List of burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery

Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic garden or rural cemetery established in 1836 in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 74-acre grounds contain over 11,000 family lots and more than 33,000 graves, including many notable burials.

A

 * Robert Adams Jr.jpg [[Robert Adams Jr.]] (1849–1906), U.S. Congressman
 * Oscar Allis, M.D. (1838–1921), surgeon, inventor of the Allis clamp
 * Sara Gwendolen Foulke Andrews (1863-1936), zoologist, marine biologist and poet
 * Francis Ayer (1848–1923) advertising businessman, founder N. W. Ayer & Son

B

 * Franklin Bache (1792–1864), great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, chemist, physician
 * Hilary Baker (1746–1798), mayor of Philadelphia
 * Matthias W. Baldwin (1795–1866), founder of Baldwin Locomotive Works
 * John Barker (1746-1818), served in the Revolutionary War, eventually retiring as Major General; three-time mayor of Philadelphia
 * James Nelson Barker (1784-1858), playwright, military officer in War of 1812, one-term mayor of Philadelphia, Assistant Comptroller of U.S. Treasury under Martin Van Buren
 * Wharton Barker (1846–1921), 1900 Candidate for U.S. President with Populist Party
 * John Rhea Barton (1794–1871), surgeon, namesake of Barton's fracture
 * Charles Ezra Beury (1879–1953), banker, 2nd president of Temple University, namesake for Beury Building
 * Alexander Biddle (1819–1899), Union Army officer in the U.S. Civil War
 * Henry H. Bingham (1841–1912), brevet brigadier general, Medal of Honor recipient
 * Robert Montgomery Bird (1803–1854), novelist, playwright, and physician
 * David Bispham (1857–1921), opera singer
 * George A.H. Blake (1810–1884), cavalry officer in the U.S. Army
 * Charles Bohlen.png [[Charles E. Bohlen]] (1904–1974), U.S. diplomat
 * Francis Bohlen (1868–1942), legal scholar at the University of Pennsylvania
 * Henry Bohlen (1810–1862), Civil War Union brigadier general
 * George Henry Boker (1823–1890), poet, playwright, and diplomat
 * Joseph Bonnell (1802–1840), West Point graduate, hero of the Texas Revolution
 * Adolph E. Borie (1809–1880), Secretary of the Navy
 * John Bouvier (1781–1851), jurist and legal lexicographer
 * Charles Brown (1797–1883), U.S. Congressman
 * George Bryan (1731–1791), colonial Pennsylvania businessman and politician

C

 * James Emmot Caldwell (1813-1881), founder of J.E. Caldwell & Co., jewelry retailer and silversmith
 * Hampton L. Carson (1852–1929), influential legal scholar and historian
 * Robert N. Carson (1844–1907), streetcar magnate, gave money to found Carson College for Orphan Girls
 * Lewis C. Cassidy (1829–1889), Pennsylvania State Attorney General
 * John Cassin.jpg [[John Cassin]] (1813–1869), ornithologist
 * George William Childs (1829–1894), newspaper publisher
 * Thomas Clyde (1812–1885), founder of the Clyde Line of steamers
 * William P. Clyde (1839–1923), shipping magnate
 * Meredith Colket (1878–1947), Silver Medal winner pole vault, 1900 Summer Olympics
 * Walter Colton (1797–1851), Chaplain, Alcalde of Monterey, author, publisher of California's first newspaper
 * David Conner (1792–1856), U.S. naval officer
 * Robert T. Conrad (1810–1858), mayor of Philadelphia
 * Joel Cook (1842–1910), U.S. Congressman
 * Robert Cornelius (1809–1893), pioneering photographer, took first selfie in 1839
 * Martha Coston (1826–1904), inventor of Coston flare and businesswoman
 * Thomas Jefferson Cram (1804–1883), engineer in the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers
 * William Cramp (1807–1879), shipbuilder
 * Samuel W. Crawford (1829–1892), Civil War Union army general
 * Alexander Cummings (1810–1879), third Governor of the Territory of Colorado
 * Louisa Knapp Curtis (1851–1910), journalist, editor Ladies' Home Journal, wife of Cyrus H. K. Curtis
 * George Hewitt Cushman (1814-1876), engraver and painter of miniature paintings

