analystpolitician