List of 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 second-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia.

Actresses

 * Tina Benko
 * Julie Benz
 * Lori Cardille
 * Caitlin Clarke
 * Dolores Costello
 * Marpessa Dawn
 * Lisa Emery
 * Barbara Feldon
 * Rita Gam
 * Elizabeth Hartman
 * Gillian Jacobs
 * Cherie Johnson
 * Kimmarie Johnson
 * Shirley Jones
 * Lorelei King
 * Christine Laitta
 * 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
 * Chloe Lukasiak

Actors

 * F. Murray Abraham
 * Tom Atkins
 * Carl Betz
 * Christian Borle
 * Don Brockett
 * Steve Byrne
 * Ted Cassidy
 * David Conrad
 * Maurice Costello
 * Rusty Cundieff
 * John Davidson
 * Jack Dodson
 * Charles Esten
 * Patrick Fabian
 * Joe Flaherty
 * Scott Glenn
 * 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
 * Jimmy Stewart
 * Regis Toomey
 * Fritz Weaver

Comedians

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

Reporters and anchors

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

Media personalities

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

Producers, directors, and effects

 * Antoine Fuqua – director
 * John P. Harris – invented the first movie theater
 * David Hollander – TV and movie producer, director
 * Tim Kaiser – producer, Seinfeld, Will & Grace, 2 Broke Girls
 * Carl Kurlander – film producer, writer
 * Sally Lapiduss – producer
 * Rob Marshall – director, Chicago
 * Greg Nicotero – actor, director, producer, special effects and makeup artist The Walking Dead
 * Eric Red – screenwriter and director
 * Ford Riley – producer, screenwriter and lyricist; created The Lion Guard
 * George A. Romero – director, best known for Night of the Living Dead
 * Richard Rossi – director
 * Tom Savini – actor, stunt man, director, special effects and makeup artist
 * Lou Scheimer – animator, voice actor, co-founder of animation studio Filmation
 * David O. Selznick – film producer, Gone with the Wind
 * Lewis J. Selznick – film producer
 * Myron Selznick – producer, talent agency head

Jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel

 * Ray Anthony – bandleader
 * 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
 * Horace Parlan – pianist
 * Leo Pellegrino – baritone saxophonist
 * Jimmy Ponder – guitarist
 * Billy Price – singer
 * Eddie Safranski – bassist
 * Shanice
 * Dakota Staton – vocalist
 * Billy Strayhorn – composer, pianist
 * Maxine Sullivan – jazz vocalist
 * Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone player
 * Tommy Turrentine – trumpeter
 * Mary Lou Williams – jazz pianist
 * Spanky Wilson – jazz vocalist

Classics and standards

 * Loren Allred – singer
 * Lory Bianco – singer
 * Jackie Evancho – singer
 * Colyn Fischer – fiddler
 * Stephen Foster – 19th-century songwriter
 * Philip Glass – composer
 * Byron Janis – pianist
 * Oscar Levant – pianist
 * Lorenzo Malfatti – Italian opera coach
 * 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
 * Girl Talk – musician, real name Gregg Gillis
 * Gramsci Melodic – alternative rock band
 * Joe Grushecky – Iron City Houserockers, solo artist; worked with Bruce Springsteen
 * Donnie Iris – musician
 * Ray Luzier – Korn member
 * Jerry Mason – singer
 * Weird Paul Petroskey – lo-fi musician
 * Justin Sane – lead guitarist and co-singer/songwriter of the political punk rock band Anti-Flag
 * Spike Slawson – singer for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes


 * Reb Beach – guitarist in the rock bands Winger and Whitesnake.

Classical

 * Victor Herbert

Country and folk

 * Eric Andersen
 * Gabby Barrett
 * Bill Deasy
 * Guaranteed Irish
 * Dan Levenson

Pop

 * Tunde Adebimpe – singer, TV on the Radio
 * Michele Brourman – composer
 * Lou Christie – pop singer, "Lightning Strikes"
 * Perry Como – crooner
 * Daya – pop singer/songwriter
 * The Del-Vikings – vocal group, Come Go With Me
 * Jerry Fielding – Oscar-nominated composer
 * Chris Jamison – singer-songwriter, musician, and contestant from NBC's The Voice season 7
 * The Marcels – vocal group, "Blue Moon"
 * The Skyliners – vocal group, Since I Don't Have You
 * Jack Stauber - synth-pop singer-songwriter/instrumentalist
 * B. E. Taylor – musician
 * Bobby Vinton – pop singer, "Blue Velvet"
 * Brian Young – drummer and percussionist, Fountains of Wayne

