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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 1910s Clear ×
Gene Kelly
1912 - 1996
Art Blakey
1919 - 1990
Albert Ellis
1913 - 2007
William Alfred Fowler
1911 - 1995
Kenny Clarke
1914 - 1985
Billy Eckstine
1914 - 1993
Roy Eldridge
1911 - 1989
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
1919 - 1995
John Hodiak
1914 - 1955
Clifford Shull
1915 - 2001
Billy May
1916 - 2004
Earl Wild
1915 - 2010
Billy Conn
1917 - 1993
William Baziotes
1912 - 1963
Marc Daniels
1912 - 1989
William Tracy
1917 - 1967
Eddie Jefferson
1918 - 1979
Harold F. Kress
1913 - 1999
Fritzie Zivic
1913 - 1984
Barry Galbraith
1919 - 1983
Charley Burley
1917 - 1992
James Laughlin
1914 - 1997
Gus Lesnevich
1915 - 1964
Sidney W. Pink
1916 - 2002
Robert Gordon (director)
1913 - 1990
Jackie Ormes
1911 - 1985
Norman Farberow
1918 - 2015
Babe Russin
1911 - 1984
Eddie Safranski
1918 - 1974
Hank Sauer
1917 - 2001
Teddy Yarosz
1910 - 1974
Robert Osterloh
1918 - 2001
Phillips Talbot
1915 - 2010
Herbert Gentry
1919 - 2003
Elliott Waters Montroll
1916 - 1983
James Grier Miller
1916 - 2002
Florence Parry Heide
1919 - 2011
Louis R. Lowery
1916 - 1987
Bernard Fisher (scientist)
1918 - 2019
Sophie Masloff
1917 - 2014
Norman Horowitz
1915 - 2005
Robert Galbraith Heath
1915 - 1999
William Larimer Mellon Jr.
1910 - 1989
Henry Mazer
1918 - 2002
Fred Ramsey
1915 - 1995
Lawrence G. Williams
1913 - 1975
Ed Melvin
1916 - 2004
Joseph Yablonski
1910 - 1969
Joseph Michael Schmondiuk
1912 - 1978
Edgar Kaufmann Jr.
1910 - 1989
Lem Billings
1916 - 1981
Ed Ulinski
1919 - 2006
Tom Ebert
1919 - 2013
Joe Fabel
1913 - 1967
George Heard Hamilton
1910 - 2004
Dudey Moore
1910 - 1984
Ollie O'Toole
1912 - 1992
Avraham Goldberg
1913 - 2012
Joan Whitney Kramer
1914 - 1990
Ellen Faull
1918 - 2008
Thomas Mellon Evans
1910 - 1997
William G. Connare
1911 - 1995
Henry Hillman
1918 - 2017
LeRoy Holmes
1913 - 1986
Richard Foster (architect)
1919 - 2002
Sue Fuller
1914 - 2006
Keith Richards (attore)
1915 - 1987
Vera Duss
1910 - 2005
Preston Schoyer
1912 - 1978
Irwin Shapiro (writer)
1911 - 1981
James Newill
1911 - 1975
Porky Chedwick
1918 - 2014
Michael James Genovese
1919 - 2006
Bill Jesko
1915 - 1961
Jim Daniell
1918 - 1983
Robert Saudek (television executive)
1911 - 1997
Frank Valenti
1911 - 2008
Don Smith (basketball, born 1910)
1910 - 1994
Coleman Jacoby
1915 - 2010
Hugh H. Smythe
1913 - 1977
Charles E. Sheedy
1912 - 1990
Warren Heller
1910 - 2004
Ave Daniell
1914 - 1999
Ferdinand Thomas Unger
1914 - 1999
Ed Klewicki
1912 - 1997
Ted Rigg
1913 - 2002
Eddie Miller (infielder)
1916 - 1997
Ed Kweller
1915 - 2003
Sid Levine
1918 - 1999
Darthea Speyer
1919 - 2014
Ted Schmitt
1916 - 2001
Ed Sauer
1919 - 1988
Marty Reiter
1911 - 1986
Irv Brenner
1913 - 1991
Ernie Fortney
1915 - 1987
Freddie Crum
1912 - 1987
Tony Grosso
1913 - 1994
Gene Forrell
1915 - 2005
Jigee Viertel
1915 - 1960
John Mecklin
1918 - 1971
Vic Cianca
1918 - 2010
Conrad M. Arensberg
1910 - 1997
Lenny Levy
1913 - 1993
Ellis Marcus
1918 - 1990
George Vujnovich
1915 - 2012
Edward Glannon
1911 - 1992
Bill Davidson (American football, born 1915)
1915 - 1970
Gene Benson
1913 - 1999
Miriam Friedlander
1914 - 2009
Allison Brooks
1917 - 2006
Allen Nichols
1916 - 1981
Thomas M. Nolan
1916 - 1989
Tony Bova
1917 - 1973
Milton Levine
1913 - 2011
Henry J. McAnulty
1915 - 1995
Jack Buncher
1911 - 2001
Hubert Irving Teitelbaum
1915 - 1995
Richard R. Werry
1916 - 1987
Frank O'Brien
1918 - 2006
C. L. Schmitt
1912 - 1993
Michael M. Mullen
1918 - 1978
Felix Giobbe
1914 - 1985
Robert Uhlmann
1919 - 1941
Andrew Fenrich
1914 - 1992
Howie Gorman
1913 - 1984
Charles Caputo
1912 - 1986
Helen Gillette
1919 - 1991
Paul Lutty
1917 - 1988
Joseph Zord
1910 - 1994
Paul Widowitz
1917 - 2007
Arthur V. Ely
1912 - 1942
Robert W. Krepps
1919 - 1980
Rust Heinz
1914 - 1939
Roberta Gale
1914 - 2008
Emanuele Laustino
1916 - 1988
Gene Rosenthal
1914 - 2006
Edward Spotovich
1916 - 2002
Joseph Young (artist)
1919 - 2007
Tim Lawry
1911 - 1999
Arthur Deremer
1917 - 2001
Al Schrecker
1917 - 2000
Viola Mitchell
1911 - 2002