List of people from Pittsburgh
This article contains a list of notable people who were born or lived a significant amount of time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The city of Pittsburgh is the second-largest city and the center of the second largest metro area in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Artists
Actresses
- Julie Benz
- Lori Cardille
- Caitlin Clarke
- Dolores Costello
- Marpessa Dawn
- Barbara Feldon
- Rita Gam
- Gillian Jacobs
- Cherie Johnson
- Shirley Jones
- Lorelei King
- Christine Laitta
- Heather Mazur
- Mitzi McCall
- Judith McConnell
- Ming-Na
- Anisha Nagarajan
- Evelyn Nesbit
- Sandra Dee Robinson
- Margot Rose
- Zelda Rubinstein
- Lillian Russell
- Rena Sofer
- Sam Sorbo
Actors
- F. Murray Abraham
- Tom Atkins
- Carl Betz
- Christian Borle
- Don Brockett
- Steve Byrne
- Ted Cassidy
- David Conrad
- Maurice Costello
- Rusty Cundieff
- John Davidson
- Jack Dodson
- Joe Flaherty
- Scott Glenn
- Frank Gorshin
- Charles Grodin
- Kevin Peter Hall
- John Hodiak
- Michael Keaton
- Gene Kelly
- John Leslie
- Tom Major-Ball
- Joe Manganiello
- Jim Martin
- Kiel Martin
- Adolphe Menjou
- Kermit Murdock
- Burt Mustin
- Manu Narayan
- Bill Nunn
- Michael Park
- Billy Porter
- William Powell
- Zachary Quinto
- Fred Rogers
- Regis Toomey
- Fritz Weaver
Comedians
Reporters and anchors
- Jodi Applegate – NBC's Later Today
- John Buccigross – host, SportsCenter on ESPN
- Bill Burns – KDKA anchor (1953–1989)
- Patti Burns – KDKA anchor with her father Bill
- Bill Cardille – broadcaster known as Chilly Billy, host of Chiller Theatre and Studio Wrestling
- Beano Cook – ESPN college football analyst
- Scott Ferrall – sports talk radio host
- Howard Fineman – Newsweek journalist
- Tom Griffith--Anchor WMUR-TV Manchester, New Hampshire
- Fred Honsberger broadcaster
- William Hawthorn Lynch investigate journalist in Louisiana; first state inspector general
- Jay Mariotti – sportswriter
- Jeanne Moos – CNN reporter
- Art Pallan broadcaster
- Jane Pauley[1]
- Jim Quinn – radio talk show host
- Paul Shannon – host of WTAE-TV children's show Adventure Time
- John Stehr – anchorman at WTHR in Indianapolis, Indiana
Media personalities
- Porky Chedwick – announcer
- Rege Cordic – actor and broadcaster
- Bill Cullen – TV game show host
- John Dennis – radio host
- Frank DiLeo – Michael Jackson's manager, Goodfellas cast member
- Phil Frank – cartoonist
- Chris Garver – tattoo artist, Miami Ink
- iJustine – YouTube personality
- Rafe Judkins – Survivor: Guatemala
- Evelyn Kozak – supercentenarian; at the age of 119 years, 67 days is the world's oldest living Jewish person
- Sarah Kozer – Joe Millionaire
- Billy Mays – television direct-response advertisement salesperson
- Sheena Monnin – Miss Pennsylvania
- Jenna Morasca – reality show contestant, winner of Survivor: The Amazon
- Sharon Needles – drag queen, winner of season four of RuPaul's Drag Race
- David Newell – TV actor, "Mr. McFeely" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
- Beth Ostrosky – model, TV personality, wife of Howard Stern
- Bob Trow – TV actor, "Bob Dog" and "Robert Troll" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
- Ricki Wertz – WTAE-TV
Producers, directors, and effects
- Antoine Fuqua – director
- John P. Harris – invented the first movie theater
- David Hollander – TV and movie producer, director
- Carl Kurlander – film producer, writer
- Sally Lapiduss – producer
- Rob Marshall – director, Chicago
- Eric Red – screenwriter and director
- Ford Riley – producer, screenwriter and lyricist; created The Lion Guard
- George A. Romero – director, best known for Night of the Living Dead
- Richard Rossi – director
- Tom Savini – actor, stunt man, director, special effects and makeup artist
- Lou Scheimer – animator, voice actor, co-founder of animation studio Filmation
- David O. Selznick – film producer, Gone with the Wind
- Lewis J. Selznick – film producer
- Myron Selznick – producer, talent agency head
Music
Jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel
- Ron Affif – jazz guitarist
- Ron Anthony – jazz guitarist, teacher; Sinatra's guitarist for 10 years
- Bob Babbitt – bass player for Motown house band the Funk Brothers
- Sheryl Bailey – jazz guitarist[2]
- George Benson – jazz guitarist, singer
- Harold Betters – jazz trombonist
- Art Blakey – jazz drummer, bandleader
- Ray Brown – jazz double bassist
- Paul Chambers – bass player
- Sonny Clark – jazz pianist
- Kenny Clarke – jazz drummer
- Johnny Costa – jazz pianist
- Frank Cunimondo – jazz pianist
- Johnny Daye – soul singer
- Billy Eckstine – singer
- Roy Eldridge – trumpeter
- Joel Forrester – pianist
- Barry Galbraith – jazz guitarist
- Erroll Garner – jazz pianist
- Walt Harper – jazz pianist
- Earl Hines – jazz pianist
- Roger Humphries – drummer
- Phyllis Hyman – singer
- Ahmad Jamal – jazz pianist
- Eddie Jefferson – singer, composer; wrote the lyrics to "Moody's Mood for Love"
- Dodo Marmarosa – be-bop pianist
- Billy May – bandleader, arranger for Frank Sinatra
- Sammy Nestico – arranger for Count Basie Orchestra
- Leo Pellegrino – baritone saxophonist
- Horace Parlan – pianist
- Jimmy Ponder – guitarist
- Billy Price – singer
- Eddie Safranski – bassist
- Shanice
- Dakota Staton – vocalist
- Billy Strayhorn – composer, pianist
- Maxine Sullivan – jazz vocalist
- Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone player
- Tommy Turrentine – trumpeter
- Mary Lou Williams – jazz pianist
- Spanky Wilson – jazz vocalist
Classics and standards
- Lory Bianco – singer
- Jackie Evancho – singer
- Colyn Fischer – fiddler
- Stephen Foster – 19th-century songwriter
- Philip Glass – composer
- Byron Janis – pianist
- Oscar Levant – pianist
- Lorenzo Malfatti – Italian opera coach
- Mary Lou Metzger – singer
- Mildred Miller – opera singer
- Joe Negri – musician, professor, best known as "Handyman Negri" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
- Leo Robin – lyricist
Rock and alternative
- Tunde Adebimpe – musician and actor, lead singer of TV on the Radio
- Bobby Blotzer – drummer for Ratt
- Ceann – Irish drinking music rock band
- William Fitzsimmons – musician
- Gregg Gillis – musician, "Girl Talk"
- Gramsci Melodic – alternative rock band
- Joe Grushecky – Iron City Houserockers, solo artist; worked with Bruce Springsteen
