List of Famous people born in Pennsylvania, United States of America
Lucy Lee Flippin
Lucy Lee Flippin is a retired American film and television actress best known for her performance as Eliza Jane Wilder on the TV series Little House on the Prairie.
Michael Francis Burbidge
Michael Francis Burbidge is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who is the current Bishop of Arlington. On October 4, 2016, Burbidge was appointed as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Arlington. He was installed on December 6, 2016.
William Cameron
William Larimer, Jr.
William Larimer Jr. was an American businessman, investor, militia general, and politician who is best known as the founder of Denver, Colorado, in 1858. Larimer often went by "General Larimer", having acquired the title in the Pennsylvania Militia.
Joe Madureira
Joe Madureira is a comic book writer/artist and game developer, best known for his work on Darksiders, Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Men and his creator-owned comic book Battle Chasers. He is the founder of video game development companies Vigil Games and Airship Syndicate.
Paul Cameron
Paul Drummond Cameron is an American psychologist. Cameron has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-gay extremist. While employed at various institutions, including the University of Nebraska, he conducted research on passive smoking, but he is best known today for his claims about homosexuality. After a successful 1982 campaign against a gay rights proposal in Lincoln, Nebraska, he established the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality (ISIS), now known as the Family Research Institute (FRI). As FRI's chairman, Cameron has written contentious papers asserting associations between homosexuality and the perpetration of child sexual abuse and reduced life expectancy. These have been heavily criticized by others in the field.
Barbara Barrett
Barbara McConnell Barrett is an American businesswoman, attorney and diplomat who served as the United States Secretary of the Air Force from 2019 to 2021. She is also an instrument-rated pilot, and cattle and bison rancher.
Rembert Weakland
Rembert George Weakland is an American Benedictine monk who served as Archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 to 2002. Shortly before his mandatory retirement at the age of 75, it was revealed in the press that Weakland had conducted a sexual relationship with a male associate, Paul Marcoux, several decades before, and that the diocese had paid $450,000 to Marcoux to settle litigation arising from the affair.
Sidney Kimmel
Sidney J. Kimmel is an American businessman, philanthropist, and film producer. He is ranked number 655 in the Forbes list of the richest people alive in 2010.
Septimus Winner
Septimus Winner was an American songwriter of the 19th century. He used his own name, and also the pseudonyms Alice Hawthorne, Percy Guyer, Mark Mason, Apsley Street, and Paul Stenton. He was also a teacher, performer, and music publisher.