List of people from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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List of people from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
This is a list of notable people who were born, or who have lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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This is a list of notable people who were born, or who have lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County, known as the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county located in the southeastern part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of 2010 the population was 519,445. Lancaster County forms the Lancaster Metropolitan Statistical Area, the...
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- William AddamsWilliam AddamsWilliam Addams was a Pennsylvania State Representative and United States Congressman. He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1777....
(1777–1858), U.S. representative - David Hayes AgnewDavid Hayes AgnewDavid Hayes Agnew was an American surgeon.- Biography :He was born on November 24, 1818 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, and a few years later set up in practice at Philadelphia and became a lecturer at the...
, (1818–1892), surgeon - Andy Baldwin, U.S. Navy lieutenant and physician, and the bachelorBachelorA bachelor is a man above the age of majority who has never been married . Unlike his female counterpart, the spinster, a bachelor may have had children...
of season 10The Bachelor: Officer and a GentlemanThe Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman is the tenth season of ABC reality television series The Bachelor. The show was filmed in Los Angeles, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania. The premiere of this season of The Bachelor aired on April 2, 2007...
of The Bachelor - James BuchananJames BuchananJames Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States . He is the only president from Pennsylvania, the only president who remained a lifelong bachelor and the last to be born in the 18th century....
(1791-1868), U.S. president - Thomas BurchThomas Burch (circuit rider)Thomas Burch was an early nineteenth-century Methodist circuit rider in the United States and Canada.Burch was born on August 30, 1778, in Tyrone County, Ireland to Thomas and Eleanor Burch. He was their eldest son. Burch's parents raised him in the Church of England. Burch converted to...
(1778–1849), Methodist circuit rider - Simon CameronSimon CameronSimon Cameron was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War. After making his fortune in railways and banking, he turned to a life of politics. He became a U.S. senator in 1845 for the state of Pennsylvania,...
, (1799–1889), Secretary of War - Kevin CarvellKevin CarvellKevin Lee Carvell is an American actor, writer, television, film, and music producer, and consultant. After years as an on again/off again actor, Carvell became the founder and CEO of Flashpoint Studios, a television and film production company and promotional firm.-Family and early life:Carvell...
, actor, producer, founder of Flashpoint StudiosFlashpoint StudiosFlashpoint Studios is an independent American television, film, and music production company and promotional firm founded by actor Kevin Carvell in 1996.-History:... - Lewis CohenLewis Cohen (cardmaker)Lewis I. Cohen was a major player in the playing card business during the nineteenth century.Lewis was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but moved to London, England in 1814. Here he was apprenticed to his half-brother Solomon Cohen who had a business manufacturing pencils...
, playing card manufacturer - Michael DeibertMichael DeibertMichael Deibert is an American journalist, author and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University....
, journalist, author - Charles DemuthCharles DemuthCharles Demuth was an American watercolorist who turned to oils late in his career, developing a style of painting known as Precisionism....
(1883-1935), painter - Gretchen EgolfGretchen EgolfGretchen Egolf is an American film and television actress.Egolf grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she began acting in theatre as a child. After high school, she attended the Juilliard School for drama in New York and has been living and working in New York and Los Angeles ever since...
, actress, sister of Tristan EgolfTristan EgolfTristan Egolf was an American novelist, author, and political activist.- Early life :Egolf was born in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. His father, Brad Evans, was a National Review journalist and his mother, Paula, a painter. His younger sister is American actress Gretchen Egolf... - Tristan EgolfTristan EgolfTristan Egolf was an American novelist, author, and political activist.- Early life :Egolf was born in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. His father, Brad Evans, was a National Review journalist and his mother, Paula, a painter. His younger sister is American actress Gretchen Egolf...
(1971-2005), novelist, author, activist - Andrew EllicottAndrew EllicottAndrew Ellicott was a U.S. surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre Charles L'Enfant's work on the plan for Washington, D.C., and served as a teacher in survey methods for...
(1754-1820), surveyor - Michael ErlewineMichael ErlewineMichael Erlewine is an American musician, astrologer, and Internet entrepreneur who founded All Music Guide in 1991.- Background :...
, founder of All Media GuideAll Media GuideAll Media Guide , is the company which owns and maintains Allmusic, Allgame and Allmovie. AMG was founded in 1990 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine....
