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

John Kline

John Paul Kline
First Name John
Last Name Kline
Born on September 6, 1947 (age 78)

John Paul Kline Jr. is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota's 2nd congressional district from 2003 to 2017. The district includes most of the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities, including Apple Valley, Inver Grove Heights, Burnsville, Eagan, Lakeville, Northfield, Shakopee, Prior Lake, and New Prague. A member of the Republican Party, Kline served as the Chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Kline retired from Congress at the end of his term in January 2017.

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Don Taylor

Donald Richie Taylor
First Name Don
Last Name Taylor
Born on December 13, 1920
Died on December 29, 1998 (aged 78)

Donald Richie Taylor was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including the 1948 film noir The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17. He later turned to directing films such as Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Tom Sawyer (1973), and Damien: Omen II (1978).

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William Bingham

First Name William
Last Name Bingham
Born on April 8, 1752
Died on February 6, 1804 (aged 51)

William Bingham was an American statesman from Philadelphia. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and served in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801.

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Lyle Talbot

Lisle Henderson
First Name Lyle
Last Name Talbot
Born on February 8, 1902
Died on March 2, 1996 (aged 94)

Lyle Talbot was an American actor on stage and screen, known for his career in film from 1931 to 1960 and for his appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s. He played Ozzie Nelson's friend and neighbor, Joe Randolph, for ten years in the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

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Jeremiah S. Black

First Name Jeremiah
Last Name Black
Born on January 10, 1810
Died on August 19, 1883 (aged 73)

Jeremiah Sullivan Black was an American statesman and lawyer. He served as a justice on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1851–1857) and as the Court's Chief Justice (1851–1854). He also served in the Cabinet of President James Buchanan, first as Attorney General (1857–1860), and then Secretary of State (1860–1861).

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Gary Becker

First Name Gary
Last Name Becker
Born on December 2, 1930
Died on May 3, 2014 (aged 83)

Gary Stanley Becker was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.

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Imogene Coca

First Name Imogene
Born on November 18, 1908
Died on June 2, 2001 (aged 92)

Imogene Coca was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows. Starting out in vaudeville as a child acrobat, she studied ballet and wished to have a serious career in music and dance, graduating to decades of stage musical revues, cabaret and summer stock. In her 40s, she began a celebrated career as a comedian on television, starring in six series and guest starring on successful television programs from the 1940s to the 1990s.

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J. Presper Eckert

First Name J.
Last Name Eckert
Born on April 9, 1919
Died on June 3, 1995 (aged 76)

John Adam Presper Eckert Jr. was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in computing topics, founded the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, and designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay line memory.

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Albert Heath

First Name Albert
Last Name Heath
Born on May 31, 1935 (age 91)

Albert "Tootie" Heath is an American jazz hard bop drummer, the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and the double-bassist Percy Heath.

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Richard Levinson

First Name Richard
Last Name Levinson
Born on August 7, 1934
Died on March 12, 1987 (aged 52)

Richard Levinson was an American screenwriter and producer who often worked in collaboration with William Link.

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