Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Pittsburgh

Andy Warhol1928–1949

📍 3252 Dawson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

I was born Andrew Warhola on the 6th of August 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Ruthenian immigrants. The Pittsburgh of my childhood was a steel city — dark with smoke…

Art Blakey1919–1942

📍 Hill District, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

I was born in Pittsburgh in October 1919. My mother died when I was a baby, and my father, who was very light-skinned, left me, and I was raised with other children by a family friend in…

Fred Rogers1968–2003

📍 1300 Beechwood Boulevard, Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA

I grew up in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, but it was the Squirrel Hill neighbourhood of Pittsburgh where I made my adult home and my life's work. I moved there to be near WQED, the public…

Gene Kelly1912–1938

📍 Highland Park, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA

I was born in August 1912 in a rented house on the corner of Portland and Bryant streets in Highland Park, a leafy, hilly neighbourhood in the east of Pittsburgh, the third of five children…

Mac Miller1992–2010

📍 Point Breeze, Pittsburgh, PA 15208, USA

I was born Malcolm James McCormick in January 1992 and grew up in Point Breeze, a leafy, comfortable neighbourhood in the East End of Pittsburgh, beside Frick Park. My mother, Karen Meyers…

Mary Cassatt1844–1926

📍 Allegheny (North Side), Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA

I was born Mary Stevenson Cassatt on the 22nd of May 1844 in Allegheny City, now part of Pittsburgh, into a prosperous family that travelled extensively in Europe during my childhood. I…