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.
Notable alumni
- Derrick A. Bell, Jr., law professor, first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School, dean of U. of Oregon Law School (law degree)
- Michael Bilirakis, U.S. representative
- Herbert Boyer, biochemist
- Ben Cardin, U.S. representative
- Michael Chabon, 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Mike Ditka, American football hall-of-famer
- Tony Dorsett, American football hall-of-famer
- Tom Feeney, U.S. representative
- Freddie Fu, expert in sports medicine
- Melissa Hart, U.S. representative (law degree)
- Orrin Hatch, U.S. senator (law degree)
- Gene Kelly, Actor
- Roger Kingdom, sprint hurdler, 2-time Olympic gold medalist, former World Record holder
- Paul Lauterbur, 2003 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
- William Lerach, securities class-action lawyer, lead attorney in class-action against Enron (undergraduate and law degree)
- Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Lorin Maazel, music director/conductor - New York Philharmonic orchestra (did not graduate)
- Dan Marino, American football hall-of-famer
- Mark May, ESPN Sports Commentator
- Andrew W. Mellon, Banker, philanthropist, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, and founder of the Mellon Institute of Science, which is now part of Carnegie Mellon University
- Jim Moran, U.S. representative
- John Murtha, U.S. representative
- Leo Robin, American composer and songwriter
- Rick Santorum, U.S. senator
- Richard Mellon Scaife, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, conservative activist
- Elmer Eric Schattschneider, political scientist
- Sal Sunseri, Pro Football Coach
- Dick Thornburgh, U.S. Attorney General (law degree)
- James A. Traficant Jr., U.S. representative
- Lap-Chee Tsui, genetic scientist
- Thomas Usher, Chairman of U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil (undergraduate, master's and Ph.D degrees)
- Dave Wannstedt Former Pro Football Coach, and current University of Pittsburgh football head coach
- Albert Wynn, U.S. representative
- Vladimir Zworykin, inventor