List of sons and daughters of the city of Philadelphia

This is a list of public figures that American US in the city of Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania ) was born. The list does not claim to be complete.

18th century

1701-1750

Michael Hillegas
(1729-1804)

Samuel Wharton
(1732-1800)

Thomas Mifflin
(1744–1800)

• Samuel Rhoads (1711–1784), politician
• William Shippen (1712-1801), politician
• Michael Hillegas (1729–1804), politician
• James Kinsey (1731–1803), lawyer and politician
• Thomas Willing (1731–1821), politician
• David Rittenhouse (1732–1796), astronomer and mathematician
• Samuel Wharton (1732–1800), politician
• Arthur Donaldson (1734–1797), shipbuilder and inventor
• William Moore (around 1735; † 1793), politician
• Jacob Philadelphia (1735–1795), conjurer
• Owen Biddle (1737–1799), astronomer, clockmaker and businessman
• Francis Hopkinson (1737–1791), Founding Father of the United States
• Edward Biddle (1738–1779), politician
• William Bartram (1739-1823), naturalist; born in Kingsessing
• George Clymer (1739–1813), politician and one of the founding fathers of the USA
• Elias Boudinot (1740–1821), politician
• Andrew Allen (1740–1825), British politician in colonial North America
• Samuel Meredith (1741-1817), politician
• Cadwalader Morris (1741–1795), politician
• Jonathan Bayard Smith (1742-1812), politician
• Ebenezer Hazard (1744-1817), US Secretary of the Post Office
• Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800), politician and major general in the War of Independence
• Richard Peters junior (1744–1828), lawyer and politician
• Benjamin Rush (1746–1813), British-American physician, chemist, writer, teacher, and humanist; born in Byberry Township
• Gunning Bedford, Jr. (1747–1812), politician, lawyer, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
• Thomas Forrest (1747-1825), politician
• James White (1749-1809), politician

1751-1770

Daniel Udree
(1751-1828)

Josiah Harmar
(1753-1813)

Michael Leib
(1760-1822)

• Daniel Udree (1751–1828), politician
• William Bingham (1752-1804), politician
• Betsy Ross (1752–1836), allegedly sewed the first flag of the USA
• Josiah Harmar (1753–1813), officer
• George Logan (1753-1821), politician
• William Cooper (1754–1809), lawyer and politician
• William Bradford (1755–1795), lawyer and politician
• Tench Coxe (1755-1824), politician
• Franklin Davenport (1755-1832), politician
• Benjamin Say (1755–1813), politician
• David Brooks (1756–1838), officer, lawyer and politician
• James Duncan (1756-1844), politician
• William Rush (1756–1833), classical sculptor
• Joseph Anderson (1757–1837), politician
• William Jones (1760–1831), politician, Secretary of the Navy of the United States
• Michael Leib (1760–1822), politician
• Caspar Wistar (1761–1818), doctor and anatomist
• Samuel Sitgreaves (1764-1827), politician
• Robert Waln (1765–1836), politician
• James A. Bayard senior (1767–1815), Federalist politician
• William Milnor (1769–1848), politician
• Joseph Clay (1769–1811), politician
• Joseph Hopkinson (1770–1842), lawyer and politician
• Jacob Swoope (≈1770–1832), politician
• James Woodhouse (1770-1809), chemist

1771-1790

Charles Brockden Brown
(1771-1810)

John Sergeant
(1779-1852)

Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun
(1785-1854)

Joseph Reed Ingersoll
(1786–1868)

• Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), writer
• Patrick Gass (1771–1870), soldier and explorer, member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Thomas Morris (1771–1849), lawyer and politician
• John Harrison (1773-1833), industrial chemist
• Thomas Walker Horsfield (1773-1859) British physician, zoologist and botanist
• James Milnor (1773-1844), politician
• Adam Seybert (1773-1825), politician
• Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), still life painter
• John Sergeant (1779-1852), politician
• Horace Binney (1780–1875), politician
• Thomas Lee (1780–1855), politician
• Richard Rush (1780–1859), politician, attorney general and finance minister
• Robert Hare (1781–1858), chemist, inventor of the cutting torch
• George Ord (1781–1866), natural scientist and ornithologist
• Charles Jared Ingersoll (1782–1862), lawyer and politician
• John Syng Dorsey (1783-1818), surgeon
• Hugh Glass (1783–1833), wild west trapper
• James Nelson Barker (1784-1858), playwright
• Henry von Phul (1784–1874), officer and pioneer
• Thomas Irwin (1785–1870), lawyer and politician
• Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun (1785-1854), Philhellenin
• Mordechai Immanuel Noah (1785-1851), American-Jewish journalist, publicist, diplomat and philanthropist
• Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844), President of the Second Bank of the United States
• Henry Horn (1786–1862), politician
• Joseph Reed Ingersoll (1786–1868), politician
• George Gray Leiper (1786–1868), politician
• Samuel Wells Morris (1786–1847), politician
• Georg von Sonntag (1786–1841), Russian naval officer
• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851), clergyman, founder of Hartford schooling for deaf children
• Magnus Miller Murray (1787-1838), politician
• Thomas Say (1787–1834), entomologist, conchologist and carcinologist (zoology)
• James Cutbush (1788-1823), physician and chemist
• Michael Woolston Ash (1789-1858), politician
• William Sitgreaves Cox (1790–1874), British-American War officer

1791-1800

George M. Dallas
(1792–1864)

Henry Charles Carey
(1793–1879)

Charles Hodge
(1797-1878)

• John Brown Francis (1791–1864), politician
• John Biddle (1792-1859), politician
• George M. Dallas (1792–1864), politician
• Francis Johnson (1792–1844), composer and musician
• Uriah P. Levy (1792-1862), naval officer
• Thomas Doughty (1793-1856), painter
• Henry Charles Carey (1793–1879), political economist
• William C. Preston (1794–1860), politician
• Francis Swaine Muhlenberg (1795–1831), politician
• Joseph Biles Anthony (1795-1851), politician
• George Washington Toland (1796–1869), politician
• Samuel M. Moore (1796–1875), politician
• Richard Biddle (1796-1847), politician
• Richard Harlan (1796–1843), zoologist, physician and paleontologist
• Charles Brown (1797-1883), politician
• Charles Hodge (1797–1878), Presbyterian theologian
• Persifor Frazer Smith (1798–1858), military officer, Military Governor of California
• William M. Meredith (1799–1873), lawyer and politician
• Titian Ramsay Peale (1799–1885), naturalist and artist
• Sarah Miriam Peale (1800–1885), painter
• Kintzing Prichette (1800–1869), Governor of Oregon
• John Renshaw Thomson (1800-1862), politician
• William Wall (1800–1872), politician
• Daniel H. Miller († 1846), politician

19th century

1801-1810

Charles Naylor
(1806–1872)

Thomas Green Clemson
(1807-1888)

John AB Dahlgren
(1809-1870)

• Henry Roberts (1803–1876), British architect
• Job Roberts Tyson (1803-1858), politician
• William Barton Rogers (1804-1882), physicist and geologist
• Thomas Ustick Walter (1804–1887), architect
• John Cadwalader (1805–1879), lawyer and politician
• Sarah Yorke Jackson (1805–1887), daughter-in-law of US President Andrew Jackson
• Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867), physicist
• George Cadwalader (1806–1879), General in the Mexican-American War and the Northern States in the American Civil War
• Edwin Forrest (1806–1872), actor
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II (1806–1878), civil engineer, railway bridge builder
• Charles Naylor (1806–1872), politician
• Jacob Zeilin (1806–1880), Brigadier General
• Thomas Bellerby Wilson (1807–1865), doctor, naturalist, collector of natural history exhibits and promoter of the Academy of Natural Sciences
• Thomas Green Clemson (1807–1888), politician, founder of Clemson University
• Henry Darwin Rogers (1808–1866), geologist and university professor
• Adolph E. Borie (1809-1880), politician
• Robert Cornelius (1809–1893), one of the American pioneers of photography
• John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (1809–1870), Rear Admiral in the US Navy
• John McGill (1809–1872), Roman Catholic Bishop of Richmond
• George Middleton (1809-1888), politician
• Andrew A. Humphreys (1810-1883), General
• Lorenzo Langstroth (1810–1895), naturalist and beekeeper
• John C. Trautwine (1810–1883), civil and railway engineer

1811-1820

James Landy
(1813-1875)

John F. Starr
(1818-1904)

• Henry Myer Phillips (1811-1884), politician
• James Campbell (1812-1893), politician
• Thomas Birch Florence (1812–1875), politician
• Fernando Wood (1812-1881), politician
• John Carlin (1813-1891), painter and poet
• William Henry Fry (1813–1864), composer and music critic
• James Landy (1813–1875), politician
• William D. Kelley (1814–1890), politician
• John C. Pemberton (1814–1881), Confederate general in the American Civil War
• George A. Bicknell (1815-1891), politician
• Edward Joy Morris (1815–1881), politician and diplomat
• Edwin De Haven (1816–1865), polar explorer and navigator
• Richard Vaux (1816–1895), politician
• John Wood (1816–1898), politician
• Thomas Marshal Bibighaus (1817-1853), politician
• Herman Haupt (1817–1905), general and railway engineer
• John Paul Verree (1817–1889), politician
• Charles Deas (1818–1867), painter
• John F. Starr (1818–1904), politician
• Charles John Biddle (1819–1873), politician
• Thomas Dunn English (1819–1902), politician and author
• Richard Howell Gleaves (1819–1907), politician
• J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903), geologist
• John Guier Scott (1819-1892), politician
• George Law Curry (1820–1878), politician and governor of Oregon
• Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), researcher, discoverer and doctor
• Francis Wharton (1820–1889), lawyer, pastor and author

1821-1830

Samuel W. Woodhouse
(1821-1904)

Robert Lowry
(1826-1899)

George B. McClellan
(1826-1885)

• Henry FewSmith (1821–1846), portrait, nude and figure painter
• William Eckart Lehman (1821–1895), politician
• Charles O'Neill (1821-1893), politician
• Alfred Sully (1821–1879), General in the Civil War and the Indian Wars
• Benjamin Chew Tilghman (1821-1901), inventor
• Samuel Washington Woodhouse (1821–1904), physician and naturalist
• Anna T. Jeanes (1822–1907), author and philanthropist
• William Millward (1822–1871), politician
• Edward Clark (1822-1902), architect
• John O'Neill (1822–1905), politician
• Matthew Carey Lea (1823-1897), chemist
• Thomas W. Evans (1823–1897), dentist and patron
• Joseph Leidy (1823-1891), anatomist, biologist and paleontologist
• Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903), adventurer, journalist and mythologist
• Henry Charles Lea (1825–1909), historian
• James Williams (1825–1899), politician
• Anthony Joseph Drexel (1826-1893), banker and philanthropist
• Robert Lowry (1826–1899), literature professor, Baptist clergyman and composer
• George B. McClellan (1826–1885), officer and politician
• Joseph Wharton (1826–1909), industrialist, co-founder of the Bethlehem Steel Company
• John Watkinson Douglass (1827-1909), politician
• William Henry Furness (1827–1867), portrait painter of the Düsseldorf School
• John Gibbon (1827-1896), US Army General
• Charles G. McCawley (1827-1891), Commandant of the Marine Corps
• Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1898), manufacturer and Methodist
• Septimus Winner (1827–1902), songwriter
• Samuel J. Randall (1828–1890), politician
• Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914), physician and author
• George M. Willing (1829–1874), physicist, prospector and lobbyist

1831-1840

Ignatius Donnelly
(1831-1901)

John Howard Van Amringe
(1835-1910)

Leon Abbett
(1836-1894)

Charles T. Yerkes
(1837-1905)

Henry George
(1839-1897)

• Gustav von Bohlen and Halbach (1831–1890), Baden court master of ceremonies and ministerial resident
• Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901), lawyer and politician
• Owen Thomas Edgar (1831-1929), soldier
• Lewis Orator (1831–1908), organist and composer
• John Smith (1832-1910), politician
• Chapman Freeman (1832-1904), politician
• Horace Howard Furness (1833-1912), literary scholar
• William Trost Richards (1833–1905), landscape and marine painter
• Fairman Rogers (1833–1900), civil engineer, horse expert, art manager
• Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902), writer and humorist
• Alan Wood (1834-1902), politician
• William Stanley Haseltine (1835–1900), landscape painter
• Charles H. Mansur (1835–1895), politician
• William Meredith (1835–1903), chess composer
• John Howard Van Amringe (1835-1910), mathematician
• Leon Abbett (1836-1894), politician
• John Brewer Brown (1836–1898), politician
• Lewis R. Packard (1836-1884), classical philologist
• Ferdinand Heinrich Hermann Strecker (1836–1901), entomologist
• Charles F. Manderson (1837–1911), politician
• William Ward (1837–1895), politician
• Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837–1905), financier
• John R. Brooke (1838–1926), Major General in the US Army
• George Washington Tryon (1838-1888), malacologist
• John Wanamaker (1838–1922), merchant and religious leader
• John Vaudain Creely (1839-1900), politician
• Frank Furness (1839–1912), architect
• Henry George (1839-1897), economist
• Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924), painter
• Lewis Wolfley (1839-1910), politician
• Alfred P. Boller (1840–1912), civil engineer and bridge builder
• William Candidus (1840-1910), opera singer (tenor)
• Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), paleontologist and zoologist
• George Henry Horn (1840-1897), entomologist
• John G. Johnson (1840–1917), lawyer and art collector

1841-1850

John Gregory Bourke
(1843-1896)

James Wolcott Wadsworth
(1846-1926)

Robert Adams junior
(1849–1906)

