Famous People from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Anderson, Marian

  The Black contralto who sang at the Lincoln Memorial

• Bacon, Kevin

  Star of the films Footloose and Hollow Man

• Barris, Chuck

  Host of TV's The Gong Show

• Berry, Albert

  The first man to parachute out of an airplane

• Bluford, Guion

  The first Black American to fly in space

• Bradley, Ed

  The black guy with the earring on 60 Minutes

• Bryant, Kobe

  The retired LA Lakers superstar who died in a helicopter crash

• Byck, Samuel

  The guy who plotted to assassinate President Nixon with a plane

• Chamberlain, Wilt

  The NBA legend who scored 100 points in a game in 1962

• Chomsky, Noam

  Creator of the theory of generative grammar

• Cooper, Bradley

  The star of the 2018 melodrama A Star Is Born

• Cosby, Bill

  The controversial star of the hit 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show

• Crumb, R.

  Creator of Mr. Natural and "Keep on Truckin'"

• Daniels, Lee

  The director of Precious

• Darren, James

  Moondoggie the surfer in Gidget

• Dennings, Kat

   Norah in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

• Eakins, Thomas

  American realist painter who did Max Schmitt in a Single Scull

• Eve of Destruction

  "The First Lady" of Ruff Ryders Entertainment

• Gallner, Kyle

  The icky "Beaver" on TV's Veronica Mars

• Gere, Richard

  The star of An Officer and A Gentleman

• Getz, Stan

  The jazz saxophonist who did "The Girl From Ipanema"

• Haig, Alexander

  Four-star general and U.S. Secretary of State, 1981-82

• Harris, Barbara C.

  The world's first female Anglican bishop

• Hart, Kevin

  The comedian in 'Let Me Explain' and 'Ride Along'

• Jackson, Lisa P.

  Administrator of the EPA, 2009-2013

• Keane, Bil

   The creator of the comic strip 'The Family Circus'

• Kelly, Grace

  The actress who became Princess of Monaco

• Klugman, Jack

  Oscar Madison in TV's The Odd Couple

• Locke, Alain LeRoy

  The African-American editor called "the father of the Harlem Renaissance"

• Lopes, Lisa

  Rapper/singer for the group TLC

• McClellan, George

  The Civil War general Lincoln replaced in 1862

• McKay, Adam

  The director of Anchorman and The Big Short

• Mead, Margaret

  The anthropologist author of Coming of Age in Samoa

• Mitchell, Silas Weir

  The lycanthropic Monroe from TV's Grimm

• Monaco, Kelly

  Samantha "Sam" McCall on General Hospital

• Narin, Francis

  Scientometrics pioneer who started CHI Research

• Odets, Clifford

  The author of the play Waiting for Lefty

• Omarr, Sydney

  Syndicated horoscope columnist from Los Angeles

• Parrish, Maxfield

  1920s painter of luminous fantasy posters

• Ross, Betsy

  The creator of the American flag

• Smith, Will

  Popular rapper and star of the film Men in Black

• Tyner, McCoy

  The piano player in The John Coltrane Quartet in the 1960s

• Wright, Jeremiah

  Estranged former pastor of Barack Obama

See also: Born in Pennsylvania