List Of People From The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area
This article contains a list of notable people who were born or lived a significant amount of time in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The counties appear after the names below (in parenthesis) to denote primary county of origin.
The city of Pittsburgh is the second-largest city and the center of the second largest metro area in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
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—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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—Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827–1891)
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—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)
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—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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