D

 * Dahlgren Pawnee H63362t.jpg [[John A. Dahlgren]] (1809–1870), U.S. naval officer, inventor of the Dahlgren gun
 * Ulric Dahlgren (1842–1864), Union Army Captain during the Civil War, namesake of The Dahlgren Affair
 * Richard Dale (1756–1826), Revolutionary War naval officer
 * Henry Deringer (1786–1868), gunsmith
 * Franklin Archibald Dick (1823–1885), attorney, politician and military officer
 * Hamilton Disston (1844–1896), industrialist and real-estate developer
 * Henry Disston (1819–1878), businessman, Disston Saw Works
 * Ida Dixon (1854–1916), socialite, first female golf course architect in the United States
 * Gustavus Savage Drane (1789–1846), apocryphal inspiration for The Cask of Amontillado
 * Percival Drayton (1812–1865), U.S. Navy officer
 * William Drayton (1776–1846), politician, banker and writer
 * William Duane (1760–1835), journalist
 * William Duane (1872–1935), physicist
 * William J. Duane (1780–1865), politician, lawyer, United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1833
 * Louis Adolphus Duhring (1845–1913), professor of dermatology at University of Pennsylvania, first described dermatitis herpetiformis (Duhring's disease)
 * Frank Dumont (1848–1919), minstrel performer and entrepreneur, wrote "The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia"
 * Stephen Duncan - (1787-1867).jpg [[Stephen Duncan]] (1787–1867), Mississippi planter and banker
 * Robley Dunglison, (1798–1869), "Father of American Physiology", personal physician to Thomas Jefferson
 * Nathan Dunn (1782–1844), businessman, philanthropist and sinology pioneer
 * Elias Durand (1794-1873), French-born pharmacist and botanist, first person to bottle mineral waters in United States
 * John Price Durbin (1800–1876), Chaplain of the United States Senate, president of Dickinson College

E

 * George Meade Easby (1918–2005), great-grandson of General George Meade and a celebrity figure; owner of haunted Baleroy Mansion
 * George Nicholas Eckert (1802–1865), U.S. Congressman
 * William Lukens Elkins (1832–1903), businessman, inventor, art collector
 * Charles Ellet Jr. (1810–1862), civil engineer, built Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, many others
 * Charles Rivers Ellet (1843–1863), Colonel in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War
 * Alfred L. Elwyn (1804–1884), physician and pioneer in the education of the mentally disabled; namesake of Elwyn, Pennsylvania
 * Jehu Eyre (1738–1781), businessman, veteran of the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War

F

 * Wes Fisler (1841–1922), professional baseball player, nickname "The Icicle"
 * Edwin Henry Fitler (1825–1896), 75th mayor of Philadelphia
 * Wilmot E. Fleming (1916–1978), Pennsylvania State Representative and Senator
 * Robert H. Foerderer (1860–1903), U.S. Congressman
 * Stanley Hamer Ford (1877–1961), U.S. Army general, recipient Distinguished Service Medal
 * Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890), entrepreneur, businessman, and circus owner
 * William Parker Foulke (1816–1865), discovered first full dinosaur skeleton in North America, called Hadrosaurus foulkii in 1858
 * Anne Francine (1917–1999), actress and cabaret singer
 * John Fries Frazer (1812–1872), Vice Provost of the University of Pennsylvania
 * Samuel Gibbs French (1818–1910), Confederate major general has a cenotaph in his family's plot
 * Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880–1980), sculptor
 * A.B. Frost (1851–1928), illustrator, graphic artist and comics writer
 * FrankFurness.jpg designed more than 600 buildings and received a Medal of Honor for bravery in the American Civil War ]] Frank Furness (1839–1912), architect, Medal of Honor recipient
 * Horace Howard Furness (1833–1912), Shakespearean scholar
 * William Henry Furness (1802–1896), clergyman, theologian, Transcendentalist, abolitionist, and reformer
 * William Henry Furness III (1866–1920), physician, ethnographer and author; he is in the Thomas Eakins painting The Agnew Clinic

