List of Famous people born in Pennsylvania, United States of America
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter is an American singer and actress. Carpenter made her acting debut with an appearance in the crime series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and first received recognition for her recurring role as the young version of Chloe Goodwin in the television series The Goodwin Games. She then had her breakthrough starring as Maya Hart in the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World from 2014 to 2017. Carpenter has starred in the feature films Horns (2013) and The Hate U Give (2018) and starred as Jenny in the Disney Channel Original Movie Adventures in Babysitting (2016). As a voice actress, she had a recurring role as Princess Vivian in the Disney Channel animated series Sofia the First from 2013 to 2018, and she voiced Melissa Chase on the Disney XD animated series Milo Murphy's Law from 2016 to 2019.
Patti LaBelle
Patti LaBelle is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Following the group's name change to Labelle in the 1970s, they released the iconic disco song "Lady Marmalade" which later was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. As a result, the group later became the first African-American vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and they became the first pop group to play at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Joe Maddon
Joseph John Maddon Jr. is an American professional baseball manager for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). Previously, he managed the Tampa Bay Rays and the Chicago Cubs.
Aileen Quinn
Aileen Quinn is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is best known for her role as Annie Bennett Warbucks in Annie.
Terrelle Pryor
Terrelle Pryor Sr. is an American football wide receiver who is a free agent. Considered the most recruited high school football-basketball athlete in southwestern Pennsylvania since Tom Clements, Pryor was widely regarded as the nation's top football prospect of 2008 and was named "Junior of the Year" by Rivals.com. Pryor had originally hoped to be a two-sport athlete, as he was also one of the nation's most recruited high school basketball players, but he later chose football.
Mark T. Esper
Mark Thomas Esper is an American politician, business executive, and defense strategist who served as the 27th United States secretary of defense from July 2019 to November 2020 and the 23rd secretary of the Army from November 2017 to July 2019.
Joey Coyle
Joseph William Coyle was an unemployed longshoreman in Philadelphia who, in February 1981, found $1.2 million in the street, after it had fallen out of the back of an armored car, and kept it. His story was made into the 1993 film Money for Nothing, starring John Cusack, as well as a 2002 book by Mark Bowden, Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million.
Mary Jane Bowes
Mary Jane Bowes is a judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. She was elected in 2001 and began her term in January 2002.
John Laurinaitis
John Hodger Laurinaitis is an American professional wrestling personality, producer and retired professional wrestler currently signed to WWE as a producer.
Jaeden Martell
Jaeden Martell is an American actor. He has played the role of Bill Denbrough in the 2017 and 2019 film adaptations of the Stephen King novel It. He has also appeared in the mystery film Knives Out (2019) and starred in the miniseries Defending Jacob (2020).