• Harrison Allen (1841-1897), medical doctor and anatomist
• Henry H. Bingham (1841-1912), politician
• Samuel Loyd (1841–1911), chess composer, game inventor and puzzle specialist
• Emily Sartain (1841–1927), painter, graphic artist and art teacher
• Theophilus Van Kannel (1841-1919), Dutch-American inventor
• William M. Bunn (1842–1923), politician and Territorial Governor of the Idaho Territory (1884–1885)
• Joel Cook (1842-1910), politician
• Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842–1932), suffragette and author
• LC Hughes (1842-1915), politician
• John Gregory Bourke (1843-1896), ethnologist
• Joseph McKenna (1843–1926), lawyer and politician
• William Pepper (1843-1898), physician
• Richard Alsop Wise (1843–1900), politician
• Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), painter
• Joseph Jorgensen (1844–1888), politician
• Anna Lea Merritt (1844–1930), painter
• James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846–1926), officer and politician
• Caspar René Gregory (1846–1917), German-American theologian
• Maria Beasley (* 1847), entrepreneur and inventor
• Rudolph Hering (1847–1923), engineer
• James R. Young (1847-1924), politician
• Edward Julius Berwind (1848–1936), entrepreneur
• William Henry Lippincott (1849–1920), portrait and landscape painter
• Robert Adams junior (1849–1906), politician
• Herman N. Hyneman (1849-1907), painter
• William Morris Davis (1850–1934), geologist, meteorologist and geographer
• George Scott Graham (1850–1931), politician

1851-1860

Kate Douglas Wiggin
(1856-1923)

Boies Penrose
(1860-1921)

• Susan Macdowell Eakins (1851–1938), painter, photographer, and New Woman
• Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), painter and illustrator
• Mary Outerbridge (1852–1886), pioneer of modern tennis in the USA
• Edwin Sydney Stuart (1853–1937), politician
• George W. Cheyney (1854-1903), politician
• Isaac Guggenheim (1854–1922), industrialist and philanthropist
• Wilhelm Hoyer (1854–1932), German geologist and engineer
• John Frederick Peto (1854–1907), painter
• William Woodville Rockhill (1854-1914), diplomat
• William Harris Ashmead (1855-1908), entomologist
• Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942), painter
• George Broderick (1855–1905), opera singer (bass)
• George A. Castor (1855–1906), politician
• Jay Hunt (1855–1932), film director and actor
• Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936), author
• Julius Stewart (1855-1919), painter
• Colin Campbell Cooper (1856–1937), impressionist painter
• William Wallace Denslow (1856–1915), illustrator and caricaturist
• Francis Xavier Dercum (1856–1931), neurologist and namesake of the disease Dercum's disease
• Daniel Guggenheim (1856–1930), industrialist and philanthropist
• Harry Stovey (1856-1937), baseball player
• Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923), children's author
• Ida Craddock (1857–1902), author and pioneer of the sexual revolution
• Allan C. Durborow (1857–1908), politician
• Clifford Grayson (1857-1951), painter
• James Huneker (1857–1921), writer and literary critic
• Joseph Pennell (1857–1926), illustrator and author
• Gabrielle D. Clements (1858–1948), painter
• Katharine Maria Drexel (1858–1955), religious sister, saint in the Roman Catholic Church
• Murray Guggenheim (1858–1939), industrialist and philanthropist
• Hugo Albert Rennert (1858–1927), Romanist and Hispanicist
• Clarence Clark (1859-1937), tennis player
• Florence Kelley (1859–1932), social reformer and women's rights activist
• Howard MacNutt (1859–1926), Baha'i and disciple of Abdu'l Baha
• Frederick Vezin (1859–1933), American-German painter, etcher, and lithographer
• William Louis Abbott (1860–1936), physician, naturalist and ornithologist
• Edward Hill Amet (1860-1948), inventor
• Carl Hering (1860–1926), engineer
• Minnie Palmer (1860-1936), actress
• Boies Penrose (1860-1921), politician
• Edward C. Stokes (1860–1942), politician

1861-1870

1861-1865

George Dunton Widener
(1861-1912)

William Wrigley Jr.
(1861-1932)

• James M. Beck (1861–1936), politician, lawyer, and United States Solicitor General
• Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861-1949), industrialist and philanthropist
• Henry Brown Floyd MacFarland (1861-1921), politician
• George Dunton Widener (1861–1912), businessman and heir
• William Wrigley Jr. (1861-1932), industrialist; Chewing gum maker
• John B. Thayer (1862-1912), cricketer
• Percy Moran (1862-1935), painter
• Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930), painter
• Anita Hendrie (1863–1940), actress
• James Washington Logue (1863-1925), politician
• Harry C. Ransley (1863-1941), politician
• Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935), illustrator
• Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1928), merchant
• George Barbier (1864–1945), actor
• Arthur Collins (1864-1933), singer
• Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916), writer, journalist and playwright
• Eleanor Everest Freer (1864–1942), composer and philanthropist
• Edwin Hedley (1864-1947), rower
• John W. Riddle (1864-1941), diplomat
• Harry H. Seldomridge (1864-1927), politician
• Alfred E. Aarons (1865–1936), composer, theater producer, theater director, songwriter and musical director on Broadway
• Harry Clay Adler (1865–1940), newspaper manager
• Victory Bateman (1865-1926), silent film actress
• Benjamin Guggenheim (1865–1912), businessman
• Alfred M. Waldron (1865–1952), politician

1866-1870

Simon Guggenheim
(1867-1941)

Horace Trumbauer
(1868–1938)

Maxfield Parrish
(1870-1966)

• Witmer Stone (1866–1939), zoologist and botanist
• Edgar Buckingham (1867–1940), physicist and soil mechanic
• John Exley (1867-1938), rower
• Simon Guggenheim (1867–1941), businessman and politician
• Frank G. Lenz (1867-1894), cyclist who tried to circumnavigate the world by bicycle (1892-1894)
• George W. Pepper (1867–1961), politician
• Frank A. Perret (1867–1943), entrepreneur, inventor and volcanologist
• William Scott Vare (1867–1934), politician
• Lightner Witmer (1867-1956), psychologist
• Ava Willing Astor (1868–1958), high society lady in New York society, later a member of the British aristocracy
• Elizabeth de la Poer Beresford, Baroness Decies (1868–1944), writer and high society lady
• William B. Guggenheim (1868–1941), industrialist and philanthropist
• Lewis Edward Herzog (1868–1943), painter
• John M. Morin (1868–1942), politician
• Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938), architect
• James A. Gallagher (1869–1957), politician
• Ellen Hansell (1869–1937), tennis player
• John William Harshberger (1869–1929), botanist and mycologist
• Morris E. Leeds (1869-1952), electrical engineer
• Sheldon Lewis (1869-1958), actor
• Kerry Mills (1869–1948), composer and music publisher
• Bertha Townsend (1869–1909), tennis player
• Isaac Bacharach (1870–1956), politician
• Alexander Stirling Calder (1870–1945), sculptor
• William Glackens (1870–1938), painter and illustrator
• Paul Joseph Nussbaum (1870–1935), Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of Sault Sainte Marie and Marquette
• Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966), painter and illustrator
• Friedrich von Schirach (1870–1924), German composer
• Edward C. Shannon (1870–1946), politician

1871-1880

Edith Corse Evans
(1875-1912)

Catharine Macfarlane
(1877-1969)

WC Fields
(1880-1946)

• Frank Patterson (1871–1966), composer
• Granville Redmond (1871-1935), painter and actor
• J. Burrwood Daly (1872-1939), politician
• William Duane (1872-1935), physicist
• Laura Henson (1872–1961), tennis player
• Walter Evans Edge (1873–1956), politician
• John Geiger (1873-1956), rower
• George C. Thomas junior (1873–1932), golf architect
• James Ramsay Hunt (1874-1937), neurologist
• James Juvenal (1874-1942), rower
• Gustavus T. Kirby (1874–1954), lawyer, athlete and sports official
• Edward Marsh (1874-1932), rower
• Albert Warren Tillinghast (1874–1942), golf architect
• Charles Browne (1875–1947), politician
• Thomas Cardeza (1875–1952), businessman
• Isador Coriat (1875–1943), psychoanalyst
• Joseph Dempsey (1875–1942), rower
• Edith Corse Evans (1875–1912), Society member and Titanic victim
• Henry Pancoast (1875-1939), radiologist
• Owen Roberts (1875–1955), lawyer
• Camille Zeckwer (1875–1924), composer
• Michael Gleason (1876-1923), rower
• Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877–1968), sculptor
• Djavidan Hanum (1877–1968), Austro-Hungarian writer and painter
• Catharine Macfarlane (1877-1969), medical doctor
• Billy Murray (1877-1954), pop and novelty singer
• John Rea Neill (1877–1943), magazine and children's book illustrator
• William H. Wilson (1877–1937), politician
• Lionel Barrymore (1878–1954), actor and director
• Ray S. Bassler (1878-1961), paleontologist
• Albert Berry (1878 – unknown), parachutist, was the first to jump from an airplane
• Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939), sculptor and prosthodontist
• Meredith Colket (1878-1947), athlete
• Henry Weed Fowler (1878-1965), zoologist; born in Holmesburg
• Truxtun Hare (1878-1956), track and field athlete
• Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939), sculptor
• Philadelphia Jack O'Brien (1878-1942), light heavyweight boxer
• Ethel Barrymore (1879–1959), actress
• Harry DeBaecke (1879–1961), rower
• John Grieb (1879–1939), gymnast and track and field athlete
• David Landau (1879-1935), actor
• George Landenberger (1879–1936), naval officer
• Jack Norworth (1879–1959), poet, composer and producer
• J. Howard Redfield (1879-1944), mathematician, civil engineer and linguist
• William Remington (1879–1963), track and field athlete
• WC Fields (1880–1946), comedian, actor and entertainer
• David H. Keller (1880–1966), psychiatrist and science fiction author
• Harry Lott (1880-1949), oarsman
• Frank Orth (1880–1962), actor
• Edward L. Stokes (1880–1964), politician

1881-1890

John Barrymore
(1882-1942)

Emanuel Haldeman-Julius
(1889–1951)

1881

• Charles Armstrong (1881-1952), rower
• Julian F. Abele (1881–1950), architect
• James J. Connolly (1881–1952), politician
• Morton Livingston Schamberg (1881-1918), painter

1882

• George Bancroft (1882–1956), actor
• John Barrymore (1882–1942), actor
• George Matthews Harding (1882-1959), painter
• Herbert E. Ives (1882–1953), physicist and inventor
• Allan Muhr (1882–1944), rugby union player, sports official and reporter, and actor in France
• Paul Neill (1882–1968), electrical engineer
• Henry Disbrow Phillips (1882–1955), football player and Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States
• William S. Reyburn (1882–1946), politician
• Harry Vandiver (1882–1973), mathematician
• John Russell Young (1882–1967), politician

1883

• Lesley Ashburner (1883-1950), hurdler
• Susan Adams McKelvey (1883–1964), botanist
• Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), painter of realism
• Harry Bischoff Weiss (1883–1972), entomologist and author
• Sam Wood (1883-1949), film director

1884

• James Earle Ash (1884–1986), pathologist and officer
• James Flanagan (1884-1937), rower
• Oliver Perry-Smith (1884-1969), mountaineer
• Leon Schlesinger (1884–1949), film producer
• Joseph Sweeney (1884–1963), theater and film actor

1885

• Richard S. Edwards Junior (1885–1956), Admiral in the US Navy
• Benjamin F. James (1885–1961), politician
• Harry Widener (1885–1912), student and book collector

1886

• Elsie Baker (1886–1958), singer (alto) and reciter
• Edwin Boring (1886–1968), experimental psychologist and psychology historian
• Jam Handy (1886–1983), swimmer
• Alain LeRoy Locke (1886–1954), philosopher
• Ed Wynn (1886–1966), actor and comedian

1887

• Edmund Newton Harvey (1887-1959), zoologist
• George Kelly (1887–1974), writer
• Joe McCarthy (1887–1978), baseball manager, player and coach
• Luckey Roberts (1887–1968), jazz, ragtime and blues pianist, composer
• Oscar Shaw (1887–1967), actor
• John Wray (1887–1940), actor

1888

• Frank Bettger (1888–1981), seller and author
• Joseph Breen (1888-1965), film censor
• J. William Ditter (1888–1943), politician
• Arthur Fields (1888-1953), singer
• Alan G. Kirk (1888–1963), admiral and diplomat
• Robert N. McGarvey (1888–1952), politician
• Louis Mordell (1888–1972), American-British mathematician
• Philip Francis Nowlan (1888-1940), science fiction writer

1889

• John L. Balderston (1889–1954), playwright, journalist, screenwriter
• Louis Douglas (1889–1939), dancer and actor
• Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889–1951), journalist and publisher
• William Keighley (1889-1984), director
• John B. Kelly senior (1889–1960), rower and entrepreneur
• Arthur Lange (1889–1956), film composer, conductor, arranger and songwriter
• Harry McCoy (1889-1937), actor
• Michael Joseph Muldowney (1889–1947), politician
• Carey Wilson (1889–1962), screenwriter and film producer
• Spencer Wishart (1889-1914), racing car driver

1890

• Alexander A. Aarons (1890–1943), theater producer
• Charlotte Greenwood (1890–1977), actress
• Otho Lovering (1890–1968), film editor
• Frank A. Mathews (1890–1964), politician
• Man Ray (1890–1976), painter and photographer
• Alfred Clarence Redfield (1890-1983), oceanographer
• Archer Taylor (1890–1973), folklorist

