This article contains a list of notable people who were born or lived a significant amount of time in
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the second-most populous city in Pennsylva ...
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
. 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
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
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Artists
Actresses
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Tina Benko
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Julie Benz
Julie Benz (born May 1, 1972) l is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Darla on ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and ''Angel'' (1997–2004), and as Rita Bennett on ''Dexter'' (2006–2010), for which she won the 2006 Satellite Award ...
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Lori Cardille
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Caitlin Clarke
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Dolores Costello
Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903Costello's obituary in ''The New York Times'' says that she was born on September 17, 1905. – March 1, 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. ...
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Marpessa Dawn
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Barbara Feldon
Barbara Feldon (born Barbara Anne Hall; March 12, 1933) is an American actress primarily known for her roles on television. Her most prominent role was that of Agent 99 in the 1965–1970 sitcom ''Get Smart''.
Early life
Feldon was born Barbara ...
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Rita Gam
Rita Gam (born Rita Eleanore MacKay, April 2, 1927March 22, 2016) was an American film and television actress and documentary filmmaker. She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.
Background
Gam was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughte ...
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Elizabeth Hartman
Mary Elizabeth Hartman (December 23, 1943 – June 10, 1987) was an American actress of the stage and screen. She debuted in the popular 1965 film ''A Patch of Blue'', playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for ...
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Gillian Jacobs
Gillian MacLaren Jacobs (; born October 19, 1982) is an American actress and director. She is known for her roles as Britta Perry on the NBC sitcom ''Community'' (2009–2015) and Mickey Dobbs on the Netflix romantic comedy series ''Love'' (201 ...
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Cherie Johnson
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Kimmarie Johnson
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Shirley Jones
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as '' Oklahoma!'' (1955), ''Carousel'' (1956), and ''The M ...
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Lorelei King
Lorelei King is an American actress, screenwriter and development executive who has been based in the United Kingdom since 1981. She has narrated audiobooks, acted in radio plays for BBC Radio 4 and appeared on television.
Early life
King spe ...
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Christine Laitta
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Heather Mazur
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Mitzi McCall
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Judith McConnell
Judith Lynn McConnell (born April 6, 1944) is an American actress, best known for her role as Sophia Wayne Capwell on the TV series '' Santa Barbara'', on which she appeared from 1984 to 1993.
Early life and education
McConnell was born in Pitts ...
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Anisha Nagarajan
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Evelyn Nesbit
Evelyn Nesbit (born Florence Evelyn Nesbit; December 25, 1884 or 1885 – January 17, 1967) was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress. She is best known for her years as a young woman in New York City, particularly her inv ...
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Sandra Dee Robinson
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Margot Rose
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Zelda Rubinstein
Zelda May Rubinstein (May 28, 1933 – January 27, 2010) was an American actress and human rights activist, known as eccentric medium (spirituality), medium Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist (film series), ''Poltergeist'' film series. Playing "Gi ...
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Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell (born Helen Louise Leonard; December 4, 1860 or 1861 – June 6, 1922), was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her beauty ...
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Rena Sofer Renas may refer to:
Places
*Rena, Badajoz, a municipality in Extremadura, Spain
*Rena, Norway, a village in Innlandet county, Norway
*Rena, Washington, a community in Clallam County, Washington, United States
People
*Rena (given name), list of pe ...
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Sam Sorbo
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Maddie Ziegler
Madison Nicole Ziegler (; born September 30, 2002) is an American actress and dancer. She was initially known for appearing in Lifetime's reality show '' Dance Moms'' from 2011 (at age 8) until 2016. From 2014, she gained wider recognition fo ...
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Lisa Emery
Lisa Emery is an American stage, film, and television actress. Emery is best known for playing Darlene Snell on Netflix series ''Ozark''.
Early life
Emery was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of an aspiring actress from Charlottesv ...
Actors
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F. Murray Abraham
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Tom Atkins
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Carl Betz
Carl Lawrence Betz (March 9, 1921 – January 18, 1978) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He appeared in a variety of television series, including the CBS soap opera '' Love of Life''; he is best remembered for playing Don ...
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Christian Borle
Christian Dominique Borle (born October 1, 1973) is an American actor and singer. He is a two-time Tony Award winner for his roles as Black Stache in '' Peter and the Starcatcher'' and as William Shakespeare in ''Something Rotten!''. Borle also ...
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Don Brockett
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Steve Byrne
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Ted Cassidy
Theodore Crawford Cassidy (July 31, 1932 – January 16, 1979) was an American actor noted for his tall stature at and deep voice. He tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction series such as ''Star Trek'' and ''I Dream of ...
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David Conrad
David Conrad (born August 17, 1967) is an American actor. From 2005 to 2010, he starred in the television series ''Ghost Whisperer'' alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Early life
Conrad is the youngest of three sons born to James Watson Conrad, an ...
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Maurice Costello
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Rusty Cundieff
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John Davidson
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Jack Dodson
John Smeaton "Jack" Dodson (May 16, 1931 – September 16, 1994) was an American television actor best remembered for the milquetoast character Howard Sprague on ''The Andy Griffith Show'' and its spin-off ''Mayberry R.F.D.'' From 1959 until h ...
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Charles Esten
Charles Esten Puskar III (born September 9, 1965), also known professionally as Charles Esten, and Chip Esten, is an American actor, musician and comedian.
Esten played the role of country singer Deacon Claybourne on the ABC/ CMT drama ''Nashvi ...
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Joe Flaherty
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Scott Glenn
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Jeff Goldblum
Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum (; born October 22, 1952) is an American actor and musician. He has starred in some of the highest-grossing films of his era, such as ''Jurassic Park'' (1993) and ''Independence Day'' (1996), as well as their sequels.
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Frank Gorshin
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Charles Grodin
Charles Sidney Grodin (April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021) was an American actor, comedian, author, and television talk show host. Grodin began his acting career in the 1960s appearing in TV serials including '' The Virginian''. After a small part ...
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Kevin Peter Hall
Kevin Peter Hall (May 9, 1955 – April 10, 1991) was an American actor. Hall stood tall, and frequently played monster characters during his career. He was the original title character in the science fiction ''Predator'' franchise, appearing ...
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John Hodiak
John Hodiak ( ; April 16, 1914 – October 19, 1955) was an American actor who worked in radio, stage and film.
Early life
Hodiak was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna (Pogorzelec) and Walter Hodiak. He was of Ukrainian and ...
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Michael Keaton
Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. He is known for his various comedic and dramatic film roles, including Jack Butler in ''Mr. Mom'' (1983), Betelgeuse in '' Beetlejuice'' ...
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Gene Kelly
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John Leslie
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Tom Major-Ball
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Joe Manganiello
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Jim Martin
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Kiel Martin
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Adolphe Menjou
Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's ''A Woman of Paris'', where he played the lead role; Stanley K ...
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Kermit Murdock
Kermit Murdock (20 March 1908 – 11 February 1981) was an American film, television and radio actor known for his avuncular and professorial character portrayals.
His more prominent character roles in major motion pictures included Dean Poll ...
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Burt Mustin
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Manu Narayan
Manu Narayan (born August 16, 1973) is an American actor, film producer, singer, songwriter, composer and saxophonist. He served as a Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University, his alma mater, from 2013-2016.
Narayan was hailed as a "promising young ...
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Bill Nunn
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Michael Park
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Billy Porter
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William Powell
William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor. A major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the '' Thin Man'' series based on the Nick and Nora Charles characters cr ...
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Zachary Quinto
Zachary John Quinto (; born June 2, 1977) is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his roles as Sylar, the primary antagonist from the science fiction drama series '' Heroes'' (2006–2010); Spock in the film ''Star Trek'' (2009) ...
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Fred Rogers
Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003), commonly known as Mister Rogers, was an American television host, author, producer, and Presbyterian minister. He was the creator, showrunner, and host of the preschool television se ...
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Johnny Sins
Steven Wolfe (born December 31, 1978), known professionally as Johnny Sins, is an American pornographic actor, director, and YouTuber. Sins is known for his shaved head and muscular physique. He is consistently among the most popular male tale ...
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Regis Toomey
John Francis Regis Toomey (August 13, 1898October 12, 1991) was an American film and television actor.
Early life
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was one of four children of Francis X. and Mary Ellen Toomey, and attended Peabody High ...
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Fritz Weaver
Fritz William Weaver (January 19, 1926 − November 26, 2016) was an American actor in television, stage, and motion pictures. He portrayed Dr. Josef Weiss in the 1978 epic television drama, ''Holocaust'' for which he was nominated for a Primetime ...
Comedians
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Marty Allen
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Steve Byrne
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Patti Deutsch
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Billy Gardell
William Gardell Jr. (born August 20, 1969) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. Gardell played Chicago police officer Mike Biggs on '' Mike & Molly.'' He also had a recurring role as Billy Colivida on '' Yes, Dear'' and appeared in a dozen ...
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Eddie Ifft
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Anthony Jeselnik
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Jesse Joyce
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Mario Joyner
is a character (arts), character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the title character of the ''Mario (franchise), Mario'' franchise and the mascot of Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario has appeared in ...
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Maxine Lapiduss
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Dennis Miller
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Frank Nicotero
Frank Joseph Nicotero is an American stand-up comedian, television writer, and television host. He is best known for hosting the game show ''Street Smarts'', which aired in syndication from 2000 to 2005.
Career
Frank Nicotero got his start in Pitt ...
Reporters and anchors
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– NBC's ''Later Today''
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John Buccigross
John Buccigross (; born January 27, 1966) is an American sportscaster. He has been an anchor for ESPN since 1996. – host, ''
SportsCenter'' on
ESPN
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). Th ...
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Bill Burns – KDKA anchor (1953–1989)
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Patti Burns – KDKA anchor with her father Bill
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Bill Cardille
William Robert Cardille (December 10, 1928 – July 21, 2016), also known as "Chilly Billy", was an American broadcast personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was well known to regional viewers as a late-night horror host, but is perhaps mo ...
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broadcaster known as
Chilly Billy, host of ''
Chiller Theatre'' and ''
Studio Wrestling''
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Beano Cook
Carroll Hoff "Beano" Cook (September 1, 1931 – October 11, 2012) was an American television personality who worked for ESPN. He was a college football historian and commentator. He received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1954.
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– ESPN college football analyst
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Myron Cope
Myron Sidney Kopelman (January 23, 1929 – February 27, 2008), known professionally as Myron Cope, was an American sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster. He is best known for being " the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers".
Cope ...
– sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster
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Scott Ferrall
Scott Ferrall (born July 29, 1965) is an American sports talk radio personality who hosts two shows on the SportsGrid video streaming service, Scott Ferrall: Coast to Coast and In-Game Live.
Scott's father Thomas C. Ferrall was a former radio p ...
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sports talk radio
Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sport, sporting events. A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often-low comedy ...
host
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Howard Fineman
Howard David Fineman (born November 17, 1948) is an American journalist who is global editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group. Prior to his move to Huffington Post in October 2010, he was Newsweek's chief political corresponde ...
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Fred Honsberger – broadcaster
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Sue Kerr
Sue Kerr is an American journalist best known for covering LGBT community with her blog Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents for nearly two decades. Her work has earned multiple GLAAD Media Awards. Kerr is also a national advocate for disability and ...
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Jay Mariotti – sportswriter
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Jeanne Moos –
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
reporter
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Art Pallan –
broadcaster
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Jane Pauley
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Jim Quinn
Jim Quinn (born February 26, 1943) is an American conservative radio talk show host based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, currently hosting ''Quinn in the Morning'' on WYSL in Avon, New York, and WAVL in Apollo, Pennsylvania. Until its cancella ...
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Martha Rial - 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
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Rick Sebak
Richard "Rick" Sebak (born June 5, 1953) is an American public broadcasting television producer, writer and narrator who lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States.
Early life and education
Richard Sebak was born on Ju ...
- WQED documentarian
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Paul Shannon – host of
WTAE-TV
WTAE-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by Hearst Television since the station's inception, making this one of two stations that have been built and signed o ...
children's show ''
Adventure Time''
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John Stehr – anchorman at
WTHR
WTHR (channel 13) is a television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside low-power, Class A MeTV affiliate WALV-CD (channel 46). Both stations share studios on North Meridian ...
in Indianapolis, Indiana
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Bari Weiss – opinion writer and editor
Media personalities
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Porky Chedwick
George Jacob "Porky" Chedwick (February 4, 1918 – March 2, 2014) was an American radio announcer known to generations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as "The Daddio of the Raddio", "The Platter Pushin' Papa", "The Bossman", "Pork the Tork", and a h ...
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Foo Conner - journalist
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Rege Cordic – actor and broadcaster
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Bill Cullen – TV game show host
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John Dennis – radio host
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Frank DiLeo
Frank Michael DiLeo (October 23, 1947 – August 24, 2011) was an American music industry executive and actor, known for his portrayal of gangster Tuddy Cicero in Martin Scorsese's ''Goodfellas''. From 1984 to 1989, and again in 2009, he was ...
– Michael Jackson's manager, ''Goodfellas'' cast member
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Phil Frank
Phil Frank (March 27, 1943 – September 13, 2007) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the San Francisco-based comic strip '' Farley'' and the artist on nationally syndicated comic strip ''The Elderberries''.
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cartoonist
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Chris Garver
Chris Garver (born September 11, 1970) is an American tattoo artist and television personality, best known for his appearance on the TLC reality television show ''Miami Ink''.
Biography
Garver was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, w ...
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tattoo artist, ''
Miami Ink
''Miami Ink'' was an American reality show that ran on TLC from 2005–2008 and follows the events that took place at a tattoo shop in Miami Beach, Florida. The show led to several spin-offs, including the shows ''LA Ink'', ''London Ink'', '' ...
