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Allen Pitts Allen Pitts (born June 28, 1964) is a former 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 ...

, American born Canadian football player *

Antony Pitts Antony Pitts (born 1969 in Farnborough, Kent) is an international composer, conductor, and producer. His compositions have been published by Faber Music, with CDs of choral music on Hyperion Records and other recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, ...

(1969), British composer *

Boozer Pitts John Emmett "Boozer" Pitts Sr. (November 25, 1893 – February 10, 1971) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Auburn University from 1923 to 1924 and again for the final seven games of the 1927 season ...

, American college football coach *

Byron Pitts Byron Pitts (born October 21, 1960) is an American journalist and author, working for ABC News as co-anchor for the network's late night news program, ''Nightline''. Until March 2013, he served as a chief national correspondent for '' The CBS Eve ...

, American reporter for CBS *

Chester Pitts Chester Morise Pitts II (born June 26, 1979) is a former American football offensive guard of the National Football League. He played college football at San Diego State University and in the NFL from 2002 through 2011. Pitts was the focus of the ...

, American football player *

Charles Pitts Charles "Skip" Pitts (April 7, 1947 – May 1, 2012) was an American soul and blues guitarist. He is best known for his distinctive "wah-wah" style, prominently featured on Isaac Hayes' title track from the 1971 movie ''Shaft''. He is widely consi ...

, American soul/blues guitarist *

Chip Pitts Chip Pitts is a lecturer who has regularly taught at Stanford, Oxford, and as a Professor or Visiting Professor at other major universities in the West and Asia. Considered one of the world’s “top academics on corporate responsibility,” h ...

, American attorney *

Curtis Pitts Curtis Pitts (December 9, 1915 – June 10, 2005) of Stillmore, Georgia, was an American designer of a series of popular aerobatic biplanes, known as the Pitts Special. Career Pitts grew up in Americus, Georgia and his first airplane was a ...

, designer of a series of aerobatic biplanes *

Denis Pitts Denis Pitts (6 January 1930 – 19 April 1994) was a journalist, filmmaker and novelist. Denis Pitts first became widely known for his reports on the Suez Crisis and his subsequent articles in the New Statesman. In Suez he made the acquaintance of ...

, English journalist *

Derrick Pitts Derrick Pitts (born January 22, 1955) is an American astronomer and science communicator. Pitts studied at St. Lawrence University and has been employed at the Franklin Institute since 1978 where he is chief astronomer and director of the instit ...

, American astronomer *

Earl Edwin Pitts :''This article describes Earl Pitts, the American spy. For the radio character, see Earl Pitts (radio character).'' Earl Edwin Pitts (born September 23, 1953) is a former FBI special agent who was convicted of espionage for selling information ...

, FBI agent and Soviet spy *

Edmund L. Pitts Edmund Levi Pitts (May 23, 1839 – July 11, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the New York State Assembly and New York State Senate. Early life and education Pitts was born in Yates, New York, the son of Joh ...

, American lawyer and politician *

Ernie Pitts Ernie Pitts (March 8, 1935 – September 24, 1970) was a Canadian Football League wide receiver and defensive back for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the BC Lions in a 14-year career in the CFL from 1957 to 1970. He won four Grey Cups with Winnip ...

, Canadian football player *

Eve Pitts Eve Pitts (née Sewell) is a British priest who was the first black woman to be ordained as a vicar in the Church of England. She is known for being outspoken against discrimination. She is a supporter of Emancipation Day. Personal life and ed ...

, British Anglican minister *

Fountain E. Pitts Fountain E. Pitts (July 4, 1808 – May 22, 1874) was an American Methodist minister and Confederate chaplain. He established Methodist missions in Brazil and Argentina in 1835–1836. During the American Civil War, he was a chaplain and colonel in ...

(1808-1874), American Methodist minister and Confederate chaplain *

Frank Pitts Frank H. Pitts (born November 12, 1943) is a former professional American football wide receiver in the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL). He played ten seasons for the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs (1965–1969) ...

