This article contains a list of notable people who were born or lived a significant amount of time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The city of Pittsburgh is the second-largest city and the center of the second largest metro area in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Artists

Actresses

Actors

Comedians

Reporters and anchors

Jodi Applegate – NBC's Later Today
John Buccigross – host, SportsCenter on ESPN
Bill Burns – KDKA anchor (1953–1989)
Patti Burns – KDKA anchor with her father Bill
Bill Cardille – broadcaster known as Chilly Billy, host of Chiller Theatre and Studio Wrestling
Beano Cook – ESPN college football analyst
Myron Cope – sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster
Scott Ferrall – sports talk radio host
Howard Fineman – Newsweek journalist
Tom Griffith – anchor of WMUR-TV Manchester, New Hampshire
Fred Honsberger – broadcaster
Jay Mariotti – sportswriter
Jeanne Moos – CNN reporter
Art Pallan – broadcaster
Jane Pauley^[1]
Jim Quinn – radio talk show host
Paul Shannon – host of WTAE-TV children's show Adventure Time
John Stehr – anchorman at WTHR in Indianapolis, Indiana
Bari Weiss – opinion writer and editor

Media personalities

Porky Chedwick – announcer
Rege Cordic – actor and broadcaster
Bill Cullen – TV game show host
John Dennis – radio host
Frank DiLeo – Michael Jackson's manager, Goodfellas cast member
Phil Frank – cartoonist
Chris Garver – tattoo artist, Miami Ink
Justine Ezarik (aka. iJustine) – YouTube personality
Rafe Judkins – Survivor: Guatemala
Sarah Kozer – Joe Millionaire
Billy Mays – television direct-response advertisement salesperson
Sheena Monnin – Miss Pennsylvania
Jenna Morasca – reality show contestant, winner of Survivor: The Amazon
Sharon Needles – drag queen, winner of season four of RuPaul's Drag Race
David Newell – TV actor, "Mr. McFeely" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Beth Ostrosky – model, TV personality, wife of Howard Stern
Bob Trow – TV actor, "Bob Dog" and "Robert Troll" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Ricki Wertz – WTAE-TV

Producers, directors, and effects

Antoine Fuqua – director
John P. Harris – invented the first movie theater
David Hollander – TV and movie producer, director
Carl Kurlander – film producer, writer
Sally Lapiduss – producer
Rob Marshall – director, Chicago
Greg Nicotero – actor, director, producer, special effects and makeup artist The Walking Dead
Eric Red – screenwriter and director
Ford Riley – producer, screenwriter and lyricist; created The Lion Guard
George A. Romero – director, best known for Night of the Living Dead
Richard Rossi – director
Tom Savini – actor, stunt man, director, special effects and makeup artist
Lou Scheimer – animator, voice actor, co-founder of animation studio Filmation
David O. Selznick – film producer, Gone with the Wind
Lewis J. Selznick – film producer
Myron Selznick – producer, talent agency head

Music

Jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel

Ron Affif – jazz guitarist
Ron Anthony – jazz guitarist, teacher; Sinatra's guitarist for 10 years
Bob Babbitt – bass player for Motown house band the Funk Brothers
Sheryl Bailey – jazz guitarist^[2]
George Benson – jazz guitarist, singer
Harold Betters – jazz trombonist
Art Blakey – jazz drummer, bandleader
Ray Brown – jazz double bassist
Paul Chambers – bass player
Sonny Clark – jazz pianist
Kenny Clarke – jazz drummer
Johnny Costa – jazz pianist
Frank Cunimondo – jazz pianist
Johnny Daye – soul singer
Billy Eckstine – singer
Roy Eldridge – trumpeter
Joel Forrester – pianist
Barry Galbraith – jazz guitarist
Erroll Garner – jazz pianist
Walt Harper – jazz pianist
Earl Hines – jazz pianist
Roger Humphries – drummer
Phyllis Hyman – singer
Ahmad Jamal – jazz pianist
Eddie Jefferson – singer, composer; wrote the lyrics to "Moody's Mood for Love"
Dodo Marmarosa – be-bop pianist
Billy May – bandleader, arranger for Frank Sinatra
Sammy Nestico – arranger for Count Basie Orchestra
Leo Pellegrino – baritone saxophonist
Horace Parlan – pianist
Jimmy Ponder – guitarist
Billy Price – singer
Eddie Safranski – bassist
Shanice
Dakota Staton – vocalist
Billy Strayhorn – composer, pianist
Maxine Sullivan – jazz vocalist
Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone player
Tommy Turrentine – trumpeter
Mary Lou Williams – jazz pianist
Spanky Wilson – jazz vocalist

