List of University of Pittsburgh alumni
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This list of University of Pittsburgh alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of the University of Pittsburgh, a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Contents
Arts and entertainment
- Geri Allen (A&S 1983G, faculty 2013–present) — jazz composer, educator, and pianist[1]
- Hervey Allen (1915) — author best known for Anthony Adverse
- Joseph Bathanti (A&S 1976) — poet, writer, professor; NC Poet Laureate, 2012–2014
- Peter Beagle (A&S 1959) — 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
- Mark Bulwinkle (BFA 1968) — graphic artist and sculptor[2]
- Michael Chabon (A&S 1984) — 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a number of books set in Pittsburgh
- Bill Cullen — host of many television game shows[3]
- Stephen Dau — writer
- Sharon G. Flake (A&S 1978) — award-winning author of young adult literature
- Jack Gilbert (A&S 1954) — award-winning poet[4]
- Lester Goran (A&S 1951, MA 1961) — author
- Ernie Hawkins (A&S 1973; degree in philosophy) — blues guitarist and singer
- Terrance Hayes (MFA 1997, faculty 2013–present) — poet whose books have won the National Book Award for Poetry and the National Poetry Series[5]
- Samuel John Hazo (A&S 1957G) — novelist, playwright, first poet laureate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Frederick A. Hetzel — University Press publisher
- Eddie Ifft—stand-up comedian, University of Pittsburgh athlete (track and field, cross country)
- 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, producer and choreographer perhaps best known today for his performance in Singin' in the Rain
- Chris Kuzneski (A&S 1991, MEDU 1993) — New York Times best-selling author
- Jeanne Marie Laskas (MFA) — award-winning columnist, journalist, and 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) — actress, model, known for roles in CSI: Miami, Life, Hell Ride, Bloomington, Elevator Girl
- Bebe Moore Campbell (EDU 1971) — author and journalist
- Jenna Morasca — actress, model and winner of Survivor: The Amazon
- Thaddeus Mosley (A&S 1950) — sculptor who works mostly in wood
- Ethelbert Nevin — pianist and composer, left school after one year
- David Newell (CGS 1973) — actor best known as Mr. McFeely on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
- Ryan O'Shea — host and producer of WTAE-TV's 4 the 412
- Beth Ostrosky — model, actress, and wife of Howard Stern
- Barbara Paul (PhD) — writer
- Ed Roberson (A&S 1970, faculty) — award-winning poet
- Leo Robin (law degree) — composer and songwriter
- Fred Rogers — host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
- Zelda Rubinstein — actress best known for Poltergeist, earned bachelor's degree in bacteriology
- Justin Sane (A&S 1998) — singer, guitarist of punk band Anti-Flag
- Gerald Stern (BA, English) — National Book Award-winning poet
- Bill Strickland — founder of Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, an agency that inspires teenagers through the arts; board member of the National Endowment for the Arts; awarded the MacArthur prize
- Benjamin Tatar (Bachelor's degree in English and drama) — actor[6]
- Regis Toomey (A&S 1921) — Hollywood film and television actor who appeared in over 180 films
- Jerome "Jero" White — Japanese pop artist known for a fusion of hip hop and enka
- August Wilson (honorary, Board of Trustees member) — 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who wrote about the African-American experience in the 20th century
- Wang Xiaobo (MS) — one of the most influential Chinese thinkers since the 1980s
Athletics
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- Steven Adams — NBA starting center for the Oklahoma City Thunder
- Kevan Barlow — NFL football player for the San Francisco 49ers
- DeJuan Blair — power forward for the Dallas Mavericks; consensus first-team basketball All-American in 2008–09
- Matthew Bloom — professional wrestler and San Diego Chargers football player
- 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
- Jason Conti — Major League Baseball player[7]
- Myron Cope — Hall of Fame Steelers broadcaster
- Mark Cuban — owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise
- Mike Ditka — football player for Pitt and Chicago Bears, NFL coach, broadcaster, 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, 1950G) — 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
- Joe Flacco — quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens, Super Bowl XLVII MVP
- 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 NBA's Detroit Pistons
- Hugh Green — pro football player; Lombardi Award, Maxwell Award, and Walter Camp Award winner
- Bobby Grier — Pitt football player and first African-American to play in the Sugar Bowl
- Art Griggs — Major League Baseball player[8]