- Donnie Iris – musician
- Ray Luzier – Korn member
- Weird Paul Petroskey – lo-fi musician
- Justin Sane – lead guitarist and co-singer/songwriter of the political punk rock band Anti-Flag
- Spike Slawson – singer for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Classical
Country and folk
Pop
- Michele Brourman – composer
- Lou Christie – pop singer, "Lightning Strikes"
- Daya – pop singer/songwriter
- Jerry Fielding – Oscar-nominated composer
- Chris Jamison – singer-songwriter, musician, and contestant from NBC's The Voice season 7
- The Marcels – vocal group, "Blue Moon"
- B. E. Taylor – musician
- Bobby Vinton – pop singer, "Blue Velvet"
- Brian Young – drummer and percussionist, Fountains of Wayne
Rap and hip-hop
- Beedie – rapper
- Grand Buffet – rap duo
- Jero
- Jimmy Wopo – rapper
- Lady Miss Kier – Deee-Lite
- Mac Miller (1992–2018) – rapper
- Mel-Man – hip hop producer and rapper
- Pittsburgh Slim – rapper
- Wiz Khalifa
- Chevy Woods – rapper
Dancers and choreographers
- Kyle Abraham – choreographer
- Martha Graham – dancer and choreographer; awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Billy Hartung – Broadway actor, dancer and singer
- Gene Kelly – iconic Hollywood dancer, actor, singer, director, and choreographer
- Abby Lee Miller – former dance studio owner, choreographer and team coach for Abby Lee Dance Company; featured on TV show Dance Moms
- Paul Taylor – choreographer
- Jonathan Wolken (1949–2010) – founder of the Pilobolus dance company[3]
- Maddie Ziegler – actress and former featured dancer on TV show Dance Moms
Visual arts
- Matt Baker – comic book artist
- Romare Bearden
- Martin Beck – painter
- Seddon Bennington
- Ailsa Mellon Bruce – Mellon heir and art patron
- Vanessa German – sculptor, poet
- Charles "Teenie" Harris – photographer
- Jerry Harris – sculptor
- Yvonne Jacquette – painter and printmaker
- Michael Lotenero – painter and sculptor
- Scott McDaniel – comic book artist
- James Michalopoulos – painter and sculptor[4]
- Burton Morris – artist
- Thaddeus Mosley – sculptor
- Sharon Needles – drag queen, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race (season 4)
- Jackie Ormes
- Philip Pearlstein – painter
- Robert Qualters – painter
- Lawrence Saint – stained glass artist
- Naomi Sims – model
- George Sotter – painter
- Renee Stout – multi-media artist
- Andy Warhol – painter
- Julia Warhola
Authors
- Joseph Bathanti – poet, writer, professor; NC Poet Laureate, 2012–2014
- Nellie Bly – Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and writer
- Kenneth Burke – literary theorist
- Willa Cather – author, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Michael Chabon – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Murray Chass – New York Times baseball writer, author
- Stephen Chbosky – author
- Malcolm Cowley – poet, critic
- Melanie Craft – novelist; wife of Larry Ellison of Oracle
- Stephen Dau – writer
- Annie Dillard – author and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Harry Dolan – writer
- Jack Gilbert – poet
- Beth Gylys – poet and professor
- Samuel Hazo – poet and professor
- Kerry Hannon – author
- George S. Kaufman – humorist, playwright
- Joseph Koerner – art historian and film-maker
- David Leavitt – novelist
- Stephen Manes – magazine writer, author
- David McCullough – historian and author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Burton Morris – painter
- Stewart O'Nan – author
- Peter Oresick – poet
- Mary Roberts Rinehart – mystery writer
- Gladys Schmitt – writer
- Jim Shooter – comic book writer, editor and publisher
- James Sites – novelist
- George Smith – gambler, handicapper
- Gertrude Stein – writer, poet, playwright, and feminist
- Gerald Stern – poet
- Kathleen Tessaro – novelist
- John Edgar Wideman – author and professor
- August Wilson – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Athletes
Baseball
- Glenn Beckert – second baseman
- Buddy Bell – third baseman (1972–89)
- Bill Blair
- Dave Bush[5]
- Ollie Carnegie – 1931–45
- Betty Jane Cornett (1932–2006) – third base (1950–1952) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Bill Doak – Cardinals and Dodgers, inventor of the modern baseball glove
- Ryan Garko – first baseman Giants
- Josh Gibson – Negro League player, Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays
- Gary Green
- Howdy Groskloss – shortstop 1930–32;
- Ian Happ – Chicago Cubs
- Art Howe – managed Astros and A's
- Derek Law ( San Francisco Giants)
- Bobby Lowe – first MLB player with 4 home runs in a game[6]
- Heinie Smith[6]
- Sam McDowell
- Marguerite Pearson – utility player 1948–1954, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor – Pirates Hall of Fame member
- Honus Wagner – shortstop, Hall of Fame member
- Neil Walker – second baseman for the New York Yankees
- Bobby Wallace – Hall of Fame inductee[6]
- John Wehner – Pirates infielder, broadcaster
- Josh Wilson – 2005–present
Baseball contributors
- Bill Benswanger – Pirates owner, vocal advocate for integration
- Chuck Greenberg – Rangers former owner
- Gus Greenlee – Crawfords founder
- John P. Harris – Boston Braves owner
- Ray Kennedy – scout and GM
- Tony LaCava – longtime scout and assistant general manager
Basketball
Coaches
- Dick Bennett – Wisconsin, Washington State 1976–2006
- Paul Birch
- Eddie Cameron – Duke 1929–49 until 1972, Cameron Indoor Stadium, founding member of the ACC, football coach and Olympic selector
- Suzie McConnell-Serio – WNBA player 1998–2000, head coach 2004–06, Duquesne 2007–
- Dudey Moore
- Skip Prosser – Loyola (MD), Xavier, and Wake Forest 1993–2007
- Herb Sendek – NC State and Arizona State 1994–
Forwards and centers
- John Abramovic – 1946–48
- DeJuan Blair – Pitt All-American, Spurs 2009–13, Mavericks 2013–
- Chuck Cooper – 1950–56; first drafted African-American
- Ken Durrett – 1971–75 NBA
- Paul Grant – 1997–2004
- Maurice Lucas – 1975–88
- Walt Miller – 1946–47
- Maurice Stokes – Rochester/Cincinnati Royals 1955–58; Hall of Famer
- Walt Szczerbiak – 1971–72 NBA
Guards
- Moe Barr – 1970–71 NBA
- Paul Birch
- Ron Carter – 1978–80 NBA
- Calvin Fowler – 1969–70
- Jack George – 1953–61
- Gus Gerard – 1977–81
- Dick Groat – 1952–53, baseball player
- Mike Iuzzolino – 1991–93
- DeAndre Kane
- T. J. McConnell – Arizona Wildcats and Philadelphia 76ers
