The following is a list of notable people presently or previously associated with the city of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania:. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.
In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Notable people from Philadelphia. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Academia [ edit ]. Joseph Addison Alexander β , clergyman and biblical scholar [ 1 ] E. Digby Baltzell β , sociologist, author, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Ellen Bass born , professor, poet , and author Leon Bass β , educator and Benjamin Franklin High School principal Aaron Beck β , psychiatrist, inventor of cognitive therapy , and Penn School of Medicine professor Algernon Sydney Biddle β , lawyer and Penn Law School professor Ray Birdwhistell β , anthropologist, University of Pennsylvania professor, and inventor of kinesics Atherton Blight β , lawyer, businessperson, author, diarist , philanthropist, and Art Club of Philadelphia founding member Alfred Bloom , linguist , professor, and Swarthmore College president Francis Bohlen β , Penn Law School professor Derek Bok born , lawyer, Harvard Law School dean, and former Harvard University president Lisa Bowleg , George Washington University social psychology professor Ruby Chappelle Boyd β , librarian David D.
Burns born , psychiatrist, author, Penn School of Medicine psychiatry professor Noam Chomsky born , linguist , Far-left political activist , anarchist , and professor Gordon Clark β , Christian theologian and professor Leda Cosmides born , psychologist , helped develop evolutionary psychology field Philip D. Buckminster Fuller β , architect, systems theorist , author, University of Pennsylvania design professor Andrew Gelman born , Columbia University professor, statistics and political science Gaylord P.
Harnwell β , University of Pennsylvania professor and president Earl G. Kety β , neuroscientist and schizophrenia researcher Lawrence Klein β , economist, Nobel laureate , University of Pennsylvania economics professor C. Everett Koop β , U. Surgeon General Byard Lancaster β , avant-garde jazz saxophonist and flutist Alain LeRoy Locke β , writer, philosopher, educator, and first African-American Rhodes Scholar Margaret Mead β , cultural anthropologist and author William Augustus Muhlenberg β , considered father of parochial schools John Pittenger β , lawyer, academic, and former Pennsylvania House of Representatives member Philip Rieff β , sociologist, cultural critic, and University of Pennsylvania professor Louis B.
Summers born , economist, U. Temin β , Nobel Prize co-laureate in physiology or medicine Cornelius Van Til β , Christian theologian, professor, originator of modern presuppositional apologetics Lawrence Venuti born , translation theorist and translation historian Andrew Weil born , celebrity doctor and alternative medicine advocate Gayraud Wilmore β , writer, historian, ethicist, educator, and theologian Walter E.