Classics and standards

Lory Bianco – singer
Jackie Evancho – singer
Colyn Fischer – fiddler
Stephen Foster – 19th-century songwriter
Philip Glass – composer
Byron Janis – pianist
Oscar Levant – pianist
Lorenzo Malfatti – Italian opera coach
Mary Lou Metzger – singer
Mildred Miller – opera singer
Joe Negri – musician, professor, best known as "Handyman Negri" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Leo Robin – lyricist

Rock and alternative

Tunde Adebimpe – musician and actor, lead singer of TV on the Radio
Bobby Blotzer – drummer for Ratt
Ceann – Irish drinking music rock band
William Fitzsimmons – musician
Gregg Gillis – musician, "Girl Talk"
Gramsci Melodic – alternative rock band
Joe Grushecky – Iron City Houserockers, solo artist; worked with Bruce Springsteen
Donnie Iris – musician
Ray Luzier – Korn member
Weird Paul Petroskey – lo-fi musician
Justin Sane – lead guitarist and co-singer/songwriter of the political punk rock band Anti-Flag
Spike Slawson – singer for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Classical

Victor Herbert

Country and folk

Pop

Michele Brourman – composer
Lou Christie – pop singer, "Lightning Strikes"
Daya – pop singer/songwriter
Jerry Fielding – Oscar-nominated composer
Chris Jamison – singer-songwriter, musician, and contestant from NBC's The Voice season 7
The Marcels – vocal group, "Blue Moon"
B. E. Taylor – musician
Bobby Vinton – pop singer, "Blue Velvet"
Brian Young – drummer and percussionist, Fountains of Wayne

Rap and hip-hop

Beedie – Rapper
Grand Buffet – Rap duo
Jasiri X – Artist, Activist, Rapper, Entrepreneur
Jero
Jimmy Wopo – Rapper
Lady Miss Kier – Deee-Lite
Mel-Man – hip hop producer and rapper
Pittsburgh Slim – Rapper
Wiz Khalifa
Mac Miller – Rapper
Chevy Woods – Rapper

Dancers and choreographers

Kyle Abraham – choreographer
Martha Graham – dancer and choreographer; awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
Billy Hartung – Broadway actor, dancer and singer
Gene Kelly – iconic Hollywood dancer, actor, singer, director, and choreographer
Abby Lee Miller – former dance studio owner, choreographer and team coach for Abby Lee Dance Company; featured on TV show Dance Moms
Chloe Lukasiak – actress and former featured dancer on TV show Dance Moms
Paul Taylor – choreographer
Jonathan Wolken (1949–2010) – founder of the Pilobolus dance company^[3]
Maddie Ziegler – actress and former featured dancer on TV show Dance Moms

Visual arts

Matt Baker – comic book artist
Romare Bearden
Martin Beck – painter
Seddon Bennington
Sharif Bey – sculptor, ceramist, educator
Ailsa Mellon Bruce – Mellon heir and art patron
Norman Daly — visual artist
Vanessa German – sculptor, poet
David Hanna – artist
Charles "Teenie" Harris – photographer
Jerry Harris – sculptor
Yvonne Jacquette – painter and printmaker
Michael Lotenero – painter and sculptor
Scott McDaniel – comic book artist
James Michalopoulos – painter and sculptor^[4]
Burton Morris – artist
Thaddeus Mosley – sculptor
Sharon Needles – drag queen, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 4
Jackie Ormes
Philip Pearlstein – painter
Sara Penn – designer and curator
Robert Qualters – painter
Lawrence Saint – stained glass artist
Naomi Sims – model
George Sotter – painter
Renee Stout – multi-media artist
Andy Warhol – painter
Julia Warhola

