List of people from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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List of people from Scranton, Pennsylvania
- J. Grubb Alexander, silent film screenwriter
- Pete Barbutti, actor
- Thomas Cynfelyn Benjamin, Welsh-language poet and congregational minister
- Walter Bobbie theatre director and choreographer[1]
- Alan Brown, filmmaker
- Sonny Burke, big band leader
- Stephen Cognetti, film writer and director
- Mark Cohen, photographer
- Karl R. Coolidge, screenwriter
- Ann Crowley, singer and actress
- Pat Crowley, Actress
- Emile de Antonio, documentary film director and producer
- Carrie De Mar, actress, singer, and vaudevillian
- Dorothy Dietrich, stage magician, escapologist, co-owner of Houdini Museum
- Margot Douaihy, writer and author
- Robert Eibach, American Grammy Award winning artist, producer, recording engineer
- Cy Endfield, screenwriter, film and theater director, author, magician, and inventor
- Ann Evers, film actress
- Joe Gill, comic book writer and artist
- Wanda Hawley, silent film actress
- Lee Bennett Hopkins, educator, poet, and author
- Allan Jones, singer and actor
- Gloria Jean, singer and actress
- Stephen Karam, playwright and screenwriter
- JP Karliak, actor, voice actor, and comedian
- Barrie Karp, artist, scholar, and academic
- Jean Kerr, author and playwright
- Michael Patrick King, television and film writer, director and producer, co-creator of 2 Broke Girls and The Comeback
- William Kotzwinkle, novelist and screenwriter
- Michael Kuchwara, theater critic, columnist, and journalist
- Gershon Legman, cultural critic and folklorist
- Harry M. Leonard, film sound mixer
- Bradford Louryk, theater artist and actor
- Charles Emmett Mack, actor
- Jeanne Madden, singer, star of musical theater and 1930s films
- Judy McGrath, MTV Networks CEO
- Charles MacArthur, playwright and screenwriter
- The Menzingers, punk band
- W. S. Merwin, 17th U.S. Poet Laureate
- Jason Miller, actor, director, and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of That Championship Season
- Russ Morgan, big band-era bandleader
- Alice Cordelia Morse, American designer of book covers, educator
- Motionless in White, gothic metalcore band
- Bruce Mozert, photographer
- Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer
- Jay Parini, writer and academic
- Jerry Penacoli, actor and director
- Byrne Piven, stage actor
- Cynthia Rothrock, martial artist and star of martial arts films
- Lizabeth Scott, actress and singer
- Katy Selverstone, actress, Lisa Robbins on The Drew Carey Show
- Melanie Smith, television actress
- Mabel Cox Surdam, photographer
- Thomas L. Thomas, concert singer
- Tigers Jaw, indie rock, emo band
- Beverly Tyler, actress and singer
- Ned Washington, Academy Award-winning lyricist
- Lauren Weisberger, author, The Devil Wears Prada
- Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, singer
- Tyra Vaughn, actress and dancer[2]
Business, industry and labor
- John J. Albright, American businessman and philathorpist
- Louise Tanner Brown, African American businesswoman and owner of a trucking company
- Lisa Caputo, Citigroup group
- Frank J. Coyne, American business executive, former CEO of Verisk Analytics
- Alex Grass, founder of Rite Aid
- Ralph Lomma, popularized miniature golf
- John Mitchell, labor organizer, founding member and president, United Mine Workers of America
- Paul Montrone, American business executive, former chairman and CEO of Fisher Scientific
- William Henry Richmond, coal mine operator
- Sally Victor, milliner
- Charles Sumner "Sum" Woolworth, retailer, philanthropist, co-founder of Woolworth
- Mel Ziegler, co-founder, The Republic of Tea and Banana Republic
Government & military
- Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States (2021–2025), 47th Vice President of the United States (2009–2017), U.S. senator from Delaware (1973–2009)
- Richard J. Beamish, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth and commissioner, Public Utilities Commission
- Bruce Beemer, Inspector General of Pennsylvania (2016), Pennsylvania Attorney General (2016–2017)
- John Blake, former Pennsylvania State Senator
- Patrick J. Boland, former U.S. congressman
- Marion Cowan Burrows, former Massachusetts state legislator
- John D. Butzner Jr., former United States federal judge - United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Frank Carlucci, former U.S. Secretary of Defense and ambassador to Portugal
- Robert P. Casey, former governor of Pennsylvania
- Bob Casey Jr., U.S. senator for Pennsylvania[3]
- Gaynor Cawley, former Pennsylvania State Representative
- Jim Connors, former mayor of Scranton
- John Cusick, retired lieutenant general and 42nd Quartermaster General of the United States Army
- David J. Davis, former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor
- Mike Dunleavy, governor of Alaska
- Hermann Eilts, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Bangladesh
- John R. Farr, U.S. Congressman
- John L. Gronski, U.S. Army major general
- Anne Healey, Maryland House of Delegates
- Thomas W. Hoffman, American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- Kathleen Kane, former Pennsylvania attorney general and felon[4]
- Yechiel Leiter, Israeli ambassador to the United States since 2025[5]
- Malachy E. Mannion, United States District Judge, United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
- Joseph M. McDade, Former United States Congressman
- Gino J. Merli, Medal of Honor recipient during World War II
- Julia K. Munley, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- Karen Murphy, former Secretary of Health of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Director of the State Innovation Models Initiative, and CEO of the Moses Taylor Health System
- Terence V. Powderly, former head of Knights of Labor
- Ernie Preate, former Pennsylvania attorney general and felon
- Robert Reich, professor and political commentator, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
- Hugh E. Rodham, father of Hillary Clinton[6]
- Loretta Rush, chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
- Martin F. Scanlon, U.S. Air Force general
- Mary Scranton, former First Lady of Pennsylvania[7]
- George W. Scranton, American industrialist and U.S. congressman
- Joseph A. Scranton, U.S. congressman
- Marion Margery Scranton, Suffragette and vice-chair, U.S. Republican Party
- William Scranton, former governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
- William Scranton III, former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor
- Harvey Sicherman, Special Assistant to the then Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, American writer and foreign policy expert, President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute from 1993 to 2010
- Joel Wachs, Los Angeles city council member
- John Anthony Walker, former U.S. Navy chief warrant officer convicted of spying for the Soviet Union[8]
- Laurence Hawley Watres. U.S. Congressman[9]
- Louis A. Watres, Pennsylvania lieutenant governor[9]
- James Donald Walsh, Diplomat and foreign service officer, United States Ambassador to Argentina 2000-2003
- Stephen Wojdak, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1976)