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Ashtabula Ashtabula ( ) is a city in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States, and the center of the Ashtabula micropolitan area. It is located at the mouth of the Ashtabula River on Lake Erie, northeast of Cleveland. As of the 2020 census, the city had ...

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Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U ...

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Bratenahl Bratenahl ( ) is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, on the southern shore of Lake Erie. One of Cleveland's oldest streetcar suburbs, it is bordered by the city on three sides and by the Lake Erie shoreline to the north. The populat ...

Brecksville Brecksville is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and a suburb in the Greater Cleveland area. The city's population was 13,635 at the United States 2020 Census. History Brecksville was founded in 1811, four years after several me ...

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Gates Mills Gates Mills is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,270 at the 2010 census. Gates Mills is a suburb of Cleveland and was originally part of Mayfield Township. The village was named for Halsey Gates, the propri ...

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Linndale Linndale is the smallest village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is landlocked, surrounded by the city of Cleveland and the suburb of Brooklyn. According to the 2010 census, the village achieved the second highest growth rate in Cuya ...

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Moreland Hills Moreland Hills is an affluent suburb in the Greater Cleveland area in the US state of Ohio. The population was 3,320 at the 2010 census. History In 1815, settlement began near the point where State Route 87 crosses the Chagrin River. Orange T ...

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Painesville Township Painesville Township is one of the five townships of Lake County, Ohio, United States. The population was 20,399 at the 2010 census. It is part of Greater Cleveland in the Northeast Ohio Region, the 15th largest combined statistical area in the ...

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* New Russia Township * North Ridgeville *

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* Penfield Township * Pittsfield Township *

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* Rochester Township * Sheffield * Sheffield Lake * Sheffield Township * South Amherst * Vermilion (portions in Erie and Lorain Counties) * Wellington * Wellington Township

Medina County

* Brunswick * Brunswick Hills Township * Chatham Township *

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* Creston * Gloria Glens Park * Granger Township * Guilford Township * Harrisville Township * Hinckley Township * Homer Township * Lafayette Township * Litchfield Township * Liverpool Township * Lodi * Medina * Medina Township * Montville Township * Rittman * Seville * Sharon Township * Spencer * Spencer Township *

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* Wadsworth Township *

Westfield Center Westfield Center is a village in Medina County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,115 at the 2010 census. Despite the community's small size, it is the home of Westfield Insurance, the largest employer in Medina County. History The comm ...

* Westfield Township * York Township

Cities by population

These, in decreasing order of population, are the twelve largest cities in Greater Cleveland of (2020):

Demographics

According to the

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, the population was 2.077 million in the five-county MSA of the Greater Cleveland Area, making it the second largest metropolitan-statistical area entirely within the state of Ohio. Approximately 48.1% of the population was male and 51.9% were female. In 2010 the racial makeup of the five-county Area was 71.7% (1,490,074) Non-Hispanic Whites, 19.7% (409,582) Blacks or African Americans, 0.2% (4,056) American Indians and Alaskan Natives, 2.0% (40,522) Asian (0.7% Asian Indian 0.5% Chinese 0.2% Filipino, 0.1% Korean, 0.1% Vietnamese, 0.1% Japanese, 0.0% (398) Pacific Islander, 1.7% (35,224) from other races, and 2.0% (42,130) from two or more races. 4.7% (98,133) of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race (2.8% Puerto Rican, 1.0%

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, 0.1% Dominican, and 0.1% Cuban). ISS-34 Night view of Cleveland, Ohio

