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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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Ron Paul
Born 1935
Rand Paul
Born 1963
Philander C. Knox
1853 - 1921
Tom Vilsack
Born 1950
Dick Thornburgh
Born 1932
John Heinz
1938 - 1991
Bob Filner
Born 1942
James Mitchell Ashley
1824 - 1896
David L. Lawrence
1889 - 1966
George W. Wickersham
1858 - 1936
Stewart McKinney (politician)
1931 - 1987
William Carroll (Tennessee politician)
1788 - 1844
E. W. Marland
1874 - 1941
David A. Reed
1880 - 1953
Betsy McCaughey
Born 1948
Isaac Murphy
1799 - 1882
William J. Coyne
1936 - 2013
Alfred E. Driscoll
1902 - 1975
George Shiras III
1859 - 1942
Catherine Baker Knoll
1930 - 2008
James S. Negley
1826 - 1901
Luke Ravenstahl
Born 1980
Samuel W. Black
1816 - 1862
Melissa Hart (politician)
Born 1962
Letitia Stevenson
1843 - 1913
Richardson Dilworth
1898 - 1974
Peter F. Flaherty
1924 - 2005
William W. Irwin
1803 - 1856
Charles Montague Bakewell
1867 - 1957
William S. Moorhead
1923 - 1987
Sophie Masloff
1917 - 2014
Albert McIntire
1853 - 1935
Elmer J. Holland
1894 - 1968
Herman P. Eberharter
1892 - 1958
Harmar Denny
1794 - 1852
John Buchanan Robinson
1846 - 1933
Lawrence G. Williams
1913 - 1975
Rhea Chiles
1930 - 2015
Robert McKnight
1820 - 1885
James McDevitt Magee
1877 - 1949
Thomas J. Murphy Jr.
Born 1944
James W. Brown
1844 - 1909
Edward Scull
1818 - 1900
Elliot S. N. Morgan
1832 - 1894
Andrew Stuart (Ohio)
1823 - 1872
Andrew Jackson Barchfeld
1863 - 1922
Jocelyn Benson
Born 1977
Bob Cranmer
Born 1956
Edmund Frederick Erk
1872 - 1953
Thomas E. Scanlon
1896 - 1955
Howard E. Campbell
1890 - 1971
Joseph M. Barr
1906 - 1982
Wooda Nicholas Carr
1871 - 1953
Charles Champlain Townsend
1841 - 1910
Mahlon Morris Garland
1856 - 1920
William Harrison Graham
1844 - 1923
Richard Caliguiri
1931 - 1988
Peter J. De Muth
1892 - 1993
Eugene DePasquale
Born 1971
Harry Allison Estep
1884 - 1968
Charles R. Eckert
1868 - 1959
Dom Costa
Born 1951
Greg Hughes
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John Dick (politician)
1794 - 1872
Jim Christiana
Born 1983
Jay Costa
Born 1957
Harmar D. Denny Jr.
1886 - 1966
Bill DeWeese
Born 1950
Patrick J. Sullivan (Pennsylvania)
1877 - 1946
Justin Fairfax
Born 1979
Walter Lyon (Pennsylvania)
1853 - 1933
Jane Orie
Born 1961
Jeff Habay
Born 1966
Sandra M. Pihos
Born 1946
Edgar Robb
Born 1937
Dan Frankel
Born 1956
Kevin Craig
Born 1968
John Herriott
1844 - 1918
Edward Gainey
Born 1970
Anthony M. DeLuca
Born 1937
Dan Deasy
Born 1966
Patti Anne Lodge
Born 1942
Joseph Markosek
Born 1950
George Dunbar (Pennsylvania)
Born 1960
Chelsa Wagner
Born 1977
Tan Parker
Born 1971
Wilkins F. Tannehill
1787 - 1858
Dick Hess
1938 - 2013
Cindy Frich
Born 1960
MaryLynn Magar
Born 1963
Patrick Rooney Jr.