- Jack Twyman – 1955–66, Hall of Famer
Basketball contributors
- Mark Cuban – Mavericks owner
- Tim Grgurich – Pitt coach
- Ted Stepien – Cavs former owner
Boxing
- Bob Baker – heavyweight contender
- Charley Burley (Lawrence) – middleweight, 83-12-2 record
- Eddie Chambers – Heavyweight and Cruiserweight Contender, 2008–2016
- George Chip (Lawrence) – middleweight champ 1913
- Billy Conn (Allegheny) – light-heavyweight champ 1939–41
- Andy DePaul (Allegheny) – middleweight contender, referee
- Harry Greb (Allegheny) – middleweight champ 1923
- Frank Klaus (Allegheny) – middleweight champ 1904
- Brian Minto (Butler) – cruiserweight contender
- Paul Spadafora – lightweight champ, 1999
- Jackie Wilson – featherweight champ, early 1900s (decade)
- Teddy Yarosz – middleweight champ, 1934
- Fritzie Zivic – welterweight champ, 1940
Figure skating
- Michael Seibert – five-time gold medalist at U.S. Figure Skating Championships; three bronze medals at World Championships
- Jamie Silverstein – ice dancing
- Taylor Toth – pairs skating
Football
Coaches: primarily NFL
- Joe Bugel – assistant and head coach 1975–present; founder of the "Hogs" of the 1980s
- Jim Haslett – head coach Saints (2000–2005), Rams D.C. (2006–08)
- Marvin Lewis (Washington) – head coach of Cincinnati Bengals
- Bob Ligashesky (Allegheny) – assistant 2004–present
- Mike McCarthy (Allegheny) – Packers head coach 2005–present
- Herb McCracken (Allegheny) – college 1920s and 1930s
- Scott McCurley (Lawrence) – Packers
- John Michelosen (Beaver) – 1940s–1960s
- Mike Miller (Allegheny) – assistant 1999–present
- Dick Nolan (Allegheny) – head coach, San Francisco 49ers and New Orleans Saints
- Willis Richardson (Allegheny)
- Kurt Schottenheimer (Allegheny)
- Marty Schottenheimer (Allegheny) – 1984–present, head coach of 4 NFL teams
- Jim Tomsula (Allegheny) – 49ers head coach 2015–present
- Jim Trimble (Allegheny) – 1950s
Coaches: other football
- Curtis Bray (Allegheny) – assistant
- Harold Burry (Lawrence) – College Football Hall of Fame
- Frank Cignetti, Jr. (Allegheny) – Rutgers
- Bob Davie (Allegheny) – former Notre Dame head coach
- Tom Davies (Beaver) – 1922–47
- Joseph Duff (Allegheny) – Pitt football coach; died in action in World War I
- Earle Edwards (Westmoreland) – NC State Head Coach 1954–70, ACC Coach of the Year
- Kirk Ferentz (Allegheny) – University of Iowa
- Jimbo Fisher – Florida State (from Clarksburg, West Virginia)
- Joe Fusco (Allegheny) – Westminster 1972–90
- Vic Fusia (Allegheny) – assistant Pitt 1955–60; head coach UMass 1961–70
- Lou Holtz – college football 1969–2004; former Notre Dame head coach(east Liverpool oh)
- Nick Kotys (Westmoreland) – 4 national and 6 state titles, Coral Gables HS 1950s–1970s
- Frank Kush (Cambria) – Arizona State 1958–79
- Rich Lackner – Carnegie Mellon 1986–
- Mark Mangino (Lawrence) – former University of Kansas head coach
- Mike Milligan (Beaver) – 1940s
- Mike Nixon (Fayette) – 1960s–1980s
- Larry Pugh (Lawrence) – College Football Hall of Fame
Quarterbacks
- Marc Bulger (Allegheny) – 2000–2011, Super Bowl[7]
- Paul Failla (Allegheny) – 1999–2001
- Bernie Faloney (Allegheny) – 1954–67 CFL
- Chuck Fusina (Allegheny) – NFL 1979–86
- Arnold Galiffa (Washington) – 1953–56
- Bruce Gradkowski (Allegheny) – Buccs, Raiders 2006–
- Terry Hanratty (Butler) – 1969–76, 2 Super Bowls
- Major Harris (Allegheny) – record-setter in college and CFL
- Leon Hart (Allegheny) – Heisman Trophy, College Hall of Fame
- Harold Hess (Fayette)
- Jeff Hostetler (Somerset) – 1985–97, two Super Bowls
- Frank Hudson (Allegheny) – 1895–96
- John Hufnagel (Allegheny) – NFL 1973–75 CFL 1976–87
- Al Jacks (Allegheny)
- Jim Kelly – 1986–96, Hall of Fame, four Super Bowls
- Ron Lancaster (Allegheny) – CFL 1960–78
- Richie Lucas (Allegheny) – NFL 1960–62
- Johnny Lujack (Fayette) – Heisman Trophy (1947)
- Ted Marchibroda (Venango) – 1953–57, head coach 1975–98
- Dan Marino (Allegheny) – 1983–99, Hall of Fame, Super Bowl
- Coley McDonough (Allegheny) – NFL 1939–44
- Mike McMahon (Allegheny) – 2001–present
- Scott Milanovich (Butler) – NFL QB 1996–2003
- Joe Montana (Washington) – quarterback 1979–94, Hall of Fame, four Super Bowls, three Super Bowl MVPs
- Anthony Morelli (Allegheny)
- Joe Namath (Beaver) – 1965–77, Hall of Fame, Super Bowl MVP
- Dick Nolan (Allegheny) – Giants, Cowboys and Cardinals
- Tyler Palko (Allegheny)
- Babe Parilli (Beaver) – Super Bowl winner
- Frank Patrick (Westmoreland) – Green Bay 1970–72
- Terrell Pryor (Westmoreland)
- Rod Rutherford (Allegheny) – 2003–present
- Chad Salisbury (Fayette) – 2000–07 All-American
- Matt Schaub (Allegheny) – 2004–present
- George Shaffer (Westmoreland) – 1933
- Tom Sherman (Allegheny) – 1968–70 WFL/CFL 1971–76
- Sandy Stephens (Fayette) – quarterback; first African-American to lead his team to a bowl game
- Harry Theofiledes (Allegheny) – 1960s
- Willie Thrower (Westmoreland) – first African-American QB in an NFL game
- Johnny Unitas (Beaver) – 1956–73, Hall of Famer, two Super Bowls
- Alex Van Pelt (Allegheny) – 1995–2003
- Mark Vlasic (Beaver) – 1987–94
- Adam Wyant (Westmoreland) – Pro QB 1895–97
- Scott Zolak (Washington) – 1991–99 Super Bowl appearance
Running backs
- Kevan Barlow (Allegheny)
- Jim Braxton (Fayette) – 1971–78, Bills and Dolphins
- Larry Brown (Allegheny) – Redskins, 1972 NFL MVP
- Jim Cunningham (Fayette) – 1960s
- Ernie Davis (Fayette) – Heisman Trophy (1961)
- Tony Dorsett (Beaver) – Heisman Trophy (1976) 1977–88, two Super Bowls
- Doug Dressler (Beaver) – 1970–75
- Bill Dutton – 1940s
- Cookie Gilchrist – AFL and CFL
- Joe Glamp (Westmoreland) – 1940s
- Walt Gorinski (Westmoreland) – 1940s
- Sam Havrilak (Westmoreland) – 1969–74 Super Bowl
- Warren Heller (Allegheny) – 1930s
- Dick Hoak (Westmoreland) – 1961–70
- Max Kielbasa (Fayette) – 1940s
- Hugh Knox (Allegheny)
- William F. Knox (Allegheny)
- Leo Koceski (Fayette)
- Roger Kochman (Allegheny) – 1963
- Doug Kotar (Washington)
- Martin Kottler (Allegheny) – 1930s
- Tim Manoa (Allegheny) – 1987–91
- Joe Marconi (Washington) – 1956–66 for the Rams, Bears
- Curtis Martin (Allegheny) – 1995–2006, Super Bowl
- Harry McChesney (Allegheny) – 1900s (decade) NFL
- Elmer Merkovsky (Allegheny) – 1940s
- Eugene "Mercury" Morris (Allegheny) – 70s Dolphins; two Super Bowls
