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PITTSBURGH
Most Famous People Born in Pittsburgh, United States
- Notable people
- 2,110
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- Median birth year
- 1938
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 6.2×
A steel city with an unusually literary bench — novelists, screenwriters, and musicians at the top, the legacy of Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh — alongside the expected baseball and basketball shelves. Pittsburgh's most famous son is Andy Warhol, with Gene Kelly, Gertrude Stein, Martha Graham, and Mary Cassatt a few shelves down; the philanthropic tradition is what happens when the Mellons, Fricks, and Carnegies all live on the same hill.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Pittsburgh during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Pittsburgh Is Known For
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Football is Pittsburgh's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (242).
Pittsburgh over-indexes on baseball — 6.2× the global rate.
Pittsburgh under-produces painter — only 0.7× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Pittsburgh's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1820s Clear ×
James Mitchell Ashley
1824 - 1896
Benjamin Grierson
1826 - 1911
James S. Negley
1826 - 1901
Jacob A. Ambler
1829 - 1906
Robert McKnight
1820 - 1885
William Stephen Walker
1822 - 1899
Andrew Stuart (Ohio)
1823 - 1872
John Henry Hopkins Jr.
1820 - 1891
Morrison Foster
1823 - 1904
Frederick Bausman
1825 - 1908
John Caven (American politician)
1824 - 1905
John Carson Febiger
1821 - 1898
Alexander McDonald Thomson
1822 - 1898
Benjamin F. B. Hunter
1821 - 1884
Ferdinand E. Volz
1823 - 1876
Henry Blake Hays
1829 - 1881