The following is a list of famous people born in the U.S. state of Ohio , and people who spent significant periods of their lives living in Ohio.
State flag of Ohio Location of Ohio in the United States
A–B C–D
Mary Katherine Campbell (Miss America 1922, 1923) (Columbus)John Caparulo (comedian) (East Liverpool)Drew Carey (actor, comedian) (Cleveland)Rocky Carroll (actor) (Cincinnati)Nancy Cartwright (voice performer) (Kettering/Dayton)George Chakiris (actor) (Norwood)Justin Chambers (actor) (Springfield)Damian Chapa (actor) (Dayton)Dave Chappelle (comedian, actor) (Yellow Springs)Marguerite Clark (actor) (Avondale)Mystro Clark (actor) (Dayton)George Clooney (actor) (Cincinnati)Bill Cobbs (actor) (Cleveland)Ray Combs (game show host) (Hamilton)Tim Conway (actor, comedian) (Willoughby)Chuck Cooper (actor) (Cleveland)Casey Cott (actor) (Chagrin Falls, Cleveland)Corey Cott (actor) (Chagrin Falls, Cleveland)Franklin Cover (actor) (Cleveland)Laura Cover (model) (Bucyrus)Yvonne Craig (actor) (Columbus)Jim Cummings (voice actor) (Youngstown)Dorothy Dandridge (actor, singer) (Cleveland)Beverly D'Angelo (actor) (Columbus)Frank Daniels (actor, Captain Jinks) (Dayton)Duane Davis (actor) (Cleveland)Charles Michael Davis (actor)(Dayton)Doris Day (actor) (Cincinnati)Carmella DeCesare (model) (Avon Lake)Brooklyn Decker (model) (Kettering)Ruby Dee (actor) (Cleveland)Alana de la Garza (actor) (Columbus)John Diehl (actor) (Cincinnati)Phyllis Diller (actor, comedian) (Lima)Phil Donahue (talk show host) (Cleveland/Dayton)Brian Donlevy (actor) (Cleveland)Mike Douglas (actor) (Cleveland)Steve Downes (DJ and actor) (Columbus)Sue Downey (Miss USA 1965) (Lima)Hugh Downs (broadcaster) (Lima, Akron)Keir Dullea (actor) (Cleveland)Ryan Dunn (actor, stuntman) (Brockville)Doris Day (actress, singer] (Cincinnati)
E–I
Carmen Electra (model, actor) (Cincinnati/White Oak)Joe Estevez (actor) (Dayton)Angie Everhart (fashion model) (Akron)Mike Faist (actor) (Gahanna)Sean Faris (actor, model) (Parma)Jamie Farr (actor) (Toledo)Suzanne Farrell (dancer) (Cincinnati)Guy Fieri (restaurateur, author, television presenter) (Columbus)Susan Floyd (actor) (Cincinnati)Joe Flynn (actor) (Youngstown)Leo Ford (adult entertainment performer) (Dayton)Alan Freed (radio show host, coined phrase "rock 'n roll") (Cleveland)Emma Sheridan Fry (actor, writer) (Painesville)Clark Gable (actor) (Cadiz)Mike Gallagher (syndicated talk radio host ) (Dayton)Teri Garr (actor) (Lakewood)Dorothy Gish (actor)Lillian Gish (actor) (Springfield)Nikki Glaser (comedian) (Cincinnati)Carlin Glynn (actor) (Cleveland)Dody Goodman (actor) (Columbus)Maggie Grace (actor) (Columbus)David Graf (actor) (Lancaster)Joel Grey (actor, singer, dancer) (Cleveland)Nick Gehlfuss (actor) (Cleveland)Julie Hagerty (actor) (Cincinnati)Kathryn Hahn (actor) (Cleveland Heights)Arsenio Hall (comedian, talk show host, actor) (Cleveland)Porter Hall (actor) (Cincinnati)Margaret Hamilton (actor) (Cleveland)Scott Hamilton (ice skater) (Bowling Green)Dorian Harewood (actor) (Dayton)Woody Harrelson (actor) (Lebanon)Rachael Harris (actress/comedian) (Worthington )Steve Harvey (comedian/actor) (Cleveland)Patricia Heaton (actor) (Bay Village)Anne Heche (actor) (Aurora)Eileen Heckart (actor) (Columbus)Hugh Hewitt (radio talk show host) (Warren)Tiffany Hines (actress, singer) (Cincinnati)Tony Hinchcliffe (comedian) (Youngstown)Michael Hitchcock (actor) (Defiance)John Hockenberry (broadcaster) (Dayton)Stephanie Hodge (actress) (Wilmington )Hal Holbrook (actor) (Cleveland)Michael Holley (sports commentator) (Akron)Lindsay Hollister (actress) (Columbus)John Holmes (adult entertainment performer) (Ashville)Katie Holmes (actor) (Toledo)Bob Hope (comedian, actor) (Cleveland)John Howard (actor) (Cleveland)Terrence Howard (actor) (Cleveland)Josh Hutcherson (actor) (Cincinnati)
J–M N–R
John Newland (actor, director, producer, scriptwriter) (Cincinnati)Paul Newman (actor) (Cleveland)Stephen Nichols (actor) (Cincinnati)Danielle Nicolet (actor) (Ashtabula)Don Novello (comedian, actor) (Lorain)Maila Nurmi , Vampira (actor) (Ashtabula)Annie Oakley (markswoman) (Greenville)Ed O'Neill (actor) (Youngstown)Mehmet Oz (cardiothoracic surgeon, author, and television personality) (Cleveland)Jack Paar (talk show host) (Canton)Lawanda Page (actor) (Cleveland)Adrianne Palicki (actress) (Toledo)Eleanor Parker (actor) (Cedarville)Sarah Jessica Parker (actor) (Cincinnati/Nelsonville)Dan Patrick (sportscaster, talk show host) (Mason)Robert Patrick (actor) (Cleveland)Jake Paul (boxer)Logan Paul (actor and internet personality)Austin Pendleton (actor) (Warren)CeCe Peniston (model, Miss Black Arizona 1989) (Dayton)Susan Perkins (Miss America 1978) (Monroe)Max Perlich (actor) (Cleveland)Luke Perry (actor) (Fredericktown)James Pickens Jr. (actor) (Cleveland)Tom Poston (actor) (Columbus)Monica Potter (actor) (Cleveland)Mark Povinelli (actor) (Elyria)Tyrone Power (actor) (Cincinnati )Nicole Pulliam (actor) (Columbus)Josh Radnor (actor) (Bexley)Victor Raider-Wexler (actor) (Toledo)Terry Ray (actor) (Grove City)Marge Redmond (actor) (Cleveland)Lili Reinhart (actress) (Cleveland)Gigi Rice (actor) (Westerville)Addison Richards (actor) (Zanesville)Sy Richardson (actor) (Cincinnati )Matt Rife (comedian, actor) (Columbus)Raven Riley (adult entertainment performer)Jess Robbins (actor) (Dayton)Larry Roberts (actor) (Cleveland)Zach Roerig (actor) (Montpelier)Roy Rogers (actor) (Cincinnati/Lucasville)Ted Ross (actor) (Dayton)Alan Ruck (actor) (Cleveland)Matthew Rush (adult entertainment performer) (Columbus)
S–Z
A–B Harold Anderson Sal Bando Tianna Bartoletta Earl Boykins Paul Brown Joe Burrow C–D Cris Carter Mark Coleman Len Dawson Buster Douglas E–G Rollie Fingers Elmer Flick Ken Griffey Jr. Archie Griffin H–I John Havlicek Desmond Howard Shirley Fry Irvin J–M LeBron James Jason Kelce Travis Kelce Leroy Kemp Luke Kuechly Jack Lambert Jerry Lucas Marion Motley N–Q Jack Nicklaus Paul O'Neill Alan Page R–S Ben Roethlisberger Pete Rose Mike Schmidt Don Shula Katie Smith Roger Staubach
Bobby Rahal (race car driver) (Medina)Graham Rahal (race car driver) (Columbus)Kevin Randleman (UFC fighter, professional wrestler, folkstyle wrestler) (Sandusky)Dominic Randolph (football player) (Amelia)Tim Rattay (football player) (Elyria)George Ratterman (football player) (Cincinnati)Jeff Reboulet (baseball player) (Kettering)Michael Redd (basketball player) (Columbus)Devine Redding (football player) (Youngstown)Tim Richmond (race car driver) (Ashland)Branch Rickey (baseball manager) (Stockdale)Cy Rigler (baseball umpire) (Massillon)Javon Ringer (football player) (Dayton)Brian Roberts (basketball player) (Toledo)Dave Roberts (baseball player) (Gallipolis)Alvin Robertson (basketball player) (Barberton)Jamal Robertson (football player) (Springfield)Ryne Robinson (football player) (Toledo)Brian Robiskie (football player) (Cleveland)Chaz Roe (baseball player) (Steubenville)Ben Roethlisberger (football player) (Findlay)Dean Roll (professional wrestler) (Dayton)Mauri Rose (racing driver) (Columbus)Pete Rose (baseball player, manager) (Cincinnati)Scott Roth (basketball player, coach) (Cleveland)Edd Roush (baseball player) (Cincinnati)Eric Rowe (football player) (Cleveland)Tommy Rowlands (freestyle and folkstyle wrestler) (Columbus)Terry Rozier (basketball player) (Youngstown)Ryan Rua (baseball player) (Amherst)Kyle Rudolph (football player) (Cincinnati)Mike Rupp (hockey player) (Cleveland Heights)Gary Russell (football player) (Columbus)Rodger Saffold (football player) (Bedford)Perry Saturn (professional wrestler) (Cleveland)"Macho Man" Randy Savage (professional wrestler) (Columbus)Bo Schembechler (football coach) (Barberton)Mike Schmidt (baseball player) (Dayton)Bob Schul (runner, Olympic gold medalist) (West Milton)Kyle Schwarber (baseball player) (Middletown)Devon Scott (basketball player) (Columbus)Adam Shaheen (football player) (Galena)Travis Shaw (baseball player) (Washington Court House)Cecil Shorts III (football player) (Kent)George Shuba (baseball player) (Youngstown)J. B. Shuck (baseball player) (Galion)Don Shula (football coach) (Painesville)Larry Shyatt (basketball coach) (Cleveland)Larry Siegfried (basketball player) (Shelby)John Simon (football player) (Youngstown)Rob Sims (football player) (Macedonia)Frank Sinkwich (Heisman Trophy recipient) (Youngstown)George Sisler (baseball player) (Manchester)Brad Smith (football player) (Youngstown)Chris Smith (football coach) (Massillon)Joe Smith (baseball player) (Cincinnati)Katie Smith (basketball player) (Logan)Robert Scott Smith (football player) (Euclid)Steve Smith (baseball coach) (Canton)Troy Smith (football player) (Cleveland)Dawuane Smoot (football player) (Groverport)Al Snow (professional wrestler) (Lima)Eric Snow (basketball player, coach) (Canton)Bob Snyder (football player, coach) (Toledo)Andy Sonnanstine (baseball player) (Barberton)Joe Sparma (football and baseball player) (Massillon)Tim Spencer (football player, coach) (Martins Ferry)Willie Spencer (football player) (Massillon)Craig Stammen (baseball player) (North Star)Roger Staubach (football player) (Cincinnati)Harry Steel (Olympic freestyle wrestler) (East Sparta)Dominique Steele (mixed martial artist) (Norwood)George Steinbrenner (owner of NY Yankees) (Rocky River)Shannon Stewart (baseball player)Logan Stieber (freestyle and folkstyle wrestler) (Monroeville)Steve Stone (baseball pitcher, sportscaster) (South Euclid)Carl Storck (NFL president) (Dayton)Harry Stuhldreher (football player, coach, administrator) (Massillon)Zach Strief (football player) (Cincinnati)Korey Stringer (football player) (Warren)Tyrell Sutton (football player) (Akron)Willard Swihart (basketball player) (Massillon)Nick Swisher (baseball player) (Worthington)
T–Z David Taylor Nate Thurmond Charles Woodson Cy Young
A–F
Berenice Abbott (photographer) (Springfield)Karen Ackerman (author) (Cincinnati)Julia Carter Aldrich (author, editor) (Liverpool)Dede Allen (film editor) (Cleveland)Eunice Gibbs Allyn (author) (Brecksville)Sherwood Anderson (author) (Camden/Clyde)R. W. Apple Jr. (journalist and author) (Akron)Helen Vickroy Austin (journalist, horticulturist) (Miamisburg)Brian Azzarello (comic book writer) (Cleveland)Jamie Babbit (film director, producer, screenwriter) (Shaker Heights)Libbie C. Riley Baer (poet) (Bethel)Bill Balas (screenwriter and director) (Cleveland)Melissa Elizabeth Banta (poet) (Cheviot)Natalie Barney (author) (Dayton)Dorothy Barresi (poet) (Akron)Billy Bass (radio host, program director) (Cleveland)Margret Holmes Bates (author) (Fremont)Tom Batiuk (cartoonist) (Akron)William Bayer (crime fiction author) (Cleveland)Brian Michael Bendis (comic book writer) (Cleveland)Ambrose Bierce (author) (Meigs