''
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Justine Ezarik (aka. iJustine) – YouTube personality
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Rafe Judkins
Rafe Lee Judkins (born January 8, 1983) is an American television writer, television producer, and screenwriter. He is the showrunner for the Amazon Prime Video television series ''The Wheel of Time'' and appeared as a contestant on the 11th ...
– ''
Survivor: Guatemala''
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Sarah Kozer – ''
Joe Millionaire''
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Billy Mays
William Darrell Mays Jr. (July 20, 1958 – June 28, 2009) was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson. Throughout his career, he promoted a wide variety of products, including OxiClean, Orange Glo, Kaboom, ...
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Sheena Monnin – Miss Pennsylvania
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Jenna Morasca – reality show contestant, winner of ''
Survivor: The Amazon''
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Sharon Needles
Sharon Needles (born November 28, 1981) is the stage name of Aaron R. Coady, an American drag performer and recording artist. A self-described "stupid genius, reviled sweetheart, and PBR princess", Needles rose to international attention on the ...
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drag queen
A drag queen is a person, usually male, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes. Historically, drag queens have usually been gay men, and part of ...
, winner of season four of ''
RuPaul's Drag Race
''RuPaul's Drag Race'' is an American reality competition television series, the first in the ''Drag Race'' franchise, produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV (season 1–8), WOW Presents Plus, VH1 (season 9–14) and, beginning with the f ...
''
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David Newell – TV actor, "Mr. McFeely" on ''
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' (sometimes shortened to ''Mister Rogers'') is an American half-hour educational children's television series that ran from 1968 to 2001, and was created and hosted by Fred Rogers. The series ''Misterogers'' deb ...
''
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Beth Ostrosky
Beth Ostrosky Stern (born July 15, 1972) is an American actress, author, model, and animal-rights activist.
Early life
Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Judy (), is a former model and her father, Robert Ostrosky, is a de ...
– model, TV personality, wife of
Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and television personality, comedian, and author. He is best known for his radio show, '' The Howard Stern Show'', which gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terr ...
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Bob Trow
Robert E. "Bob" Trow (February 6, 1926 – November 2, 1998) was an American radio celebrity, actor, and craftsman.
Raised in the Beltzhoover neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, Trow began his career in radio. He later ...
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Bob Dog
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is the fictional kingdom inhabited by hand puppet characters on the children's television series ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', which originally aired on PBS (and its predecessor NET) from 1968 to 2001, and its ...
" and "
Robert Troll
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is the fictional kingdom inhabited by hand puppet characters on the children's television series ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', which originally aired on PBS (and its predecessor NET) from 1968 to 2001, and its ...
" on ''
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' (sometimes shortened to ''Mister Rogers'') is an American half-hour educational children's television series that ran from 1968 to 2001, and was created and hosted by Fred Rogers. The series ''Misterogers'' deb ...
''
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Ricki Wertz –
WTAE-TV
WTAE-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by Hearst Television since the station's inception, making this one of two stations that have been built and signed o ...
Producers, directors, and effects
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Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua (born May 30, 1965) is an American filmmaker, known for his work in the action and thriller genres. He was originally known as a director of music videos, and made his film debut in 1998 with ''The Replacement Killers''. His critica ...
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John P. Harris – invented the first movie theater
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David Hollander – TV and movie producer, director
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Carl Kurlander – film producer, writer
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Sally Lapiduss – producer
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Rob Marshall
Robert Doyle Marshall Jr.http://www.alumni.cmu.edu/s/1410/images/editor_documents/alumnirelations/getinvolved/alumniawards/all_honorees_2018june1.pdf (born October 17, 1960) is an American film and theater director, producer, and choreographer. ...
– director, ''
Chicago
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Greg Nicotero – actor, director, producer, special effects and makeup artist ''
The Walking Dead''
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Eric Red – screenwriter and director
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Ford Riley
Ford Riley is an American producer, screenwriter, lyricist, and voice actor. He is best known for creating the Disney Junior animated television series ''Special Agent Oso'' (2009-2012) and he most recently created and developed the animated tele ...
– producer, screenwriter and lyricist; created ''
The Lion Guard''
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George A. Romero – director, best known for ''
Night of the Living Dead
''Night of the Living Dead'' is a 1968 American independent horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, with a screenplay by John Russo and Romero, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea. The story follows seven pe ...
''
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Richard Rossi – director
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Tom Savini
Thomas Vincent Savini (born November 3, 1946) is an American prosthetic makeup artist, actor, stunt performer and film director. He is known for his makeup and special effects work on many films directed by George A. Romero, including ''Martin' ...
– actor, stunt man, director, special effects and makeup artist
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Lou Scheimer
Louis Scheimer (October 19, 1928 – October 17, 2013) was an American producer and voice actor who was one of the original founders of Filmation. He was also credited as an executive producer of many of its cartoons.
Early life and education
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– animator, voice actor, co-founder of animation studio
Filmation
Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live-action programming for television from 1963 until 1989. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1962. Filmation's founders and ...
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David O. Selznick – film producer, ''
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind most often refers to:
* ''Gone with the Wind'' (novel), a 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell
* ''Gone with the Wind'' (film), the 1939 adaptation of the novel
Gone with the Wind may also refer to:
Music
* ''Gone with the Wind'' ...
''
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Lewis J. Selznick – film producer
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Myron Selznick – producer, talent agency head
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Tim Kaiser - producer, Seinfeld, Will & Grace, 2 Broke Girls]
Music
Jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel
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Ron Affif – jazz guitarist
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Ron Anthony – jazz guitarist, teacher; Sinatra's guitarist for 10 years
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Bob Babbitt – bass player for Motown house band the Funk Brothers
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Sheryl Bailey – jazz guitarist
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George Benson
George Washington Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist.
A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, play ...
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jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...
guitarist, singer
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Harold Betters –
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...
trombonist
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Art Blakey – jazz drummer, bandleader
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Ray Brown –
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...
double bassist
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Paul Chambers – bass player
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Sonny Clark
Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13, 1963) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.
Early life
Clark was born and raised in Herminie, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town east of Pi ...
– jazz pianist
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Kenny Clarke
Kenneth Clarke Spearman (January 9, 1914January 26, 1985), nicknamed Klook, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. A major innovator of the bebop style of drumming, he pioneered the use of the ride cymbal to keep time rather than the hi-ha ...
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Johnny Costa – jazz pianist
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Frank Cunimondo
Frank Cunimondo (born 1934) is an American jazz pianist and educator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition to performing, Cunimondo has taught at Duquesne University and the University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) ...
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Johnny Daye
Johnny Daye (March 17, 1948May 6, 2017) was an American soul music singer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who released six singles between 1965, when he signed to Danny Sims and Johnny Nash's Jomada record label, through to 1968 recording two tracks ...
– soul singer
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Billy Eckstine – singer
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Roy Eldridge
David Roy Eldridge (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpeter. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos exhibiting a departure from ...
– trumpeter
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Joel Forrester
Joel Forrester (born May 2, 1946) is an American jazz composer and pianist. He composed the theme song to NPR's ''Fresh Air'', performed by The Microscopic Septet which Forrester founded in 1980 and led with saxophonist Phillip Johnston. A docu ...
– pianist
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Barry Galbraith
Joseph Barry Galbraith (December 18, 1919 – January 13, 1983) was an American jazz guitarist.
Galbraith moved to New York City from McDonald, PA in the early 1940s and found work playing with Babe Russin, Art Tatum, Red Norvo, Hal McIntyre, an ...
– jazz guitarist
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Erroll Garner
Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad " Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was first r ...
– jazz pianist
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Walt Harper – jazz pianist
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Earl Hines – jazz pianist
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Roger Humphries
Roger Humphries (born January 30, 1944) is an American jazz drummer.
Born into a family of ten children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Humphries began playing drums at age four, and went professional at age 14. He led an ensemble at Carnegie Hall ...
– drummer
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Phyllis Hyman
Phyllis Linda Hyman (July 6, 1949 – June 30, 1995) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Hyman is best known for her music during the late 1970s through the early 1990s, some of her most notable songs were "You Know How to Love Me" ...
– singer
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Ahmad Jamal – jazz pianist
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Eddie Jefferson – singer, composer; wrote the lyrics to "Moody's Mood for Love"
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Dodo Marmarosa
Michael "Dodo" Marmarosa (December 12, 1925 – September 17, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
Originating in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Marmarosa became a professional musician in his mid-teens, and toured with several ...
– be-bop pianist
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Billy May – bandleader, arranger for
Frank Sinatra
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Sammy Nestico
Samuel Louis Nistico (February 6, 1924 – January 17, 2021), better known as Sammy Nestico, was an American composer and arranger. Nestico is best known for his arrangements for the Count Basie orchestra.
Early life and education
Samuel Luigi ...
– arranger for
Count Basie
William James "Count" Basie (; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and the ...
Orchestra
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Leo Pellegrino – baritone saxophonist
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Horace Parlan – pianist
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Jimmy Ponder – guitarist
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Billy Price – singer
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Eddie Safranski – bassist
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Shanice
Shanice Lorraine Wilson-Knox (née Wilson; born May 14, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, actress and dancer. Shanice had the ''Billboard'' hit singles " I Love Your Smile" and " Silent Prayer" in 1991 and " Saving Forever for You" in 19 ...
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Dakota Staton – vocalist
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Billy Strayhorn – composer, pianist
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Maxine Sullivan – jazz vocalist
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Stanley Turrentine
Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note label from 1960, touched on jazz fusion ...
– tenor saxophone player
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Tommy Turrentine
Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. (April 22, 1928 – May 13, 1997) was a swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer who was active between the 1940s and the 1960s. He rarely worked as a bandleader, and was known for his work as a sideman with dru ...
– trumpeter
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Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and ...
– jazz pianist
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Spanky Wilson
Louella "Spanky" Wilson (born c. 1947) is an American soul, funk and jazz vocalist, who has performed internationally and recorded several albums since the late 1960s.
Biography
Wilson was born in Philadelphia as Louella Wilson, and was raised ...
– jazz vocalist
Classics and standards
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Lory Bianco
Lory Bianco (born August 19, 1963) is an Italian-American singer and actress from the United States also working under the name Bonnie Bianco. She may be best known for her role in the 1983 miniseries '' Cinderella 80''.
Artistic life
Bianco ...
– singer
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Jackie Evancho
Jacqueline Marie Evancho ( ; born April 9, 2000) is an American crossover music#Classical crossover, classical crossover singer who gained wide recognition at an early age. Since 2009, she has issued a platinum-selling extended play, EP and nine ...
– singer
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Colyn Fischer
Colyn C. Fischer (born 1977 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American violinist that has played the violin since the age of three and has been Scottish fiddling since the age of five. As a teenager, he studied with a number of the great fiddler ...
– fiddler
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Stephen Foster
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known also as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour music, parlour and Minstrel show, minstrel music during the Romantic music, Romantic ...
– 19th-century songwriter
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...
– composer
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Byron Janis
Byron Janis (born March 24, 1928) is an American classical pianist. He made several recordings for RCA Victor and Mercury Records, and occupies two volumes of the Philips series ''Great Pianists of the 20th Century''. His discography covers rep ...
– pianist
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Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906August 14, 1972) was an American concert pianist, composer, conductor, author, radio game show panelist, television talk show host, comedian and actor. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for reco ...
– pianist
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Lorenzo Malfatti – Italian opera coach
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Mary Lou Metzger
Mary Lou Metzger (born November 13, 1950) is an American singer and dancer best known as a cast member on ''The Lawrence Welk Show''.
Metzger was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the only child of Ernie and Helen Metzger. The family moved to Ha ...
– singer
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Mildred Miller
Mildred Miller (born December 16, 1924) is an American classical mezzo-soprano who had a major career performing in operas, concerts, and recitals during the mid twentieth century. She was notably a principal artist at the Metropolitan Opera from ...
– opera singer
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Joe Negri – musician, professor, best known as "Handyman Negri" on ''
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' (sometimes shortened to ''Mister Rogers'') is an American half-hour educational children's television series that ran from 1968 to 2001, and was created and hosted by Fred Rogers. The series ''Misterogers'' deb ...
''
*
Leo Robin
Leo Robin (April 6, 1900 – December 29, 1984) was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope and Shirl ...
– lyricist
Rock and alternative
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Tunde Adebimpe
Babatunde Omoroga Adebimpe (born February 26, 1975) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, actor, director, and visual artist best known as the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio.
Early life
Adebimpe was born into a Nig ...
– musician and actor, lead singer of
TV on the Radio
TV on the Radio (TVOTR) is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2001. The band consists of Tunde Adebimpe (vocals, loops), David Andrew Sitek (guitars, keyboards, loops), Kyp Malone (vocals, guitars, bass, loops), and Jale ...
*
Bobby Blotzer – drummer for
Ratt
Ratt is an American glam metal band formed in San Diego, California, in the 1970s, that had significant commercial success in the 1980s, with their albums having been certified as gold, platinum, and multi-platinum by the RIAA. The group is bes ...
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Ceann –
Irish drinking music rock band
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William Fitzsimmons – musician
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Gregg Gillis – musician, "Girl Talk"
*
Gramsci Melodic – alternative rock band
*
Joe Grushecky
Joe Grushecky (born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a rock musician in the United States known for his work with the Iron City Houserockers in the late 1970s and early 1980s; and for his works since the late the 1980s with his act Joe Grushecky and T ...
