Several current players in the NFL attended Belleville High School, including former Michigan Wolverine and current Denver Bronco linebacker Ian Gold, Carolina Panther defensive tackle Kris Jenkins, his brother Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins, Buffalo Bill linebacker Kevin Harrison, and retired San Francisco 49er All-Pro linebacker Frank Nunley.

* Steve Coates ( born 1950 ), retired NHL hockey player and Philadelphia Flyers announcer.

* John Patrick Cardinal Foley, former Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and former President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, lived in retirement at the Villa St. Joseph in Darby, a home for retired, infirm, and convalescent priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

* Gary Varsho, retired professional baseball player for the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, and Philadelphia Phillies

It was announced in early January 2009 that Bonaduce would box against retired baseball player José Canseco at a charity event in the Philadelphia area.

Clark had played eight seasons with the Rock and had just finished an All-Star season as a member of the Philadelphia Wings, but retired from playing to take the head coaching job with his old club.

Shawn Paul Bradley ( born March 22, 1972 ) is a retired American and German ( dual citizen ) basketball player who played center for the Philadelphia 76ers, the New Jersey Nets and the Dallas Mavericks in the National Basketball Association.

Her father, Donald Stish, Sr., is a retired circulation manager for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and her mother, Joan, who is of Polish-American heritage, is a homemaker.

In the other, a novel called The Homunculus, published in 1949 by Prime Press of Philadelphia, retired Colonel Horatio Bumble creates such a being.

His mother, Helene Stanton ( née Eleanor Mae Stansbury ; born 1925 ), is a retired singer and actress who came from a " highly Victorian upper-middle-class family in Philadelphia ".

After 1907 Boss Durham retired and his successor, James McNichol, never controlled much outside North Philadelphia.

* Ray Lewis ( police ), retired Philadelphia police captain and Occupy protester

In 1855 he purchased his mansion in Philadelphia, to which he retired after his temporary abandonment of the stage.

He sheltered actors at his summer home near Philadelphia, and in 1876, four years after his death at the age of 66, his will instructed that there should be formed the Forrest Home for retired actors in Philadelphia, which was to last for over one hundred years before being folded into the much larger Actors Fund facility in Englewood, New Jersey.

Joseph Washington " Jellybean " Bryant ( born October 19, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is a retired American professional basketball player, current coach, and the father of Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant.

He is also one of the few players in modern basketball to have his number retired by two franchises: the Brooklyn Nets ( formerly the New York Nets and New Jersey Nets ) have retired his No. 32 jersey, and the Philadelphia 76ers his No. 6 jersey.

A key to Pattison's success was his close relationship with the Democratic leader of Philadelphia, retired General Lewis Cassidy.

He became commodore on 2 November 1871, commanded the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 1873 to 1875, became rear admiral on 30 September 1876 and retired in 1878.

On December 5, 2005, the Philadelphia Eagles retired his jersey in a halftime ceremony during the Eagles ' Monday Night Football game with the Seattle Seahawks, who were coached by Mike Holmgren, White's former coach in Green Bay.

Bernard Marcel " Bernie " Parent ( born April 3, 1945 ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 13 National Hockey League ( NHL ) seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins, and Toronto Maple Leafs, and also spent one season in the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) with the Philadelphia Blazers.

* His # 1 was retired by the Philadelphia Flyers on October 11, 1979, the first jersey the Flyers have retired.

Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).

Eisenhower retired to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time, a working farm adjacent to the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, only thirty miles from his ancestral home of York.

In 1970, after finishing the second volume of his treatise on the combinatory logic, Curry retired from the University of Amsterdam and returned to State College, Pennsylvania.

John Andrew Shulze retired to Fairfield Township following his 1823-1829 term as governor of Pennsylvania.

After his four-year-old racing season he retired to stud at Hanover Shoe Farms in Hanover, Pennsylvania.

Pinchot retired at the end of his term January 18, 1927, as Pennsylvania Governors were, at the time, prohibited from seeking a second consecutive term in office.

In 1791, Chew was appointed by Pennsylvania ’ s first Governor and the former President of the Continental Congress, Thomas Mifflin, to preside as the President over Pennsylvania's first High Court of Errors and Appeals, a position which he retired from in 1808.

The format used by the RM and the DYRMS is the formation used by the Valley Forge Military Academy and College Regimental Band in Wayne, Pennsylvania, led and staffed by retired RMBS personnel, and by the United States Merchant Marine Academy Regimental Band, also modeled on the Royal Marines bands.

He died in in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 73 not long after the Pirates moved into Three Rivers Stadium and retired his uniform number 20.

Cameron retired to his farm at Donegal Springs Cameron Estate near Maytown, Pennsylvania where he died on June 26, 1889.

When Terry retired from government service in 1965, he became Vice President for Medical Affairs, as well as Professor of Medicine and Community Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 1961 Mrs. Eisenhower retired with the former president to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, their first permanent home.

Seven states had seceded by the time Buchanan retired from office and returned with his niece to his spacious country home, Wheatland, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

In 2008, he faced Republican Toni Gilhooley, a retired Pennsylvania State Trooper and 25 year veteran of the force, whom he defeated with 64 % of the vote ( one percent less than the previous election ).

Maclay retired to his farm in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, but was also a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1795, 1796 and 1797 ;.

Tewksbury retired from sports to open a dental practice in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania.

Bradley Ernest Davis ( born on December 17, 1955, in Rochester, Pennsylvania ) is a retired professional basketball player who spent the bulk of his National Basketball Association career with the Dallas Mavericks.

After becoming the Republican nominee for the 2010 U. S. Senate election in Pennsylvania, Toomey was elected to the seat on November 2, 2010, defeating his Democratic opponent, retired Admiral and Congressman Joe Sestak.

After losing the 1956 election to Democrat Joe Clark in one of the closest elections in Pennsylvania history, Duff retired from politics, but remained in Washington, D. C. as a partner in the law firm of Davies, Richberg, Tydings, Landa & Duff.

After this election, Ellmaker retired from partisan politics and practiced law the rest of his life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

He retired to a farm near West Grove, Pennsylvania and resumed his interest in agricultural pursuits.

He retired in 1910, having built a spacious family house, Longmeadow, in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, and an elegant Arts & Crafts-style summer house, Faraway, on Eastern Point of Greening Island, Maine.