List of people from York, Pennsylvania
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The following people were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with York, Pennsylvania, and its surrounding metropolitan statistical area, including York County, Pennsylvania.
- John Adlum, a pioneer viticulturist[1]
- Dominick Argento, music composer
- Charles Augustus Barnitz, policitian
- Andrew R. Brodbeck, politician
- Edward Schroeder Brooks, politician
- Herbert B. Cohen, Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice
- Nathaniel N. Craley, Jr., politician
- Phineas Davis, clockmaker and inventor
- Jacob L. Devers, World War II U.S. Army general
- Chris Doleman, NFL defensive end
- Luther P. Eisenhart, mathematician
- James Ewing (Pennsylvania statesman)
- William Henry Farquhar, developmental influencer of Montgomery County, Maryland
- William B. Franklin, American Civil War general
- James Gerry, politician
- Hugh Glasgow, politician, judge
- Granville O. Haller, American Civil War officer who led the defense of Adams and York counties during the Gettysburg Campaign and later became a leading Seattle millionaire
- David Holmes (politician)
- Kevin Jones (BMX rider)
- James Kelly (U.S. representative)
- Matthew Knisely (TV photojournalist)
- Tanya Lehman, Miss Pennsylvania USA 2006
- Live, the alternative rock band
- Frances Lee McCain, Actress (Gremlins, Footloose, Back to the Future, etc.)
- Lewis Miller (Folk Artist), Artist and chronicler of early 1800s life in York
- Craig Sheffer, actor
- James Smith, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, lived on South George Street and is buried in York.
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- ^ (1967) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume,. Marquis Who's Who.