1891-1900

1891

William C. Bullitt
(1891-1967)

• Albert C. Baugh (1891–1981), linguist and medievalist
• Helen Broderick (1891-1959), actress
• William C. Bullitt (1891-1967), diplomat and author; first US ambassador to the Soviet Union
• Edwin Vincent Byrne (1891–1963), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Santa Fe
• Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey (1891–1949), politician
• Vinton Freedley (1891-1969), theater producer
• Charlie Johnson (1891–1959), jazz pianist and band leader
• Battling Levinsky (1891-1949), boxer
• Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891–1976), writer

1892

• John C. Bell (1892–1974), politician
• Clarence Gaskill (1892-1947), songwriter and songwriter
• Jackie Saunders (1892–1954), actress
• Allan Travers (1892-1968), baseball player

1893

Thomas K. Finletter
(1893–1980)

Donald Lippincott
(1893-1962)

• Robert Lee Davis (1893–1967), politician
• Thomas K. Finletter (1893–1980), politician
• Max Hoff (1893–1941), boxing manager and mobster
• Ralph Linton (1893-1953), cultural anthropologist
• Donald Lippincott (1893-1962), sprinter
• Theodore Pitcairn (1893–1973), pastor, art collector and patron
• Vivian Rich (1893–1957), silent film actress
• Richard Harrison Shryock (1893–1972), medical historian
• William Tilden (1893–1953), tennis player

1894

• Paul Costello (1894–1986), rower
• Stuart Davis (1894–1964), painter
• Heinrich Harry Deierling (1894–1989), German painter
• Franz Federschmidt (1894–1956), rowing athlete
• John Gray (1894–1942), long distance runner
• Walter Otto Grimm (1894–1919), German expressionist painter and wood cutter
• Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), journalist
• Baynard Kendrick (1894–1977), writer
• James O. McManus (* 1894), politician

1895

John Jay McCloy
(1895-1989)

• Alexander R. Bolling (1895–1964), Lieutenant General
• Phil Boutelje (1895–1979), pianist, film composer, songwriter, author and conductor
• Frances Carson (1895–1973), actress
• Erich Federschmidt (1895–1962), rowing athlete
• Clare G. Fenerty (1895–1952), politician
• Mark Fisher (1895–1948), musician and songwriter
• Walter Freeman (1895–1972), neurologist and surgeon
• William T. Granahan (1895–1956), politician
• Albert Hay Malotte (1895–1964), musician and composer
• Edna Mayo (1895–1970), stage actress and film actress during the silent film era
• John Jay McCloy (1895–1989), lawyer and politician, American High Commissioner in Germany from 1949 to 1952
• James P. McGranery (1895–1962), lawyer, politician and Attorney General
• Blossom Rock (1895–1978), actress
• Isaac Starr (1895-1989), physiologist and pharmacologist
• Sam Wooding (1895–1985), jazz pianist, arranger and band leader

1896

• Robert Armbruster (1896–1994), composer
• William A. Barrett (1896–1976), politician
• Louis Fischer (1896–1970), journalist
• Fred C. Gartner (1896–1972), politician
• Hortense Powdermaker (1896-1970), anthropologist
• D. Lane Powers (1896-1968), politician

1897

Elaine Hammerstein
(1897-1948)

William H. Milliken
(1897-1969)

• Marian Anderson (1897-1993), opera singer
• Gus Arnheim (1897–1955), composer and big band leader
• Joseph Auslander (1897–1965), poet
• Michael J. Bradley (1897–1979), politician
• Walter Brown Gibson (1897–1985), journalist, writer and magician
• Elaine Hammerstein (1897–1948), actress
• Effa Manley (1897-1981), baseball official
• William H. Milliken (1897–1969), politician
• Albert Schneider (1897–1986), Canadian boxer
• Otto Siegel (1897–1962), production designer

1898

• Eleanor Boardman (1898–1991), actress of the silent and early talkies era
• Edwin Horace Bryan junior (1898–1985), naturalist
• Leonard Carmichael (1898–1973), psychologist and university president
• Edward Jennings (1898-1975), rower
• Charles Karle (1898–1946), rower
• Walter C. Reckless (1898–1988), sociologist and criminologist
• Morris Stoloff (1898–1980), conductor and film composer
• Lew Tendler (1898–1970), lightweight boxer

1899

• Gordon Avil (1899-1970), cinematographer
• Vernon Huber (1899-1967), naval officer
• Franklin J. Maloney (1899-1958), politician

1900

James Bond
(1900-1989)

Irene Guest
(1900-1970)

• Herbert Biberman (1900–1971), screenwriter and film director
• James Bond (1900-1989), ornithologist
• Nat Bonx (1900–1950), songwriter and songwriter
• Charlie Gaines (1900–1986), jazz trumpeter and band leader
• Irene Guest (1900-1970), swimmer
• John Gerdell Kennedy (1900-1971), rower
• Dorothy Burr Thompson (1900–2001), classical scholar and archaeologist

20th century

1901-1910

1901-1905

Whittaker Chambers
(1901-1961)

Francis J. Myers
(1901-1956)

Tommy Loughran
(1902-1982)

• Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), writer and editor
• Joseph S. Clark (1901–1990), politician
• Mildred Davis (1901–1969), actress
• Alfred Harbage (1901–1976), English and Shakespeare scholar
• Francis Edward Hyland (1901–1968), Roman Catholic Bishop of Atlanta
• John W. Lord (1901–1972), lawyer and politician
• Margaret Mead (1901–1978), anthropologist and ethnologist
• Edward Mitchell (1901-1970), rower
• Francis J. Myers (1901-1956), politician
• John Schmitt (1901-1991), rower
• Buster West (1901–1966), actor
• John T. Edsall (1902-2002), biochemist and molecular biologist
• Larry Fine (1902–1975), comedian and actor
• Eddie Lang (1902–1933), jazz musician
• Tommy Loughran (1902-1982), boxer
• Geoffrey Mason (1902-1987), bobsledder
• Leon Sacks (1902–1972), politician
• Elizabeth Becker (1903–1989), water diver and two-time Olympic champion
• Vittorio Giannini (1903–1966), American composer of Italian descent
• John Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), surgeon and inventor of the heart-lung machine
• William Goetz (1903–1969), film producer and art collector
• Merritt Hulburd (1903-1939), journalist and film producer
• Jeanette MacDonald (1903-1965), actress
• Charles McIlvaine (1903-1975), rower
• Kelly Petillo (1903-1970), racing car driver
• Joe Venuti (1903–1978), jazz musician and violinist
• Ernest Bayer (1904-1997), rower
• Herbert J. McGlinchey (1904-1992), politician
• Al Bates (1905-1999), long jumper
• Marc Blitzstein (1905–1964), composer
• Edward Colman (1905-1995), cinematographer
• August E. Johansen (1905–1995), politician
• Johnny Lange (1905-2006), film composer
• Paul McDowell (1905–1962), rower
• William Miller (1905–1985), rower
• Jane Winton (1905–1959), actress, dancer, singer and writer

1906

James A. Byrne
(1906–1980)

Janet Gaynor
(1906-1984)

• James A. Byrne (1906–1980), politician
• Mark Clifton (1906–1963), science fiction writer
• Janet Gaynor (1906-1984), actress
• George Healis (1906–1990), rower
• Ruth Malcomson (1906–1988), Beauty Queen (Miss America 1924)
• Clifford Odets (1906–1963), screenwriter and actor

1907

• Malcolm Atterbury (1907-1992), actor
• Dorothy Bar-Adon (1907–1950), Israeli journalist
• Gladys Bentley (1907–1960), blues singer and entertainer
• Leonard Carlitz (1907–1999), mathematician
• Thomas Carr (1907–1997), director and actor
• Earl Chudoff (1907-1993), politician
• Paul Douglas (1907-1959), actor
• Justin B. Herman (1907–1983), screenwriter, film director, film producer and cartoonist
• Bill Holland (1907–1984), racing car driver
• Joseph Kramm (1907–1992), playwright, screenwriter, actor and director
• Horace W. Magoun (1907-1991), neuroscientist
• Joseph Carroll McCormick (1907-1996), Roman Catholic Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown and Scranton
• Benny Payne (1907-1986), jazz musician
• Eddie Quillan (1907–1990), film and stage actor
• Lawrence Frederik Schott (1907–1963), Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Harrisburg
• Abraham Sinkov (1907–1998), mathematician and cryptologist
• Rex Stewart (1907-1967), jazz cornet player
• IF Stone (1907-1989), investigative journalist
• William M. Weiss (1907–2001), animated film producer
• John W. Wells (1907-1994), paleontologist
• Chappie Willett (1907–1976), jazz pianist, composer and arranger

1908

• Barney Berlinger (1908–2002), decathlon champion
• Sydney Boehm (1908–1990), screenwriter and film producer
• Imogene Coca (1908-2001), comedy actress
• George T. Faust (1908–1985), mineralogist
• Johnny Jadick (1908-1970), boxer
• Marion Martin (1908–1985), actress
• Richard P. Powell (1908-1999), writer
• Francis Ryan (1908–1977), football player
• Penny Singleton (1908-2003), film actress
• Cyrus H. Gordon (1908-2001), Semitist and Orientalist

1909

Robert Serber
(1909-1997)

• Joe DeRita (1909-1993), comedian
• Roderick Edwards (1909–1987), Rear Admiral, United States Coast Guard
• Paul Nordoff (1909–1977), composer and music therapist
• David Riesman (1909–2002), sociologist and educationalist
• Edwin Rolfe (1909–1954), poet
• Robert Serber (1909–1997), physicist
• Joseph Schauers (1909–1987), rower
• William H. Ziegler (1909-1977), film editor

1910

Frances Dade
(1910-1968)

Robert K. Merton
(1910-2003)

• Edmund Bacon (1910–2005), architect, urban planner and author
• Mae Clarke (1910-1992), film actress
• Frances Dade (1910–1968), actress
• William J. Green Jr. (1910–1963), politician
• Albert Harker (1910-2006), football player
• Charles Kieffer (1910–1975), rower
• Robert K. Merton (1910-2003), sociologist
• Herbert Rudley (1910-2006), actor
• Midget Wolgast (1910–1955), flyweight boxer

1911-1920

1911

• Jeanne Behrend (1911–1988), pianist
• Charles Coles (1911–1992), dancer and choreographer
• Broderick Crawford (1911–1986), actor
• Bill Dillard (1911–1995), jazz trumpeter
• Skip Etchells (1911–1998), yacht designer, boat builder, sailor
• Harry Gold (1911–1972), chemical laboratory assistant and spy
• Hugh Marlowe (1911–1982), actor and radio host
• Thomas Joseph McDonough (1911–1998), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Louisville
• Edward Norris (1911–2002), film actor
• Francis R. Smith (1911–1982), politician
• Silvan Tomkins (1911–1991), philosopher and psychologist, developer of affect theory
• Daniel J. Terra (1911–1996), chemist, entrepreneur, art collector and patron

1912

• Eve Arnold (1912–2012), photographer
• Rudy Bond (1912–1982), actor
• Richard Brooks (1912–1992), screenwriter, director and film producer
• William T. Cahill (1912–1996), politician
• Martin Gabel (1912–1986), actor, director and film producer
• Bertram Myron Gross (1912–1997), social scientist and systems theorist
• Henry Jones (1912–1999), actor
• Carl Lerner (1912–1973), film director, screenwriter and film editor
• Arthur Milgram (1912–1961), mathematician
• David Raksin (1912–2004), film music composer
• Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984), Protestant theologian
• Edward Francis Joseph Schlotterback (1912–1994), Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of Keetmanshoop
• Wilson Allen Wallis (1912-1998), economist

1913

John P. Robertson
(1913-1998)

• Laird Cregar (1913-1944), film actor
• C. West Churchman (1913-2004), philosopher and systems scientist
• Sidney Dancoff (1913–1951), theoretical physicist
• John Joseph Graham (1913–2000), Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Philadelphia
• Richard Helms (1913–2002), secret service official
• Walt Kelly (1913–1973), animator and cartoonist
• Martin Levey (1913–1970), chemical historian
• Willie Mosconi (1913-1993), pool player
• John P. Robertson (1913–1998), language teacher, diplomat and pioneer of executive search and outplacement
• Dennis Sandole (1913–2000), jazz guitarist and music teacher

1914

• Alice Arden (1914–2012), high jumper
• Manuel M. Baizer (1914-1988), chemist
• Raymond J. Broderick (1914–2000), lawyer and politician
• Morton DaCosta (1914–1989), actor and theater director
• Ziggy Elman (1914–1968), jazz trumpeter
• Tom Kelley (1914–1984), photographer
• Billy Kyle (1914–1966), swing jazz pianist
• William H. Meyer (1914–1983), politician
• Howard G. Minsky (1914-2008), film producer
• William H. Scheide (1914–2014), musicologist and patron
• Walter Seltzer (1914–2011), film producer and publicist
• Dorothy Short (1914–1963), actress
• Nedrick Young (1914–1968), film actor and screenwriter

1915

Billie Holiday
(1915-1959)

• Lyle Bettger (1915-2003), character actor
• James F. Elliott (1915–1981), athletics coach
• Malcolm Greany (1915–1999), nature photographer
• Billie Holiday (1915-1959), jazz singer
• Arnold Jacobs (1915–1998), musician
• Seymour S. Kety (1915-2000), psychiatrist and neuroscientist
• Martin Nodell (1915–2006), comic artist
• Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987), composer and professor
• Morton Smith (1915–1991), historian, theologian and university lecturer