Rap and hip-hop

 * Beedie – rapper
 * Grand Buffet – rap duo
 * Jasiri X – artist, activist, rapper, entrepreneur
 * Jero
 * Wiz Khalifa
 * Lady Miss Kier – Deee-Lite
 * Mel-Man – hip hop producer and rapper
 * Pittsburgh Slim – rapper
 * Mac Miller – rapper
 * Chevy Woods – rapper
 * Jimmy Wopo – 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
 * Chloe Lukasiak – actress and former featured dancer on TV show Dance Moms
 * Abby Lee Miller – former dance studio owner, choreographer and team coach for Abby Lee Dance Company; featured on TV show Dance Moms
 * Paul Taylor – choreographer
 * Jonathan Wolken (1949–2010) – founder of the Pilobolus dance company
 * Maddie Ziegler – actress and former featured dancer on TV show Dance Moms
 * Mackenzie Ziegler singer

Visual arts

 * Matt Baker – comic book artist
 * Romare Bearden
 * Martin Beck – painter
 * Seddon Bennington
 * Sharif Bey – sculptor, ceramist, educator
 * Ailsa Mellon Bruce – Mellon heir and art patron
 * Norman Daly — visual artist
 * Vanessa German – sculptor, poet
 * David Hanna – artist
 * Charles "Teenie" Harris – photographer
 * Jerry Harris – sculptor
 * Yvonne Jacquette – painter and printmaker
 * 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
 * Jack Stauber - animator
 * Renee Stout – multi-media artist
 * Andy Warhol – painter
 * Julia Warhola

Authors

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

Baseball

 * Glenn Beckert – second baseman
 * Buddy Bell – third baseman (1972–1989)
 * Bill Blair
 * Dave Bush
 * Ollie Carnegie – 1931–1945
 * Betty Jane Cornett (1932–2006) – third base (1950–1952) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
 * Bill Doak – Cardinals and Dodgers, inventor of the modern baseball glove
 * Ryan Garko – first baseman, Giants
 * Josh Gibson – Negro league player, Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays
 * Gary Green
 * Howdy Groskloss – shortstop 1930–32
 * Ian Happ – Chicago Cubs
 * Art Howe – managed Astros and A's
 * Derek Law – pitcher
 * Bobby Lowe – first MLB player with 4 home runs in a game
 * Sam McDowell
 * Marguerite Pearson – utility player 1948–1954, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
 * Heinie Smith
 * 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

Coaches

 * Dick Bennett – Wisconsin, Washington State 1976–2006
 * Paul Birch
 * Eddie Cameron – Duke 1929–1949 until 1972, Cameron Indoor Stadium, founding member of the ACC, football coach and Olympic selector
 * Suzie McConnell-Serio – WNBA player 1998–2000, head coach 2004–2006, Duquesne 2007–2013
 * Dudey Moore
 * Skip Prosser – Loyola (MD), Xavier, and Wake Forest 1993–2007
 * Herb Sendek – NC State and Arizona State 1994–2015

Forwards and centers

 * John Abramovic – 1946–1948
 * DeJuan Blair – Pitt All-American, Spurs 2009–2013, Mavericks 2013–
 * Chuck Cooper – 1950–1956; first drafted African-American
 * Jakim Donaldson (born 1983) – player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 * Ken Durrett – 1971–1975 NBA
 * Paul Grant – 1997–2004
 * Maurice Lucas – 1975–1988
 * Walt Miller – 1946–47
 * Maurice Stokes – Rochester/Cincinnati Royals 1955–1958; Hall of Famer
 * Walt Szczerbiak – 1971–72 NBA
 * Michael Young (born 1994) – Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League

Guards

 * Moe Barr – 1970–71 NBA
 * Paul Birch
 * Ron Carter – 1978–1980 NBA
 * Calvin Fowler – 1969–70
 * DeAndre Kane
 * T. J. McConnell – Arizona Wildcats and Philadelphia 76er and Indiana Pacers
 * Jack Twyman – 1955–1966, Hall of Famer

