List of notable University of Pittsburgh people
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This is a list of encyclopedic people associated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States of America.
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[edit] Chancellors
- John Gabbert Bowman — Initiated and completed the Cathedral of Learning and established the University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Wesley Posvar 1967-1991
[edit] Notable alumni, professors, and staff
[edit] Arts and entertainment
- Michael Chabon — 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written a number of books set in Pittsburgh.
- Caitlin Clarke — American theater and film actress and theatre teacher.
- David Dalessandro — screenwriter of 2006 thriller Snakes on a Plane.
- Stephen Dau — writer
- Keith Haring — Pop artist. (did not graduate)
- Frederick A. Hetzel — University Press publisher.
- John Irving — Author, The Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp. (did not graduate)
- Delanie Jenkins — Professor and Artist.
- Gene Kelly — Dancer and Actor.
- Margrit Kennedy — German architecht and ecologist. (Ph.D., Public and International Affairs) [1]
- Charles Klauder — Architect known for work on university buildings and campus designs, especially his Cathedral of Learning, the first educational skyscraper.
- Lorin Maazel Conductor, violinist, and composer, New York Philharmonic. (did not graduate)
- Bebe Moore Campbell — Author and journalist.
- Robert Schilling — Musician and songwriter. (BA, MBA, MS/MIS)
- Ed Ochester — Professor, poet, and editor.
- Barbara Paul — Writer. (PhD)
- Rob Penny — Professor, poet, and playwright.
- Leo Robin — Composer and songwriter. (law degree)
- Rev. Frederick McFeely Rogers Host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, ordained Presbyterian minister, and advocate for the education and welfare of children. (Graduate School of Child Development)
- Gerald Stern — National Book Award-winning poet. (BA, English)
- August Wilson — 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who wrote about the African-American experience in the 20th century.
[edit] Athletics
- Matthew Bloom — Professional wrestler and San Diego Charger. (alumnus)
- Antonio Bryant - Pro football player, Fred Biletnikoff Award winner.
- Jason Conti — Major League Baseball player.[2]
- Mike Ditka — Member of Pro Football Hall of Fame.
- Tony Dorsett — Member of Pro Football Hall of Fame; Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and Walter Camp Award winner.
- Larry Fitzgerald — Pro football player, Walter Camp Award and Fred Biletnikoff Award winner.
- Bill Fralic — Atlanta Falcons offensive lineman, member of College Football Hall of Fame.
- Marshall Goldberg — All-Pro Chicago Cardinals defensive back, member of College Football Hall of Fame.
- Hugh Green — Pro football player; Lombardi Award, Maxwell Award, and Walter Camp Award winner.
- Art Griggs — Major League Baseball player.[3]
- Dick Hoblitzel — Major League Baseball player.[4]
- Jimmy Johnson — Broadcaster and first American football coach to win both a NCAA Division 1A National Championship and a Super Bowl.
- Russ Kemmerer — Major League Baseball player.[5]
- Roger Kingdom — Sprint hurdler, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and World Record holder.
- Billy Knight — ABA & NBA basketball player, current GM of the Atlanta Hawks.
- Bill Maas - Defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers.
- Ken Macha — Major League Baseball player and manager.
- Dan Marino — Member of Pro Football Hall of Fame.
- Curtis Martin — Pro football running back, 4th leading rusher of all time.
- Mark May — ESPN Sports Commentator, Outland Trophy winner.
- Mike McCarthy — Head coach of the Green Bay Packers. Assistant football coach at the University of Pittsburgh.
- George "Doc" Medich — Major League Baseball player.
- Johnny Miljus — Major League Baseball player.[6]
- Marty Schottenheimer — Head coach of the San Diego Chargers.
- Jackie Sherrill — Head football coach at the University of Pittsburgh from 1977 to 1981.
- Sal Sunseri — Pro football coach.[citation needed]
- Jock Sutherland — Hall of Fame football coach, All-American Football player.
- Steve Swetonic — Major League Baseball player.[7]
- Dave Wannstedt — Coach for several NFL and college teams, including the University of Pittsburgh.
[edit] Business
- Pat Croce — President of the Philadelphia 76ers [1].
- Dōng Hàoyún — Chinese shipping magnate, founder of the Orient Overseas Line (now OOCL ), and owner of the largest ship ever built. Cooperated with various University of Pittsburgh to run the academic program at sea.
- Andrew W. Mellon — Banker, philanthropist, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and founder of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, which later merged with Carnegie Institute of Technology to form Carnegie Mellon University. (alumnus)
- Ning Gaoning — Chairman of COFCO International Limited. (MBA)
- Sung Won Sohn — President of Hanmi Financial Corp. (Ph.D)
- David Tepper — Successful speculator, Hedge Fund manager.
- Stephen Tritch — CEO of Westinghouse. (BS, mechanical engineering, 1971; MBA, 1977)[2]
- Thomas Usher — Chairman of U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil.[9] Trustee of University of Pittsburgh, and director of Extra Mile Education Foundation and Boy Scouts of America. (undergraduate, master's and Ph.D degrees)[10]
[edit] Education
- Alan Lesgold — Dean of Education
- Lauren Resnick — President of the American Educational Research Association
- Helen Faison — First African American high school principal and superintendent in the Pittsburgh Public Schools.[citation needed]
[edit] History
- David Montgomery — Historian
[edit] Philosophy
- Patricia Churchland — 1991 MacArthur Prize-winning philosopher noted for her work in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy. Associated with a school of thought called eliminativism or eliminative materialism.