- Chuck Muncie (Fayette) – Saints (1976–80) and Chargers (1981–84), 3 Pro Bowls
- Will Norman (Allegheny) – 1920s
- Lousaka Polite (Allegheny) – first three-year captain in Pitt history, Dolphins
- John Popovich (Westmoreland) – 1940s
- Billy Reynolds – 1950s and 1960s; attended Pitt
- Bo Scott (Fayette) – 1965–74
- Mike Sebastian (Westmoreland) – 1930s
- Rushel Shell (Beaver) – high school standout
- Frank Sinkwich (Allegheny) – 1943–47, first Heisman winner from SEC
- Frank Spaniel (Westmoreland) – 1950s
- Shawntae Spencer (Allegheny) – 49ers
- Ray Zellars – Saints
Receivers and tight ends
- Danny Abramowicz (Jefferson) – wide receiver for Saints, 49ers
- Eugene Baker (Allegheny) – 1999–2004 NFL
- Jon Baldwin (Beaver) – 2011–present NFL
- Brian Baschnagel (Allegheny) – originally a running back, Ohio State, Bears 1976–1984
- Jim Beirne (Allegheny) – 1968–76 NFL
- Sean Berton (Westmoreland) – tight end 2003–2005
- Steve Breaston (Allegheny) – wide receiver/returner for Arizona Cardinals
- Nate Byham (Venango) – NFL tight end, 2000s (decade)
- Eric Crabtree (Westmoreland) – NFL receiver in the 1966–1971
- Bill Daddio (Crawford) – NFL end in the 1930s and 1940s
- Julius Dawkins (Westmoreland) – NFL receiver in the 1980s
- Dorin Dickerson (Allegheny) – NFL receiver in the 2000s (decade)
- Darnell Dinkins (Allegheny) – NFL tight end in the 1990s and 2000s (decade)
- Bobby Engram (Westmoreland) – NFL receiver 1996–2010, moved to the area during his playing career
- John Frank – NFL tight end in the 1980s
- Gregg Garrity – Penn State, NFL 1983–89
- Ken Herock (Allegheny) – NFL tight end 1963–69, Super Bowl
- Val Jansante (Fayette) – NFL receiver 1946–1951
- Tony Jeter (Jefferson)
- Ben Koyack (Venango)- NFL Tight End for Jaguars
- Ted Kwalick (Allegheny) – three-time Pro Bowl tight end for 49ers and Raiders; College Football Hall of Fame
- Bob Long (Allegheny) – 1964–70 NFL
- Brandon Marshall (Allegheny) – NFL wide receiver 2006–present
- Rasheed Marshall (Allegheny) – NFL wide receiver 2005–present
- Fred Mazurek (Fayette) – NFL receiver in the 1960s
- Paul McKee (Beaver) – tight end in the 1940s
- Bill Miller (Allegheny) – 1962–68 AFL
- Jim Mutscheller (Beaver) – tight end 1954–1961
- Bill Walker (Allegheny)
- Joel Williams – NFL tight end, 1987
Offensive linemen
- Adam Bisnowaty – NFL offensive linesman for the New York Giants
- Dean Caliguire – NFL lineman in 1991
- Bill Fralic – offensive lineman for Atlanta Falcons, '80s All-Decade Team
- Ralph Fritz (Westmoreland) – guard 1940s
- Gary Greaves AFL tackle 1960
- Russ Grimm (Westmoreland) – offensive lineman 1981–91, three Super Bowls
- Buzz Guy (Lawrence) – NFL lineman 1958–1961
- Cal Jones (Jefferson) – Iowa player killed in plane crash
- Leander Jordan (Allegheny) – offensive lineman Carolina Panthers, San Diego Chargers, Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars
- Mose Lantz NFL center 1933
- Jim MacMurdo (Beaver) – NFL lineman in the 1930s
- Baptiste Manzini (Allegheny) – NFL 1944–1948
- John Mastrangelo (Westmoreland) – NFL 1947–1950
- William R. Moore (Beaver) – NFL guard in the 1940s
- Dan Mozes (Washington) – center
- George Mrkonic (Allegheny) – NFL tackle in 1950s
- Lance Nimmo (Lawrence) – 2003–05
- Joe Palumbo (Beaver) – NFL guard in the 1950s
- Bull Polisky NFL guard 1929
- Frank Ribar (Fayette) – NFL guard 1940–1943, Washington Redskins
- Tom Ricketts (Allegheny) – NFL tackle 1980s and 1990s
- Mike Rosenthal (born 1977) – NFL tackle 1999–2007
- Mike Roussos (Lawrence) – NFL tackle in the 1940s
- Joe Rudolph (Washington) – NFL guard 1995–97
- Jack Sack (Allegheny) – NFL guard in the 1920s
- Alex Sandusky (Allegheny) – NFL guard 1954–66
- A. Q. Shipley (Allegheny) – NFL 2009–present
- Sean Stopperich (Washington) – All-American who blew the whistle on SMU, leading to NCAA "Death Penalty"[8]
- Joe Stydahar (Cambria) – tackle 1936–46; Hall of Fame
- Keith Van Horne (Allegheny) – lineman 1981–93 NFL; Super Bowl winner
- Frank Walton (Beaver) – NFL tackle in the 1940s
- Reggie Wells (Allegheny) – tackle 2003–2012; Arizona Cardinals 2003–2009, 2010 Philadelphia, 2011 Carolina, 2012 San Diego
Defensive linemen
- Mike Barnes (Allegheny) – Pro Bowler 1973–1981
- Bob Buczkowski (Allegheny) – NFL defensive end in the 1980s
- Bird Carroll (Westmoreland) – NFL end 1920s
- Sam Clancy (Allegheny) – NFL defensive end in the 1980s and 1990s
- Bruce Clark (Lawrence) – 1980–91
- Ave Daniell (Allegheny) – NFL tackle in the 1930s
- Aaron Donald (Allegheny) – NFL defensive tackle
- Jack Dugger – NFL lineman 1946–49
- Tory Epps (Fayette) – tackle 1990–2002
- Sean Gilbert (Beaver) – defensive end 1992–2005
- Art Gob (Allegheny) – NFL defensive end, 1950s and 1960s
- Jeff Hartings – defensive lineman with Penn State and Pittsburgh Steelers 2001–06, Detroit 1996–2001
- Cameron Heyward – NFL 2011–present
- Randy Holloway (Mercer) – NFL defensive end 1970s and 1980s
- Tyrique Jarrett – NFL defensive tackle
- Stan Jones (Blair) – defensive lineman 1954–66, Hall of Fame
- David Logan (Allegheny) – defensive tackle 1970s and 1980s
- Ed Loucks (Westmoreland) – end 1920s
- Pete Marcus (Westmoreland) – end 1940s
- Bill McPeak (Lawrence) – NFL defensive end in the 1950s
- Greg Meisner (Westmoreland) – NFL lineman 1980s and 1990s
- Ron Nery (Westmoreland) – NFL defensive end 1960–1963
- Jack O'Brien (Westmoreland) – NFL end 1954–1956
- Fred Shirey (Westmoreland) – NFL lineman in the 1940s
- Leo Skladany – NFL defensive end 1940s and 1950s
- Andy Stynchula (Westmoreland) – NFL lineman 1960–1968
- Jason Taylor (Allegheny) – defensive end; five-time Pro Bowler for Miami Dolphins
- Steve Uhrinyak (Allegheny) – NFL 1930s
- Al Wesbecher (Westmoreland) – tackle 1916–1920
- Randy White (Allegheny) – defensive lineman 1975–88; three Super Bowls, Hall of Fame
- Leo Wisniewski (Allegheny) – NFL 1982–1984
- Frank Wydo (Fayette) – NFL offensive and defensive lineman 1947–1957
Defensive backs and linebackers
- LaVar Arrington – NFL linebacker 2000–06
- Jack Butler – cornerback 1951–59, Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Walt Corey (Westmoreland) – NFL linebacker 1960–1966
- Anthony Dorsett (Beaver) – NFL safety 1990s and 2000s
- Ralph Felton (Washington) – NFL linebacker 1954–1962
- Jim Flanigan, Sr. (Allegheny) – NFL linebacker 1960s and 1970s
- Tom Flynn (Allegheny) – NFL safety in the 1980s