, American football player *

George Pitts (disambiguation) George Pitts may refer to: * George Pitts (Middlesex cricketer) (1878–1939), Canadian-born cricketer * George Pitts (cricketer, died 1847), English cricketer * George Pitts (journalist) (1925–1987), newspaper journalist, father of the photogr ...

* Helen Pitts (1838-1903), American suffragette and the second wife of Frederick Douglass *

Jacob Pitts Jacob Rives Pitts (born November 20, 1979) is an American television, film and stage actor. His most notable performances were as Cooper Harris in the film '' EuroTrip'' (2004), as Bill "Hoosier" Smith in the HBO miniseries '' The Pacific'' (2010) ...

, American actor *

James Pitts (disambiguation) James Pitts may refer to: * James Pitts (VC), English recipient of the Victoria Cross * James Pitts (American Patriot), Massachusetts merchant and American Patriot * James Pitts (chemist), American chemist and researcher * James E. Pitts, United St ...

* Jennifer Pitts, Miss Virginia 2005 *

Jesse R. Pitts Jesse Richard Pitts (1921–2003), 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, d ...

, American author and educator * John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer *

John Michael Pitts John Pitts (sometimes credited as John Michael Pitts) is a British composer, born in Surrey in 1976. Pitts studied Music at Bristol and Manchester Universities, and specializes in music for piano solo or multiple hands. He was winner of the Philh ...

, British composer *

John Pitts (football player) John Martin Pitts (born February 28, 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a former American football defensive back. He played in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills and in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills, the Denver B ...

(born 1945), American football defensive in the NFL *

John E. Pitts, Jr. John Emmett Pitts Jr. (November 7, 1924 – August 9, 1977) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force and was director of the International Staff of the Inter-American Defense Board. Pitts was born in Auburn, Alabama, the son of ...

, US Air Force brigadier general *

Joseph R. Pitts Joseph Russell Pitts (born October 10, 1939) is a former American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1997 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district was based in Lancaster and Reading and included much ...

, American politician from Pennsylvania *

Justin Pitts Justin James Pitts (born October 26, 1994) is an American basketball player for HLA Alicante of the Spanish LEB Oro. He played college basketball for the Northwest Missouri State University. A 5’10” point guard, Pitts was named the NCAA Divi ...

, American basketball player *

Karnail "Bugz" Pitts D12 (an initialism for The Dirty Dozen) was an American hip hop collective from Detroit, Michigan. Formed in 1996, the group achieved mainstream success with its lineup of ''de facto'' leader Eminem, Proof, Bizarre, Mr. Porter, Kuniva and Swift ...

, American rapper *

Kyle Pitts Kyle Anthony Pitts (born October 6, 2000) is an American football tight end for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Florida, where he was named a unanimous All-American and won the John Mackey ...

(born 2000), American football player *

Leonard Pitts Leonard Garvey Pitts Jr. (born October 11, 1957) is an American commentator, journalist, and novelist. He is a nationally syndicated columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He was originally hired by the '' Miami Herald' ...

, American journalist and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner *

Lillian Louisa Pitts Lillian Louisa Pitts, (1872 – 1947) also known as L.L.P., was an Australian music teacher, artist and professional photographer. Pitts grew up with a love for music and the arts and made her living by teaching music classes and oil-painting. Her ...

(1872 – 1947), Australian photographer *

Matthew Pitts Matthew Pitts is an American television writer, best known for his involvement with J.J. Abrams. Career Pitts began his career working as J. J. Abrams' assistant on the film ''Cloverfield'' and held the same position on Abrams' ''Star Trek'', ...

, American television writer *

, English football player *

Mike Pitts Michael Anthony Pitts (September 25, 1960 – November 4, 2021) was an American professional American football, football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for twelve seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. He p ...

, American football player *

Milton Pitts Milton Pitts (4 July 1912 – 25 December 1994) was the White House barber for Republican U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. While Pitts was a staunch Republican, he always maintained that "my sc ...

, White House barber for Republican US presidents *

Priscilla Pitts Priscilla Pitts is a New Zealand writer and art curator. Biography Pitts was educated at the University of Auckland, gaining an MA in English and Art History. In the 1980s, Pitts co-founded the magazine ''Antic,'' which focused on literature a ...

