Most of the 17 famous people born in Clearfield came into the world between 1920 and 1969

Edward Scofield, the union Army officer and governor of Wisconsin, is the most widely known, written about in 6 languages. For every 10,000 residents the town has 28.9, while at least half the towns in Pennsylvania list nobody born there. Over 146 years of births, the list goes from Edward Scofield (1842) to Andrew Janocko (1988). Athletes make up the largest group, 6 of them.