- Bill George (Greene) – linebacker 1952–66, Hall of Fame
- Don Graham Penn State, NFL 1987–89
- Kirby Griffin (Beaver) – linebacker 2009–present
- Kris Griffin (Beaver) – linebacker 2005–present
- Dick Haley (Washington) – cornerback for the Redskins, Vikings and Steelers
- Jack Ham (Cambria) – linebacker 1970–82, Hall of Fame, four Super Bowls
- Daven Holly (Allegheny) – NFL cornerback 2005–08
- Sam Huff – linebacker 1956–69, Hall of Fame
- Mortty Ivy (Allegheny) – NFL linebacker
- Justin King (Allegheny) – NFL 2008–present
- Ty Law (Beaver) – defensive back 1995–2005; four Super Bowls
- Josh Lay (Beaver) – NFL cornerback 2000s (decade)
- Sean Lee (Upper St Clair) – linebacker for Dallas Cowboys
- Maurice Leggett (Allegheny) – NFL 2008–11
- George Little (Duquesne) – NFL Miami Dolphins 1985–1987; CFL Montreal Machine 1991–1992
- Mike Logan (Allegheny) – NFL safety 1996–2006, Super Bowl
- Paul Martha (Allegheny) – NFL safety in the 1960s
- Dick McCabe (Allegheny) – NFL safety in the 1950s and 1960s
- Scott McKillop (Allegheny) – linebacker for Pitt and San Francisco 49ers
- Kevin "Boo" McLee – linebacker
- Rich Milot (Allegheny) – NFL 1979–87; three Super Bowls
- Robert Mitinger (Westmoreland) – linebacker for Penn State and the San Diego Chargers in the 1960s
- Ryan Mundy (Allegheny) – NFL safety
- Jerry Olsavsky – NFL linebacker 1980s and 1990s
- Anthony Peterson (Washington) – 1994–99 Super Bowl
- Doug Plank (Westmoreland) – NFL safety 1975–1983
- Paul Posluszny (Butler) – Dick Butkus Award winner from Penn State, linebacker for Buffalo Bills
- Scott Radecic (Allegheny) – Penn State and NFL linebacker 1984–95
- Bert Rechichar (Fayette) – 1952–1961 defensive back and kicker
- John Reger – NFL linebacker in the 1950s and 1960s
- Darrelle Revis (Beaver) – cornerback, New York Jets
- Tyrell Sales (Butler) – linebacker 2009–present
- Bryant Salter (Allegheny) – NFL safety in the 1970s
- Joe Schmidt (Allegheny) – linebacker 1953–65, Hall of Fame
- Shawntae Spencer (Allegheny) – NFL cornerback 2000s (decade)
- Russell Stuvaints (Allegheny) – NFL 2000–05
- Tom Tumulty (Allegheny) – NFL 1996–98
- Raymond Ventrone (Allegheny) – safety, Cleveland Browns
- Eric Wicks (Allegheny) – safety, finalist for Bronko Nagurski Award in 2007
- Vic Zucco (Allegheny) – NFL 1957–1960
Football specialists
- Don Silvestri – kicker in the 1990s
Football contributors
- Dave Berry – pro football pioneer
- Kevin Colbert – director of football operations (2 Super Bowls)
- Dale Hamer – NFL referee 1978–2001, 3 Super Bowls
- Shaun Herock – NFL executive
- Bill Nunn – Steelers scout since 1967
- Art Rooney – owner and founder Pittsburgh Steelers Duquesne University
- Dan Rooney – second chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Golf
- Scott Dunlap – PGA and Champions Tour
- Bob Friend – PGA and Nationwide Tour
- Jim Simons – as an amateur nearly won 1971 U.S. Open; first tournament winner using a metal driver
Hockey
Centers and wingers
- Riley Barber – Capitals winger, 2017–
- Ryan Malone – Penguins, Lightning, Rangers winger 2003–15; 2017
- Gerry O'Flaherty – Leafs, Canucks, Flames 1971–79
- Brandon Saad – Blue Jackets winger 2011–
- Henrik Samuelsson (Washington) – Coyotes winger 2014–
- William Thomas (Allegheny) – Coyotes, Penguins, Panthers winger 2005–
- Vincent Trocheck (Allegheny) – Panthers
- R. J. Umberger (Allegheny) – Flyers, Jackets center 2005–
Defense
- Matt Bartkowski – Canucks
- Bob Beers – Bruins, Lightning, Oilers, Islanders defenseman 1989–97
- Dylan Reese – Rangers, Islanders, Penguins 2007–
- Mike Weber – Sabres defenseman 2007–
Goalies
- John Gibson – player for Anaheim Ducks
Hockey contributors
- James Wallace Conant – managed Duquesne Gardens
Motorsports
- Chip Ganassi – former driver, now team owner in IndyCar and NASCAR
- Denny Hickey (Fayette) – drove in 1919 Indianapolis 500
- Butch Leitzinger (Allegheny) – 1995–present
- Dick Linder (Allegheny) – 1950s NASCAR driver
Olympic sports
- Kurt Angle – 1996 gold medalist in freestyle wrestling, became professional wrestler
- Robert "Bob" Blum (born 1928), Olympic fencer
- Herb Douglas – long jump bronze medalist at 1948 Summer Olympics; inducted into Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame 1992
- Suzie McConnell-Serio – basketball 1988 and 1992
- Leah Smith – swimming, gold and bronze medalist in 2016 Olympics
- Amanda Polk – rowing, gold medalist W8+ in 2016 Olympics
Soccer
- Nicholas DiOrio – played in 1950 World Cup
- Justin Evans (Washington) – pro player 1999–2009, currently head coach
- Meghan Klingenberg (Allegheny) – player for the Portland Thorns FC and United States women's national soccer team
- Don Malinowski (Allegheny) – U.S. national team player in 1950s
- John Stollmeyer – defender formerly with the US National Soccer Team and US Olympic Team
- A. J. Wood – MLS player
- Marvell Wynne II – defender for MLS side Colorado Rapids
Tennis
- Bjorn Fratangelo (Allegheny) – French Open boys' champion[9]
- Bonnie Gadusek – pro tennis player, reached U.S. Open quarterfinals
- Donald Johnson (Allegheny) – top-ranked doubles player
- Gretchen Magers – reached Wimbledon and French Open quarterfinals
- Alison Riske (Allegheny) – WTA player, reached 4th round of U.S. Open
Wrestling
- Kurt Angle – WWE wrestler
- Rob Conway – WWE wrestler on RAW brand
- Johnny De Fazio – known as "Jumping" Johnny De Fazio
- Dominic DeNucci – WWWF wrestler and trainer
- Shane Douglas – WCW and WWWF wrestler
- Corey Graves – wrestler, WWE commentator
- Mike Jones – known as Virgil in WWE; worked as Vincent, Shane and Curly Bill in WCW
- Cody Michaels – former USWA tag team champion, ECW, WSX producer
- John Minton – WWF aka Big John Studd
- Jeffrey Sciullo – WWE wrestler known as Elias (formerly Elias Samson)
- Bruno Sammartino – two-time World Wide Wrestling Federation champion
- Mike Scicluna – known as Baron Mikel Scicluna
- John Sullivan – known as Johnny Valiant
- Newton Tattrie – known as Geeto Mongol
- Larry Zbyszko (real name Larry Whistler) – director of authority on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Other sports
- Danny Chew – cyclist, winner Race Across America (1996, 1999)
- Joseph Kearney – Athletic Administrator
- George Smith – horse racing
Industry
Aviation
- Willard Rockwell – formed Rockwell Intl.
