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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.


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Contents





  • 1 Artists

    • 1.1 Actresses


    • 1.2 Actors


    • 1.3 Comedians


    • 1.4 Reporters and anchors


    • 1.5 Media personalities


    • 1.6 Producers, directors, and effects


    • 1.7 Music

      • 1.7.1 Jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel


      • 1.7.2 Classics and standards


      • 1.7.3 Rock and alternative


      • 1.7.4 Classical


      • 1.7.5 Country and folk


      • 1.7.6 Pop


      • 1.7.7 Rap and hip-hop


      • 1.7.8 Dancers and choreographers



    • 1.8 Visual arts


    • 1.9 Authors



  • 2 Athletes

    • 2.1 Baseball

      • 2.1.1 Baseball contributors



    • 2.2 Basketball

      • 2.2.1 Coaches


      • 2.2.2 Forwards and centers


      • 2.2.3 Guards


      • 2.2.4 Basketball contributors



    • 2.3 Boxing


    • 2.4 Figure skating


    • 2.5 Football

      • 2.5.1 Coaches: primarily NFL


      • 2.5.2 Coaches: other football


      • 2.5.3 Quarterbacks


      • 2.5.4 Running backs


      • 2.5.5 Receivers and tight ends


      • 2.5.6 Offensive linemen


      • 2.5.7 Defensive linemen


      • 2.5.8 Defensive backs and linebackers


      • 2.5.9 Football specialists


      • 2.5.10 Football contributors



    • 2.6 Golf


    • 2.7 Hockey

      • 2.7.1 Centers and wingers


      • 2.7.2 Defense


      • 2.7.3 Goalies


      • 2.7.4 Hockey contributors



    • 2.8 Motorsports


    • 2.9 Olympic sports


    • 2.10 Soccer


    • 2.11 Tennis


    • 2.12 Wrestling


    • 2.13 Other sports



  • 3 Industry

    • 3.1 Aviation


    • 3.2 Steel and metals


    • 3.3 Energy


    • 3.4 Transport


    • 3.5 Finance


    • 3.6 Technology and communications


    • 3.7 Consumer goods


    • 3.8 Other industries


    • 3.9 Labor



  • 4 Religion


  • 5 Science and research


  • 6 Military

    • 6.1 18th-century leaders


    • 6.2 19th-century leaders


    • 6.3 20th-century leaders


    • 6.4 21st-century leaders


    • 6.5 Medal winners: Mexican conflict


    • 6.6 Medal winners: Civil War


    • 6.7 Medal winners: World War I


    • 6.8 Medal winners: World War II


    • 6.9 Medal winners: Vietnam


    • 6.10 Astronauts


    • 6.11 Other military



  • 7 Government

    • 7.1 Governors and mayors


    • 7.2 Congressmen and senators


    • 7.3 Jurists


    • 7.4 CIA and defense administrators


    • 7.5 White House cabinet


    • 7.6 Ambassadors


    • 7.7 State legislators


    • 7.8 Other administrators and advisors


    • 7.9 Law enforcement



  • 8 See also


  • 9 References


  • 10 External links




Artists[edit]



Actresses[edit]



  • 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[edit]



  • 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[edit]



  • Marty Allen

  • Steve Byrne

  • Patti Deutsch

  • Billy Gardell

  • Eddie Ifft

  • Anthony Jeselnik

  • Mario Joyner

  • Maxine Lapiduss

  • Dennis Miller

  • Frank Nicotero



Reporters and anchors[edit]




  • 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


  • 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[edit]




  • Porky Chedwick – announcer


  • Foo Conner - journalist and YouTuber


  • 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


  • Justine Ezarik (aka. iJustine) – YouTube personality


  • Rafe Judkins – Survivor: Guatemala


  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]


See also: Category:Musicians from Pittsburgh


Jazz, soul, R&B, and gospel[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]



  • Victor Herbert


Country and folk[edit]



  • Eric Andersen

  • Bill Deasy

  • Guaranteed Irish (band)



Pop[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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


  • Zak Ebrahim – Author, Peace Activist, Public Speaker


  • 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


  • Elizabeth Moorhead - novelist


  • Stewart O'Nan – author


  • Peter Oresick – poet


  • Mary Roberts Rinehart – mystery writer


  • Gladys Schmitt – writer


  • Jim Shooter – comic book writer, editor and publisher


  • 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[edit]



Baseball[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]



Coaches[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • Moe Barr – 1970–71 NBA

  • Paul Birch


  • Ron Carter – 1978–80 NBA


  • Calvin Fowler – 1969–70

  • DeAndre Kane


  • T. J. McConnell – Arizona Wildcats and Philadelphia 76ers


  • Jack Twyman – 1955–66, Hall of Famer



Basketball contributors[edit]




  • Mark Cuban – Mavericks owner


  • Tim Grgurich – Pitt coach


  • Ted Stepien – Cavs former owner



Boxing[edit]