– Iron City Houserockers, solo artist; worked with Bruce Springsteen
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Donnie Iris
Donnie Iris (born Dominic Ierace, February 28, 1943) is an American rock musician known for his work with the Jaggerz and Wild Cherry during the 1970s, and for his solo career beginning in the 1980s with his band, the Cruisers. He wrote the ...
– musician
*
Ray Luzier
Ray may refer to:
Fish
* Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea
* Ray (fish fin anatomy), a bony or horny spine on a fin
Science and mathematics
* Ray (geometry), half of a line proceeding from an initial point
* Ray (gra ...
–
Korn
Korn (stylized as KoЯn, or occasionally KoRn) is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The band is notable for pioneering the nu metal genre and bringing it into the mainstream.
Originally formed in 1993 ...
member
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Weird Paul Petroskey
Weird derives from the Anglo-Saxon word Wyrd, meaning fate or destiny. In modern English it has acquired the meaning of “strange or uncanny”. It may also refer to:
Places
* Weird Lake, a lake in Minnesota, U.S.
People
* "Weird Al" Yankovic ...
– lo-fi musician
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Justin Sane
Justin Cathal Geever (born February 21, 1973), known professionally as Justin Sane, is an American musician. He is the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of Anti-Flag, a punk rock band formed in 1988 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known for i ...
– lead guitarist and co-singer/songwriter of the political
punk rock band
Anti-Flag
Anti-Flag is an American punk rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The band is known for its left-wing political activism. Their current members include Justin Sane (vocals, guitar), Chris Head (guitar), Pat Thetic (drums), and Chris Ba ...
*
Spike Slawson
Spike Slawson is an American punk rock musician, a member of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Swingin' Utters, Filthy Thievin' Bastards, Re-Volts, and Uke-Hunt.
Early life
Having grown up in Pittsburgh, Slawson worked in the mail order departme ...
– singer for
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (often shortened to just Me First or the Gimmes) are a punk rock supergroup and cover band that formed in San Francisco in 1995. The band's lineup consists of Spike Slawson, Fat Mike, Joey Cape, and Dave Raun. Ch ...
Classical
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Victor Herbert
Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is be ...
Country and folk
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Eric Andersen
Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943) is an American folk music singer-songwriter, who has written songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead and many others. Early in his career, in the 1960s, he ...
*
Bill Deasy
Bill Deasy is a singer-songwriter, recording artist and author born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the late 1980s, Deasy's musical start blossomed at open stages in and around Pittsburgh. Within a few years Deasy and his band, Shil ...
*
Guaranteed Irish (band)
Pop
*
Michele Brourman
Michele Brourman (born April 12, 1947) is an American composer and songwriter who is known for writing the songs to most of the films in ''The Land Before Time (series), Land Before Time'' series (with Amanda McBroom), as well as the accompanying ...
– composer
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Lou Christie
Luigi Alfredo Giovanni Sacco (born February 19, 1943), known professionally as Lou Christie, is an American pop and soft rock singer-songwriter known for several hits in the 1960s, including his 1966 US chart-topper "Lightnin' Strikes" and 1969 ...
– pop singer, "Lightning Strikes"
*
Daya – pop singer/songwriter
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Jerry Fielding
Jerry Fielding (born Joshua Itzhak Feldman; June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980)Redman, Nick"Fielding, Jerry" Jackson, Kenneth T.; Markoe, Karen E.; Markoe, Arnold (1995). ''Dictionary of American Biography; Supplement 10: 1976–1980''. New ...
– Oscar-nominated composer
*
Chris Jamison
Christopher Franklin Jamison (born June 6, 1994), better known as Chris Jamison is an American singer-songwriter best known for his appearance in season 7 of NBC's reality TV singing competition ''The Voice'' on Adam Levine's team.
Early life ...
– singer-songwriter, musician, and contestant from
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ...
's
The Voice
The Voice may refer to:
Fictional entities
* The Voice or Presence, a fictional representation of God in DC Comics
* The Voice (''Dune''), a fictional ability in the ''Dune'' universe
* The Voice, a character in the American TV series ''Cleo ...
season 7
A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperate and po ...
*
The Marcels
The Marcels were an American doo-wop group known for turning popular music songs into rock and roll. The group formed in 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and signed to Colpix Records with lead Cornelius Harp, bass Fred Johnson, Gene Bricker, R ...
– vocal group,
"Blue Moon"
*
B. E. Taylor – musician
*
Bobby Vinton
Stanley Robert "Bobby" Vinton (born April 16, 1935) is a American former singer and occasional actor, who also hosted his own self-titled TV show in the late 1970s. As a teen idol, he became known as "The Polish Prince", as his music paid trib ...
– pop singer, "
Blue Velvet"
*
Brian Young – drummer and percussionist,
Fountains of Wayne
Fountains of Wayne was an American rock band that formed in New York City in 1995. The band included founding members Chris Collingwood, Adam Schlesinger, Jody Porter, and Brian Young. They released five albums from 1996 to 2011 before effec ...
Rap and hip-hop
*
Beedie – Rapper
*
Grand Buffet
Grand Buffet is a hip-hop funk duo from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, made up of Jackson O'Connell-Barlow (stage names: Iguanadon, Grape-a-Don, Plaps, Nate Kukla, and Mr. Pennsylvania) and Jarrod Weeks (stage names: M-Dog, Lord Grunge, Viceroy, Ma ...
– Rap duo
*
Jasiri X – Artist, Activist, Rapper, Entrepreneur
*
Jero
Jerome Charles White Jr. (born September 4, 1981), better known by his stage name , is an American enka singer of African-American and Japanese descent who is the first black enka singer in Japanese music history. In 2018, Jero announced that ...
*
Jimmy Wopo
Travon DaShawn Frank Smart (January 13, 1997 – June 18, 2018), better known by his stage name Jimmy Wopo, was an American rapper from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Wopo was an affiliate of fellow Pittsburgh-based rapper Wiz Khalifa and his Taylor ...
– Rapper
*
Lady Miss Kier
Kierin Magenta Kirby (aka Lady Miss Kier) is an American singer, songwriter, DJ, designer, fashion icon, and activist.
During her career, Lady Miss Kier has been the vocalist for the band Deee-Lite, a disc jockey, and solo songwriter. She support ...
–
Deee-Lite
Deee-Lite was an American house and dance music group formed in New York City. The group's best-known single is "Groove Is in the Heart", which was released in 1990 from their debut studio album ''World Clique'' (1990), and was a top-ten hit in ...
*
Mel-Man –
hip hop producer
Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music in a recording studio. While the term encompasses all aspects of hip hop music creation, including recording the rapping of an MC, a turntablist or DJ providing a beat, playing samples and "s ...
and rapper
*
Pittsburgh Slim
Sied Chahrour, better known by his stage names Pittsburgh Slim and later as Slimmie and Slimmie Hendrix is an American rapper from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, of mixed Algerian and Mexican origins. Previously signed to Def Jam Reco ...
– Rapper
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Wiz Khalifa
Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987), better known by his stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor. He released his debut album, ''Show and Prove'', in 2006 and signed to Warner Bros. Records in 200 ...
*
Mac Miller
Malcolm James McCormick (January 19, 1992 – September 7, 2018), known professionally as Mac Miller, was an American rapper and record producer. Miller began his career in Pittsburgh's hip hop scene in 2007, at the age of fifteen. In 2010, h ...
– Rapper
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Chevy Woods
Kevin "Chevy" Woods (born May 13, 1981) is an American rapper and songwriter from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Throughout his career he has been affiliated with rapper Wiz Khalifa and his respective Taylor Gang record label, also serving as Khalifa ...
– Rapper
Dancers and choreographers
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Kyle Abraham
Kyle Abraham (born August 14, 1977) is an American choreographer and dancer. He founded his own company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham (formerly Abraham.In.Motion) in 2006 in New York City and has produced many original works for A.I.M such as ''The Rad ...
– choreographer
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Martha Graham
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide.
Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She wa ...
– dancer and choreographer; awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Billy Hartung – Broadway actor, dancer and singer
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Gene Kelly – iconic Hollywood dancer, actor, singer, director, and choreographer
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Abby Lee Miller
Abigale Lee Miller (born September 21, 1965) is an American television personality who founded the Abby Lee Dance Company, which appeared on the reality television series ''Dance Moms'' for eight seasons.
On June 27, 2016, Miller pleaded guilty ...
– former dance studio owner, choreographer and team coach for
Abby Lee Dance Company
''Dance Moms'' is an American reality television series that debuted on Lifetime on July 13, 2011. Created by Collins Avenue Productions, the show follows the training and careers of children in dance and show business under the tutelage of Ab ...
; featured on TV show ''Dance Moms''
*
Chloe Lukasiak
Chloe (; ), also spelled Chloë, Chlöe, or Chloé, is a feminine name meaning "blooming" or "fertility" in Greek. The name ultimately derives, through Greek, from the Proto-Indo-European root ', which relates to the colors yellow and green. T ...
– actress and former featured dancer on TV show ''Dance Moms''
*
Paul Taylor – choreographer
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Jonathan Wolken (1949–2010) – founder of the
Pilobolus
''Pilobolus'' is a genus of fungi that commonly grows on herbivore dung.
Life cycle
The life cycle of ''Pilobolus'' begins with a black sporangium that has been discharged onto a plant substrate such as grass. A herbivorous animal such as a h ...
dance company
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Maddie Ziegler
Madison Nicole Ziegler (; born September 30, 2002) is an American actress and dancer. She was initially known for appearing in Lifetime's reality show '' Dance Moms'' from 2011 (at age 8) until 2016. From 2014, she gained wider recognition fo ...
– actress and former featured dancer on TV show ''Dance Moms''
Visual arts
*
Matt Baker
Matthew James Baker (born 23 December 1977) is a British television presenter. He co-presented the children's television show ''Blue Peter'' from 1999 until 2006, BBC One's ''Countryfile'' since 2009 and ''The One Show'' from 2011 to 2020, wit ...
– comic book artist
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Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City a ...
*
Martin Beck
Martin Beck is a fictional Swedish police detective and the main character in the ten novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, collectively titled ''The Story of a Crime''. Frequently referred to as the Martin Beck stories, all have been adapt ...
– painter
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Seddon Bennington
Seddon Leonard Bennington (8 October 1947 – c. 11 July 2009) was a New Zealand museum executive (management), executive. Bennington was the chief executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum of New Zealand, from ...
*
Sharif Bey
Sharif Bey (born 1974, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an African American artist, ceramicist and professor. He produces both functional pottery and ceramic and mixed- media sculpture, using a variety of forms and textures. His body of work r ...
– sculptor, ceramist, educator
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Ailsa Mellon Bruce
Ailsa Mellon Bruce (June 28, 1901 – August 25, 1969) was a prominent American socialite and philanthropist who established the Avalon Foundation.
Early life
Ailsa was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 28, 1901. She was the daughter of t ...
– Mellon heir and art patron
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Norman Daly — visual artist
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Vanessa German
Vanessa German (born 1976) is an American sculptor, painter, writer, activist, performer, and poet based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Her sculpture often includes assembled statues of female figures with their faces or heads painted black, and ...
– sculptor, poet
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David Hanna – artist
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Charles "Teenie" Harris
Charles "Teenie" Harris (July 2, 1908–June 12, 1998) was an American photographer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Harris was known for his photographs of residents and prominent visitors to Pittsburgh, including musicians and baseball playe ...
– photographer
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Jerry Harris – sculptor
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Yvonne Jacquette
Yvonne Jacquette (born 1934) is an American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, poin ...
– painter and
printmaker
*
Michael Lotenero – painter and sculptor
*
Scott McDaniel
Scott McDaniel (born 1965) is an American comics artist who has drawn numerous books, including Marvel Comics' " Fall from Grace" storyline for the '' Daredevil'' series. Notable artwork for DC Comics include a long run on '' Batman'' as regular ...
– comic book artist
*
James Michalopoulos
James Michalopoulos (born 1951) is an American painter and sculptor. He is best known for his colorful interpretations of New Orleans. He has painted the landscape surrounding his home in Burgundy, France; cityscapes and street life in San Franci ...
– painter and sculptor
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Burton Morris – artist
*
Thaddeus Mosley
Thaddeus G. Mosley (born 1926) is a United States sculptor who works mostly in wood and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Biography
A native of New Castle, Pennsylvania, Mosley enlisted in the U.S. Navy, then graduated in 1950 from the Unive ...
– sculptor
*
Sharon Needles
Sharon Needles (born November 28, 1981) is the stage name of Aaron R. Coady, an American drag performer and recording artist. A self-described "stupid genius, reviled sweetheart, and PBR princess", Needles rose to international attention on the ...
– drag queen, winner of ''
RuPaul's Drag Race
''RuPaul's Drag Race'' is an American reality competition television series, the first in the ''Drag Race'' franchise, produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV (season 1–8), WOW Presents Plus, VH1 (season 9–14) and, beginning with the f ...
'' season 4
*
Jackie Ormes
Jackie Ormes (August 1, 1911 – December 26, 1985) was an American cartoonist. She is known as the first African-American woman cartoonist and creator of the ''Torchy Brown'' comic strip and the ''Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger'' panel.
Early life and ...
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Philip Pearlstein
Philip Martin Pearlstein (May 24, 1924 – December 17, 2022) was an American painter best known for Modernist Realist nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art.
Biography ...
– painter
*
Sara Penn – designer and curator
*
Robert Qualters
Robert L. Qualters, Jr. (born March 13, 1934)Sewald. Jeff "Pittsburgh Quarterly", Pittsburgh, Winter 2010. Retrieved on 24 June 2013. is an American painter, installation artist and printmaker based in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His wo ...