- Russ Grimm — four-time Super Bowl-winning offensive lineman with the Washington Redskins, assistant head coach of the Arizona Cardinals
- Don Hennon — two-time All-American basketball guard and Helms Foundation Basketball Hall of Fame inductee
- Dick Hoblitzel — Major League Baseball player for Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox, MVP for the Reds[9]
- Hal Hunter — football coach[10]
- John Huzvar — football player[11]
- Chuck Hyatt — three-time basketball All-American (1927–1930) under Coach Doc Carlson, inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame
- Russ Kemmerer — Major League Baseball player[12]
- Roger Kingdom (CGS 2002) — sprinter and hurdler, two-time Olympic gold medalist, former 110m high hurdles world record holder
- Billy Knight — ABA and NBA basketball player, GM of the Atlanta Hawks
- Andy Lee, football punter for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League[13]
- Bill Maas — defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers
- Ken Macha — Major League Baseball player and manager
- Bob Malloy — Major League Baseball pitcher
- Dan Marino — member of Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Curtis Martin — pro football running back, fourth leading rusher of all time
- Mark May — ESPN sports commentator, football player, Outland Trophy winner
- LeSean McCoy — running back for the Buffalo Bills
- George "Doc" Medich — Major League Baseball player
- Johnny Miljus — Major League Baseball player[14]
- Sean Miller — basketball player at Pitt and head basketball coach at the Arizona
- Stan Olejniczak — football player
- Bill Osborn (CGS 1989) — pro footballer, scout and color analyst
- Cumberland Posey (Pharm. 1915) — member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, player, manager, and team owner in the Negro leagues, as well as a star professional basketball player and team owner.[15]
- Joe Prince-Wright — professional soccer player for Arbroath FC
- Darrelle Revis — defensive back for the New York Jets
- Richard Rydze (Mpd 1975) — Olympic silver medalist in the diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics, men's 10 meter platform
- Joe Schmidt — head coach of the Detroit Lions from 1967 to 1973
- Marty Schottenheimer — NFL head coach
- Jackie Sherrill — head football coach at Pitt from 1977 to 1981
- Trecia-Kaye Smith — long jump and triple jump, seven-time NCAA national champion, 15-time All-American, 4 national indoor titles, 2004 Olympics fourth place, 2007 IAFF Champion, named to the USTF Silver Anniversary Team in 2007
- Shawntae Spencer — defensive back for the San Francisco 49ers
- LaRod Stephens-Howling — running back and special teams player for the Arizona Cardinals
- Sal Sunseri — pro football coach
- Jock Sutherland — Hall of Fame football coach, All-American football player; Pitt Professor of Dentistry
- Steve Swetonic — Major League Baseball player[16]
- Joe Walton — head coach of the New York Jets from 1983 to 1989
- Dave Wannstedt — coach for several NFL and college teams, including the University of Pittsburgh
- John Woodruff (Col. 1939) — gold medalist in the 800 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- Sam Young — small forward for the Indiana Pacers; 2008 Big East Tournament MVP
Business
- Walter Arnheim — Mobil Oil executive, corporate and non-profit advisor
- Susan Arnold (MBA, Katz 1980) — Vice Chairman of P&G, ranked 10th among the 50 most powerful women in business by Fortune
- George Barco (Law 1934) — cable television executive who played a key role in development of the industry[17]
- Yolanda Barco (1949) — cable television executive[17]
- Erik Buell (ENGR 1979) — engineer, founder and chairman of Buell Motorcycle Company, a subsidiary of Harley-Davidson
- Marc Chandler (MPIA, GSPIA 1985) — foreign exchange market analyst, writer, and speaker
- George Hubbard Clapp (Ph.B. Col. 1877) — aluminium industry pioneer
- Pat Croce (SHRS 1977) — entrepreneur, author, TV personality, and former president of the Philadelphia 76ers[18]
- William S. Dietrich II (A&S 1980G, 1984G) — industrialist and philanthropist
- 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
- Dawne Hickton (1983 JD degree, school of law) — Vice Chair, President, CEO of RTI International Metals[19]
- Kevin March (CGS 1983, MBA 1984) — CFO and Senior Vice-President of Texas Instruments[20]
- 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 (Col. 1837) — founder of Mellon Financial, judge
- Larry Merlo — President and CEO of CVS Health
- Arturo C. 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
- Al Primo (A&S 1958) — television news executive who was credited with creating the "Eyewitness News" format[21]
- Art Rooney II (A&S 1978) — president and co-owner of the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers
- Brent Saunders (A&S, UCIS 1992) — CEO of Bausch & Lomb; former President of Schering-Plough Healthcare Products
