List of University of Pittsburgh people
This is a list of encyclopedic people associated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States of America. This list includes undergraduates, graduates, and faculty members.
Chancellors
Notable alumni, professors, and staff
Arts and entertainment
- Geri Allen — (A&S 1983G) — jazz composer, educator, and pianist.
- Peter Beagle — (A&S 1959) — a Hugo Award winning fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays.
- Jeff Bergman — (A&S 1983) — Voice actor who provides the modern day voices of classic cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
- Adrian Cronauer - radio disk jockey and inspiration of the movie Good Morning, Vietnam
- Michael Chabon — (A&S 1984) —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.
- Bill Cullen - host of many game shows.[1]
- David Dalessandro — screenwriter of 2006 thriller Snakes on a Plane.
- Stephen Dau — writer
- Nathan Davis — jazz musician (Pitt professor).
- Lester Goran — (A&S 1951, MA 1961) — author
- Ernie Hawkins — (A&S 1973) — blues guitarist and singer (degree in philosophy).
- Terrance Hayes — (MFA 1997) — prize-winning poet whose books have won such awards as the National Book Award for Poetry and the National Poetry Series.
- Samuel John Hazo — (A&S 1957G) — novelist, playwright, and the first poet laureate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- Frederick A. Hetzel — University Press publisher.
- John Irving — Author, The Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp. (did not graduate)
- Nicole Johnson (Public Health 2007) — Miss America 1999 and diabetes advocate
- Gene Kelly — (A&S 1933) — Academy Award winning dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer perhaps best known today for his performance in Singin' in the Rain.
- Charles Klauder Architect known for work on university buildings and campus designs, especially his Cathedral of Learning, the first educational skyscraper.
- Carl Kurlander — (faculty) - Hollywood screenwriter, television writer/producer, and author.
- Chris Kuzneski — (A&S 1991, MEDU 1993) — New York Times Best Selling Author.
- Jeanne Marie Laskas - award-winning columnist, journalist, and book author
- Lorin Maazel — (A&S 1954) — Conductor, violinist, and composer, New York Philharmonic.
- Herb Magidson — lyricist, won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1934.
- Allison McAtee — (A&S 2001) — American actress, model, best known for her roles in CSI: Miami, Life, Hell Ride, Bloomington (film), Elevator Girl.
- Bebe Moore Campbell (EDU 1971) — Author and journalist.
- Jenna Morasca — Actress/model and winner of Survivor: The Amazon.
- Ethelbert Nevin — (left school after one year) - American pianist and composer
- David Newell — (CGS 1973) — actor best known as Mr. McFeely on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
- Ed Ochester — Professor, poet, and editor.
- Beth Ostrosky — Model, actress, and wife of Howard Stern.
Athletics
see also: Category:Pittsburgh Panthers athletes
- DeJuan Blair — Power forward for the San Antonio Spurs; consensus first-team basketball All-American in 2008–09
- Matthew Bloom — Professional wrestler and San Diego Charger
- Antonio Bryant - Wide Receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Fred Biletnikoff Award winner
- Clifford Carlson - Pitt Basketball Head Coach, Two National Championships and one Final Four team ("Doc" Carlson also received the MD from Pitt)
- Murray Chass (A&S 1960) — Award winning baseball journalist for The New York Times.
- Myron Cope — Hall of Fame Steelers broadcaster
- Jason Conti — Major League Baseball player.[2]
- Mark Cuban — Owner of the Dallas Mavericks National Basketball Association franchise.
- 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.
- Herb Douglas — (Edu. 1948, '50G) Bronze medalist in the long jump at 1948 Summer Olympics
- Larry Fitzgerald — Wide Receiver for the Arizona Cardinals, 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.
- Aaron Gray — Center for the New Orleans Hornets.
- Hugh Green — Pro football player; Lombardi Award, Maxwell Award, and Walter Camp Award winner.
