("Little Things Mean a Lot") Irvin Kershner, director (The Empire Strikes Back, RoboCop 2) Jack Klugman, actor (The Odd Couple, Quincy, M.E., 12 Angry Men) Kenny Koplove, baseball player Joseph Kramm, playwright (Pulitzer Prize for The Shrike), actor, and director Eddie Lang, jazz guitarist Mario Lanza, tenor and actor (The Great Caruso) Joseph Anthony "Uncle Joe" Ligambi, current boss of the Philadelphia crime family. Hy Lit, Philadelphia-area DJ from the 1950s until 2005 George Litto, film producer (Thieves Like Us, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out) Walter P. Lomax Jr., physician and entrepreneur Bernie Lowe, songwriter, producer, arranger, founder of Cameo Records, launched careers of Chubby Checker, Charlie Gracie, Dee Dee Sharp, Bobby Rydell, The Orlons Man Ray, modernist/Dada/Surrealist artist Gloria Mann, pop singer ("Earth Angel") Guy Marks, actor, singer, comedian and impressionist Al Martino, singer ("Here in My Heart", "Volare") and actor (The Godfather, The Godfather Part III) Pat Martino, jazz guitarist and composer Meek Mill, rapper (He was born in South Philadelphia but was raised in North Philadelphia) N. Richard Nash, writer and dramatist (The Rainmaker) Fayard Nicholas, dancer (Nicholas Brothers) Harold Nicholas, dancer (Nicholas Brothers) Drew O'Keefe - U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Harry Olivieri, co-inventor of the cheesesteak Pat Olivieri, co-inventor of the cheesesteak Frank Palumbo, restaurateur, humanitarian and power broker; owner of Palumbo's" Lisa Peluso, actress (Saturday Night Fever, Search for Tomorrow, Loving, Another World, One Life to Live) Vincent Persichetti, composer, pianist, teacher at the Juilliard School (students included Philip Glass, Hall Overton, Kenneth Fuchs and Thelonious Monk) Questlove, drummer and co-founder of The Roots Florence Quivar, mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera, Grammy Award for Porgy and Bess) Peter Mark Richman, actor (Santa Barbara, Dynasty, Three's Company, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan) Frank Rizzo, mayor of Philadelphia (1972–1980) LaVaughn Robinson, tap dancer, choreographer (a National Endowment of the Arts "Living National Treasure" and NEA National Heritage Fellowship award) Bobby Rydell, singer ("Wild One", "Volaire"), actor (Bye Bye Birdie), teen idol Jodie Sands, singer ("With All My Heart", "Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)") Dee Dee Sharp, singer ("Slow Twistin'" (with Chubby Checker), "Mashed Potato Time") Beanie Sigel, rapper Frank Spellman (1922–2017), Olympic champion weightlifter Sylvester Stallone, actor (Rocky, Rambo, The Expendables franchises) Joseph Stefano, Edgar Award-winning screenwriter (Psycho) George Tunnell, vocalist (Jan Savitt and the Top Hatters) Charlie Ventura, tenor saxophonist and bandleader Joe Venuti, jazz violin pioneer Stanley