List of Famous people born in Pennsylvania, United States of America

Albert Aarons was an American jazz trumpeter.

John Shaffer Phipps was an American lawyer and businessman who was an heir to the Phipps family fortune and a shareholder of his father-in-law's Grace Shipping Lines. He was a director of the Hanover Bank, U.S. Steel Corp. and W. R. Grace & Co.

Lee James Jude Capallero, known professionally as Lee Ving, is an American musician and actor.

Elizabeth Wharton "Bessie" Drexel Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baroness Decies, was an American author and Manhattan socialite.

John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define formal language syntax. He later did research into the function-level programming paradigm, presenting his findings in his influential 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?

Charles “Honi” Coles was an American actor and tap dancer. He was best known for his role as Tito Suarez in the film Dirty Dancing.

Nancy Jane Meyers is an American filmmaker. She wrote, produced, and directed numerous critically and commercially successful romantic comedy films, including The Parent Trap (1998), What Women Want (2000), Something's Gotta Give (2003), The Holiday (2006), It's Complicated (2009), and The Intern (2015).

Peter Shub is an American actor, clown and vaudeville show director who moved to Europe in the 1980s. He has worked with a number of distinguished international organizations and artists and went on tour with well known circuses such as the German Circus Roncalli, the Big Apple from New York and the Canadian Cirque du Soleil. He has won a Silver Clown of Monte Carlo award and went on tour with his own show as well as with other vaudeville shows throughout Europe. He has been called a "legend", a "modern master", and a "fixture of the German Varieté world."

Ava Lowle Willing was an American socialite. She was the first wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV and later married Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale.

Plato Cacheris was an American lawyer. He was known as one of Washington’s premier defense lawyers, particularly prominent in political scandals.