List of Famous people born in Pennsylvania, United States of America
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Jennifer Finney Boylan is an American author, transgender activist and reality television personality who is a professor at Barnard College and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She appeared on I Am Cait, a 2015–2016 spin-off of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, starring her friend Caitlyn Jenner.
Joseph Hooton Taylor
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation."
Benny Boom
Benny Douglas, professionally known as Benny Boom, is an American rapper, music video director, and motion picture director. He is best known for directing the 2017 Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me.
Donald Soffer
Donald Soffer is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is a real estate developer who developed Florida swampland into what was to become the city of Aventura, Florida.
William S. Stickman IV
William Shaw Stickman IV is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Jimmy Pop
James Moyer Franks, better known by his stage name Jimmy Pop, is an American rapper, singer, musician, and composer. He is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, primary songwriter, and one of the founding members of the comedic rock band Bloodhound Gang.
Bill Barretta
William Paul Barretta is an American puppeteer, actor, producer and director, who is best known for providing the puppetry and voice of characters such as Pepe the King Prawn, Johnny Fiama, Big Mean Carl, and Bobo the Bear. He also inherited the roles of Rowlf the Dog, Swedish Chef, Mahna Mahna, and Dr. Teeth after the death of Muppet creator Jim Henson.
Robert J. Cenker
Robert Joseph "Bob" Cenker is an American aerospace and electrical engineer, aerospace systems consultant, and former astronaut. Cenker worked for 18 years at RCA Astro-Electronics, and its successor company GE Astro Space, on a variety of spacecraft projects. He spent most of his career working on commercial communications satellites, including the Satcom, Spacenet and GStar programs.
Michael Kelly
Michael Joseph Kelly Jr. is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Doug Stamper in House of Cards, as well as for roles in films such as Changeling, Dawn of the Dead, The Adjustment Bureau, Chronicle, Now You See Me, and Everest. He also appeared in the television miniseries Generation Kill, six episodes of The Sopranos as Agent Ron Goddard, the Criminal Minds spin-off series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, and as Dr. Edgar Dumbarton in Taboo.
Mary Cover Jones
Mary Cover Jones was an American developmental psychologist and a pioneer of behavior therapy, despite the field being heavily dominated by males throughout much of the 20th century. Joseph Wolpe dubbed her "the mother of behavior therapy" due to her famous study of Peter and development of desensitization.