Category
page 1Educators from Philadelphia
John de Lancie
American actor (born 1948)
L. L. Langstroth
American beekeeper (1810–1895)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
American educator and founder of the American School for the Deaf
Katharine Drexel
American Catholic sister and saint
Leonard Hayflick
American anatomist (1928–2024)
Lightner Witmer
American psychologist (1867-1957)
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
Ronald Grigor Suny
American historian and political scientist (born 1940)
Gary Graffman
American musician (1928–2025)
Francis Daniel Pastorius
German-born American educator, lawyer, poet, and public official
Morton Smith
American historian and academic (1915–1991)
Cyrus Herzl Gordon
American Near Eastern scholar (1908–2001)
Harris Flanagin
governor of Arkansas from 1862 to 1864, and in exile from 1864 to 1865 (1817–1874)
Richard Shusterman
American philosopher
Rebecca Gratz
American writer (1781–1869)
Cornelia Connelly
American nun, foundress, venerable (1809-1879)
J. Howard Marshall
American billionaire businessman (1905–1995)
Fanny Jackson Coppin
American educator (1837–1913)
Octavius Catto
American activist (1839–1871)

Paul DiMaggio
American sociologist
Mary T. Clark
American philosopher
Nathan Sivin
American sinologist (1931–2022)
Trudy Pitts
African-American jazz musician (1932-2010)
Archer Taylor
American folklorist (1890–1973)
Anna C. Hartshorne
American educator (1860-1957)

Divie Bethune McCartee
Missionary in China
Joseph Addison Alexander
American theologian (1809-1860)
Fairman Rogers
American academic (1833–1900)
Gertrude Bustill Mossell
African-American journalist
James Alfred Perkins
President of Cornell University
John Langdon
American typographer (born 1946)
Milton A. Rothman
nuclear physicist and college professor (1919–2001)
Sarah Pugh
American abolitionist, activist, and teacher
William Draper Lewis
American academic and administrator (1867–1949)
Alan Needleman
American professor of Materials Science & Engineering