Religion
- Benjamin W. Arnett – (Fayette) lifelong theologian, first African-American that won a majority white district (assemblyman for Ohio)
- Joseph Baldwin – (Lawrence) father of the "Normal School"
- Robert Baird – (Fayette)
- Cardinal Daniel DiNardo - Archbishop of Galveston-Houston
- Thomas Dolinay – (Fayette)
- Hutton Gibson – (Westmoreland) Father of actor Mel Gibson
- Kersey Graves – (Fayette) Atheist and philosopher, mentioned in the film the DaVinci Code
- Charles Hartshorne – (Armstrong)
- Charles William Kerr – (Butler) leader in Race relations and quelled the Tulsa Race Riots
- Joseph R. Lamonde – (Allegheny)
- Countess Leon – (Beaver) Rappitte Leader
- Cardinal Adam Maida - (West Moreland) Emeritus Archbishop of Detroit
- Bernhard Müller – (Beaver)
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair – founder of American Atheists
- Charles D. Provan - (Washington)
- Victor J. Pospishil – (Armstrong)
- George Rapp – Founder of the religious sect called Harmonists
- Charles Taze Russell – founder of Jehovah's Witnesses
- R. C. Sproul – theologian
- Thomas J. Tobin - (Allegheny) - Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh, Bishop of Youngstown OH, and current Bishop of Providence RI
- Cardinal Donald Wuerl – eleventh Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, current Archbishop of Washington
- David Zubik – twelfth and current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
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“It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.”
—Bernard De Mandeville (1670–1733)
“I told him that Goldsmith had said,... “As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion from the priest.” I regretted this loose way of talking. JOHNSON. Sir, he knows nothing; he has made up his mind about nothing.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)