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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Ron Paul
Born 1935
F. Murray Abraham
Born 1939
Scott Glenn
Born 1939
Frank Gorshin
1933 - 2005
Charles Grodin
Born 1935
Johnny Unitas
1933 - 2002
David McCullough
Born 1933
James Irwin
1930 - 1991
Ahmad Jamal
Born 1930
Paul Chambers
1935 - 1969
Zelda Rubinstein
1933 - 2010
Ted Cassidy
1932 - 1979
Tom Atkins (actor)
Born 1935
Tom Regan
1938 - 2017
Stanley Turrentine
1934 - 2000
R. C. Sproul
1939 - 2017
Dick Thornburgh
Born 1932
Joseph Wambaugh
Born 1937
Maurice Stokes
1933 - 1970
Ronald Shusett
Born 1939
Martha Grimes
Born 1931
Horace Parlan
1931 - 2017
John Heinz
1938 - 1991
Bunny Yeager
1930 - 2014
Nancy Friday
1933 - 2017
Joe Pytka
Born 1938
Adrian Cronauer
1938 - 2018
Joe E. Tata
Born 1936
Gerome Ragni
1935 - 1991
Dakota Staton
1930 - 2007
Dan Rooney
1932 - 2017
Richard Mellon Scaife
1932 - 2014
Robert F. Marx
1933 - 2019
Stewart McKinney (politician)
1931 - 1987
Calvert Watkins
1933 - 2013
Bob Babbitt
1937 - 2012
Deirdre Bair
1935 - 2020
Jack Shaheen
1935 - 2017
Ben Patterson
1934 - 2016
Grady Stiles
1937 - 1992
Al Aarons
1932 - 2015
Richard Isay
1934 - 2012
Miguel Condé
Born 1939
Eugene Landy
1934 - 2006
Paul Cameron
Born 1939
Nick Herbert (physicist)
Born 1936
Alex Shigo
1930 - 2006
David Izenzon
1932 - 1979
Robyn Dawes
1936 - 2010
Bert W. O'Malley
Born 1936
John Frame (theologian)
Born 1939
Mitzi McCall
Born 1932
Brian Skyrms
Born 1938
William J. Coyne
1936 - 2013
Tommy Hunt
Born 1933
Philip Heymann
Born 1932
Joe Schmidt (American football)
Born 1932
Milton Katselas
1933 - 2008
Jimmy McLane
Born 1930
Adrienne Kennedy
Born 1931
James D. Meindl
1933 - 2020
Robert W. Lucky
Born 1936
Catherine Baker Knoll
1930 - 2008
Don Brockett
1930 - 1995
Avi Sagild
1933 - 1995
Adam Wade (singer)
Born 1935
Bill Cole (musician)
Born 1937
Burt Brinckerhoff
Born 1936
James S. Langer
Born 1934
Beaver Harris
1936 - 1991
Phillip R. Allen
1939 - 2012
Yvonne Jacquette
Born 1934
Joseph V. Perry
1931 - 2000
Ron Rich
Born 1938
John Heard (musician)
Born 1938
George Patterson (basketball)
1939 - 2003
William Motzing
1937 - 2014
Kaye Stevens
1932 - 2011
John Isaiah Brauman
Born 1937
J. C. Moses
1936 - 1977
Jack Dodson
1931 - 1994
Olive Moorefield
Born 1932
Marian McCargo
1932 - 2004
Ed Fleming
1933 - 2002
Benjamin Tatar
1930 - 2012
Derrick Bell
1930 - 2011
David Stock
1939 - 2015
Arden L. Bement Jr.
