- Orlando Bloom
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor. He had his break-through role in the early 2000s as the elf-prince Legolas in "The Lord of the Rings" and blacksmith Will Turner in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy of films, and subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood films, including "Troy", "Elizabethtown," and "Kingdom of Heaven". - Nancy Wilson
Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16 1954) is an American singer and guitarist who, with her older sister Ann, became a part of the Seattle band Heart. "Dreamboat Annie" came out on Mushroom Records in 1976, and their second single, "Crazy On You", was a hit. While Ann is the lead singer on most Heart recordings, Nancy is the lead vocalist on the hits "These Dreams", "Stranded", … - Paul Schneider
Paul Schneider is an American film actor from Asheville, North Carolina. He made his cinematic debut in the 2000 independent film "George Washington", and has since starred in "All the Real Girls", "Elizabethtown", "The Family Stone", and "Live Free or Die". He has also played supporting roles in "Lars and the Real Girl", and "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". - Paula Wagner
Paula Wagner (born Paula Kauffman 12 December 1946 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American film producer and film executive. Wagner earned her BA at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She began her career as an actress, appearing in several Broadway and off-Broadway stage productions. Wagner also performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre. In addition to being an actress, she is also a published playwright, … - Jonathan Dayton
Jonathan Dayton (October 16, 1760-October 9, 1824) was an American politician from the U.S. state of New Jersey. He was the youngest person to sign the United States Constitution and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving as the third Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and later the U.S. Senate. Arrested in 1807 for treason in connection with Aaron Burr's conspiracy, Dayton was never tried but his political career never recovered. - William Livingston
William Livingston served as the Governor of New Jersey (1776–1790) during the American Revolution and was a signer of the United States Constitution. His grandfather, Robert Livingston the Elder, was a son of the Rev John Livingston a lineal descendant of the fifth Lord Livingston. He was the Brother of Philip Livingston and cousin of Robert R. Livingston, the Chancellor, as well as the grandson of Albany, New York mayor, Pieter Van Brugh. - Allison Munn
Allison Munn (born October 7, 1974) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role in The WB sitcom "What I Like About You". - Abraham Clark
Abraham Clark (February 15, 1725 - September 15, 1794) was an American politician and Revolutionary War figure. He was delegate for New Jersey to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence and later served in the United States House of Representatives in both the Second and Third United States Congress, from March 4, 1791, until his death in 1794. Abraham was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. - Emily Rutherfurd
Emily Rutherfurd (born September 18, 1974 in New York, New York) is an American actress who is best known for her role as "New Christine" Hunter on the CBS sitcom "The New Adventures of Old Christine". Her previous television credits included "The Ellen Show", "Married to the Kellys", a recurring role in "Will & Grace" as a student in Jack McFarland's acting class, and a guest appearance on "What I Like About You". - Philip Carteret
Philip Carteret (1639 - 1682) was the first governor of New Jersey. In 1665, he was appointed by John Berkeley and his cousin George Carteret, the two proprietors of the newly-acquired grant "the Province of New Caesaria or New Jersey", to take possession and assume the position of governor. Carteret found the province inhabited by "a few hundred Dutchmen and English Puritans, who had settled in Woodbridge and Newark" (Morison). - Philip Arnold
Philip Arnold (1829 - 1878) was a confidence trickster from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and the brains behind the legendary diamond hoax of 1872, which fooled people into investing in a phony diamond mining operation. He managed to walk away from the hoax with more than half a million dollars. - Shane Lyons
Shane Edward Lyons (born on February 18, 1988 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American actor he is best known for his role as a featured cast member in long-running Nickelodeon series "All That" appearing on the show from 2001-2004. His other television credits include "ER", "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and appearing twice on "That's So Raven" as "Head Cold" Kenny Brookwell. - John Cleves Symmes
John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) was a delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey, and later a pioneer in the Northwest Territory. He was also the father-in-law of President William Henry Harrison. He was the son of the Rev. Timothy Symmes (1715-1756) and Mary Cleves (died c. 1746) of Suffolk County, New York on Long Island. John was born in Riverhead, New York on July 21, 1742. Symmes was educated as a lawyer and married Anna Tuthill (1741-1776) at Mattituck, … - Lois Herr
