List of people from Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh skyline at twilight

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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

Artists

Actresses

• Tina Benko
• Julie Benz
• Lori Cardille
• Caitlin Clarke
• Dolores Costello
• Marpessa Dawn
• Lisa Emery
• Barbara Feldon
• Rita Gam
• Elizabeth Hartman
• Gillian Jacobs
• Cherie Johnson
• Kimmarie Johnson
• Shirley Jones
• Lorelei King
• Christine Laitta
• Chloe Lukasiak
• Heather Mazur
• Mitzi McCall
• Judith McConnell
• Lia McHugh
• Anisha Nagarajan
• Evelyn Nesbit
• Sandra Dee Robinson
• Margot Rose
• Zelda Rubinstein
• Lillian Russell
• Rena Sofer
• Sam Sorbo
• Mackenzie Ziegler
• Maddie Ziegler

Actors

• F. Murray Abraham
• Tom Atkins
• Carl Betz
• Christian Borle
• Don Brockett
• Steve Byrne
• Ted Cassidy
• David Conrad
• Maurice Costello
• Rusty Cundieff
• John Davidson
• Jack Dodson
• Charles Esten
• Patrick Fabian
• Joe Flaherty
• Scott Glenn
• Jeff Goldblum
• Frank Gorshin
• Charles Grodin
• Kevin Peter Hall
• John Hodiak
• Michael Keaton
• Gene Kelly
• John Leslie
• Tom Major-Ball
• Joe Manganiello
• Jim Martin
• Kiel Martin
• Adolphe Menjou
• Kermit Murdock
• Burt Mustin
• Manu Narayan
• Bill Nunn
• Michael Park
• Billy Porter
• William Powell
• Zachary Quinto
• Fred Rogers
• Johnny Sins
• Jamie Smith – actor, The Faithful City , Killer's Kiss ^{[1] [2]}
• Jimmy Stewart
• Regis Toomey
• Fritz Weaver

Comedians

• Marty Allen
• Steve Byrne
• Patti Deutsch
• Billy Gardell
• Eddie Ifft
• Anthony Jeselnik
• Jesse Joyce
• Mario Joyner
• Maxine Lapiduss
• Dennis Miller
• Frank Nicotero

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
• Murray Chass – sportswriter
• Beano Cook – ESPN college football analyst
• Myron Cope – sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster
• Scott Ferrall – sports talk radio host
• Howard Fineman – Newsweek journalist
• Fred Honsberger – broadcaster
• Sue Kerr – LGBTQ writer
• Jay Mariotti – sportswriter
• Jeanne Moos – CNN reporter
• Art Pallan – broadcaster
• Jim Quinn – radio talk show host
• Martha Rial – 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
• Rick Sebak – WQED documentarian
• 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
• 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
• iJustine (Justine Ezarik) – YouTube personality
• Rafe Judkins – Survivor: Guatemala
• Lydia B Kollins – drag queen, RuPaul's Drag Race Season 17, All Stars Season 10
• 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 The Gateway Pundit

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

See also: Category:Musicians from Pittsburgh

Jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel

• Ron Affif – jazz guitarist
• Ray Anthony – bandleader
• 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 ^[3]
• 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
• Horace Parlan – pianist
• Leo Pellegrino – baritone saxophonist
• 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

• Loren Allred – singer
• 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
• 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
• Reb Beach – guitarist in the rock bands Winger and Whitesnake
• Black Moth Super Rainbow – psychedelic electronic band
• Bobby Blotzer – drummer for Ratt
• Ceann – Irish drinking music rock band
• William Fitzsimmons – musician
• Girl Talk – musician, real name Gregg Gillis
• Gramsci Melodic – alternative rock band
• Joe Grushecky – Iron City Houserockers, solo artist; worked with Bruce Springsteen
• Donnie Iris – musician
• Ray Luzier – Korn member
• Jerry Mason – singer
• Weird Paul Petroskey – lo-fi musician
• Justin Sane – lead guitarist and co-singer/songwriter of the political punk rock band Anti-Flag
• The Seven Fields of Aphelion – ambient electronic musician and member of BMSR
• Spike Slawson – singer for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
• Tobacco – electronic musician and founder of BMSR

Bret Michaels- singer for Poison and star of Rock of love

Rikki Rockett - drummer for Poison

Classical

• Victor Herbert

Country and folk

• Eric Andersen
• Gabby Barrett
• Bill Deasy
• Guaranteed Irish
• Dan Levenson ^[4]