  • Bob Baker – heavyweight contender


  • Eddie Chambers – Heavyweight and Cruiserweight Contender, 2008–2016


  • Billy Conn – light-heavyweight champ 1939–41


  • Andy DePaul – middleweight contender, referee


  • Harry Greb – middleweight champ 1923


  • Frank Klaus – middleweight champ 1904


  • Paul Spadafora – lightweight champ, 1999


  • Jackie Wilson – featherweight champ, early 1900s (decade)


  • Teddy Yarosz – middleweight champ, 1934


  • Fritzie Zivic – welterweight champ, 1940



Figure skating[edit]




  • 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[edit]



Coaches: primarily NFL[edit]




  • 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)


  • Mike McCarthy – Packers head coach 2005–2018


  • Herb McCracken – college 1920s and 1930s


  • Mike Miller – assistant 1999–present


  • Dick Nolan – head coach, San Francisco 49ers and New Orleans Saints



Coaches: other football[edit]




  • Frank Cignetti, Jr. – Rutgers


  • Tom Davies – 1922–47


  • Rich Lackner – Carnegie Mellon 1986–



Quarterbacks[edit]




  • Marc Bulger – 2000–2011, Super Bowl[7]


  • Chuck Fusina – NFL 1979–86


  • Bruce Gradkowski – Buccs, Raiders 2006–


  • Major Harris – record-setter in college and CFL


  • Leon Hart – Heisman Trophy, College Hall of Fame

  • Al Jacks


  • Jim Kelly – 1986–96, Hall of Fame, four Super Bowls


  • Dan Marino – 1983–99, Hall of Fame, Super Bowl


  • Mike McMahon – 2001–present


  • Rod Rutherford – 2003–present


  • Matt Schaub – 2004–present


  • Johnny Unitas – 1956–73, Hall of Famer, two Super Bowls


  • Alex Van Pelt – 1995–2003


  • Scott Zolak – 1991–99 Super Bowl appearance



Running backs[edit]



  • Kevan Barlow


  • Cookie Gilchrist – AFL and CFL


  • Warren Heller – 1930s

  • William F. Knox


  • Roger Kochman – 1963


  • Curtis Martin – 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


  • Ray Zellars – Saints



Receivers and tight ends[edit]




  • 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 – NFL tight end 1963–69, Super Bowl


  • Brandon Marshall – NFL wide receiver 2006–present


  • Rasheed Marshall – NFL wide receiver 2005–present


  • Joel Williams – NFL tight end, 1987



Offensive linemen[edit]




  • 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


  • Gary Greaves AFL tackle 1960


  • Leander Jordan – offensive lineman Carolina Panthers, San Diego Chargers, Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars


  • Mose Lantz NFL center 1933


  • 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[edit]




  • Mike Barnes – Pro Bowler 1973–1981


  • Bob Buczkowski – NFL defensive end in the 1980s


  • Sam Clancy – NFL defensive end in the 1980s and 1990s


  • Ave Daniell – NFL tackle in the 1930s


  • Aaron Donald – 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[edit]




  • LaVar Arrington – NFL linebacker 2000–06


  • Jack Butler – cornerback 1951–59, Pro Football Hall of Fame


  • Jim Flanigan Sr. – NFL linebacker 1960s and 1970s


  • Don Graham Penn State, NFL 1987–89


  • Justin King – NFL 2008–present


  • 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 – NFL safety in the 1970s


  • Joe Schmidt – linebacker 1953–65, Hall of Fame


  • Raymond Ventrone – safety, Cleveland Browns


  • Eric Wicks – safety, finalist for Bronko Nagurski Award in 2007



Football specialists[edit]




  • Don Silvestri – kicker in the 1990s


Football contributors[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]



Centers and wingers[edit]




  • Riley Barber – Capitals winger, 2017–


  • Ryan Malone – Penguins, Lightning, Rangers winger 2003–15; 2017


  • Gerry O'Flaherty – Leafs, Canucks, Flames 1971–79


  • Brandon Saad – Chicago Blackhawks winger 2011–


  • Henrik Samuelsson – Coyotes winger 2014–


  • William Thomas – Anyang Halla winger 2005–


  • Vincent Trocheck – Panthers


  • R. J. Umberger – Flyers, Jackets center 2005–





Defense[edit]




  • Matt Bartkowski – Iowa Wild


  • Bob Beers – Bruins, Lightning, Oilers, Islanders defenseman 1989–97


  • Dylan Reese – Rangers, Islanders, Penguins 2007–


  • Mike Weber - former NHL defenseman.