Lois Herr is an aspiring American politician and a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Democrat from Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district. In the 2006 election she ran her second campaign for the seat held by Republican Joseph R. Pitts after losing to the incumbent Pitts in 2004. She received approximately 39% of the 198,338 votes cast to Pitts' 56%. (4% went to independent candidate John Murphy) Herr is a Lancaster County native and currently resides in Elizabethtown. - John de Hart
John De Hart (July 25, 1727-- June 1, 1795) was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey. He represented New Jersey as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775. John De Hart was born at Elizabethtown to Jacob De Hart (1699-1777) and Abigail (Crane) De Hart. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1770. He married Sarah Dagworthy, and they had eight children (John, Jacob, Matthias, Stephen, Sarah, Abigail, Jane, and Louisa). - Catherine McGoohan
Catherine McGoohan (born 1952) is a British actress, active in the United States. McGoohan is the eldest daughter of acclaimed Irish actor, Patrick McGoohan and his wife, former stage actress Joan Drummond. She is Irish on her father's side and British on her mother's. She has two younger sisters, Anne (b. 1959) and Frances (b. 1960). Although she has never achieved the same degree of fame or recognition as her father, … - Mark Kermode
Mark Kermode (born Mark Fairey on 2 July 1963) is an English film critic who regularly writes for "Sight and Sound" magazine and "The Observer" newspaper. He is most famous for reviewing films on Simon Mayo's BBC Radio Five Live show on Friday afternoons, and is also the resident movie critic for "The Culture Show". He is also a critic on other branches of the arts for the BBC2 programme "Newsnight Review", … - Charles B. Middleton
Charles B. Middleton was an American stage and film actor. During a film career that began at age 46 and lasted almost 30 years, Charles Middleton appeared in nearly two hundred films as well as numerous plays including in the 1946 Broadway production, "January Thaw"." Born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Charles Middleton worked in a traveling circus, in vaudeville, and acted in live theatre before he turned to motion pictures in 1920. - Greg Downs
Greg Downs (born November 22, 1971) is the author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning short story collection, "Spit Baths" published in 2006 by the University of Georgia Press. Spit Baths has been called "masterful" and "rich and mesmerizing" by the Philadelphia Inquirer; a "founding myth for a racially integrated South" by the San Francisco Chronicle; and a "luminous new collection" by Small Spiral Notebook. - Isaac Brokaw
Isaac Brokaw (March 9, 1746 - September 16, 1826) was a clockmaker from New Jersey. Brokaw was born in Raritan in Somerset County, but would leave for Elizabethtown where he would work as an apprentice under Aaron Miller, a renowned clock maker. He would later marry Miller's daughter, Elizabeth Miller. In 1770, Brokaw was living in Bridgewater when a local judge ordered that his property be sold off in order to pay off his outstanding debts. - William M. Crane
Commodore William M. Crane (1776-18 March 1846) was an officer in the United States Navy during the First Barbary War and the War of 1812. Crane was born in 1776 at Elizabethtown, New Jersey and appointed midshipman in 1799 and captain in 1814. Serving as a lieutenant in "Congress", he won honors for his gallant fighting in the attacks on Tripoli in 1804. - Harold Medina
Harold Raymond Medina, Sr. (February 16, 1888-March 14, 1990) was a lawyer, teacher and judge who is most noted for hearing landmark cases of conspiracy and treason. In 1947 President Harry S. Truman nominated Medina to serve as a federal judge in the Southern District of New York. In 1949, he presided over the trial of 11 leaders of the U.S. Communist Party charged with advocating the violent overthrow of the government. - Douglas Lucas
Douglas Lucas (born Douglas Glenn Lucas, Jr. on May 12, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, and musician from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Four months before he was to graduate high school he told his principal that he was going to drop out if he had to cut his hair. After high school, he was preparing to start studying for a degree in philosophy but quickly changed his mind when he signed a deal with Sony/ATV publishing. - Jacob G. Francis
Jacob Gottwals (J.G. or Jay G.) Francis (January 13, 1870-August 27, 1958) was an author, a historian, a photographer, and a Church of the Brethren minister. Francis was born in Oaks, Pennsylvania to John Umstead and Mary Jane (Gottwals) Francis. In 1891, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ursinus College. He is credited with helping to found Elizabethtown College in 1899 located in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. - Isaac Halstead Williamson
Isaac Halstead Williamson (September 27, 1767 - July 10, 1844) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 8th Governor of New Jersey, from 1817 to 1829. Isaac Halstead Williamson was born in 1767 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He later studied law with his brother Matthias and became a leading lawyer in New Jersey. He received his attorney's license in 1791, followed by his counselor's license five years later; and in 1804, … - Edmond Spencer Blackburn
Edmond Spencer Blackburn (22 September 1868 - 21 July 1912) was a Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1901 and 1903 and 1905 and 1907. Born near Boone, North Carolina, Blackburn attended common schools and became a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in 1890 and practiced law in Jefferson, North Carolina. A clerk for the North Carolina Senate in 1894 and 1895, he was elected to the state house in 1896 and 1897, … - Mark Harman
