Maurice married a Polish princess, Maria Jablonowska ( see Jablonowski ), with whom he had two daughters, Simone ( who married Edgar Gross, son of a wealthy Philadelphia soap manufacturer ) and Lysiana ( who married the playwright Louis Verneuil ).

Mordecai Manuel Noah ( July 14, 1785, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – May 22, 1851, New York ) was an American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian.

John StoneJohn Augustus Stone ( December 15, 1801 Concord, Massachusetts-June 1, 1834 Philadelphia ) was an American actor, dramatist, and playwright.

In her 1960's addresses to East Coast Homophile Organizations meetings in Philadelphia, Artemis Smith originated the " come out of the closet " slogan and strategy for linking the gay rights movement to other rights movements in which, as both novelist and playwright, she was also a spokeswoman.

Marcelonis was known in the Philadelphia arts community as a songwriter, playwright and founder of several improvisational comedy groups.

* May 14 – Richard Deacon, American actor, born in Philadelphia, PA ( died 1984 )

* Jobriath Boone-( born Bruce Wayne Campbell December 14, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died August 3, 1983 ), A native of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, he was an American folk and glam rock musician and actor. He was the first openly gay rock musician to be signed to a major record label, Elektra Records ..

Warwick has been connected romantically with Philadelphia Eagles great Timmy Brown, French singer-songwriter Sacha Distel, actor Philip Michael Thomas ( Miami Vice ), Seagram heir and CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr., and Las Vegas restaurateur and actor Gianni Russo ( The Godfather ).

Gilbert Lewis ( born April 6, 1941 ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an American actor who is best known for playing The King of Cartoons in the first season of the 1986 children's show, Pee-wee's Playhouse.

Richard Deacon ( May 14, 1921 – August 8, 1984 ), born in Philadelphia, was an American television and motion picture actor.

Elaine Berlin was born in Philadelphia in 1932, the daughter of the theatre director / actor Jack Berlin and his wife, Ida, an actress, who had a small role in May's film, A New Leaf.

George Kilpatrick Reinholt ( born August 22, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an American actor.

McCrane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Eileen C. ( née Manyak ), a nurse, and James J. McCrane, Jr., an actor and writer.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day in 1937, he was the first actor to portray the character of Gordon Robinson on the long-running PBS children's TV program Sesame Street.

In the season 3 episode " The Gang Gets Invincible " he appears at the Philadelphia Eagles ' public tryouts as an actor pretending to be Donovan McNabb doing a plug for McDonald's but the gang recognize him as that guy from The Cosby Show who played " Sondra's husband ... Elvin ".

Lee Ving ( born Lee James Jude Capallero ; April 10, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an American musician, most famous for his role as lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the Los Angeles-based punk rock band Fear, and actor.

Other notable alums include dancer Jay Franke, Philadelphia Orchestra cellist John Koen, Broadway's " Porgy and Bess " musical actor Cedric Neal, visual artists Christian Schumann and Chris Arnold, drummer Aaron Comess, and Edie Brickell of the New Bohemians.

John Zacherle (; sometimes credited as John Zacherley ; born September 26, 1918 ) is an American television host, radio personality and voice actor known for his long career as a television horror host broadcasting horror movies in Philadelphia and New York City in the 1950s and 1960s.

John Zacherle as " Zacherley "-promotional photoIn 1954 he gained his first television role at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, where he was hired as an actor playing several roles ( one was an undertaker ) in Action in the Afternoon, a Western produced by the station and aired in the New York City market.

Mark Dobies ( born April 3, 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an American actor.

In 2007, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival commissioned actor and writer Brian Osborne to write a one-man play about Gortner.

Born Paul Douglas Fleischer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began his career as a stage actor.

Frank Lovece of Film Journal International said, " Fans of actor Paul Giamatti or of filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan may get something out of Lady in the Water, a fractured fairy tale about a water nymph who comes to a Philadelphia apartment house to deliver an important message.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sydney Walker was primarily a stage actor, performing in twenty-eight Broadway plays between 1961 and 1973.