Born 1964
Pam Patenaude
Born 1961
Jim Brewster
Born 1947
Christopher Magee (politician)
1848 - 1901
Adam Ravenstahl
Born 1984
Thomas F. Lamb
1922 - 2015
Matt Lundy
Born 1960
Erroll Davis
Born 1944
Al Lang
1870 - 1960
Garrett Richter
Born 1950
Wayne D. Fontana
Born 1950
William J. Diehl
1845 - 1929
Troy Andes
Born 1981
Frank Smizik
Born 1944
Tom Foerster
1928 - 2000
Byron Baer
1929 - 2007
Eugene Scanlon
1924 - 1994
Frank Gigliotti
1942 - 2011
Thomas Gallagher (mayor)
1883 - 1967
Robert Ravenstahl
1924 - 2015
Christopher McNally
Born 1960
Michael Dawida
Born 1949
William A. Magee
1873 - 1938
Joseph G. Armstrong
1867 - 1931
Chris Saxman
Born 1965
John Caven (American politician)
1824 - 1905
Jeremiah A. Brown
1841 - 1913
Brian Feldman (politician)
Born 1961
Frank Pecora
1930 - 2017
Ellwood J. Turner
1886 - 1948
Ralph Kaiser
Born 1950
Benoît Drèze
Born 1957
Thomas E. Flaherty
Born 1950
Roy Wilt
Born 1935
Edward McNally
1900 - 1968
Miriam Friedlander
1914 - 2009
Paul Costa (politician)
Born 1960
William Little (Pittsburgh mayor)
1809 - 1887
Thomas M. Nolan
1916 - 1989
David Mayernik
Born 1952
Daniel L. Anderson
Born 1968
Ben Davidson (politician)
1901 - 1991
Leonard Staisey
1920 - 1990
Summer Lee
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Randy Laverty
Born 1953
Terry Van Horne
1946 - 2012
Robert F. Burkardt
1923 - 2006
Michael P. Schaefer
1946 - 2013
William Russell Robinson
1942 - 2020
Elisabeth Bennington
Born 1976
Leonard Bodack
1932 - 2015
John F. Forward Jr.
1876 - 1938
Raymond Book
1925 - 2018
John F. Forward Sr.
1851 - 1926
Paul Ramsey (politician)
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Gerald Kaufman (Pennsylvania politician)
Born 1932
Robert Geisler
1925 - 1993
Michael Diven
Died 2020
Edward Early
Born 1935
Frank Pistella
Born 1951
Frank O'Brien
1918 - 2006
C. L. Schmitt
1912 - 1993
Michael M. Mullen
1918 - 1978
Robert F. Frazier
Born 1949
George Till
Born 1952
Thomas Tangretti
Born 1946
Steve Seventy
1927 - 1988
Stephen Grabowski
Born 1952
Thomas C. Petrone
1937 - 2014
James B. Kelly
Born 1941
David B. Mitchell (police officer)
Born 1950
Andrew Fenrich
1914 - 1992
Jay R. Wells
Born 1940
Kenneth Jadlowiec
Born 1951
John B. McCue
1921 - 2010
Donald Bair
1903 - 1973
Charles Caputo
1912 - 1986
Joseph Rhodes Jr.
1947 - 2013
Roger F. Duffy
1925 - 2007
Helen Gillette
1919 - 1991
H. Sheldon Parker
Born 1938
John B. Hunt
Born 1956
Leonard Sweeney
Born 1943
Richard Frankenburg
Born 1929
Paul W. Miller
1899 - 1976
Ronald Goebbel
Born 1936
Paul Lutty
1917 - 1988
Joseph Zord
1910 - 1994
George F. Pott Jr.
1943 - 2001
Ferdinand E. Volz
1823 - 1876
John T. Walsh (politician)
1898 - 1977
Ben Rubin (legislator)
1886 - 1942
Don Hahnfeldt
1944 - 2017
Robert Horgos
Born 1948
Charles Logue (politician)
1922 - 2000
James S. Lithgow
1812 - 1902
Howard Forman
Born 1946
John R. Jones (Wisconsin politician)
Born 1850
A. G. Bainbridge
1885 - 1936
Buck McGovern
1873 - 1962
Kathy Parker
Born 1943
Neal Cheetham
1845 - 1917
William H. Poole (politician)
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