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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- Filtered to 1890s Clear ×
Martha Graham
1894 - 1991
Adolphe Menjou
1890 - 1963
Kenneth Burke
1897 - 1993
Regis Toomey
1898 - 1991
Philip Showalter Hench
1896 - 1965
Irving Pichel
1891 - 1954
Lois Wilson (actress)
1894 - 1988
Lewis H. Brereton
1890 - 1967
Harry Greb
1894 - 1926
George R. Stewart
1895 - 1980
Mary MacLaren
1896 - 1985
Harry Joe Brown
1890 - 1972
William C. McGann
1893 - 1977
Giuseppe Enrici
1898 - 1968
Harold St. John
1892 - 1991
Faustin E. Wirkus
1897 - 1948
Barry Dierks
1899 - 1960
William Hamilton (film editor)
1893 - 1942
Mark-Lee Kirk
1895 - 1969
Richardson Dilworth
1898 - 1974
Earl Carroll
1893 - 1948
Chuck Garland
1898 - 1971
Myron Selznick
1898 - 1944
Vivian Reed (silent film actress)
1894 - 1989
Kenneth Thomson (actor)
1899 - 1967
Elmer J. Holland
1894 - 1968
Ralf Harolde
1899 - 1974
Herman P. Eberharter
1892 - 1958
Edward Pearson Warner
1894 - 1958
Jerome Hannan
1896 - 1965
Haldane Douglas
1892 - 1980
Helen Shipman
1899 - 1984
Bill Doak
1891 - 1954
George Otto Gey
1899 - 1970
Edith S. Sampson
1898 - 1979
William Thaw II
1893 - 1934
Thomas E. Scanlon
1896 - 1955
Howard E. Campbell
1890 - 1971
Peter J. De Muth
1892 - 1993
Tom Davies (American football)
1896 - 1972
John Mohardt
1898 - 1961
Margaret Irving
1898 - 1988
Jimmy Smith (baseball)
1895 - 1974
Herb McCracken
1899 - 1995
Hazel Neason
1891 - 1920
John Stewart Bragdon
1893 - 1964
John Raphael Hagan
1890 - 1946
Charles F. Wagner
1895 - 1970
Johnny Miljus
1895 - 1976
Mose Kelsch
1897 - 1935
Molly Luce
1896 - 1986
Ollie Carnegie
1899 - 1976
Jack Gwynne
1895 - 1969
Al Mamaux
1894 - 1963
Tony Chebatoris
1898 - 1938
Lou Lubin
1895 - 1973
Bill Bayne
1899 - 1981
Lute Boone
1890 - 1982
Joe Schultz (outfielder)
1893 - 1941
Nate Dunn
1896 - 1983
Gene Steinbrenner
1892 - 1970
Talitha Gerlach
1896 - 1995
Jim Shaw (baseball)
1893 - 1962
Frank Glick
1893 - 1979
Albert Wittmer
1897 - 1950
Frank Madden
1892 - 1952
Bill Regan (baseball)
1899 - 1968
Stanley Rinehart Jr.
1897 - 1969
George Harris (attore 1892)
1892 - 1954
Jack McCandless
1891 - 1961
Skip Wymard
1890 - 1970
Davidson Herron
1897 - 1956
Orville Hewitt
1898 - 1955
Edith Lindeman
1898 - 1984
Wally Reinecker
1890 - 1957
Cy Rheam
1893 - 1947
Ray Kennedy (baseball)
1895 - 1969
Buck Sweeney
1890 - 1955
Paul W. Miller
1899 - 1976
John Gallagher (baseball)
1892 - 1952
John T. Walsh (politician)
1898 - 1977
Leonard Hilty
1896 - 1978
John Joseph O'Connell
1894 - 1949
Norman Frauenheim
1897 - 1989
Carl Hensler
1898 - 1984
Gene Layden
1894 - 1984