Basketball contributors

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

Boxing

 * Bob Baker – heavyweight contender
 * Eddie Chambers – Heavyweight and Cruiserweight Contender, 2008–2016
 * Billy Conn – light-heavyweight champ 1939–1941
 * Andy DePaul – middleweight contender, referee
 * Harry Greb – middleweight champ 1923
 * Frank Klaus – middleweight champ 1904
 * Paul Spadafora – lightweight champ, 1999
 * Jackie Wilson – featherweight champ, early 1900s (decade)
 * Teddy Yarosz – middleweight champ, 1934
 * Fritzie Zivic – welterweight champ, 1940

Figure skating

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

Coaches: primarily NFL

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

Coaches: other football

 * Joseph H. Thompson - University of Pittsburgh – 1909-1912
 * Frank Cignetti, Jr. – University of Pittsburgh
 * Tom Davies – 1922–1947
 * Rich Lackner – Carnegie Mellon 1986–present

Quarterbacks

 * Marc Bulger – 2000–2011, Super Bowl
 * Chuck Fusina – NFL 1979–1986
 * Bruce Gradkowski – Steelers, Bucs, Raiders 2006–2016
 * Major Harris – record-setter in college and CFL
 * Leon Hart – Heisman Trophy, College Hall of Fame
 * Al Jacks – quarterback, Penn State and college head coach
 * Jim Kelly – 1986–1996, Hall of Fame, 4 Super Bowl appearances
 * Dan Marino – 1983–1999, Hall of Fame 1 Super Bowl appearance
 * Mike McMahon – NFL, CFL, UFL quarterback 2001–2012
 * Joe Namath – New York Jets, Alabama Crimson Tide National Champion
 * Rod Rutherford – NFL quarterback 2004–2006 and college coach
 * Matt Schaub – NFL quarterback 2004–2020
 * Willie Thrower – first black quarterback in the NFL*
 * Johnny Unitas – 1956–1973, Hall of Famer, two Super Bowls
 * Alex Van Pelt – 1995–2003
 * Scott Zolak – 1991–1999, 1 Super Bowl appearance

Running backs

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

Receivers and tight ends

 * Brian Baschnagel – originally a running back, Ohio State, Bears 1976–1984
 * Darnell Dinkins – NFL tight end in the 1990s and 2000s (decade)
 * John Frank – NFL tight end in the 1980s
 * Gregg Garrity – Penn State, NFL 1983–1989
 * Ken Herock – NFL tight end 1963–1969, Super Bowl
 * Brandon Marshall – NFL wide receiver 2006–2018
 * Rasheed Marshall – NFL wide receiver 2005–2007
 * Joel Williams – NFL tight end, 1987

Offensive linemen

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

Defensive linemen

 * Mike Barnes – pro bowler 1973–1981
 * Bob Buczkowski – NFL defensive end in the 1980s
 * Sam Clancy – NFL defensive end in the 1980s and 1990s
 * Ave Daniell – NFL tackle in the 1930s
 * Aaron Donald – NFL defensive tackle
 * Jack Dugger – NFL lineman 1946–49
 * Art Gob – NFL defensive end, 1950s and 1960s
 * Cameron Heyward – NFL 2011–present
 * Tyrique Jarrett – NFL defensive tackle
 * David Logan – defensive tackle 1970s and 1980s
 * Leo Skladany – NFL defensive end 1940s and 1950s
 * Jason Taylor – defensive end; five-time Pro Bowler for Miami Dolphins
 * Randy White – defensive lineman 1975–1988; three Super Bowls, Hall of Fame

Defensive backs and linebackers

 * LaVar Arrington – NFL linebacker 2000–2006
 * Jack Butler – cornerback 1951–1959, Pro Football Hall of Fame
 * Jim Flanigan Sr. – NFL linebacker 1960s and 1970s
 * Don Graham – Penn State, NFL 1987–1989
 * Bobby Grier – Pitt Panthers 1952–1956, Hall of Famer, civil rights icon
 * Justin King – NFL 2008–2012
 * Nick Kwiatkoski – linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons
 * Sean Lee – former linebacker for Dallas Cowboys
 * Mike Logan – NFL safety 1996–2006, Super Bowl
 * Paul Martha – NFL safety in the 1960s
 * Dick McCabe – NFL safety in the 1950s and 1960s
 * Ryan Mundy – NFL safety
 * Paul Posluszny – Dick Butkus Award winner from Penn State, linebacker for Buffalo Bills
 * Scott Radecic – Penn State and NFL linebacker 1984–1995
 * Bryant Salter – NFL safety in the 1970s
 * Joe Schmidt – linebacker 1953–1965, Hall of Fame
 * Raymond Ventrone – safety, Cleveland Browns
 * Eric Wicks – safety, finalist for Bronko Nagurski Award in 2007