- Calbraith Perry Rodgers – made the first transcontinental flight
Steel and metals
- James W. Brown – Crucible Steel
- Andrew Carnegie – steel tycoon and philanthropist, founded what became U.S. Steel
- William Donner – steel tycoon, founded Monessen and Donora, daughter married FDR's son in 1932
- William Edenborn – founder of Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, a forerunner of U.S. Steel, emigrated to Pittsburgh from Germany in 1866
- George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. – steel engineer, businessman and inventor of the Ferris wheel
- Henry Clay Frick – steel tycoon, chief operation officer of what became U.S. Steel
- Charles Martin Hall – aluminum producer and founder of Alcoa
- Alfred Hunt (Fayette) – founder of Bethlehem Steel
- B. F. Jones (Allegheny) – Jones & Laughlin Steel
- Julian Kennedy – Mechanical Engineer in Steel
- George Lauder Scottish-American Billionaire Industrialist; Partner in the Carnegie Steel Company; Board Member of U.S. Steel; cousin-brother of Andrew Carnegie
- James H. Laughlin – Jones & Laughlin Steel
- Bernard Lauth (Allegheny) – founder of American Iron Works
- John Leishman – executive at Carnegie Steel
- William Metcalf (Allegheny) – Fort Pitt foundry
- Charles M. Schwab – Founder of Bethlehem Steel
- John P. Surma – U.S. Steel
- Thomas Usher – CEO of U.S. Steel and chairman of the board of Marathon Oil
- John Walker (Allegheny) – iron and steel industrialist
Energy
- Walter Arnheim – Mobil executive and corporate and non-profit advisor
- Frederick Bausman
- E. W. Marland – oilman, founded what would become Conoco, also became the governor of Oklahoma
- Andrew W. Mellon – chairman of Mellon Financial, helped to found Westinghouse, Alcoa, Gulf Oil and General Motors, became the longest serving United States Secretary of the Treasury in both years and administrations
- William Mellon – co-founded Gulf Oil
Transport
- Eric F. Buell – Buell Motorcycle Company
- Alexander Cassatt – Pennsylvania Railroad
- Louis Semple Clarke – steamboats
- John E. Connelly – Gateway Clipper Fleet
- Oliver Evans (Allegheny) – pioneer in steam power
- Mike Fink (Allegheny) – river boatman
- Israel Gregg (Fayette) – founded riverboat industry
- Samuel Mason (Washington)
- John McLure (Butler)
- Robert Pitcairn – Pennsylvania Railroad
- Samuel Rea – Pennsylvania Railroad
- Helen Richey (Allegheny) – first female commercial pilot; aviation pioneer
- Henry Miller Shreve – developed and pioneered steamboat and riverboat industries; city of Shreveport, Louisiana named in his honor
- James M. Symes – Pennsylvania RR, attended Sewickley High
- Frederick Way, Jr. (Allegheny) – piloted Delta Queen through the Panama Canal; author; operator of steamboats
Finance
- John F. Donahue (Allegheny) – chairman, Federated Investors
- Stanley Druckenmiller (Allegheny) – hedge fund manager
- Thomas Marshall Howe – 19th-century politician
- Trisha Meili (Allegheny) – banker, assault victim
- Richard B. Mellon – banker, philanthropist
- Thomas Mellon – founded Mellon Financial
- Jim Rohr (Allegheny) – CEO of PNC Bank 2000–present
- David Tepper – hedge fund manager
- William Thaw – 19th-century banker
Technology and communications
- William Bullock (Allegheny) – printing press innovator
- Bill Campbell (Allegheny) – CEO of Intuit
- Brendan Eich – Mozilla, creator of JavaScript
- John P. Harris (Allegheny) – theater owner
- Vernon Irvin – XM Radio; created "Friends and Families" plan
- Alan W. Livingston (Washington) – Capitol Records CEO
- Andrew Mason (Allegheny) – GroupOn
- Regis McKenna (Allegheny) – high technology marketing guru
- Willard Rockwell (Allegheny) – pioneer of Rockwell Intl.
- Richard Mellon Scaife – Tribune-Review
- Chris Shipley (Westmoreland) – tech analyst
- Rich Skrenta (Allegheny) – computer programmer
- George Westinghouse – electrical industry pioneer
- Mark Whitaker (Allegheny) – CNN Worldwide chief[10]
- Jamie Zawinski (Allegheny) – hacker
Consumer goods
- Peter Chartier (Chartiers Town and Tarentum) – fur trader 1734–43
- David L. Clark (Allegheny)
- Joseph A. Hardy III (Fayette) – 84 Lumber
- H. J. Heinz II – CEO of H.J. Heinz Co.
- Henry J. Heinz – founder of H. J. Heinz Company
- Edgar J. Kaufmann – Kaufmann's
- Billy Mays – TV pitchman
- Frank E. Resnik (Westmoreland) – CEO of Phillip Morris 1984–91
- James Sinegal – Costco
- Burton Tansky (Allegheny) – Neiman Marcus 2001–10
- Patricia A. Woertz (Allegheny) – ADM[11]
- William Ziegler (Beaver) – co-founder of Royal Baking Company
Other industries
- William D. Boyce – founder of Boy Scouts of America
- Dr. Herbert Boyer – co-founder of Genentech
- John Baptiste Ford – PPG Industries
- Ed Grier – Disneyland
- Joseph A. Hardy III – 84 Lumber
- George E. Merrick (Allegheny) – created first planned communities
- Dan Radakovich (Beaver) – athletic director
- Robert J. Stevens (Allegheny) – CEO of Lockheed Martin
- Bob Stupak – Vegas Stratosphere
Labor
- Frank Fitzsimmons (Westmoreland) – Teamsters president; 1967–81 confidant of Jimmy Hoffa
- Edwin D. Hill (Beaver) – president of IBEW 2001–
- David J. McDonald (Allegheny) – president of steelworkers union
- Fannie Sellins – union organizer
- Richard Trumka (Greene) – president of the AFL-CIO 2009–present, UMW (1982–95)
- Joseph Yablonski – UMW
- Joseph "Chip" Yablonski – UMW attorney
- Kenneth Yablonski – attorney
Religion
- Cardinal Daniel DiNardo – archbishop of Galveston-Houston
- Thomas Dolinay – archbishop
- Charles William Kerr (Butler) – leader in race relations, quelled the Tulsa Race Riots
- Joseph R. Lamonde (Allegheny)
- Countess Leon (Beaver) – Rappitte leader
- Cardinal Adam Maida (Westmoreland) – Emeritus Archbishop of Detroit
- Bernhard Müller (Beaver)
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair – founder of American Atheists
- William Passavant (Butler)
- George Rapp – founder of the religious sect Harmonists
- Charles Owen Rice (Allegheny)
- Charles Taze Russell – founder of Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society
- R. C. Sproul – theologian
- Thomas J. Tobin (Allegheny) – auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh, bishop of Youngstown OH, and current Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island
- Cardinal Donald Wuerl – eleventh bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, current Archbishop of Washington
- David Zubik – twelfth and current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
Science and research
- Ross Allen – herpetologist
- Sara Alpern – women's historian at Texas A&M University
- Frederick S. Billig – scramjet pioneer
- Andrew H. Bobeck (Fayette) – Bell Labs scientist, invented bubble memory
- Dr. Herbert Boyer (Westmoreland) – co-founder of Genentech
