Leon Bass (1925–2015), educator, principal of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin High School.Ellen Bass (born 1947), professor, poet, author.
Digby Baltzell (1915–1996), sociologist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, bestselling author of Philadelphia Gentlemen, The Protestant Establishment, and Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, credited with popularizing the acronym WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) Joseph Addison Alexander (1809–1860), clergyman, biblical scholar.11.1 Philadelphia native basketball players.
