The following is a list of notable residents and natives and persons associated with the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the fifth largest city in the United States.

Academia

• Noam Chomsky - linguist

Art & Architecture

• Alexander Calder - artist
• Louis Kahn - architect
• Robert Crumb - underground comics artist, writer

Business

• Michael Johns - health care exec, former government official
• John Wanamaker - department store founder

Cinema, Television, and Theater

• Kevin Bacon - actor
• John Barrymore - actor
• Bill Cosby - comedian, actor
• Mike Douglas - singer, television talk-show host
• Larry Fine - actor
• W. C. Fields - actor
• Richard Gere - actor
• Sherman Hemsley - actor
• David Lynch - movie director
• Chris Matthews - television talk-show host
• Will Smith (Fresh Prince) - comedian, actor
• M. Night Shyamalan - movie director

Historical Figures

• Richard Allen - clergyman, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
• Nick Berg (from nearby West Chester), man who was beheaded in Iraq
• Benjamin Franklin - statesman, Revolutionary War patriot, inventor
• Philip Syng Physick - father of American surgery
• Grace Kelly - princess of Monaco

Music

• Marian Anderson - opera singer/contralto
• Pearl Bailey - singer, dancer, actress
• Boyz II Men - singers
• Cassidy- rapper
• Stanley Clarke - bassist
• John Coltrane - saxophonist
• Eve - rapper, actress
• Freeway- rapper
• G. Love and Special Sauce - jam band
• Stan Getz - saxophonist
• Daryl Hall (of Hall and Oates) - singer
• DJ Jazzy Jeff - hip-hop DJ
• Joan Jett - rock musician
• Patti LaBelle - singer
• Mario Lanza - singer
• Musiq - R&B singer
• John Oates (of Hall and Oates) - singer
• Teddy Pendergrass - singer
• Pink - R&B/rock n' roll singer
• Trudy Pitts - Jazz Keyboardist
• Paul Robeson - singer, activist
• The Roots - hip hop artists
• Jill Scott - R&B singer
• Beanie Sigel- rapper
• Princess Superstar - hip-hop performer
• Grover Washington, Jr. - jazz musician
• Pamela Williams - jazz saxophonist

Politics

• Oscar Goodman - attorney, mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada

Sports

• Charles Barkley - basketball player
• Mohini Bhardwaj - American gymnast
• Kobe Bryant - basketball player
• Steve Carlton - baseball player
• Wilt Chamberlain - basketball legend
• John Chaney - Temple University basketball coach
• Randall Cunningham - football quarterback
• Darryl Dawkins - basketball player
• The Disco Biscuits - jam-band artists
• Julius Erving - basketball legend
• Marvin Harrison - football player
• Ron Jaworski - football quarterback, ESPN analyst
• Moses Malone - basketball player
• Curt Schilling - baseball player
• Mike Schmidt - baseball player
• Jerry Stackhouse - basketball player
• Rasheed Wallace -basketball player
• Reggie White - football defensive lineman