Editing Pike County, Pennsylvania (section)

==Notable natives and residents==

* [[Deaths of Phillip Esposito and Louis Allen|Louis Allen]], a [[New York Army National Guard]] officer killed in a [[fragging]] incident in 2005 during the [[Iraq War]].
* [[James Blish]], [[Damon Knight]], [[Judith Merril]] and [[Kate Wilhelm]] (Mrs. Knight), all science fiction writers]
* [[Vanessa Carlton]] - (born 1980) singer/songwriter
* [[Zane Grey]] - (1872-1939) author of western stories and novels including ''[[Riders of the Purple Sage]]''
* [[Allyn Joslyn]], stage and screen actor
*[[Robert Litzenberger]], professor emeritus at the [[Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania]]
* [[Frank McCourt]], author
* [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], a philosopher and [[polymath]], lived on a farm 3 miles from Milford, from 1887 until his 1914 death.
* [[Mary Pickford]], silent film actress
* [[Gifford Pinchot]] - (1865–1946) was the first Chief of the [[United States Forest Service]] (1905–1910) and the [[List of Governors of Pennsylvania|Governor]] of [[Pennsylvania]] (1923–1927, 1931–1935).
* [[Al Pitrelli]], guitarist
* Tom Quick, early settler<ref>Quinlan, James E. [http://jrbooksonline.com/HTML-docs/tom_quick_1851.htm "Tom Quick The Indian Slayer and the pioneers of Minisink and Wawarsink"] Monticello, N.Y.: De Voe & Quinlan, Publishers (1851)</ref>
* [[Mary Cole Walling]] (1838–1925), patriot, lecturer
* [[Smoky Joe Wood]], baseball pitcher.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/woodjo02.shtml|title=Smoky Joe Wood Stats - Baseball-Reference.com|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref>
* [[Marie Zimmermann]] designer and maker of jewelry and metalwork