Sunday, March 15, 2009

Yours truly aside, Pittsburgh has produced some truly remarkable people. The following is just a partial list of great 'burghers.

Kurt Angle
Nellie Bly
John Brashear
Selma Burke
Richard Caliguiri
Andrew Carnegie
Rachel Carson
Mary Cassatt
Willa Cather
Roberto Clemente
Frank Conrad
Rev. James R. Cox
Isaac Craig
Zadok Cramer
Martin R. Delany
Annie Dillard
George W. G. Ferris
Stephen Foster
Henry Clay Frick
Martha Graham
Franco Harris
H. J. Heinz
Senator H. J. Heinz III
Henry Hornbostel
Cy Hungerford
Edgar Kaufmann
Michael Keaton
Gene Kelly
Kathryn Kuhlman
Samuel P. Langley
David Lawrence
Danny Marino
Bill Mazeroski
Sophie Masloff
Andrew Mellon
Danny Murtaugh
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Fred Rogers
Arthur St. Clair
Jonas Salk
Bruno Sammartino
Thomas Starzl
Gertrude Stein
William Steinberg
George Swetnam
Jane Grey Swisshelm
Robert L. Vann
Honus Wagner
Andy Warhol
George Westinghouse
John Edgar Wideman
August Wilson
http://www.clpgh.org/research/pittsburgh/pittsburghers/

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