Business
- Walter Arnheim — Mobil Oil executive, corporate and non-profit advisor
- Susan Arnold — Vice Chairman of P&G, ranked 10th among 50 most powerful women in business by Fortune
- Erik Buell — Engineer, founder and chairman of Buell Motorcycle Company - subsidiary of Harley-Davidson.
- George Hubbard Clapp (Ph.B. Col. 1877) — Aluminium industry pioneer
- Marc Chandler (MPIA, GSPIA 1985) — Foreign Exchange Market Analyst, Writer, Speaker
- Pat Croce (SHRS 1977) — Entrepreneur, author, TV personality, and former president of the Philadelphia 76ers[1]
- Tung Chao Yung — Chinese shipping magnate, founder of the Orient Overseas Line (now OOCL), and owner of the largest ship ever built
- Ning Gaoning (MBA, Katz 1985) — Chairman of COFCO International Limited, 2009 CNBC Asia Pacific's Asia Business Leader of the Year
- Frances Hesselbein — (UPJ) — President and CEO of Leader to Leader Institute, former CEO for the Girl Scouts of the USA, and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner.
- Kevin March - CFO and Senior Vice-President of Texas Instruments[8]
- Andrew W. Mellon (1874) — Banker, philanthropist, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, university trustee, donor, and founder of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
- Richard B. Mellon (1876) — Banker, philanthropist, university trustee, donor, and founder of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
- Thomas Mellon (1834) — Founder of Mellon Financial
- Arturo Porzecanski — (MA 1974, PhD 1975) — 2005 Legacy Laureate, economist and pioneer in emerging markets research on Wall Street, and former Chief Economist for emerging markets at ABN AMRO.
- Kevin W. Sharer — Chairman of Amgen
- Jagdish Sheth — (MBA 1962, PhD 1966) — internationally recognized business consultant, author and educator
- Raymond W. Smith — Chairman of the private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners. Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Atlantic (now Verizon)
- Sung Won Sohn — member of Council of Economic Advisers during the Nixon administration
- John A. Swanson - Founder and retired President of ANSYS, a leading innovator of finite element simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes. Winner of the John Fritz Medal in engineering.
- Burton Tansky — President and Chief Executive Officer, The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc.
- David Tepper — Successful speculator, hedge fund manager. Gave naming donation to Tepper School of Business
- Brent Saunders — (A&S, UCIS 1992) — CEO of Bausch & Lomb, former President of Schering-Plough Healthcare Products
- Dennis Unkovic — (1973) — International business advisor, partner at Meyer, Unkovic & Scott and author of six books
- Thomas Usher — Chairman of U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil.[9] Director of the Extra Mile Education Foundation and Boy Scouts of America. (undergraduate, master's and Ph.D degrees)[10]
Education
History
Military
Philosophy
- Nuel Belnap - Logician and philosopher known for his work on the philosophy of logic, temporal logic and structural proof theory.
- 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.
- John Earman - Philosopher of Physics, collaborator on 'The Hole' argument (see hole argument.)
- 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.
- Adolf Grünbaum — Professor and philosopher of science elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- 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".
- Nicholas Rescher — Professor and philosopher best known as an advocate of pragmatism and process philosophy, namesake of the Rescher Prize in Philosophy.
- Wilfrid Sellars — Philosopher and critic of foundationalist epistemology whose work is the foundation and archetype of what is sometimes called the "Pittsburgh School".
- Ernest Sosa — (PhD 1964) — international leader in virtue epistemology, inaugural winner of the Rescher Prize in Philosophy.
Politics, law, and activism
- Harmar D. Denny, Jr. - (1911) - U.S. Representative (1951–1953)
- Patrick R. Donahoe - Current United States Postmaster General
- James H. Duff - (1907) - Pennsylvania Governor (1947–1951), U.S. Senator (1951–1957)
- Harry Allison Estep - (1913) - U.S. Representative (1927–1933)
- Tom Feeney — U.S. representative. (law degree)
- David Frederick — Successful appellate attorney who has argued twenty-one cases in the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Melissa Hart — U.S. representative. (law degree)
- Orrin Hatch — U.S. senator. (law degree)
- Christopher Hitchens - Author, journalist and polemicist has taught several semesters at Pitt as a guest professor.
