Talk:List of people from Pennsylvania

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To be included on this stand-alone list, each entry should meet the following list criteria:

Per the standard people list criteria, only people who meet the biographical notability requirements may appear here.
A reliable source must be cited for their association with Pennsylvania, whether born, raised, or residing.

The sources to establish notability and association can either be cited in a Wikipedia article about the person, or at the list entry itself.

Benjamin Franklin[edit]

Is not "from" Pennsylvania.Tstrobaugh 22:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? Franklin is one of the most famous Pennsylvanians. He published Poor Richard's Almanac in PA, he founded the Philadelphia fire department, public library, the University of Pennsylvania, represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress as well as the Consitutional Convention.PonileExpress (talk) 23:24, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Franklin was born and raised in Boston, but came to Philadelphia by ship and the rest of his long career was in Philadelphia and abroad in England and France.--DThomsen8 (talk) 03:46, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jesus Christ[edit]

Is not "from" Pennsylvania. He's from Bethlehem, Israel. Weatherlover819 (talk) 11:11, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First-off[edit]

We should determine what being from PA should be defined as.PonileExpress (talk) 23:29, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From the beginning of the article: "The following is a list of famous Americans who were born, or lived a significant portion of their lives, in Pennsylvania, along with their primary Pennsylvania city or town of residence:"

Also, in regards to the listing categories, I don't believe there is a set method for categorizing the people, but I haven't really edited this type of article before. How they are listed now seems looks fine to me. Tim meh ! 00:14, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion to make this a disambig or similar type page[edit]

I have considered updating this article with all the data on List_of_people_from_the_Pittsburgh_metropolitan_area but then I realized that Philadelphia county alone as well as Central PA, NE PA, and NW PA have as many or more than the massive overflowing article on metro Pittsburgh. In order to do this article justice wouldn't it be better to have it be a disambig article similar to what evolved on this article. Thoughts? ^{Market St.⧏}_{⧐ Diamond Way} 05:50, 21 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Musical Groups[edit]

I pruned out the many musical groups that had been listed under musicians. If the individual members are notable and from Pennsylvania they can be added as individuals. Meters (talk) 20:53, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Placename links[edit]

Not to complain or disagree, but to understand: Why is it (apparently) that Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and only they, are not linked? Is it because they are presumed to be world class, or at least well enough known not to need a link? Thnidu (talk) 20:46, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple listings[edit]

We could cross-reference people with listings in two (or three) sections. Here are the ones I've found by sorting and hand-sifting. Bam Margera has three entries, all the others two; where the two are identical I'm only including one copy. These should still be checked

Al Martino—Philadelphia
Bam Margera, professional skateboarder—West Chester, Pennsylvania
- Bam Margera, reality television personality and skateboarder – West Chester
- Bam Margera—West Chester
Benjamin Franklin, scientist, diplomat, teacher, and founding father of the United
States—Philadelphia
- Benjamin Franklin—Philadelphia
Beth Ostrosky, model, judge on ABC's True Beauty and host of G4's Filter—Pittsburgh
- Beth Ostrosky—Pittsburgh
Clark Johnson—Philadelphia
Edward B. Lewis—Wilkes-Barre
- Edward Lewis—Wilkes-Barre
Elaine May—Philadelphia
Hilary Putnam—Philadelphia
James A Michener—Doylestown (redirects to "James A. Michener")
- James A. Michener—Doylestown
Jason Miller—Scranton
Jerry Sandusky, college football coach—Washington
- Jerry Sandusky—Washington
Jerry Stahl—Pittsburgh
John Batchelor, radio talk show host—Bryn Mawr / Lower Merion Township
- John Batchelor—Bryn Mawr / Lower Merion Township
Jonathan Frakes—Bellefonte
M. Night Shyamalan—Philadelphia
Marc Connelly—McKeesport
Melanie Mayron—Philadelphia
Norman Rose, radio announcer (NBC's Dimension X and CBS Radio Mystery Theater)—Philadelphia
- Norman Rose—Philadelphia
Alecia Moore aka (Pink)—Doylestown
- Pink—Doylestown
Rachel Carson—Springdale
Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton—Scranton
- Robert Reich—Scranton
Steve Burns, original host of the kids show, Blue's Clues—Boyertown
- Steve Burns—Gilbertsville
Todd Gallagher—Greensburg
Tom Savini—Pittsburgh
Will Smith—Philadelphia
William Hultz Walker—Pittsburgh
- William Walker—Pittsburgh

--Thnidu (talk) 06:00, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Subdividing long lists alphabetically[edit]

IP user 173.52.75.38 broke up the four or five longest sections into alphabetical chunks. I added subTOCs, using anchors because there's more than one "A–B" sub§, etc. See their talk page. I think this could be very useful for many long lists.

I wrote a Perl script, User:Thnidu/anchor-alphas, to semiautomate the process, but the output still has to be copy-pasted into the page. Can anyone automate that?... --Thnidu (talk) 19:18, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Brent Grimes[edit]

An anonymous user just added

Brent Grimes, professional football player

with no location in Pa. (as well as screwing up the list structure). The only Pennsylvania connection in his article is one sentence about playing college football at Shippensburg University. I've deleted the addition. --Thnidu (talk) 05:41, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

First section[edit]

I think the first section shoudl be melded into the lower sections. --2604:2000:E010:1100:310B:4D30:7AD4:EE64 (talk) 09:18, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]