- James F. Conant — American philosopher who has written extensively about the philosophy of language, ethics, and metaphilosophy. Known for his writings on Wittgenstein and his association with the New Wittgenstein interpretation.
- Robert Brandom — Philosopher ("the Iron City Kant") and author of Making it Explicit.
- David Gauthier — Canadian-American neo-Hobbesian philosopher, author of Morals By Agreement, and philosophy department chairman.
- John McDowell — Philosopher, author of Mind and World.
- John Haugeland — Professor and philosopher whose work has focused on the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, phenomenology, and Heidegger. Coined the term "Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence".
- Wilfrid Sellars — Philosopher and critic of foundationalist epistemology whose work is the foundation and archetype of what is sometimes called the "Pittsburgh School".
[edit] Politics, law, and activism
- Ruggero J. Aldisert — Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Adjunct professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
- Eugene Atkinson — Member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
- Gust Avrakotos — Case officer and division chief for the CIA. Best known for the massive arming of Afghan Mujahideen in the 1980s in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, chronicled in book Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History by George Crile.
- Derrick Bell — Law professor, first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School, dean of U. of Oregon Law School. (law degree)
- Michael Bilirakis — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives.
- Frank Buchanan— Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and Mayor of McKeesport, Pennsylvania (1924–1928 and 1931–1942).
- Ben Cardin — Democratic member of the United States House of Represenatatives - Senator-Elect.
- Robert J. Corbett — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
- Father James Cox — U.S. Presidential candidate in 1932 and labor activist.
- Adrian Cronauer — Disc jockey, attorney, activist, basis for the movie Good Morning, Vietnam. Founded WPGH AM radio station.
- Tom Feeney — U.S. representative. (law degree)
- Melissa Hart — U.S. representative. (law degree)
- Orrin Hatch — U.S. senator. (law degree)
- Hoang Duc Nga — South Vietnamese Information Minister (B.S.E.E., 1966).[3]
- Frank Houben — Dutch provincial governor. (alumnus)
- William Lerach — Securities class-action lawyer, lead attorney in suit against Enron. (undergraduate and law degree)
- Samuel D. Levy — Attorney; Commercial Litigator New York City; Named Among Best in America.
- Wangari Maathai — 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
- Jim Moran — Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives.
- John Murtha — U.S. representative.
- Ron Paul — Physician, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, 1988 Libertarian Party presidential nominee. (Obstetrics and Gynecology training)
- Rick Santorum — U.S. Senator. (MBA)
- Richard Mellon Scaife — Conservative activist, newspaper publisher, philanthropist.
- Elmer Eric Schattschneider — Political scientist.
- Richard M. Simpson — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
- Richard Thornburgh — U.S. Attorney General, Governor of Pennsylvania. (law degree)
- Harve Tibbott — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
- James A. Traficant Jr. — Convicted U.S. representative from Ohio.
- Albert Wynn — Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives.
- Young woo kang — Member of National Council On Disability (master's and Ph.D degrees)
[edit] Science, medicine, and technology
- Herbert Boyer — Biochemist.
- Erik Buell — Engineer, founder and chairman of Buell Motorcycle Company - subsidiary of Harley-Davidson.
- Reginald Aubrey Fessenden Canadian inventor, chemist, and sonar pioneer who developed insulation for electrical wires, built first wireless telephone, and transmitted the first audio radio broadcast. Head of electrical engineering at Western University of Pennsylvania.
- Freddie Fu — Sports medicine expert.
- Thomas Hales — Mathematics professor, provided proof of the Kepler Conjecture.
- Philip Hench - 1950 Nobel Prize winner in medicine for his work on adrenal cortex hormones.
- Otto Emery Jennings — Professor of biology.[citation needed]
- Samuel Pierpont Langley — Astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer, professor of astronomy at the Western University of Pennsylvania. His 1890 publication of infrared observations at the Allegheny Observatory was used to make the first calculations on the greenhouse effect.
- Paul Lauterbur — 2003 Nobel Prize winner in medicine for his invention of the MRI machine.
- Benjamin Lee — Physicist. (M.S)
- Jonas Salk — Physician, head of Pitt Virus Research Lab, developer of the polio vaccine.
- Thomas Starzl — Transplant pioneer, 2004 National Medal of Science.
- Jesse Leonard Steinfeld - Surgeon General of the United States from 1969 to 1973
- Alan Sved — Neuroscientist. (Ph. D)[citation needed]
- Lap-chee Tsui — Geneticist who identified the defective gene that causes cystic fibrosis and president of HUGO, the international organization of scientists involved in the Human Genome Project. (Ph.D.)
- Vladimir Zworykin — Inventor of television technology.
[edit] Other
- Gust Avrakotos — CIA agent responsible for arming the Afghan mujaheddin in the 1980s.
- Harry K. Thaw — Murderer and son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw. (never graduated)
- Charles D. Provan — Author of controversial books and articles on Christian topics and holocaust denial.