- Rachel Carson – author, marine biologist, nature writer, and environmentalist
- Yuan Chang – virologist, co-discoverer of causes of several viral cancers, including Kaposi's sarcoma
- Norman Christ (Allegheny) – physicist
- Ralph J. Cicerone (Lawrence) – National Academy of Sciences President
- Robert L. Coble (Fayette)
- Childs Frick (Allegheny)
- George Otto Gey (Allegheny) – scientist who propagated the HeLa cell line
- M. Stephen Heilman (Allegheny)
- John Holdren (Allegheny)
- William Jacob Holland – entomologist and chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania
- Stephanie Kwolek (Westmoreland) – inventor of Kevlar
- Dorothy Molter (Westmoreland) – naturalist
- Helen Morrison (Westmoreland) – criminologist
- George C. Nichopoulos (Allegheny) – Elvis' personal physician
- H. Winnett Orr (Westmorland) – leading research doctor, invented and popularized the plaster cast method
- Randy Pausch, founder of Alice, and man behind the Last Lecture
- Judith Resnik – biomedical engineer and astronaut who died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger; second American woman and second Jew in space
- John Roebling (Butler) – civil engineer, a pioneer in the construction of suspension bridges[12]
- Washington Roebling (Butler) – civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge
- David Roselle (Westmoreland) – mathematician; President of Univ. of Kentucky; President of Univ. of Delaware
- Jonas Salk – physician, inventor of first polio vaccine
- Oliver B. Shallenberger (Beaver)
- Alex Shigo – arboriculturist and horticulturist
- Clifford Shull (Allegheny) – Nobel Prize winner
- Herbert A. Simon – Carnegie Mellon University professor; winner of Nobel Prize for Economics
- Herbert Spiegel (Allegheny) – popularized the use of hypnosis therapy
- Thomas Starzl – pioneering transplant surgeon in liver and multiorgan transplantation
- Jesse Steinfeld – United States Surgeon General under Nixon
- Otto Stern – German-American physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his studies of molecular beams; Carnegie Institute of Technology professor (now Carnegie Mellon University)
- James L. Swauger (Westmoreland)
- Nicholas E. Wagman (Allegheny)
- Sandra Welner (1958–2001) – physician, advocate for disabled women's healthcare
- Jerome Wolken (1917–1999) – biophysicist[13]
- Jamie Zawinski (Allegheny)
- Jonathan Zittrain (Allegheny) – professor of Internet law and computer science at Harvard
- Vladimir Zworykin – engineer and inventor, developed an early form of television; the IEEE presents a Vladimir Zworykin Award for outstanding contributions to development of television technology
Military
18th-century leaders
- John Armstrong, Sr. – Major General during Revolutionary War
- Ebenezer Denny (Allegheny) – 10th Adjutant General of the U.S. Army
- Edward Hand (Allegheny) – 8th Adjutant General of the U.S. Army
- Archibald Lochry (Westmoreland) – general in French and Indian Wars
- John Neville – General, suppressed the Whiskey Rebellion
- Arthur St. Clair – Major General during Revolutionary War
19th-century leaders
- Absalom Baird (Washington)
- John M. Corse (Allegheny)
- Richard Coulter (Allegheny)
- Richard C. Drum (Westmoreland)
- Benjamin Grierson (Allegheny) – Civil War and Buffalo Soldier
- Alexander Hays – Brigadier General*, repulsed Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
- Francis J. Herron (Allegheny)
- Daniel Leasure (Westmoreland)
- Alexander Murray (Allegheny) – Admiral
- James Scott Negley (Allegheny) – Major General Civil War hero of Murfreesboro
- Robert Orr, Jr. (Westmoreland) – General War of 1812
- Thomas A. Rowley (1808–92) – Brigadier-general; Gettysburg; Civil War
- Jacob B. Sweitzer (Fayette) – General* Civil War, led major offensives at Gettysburg
- Martin Varner (Fayette) – one of the "Original 300" Texas settlers; leader of Texas Revolution, battle of San Jacinto
- Samuel Baldwin Marks Young (Allegheny)
20th-century leaders
- Joseph R. Lamonde
- Manus MacCloskey – Brigadier General
- Samuel Baldwin Marks Young – first Chief of Staff of the Army
21st-century leaders
- Jonathan Greenert (Butler)[14]
- Michael Hayden (Allegheny) – USAF ****, Director of NSA, CIA
- Harry E. Miller Jr., major general who commanded the 42nd Infantry Division[15]
- John F. Sattler (Allegheny)
- Dennis E. Wisnosky (Washington) – CTO of Pentagon
- Rob Wyda (Allegheny) – leading JAG officer, Bagram and Guantanamo military commission
Medal winners: Mexican conflict
Medal winners: Civil War
- Absalom Baird (Washington)
- Amzi D. Harmon (Allegheny)[16]
- Charles Higby (Allegheny)
- Alexander Kelly (Allegheny)
- Alfred L. Pearson (Allegheny) – Medal of Honor
- James Schoonmaker (Allegheny)
Medal winners: World War I
- Joe Thompson (Allegheny) – Pitt coach, Hall of Famer, Medal of Honor recipient
Medal winners: World War II
- Arthur V. Ely (Allegheny)
- Leonard A. Funk, Jr. (Allegheny)
- Charles E. Kelly (Allegheny)
- Archibald Mathies (Washington)
- Mitchell Paige (Washington)
- John J. Pinder, Jr. (Allegheny) – Normandy
- William A. Shomo (Westmoreland)
- Alfred L. Wilson (Fayette)
Medal winners: Vietnam
- Ralph Ellis Dias
- Michael Estocin
- John Gertsch
- James A. Graham
- Anthony Herbert (Westmoreland)
- Walter Joseph Marm, Jr. (Washington)
- William D. Morgan
- Melvin E. Newlin
- Michael Novosel
- William Port
- William Prom
- Leslie H. Sabo, Jr.
- Carl E. Vuono (Washington)
- David F. Winder
Medal winners: Somalia
- Randall Shughart – Medal of Honor for Somalia service
Astronauts
- Jay Apt – astronaut and professor
- Mike Fincke – Colonel, United States Air Force
- Terry Hart – Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force
- James Irwin – lunar module pilot of Apollo 15
- Judith A. Resnick (Allegheny) – killed in Challenger explosion
- Joseph Albert Walker (Washington) – NASA test pilot
Other military
- Adrian Cronauer – soldier, radio personality, subject of Good Morning, Vietnam
- Charles Graner (Allegheny) – U.S. Army reservist convicted of prisoner abuse in connection with 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal
- Philo McGiffen (Washington) – 19th-century naval officer
- James Veneris (Westmoreland) – World War II and Korea vet who defected to China
Government
Governors and mayors
- Bob Cranmer – Allegheny County Commissioner
- Bob Filner – San Diego Mayor
- John F. Forward, Sr. – 12th mayor of San Diego
- John F. Forward, Jr. 21st mayor of San Diego
- Barbara Hafer – first female Allegheny County Commissioner
- William Hendricks (Westmoreland) – Governor of Indiana; moved capital to Indianapolis; uncle of another governor of the state
- John Herriott (Allegheny) – Iowa Lt. Governor 1902–07.
