40.4418° N, 80.0008° W
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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Mary Colter
1869 - 1958
James Ewing (pathologist)
1866 - 1943
Chevalier Jackson
1865 - 1958
John Adolph Shafer
1863 - 1918
Charles Montague Bakewell
1867 - 1957
Mark Baldwin (baseball)
1863 - 1929
Thomas Shields Clarke
1860 - 1920
William Henry Singer
1868 - 1943
William O'Connor (fencer)
1864 - 1939
James Homer Wright
1869 - 1928
Bobby Lowe
1865 - 1951
Alexander Pollock Moore
1867 - 1930
Andrew Jackson Barchfeld
1863 - 1922
Charles R. Eckert
1868 - 1959
Dominick McCaffrey
1863 - 1926
Bobby Cargo
1868 - 1904
William Larimer Mellon Sr.
1868 - 1949
Thomas Lyttleton Lyon
1869 - 1938
Bill Hallman (second baseman)
1867 - 1920
Germany Smith
1863 - 1927
William B. Dickson
1865 - 1942
Fred Hartman
1868 - 1938
Charles Lewis Slattery
1867 - 1930
Ed Householder
1869 - 1924
Mike Smith (1890s outfielder)
1868 - 1945
Robert Blume
1868 - 1937
Sam Gillen
1867 - 1905
Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson
1864 - 1901
Ad Gumbert
1868 - 1925
Joseph G. Armstrong
1867 - 1931
James W. Maney
1862 - 1945
Tun Berger
1867 - 1907
Ed Hutchinson
1867 - 1934
Billy Gumbert
1865 - 1946
Jim Gray (baseball)
1862 - 1938
Sylvester H. Scovel
1869 - 1905
Grant Briggs
1865 - 1928
Chuck Lauer
1865 - 1915
Billy Otterson
1862 - 1940
Charley Aull
1869 - 1958
Pete McShannic
1864 - 1946
William N. McKelvy Sr.
1869 - 1933
Pauline Hanauer Rosenberg
1865 - 1940
Bird Stein Gans
1868 - 1944