Authors

Joseph Bathanti – poet, writer, professor; NC Poet Laureate, 2012–2014
Nellie Bly – Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and writer
Kenneth Burke – literary theorist
Willa Cather – author, Pulitzer Prize winner
Michael Chabon – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Murray Chass – New York Times baseball writer, author
Stephen Chbosky – author
Malcolm Cowley – poet, critic
Melanie Craft – novelist; wife of Larry Ellison of Oracle
Stephen Dau – writer
Annie Dillard – author and Pulitzer Prize winner
Harry Dolan – writer
Zak Ebrahim – Author, Peace Activist, Public Speaker
Jack Gilbert – poet
Lester Goran – writer and professor
Beth Gylys – poet and professor
George Heard Hamilton – art historian
Kerry Hannon – author
Samuel Hazo – poet and professor
Lori Jakiela – author
George S. Kaufman – humorist, playwright
Joseph Koerner – art historian
David Leavitt – novelist
Stephen Manes – magazine writer, author
David McCullough – historian and author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Burton Morris – painter
Elizabeth Moorhead – novelist
Stewart O'Nan – author
Peter Oresick – poet
Mary Roberts Rinehart – mystery writer
Gladys Schmitt – writer
Jim Shooter – comic book writer, editor and publisher
Michael Simms – poet in Pittsburgh since 1987
George Smith – gambler, handicapper
Gertrude Stein – writer, poet, playwright, and feminist
Gerald Stern – poet
Kathleen Tessaro – novelist
John Edgar Wideman – author and professor
August Wilson – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

Athletes

Baseball

Glenn Beckert – second baseman
Buddy Bell – third baseman (1972–89)
Bill Blair
Dave Bush^[5]
Ollie Carnegie – 1931–45
Betty Jane Cornett (1932–2006) – third base (1950–1952) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Bill Doak – Cardinals and Dodgers, inventor of the modern baseball glove
Ryan Garko – first baseman Giants
Josh Gibson – Negro league player, Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays
Gary Green
Howdy Groskloss – shortstop 1930–32
Ian Happ – Chicago Cubs
Art Howe – managed Astros and A's
Derek Law pitcher
Bobby Lowe – first MLB player with 4 home runs in a game^[6]
Heinie Smith^[6]
Sam McDowell
Marguerite Pearson – utility player 1948–1954, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Trent Thornton – pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays
Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor – Pirates Hall of Fame member
Honus Wagner – shortstop, Hall of Fame member
Neil Walker – Former MLB second baseman
Bobby Wallace – Hall of Fame inductee^[6]
John Wehner – Pirates infielder, broadcaster
Josh Wilson – 2005–present

Baseball contributors

Bill Benswanger – Pirates owner, vocal advocate for integration
Chuck Greenberg – Rangers former owner
Gus Greenlee – Crawfords founder
John P. Harris – Boston Braves owner
Ray Kennedy – scout and GM
Tony LaCava – longtime scout and assistant general manager

Basketball

Coaches

Dick Bennett – Wisconsin, Washington State 1976–2006
Paul Birch
Eddie Cameron – Duke 1929–49 until 1972, Cameron Indoor Stadium, founding member of the ACC, football coach and Olympic selector
Suzie McConnell-Serio – WNBA player 1998–2000, head coach 2004–06, Duquesne 2007–2013
Dudey Moore
Skip Prosser – Loyola (MD), Xavier, and Wake Forest 1993–2007
Herb Sendek – NC State and Arizona State 1994–2015

Forwards and centers

John Abramovic – 1946–48
DeJuan Blair – Pitt All-American, Spurs 2009–13, Mavericks 2013–
Chuck Cooper – 1950–56; first drafted African-American
Jakim Donaldson (born 1983) – player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Ken Durrett – 1971–75 NBA
Paul Grant – 1997–2004
Maurice Lucas – 1975–88
Walt Miller – 1946–47
Maurice Stokes – Rochester/Cincinnati Royals 1955–58; Hall of Famer
Walt Szczerbiak – 1971–72 NBA
Michael Young (born 1994) – Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League

Guards

Moe Barr – 1970–71 NBA
Paul Birch
Ron Carter – 1978–80 NBA
Calvin Fowler – 1969–70
DeAndre Kane
T. J. McConnell – Arizona Wildcats and Philadelphia 76er and Indiana Pacers
Jack Twyman – 1955–66, Hall of Famer