County)Hanne Blank (author) (Cleveland)Erma Bombeck (newspaper columnist, author) (Dayton)Christine Brennan (sportswriter) (Toledo)Douglas Brinkley (author and professor) (Perrysburg)Louis Bromfield (author) (Mansfield)Raymond Buckland (author) (Warren)Michael Buckley (author) (Akron)Milton Caniff (cartoonist) (Dayton)Vincent J. Cardinal (playwright and director) (Kent)Alice Cary (poet) (Cincinnati)Charles Chesnutt (writer) (Cleveland)Gordon Cobbledick (Sports Editor, Author, War Correspondent (Cleveland)Bud Collins (journalist) (Lima)Gail Collins (journalist) (Cincinnati)Chris Columbus (film director) (Warren)Eliza Archard Conner (journalist, lecturer) (Monroe Township)Jerome Corsi (author) (East Cleveland)Carol Costello (television correspondent) (Minerva)Hart Crane (poet) (Garrettsville)Wes Craven (film director) (Cleveland)Anne Virginia Culbertson (writer) (Zanesville)Michael Cunningham (author) (Cincinnati)Steve Curwood (journalist, author) (Yellow Springs)William H. Daniels (cinematographer) (Cleveland)Khashyar Darvich (film producer, director) (Oxford, Cleveland)Stephen Donaldson (author) (Cleveland)Rita Dove (poet) (Akron)Elizabeth Drew (journalist, author) (Cincinnati)Paul Laurence Dunbar (poet) (Dayton)Jane Dunnewold (author) (Oberlin)Harlan Ellison (author) (Cleveland)Mel Epstein (film producer) (Dayton)Joe Eszterhas (screenwriter) (Cleveland)Dominick Evans (filmmaker/activist) (Toledo)Lydia Hoyt Farmer (author, women's rights activist) (Cleveland)George Fett (cartoonist) (Cleveland)Siaara Freeman (poet) (Cleveland)
G–M
Atul Gawande (journalist, physician) (Athens)Elizabeth George (novelist) (Warren)Paul Gilger (playwright, set designer, architect) (Mansfield)Florence Magruder Gilmore (religious writer, novelist, translator (Columbus)Bob Greene (columnist, author) (Columbus)Zane Grey (author) (Zanesville)Cathy Guisewite (cartoonist) (Dayton)Stephen Gyllenhaal (film director, poet) (Cleveland)Margaret Peterson Haddix (author) (Columbus)Virginia Hamilton (children's author) (Yellow Springs)Benjamin Hanby (writer, composer) (Rushville, Westerville)Bill Hemmer (television journalist) (Cincinnati)William Dean Howells (author, critic)Elizabeth O. Sampson Hoyt (philosopher, author) (Athens)Langston Hughes (poet) (Cleveland)Florence Huntley (journalist, author and humorist) (Alliance)Margaret E. Ingalls (author, liturgist) (Logan)Mary Bigelow Ingham (writer, educator, social activist) (Mansfield)Jeff Jacoby (journalist) (Cleveland)Jim Jarmusch (film director) (Akron)Douglas Kenney (comedy writer, actor) (Chagrin Falls)Joe Kernen (television journalist) (Cincinnati)Katharine Kerr (sci-fi/fantasy author) (Cleveland)Glenn Kessler (correspondent) (Cincinnati)Eric Kripke (writer, director) (Toledo)Robert Kurtzman (film director, screenwriter) (Crestline)Jerome Lawrence (writer) (Cleveland)Robert E. Lee (writer) (Elyria)Sorche Nic Leodhas (writer) (Youngstown)Brett Leonard (film director) (Toledo)Mark L. Lester (film director) (Cleveland)Ann Liguori (radio personality) (Cincinnati)Dwight H. Little (director) (Cleveland)Carmen LoBue (filmmaker) (Cleveland) [3] Januarius MacGahan (journalist) (New Lexington)Bryan Malessa (author) (Chagrin Falls)Louise Markscheffel (newspaper editor and critic) (Toledo)Lida Rose McCabe (author, journalist, lecturer) (Columbus)J. E. McConaughy (litterateur, author) (Twinsburg)Jennie McCowen (physician, medical journal editor) (Harveysburg)Robin Meade (television journalist) (New London)Nick G. Miller (screenwriter, producer, director) (Dayton)Dan Moldea (author) (Akron)Christopher Moore (author) (Toledo)Patt Morrison (journalist) (Utica)Toni Morrison (author) (Lorain)
N–Z
Dudley Nichols (screenwriter) (Wapakoneta)Andre Norton (author) (Cleveland)John O'Brien (novelist) (Oxford)Frederick Burr Opper (cartoonist) (Madison)P. J. O'Rourke (political satirist, author) (Toledo)Paul Palnik (artist, cartoonist) (Cleveland)Harvey Pekar (author) (Cleveland)Jack Perkins (journalist, author) (Cleveland)Eleanor Perry (screenwriter) (Cleveland)Bob Peterson (animator, director) (Wooster/Dover)Christopher Pfaff (producer, actor, clothing designer) (Akron)Dav Pilkey (author) (Cleveland)David Pogue (columnist) (Shaker Heights)Dawn Powell (author) (Mount Gilead)Ted Rall (editorial cartoonist) (Kettering)Ellen Ratner (Fox News analyst) (Cleveland)Robert Rehme (film producer) (Cincinnati)Rosella Rice (writer, poet) (Perrysville)Les Roberts (mystery novel writer) (author) (Cleveland Heights)Effie Hoffman Rogers (editor, journalist, educator) (Jackson)Terry Ryan (author) (Defiance)Bill Sammon (television journalist) (Cleveland)Martin Savidge (television journalist) (Rocky River)John Scalzi (author) (Bradford)Tara Seibel (artist, cartoonist) (Pepper Pike)Dominic Sena (film director) (Niles)Joe Shuster (co-creator of Superman ) (Cleveland)Jerry Siegel (co-creator of Superman ) (Cleveland)Marisa Silver (film director) (Shaker Heights)David C. Smith (novelist) (Youngstown)Jeff Smith (cartoonist) (Columbus)Maggie Smith (poet, freelance writer, and editor)Tony Snow (television journalist) (Cincinnati)Steven Spielberg (film director, producer) (Cincinnati)Cornelia Laws St. John (poet, biographer) (College Hill)R. L. Stine (author) (Columbus )Harriet Beecher Stowe (author) (Cincinnati)Gertrude Strohm (author, compiler, game designer) (Greene County)Lowell Thomas (commentator, author) (Woodington)James Thurber (author, cartoonist) (Columbus)George Trendle (radio/TV producer) (Norwalk)Emma Rood Tuttle (writer, poet) (Braceville Township)Lee Unkrich (film director and editor) (Cleveland)Michael Wadleigh (film director) (Akron)Paula Wagner (film producer) (Youngstown)Brad Warner (author) (Akron)Jack L. Warner (movie mogul) (Youngstown)Marion E. Warner (writer) (Geneva)Harvey Wasserman (author, political activist) (Columbus)Lew Wasserman (studio executive) (Cleveland)Daniel Waters (screenwriter) (Cleveland)Bill Watterson (cartoonist) (Chagrin Falls)Sharon Waxman (born c.1963) (journalist)Laura Rosamond White (author, poet, editor) (Geneva)David Whitney (author) (Youngstown)Gerri Willis (television journalist) (Cincinnati)M. Wintermute (poet, author) (Berkshire)Charles Woodson (football) (Fremont)James Wright (poet) (Martins Ferry)John Yang (television journalist) (Chillicothe)
A–L James A. Garfield Ulysses S. Grant Warren G. Harding Benjamin Harrison William Henry Harrison Marcy Kaptur
Charles Anderson (Ohio governor) (Dayton)Frank J. Battisti (judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ) (Youngstown)Albert J. Beveridge (political leader) (Highland)Ken Blackwell (politician) (Cincinnati)Blue Jacket (Shawnee Indian Chief) (presently known as Ross County)John Boehner (U.S. Speaker of the House) (Reading/West Chester)John Brough (politician, Ohio governor) (Marietta)Henry Lawrence Burnett (prosecutor in trial for Abraham Lincoln assassination) (Youngstown)Prescott Bush (U.S. Senator, businessman) (Columbus)William Case (Cleveland)Steve Chabot (politician, U.S. representative) (Cincinnati)Salmon P. Chase (Ohio governor, abolitionist , U.S.Treasury Secretary and Chief Justice) (Cincinnati)Gary Cohn (National Economic Council Director) (Shaker Heights)James M. Cox (Governor, Presidential candidate, Media mogul) (Dayton)Ephraim Cutler (a framer of Ohio Constitution, abolitionist , longtime Ohio University Trustee (Ames Twp)Charles G. Dawes (politician)William R. Day (US Supreme Court Justice) (Ravenna/Canton)John Dean (White House Counsel to President Nixon) (Akron)R. Michael DeWine (politician, U.S. Senator) (Cedarville)Steve Driehaus (politician, U.S. representative) (Cincinnati)James A. Garfield (Civil War general, 20th President of the United States) (Moreland Hills)James Rudolph Garfield (U.S. Interior Secretary)John J. Gilligan (politician, Ohio Governor)John Glenn (U.S. Senator, astronaut)Bill Gradison (politician, U.S. representative)Ulysses S. Grant (soldier, politician, 18th President of the United States) (Point Pleasant)Joe Hagin (White House Deputy Chief of Staff) (Indian Hill)Warren G. Harding (29th President of the United States) (Blooming Grove/Caledonia)Marie Harf (State Dept. spokesperson) (Granville)Andrew L. Harris (Civil War general, U.S. Commissioner, Ohio Governor)Benjamin Harrison (soldier, politician, 23rd President of the United States) (North Bend)William Henry Harrison (soldier, politician, 9th President of the United States) (North Bend)Rutherford B. Hayes (politician, 19th President of the United States) (Delaware)Dave Hobson (politician, U.S. representative) (Springfield)Darrell Issa (politician, U.S. representative) (Cleveland)Cheryl Johnson (judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ) (Columbus)
Nathaniel R. Jones (judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit) (Youngstown)Marcy Kaptur (politician, U.S. representative) (Toledo)John Kasich (politician, former Representative from Ohio (1983–2001), and former Governor of Ohio ) (Pittsburgh /Columbus)Michael J. Kirwan (politician, U.S. representative) (Youngstown)John Koskinen (IRS Commissioner) (Cleveland)Dennis Kucinich (politician) (Cleveland)Alan George Lance Sr. (judge, politician, and the National Commander of The American Legion 1999–2000) (McComb)Kenesaw Mountain Landis (federal judge, baseball commissioner) (Millville)Frank Lausche (Ohio Senator and Governor)Susie Lee (politician, U.S. representative) (Canton)Lucile Petry Leone (Cadet Nurse Corps , Assistant Surgeon General) (Preble County)
M–Z William McKinley Kathleen Sebelius William Howard Taft
Omarosa Manigault (Assistant to the President) (Youngstown)John Michael Manos (federal judge) (Cleveland)Neil H. McElroy (businessman, cabinet secretary)William McKinley (25th President of the United States) (Niles)Howard Metzenbaum (Senator from Ohio) (Cleveland)Arthur Ernest Morgan (college president, hydraulic engineer, TVA administrator)Chief Pontiac (Ottawa Indian Chief)James A. Rhodes (politician, Ohio Governor) (Jackson)Christina Romer (chair of Council of Economic Advisers ) (Canton)Edward James Roye , (5th President of Liberia ) (Newark)[4] Charles Ruff (White House Counsel) (Cleveland)William Saxbe (U.S. Senator, U.S. Attorney General, ambassador to India) (Mechanicsburg)Kathleen Sebelius (U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, former governor of Kansas) (Cincinnati)Donna Shalala (U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1993–John Sherman (U.S. Senator, brother of Gen. Sherman) (Lancaster)Tony Snow (White House Press Secretary) (Cincinnati)Charles Phelps Taft II (Mayor of Cincinnati)Robert A. Taft I (politician) (Cincinnati)Robert A. Taft II (politician, Ohio governor)Robert Taft Jr. William Howard Taft (politician, jurist, 27th President of the United States, chief justice) (Cincinnati)Norman Thomas (politician) (Marion)David Tod (governor) (Youngstown)Albion Tourgée (activist for civil rights, author, lawyer) (Kingsville)James Traficant (politician, U.S. representative) (Youngstown)Clement Vallandigham (politician, activist) (Dayton)Stephen Venard (lawman) (Lebanon)George Voinovich (politician) (Cleveland)Brand Whitlock (politician, diplomat)Jay Williams (mayor) (Youngstown)Mary Ellen Withrow (U.S. Treasurer) (Marion)Victoria Claflin Woodhull (first woman to be nominated for president) (Homer, Licking County)
