List of Famous people born in Pennsylvania, United States of America
George Howard
George Howard was an American smooth jazz saxophonist.
Jack Wall
Jack Wall is an American video game music composer. He has worked on video game music for over 20 games including the Myst franchise, Splinter Cell, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and Call of Duty. Wall earned a degree in civil engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and, after a brief stint working in civil engineering, transitioned into music production. He worked with musicians such as John Cale, David Byrne, and Patti Smith, and, after performing increasingly complex production and sound engineering tasks, moved into music composition in 1995.
Jules Bass
Jules Bass is an American director, producer, composer, lyricist, and author. Until 1960, he worked at a New York advertising agency, and then co-founded a film production company in New York. He joined ASCAP in 1963 and collaborated musically with Edward Thomas and James Polack.
Harry Elfont
Harry Elfont is an American screenwriter and film director.
Francis X. DiLorenzo
Francis Xavier DiLorenzo was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the bishop of Richmond, Virginia, from 2004 until his death in 2017.
Harvey Silver
Helen Broderick
Helen Broderick was an American film and stage actress known for her comic roles, especially as a wisecracking sidekick.
Henry Marie Brackenridge
Henry Marie Brackenridge was an American writer, lawyer, judge, superintendent, and U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania.
John Sylvester White
John Sylvester White Jr. was an American actor.
Herman Stein
Herman Stein was an American composer who wrote music for many of the 1950s science-fiction and horror films from Universal Studios. "Herman Stein was one of the architects of the sound of 1950s science-fiction movies." Stein retired in the 1970s and died of congestive heart failure in his home in Los Angeles at the age of 91.