Art and Architecture
- Julian Abele – architect
- Robb Armstrong – cartoonist, creator of Jump Start
- Edmund Bacon – city planner
- William Bell – photographer
- Alexander Calder – artist
- Mary Cassatt – painter
- Robert Crumb – underground comics artist, writer
- Thomas Eakins – painter
- Frank Furness – architect
- Ginger Gilmour – sculptor, first wife of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour
- Phoebe Gloeckner – cartoonist, novelist
- Elizabeth Shippen Green – illustrator
- Ian Hornak – painter
- Amy Ignatow – illustrator, cartoonist, and author, The Popularity Papers series
- Louis Kahn – architect
- Bil Keane – cartoonist, The Family Circus
- Walt Kelly – cartoonist
- Henry P. McIlhenny – philanthropist; chairman, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976–1986
- Martin Nodell – comic book artist, creator of the original Green Lantern
- William H. Rau – photographer
- Denise Scott Brown – architect
- Grover Simcox – illustrator
- Zoe Strauss – photographer
- Thomas Sully – painter
- Horace Trumbauer – architect
- Robert Venturi – architect
- Andrew Wyeth – painter
- Jamie Wyeth – painter (son of Andrew)
- N.C. Wyeth – illustrator (father of Andrew)
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