People from colonial Pennsylvania

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

American engineer and inventor (1765–1815)

English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)

American pioneer and frontiersman (1734–1820)

18th- and 19th-century English painter (1738–1820)

American novelist, historian and editor (1771-1810)

American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives with making the first American flag

Justice on the US Supreme Court (1742-1798)

American naturalist (1739-1823)

American botanist (1699-1777)

Continental Army general (1745-1796)

American politician and first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1750-1801)

American astronomer (*1732 – †1796)

American politician, judge, and author 1737-1791

American politician (1758-1843)

American minister, educator, writer (1760-1831)

American politician (1768-1842)

American businessman

American lawyer and statesman (1740-1821)

United States Navy officer

American grammarian and lawyer (1745-1826)

American politician (1769-1832), first governor of the State of Mississippi

German-born American educator, lawyer, poet, and public official

American politician from Maryland (1752-1839)

worker and official in the early days of the United States Mint (1769-1852)

American patriot leader (1729-1824)

American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee (1757-1837)

American politician (1746-1807)

Pennsylvania lawyer, military aide and statesman (1741–1785)

United States Senator from Pennsylvania (1737-1804)

Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence 1730-1779

United States general (1753-1813)

American politician

American politician (1768-1846)

United States admiral (1745-1803)

American optician and inventor (1704-1749)

1st Commandant of the Marine Corps

American civil engineer and soldier (1717–1795)

American general in the War of 1812

figure in the American Revolution (1759–1828)

American politician (1755–1835)

Co-founder and first pastor of the Schwarzenau Brethren

American politician, Kentucky (1773-1843)

American poet and writer (1737-1801)

American socialite and women letter writer

American painter (1734-1805)

American politician (1760-1822)

American socialite

American politician (1755-1832)

Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church; Bishop of Pennsylvania; Chaplain of the US Senate

Pennsylvania politician (1762-1847)

American politician (1746-1788)

American quaker teacher and abolitionist

Revolutionary War militia general in South Carolina (1739-1817)

Continental Army soldier (1751-1800)

Governor of Pennsylvania (1759-1819)

minister

American physician

American economist (1755-1824)

American witch, cunning woman