# Philadelphia (disambiguation)

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia may also refer to:

## Places
### United States

* Philadelphia, Illinois
* Philadelphia, Indiana
* Philadelphia, Mississippi
* Philadelphia, Missouri
* Philadelphia, New York
** Philadelphia (village), New York
* Philadelphia, Tennessee
* Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, a county coterminous with the city of the same name
** Center City, Philadelphia, the old city of Philadelphia before consolidation with the county

### Other places
#### Ancient

* Philadelphia (Amman) the capital of Jordan, called Philadelphia during the Hellenistic and Roman periods
* Philadelphia (Cilicia), a town and bishopric of ancient Cilicia
* Philadelphia (Lydia) or Alaşehir, home of one of the seven churches of Asia Minor in the Book of Revelation
* Philadelphia (Faiyum), an ancient Egyptian settlement established by Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the 3rd century BC

#### Present

* Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear, a village north of Houghton-le-Spring, City of Sunderland, United Kingdom
* Philadelphia, Western Cape, a town in South Africa

##### Former

* Philadelphia, Germany, a former village, now part of Storkow, Oder-Spree, Brandenburg

## People

* Philadelphia Austen Hancock (1730-1792), aunt of Jane Austen
* Jacob Philadelphia, an 18th-century magician and mystic
* Maureen Allison Philadelphia, a 21st-century politician from Guyana
* Philadelphia Nina Robertson (1866-1951), Australian Red Cross administrator

## Art, entertainment, and media
### Music

* "Philadelphia Freedom", a song by Elton John from the album "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy"
* Philadelphia (band), a Christian metal band from Louisiana
* "Philadelphia", a song by Neil Young from the film Philadelphia
* "Streets of Philadelphia", a song by Bruce Springsteen from the film Philadelphia
* "Philadelphia", a song by alt-J from their 2022 album The Dream

### Periodicals

* Philadelphia (magazine), a regional monthly magazine published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* The Philadelphia Inquirer, a daily newspaper published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

### Film and stage

* Philadelphia (film), a 1993 film directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington
* The Philadelphia, a one-act play by David Ives

## Ships

* USS Philadelphia (1776), a gunboat sunk in the Battle of Valcour Island
* USS Philadelphia (1799), a 36-gun sailing frigate active in the Quasi-War
* SS City of Philadelphia (1854), an iron-hulled single-screw steamship of the Inman Line that sank on its maiden voyage
* USS Philadelphia (1861), a side-wheel steamer used in the American Civil War
* SS City of Paris (1888), a passenger liner named Philadelphia from 1901 to 1918 and again in 1919–1923
* USS Philadelphia (C-4), a protected cruiser commissioned in 1890 and in service until 1926
* USS Philadelphia (CL-41), a light cruiser commissioned 1937, active in World War II
* USS Philadelphia (SSN-690), a Los Angeles-class attack submarine commissioned in 1977 and decommissioned in 2010

## Other uses

* Philadelphia 76ers, an NBA team
* Philadelphia Cream Cheese, a brand owned by Kraft Foods
* Philadelphian cricket team, a first-class cricket team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between 1878 and 1913