People from colonial Pennsylvania

German-American religious leader

United States Marine Corps Commandant

African-American abolitionist, pioneer of civil rights

American physician (1761-1818)

American shipbuilder

American politician (1742-1823)

American politician

second wife of British Brigadier General Benedict Arnold

American politician and representative of the fourth congressional district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives (1728-1814)

American politician (1758-1836)

American politician (1729-1804)

German born American mystic

American frontierswoman who was adopted in her teens by the Seneca

Royal Navy officer

Welsh surveyor and geographer

American spy (1729–1789)

French-born American linguist, philosopher and jurist (1760-1844)

American politician (1747-1804)

son of William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania

American brewer

American politician (1738-1793)

American poet

American missionary of the Moravian Church and ethnologist (1743-1823)

American papermaking businessman, 1644–1708

American newspaper publisher

American journalist, printer and publisher (1769-1798)

U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1769–1811)

American politician (1748–1828)

American printer and publisher

United States general (1743-1791)

spouse of Benjamin Franklin

German-American printer and publisher

Guyasuta (c. 1725–c. 1794; , "he stands up to the cross" or "he sets up the cross") was an important Native American leader of the Seneca people in the second half of the eighteenth century, playing a central role in the diplomacy and warfare of that era. Although he became friends with George Washington in 1753, he sided with the French against Britain during the French and Indian War and fought against the British in Pontiac's War. He later supported the British during the American Revolutionary War. In his final years, he engaged in peacemaking to end the Northwest Indian War.

American lawyer and politician

United States federal judge 1744-1828

Lutheran minister

American politician

American politician

Pennsylvania's interpreter and emissary to the Native Americans (1696-1760)

American ironmaster (1729-1785)

American politician

American writer

Loyalist and British Indian Department interpreter

American banker (1733-1808)

American army officer and politician (1756-1838)

American scientist

Scottish pamphleteer and journalist

American politician (1776-1841)

American surgeon and chemist (1770-1809)

American revolution militia general

American portrait painter (1720-1784)

American politician