1916

• Edward S. Aarons (1916-1975), writer
• Milton Babbitt (1916–2011), mathematician, music theorist and composer
• Edward Binns (1916–1990), stage, film and television actor
• Bill Doggett (1916-1996), musician
• Louis Faurer (1916–2001), photographer
• Sidney Glazier (1916–2002), manager and film producer
• Kermit Gordon (1916–1976), economist
• Helene Hanff (1916–1997), writer and screenwriter
• Bill Harris (1916–1973), jazz trombonist
• Evan C. Horning (1916-1993), chemist
• Nathan S. Kline (1916-1983), psychiatrist
• Robert G. Lewis (1916–2011), photographer, author and publisher
• John Macionis (1916–2012), swimmer
• N. Richard Nash (1916–2000), writer and screenwriter
• Charlie Ventura (1916–1992), jazz musician (tenor saxophone)
• Johann Wagner (1916–1976), American-Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament, member of the Federal Council

1917

• Johnny Acea (1917–1963), jazz musician
• Robert Aitken (1917–2010), literary scholar, peace activist and Zen teacher
• Sidney Fernbach (1917–1991), physicist
• Nathan Gershman (1917-2008), cellist
• David Goodis (1917-1967), writer
• Betty Holberton (1917–2001), computer scientist
• Gerald Vincent McDevitt (1917–1980), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Philadelphia
• Oscar Shumsky (1917–2000), violinist and music teacher
• Ernest Leo Unterkoefler (1917–1993), Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Charleston

1918

Jacqueline Susann
(1918–1974)

• Joseph Ashbrook (1918–1980), astronomer
• Simon Belasco (1918–1999), foreign language teacher, Romance philologist and phonetician
• Amos E. Joel (1918-2008), electrical engineer
• Eugene List (1918–1985), pianist and music teacher
• Angelo Musi (1918–2009), basketball player
• Dennis Patrick (1918–2002), actor
• Tommy Potter (1918–1988), jazz bassist
• William Craig Smith (1918–1986), production designer and art director
• Jacqueline Susann (1918–1974), actress and author

1919

• Russell Ackoff (1919–2009), organizational theorist
• Paul Bateman (1919–2012), mathematician
• Herbert B. Callen (1919–1993), theoretical physicist
• Joe Carroll (1919-1981), jazz singer
• Alexander Courage (1919–2008), composer of film music
• John Presper Eckert (1919–1995), computer pioneer
• Robert Enders (1919–2007), film producer, screenwriter and director
• Murray Grand (1919–2007), pianist and songwriter
• Edith Grosz (1919–2011), American-Dutch pianist
• Theodore E. Harris (1919-2005), mathematician
• Walter Isard (1919–2010), professor emeritus for economics and regional sciences
• Calvin Jackson (1919–1985), jazz pianist and film composer
• Sol Kaplan (1919–1990), pianist, conductor and film composer
• Ralph Levy (1919–2001), film director and television producer
• Martin Nicholas Lohmuller (1919–2017), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Philadelphia
• Leroy Lovett (1919–2013), jazz pianist and arranger
• Joe Masteroff (1919-2018), playwright (Cabaret)
• Mary Ann McCall (1919-1994), jazz singer
• Jimmy Nelson (1919–2007), blues singer and composer
• Frank Piasecki (1919–2008), engineer (helicopter development)
• Jean Vander Pyl (1919–1999), actress
• George W. Sarbacher (1919–1973), politician
• Phil Stern (1919–2014), photographer

1920

William Thaddeus Coleman
(1920-2017)

Robert Leckie
(1920-2001)

• Billy Beck (1920–2011), clown and actor
• Charles Hutchison Clark (1920–2009), author and management theorist
• William Thaddeus Coleman (1920–2017), Republican politician, lawyer, and business manager
• Stanley Corrsin (1920–1986), engineer
• Carl Kaysen (1920–2010), economist, author and government advisor
• John LaPorta (1920-2004), jazz clarinetist
• Robert Leckie (1920–2001), soldier, journalist and author
• Irving L. Lichtenstein (1920-2000), surgeon and pioneer in hernia surgery
• Lester Luborsky (1920–2009), psychotherapy researcher
• Walter B. Miller (1920–2004), ethnologist, sociologist and criminologist
• John Joseph O'Connor (1920-2000), Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of New York (1984-2000)
• Charlie Rice (1920–2018), jazz drummer
• Frank Rizzo (1920–1991), Police Chief and Mayor of Philadelphia
• Clara Schroth-Lomady (1920-2014), gymnast
• Frank Sheeran (1920–2003), mafiosi and contract killer of the Cosa Nostra
• Joseph Francis Smith (1920–1999), politician

1921-1930

1921

Joshua Eilberg
(1921-2004)

Mario Lanza
(1921-1959)

Ralph Shapey
(1921-2002)

• Roy Campanella (1921-1993), baseball player
• Warren Covington (1921–1999), trombonist, arranger and band leader
• Richard Deacon (1921-1984), actor
• Angelo Mario DiGeorge (1921–2009), doctor ( Di George Syndrome )
• Angelo Dundee (1921-2012), boxing coach
• Joshua Eilberg (1921-2004), politician
• Douglas Hemphill Elliott (1921-1960), politician
• Charles A. Ferguson (1921-1998), linguist
• Roberta Jonay (1921–1976), actress
• Frank Kilroy (1921–2007), American football player, coach and official
• Red Klotz (1921-2014), basketball player
• Mario Lanza (1921–1959), Italian-American tenor and actor
• Jim McKay (1921-2008), sports reporter and television presenter
• Robert Perloff (1921–2013), psychologist, professor of psychology
• Charles W. Sandman (1921–1985), politician
• Ralph Shapey (1921–2002), conductor and composer
• Paul Smith (1921-2007), artist
• Louis Sokoloff (1921-2015), neuroscientist
• Sydney Walker (1921–1994), actor

1922

• M. Robert Aaron (1922-2007), electrical engineer
• Beryl Booker (1922–1978), jazz pianist and composer
• E. Richard Cohen (* 1922), physicist
• Louis Anthony DeSimone (1922–2018), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Philadelphia
• John Ernest (1922–1994), painter, printmaker and relief artist
• Grayson Hall (1922–1985), actress
• Kitty Kallen (1922-2016), pop singer
• Nicholas Katzenbach (1922–2012), politician
• Bil Keane (1922-2011), cartoonist
• Jack Klugman (1922–2012), film and television actor
• Richard Lashof (1922-2010), mathematician
• Arthur Penn (1922-2010), director (New Hollywood)
• Sarai Sherman (1922–2013), painter and sculptor
• Frances Spence (1922–2012), programmer at ENIAC
• Lou Stein (1922–2002), jazz pianist and studio musician
• Joseph Stefano (1922-2006), screenwriter
• Walt Stickel (1922-1987), football player
• Nancy Walker (1922–1992), actress
• Paul Wendkos (1922–2009), director

1923

• Roscoe O. Brady (1923-2016), biochemist and geneticist
• David Bushnell (1923-2010), historian
• John P. Connell (1923-2015), actor
• Henry George Fischer (1923-2006), Egyptologist
• Bob Grossman (1923–2002), racing car driver
• William Guarnere (1923–2014), World War II veteran
• Frank Guarrera (1923-2007), opera singer (baritone)
• Julius Harris (1923-2004), actor
• Philly Joe Jones (1923–1985), jazz drummer
• Irvin Kershner (1923-2010), film director
• Herman Lukoff (1923–1979), computer pioneer
• Richard Wall Lyman (1923–2012), historian, President of Stanford University
• Abby Mann (1923–2008), screenwriter, film producer and director
• John Baptist Minder (1923–2009), Roman Catholic Bishop of Keimoes
• Robert Perew (1923-1999), rower
• Sheldon Reynolds (1923–2003), television producer, film director and screenwriter
• Vic Seixas (* 1923), tennis player
• David Soyer (1923–2010), cellist and music teacher
• David Bernard Thompson (1923–2013), Roman Catholic theologian, Bishop of Charleston

1924

Tom Lewis
(1924-2003)

• Marvin H. Albert (1924-1996), author
• Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007), fantasy writer
• Val Avery (1924–2009), actor
• John W. Backus (1924–2007), pioneer of computer science
• Marian Barone (1924–1996), gymnast
• Arthur Boucot (1924-2017), paleontologist
• Norman Fell (1924–1998), actor
• James Galanos (1924–2016), fashion designer and painter
• Gogi Grant (1924-2016), singer
• George Guida (1924-2015), sprinter
• Tom Lewis (1924-2003), politician
• Perry Lopez (* 1924), jazz guitarist
• Sidney Lumet (1924-2011), film director
• James N. Rosenau (1924–2011), political scientist
• Clara Ward (1924–1973), gospel singer, composer and arranger
• Jerry Yulsman (1924–1999), photographer and writer

1925

Edgar Ray Killen
(1925-2018)

Maxine Kumin
(1925-2014)

William Wharton
(1925-2008)

• Goler Teal Butcher (1925–1993), lawyer specializing in international law
• Billy Butler (1925-1991), guitarist
• Bill Carney (1925-2017), jazz musician
• Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925-1983), biochemist
• Cyrus Derman (1925-2011), mathematician
• Anthony Eisley (1925-2003), actor
• Alvan R. Feinstein (1925-2001), medical doctor
• Roger Gimbel (1925-2011), television producer
• Edgar Ray Killen (1925-2018), criminal, member of the Ku Klux Klan
• Maxine Kumin (1925–2014), poet and writer
• Elliot Lawrence (* 1925), jazz pianist, composer and conductor of film and drama music
• Bill Mackrides (1925-2019), American football player
• Jack Ramsay (1925-2014), basketball coach and sports commentator
• Arnold Schulman (* 1925), playwright, screenwriter, film producer, songwriter and writer
• Nick Travis (1925–1964), jazz musician
• Robert Venturi (1925–2018), architect
• George Wetherill (1925–2006), geophysicist and astronomer
• William Wharton (1925-2008), writer

1926

• Lou Bennett (1926–1997), Hammond organ player
• Charles Biddle (1926–2003), jazz bassist and impresario
• Willie Dennis (1926–1965), jazz trombonist
• Joshua Fishman (1926-2015), linguist
• Buddy Greco (1926–2017), singer and pianist
• Bob Haney (1926-2004), comic book writer
• Jimmy Heath (1926-2020), jazz musician
• Stan Levey (1926-2005), jazz drummer
• Jimmy Rowser (1926-2004), jazz bassist
• Francis Schulte (1926-2016), Roman Catholic Archbishop of New Orleans
• Joe Segal (1926-2020), jazz organizer
• Berl Senofsky (1926–2002), classical violinist and violin teacher
• David Tudor (1926–1996), pianist and one of the pioneers of electronic and experimental music in the 20th century
• Joseph Verdeur (1926–1991), swimmer

1927

Al Martino
(1927-2009)

• Ernie Andrews (* 1927), blues and jazz singer
• George Avery (1927-2004), Germanist
• Bill Barron (1927-1989), jazz saxophonist
• Dan Bucceroni (1927-2008), boxer
• Samuel Cummings (1927–1998), British arms dealer
• Stan Getz (1927-1991), tenor saxophonist
• Charles Katz (* 1927), mathematician and computer scientist
• John B. Kelly junior (1927–1985), rower, entrepreneur and sports official
• Murray Lerner (1927–2017), documentary film director, producer and screenwriter
• Al Martino (1927–2009), singer
• Thomas C. McGrath (1927–1994), politician
• Peter Mark Richman (born 1927), actor
• Red Rodney (1927-1994), jazz trumpeter
• Joseph Roman (1927-2018), actor
• Alvin Sargent (1927–2019), screenwriter
• Thornell Schwartz (1927–1977), jazz guitarist
• Donald E. Stokes (1927–1997), political scientist and election researcher
• C. Delores Tucker (1927–2005), politician and civil rights activist
• Specs Wright (1927–1963), jazz drummer

1928

Noam Chomsky
(* 1928)

Jacob Druckman
(1928-1996)

Thomas M. Foglietta
(1928-2004)

• Paul Arizin (1928-2006), basketball player
• Dave Black (1928–2006), drummer for swing and Dixieland jazz
• Anshel Brusilow (1928–2018), conductor and violinist
• Noam Chomsky (* 1928), linguist
• Jacob Druckman (1928–1996), composer and music teacher
• Eddie Fisher (1928-2010), singer and entertainer
• Thomas M. Foglietta (1928–2004), politician and diplomat
• Herman Foster (1928–1999), jazz musician and composer
• Moshe Greenberg (1928-2010), US-Israeli Jewish religious scholar, Judaicist, author and university professor
• Leonard Hayflick (* 1928), gerontologist
• Emmaline Henry (1928–1979), actress
• Harold Johnson (1928-2015), boxer
• Sidney Kimmel (* 1928), film producer, entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Robert Kraichnan (1928–2008), physicist
• Cal Massey (1928–1972), jazz musician (trumpet, keyboard)
• Daniel J. McCarty (born 1928), medical doctor
• Peter C. Nowell (1928–2016), pathologist and cancer researcher
• Vera Rubin (1928–2016), astronomer
• Joe Scarpa (1928-2012), wrestler
• Eugene Bertram Skolnikoff (* 1928), electrical engineer, political scientist and university professor
• Mary Simmons (born 1928), Canadian singer
• Lem Winchester (1928–1961), jazz vibraphonist and composer

1929

Grace Kelly
(1929-1982)

Richard T. Schulze
(* 1929)

