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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Betty Jane Cornett
1932 - 2006
Rosetta Burke
Born 1937
Raymond Book
1925 - 2018
Alexander Murray (1816–1884)
1816 - 1884
Matt Limegrover
Born 1968
Milan Vooletich
1941 - 2006
Greg McGhee
Born 1992
Stanley Robison
1854 - 1911
Jenette Maitz
Born 1987
Jack Buncher
1911 - 2001
Joseph G. Brimmeier
Born 1948
Dennis Snee
Died 2019
John F. Forward Sr.
1851 - 1926
Jack McCandless
1891 - 1961
Jake Seymour
1854 - 1917
William Zay
-
Robert D. Kennedy
-
Skip Wymard
1890 - 1970
Kathy Gruver
Born 1970
Edward L. Fireman
1922 - 1990
Benjamin F. B. Hunter
1821 - 1884
Jeff Banks (musician)
1927 - 1997
Zack Furness
Born 1977
Ashley Vesci
Born 1993
Rip Collins (catcher)
1909 - 1969
Bill Zito
Born 1964
Tom Squitieri
Born 1953
Fay Morgan Taylor
1909 - 1990
I. P. Fetterman
1887 - 1924
Chris George (right-handed pitcher)
Born 1966
Margaret Copley Thaw
1877 - 1942
Theodore Schaffer
Born 1856
Hugh Knox
1883 - 1936
William Ward (police officer)
1921 - 2006
Philip A. Miscimarra
Born 1956
Larry Lemak
Born 1943
Kirk Talley (American football)
Born 1959
Donald Aubrecht
1930 - 2012
Hubert Irving Teitelbaum
1915 - 1995
George Reihner
Born 1955
Fred Lind Alles
1851 - 1945
John G. Good
1926 - 2003
Paul Ramsey (politician)
-
Barbara W. Newell
Born 1929
Don Silvestri
Born 1968
Richard R. Werry
1916 - 1987
Dietrich Stephan
Born 1969
Gerald Kaufman (Pennsylvania politician)
Born 1932
Joe Bartnick
-
John Fife
-
Grant Briggs
1865 - 1928
Ellis Amdur
Born 1952
James Simon (sculptor)
-
Robert Geisler
1925 - 1993
Allen Secher
Born 1935
Bernard McGinley
Born 1946
Roy Pike
Born 1938
LaRoi Johnson
Born 1985
Chuck Lauer
1865 - 1915
Lisa Pegher
Born 1980
Michael Diven
Died 2020
Edward W. Rodzwicz
Born 1946
James Scott Young
1848 - 1914
Jennifer Davidson (executive)
1969 - 2007
Miles Sanders
Born 1997
Daryl Campbell
1924 - 2011
Edward Early
Born 1935
William Fisher (media executive)
Born 1960
Ding Schoonmaker
Born 1930
Simon Ball
Born 1976
Frank Pistella
Born 1951
Patrick Joseph
-
Bill Fulton (baseball)
Born 1963
Louis Gedeon
1877 - 1950
Jacob W. Gruber
1921 - 2019
Joseph F. Weis Jr.