Basketball contributors

Mark Cuban – Mavericks owner
Tim Grgurich – Pitt coach
Ted Stepien – Cavs former owner

Boxing

Bob Baker – heavyweight contender
Eddie Chambers – Heavyweight and Cruiserweight Contender, 2008–2016
Billy Conn – light-heavyweight champ 1939–41
Andy DePaul – middleweight contender, referee
Harry Greb – middleweight champ 1923
Frank Klaus – middleweight champ 1904
Paul Spadafora – lightweight champ, 1999
Jackie Wilson – featherweight champ, early 1900s (decade)
Teddy Yarosz – middleweight champ, 1934
Fritzie Zivic – welterweight champ, 1940

Figure skating

Michael Seibert – five-time gold medalist at U.S. Figure Skating Championships; three bronze medals at World Championships
Jamie Silverstein – ice dancing
Taylor Toth – pairs skating

Football

Coaches: primarily NFL

Joe Bugel – assistant and head coach 1975–present; founder of the "Hogs" of the 1980s
Jim Haslett – head coach Saints (2000–2005), Rams D.C. (2006–08)
Mike McCarthy – Packers head coach 2005–2018
Herb McCracken – college 1920s and 1930s
Mike Miller – assistant 1999–present
Dick Nolan – head coach, San Francisco 49ers and New Orleans Saints

Coaches: other football

Frank Cignetti, Jr. – University of Pittsburgh
Tom Davies – 1922–47
Rich Lackner – Carnegie Mellon 1986–present

Quarterbacks

Joe Namath - New York Jets, Alabama Crimson Tide National Champion
Marc Bulger – 2000–2011, Super Bowl^[7]
Chuck Fusina – NFL 1979–86
Bruce Gradkowski – Steelers, Bucs, Raiders 2006–16
Major Harris – record-setter in college and CFL
Leon Hart – Heisman Trophy, College Hall of Fame
Al Jacks
Jim Kelly – 1986–96, Hall of Fame, 4 Super Bowl appearances
Dan Marino – 1983–99, Hall of Fame 1 Super Bowl appearance
Mike McMahon – 2001–present
Rod Rutherford – 2003–present
Matt Schaub – 2004–present
Johnny Unitas – 1956–73, Hall of Famer, two Super Bowls
Alex Van Pelt – 1995–2003
Scott Zolak – 1991–99 1 Super Bowl appearance

Running backs

Tony Dorsett - NFL, HOF, Dallas Cowboys, University of Pittsburgh
Kevan Barlow
Cookie Gilchrist – AFL and CFL
Warren Heller – 1930s
William F. Knox
Roger Kochman – 1963
Curtis Martin – 1995–2006, Super Bowl
Harry McChesney – 1900s (decade) NFL
Eugene "Mercury" Morris – 70s Dolphins; two Super Bowls
Ray Zellars – Saints

Receivers and tight ends

Brian Baschnagel – originally a running back, Ohio State, Bears 1976–1984
Darnell Dinkins – NFL tight end in the 1990s and 2000s (decade)
John Frank – NFL tight end in the 1980s
Gregg Garrity – Penn State, NFL 1983–89
Ken Herock – NFL tight end 1963–69, Super Bowl
Brandon Marshall – NFL wide receiver 2006–2018
Rasheed Marshall – NFL wide receiver 2005–2007
Joel Williams – NFL tight end, 1987

Offensive linemen

Adam Bisnowaty – NFL offensive linesman for the New York Giants
Dean Caliguire – NFL lineman in 1991
Bill Fralic – offensive lineman for Atlanta Falcons, '80s All-Decade Team
Gary Greaves – tackle 1960
Leander Jordan – offensive lineman Carolina Panthers, San Diego Chargers, Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars
Mose Lantz – NFL center 1933
William R. Moore – NFL guard in the 1940s
Bull Polisky NFL guard 1929
Tom Ricketts – NFL tackle 1980s and 1990s
Mike Rosenthal – NFL tackle 1999–2007
Jack Sack – NFL guard in the 1920s