• Amar G. Bose (1929–2013), electrical engineer
• Steve Davis (1929–1987), jazz musician
• Benny Golson (* 1929), tenor saxophonist, composer and arranger of hard bop
• Robert Gover (1929–2015), journalist and author
• Shafi Hadi (* 1929), jazz saxophonist
• Grace Kelly (1929–1982), actress, Princess of Monaco
• Richard T. Schulze (* 1929), politician
• Edith Windsor (1929-2017), LGBT activist
• Jimmy Woode (1929-2005), jazz double bass player

1930

Carol Chomsky
(1930-2008)

• Dave Amram (* 1930), jazz musician and composer
• Tommy Bryant (1930–1982), jazz bassist and pop singer
• Samuel Byck (1930–1974), hijacker
• Carol Chomsky (1930-2008), linguist
• Pete Conrad (1930-1999), astronaut
• Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007), chemist
• Barbara Clementine Harris (1930–2020), priestess in the Episcopal Church of the United States
• Al Jones (1930-1976), jazz drummer
• Richie Kamuca (1930–1977), jazz saxophonist
• George B. Kauffman (1930–2020), chemical historian and chemist
• Romulus Linney (1930-2011), screenwriter
• Bob Marcucci (1930–2011), music producer and promoter
• Charles Pollock (1930–2013), furniture designer
• Robert Prosky (1930–2008), actor
• Jerry Ragovoy (1930–2011), songwriter and music producer
• Herbert Scarf (1930–2015), mathematician and economist
• Martin Schechter (* 1930), mathematician
• Frank Shakespeare (* 1930), oarsman
• Jan Peter Toennies (* 1930), German-American physicist and chemist
• Gil Turner (1930-1996), boxer

1931-1940

1931

Herbert Wilf
(1931–2012)

• Reginald Edgar Allen (1931–2007), Graecist and historian of philosophy
• Eddie Barth (1931-2010), actor
• Donald Barthelme (1931–1989), writer
• Ernie Beck (born 1931), basketball player
• Ray Bryant (1931-2011), jazz pianist
• Walt Dickerson (1931–2008), jazz vibraphonist of modern jazz (hard bop, post bop)
• Jules Eskin (1931-2016), cellist
• Barry Feinstein (1931–2011), photographer
• Robert Gray Gallager (* 1931), electrical engineer
• Vincent Leaphart (1931–1985), founder of MOVE
• Paul Motian (1931–2011), jazz musician
• Arthur S. Obermayer (1931–2016), chemist, entrepreneur, genealogist and founder of the Obermayer German Jewish History Award presented in Berlin
• Alice Rivlin (1931–2019), manager and government official
• Jerry Segal (1931–1974), jazz drummer
• Richard Stites (1931–2010), historian and university professor
• Herbert Wilf (1931–2012), mathematician
• Jimmy Wisner (1931–2018), pianist, composer and arranger

1932

• Ben Bova (born 1932), science fiction author
• Paul R. Ehrlich (* 1932), biologist
• Peter Jannetta (1932-2016), neurosurgeon
• Richard Lester (* 1932), film director, producer and author
• Jerome Lowenthal (* 1932), pianist
• Elaine May (* 1932), actress, screenwriter and film director
• Anna Moffo (1932–2006), opera singer and actress
• Richie Rome (* 1932), music producer
• Bill Sharpe (* 1932), triple jumper

1933

• Rashied Ali (1933–2009), jazz musician
• Richard Barrett (1933-2006), music producer
• Billy Bean (1933-2012), jazz guitarist
• George Benton (1933–2011), boxer and boxing trainer
• Jimmy Bond (1933–2012), bassist and tuba player of modern jazz
• Edward Peter Cullen (* 1933), former Roman Catholic Bishop of Allentown
• Sally Deaver (1933–1963), ski racer
• Donald D. Dorfman (1933-2001), psychologist and radiologist
• Tom Gola (1933-2014), basketball player
• John Houston (born 1933), jazz pianist
• Robert M. Koerner (1933–2019), geotechnician
• William Link (* 1933), film producer and screenwriter
• Robert Patrick Maginnis (* 1933), Roman Catholic bishop
• John Ore (1933-2014), jazz bassist
• Trudy Pitts (1933-2010), jazz organist and pianist

1934

• Joey Ambrose (* 1934), saxophonist
• Donald Bailey (1934-2013), jazz drummer
• William Warren Bartley (1934–1990), philosopher
• Ruth Cernea (1934-2009), anthropologist
• Lois Duncan (1934–2016), children's and youth author
• Ira D. Gruber (* 1934), military historian and university professor
• Bill Gunn (1934–1989), actor, director and writer
• Warren Johansson (1934–1994), author and philologist
• Richard Levinson (1934–1987), screenwriter and film producer
• Billy Paul (1934-2016), singer
• Allan Porter (* 1934), Swiss photographer
• Billy Root (1934-2013), jazz saxophonist
• Shirley Scott (1934-2002), jazz organist
• Howard M. Temin (1934-1994), biologist
• Larry Tucker (1934-2001), screenwriter, actor, and producer

1935

Peter Boyle
(1935-2006)

• Edward Dickinson Blodgett (1935-2018), Canadian poet and literary scholar
• Peter Boyle (1935–2006), actor
• Victor Benito Galeone (* 1935), Roman Catholic Emeritus Bishop of Saint Augustine
• Michael Callan (born 1935), actor
• Tony Campolo (* 1935), Baptist theologian and sociologist
• Ted Curson (1935–2012), jazz musician
• David H. Geiger (1935–1989), civil engineer
• Henry Grimes (1935-2020), jazz bassist
• Tootie Heath (born 1935), jazz musician (drummer)
• Hal Lear (1935-2016), basketball player
• Giuseppi Logan (1935-2020), jazz musician
• Jack McDevitt (born 1935), science fiction author
• Sal Ponti (1935–1988), actor and screenwriter
• Sue Randall (1935–1984), actress
• Guy Rodgers (1935-2001), basketball player
• Bobby Timmons (1935–1974), jazz pianist and composer

1936

James Darren
(* 1936)

• Muhammad Ali (* 1936), jazz musician
• Skip Barber (* 1936), racing car driver
• Wilt Chamberlain (1936–1999), basketball player
• James Darren (born 1936), singer, actor and director
• Ira Davis (* 1936), triple jumper
• Buddy Deppenschmidt (* 1936), jazz musician
• James DePreist (1936–2013), conductor and music teacher
• William Wall Fortenbaugh (* 1936), classical philologist and historian of philosophy
• Charlie Gracie (born 1936), rockabilly musician
• George H. Heilmeier (1936–2014), engineer and businessman
• H. Ronald Kaback (1936-2019), biochemist
• Dan Landis (* 1936), psychologist and university professor
• Rudy Lewis (1936–1964), R&B singer
• Jimmy McGriff (1936–2008), blues, soul and jazz organist
• Carson Parks (1936–2005), singer and lyricist
• James W. Pulley (1936-2008), German singer
• Tucker Smith (1936–1988), actor and dancer
• Clifford Thornton (1936-1983), jazz trombonist and trumpeter
• Wilmer Wise (1936–2015), trumpeter

1937

Bill Cosby
(born 1937)

• Bootsie Barnes (1937-2020), jazz saxophonist
• Michael Barr (* 1937), mathematician
• Barry R. Bloom (born 1937), immunologist
• Ronald V. Book (1937-1997), computer scientist
• Bill Cosby (* 1937), comedian, actor, singer and book author
• Spanky DeBrest (1937-1973), jazz bassist
• Charles F. Dougherty (born 1937), politician
• Bobby Durham (1937-2008), jazz drummer
• Anna King (1937–2002), soul singer
• Harold Lawson (1937-2019), computer scientist
• Don Moore (* 1937), jazz musician
• Matt Robinson (1937–2002), actor, producer and screenwriter
• Richard H. Solomon (1937–2017), political scientist and diplomat
• Sandy Stewart (born 1937), singer
• Richard W. Thorington (1937-2017), mammal loge
• Jimmy Vass (1937-2006), jazz musician
• Reggie Workman (* 1937), jazz bassist and university professor

1938

• Ann Fetter Friedlaender (1938–1992), economist
• Joseph Anthony Galante (1938–2019), Roman Catholic Bishop of Camden
• William J. Green III (born 1938), politician
• Sherman Hemsley (1938–2012), actor
• Raymond F. Lederer (1938–2008), politician
• Matthew F. McHugh (born 1938), politician
• Lee Morgan (1938–1972), jazz trumpeter
• Tom Nicholas (* 1938), jazz drummer and percussionist
• John Eleuthère du Pont (1938-2010), ornithologist, conchologist and wrestling trainer; convicted murderer
• Peter Ponzol (* 1938), jazz musician and instrument developer
• Frank J. Sciulli (* 1938), experimental particle physicist
• Ray Scott (born 1938), basketball player
• Martin Sherman (* 1938), playwright and screenwriter
• McCoy Tyner (1938-2020), jazz pianist

1939

Ted Kaufman
(born 1939)

Frank Wolf
(* 1939)

• Herb Adderley (born 1939), American football player
• Barbara Chase-Riboud (* 1939), author, draftsman and sculptor
• Father John D'Amico (1939-2013), jazz pianist
• Sonny Fortune (1939–2018), jazz musician
• Ray Errol Fox (born 1939), journalist, songwriter and film producer
• Charles Fuller (born 1939), writer
• Barry Gerson (* 1939), avant-garde film artist, experimental filmmaker, photographer and film installer
• Oscar B. Goodman (born 1939), politician
• Dewey Johnson (1939-2018), jazz trumpeter
• Ted Kaufman (born 1939), politician
• Donald Kerr (* 1939), physicist
• Daniel Kevles (* 1939), historian of science
• David Koff (1939–2014), filmmaker, author and social activist
• Joseph Ligambi (* 1939), Italian-American mobster
• Mark Margolis (born 1939), actor
• Frank McCloskey (1939–2003), politician (Democratic Party)
• W. Michael Reisman (* 1939), legal scholar
• William G. Schilling (born 1939), actor
• Bill Toomey (* 1939), decathlete
• Frank Wolf (* 1939), politician

1940

Connie Mack
(* 1940)

• Frankie Avalon (* 1940), musician and actor
• Tyrone Brown (* 1940), jazz bassist
• Solomon Burke (1940–2010), singer and composer
• David Drasin (* 1940), mathematician
• Herbert Gintis (* 1940), economist
• Wayne Hightower (1940-2002), basketball player
• Connie Mack (* 1940), politician
• Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015), photojournalist
• JC Quinn (1940-2004), actor
• Peter Ryan (1940–1962), Canadian racing car driver
• Lew Tabackin (* 1940), big band leader, flutist and tenor saxophonist of jazz

1941-1950

1941

• Lynne Abraham (* 1941), prosecutor and politician
• Gloria Allred (* 1941), lawyer and civil rights activist
• Ed Bradley (1941-2006), journalist
• William Brock (* 1941), mathematician and economist
• Charles Earland (1941–1999), organist and saxophonist
• Barry Jenner (1941-2016), actor
• Judith Klinman (* 1941), chemist
• Alan Kotok (1941-2006), computer scientist
• Joe Renzetti (* 1941), film composer and musician
• K. Barry Sharpless (* 1941), chemist
• Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (* 1941), astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner
• Barry Trost (* 1941), chemist
• Jarvis Tyner (* 1941), politician
• Jeremiah Wright (born 1941), theologian

1942

Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky
(* 1942)

• Len Barry (* 1942), pop singer, songwriter, record producer and author
• Guion Bluford (born 1942), astronaut
• Paul Chernoff (1942–2017), mathematician
• Francis Xavier DiLorenzo (1942–2017), Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Richmond, Virginia
• Joseph Felsenstein (* 1942), evolutionary biologist and geneticist
• David F. Girard-diCarlo (* 1942), lawyer and diplomat
• Jeannine Gramick (* 1942), religious sister
• Wali Jones (born 1942), basketball player
• Victor J. Katz (* 1942), mathematician, mathematician and mathematician
• Leroy Kelly (born 1942), football player
• Byard Lancaster (1942–2012), jazz musician
• John Lehman (* 1942), investment banker and author
• Stephen Macht (* 1942), actor
• Richard Maynard (1942–2007), writer, television producer and educator
• Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (* 1942), university lecturer and politician
• Joseph Anthony Pepe (* 1942), Roman Catholic Bishop of Las Vegas
• Bobby Rydell (born 1942), singer and entertainer
• Richard Stephen Seminack (1942–2016), Ukrainian Catholic Bishop of Chicago
• Allan Snyder (* 1942), Australian brain researcher

1943

Robert Crumb
(* 1943)

Blythe Danner
(born 1943)

Jack O'Halloran
(* 1943)

• Kenny Barron (* 1943), jazz pianist and composer
• Toni Basil (* 1943), pop singer and choreographer
• Michael Joseph Bransfield (* 1943), Roman Catholic Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston
• Randy Brock (born 1943), politician, State Auditor from Vermont
• Allan Cole (1943–2019), science fiction and fantasy writer
• Jim Croce (1943–1973), singer and songwriter
• Robert Crumb (* 1943), artist, illustrator and comic artist
• Blythe Danner (* 1943), American actress of German descent
• Robert W. Edgar (1943–2013), politician
• Fabian (* 1943), singer
• Joseph Fitzmartin (* 1943), composer and conductor
• Lucy Lee Flippin (born 1943), actress
• Kenny Gamble (* 1943), soul producer and songwriter
• Joseph R. Garber (1943-2005), author
• Charles Hallahan (1943–1997), actor
• Veronica Hamel (born 1943), actress
• Lois Hamilton (1943–1999), actress
• Chuck Hughes (1943–1971), American football player and the only NFL player to die on the field while a game was in progress
• Judith Jamison (* 1943), dancer and choreographer
• John Mercanti (* 1943), engraver and visual artist
• Michael Myers (* 1943), politician (Democratic Party)
• Jack O'Halloran (born 1943), actor and heavyweight boxer
• Ron Previte (1943-2017), Mobster
• Holland Taylor (born 1943), actress
• Kathryn Walker (born 1943), actress