The median income for a household in Greater Cleveland was $46,231 and the median income for a family, $59,611. The per capita income was $25,668. Persons living below the poverty line was 15.1%. According to a study by Capgemini and the World Wealth Report by Merrill Lynch, the Cleveland area has nearly 54,000 millionaire households, and is expected to continue to grow at 17% over the next five years. The Greater Cleveland area is the most diverse region in the state of Ohio and is becoming increasingly more diverse with new waves of immigration. As of 2010, both the Hispanic and Asian population in the Cleveland-Akron-Ashtabula area grew by almost 40%, Hispanics now number at 112,307 (up from 80,738 in 2000). The Asian population alone accounts for 55,087 (up from 39,586 in 2000) but people who cite Asian and other ethnicities enumerate 67,231. The Chinese Americans are the oldest Asian group residing in Northeast Ohio, most visible in Cleveland's Asiatown. Nevertheless, the area is also home to hundreds of Indians, Thais, Taiwanese, Pakistanis, Laotians, Cambodians, and Burmese peoples as well. The Cleveland area has a substantial African American population with origins in the First and Second Great Migrations. It also boasts some of the nation's largest Irish, Italian (numbering over 205,000), Slavic, and Hungarian populations. At one time, the Hungarian population of Cleveland proper was so great that the city boasted of having the highest concentration of Hungarians in the world outside of

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. Today, the Greater Cleveland area is home to the largest Slovak, Slovene, and Hungarian communities in the world, outside of Slovakia, Slovenia, and Hungary respectively. The Slavic population of the Cleveland-Akron area comprises 17.2%, far higher than the nation's rate of 6%. There are 171,000 Poles, 38,000 Slovaks, 66,000 Slovenes, 38,000 Czechs, 31,000 Russians, and 23,000 Ukrainians in Greater Cleveland. Slavic Village and Tremont historically had some of the largest concentrations of Eastern Europeans within Cleveland proper. Today, both neighborhoods continue to be home to many Slavic Ohioans. In addition, Slovenia maintains a Consulate-General in

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. The city of Cleveland has also received visits from the Presidents of Hungary and Poland. Greater Cleveland is home to a sizable Jewish community. According to the North American Jewish Data Bank, the community comprises an estimated 86,600 people or 3.0% as of 2011, above the nation's 1.7%, and up from 81,500 in 1996. The highest proportion is in Cuyahoga County at 5.5% (of the county's total population). Today, 23% of Greater Cleveland's Jewish population is under the age of 17, and 27% reside in the Heights area (Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, and University Heights). In 2010 nearly 2,600 people spoke Hebrew and 1,100

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.

Ancestry

The top largest ancestries in the Greater Cleveland MSA, were the following: * German: 20.4% * Slavic: 18.9% (8.2% Polish, 3.2% Slovak, 1.8% Slovene, 1.5% Czech, 1.5% Russian, 1.1% Ukrainian, 1.0%

Croatian Croatian may refer to: * Croatia *Croatian language *Croatian people *Croatians (demonym) See also * * * Croatan (disambiguation) * Croatia (disambiguation) * Croatoan (disambiguation) * Hrvatski (disambiguation) * Hrvatsko (disambiguation) * S ...

, 0.4%

Serbian Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also

* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

, Rusyn, Yugoslav) * Irish: 14.5% * British: 11.3% (8.0% English, 1.8%

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

, 0.8% Scot-Irish, 0.7%

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) * Italian: 9.9% * Hungarian: 3.7% * Puerto Rican: 2.8% *

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

and

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: 1.9% * Scandinavian: 1.2% (0.7%

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, 0.3% Norwegian, and Danish) *

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: 1.0%

Place of birth

Approximately 94.1% of the metropolitan area's population was native to the United States. Approximately 92.8% were born in the U.S. while 1.3% were born in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, or born abroad to American parents. The rest of the population (5.9%) were foreign-born. The highest percentages of immigrants came from Europe (46.2%), Asia (32.7%), Latin America (14.3%); smaller percentages of newcomers came from Africa (3.6%), other parts of North America (3.0%), and Oceania (0.3%). According to the

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2006-2010, the number of Greater Cleveland area residents born overseas was 119,136 and the leading countries of origin were India (10,067), China (7,756), Mexico (6,051), Ukraine (7,211), Germany (5,742), Italy (4,114), Canada (4,102), United Kingdom (4,048), Romania (3,947), Poland (3,834), Russia (3,826), and Yugoslavia (3,820).

