The following is a list of notable people who were born, or who have lived a significant portion of their lives, in the Lehigh Valley, referred to informally and locally as The Valley, around Allentown, Pennsylvania in the United States.
Authors, journalists, playwrights, and poets
Christian Bauman, novelist
Stephen Vincent Benét, author
Charles Bierbauer, journalist
Clair Blank, author, Beverly Gray
H.D., writer, poet
John Birmelin, Pennsylvania German dialect poet and playwright
Katherine Boehret, technology journalist
Russell Davenport, publisher and writer
Solomon DeLong (pen name Obediah Grouthomel), Pennsylvania German language columnist for The Morning Call
Michael F. Flynn, science-fiction writer
Matthew Giobbi, author
Alfred Hassler, journalist and author
J. Robert Lennon, novelist
Randall Munroe, writer, XKCD comic series
Sandra Novack, author
Alix Olson, spoken word artist
Michael Pocalyko, business executive and financial novelist
Ian Riccaboni, author, host of Ring of Honor Wrestling
Marci Shore, author and historian
Jennifer Storm, author
Lauren Weisberger, author, The Devil Wears Prada
Business and politics
Roy C. Afflerbach, lobbyist and politician
William F. Andrews, former member of Congress
James Soloman Biery, former member of Congress
William F. Birch, former member of Congress
Joseph Force Crater, Associate Justice, New York Supreme Court
James B. Cunningham, diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Afghanistan
Charlie Dent, member of Congress
Wayne Dumont, former New Jersey Senate Majority Leader and Senate President
Charles L. Gerlach, former member of Congress
Fred Benjamin Gernerd, former member of Congress
Rick Glazier, Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
Eugene Grace, industrialist, President of Bethlehem Steel, 1916–1945
Erskine Hazard, co-founder of Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, Lehigh Canal, Lehigh Crane Iron Company and many railroads.
David W. Hess, Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
Lee Iacocca, former chairman of Chrysler Corporation
Michael Johns, health care executive and former White House speechwriter
John Kline, member of Congress
Marcus C.L. Kline, former member of Congress
Fred Ewing Lewis, former member of Congress
Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner, former member of Congress
John E. McGlade, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Air Products & Chemicals
Helen Stevenson Meyner, former member of Congress
Robert B. Meyner, former Governor of New Jersey
Peter Newhard, former member of Congress
Ed Pawlowski, mayor of Allentown
Andrew Horatio Reeder, former Governor of Kansas
Donald L. Ritter, former member of Congress
James Ritter, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Charles M. Schwab, industrialist, former President of U.S. Steel (later incorporated as Bethlehem Steel)
Charles Sitgreaves, former member of Congress and former Mayor of Phillipsburg
Samuel Sitgreaves, former U.S. commissioner to Great Britain and former member of Congress
Richard A. Snelling, former Governor of Vermont
Andrea Tantaros, political analyst and commentator
George Taylor, signator to the Declaration of Independence
Josiah White, co-founder of Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, Lehigh Canal, Lehigh Crane Iron Company and many railroads.