- Kevin W. Sharer (MBA, Katz 1983) — Chairman of Amgen
- Jagdish Sheth (MBA 1962, PhD 1966) — internationally recognized business consultant, author and educator
- Raymond W. Smith (MBA 1969) — 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 (ENGR PhD 1966) — 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 (A&S 1978) — speculator, hedge fund manager; gave naming donation to Tepper School of Business
- Dennis Unkovic (1973) — international business advisor, partner at Meyer, Unkovic & Scott; author of six books
- Thomas Usher (undergraduate, master's and Ph.D degrees) — Chairman of U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil;[22] Director of the Extra Mile Education Foundation and Boy Scouts of America[23]
- Tung Chao Yung — Chinese shipping magnate, founder of the Orient Overseas Line (now OOCL), and owner of the largest ship ever built
Education
- Bowman Foster Ashe (BS 1910, faculty) — first president of the University of Miami, Florida
- Stanley F. Battle (M.P.H. 1979, Ph.D 1980) — educator, author, civic activist and former leader of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Coppin State University and Southern Connecticut State University
- Steven C. Beering — President Emeritus, Purdue University and former Dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine
- Todd H. Bullard — former president of Potomac State College and Bethany College
- Carol A. Cartwright — President of Kent State University 1991-2006
- Paul Russell Cutright — American historian and biologist
- Adam Herbert — President of Indiana University
- Young Woo Kang (EDUC 1973G, 1976G) — special education expert; author; former policy advisor of the National Council on Disability
- Ambrose King (Yeo-Chi King) — former vice-chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Jacqueline Liebergott — President of Emerson College
- Michael Lovell (ENGR 1989, 1991, 1994) — former chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, President of Marquette University
- Barry McCarty — former President of Cincinnati Christian University and national radio host
- Jay F. W. Pearson (AB, MA, faculty) — former President of the University of Miami
- M. Richard Rose — former President of Alfred University and the Rochester Institute of Technology
- Brian Segal (Social Work 1971) — publisher and former President of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and the University of Guelph
- Michael Slinger — Director of Law Library at Widener Law, former President of ALL-SIS and Ohio Regional Association of Law Libraries
History
- Leonard Baker (A&S 1952) — Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
- Paul Russell Cutright (PhD, faculty) — American historian and biologist
Military
- Gust Avrakotos (A&S 1962) — CIA agent responsible for arming the Afghan mujaheddin in the 1980s
- Samuel W. Black (A&S 1834) — Colonel, hero of the Mexican and Cival wars
- Jack E. Foley (A&S 1946) — World War II Captain in Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers
- Patricia Horoho (NURS 1992G) — the United States Army's 43rd Surgeon General and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Command
- Roscoe Robinson, Jr. (GSPIA 1965) — first African-American four-star General
- James Martinus Schoonmaker — Civil War Medal of Honor winner
- Joseph "Colonel Joe" H. Thompson (Col. 1905, Law 1908) — Medal of Honor recipient and College Football Hall of Fame inductee
- Boyd Wagner (Eng 1938) — first United States Army Air Forces fighter ace of World War II; Distinguished Service Cross recipient
Philosophy
- Nancy Cartwright (A&S 1966) — MacArthur Fellowship-winning philosopher noted for her work in philosophy of science, philosophy of economics, and philosophy of physics
- Patricia Churchland (MA 1966) — 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
- Sandra Mitchell (PhD 1987, faculty) — professor and chair of the department of History and Philosophy of Science
- Holmes Rolston III (MS A&S 1968) — Templeton Prize-winning philosopher best known for his contributions to environmental ethics and the relationship between science and religion
- Ernest Sosa (PhD 1964) — international leader in virtue epistemology, inaugural winner of the Rescher Prize in Philosophy
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 the book Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History by George Crile
- Max Baer (A&S 1971) — Justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (2003–present)
- Derrick Bell (Law 1957) — law professor, first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School, dean of U. of Oregon Law School
- Michael Bilirakis — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives
- Samuel W. Black (A&S 1834) — seventh Governor of the Nebraska Territory
- Frank Buchanan— Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and Mayor of McKeesport, Pennsylvania (1924–1928 and 1931–1942)
