List of Famous people born in Pennsylvania, United States of America
Natalie Moorhead
Natalie Moorhead was an American film and stage actress of the 1920s and 1930s. She was known for distinctive platinum blond hair.
Edward Norris
Septimus Edward Norris was an American film actor.
Emma Vyssotsky
Emma Vyssotsky was an American astronomer.
Franklin D. Roosevelt III
Franklin Delano Roosevelt III is an American retired economist and academic. Through his father, he is a grandson of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and through his mother, he is related to the prominent du Pont family.
Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Chudley Alexander was an American author of more than forty books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults. Over his seven-decade career, Alexander wrote 48 books, and his work has been translated into 20 languages. His most famous work is The Chronicles of Prydain, a series of five high fantasy novels whose conclusion, The High King, was awarded the 1969 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. He won U.S. National Book Awards in 1971 and 1982.
Sol Kaplan
Sol Kaplan was an American film and television music composer.
Barry B. Longyear
Barry B. Longyear is an American author who resides in New Sharon, Maine.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was an American educator. Along with Laurent Clerc and Mason Cogswell, he co-founded the first permanent institution for the education of the deaf in North America, and he became its first principal. When opened on April 15, 1817, it was called the "Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons," but it is now known as the American School for the Deaf.
Bil Keane
William Aloysius Keane, better known as Bil Keane, was an American cartoonist most notable for his work on the newspaper comic The Family Circus. It began in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane.
Dick Groat
Richard Morrow Groat is a former two-sport athlete best known as a shortstop in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for four National League (NL) teams and was named the league's Most Valuable Player in 1960 after winning the batting title with a .325 average for the World Champion Pirates. From 1956 to 1962, he teamed with second baseman Bill Mazeroski to give Pittsburgh one of the game's strongest keystone combinations.