# List of people from Scranton, Pennsylvania

List of people from Scranton, Pennsylvania

## Arts

* J. Grubb Alexander, silent film screenwriter
* Pete Barbutti, actor
* Walter Bobbie, theatre director and choreographer
* Alan Brown, filmmaker
* Sonny Burke, big band leader
* Mark Cohen, photographer
* Karl R. Coolidge, screenwriter
* Ann Crowley, singer and actress
* Pat Crowley, Actress
* Emile de Antonio, documentary film director and producer
* Carrie De Mar, actress, singer, and vaudevillian
* Dorothy Dietrich, stage magician, escapologist, co-owner of Houdini Museum
* Margot Douaihy, writer and author
* Cy Endfield, screenwriter, film and theater director, author, magician, and inventor
* Ann Evers, film actress
* Wanda Hawley, silent film actress
* Allan Jones, singer and actor
* Gloria Jean, singer and actress
* Stephen Karam, playwright and screenwriter
* JP Karliak, actor, voice actor, and comedian
* Jean Kerr, author and playwright
* Michael Patrick King, television and film writer, director and producer, co-creator of 2 Broke Girls and The Comeback
* William Kotzwinkle, novelist and screenwriter
* Michael Kuchwara, theater critic, columnist, and journalist
* Gershon Legman, cultural critic and folklorist
* Bradford Louryk, theater artist and actor
* Charles Emmett Mack, actor
* Jeanne Madden, singer, star of musical theater and 1930s films
* Judy McGrath, MTV Networks CEO
* Charles MacArthur, playwright and screenwriter
* The Menzingers, punk band
* W. S. Merwin, 17th U.S. Poet Laureate
* Jason Miller, actor, director, and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of That Championship Season
* Russ Morgan, big band-era bandleader
* Motionless in White, gothic metalcore band
* Bruce Mozert, photographer
* Jay Parini, writer and academic
* Jerry Penacoli, actor and director
* Byrne Piven, stage actor
* Cynthia Rothrock, martial artist and star of martial arts films
* Lizabeth Scott, actress and singer
* Katy Selverstone, actress, Lisa Robbins on The Drew Carey Show
* Melanie Smith, television actress
* Mabel Cox Surdam, photographer
* Thomas L. Thomas, concert singer
* Tigers Jaw, indie rock, emo band
* Beverly Tyler, actress and singer
* Ned Washington, Academy Award-winning lyricist
* Lauren Weisberger, author, The Devil Wears Prada
* Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, singer
* Jack Palance, Academy Award winning actor and singer
* Jerry Orbach, actor and singer

## Business, industry and labor

* Louise Tanner Brown, African American businesswoman and owner of a trucking company
* Lisa Caputo, Citigroup group
* Alex Grass, founder of Rite Aid
* John Mitchell, labor organizer, founding member and president, United Mine Workers of America
* William Henry Richmond, coal mine operator
* Sally Victor, milliner
* Charles Sumner "Sum" Woolworth, retailer, philanthropist, co-founder of Woolworth
* Mel Ziegler, co-founder, The Republic of Tea and Banana Republic

## Government

* Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States (2021–2025), 47th Vice President of the United States (2009–2017), U.S. senator from Delaware (1973–2009)
* John Blake, former Pennsylvania State Senator
* Marion Cowan Burrows, former Massachusetts state legislator
* Frank Carlucci, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and ambassador to Portugal
* Robert P. Casey, former governor of Pennsylvania
* Robert P. Casey Jr., U.S. senator
* Gaynor Cawley, former Pennsylvania State Representative
* John Cusick, retired lieutenant general and 42nd Quartermaster General of the United States Army
* David J. Davis, former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor
* Mike Dunleavy, governor of Alaska
* Hermann Eilts, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Bangladesh
* John R. Farr, U.S. Congressman
* Kathleen Kane, former Pennsylvania attorney general and felon
* Joseph M. McDade, Member of the United States House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania’s 10th congressional district from 1963 to 1999, Powerful Vice Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and vice chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security
* Terence V. Powderly, former head of Knights of Labor
* Ernie Preate, former Pennsylvania attorney general and felon
* Robert Reich, professor and political commentator, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
* Hugh E. Rodham, father of Hillary Clinton
* Mary Scranton, former First Lady of Pennsylvania
* William Scranton, former governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
* William Scranton III, former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor
* Joel Wachs, Los Angeles city council member
* John Anthony Walker, former U.S. Navy chief warrant officer convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
* Laurence Hawley Watres. U.S. Congressman
* Louis A. Watres, Pennsylvania lieutenant governor

