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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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Andy Warhol
1928 - 1987
Ray Brown (musician)
1926 - 2002
Erroll Garner
1923 - 1977
Robert Bork
1927 - 2012
Herschell Gordon Lewis
1929 - 2016
Fritz Weaver
1926 - 2016
Rita Gam
1927 - 2016
Alan Perlis
1922 - 1990
Saul Leiter
1923 - 2013
Jerry Fielding
1922 - 1980
Dodo Marmarosa
1925 - 2002
Jack Twyman
1929 - 2012
Jonathan Haze
Born 1929
Chuck Cooper (basketball)
1926 - 1984
Lou Scheimer
1928 - 2013
Sammy Nestico
Born 1924
Carl Betz
1921 - 1978
Bill Cullen
1920 - 1990
Philip Pearlstein
Born 1924
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Bob Cooper (musician)
1925 - 1993
Peter Matz
1928 - 2002
Samuel Charters
1929 - 2015
William Rankin
1920 - 2009
Gerald Stern
Born 1925
George C. Nichopoulos
1927 - 2016
James M. Beggs
1926 - 2020
Dena Dietrich
1928 - 2020
Bernard Cohen (physicist)
1924 - 2012
Marty Allen
1922 - 2018
Tommy Turrentine
1928 - 1997
Jack Butler (American football)
1927 - 2013
Nan Merriman
1920 - 2012
Mary Amdur
1921 - 1998
Regis Cordic
1926 - 1999
David Slepian
1923 - 2007
Herb Douglas
Born 1922
Gene Lyons (actor)
1921 - 1974
Charles E. Kelly (soldier)
1920 - 1985
Burt Glinn
1925 - 2008
Myron Cope
1929 - 2008
Robert Craddock
1923 - 2003
Jeanne Coyne
1923 - 1973
Jack Gilbert
1925 - 2012
Leonard Lerman
1925 - 2012
Peter F. Flaherty
1924 - 2005
Joe Kennedy Jr.
1923 - 2004
William Demby
1922 - 2013
Stan Noszka
1920 - 1991
Ray Crawford
1924 - 1997
John M. Greene
1928 - 2007
Tobin Wolf
1922 - 1999
William S. Moorhead
1923 - 1987
Walter Curley
1922 - 2016
Joe Negri
Born 1926
Ruth White (composer)
1925 - 2013
Wyatt Ruther
1923 - 1999
John Warhola
1925 - 2010
Noble Jorgensen
1925 - 1982
Norbert Felix Gaughan
1921 - 1999
Thomas M. King
1929 - 2009
Lester Goran
1928 - 2014
Ted Stepien
1925 - 2007
Jack Dugger
1923 - 1988
Eugene Peyton Deatrick
Born 1924
William J. Byron
Born 1927
Jack Mullaney
1929 - 1982
Plato Cacheris
1929 - 2019
John Greene (American football)
1920 - 2010
Darrell Zwerling
1928 - 2014
Morris Zelditch
1928 - 2017
Herb Trawick
1921 - 1985
Paul Smith (American actor, born 1929)
Born 1929
Fred Paine
1925 - 2004
Samuel John Hazo
Born 1928
Joe Harris (Schlagzeuger)
1926 - 2016
Frank Thomas (outfielder)
Born 1929
Alfred Atherton
1921 - 2002
Peter Angelos
Born 1929
Gerald Bard Tjoflat
Born 1929
Elliot Griffin Thomas
1926 - 2019
Jack Kinzler
1920 - 2014
Robert Mosley
1927 - 2002
Ed Hugus
1923 - 2006
Jim Fitzgerald (racing driver)
1921 - 1987
Harry Rigby (producer)
1925 - 1985
Baptiste Manzini
1920 - 2008
James Lindenberg
1921 - 2009
Walter J. Will
1922 - 1945
Bob Purkey
1929 - 2008
Frank L. Stulen
1921 - 2010
John F. Laboon
1921 - 1988
Robert Blum (fencer)
Born 1928
Donald Baird (Paläontologe)
1926 - 2011
Robert W. Bazley
1925 - 2012
Charley Zivic
1925 - 1984
Walt Harper
1926 - 2006
Thomas F. Lamb
1922 - 2015
Benjamin Saltman
1927 - 1999
John E. Connelly
1926 - 2009
Leo Elter
1929 - 2008
Donald J. Lee
1927 - 2011
William R. Moore (American football)
1922 - 2011
Jack E. Foley
1922 - 2009
Tom Foerster
1928 - 2000
Byron Baer
1929 - 2007
Robert V. Whitman
1928 - 2012
Eugene Scanlon
1924 - 1994
Burt Todd
1924 - 2006
Robert Ravenstahl
1924 - 2015
Maurice Blanchard Cohill Jr.
Born 1929
Eugene Coon
1929 - 1998
Dick Linder
1923 - 1959
Yitzchok Scheiner
Born 1922
William G. Hundley
1925 - 2006
Marianne Wolfe
1926 - 2006
John Hock
1928 - 2000
Joseph Kearney
1927 - 2010
Mac Martin
Born 1925
Anthony Schuyler Arrott
Born 1928
Bill Robinson (American football)
1929 - 2016
Leonard Staisey
1920 - 1990
Robert F. Burkardt
1923 - 2006
Tom Jelley
Born 1926
John Paul Elford
1922 - 1991
Carlett Brown Angianlee
Born 1927
Rosalie Abrams
1921 - 2010
Joe Matesic
Born 1929
Raymond Book
1925 - 2018
Edward L. Fireman
1922 - 1990
Jeff Banks (musician)
1927 - 1997
William Ward (police officer)
1921 - 2006
John G. Good
1926 - 2003
Barbara W. Newell
Born 1929
Robert Geisler
1925 - 1993
Daryl Campbell
1924 - 2011
Jacob W. Gruber
1921 - 2019
Joseph F. Weis Jr.
1923 - 2014
Andy DePaul
1928 - 2014
Stanley Gumberg
1927 - 2009
Steve Seventy
1927 - 1988
Tom Brown (end)
1921 - 2013
John B. McCue
1921 - 2010
Jack Itzel
1924 - 1966
Roger F. Duffy
1925 - 2007
David Wilstein
1928 - 2017
Buck Page
1922 - 2006
Bill Pritula
1922 - 2006
Richard Frankenburg
Born 1929
Stan Fine
1924 - 2009
Little Caesar (singer)
1928 - 1994
Richard Bodycombe
1922 - 2019
Charles Logue (politician)
1922 - 2000
Donald Davies (bishop)
1920 - 2011
Steve Knowlton
1922 - 1998
C. Lindsay Workman
1924 - 2012
David Leighton
1922 - 2013
Charles H. Guy
1924 - 2010
Russell Mullen
1924 - 2019
Simeon Adlow Friedberg
1925 - 2005
Robert Bennett (tennis)
1923 - 1995
Delsey McKay
1924 - 2004
Bill Bossio
Born 1928