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

Simon Snyder was the third Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, serving three terms from 1808 to 1817. He led the state through the War of 1812.

George W. Barbier was an American stage and film actor who appeared in 88 films.

John Wilson Shaffer was an American politician and businessman who served as the 7th Governor of Utah Territory.

George Catlin was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. He also researched and documented their views on mouth breathing.

Samuel Grosvenor Wood was an American film director and producer, who is best known for having directed such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Pride of the Yankees, and for his uncredited work directing parts of Gone with the Wind. He was also involved in a few acting and writing projects.

Florence Laura Goodenough was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who studied child intelligence and various problems in the field of child development. She was president of the Society for Research in Child Development from 1946-1947. She is best known for published book The Measurement of Intelligence, where she introduced the Goodenough Draw-A-Man test to assess intelligence in young children through nonverbal measurement. She is noted for developing the Minnesota Preschool Scale. In 1931 she published two notable books titled Experimental Child Study and Anger in Young Children which analyzed the methods used in evaluating children. She wrote the Handbook of Child Psychology in 1933, becoming the first known psychologist to critique ratio I.Q.

Cecilia Beaux was an American society portraitist, whose subjects included First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.

Charles Humphreys was a miller and statesman from Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Patrick Henry Wade, known professionally as Adam Wade, is an American singer, musician and actor. Wade is perhaps most known for his stint as the host of the CBS game show Musical Chairs (1975), which noted him as the first Black game show host.

Andrew Thomas "Tom" Kearney (1892–1962) was the founder of Kearney, one of the world's oldest management consulting firms.