1923 - 2014
Kyle Goldcamp
Born 1986
Andy DePaul
1928 - 2014
Stanley Gumberg
1927 - 2009
Davidson Herron
1897 - 1956
Dan McCoy (sledge hockey)
Born 1994
Frank O'Brien
1918 - 2006
John Lickert
Born 1960
C. L. Schmitt
1912 - 1993
Elliott Warren Rice
1835 - 1887
Don Schaefer
Born 1934
Mike Seate
Born 1965
Ron Anthony
Born 1933
Michael M. Mullen
1918 - 1978
Robert F. Frazier
Born 1949
G. Michael Deeb
Born 1949
Orville Hewitt
1898 - 1955
George Till
Born 1952
Jack Cummings (baseball)
1904 - 1962
Thomas Tangretti
Born 1946
Nathan Schulhof
Born 1949
Guy Conti
Born 1942
Steve Seventy
1927 - 1988
Emily Correal
Born 1990
Stephen Grabowski
Born 1952
Felix Giobbe
1914 - 1985
Bob Shiring
1870 - 1957
Tom Brown (end)
1921 - 2013
Thomas C. Petrone
1937 - 2014
Chester L. Washington
1902 - 1983
James B. Kelly
Born 1941
John G. McCaskey
1874 - 1924
Marshall Lagerquist
1907 - 1977
Tirrell Greene
Born 1972
Billy Otterson
1862 - 1940
David B. Mitchell (police officer)
Born 1950
Robert Uhlmann
1919 - 1941
William J. Whalen III
1940 - 2006
Andrew Fenrich
1914 - 1992
Marco Rullo
Born 1976
Jay R. Wells
Born 1940
Cathy Hamblin
Born 1953
Earl Schuyler Kleinhans
1905 - 1996
Jamie Luchini
Born 1994
Edith Lindeman
1898 - 1984
Kenneth Jadlowiec
Born 1951
Simon B. Gray
-
John B. McCue
1921 - 2010
Jack Itzel
1924 - 1966
James Falk
Born 1954
Howie Gorman
1913 - 1984
James Callahan (ice hockey)
-
Gary Butler
Born 1984
Richard Rompala
Born 1947
Donald Bair
1903 - 1973
Kevin Popović
Born 1964
Ross Wilkins
1799 - 1872
David Thornburgh
Born 1958
Gary Dunn (American football coach)
Born 1970
Edward P. Evans
1942 - 2010
Wally Reinecker
1890 - 1957
Anthony Virgara
Born 1991
Alan Bovard
1906 - 1983
Charles Caputo
1912 - 1986
Catherine Menges
Born 1952
William Kerr (baseball)
-
Samuel S. Brown
1842 - 1905
Anne Pride
1942 - 1990
Joseph Rhodes Jr.
1947 - 2013
Roger F. Duffy
1925 - 2007
Cy Rheam
1893 - 1947
James Hartzell
1931 - 2010
Brad Jones (basketball)
Born 1960
Fred Glatz
Born 1933
Elayne Arrington
-
Helen Gillette
1919 - 1991
Meredith Davis
Born 1948
George Deiderich
1936 - 1999
David Wilstein
1928 - 2017
John Cenci
Born 1934
Steve Klaus
1904 - 1992
H. Sheldon Parker
Born 1938
Ronald Caplan
Born 1945
John B. Hunt
Born 1956
Ray Kennedy (baseball)
1895 - 1969
Buck Sweeney
1890 - 1955
Leonard Sweeney
Born 1943
Buck Page
1922 - 2006
Bill Lang (rower)
Born 1956
Bill Pritula
1922 - 2006
Charles Nelson (writer)
Born 1942
Richard Frankenburg
Born 1929
Stan Fine
1924 - 2009
Rochelle Blumenfeld
Born 1936
Paul W. Miller
1899 - 1976
John A. Hall (American football)
1877 - 1919
Ronald Goebbel
Born 1936
Dave Geyer
Born 1977
Richard Burgunder
Born 1979
John Moorehead
-
John McCurdy (baseball)
Born 1981
Paul Lutty
1917 - 1988
Vincent P. Drnevich
-
Gary DePalma
Born 1976
Charley Aull
1869 - 1958
Orville Siegfried
1903 - 1965
Kurt Weaver
Born 1979
Elijah Fields
Born 1988
Little Caesar (singer)
1928 - 1994
John Gallagher (baseball)
1892 - 1952
Alexander Nevin
1850 - 1921
Joseph Zord
1910 - 1994
George F. Pott Jr.
1943 - 2001
Ferdinand E. Volz
1823 - 1876
Richard Bodycombe
1922 - 2019
Stan Robb
1901 - 1959
John T. Walsh (politician)
1898 - 1977
James Milholland
1887 - 1956
Ben Rubin (legislator)
1886 - 1942
William Tornabene
Born 1942
Leonard Hilty
1896 - 1978
Pete McShannic
1864 - 1946
Miriamm Wright
Born 1971
Scott Earl Holman
Born 1954
Kelly Starling Lyons
Born 1963
Don Hahnfeldt
1944 - 2017
Louise Pershing
1904 - 1986
Paul Widowitz
1917 - 2007
Robert Horgos
Born 1948
Arthur V. Ely
1912 - 1942
Charles Logue (politician)
1922 - 2000
Samuel Casey Carter
-
Charles Mertz Arbuthnot
1852 - 1920
Laura Jean McLaughlin
Born 1965
Richard Kneedler
Born 1943
Rick Miaskiewicz
Born 1953
Bob Veselic
1955 - 1995
Stella Mayhew
1874 - 1934
John Joseph O'Connell
1894 - 1949
Donald Davies (bishop)
1920 - 2011
Archibald H. Rowand, Jr.