G

 * Margaret Ralston Gest (1900-1965), painter, member of Philadelphia Ten
 * William Evans Garrett Gilmore (1895–1969), Olympic rower 1924 Summer Olympics, 1932 Summer Olympics
 * Charles Gilpin (1809–1891), Mayor of Philadelphia, 1851 to 1854
 * Henry D. Gilpin (1801–1860), U.S. Attorney General (1840-1841), presented U.S. government's side in the Amistad case
 * Joshua Gilpin (1765–1840), paper manufacturer
 * George Gliddon (1809–1857), English-born American Egyptologist
 * Louis Antoine Godey (1804–1878), editor and publisher Godey's Lady's Book
 * Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749), optician and inventor of the octant
 * Sylvanus William Godon (1809–1879), U.S. Naval officer (1819-1871)
 * Frederick Graff (1775–1847), hydraulic engineer, designer of the Fairmount Water Works
 * George Rex Graham (1813–1894), Magazine editor and publisher Graham's Magazine
 * Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917), "Dean of American Photographers"

H

 * Henry Schell Hagert (1826–1885), Philadelphia district attorney
 * Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879), writer, poet (Mary Had a Little Lamb), instigator of Thanksgiving as a national holiday
 * Frederick Halterman (1831–1907), U.S. Congressman
 * James Harper (1780–1873), U.S. Congressman
 * Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1770–1843), first superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
 * A. G. Heaton (1844–1930), artist, author and leading numismatist
 * Joseph Hemphill (1770–1842), U.S. Congressman
 * Alexander Henry (1823–1883), mayor of Philadelphia from 1858 to 1865
 * Henry Beck Hirst (1813–1874), poet, companion of Edgar Allan Poe
 * Henry Wilson Hodge (1865–1919), civil engineer Woolworth Building, bridge designer
 * Holger Hoiriis (1901-1942), Denmark-born barnstorming pilot, nickname "Hold Your Horses"
 * Emily Elizabeth Holman (1854–1925), better known by her professional name of E.E. Holman, she was one of the first female architects in Pennsylvania
 * Lucy Hamilton Hooper (1835–1893), poet, journalist, editor and playwright
 * Hub (1958–2021), Leonard Nelson Hubbard, bass player for The Roots
 * Isaac Hull (1773–1843), Commodore, USN, captained USS Constitution to victory over HMS Guerriere

J

 * Caroline Furness Jayne (1873–1909), ethnologist, expert in children's game cat's cradle
 * Horace Jayne (1859–1913), zoologist and educator; the Horace Jayne House is on the National Register of Historic Places
 * Owen Jones (1819–1878), U.S. Congressman
 * James Juvenal (1874–1942), Olympic rower, 1900 Summer Olympics, 1904 Summer Olympics

K

 * Harry Kalas (1936–2009), Philadelphia Phillies Hall of Fame broadcaster
 * Nlm nlmuid-101420129-img.jpg [[Elisha Kent Kane]] (1820–1857), physician, polar explorer, lover or husband of spiritualist Margaretta "Maggie" Fox
 * John K. Kane (1795–1858), U.S. District Judge, Attorney General of Pennsylvania
 * Ida Augusta Keller (1866-1932), botanist and plant physiologist; organized Science Department at Bryn Mawr College
 * William D. Kelley (1814–1890), U.S. Congressman
 * Florence Kelley (1859–1932), social and political reformer
 * David J. Kennedy (1816-1898), railroad agent and amateur painter who produced more than 1,000 watercolors of Philadelphia
 * Edward King, (1794-1873) twice nominated and rejected for Supreme Court of the United States
 * Samuel George King (1816–1899), 73rd mayor of Philadelphia
 * Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809-1883), pioneering psychiatrist, first superintendent Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital
 * James Kitchenman (1825–1909), carpet manufacturer
 * Lon Knight (1853–1932), professional baseball player

