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List Of People From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The following is a list of notable people presently or previously associated with the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Academia *Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), former clergyman and biblical scholar *E. Digby Baltzell (1915–1996), former sociologist, author, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania * Ellen Bass (born 1947), professor, poet, and author *Leon Bass (1925–2015), former educator and Benjamin Franklin High School principal *Aaron Beck (1921–2021), former psychiatrist, inventor of cognitive therapy, and Penn School of Medicine professor *Algernon Sydney Biddle (1847–1891), former lawyer and Penn Law School professor * Ray Birdwhistell (1918–1994), former anthropologist, University of Pennsylvania professor, and inventor of kinesics *Atherton Blight (1834–1909), former lawyer, businessperson, author, diarist, philanthropist, and Art Club of Philadelphia founding member *Alfred Bloom, linguist, professor, and Swarthmore College presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia From South Street Bridge July 2016 Panorama 3b
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