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Ernest J. King
"Mad" Ann Bailey (scout and spy for pioneers) (Harrison)
Phil H. Bucklew (Navy officer) (Columbus)Don Carlos Buell (Civil War General) (Lowell)Cook Cleland (WW2 Navy Flying Ace, Post War Air Race Winner) (Cleveland)George Crook (cavalry officier) (Taylorsville)George Custer (cavalry officer) (New Rumley)Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (first African-American general in U.S. Air Force) (Cleveland)William A. Foster (Medal of Honor Recipient) (Cleveland)Dominic S. Gentile (World War II flying ace, first to break Rickenbacker's wartime kill record) (Piqua)Ulysses S. Grant (Civil War general, politician) (Point Pleasant)Andrew L. Harris (Civil War general, U.S. Commissioner, Ohio Governor)Simon Kenton (soldier, frontiersman, friend of Daniel Boone ) (Urbana)Isaac C. Kidd (Rear Admiral USN) (killed on USS Arizona , Medal of Honor) (Cleveland)Ernest Joseph King (Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations during World War II) (Lorain)Whitmore Knaggs (soldier, spy)William C. Lambert (World War I aviator, fighter ace) (Ironton)Justin LeHew (Sergeant Major USMC; hero of Nasiriyah; Navy Cross, Bronze Star with Combat "V"; nominated for the Medal of Honor) (Columbus Grove)Curtis LeMay (founder of Strategic Air Command) (Columbus)William S. Rosecrans (American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and U.S. Army officer during the American Civil War) (Kingston Township)Donald Russell Long (Medal of Honor, Vietnam)Jacob Parrott (first recipient of the Medal of Honor ) (Fairfield County)Eddie Rickenbacker (pilot, race car driver) (Columbus)Robert C. Schenck (Civil War general, politician, diplomat) (Dayton)Philip Sheridan (Civil War general) (Somerset)William Tecumseh Sherman (Civil War general) (Lancaster)Tecumseh (Native American leader)Paul Tibbets (pilot of Enola Gay , World War II) (Columbus)Robert B. Wood (Civil War sailor, Medal of Honor) (New Garden)Rodger Young (World War II soldier) (Fremont)
John Chambers (CEO of Cisco Systems ) (Cleveland)Henry D. Coffinberry (industrialist) (Cleveland)John R. Commons (economist) (Hollansburg)Edward J. DeBartolo Sr. (developer, real estate magnate) (Youngstown)Larry Dolan (owner of the Cleveland Indians ) (Cleveland Heights)Paul Dolan (CEO of the Cleveland Indians ) (Chardon)Herbert H. Dow (chemist, industrialist) (Cleveland)Benjamin Franklin Fairless (steel company executive) (Pigeon Run)Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone , inventor, industrialist) (Columbiana/Akron)John W. Galbreath (real estate mogul, owned Pittsburgh Pirates and Darby Dan Farm) (Columbus)Charles Geschke (co-founder of Adobe Systems ) (Cleveland)B. F. Goodrich (industrialist) (Akron)Jeff Immelt (chairman and CEO of GE ) (Cincinnati)Charles Keating (banker, activist) (Cincinnati)Charles F. Kettering (inventor, industrialist, philanthropist) (Loudonville/Dayton)James Michael Lafferty CEO of Fine Hygienic Holding ; prior CEO within Procter and Gamble , Coca-Cola , and British American Tobacco . Olympic Track and Field Coach. (Cincinnati)Peter B. Lewis (entrepreneur, philanthropist, activist) (Cleveland)Carl Lindner (entrepreneur, political contributor, philanthropist) (Cincinnati)Arthur B. McBride (businessman who founded the Cleveland Browns football team) (Cleveland)Brian Moynihan (CEO of Bank of America ) (Marietta)Henry Nicholas (co-founder of Broadcom Corporation ) (Cincinnati)Ransom Olds (automaker, Oldsmobile ) (Geneva)James Ward Packard (automaker) Packard (Born Warren, Died Cleveland)William Doud Packard (automaker) Packard (Warren)Don Panoz (entrepreneur) (Alliance)John H. Patterson (industrialist) (Dayton)Terren Peizer (businessperson convicted of insider trading and securities fraud)Roger Penske (racing driver, entrepreneur) (Shaker Heights)William Procter (industrialist) (Cincinnati)Bruce Ratner (real estate developer, owned the New Jersey Nets ) (Cleveland)John D. Rockefeller (industrialist) (Strongsville/Cleveland)Michael J. Saylor (co-founder of MicroStrategy ) (Fairborn)Ernesto Schmitt (entrepreneur) (Cincinnati)Frank Seiberling (industrialist) (Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.)Gary Shilling (financial analyst and commentator)David Sinton (industrialist) (Cincinnati)George Steinbrenner (shipping magnate, owned the New York Yankees ) (Cleveland)Ronald Wayne (co-founder of Apple Inc. ) (Cleveland)Ralph Wilson (Hall of Fame owner of the Buffalo Bills ) (Columbus)Denise DeBartolo York (co-chair of the San Francisco 49ers) (Youngstown)Jed York (president and owner of the San Francisco 49ers ) (Youngstown)
