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Priscilla Cooper Tyler
First Lady of The United States from 1842 to 1844

Sarah Yorke Jackson
First Lady of the United States (1803-1887)

Betsy Ross
American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives with making the first American flag
Marlyn Meltzer
programmer for the ENIAC computer
Joshua Fishman
American linguist (1926–2015)
Nancy Spungen
American girlfriend of Sid Vicious
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.
Philadelphia typesetter said to have had the longest name ever used (1914–1997)
Angelo Dundee
American boxing trainer
The Sandman
American professional wrestler
Agnes von Kurowsky
American Nurse and Muse for Ernest Hemingway (1892–1984)
Florence Earle Coates
American writer and poet (1850-1927)
Jack Thayer
Titanic Survivor (1894–1945)
Májuska Puskás
Hungarian noble lady and second spouse of the Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (1877-1968)
Adam Eckfeldt
worker and official in the early days of the United States Mint (1769-1852)
Bruce Buffer
American announcer
Francis Daniel Pastorius
German-born American educator, lawyer, poet, and public official
Theophilus Van Kannel
American engineer (1841–1919)
Andrew Gelman
American statistician
Erdne Ombadykow
American Lama
Wesley Morris
American journalist
Joseph Saxton
American inventor (1799–1873)
Nancy Maria Donaldson Johnson
American inventor and educator
Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee
Swiss-Italian American ornithologist and art collector (1901-1984)
Thomas Godfrey
American optician and inventor (1704-1749)
William Gambel
American zoologist (1823-1849)
Franklin Peale
employee and officer of the Philadelphia Mint
Julia Mullock
Korean empress (1928–2017)
Steven Plaut
Israeli economist, academic and writer
Del Roy
American auto racing official (1911–1978)
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Alys Pearsall Smith
Wife of Bertrand Russell
Colin Camerer
American economist
Sophia Dallas
wife of US vice president George Mifflin Dallas (1798-1869)
Eleanor Sayre
American art historian
Peggy Shippen
second wife of British Brigadier General Benedict Arnold
Albert Berry
American parachutist
John Ernst Worrell Keely
American inventor and fraud (1837-1898)
John Langdon
American typographer (born 1946)
Hercules
enslaved African cook held at Mount Vernon
George Washington Bush
American pioneer
Richard W. Thorington Jr.
American zoologist and curator

Francis Henry Taylor
American curator, museum director (1903-1957)
Richard Harrison Shryock
American medical historian
Louis J. Weichmann
Witness to the assassination of Lincoln (1842–1902)
Joseph Lucien Bonaparte
Prince of Canino and Musignano (1824–1865)

Paul Volpe
American poker player
Gloria Casarez
American civil rights activist (1971-2014)
Arthur L. Welsh
(1881-1912) American aviation pioneer
Sabian
American professional wrestler

Eugene Klein
American philatelist (1878–1944) and president of the American Philatelic Society
George Spahn
American rancher
Carol McCain
American model

Mary Young Pickersgill
maker of the Star Spangled Banner Flag (1776-1857)
Sarah Tyson Hallowell
American art curator
Caroline Earle White
American animal rights advocate
Anne Cobbett
British author and publisher
William Draper Lewis
American academic and administrator (1867–1949)