L

 * Elie A. F. La Vallette (1790–1862), U.S. Navy, one of first rear admirals appointed in 1862
 * Henry Charles Lea (1825–1909), historian
 * Isaac Lea (1792–1886), conchologist, geologist and publisher
 * Langdon "Biffy" Lea (1874-1937), member College Football Hall of Fame
 * Mathew Carey Lea (1823–1897), chemist and lawyer, father of mechanochemistry
 * Napoleon LeBrun (1821–1901), architect Academy of Music (Philadelphia), many others
 * Miss Mary Ann Lee LCCN2003690851.jpg [[Mary Ann Lee]] (1823–1899), professional ballerina
 * Michael Leib (1760–1822), U.S. Congressman
 * Thomas Leiper (1745–1825), American Revolutionary War veteran, first American to construct a permanent working railway
 * Lewis Charles Levin (1808–1860), U.S. Congressman
 * Rachel Lloyd (1839–1900), first U.S. woman to receive Ph.D. in chemistry
 * George Horace Lorimer (1868–1937), editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post
 * Harry Luff (1856–1916), Major League Baseball player
 * Anna Lukens (1844–1917), physician

M

 * Charles Macalester (1798–1873), businessman, banker, philanthropist and namesake of Macalester College
 * Edward Yorke Macauley (1827–1894), U.S. naval officer
 * George McClellan, M.D. (1796-1847), founder, Jefferson Medical College
 * Alexander Kelly McClure (1828–1909), Pennsylvania State Senator
 * George Deardorff McCreary (1846–1915), U.S. Congressman
 * Jack McFetridge (1869–1917), Major League Pitcher with Philadelphia Phillies
 * Thomas McKean (1734–1817), lawyer and politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence
 * Morton McMichael (1807–1879), editor The Saturday Evening Post, publisher The North American, veteran American Civil War, Mayor of Philadelphia (1866–1869)
 * George G. Meade Standing.jpg was the victor at the Battle of Gettysburg ]] George Gordon Meade (1815–1872), Civil War Union Army major general, victor at the Battle of Gettysburg
 * James Mease (1771-1846) prominent scientist, horticulturist, and doctor who published the first known tomato-based ketchup recipe in 1812
 * Charles Delucena Meigs M.D. (1792–1869), obstetrician who did not believe in anesthesia or the germ theory
 * George Wallace Melville (1841–1912), U.S. Navy Admiral, engineer, Arctic explorer, author
 * Hugh Mercer (1726–1777), Continental Army general in the American Revolution
 * Samuel Mercer (1799–1862), U.S. naval officer
 * Samuel Vaughan Merrick (1801–1870), first president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
 * Helen Abbott Michael, M.D. (1857–1904), early phytochemist, physician
 * E. Spencer Miller, (1817-1879), dean University of Pennsylvania Law School
 * Charles Karsner Mills, M.D. (1845–1930), neurologist
 * William Millward (1822–1871), U.S. Congressman
 * E. Coppée Mitchell (1836–1887), Professor and Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
 * James T. Mitchell (1834–1915), Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1889 to 1903, Chief Justice from 1903 to 1910
 * John Moffet (1831–1884), U.S. Congressman-elect
 * Edward Joy Morris (1815–1881), U.S. Congressman
 * Roland S. Morris (1874–1945), U.S. Ambassador to Japan, President of American Philosophical Society
 * James St. Clair Morton (1829–1864), Union Army general in Civil War
 * Samuel George Morton (1799–1855), physician, natural scientist and writer
 * Alexander Murray (1755–1821), American officer during Revolutionary War

N

 * Henry Morris Naglee (1815–1886), Union Army general during the U.S. Civil War, namesake for Naglee Park, San Jose, California
 * Charles Naylor (1806–1872), U.S. Congressman
 * Matthew Newkirk (1794–1868), businessman, president Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
 * Albert Newsam (1809–1864), deaf lithographer and painter
 * John Notman (1810–1865), Scottish-born American architect

O

 * Joshua T. Owen (1822–1887), Union brigadier general during the Civil War

P

 * Francis E. Patterson (1821–1862), Union general in the Civil War
 * Robert Patterson (1743–1824), mathematician, Director United States Mint 1805–1824
 * Robert Maskell Patterson (1787–1854), chemist, mathematician, physician, Director United States Mint 1835–1851
 * Robert Patterson (1792–1881), Irish-born United States major general during the American Civil War
 * Franklin Peale (1795–1870), 3rd chief coiner at United States Mint at Philadelphia
 * Titian Peale (1799–1885), artist
 * John C. Pemberton (cropped).jpg [[John C. Pemberton]] (1814–1881), Confederate Civil War general
 * Garrett J. Pendergrast (1802–1862), U.S. Civil War naval officer
 * Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952), U.S. scientist and refrigeration pioneer
 * Boies Penrose (1860–1921), U.S. Senator
 * Charles B. Penrose (1798–1857), Pennsylvania State Senator and Solicitor of the U.S. Treasury
 * Charles Bingham Penrose (1862–1925), physician, inventor of Penrose drain
 * William Pepper (1843–1898), physician, Provost of University of Pennsylvania, founder Free Library of Philadelphia
 * Charles Jacobs Peterson (1818–1887), author, publisher Peterson's Magazine
 * Hannah Mary Bouvier Peterson (1811–1870), author of "Bouvier's Familiar Astronomy" and The Young Wife's Cookbook
 * Henry Peterson (1818–1891), editor for The Saturday Evening Post, novelist, poet, playwright, and abolitionist
 * Robert Evans Peterson (1812-1894), book publisher and writer
 * Alonzo Potter (1800–1865), third Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania

R

 * Samuel J. Randall (1828–1890), U.S. Congressman, 29th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1876 to 1881
 * William Rawle (1759-1836) lawyer, first president Historical Society of Pennsylvania, trustee of University of Pennsylvania
 * George C. Read (1788–1862), U.S. Naval officer
 * Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872), poet, sculptor, portrait-painter
 * Esther de Berdt Reed (1746-1780), First lady of Pennsylvania, Co-founder of Ladies Association during the American Revolution
 * Joseph Reed (1741–1785), Continental Congressman
 * John E. Reyburn (1845–1914), U.S. Congressman, mayor of Philadelphia
 * WilliamSReyburn.jpg [[William S. Reyburn]] (1882–1946), U.S. Congressman
 * Benjamin Wood Richards (1797–1851), mayor of Philadelphia
 * Samuel Richards (1769-1842), New Jersey ironmaster, half brother of Benjamin Wood Richards
 * Jacob Ridgway (1768–1843), merchant and diplomat
 * David Rittenhouse (1732–1796), astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor
 * Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (1871-1927) painter, PAFA philanthropist, winner Mary Smith Prize
 * John Robbins (1808–1880), U.S. Congressman
 * Moncure Robinson (1802–1891), civil engineer and railroad planner
 * Fairman Rogers (1833–1900), civil engineer, educator and equestrian
 * William Ronckendorff (1812–1891), U.S. Naval officer
 * Richard Rush (1780–1859), U.S. Attorney General
 * Richard H. Rush (1825-1893), colonel who led 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, aka "Rush's Lancers"

S

 * Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous (1852-1929) physician, specialist in laryngology and endocrinology, prolific author
 * John Morin Scott (1789–1858), mayor of Philadelphia from 1841 to 1844
 * John Sergeant (1779–1852), U.S. Congressman and 1832 Republican vice presidential nominee
 * Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (1746–1793), Continental Congressman
 * Thomas Sergeant (1782-1860), lawyer, judge and politician
 * Adam Seybert (1773–1825), U.S. Congressman
 * George Sharswood (1810–1883), Pennsylvania jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
 * William Short (1759–1849), private secretary and "adopted son" for Thomas Jefferson
 * [[File:William M. Singerly, The Philadelphia Record, from the American Editors series (N1) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands MET DP827865.jpg|thumb|William M. Singerly was the publisher of The Philadelphia Record]] [[William M. Singerly]] (1832–1898), businessman and newspaper publisher
 * Arthur Donaldson Smith (1866–1939), physician, hunter, explorer of Africa
 * Charles Ferguson Smith (1807–1862), Civil War Union Army general
 * John K. Smith (1800-1845) pharmacist and businessman, founder of SmithKline as in GlaxoSmithKline
 * John Rowson Smith (1810–1864), panorama painter
 * John T. Smith (1801–1864), U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1843 to 1845
 * Persifor Frazer Smith (1798–1858), U.S. Army officer
 * Richard Penn Smith (1799–1854), playwright, wrote fake biography of Davy Crockett
 * William Smith (1727-1803), first Provost of the College of Philadelphia
 * A. Loudon Snowden (1835–1912), politician, diplomat, superintendent of Philadelphia Mint
 * James Ross Snowden (1809–1878), director United States Mint 1853–1861
 * William Clinton South (1866–1938), color photography pioneer, violin maker and collector
 * John Batterson Stetson (1830–1906), hat manufacturer, reinterred to West Laurel Hill Cemetery
 * Christine Wetherill Stevenson (1878–1922), cofounder Plays and Players Theatre, Philadelphia Art Alliance, and Hollywood Bowl
 * Sara Yorke Stevenson (1847–1921), archaeologist specializing in Egyptology, cofounder University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, suffragist
 * Alfred Stillé (1813–1900), expelled from Yale for Conic Sections Rebellion, received medical degree from University of Pennsylvania, president American Medical Association
 * William S. Stokely (1823–1902), 72nd mayor of Philadelphia
 * Witmer Stone (1866–1939), ornithologist, botanist
 * Alfred Sully (1820–1879), soldier, painter, actor
 * Rosalie Sully (1818–1847), painter, daughter of Thomas, had affair with actress Charlotte Cushman
 * Thomas Sully (1783–1872), portrait painter
 * William Swaim (1781–1846), inventor of Swaim's Panacea