- William F. Johnston (Westmoreland) – Pennsylvania Governor 1848–1852
- John Kasich – Ohio Representative (1983–2001), Governor of Ohio since 2011, and 2000/2016 Republican candidate for president
- John Henry Kinkead (Fayette) – Governor of Nevada, 1st governor of Alaska
- William Carr Lane (Fayette) – first mayor of St. Louis; third governor of New Mexico
- Gary Leitzell (Allegheny) – Mayor of Dayton
- E. W. Marland (Allegheny) – Governor of Oklahoma
- John Martin (Fayette) – Governor of Kansas, founder of the abolitionist movement
- Elliot S.N. Morgan (Allegheny) – Wyoming governor
- Janet Napolitano (Allegheny) – Arizona governor
- Joshua G. Newbold (Fayette) – Iowa governor
- Tom Ridge (Allegheny) – Governor 1995–2001; first Secretary of Homeland Security
- John F. Seymour (Allegheny) – Mayor of Anaheim 1978–82
- John K. Tener (Allegheny) – Governor, former MLB pitcher
- Dick Thornburgh (Allegheny) – Governor 1979–87; U.S. Attorney General 1987–91
- Tom Vilsack (Allegheny) – Iowa Governor, 1999–2007; Agriculture Secretary, 2009–
Congressmen and senators
- James G. Blaine (Washington) – Senator from Maine, twice runner-up for president
- William A. Clark (Fayette) – Montana Senator, founded Clark County, Nevada and Clarksville, Arizona
- Edgar Cowan (Westmoreland) – Senator 1861–67
- John Dalzell (Allegheny) – Congressman 1887–1913; Chairman of the Ways and Means committee 1898–1913
- Geoff Davis – Kentucky Congressman
- John Littleton Dawson (Fayette) – Congressman 1851–67; offered governorship of Kansas; namesake of Dawson County, Nebraska
- Harmar Denny – Congressman 1825–37
- Mike Doyle – Congressman
- Tom Feeney Florida Congressman
- Homer S. Ferguson (Westmoreland) – Michigan Senator 1943–55, Ambassador to the Philippines
- Bob Filner (Allegheny) – California Congressman 1993–2012
- Joseph F. Guffey (Westmoreland) -Senator, 1930s and 1940s
- Orrin Hatch – Utah Senator, 1977–
- John Heinz – Congressman 71–77, Senator 1977–91
- Thomas Marshall Howe – Congressman 1851–55
- John Kasich – Ohio Congressman 1983–01, governor 2011–
- Philander C. Knox – Senator 1901–04, 1917–21, United States Attorney General from 1901–04, Sec. of State from 1909–13
- Robert McKnight – Congressman 1859–63
- George T. Oliver – Senator 1909–17
- Rand Paul – Kentucky Senator 2011–present, Tea Party leader
- Ron Paul – Texas Congressman, presidential candidate
- David A. Reed (Allegheny) – U.S. Senator
- Rick Santorum – Congressman 1991–95, Senator 1995–2007
- Claudine Schneider – Congresswoman Rhode Island 1981–91
- John F. Seymour (Allegheny) – U.S. Senator from California
- John Smilie (Fayette) – Congressman 1793–1812, leader of Anti-Slavery Caucus, founder of abolition
- Amos Townsend (Fayette) – Ohio Congressman 1877–83
- Bill Young (Allegheny) – Florida Congressman 1970–present
- Morgan Ringland Wise (Allegheny)
- John Woods (Fayette) – U.S. Congressman
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman (Allegheny) – Congressman 1917–31
Jurists
- Max Baer (Allegheny) – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2003–
- William Bassler – Federal 1991–06 for N.J. circuit
- Derrick Bell – law professor
- Robert Bork – Supreme Court nominee, and acting AG
- Jeremiah Burrell (Westmoreland) – Federal 1847–56
- Ralph Cappy (Allegheny) – Chief Justice Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2003–08
- Robert J. Cindrich (Washington) – Federal 1994–2004
- George Dallas (Allegheny) – Fed. Court of Appeals 1892–1909
- Edward Dumbauld (Fayette) – Federal 1961–76
- Nathaniel Ewing (Fayette) – Federal 1906–08
- Michael Fisher (Allegheny) – Federal Appeals 2003–
- Albert Gordon – advocate for gay rights[17]
- Ken Gormley (Allegheny)
- Philip Heymann (Allegheny) served in Carter and Clinton administrations
- William G. Hundley – Justice Department prosecutor and criminal defense attorney for high-profile clients, born in Pittsburgh in 1925[18]
- Linda Kelly (Allegheny) Pennsylvania Attorney General
- Gary Lancaster (Fayette) Federal 1987–present
- Rolf Larsen (Allegheny) State Supreme Court Justice
- Donald J. Lee (Allegheny) Federal 1989–2000
- Timothy K. Lewis (Allegheny) Federal 1991–92, Appeals 1992–99
- Carol Los Mansmann (Allegheny) – Federal 1982–85, Appeals 1985–2002
- Rabe Ferguson Marsh, Jr. (Westmoreland) – Federal 1950–77
- Wilson McCandless (Allegheny) – U.S. Judge
- Barron McCune (Westmoreland) – Federal 1970–95, Pittsburgh drug trials
- John Wilson McIlvaine (Washington) – Federal 1955–63
- William McKennan (Washington) – U.S. Judge
- Trisha Meili (Allegheny)
- Joan Melvin (Allegheny) – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2009–
- John Lester Miller (Allegheny) – 1954–71
- Michael Angelo Musmanno (Allegheny) – PA Supreme Court and Nuremberg tribunal
- Ethelbert Oliphant (Fayette) – founding justice Washington Supreme Court
- Charles Prentiss Orr (Allegheny) – 1909–22
- Deborah Palfrey (Westmoreland) – law student who became the D.C. Madam
- Norman Ramsey – Federal 1980–92
- James Reed – Federal Judge and U.S. senator
- Louis Rosenberg (Beaver) – Federal 1962–76
- Ralph Francis Scalera (Beaver) – Federal 1971–76
- Arthur Schwab – U.S. Judge 2002–present
- George Shiras – U.S. Supreme Court
- Daniel John Snyder, Jr. (Westmoreland) – Federal 1973–80
- Herbert Peter Sorg (Elk) – Federal 1955–76
- William Alvah Stewart (Allegheny) – Federal 1951–53
- Hubert Irving Teitelbaum (Allegheny) – 1970–1985
- W. H. Seward Thomson (Beaver) Federal – 1914–28
- Gerald Tjoflat – Appeals 1975–present
- Debra Todd – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2007–
- Joseph F. Weis, Jr. (Allegheny) – Federal 1970–73, Appeals 1973–88
- Veronica Wicker (Westmoreland) – Federal 1977–94 in New Orleans
- James Scott Young (Allegheny) – Federal 1908–14
- Donald Emil Ziegler (Allegheny) – Federal 1978–2003
CIA and defense administrators
- Victoria "Torie" Clarke – Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under George W. Bush
- Michael Hayden – CIA director 2006–09
White House cabinet
- James G. Blaine – Secretary of State, twice runner-up for president
- James J. Davis – Secretary of Labor under presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
- Walter Forward – United States Secretary of the Treasury under John Tyler, 1841–1843
- Albert Gallatin – Treasury Secretary
- John Holdren – OSTP Director 2009–
- Andrew Mellon – longest-serving United States Treasury Secretary in US history
- Paul O'Neill – 72nd United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Edwin Stanton – Secretary of War under President Lincoln
- Judge William Wilkins (Allegheny) – Secretary of War under President Tyler
Ambassadors
- Homer S. Ferguson – Philippines
- Walter Forward – Denmark
- Mark Gilbert – New Zealand; also Major League Baseball player
- George W. Guthrie – Japan
- William W. Irwin – Denmark
- Andrew Mellon – Great Britain 1932–33
- Alexander Pollock Moore – Spain and Peru
- Ronald D. Palmer – 1976 to 1989
- Dan Rooney – Ireland 2009–present
- Edith S. Sampson – first African-American in the U.N. (1950–53) and NATO (1961–62)
- Adolph W. Schmidt (Allegheny) – Canada 1969–74
- Phillips Talbot – Greece
- Judge William Wilkins (Allegheny) – Russia 1834–35
State legislators
- Paul P. Boswell – physician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives
- David Dank – member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives since 2007
- John R. Jones – member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- Andrew P. Kealy – member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- Alexander McDonald Thomson – Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Other administrators and advisors
- Rachel Foster Avery
- John Brabender
- Murray Chotiner
- Patrick R. Donahoe
- Tony Fratto – Deputy Press Secretary 2006–09
- Elsie Hillman – former Republican National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania
Law enforcement
- Vic Cianca – Pittsburgh traffic cop made famous by Johnny Carson, Candid Camera and Flashdance
- Thomas Delahanty – police officer who took a bullet in President Ronald Reagan's 1981 assassination attempt; declared a hero and awarded a medal for bravery
See also
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