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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