# List of people from York, Pennsylvania

The following people were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with York, Pennsylvania.
* John Adlum (1759–1836), pioneer viticulturist
* Dominick Argento (1927–2019), music composer
* Bruce Arians (born 1952), executive and former head coach for the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers
* Charles Augustus Barnitz (1780–1850), politician
* Will Beatty (born 1985), offensive tackle, New York Giants (2009–16), Super Bowl XLVI champion
* J. Michael Bishop (born 1936), Nobel Prize-winning virologist who was part of the team that first identified an oncogene sequence.
* Florence Brillinger (1891–1984), abstract artist
* Andrew R. Brodbeck (1860–1937), politician
* Edward Schroeder Brooks (1867–1957), politician
* Omar Brown (born 1975), gridiron football player
* John Hull Campbell (1800–1868), U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district, 1845–1847
* Blaine Capatch (born 1965), comedian
* Chad Chronister (born 1967/1968), law enforcement officer
* Loretta Claiborne (born c. 1953), Special Olympics World Games multi-gold medalist and recipient of the 1996 ESPY Arthur Ashe Courage Award
* Herbert B. Cohen (1900–1970), Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice
* Nathaniel N. Craley, Jr. (1927–2006), politician
* Patrick Dahlheimer (born 1971), bass guitarist
* Sheila Darcy (1914–2004), actress
* Phineas Davis (1792–1835), clockmaker and inventor
* John A. Dempwolf (1848–1926), architect
* Jacob L. Devers (1887–1979), World War II U.S. Army general
* Neal Dodson (born 1978), award-winning feature film producer of All Is Lost & Broadway actor
* Chris Doleman (1961–2020), NFL defensive end
* William P. Doyle, commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission
* John Durang (1768–1822), dancer and musician
* Luther P. Eisenhart (1876–1965), mathematician
* Stephen Etnier (1903–1984), artist
* James Ewing (1736–1806), Pennsylvania statesman
* Arthur Briggs Farquhar (1838–1925), businessman and writer
* William Henry Farquhar (1813–1887), developmental influencer of Montgomery County, Maryland
* William B. Franklin (1823–1903), American Civil War general
* Sam Freed (born 1948), actor
* James Gerry (1896–1973), politician
* Ernest Thomas Gilliard (1912–1965) ornithologist and museum curator
* Hugh Glasgow (1769–1818), politician, judge
* Glenalvin Goodridge (1829–1867), photographer and teacher
* William C. Goodridge (1805–1873), barber, merchant, Underground Railroad activist
* Chad Gracey (born 1971), drummer
* Halestorm (formed 1997), hard rock band
* Mahlon Haines (1875–1962), businessman and philanthropist
* Granville O. Haller (1819–1897), American Civil War officer who led the defense of Adams and York counties during the Gettysburg Campaign and later became a leading Seattle millionaire
* Mike Hawthorne (born 1975/1976), comic book and graphic novel illustrator
* Bob Hoffman (1898–1985), founder of York Barbell; considered the "father of American weightlifting"
* David Holmes (1769–1832), politician
* Jerry Howarth (born 1946), MLB announcer, voice of the Toronto Blue Jays
* Lois Hunt (1925–2009), soprano opera singer who toured for decades with baritone Earl Wrightson
* Carolina Isakson Proctor (1930–2012), First Lady of Colombia
* Woody Jackson (born 1970), musician
* Kevin Jones (born 1967), BMX rider
* Brian Keene (born 1967), best-selling novelist and comic book writer
* James Kelly (1760–1819), U.S. representative
* Matthew Knisely (born 1974), TV photojournalist
* Jeff Koons (born 1955), artist
* Tina Kotek (born 1966), governor of Oregon
* Ed Kowalczyk (born 1971), musician, lead singer of the band Live
* John Kuhn (born 1982), NFL fullback
* George M. Leader (1918–2013), 36th Governor of Pennsylvania
* Ernest W. Lefever (1919–2009), foreign affairs expert
* Samuel S. Lewis (1874–1959), former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor
* Sylvia Lewis (born 1931), dancer and actress
* Live (1988–2009; re-formed 2011), alternative rock band
* Ken Ludwig (born 1950), playwright and theatre director
* Brian Lukacher, art historian
* Martie Maguire (born 1969), member of the country band Dixie Chicks
* Sarah J. Mahler (born 1959), author and cultural anthropologist
* Frances Lee McCain (born 1944), actress (Gremlins, Footloose, Back to the Future)
* Del McCoury (born 1939), bluegrass musician
* Whitney Metzler (born 1978), former competitive swimmer
* DeWolfe Miller III (born 1960), Vice admiral and Commander, Naval Air Forces
* Gary Miller (born 1946), conductor and gay activist
* Lewis Miller (1796–1882), artist and chronicler of early 19th-century life in York
* Cameron Mitchell (1918–1994), actor
* Eric Newcomer (born 1989), journalist
* Walt Partymiller (1912–1991), cartoonist
* Todd Platts (born 1962), politician
* The Quin-Tones (1957–1960; 1986–1990s), a doo-wop group
* Ken Raffensberger (1917–2002), winning pitcher of 1944 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
* Charles H. Robertson (1934–2017), politician
* Chris Roupas (born 1957), Greek-American former basketball player
* Wayne Schafer (born 1963), pitmaster
* Harry E. Seyler (1908–1994), politician and educator
* Evan Sharp (born 1982), co-founder of Pinterest, graduated York Suburban High School 2001
* Craig Sheffer (born 1960), actor, Nightbreed (1990), A River Runs Through It (1992) and The Program (1993)
* Edgar Fahs Smith (1854–1928), scientist, chemist, historian
* James Smith (1719–1806), signer of the Declaration of Independence; lived on South George Street and is buried in York
* Frank Spellman (1922–2017), Olympic champion weightlifter
* George Stibitz (1904–1995), Bell Labs researcher and digital pioneer
* Chad Taylor (born 1970), guitarist
* John Terpak (1912–1993), champion weightlifter, York Barbell executive
* Charlie Thomas (1937–2023), R&B singer with The Drifters, lived in York in the 1990s
* Tim Warfield (born 1965), Jazz musician
* Vic Wertz (1947–1963), professional baseball player
* Rebecca Wisocky (born 1971), television and stage actress
* Tom Wolf (born 1948), 47th Governor of Pennsylvania
* Butch Wynegar (born 1956), major league baseball player
* Stanley Zeigler, American politician