This article contains a list of notable people who were born or lived a significant amount of time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , the second-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia .
Reporters and anchors [ edit ]
Porky Chedwick – announcer
Foo Conner – journalist
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
Lucian Wintrich – Artist, writer, photographer, former White House Correspondent for Gateway Pundit
Producers, directors, and effects[ edit ]
Antoine Fuqua – director
John P. Harris – invented the first movie theater
David Hollander – TV and movie producer, director
Tim Kaiser – producer, Seinfeld , Will & Grace , 2 Broke Girls
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
Jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel[ edit ] Classics and standards [ edit ] Rock and alternative [ edit ] Dancers and choreographers [ edit ]
Joseph Bathanti – poet, writer, professor; NC Poet Laureate , 2012–2014
Nellie Bly – Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and writer
Kenneth Burke – literary theorist
Rachel Carson — marine biologist, writer, and conservationist
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
Agatha Tiegel Hanson – writer, poet, and editor
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
Elizabeth Moorhead – novelist
Burton Morris – painter
Stewart O'Nan – author
Peter Oresick – poet
Mary Roberts Rinehart – mystery writer
William Roos – playwright, mystery novelist, and screenwriter
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
Cecilia Woloch – poet and writer
Damon Young (writer) – author and columnist
Baseball contributors [ edit ] Forwards and centers [ edit ] Basketball contributors [ edit ] Coaches: primarily NFL [ edit ]
Marc Bulger – 2000–2011, Super Bowl[7]
Chuck Fusina – NFL 1979–1986
Bruce Gradkowski – Steelers , Bucs , Raiders 2006–2016
Major Harris – record-setter in college and CFL
Leon Hart – Heisman Trophy , College Hall of Fame
Al Jacks – quarterback, Penn State and college head coach
Jim Kelly – 1986–1996, Hall of Fame , 4 Super Bowl appearances
Dan Marino – 1983–1999, Hall of Fame 1 Super Bowl appearance
Mike McMahon – NFL, CFL, UFL quarterback 2001–2012
Joe Namath – New York Jets, Alabama Crimson Tide National Champion
Rod Rutherford – NFL quarterback 2004–2006 and college coach
Matt Schaub – NFL quarterback 2004–2020
Willie Thrower – first black quarterback in the NFL*
Johnny Unitas – 1956–1973, Hall of Famer , two Super Bowls
Alex Van Pelt – 1995–2003
Scott Zolak – 1991–1999, 1 Super Bowl appearance
Receivers and tight ends [ edit ] Defensive backs and linebackers [ edit ] Centers and wingers [ edit ] Hockey contributors [ edit ] Professional wrestling [ edit ] Technology and communications [ edit ] Science and research [ edit ]
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
Irene Jakab (1919–2011) – native of Hungary, psychiatrist and humanist ; member of the faculties of Harvard University , the University of Pittsburgh and the McLean Hospital
Ayana Jordan – addiction psychiatrist
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
18th-century leaders [ edit ] 19th-century leaders [ edit ] 20th-century leaders [ edit ] 21st-century leaders [ edit ] Medal recipients: World War I [ edit ] Medal recipients: World War II [ edit ] Medal recipients: Vietnam [ edit ] Governors and mayors [ edit ] Congressmen and senators [ edit ] CIA and defense administrators [ edit ] White House cabinet [ edit ] Suffragists and other women's rights activists[ edit ] Other administrators and advisors [ edit ]
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
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