## Sports

* Hank Bullough, NFL player and coach
* P. J. Carlesimo, college, Olympic, and professional basketball coach and television broadcaster
* Jimmy Caras, professional pool player
* Nick Chickillo, former NFL player
* Nestor Chylak, Baseball Hall of Famer and former American League umpire
* Joe Collins, Major League Baseball player, six-time World Series champion
* Patty Costello, professional bowler, International Bowling Congress Hall of Fame, and Pro Bowlers Tour Hall of Fame member
* Jim Crowley, football player and coach, one-fourth of University of Notre Dame's legendary "Four Horsemen" backfield
* Lenny Dykstra, Major League Baseball player
* Paul Foytack, Major League Baseball pitcher
* Charlie Gelbert, Major League Baseball player
* Joe Grzenda, Major League Baseball player
* Cosmo Iacavazzi, college and AFL player
* Edgar Jones, college and professional football player
* Jerome Kapp, NFL wide receiver
* Gary Lavelle, Major League Baseball player
* Bill Lazor, NFL offensive coordinator
* Dave Lettieri, Olympic cyclist
* Ralph Lomma, popularized miniature golf
* Mike Lynn, general manager and executive Minnesota Vikings
* Joe McCarthy, Major League Baseball player
* Jake McCarthy, Major League Baseball player
* Matt McGloin, former NFL quarterback
* Gerry McNamara, former basketball player and current head coach of the Siena Saints men's basketball team.
* Mike McNally, former Major League Baseball player, member of New York Yankees first World Series championship team
* Mike Munchak, former head coach of NFL's Tennessee Titans, college and NFL player, member of Pro Football Hall of Fame
* Joe O'Malley, football player
* Jim O'Neill, Major League Baseball player
* Steve O'Neill, former Major League Baseball player and manager
* Jackie Paterson, Scottish boxer
* Jimmy Piersall, Major League Baseball player and Scranton Miners Minor League Baseball player
* Jim Rempe, pocket billiards champion and member of the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame
* Adam Rippon, figure skater
* Tim Ruddy, college and National Football League player
* Dutch Savage, professional wrestler
* Jack Scott (sports activist), Sports and political activist, sports writer
* Greg Sherman, general manager of NHL's Colorado Avalanche
* Chick Shorten, Major League Baseball player
* Marc Spindler, college and NFL player
* Brian Stann, mixed martial artist, UFC analyst for Fox Sports, former WEC Light Heavyweight champion
* Jim Williams (powerlifter), world record holding powerlifter

## Others

* Joseph Bambera, Bishop of Scranton
* Mamie Cadden, Irish midwife and abortionist
* Howard Gardner, developmental psychologist and professor
* Frank Gibney, journalist and scholar
* Hugh Glass, American frontiersman
* Isaiah Fawkes Everhart, American physician, naturalist, and founder of Everhart Museum
* Lansing C. Holden, architect
* Jane Jacobs, writer and activist
* Charles David Keeling, environmental scientist
* Jeffrey Bruce Klein, investigative journalist, co-founded Mother Jones magazine
* Carl Marzani, political activist, volunteer soldier in Spanish Civil War, organizer for the Communist Party USA, U.S. intelligence official, documentary filmmaker, author, and publisher
* Francis T. McAndrew, Psychologist, Professor, Author
* Gino J. Merli, Medal of Honor recipient during World War II
* Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin
* John Joseph O'Connor, former bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and Bishop of Scranton
* Karen Ann Quinlan, key figure in right to die controversy
* Martin F. Scanlon, U.S. Air Force general
* B. F. Skinner, behaviorist and author
* James Timlin, His Excellency, The Most Reverend Bishop of the Scranton Diocese,1984-2003, and Auxiliary Bishop 1976-1984