– painter
*
Lawrence Saint
Lawrence Bradford Saint (January 30, 1885 – June 22, 1961) was an American stained glass artist. His work is most notably featured in the Washington National Cathedral where he served as the head of the stained glass department.
Early life
L ...
– stained glass artist
*
Naomi Sims
Naomi Ruth Sims (March 30, 1948 – August 1, 2009) was an American model, businesswoman, and author, She was the first African-American model to appear on the cover of '' Ladies' Home Journal'', which occurred in November 1968, and is widely c ...
– model
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George Sotter – painter
*
Renee Stout
Renee Stout (born 1958) is an American sculptor and contemporary artist known for assemblage (art), assemblage artworks dealing with her personal history and African-American heritage. Born in Kansas, raised in Pittsburgh, living in Washington, D ...
– multi-media artist
*
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...
– painter
*
Julia Warhola
Julia Warhola ( rue, Юлія Вархола; born Júlia Justína Zavacká ( rue, Юлія Юстінія Завацка); November 20, 1891 – November 22, 1972) was the mother of the American artist Andy Warhol.
Life
Warhola was born Júli ...
Authors
*
Joseph Bathanti – poet, writer, professor;
NC Poet Laureate, 2012–2014
*
Nellie Bly
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaki ...
– Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and writer
*
Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Burk ...
– literary theorist
*
Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including ''O Pioneers!'', '' The Song of the Lark'', and ''My Ántonia''. In 1923, ...
– author,
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
winner
*
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon ( ;
born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, DC, he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, gr ...
– Pulitzer Prize-winning author
*
Murray Chass
Murray Chass (born October 12, 1938, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American baseball blogger. He previously wrote for '' The New York Times'' and before that the Associated Press on baseball and sports legal and labor relations. In 2003 the ...
– ''
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'' baseball writer, author
*
Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky (; born January 25, 1970) is an American screenwriter, film producer, film director, novelist, television writer, and television producer. He is best-known for writing the bestselling coming-of-age novel ''The Perks of Being a Wal ...
– author
*
Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic. His best known works include his first book of poetry, ''Blue Juniata'' (1929), his lyrical memoir, ''Exile's Return ...
– poet, critic
*
Melanie Craft
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American business magnate and investor who is the co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer (CTO) and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the American computer technology ...
– novelist; wife of
Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American business magnate and investor who is the co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer (CTO) and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the American computer technology ...
of Oracle
*
Stephen Dau
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; ...
– writer
*
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 19 ...
– author and
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
winner
*
Harry Dolan
Harry Dolan (November 5, 1927 – September 7, 1981) was a writer for and the director of the Watts Writers Workshop created by Budd Schulberg. He started off as a janitor and became one of the most serious African American writers of his ti ...
– writer
*
Zak Ebrahim – Author, Peace Activist, Public Speaker
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Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert (February 18, 1925 – November 13, 2012) was an American poet. Gilbert was acquainted with Jack Spicer and Allen Ginsberg, both prominent figureheads of the Beat Movement, but is not considered a Beat Poet; he described himself as ...
– poet
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Lester Goran – writer and professor
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Beth Gylys
Beth Ann Gylys (born 1964 Passaic, New Jersey) is a poet and professor of English and Creative Writing at Georgia State University. She has published five poetry collections, three of which have won awards.
Early life and education
Gylys grew up ...
– poet and professor
*
George Heard Hamilton
George Heard Hamilton (1910 – March 29, 2004) was an American art historian, educator, and curator. Hamilton taught art history at Yale University and Williams College, as well as acting as Director of the Yale University Art Gallery and the ...
– art historian
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Kerry Hannon – author
*
Samuel Hazo
Samuel Robert Hazo (born 1966) is an American composer, primarily of music for concert band.
Biography
Hazo is the son of the poet and playwright Samuel John Hazo and his wife, Mary Anne. After elementary and secondary schooling in the Upp ...
– poet and professor
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Lori Jakiela – author
*
George S. Kaufman – humorist, playwright
*
Joseph Koerner
Joseph Leo Koerner (born June 17, 1958) is an American art historian and filmmaker. He is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and, since 2008, Senior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard Universi ...
– art historian
*
David Leavitt
David Leavitt (; born June 23, 1961) is an American novelist, short story writer, and biographer.
Biography
Leavitt was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Harold and Gloria Leavitt. Harold was a professor who taught at Stanford University and G ...
– novelist
*
Stephen Manes – magazine writer, author
*
David McCullough
David Gaub McCullough (; July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American popular historian. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States ...
– historian and author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
*
Burton Morris – painter
*
Elizabeth Moorhead – novelist
*
Stewart O'Nan – author
*
Peter Oresick
Peter Oresick ( ; September 8, 1955 – September 3, 2016) was an American poet.
Oresick was best known as the editor of '' Working Classics'', a landmark literary anthology of working-class poetry, and as a publisher. He served in senior po ...
– poet
*
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie.Keating, H.R.F., ''The Bedside Companion to Crime''. New York: Mysterious Press, 1989, p. 170. Rinehart published her fir ...
– mystery writer
*
Gladys Schmitt
Gladys Leonore Schmitt (May 31, 1909 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – October 3, 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American writer, editor, and professor.
Described by the ''Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph'' in 1942 as one of the city's "literary ...
– writer
*
Jim Shooter
James Shooter (born September 27, 1951) is an American writer, editor and publisher for various comic books. He started professionally in the medium at the age of 14, and he is most notable for his successful and controversial run as Marvel Comic ...
– comic book writer, editor and publisher
*
Michael Simms – poet in Pittsburgh since 1987
*
George Smith – gambler, handicapper
*
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny West neighborhood and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris ...
– writer, poet, playwright, and
feminist
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*
Gerald Stern
Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indi ...
– poet
*
Kathleen Tessaro – novelist
*
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. He was the first person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice. His writing is known for experimental techniques and a focus o ...
– author and professor
*
August Wilson
August Wilson ( Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". He is best known for a series of ten plays, collectively called ' (or ...
– Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
*
Damon Young
Damon Young (born 1975 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian philosopher, writer and commentator, and author of the books ''Distraction'', ''Philosophy in the Garden'' and ''How to Think About Exercise''. He is an Honorary Fellow in Philo ...
- author and columnist
Athletes
Baseball
*
Glenn Beckert
Glenn Alfred Beckert (October 12, 1940 – April 12, 2020) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs for nine seasons from 1965 to 1973, before ending his ...
– second baseman
*
Buddy Bell
David Gus "Buddy" Bell (born August 27, 1951) is an American former third baseman and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) currently serving as vice president and senior advisor to the general manager for the Cincinnati Reds.
After an 18-year ...
– third baseman (1972–89)
*
Bill Blair
*
Dave Bush
David Thomas Bush (born November 9, 1979) is an American professional baseball coach and former pitcher. He is currently the pitching coach for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). The right-hander played in MLB (–; ) for the Tor ...
*
Ollie Carnegie
Oliver Angelo Carnegie (June 29, 1899 r 1898– October 4, 1976) was an Italian American professional baseball player whose playing career spanned 15 seasons. Over that time, Carnegie played in the minor leagues with the Class-B Flint Vehicles ...
– 1931–45
*
Betty Jane Cornett
Betty Jane Cornett (November 24, 1932 – March 18, 2006) was an infielder and pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 5", 125 lb., she batted and threw right handed.
Born in Pittsburgh, Penns ...
(1932–2006) – third base (1950–1952)
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
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*
Bill Doak
William Leopold Doak (January 28, 1891 – November 26, 1954) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for three teams between 1912 and 1929. He spent portions of 13 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals. He was nicknamed "Spi ...
–
Cardinals
Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to:
Animals
* Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
**''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, the ...
and
Dodgers
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, inventor of the modern
baseball glove
A baseball glove or mitt is a large glove (traditionally made of leather, today other options do exist) worn by baseball players of
the defending team, which assists players in catching and fielding balls hit by a batter or thrown by a teammate ...
*
Ryan Garko
Ryan Francis Garko (born January 2, 1981) is a former professional baseball outfielder, first baseman, and designated hitter. In college, he was a catcher. He played for the Cleveland Indians, the San Francisco Giants, and the Texas Rangers in M ...
–
first baseman
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Giants
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Giant(s) or The Giant(s) may also refer to:
Mythology and religion
*Giants (Greek mythology)
*Jötunn, a Germanic term often translated as 'gi ...
*
Josh Gibson
Joshua Gibson (December 21, 1911 – January 20, 1947) was an American baseball catcher primarily in the Negro leagues. Baseball historians consider Gibson among the best power hitters and catchers in baseball history. In 1972, he became the se ...
–
Negro league
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...
player,
Pittsburgh Crawfords
The Pittsburgh Crawfords, popularly known as the Craws, were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team, previously known as the Crawford Colored Giants, was named after the Crawford Bath House, a recre ...
and
Homestead Grays
The Homestead Grays (also known as Washington Grays or Washington Homestead Grays) were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro league baseball, Negro leagues in the United States.
The team was formed in 1912 in sports, 1912 by Cumb ...
*
Gary Green
*
Howdy Groskloss – shortstop 1930–32
*
Ian Happ
Ian Edward Happ (born August 12, 1994) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball at the University of Cincinnati for the Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team. The ...
–
Chicago Cubs
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*
Art Howe
Arthur Henry Howe Jr. (born December 15, 1946) is an American former professional baseball infielder, coach, scout, and manager, who appeared as a player in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates (–), Houston Astros (–), and ...
– managed
Astros
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and
A's
*
Derek Law pitcher
*
Bobby Lowe
Robert Lincoln Lowe (July 10, 1865 – December 8, 1951), nicknamed "Link", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach, and scout. He played for the Boston Beaneaters (1890–1901), Chicago Cubs (1902–1903), Pittsbur ...
– first
MLB
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player with 4 home runs in a game
*
Heinie Smith
George Henry "Heinie" Smith (October 24, 1871 – June 25, 1939) was an American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for the Louisville Colonels (1897–1898), Pittsburgh Pirates (1899), New York Giants (1901 ...
*
Sam McDowell
Samuel Edward Thomas McDowell (born September 21, 1942), is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a starting pitcher from 1961 to 1975, most notably for the Cleveland Indians. A six-time All-Star, ...
*
Marguerite Pearson – utility player 1948–1954, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
*
Trent Thornton
Trent Edward Thornton (born September 30, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Amateur career
Thornton graduated fr ...
–
pitcher
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for the
Toronto Blue Jays
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*
Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor –
Pirates
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Hall of Fame
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member
*
Honus Wagner
Johannes Peter "Honus" Wagner (; February 24, 1874 – December 6, 1955), sometimes referred to as "Hans" Wagner, was an American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pitts ...
– shortstop, Hall of Fame member
*
Neil Walker
Neil Martin Andrew Walker (born September 10, 1985) is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates (2009–2015), New York Mets (2016–17), Milwaukee Brewers ( ...
– Former
MLB
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
second baseman
*
Bobby Wallace – Hall of Fame inductee
*
John Wehner
John Paul Wehner (pronounced "Way-ner") (born June 29, 1967) is an American former utility player in Major League Baseball (MLB) and a current broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Pirates. His nickname is "Rock".
Career
A Pittsburgh native and graduate ...
– Pirates infielder, broadcaster
*
Josh Wilson – 2005–present
Baseball contributors
*
Bill Benswanger – Pirates owner, vocal advocate for integration
*
Chuck Greenberg –
Rangers former owner
*
Gus Greenlee
William Augustus Greenlee (December 26, 1893 – July 7, 1952) was a highly successful businessman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was born and raised in Marion, North Carolina. After migrating to Pittsburgh as a young man and working in the ...
–
Crawfords founder
*
John P. Harris – Boston Braves owner
*
Ray Kennedy
Raymond Kennedy (28 July 1951 – 30 November 2021) was an English footballer who won every domestic honour in the game with Arsenal and Liverpool in the 1970s and early 1980s. Kennedy played as a forward for Arsenal, and then played as a le ...
– scout and GM
*
Tony LaCava
Anthony F. LaCava (born May 21, 1961) is an American professional baseball executive for the Toronto Blue Jays, currently serving as their Senior Vice President, Player Personnel. In 2015, he served as the interim general manager and vice preside ...
– longtime scout and assistant general manager
Basketball
Coaches
*
Dick Bennett
Richard A. Bennett (born April 20, 1943) is an American former college basketball coach who is best known for building the Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball program into a mid-major power and revitalizing the Wisconsin Badgers basket ...
–
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
,
Washington State
Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington—the first U.S. president—the state was formed from the western part of the Washington ...
1976–2006
*
Paul Birch
*
Eddie Cameron
Edmund McCullough Cameron (April 22, 1902 – November 25, 1988) was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Washington and Lee University for one season ...
–
Duke
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1929–49 until 1972,
Cameron Indoor Stadium
Cameron Indoor Stadium is an indoor arena located on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The 9,314-seat facility is the primary indoor athletic venue for the Duke Blue Devils and serves as the home court for Duke men's ...
, founding member of the ACC, football coach and Olympic selector
*
Suzie McConnell-Serio
Suzie McConnell-Serio (born July 29, 1966) is a former American women's basketball coach and player. She was the head coach for the women's basketball team at the University of Pittsburgh from 2013 to 2018. In 2004, she was named WNBA Coach of th ...
–
WNBA player 1998–2000, head coach 2004–06,
Duquesne 2007–2013
*
Dudey Moore
Donald W. "Dudey" Moore (April 5, 1910 – April 8, 1984) was an American college men's basketball coach. He was the head coach of Duquesne from 1948 to 1958 and La Salle from 1958 to 1963. He coached his teams to a 270–107 record, winning t ...