Football specialists

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

Football contributors

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


 * David Tepper owner of the Carolina Panthers

Golf

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

Centers and wingers

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

Defense

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

Goalies

 * John Gibson – player for 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
 * David Tepper owner of the MLS's Charlotte FC

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

Other sports

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

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
 * James Lindenberg – founder of ABS-CBN Corporation
 * Richard B. Mellon – banker, philanthropist
 * Thomas Mellon – founded Mellon Financial
 * David Tepper – businessman, hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and owner of the Carolina Panthers
 * William Thaw – 19th-century banker

Technology and communications

 * Luis von Ahn – CAPTCHA inventor, Duolingo founder
 * William Bullock – printing press innovator
 * Charlie Cheever – co-founder of Quora
 * Brendan Eich – Mozilla, creator of JavaScript
 * Caterina Fake – co-founder of Flickr and Hunch
 * John P. Harris – theater owner
 * 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 1734–1743
 * David L. Clark
 * H. J. Heinz II – CEO of H.J. Heinz Co.
 * Henry J. Heinz – founder of H. J. Heinz Company
 * Edgar J. Kaufmann – Kaufmann's
 * Billy Mays – TV pitchman
 * James Sinegal – Costco
 * Patricia A. Woertz – ADM

Other industries

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

Labor

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

Religion

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

Science and research

 * Ross Allen – herpetologist
 * Frederick S. Billig – scramjet pioneer
 * Daniel Chamovitz – biologist, author of What a Plant Knows, and President of Ben Gurion University of the Negev
 * Yuan Chang – virologist, co-discoverer of causes of several viral cancers, including Kaposi's sarcoma
 * Norman Christ – physicist
 * Childs Frick
 * George Otto Gey – scientist who propagated the HeLa cell line
 * William Jacob Holland – entomologist and chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania
 * Irene Jakab (1919–2011) – native of Hungary, psychiatrist and humanist; member of the faculties of Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh and the McLean Hospital
 * Ayana Jordan – addiction psychiatrist
 * Randy Pausch – founder of Alice, and man behind the Last Lecture
 * David M. Pozar – electrical engineer and academician
 * Jonas Salk – physician, inventor of first polio vaccine
 * Alex Shigo – arboriculturist and horticulturist
 * Clifford Shull – Nobel Prize winner
 * Herbert A. Simon – Carnegie Mellon University professor; winner of Nobel Prize for Economics
 * Thomas Starzl – pioneering transplant surgeon in liver and multiorgan transplantation
 * Jesse Steinfeld – United States Surgeon General under Nixon
 * Otto Stern – German-American physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his studies of molecular beams; Carnegie Institute of Technology professor
 * Nicholas E. Wagman
 * Sandra Welner (1958–2001) – physician, advocate for disabled women's healthcare
 * Jerome Wolken (1917–1999) – biophysicist
 * Jamie Zawinski
 * Jonathan Zittrain – professor of Internet law and computer science at Harvard
 * Vladimir Zworykin – engineer and inventor, developed an early form of television; the IEEE presents a Vladimir Zworykin Award for outstanding contributions to development of television technology

18th-century leaders

 * Ebenezer Denny – 10th Adjutant General of the U.S. Army

19th-century leaders

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

20th-century leaders

 * Joseph R. Lamonde
 * Manus MacCloskey – Brigadier General
 * Samuel Baldwin Marks Young – first Chief of Staff of the Army

21st-century leaders

 * Michael Hayden – USAF ****, Director of NSA, CIA
 * Harry E. Miller Jr. – major general who commanded the 42nd Infantry Division

Medal recipients: Civil War

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

Medal recipients: United States occupation of Veracruz

 * Charles Bishop
 * Robert Semple

Medal recipients: World War I

 * Joseph H. Thompson — Medal of Honor

Medal recipients: World War II

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

Medal recipients: Vietnam

 * William D. Morgan
 * William R. Prom

Astronauts

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

Other military

 * Thomas Enright - first soldier from Pennsylvania, and possibly first American soldier, killed in World War I
 * Adrian Cronauer – Airman, radio personality, subject of Good Morning, Vietnam
 * Charles Graner – U.S. Army reservist convicted of prisoner abuse in connection with 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal

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 1979–1987; U.S. Attorney General 1987–1991
 * Tom Vilsack – Iowa Governor, 1999–2007; Agriculture Secretary, 2009–2017

Congressmen and senators

 * John Dalzell – Congressman 1887–1913; Chairman of the Ways and Means committee 1898–1913
 * Harmar Denny – Congressman 1825–1837
 * Bob Filner – California Congressman 1993–2012
 * Orrin Hatch – Utah Senator, 1977–2019
 * John Heinz – Congressman 1971–1977, Senator 1977–1991
 * Thomas Marshall Howe – Congressman 1851–1855
 * John Kasich – Ohio Congressman 1983–2001, Governor 2011–2019
 * Philander C. Knox – Senator 1901–1904, 1917–1921, United States Attorney General 1901–1904, Sec. of State 1909–1913
 * Robert McKnight – Congressman 1859–1863
 * George T. Oliver – Senator 1909–1917
 * Rand Paul – Kentucky Senator 2011–present, Tea Party leader
 * Ron Paul – Texas Congressman, presidential candidate
 * David A. Reed – Senator
 * Rick Santorum – Congressman 1991–1995, Senator 1995–2007
 * Claudine Schneider – Congresswoman Rhode Island 1981–1991

Jurists

 * Max Baer – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2003–
 * Derrick Bell – law professor
 * Robert Bork – Supreme Court nominee, and acting AG
 * George Dallas – Federal Court of Appeals 1892–1909
 * Michael Fisher – Federal Appeals 2003–
 * Albert Gordon – advocate for gay rights
 * Ken Gormley
 * Philip Heymann – served in Carter and Clinton administrations
 * William G. Hundley – prosecutor and criminal defense attorney
 * Linda Kelly – Pennsylvania Attorney General
 * Rolf Larsen – State Supreme Court Justice
 * Donald J. Lee – Federal 1989–2000
 * Timothy K. Lewis – Federal 1991–1992, Appeals 1992–1999
 * Carol Los Mansmann – Federal 1982–1985, Appeals 1985–2002
 * Wilson McCandless – U.S. Judge
 * Joan Melvin – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2009–
 * John Lester Miller – 1954–1971
 * Michael Angelo Musmanno – PA Supreme Court and Nuremberg tribunal
 * Arthur Schwab – U.S. Judge 2002–present
 * George Shiras – U.S. Supreme Court
 * Sara Soffel – first woman to serve as a judge in Pennsylvania
 * William Alvah Stewart – Federal 1951–1953
 * Hubert Irving Teitelbaum – 1970–1985
 * W. H. Seward Thomson – Federal – 1914–1928
 * Gerald Tjoflat – Appeals 1975–present
 * Jay Waldman – Federal 1988–2003
 * Joseph F. Weis, Jr. – Federal 1970–1973, Appeals 1973–1988
 * James Scott Young – Federal 1908–1914
 * Donald Emil Ziegler – Federal 1978–2003

CIA and defense administrators

 * Victoria "Torie" Clarke – Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under George W. Bush
 * Michael Hayden – CIA director 2006–2009

White House cabinet

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

Ambassadors

 * Homer S. Ferguson – Philippines
 * Walter Forward – Denmark
 * Mark Gilbert – New Zealand; also Major League Baseball player
 * George W. Guthrie – Japan
 * William W. Irwin – Denmark
 * Andrew Mellon – Great Britain 1932–33
 * Alexander Pollock Moore – Spain and Peru
 * Dan Rooney – Ireland 2009–2012
 * Edith S. Sampson – first African-American in the U.N. (1950–1953) and NATO (1961–62)
 * Adolph W. Schmidt – Canada 1969–1974
 * Phillips Talbot – Greece

State legislators

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

Suffragists and other women's rights activists

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

Other administrators and advisors

 * Rachel Foster Avery
 * John Brabender
 * Murray Chotiner
 * Patrick R. Donahoe
 * Tony Fratto – Deputy Press Secretary 2006–2009
 * Elsie Hillman – former Republican National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania

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"
 * Connor Michalek – WWE fan and cancer victim