, New Zealand writer and art curator *

Robert B. Pitts Robert Pitts (1909-1982) was the first African-American to serve as a Regional Administrator of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Significant Contributions Pitts was a long-term civil servant in the housing administration ...

, first black HUD Regional Administrator, west coast region *

R. C. Pitts Robert C. Pitts (June 23, 1919 – October 29, 2011) 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. He later ...

, American basketball player *

Rafi Pitts Rafi Pitts ( fa, رفیع پیتز, born 1967) is an Iranian film director. Life and career Pitts was born in Mashad, Iran. Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He came to Eng ...

, Iranian film director *

Riley L. Pitts Riley Leroy Pitts (October 15, 1937 – October 31, 1967) was a United States Army Captain (United States), captain and the first African-American commissioned officer, officer to receive the Medal of Honor. (as transcribed i"Congressional ...

, US Army captain *

Ron Pitts Ronald Dwayne Pitts (born October 14, 1962) is a former professional American football player and current sportscaster. He played cornerback in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bills and Green Bay Packers, and played college football a ...

, American sportscaster *

Shirley Pitts Shirley Sally Pitts, later Shirley Sally Hawkins (24 November 1934 – 16 March 1992), was an English fraudster and thief known as the "queen of shoplifters". Born into poverty and crime, she began to steal as a child to feed her siblings. She was ...

(1934-1992), English fraudster and thief, the "Queen of shoplifters" *

Tony Pitts Anthony Pitts (born 10 October 1962) is an English actor, most notable for playing Archie Brooks in the long-running British soap ''Emmerdale Farm'' between 1983 and 1993. Early life Pitts was born in Sheffield, England. His family was wo ...

, English actor *

Trudy Pitts Gertrude E. "Trudy" Pitts (August 10, 1932 – December 19, 2010) was an American soul jazz keyboardist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was known primarily for playing the Hammond B3 organ. Biography Trained as a musician and a music ed ...

, soul jazz musician *

Valerie Pitts Ann Valerie, Lady Solti (née Pitts; 19 August 1937 – 31 March 2021) was a British television presenter who was one of the BBC's original team of presenters during the 1950s. She left the programme in 1960 to marry James Sargent who was stage ...

, British television presenter during the 1950s *

Victória Pitts Ana Victória Pitts (born 1991) is a Brazilian mezzo-soprano who has performed internationally. Career Pitts was born in Belém in 1991 and was first trained there. From 2008, she studied at the . She made her stage debut in Belém in 2010 a ...

, Brazilian mezzo-soprano *

Viola Pitts Viola Pitts (September 8, 1914 – April 15, 2004) was a 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. Also known as ...

, American community activist from Fort Worth *

Walter Pitts Walter Harry Pitts, Jr. (23 April 1923 – 14 May 1969) was a logician who worked in the field of computational neuroscience.Smalheiser, Neil R"Walter Pitts", ''Perspectives in Biology and Medicine'', Volume 43, Number 2, Winter 2000, pp. 21 ...

, American logician *

ZaSu Pitts Zasu Pitts (; January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963) was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas, including Erich von Stroheim's epic 1924 silent film ''Greed'', and comedies, transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with t ...

, American actress

Places

Pitts, Georgia Pitts is a city in Wilcox County, Georgia, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 252. Geography Pitts is located at (31.945270, -83.540004). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all l ...

, United States *

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...

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The Pitts ''The Pitts'' is an American sitcom that aired Sunday at 9:30 on Fox between March and April 2003. It is about a family and their bad luck. The show featured absurd, fantastical plots presented within the context of a seemingly normal family sit ...

'', an American television sitcom * The

Pitts Special The Pitts Special (company designations S-1 and S-2) is a series of light aerobatic biplanes designed by Curtis Pitts. It has accumulated many competition wins since its first flight in 1944. The Pitts biplanes dominated world ae ...

, a light aerobatics biplane designed by Curtis Pitts * Earl Pitts (character), a radio character created and voiced by Gary Burbank *

ZaSu Pitts Memorial Orchestra The 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. The Orchestra did not have any overt connection to ZaSu Pitts beyon ...

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