- Larry Fitzgerald
Larry Darnell Fitzgerald, Jr. (born August 31, 1983 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American football wide receiver currently playing for the Arizona Cardinals. His younger brother, Marcus, currently plays wide receiver for Marshall University. - Kevan Barlow
Kevan C. Barlow (born January 7, 1979 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American football running back in the NFL. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and was drafted in the third round (80th overall) by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2001 NFL Draft. After enjoying a breakout 2003 season behind a reliable run blocking line in which Barlow had a 5.1 yard per carry average and 1024 yards, the 49ers gave him the starting job by releasing Garrison Hearst. - Carl Krauser
Carlos Isaac Krauser is an American basketball player. He was a point guard for the University of Pittsburgh Panthers from 2001 to 2006. Krauser is 6 ft. 2 in. (187.96 cm) and weighs 200 pounds (90.71 kg). He currently plays professionally in Germany with the EWE Baskets Oldenburg <small>(German)</small>. - Wangari Maathai
Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai born April 1, 1940 in Ihithe village, Tetu division, Nyeri District of Kenya is an environmental and political activist. In 2004 she became the first African woman to receive Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace". Dr. - Mike Ditka
Michael Keller Ditka, Jr. (born October 18, 1939, in Carnegie, Pennsylvania) also known as Iron Mike Ditka or Da Coach, is a former American NFL player, television commentator, and coach. Ditka coached the Chicago Bears for 11 years. Ditka and Tom Flores are the only two people to win Super Bowls as a player, an assistant coach and a head coach; and was the only individual to participate in two Chicago Bears' championships, … - Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly, better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was a major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for his performance in "Singin' in the Rain", … - Tom Feeney
Thomas Charles "Tom" Feeney III, usually known as Tom Feeney (born May 21 1958), is a Republican politician from the state of Florida. Since 2003, he has represented (map), which takes up several portions of the Orlando-Daytona Beach area as well as portions of the Space Coast region. He was born in Abington, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. He graduated from Penn State University in 1980, … - Dave Wannstedt
Dave Wannstedt (born May 21, 1952 in Baldwin, Pennsylvania), is the current head coach of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team. Previously, Wannstedt was the head coach of the Miami Dolphins of the NFL from 2000 to 2004, and he coached the Chicago Bears from 1993 to 1998. He also was a long-time assistant to Jimmy Johnson with the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Hurricanes, … - Jim Moran
James Patrick "Jim" Moran Jr. (born 16 May 1945 in Buffalo, New York) has represented the Eighth Congressional District of Virginia since 1991. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party. His brother, Brian Moran, is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. - Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern (b. February 22, 1925) is an American poet. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA to Harry and Ida Barach Stern, he was educated in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Stern earned his B.A. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1947 and an M.A. at Columbia University in 1949. He did post-graduate study at the University of Paris in 1949-50. He married Patricia Miller in 1952 (divorced); they have two children: Rachael and David. - James Traficant
James Anthony Traficant, Jr. (born May 8, 1941) is a former Democratic Representative in the United States Congress from Ohio (from 1985 to 2002). He was expelled after being convicted of taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his aides to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and on his houseboat in Washington, D.C., and is currently serving out an 8-year prison term with a projected release date of September 2, 2009 - Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is an American author best known for his novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. - Cyril Wecht
Dr. Cyril Harrison Wecht (born March 20, 1931 in Dunkard Township, Pennsylvania) is a nationally renowned, controversial American forensic pathologist. He has served as a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, but is perhaps best known for his outspoken criticism of the Warren Commission's findings concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He has served as the president of both the American Academy of Forensic Science and the American College of Legal Medicine, … - Ben Cardin
Benjamin Louis "Ben" Cardin (born October 5 1943) is a Democratic member of the United States Senate representing the state of Maryland. On November 7, 2006, Cardin was elected to the United States Senate seat being vacated by Paul Sarbanes, having defeated Republican challenger Lt. Governor Michael S. Steele. - Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatch (born March 22, 1934) is a Republican United States Senator from Utah, serving since 1977. Hatch is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, where he serves on the subcommittees on International Trade, Taxation and IRS Oversight, and Health Care. Hatch is also on the Select Committee on Intelligence, where he is the Ranking Republican, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, … - Joseph Hardy
Joseph A. Hardy III is the founder and CEO of the 84 Lumber Company. Joe Hardy was raised by middle class parents in the jewelry business, but the experiences of the Great Depression taught him the value of hard work. To support himself in college, he sold fresh fruit door to door. After Hardy graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in industrial engineering, he took the advice of a close friend and opened the Green Hills Lumber Company. - Paul Lauterbur
Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. Born and raised in Sidney, Ohio, Lauterbur graduated from Sidney High School, where a new Chemistry, Physics, and Biology wing was dedicated in his honor. - Myron Cope
Myron Cope (born January 23, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), whose given name is Myron Sydney Kopelman, is an American sports journalist, radio personality, and sports broadcaster. He was a color commentator for the Pittsburgh Steelers' radio broadcasts for 35 years. He is known for his nasal voice and a level of excitement rarely exhibited in the broadcast booth. - Michael Bilirakis
Michael Bilirakis (born July 16 1930), American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1983 until 2007, representing the 9th District of Florida. He was born in Tarpon Springs, Florida, was educated at the University of Pittsburgh, George Washington University, and the University of Florida, served in the United States Air Force, and was a steelworker, engineer, college instructor, lawyer, and judge before entering the House. - David Tepper
David Alan Tepper (born on September 11, 1957) is a value investor, successful hedge fund manager and the founder of Appaloosa Management. His investment specialty is distressed companies. In recent years he's become known as a philanthropist, his largest gift going to Carnegie Mellon University, whose Tepper School of Business is named after him. He earned his MBA (then known as an MSIA) from Carnegie Mellon in 1982. - Bill Strickland
Bill Strickland (b. 1947) is the founder and CEO of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, an innovative agency in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that uses the arts to inspire inner-city teenagers. Strickland, a winner of a MacArthur Fellowship "genius" award), started the Manchester Craftmen's Guild while still an undergraduate in 1968 at the University of Pittsburgh. He added the Bidwell Training Center in 1972. - John Woodruff