1944

Michael Buffer
(* 1944)

• Edward Joseph Adams (* 1944), Roman Catholic clergyman and apostolic nuncio in Greece
• Michael Buffer (born 1944), entertainer
• Caleb Deschanel (* 1944), cameraman and film director
• Robert Dobkin (* 1944), entrepreneur, developer of analog integrated circuits (IC)
• Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), physicist and chaos theorist
• Joel Fein (1944–2007), sound engineer
• Sherman Ferguson (1944-2006), jazz drummer
• B. Glenn-Copeland (* 1944), singer-songwriter and film composer
• Matt Guokas (born 1944), basketball player
• Butch Kellem (* 1944), jazz and entertainment musician
• Patti LaBelle (born 1944), singer
• Pat Martino (* 1944), jazz guitarist
• Bill Melchionni (* 1944), basketball player
• Earl Monroe (born 1944), basketball player
• Melvyn Nathanson (born 1944), mathematician
• Alan Needleman (* 1944), engineering scientist
• Francis R. Nicosia (* 1944), historian
• Roger David Nussbaum (* 1944), mathematician
• Judith Rodin (* 1944), psychologist and philanthropist
• Melvyn J. Shochet (* 1944), physicist
• Matthew W. Stolper (* 1944), Assyriologist
• William D. Strecker (* 1944), computer engineer
• James Wallington (1944-1988), boxer

1945

Bob Brady
(born 1945)

• Joe Beck (1945–2008), jazz and fusion guitarist
• Bob Brady (born 1945), politician
• Randy Brecker (* 1945), jazz trumpeter
• David Bromberg (* 1945), multi-instrumentalist and singer
• Robert Conti (* 1945), jazz musician
• Gerald Dolan (1945-2008), physicist
• John Doman (born 1945), actor
• Tav Falco (* 1945), psychobilly musician
• Lee Felsenstein (* 1945), computer developer
• Shirley Franklin (* 1945), politician
• Martin Golubitsky (* 1945), mathematician
• Chris Matthews (born 1945), television presenter
• Diane Renay (born 1945), pop singer
• Mary Jane Reoch (1945–1993), racing cyclist
• Linda Rothschild (* 1945), mathematician
• Dee Dee Sharp (* 1945), pop and rhythm & blues singer
• Jack Sholder (* 1945), film and television director and screenwriter
• Tammi Terrell (1945–1970), soul and R&B singer
• Gail Zappa (1945–2015), entrepreneur

1946

Bruce Davison
(* 1946)

• Jeffrey B. Berlin (* 1946), literary scholar and Germanist
• Robert F. Colesberry (1946–2004), film producer and actor
• Merrill Cook (born 1946), politician
• Francis Davis (* 1946), author and journalist
• Bruce Davison (born 1946), actor
• Denny Dias (* 1946), musician
• Ralston Farina (1946–1985), performance artist
• Marsha Hunt (* 1946), singer, writer, actress and photo model
• Jack Kehler (born 1946), actor
• Ray Kennedy (1946-2014), singer
• Nancy Kilpatrick (* 1946), American-Canadian writer
• Randal Kleiser (* 1946), film director, actor and film producer
• Joseph Francis Martino (* 1946), Roman Catholic emeritus bishop of Scranton
• John Morgan (born 1946), mathematician
• Lambert Orkis (* 1946), pianist
• Stuart Pankin (born 1946), actor and voice actor
• Stephen Rerych (born 1946), swimmer
• Walter Satterthwait (1946–2020), crime writer
• Sid Simmons (1946-2010), jazz pianist
• Stanley Whitney (born 1946), painter
• Sharon Zukin (* 1946), sociologist and university professor

1947

Alan Soble
(born 1947)

• Richard Amsel (1947–1985), illustrator and graphic designer
• Marki Bey (* 1947), actress
• George Bishop (1947-2005), saxophonist
• John Blake (1947-2014), jazz violinist
• Larry Cannon (born 1947), basketball player
• Norman Connors (* 1947), jazz musician (drums, composition, arrangement) and music producer
• Marilyn Crispell (* 1947), pianist
• Steven E. de Souza (* 1947), screenwriter, producer and director
• Stephen Goldin (born 1947), science fiction author
• Ervin Hall (born 1947), hurdler
• Greg Herbert (1947–1978), jazz musician
• Greg Irons (1947–1984), cartoonist and tattoo artist
• Daniel Kubert (1947-2010), mathematician
• Joan La Barbara (* 1947), singer and composer
• Barbara Mason (* 1947), R&B and soul singer
• Joseph Patrick McFadden (1947–2013), Roman Catholic Bishop of Harrisburg
• James Morrow (born 1947), science fiction writer
• James Mtume (* 1947), jazz and funk musician
• Herbert Muschamp (1947–2007), architecture critic
• Marion Ramsey (born 1947), actress
• Stephen A. Schwarzman (* 1947), entrepreneur, investment banker and patron
• Linda Sharrock (* 1947), jazz singer
• Alan Soble (* 1947), philosopher and sex researcher
• David E. Stone (born 1947), sound engineer

1948

John de Lancie
(born 1948)

James Rebhorn
(1948-2014)

• Donald S. Bethune (* 1948), physicist
• Larry Bishop (born 1948), actor
• Robert A. Borski (* 1948), politician
• Mark Braverman (born 1948), psychologist
• Patricia Hill Collins (* 1948), sociologist
• Marc Copland (* 1948), jazz pianist
• Barbara Grosz (* 1948), computer scientist
• Charles Horter (* 1948), regatta sailor
• Joseph R. Lakowicz (* 1948), biochemist
• John de Lancie (born 1948), actor
• Michael Medved (* 1948), talk radio host, film critic and author
• James Rebhorn (1948-2014), actor
• Mike Richmond (* 1948), jazz bassist
• Todd Rundgren (* 1948), musician, lyricist and producer
• Peggy Stern (* 1948), jazz pianist and keyboardist
• Raymond Joseph Teller (* 1948), comedian of Russian-Cuban descent
• John Whitehead (1948-2004), R&B musician and producer

1949

Richard Gere
(* 1949)

• Sheldon Axler (* 1949), mathematician
• Michael Brecker (1949-2007), tenor saxophonist
• Philip Casnoff (born 1949), actor
• Joseph Robert Cistone (1949–2018), Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Saginaw
• Tom Corbett (born 1949), politician
• Linda Creed (1949–1986), poet
• Mason Daring (* 1949), composer
• Wilhelmenia Fernandez (* 1949), opera singer
• Richard Gere (born 1949), actor
• Phyllis Hyman (1949–1995), R&B and jazz singer
• Keith (born 1949), singer
• Sandy Martin (born 1949), actress
• Nancy Meyers (* 1949), director, film producer and screenwriter
• Gary K. Michelson (born 1949), medical doctor
• Tyrone Simmons (* 1949), fencer
• Anne Spielberg (* 1949), screenwriter and film producer
• Margaret Whitton (1949-2016), actress

1950

Douglas Lenat
(born 1950)

• Ellie Daniel (born 1950), swimmer
• Charles Fambrough (1950–2011), jazz bassist and composer
• Gary Fanelli (born 1950), American Samoan athlete
• James Patrick Green (born 1950), diplomat of the Holy See; Roman Catholic Archbishop
• Anthony Hall (born 1950), javelin thrower
• Joe Hoeffel (born 1950), politician
• Douglas Lenat (* 1950), researcher in the field of artificial intelligence
• Francis Malone (born 1950), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Shreveport
• Steve McCurry (* 1950), photographer and photojournalist
• Hugh McDonald (born 1950), bassist
• Jon Polito (1950–2016), actor
• Martha Schwartz (* 1950), landscape architect and university lecturer
• Michael Swanwick (* 1950), fantasy and science fiction writer
• Lee Ving (born 1950), singer, guitarist, producer and actor
• Seth Winston (1950–2015), screenwriter, director and film producer

1951-1960

1951

James C. Greenwood
(born 1951)

• Jeanne Birdsall (* 1951), children's book author
• Dan Bricklin (* 1951), programmer
• Gerry Brown (* 1951), jazz drummer
• George Brunner (* 1951), composer, musician and music producer
• Stanley Clarke (born 1951), bassist
• Paul J. DiMaggio (* 1951), sociologist
• James C. Greenwood (born 1951), politician
• Alphonso Johnson (* 1951), jazz bassist
• Sabir Mateen (* 1951), jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist
• Michael Peskin (* 1951), theoretical physicist
• Joel Polis (* 1951), actor and film producer
• Judi Silvano (* 1951), jazz singer and dancer
• Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987), jazz bassist
• Albert Wynn (* 1951), politician
• Robert D. Yeoman (* 1951), cameraman
• Karen Young (1951–1991), disco singer and pianist

1952

• James P. Bagian (* 1952), astronaut
• Anita DeFrantz (* 1952), rower and sports official
• Robert Donatucci (1952-2010), politician
• Buster Drayton (* 1952), light middleweight boxer and IBF world champion
• Marshall Herskovitz (* 1952), film producer and director
• William Kinderman (* 1952), musicologist and pianist
• Jeff Lorber (* 1952), keyboardist
• Bill Magarity (* 1952), basketball player and coach
• Ted Malloch (* 1952), entrepreneur, university professor and book author
• Melanie Mayron (* 1952), actress, director, screenwriter and film producer
• Anna Quindlen (* 1952), journalist and writer
• Francesca Rochberg (* 1952), science historian
• Susan Seidelman (* 1952), film director
• Parker Stevenson (born 1952), actor
• Monnette Sudler (* 1952), jazz musician

1953

Robert Picardo
(* 1953)

• Steven A. Balbus (* 1953), astrophysicist
• Eric Bazilian (* 1953), musician, songwriter, arranger and producer
• Jimmy Bruno (* 1953), jazz guitarist, teacher and author
• April Clough (born 1953), actress
• Daniel Dombrowski (* 1953), philosopher at Seattle University
• Robert Espeseth (* 1953), rower
• David First (born 1953), composer
• Andy Hertzfeld (* 1953), software developer
• Elliott Levin (* 1953), jazz musician
• Andy McKee (* 1953), jazz bassist
• Robert Picardo (born 1953), actor
• Richard Potts (* 1953), paleoanthropologist
• Bill Purcell (born 1953), politician; Mayor of Nashville
• Howard Roffman (* 1953), nude photographer
• Lawrence Venuti (* 1953), English studies specialist, translation scholar and translator

1954

Bob McDonnell
(born 1954)

• Mumia Abu-Jamal (* 1954), journalist, author and civil rights activist
• Joe Bryant (born 1954), basketball player
• Ashton Carter (born 1954), politician
• Dennis DeTurck (* 1954), mathematician
• Dwight Evans (born 1954), politician
• Eliot Fisk (* 1954), guitarist
• Herman Frazier (* 1954), track and field athlete and Olympic champion
• Kenneth Frazier (* 1954), manager
• David Gabai (* 1954), mathematician
• Michael Harris (* 1954), mathematician
• Clark Johnson (born 1954), actor, director and television producer
• Michael P. Kube-McDowell (* 1954), author
• Bob Malach (* 1954), jazz saxophonist
• Robert McDonnell (* 1954), politician
• Matthew Saad Muhammad (1954-2014), boxer
• Alan Poul (* 1954), director and producer
• Chip Robinson (* 1954), racing car driver
• Eddie Rouse (1954-2014), actor
• Michael Sembello (* 1954), singer and musician
• Kirk Simon (1954–2018), film director, film producer and author
• Annie Sprinkle (* 1954), prostitute, stripper, porn actress, television presenter, editor of a porn magazine, author, performance artist and sex educator
• Brooks Tegler (* 1954), jazz drummer and band leader

1955

Andrew M. Allen
(* 1955)

• Andrew M. Allen (* 1955), astronaut
• Reuven Amitai (* 1955), American-Israeli historian
• Steve Berlin (* 1955), rock saxophonist and producer
• Andy Breckman (* 1955), screenwriter and sketch writer as well as television producer
• Dennis Christopher (born 1955), actor
• Tony DiLeo (* 1955), basketball coach
• Nathan East (* 1955), jazz musician
• Robin Eubanks (* 1955), jazz trombonist
• Alison Gopnik (* 1955), cognitive psychologist
• Dante Luciani , jazz musician
• David Mirkin (* 1955), director, film producer and screenwriter
• David Michael O'Connell (born 1955), Roman Catholic Bishop of Trenton
• Mike Rossman (* 1955), boxer and WBA light heavyweight champion
• Mark Schultz (* 1955), comic book author and illustrator
• Lisa Scottoline (* 1955), lawyer and writer
• Peter Y. Solmssen (* 1955), American-German manager
• Gerald Veasley (* 1955), fusion jazz bassist

1956

Audrey Landers
(born 1956)

• Amin Ali (* 1956), fusion musician
• Uri Caine (* 1956), pianist and keyboardist who is at home in both jazz and classical music
• Jeff Chandler (born 1956), WBA bantamweight boxing champion
• Michael Connelly (born 1956), writer
• Chaka Fattah (* 1956), politician
• Adam Gopnik (* 1956), Canadian-born American writer, essayist and commentator
• David Hahn (* 1956), composer, guitarist, lutenist and mandolinist
• Audrey Landers (born 1956), actress
• Steven Langnas (* 1956), American-Swiss rabbi
• Bob Saget (* 1956), actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, stand-up comedian and presenter
• Joni Sledge (1956-2017), musician
• Sumi Tonooka (* 1956), pianist, lecturer and composer
• Hal Willner (1956-2020), music producer
• Marlene Zuk (* 1956), evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist
• Samuel Zygmuntowicz (* 1956), violin maker