Rosa Miller Avery (abolitionist, reformer, writer) (Madison)Daniel Carter Beard (founder of The Boy Scouts of America ) (Cincinnati)Elizabeth Blackwell (abolitionist , women's rights activist, first female doctor in U.S.) (Cincinnati)John Brown (abolitionist) (Hudson)Alice A. W. Cadwallader (philanthropist and temperance activist) (St. Clairsville)Rebecca Ballard Chambers (temperance reformer) (Ohio)Annie W. Clark (social reformer)Sara Jane Crafts (educator, author, social reformer) (Cincinnati)Ronald Daniels (activist) (Youngstown)Clarence Seward Darrow (lawyer, leading member of the ACLU ) (Kinsman)Richard Dillingham (Quaker abolitionist) (Morrow County )Susanna M. D. Fry (educator, social reformer) (Burlington)Albert B. Graham (founder of 4-H ) (Springfield, Clark County)Linda Hirshman (lawyer, feminist) (Cleveland)Esther T. Housh (social reformer, magazine editor) (Ross County)William Alexander Morgan (fought in the Cuban Revolution ) (Cleveland/Toledo)Carl Oglesby (activist) (Akron)Madalyn Murray O'Hair (activist) (Rossford)John Oller (attorney, writer, biographer) (Huron)Alice E. Heckler Peters (social reformer) (Dayton)Utah Phillips (labor organizer) (Cleveland)Achilles Pugh (publisher of The Philanthropist ; anti-slavery activist) (Cadiz, Waynesville, Cincinnati)Laura Rockefeller (abolitionist, philanthropist) (Wadsworth)Martha Parmelee Rose (1834–1923) (journalist, social reformer, philanthropist) (Norton)Rick Alan Ross (deprogrammer) (Cleveland)Jerry Rubin ('60s, '70s radical activist) (Cincinnati)Lee Saunders (labor leader) (Cleveland)Bob Smith (doctor, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ) (Akron)Gloria Steinem (feminist) (Toledo)Lillian Wald (activist) (Cincinnati)Irvin F. Westheimer (founder of Big Brothers Big Sisters)Raymond Winbush (scholar, activist) (Cleveland)Victoria Woodhull (activist, stockbroker, journalist, politician) (Homer/Mount Gilead)
Zoltan Acs (economist) (Cleveland)Mary Ainsworth (psychologist) (Glendale)Gordon Allport (psychologist) (Cleveland)James B. Anderson (chemical engineer) (Cleveland)Edgar Bain (metallurgist) (LaRue)Richard C. Banks (ornithologist) (Steubenville)Brand Blanshard (philosopher) (Fredericksburg)Michael Brooks (historian, journalist) (Toledo)William Merriam Burton (chemist) (Cleveland)William Campbell (astronomer) (Hancock County)Richard E. Caves (economist) (Akron)Neil W. Chamberlain (economist) (Lakewood)Walker Lee Cisler (mechanical engineer) (Marietta)John R. Commons (economist, historian) (Hollansburg)Gustav Eckstein (writer, medical doctor, psychologist)Thomas Alva Edison (scientist, inventor)William A. Fowler (physicist, Nobel Prize Winner) (The Ohio State University, Lima)Marye Anne Fox (organic chemist) (Canton)James J. Gibson (psychologist) (McConnelsville)Rosetta Luce Gilchrist (physician, writer) (Kingsville)Donald A. Glaser (physicist, Nobel Prize Winner) (Cleveland)Irving I. Gottesman (psychologist, behavioral geneticist) (Cleveland)Charles Martin Hall (inventor, engineer) (Thompson)Samuel Dana Horton (monetary theorist)Charles Kettering (inventor, engineer) (Loudonville)Thomas Kuhn (philosopher of science) (Cincinnati)Arthur Laffer (supply-side economist) (Youngstown)Harry March (football historian, doctor) (New Franklin/Canton)Albert A. Michelson (physicist) (Case Institute of Technology)Virginia Minnich (biologist) (Zanesville)Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore (physician, newspaper editor) (Chillicothe)Garrett Morgan (inventor) (Cleveland)Edward W. Morley (physicist) (Western Reserve University)Ralph Paffenbarger (epidemiologist) (Columbus)Roy J. Plunkett (chemist) (New Carlisle)Willard Van Orman Quine (logician and philosopher) (Akron)Joseph Ransohoff (neurosurgeon, inventor) (Cincinnati)Frederick Rentschler (aviation engineer) (Hamilton)Charles Richter (physicist) (Overpeck)Frank Sherwood Rowland (chemist, Nobel Prize Winner) (Delaware)Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. (historian) (Xenia)Zalman Shapiro (chemist, inventor) (Canton)Thomas Sherwood (chemical engineer) (Columbus)Thomas J. Silhavy (molecular biologist) (Wauseon)Richard Smalley (chemist, Nobel Prize Winner) (Akron)Oberlin Smith (engineer, magnetic recording pioneer) (Cincinnati)Lee Smolin (theoretical physicist) (Cincinnati)George Smoot (astrophysicist, Nobel Prize Winner) (Upper Arlington)Sander Vanocur (commentator) (Cleveland)John S. Wilson (economist) (Lakewood)Elizabeth Witherell (editor-in-chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau Michael S. Witherell (particle physicist, president of Fermilab ) (Toledo)Richard D. Wolff (Marxist economist) (Youngstown)Allyn Abbott Young (economist) (Kenton)
A–C