1845 - 1913
Robert W. Krepps
1919 - 1980
T. Michael Kerr
Born 1962
James Y. McKee
1836 - 1891
James S. Lithgow
1812 - 1902
Howard Weyers
1934 - 2018
Norman Frauenheim
1897 - 1989
Nolan Cressler
Born 1994
John Lester Miller
1901 - 1978
Anna Monardo
Born 1956
Bob Mazie
1938 - 2017
Don Scharfetter
1934 - 2000
Carl Hensler
1898 - 1984
Paul Skoutelas
-
Clare Pfeifer Garrett
1882 - 1946
Robert Sands (artist)
Born 1943
Tad Potter
1933 - 2013
Timothy F. Ritchey
Born 1951
Henry Wade-Chatman
Born 1992
Ken Long
Born 1953
Frank Shaffer
1859 - 1939
Howard Forman
Born 1946
Steve Knowlton
1922 - 1998
Frank Bucci
Born 1956
Madeleine Yayodele Nelson
1948 - 2018
John R. Jones (Wisconsin politician)
Born 1850
Nathan Salsi
Born 1981
A. G. Bainbridge
1885 - 1936
Rust Heinz
1914 - 1939
Harry McChesney
1880 - 1960
Roberta Gale
1914 - 2008
William Rose (affichiste)
Born 1909
Jimmy Jackson (Musiker)
-
William J. Duff
1856 - 1922
Jack Calhoun
1879 - 1947
Emanuele Laustino
1916 - 1988
Ryan Leven
Born 1977
Gene Rosenthal
1914 - 2006
Kim Donovan
-
Buck McGovern
1873 - 1962
C. Lindsay Workman
1924 - 2012
Mary A. Miller
-
Austin Leander Staley
1902 - 1978
Charlene R. Nunley
Born 1950
Milton Matthews
Died 1896
David Leighton
1922 - 2013
Andrew Sorenson
1938 - 2011
David Egan (soccer)
-
Henry Blake Hays
1829 - 1881
Laurie Trok
-
William N. McKelvy Sr.
1869 - 1933
Syl Apps (1976)
Born 1976
Pauline Hanauer Rosenberg
1865 - 1940
Edward Spotovich
1916 - 2002
William Alvah Stewart
1903 - 1953
Charles Porter (mafioso)
Born 1933
Ralph Bouch
1932 - 2016
Heather McNaugher
Born 1969
Billy Kountz
-
Neal Brendel
Born 1954
Charles Prentiss Orr
1858 - 1922
Gene Layden
1894 - 1984
Eugene Messler
Born 1873
James Bates (conductor)
1952 - 2014
Edward C. Chalfant
Born 1937
Charles H. Guy
1924 - 2010
Bird Stein Gans
1868 - 1944
Patricia Barnett
Born 1942
Joseph Young (artist)
1919 - 2007
Russell Mullen
1924 - 2019
Simeon Adlow Friedberg
1925 - 2005
Burt Aull
1871 - 1947
Robert Bennett (tennis)
1923 - 1995
Edward D. Sheafer Jr.
1940 - 2016
Ken Hudson
1939 - 2012
Kathy Parker
Born 1943
Tim Lawry
1911 - 1999
Paul Blair
1942 - 2011
Neal Cheetham
1845 - 1917
Daniel Zampini
1901 - 1971
Delsey McKay
1924 - 2004
Ariana Stewart
Born 1989
Al Simpson
Born 1951
Daniel Tublin
Born 1992
Lingerie (chanteur)
Born 1984