Pop

• Tunde Adebimpe – singer, TV on the Radio
• Christina Aguilera – pop singer / actress / TV judge
• Michele Brourman – composer
• Lou Christie – pop singer, "Lightning Strikes"
• Perry Como – crooner
• Daya – pop singer/songwriter
• The Del-Vikings – vocal group, Come Go With Me
• 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"
• The Skyliners – vocal group, Since I Don't Have You
• Jack Stauber – synth-pop singer-songwriter/instrumentalist
• B. E. Taylor – musician
• Bobby Vinton – pop singer, "Blue Velvet"
• Brian Young – drummer and percussionist, Fountains of Wayne

Rap and hip-hop

• Beedie
• Grand Buffet – rap duo
• Jasiri X – artist, activist, rapper, entrepreneur
• Jero
• Wiz Khalifa
• Lady Miss Kier – Deee-Lite
• Mel-Man – hip hop producer and rapper
• Mac Miller
• Pittsburgh Slim
• Chevy Woods
• Jimmy Wopo

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
• Chloe Lukasiak – actress and former featured dancer on TV show Dance Moms
• Abby Lee Miller – former dance studio owner, choreographer and team coach for Abby Lee Dance Company; featured on TV show Dance Moms
• Paul Taylor – choreographer
• Jonathan Wolken (1949–2010) – founder of the Pilobolus dance company ^[5]
• Maddie Ziegler – actress and former featured dancer on TV show Dance Moms
• Mackenzie Ziegler – singer

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
• Henry Koerner – painter
• Michael Lotenero – painter and sculptor
• Scott McDaniel – comic book artist
• James Michalopoulos – painter and sculptor ^[6]
• 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
• Ed Piskor – comic book artist
• Robert Qualters – painter
• Sue Reno – fiber artist
• Lawrence Saint – stained glass artist
• Naomi Sims – model
• Quest Skinner – mixed media artist
• George Sotter – painter
• Jack Stauber – animator
• 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
• 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 – author and columnist

Athletes

Baseball

• Glenn Beckert – second baseman
• Buddy Bell – third baseman (1972–1989)
• Bill Blair
• Dave Bush ^[7]
• Ollie Carnegie – 1931–1945
• 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 ^[8]
• Sam McDowell
• Marguerite Pearson – utility player 1948–1954, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Heinie Smith ^[8]
• 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 ^[8]
• 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 1929–1949 until 1972, Cameron Indoor Stadium, founding member of the ACC, football coach and Olympic selector
• Suzie McConnell-Serio – WNBA player 1998–2000, head coach 2004–2006, 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 – 1946–1948
• DeJuan Blair – Pitt All-American, Spurs 2009–2013, Mavericks 2013–2014
• Chuck Cooper – 1950–1956; first drafted African-American
• Jakim Donaldson (born 1983) – player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Ken Durrett – 1971–1975 NBA
• Paul Grant – 1997–2004
• Maurice Lucas – 1975–1988
• Walt Miller – 1946–47
• Maurice Stokes – Rochester/Cincinnati Royals 1955–1958; 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 – 1978–1980 NBA
• Calvin Fowler – 1969–70
• DeAndre Kane
• T. J. McConnell – Arizona Wildcats and Philadelphia 76er and Indiana Pacers
• Jack Twyman – 1955–1966, 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 1939–1941
• 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 – 1922–1947
• Rich Lackner – Carnegie Mellon 1986–2021
• Joseph H. Thompson – University of Pittsburgh – 1909–1912

Quarterbacks

• Marc Bulger – 2000–2011, Super Bowl ^[9]
• 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

Running backs

• Kevan Barlow – NFL running back 2001–2007
• Larry Brown – running back, Washington Redskins 1969–1976
• Tony Dorsett – NFL, HOF, Dallas Cowboys, University of Pittsburgh
• Cookie Gilchrist – AFL and CFL
• Warren Heller – NFL halfback 1930s
• William F. Knox – Yale and Carnegie Tech halfback
• Roger Kochman – 1963
• Curtis Martin – 1995–2006, HOF, Super Bowl
• Harry McChesney – 1900s, NFL
• Eugene "Mercury" Morris – 70s Dolphins; two Super Bowls
• Vinnie Sunseri – NFL player and coach
• 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 1983–1989
• Ken Herock – NFL tight end 1963–1969, 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 1975–1988; three Super Bowls, Hall of Fame

Defensive backs and linebackers

• LaVar Arrington – NFL linebacker 2000–2006
• Jack Butler – cornerback 1951–1959, Pro Football Hall of Fame
• Jim Flanigan Sr. – NFL linebacker 1960s and 1970s
• Don Graham – Penn State, NFL 1987–1989
• Bobby Grier – Pitt Panthers 1952–1956, Hall of Famer, civil rights icon
• 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 1984–1995
• Bryant Salter – NFL safety in the 1970s
• Joe Schmidt – linebacker 1953–1965, 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
• David Tepper – owner of the Carolina Panthers