- Joseph Buffington (Col 1825) — a two-term Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Linda Drane Burdick (A&S 1986, Law 1989) — Chief Assistant State Attorney at the Orange and Osceola County State Attorney's Office in Orlando, Florida; lead prosecutor on the State of Florida vs. Casey Anthony case[24]
- Ralph J. Cappy (A&S 1965, Law 1968) — Justice (1990–2008) and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (2003–2008)
- Ben Cardin (A&S 1964) — United States Senator from Maryland[25]
- Omri Ceren (A&S 2004) — political blogger
- Steven Choi (SIS 1976G) — mayor of Irvine, California (2012-present)
- Earl Chudoff (1932) — U.S. Representative (1949–1958)
- Robert J. Cindrich (Law 1968) — former US attorney and US District judge
- David I. Cleland (A&S 1954, KGSB 1958, faculty) — engineer and educator; the "Father of Project Management"
- Bill Cobey (EDU 1968G) — former U.S. representative from North Carolina's 4th congressional district, director of the Jesse Helms Center
- Robert J. Corbett — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania[26]
- William Corbett (A&S 1924, Law 1927) — former acting governor of Guam[27]
- Father James Cox — U.S. presidential candidate in 1932 and labor activist
- Adrian Cronauer (A&S 1959) — disc jockey, attorney, activist, basis for the movie Good Morning, Vietnam; helped to found the WPGH AM radio station
- Cornelius Darragh — (Col. 1826) — United States district attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania, abolitionist, and a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives[28]
- Harmar D. Denny, Jr. (1911) — U.S. Representative (1951–1953)
- Patrick R. Donahoe — 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 (law degree) — U.S. representative
- Jay Fisette (GSPIA 1983) — member of Arlington County, Virginia's Board of Supervisors
- David Frederick — appellate attorney who has argued twenty-one cases in the Supreme Court of the United States
- George Otto Gey (A&S 1921, faculty) — scientist who first propagated the HeLa cell line[29]
- George W. Guthrie (1866) — Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1906 to 1909 and United States Ambassador to Japan
- Melissa Hart (law degree) — U.S. representative
- Orrin Hatch (law degree) — U.S. senator
- Janice M. Holder (A&S 1971) — first woman 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
- K. Leroy Irvis (Law 1954) — Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; first African American Speaker of the House of any U.S. state legislature since reconstruction
- William W. Irwin (Col 1824) — Mayor of Pittsburgh and a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania[30]
- 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[31]
- Judith Krug (A&S 1962) — librarian and anti-censorship activist who co-founded Banned Books Week
- William Lerach (undergraduate and law degree) — securities class-action lawyer; leading attorney in corporate and securities litigation cases including Enron, WorldCom and AOL/Time Warner
- Walter H. Lowrie (Col 1826, faculty 1846-1851) — chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court[28]
- Wangari Maathai — 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Christopher Lyman Magee (1864) — powerful 19th-century Pittsburgh political boss
- Wilson McCandless (Col 1826) — United States federal judge and candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States
- Samuel J. R. McMillan (Col 1846) — Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota
- Andrew W. Mellon (1874) — longest serving U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1921–1932), banker, and philanthropist
- Dalia Mogahed (KGSB 2004) — Muslim scholar
- Jim Moran — Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives
- Clayton Morris (1999) — co-anchor of Fox and Friends on the Fox News Channel
- John Murtha (CAS 1961) — U.S. representative, 1974-2010[32]
- 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
- Ralph Pampena (M.S. in Public Administration) — Pittsburgh Police Chief, 1987-1990
- David A. Reed (1903) — U.S. Senator (1922–1935)
- James Hay Reed (A.M. 1872) — lawyer and U.S. federal judge
- Rick Santorum (MBA) — U.S. Senator
- Richard Mellon Scaife (A&S 1957) — conservative activist, newspaper publisher, philanthropist
- Elmer Eric Schattschneider — political scientist
- Bud Shuster (A&S 1954) — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (1973–2001)
- 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
- Wilkins F. Tannehill (Academy student) — author, Whig politician, and first mayor of Nashville, Tennessee[33]
- Richard Thornburgh (law degree) — U.S. Attorney General, Governor of Pennsylvania
- Harve Tibbott — Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Tshering Tobgay (ENGR 1990) — Prime Minister of Bhutan (2013–present)
- Debra Todd (Law 1982) — Justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (2007–present)