Language spoken at home

English is by far the most commonly spoken language at home by residents in the Cleveland-Akron-Elyria area; approximately 91.2% of the population over the age of five spoke only English at home. Spanish speakers made up 2.8% of the population; speakers of Asian languages made up 1.1% of the population; speakers of other Indo-European languages made up 3.9% of the population. Individuals who spoke languages other than the ones above represented the remaining 1.0% of the populace. As of 2011, individually in addition to English, 2.7% spoke Spanish, 0.6% German, 0.5%

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, and 0.5% Chinese. 1.4% also spoke a Slavic language. In 2007, Cleveland area was home to the nation's 3rd highest proportion of Hungarian speakers.

Area codes

In the 1950s, AT&T assigned Greater Cleveland Area code 216, which included all of

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. In 1996, Area code 216 was reduced in size to cover the northern half of its prior area, centering on Cleveland and its lake shore suburbs. Area code 330 was introduced for the southern half of Greater Cleveland, including Medina County. The western half of the region, including Ashland and Richland counties, and parts of Huron, Wayne, and Erie counties, are assigned

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. In 1997, area code 216 was further split as the need for additional phone numbers grew. Area code 216 was reduced in geographical area to cover the city of Cleveland and its inner ring suburbs. Area code 440 was introduced to cover the remainder of was what previously area code 216, including all of

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, Geauga, and Lake counties, and parts of

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. Some communities, such as Parma, and

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were divided between the 216 and 440 area codes. In 1999, Congressman

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introduced federal legislation to protect small and medium-sized cities from being split into two or more area codes. In 2000, it was anticipated that the available phone numbers in area code 330 would be exhausted, and an

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was introduced.

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was assigned to overlap existing area code 330. With the creation of area code 234, any new phone number in the geographical area formerly covered by area code 330 could be assigned a phone number in either the 234 or 330 area codes, with no change in local or long distance toll status. This made necessary the use of ten-digit dialing within the 330/234 area code region. After the introduction of area code 234, assignments of new telephone numbers in the area did not continue at an accelerated pace, and new phone numbers for area code 234 were not assigned until 2003.

Economy

In 2011 the Greater Cleveland area had a GDP of $134.4 billion (up from $130.7 billion in 2008), which would rank 57th among countries. Cleveland also has the twelfth highest merchandise value at $109.2 billion.

Business and industry

More than 37% of ''

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'' companies are present in Northeast Ohio, through corporate headquarters, major divisions, subsidiaries, and sales offices. In addition, more than 150 international companies have a presence there. , Northeast Ohio serves as the corporate

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firms (shown with 2017 rankings below): * (#86) Progressive Insurance ( Mayfield Village, insurance) * (#180) Sherwin-Williams (

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, paint) * (#216) Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company ( Akron, rubber) * (#224) Parker-Hannifin (

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, industrial manufacturer) * (#294)

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( Akron, utilities) * (#407)

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( Orrville, food consumer products) * (#411) KeyCorp (

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, banking) * (#467) Cliffs Natural Resources (

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, iron ore mining)/AK Steel Holdings/Mittal * (#480)

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, specialty retail) * (#508) RPM International ( Medina, chemicals) * (#513) TransDigm Group (

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, aerospace and defense) * (#607) Diebold (

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, electronics) * (#724) PolyOne Corporation ( Avon Lake, chemicals) * (#762)

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, health insurance) * (#781) The Timken Company (

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, metals) * (#783) Lincoln Electric (

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, arc welding equipment) * (#792) Hyster-Yale Materials Handling (

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, bearings) * (#811) A. Schulman ( Fairlawn, chemicals) * (#965) American Greetings (

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Nordson Nordson Corporation is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures dispensing equipment for consumer and industrial adhesives, sealants and coatings. The company also manufactures equipment used in the testing and inspecti ...

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, industrial machinery) Other large employers include: * Agilysis ( Mayfield Heights, electronics) * Babcock & Wilcox ( Barberton, engineering) *

Cafaro Corp Cafaro is an Italian surname. Notable people with this surname include: * Capri Cafaro, American politician * Debra Cafaro, American executive * Erin Cafaro, American rower * Lou Cafaro, Australian boxer * Mathieu Cafaro, French footballer * Pasqu ...

