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

Alexander Mitchell Palmer, was an American attorney and politician who served as the 50th United States attorney general from 1919 to 1921. He is best known for overseeing the Palmer Raids during the Red Scare of 1919–20.

John Wray was an American character actor of stage and screen.

George Ord was an American zoologist who specialized in North American ornithology and mammology. Based in part on specimens collected by Lewis and Clark in the North American interior, Ord's article "Zoology of North America" (1815), which was published in the second American edition of William Guthrie's Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar, has been recognized as the "first systematic zoology of America by an American".

Thomas Morris was an American politician from Ohio who served in the United States Senate and was a member of the Democratic Party. In the 1844 presidential election, he was the vice presidential nominee of the anti-slavery Liberty Party.

William Williams was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.

Elijah E. Myers was a leading architect of government buildings in the latter half of the 19th century, and the only architect to design the capitol buildings of three U.S. states, the Michigan State Capitol, the Texas State Capitol, and the Colorado State Capitol. He also designed buildings in Mexico and Brazil. Myers' designs favored Victorian Gothic and Neo-Classical styles, but he worked in other styles as well.

Humphry Marshall was an American botanist and plant dealer.

Samuel Laird Cregar was an American stage and film actor. Cregar was best known for his villainous performances in films such as I Wake Up Screaming (1941) and The Lodger (1944).

Joseph Inslee Anderson was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1797 to 1815, and later as the First Comptroller of the United States Treasury. He also served as one of three judges of the Southwest Territory in the 1790s, and was a delegate to the Tennessee state constitutional convention in 1796.

Charles Edward Sheetz is an American animation director and producer best known for his work on The Simpsons. He was the producer on What's New, Scooby-Doo?, and the director of the TV series Recess. He has also done work on Bobby's World, Rocko's Modern Life, King of the Hill, The Critic, Fresh Beat Band of Spies, directed the pilot episode Welcome to Eltingville, and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle; in addition to directing the Drawn Together episode "Captain Hero's Marriage Pact". Sheetz graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. He is currently a director on the series Duncanville.