- James A. Traficant Jr. — convicted U.S. representative from Ohio
- Aliyu Wamakko - former governor of Sokoto State in Nigeria (2007-2015)
- 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)[34]
- James A. Wright (1927) — U.S. Representative (1941–1945)
- Albert Wynn (A&S 1973) — Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives
- Joseph "Chip" Yablonski (1965) — attorney, NFL Players Association; son of murdered labor leader Joseph Yablonski
- Young Woo Kang (master's and Ph.D degrees) — member of National Council On Disability
- 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
- Harry Bisel (MD 1942) — 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) — information sciences scholar
- Herbert Boyer (PhD) — biochemist; 1990 recipient of the National Medal of Science; co-founder of Genentech
- Jane A. Cauley (MPH 1980, DrPH 1983) — epidemiologist, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute[35]
- John Choma (ENGR 1963, 1964, MS 1965, PHD 1969) — Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics at the University of Southern California
- Bob Colwell (ENGR 1977) — electrical engineer who was the chief architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4 microprocessors[36]
- Sidney Dancoff (MS 1936) — theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics
- Lee Davenport (MS 1940, PhD 1946) — physicist responsible for the development and deployment of the SCR-584 radar system in World War II
- Catherine D. DeAngelis (MD 1969) — pediatrician; medical educator; first woman editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association
- G. Michael Deeb (A&S 1971, MD 1975) — cardiothoracic surgeon, Herbert Sloan Collegiate Professor of Surgery, and Director of the Multidisciplinary Aortic Clinic at the University of Michigan Medical Center
- Emilio del Valle Escalante (PhD 2004) — professor of Latin American/indigenous literature, culture and social movements at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Bernard Fisher (MD, faculty) — pioneer breast cancer researcher
- Patrick D. Gallagher (MS 1987, PhD 1991) — physicist and the 14th director of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Kevin Guskiewicz (MS EDUC 1992) — sports medicine scholar and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow; among the first to identify the long-term threats to athletes of multiple concussions
- David Halliday (A&S 1938, MS 1939, PhD 1941) — physicist widely known for his physics textbooks, Physics and Fundamentals of Physics
- 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
- 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
- William Kelly — metallurgy graduate, industrialist and independent developer of the Bessemer process
- Ravindra Khattree (PhD) — statistician; of Fountain-Khattree-Peddada Theorem fame; author/editor of several books
- Charles Glen King (MS 1920, PhD 1923, faculty) — biochemist noted for isolating vitamin C
- Paul Lauterbur (PhD) — 2003 Nobel Prize winner in medicine for his invention of the MRI machine
- Benjamin Lee (MS) — elementary particle physicist and head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Bert W. O'Malley (A&S 1959, Med 1963) — molecular endocrinologist and 2008 National Medal of Science laureate
- Bennet Omalu (MPH 2004) — pathologist noted for his discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in football players while at Pitt
- Washington Roebling (attended in ?-1849, not a graduate) — civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge[37]
- John Wistar Simpson (MS) — pioneer in nuclear energy; recipient of the Edison Medal
- Jesse Leonard Steinfeld (BS) — Surgeon General of the United States from 1969 to 1973
- Lap-chee Tsui (PhD) — geneticist who identified the defective gene that causes cystic fibrosis; president of HUGO, the international organization of scientists involved in the Human Genome Project; former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
- William E. Wallace (PhD Chem 1941 & faculty) — physical chemist and Guggenheim Fellow who worked on the Manhattan Project
- Edward J. Wasp (A&S 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) — nationally renowned, controversial forensic pathologist[38]
- Jerome Wolken (BS 1946, MS 1948, Ph.D. 1949), biophysicist[39]
- Wu Yundong (PhD 1986) — theoretical organic chemist
- Vladimir Zworykin (A&S PhD 1926) — inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology, sometimes called the "Father of Television"
Other
- Marie Hochmuth Nichols (BS, MS GAS 1936) — influential rhetorical critic[40]
- Charles D. Provan (student, never graduated) — author of controversial books and articles on Christian topics and holocaust denial
- Harry K. Thaw — murderer and son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw (never graduated)
See also
References
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