The Philadelphia Inquirer raved, " With what elaboration of detail does the actor embody his conception!

Hooks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Yvonne, a state employee, and Robert Hooks, a director and actor who starred in many films in the 1970s.

In reviewing the film, The Philadelphia Inquirer described Gordon-Levitt as a " surprisingly formidable, and formidably surprising, leading man ", while New York magazine stated that he is a " major tabula rasa actor ... a minimalist ", and that his character worked because he " doesn't seize the space ... by what he takes away from the character.

Drexel University was founded in 1891 as the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry by Philadelphia financier and philanthropist Anthony J. Drexel to provide educational opportunities in the “ practical arts and sciences ” for women and men of all backgrounds.

In 1837, Anthony was sent to Deborah Moulson's Female Seminary, a Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia.

Anthony was educated at the College of Philadelphia ( now the University of Pennsylvania ), and entered the surveying profession.

* Anthony Wayne School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

* Anthony Griggs ( born 1960 ), former NFL linebacker who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns.

* Anthony Stolarz ( born 1994 ), professional ice hockey player drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft.

From 1952 Burke attended the Mayer Sulzberger Junior High School at 701 – 741 North 48th Street in the Mill Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia, where he was a member of a choir organized by Miss Joy Goings, that included McCoy Tyner ; three future members of The Castelles: George Grant, Billy Taylor and Octavius Anthony ; Lee Andrews ; William " Sonny " Gordon, later of the Angels and The Turbans, who lived a couple of houses from Burke ; George Tindley of the Dreams ; and George Pounds, Karl English, and Melvin Story of the Cherokees.

Fabiano Anthony Forte ( born February 6, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ), known as Fabian, is an American teen idol of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

After the 1893 death of Anthony Drexel, the firm was rechristened " J. P. Morgan & Company " in 1895, and retained close ties with Drexel & Company of Philadelphia, Morgan, Harjes & Company of Paris, and J. S.

William Anthony Toomey ( born January 10, 1939, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is a former American track and field competitor and the 1968 Olympic decathlon champion.

Until 1980, coins minted at Philadelphia bore no mint mark, with the exceptions of the Susan B. Anthony dollar and the wartime Jefferson nickel.

In 1968, it took over most proof-coinage production from Philadelphia, and since 1975, it has been used solely for proof coinage, with the exception of the Anthony dollar and a portion of the mintage of cents in the early 1980s.

Forten was born free in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he also attended the African School, run by abolitionist Anthony Benezet, which was established by Quakers for free black children.

Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle I ( 1874 – 1948 ), also known as Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr., was the man upon whom the book My Philadelphia Father and the play and film The Happiest Millionaire were based.

Miss Helen Avis Howard, to Mr. Anthony Joseph Drexel 3d, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Joseph Drexel, Jr., of Philadelphia.

* Anthony Gigliotti, clarinetist, former principal of the Philadelphia Orchestra

Following the American retreats at the Battle of Brandywine and the Battle of the Clouds, George Washington left a force under the command of Brigadier General Anthony Wayne behind in order to monitor and harass the British as they prepared to move on the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia.

Van Horn was drafted as the second overall pick in the 1997 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers ; however, his rights were immediately traded to the New Jersey Nets along with Michael Cage, Lucious Harris and Don MacLean in exchange for the draft rights to Tim Thomas and Anthony Parker and player contracts of Jim Jackson and Eric Montross.

Mark Anthony Whiten ( born November 25, 1966 ) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and switch-hitter batter who played for the Toronto Blue Jays ( 1990 – 91 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1991 – 92, 1998 – 2000 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1993 – 94 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1995 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1996 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1996 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1996 ) and New York Yankees ( 1997 ).

During the 2011 NBA lockout, on September 25, 2011, a team including NBA stars LeBron James, Chris Paul, and Carmelo Anthony, among others, took on Team Philly, a team of NBA players with connections to the Philadelphia area.

Miss Helen Avis Howard, to Mr. Anthony Joseph Drexel 3d, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Joseph Drexel, jr., of Philadelphia.