*
Skip Prosser
George Edward "Skip" Prosser (November 3, 1950 – July 26, 2007) was an American college basketball coach who was head men's basketball coach at Wake Forest University at the time of his death. He was the only coach in NCAA history to take three s ...
–
Loyola (MD), Xavier, and
Wake Forest 1993–2007
*
Herb Sendek
Herbert Joseph Sendek Jr. (born February 22, 1963) is an American college basketball coach who is the current men's basketball head coach at Santa Clara.
Early life
Herbert Joseph Sendek, Jr. of Slovak descent, grew up in Pittsburgh and attended ...
– NC State and Arizona State 1994–2015
Forwards and centers
*
John Abramovic – 1946–48
*
DeJuan Blair
DeJuan Lamont Blair (born April 22, 1989) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Pittsburgh Panthers from 2007 to 2009. Blair entered the 2009 NBA draft where he was selected as the 37th overall ...
–
Pitt All-American,
Spurs 2009–13,
Mavericks
Maverick, Maveric or Maverik may refer to:
History
* Maverick (animal), an unbranded range animal, derived from U.S. cattleman Samuel Maverick
Aviation
* AEA Maverick, an Australian single-seat sportsplane design
* General Aviation Design Bureau ...
2013–
*
Chuck Cooper – 1950–56; first drafted African-American
*
Jakim Donaldson
Jakim Nestekaya Donaldson (born September 3, 1983), nicknamed "The Machine", is an American professional basketball player, who lastly played for Bnei Herzliya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for Edinboro U ...
(born 1983) – player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional sports, professional competition in Israeli sports club, club basketball, making ...
*
Ken Durrett – 1971–75 NBA
*
Paul Grant – 1997–2004
*
Maurice Lucas
Maurice Lucas (February 18, 1952 – October 31, 2010) was an American professional basketball player who played in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a four-time NBA All-Star and won ...
– 1975–88
*
Walt Miller – 1946–47
*
Maurice Stokes
Maurice Stokes (June 17, 1933 – April 6, 1970) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Cincinnati/Rochester Royals of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1955 to 1958. Stokes was a three-time NBA All-Star, ...
–
Rochester/Cincinnati Royals 1955–58; Hall of Famer
*
Walt Szczerbiak – 1971–72 NBA
*
Michael Young (born 1994) –
Ironi Nahariya
Ironi Nahariya Basketball Club ( he, מועדון הכדורסל עירוני נהריה; ) known for sponsorship reasons as Ironi Rain Nahariya () is a professional basketball club based in city of Nahariya in northern Israel. The team plays in t ...
of the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
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Guards
*
Moe Barr – 1970–71 NBA
*
Paul Birch
*
Ron Carter
Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history. He has won three Grammy awards, and is also a cellist who has recorded nu ...
– 1978–80 NBA
*
Calvin Fowler – 1969–70
*
DeAndre Kane
DeAndre Kane (born June 10, 1989) is an American-born naturalized Hungarian professional basketball player for Grindavík in the Úrvalsdeild karla. He played college basketball at Marshall University and Iowa State University before playing pro ...
*
T. J. McConnell
Timothy John McConnell Jr. (born March 25, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duquesne Dukes and the Arizona Wildcats.
H ...
–
Arizona Wildcats
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and
Philadelphia 76er
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and
Indiana Pacers
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*
Jack Twyman
John Kennedy Twyman (May 21, 1934 – May 30, 2012) was an American professional basketball player and sports broadcaster. Twyman is a namesake of the NBA's Twyman–Stokes Teammate of the Year Award. Twyman was inducted into the Naismith Basketb ...
– 1955–66, Hall of Famer
Basketball contributors
*
Mark Cuban
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–
Mavericks
Maverick, Maveric or Maverik may refer to:
History
* Maverick (animal), an unbranded range animal, derived from U.S. cattleman Samuel Maverick
Aviation
* AEA Maverick, an Australian single-seat sportsplane design
* General Aviation Design Bureau ...
owner
*
Tim Grgurich
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– Pitt coach
*
Ted Stepien
Theodore J. Stepien (June 9, 1925 – September 10, 2007) was an American businessman who owned the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1980 to 1983. Born in Pittsburgh in 1925, he became wealthy as the founder ...
–
Cavs former owner
Boxing
*
Bob Baker – heavyweight contender
*
Eddie Chambers
Edward Chambers (born March 29, 1982) is an American former professional boxer. He challenged once for a unified world heavyweight title in 2010. He was ranked as the fourth best heavyweight in the world by '' The Ring'' at the conclusion of 20 ...
– Heavyweight and Cruiserweight Contender, 2008–2016
*
Billy Conn
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– light-heavyweight champ 1939–41
*
Andy DePaul – middleweight contender, referee
*
Harry Greb
Edward Henry Greb (June 6, 1894 – October 22, 1926) was an American professional boxer. Nicknamed "The Pittsburgh Windmill", he is widely regarded by many boxing historians as one of the best pound for pound boxers of all time.
He was the Ame ...
– middleweight champ 1923
*
Frank Klaus
Frank Klaus (December 30, 1887, in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania – February 8, 1948) was an American boxer from 1904 to 1918. Klaus claimed the vacant World Middleweight Championship in 1913 and was elected to the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in ...
– middleweight champ 1904
*
Paul Spadafora
Paul Ross Spadafora (born September 5, 1975) is an American retired professional boxer. He is the former International Boxing Federation, IBF lightweight champion of the world, and has challenged once for a light welterweight world title.
Perso ...
– lightweight champ, 1999
*
Jackie Wilson
Jack Leroy Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American singer and performer of the 1950s and 60s. He was a prominent figure in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. Nicknamed "Mr. Excitement", he was considered a mas ...
– featherweight champ, early 1900s (decade)
*
Teddy Yarosz
Thaddeus Jarosz (June 24, 1910 – March 29, 1974) was an American boxer. He held the world middleweight boxing championship from 1934–1935.
Early life
Yarosz was born the second of eight children on the North side of Pittsburgh, but ...
– middleweight champ, 1934
*
Fritzie Zivic
Fritzie Zivic (May 8, 1913 – May 16, 1984), born as Ferdinand Henry John Zivcich ( hr, Živčić), was an American boxer who held the world welterweight championship from October 4, 1940, until July 29, 1941. His managers included Luke Carney, ...
– 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
Taylor Toth (born July 22, 1989) is an American Pair skating, pair skater. He is best known for his partnership with Felicia Zhang from 2009 to 2011. Together, they won the junior title at the 2010 United States Figure Skating Championships, 2010 ...
– pairs skating
Football
Coaches: primarily NFL
*
Joe Bugel
Joseph John Bugel (March 10, 1940 – June 28, 2020) was an American football coach in the National Football League (NFL). For many years, he was acknowledged as the greatest offensive line coach in the league, particularly with the Washington ...
– assistant and head coach 1975–present; founder of the "Hogs" of the 1980s
*
Jim Haslett
James Donald Haslett (born December 9, 1955) is an American football coach and former linebacker who is the head coach of the Seattle Sea Dragons of the XFL. He played college football for the IUP Crimson Hawks before being drafted by the Bu ...
– head coach
Saints
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Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual res ...
(2000–2005),
Rams
In engineering, RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability and safety)Mike McCarthy
Michael John McCarthy (born November 10, 1963) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). From 2006 to 2018, he was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers. In 2011, he led t ...
– Packers head coach 2005–2018
*
Herb McCracken
George Herbert McCracken (June 20, 1899 – March 11, 1995) was an American football player and coach. McCracken played football as a running back at the University of Pittsburgh from 1918 to 1920 under coach "Pop" Warner and was a member of Pitt ...
– college 1920s and 1930s
*
Mike Miller – assistant 1999–present
*
Dick Nolan Rick Nolan is a Minnesota politician.
Richard Nolan may also refer to
*Dick Nolan (American football) (1932–2007), American football player, father of Mike Nolan, former head coach of San Francisco 49ers
*Dick Nolan (musician) (1939–2005), Cana ...
– head coach, San Francisco 49ers and New Orleans Saints
Coaches: other football
*
Frank Cignetti, Jr. – University of Pittsburgh
*
Tom Davies – 1922–47
*
Rich Lackner
Rich Lackner (born July 28, 1956) is an American former college football coach. He is served as the head football coach at Carnegie Mellon University from 1986 to 2021, compiling a record of 234–125–2.
Playing career
A Pittsburgh native, La ...
– Carnegie Mellon 1986–present
Quarterbacks
*
Joe Namath
Joseph William Namath (; ; born May 31, 1943) is a former American football quarterback who played in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, primarily with the New York Jets. He played college foot ...
- New York Jets, Alabama Crimson Tide National Champion
*
Marc Bulger
Marc Robert Bulger (; born April 5, 1977) is a retired American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons, primarily with the St. Louis Rams. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the sixth r ...
– 2000–2011, Super Bowl
*
Chuck Fusina
Charles Anthony Fusina (born May 31, 1957) is a former American college and professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) and United States Football League (USFL) for seven seasons during the 1970s and ...
– NFL 1979–86
*
Bruce Gradkowski
Bruce Raymond Gradkowski (born January 27, 1983) is a former American football quarterback and current offensive coordinator for the St. Louis BattleHawks. He played college football at Toledo. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the ...
–
Steelers,
Bucs
British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) is the governing body for higher education sport in the United Kingdom. BUCS was formed in June 2008 following a merger of British Universities Sports Association (BUSA) and University College Sport ...
,
Raiders 2006–16
*
Major Harris – record-setter in college and CFL
*
Leon Hart
Leon Joseph Hart (November 2, 1928 – September 24, 2002) was an American football end. He won the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award while at the University of Notre Dame in 1949 and played in the National Football League (NFL) for eight se ...
–
Heisman Trophy
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,
College Hall of Fame
*
Al Jacks
Albert Anderson "Jumbo" Jacks (February 26, 1935 – February 16, 2023) was an American professor and college football coach. He played as a quarterback at Penn State University from 1956 to 1958. Jacks spent 19 years as the head football coa ...
*
Jim Kelly
James Edward Kelly (born February 14, 1960) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons with the Buffalo Bills. He also spent two seasons with the Houston Gamblers of the United Stat ...
– 1986–96,
Hall of Fame
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, 4 Super Bowl appearances
*
Dan Marino
Daniel Constantine Marino Jr. (born September 15, 1961) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons with the Miami Dolphins. After a successful college career at Pittsburgh and be ...
– 1983–99,
Hall of Fame
A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or Wiktionary:fame, fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actu ...
1 Super Bowl appearance
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Mike McMahon – 2001–present
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Rod Rutherford
Rod Rutherford (born December 12, 1980) is an American football coach and former quarterback. Rutherford spent time on both the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Carolina Panthers rosters, mostly as a practice squad player. Rutherford entered the Nat ...
– 2003–present
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Matt Schaub
Matthew Schaub (born June 25, 1981) is a former American football quarterback who played for 17 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Cavaliers, and was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the th ...
– 2004–present
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Johnny Unitas
John Constantine Unitas (; May 7, 1933 – September 11, 2002) was an American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons, primarily with the Baltimore Colts. Following a career that spanned from 1956 ...
– 1956–73,
Hall of Famer
A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actual halls or muse ...
, two
Super Bowl
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s
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Alex Van Pelt
Gregory Alexander Van Pelt (born May 1, 1970) is an American football coach and former player who is the offensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as an assistant coach for the ...
– 1995–2003
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Scott Zolak
Scott David Zolak (born December 13, 1967) is an American broadcaster and former professional American football, football player. He played quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons, primarily with the New England Patrio ...
– 1991–99 1 Super Bowl appearance
Running backs
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Tony Dorsett
Anthony Drew Dorsett Sr. (born April 7, 1954) is a former American football running back who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos.
From Western Pennsylvania, Dorsett attended the ...
- NFL, HOF, Dallas Cowboys, University of Pittsburgh
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Kevan Barlow
Kevan Courtney Barlow (born January 7, 1980) is a former American football running back. During his career, he played for the San Francisco 49ers, New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Early life
Barlow played his high school football at P ...
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Cookie Gilchrist
Carlton Chester "Cookie" Gilchrist (May 25, 1935 – January 10, 2011) was an American football player who played professionally in the American Football League (AFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL).
Career
A star player at Har-Brack High S ...
– AFL and CFL
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Warren Heller
Warren Willis Heller (November 24, 1910October 29, 1982) was an American football player who played 3 seasons in the National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists ...
– 1930s
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William F. Knox
William Francis Knox (January 29, 1885 – December 21, 1975) was an American football player and coach and lawyer. He played college football for Yale University and was selected as a first-team All-American halfback in 1906. He was the head ...
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Roger Kochman – 1963
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Curtis Martin
Curtis James Martin Jr. (born May 1, 1973) is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons, primarily with the New York Jets. He spent his first three seasons with the New England Patrio ...
– 1995–2006,
Super Bowl
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Harry McChesney – 1900s (decade) NFL
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Eugene "Mercury" Morris – 70s
Dolphins
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal within the infraorder Cetacea. Dolphin species belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (t ...
; two
Super Bowls
The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game ...
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Vinnie Sunseri
Vincent Salvatore Sunseri (born October 25, 1991) is a former American football safety who is currently a runnings backs coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the fi ...
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Ray Zellars
Raymond Mark Zellars (born March 25, 1973) is a former professional American football fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played his entire career for the New Orleans Saints (1995–1998). He was drafted in the second round of th ...