John Youie Woodruff (born July 5, 1915) is a former American athlete, winner of 800 m at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA, "Long" John Woodruff was only a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh in 1936 when he placed second at the National AAU meet, earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Despite his inexperience, he was the favorite in the Olympic 800 m, and he did not disappoint. - Derrick Bell
Derrick Bell (born November 6, 1930) is a visiting professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law for the past 15 years and a major figure within the legal studies discipline of Critical Race Theory. - Jesse Leonard Steinfeld
Jesse Leonard Steinfeld (born January 26, 1927) was the Surgeon General of the United States from 1969 to 1973. Steinfeld was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, on January 6, 1927. He received his B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1945 and his M.D. degree from Western Reserve University in 1949. - Judith Krug
Judith Fingeret Krug is a United States librarian. She has been the Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom since 1967. She has held the post of Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation since 1969. She received her B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied political theory. In 1964, she earned her M.A. at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. - Lap-Chee Tsui
Professor Dr. Lap-chee Tsui BSc, MPhil, PhD, O.C., O.Ont. (born December 21, 1950) is a Hong Kong geneticist and is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. - Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert (1925-) is an American poet. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA's neighborhood of East Liberty, he attended Peabody High School then worked as a door-to-door salesman, an exterminator, and a steelworker. He graduated the University of Pittsburgh, where he and his classmate Gerald Stern developed a serious interest in poetry and writing. His work is distinguished by simple lyricism and straightforward clarity of tone. - Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes (b. November 18, 1971 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American poet. He graduated in 1994 from Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina, where he played basketball and majored in painting. From 1994 to 1997 he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry at the University of Pittsburgh writing program. Hayes won the 2000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his first book; his second won the 2001 National Poetry Series Open Competition. - Peter Oresick
Peter Michael Oresick [o-RES-ik] (born 1955 in Ford City, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American poet and writer. Since 1981, Oresick has worked as a publisher. He also has taught writing and publishing at Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham University, Emerson College, and in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. He was educated at the University of Pittsburgh. - Steve Fuller
Steve William Fuller (born July 12, 1959 in New York City) is an Anglo-American philosopher-sociologist in the field of science and technology studies. - Gust Avrakotos
Gust L. Avrakotos was a case officer and division chief for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Avrakotos is best known for the massive arming of Afghan Mujahideen in the 1980s in the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Avrakotos's partnership with Charlie Wilson in this operation was chronicled in the book "Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History", by George Crile. - James S. Negley
James Scott Negley (December 26 1826 - August 7 1901) was an American Civil War general, farmer, railroader, and U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania. He played a key role in the Union victory at the Battle of Murfreesboro. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was educated in public schools, and graduated from the Western University of Pennsylvania (now called the University of Pittsburgh). - Frank Buchanan
Frank Buchanan (December 1, 1902-April 27, 1951) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Frank Buchanan was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania He married future Representative Vera Daerr on January 4, 1929. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1925 where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He worked as a teacher in the high schools of Homestead, Pennsylvania, and McKeesport, … - Robert J. Corbett
Robert James Corbett (August 25, 1905 - April 25, 1971) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Robert Corbett was born in Avalon, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh). He graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1927 and from the University of Pittsburgh in 1929. He worked as senior high-school instructor at Coraopolis, Pennsylvania from 1929 to 1938, and as an instructor in the Pittsburgh Academy Evening School in 1938. - Clifford Carlson
Henry Clifford "Doc" Carlson was a well-known college men's basketball coach. He coached at his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh, between 1922 and 1958, compiling a 369-247 record. In 1928 he led Pittsburgh to a 21-0 record and the national championship. Carlson was born in Murray City, Ohio. He played high school football, basketball, and baseball (1910-1914) at Bellefonte Academy in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. - Steven Choi
Steven S. Choi is a U.S. Republican Party politician from California. He is one of two Korean Americans on the Irvine City Council and the first Asian American to have been elected to a four-year term on the council. He is currently a candidate for the Republican nomination for the California State Assembly's 71st District, held by fellow Republican Todd Spitzer, who is retiring due to term limits. __NOTOC_ - Judith Vollmer
Judith Vollmer (b. 1951 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and editor. In 1990 she won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin. Vollmer is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg where she teaches such courses as Intro to Poetry, Nature Writing, World Poetry, and Political Poetry, and co-teaches American Poetry and the Creative Process. - Austin J. Murphy
Austin John Murphy (Born June 17, 1927) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Austin J. Murphy was born in North Charleroi, Pennsylvania, and grew up in New London, Connecticut. He graduated from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA in 1949, and the University of Pittsburgh in 1952. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1944 to 1946. He served as assistant district attorney in Washington County, Pennsylvania, … - Hervey Allen
Hervey Allen (December 8, 1889-December 28, 1949) was an American author. He was born William Hervey Allen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated from University of Pittsburgh in 1915, where he also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Allen is best known for his work "Anthony Adverse". He also planned a series of novels about colonial America called "The Disinherited". He completed three works in the series: "The Forest and the Fort" (1943), … - Lily E. Kay
Lily E. Kay (1947-2000) received a Ph.D. in the history of science from the Johns Hopkins University in 1987, and was a recipient of a Smithsonian Fellowship at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. in 1984. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in bibliography at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and has taught at the University of Chicago.
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