Philadelphian is most commonly used to describe someone who is from (or a resident of) the city of

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 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. Sinc ...

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List of people from Philadelphia 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) ...

"Philadelphian" may also refer to: *

Old Philadelphians Old Philadelphians, also called Proper PhiladelphiansSee generally, Baltzell, Nalle , "Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia" and "Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class." or Perennial Philadelphians, are the First Families o ...

, members of the First Families of Philadelphia considered part of the historic core of the East Coast establishment *

Philadelphians The Philadelphians, or the Philadelphian Society, were a 17th-century English dissenter group. They were organized around John Pordage (1607–1681), an Anglican priest from Bradfield, Berkshire, who had been ejected from his parish in 1655 beca ...

, a 17th-century Protestant religious sect (sometimes called the "Philadelphian Society", or the "Philadelphia Society") *

Philadelphian cricket team The Philadelphian cricket team was a team that represented Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in first-class cricket between 1878 and 1913. Even with the United States having played the first ever international cricket match against Canada in 1844, t ...

, a first-class cricket team from the turn of the 20th century * a train operated by Amtrak as part of the '' Clocker'' service

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