Rita Abrams (songwriter-performer-writer) (Cleveland)Lee Adams (Broadway lyricist) (Mansfield)Leslie Adams [H. Leslie Adams] (composer) (Cleveland)Steven Adler (musician, original drummer, Guns N' Roses ) (Cleveland)Harley Allen (singer-songwriter) (Dayton)Ray Anthony (musician) (Cleveland)Joseph Arthur (musician) (Akron)Dan Auerbach (guitarist and singer, The Black Keys ) (Akron)Avant (musician) (Cleveland)Albert Ayler (musician) (Cleveland)David Baerwald (musician) (Oxford)Benny Bailey (jazz trumpeter) (Cleveland)Anita Baker (singer) (Toledo)Julius Baker (classical flutist) (Cleveland)Bobby Bare (singer) (Ironton)Lou Barlow (musician) (Dayton)John Bassette (singer, musician) (Cleveland)Stiv Bators (musician) (Youngstown)Kathleen Battle (opera singer) (Portsmouth)Margaret Baxtresser (classical pianist) (Kent)Andy Biersack (singer) (Cincinnati)Cindy Blackman (musician) (Yellow Springs)Bow Wow (rapper) (Reynoldsburg)Crystal Bowersox (musician) (Toledo)Don Braden (jazz saxophonist) (Cincinnati)Tiny Bradshaw (jazz bandleader) (Youngstown)Teresa Brewer (singer) (Toledo)..Jim Brickman (musician, songwriter) (Cleveland)Jerry Brightman (producer, musician, Buck Owens ) (Akron)Dave Burrell (jazz pianist) (Middletown)Chris Butler (musician, The Waitresses ) (Akron)Billy Butterfield (jazz trumpeter) (Middletown)Glen Buxton (guitarist, original Alice Cooper band) (Akron)Casey Calvert (vocalist, Hawthorne Heights ) (Dayton)Eric Carmen (musician) (Cleveland)Patrick Carney (drummer and producer, The Black Keys ) (Akron)Ralph Carney (saxophonist) (Akron)Lionel Cartwright (musician, singer) (Gallipolis)Gerald Casale (musician) (Kent)Tracy Chapman (singer-songwriter) (Cleveland)Cheetah Chrome (musician, Dead Boys ) (Cleveland)Charles W. Clark (operatic singer, vocalist teacher) (Van Wert)Gilby Clarke (musician) (Cleveland)Tammy Cochran (singer) (Austinburg)David Allan Coe (singer, musician) (Akron)Marc Cohn (singer) (Cleveland)Bootsy Collins (musician) (Cincinnati)Earl Thomas Conley (singer) (Portsmouth)Cowboy Copas (singer) (Adams County)Susan Cowsill (singer) (Canton)Stanley Cowell (jazz pianist) (Toledo)Gavin Creel (singer) (Findlay)
D–I
Tadd Dameron (jazz composer) (Cleveland)Dorothy Dandridge (singer, actress) (Cleveland)Dennis Russell Davies (orchestral conductor) (Toledo)Bill Davison (jazz cornetist) (Defiance)Doris Day (big band singer, actress) (Cincinnati)Kelley Deal (musician, The Breeders ) (Huber Heights/Dayton)Kim Deal (musician, The Breeders ) (Huber Heights/Dayton)Bill DeArango (jazz guitarist) (Cleveland)Jay DeMarcus (singer, bassist and keyboardist, Rascal Flatts ) (Columbus)Paul DeMarinis (electronic music composer) (Cleveland)Jerry DePizzo (saxophonist, O.A.R. ) (Youngstown)Rick Derringer (singer) (Fort Recovery)Frank DeVol (composer, actor) (Canton)Greg Dewey (drummer, Country Joe and the Fish ) (Yellow Springs)Vic Dickenson (jazz trombonist) (Xenia)Bethany Dillon (Christian singer-songwriter) (Bellefontaine)Martin Dillon (tenor and music professor) (Portsmouth)Patty Donahue (singer, The Waitresses ) (Akron)Mark S. Doss (operatic bass-baritone) (Cleveland)Jerry Douglas (musician) (Warren)Greg Dulli (singer, musician) (Hamilton)Josh Dun (drummer, Twenty One Pilots ) (Columbus)Harry Edison (jazz trumpeter) (Columbus)Halim El-Dabh (composer, musician, ethnomusicologist ) (Kent)James Emery (jazz guitarist) (Youngstown, Shaker Heights)Donald Erb (composer) (Youngstown)Eric Ewazen (composer) (Cleveland)Michael Feinstein (singer) (Columbus)Frederick Fennell (band conductor) (Cleveland)Jim Ferguson (classical and jazz guitarist) (Dayton)Bobby Few (jazz pianist) (Cleveland)Anton Fier (drummer, The Golden Palominos ) (Cleveland)Henry Fillmore (composer) (Cincinnati)Frank Foster (jazz saxophonist and bandleader) (Cincinnati)Mark Foster (singer, Foster the People ) (Cleveland)Craig Fuller (musician) (Waverly, Columbus)Larry Fuller (jazz pianist) (Toledo)Sonny Geraci (singer) Outsiders (Climax) (Cleveland)Neil Giraldo (guitarist, songwriter) (Cleveland)Jeff Golub (jazz guitarist) (Copley)Macy Gray (singer) (Canton)Max Green (musician) (Cincinnati)Joel Grey (singer, actor, dancer) (Cleveland)Dave Grohl (musician, Nirvana and Foo Fighters (Warren)Clare Grundman (composer and arranger) (Cleveland)Keith Harrison (singer, musician, Dazz Band (Dayton)Screamin' Jay Hawkins (musician) (Cleveland)J.C. Heard (drummer) (Dayton)Joe Henderson (jazz saxophonist) (Lima)Jon Hendricks (jazz singer and arranger) (Newark)Fred Hersch (jazz pianist) (Cincinnati)Howard Hewett (singer, Shalamar ) (Akron)J.C. Higginbotham (jazz trombonist) (Cincinnati)Christian Howes (jazz violinist) (Rocky River)Pee Wee Hunt (jazz trombonist) (Mount Healthy)Chrissie Hynde (musician) (Akron)James Ingram (singer-songwriter, musician) (Akron)Sonya Isaacs (singer) (Morrow)Ernie Isley (singer) (Cincinnati)Ron Isley (singer) (Cincinnati)Chuck Israels (jazz bassist) (Cleveland)
J–M
Tommy James (musician) (Dayton)Al Jardine (musician, The Beach Boys ) (Lima)Lyfe Jennings (R&B musician) (Toledo)Howard Jones (lead singer, Killswitch Engage ) (Columbus)Tyler Joseph (musician, singer, Twenty One Pilots ) (Columbus)K808 (music producer) (Youngstown)Mickey Katz (clarinetist, comedian) (Cleveland)Sammy Kaye (swing bandleader) (Lakewood)Phil Keaggy (musician, Glass Harp ) (Youngstown)Maynard James Keenan (musician, lead singer, Tool and A Perfect Circle ) (Ravenna)Machine Gun Kelly (rapper) (Cleveland)Emily Keener (singer, musician) (Wakeman)Khaledzou (music producer) (Youngstown)Kid Cudi (musician) (Cleveland)Karl King (band composer and conductor) (Paintersville)Roland Kirk (musician) (Columbus)Chris Kirkpatrick (singer) (Dalton)Mark Kozelek (singer, musician) (Massillon)Josh Krajcik (singer, musician) (Wooster)Kramies (singer-songwriter, recording artist) (Cleveland)Ernie Krivda (jazz saxophonist) (Cleveland)Erich Kunzel (classical conductor) (Cincinnati)Drew Lachey (musician) (Cincinnati)Nick Lachey (musician) (Cincinnati)Jani Lane (musician, Warrant ) (Akron)Neil Larsen (keyboardist) (Cleveland)Peter Laughner (musician, Rocket from the Tombs ) (Bay Village)Griffin Layne (recording artist, singer-songwriter) (Kettering)John Legend (musician) (Springfield)Gerald Levert (R&B singer) (Cleveland)James Levine (conductor, musician) (Cincinnati)Gary LeVox (lead singer, Rascal Flatts ) (Columbus/Lewis Center)Bob Lewis (musician) (Akron)Ted Lewis (bandleader) (Circleville)Lexi (gospel singer) (Canton)Tommy LiPuma (music production) (Cleveland)Robert Lockwood Jr. (bluesman) (Cleveland)Ty Longley (musician, guitarist, Great White ) (Brookfield)Lux Interior (born Erick Purkhiser) (musician) (Stow)John Mack (classical oboist) (Cleveland)Eli Maiman (guitarist, Walk the Moon ) (Cincinnati)Henry Mancini (composer) (Cleveland)Marilyn Manson (musician) (Canton)Brad Martin (singer) (Greenfield)Dean Martin (singer, actor) (Steubenville)Jessica Lea Mayfield (musician) (Kent)Maureen McGovern (singer) (Youngstown)Dottie McGuire (singer, The McGuire Sisters ) (Middletown)Phyllis McGuire (singer, The McGuire Sisters ) (Middletown)Ruby McGuire (singer, The McGuire Sisters ) (Middletown)Allen McKenzie (bass guitar, singer, FireHouse ) (Jackson)Andrew McMahon (musician, lead singer, Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin ) (Bexley)Sylvia McNair (classical singer) (Mansfield)Donald Mills (musician, The Mills Brothers ) (Piqua)Harry Mills (musician, The Mills Brothers ) (Piqua)Herbert Mills (musician, The Mills Brothers ) (Piqua)John Mills Jr. (musician, The Mills Brothers ) (Piqua)John Hutchinson Mills (musician, The Mills Brothers ) (Piqua)Jason Molina (musician) (Oberlin)Vaughn Monroe (singer) (Akron)Junie Morrison (lead singer, Ohio Players ) (Dayton)Seth Morrison (guitar) (Wheelersburg)Bob Mothersbaugh (musician, Devo ) (Akron)Mark Mothersbaugh (musician, Devo ) (Akron)Shirley Murdock (singer) (Toledo)Frank J. Myers (singer-songwriter) (Dayton)
N–R
Ruby Nash Garnett (singer, Ruby & the Romantics ) (Akron)Bern Nix (jazz guitarist) (Toledo)Russell Oberlin (classical singer) (Akron)Phil Ochs (protest singer) (Columbus)Jamie O'Hara (singer-songwriter) (Toledo)Benjamin Orr (musician, The Cars ) (Lakewood)Tim "Ripper" Owens (singer, Judas Priest ) (Akron)Gary Patterson (musician) (Cleveland)Johnny Paycheck (singer) (Greenfield)Danielle Peck (singer) (Coshocton)Ken Peplowski (jazz saxophonist) (Cleveland)Nicholas Petricca (singer-songwriter, musician) (Cincinnati)Utah Phillips (folk singer) (Cleveland)Robert Pollard (composer) (Dayton)John Popper (singer, Blues Traveler (Cleveland)Steve Potts (jazz saxophonist) (Columbus)Robert Quine (guitarist, Richard Hell and the Voidoids ) (Akron)Joshua Radin (singer-songwriter) (Shaker Heights)Chuck Rainey (bassist, Steely Dan ) (Cleveland)Kevin Ray (musician, Walk the Moon ) (Columbus)Trippie Redd (rapper) (Canton)Conrad Reeder (singer-songwriter) (Columbus)Antonio "L.A." Reid (record executive, songwriter, producer) (Cincinnati)Alvino Rey (bandleader) (Cleveland)Trent Reznor (musician, Nine Inch Nails ) (Cleveland)Marty Roe (lead singer, Diamond Rio ) (Lebanon)Roy Rogers (singer, actor) (Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Lucasville, McDermott)
S–Z
JD Samson (musician, Le Tigre ) (Cleveland)Scott Savol (singer) (Cleveland)Boz Scaggs (singer-songwriter) (Canton)Tom Scholz (musician, inventor) (Toledo)John Scofield (jazz-rock guitarist) (Dayton)Jimmy Scott (jazz singer) (Cleveland)Brady Seals (musician) (Fairfield)Ruth Crawford Seeger (modernist composer) (East Liverpool)Philip Setzer (classical violinist, Emerson String Quartet ) (Cleveland)Bud Shank (jazz saxophonist) (Dayton)Elliott Sharp (guitarist, saxophonist) (Cleveland)Scott Shriner (musician, Weezer ) (Toledo)Eric Singer (musician, Kiss ) (Cleveland)Connie Smith (singer) (Marietta)Hale Smith (jazz composer) (Cleveland)Mamie Smith (singer) (Cincinnati)Stuff Smith (jazz violinist) (Portsmouth)Robert Spano (orchestral conductor) (Conneaut)Stalley (rapper) (Massilon)Michael Stanley (musician) (Cleveland)Billy Strayhorn (jazz composer) (Dayton)Rachel Sweet (musician) (Akron)Chad Szeliga (drummer, Breaking Benjamin ) (Elyria)George Szell (orchestral conductor) (Cleveland)Art Tatum (jazz pianist) (Toledo)Danny Thomas (singer, comedian) (Toledo)David Thomas (musician) (Akron)Charles Thompson (jazz pianist) (Springfield)Jeff Timmons (singer-songwriter, producer) (Cleveland)Joe Trohman (guitarist, Fall Out Boy (South Russell)Roger Troutman (musician, singer-songwriter) (Dayton/Hamilton)Mark Turner (jazz saxophonist) (Fairborn)Kate Voegele (singer-songwriter, musician) (Bay Village)Abdul Wadud (jazz cellist) (Cleveland)Scott Walker (singer, The Walker Brothers ) (Hamilton)Joe Walsh (musician) (Kent, Cleveland)Robert Ward (classical composer) (Cleveland)Earle Warren (jazz saxophonist) (Springfield)Sean Waugaman (drummer, Walk the Moon ) (Columbus)Jeff Weaver (musician) (Athens)Scott Weiland (musician) (Cleveland)Jiggs Whigham (jazz trombonist) (Cleveland)Vesta Williams (singer) (Coshocton)John Finley Williamson (choral conductor) (Canton, Dayton)Nancy Wilson (singer) (Chillicothe)Bobby Womack (singer) (Cleveland)JT Woodruff (singer, Hawthorne Heights ) (Dayton)Frank Yankovic (musician) (Cleveland)Jimmy Yeary (singer) (Hillsboro)Dwight Yoakam (singer, actor) (Columbus)Snooky Young (jazz trumpeter) (Dayton)
Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896 . Marquis Who's Who. 1967.
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