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

Thomas Wharton Jr. was a Pennsylvania merchant and politician of the Revolutionary era. He served as the first President of Pennsylvania following the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and he started the history of the United States of America.

William Alexis Stone was the 22nd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1899 to 1903.

John Treadway Rich was a U.S. Representative from and the 23rd Governor of the US state of Michigan.

Edward Scofield was an American lumberman and politician who served as the 19th Governor of Wisconsin.

Alexander McNair was an American frontiersman and politician. He was the first Governor of Missouri from its entry as a state in 1820, until 1824.

Bruce Wayne Campbell, known by his stage name Jobriath, was an American rock musician and actor. He was the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, and one of the first internationally famous musicians to die of AIDS.

Robert Kingston Scott was an American Republican politician, the 74th Governor of South Carolina, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In 1891 he built a Queen Anne Italianate Victorian home in Napoleon, Ohio and lived there until his death in 1900. It still stands to this day in Napoleon on the corner of W. Clinton Street and Haley Ave.

Samuel Nicholas was the first officer commissioned in the United States Continental Marines and by tradition is considered to be the first Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Zachary "Zach" Craig Lutz is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball and the Doosan Bears of the Korea Baseball Organization.