page_title: Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Lil Dicky performing at SXSW
context_page_description: Cheltenham Township is a home rule township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. Cheltenham's population density ranges from over 10,000 per square mile in rowhouses and high-rise apartments along Cheltenham Avenue to historic neighborhoods in Wyncote and Elkins Park. It is the most densely populated township in Montgomery County. The population was 36,793 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the third most populous township in Montgomery County and the 27th most populous municipality in Pennsylvania. It was originally part of Philadelphia County, and it became part of Montgomery County upon that county's creation in 1784.
  Cheltenham is located 5 miles from Center City, Philadelphia and surrounded by the North and Northeast sections of Philadelphia, Abington, Jenkintown, and Springfield. The SEPTA Main Line passes through Cheltenham via 5 regional rail stations, some of which are the busiest in the SEPTA system.
context_section_description: Jay Ansill, composer and folk musician
  Eddie Applegate, actor
  Samuel Arbuckle, California politician, served on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
  Abraham Barker, soldier during the Civil War, U.S. House of Representatives member
  Chris Bartlett, activist and executive director of the William Way Community Center
  Michael M. Baylson, Senior Federal Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  Brandon Bing, professional football player for the New York Giants
  Robert Hood Bowers, composer and conductor
  Michael Brecker, saxophonist
  Randy Brecker, jazz, rock, and R&B trumpeter
  Justin Brown, NFL wide receiver
  Michael Stuart Brown, physician, geneticist, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
  Jim Callahan, NFL player, writer, and member of the Temple University Hall of Fame
  Ibraheim Campbell, Cleveland Browns safety, Northwestern football alumni
  George Castle, son of J.R. Castle, professional lacrosse player for the Philadelphia Wings
  J.R. Castle, former lacrosse player
  Laurie Colwin, author and columnist
  Chris Conlin, All-American football player at Penn State
  Jay Cooke, financier – had his "country estate" in Chelten Hills
  Bill Cosby, comedian
  Rebecca Creskoff, actress
  Cyrus H. K. Curtis, founder of the Curtis Publishing Company, which published The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies Home Journal
  Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr., son of banker Fitz Eugene Dixon Sr. and Eleanor Widener (member of the Widener family)
  Tony Donatelli, soccer player for VSI Tampa Bay FC
  William Lukens Elkins, prominent role in history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, SEPTA and several other railroads.
  Josh Fattal, hiker detained in Iran from 2009–2011
  Tom Feeney, member of Congress, R-FL
  Douglas Feith, former Under-Secretary of Defense
  Stuart F. Feldman, co-founder of Vietnam Veterans of America.
  Marian Filar, Polish-born American-based concert pianist and virtuoso
  Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, United States Department of Justice
  Wilmot E. Fleming, State Senator
  Jim Foster, Hall of Fame women's basketball coach at St. Joseph's, Vanderbilt, Ohio State, and Chattanooga.
  Jon D. Fox, U.S. Congressman
  Benjamin Hallowell, first president of the Maryland Agricultural College
  Laura Harper, professional basketball player
  Marvin Harrison, NFL wide receiver
  Alfred Hunt, first president of the Bethlehem Iron Company, later to become Bethlehem Steel
  Trina Schart Hyman, artist and illustrator
  Bill Hyndman, amateur golfer
  Clifford C. Ireland, U.S. Representative
  Reggie Jackson, Hall of Fame baseball player and actor – grew up in township
  Charles Wellford Leavitt, urban planner, architect, and engineer who designed Forbes Field and much of Columbia University
  Mark Levin, conservative talk radio host and attorney
  Richard Levinson, Emmy Award-winning writer and producer
  Chad Levitt, NFL football player
  Franz Lidz, journalist whose memoir, Unstrung Heroes, became a 1995 feature film directed by Diane Keaton
  Lil Dicky, rapper and comedian
  William Link, Emmy Award-winning writer and producer
  Craig Littlepage, college administrator and educator
  John Luther Long, lawyer and writer, best known for short story "Madame Butterfly"
  Jeff Lorber, musician
  George Horace Lorimer, longtime editor of The Saturday Evening Post
  Bernie Lowe, founder of Cameo Records
  Joel Keith Mann, PA House Representative, PA State Senator, U.S. House of Representatives
  Mary Ellen Mark, photographer
  John Charles Martin, newspaper publisher
  Edgar Lee Masters, lawyer and author of the Spoon River Anthology – spent final years and died in Elkins Park
  Steve McCarter, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 154th legislative district
  Pat Meehan, US Politician representing Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district
  Humphrey Morrey, founder of Cheltenham, first Mayor of Philadelphia
  Lucretia Coffin Mott, prominent feminist, abolitionist, and Quaker)
  Robert J. Myers, co-creator of United States Social Security program
  Benjamin Netanyahu, currently serving his second term as Israeli prime minister – lived in township during high school
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caption: Lil Dicky, born and raised in Cheltenham.
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