Richard Solomon Rauh

Richard Solomon Rauh was an advertising executive, philanthropist, cultural patron and Jewish communal leader throughout Western Pennsylvania.

He was born in Pittsburgh, one of two children of Bertha and Enoch Rauh. He graduated from Fifth Avenue High School and the University of Pittsburgh. He started the advertising firm Rauh & Rosenthal in the late 1910s and later went independent through the Richard S. Rauh Company. A leader in the field locally, Rauh pushed for the formation of an advertising association to advance the interests of the profession. His cultural accomplishments include co-founding the Pittsburgh Symphony Society and later the Pittsburgh Playhouse. With his wife, the actress Helen Wayne Rauh, he had one child, Richard Enoch Rauh.