– Saints
Receivers and tight ends
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Brian Baschnagel
Brian Dale Baschnagel (born January 8, 1954 in Kingston, New York) is a former American football player. He played wide receiver for the Chicago Bears.
Early life
Brian Baschnagel's family relocated often due to his father's professional resp ...
– originally a running back, Ohio State, Bears 1976–1984
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Darnell Dinkins
Darnell Joseph Dinkins (born January 20, 1977) is a former American football coach and tight end. He played college football at the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football, Pittsburgh. In the NFL, Dinkins played for the New York Giants, Balti ...
– NFL tight end in the 1990s and 2000s (decade)
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John Frank – NFL tight end in the 1980s
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Gregg Garrity
Gregg David Garrity (born November 24, 1960) is a former professional American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at Penn Stat ...
– Penn State, NFL 1983–89
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Ken Herock
Ken Herock (born July 16, 1941) is a former American college and professional football player who played tight end. He played collegiately at West Virginia and professionally in the American Football League, where he played for the AFL Champi ...
– NFL
tight end
The tight end (TE) is a position in American football, arena football, and Canadian football, on the offense. The tight end is often a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like ...
1963–69,
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game ...
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Brandon Marshall
Brandon Tyrone Marshall (born March 23, 1984) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the UCF Knights, and was drafted by ...
– NFL wide receiver 2006–2018
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Rasheed Marshall
Rasheed Malik Marshall (born July 11, 1981) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 5th round (174th overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football for West Virginia University.
...
– NFL wide receiver 2005–2007
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Joel Williams – NFL tight end, 1987
Offensive linemen
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Adam Bisnowaty
Adam Bisnowaty (born December 14, 1993) is an American football tackle who is currently a free agent. He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers as a four-year starter at left tackle, and was First-team All- Atlantic Coast Conference ...
– NFL offensive linesman for the New York Giants
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Dean Caliguire
Dean Patrick Caliguire (born March 2, 1967) is a former American football offensive lineman who played three seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Francisco 49ers. He was drafted by the 49ers in the f ...
– NFL lineman in 1991
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Bill Fralic
William P. Fralic Jr. ( ) (October 31, 1962 – December 13, 2018) was an American professional football player who was a guard for the Atlanta Falcons and Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) from 1985 to 1993. He played colle ...
– offensive lineman for
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Falcons joined th ...
, '80s All-Decade Team
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Gary Greaves
Gary C. Greaves (born October 28, 1935) is a former American football Tackle (American football), tackle who played one season with the Houston Oilers of the American Football League (AFL). He played college football at the University of Miami an ...
– tackle 1960
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Leander Jordan
Leander Jordan (born September 15, 1977) is a former American football offensive tackle. He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the third round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indi ...
– offensive lineman Carolina Panthers, San Diego Chargers, Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars
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Mose Lantz
Montgomery Stoffal Lantz (November 24, 1903 – November 2, 1969) was an American football Center (American football), center who played one season with the Pittsburgh Pirates (NFL), Pittsburgh Pirates of the National Football League (NFL). He pl ...
– NFL center 1933
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William R. Moore – NFL guard in the 1940s
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Bull Polisky NFL guard 1929
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Tom Ricketts
Thomas B. Ricketts (15 January 1853 – 19 January 1939) was an English-born American stage and film actor and director who was a pioneer in the film industry. He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in the first American film adaptation of ''A Christm ...
– NFL tackle 1980s and 1990s
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Mike Rosenthal
Mike Rosenthal (born June 10, 1977) is a former American football offensive tackle. He played college football at Notre Dame, where he was an All-American. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL Draft, and playe ...
– NFL tackle 1999–2007
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Jack Sack
Jack Sack (February 22, 1902 – March 7, 1980; born Jacob Bernard Sacklowsky) was an American football player and coach. Sack was a college football player at the University of Pittsburgh and coach, and played professional football in both the ...
– NFL guard in the 1920s
Defensive linemen
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Mike Barnes – Pro bowler 1973–1981
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Bob Buczkowski – NFL defensive end in the 1980s
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Sam Clancy
Sam Clancy (born May 29, 1958) is a former defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Seattle Seahawks, Cleveland Browns, and Indianapolis Colts. He also played for the Pittsburgh Maulers and the Memphis Showboats ...
– NFL defensive end in the 1980s and 1990s
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Ave Daniell
Averell Edward "Li'l Abner" Daniell (November 6, 1914 – January 28, 1999) was an American football tackle. He played high school football for Mt. Lebanon High School and college football for the University of Pittsburgh as a walk-on. He ...
– NFL tackle in the 1930s
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Aaron Donald
Aaron Charles Donald (born May 23, 1991) is an American football defensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Pittsburgh, where he received unanimous All-American honors, and ...
– NFL defensive tackle
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Jack Dugger
John Richard Rabbit Dugger (January 13, 1923 – February 23, 1988) was an American football player who played three seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steeler ...
– NFL lineman 1946–49
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Art Gob
Arthur Jerome Gob (November 7, 1937 – May 8, 2017) was a National Football League (NFL) defensive end for the Washington Redskins and in the American Football League (AFL) for the Los Angeles Chargers. He played college football at the Univ ...
– NFL defensive end, 1950s and 1960s
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Cameron Heyward
Cameron Phillip Heyward (born May 6, 1989) is an American football defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Steelers in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college ...
– NFL 2011–present
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Tyrique Jarrett – NFL defensive tackle
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David Logan – defensive tackle 1970s and 1980s
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Leo Skladany
Leo Bernard Skladany (August 9, 1927 – March 18, 2003) was an American football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants. He had a blocked punt return touchdown in the 1949 NFL C ...
– NFL defensive end 1940s and 1950s
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Jason Taylor – defensive end; five-time Pro Bowler for
Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member team of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team pla ...
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Randy White – defensive lineman 1975–88; three
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game ...
s,
Hall of Fame
A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or Wiktionary:fame, fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actu ...
Defensive backs and linebackers
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LaVar Arrington
LaVar RaShad Arrington (born June 30, 1978) is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons. He played college football at Penn State and was drafted second overall by the Washington R ...
– NFL linebacker 2000–2006
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Jack Butler – cornerback 1951–59,
Pro Football Hall of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio. Opened on September 7, , the Hall of Fame enshrines exceptional figures in the sport of professional football, including players, coach ...
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Jim Flanigan Sr. – NFL linebacker 1960s and 1970s
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Don Graham Penn State, NFL 1987–89
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Bobby Grier Pitt Panthers 1952-1956, Hall of Famer, civil rights icon
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Justin King – NFL 2008–2012
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Nick Kwiatkoski
Nick Kwiatkoski (born May 26, 1993) is an American football linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at West Virginia. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round (113th ove ...
– linebacker for the
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Falcons joined th ...
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Sean Lee
Sean Patrick Lee (born July 22, 1986) is a former American football linebacker. He played his entire 11-year professional career with the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Penn State, and was selected by the Cowboys in the second ...
– former linebacker for
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divisi ...
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Mike Logan – NFL safety 1996–2006,
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game ...
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Paul Martha – NFL safety in the 1960s
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Dick McCabe – NFL safety in the 1950s and 1960s
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Ryan Mundy
Ryan Gregory Mundy (born February 11, 1985) is a former American football Safety (American football position), safety who played eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by his hometown team, the Pittsburgh Steelers in ...
– NFL safety
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Paul Posluszny
Paul Michael Posluszny (; born October 10, 1984) is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He played college football at Penn State Universit ...
–
Dick Butkus Award
The Butkus Award, instituted in 1985 by the Downtown Athletic Club of Orlando, is given annually to the top linebackers at the high school, collegiate and professional levels of football. The award, named in honor of College Football Hall of Fame ...
winner from Penn State, linebacker for
Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo metropolitan area. The Bills compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. ...
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Scott Radecic
J. Scott Radecic (born June 14, 1962) is a former American football linebacker who played twelve seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
Graduating from Brentwood High School in 1980, he played college football at Penn State University, ...
– Penn State and NFL linebacker 1984–95
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Bryant Salter – NFL safety in the 1970s
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Joe Schmidt – linebacker 1953–65,
Hall of Fame
A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or Wiktionary:fame, fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actu ...
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Raymond Ventrone – safety,
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference ( ...
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Eric Wicks
Eric Wicks (born on March 19, 1985) is a former American football Safety (American football position), safety. He was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at West Virginia Mountaineers footb ...
– safety, finalist for Bronko Nagurski Award in 2007
Football specialists
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Pat McAfee – All Pro NFL punter, 2010’s all decade team
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Don Silvestri
Donald G. Silvestri (born December 25, 1968) is a former American football placekicker for various professional football teams and leagues including the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Seattle Seahawk ...
– kicker in the 1990s
Football contributors
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Dave Berry – pro football pioneer
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Kevin Colbert
Kevin Colbert (; born January 1957) is a former American football executive. He served as the general manager of Pittsburgh Steelers from 2000 to 2021. Colbert is widely credited with putting together the Super Bowl XL and the Super Bowl XLIII ...
– director of football operations (2 Super Bowls)
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Dale Hamer
Dale Hamer (born 1937) is a former American football official in the National Football League (NFL) who served from 1978 to 2001, with a break taken for health reasons during the 1995 season. During his 23 seasons in the NFL, Hamer was assigned t ...
– NFL referee 1978–2001, 3 Super Bowls
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Shaun Herock – NFL executive
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Bill Nunn
William Goldwyn Nunn III (October 20, 1953 – September 24, 2016) was an American actor known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's film ''Do the Right Thing'', Robbie Robertson in the Sam Raimi ''Spider-Man'' film trilogy and as Terre ...
– Steelers scout since 1967
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Art Rooney
Arthur Joseph Rooney Sr. (January 27, 1901 – August 25, 1988), often referred to as "The Chief", was the founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American football franchise in the National Football League (NFL), from 1933 until his death ...
– owner and founder of Pittsburgh Steelers
Duquesne University
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit ( or ; Duquesne University or Duquesne) is a private Catholic research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne first opened as the Pittsbu ...
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Dan Rooney
Daniel Milton Rooney (July 20, 1932 – April 13, 2017) was an American executive and diplomat best known for his association with the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American football team in the National Football League (NFL), and son of the Steelers ...
– second chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers, member of the
Pro Football Hall of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio. Opened on September 7, , the Hall of Fame enshrines exceptional figures in the sport of professional football, including players, coach ...
Golf
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Scott Dunlap
Scott Michael Dunlap (born August 16, 1963) is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions, having previously been a member of the PGA Tour.
Early years
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dunlap grew up in Saraso ...
– PGA and Champions Tour
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Bob Friend
Robert Bartmess Friend (November 24, 1930 – February 3, 2019) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher between and , most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. A fou ...
– PGA and Nationwide Tour
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Jim Simons – as an amateur nearly won 1971 U.S. Open; first tournament winner using a metal driver
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Brendon Todd
Brendon Todd (born July 22, 1985) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the Web.com Tour.
Early career
Todd played his junior golf at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary, North Carolina and Green Hope High School. He won ...
– PGA Tour
Hockey
Centers and wingers
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Riley Barber
Riley Barber (born February 7, 1994) is an American professional ice hockey forward who is currently under contract with the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). Barber was selected by the Washington Capitals in the sixth round (16 ...
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Capitals winger, 2017–
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Ryan Malone
Ryan Gregory Malone (born December 1, 1979) nicknamed "Bugsy", is an American former professional ice hockey forward. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Rangers. In 2003, ...
–
Penguins
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes , family Spheniscidae ) are a group of aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is found north of the Equator. Highly adapt ...
,
Lightning
Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electric charge, electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the land, ground, temporarily neutralize themselves, causing the instantaneous ...
,
Rangers winger 2003–15; 2017
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Gerry O'Flaherty
Gerard Joseph O'Flaherty (born August 31, 1950) is a Canadian-American retired professional ice hockey player. During a playing career that lasted from 1971 to 1979 he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks, and Atlanta Flames of t ...
– Leafs,
Canucks
The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference, and play their home games at Rogers Arena. Bruce B ...
,
Flames
A flame (from Latin ''flamma'') is the visible, gaseous part of a fire. It is caused by a highly exothermic chemical reaction taking place in a thin zone. When flames are hot enough to have ionized gaseous components of sufficient density they ...
1971–79
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Brandon Saad –
Colorado Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche (colloquially known as the Avs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference. The Avalanche play thei ...
winger 2011–
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Henrik Samuelsson
Henrik Samuelsson (born February 7, 1994) is an American professional ice hockey player of Swedish ancestry. He is currently playing for HK Levice in the Slovak 1. Liga. Samuelsson was most recently with the Manchester Storm of the UK EIHL . Pr ...
–
Coyotes
The coyote (''Canis latrans'') is a species of canis, canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecologica ...
winger 2014–
*
William Thomas –
Anyang Halla winger 2005–
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Vincent Trocheck – Panthers 2014–2020, Hurricanes 2020–
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R. J. Umberger
Richard Alan "R. J." Umberger, Jr. (born May 3, 1982) is a former American professional ice hockey center. Drafted in the first round, 16th overall, in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Vancouver Canucks, Umberger has played in the National Hockey ...
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Flyers,
Jackets
A jacket is a garment for the upper body, usually extending below the hips. A jacket typically has sleeves, and fastens in the front or slightly on the side. A jacket is generally lighter, tighter-fitting, and less insulating than a coat, which ...
center 2005–
Defense
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Matt Bartkowski
Matthew Richard Bartkowski (born June 4, 1988) is an Americans, American professional ice hockey defenseman who is currently playing for the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL).
Playing career
Florida Panthers
Bartkowski pla ...