1957

• David Bey (1957-2017), heavyweight boxer
• Michael Francis Burbidge (born 1957), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Arlington
• Debra Chasnoff (1957–2017), documentary filmmaker and Oscar winner
• Leda Cosmides (* 1957), psychologist
• David Crane (* 1957), screenwriter and film producer
• Kevin Eubanks (* 1957), jazz guitarist
• Jesse Ferguson (born 1957), boxer
• Paul Garrin (* 1957), video artist
• Bruce Graham (born 1957), screenwriter
• Scott J. Horowitz (* 1957), astronaut
• Zane Massey (* 1957), jazz musician
• Michael J. Lewis (* 1957), architectural historian
• Michael Nutter (* 1957), politician
• Cornell Rochester (* 1957), fusion and jazz musician
• Jeffrey Shallit (* 1957), mathematician and computer scientist
• Peter Shub (* 1957), clown and variety show director
• Melinda Wagner (* 1957), composer
• Tim Witherspoon (* 1957), world heavyweight boxing champion

1958

Kevin Bacon
(* 1958)

Joan Jett
(born 1958)

• Kevin Bacon (born 1958), actor, director and producer
• Michael Brooks (1958-2016), basketball player
• Charlie Brown (* 1958), lightweight boxer with normal boom
• Karen Cellini (born 1958), actress
• Susan Wheeler Duff (born 1958), actress
• Morgan Griffith (born 1958), politician
• Kevin Hooks (* 1958), actor, film and television director
• Joan Jett (* 1958), rock singer and guitarist
• Jef Lee Johnson (1958-2013), guitarist
• Judy Landers (born 1958), actress
• Scott Patterson (born 1958), actor
• Tina Seelig (* 1958), industrial engineer
• Craig Shoemaker (born 1958), comedian and actor
• Nancy Spungen (1958–1978), manager, friend of punk musician Sid Vicious
• Raymond A. Thomas (* 1958), General
• Papo Vázquez (* 1958), jazz and salsa musician
• Julia Wolfe (* 1958), composer

1959

John Adler
(1959-2011)

Thomas F. Wilson
(* 1959)

• John Adler (1959–2011), politician
• Clarissa Burt (* 1959), actress and model
• Aminta H. Breaux (* 1959), psychologist and first president of Bowie State University
• John Corabi (* 1959), guitarist and singer
• Lee Daniels (* 1959), film producer, film director and actor
• John Di Martino (* 1959), jazz musician
• David DiVincenzo (* 1959), physicist
• Carol Goodman (* 1959), writer and lecturer in creative writing
• Charles M. Lieber (* 1959), chemist and physicist
• Kate McNeil (born 1959), actress
• Rand Miller (* 1959), co-founder of the computer game company Cyan Worlds
• Michael Mossman (* 1959), jazz musician
• Scott L. Schwartz (* 1959), actor, stuntman, director, screenwriter and producer
• Daniel Edward Thomas (* 1959), Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Toledo
• Murray Waas (* around 1959), journalist
• Calvin Weston (* 1959), drummer for funk jazz
• Thomas F. Wilson (* 1959), actor, comedian and voice actor

1960

• Victor Bailey (1960–2016), bass guitarist
• Jim Beard (* 1960), keyboard player and music producer
• Tyrell Biggs (born 1960), boxer
• Steve Bisciotti (born 1960), businessman, entrepreneur and owner of the NFL team Baltimore Ravens
• Gia Carangi (1960–1986), photo model
• Jay Caufield (born 1960), ice hockey player
• Timothy Christian Senior (* 1960), Roman Catholic Bishop
• Linda Fiorentino (born 1960), actress
• Marvis Frazier (* 1960), heavyweight boxer
• Rodney Kendrick (* 1960), jazz musician
• Aaron Jay Kernis (* 1960), composer
• Veit Krenn (* 1960), German pathologist
• Joseph Laurinaitis (born 1960), wrestler
• Stacy Levy (* 1960), sculptor and Land Art artist
• David Miscavige (* 1960), Scientologist
• Wallace Roney (1960-2020), jazz trumpeter
• Neil Shubin (* 1960), paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
• Stewart Wallace (born 1960), composer
• Michael Wolf (* 1960), mathematician

1961-1970

1961

Kim Delaney
(born 1961)

• Kim Delaney (born 1961), actress
• Christopher Ferguson (born 1961), astronaut
• Philip Gourevitch (* 1961), author and journalist
• Paul Halpern (* 1961), physicist
• Robert Hines (born 1961), boxer
• Gene Jackson (born 1961), jazz drummer
• Paul McCrane (born 1961), actor
• Jay Rosen (* 1961), jazz musician

1962

Lisa P. Jackson
(born 1962)

HR McMaster
(* 1962)

Lisa Blunt Rochester
(* 1962)

• Jonathan Elliott (born 1962), composer
• Lisa P. Jackson (* 1962), chemical engineer and environmental politician
• Tamara Jenkins (* 1962), screenwriter, actress and director
• Nathaniel Kahn (* 1962), screenwriter, director and film producer
• HR McMaster (* 1962), General and appointed US security advisor
• Joey Merlino (* 1962), mobster
• Lisa Blunt Rochester (* 1962), politician
• Ray Staszak (born 1962), ice hockey player
• Brian Sullivan (born 1962), manager

1963

• Mike Fitzpatrick (1963-2020), politician
• Richard Garfield (* 1963), game developer
• Darryl Hall (* 1963), jazz musician
• Lafayette Harris (* 1963), jazz musician
• Johnny Hotbody (born 1963), boxer
• Alicia Levy (1963–2007), blues singer and guitarist
• Ellen Lupton (* 1963), graphic designer and author
• Joe Matt (born 1963), cartoonist
• John Joseph McIntyre (born 1963), Roman Catholic bishop
• Nate Miller (born 1963), boxer
• Freddie Pendleton (* 1963), lightweight boxer
• Charles Pettigrew (1963-2001), singer
• Mike Powell (born 1963), track and field athlete
• Antoine Roney (* 1963), jazz saxophonist
• The Sandman (born 1963), wrestler
• Terri Schiavo (1963–2005), coma patient who was present in the media due to legal disputes over her life

1964

• Marsha Cottrell (* 1964), artist
• Kate DiCamillo (born 1964), writer
• Kate Flannery (born 1964), actress
• Kim Gallagher (1964–2002), track and field athlete and Olympian
• Ralph Garman (born 1964), actor
• Molly McCloskey (born 1964), writer
• Holly Robinson Peete (born 1964), actress
• Lisa Peluso (born 1964), actress
• Tammy Tiehel (* 1964), film producer and film manager
• Tom Verica (born 1964), actor
• Crystal Waters (born 1964), house singer
• Danny Woodburn (born 1964), actor

1965

• DJ Jazzy Jeff (* 1965), DJ and music producer
• Rich Gannon (born 1965), American football player
• Deborah Harkness (* 1965), science historian and writer
• Bernard Hopkins (born 1965), boxer
• Steve Little (1965-2000), boxer
• Clayton Prince (born 1965), actor
• Rod Rosenstein (* 1965), lawyer
• Karen Malina White (born 1965), actress
• Michael Worth (born 1965), actor
• Vincent Young (born 1965), actor
• Spantaneeus Xtasy (* 1965), porn actress

1966

• David Berkoff (born 1966), swimmer
• Sean M. Carroll (* 1966), astrophysicist
• Gary Dourdan (* 1966), actor and musician
• Bo Kimble (born 1966), basketball player
• Andrew Newberg (* 1966), neuroscientist and religious scholar
• Pooh Richardson (born 1966), basketball player
• Meldrick Taylor (born 1966), boxer

1967

• William Guthrie (born 1967), boxer
• Rodney Harvey (1967–1998), actor and model
• Randi Ingerman (born 1967), actress
• Jeffrey McDaniel (born 1967), author
• Michael Sussman (* 1967), screenwriter and film producer
• JD Walter (* 1967), jazz singer

1968

Will Smith
(* 1968)

• Patrick Brosnan (* 1968), mathematician
• Edna Campbell (* 1968), basketball player
• Jon Drummond (born 1968), sprinter
• Samuel Fogarino (* 1968), drummer
• Jennifer Chambers Lynch (* 1968), director and screenwriter
• Adam McKay (* 1968), screenwriter, film producer and film director
• Ken Ono (* 1968), mathematician
• Gregory Pardlo (* 1968), author and university professor
• Lionel Simmons (born 1968), basketball player
• Will Smith (* 1968), actor and rapper
• Mathew St. Patrick (born 1968), actor
• Paul F. Tompkins (* 1968), actor, screenwriter, film producer and comedian
• Erik Williams (born 1968), football player

1969

• Steady B (* 1969), rapper and producer
• Charles Brewer (* 1969), super middleweight boxer
• Andrew Bryniarski (born 1969), actor
• Dominic Comperatore (born 1969), actor
• Colman Domingo (* 1969), actor, dancer, playwright, theater director and singer
• Duane Eubanks (* 1969), jazz trumpeter
• Dan Faulk (* 1969), jazz musician and university professor
• Erin Hartwell (* 1969), track cyclist and cycling trainer
• Michael Kelly (born 1969), actor
• Byron Landham (* 1969), jazz musician
• Silas Weir Mitchell (born 1969), actor
• Christine O'Donnell (* 1969), politician

1970

Tom Rooney
(* 1970)

• Jonathan Brown (* 1970), cameraman
• Dwayne Burno (1970-2013), jazz musician
• Robert Hawkins (born 1970), boxer
• John Hennigan (born 1970), poker player
• Andrew A. Kosove (* 1970), film producer
• Michelle Malkin (born 1970), columnist
• Ned McGowan (* 1970), flautist and composer
• Eric Owens (* 1970), opera and concert singer
• Eric Reed (* 1970), jazz pianist and composer
• Tom Rooney (* 1970), politician
• Kurt Rosenwinkel (* 1970), jazz guitarist
• Daniel Spielman (* 1970), mathematician and computer scientist
• Dawn Staley (* 1970), basketball player and coach
• Wrath James White (born 1970), writer
• Scott Wiener (* 1970), politician
• Josh Wink (* 1970), musician
• Lawrence Zazzo (* 1970), opera singer

1971-1980

1971

April Hunter
(* 1971)

• Shari Albert (born 1971), actress
• Jay Ashley (* 1971), porn director and actor
• Farid Barron (* 1971), jazz pianist
• Rebecca Creskoff (* 1971), actress
• Jared Hasselhoff (* 1971), bassist
• April Hunter (born 1971), wrestler
• Ross Katz (* 1971), film producer and film director
• Lisa Lopes (1971–2002), singer and rapper ( TLC )
• Nathan Morris (* 1971), singer and member of the Boyz II Men group
• Marc Nelson (born 1971), singer, front man of the group Az Yet
• Questlove (* 1971), drummer and music producer
• Stevie Richards (born 1971), wrestler
• Ivan Robinson (born 1971), boxer
• Michael Rubin (* 1971), university professor, author and military advisor
• Daniel Traub (* 1971), photographer and filmmaker

1972

Stephen Susco
(* 1972)

• Bahamadia (born 1972), rapper
• Warren Lyford DeLano (1972-2009), bioinformatician
• Eric Harding (born 1972), boxer
• Marvin Harrison (born 1972), football player
• Jules Jordan (* 1972), porn director, actor and producer
• Kurupt (* 1972), rapper
• Christian McBride (* 1972), jazz bassist
• Aaron McKie (born 1972), basketball player
• Jill Scott (born 1972), singer
• LaMont Smith (* 1972), track and field athlete and Olympic champion
• Sonya Smith (born 1972), actress
• JC Spink (1972-2017), film producer
• Shawn Stockman (* 1972), R&B / soul singer and member of the boy group Boyz II Men
• Stephen Susco (* 1972), screenwriter, film producer and director
• Black Thought (born 1972), rapper
• Lüpüs Thünder (* 1972), guitarist
• Fran Wilde (* 1972), science fiction and fantasy writer

1973

Maureen Johnson
(* 1973)

• Dawn Burrell (* 1973), long jumper
• Brian Fitzpatrick (* 1973), politician
• Eddie George (born 1973), American football player
• Adam Goldstein (1973–2009), musician, DJ and music producer
• Micah Hauptman (born 1973), actor
• Ari Hoenig (* 1973), jazz musician
• Maureen Johnson (* 1973), writer
• Amel Larrieux (* 1973), singer and singer-songwriter
• John Mackey (* 1973), composer
• Wanyá Morris (* 1973), singer and front man of the Boyz II Men group
• Patrick Murphy (* 1973), politician
• Fred Raskin (* 1973), film editor
• David Reid (born 1973), boxer
• Jose Antonio Rivera (born 1973), boxer

1974

Seth Green
(born 1974)

• Jennifer Allora (* 1974), visual artist in Puerto Rico
• Charli Baltimore (* 1974), rapper and model
• Seth Green (born 1974), actor
• Matthias Kannengiesser (* 1974), German author and specialist journalist of IT specialist books
• Joe Madureira (* 1974), comic artist
• Glenn Nye (* 1974), politician
• Malik Rose (* 1974), basketball player
• Beanie Sigel (* 1974), rapper
• Rasheed Wallace (born 1974), basketball player