Goalies[edit]




  • John Gibson – player for Anaheim Ducks


Hockey contributors[edit]




  • James Wallace Conant – managed Duquesne Gardens


Motorsports[edit]



  • Chip Ganassi – former driver, now team owner in IndyCar and NASCAR


  • Dick Linder – 1950s NASCAR driver


Olympic sports[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • Meghan Klingenberg – player for the Portland Thorns FC and United States women's national soccer team


  • A. J. Wood – MLS player


  • Marvell Wynne II – defender for MLS side Colorado Rapids



Tennis[edit]




  • Bjorn Fratangelo – French Open boys' champion[9]


  • Bonnie Gadusek – pro tennis player, reached U.S. Open quarterfinals


  • Gretchen Magers – reached Wimbledon and French Open quarterfinals


  • Alison Riske -WTA player, reached 4th round of U.S. Open



Wrestling[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • Danny Chew – cyclist, winner Race Across America (1996, 1999)


  • Joseph Kearney – Athletic Administrator


  • George Smith – horse racing


  • Tom Wallisch – Professional Skier



Industry[edit]



Aviation[edit]




  • Willard Rockwell – formed Rockwell Intl.


  • Calbraith Perry Rodgers – made the first transcontinental flight



Steel and metals[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • Erik 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[edit]




  • John F. Donahue (Allegheny) – chairman, Federated Investors


  • Stanley Druckenmiller (Allegheny) – hedge fund manager


  • Thomas Marshall Howe – 19th-century politician


  • Richard B. Mellon – banker, philanthropist


  • Thomas Mellon – founded Mellon Financial


  • Jim Rohr (Allegheny) – CEO of PNC Bank 2000–2013


  • David Tepper – hedge fund manager


  • William Thaw – 19th-century banker



Technology and communications[edit]




  • William Bullock (Allegheny) – printing press innovator


  • Bill Campbell (Allegheny) – CEO of Intuit


  • Brendan Eich – Mozilla, creator of JavaScript


  • John P. Harris (Allegheny) – theater owner


  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]



  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]



18th-century leaders[edit]




  • 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[edit]




  • 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[edit]



  • Joseph R. Lamonde


  • Manus MacCloskey – Brigadier General


  • Samuel Baldwin Marks Young – first Chief of Staff of the Army



21st-century leaders[edit]




  • Michael Hayden (Allegheny) – USAF ****, Director of NSA, CIA


  • Harry E. Miller Jr., major general who commanded the 42nd Infantry Division[14]



Medal winners: Mexican conflict[edit]



  • Charles Bishop

  • Robert Semple



Medal winners: Civil War[edit]




  • Absalom Baird (Washington)


  • Amzi D. Harmon (Allegheny)[15]


  • Charles Higby (Allegheny)


  • Alexander Kelly (Allegheny)


  • Alfred L. Pearson (Allegheny) – Medal of Honor


  • James Schoonmaker (Allegheny)



Medal winners: World War I[edit]




  • Joe Thompson (Allegheny) – Pitt coach, Hall of Famer, Medal of Honor recipient


Medal winners: World War II[edit]




  • 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[edit]



  • William D. Morgan

  • William R. Prom



Astronauts[edit]




  • 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



Other military[edit]




  • Adrian Cronauer – soldier, radio personality, subject of Good Morning, Vietnam


  • Charles Graner – U.S. Army reservist convicted of prisoner abuse in connection with 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal



Government[edit]



Governors and mayors[edit]


See also: Mayors of Pittsburgh



  • 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 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[edit]




  • John Dalzell – Congressman 1887–1913; Chairman of the Ways and Means committee 1898–1913


  • Harmar Denny – Congressman 1825–37


  • 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


  • Morgan Ringland Wise (Allegheny)


  • John Woods (Fayette) – U.S. Congressman



Jurists[edit]


See also: Allegheny County District Attorney



  • Max Baer – Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2003–


  • Derrick Bell – law professor


  • Robert Bork – Supreme Court nominee, and acting AG


  • George Dallas – Fed. Court of Appeals 1892–1909


  • Michael Fisher – Federal Appeals 2003–


  • Albert Gordon – advocate for gay rights[16]

  • Ken Gormley


  • Philip Heymann 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[17]


  • Linda Kelly Pennsylvania Attorney General


  • Rolf Larsen State Supreme Court Justice


  • Donald J. Lee Federal 1989–2000


  • Timothy K. Lewis 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[edit]



  • Victoria "Torie" Clarke – Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under George W. Bush


  • Michael Hayden – CIA director 2006–09


White House cabinet[edit]




  • 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


  • Paul H. O'Neill – 72nd United States Secretary of the Treasury


  • Edwin Stanton – Secretary of War under President Lincoln

  • Judge William Wilkins – Secretary of War under President Tyler



Ambassadors[edit]




  • 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


  • Dan Rooney – Ireland 2009–present


  • Edith S. Sampson – first African-American in the U.N. (1950–53) and NATO (1961–62)


  • Adolph W. Schmidt – Canada 1969–74


  • Phillips Talbot – Greece


  • Judge William Wilkins – Russia 1834–35



State legislators[edit]




  • 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[edit]



  • 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[edit]


See also: Pittsburgh Police Chief and Allegheny County Sheriff



  • 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[edit]


  • List of people from Pennsylvania


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