List of Famous people born in Pennsylvania, United States of America
Dennis Green
Dennis Earl Green was an American football coach. During his National Football League (NFL) career, Green coached the Minnesota Vikings for 10 seasons. He coached the Vikings to eight playoff appearances in nine years, despite having seven different starting quarterbacks in those postseasons. He was posthumously inducted into the Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor in 2018.
Tatiana
Tatiana Palacios Chapa, better known as simply Tatiana, is an American-born Mexican singer and actress based in Monterrey, Mexico. She has been nominated for five Latin Grammy Awards for Best Children's Album and has sold over 9-million records.
Chris Matthews
Christopher John Matthews is an American retired political commentator, talk show host, and author. Matthews hosted his weeknight hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, on America's Talking and later on MSNBC, from 1997 until March 2, 2020, when he announced that he was retiring following an accusation that he had made inappropriate comments to a Hardball guest four years earlier. On his final show, he stated: "The younger generation's out there ready to take the reins. We see them in politics, in media, in fighting for their causes. They're improving the workplace."
Bernard Hopkins
Bernard Humphrey Hopkins Jr. is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2016. He is one of the most successful boxers of the past three decades, having held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the undisputed middleweight title from 2001 to 2005, and the lineal light heavyweight title from 2011 to 2012.
Benjamin Guggenheim
Benjamin Guggenheim was an American businessman. He died aboard RMS Titanic when the ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. His body was never recovered.
Chubby Cox
John Arthur "Chubby" Cox III is an American former professional basketball player.
Bruce Castor
Bruce L. Castor Jr. is an American lawyer and retired Republican politician from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was appointed as the first Solicitor General of Pennsylvania on March 21, 2016, and First Deputy Attorney General on July 20, 2016, effectively merging the two positions and making him next in line of succession to become attorney general. Castor became acting attorney general less than a month later.
Shawn Oakman
Shawn Michael Oakman is an American football defensive end who is a free agent. He played college football for the Baylor Bears. Oakman has been a member of the Triangle Torch and the West Virginia Roughriders of the American Arena League, the Bismarck Bucks of Champions Indoor Football, and the Los Angeles Wildcats of the XFL.
Archie Miller
Ryan Joseph "Archie" Miller is an American college basketball coach and former player. He currently coaches the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team. Miller played point guard for North Carolina State from 1998 to 2002 and ended his career among the school's leaders in free-throw percentage, three-point field goal percentage, and total three-pointers. From 2011 to 2017 he was the head coach for the University of Dayton and won the conference regular season championship in 2016 and 2017. Miller was named the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year in 2017.
Gia Carangi
Gia Marie Carangi was an American model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Considered by many to be the first supermodel, she was featured on the cover of fashion magazines, including multiple editions of Vogue and Cosmopolitan, and appeared in advertising campaigns for such fashion houses as Armani, Christian Dior, Versace, and Yves Saint Laurent.