- Janice M. Holder — (A&S 1971) — The first women Chief Justice of Tennessee.
- Mark R. Hornak — (EDU 1978 , Law 1981) — Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Frank Houben — Dutch provincial governor. (alumnus)
- K. Leroy Irvis (Law 1954) — first African American Speaker of the House (Pennsylvania) of any state legislature since reconstruction.
- Mahmoud Jibril —(MA 1980, PhD 1985)— Head of the Executive Team (Interim Prime Minister) of the newly formed National Transitional Council of the Libyan Republic.[12]
- William Lerach — Securities class-action lawyer, lead attorney in suit against Enron. (undergraduate and law degree)
- Wangari Maathai — 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
- Clayton Morris—1999 co-anchor Fox and Friends Fox News Channel.
- Andrew W. Mellon (1874) — Longest serving U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1921–1932), banker, and philanthropist.
- Dalia Mogahed — (KGSB '04) - American Muslim scholar
- Jim Moran — Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives.
- John Murtha — (CAS '61) - U.S. representative, 1974-2010 [2]
- Susan Richard Nelson - (Law 1978) - Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
- Dan Onorato — (Law 1989) — Chief Executive of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and former Democratic nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania.
- David A. Reed - (1903) - U.S. Senator (1922–1935)
- James Hay Reed - (A.M. 1872) - lawyer and U.S. federal judge
- Rick Santorum — U.S. Senator. (MBA)
- Richard Mellon Scaife — Conservative activist, newspaper publisher, philanthropist.
- Elmer Eric Schattschneider — Political scientist.
- Bud Shuster — (A&S 1954)- Republican member of the United States House of Representatives (1973–2001) from Pennsylvania.
- Richard M. Simpson — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
- Edgar Snyder - (1966) - Prominent personal injury attorney, Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer"
- Jon Soltz — (GSPIA 2010) — chairman and co-founder of VoteVets.org.
- Debra Todd — (Law 1982) — Justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (2007–present)
- 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.
- James A. Wright - (1927) - U.S. Representative (1941–1945)
- Albert Wynn — Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives.
- William Wilkins - Student in the Pittsburgh Academy (forerunner to Pitt), United States Senator (1831–1834); minister to Russia (1834–35); Secretary of War (1844–45)[3]
- William Lerach - Leading attorney in corporate and securities litigation cases including Enron, WorldCom and AOL/Time Warner.
- Joseph "Chip" Yablonski - (1965) - Attorney, NFL Players Association; son of murdered labor leader Joseph Yablonski
- Young woo kang — Member of National Council On Disability (master's and Ph.D degrees)
- Chris Zurawsky — (A&S 1987, GSPIA 2005) — journalist, Director of Communications and Public Affairs for the Association of American Cancer Institutes, political candidate
Science, medicine, and technology
- George Frederick Barker — (faculty 1864-?) — Scientist who studied early incandescent lighting and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Chemical Society.
- Harry Bisel - Pioneering Medical Oncologist, founding member of American Association of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Preventative Oncology and American Association for Cancer Education.
- Christine L. Borgman (SIS 1974) — noted information sciences scholar.
- Herbert Boyer — Biochemist. 1990 National Medal of Science, co-founded Genentech.
- John Alfred Brashear — Astronomer. Succeeded James Keeler as Director of the Allegheny Observatory. Later became Pitt’s Chancellor. Maker of astronomical and scientific instruments, developer of silvering methods that would become the standard for telescope mirrors.
- Yuan Chang — Virologist and Pathologist. Co-discoverer of the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma, a deadly cancer commonly found in AIDS patients.
- John Charles Cutler — (faculty) — a former deputy director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, led a U.S. Public Health Service research team in a controversial experiment which infected about 1500 citizens of Guatemala with syphilis and gonorrhea in the late 1940s.