(AMG) - Robert FultonRobert FultonRobert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat...
(1765-1815), engineer, inventor, creator of the Clermont steamboat - Jim FurykJim FurykJames Michael Furyk is an American professional golfer, 2010 FedEx Cup champion, and 2010 PGA Tour Player of the Year. He has won one major championship, the 2003 U.S. Open. Furyk is known for consistently playing at the top level and for a visibly unconventional, looping golf swing...
, professional golfer - Gene GarberGene GarberHenry Eugene Garber is a former sidearm relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 20th round of the amateur draft, and pitched for the Pirates, the Kansas City Royals, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Atlanta Braves.Upon his retirement in , his...
, major league relief pitcher - Matt Greiner, drummer of the metalcore band August Burns RedAugust Burns RedAugust Burns Red is an American metal band, from Manheim, Pennsylvania. Formed in 2003, the group began their first performances while a majority of the members were attending their senior year of high school, and soon began playing shows around Lancaster, before being signed to CI Records, and...
- Jonathan GroffJonathan GroffJonathan Drew Groff is an American singer-songwriter, stage, television and film actor. He originated the role of Melchior Gabor in the stage musical Spring Awakening and appeared as Jesse St...
, actor and singer who originated the role of "Melchior" in the BroadwayBroadway theatreBroadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
musicalMusical theatreMusical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
, Spring AwakeningSpring AwakeningSpring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of the controversial 1892 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. It features music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Set in late-19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of... - Edward HandEdward Hand-Early life and career:Hand was born in Clyduff, King's County, Ireland January 10, 1742, and was baptised in Shinrone. His father was John Hand. Among his immediate neighbours were the Kearney family, ancestors of U.S. President Barack Obamba [1]...
(1744-1802), physician, farmer, congressman, and a general officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War - Tom HerrTom HerrThomas Mitchell Herr is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1979 to 1991 for the St. Louis Cardinals, Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, and New York Mets...
, major league second baseman - Milton S. HersheyMilton S. HersheyMilton Snavely Hershey was an American confectioner, philanthropist, and founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company and the "company town" of Hershey, Pennsylvania....
(1857-1945), chocolatier, founder of The Hershey Company - The Innocence MissionThe Innocence MissionThe Innocence Mission is an American alternative rock band centered on husband-and-wife singer-songwriters Karen and Don Peris. The original group, including Mike Bitts and Steve Brown , was formed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the early 1980s when the members met during a Catholic school...
, band from Lancaster, PA (performed the hit song "Bright as Yellow") - Dan KreiderDan KreiderDan Kreider is an American football fullback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2000. He played college football at New Hampshire....
, NFL fullback - Floyd LandisFloyd LandisFloyd Landis is an American retired cyclist who after initially being awarded victory in the 2006 Tour de France was stripped of his title for a doping offense. He was an all-around rider, with special skills in climbing and time-trialing, and is also known to be a very fast descender.Landis...
, professional road bicycle racer - David LuccaDavid LuccaDavid A. Lucca is an American businessman and registered investment advisor. Lucca has been Partner with the Dallas, Texas-based independent investment advisors Rhoads Lucca Capital since 1996...
, businessman and registered investment advisorInvestment AdvisorThe term Investment Advisor is an individual or firm who, for compensation, engages in the business of advising others, either directly or through publications or writings, as to the value of securities or as to the advisability of investing in, purchasing, or selling securities... - Thomas MifflinThomas MifflinThomas Mifflin was an American merchant and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania, President of the Continental...
, merchant, politician, governor of Pennsylvania - Anna Balmer MyersAnna Balmer MyersAnna Balmer Myers was an American author of romantic novels featuring the local color of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.She was born in Lancaster County in Manheim, Pennsylvania and attended school there. She later attended Drexel University and lived and worked as a schoolteacher in Philadelphia,...
, author of early 20th-century novels centered in Lancaster County - Nguyen Chanh ThiNguyen Chanh ThiLieutenant General Nguyễn Chánh Thi was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam . He is best known for frequently being involved in coups in the 1960s and wielding substantial influence as a key member of various juntas that ruled South Vietnam from 1964 until 1966, when he was...