Defensive linemen

Mike Barnes – Pro bowler 1973–1981
Bob Buczkowski – NFL defensive end in the 1980s
Sam Clancy – NFL defensive end in the 1980s and 1990s
Ave Daniell – NFL tackle in the 1930s
Aaron Donald – NFL defensive tackle
Jack Dugger – NFL lineman 1946–49
Art Gob – NFL defensive end, 1950s and 1960s
Cameron Heyward – NFL 2011–present
Tyrique Jarrett – NFL defensive tackle
David Logan – defensive tackle 1970s and 1980s
Leo Skladany – NFL defensive end 1940s and 1950s
Jason Taylor – defensive end; five-time Pro Bowler for Miami Dolphins
Randy White – defensive lineman 1975–88; three Super Bowls, Hall of Fame

Defensive backs and linebackers

LaVar Arrington – NFL linebacker 2000–2006
Jack Butler – cornerback 1951–59, Pro Football Hall of Fame
Jim Flanigan Sr. – NFL linebacker 1960s and 1970s
Don Graham Penn State, NFL 1987–89
Justin King – NFL 2008–2012
Nick Kwiatkoski – linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons
Sean Lee – former linebacker for Dallas Cowboys
Mike Logan – NFL safety 1996–2006, Super Bowl
Paul Martha – NFL safety in the 1960s
Dick McCabe – NFL safety in the 1950s and 1960s
Ryan Mundy – NFL safety
Paul Posluszny – Dick Butkus Award winner from Penn State, linebacker for Buffalo Bills
Scott Radecic – Penn State and NFL linebacker 1984–95
Bryant Salter – NFL safety in the 1970s
Joe Schmidt – linebacker 1953–65, Hall of Fame
Raymond Ventrone – safety, Cleveland Browns
Eric Wicks – safety, finalist for Bronko Nagurski Award in 2007

Football specialists

Pat McAfee – All Pro NFL punter, 2010’s all decade team
Don Silvestri – kicker in the 1990s

Football contributors

Dave Berry – pro football pioneer
Kevin Colbert – director of football operations (2 Super Bowls)
Dale Hamer – NFL referee 1978–2001, 3 Super Bowls
Shaun Herock – NFL executive
Bill Nunn – Steelers scout since 1967
Art Rooney – owner and founder of Pittsburgh Steelers Duquesne University
Dan Rooney – second chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Golf

Scott Dunlap – PGA and Champions Tour
Bob Friend – PGA and Nationwide Tour
Jim Simons – as an amateur nearly won 1971 U.S. Open; first tournament winner using a metal driver
Brendon Todd – PGA Tour

Hockey

Centers and wingers

Riley Barber – Capitals winger, 2017–
Ryan Malone – Penguins, Lightning, Rangers winger 2003–15; 2017
Gerry O'Flaherty – Leafs, Canucks, Flames 1971–79
Brandon Saad – Colorado Avalanche winger 2011–
Henrik Samuelsson – Coyotes winger 2014–
William Thomas – Anyang Halla winger 2005–
Vincent Trocheck – Panthers 2014–2020, Hurricanes 2020–
R. J. Umberger – Flyers, Jackets center 2005–

Defense

Matt Bartkowski – Iowa Wild
Bob Beers – Bruins, Lightning, Oilers, Islanders defenseman 1989–97
Dylan Reese – Rangers, Islanders, Penguins 2007–
Mike Weber – former NHL defenseman.

Goalies

John Gibson – player for Anaheim Ducks

Hockey contributors

James Wallace Conant – managed Duquesne Gardens

Motorsports

Chip Ganassi – former driver, now team owner in IndyCar and NASCAR
Dick Linder – 1950s NASCAR driver

Olympic sports

Kurt Angle – 1996 gold medalist in freestyle wrestling, became professional wrestler
Robert "Bob" Blum (born 1928), Olympic fencer
Herb Douglas – long jump bronze medalist at 1948 Summer Olympics; inducted into Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame 1992
Suzie McConnell-Serio – basketball 1988 and 1992
Allison Schmitt – competitive swimmer, four time Olympian^[8]
Leah Smith – swimming, gold and bronze medalist in 2016 Olympics
Amanda Polk – rowing, gold medalist W8+ in 2016 Olympics

