Editing Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Muhammad Ali]], former heavyweight boxing champion, had his training camp in [[Deer Lake, Pennsylvania|Deer Lake]]
* [[Charles Justin Bailey]], former commanding general of the [[81st Infantry Division (United States)|81st Division]] in [[World War I]]
* [[Gary Becker]], economist and [[University of Chicago]] professor awarded Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
* [[Francis Brennan (cardinal)|Francis Brennan]], Catholic Church cardinal
* [[Les Brown (bandleader)|Les Brown]], former leader of Les Brown and the Band of Renown
* [[Walter Ciszek]], former Roman Catholic priest, author, and [[gulag]] survivor
* [[George Dietzler]], [[American Civil War]] general
* [[Jimmy Dorsey]], former jazz musician and band leader
* [[Tommy Dorsey]], former jazz musician and band leader
* [[David Horst]], former [[Major League Soccer]] player
* [[John E. Jones III]], former U.S. federal judge
* [[George Joulwan]], former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
* [[Danny Litwhiler]], former [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[Molly Maguires]], a clandestine society of Irish miners who engaged in a violent confrontation with Pennsylvania mining companies in the 19th century
* [[John O'Hara]], short story writer and novelist
* [[Henry Pleasants]], coal mining engineer and [[Union Army]] [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]] in the [[American Civil War]]
* [[Darryl Ponicsan]], novelist
* [[Conrad Richter]], [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction|Pulitzer-Prize]] and [[National Book Award for Fiction|National Book Award]]-winning American novelist
* [[Victor Schertzinger]], musician, film director, and composer.
* [[John Walson]], cable television system pioneer