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Pittsburgh ranks 69th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Riga, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Dallas. Memorable people born in Pittsburgh include Andy Warhol, William Alfred Fowler, and F. Murray Abraham. Memorable people who died in Pittsburgh include Herbert A. Simon, Eleonora Duse, and Fred Rogers. Pittsburgh has been the birth place of many actors and musicians and the death place of many actors and computer scientists. Pittsburgh is located in United States.

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census. The city anchors the Pittsburgh metropolitan area of Western Pennsylvania. Its population of 2.457 million is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, the 7th-largest in the Mid-Atlantic region and the 26th-largest in the U.S. Pittsburgh is the principal city of the greater Pittsburgh–Weirton–Steubenville combined statistical area which includes parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Read more on Wikipedia

Between 1840 and 2005, Pittsburgh was the birth place of 128 globally memorable people, including Andy Warhol, William Alfred Fowler, and F. Murray Abraham. Additionaly, 24 globally memorable people have passed away in Pittsburgh including Herbert A. Simon, Eleonora Duse, and Fred Rogers.

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Most individuals born in present day Pittsburgh were actors (41), musicians (12), singers (7), politicians (7), and writers (7),  while most who died were actors (3), computer scientists (3), businesspeople (2), physicists (2), and politicians (2).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Pittsburgh, including F. Murray Abraham, Scott Glenn, and Charles Grodin. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Pittsburgh, including F. Murray Abraham, Gene Kelly, and Scott Glenn.

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Pittsburgh since 1700.