Charles A. Wikoff, most senior ranking U.S. Army officer killed in the Spanish–American War
Film, television, and stage
Lisa Ann, adult film actress
Althea Henley, actress
Alexandra Chando, actress, As the World Turns
Jack Coleman, actor, NBC's Heroes
Michaela Conlin, actress, Fox's Bones
Dane DeHaan, actor, In Treatment and Chronicle
Devon, adult film actress
Omar Doom, actor and musician
Jonathan Frakes, actor, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Mel Harris, actress, ABC's thirtysomething
Tim Heidecker, actor and comedian, Cartoon Network's Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Dwayne Johnson ("The Rock"), actor, former professional wrestler
Daniel Dae Kim, actor, ABC's Lost
Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina
Carson Kressley, fashion consultant, Bravo's Queer Eye
Christopher Lennertz, film, television, and video game music composer, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Supernatural
Jayne Mansfield, 1950s-era actress and sex symbol
William Marchant, playwright and screenwriter
Michael McDonald, costume designer and 2009 Tony Award and Drama Desk nominee for Hair
Kristen McMenamy, fashion model
Kate Micucci, actress, comedian, artist, and singer-songwriter
Lara Jill Miller, voice actress, Cartoon Network's The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
Aimee Mullins, model and actress
Robert Newhard, cinematographer
Sally Jessy Raphael, television talk show host
Lou Reda, documentary filmmaker
Daniel Roebuck, actor, ABC's Lost
Amanda Seyfried, model and actress, The CW's Veronica Mars and HBO's Big Love
Sheetal Sheth, actress, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Gary Mark Smith, artist, author, and global street photographer
Dana Snyder, voice actor, Cartoon Network's Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Sabrina Carpenter, actress, singer
Sarah Strohmeyer, novelist, creator of Bubbles Yablonsky
Christine Taylor, actress and wife of actor Ben Stiller
Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor, ABC's Home Improvement
Yvonne Zima, actress, "Rachel Greene" on NBC's ER
David Zippel, Tony-award winning lyricist, City of Angels
Rick Braun, Smooth jazz trumpet player
Lillian Briggs, former rockabilly musician
Leon Carr, Broadway composer and television advertising songwriter
Jimmy DeGrasso, drummer for Alice Cooper band, former drummer for Megadeth
Omar Doom, actor and musician
Fiona, rock music singer
Walt Groller, Grammy-nominated polka musician
Sabrina Carpenter, Disney Music top 10 finalist
George Hrab, rock and funk musician
Chris Jarrett, pianist and composer
Keith Jarrett, jazz musician
Jay & the Techniques, sixties era pop/soul group
Steve Kimock, rock musician
Terry Kitchen, folk singer
Ludwig Lenel, organist and composer
Mulgrew Miller, jazz pianist
Mike Portnoy, rock drummer
Thom Schuyler, country music singer and songwriter
Shadow Gallery, progressive metal band
Donald Voorhees, Emmy-nominated orchestral conductor
Jordan White, rock musician
Stephanie Woodling, opera singer
Sabrina Carpenter, singer, songwriter, actress
Frank N. D. Buchman, founder of the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament religious movement
Timothy J. Keller, Christian pastor in of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, author of The Reason for God
Nathan Homer Knorr, religious leader and 3rd president, Jehovah's Witnesses
Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
David A. Bader, Georgia Tech professor
Michael Behe, biochemist at Lehigh University, advocate of intelligent design
James McKeen Cattell, first United States psychology professor
Richard Diehl, archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar
Edwin Drake, oil driller
Terry Jonathan Hart, Space Shuttle astronaut
Dennis Mammana, nationally syndicated astronomy columnist, lecturer and sky photographer
Francis March, academic
Aaron D. O'Connell, created the world's first quantum machine
Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist, MacArthur Fellow
Walter O. Snelling, chemist and explosives expert who discovered propane gas
John E. Berninger, landscape painter and Pennsylvania impressionist, first curator of the Allentown Art Museum
Karl Buesgen, landscape painter and Pennsylvania impressionist
Mark Beyer, comic book artist
Don Dixon, astronomical artist
Peter Alfred Gross, landscape painter
Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer, illustrator, painter and printmaker
Herman Leonard, photographer noted for jazz portraits
Arlington Nelson Lindenmuth, landscape and portrait painter, photographer
Grover Simcox, naturalist illustrator
Gary Mark Smith, Global street photography pioneer, author, educator
Boris Vallejo, fantasy artist
Orlando Gray Wales, landscape painter and Pennsylvania impressionist
Stephen Barrett, psychiatrist and webmaster, Quackwatch (former longtime resident)
Karen Bausman, architect
Thom Browne, fashion designer
Beth Doe, unidentified murder victim found in 1976
Frank Reed Horton, founder of Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity
Sarah Knauss, supercentenarian recognized as the "world's oldest person" by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998 until her death at age 119 in 1999
Timothy Krajcir, serial killer
Martin O. May, Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
Harvey Miguel Robinson, serial killer
Robert Sun, inventor of 24 Game
Ryo Tokita, artist
Theo Tran, professional poker player
List of people from the Lehigh Valley Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
