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- Allen PittsAllen PittsAllen Pitts was a receiver for the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League from 1990 to 2000. He attended Cal-State Fullerton and played his entire professional career as a receiver for the Calgary Stampeders...
, an American born Canadian football player - Antony PittsAntony PittsAntony Pitts is a British composer, producer and conductor.His compositions have been published by Faber Music, with 2 CDs of choral music on Hyperion Records and other recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, and Unknown Public. He was a Senior Producer at BBC Radio 3 until 2005...
(1969), a British composer - Boozer PittsBoozer Pitts-External links:...
, an American college football coach - Byron PittsByron PittsByron Pitts is an American journalist and author, who is currently a chief national correspondent for The CBS Evening News and a contributor to the newsmagazine 60 Minutes. He has covered the September 11, 2001 attacks and Iraq....
, an American reporter for CBS - Chester PittsChester PittsChester Morise Pitts II is an American football offensive lineman, currently a free agent in the NFL. He played college football at San Diego State University...
, an American football player - Charles PittsCharles PittsCharles "Skip" Pitts is an American soul / blues guitarist whose distinctive "wah-wah" style can be heard on Isaac Hayes' title track from the 1971 movie Shaft....
, an American soul/blues guitarist - Chip PittsChip PittsChip Pitts is the Board President of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and former Chairman of Amnesty International USA.-Career:Pitts is an international attorney, human rights activist, and law educator who lectures on human rights and international business at law schools and universities...
, an American attorney - Curtis PittsCurtis PittsCurtis Pitts of Stillmore, Georgia, was a designer of a series of popular aerobatic biplanes, known as the Pitts Special. He also designed the Pitts Samson, built in 1948 for aerobatic pilot Jess Bristow...
, a designer of a series of popular aerobatic biplanes - David Pitts, an American author
- Denis PittsDenis PittsDenis Pitts journalist, film-maker and novelist.Denis Pitts first became widely known for his reports on the Suez Crisis and his subsequent articles in the New Statesman...
, an English journalist - Earl Edwin PittsEarl Edwin PittsEarl Edwin Pitts is a former FBI special agent who, in 1996, was arrested at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Pitts was charged with several offenses, including spying for the Soviet Union and Russia...
, an FBI agent and Soviet spy - Edmund L. PittsEdmund L. PittsEdmund Levi Pitts was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...
, an American lawyer and politician - Ernie PittsErnie PittsErnie Pitts was a Canadian Football League receiver for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the British Columbia Lions in a 14 year career in the CFL from 1957-1970. He won four Grey Cups with Winnipeg.Pitts died in 1970. He was shot in a domestic dispute....
, a Canadian football player - Frank PittsFrank PittsFrank H. Pitts is a former professional American football wide receiver in the American Football League and the National Football League...
, an American football player - George PittsGeorge PittsGeorge James Stuart Pitts , was a first-class cricketer.Pitts was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. He played 2 matches for Middlesex in 1914. He batted once and scored 14 runs, and as a bowler he collected 6 wickets....
, a Canadian cricketer - Helen Pitts (1838 - 1903), an American suffragette and the second wife of Frederick Douglass
- Jacob PittsJacob PittsJacob Pitts is an actor. His most notable performance was in the film EuroTrip as Cooper Harris. He appeared in the play Where Do We Live at the Vineyard Theatre in May 2004...
, an American actor - James PittsJames PittsJames Pitts VC MSM was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
(1877 - 1955), a British Army Corporal - James Pitts (1712 - 1776), a Boston merchant (see )
- Jennifer PittsJennifer PittsJennifer Anne Pitts is a beauty pageant contestant from Richmond, Virginia who has competed in the Miss America and Miss USA pageants....
, Miss Virginia 2005 - Jesse R. PittsJesse R. PittsJesse Richard Pitts , was an American sociologist specializing in deviance and social control, family sociology, sociological theory, French society, and criminology. He is considered one of the leading disciples of Talcott Parsons, dean of American sociologists for much of the 20th century...
