Editing Tarentum, Pennsylvania (section)

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Tarentum, Pennsylvania}}
* [[Martin Chartier]], a French-Canadian fur trader who established a trading post in 1694 with his son, [[Peter Chartier]], in what is now Tarentum.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/indianwarsofpenn00sipe|title=The Indian wars of Pennsylvania : an account of the Indian events, in Pennsylvania, of the French and Indian war, Pontiac's war, Lord Dunmore's war, the revolutionary war, and the Indian uprising from 1789 to 1795; tragedies of the Pennsylvania frontier based primarily on the Penna. archives and colonial records / by C. Hale Sipe ; introduction by Dr. George P. Donehoo|first=C. Hale (Chester Hale)|last=Sipe|date=December 28, 1929|publisher=Harrisburg Telegraph Press|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3379287/martin-chartier-peter-chartier/|title=Martin Chartier, Peter Chartier, Shawnee Indians| newspaper=Altoona Tribune |date=September 11, 1923|pages=7|via=newspapers.com}}</ref>
* [[John Filo]], photographer, took award-winning Kent State photo while employed in Tarentum.
* [[John Baptiste Ford]] (1811–1903), industrialist and founder of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, now known as [[PPG Industries]].
* [[John Grant (screenwriter)|John Grant]] (1891–1955), writer for [[Abbott and Costello]].
* [[Estelle Harris]] (1928–2022), actress who played [[George Costanza]]'s mother on ''[[Seinfeld]]'', lived in Tarentum and graduated from the former Tarentum High School.
* [[Samuel Kier]] (1813–1874), pioneer [[oil refinery|oil refiner]], operated [[salt well]]s in Tarentum
* [[John L. Miller  (politician)|John L. Miller ]] (1925–1989), politician and judge who represented [[New Jersey's 3rd legislative district|District 3C]] in the [[New Jersey Senate]] from 1968 to 1974<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=nSZMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22john+l.+miller%22+tarentum ''Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 195, Part 2''], p. 372, J.A. Fitzgerald, 1973. Accessed April 28, 2025. "Third District 3C (Camden, Gloucester and Salem) John L. Miller (Rep., Cherry Hill ) John L. Miller was born in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, on August 6, 1925. He graduated from Balboa High School in the Panama Canal Zone in 1943."</ref>
* [[Evelyn Nesbit]], [[Model (art)|artists' model]] and [[chorus line|chorus girl]], pursued by architect [[Stanford White]] and murderer [[Harry Thaw]]; she married the latter.