List of University of Pittsburgh alumni

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.

Arts and entertainment

Alumnus Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys, and the The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.

• 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
• Paul Hertneky writer
• 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
• Kellee Maize - musician, rapper and hip hop artist
• 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

Alumnus Mike Ditka is a Hall of Fame tight end, coach and well-known broadcaster.

• 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
• Gilbert Brown (born 1987) - basketball player for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League^[7]
• 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^[8]
• 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

Alumnus Dan Marino is a Hall of Fame quarterback and well known broadcaster

• Bobby Grier — Pitt football player and first African-American to play in the Sugar Bowl
• Art Griggs — Major League Baseball player^[9]
• 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^[10]
• Hal Hunter — football coach^[11]
• John Huzvar — football player^[12]
• 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^[13]
• 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^[14]
• 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

Alumnus John Woodruff was a gold medalist in the 800 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

• LeSean McCoy — running back for the Buffalo Bills
• George "Doc" Medich — Major League Baseball player
• Johnny Miljus — Major League Baseball player^[15]
• 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.^[16]
• 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^[17]
• 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

Alumnus Marc Chandler is a well known foreign exchange market analyst, writer, and speaker.

Alumnus Andrew W. Mellon was a banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, along with serving as president of the alumni association and as a university trustee.

• 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^[18]
• Yolanda Barco (1949) — cable television executive^[18]
• 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^[19]
• 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^[20]
• Kevin March (CGS 1983, MBA 1984) — CFO and Senior Vice-President of Texas Instruments^[21]
• 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 — (Pharm BS 1978) — 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^[22]
• 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;^[23] Director of the Extra Mile Education Foundation and Boy Scouts of America^[24]
• 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

Alumnus General Roscoe Robinson was the first African-American four-star General in the United States Army.

• 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 Civil 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

Alumnus Richard Thornburgh served as Governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. Attorney General. His archives are located in the Dick Thornburgh room in Hillman Library.

• 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^[25]
• 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^[26]
• 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^[27]
• William Corbett (A&S 1924, Law 1927) — former acting governor of Guam^[28]
• 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

Alumna Wangari Maathai has won multiple international awards including the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and is the subject of the documentary film Taking Root

• 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^[29]
• 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^[30]
• 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^[31]
• 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^[32]
• 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
• Roozbeh Aliabadi (MPIA 2008) — Advisor to Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Iran and Political Commentator
• Walter H. Lowrie (Col 1826, faculty 1846-1851) — chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court^[29]
• 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^[33]
• 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

Alumnus John Murtha served in the United States House of Representatives for over 36 years.

• 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^[34]
• 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)^[35]
• 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

Alumnus Jesse Steinfeld served as the Surgeon General of the United States from 1969 to 1973.

• 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^[36]
• 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^[37]
• 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
• Emily Rice - astronomy professor at the City University of New York
• Washington Roebling (attended in ?-1849, not a graduate) — civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge^[38]
• John Wistar Simpson (MS) — pioneer in nuclear energy; recipient of the Edison Medal

Vladimir Zworykin, a father of television

• 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^[39]
• Jerome Wolken (BS 1946, MS 1948, Ph.D. 1949) — biophysicist^[40]
• Wu Yundong (PhD 1986) — theoretical organic chemist
• Nancy Zahniser (PhD 1977) — pharmacologist
• 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^[41]
• 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

• List of University of Pittsburgh faculty

References