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Pittsburgh ranks 69th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Dallas, Liverpool, and Santiago. Memorable people born in Pittsburgh include Andy Warhol, Gene Kelly, and F. Murray Abraham. Memorable people who died in Pittsburgh include Herbert A. Simon, Eleonora Duse, and Kevin Mitnick. 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 and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. 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 is located in southwestern Pennsylvania at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River, which combine to form the Ohio River. It anchors the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, which had a population of 2.457 million residents and is the largest metro area in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, 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

People

Between 1840 and 2005, Pittsburgh was the birth place of 144 globally memorable people, including Andy Warhol, Gene Kelly, and F. Murray Abraham. Additionaly, 25 globally memorable people have passed away in Pittsburgh including Herbert A. Simon, Eleonora Duse, and Kevin Mitnick.

People Born in Pittsburgh

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Pittsburgh were actors (43), musicians (12), writers (8), singers (7), and athletes (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 Kevin Peter Hall. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Pittsburgh, including Gene Kelly, F. Murray Abraham, and Scott Glenn.

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Overlapping Lives

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