, an American author and educator - John Pitts, a Catholic scholar and writer
- John Michael Pitts, a British composer
- John Pitts (football player) (b. 1945), an American football defensive in the NFL
- John E. Pitts, Jr.John E. Pitts, Jr.John Emmett Pitts, Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force and was director of the International Staff of the Inter-American Defense Board....
, a US Air Force Brigadier General - Joseph R. PittsJoseph R. PittsJoseph R. "Joe" Pitts is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district is based in Lancaster and includes much of Amish country...
, an American politician from Pennsylvania - Leonard PittsLeonard PittsLeonard Pitts Jr. is a politically progressive African American commentator, journalist and novelist. He is a nationally-syndicated columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary...
, an American journalist and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner - Mike PittsMike PittsMichael Anthony Pitts is a former professional American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles, and the New England Patriots. He played college football at the University of Alabama and was drafted in the first round of the 1983 NFL...
, an American football player - Milton PittsMilton PittsMilton Pitts was the White House barber for Republican U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush....
, a White House barber for Republican US presidents - Rafi PittsRafi PittsRafi Pitts is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director.Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He describes himself as having been a 'very bad' child actor, starting in films at the age of eight. He came to England in...
, an Iranian film director - Riley L. PittsRiley L. PittsRiley Leroy Pitts was a United States Army Captain and the first African American commissioned officer to receive the Medal of Honor. The medal was presented posthumously by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 10, 1968 for actions in Ap Dong, South Vietnam.-Biography:Riley Leroy Pitts was...
, a US Army Captain - Robert PittsRobert PittsRobert C. Pitts was an American basketball player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.Pitts played collegiately for the University of Arkansas, making All-Southwest Conference in 1942...
, an American basketball player - Ron PittsRon PittsRonald Dwayne Pitts is a former professional American football player. He played defensive back for the Buffalo Bills and the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League . He played college football for the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins.Pitts was drafted by the Bills in the...
, an American sportscaster - Tony PittsTony PittsAnthony "Tony" Pitts is an English actor, most notable for playing Archie Brooks in the long-running British soap Emmerdale Farm between 1983 and 1993.He is now a screenwriter....
, an English actor - Trudy PittsTrudy PittsTrudy Pitts , born Gertrude E. Pitts, was an American soul jazz keyboardist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was known primarily for playing the Hammond B3 organ.-Biography:...
, a soul jazz musician - Valerie PittsValerie PittsValerie Pitts, Lady Solti, is the widow of Sir Georg Solti. She was one of the BBC's original team of television presenters during the 1950s. She left the programme in 1960 to marry James Sargent who was stage manager of the Sadler's Wells Opera Company. She also worked at Granada Television.She...
, a British television presenters during the 1950s - Viola PittsViola PittsViola Pitts was the legendary Fort Worth community activist who advocated for her neighborhood of Como, located on Fort Worth's west side. Pitts was often described as a fiery and effective activist...
, an American community activist from Fort Worth - Walter PittsWalter PittsWalter Harry Pitts, Jr. was a logician who worked in the field of cognitive psychology.He proposed landmark theoretical formulations of neural activity and emergent processes that influenced diverse fields such as cognitive sciences and psychology, philosophy, neurosciences, computer science,...
, an American logician - ZaSu PittsZaSu PittsZaSu Pitts was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning to comedy sound films.-Early life:ZaSu Pitts was born in Parsons, Kansas to Rulandus and Nellie Pitts; she was the third of four children...
, an American movie actress
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- The Pitts SpecialPitts SpecialThe Pitts Special is a series of light aerobatic biplane designed by Curtis Pitts. It has accumulated many competition wins since its first flight in 1944...
, a light aerobatics biplane designed by Curtis Pitts - Earl Pitts (radio character)Earl Pitts (radio character)Earl Pitts is a fictional character performed by Gary Burbank, a radio personality from Cincinnati, Ohio.Pitts, who is almost always referred to as "Earl Pitts, Uhmerikun" is a stereotype of a redneck from the Southern United States...
- ZaSu Pitts Memorial OrchestraZaSu Pitts Memorial OrchestraThe ZaSu Pitts Memorial Orchestra was formed in San Francisco by Stephen Ashman, a bass-player. They released several LPs in the 1984-1987 time period and continue to be active...