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 2003–2015; 2017
• Gerry O'Flaherty – Leafs, Canucks, Flames 1971–1979
• Brandon Saad – Colorado Avalanche winger 2011–
• Henrik Samuelsson – Coyotes winger 2014–
• William Thomas – Anyang Halla winger 2005–
• Vincent Trocheck – Panthers 2014–2020, Hurricanes 2020–2022, Rangers 2022–
• R. J. Umberger – Flyers, Jackets center 2005–

Defense

• Matt Bartkowski – Iowa Wild
• Bob Beers – Bruins, Lightning, Oilers, Islanders defenseman 1989–1997
• Dylan Reese – Rangers, Islanders, Penguins 2007–
• Mike Weber – former NHL defenseman.

Goalies

• John Gibson – player for Detroit Red Wings

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, later became a 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
• Michael Grady – rower and gold medalist
• Jake Herbert – folkstyle and freestyle wrestler, 2009 world silver medalist, represented USA at 2012 Summer Olympics
• Suzie McConnell-Serio – basketball 1988 and 1992
• Amanda Polk – rowing, gold medalist W8+ in 2016 Olympics
• Allison Schmitt – competitive swimmer, four time Olympian ^[10]
• Leah Smith – swimming, gold and bronze medalist in 2016 Olympics

Soccer

• Mike Bookie – midfielder and National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee ^[11]
• Frank Bucci – goalkeeper ^[12]
• Meghan Klingenberg – defender
• Tanner Rosborough – forward ^[13]
• Sarah Schupansky – midfielder and forward ^[14]
• A. J. Wood – forward
• Marvell Wynne – defender

Tennis

• Bjorn Fratangelo – French Open boys' champion ^[15]
• 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

Professional wrestling

• Kurt Angle – WWE/TNA wrestler and Olympic gold medalist
• Britt Baker – AEW wrestler
• Rob Conway – WWE wrestler on RAW brand
• Johnny De Fazio – known as "Jumping" Johnny De Fazio
• Dominic DeNucci – WWWF wrestler and trainer
• Shane Douglas – ECW, WCW, and WWF wrestler
• Corey Graves – wrestler, WWE commentator
• Thea Hail – wrestler
• 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
• Bruno Sammartino – two-time World Wide Wrestling Federation champion
• Mike Scicluna – known as Baron Mikel Scicluna
• Jeffrey Sciullo – WWE wrestler known as Ezekiel (formerly Elias (Samson))
• 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

Technology and communications

• Luis von Ahn – CAPTCHA inventor, Duolingo founder
• 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
• James Lindenberg – founder of ABS-CBN Corporation and Radio Philippines Network
• 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 ^[16]
• Jamie Zawinski – hacker

Consumer goods

• Peter Chartier (Chartiers Town and Tarentum) – fur trader 1734–1743
• 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 ^[17]

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
• John Sheridan Weller – attorney and politician
• Joseph Yablonski – UMW

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
• Lippman Mayer – rabbi
• 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, Ohio, and current bishop of Providence, Rhode Island
• Elizabeth Ursic – theologian and scholar
• 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 engineering

• 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 ^[18]
• 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
• Robin Kanarek – physiological psychologist and academic administrator ^[19]
• Randy Pausch – founder of Alice, and man behind the Last Lecture
• David M. Pozar – electrical engineer and academician ^[20]
• 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 ^[21]
• 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

18th-century leaders

• Ebenezer Denny – 10th adjutant general of the U.S. Army

19th-century leaders

• John M. Corse
• Benjamin Grierson – Civil War and Buffalo Soldier
• Alexander Hays – brigadier general*, repulsed Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
• Francis J. Herron
• Alexander Murray – admiral
• James Scott Negley – major general Civil War hero of Murfreesboro
• Thomas A. Rowley (1808–1892) – brigadier general; Gettysburg; Civil War
• Jacob B. Sweitzer – general*, Civil War, led major offensives at Gettysburg
• Samuel Baldwin Marks Young

20th-century leaders

• Joseph R. Lamonde
• Manus MacCloskey – brigadier general
• Samuel Baldwin Marks Young – first chief of staff of the Army

21st-century leaders

• Michael Hayden – USAF ****, director of NSA, CIA
• Harry E. Miller Jr. – major general who commanded the 42nd Infantry Division ^[22]

Medal recipients: Civil War

• Charles Higby
• Alexander Kelly
• Alfred L. Pearson – Medal of Honor
• James Schoonmaker

