List of people from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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List of people from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
This is a list of notable people who were born, or who have lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
- William Addams (1777-1858), a Pennsylvania State Representative and United States Congressman
- David Hayes Agnew, (1818-1892), noted surgeon
- Andy Baldwin, a U.S. Navy lieutenant and physician, and the bachelor of season 10 of The Bachelor
- James Buchanan, former President of the United States
- Charles Demuth, American Precisionist painter
- Gretchen Egolf, actress
- Tristan Egolf, an American novelist, author, and a political activist
- Andrew Ellicott, surveyor, completed layout of Washington DC, established surveying baseline for Northwest Territory, and taught surveying to Captain Meriwether Lewis preparatory to the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Michael Erlewine, founder of All Media Guide (AMG)
- Robert Fulton, statesman, painter, and the creator of the Clermont steamboat
- Jim Furyk, professional golfer
- Gene Garber, professional baseball player
- Edward Hand, a physician, farmer, congressman, and a general officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
- Tom Herr, former professional baseball player and former manager of the Lancaster Barnstormers
- Milton S. Hershey, chocolatier and founder of the The Hershey Company
- Dan Kreider, professional football player, Pittsburgh Steelers
- Floyd Landis, professional road bicycle racer, winner Tour de France 2006
- Thomas Mifflin, politician and a signer of the United States Constitution
- Anna Balmer Myers, author of early 20th-century novels centered in Lancaster County
- John Parrish, professional baseball player, Toronto Blue Jays
- John F. Reynolds, U.S. Army officer and a general in the American Civil War
- Brad Rutter, Jeopardy! champion
- Daniel B. Strickler, Lieutenant General, veteran of both World Wars and the Korean War; Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 1947-1951
- Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican congressman who was an abolitionist
- Bruce Sutter, former professional baseball pitcher, inducted to Baseball's Hall of Fame, 2006
- Julian Valentin, professional soccer player, Los Angeles Galaxy
- Junior Vasquez, famous New York City club DJ and remixer/producer
- Suzanne Westenhoefer, comedian
- Marianne Wiggins, author, and wife of author Salman Rushdie
- Richard Winters, United States Army paratrooper and World War II veteran who was portrayed in Stephen Ambrose's 1992 book and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers
