This article contains a list of notable people who were born or lived a significant amount of time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the second-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia.

Artists Actresses

Tina Benko Julie Benz Lori Cardille Caitlin Clarke Dolores Costello Marpessa Dawn Lisa Emery Barbara Feldon Rita Gam Elizabeth Hartman Gillian Jacobs Cherie Johnson Kimmarie Johnson Shirley Jones Lorelei King Christine Laitta Chloe Lukasiak Heather Mazur Mitzi McCall Judith McConnell Lia McHugh Anisha Nagarajan Evelyn Nesbit Sandra Dee Robinson Margot Rose Zelda Rubinstein Lillian Russell Rena Sofer Nia Sioux Sam Sorbo Mackenzie Ziegler Maddie Ziegler

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 Charles Esten Patrick Fabian Joe Flaherty Scott Glenn Jeff Goldblum 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 Johnny Sins Jamie Smith – actor, The Faithful City, Killer's KissMendlowitz, Leonard (May 16, 1952). "Pittsburgh Actor Lands Movie Role". Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. p. 21. Retrieved February 9, 2025. Jimmy Stewart Regis Toomey Fritz Weaver

Comedians

Marty Allen Steve Byrne Patti Deutsch Billy Gardell Eddie Ifft Anthony Jeselnik Jesse Joyce Mario Joyner Maxine Lapiduss Dennis Miller Frank Nicotero

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 Murray Chass – sportswriter Beano Cook – ESPN college football analyst Myron Cope – sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster Scott Ferrall – sports talk radio host Howard Fineman – Newsweek journalist Fred Honsberger – broadcaster Sue Kerr – LGBTQ writer Jay Mariotti – sportswriter Jeanne Moos – CNN reporter Art Pallan – broadcaster Jim Quinn – radio talk show host Martha Rial – 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography Rick Sebak – WQED documentarian Paul Shannon – host of WTAE-TV children's show Adventure Time John Stehr – anchorman at WTHR in Indianapolis, Indiana Bari Weiss – opinion writer and editor

Media personalities

Porky Chedwick – announcer Foo Conner – journalist 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 (Justine Ezarik) – YouTube personality Rafe Judkins – Survivor: Guatemala Lydia B Kollins – drag queen, RuPaul's Drag Race Season 17, All Stars Season 10 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 Lucian Wintrich – artist, writer, photographer, former White House correspondent for The Gateway Pundit

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 Greg Nicotero – actor, director, producer, special effects and makeup artist The Walking Dead 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, screenwriter, actor, musician, known for Baseball's Last Hero: 21 Clemente Stories 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 Ray Anthony – bandleader 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 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 Horace Parlan – pianist Leo Pellegrino – baritone saxophonist 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

Loren Allred – singer 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 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 Reb Beach – guitarist in the rock bands Winger and Whitesnake Black Moth Super Rainbow – psychedelic electronic band Bobby Blotzer – drummer for Ratt Ceann – Irish drinking music rock band William Fitzsimmons – musician feeble little horse - indie rock band Girl Talk – musician, real name Gregg Gillis Gramsci Melodic – alternative rock band Joe Grushecky – Iron City Houserockers, solo artist; worked with Bruce Springsteen Donnie Iris – musician Ray Luzier – Korn member Jerry Mason – singer Bret Michaels- singer for Poison and star of Rock of Love Weird Paul Petroskey – lo-fi musician Justin Sane – lead guitarist and co-singer/songwriter of the political punk rock band Anti-Flag The Seven Fields of Aphelion – ambient electronic musician and member of BMSR Spike Slawson – singer for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Tobacco – electronic musician and founder of BMSR

Classical

Victor Herbert

Country and folk

Eric Andersen Gabby Barrett Bill Deasy Guaranteed Irish Dan LevensonLogan, Neill (April 11, 2008) "A Fine Pick at Roots-Music Fest", St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved April 18, 2024.

Pop

Tunde Adebimpe – singer, TV on the Radio Christina Aguilera – pop singer / actress / TV judge Michele Brourman – composer Lou Christie – pop singer, "Lightning Strikes" Perry Como – crooner Daya – pop singer/songwriter The Del-Vikings – vocal group, Come Go With Me 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" The Skyliners – vocal group, Since I Don't Have You Jack Stauber – synth-pop singer-songwriter/instrumentalist B. E. Taylor – musician Bobby Vinton – pop singer, "Blue Velvet" Brian Young – drummer and percussionist, Fountains of Wayne

Rap and hip-hop

Beedie Grand Buffet – rap duo Jasiri X – artist, activist, rapper, entrepreneur Jero Wiz Khalifa Lady Miss Kier – Deee-Lite Mel-Man – hip hop producer and rapper Mac Miller Pittsburgh Slim Chevy Woods Jimmy Wopo

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 Chloe Lukasiak – actress and former featured dancer on TV show Dance Moms Abby Lee Miller – former dance studio owner, choreographer and team coach for Abby Lee Dance Company; featured on TV show Dance Moms Nia Sioux-featured dancer on TV show “Dance Moms” Paul Taylor – choreographer Jonathan Wolken (1949–2010) – founder of the Pilobolus dance companyFox, Margalit. "Jonathan Wolken, a Founder of Pilobolus, Dies at 60", The New York Times, June 15, 2010. Accessed July 5, 2010. Maddie Ziegler – actress and former featured dancer on TV show Dance Moms Mackenzie Ziegler – singer

Visual arts

Matt Baker – comic book artist Romare Bearden Martin Beck – painter Seddon Bennington Sharif Bey – sculptor, ceramist, educator Ailsa Mellon Bruce – Mellon heir and art patron Norman Daly – visual artist Vanessa German – sculptor, poet David Hanna – artist Charles "Teenie" Harris – photographer Jerry Harris – sculptor Yvonne Jacquette – painter and printmaker Henry Koerner – painter Michael Lotenero – painter and sculptor Scott McDaniel – comic book artist James Michalopoulos – painter and sculptor Burton Morris – artist Thaddeus Mosley – sculptor Sharon Needles – drag queen, winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 4 Jackie Ormes Philip Pearlstein – painter Sara Penn – designer and curator Ed Piskor – comic book artist Robert Qualters – painter Sue Reno – fiber artist Lawrence Saint – stained glass artist Naomi Sims – model Quest Skinner – mixed media artist George Sotter – painter Jack Stauber – animator 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 Rachel Carson – marine biologist, writer, and conservationist 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 Ed Folsom – professor and editor Jack Gilbert – poet Lester Goran – writer and professor Beth Gylys – poet and professor George Heard Hamilton – art historian Kerry Hannon – author Agatha Tiegel Hanson – writer, poet, and editor Samuel Hazo – poet and professor Lori Jakiela – author George S. Kaufman – humorist, playwright Joseph Koerner – art historian David Leavitt – novelist Stephen Manes – magazine writer, author David McCullough – historian and author and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Moorhead – novelist Burton Morris – painter Stewart O'Nan – author Peter Oresick – poet a. k. payne - playwright Mary Roberts Rinehart – mystery writer