Soccer

Meghan Klingenberg – player for the Portland Thorns FC and United States women's national soccer team
A. J. Wood – MLS player
Marvell Wynne II

Tennis

Bjorn Fratangelo – French Open boys' champion^[9]
Bonnie Gadusek – pro tennis player, reached U.S. Open quarterfinals
Gretchen Magers – reached Wimbledon and French Open quarterfinals
Alison Riske – WTA player, reached 4th round of U.S. Open

Wrestling

Kurt Angle – WWE wrestler and Olympic gold medalist
Rob Conway – WWE wrestler on RAW brand
Johnny De Fazio – known as "Jumping" Johnny De Fazio
Dominic DeNucci – WWWF wrestler and trainer
Shane Douglas – WCW and WWWF wrestler
Corey Graves – wrestler, WWE commentator
Mike Jones – known as Virgil in WWE; worked as Vincent, Shane and Curly Bill in WCW
Cody Michaels – former USWA tag team champion, ECW, WSX producer
John Minton – WWF aka Big John Studd
Jeffrey Sciullo – WWE wrestler known as Ezekiel (formerly Elias (Samson))
Bruno Sammartino – two-time World Wide Wrestling Federation champion
Mike Scicluna – known as Baron Mikel Scicluna
John Sullivan – known as Johnny Valiant
Newton Tattrie – known as Geeto Mongol
Larry Zbyszko (real name Larry Whistler) – director of authority on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Other sports

Danny Chew – cyclist, winner of Race Across America (1996, 1999)
Joseph Kearney – athletic administrator
George Smith – horse racing
Tom Wallisch – professional skier

Industry

Aviation

Paige Kassalen – electrical engineer on Solar Impulse
Willard Rockwell – formed Rockwell Intl.
Calbraith Perry Rodgers – made the first transcontinental flight

Steel and metals

James W. Brown – Crucible Steel
Andrew Carnegie – steel tycoon and philanthropist, founded what became U.S. Steel
William Donner – steel tycoon, founded Monessen and Donora, daughter married FDR's son in 1932
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. – steel engineer, businessman and inventor of the Ferris wheel
Henry Clay Frick – steel tycoon, chief operation officer of what became U.S. Steel
Charles Martin Hall – aluminum producer and founder of Alcoa
Julian Kennedy – mechanical engineer in steel
George Lauder – Scottish-American billionaire industrialist; partner in the Carnegie Steel Company; board member of U.S. Steel; cousin-brother of Andrew Carnegie
James H. Laughlin – Jones & Laughlin Steel
John Leishman – executive at Carnegie Steel
William Metcalf – Fort Pitt foundry
Charles M. Schwab – founder of Bethlehem Steel
John P. Surma – U.S. Steel
Thomas Usher – CEO of U.S. Steel and chairman of the board of Marathon Oil
John Walker – iron and steel industrialist

Energy

Walter Arnheim – Mobil executive and corporate and non-profit advisor
Frederick Bausman
E. W. Marland – oilman, founded what would become Conoco, also became the governor of Oklahoma
William Mellon – co-founded Gulf Oil

Transport

Erik Buell – Buell Motorcycle Company
Alexander Cassatt – Pennsylvania Railroad
Louis Semple Clarke – steamboats
John E. Connelly – Gateway Clipper Fleet
Mike Fink – river boatman
Robert Pitcairn – Pennsylvania Railroad
Samuel Rea – Pennsylvania Railroad

Finance

John F. Donahue – chairman, Federated Investors
Stanley Druckenmiller – hedge fund manager
Thomas Marshall Howe – 19th-century politician
Richard B. Mellon – banker, philanthropist
Thomas Mellon – founded Mellon Financial
David Tepper – businessman, hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and owner of the Carolina Panthers
William Thaw – 19th-century banker
James Lindenberg – founder of ABS-CBN Corporation

Technology and communications

William Bullock – printing press innovator
Charlie Cheever – co-founder of Quora
Brendan Eich – Mozilla, creator of JavaScript
Caterina Fake – co-founder of Flickr and Hunch
John P. Harris – theater owner
Regis McKenna – high technology marketing guru
Willard Rockwell – pioneer of Rockwell Intl.
Richard Mellon Scaife – Tribune-Review
Rich Skrenta – computer programmer
George Westinghouse – electrical industry pioneer
Mark Whitaker – CNN Worldwide chief^[10]
Jamie Zawinski – hacker