Born 1932
Rhea Chiles
1930 - 2015
Mack McCormick
1930 - 2015
James Sinegal
Born 1936
Fred Gamble (racing driver)
Born 1932
Pamela Gordon (actress)
1937 - 2003
William J. Winter
Born 1930
Raymond Saunders (artist)
Born 1934
Jonathan Yardley
Born 1939
William S. Dietrich II
1938 - 2011
Jill Freedman
1939 - 2019
Marian Wenzel
1932 - 2002
Marion Meade
Born 1934
Russ Kemmerer
1931 - 2014
Dick Nolan (American football)
1932 - 2007
Arnie Sowell
Born 1935
Josie Carey
1930 - 2004
Robert L. Shook
Born 1938
Ron Friedman (producer)
Born 1932
Richard Caliguiri
1931 - 1988
Steve Sandor
1937 - 2017
Tom Matte
Born 1939
Fran Curci
Born 1938
William Lloyd Standish
1930 - 2015
Thomas Delahanty
Born 1934
Theodore Friend
1931 - 2020
Margaret Dauler Wilson
1939 - 1998
James C. Cacheris
Born 1933
Clair George
1930 - 2011
Constantine of Irinoupolis
1936 - 2012
Herbert Kleber
1934 - 2018
Leonard Baker
1931 - 1984
Norman Charles Miller
Born 1934
Martha L. Ludwig
1931 - 2006
Al Cleveland
1930 - 1996
Ed Roberson
Born 1939
Kathleen Case
1933 - 1979
Edgar Robb
Born 1937
Fred Grossinger
1936 - 1995
Eileen Rodgers
1930 - 2003
Lynn R. Sykes
Born 1937
Bennett S. LeBow
Born 1937
Alan Neil Bloch
Born 1932
Anthony M. DeLuca
Born 1937
Robert Colville
1935 - 2018
Bob Sadowski (pitcher)
1938 - 2018
Ramon Zupko
Born 1932
Walter Herbert Rice
Born 1937
Ronald A. Malt
1931 - 2002
Ed Rakow
1935 - 2000
Frank Cunimondo
Born 1934
Tony Bartirome
1932 - 2018
Ed Vereb
1934 - 2014
Ed Sadowski
1931 - 1993
Albert Wiggins
1935 - 2011
Dick Hess
1938 - 2013
Ted Sadowski
1936 - 1993
Bob Priddy
Born 1939
Mary Dodson
1932 - 2016
Marguerite Pearson
1932 - 2005
Jack Johnson (defensive back)
1933 - 2015
Pinky Bass
Born 1936
Gary Greaves
Born 1935
Donald Emil Ziegler
1936 - 2019
Dick McCabe (American football)
1933 - 1983
Emil Karas
1933 - 1974
George Susce (pitcher)
1931 - 2010
David Dank
1938 - 2015
Charley Scales
Born 1938
Allan Mitchell
1933 - 2016
Jimmy Smith (basketball, born 1934)
1934 - 2002
Johnny De Fazio
Born 1930
Robert L. Barry
Born 1934
Bobby Del Greco
1933 - 2019
Bob Scrabis
Born 1936
Jay Nunamaker
Born 1937
Dan Armstrong
1934 - 2004
Jim Sadowski
Born 1936
Bill Cormann Giessen
1932 - 2010
Harry Jagielski
1931 - 1993
Ron Marciniak
1932 - 2020
Art Gob
1937 - 2017
Frank Pecora
1930 - 2017
J. Robert Dorfman
Born 1937
Alex Cooper
Born 1936
Ron Hatcher
Born 1939
Roy Wilt
Born 1935
John P. Flaherty Jr.
1931 - 2019
Vic Zucco
Born 1935
Edward J. Lewis
1937 - 2006
Ed Fullerton
1931 - 2015
Joe Moore (American football coach)
1932 - 2003
George Rosso
1930 - 1994
Peter Jubeck
1936 - 2003
Dante "Tex" Gill
1930 - 2003
Leonard Bodack
1932 - 2015
Betty Jane Cornett
1932 - 2006
Rosetta Burke
Born 1937
Donald Aubrecht
1930 - 2012
Gerald Kaufman (Pennsylvania politician)
Born 1932
Allen Secher
Born 1935
Roy Pike
Born 1938
Edward Early
Born 1935
Ding Schoonmaker
Born 1930
Don Schaefer
Born 1934
Ron Anthony
Born 1933
Thomas C. Petrone
1937 - 2014
James Hartzell
1931 - 2010
Fred Glatz
Born 1933
George Deiderich
1936 - 1999
John Cenci
Born 1934
H. Sheldon Parker
Born 1938
Rochelle Blumenfeld
Born 1936
Ronald Goebbel
Born 1936
Howard Weyers
1934 - 2018
Bob Mazie
1938 - 2017
Don Scharfetter
1934 - 2000
Tad Potter
1933 - 2013
Andrew Sorenson
1938 - 2011
Charles Porter (mafioso)
Born 1933
Ralph Bouch
1932 - 2016
Edward C. Chalfant
Born 1937
Ken Hudson
1939 - 2012
Andrew Sorensen
1938 - 2011