Geri Allen|  faculty 2013–present jazz composer, educator, and pianist;
Hervey Allen |author best known for Anthony Adverse;
Joseph Bathanti|poet, writer, professor;

NC Poet Laureate;

Thomas Mellon | founder of Mellon Financial, judge;
Larry Merlo | President and CEO of CVS Health;

Carol A. Cartwright|President of Kent State University 1991-2006;
Paul Russell Cutright | American historian and biologist;
Adam Herbert |President of Indiana University; 

Nancy Cartwright | MacArthur Fellowship-winning philosopher noted for her work in philosophy of science, philosophy of economics, and philosophy of physics;

Max Baer |Justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (2003–present) ;

Bennet Omalu |pathologist noted for his discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in football players while at Pitt
Washington Roebling |civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge;