Talk:List of people from Pennsylvania

Benjamin Franklin
Is not "from" Pennsylvania.Tstrobaugh 22:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Why not? Franklin is one of the most famous Pennsylvanians.  He published Poor Richard's Almanac in PA, he founded the Philadelphia fire department, public library, the University of Pennsylvania, represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress as well as the Consitutional Convention.PonileExpress (talk) 23:24, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Franklin was born and raised in Boston, but came to Philadelphia by ship and the rest of his long career was in Philadelphia and abroad in England and France.--DThomsen8 (talk) 03:46, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Jesus Christ
Is not "from" Pennsylvania. He's from Bethlehem, Israel. Weatherlover819 (talk) 11:11, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

First-off
We should determine what being from PA should be defined as.PonileExpress (talk) 23:29, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * From the beginning of the article: "The following is a list of famous Americans who were born, or lived a significant portion of their lives, in Pennsylvania, along with their primary Pennsylvania city or town of residence:"
 * Also, in regards to the listing categories, I don't believe there is a set method for categorizing the people, but I haven't really edited this type of article before. How they are listed now seems looks fine to me. Tim  meh  !  00:14, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion to make this a disambig or similar type page
I have considered updating this article with all the data on List_of_people_from_the_Pittsburgh_metropolitan_area but then I realized that Philadelphia county alone as well as Central PA, NE PA, and NW PA have as many or more than the massive overflowing article on metro Pittsburgh. In order to do this article justice wouldn't it be better to have it be a disambig article similar to what evolved on this article. Thoughts?  Market St.⧏  ⧐ Diamond Way  05:50, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Musical Groups
I pruned out the many musical groups that had been listed under musicians. If the individual members are notable and from Pennsylvania they can be added as individuals. Meters (talk) 20:53, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Placename links
Not to complain or disagree, but to understand: Why is it (apparently) that Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and only they, are not linked? Is it because they are presumed to be world class, or at least well enough known not to need a link? Thnidu (talk) 20:46, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Multiple listings
We could cross-reference people with listings in two (or three) sections. Here are the ones I've found by sorting and hand-sifting. Bam Margera has three entries, all the others two; where the two are identical I'm only including one copy. These should still be checked

States—Philadelphia --Thnidu (talk) 06:00, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Al Martino—Philadelphia
 * Bam Margera, professional skateboarder—West Chester, Pennsylvania
 * Bam Margera, reality television personality and skateboarder – West Chester
 * Bam Margera—West Chester
 * Benjamin Franklin, scientist, diplomat, teacher, and founding father of the United
 * Benjamin Franklin—Philadelphia
 * Beth Ostrosky, model, judge on ABC's True Beauty and host of G4's Filter—Pittsburgh
 * Beth Ostrosky—Pittsburgh
 * Clark Johnson—Philadelphia
 * Edward B. Lewis—Wilkes-Barre
 * Edward Lewis—Wilkes-Barre
 * Elaine May—Philadelphia
 * Hilary Putnam—Philadelphia
 * James A Michener—Doylestown (redirects to "James A . Michener")
 * James A. Michener—Doylestown
 * Jason Miller—Scranton
 * Jerry Sandusky, college football coach—Washington
 * Jerry Sandusky—Washington
 * Jerry Stahl—Pittsburgh
 * John Batchelor, radio talk show host—Bryn Mawr / Lower Merion Township
 * John Batchelor—Bryn Mawr / Lower Merion Township
 * Jonathan Frakes—Bellefonte
 * M. Night Shyamalan—Philadelphia
 * Marc Connelly—McKeesport
 * Melanie Mayron—Philadelphia
 * Norman Rose, radio announcer (NBC's Dimension X and CBS Radio Mystery Theater)—Philadelphia
 * Norman Rose—Philadelphia
 * Alecia Moore aka (Pink)—Doylestown
 * Pink—Doylestown
 * Rachel Carson—Springdale
 * Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton—Scranton
 * Robert Reich—Scranton
 * Steve Burns, original host of the kids show, Blue's Clues—Boyertown
 * Steve Burns—Gilbertsville
 * Todd Gallagher—Greensburg
 * Tom Savini—Pittsburgh
 * Will Smith—Philadelphia
 * William Hultz Walker—Pittsburgh
 * William Walker—Pittsburgh

Subdividing long lists alphabetically
IP user broke up the four or five longest sections into alphabetical chunks. I added subTOCs, using anchors because there's more than one "A–B" sub§, etc. See their talk page. I think this could be very useful for many long lists.

I wrote a Perl script, User:Thnidu/anchor-alphas, to semiautomate the process, but the output still has to be copy-pasted into the page. Can anyone automate that?... --Thnidu (talk) 19:18, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Brent Grimes
An anonymous user just added with no location in Pa. (as well as screwing up the list structure). The only Pennsylvania connection in his article is one sentence about playing college football at Shippensburg University. I've deleted the addition. --Thnidu (talk) 05:41, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Brent Grimes, professional football player

First section
I think the first section shoudl be melded into the lower sections. --2604:2000:E010:1100:310B:4D30:7AD4:EE64 (talk) 09:18, 17 December 2020 (UTC)