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

Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Julia (1977), and Ordinary People (1980). Sargent's other prominent works include screenplays of films like The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970), Paper Moon (1973), Nuts (1987), White Palace (1990), What About Bob? (1991), Unfaithful (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

Jihad Ward is an American football defensive end for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Illinois.

Claudette Nevins was an American stage, film and television actress.

Kailyn Rae Lowry is an American reality television personality, author, and public speaker. Born in Honesdale, PA and raised in Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, she received public attention after being cast in the second season of reality television series 16 and Pregnant in 2010, which documented the pregnancies and first months of motherhood for several young women. In late 2010 she was cast in the spin-off series Teen Mom 2, along with Jenelle Eason, Chelsea DeBoer and Leah Messer, and has appeared in each of its eight seasons. Briana DeJesus, who has also dated Lowry's ex-husband, Javi, later joined the cast.

Joseph T. Angelo (1896–1978) of Camden, New Jersey was an American veteran of World War I and recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross. Prior to joining the U.S. Army, Angelo worked for the Du Pont Powderworks, and was later involved in the Bonus Army movement of the 1930s.

Michael Rady is an American actor.

George Washington Williams was an American Civil War soldier, Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, journalist, and writer on African-American history.

Francis John McCaffery is an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach at the University of Iowa. He has taken four Division I programs to postseason tournaments, including the Iowa Hawkeyes, who reached the final of the 2013 National Invitation Tournament.

Andrew Richard "Drew" Morgan is a NASA astronaut from the class of 2013.

Steven Mickail Johnson Jr. is an American football linebacker who is a free agent. He signed with the Denver Broncos as an undrafted free agent in 2012 where he spent three seasons before signing with the Tennessee Titans in 2015. He played college football at the University of Kansas. He has also been a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens, Arizona Hotshots, and Seattle Dragons.