Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania after Philadelphia .
Pittsburgh skyline at twilight
Porky Chedwick – announcerFoo Conner – journalistRege Cordic – actor and broadcasterBill Cullen – TV game show hostJohn Dennis – radio hostFrank DiLeo – Michael Jackson's manager, Goodfellas cast memberPhil Frank – cartoonist Chris Garver – tattoo artist , Miami Ink Justine Ezarik (aka. iJustine) – YouTube personalityRafe Judkins – Survivor: Guatemala Sarah Kozer – Joe Millionaire Billy Mays – television direct-response advertisement salespersonSheena Monnin – Miss PennsylvaniaJenna 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 Lucian Wintrich – Artist, writer, photographer, former White House Correspondent for Gateway Pundit
Antoine Fuqua – directorJohn P. Harris – invented the first movie theaterDavid Hollander – TV and movie producer, directorTim Kaiser – producer, Seinfeld , Will & Grace , 2 Broke Girls Carl Kurlander – film producer, writerSally Lapiduss – producerRob Marshall – director, Chicago Greg Nicotero – actor, director, producer, special effects and makeup artist The Walking Dead Eric Red – screenwriter and directorFord Riley – producer, screenwriter and lyricist; created The Lion Guard George A. Romero – director, best known for Night of the Living Dead Richard Rossi – directorTom Savini – actor, stunt man, director, special effects and makeup artistLou Scheimer – animator, voice actor, co-founder of animation studio Filmation David O. Selznick – film producer, Gone with the Wind Lewis J. Selznick – film producerMyron Selznick – producer, talent agency head
Music
Dancers and choreographers
Authors
Joseph Bathanti – poet, writer, professor; NC Poet Laureate , 2012–2014Nellie Bly – Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and writerKenneth Burke – literary theoristRachel Carson — marine biologist, writer, and conservationist Willa Cather – author, Pulitzer Prize winnerMichael Chabon – Pulitzer Prize-winning authorMurray Chass – New York Times Stephen Chbosky – authorMalcolm Cowley – poet, criticMelanie Craft – novelist; wife of Larry Ellison of OracleStephen Dau – writerAnnie Dillard – author and Pulitzer Prize winnerHarry Dolan – writerZak Ebrahim – author, peace activist, public speakerJack Gilbert – poetLester Goran – writer and professorBeth Gylys – poet and professorGeorge Heard Hamilton – art historianKerry Hannon – authorAgatha Tiegel Hanson – writer, poet, and editorSamuel Hazo – poet and professorLori Jakiela – authorGeorge S. Kaufman – humorist, playwrightJoseph Koerner – art historianDavid Leavitt – novelistStephen Manes – magazine writer, authorDavid McCullough – historian and author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winnerElizabeth Moorhead – novelistBurton Morris – painterStewart O'Nan – authorPeter Oresick – poetMary Roberts Rinehart – mystery writerWilliam Roos – playwright, mystery novelist, and screenwriterGladys Schmitt – writerJim Shooter – comic book writer, editor and publisherMichael Simms – poet in Pittsburgh since 1987George Smith – gambler, handicapperGertrude Stein – writer, poet, playwright, and feminist Gerald Stern – poetKathleen Tessaro – novelistJohn Edgar Wideman – author and professorAugust Wilson – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrightCecilia Woloch – poet and writerDamon Young (writer) – author and columnist
Quarterbacks
Marc Bulger – 2000–2011, Super Bowl[7] Chuck Fusina – NFL 1979–1986Bruce Gradkowski – Steelers , Bucs , Raiders 2006–2016Major Harris – record-setter in college and CFLLeon Hart – Heisman Trophy , College Hall of Fame Al Jacks – quarterback, Penn State and college head coachJim Kelly – 1986–1996, Hall of Fame , 4 Super Bowl appearancesDan Marino – 1983–1999, Hall of Fame 1 Super Bowl appearanceMike McMahon – NFL, CFL, UFL quarterback 2001–2012Joe Namath – New York Jets, Alabama Crimson Tide National ChampionRod Rutherford – NFL quarterback 2004–2006 and college coachMatt Schaub – NFL quarterback 2004–2020Willie Thrower – first black quarterback in the NFL*Johnny Unitas – 1956–1973, Hall of Famer , two Super Bowls Alex Van Pelt – 1995–2003Scott Zolak – 1991–1999, 1 Super Bowl appearance
Defensive backs and linebackers
Technology and communications
Ross Allen – herpetologist Frederick S. Billig – scramjet pioneerDaniel Chamovitz – biologist, author of What a Plant Knows Ben Gurion University of the Negev [12] Yuan Chang – virologist, co-discoverer of causes of several viral cancers, including Kaposi's sarcoma Norman Christ – physicistChilds Frick George Otto Gey – scientist who propagated the HeLa cell lineWilliam Jacob Holland – entomologist and chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania Irene Jakab (1919–2011) – native of Hungary, psychiatrist and humanist ; member of the faculties of Harvard University , the University of Pittsburgh and the McLean Hospital Ayana Jordan – addiction psychiatristRandy Pausch – founder of Alice , and man behind the Last Lecture David M. Pozar – electrical engineer and academician[13] Jonas Salk – physician, inventor of first polio vaccine Alex Shigo – arboriculturist and horticulturist Clifford Shull – Nobel Prize winnerHerbert A. Simon – Carnegie Mellon University professor; winner of Nobel Prize for EconomicsThomas Starzl – pioneering transplant surgeon in liver and multiorgan transplantationJesse 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 professorNicholas E. Wagman Sandra Welner (1958–2001) – physician, advocate for disabled women's healthcareJerome Wolken (1917–1999) – biophysicist[14] Jamie Zawinski Jonathan Zittrain – 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
Medal recipients: World War I
Medal recipients: World War II
Medal recipients: Vietnam
CIA and defense administrators
Other administrators and advisors
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