Consumer goods

Peter Chartier (Chartiers Town and Tarentum) – fur trader 1734–43
David L. Clark
H. J. Heinz II – CEO of H.J. Heinz Co.
Henry J. Heinz – founder of H. J. Heinz Company
Edgar J. Kaufmann – Kaufmann's
Billy Mays – TV pitchman
James Sinegal – Costco
Patricia A. Woertz – ADM^[11]

Other industries

William D. Boyce – founder of Boy Scouts of America
Dr. Herbert Boyer – co-founder of Genentech
John Baptiste Ford – PPG Industries
Ed Grier – Disneyland
Joseph A. Hardy III – 84 Lumber
Bob Stupak – Vegas Stratosphere

Labor

David J. McDonald – president of steelworkers union
Theodore Schaffer – president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers
Fannie Sellins – union organizer
Joseph Yablonski – UMW
Joseph "Chip" Yablonski – UMW attorney
Kenneth Yablonski – attorney

Religion

Catherine Anne Cesnik (1942–1969), Catholic nun who was murdered
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo – archbishop of Galveston-Houston
Thomas Dolinay – archbishop
Joseph R. Lamonde
Cardinal Adam Maida – Emeritus Archbishop of Detroit
Janice McLaughlin – Catholic nun and human rights activist
Madalyn Murray O'Hair – founder of American Atheists
William Passavant
George Rapp – founder of the religious sect Harmonists
Charles Owen Rice
Charles Taze Russell – founder of Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society
R. C. Sproul – theologian
Thomas J. Tobin – auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh, bishop of Youngstown OH, and current bishop of Providence, Rhode Island
Cardinal Donald Wuerl – eleventh bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, current Archbishop of Washington
David Zubik – twelfth and current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh

Science and research

Ross Allen – herpetologist
Frederick S. Billig – scramjet pioneer
Daniel Chamovitz – biologist, author of What a Plant Knows, and President of Ben Gurion University of the Negev^[12]
Yuan Chang – virologist, co-discoverer of causes of several viral cancers, including Kaposi's sarcoma
Norman Christ – physicist
Childs Frick
George Otto Gey – scientist who propagated the HeLa cell line
William Jacob Holland – entomologist and chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania
Randy Pausch – founder of Alice, and man behind the Last Lecture
David M. Pozar – electrical engineer and academician^[13]
Jonas Salk – physician, inventor of first polio vaccine
Alex Shigo – arboriculturist and horticulturist
Clifford Shull – Nobel Prize winner
Herbert A. Simon – Carnegie Mellon University professor; winner of Nobel Prize for Economics
Thomas Starzl – pioneering transplant surgeon in liver and multiorgan transplantation
Jesse Steinfeld – United States Surgeon General under Nixon
Otto Stern – German-American physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his studies of molecular beams; Carnegie Institute of Technology professor
Nicholas E. Wagman
Sandra Welner (1958–2001) – physician, advocate for disabled women's healthcare
Jerome Wolken (1917–1999) – biophysicist^[14]
Jamie Zawinski
Jonathan Zittrain – professor of Internet law and computer science at Harvard
Vladimir Zworykin – engineer and inventor, developed an early form of television; the IEEE presents a Vladimir Zworykin Award for outstanding contributions to development of television technology

Military

Medal winners: Mexican conflict

Medal winners: Civil War

Medal winners: World War II

Medal winners: Vietnam

Astronauts

Jay Apt – astronaut and professor
Mike Fincke – Colonel, United States Air Force
Terry Hart – Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force
James Irwin – Apollo Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 15 and eighth person to walk on the Moon

Other military

Adrian Cronauer – soldier, radio personality, subject of Good Morning, Vietnam
Charles Graner – U.S. Army reservist convicted of prisoner abuse in connection with 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal

