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This article contains a list of notable people who were born or lived a significant amount of time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the second-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia
Christopher Lyman Magee (1864) – powerful 19th-century Pittsburgh political boss; Wilson McCandless (Col 1826) – federal judge and candidate for Democratic nomination for President of the United States; Jonas R. McClintock - 8th mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Samuel J. R. McMillan (Col 1846) – Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota
Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, 413 U.S. 376 (1973), is a 1973 decision of the United States Supreme Court which upheld an ordinance enacted in Pittsburgh that forbids sex-designated classified advertising for job opportunities, against a claim by the parent company of the Press that the ordinance violated its ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Degrand lived on Pinckney Street in Beacon Hill. [6] He was friend with President of the United States John Quincy Adams. [7] He died on December 23, 1855 [1] and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. [8] Degrand bequeathed $120,000 to charity, a large part of which was for the acquisition of French-language scientific texts for Harvard ...
Daniel Brush was born in Cleveland, Ohio.He enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh in 1965, from which he graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1969.
Moorefield is one of eight children. When she was 5 years old, she began studying music, and at 8 she was singing solos in church. At 16, she began studying opera with the help of a $4,000 scholarship from a radio station in her home town Pittsburgh. Her early employment included babysitting, singing in night clubs, and stenography. [2]
Because Pittsburgh has a relatively large population of Jews, especially in Squirrel Hill, the publication has a higher circulation than most other local Jewish newspapers. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Chronicle reports on news occurring in the local Jewish community and city as a whole as well as national and global news that is of Jewish interest ...