–
Iowa Wild
The Iowa Wild are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League, that began play for the 2013–14 season. The team plays at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, as the AHL affiliate of the NHL's Minnesota Wild.
The team was f ...
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Bob Beers – Bruins,
Lightning
Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electric charge, electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the land, ground, temporarily neutralize themselves, causing the instantaneous ...
,
Oilers
Oiler may refer to:
Ships
* Replenishment oiler
* Tanker (ship)
Sports
* Cape Breton Oilers, a former American Hockey League team
* City Oilers, Ugandan basketball team
* Edmonton Oilers, a National Hockey League team based in Edmonton, Alberta, ...
,
Islanders defenseman 1989–97
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Dylan Reese
Dylan Paul Reese (born August 29, 1984) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He last played with HV71 in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).
Early life
Reese, who is Jewish, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the son ...
–
Rangers, Islanders,
Penguins
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes , family Spheniscidae ) are a group of aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is found north of the Equator. Highly adapt ...
2007–
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Mike Weber
Michael Weber (born December 16, 1987) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He previously played with the Buffalo Sabres and Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL) and Frölunda HC of the Swedish Hockey L ...
– former
NHL
The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...
defenseman.
Goalies
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John Gibson – player for
Anaheim Ducks
The Anaheim Ducks are a professional ice hockey team based in Anaheim, California. The Ducks compete in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division, and play their home games at Honda Center.
...
Hockey contributors
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James Wallace Conant – managed Duquesne Gardens
Motorsports
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Chip Ganassi
Floyd Ganassi Jr. (born May 24, 1958) better known as Chip Ganassi, is a US businessman, former racing driver, current team owner and member of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. He has been involved with the North American auto racing scen ...
– former driver, now team owner in IndyCar and NASCAR
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Dick Linder
Richard Refeld Linder (April 6, 1923April 19, 1959) was an American, professional, race car driver from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Career
Linder raced USAC open wheel as well as NASCAR stock cars. Between 1949 and 1956 he entered 28 NASCAR even ...
– 1950s NASCAR driver
Olympic sports
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Kurt Angle
Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9, 1968) is an American retired professional wrestler, Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 100 kg, Olympic gold medalist in American freestyle wrestling, and former Collegiate wrestling, ...
– 1996
gold medal
A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture.
Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
ist in
freestyle wrestling
Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling ...
, later became a
professional wrestler
Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring or ...
*
Robert "Bob" Blum (born 1928), Olympic fencer
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Herb Douglas –
long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...
bronze medalist at
1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ...
; inducted into Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame 1992
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Jake Herbert
Jake Herbert (born March 6, 1985) is an American amateur wrestler. Herbert won the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials at 84 kg FS and competed in the 2012 Olympics.
High school
Born in Pittsburgh, Herbert was a Pennsylvania state champion and four-ti ...
–
folkstyle
Collegiate wrestling (also known as folkstyle wrestling) is the form of wrestling practiced at the college and university level in the United States. This style of wrestling, with some slight modifications, is also practiced at high school and mi ...
and
freestyle wrestler, 2009 World silver medalist, represented USA at
2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
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Suzie McConnell-Serio
Suzie McConnell-Serio (born July 29, 1966) is a former American women's basketball coach and player. She was the head coach for the women's basketball team at the University of Pittsburgh from 2013 to 2018. In 2004, she was named WNBA Coach of th ...
– basketball 1988 and 1992
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Allison Schmitt
Allison Rodgers Schmitt (born June 7, 1990) is an American competition Swimming (sport), swimmer who specializes in Freestyle swimming, freestyle events. She is a four-time Olympic Games, Olympian and a ten-time Olympic medalist.
In her Olympic ...
– competitive
swimmer
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...
, four time
Olympian
*
Leah Smith – swimming, gold and bronze medalist in 2016 Olympics
*
Amanda Polk
Amanda Polk (born August 2, 1986) is an American rower
Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat ...
– rowing, gold medalist W8+ in 2016 Olympics
Soccer
*
Meghan Klingenberg
Meghan Elizabeth Klingenberg (born August 2, 1988) is an American soccer player who plays as a Defender (association football), defender for Portland Thorns FC, Portland Thorns in the National Women's Soccer League, National Women's Soccer Leagu ...
– player for the
Portland Thorns FC
The Portland Thorns FC is an American professional women's soccer team based in Portland, Oregon. Established in 2012, the team began play in 2013 in the then-eight-team National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), which receives support from the Uni ...
and
United States women's national soccer team
The United States women's national soccer team (USWNT) represents the United States in international women's Association football, soccer. The team is the most successful in international women's soccer, winning four FIFA Women's World Cup, Wom ...
*
A. J. Wood – MLS player
*
Marvell Wynne II
Tennis
*
Bjorn Fratangelo – French Open boys' champion
*
Bonnie Gadusek – pro tennis player, reached U.S. Open quarterfinals
*
Gretchen Magers – reached Wimbledon and French Open quarterfinals
*
Alison Riske
Alison Riske-Amritraj (née Riske; born July 3, 1990) is an American professional tennis player. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 18 in November 2019 and won her first WTA Tour title in October 2014 at the Tianjin Open.
...
– WTA player, reached 4th round of U.S. Open
Professional wrestling
*
Kurt Angle
Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9, 1968) is an American retired professional wrestler, Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 100 kg, Olympic gold medalist in American freestyle wrestling, and former Collegiate wrestling, ...
– WWE/TNA wrestler and Olympic gold medalist
*
Rob Conway – WWE wrestler on
RAW
Raw is an adjective usually describing:
* Raw materials, basic materials from which products are manufactured or made
* Raw food, uncooked food
Raw or RAW may also refer to:
Computing and electronics
* .RAW, a proprietary mass spectrometry dat ...
brand
*
Johnny De Fazio
Johnny DeFazio (November 30, 1940 February 26, 2021) was an American professional wrestler from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Professional wrestling career
DeFazio was a fan favorite and was popular in the 1960s and 1970s. He wrestled for the old ...
– known as "Jumping" Johnny De Fazio
*
Dominic DeNucci
Domenico A. Nucciarone (January 23, 1932 – August 12, 2021) was an Italian-American professional wrestler and trainer better known under his ring name of Dominic DeNucci. He held over a dozen championships around the world in the 1960s and 197 ...
– WWWF wrestler and trainer
*
Shane Douglas
Troy Allan Martin (born November 21, 1964) is an American professional wrestler and promoter, better known by his ring name Shane Douglas. He is best known for his tenures in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (W ...
– WCW and WWWF wrestler
*
Britt Baker
Brittany Baker (born April 23, 1991) is an American professional wrestler and dentist. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she performs under the ring name Britt Baker where she is a former AEW Women's World Champion. Born in Punxs ...
-
AEW AEW or aew may refer to:
* Airborne early warning, airborne radar system for detecting aircraft
* Aerosvit Airlines, an airline based in Kyiv, Ukraine (ICAO airline designator: AEW)
* AEW Capital Management, a property investment management company
...
wrestler
*
Corey Graves
Matthew Polinsky (born February 24, 1984) is an American wrestling color commentator and retired professional wrestler currently signed to WWE as a commentator and analyst for ''Raw'' and ''SmackDown'' under the ring name Corey Graves. He is a ...
– wrestler, WWE commentator
*
Mike Jones – known as Virgil in WWE; worked as Vincent, Shane and Curly Bill in WCW
*
Cody Michaels
Mark Keenan, better known by his ring name Cody Michaels, is an American former professional wrestler. After suffering a serious neck injury, Michaels retired and has worked behind the scenes as a booker and promoter.
Professional wrestling c ...
– 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
Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino (October 6, 1935 – April 18, 2018) was an Italian-born American professional wrestler, best known for his work with the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF, now WWE). There, he held the WWWF World Heavywei ...
– two-time World Wide Wrestling Federation champion
*
Mike Scicluna – known as Baron
Mikel Scicluna
Mikel Scicluna (July 29, 1929 – March 20, 2010) was a Maltese professional wrestler who gained his fame during the 1960s and 1970s. He reached the peak of his success in WWWF where he was 2-time tag-team champion, having held the United S ...
*
John Sullivan – known as Johnny Valiant
*
Newton Tattrie
Newton Tattrie (July 12, 1931 – July 19, 2013) was a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Geeto Mongol (also spelled Geto Mongol).
Tattrie started his career in the 1960s working for Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling prom ...
– known as Geeto Mongol
*
Larry Zbyszko
Lawrence Whistler (born December 5, 1951), better known by the ring name Larry Zbyszko, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his feud with his mentor, Bruno Sammartino, during the early 1980s as well as his w ...
(real name Larry Whistler) – director of authority on
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Impact Wrestling (stylized as ''IMPACT! Wrestling''), is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment.
Founded by Jeff and Jerry Jarrett in 2002, the promot ...
Other sports
*
Danny Chew – cyclist, winner of
Race Across America The Race Across America, or RAAM, is an ultra-distance road cycling race held across the United States that started in 1982 as the Great American Bike Race.
RAAM is one of the longest annual endurance events in the world. All entrants must prove ...
(1996, 1999)
*
Joseph Kearney
Joseph L. Kearney (April 28, 1927 – May 5, 2010) was an American coach and sports administrator in university athletics. He served as athletic director at three major universities: the University of Washington (1969–1976), Michigan State Un ...
– athletic administrator
*
George Smith – horse racing
*
Tom Wallisch – professional skier
Industry
Aviation
*
Paige Kassalen
Paige Kassalen (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American electrical engineer. At age 22, she was the only American, female engineer, and youngest member of the ground crew for the Solar Impulse 2 project. In 2017, she appeared on the Forb ...
– electrical engineer on
Solar Impulse
Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, and also the name of the project's two operational aircraft. The privately financed project is led by Swiss engineer and businessman André Borschberg and Swiss ...
*
Willard Rockwell
Willard Frederick Rockwell, Sr. (March 31, 1888 – October 16, 1978) was an American engineer businessman who helped shape and name what eventually became the Rockwell International company. He created and directed a number of major corporations ...
– formed Rockwell Intl.
*
Calbraith Perry Rodgers
Calbraith Perry Rodgers (January 12, 1879 – April 3, 1912) was an American aviation pioneer. He made the first transcontinental airplane flight across the U.S. from September 17, 1911, to November 5, 1911, with dozens of stops, both intention ...
– made the first transcontinental flight
Steel and metals
*
James W. Brown – Crucible Steel
*
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans i ...
– steel
tycoon
A business magnate, also known as a tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the ownership of multiple lines of enterprise. The term characteristically refers to a powerful entrepreneur or investor who controls, through perso ...
and philanthropist, founded what became
U.S. Steel
United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations primarily in the United States of America and in severa ...
*
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
A Ferris wheel (also called a Giant Wheel or an observation wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, gondolas, capsules ...
*
Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, and played a maj ...
– steel tycoon, chief operation officer of what became U.S. Steel
*
Charles Martin Hall
Charles Martin Hall (December 6, 1863 – December 27, 1914) was an American inventor, businessman, and chemist. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum, which became the first metal to atta ...
– aluminum producer and founder of
Alcoa
Alcoa Corporation (an acronym for Aluminum Company of America) is a Pittsburgh-based industrial corporation. It is the world's eighth-largest producer of aluminum. Alcoa conducts operations in 10 countries. Alcoa is a major producer of primary ...
*
Julian Kennedy
Julian Kennedy (March 15, 1852 - May 28, 1932) was an American engineer and inventor, known for his national and international contributions to the steel industry. He was awarded the ASME Medal in 1928.
Biography
Kennedy was born in Poland in ...
– mechanical engineer in steel
*
George Lauder – Scottish-American billionaire industrialist; partner in the
Carnegie Steel Company
Carnegie Steel Company was a steel-producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century. The company was forme ...
; board member of
U.S. Steel
United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations primarily in the United States of America and in severa ...
; cousin-brother of
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans i ...
*
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
Thomas James Usher (born September 11, 1942) is an American business executive who has served as the president, chief operations officer and chief executive officer of U.S. Steel. He has also served as chairman of the board of directors of Marath ...
– CEO of
U.S. Steel
United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations primarily in the United States of America and in severa ...
and chairman of the board of
Marathon Oil
Marathon Oil Corporation is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration incorporated in Ohio and headquartered in the Marathon Oil Tower in Houston, Texas. A direct descendant of Standard Oil, it also runs international gas operations ...
*
John Walker – iron and steel industrialist
Energy
*
Walter Arnheim –
Mobil
Mobil is a petroleum brand owned and operated by American oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil. The brand was formerly owned and operated by an oil and gas corporation of the same name, which itself merged with Exxon to form ExxonMobil in 1999.
...
executive and corporate and non-profit advisor
*
Frederick Bausman
*
E. W. Marland – oilman, founded what would become
Conoco
Conoco Inc. ( ) was an American oil and gas company that operated from 1875 until 2002, when it merged with Phillips Petroleum to form ConocoPhillips. Founded by Isaac Elder Blake in 1875 as the "Continental Oil and Transportation Company". Curr ...
, also became the governor of
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
*
William Mellon – co-founded Gulf Oil
Transport
*
Erik Buell
Erik F. Buell (born April 2, 1950, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is the founder, former Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of the Buell Motorcycle Company, which eventually merged with Harley-Davidson Corp. Buell is a pioneer of modern race mot ...
–
Buell Motorcycle Company
Buell Motorcycles is an American motorcycle manufacturer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1983 by ex-Harley-Davidson engineer Erik Buell.
Harley-Davidson acquired 49% of Buell in 1993, and Buell became a wholly ow ...
