People From Pittsburgh

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

Artists

Actresses

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

Actors

* F. Murray Abraham
* Tom Atkins
* Carl Betz
* Christian Borle
* Don Brockett
* Steve Byrne
* Ted Cassidy
* David Conrad
* Maurice Costello
* Rusty Cundieff
* John Davidson
* Jack Dodson
* Charles Esten
* Joe Flaherty
* Scott Glenn
* Jeff Goldblum
* Frank Gorshin
* Charles Grodin
* Kevin Peter Hall
* John Hodiak
* Michael Keaton
* Gene Kelly
* John Leslie
* Tom Major-Ball
* Joe Manganiello
* Jim Martin
* Kiel Martin
* Adolphe Menjou
* Kermit Murdock
* Burt Mustin
* Manu Narayan
* Bill Nunn
* Michael Park
* Billy Porter
* William Powell
* Zachary Quinto
* Fred Rogers
* Johnny Sins
* Regis Toomey
* Fritz Weaver

Comedians

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

Reporters and anchors

* Jodi Applegate – NBC's ''Later Today''
* John Buccigross – host, '' SportsCenter'' on ESPN
* Bill Burns – KDKA anchor (1953–1989)
* Patti Burns – KDKA anchor with her father Bill
* Bill Cardille – broadcaster known as Chilly Billy, host of '' Chiller Theatre'' and '' Studio Wrestling''
* Beano Cook – ESPN college football analyst
* Myron Cope – sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster
* Scott Ferrall – sports talk radio host
* Howard Fineman – ''Newsweek'' journalist
* Fred Honsberger – broadcaster
* Sue Kerr - LGBTQ writer
* Jay Mariotti – sportswriter
* Jeanne Moos – CNN reporter
* Art Pallan – broadcaster
* Jane Pauley
* Jim Quinn – radio talk show host
* Martha Rial - 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
* Rick Sebak - WQED documentarian
* Paul Shannon – host of WTAE-TV children's show '' Adventure Time''
* John Stehr – anchorman at WTHR in Indianapolis, Indiana
* Bari Weiss – opinion writer and editor

Media personalities

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

Producers, directors, and effects

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

* Tim Kaiser - producer, Seinfeld, Will & Grace, 2 Broke Girls]

Music

Jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel

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

Classics and standards

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

Rock and alternative

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

Classical

* Victor Herbert

Country and folk

* Eric Andersen
* Bill Deasy
* Guaranteed Irish (band)

Pop

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

Rap and hip-hop

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

Dancers and choreographers

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

Visual arts

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

Authors

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

Athletes

Baseball

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

Baseball contributors

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

Basketball

Coaches

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

Forwards and centers

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

Guards

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

Basketball contributors

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

Boxing

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

Figure skating

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

Football

Coaches: primarily NFL

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

Coaches: other football

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

Quarterbacks

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

Running backs

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

Receivers and tight ends

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

Offensive linemen

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

Defensive linemen

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

Defensive backs and linebackers

* LaVar Arrington – NFL linebacker 2000–2006
* Jack Butler – cornerback 1951–59, Pro Football Hall of Fame
* Jim Flanigan Sr. – NFL linebacker 1960s and 1970s
* Don Graham Penn State, NFL 1987–89
* Bobby Grier Pitt Panthers 1952-1956, Hall of Famer, civil rights icon
* Justin King – NFL 2008–2012
* Nick Kwiatkoski – linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons
* Sean Lee – former linebacker for Dallas Cowboys
* Mike Logan – NFL safety 1996–2006, Super Bowl
* Paul Martha – NFL safety in the 1960s
* Dick McCabe – NFL safety in the 1950s and 1960s
* Ryan Mundy – NFL safety
* Paul Posluszny – Dick Butkus Award winner from Penn State, linebacker for Buffalo Bills
* Scott Radecic – Penn State and NFL linebacker 1984–95
* Bryant Salter – NFL safety in the 1970s
* Joe Schmidt – linebacker 1953–65, Hall of Fame
* Raymond Ventrone – safety, Cleveland Browns
* Eric Wicks – safety, finalist for Bronko Nagurski Award in 2007

Football specialists

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

Football contributors

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

Golf

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

Hockey

Centers and wingers

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

Defense

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

Goalies

* John Gibson – player for Anaheim Ducks

Hockey contributors

* James Wallace Conant – managed Duquesne Gardens

Motorsports

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

Olympic sports

* Kurt Angle – 1996 gold medalist in freestyle wrestling, later became a professional wrestler
* Robert "Bob" Blum (born 1928), Olympic fencer
* Herb Douglas – long jump bronze medalist at 1948 Summer Olympics; inducted into Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame 1992
* Jake Herbert – folkstyle and freestyle wrestler, 2009 World silver medalist, represented USA at 2012 Summer Olympics
* Suzie McConnell-Serio – basketball 1988 and 1992
* Allison Schmitt – competitive swimmer, four time Olympian
* Leah Smith – swimming, gold and bronze medalist in 2016 Olympics
* Amanda Polk – rowing, gold medalist W8+ in 2016 Olympics

Soccer

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

Tennis

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

Professional wrestling

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

Other sports

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

Industry

Aviation

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

Steel and metals

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

Energy

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

Transport

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

Finance

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

Technology and communications

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

Consumer goods

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

Other industries

* William D. Boyce – founder of Boy Scouts of America
* Dr. Herbert Boyer – co-founder of Genentech
* John Baptiste Ford – PPG Industries
* Ed Grier – Disneyland 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
* 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
* 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 – 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 rightsWoo, 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 – 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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