- Lee Davenport — (MS 1940, PhD 1946) — American physicist responsible for the development and deployment of the SCR-584 radar system in World War II.
- Catherine D. DeAngelis — Pediatrician. Medical educator and first woman editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
- 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.
- Bernard Fisher — Pioneer breast cancer researcher.
- Freddie Fu — Sports medicine expert.
- Thomas Hales — Mathematics professor, provided proof of the Kepler Conjecture.
- Jacob Pieter Den Hartog — (PhD 1929)— Timoshenko Medal winner for distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics.
- Philip Hench — (Med 1920) — 1950 Nobel Prize co-winner in medicine with Mayo Clinic colleague Dr. Kendall, for his work on adrenal cortex hormones.
- D.A. Henderson— faculty — 1986 National Medal of Science, directed World Health Organization's Global Smallpox Eradication Campaign
- Norman H Horowitz (A&S 1936) — Geneticist, worked on genome organization and tests for the famous one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, and space scientist for the Mariner and Viking missions to Mars.
- Abul Hussam — (PhD Chem 1982) — inventor of Sono arsenic filter.
- Niels Kaj Jerne — (faculty 1962-1966) — Nobel Prize-winning immunologist credited for describing the production of monoclonal antibodies.
- Panayotis Katsoyannis — Biochemist. Discoverer of synthetic insulin.
- James E. Keeler — Astronomer. Director of Allegheny Observatory from 1891 to 1898. Interred in the observatory crypt. Discovered that Saturn's rings were not solid but made of particles.
- William Kelly — Metallurgy graduate, industrialist and independent developer of the Bessemer process.
- Ravindra Khattree — Statistician. Of Fountain-Khattree-Peddada Theorem fame, Author/Editor of several books.
- Charles Glen King — American biochemist noted for isolating vitamin C.
- 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 — Elementary Particle Physicist and head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. (M.S)
- Maud Menten — Pathologist at Pitt from 1923 until 1950 who helped devise the Michaelis-Menten equation in the field of enzyme kinetics.
- Patrick S. Moore — Virologist and Epidemiologist. Co-discoverer of the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma, a deadly cancer commonly found in AIDS patients.
- Bert W. O'Malley (A&S 1959, Med 1963) — molecular endocrinologist and 2008 National Medal of Science laureate
- Ezra T. Newman (faculty) — physicist known for Newman-Penrose formalism, Kerr-Newman solution, Heaven, and null foliation theory.
- Thomas Parran, Jr. — Physician. First Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health after serving as U.S. Surgeon General from 1936 to 1948.
- Peter Safar — Physician, CPR pioneer. Three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize. Established Pitt's Anesthesiology Department,
- Jonas Salk — Physician, head of Pitt Virus Research Lab, developer of the polio vaccine.
- Jeffrey H. Schwartz — Anthropologist. Elected President of the World Academy of Art and Science.
- John Wistar Simpson, Pioneer nuclear energy, recipient Edison Medal
- Benjamin Spock — Famous for his child development books.
- Thomas Starzl — Transplant pioneer, 2004 National Medal of Science.
- Jesse Leonard Steinfeld - Surgeon General of the United States from 1969 to 1973
- 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. Currently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong.
- William E. Wallace (PhD Chem 1941 & faculty) — Noted physical chemist and Guggenheim Fellow who worked on the Manhattan Project
- Edward J. Wasp — (MS 1962) — Elmer A. Sperry Award winning engineer and inventor known for developing long distance slurry pipelines
- Cyril Wecht (A&S 1952, Med 1956, LLB 1962, faculty) — a nationally renowned, controversial forensic pathologist
- Milton C. Whitaker - Noted 20th century chemist and 1923 Perkin Medal winner.
- Jerome Wolken (BS 1946, MS 1948, Ph.D. 1949), biophysicist.[13]
- Vladimir Zworykin — Inventor of television technology.
Other
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