Famous Pennsylvanians

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arrow Alan Beckwith - actor/aerospace engineer
arrow Alexander Haig, secretary of state
arrow Andrew Mellon, financier
arrow Andrew Wyeth, painter
arrow Anthony Wayne, general
arrow Arnold Palmer, golfer
arrow Andrew Carnegie, industrialist/philanthropist
arrow Betsy Griscom Ross, flag maker
arrow Bill Cosby, actor
arrow Charles Goodyear, inventor
arrow Daniel Boone, frontiersman
arrow Dick Clark, television pioneer
arrow Dr. Benjamin Rush, father of American Psychiatry
arrow Dr. Jonas Salk, founder of the Polio Vaccine
arrow Dwight David Eisenhower, general, President
arrow Edward Goodrich Acheson, inventor
arrow Ethel Waters, singer and actress
arrow Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina
arrow Gene Kelly, dancer and actor
arrow General George G. Meade, Civil War general
arrow George C. Marshall, five-star general
arrow George Catlin, Indian expert, poet
arrow George McClellan, general
arrow George R. Stibitz, inventor
arrow Gertrude Stein, author
arrow Gifford Pinchot, conservationist
arrow Grace Kelly, actress, Princess of Monaco
arrow Henry Clay Frick, industrialist
arrow Henry J. Heinz, industrialist
arrow Henry Harley "hap" Arnold, Air Force hero
arrow Henry Steele Commager, historian
arrow Hezekiah Niles, journalist
arrow Jack Palance, actor
arrow James Buchanan, U.S. president
arrow James Stewart, actor
arrow Jeff Lynn Goldblum, actor
arrow Jim Thorpe, athlete
arrow Jimmy Dorsey, band leader
arrow Jimmy Stewart, actor
arrow Joe Montana, athlete
arrow Joe Namath, athlete
arrow Joe Paterno, football coach
arrow John Barrymore, actor
arrow John Fulton Reynolds, Civil War general
arrow John Updike, author
arrow Julius Erving, basketball player
arrow Julius Sturgis, pretzel baker
arrow Lee Iacocca, auto executive
arrow Louisa May Alcott, novelist
arrow Lucretia Mott, anti-slavery and Women's Rights Leader
arrow Marian Anderson, contralto
arrow Mario Lanza, actor and singer
arrow Martha Graham, choreographer
arrow Michael Keaton, actor
arrow Milton Hershey, philanthropist, businessman
arrow Molly Pitcher, Revolutionary War heroine
arrow Perry Como, singer
arrow Pearl Buck, author
arrow Reggie Jackson, baseball player
arrow Robert E. Peary, explorer
arrow Robert Fulton, inventor
arrow Robinson Jeffers, poet
arrow S. S. Kresge, merchant
arrow Samuel Barber, composer
arrow Stephanie Louise Kwolek, inventor
arrow Stephen Foster, composer
arrow Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, author
arrow Tom Mix, actor
arrow Tommy Dorsey, bandleader
arrow W. C. Fields, comedian
arrow Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor arrow Walter E. Diemer, inventor
arrow William Edward Hanford, inventor
arrow William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania
arrow Winfield Scott Hancock, Civil War general

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