T

 * M. Louise Thomas, president, Sorosis (The New York Public Library).png [[M. Louise Thomas (social leader)|M. Louise Thomas]] (1822–1907), social reformer
 * Charles Thomson (1729–1824), secretary of the Continental Congress
 * George Washington Toland (1796–1869), U.S. Congressman
 * Laura Matilda Towne (1825–1901), abolitionist and educator
 * George Alfred Townsend (1841–1914), Civil War correspondent who used pen name 'Gath', author
 * Levi Twiggs (1793–1847), U.S. Marine Corps officer killed at the Battle of Chapultepec
 * Hector Tyndale (1821–1880), Union general during the American Civil War and protector of the wife of abolitionist John Brown
 * Job Roberts Tyson (1803–1858), U.S. Congressman

V

 * Pinkerton R. Vaughn (1841–1866), Medal of Honor recipient
 * Richard Vaux (1816–1895), U.S. Congressman, mayor of Philadelphia
 * William Sansom Vaux (1811–1852), mineralogist

W

 * Thomas Ustick Walter (1804–1887), architect
 * John Price Wetherill (1844–1906), industrialist, namesake for the Franklin Institute John Price Wetherill Medal, 1917–1997
 * Joseph Wharton (1826–1909), industrialist who founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel company, and was one of the founders of Swarthmore College
 * Stephen French Whitman (1823–1888), chocolatier, founder Whitman's
 * Eleanor Elkins Widener (1861/1862–1937), wife of George Dunton Widener, survivor of RMS Titanic sinking, responsible for Harry Elkins Widener Library at Harvard University
 * George D. Widener Jr. (1889–1971), thoroughbred racehorse owner
 * Joseph E. Widener (1871–1943), thoroughbred owner/breeder
 * Pabwidener.jpg is considered one of the 100 wealthiest Americans ]] Peter A. B. Widener (1834–1915), business tycoon, philanthropist
 * Jonathan Williams (1751–1815), U.S. Army officer and first superintendent of West Point
 * John Rhea Barton Willing (1864–1913), music enthusiast and violin collector
 * Joseph Lapsley Wilson (1844–1928), railroad executive, author, horticulturalist, Captain of First City Troop, 1889–1894; subject of Thomas Eakins painting
 * Annis Lee Wister, (1830-1908); translator who specialized in translations from German to English
 * John Caspar Wister (1887–1982), one of the United States' most highly honored horticulturists, first director of John J. Tyler Arboretum
 * Langhorne Wister (1834–1891), Union Army officer
 * Owen Wister (1860–1938), novelist, author of The Virginian
 * George Bacon Wood (1797–1879), physician, professor, and writer
 * William B. Wood (1774–1861), theater manager, actor
 * Charles Stewart Wurts (1790–1859), coal merchant, founder Delaware and Hudson Canal; helped launch anthracite industry in U.S.
 * John Wyeth (1770-1858), printer, best known for printing "Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second" (Harrisburg, PA: 1813)

Z

 * Jacob Zeilin (1806–1880), 7th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Marine Corps's first general officer
 * J. Fred Zimmerman Jr. (1871–1948), theatre manager and stage producer
 * J. Fred Zimmerman Sr. (1843–1925), theatre magnate