1975

• Eugene Byrd (born 1975), actor
• Bradley Cooper (born 1975), actor
• Marc Jackson (* 1975), basketball player
• Cuttino Mobley (* 1975), basketball player
• Thomas Shimada (* 1975), Japanese tennis player

1976

• Johnathan Blake (* 1976), jazz drummer
• Steve Cunningham (born 1976), boxer
• Danny Fortson (born 1976), basketball player
• Ro Khanna (* 1976), politician
• Joey Lawrence (born 1976), actor; Brother of Andrew and Matthew
• Kelly Monaco (* 1976), model, playmate and actress
• Lynard Stewart (born 1976), basketball player

1977

Brendan Boyle
(born 1977)

Jane McGonigal
(born 1977)

• Brendan Boyle (* 1977), politician
• Eddie Gustafsson (* 1977), Swedish football goalkeeper
• Michael-Hakim Jordan (* 1977), basketball player
• Khia (* 1977), rapper and music producer
• Rob McElhenney (born 1977), actor, screenwriter and producer
• Jane McGonigal (* 1977), computer game developer and author
• Katherine Moennig (* 1977) 'actress
• Chaz Lamar Shepherd (born 1977), actor
• Musiq Soulchild (* 1977), soul and R&B singer
• Mary Elizabeth Williams (born 1977), opera singer
• Jaguar Wright (* 1977), contemporary R&B and jazz singer

1978

Jessica Barth
(* 1978)

Kobe Bryant
(1978-2020)

Eve
(* 1978)

• Jessica Barth (* 1978), actress
• Mohini Bhardwaj (* 1978), gymnast and silver medalist in 2000
• Kobe Bryant (1978-2020), basketball player
• DJ drama (* 1978), disc jockey and music producer
• Eve (* 1978 as Eve Jihan Jeffers ), rapper and actress
• Dave Home (* 1978), singer
• Ryan C. Gordon (born 1978), programmer
• Amos Lee (* 1978), singer-songwriter and guitarist
• Mark Matkevich (born 1978), actor
• Irene Molloy (* 1978), actress and singer
• Andrea Nahrgang (* 1978), biathlete
• Robin Wasserman (* 1978), fantasy author

1979

• Chris Albright (* 1979), soccer player
• Bilal (* 1979), soul singer and songwriter
• Sean Costello (1979–2008), blues and soul singer
• Freeway (born 1979), rapper
• Mark Gerban (* 1979), first rower to compete in world championships for the State of Palestine
• Vivian Green (* 1979), R&B singer
• Kevin Hart (* 1979), actor and comedian
• Derrick Hodge (* 1979), jazz musician
• Ronald Murray (* 1979), basketball player
• Joanna Pascale (* 1979), jazz singer
• John Salmons (born 1979), basketball player

1980

• Chris Beck (* ≈1980), jazz musician
• George Burton (* ≈1980), jazz musician
• Sarah Chang (* 1980), violinist
• Brian Marsella (* around 1980), musician
• Keith Powell (born around 1980), actor
• Malik Scott (* 1980), heavyweight boxer
• Jennifer Shahade (* 1980), chess and poker player

1981-1990

1981

• Scott Aaronson (* 1981), computer scientist
• Rock Allen (born 1981), boxer
• Blake Bashoff (born 1981), actor
• Stephen Costello (* 1981), singer (tenor)
• Kyle Eckel (born 1981), football player
• D'or Fischer (* 1981), American-Israeli basketball player
• Chris Kluwe (* 1981), American football player
• Gregory Michael (born 1981), actor
• Michael Rady (born 1981), actor
• Reef the Lost Cauze (born 1981), hip-hop artist
• Dan Trachtenberg (* 1981), film and television director
• Anthony Thompson (born 1981), boxer
• Paul Volpe (* 1981), poker player

1982

Lauren Cohan
(* 1982)

Katie Walder
(* 1982)

• Cassidy (* 1982), rap musician
• Lauren Cohan (born 1982), actress
• Eddie Griffin (1982-2007), basketball player
• Tara Lipinski (* 1982), figure skater
• Dawan Robinson (born 1982), basketball player
• Katie Walder (born 1982), actress

1983

• Bobby Convey (born 1983), soccer player
• Michael Cuffee (born 1983), basketball player
• Jahri Evans (born 1983), American football player
• Stephanie Gatschet (* 1983), actress
• Brent Grimes (born 1983), American football player
• Paul Johnson (born 1983), basketball player
• Nicole Kornher-Stace (* 1983), writer
• Roxy Reynolds (born 1983), porn actress
• Roscoe (born 1983), rapper
• Amber Rose (born 1983), model
• Steven Smith (born 1983), basketball player

1984

• Eddie Alvarez (* 1984), mixed martial arts fighter
• Mardy Collins (born 1984), basketball player
• Eric Froehlich (* 1984), poker player
• Bryant Jennings (* 1984), heavyweight boxer
• Alison Klayman (* 1984), documentary filmmaker and journalist
• Erin Krakow (* 1984), actress
• Joanna Pacitti (* 1984), pop-rock singer and actress
• Lenny Platt (born 1984), actor
• Michael Grant Terry (born 1984), actor

1985

• Tyrone Brunson (born 1985), boxer
• Jason Cain (born 1985), basketball player
• Michael E. Green (born 1985), basketball player
• Stefon Jackson (born 1985), basketball player
• Rob Kurz (* 1985), basketball player
• Gilly Lane (* 1985), squash player
• Benj Pasek (* 1985), film composer
• Jeff Segal (* 1985), racing car driver

1986

Kat Dennings
(* 1986)

• Dionte Christmas (* 1986), basketball player
• Jessica Czop (born 1986), actress
• Kat Dennings (* 1986), actress
• Molly Ephraim (* 1986), actress
• Carlene Hightower (* 1986), basketball player
• Kyle Hines (born 1986), basketball player
• Kyle Lowry (born 1986), basketball player
• Tywain McKee (born 1986), basketball player
• Glenn Ochal (* 1986), rower
• Daphne Oz (* 1986), actress and presenter
• Gabriel Rosado (* 1986), boxer
• Tomas Sinisalo (* 1986), Finnish ice hockey player
• Marcus Tracy (* 1986), football player
• Mark Tyndale (born 1986), basketball player
• Drew Van Acker (born 1986), actor

1987

• Shenita Landry (born 1987), basketball player
• Mallori Lofton-Malachi (* 1987), soccer goalkeeper
• Aaron Mermelstein (* 1987), poker player
• Meek Mill (b.1987), rapper
• Regine Nehy (* 1987), film and television actress
• Jazmine Sullivan (* 1987), R&B and soul singer

1988

• Nia Ali (* 1988), track and field athlete
• Danny García (* 1988), American professional boxer of Puerto Rican descent
• Gideon Glick (* 1988), actor
• Andrew Lawrence (* 1988), film actor and voice actor; Brother of Matthew and Joey
• Reggie Redding (born 1988), basketball player
• Sarah Steele (* 1988), actress

1989

Eric Tangradi
(* 1989)

• Baauer (* 1989), musician
• Julia Cohen (* 1989), tennis player
• Jesse Hart (* 1989), super middleweight boxer
• Marcus Morris (* 1989), basketball player
• Markieff Morris (* 1989), basketball player
• Eric Tangradi (* 1989), ice hockey player
• Brad Wanamaker (born 1989), basketball player
• Nafessa Williams (born 1989), actress

1990

• Ross Butler (born 1990), actor
• Tevin Farmer (born 1990), boxer
• Keisha Hampton (* 1990), basketball player

1991-2000

Dion Waiters
(* 1991)

Emily Hagins
(* 1992)

• Maddy Evans (born 1991), soccer player
• Maggie Lucas (* 1991), basketball player
• Brandon McManus (born 1991), American football player
• Alexandra Riley (* 1991), tennis player
• PnB Rock (born 1991), rapper
• Addison Timlin (born 1991), actress
• Dion Waiters (born 1991), basketball player
• English Gardner (* 1992), track and field athlete
• Courtney Niemiec (* 1992), soccer player
• Emily Hagins (* 1992), director and screenwriter
• Kevin Byard (born 1993), American football player
• Max DiLeo (* 1993), American-German basketball player
• Taylor Washington (* 1993), track and field athlete
• Bryshere Y. Gray (* 1993), actor and rapper
• Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (* 1993), basketball player
• Chidi Okezie (* 1993), Nigerian-American athlete
• Rozes (* 1993), singer and songwriter
• Kahleah Copper (* 1994), basketball player
• Dylan Gelula (* 1994), actress
• Mark Indelicato (* 1994), actor and singer
• Tahjere McCall (born 1994), basketball player
• Bianca Ryan (* 1994), child star and singer
• Lil Uzi Vert (born 1994), rapper
• Eli Apple (born 1995), American football player
• Mikal Bridges (born 1996), basketball player
• Chris Godwin (born 1996), American football player
• Darmani Rock (born 1996), boxer
• De'Andre Hunter (born 1997), basketball player
• Sydney Park (born 1997), actress
• Alexandar Donski (* 1998), Bulgarian tennis player
• Matthew Olosunde (* 1998), football player

Year of birth unknown

• Harry Crafton (* 20th century), R&B songwriter, singer and guitarist
• Joey B. Ellis (* 20th century), rapper
• Brad Furman (* 20th century), film director and film producer
• Carl Grubbs (* 20th century), jazz musician
• Robin Johannsen (* 20th century), opera singer
• Michael Kaplan (* 20th century), costume designer
• Lisa Lassek (* 20th century), film editor
• Eric Lugosch (* 20th century), fingerstyle guitarist
• Donna Morein (* 20th century), mezzo-soprano
• Andrew Owens (* 20th century), opera singer
• Ursula Rucker (* 20th century), poetry soul songwriter
• Jodie Sands (* 20th century), pop singer
• Amy Westcott (* 20th century), costume designer
• Mocean Worker (* 20th century), Nu-Jazz musician

21st century

• Jillian Shea Spaeder (* 2002), actress
• Jaeden Martell (* 2003), actor

Web links

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5. ↑ Jacob Zeilin , de.findagrave.com
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7. ↑ Charles Grymes McCawley , de.findagrave.com
8. ^ Horn, George Henry , Anb.org
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12. ↑ Harry Duffield Stowe Stovey , findagrave.com
13. ↑ Harry Stovey , baseball-reference.com
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15. ↑ Florence Kelley , britannica.com
16. ↑ Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome , anb.org
17. ↑ Anita Hendrie (1863-1940) , imdb.com
18. ↑ Arthur Francis Collins , de.findagrave.com
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21. ↑ Sheldon Lewis (I) (1869-1958) , imdb.com
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30. ↑ Charlotte Greenwood , ibdb.com
31. ↑ Jackie Saunders , imdb.com
32. ↑ Vivian Rich (1893–1957) , imdb.com
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49. ↑ Dorothy Short (I) (1915-1963) , imdb.com
50. ↑ Dorothy Short , de.findagrave.com
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52. ↑ Angelo Musi , basketball-reference.com
53. ^ Jean Vander Pyl (1919–1999) , imdb.com
54. ↑ Clara Schroth-Lomady in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
55. ^ Roy Campanella , baseball-reference.com
56. ↑ Roberta Jonay (1921–1976) , imdb.com
57. ↑ Roberta Jonay Pratt , de.findagrave.com
58. ↑ Herm Klotz , basketball-reference.com
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60. ↑ Marian Barone in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
61. ↑ Bill Mack Rides , pro-football-reference.com
62. ↑ Ernie Beck , basketball-reference.com
63. ^ Hal Lear , basketball-reference.com
64. ^ Sue Randall (1935-1984) , imdb.com
65. ↑ Guy Rodgers , basketball-reference.com
66. ^ Ray Scott , basketball-reference.com
67. ^ Wayne Hightower , basketball-reference.com
68. ↑ Wali Jones , basketball-reference.com
69. ↑ Lois Hamilton (1943-1999) , imdb.com
70. ↑ Matt Guokas , basketball-reference.com
71. ^ Bill Melchionni , basketball-reference.com
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75. ↑ Joni Sledge (1956-2017) , imdb.com
76. ↑ Michael Brooks , basketball-reference.com
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80. ↑ Lisa Peluso , imdb.com
81. ↑ Tom Verica , imdb.com
82. ^ Karen Malina White , imdb.com
83. ↑ Vincent Young , imdb.com
84. ↑ Spantaneeus Xtasy , imdb.com
85. ^ Pooh Richardson , basketball-reference.com
86. ^ Edna Campbell , basketball.eurobasket.com
87. ^ Lionel Simmons , basketball-reference.com
88. ^ Robert Hawkins , boxrec.com
89. ^ Shari Albert , imdb.com
90. ↑ Rebecca Creskoff , imdb.com
91. ^ Sonya Smith , imdb.com
92. ↑ Marc Jackson , basketball-reference.com
93. ↑ Blake Bashoff , imdb.com
94. ^ Mardy Collins , basketball-reference.com
95. ↑ Dionte Christmas , basketball-reference.com
96. ↑ Tywain McKee , basketball-reference.com
97. ↑ Tywain McKee , basketball.eurobasket.com
98. ↑ Daphne Oz , imdb.com
99. ↑ Maggie Lucas , basketball-reference.com
100. ↑ Kahleah Copper , wnba.com
101. ↑ Kahleah Copper WNBA Stats , basketball-reference.com
102. ↑ Dylan Gelula , imdb.com
103. ↑ Tahjere McCall , basketball-reference.com
104. ^ Sydney Park , imdb.com