Medal recipients: United States occupation of Veracruz

• Charles Bishop
• Robert Semple

Medal recipients: World War I

• Joseph H. Thompson – Medal of Honor

Medal recipients: World War II

• Arthur V. Ely
• Charles E. Kelly
• Archibald Mathies

Medal recipients: Vietnam

• William D. Morgan
• William R. Prom

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

• Thomas Enright – first soldier from Pennsylvania, and possibly first American soldier, killed in World War I
• Adrian Cronauer – airman, 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

See also: Mayors of Pittsburgh

• Bob Cranmer – Allegheny County commissioner
• Justin Fairfax – lieutenant governor of Virginia
• Bob Filner – San Diego mayor
• John F. Forward Sr. – 12th mayor of San Diego
• John F. Forward Jr. – 21st mayor of San Diego
• Barbara Hafer – first female Allegheny County commissioner
• E. W. Marland – governor of Oklahoma
• Elliot S. N. Morgan – Wyoming governor
• Janet Napolitano – Arizona governor
• Tom Ridge – governor 1995–2001; first Secretary of Homeland Security
• John K. Tener – governor, former MLB pitcher
• Dick Thornburgh – governor 1979–1987; U.S. attorney general 1987–1991
• Tom Vilsack – Iowa governor, 1999–2007; agriculture secretary, 2009–2017

Congressmen and senators

• Henry Marie Brackenridge – congressman 1840–1841
• John Dalzell – congressman 1887–1913; chairman of the Ways and Means committee 1898–1913
• Chris Deluzio – U.S. representative for Pennsylvania ^[23]
• Harmar Denny – congressman 1825–1837
• Bob Filner – California congressman 1993–2012
• Orrin Hatch – Utah senator, 1977–2019
• John Heinz – congressman 1971–1977, senator 1977–1991
• Thomas Marshall Howe – congressman 1851–1855
• John Kasich – Ohio congressman 1983–2001, governor 2011–2019
• Mike Kelly – U.S. representative for Pennsylvania ^[24]
• Philander C. Knox – Ssnator 1901–1904, 1917–1921, United States attorney general 1901–1904, secretary of state 1909–1913
• Dave McCormick – U.S. senator for Pennsylvania ^[25]
• Robert McKnight – congressman 1859–1863
• George T. Oliver – senator 1909–1917
• Rand Paul – U.S. senator for Kentucky ^[26]
• Ron Paul – U.S. representative for Texas ^[27]
• David A. Reed – senator
• Guy Reschenthaler – U.S. representative for Pennsylvania ^[28]
• Rick Santorum – congressman 1991–1995, senator 1995–2007
• Claudine Schneider – congresswoman, Rhode Island 1981–1991

Jurists

See also: Allegheny County District Attorney

• 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 Court of Appeals 2003–
• Albert Gordon – advocate for gay rights ^[29]
• 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 1991–1992, appeals 1992–1999
• Carol Los Mansmann – federal 1982–1985, appeals 1985–2002
• Wilson McCandless – U.S. judge
• Joan Melvin – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2009–
• John Lester Miller – 1954–1971
• Michael Angelo Musmanno – PA Supreme Court and Nuremberg tribunal
• John Roll – chief justice of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona ^[30]
• Arthur Schwab – U.S. judge 2002–present
• George Shiras – U.S. Supreme Court
• Sara Soffel – first woman to serve as a judge in Pennsylvania
• William Alvah Stewart – federal 1951–1953
• Hubert Irving Teitelbaum – 1970–1985
• W. H. Seward Thomson – federal – 1914–1928
• Gerald Tjoflat – appeals 1975–present
• Jay Waldman – federal 1988–2003
• Joseph F. Weis Jr. – federal 1970–1973, appeals 1973–1988
• James Scott Young – federal 1908–1914
• 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 2006–2009

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 2009–2012
• Edith S. Sampson – first African-American in the U.N. (1950–1953) and NATO (1961–62)
• Adolph W. Schmidt – Canada 1969–1974
• 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
• Emily Kinkead – member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• Alexander McDonald Thomson – speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Suffragists and other women's rights activists

• Euphemia Bakewell
• Lucy Dorsey Iams
• Jennie E. Kennedy
• Lucy Kennedy Miller
• Jennie Bradley Roessing
• Eliza Kennedy Smith
• Anne Steytler

Other administrators and advisors

• Rachel Foster Avery
• John Brabender
• Murray Chotiner
• Patrick R. Donahoe
• Tony Fratto – deputy press secretary (2006–2009)
• Elsie Hillman – former Republican national committeewoman from Pennsylvania
• Sean Parnell – Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (2025-present)
• John Walker III – director, National Gallery of Art

Law enforcement

See also: Pittsburgh Police Chief

• 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"
• Connor Michalek – WWE fan and cancer victim
• Shelly Zegart – quilt collector, historian, and advocate ^[31]

See also

• List of people from Pennsylvania

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