| Election Name: | 2001 Pittsburgh mayoral election |
| Flag Image: | Flag of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.svg |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1997 Pittsburgh mayoral election |
| Previous Year: | 1997 |
| Next Election: | 2005 Pittsburgh mayoral election |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
| Election Date: | November 6, 2001 |
| Image1: | Tom Murphy (1).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Tom Murphy |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote1: | 39,257 |
| Percentage1: | 74.30% |
| Nominee2: | James Carmine |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote2: | 12,175 |
| Percentage2: | 23.04% |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Tom Murphy |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Tom Murphy |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The mayoral election of 2001 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2001. The incumbent mayor, Tom Murphy of the Democratic Party was running for a record-tying third straight term.
Tom Murphy had a very close and personal primary battle with City Council President and future mayor Bob O'Connor. Murphy won the primary by just a few hundred votes, and in later years this primary battle was the subject of a U.S. Department of Justice probe. It was alleged but never proven in court that Mayor Murphy had a quid pro quo agreement with the powerful Firefighters union in the city, promising to exempt them from citywide budget cuts in return for "bought" votes.
A total of 52,839 votes were cast in the heavily Democratic city. As expected, Murphy won by a huge margin over James Carmine, a philosophy professor at Carlow University.