Mark Harman is a renowned translator, most notably of Franz Kafka's work, and professor at Elizabethtown College, where he is chair of the Modern Languages Department and an Associate Professor of English.. A native of Dublin, Harman was educated at University College and Yale University, where he took his BA/MA and PhD, respectively. He has taught German and Irish literature at Dartmouth, Oberlin, Franklin & Marshall, and the University of Pennsylvania. - Nathan D. Baxter
The Rt. Rev. Nathan Dwight Baxter, AHC, is the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania and the 1,010 in succession in the Episcopal Church. He was elected as bishop coadjutor on July 22, 2006, and consecrated on October 22, 2006. Directly before being elected Baxter spent two and a half years serving as the rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. - Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith is a former Pennsylvania State Representative in the 92nd District which covers parts of York and Cumberland counties. Smith was elected in 1980, and retired in 2006. Smith is a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Smith is a graduate of John Harris High School. Smith graduated from Elizabethtown College in 1956, and is the College's first alumni elected to the Pennsylvania State House. - S. Dale High
S. Dale High is best known for serving as president of High Industries, Inc. High graduated from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania in 1963. High joined his family-owned business in 1963. Under High's leadership, the business grew to 2,400 "co-workers" in companies such as High Steel Structures, Inc., High Concrete Structures, Inc., High Real Estate Group, High Steel Service Center, Inc., High Hotels, Ltd., High Food Services, Ltd., High Employee Services, Ltd. - Paul Gottfried
Paul Edward Gottfried is Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient. He is an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute. He is the author of numerous books and articles in several languages on intellectual history, paleoconservatism, ancient historiography, and political theory. Gottfried has also been a close friend of important political and intellectual figures: Richard Nixon, Pat Buchanan, John Lukacs, Christopher Lasch, … - Calvin Duncan
Calvin L. Duncan (1925/1926-July 29, 2006) was the first black police captain in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Duncan was born in Greenville, North Carolina. He graduated from J.P. McCaskey High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Duncan served in Italy in World War II and won five combat stars. In 2003, Duncan received an honorary degree in professional studies from Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. - John B. Craig
John B. Craig (1945-present) is a native of Pennsylvania. He served the United States of America as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism under President George W. Bush. The Boeing Company appointed Craig to the position of Regional Vice President in the Middle East, based in the United Arab Emerites, with a concentration on the Gulf States. Previously, he was Ambassador to Oman from July 31, 1998 to 2001. - David Eller
David Barry Eller (born April 30, 1945) was a professor of Religious Studies and head of the Department of Religious Studies at Elizabethtown College until his termination, following his arrest for attempting to meet a minor for sex in July 2006. He has been an ordained minister of the Church of the Brethren since 1978. - Connie Morella
Constance Albanese "Connie" Morella (born February 12, 1931) is a Republican United States politician currently serving as Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). - David Trimble Baron Trimble
William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC (born 15 October 1944), is a politician from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the first First Minister of Northern Ireland. He shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. He served as Member of Parliament for Upper Bann from 1990 until 2005, … - Judith Sheindlin
Judith Sheindlin, also known as Judge Judy (born October 21, 1942) is an American family court clerk, author, and television personality. After retiring as a family court clerk in 1996, she became famous by hosting her own syndicated court show, "Judge Judy". - Harris Wofford
Harris Llewellyn Wofford (born April 9, 1926) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1995. He was also the fifth president of Bryn Mawr College. Harris Wofford was born in New York City in 1926. While attending high school, he was inspired by Clarence Streit's plea for a world government to found the Student Federalists (see). - Eugene W. Hickok
Dr. Eugene W. Hickok (Born in 1951 Denver and raised mostly in Richmond, Va.) is a leading advocate for public education reform and an expert in constitutional law. President George W. Bush nominated Hickok as his Under Secretary of Education on March 30, 2001 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 10, 2001. - William Henry Keeler
"His Eminence" Cardinal William Henry Keeler, BA, STL, JCD (born March 4, 1931) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as Archbishop of Baltimore since 1989 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1994. The appointment of Edwin O'Brien as Archbishop-designate to succeed Cardinal Keeler as the Archbishop of Baltimore on October 1, 2007, was announced on July 12, 2007.
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