Editing Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania (section)

==Notable people==
Television personality [[Dick Clark]] lived from 1954 to 1956 at the Drexelbrook Apartment complex while hosting Barr's Diamond Theater and a radio show on [[WFIL]], before he was hired to host ''[[American Bandstand]]''. Television personality [[Ed McMahon]] also lived at the Drexelbrook before teaming up with [[Johnny Carson]] on ''[[Do You Trust Your Wife?]]'', then ''[[The Tonight Show]]''.

Children's author [[Lloyd Alexander]] lived in Drexel Hill with his wife and several cats.

1970s folk/pop singer-songwriter [[Jim Croce]] grew up in the Bywood and Drexel Hill sections of Upper Darby. Croce graduated Upper Darby Sr. High in 1960, and attended [[Villanova University]] 1961–1965. He married Ingrid Jacobson of Wallingford. Her family is believed to have bought the house Dick Clark sold upon leaving for the west coast when ''Bandstand'' left WFIL in the early '60s. Croce was the first to be inducted on [[Upper Darby High School]]'s "Wall of Fame" in April 1976.

Former United States Representative [[Pat Meehan]] of the [[Seventh Congressional District of Pennsylvania]] lives in Drexel Hill.

[[Alan Graham MacDiarmid]] ONZ (April 14, 1927 – February 7, 2007), one of three recipients of the [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] in 2000, died in 2007 after falling in his Drexel Hill home. He is buried at [[Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill]].

[[Nancy Meyers]], producer and director of movies including ''[[The Parent Trap (1998 film)|The Parent Trap]]'' (1998), ''[[What Women Want]]'' (2000), ''[[Something's Gotta Give (film)|Something's Gotta Give]]'' (2003), ''[[The Holiday]]'' (2006), ''[[It's Complicated (film)|It's Complicated]]'' (2009) and ''[[The Intern (2015 film)|The Intern]]'' (2015)  was raised in a [[American Jews|Jewish]] household in the Drexel Hill area.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Larocca|first1=Amy|title=In Conversation: Nancy Meyers|url=http://www.vulture.com/2015/09/nancy-meyers-amy-larocca-in-conversation.html|access-date=11 September 2015|work=[[Vulture (blog)|Vulture]]|date=11 September 2015}}</ref>

Drexel Hill resident [[Gregore J. Sambor]] was a former commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department best known for his role in the [[1985 MOVE bombing|1985 bombing of MOVE]], in which six adults and five children died after he told firefighters to stand down and "let the fire burn".