(1923-2007), Army of the Republic of VietnamArmy of the Republic of VietnamThe Army of the Republic of Viet Nam , sometimes parsimoniously referred to as the South Vietnamese Army , was the land-based military forces of the Republic of Vietnam , which existed from October 26, 1955 until the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975...
general, retired to Lancaster - John Parrish, major leagure relief pitcher
- John F. ReynoldsJohn F. ReynoldsJohn Fulton Reynolds was a career United States Army officer and a general in the American Civil War. One of the Union Army's most respected senior commanders, he played a key role in committing the Army of the Potomac to the Battle of Gettysburg and was killed at the start of the battle.-Early...
(1820-1863), U.S. Army major general, American Civil War - Richard RobinsonRichard RobinsonSir Richard Atkinson Robinson, DL, was a retail chemist and druggist, who later became a local politician and was the first Conservative to lead the London County Council .-Early life:...
- investment Banker - Brad RutterBrad RutterBradford Gates "Brad" Rutter is the biggest all-time money winner on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! and the second biggest all-time money winner on a game show....
, Jeopardy! champion - Theodore Emanuel SchmaukTheodore Emanuel SchmaukTheodore Emanuel Schmauk, D.D., LL.D. was an American Lutheran minister, educator, author and Church theologian....
(1860-1920), Lutheran theologian, educator. - Frank H. ShawFrank H. ShawFrank Harold Shaw was an American civil engineer notable for designing bridges and water supply infrastructure in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania...
, (1882-1950), civil engineer - Pete SnyderPete SnyderPete Snyder is an American entrepreneur, political consultant and marketing executive who is best known as the founder and CEO of New Media Strategies, a social media consulting agency that he started in 1999. His company was acquired by Meredith Corporation in 2007, with Snyder remaining as CEO...
, founder of New Media StrategiesNew Media StrategiesNew Media Strategies is a company specializing in online intelligence and word-of-mouth marketing based in Arlington, Virginia.- Background :... - Daniel B. StricklerDaniel B. StricklerDaniel Bursk Strickler was the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1947 to 1951, under Governor James Duff....
(1897-1992), U.S. Army lieutenant general, lieutenant governor - Thaddeus StevensThaddeus StevensThaddeus Stevens , of Pennsylvania, was a Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives...
(1792-1868), U.S. representative, Republican - Bruce SutterBruce SutterHoward Bruce Sutter is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. He was arguably the first pitcher to make effective use of the splitter....
, Hall of Fame pitcher - Julian ValentinJulian ValentinJulian Valentin is a retired American soccer player.-College and Amateur:At Wake Forest University, Valentin started over 70 games for the Deacons, and during his time in North Carolina, amongst many recognitions, was named a Soccer America Preseason All-American, was included in the NSCAA First...
, ex-professional soccer player - Zarek ValentinZarek ValentinZarek Valentin is an American soccer player currently playing for Montreal Impact in Major League Soccer.-College and Amateur:...
, professional soccer player - Junior VasquezJunior VasquezJunior Vasquez, , is an American club DJ and remixer/producer.-Career:...
, famous New York City club DJ and remixer/producer - Suzanne WestenhoeferSuzanne WestenhoeferSuzanne Westenhoefer is an out lesbian stand-up comedian. She starred as a panelist on GSN's 2006 remake of I've Got a Secret, which featured a panel of gay celebrities who had to guess the various guests' 'secrets' through a series of timed questions...
, comedian - Marianne WigginsMarianne WigginsMarianne Wiggins is an American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. She has won the Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize.- Biography :...
, author - Michael WillisMichael WillisMichael Willis, born October 4, 1949, is an American television and movie character actor. Willis' credits include movie roles in Pushing Tin and Men in Black, and several episodes of Law & Order....
, character actor - Richard WintersRichard WintersMajor Richard "Dick" D. Winters was a United States Army officer and decorated war veteran. He commanded Company "E", 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, during World War II....
, U.S. Army paratrooper portrayed in Stephen Ambrose's 1992 book and miniseries Band of Brothers - William WhipperWilliam WhipperWilliam Whipper was an African American abolitionist and businessman. He advocated nonviolence and co-founded the American Moral Reform Society, an early African American abolitionist organization.- Early life :...
(1804-1876), African American businessman, activist.