*
Alexander Cassatt
Alexander Johnston Cassatt (December 8, 1839 – December 28, 1906) was the seventh president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), serving from June 9, 1899, to December 28, 1906.
Family and early life
Alexander Cassatt was born on December 8, ...
– Pennsylvania Railroad
*
Louis Semple Clarke – steamboats
*
John E. Connelly –
Gateway Clipper Fleet
The Gateway Clipper Fleet, founded by John E. Connelly, is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based fleet of riverboats. The fleet cruises the three rivers of Pittsburgh - the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio. The fleet is named after the city of Pit ...
*
Mike Fink
Mike Fink (also spelled Miche Phinck)O'Neil, Paul. ''The Old West: The Rivermen''. Time-Life Books, New York. 1975 p. 71 (c. 1770/1780 – c. 1823), called "king of the keelboaters", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exempli ...
– river boatman
*
Robert Pitcairn
Robert Pitcairn (May 6, 1836 – July 25, 1909) was a Scottish-American railroad executive who headed the Pittsburgh Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the late 19th century. He was the brother of the PPG Industries, Pittsburgh Plate Glass ...
–
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was named ...
*
Samuel Rea
Samuel Rea (September 21, 1855 – March 24, 1929) was an American engineer and the ninth president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, serving from 1913 to 1925. He joined the PRR in 1871, when the railroad had hardly outgrown its 1846 charter to bu ...
– Pennsylvania Railroad
Finance
*
John F. Donahue – chairman, Federated Investors
*
Stanley Druckenmiller
Stanley Freeman Druckenmiller (born June 14, 1953) is an American investor, hedge fund manager and philanthropist. He is the former chairman and president of Duquesne Capital, which he founded in 1981. He closed the fund in August 2010. – hedge fund manager
*
Thomas Marshall Howe
Thomas Marshall Howe (April 20, 1808 – July 20, 1877) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was a financier, statesman, manufacturer, and philanthropist. He was considered the leading citizen of Pittsbur ...
– 19th-century politician
*
Richard B. Mellon
Richard Beatty Mellon (March 19, 1858 – December 1, 1933), sometimes R.B., part of the Mellon family, was a banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Biography
He and his brother Andrew Mellon, sons of Judge Tho ...
– banker, philanthropist
*
Thomas Mellon
Thomas Mellon (February 3, 1813 – February 3, 1908) was an American entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, best known as the founder of Mellon Bank and patriarch of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh.
Early life
Mellon was born to farmers Andrew Mell ...
– founded
Mellon Financial
Mellon Financial Corporation was an investment firm which was once one of the world's largest money management firms. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it was in the business of institutional and high-net-worth individual asset management, incl ...
*
David Tepper
David Alan Tepper (born September 11, 1957) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager. He is the owner of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL) and Charlotte FC in Major League Soccer (MLS). Tepper is the founder and p ...
– businessman, hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and owner of the
Carolina Panthers
The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. T ...
*
William Thaw – 19th-century banker
*
James Lindenberg
James Lindenberg (December 20, 1921 – April 28, 2009) was an American-born Filipino engineer and businessman. He moved to the Philippines in the 1940s. He is credited for his founding of Bolinao Electronics Corporation (BEC), the precursor of ...
– founder of
ABS-CBN Corporation
ABS-CBN Corporation is a Filipino media company based in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is the largest entertainment and media conglomerate in the Philippines. It is a subsidiary of Lopez Holdings Corporation which is owned by t ...
Technology and communications
*
Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn (; born 19 August 1978) is a German-Guatemalan entrepreneur and a consulting professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcin ...
-
CAPTCHA
A CAPTCHA ( , a contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human.
The term was coined in 2003 ...
inventor,
Duolingo
Duolingo ( ) is an American educational technology company which produces learning apps and provides language certification.
On its main app, users can practice vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and listening skills using spaced repetition. D ...
Founder
*
William Bullock – printing press innovator
*
Charlie Cheever
Charlie Cheever (born August 2, 1981) is the co-founder, along with Adam D'Angelo, of Quora, an online knowledge market. He was formerly an engineer and manager at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Cheever was employed by Amazon.com in Seattle. He le ...
– co-founder of
Quora
Quora () is a social question-and-answer website based in Mountain View, California. It was founded on June 25, 2009, and made available to the public on June 21, 2010. Users can collaborate by editing questions and commenting on answers that ...
*
Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich (; born July 4, 1961) is an American computer programmer and technology executive. He created the JavaScript programming language and co-founded the Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Mozilla Corporation. He served ...
– Mozilla, creator of JavaScript
*
Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake is an American entrepreneur and businesswoman. She co-founded the websites Flickr in 2004 and Hunch in 2007. Fake has been a trustee for nonprofit organizations and was the chairwoman of Etsy. For her role in creating Flickr, Fak ...
– co-founder of
Flickr
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and
Hunch
*
John P. Harris – theater owner
*
Regis McKenna – high technology marketing guru
*
Willard Rockwell
Willard Frederick Rockwell, Sr. (March 31, 1888 – October 16, 1978) was an American engineer businessman who helped shape and name what eventually became the Rockwell International company. He created and directed a number of major corporations ...
– pioneer of Rockwell Intl.
*
Richard Mellon Scaife
Richard Mellon Scaife (; July 3, 1932 – July 4, 2014) was an American billionaire, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, and the owner and publisher of the ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review''. In 2005, Scaife was n ...
– ''
Tribune-Review
The ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'', also known as "the Trib," is the second largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Although it transitioned to an all-digital format on December 1, 2016, it rem ...
''
*
Rich Skrenta
Richard J. Skrenta Jr. (born June 6, 1967) is an American computer programmer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur who created the web search engine blekko.Arrington, Michael (2008-01-02). "The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko". TechCrunch, 2 Jan ...
– computer programmer
*
George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of ...
– electrical industry pioneer
*
Mark Whitaker – CNN Worldwide chief
*
Jamie Zawinski
Jamie Zawinski (born November 3, 1968), commonly known as jwz, is an American computer programmer, blogger and impresario. He is best known for his role in the creation of Netscape Navigator, Netscape Mail, Lucid Emacs, Mozilla.org, and XScree ...
– hacker
Consumer goods
*
Peter Chartier
Peter Chartier (16901759) (Anglicized version of Pierre Chartier, sometimes written Chartiere, Chartiers, Shartee or Shortive) was a fur trader of mixed Shawnee and French parentage. Multilingual, he later became a leader and a band chief among ...
(Chartiers Town and Tarentum) – fur trader 1734–43
*
David L. Clark
*
H. J. Heinz II
Henry John Heinz II (July 10, 1908 – February 23, 1987) was an American business executive and CEO of the H. J. Heinz Company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. His grandfather Henry J. Heinz founded the company in the nineteenth centu ...
– CEO of H.J. Heinz Co.
*
Henry J. Heinz
Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919) was an American entrepreneur of Palatine descent who, at the age of 25, co-founded a small horseradish concern in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. This business failed, but his second business exp ...
– founder of
H. J. Heinz Company
The H. J. Heinz Company is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six contin ...
*
Edgar J. Kaufmann –
Kaufmann's
Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Summary
The store was owned in the early 20th century by Edgar J. Kaufmann, patron of the famous Fallingwater house. In the post-war years, the store became a regi ...
*
Billy Mays
William Darrell Mays Jr. (July 20, 1958 – June 28, 2009) was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson. Throughout his career, he promoted a wide variety of products, including OxiClean, Orange Glo, Kaboom, ...
– TV pitchman
*
James Sinegal
James D. "Jim" Sinegal (born January 1, 1936) is an American billionaire businessman who is the co-founder and former CEO of the Costco Wholesale Corporation,Allison, Melissa"Costco's colorful CEO, co-founder Jim Sinegal to retire" ''The Seattle ...
–
Costco
Costco Wholesale Corporation (doing business as Costco Wholesale and also known simply as Costco) is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only big-box retail stores (warehouse club). As of 2022, Costco i ...
*
Patricia A. Woertz –
ADM
Other industries
*
William D. Boyce
William Dickson Boyce (June 16, 1858 – June 11, 1929) was an American newspaper man, entrepreneur, magazine publisher, and explorer. He was the founder of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and the short-lived Lone Scouts of America (LSA). ...
– founder of Boy Scouts of America
* Dr. Herbert Boyer – co-founder of Genentech
* John Baptiste Ford – PPG Industries
* Ed Grier – Disneyland Resort, 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 – United Mine Workers, UMW
* Joseph "Chip" Yablonski – UMW attorney
* Kenneth Yablonski – attorney
Religion
*Murder of Catherine Cesnik, 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), Ross Allen – herpetology, herpetologist
* Frederick S. Billig – scramjet pioneer
* Daniel Chamovitz – biologist, author of ''What a Plant Knows'', and President of Ben Gurion University of the Negev
* 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 (education), chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, Western University of Pennsylvania
* Randy Pausch – founder of Alice (software), Alice, and man behind the ''Last Lecture''
* David M. Pozar – electrical engineer and academician
* Jonas Salk – physician, inventor of first polio vaccine
* Alex Shigo – arboriculture, arboriculturist and horticulturist
* Clifford Shull – Nobel Prize winner
* Herbert A. Simon – Carnegie Mellon University professor; winner of Nobel Prize for Economics
* Thomas Starzl – pioneering Organ transplant, transplant surgeon in liver and multiorgan transplantation
* Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, Jesse Steinfeld – United States Surgeon General of the United States, Surgeon General under Richard Nixon, 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
*
Jamie Zawinski
Jamie Zawinski (born November 3, 1968), commonly known as jwz, is an American computer programmer, blogger and impresario. He is best known for his role in the creation of Netscape Navigator, Netscape Mail, Lucid Emacs, Mozilla.org, and XScree ...
* 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 List of Adjutant Generals of the U.S. Army, 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 Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg
* Francis J. Herron
* Alexander Murray (1816–1884), Alexander Murray – Admiral
* James Scott Negley – Major General American Civil War, Civil War hero of Battle of Murfreesboro, Murfreesboro
* Thomas A. Rowley (1808–92) – Brigadier-general; Battle of Gettysburg, 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 (United States), Brigadier General
* Samuel Baldwin Marks Young – first Chief of Staff of the Army
21st-century leaders
* Michael Hayden (general), Michael Hayden – USAF ****, Director of NSA, CIA
* Harry E. Miller Jr. – Major general (United States), major general who commanded the 42nd Infantry Division (United States), 42nd Infantry Division
Medal winners: Mexican conflict
* Charles Francis Bishop, Charles Bishop
* Robert Semple (veteran), Robert Semple
Medal winners: Civil War
* Charles Higby
* Alexander Kelly
* Alfred L. Pearson – Medal of Honor
* James Martinus Schoonmaker, James Schoonmaker
Medal winners: World War II
* Arthur V. Ely
* Charles E. Kelly (soldier), Charles E. Kelly
* Archibald Mathies
Medal winners: 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
* 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
* 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
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
* 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 1979–87; U.S. Attorney General 1987–91
* Tom Vilsack – Iowa Governor, 1999–2007; U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Agriculture Secretary, 2009–2017
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
Thomas Marshall Howe (April 20, 1808 – July 20, 1877) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was a financier, statesman, manufacturer, and philanthropist. He was considered the leading citizen of Pittsbur ...
– 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, United States Secretary of State, 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 movement, Tea Party leader
* Ron Paul – Texas Congressman, 2008 United States presidential election, presidential candidate
* David A. Reed – Senator
* Rick Santorum – Congressman 1991–95, Senator 1995–2007
* Claudine Schneider – Congresswoman Rhode Island 1981–91
Jurists
* Max Baer (judge), Max Baer – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2003–
* Derrick Bell – Professor, law professor
* Robert Bork – United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court nominee, and acting United States Attorney General, AG
* George M. Dallas (judge), George Dallas – Federal Court of Appeals 1892–1909
* D. Michael Fisher, Michael Fisher – Federal Appeals 2003–
* Albert L. Gordon, Albert Gordon – advocate for gay rights
[Woo, Elaine]
"Albert L. Gordon dies at 94; attorney fought for gay rights"
''Los Angeles Times'', September 6, 2009. Accessed September 9, 2009.
* Ken Gormley (academic), Ken Gormley
* Philip Heymann – served in Carter and Clinton administrations
* William G. Hundley – prosecutor and criminal defense attorney
* Linda L. Kelly, 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 Orie Melvin, Joan Melvin – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2009–
* John Lester Miller – 1954–71
* Michael Angelo Musmanno – PA Supreme Court and Nuremberg tribunal
* Arthur J. Schwab, Arthur Schwab – U.S. Judge 2002–present
* George Shiras, Jr., George Shiras – U.S. Supreme Court
* Sara Soffel – first woman to serve as a judge in Pennsylvania
* William Alvah Stewart – Federal 1951–53
* Hubert Irving Teitelbaum – 1970–1985
* W. H. Seward Thomson Federal – 1914–28
* Gerald Bard Tjoflat, 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 Clarke, Victoria "Torie" Clarke – Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under George W. Bush
* Michael Hayden (general), Michael Hayden – CIA director 2006–09
White House cabinet
* James J. Davis – Secretary of Labor under presidents Warren G. Harding, Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, 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 (American politician), 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
Daniel Milton Rooney (July 20, 1932 – April 13, 2017) was an American executive and diplomat best known for his association with the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American football team in the National Football League (NFL), and son of the Steelers ...
– 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 (b. 1850), 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
* Jennie E. Kennedy
* Lucy Kennedy Miller
* Jennie Bradley Roessing
* Eliza Kennedy Smith
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"
See also
* List of people from Pennsylvania
References
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Lists of people by city in the United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania culture
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