Government

Governors and mayors

Congressmen and senators

John Dalzell – Congressman 1887–1913; Chairman of the Ways and Means committee 1898–1913
Harmar Denny – Congressman 1825–37
Bob Filner – California Congressman 1993–2012
Orrin Hatch – Utah Senator, 1977–2019
John Heinz – Congressman 71–77, Senator 1977–91
Thomas Marshall Howe – Congressman 1851–55
John Kasich – Ohio Congressman 1983–2001, Governor 2011–2019
Philander C. Knox – Senator 1901–04, 1917–21, United States Attorney General from 1901–04, Sec. of State from 1909–13
Robert McKnight – Congressman 1859–63
George T. Oliver – Senator 1909–17
Rand Paul – Kentucky Senator 2011–present, Tea Party leader
Ron Paul – Texas Congressman, presidential candidate
David A. Reed – Senator
Rick Santorum – Congressman 1991–95, Senator 1995–2007
Claudine Schneider – Congresswoman Rhode Island 1981–91

Jurists

Max Baer – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2003–
Derrick Bell – law professor
Robert Bork – Supreme Court nominee, and acting AG
George Dallas – Federal Court of Appeals 1892–1909
Michael Fisher – Federal Appeals 2003–
Albert Gordon – advocate for gay rights^[16]
Ken Gormley
Philip Heymann – served in Carter and Clinton administrations
William G. Hundley – prosecutor and criminal defense attorney
Linda Kelly – Pennsylvania Attorney General
Rolf Larsen – State Supreme Court Justice
Donald J. Lee – Federal 1989–2000
Timothy K. Lewis – Federal 1991–92, Appeals 1992–99
Carol Los Mansmann – Federal 1982–85, Appeals 1985–2002
Wilson McCandless – U.S. Judge
Joan Melvin – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2009–
John Lester Miller – 1954–71
Michael Angelo Musmanno – PA Supreme Court and Nuremberg tribunal
Arthur Schwab – U.S. Judge 2002–present
George Shiras – U.S. Supreme Court
William Alvah Stewart – Federal 1951–53
Hubert Irving Teitelbaum – 1970–1985
W. H. Seward Thomson Federal – 1914–28
Gerald Tjoflat – Appeals 1975–present
Jay Waldman – Federal 1988–2003
Joseph F. Weis, Jr. – Federal 1970–73, Appeals 1973–88
James Scott Young – Federal 1908–14
Donald Emil Ziegler – Federal 1978–2003

CIA and defense administrators

Victoria "Torie" Clarke – Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under George W. Bush
Michael Hayden – CIA director 2006–09

White House cabinet

James J. Davis – Secretary of Labor under presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
Walter Forward – United States Secretary of the Treasury under John Tyler, 1841–1843
Albert Gallatin – Treasury Secretary
Paul H. O'Neill – 72nd United States Secretary of the Treasury
Edwin Stanton – Secretary of War under President Lincoln
Judge William Wilkins – Secretary of War under President Tyler

Ambassadors

Homer S. Ferguson – Philippines
Walter Forward – Denmark
Mark Gilbert – New Zealand; also Major League Baseball player
George W. Guthrie – Japan
William W. Irwin – Denmark
Andrew Mellon – Great Britain 1932–33
Alexander Pollock Moore – Spain and Peru
Dan Rooney – Ireland 2009–present
Edith S. Sampson – first African-American in the U.N. (1950–53) and NATO (1961–62)
Adolph W. Schmidt – Canada 1969–74
Phillips Talbot – Greece

State legislators

Paul P. Boswell – physician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives
David Dank – member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives since 2007
John R. Jones – member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Andrew P. Kealy – member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Alexander McDonald Thomson – Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Suffragists and other women's rights activists

Other administrators and advisors

Rachel Foster Avery
John Brabender
Murray Chotiner
Patrick R. Donahoe
Tony Fratto – Deputy Press Secretary 2006–09
Elsie Hillman – former Republican National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania

Law enforcement

Vic Cianca – Pittsburgh traffic cop made famous by Johnny Carson, Candid Camera and Flashdance
Thomas Delahanty – police officer who took a bullet in President Ronald Reagan's 1981 assassination attempt; declared a hero and awarded a medal for bravery

Other

Richard Baumhammers – Spree killer
Lawrence Bittaker – One of the two "Toolbox Killers"

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