Notable People from Wilkes-Barre
- David Bohm, quantum physicist
- Benjamin Burnley, lead singer and guitarist for alternative metal band Breaking Benjamin
- George Catlin, artist
- Britton Chance, bio-physicist and Olympic sailor.
- Mark Cohen, street photographer
- Colleen Corby, Sixties fashion model[18]
- Francis A. "Mother" Dunn, football player for the Canton Bulldogs
- Jesse Fell, early experimenter with anthracite coal
- Pat Finn, game show host whose shows include PAX's Shop 'til You Drop
- Ham Fisher, cartoonist
- Vin Gerard, professional wrestler
- George Washington Helme, businessman and founder of Helmetta, New Jersey
- Joe Hergert, former professional football player
- Qadry Ismail, former NFL wide receiver on the Baltimore Ravens
- Raghib Ismail, former NFL player and Heisman Trophy runner-up
- Florence Foster Jenkins, unconventional operatic soprano
- Candy Jones, fashion model, writer and radio talk show host[19]
- Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis, Treasurer of the United States
- James Karen, actor
- Franz Kline, abstract expressionist painter
- Mike Konnick, former MLB player
- Mary Jo Kopechne, passenger killed in the car driven by Ted Kennedy at Chappaquidick
- Harley Jane Kozak, actress and author
- Matthew Lesko, infomercial personality
- Edward B. Lewis, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Academy Award-winning director and producer
- Mary McDonnell, actress twice nominated for Academy Award
- Edward Meneeley, painter
- Albert Mudrian, author and magazine editor
- Jozef Murgas, radio pioneer
- Amedeo Obici, founder of Planters Peanuts
- Jerry Orbach, Tony award-winning actor
- John Paluck, football player for the Washington Redskins and pro-bowler
- William Daniel Phillips, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics
- Sukanya Roy, 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee winner
- Mendy Rudolph, former NBA referee from 1953 to 1975
- Michael Schoeffling, actor who played Jake Ryan in 80s classic film Sixteen Candles
- M. Gerald Schwartzbach, California criminal defense attorney[20]
- Greg Skrepenak, former NFL player, convicted felon
- Jonathan Slavin, character actor
- Jacob Sullum, journalist and author, featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me[21]
- Bob Sura, basketball player, Houston Rockets
- Louis Teicher, pianist; member of the duo Ferrante & Teicher
- Ed Walsh, Hall of Fame pitcher; major league baseball's all-time ERA champion
- Harry Welsh, WWII first lieutenant in Easy Company
- Ira W. Wood, represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district from 1904 to 1913[22]
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