( Youngstown, mall management and properties) * Cleveland Clinic (

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, health care) * DeBartolo-York Corp ( Boardman Township, Youngstown, mall management and properties) *

Eaton Corporation Eaton Corporation plc is an American-Irish multinational power management company with 2021 sales of $19.63 billion, founded in the United States with global headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, and a secondary administrative center in Beachwood, ...

(North American HQ - Beachwood, electrical parts manufacturing) *

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Aluminum Production ( Youngstown, metals) * Ferro Corporation (

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, advanced material manufacturing) * Forest City Enterprises (

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, real estate development) * Gojo ( Akron, chemicals) *

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( Youngstown, banking) * IMG (

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, sports marketing and management) * Invacare ( Elyria, medical products and equipment) * Jo Ann Stores ( Hudson, specialty retailer) *

Jones Day Jones Day is an American multinational law firm. As of 2021, it was the eighth largest law firm in the U.S. and the 13th highest grossing law firm in the world. Originally headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Jones Day ranks first in both M&A le ...

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, legal services) * Lubrizol Corporation ( Wickliffe, lubricants and chemicals) *

Mayfran International Mayfran International is an International company that sells customized or adapted products and systems that process materials and fluids in automated manufacturing and scrap management operations. It operates six production facilities and 14 sa ...

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Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U ...

, conveyors) * Nacco Industries (

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, industrial equipment) * Nestlé USA ( Solon, food processing) * Roadway Express ( Akron, logistics) * Rockwell Automation ( Mayfield Heights, industrial controls) * SITE Centers ( Beachwood, real estate development) *

Summa Health System Summa Health is a nonprofit integrated healthcare delivery system in Northeast Ohio, United States. The Greater Akron Chamber (Ohio) documents Summa Health as the largest employer in Summit County with more than 7,000 employees. Summa provides ...

( Akron, health care) * University Hospitals of Cleveland (

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, health care)

Small businesses and startups

The Council of Smaller Enterprises coordinates and advocates for small businesses in the region. Many of the area's

sustainability Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livi ...

-oriented companies are tied into the network

Entrepreneurs for Sustainability Entrepreneurs for Sustainability, abbreviated as E4S, is a business network in the Greater Cleveland area oriented towards sustainability and entrepreneurship. The organization was founded in 2000 by Holly Harlan, owner of a business consulting ...

.

Colleges and universities

Greater Cleveland is home to a number of higher education institutions, including: * Baldwin Wallace University (

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) *

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...

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) *Chamberlain School of Nursing (Cleveland) * Cleveland Institute of Art (

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) * Cleveland Institute of Music (

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Cleveland State University Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in operation since 1923. ...

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) * Cuyahoga Community College (

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, Highland Hills, and Parma) * DeVry University ( Seven Hills) * John Carroll University ( University Heights) *

Kent State University at Geauga Kent State University (KSU) is a public research university in Kent, Ohio. The university also includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio and additional facilities in the region and internationally. Regional campuses are located in Ash ...

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Burton Burton, Burtons, or Burton's may refer to: Companies * Burton (retailer), a clothing retailer ** Burton's, Abergavenny, a shop built for the company in 1937 **The Montague Burton Building, Dublin a shop built for the company between 1929 and ...

) * Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine ( Independence) * Lake Erie College ( Painesville) * Lakeland Community College ( Kirtland) * Lorain County Community College ( Elyria) * Notre Dame College ( South Euclid) *

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...

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) * South University ( Warrensville Heights, Ohio) * Stautzenberger College (

Brecksville Brecksville is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and a suburb in the Greater Cleveland area. The city's population was 13,635 at the United States 2020 Census. History Brecksville was founded in 1811, four years after several me ...

) * Ursuline College ( Pepper Pike)

Transportation

Airports

Greater Cleveland is served by international, regional and county airports, including: * Burke Lakefront Airport (

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) *

Concord Airpark Airport Concord may refer to: Meaning "agreement" * Pact or treaty, frequently between nations (indicating a condition of harmony) * Harmony, in music * Agreement (linguistics), a change in the form of a word depending on grammatical features of other ...

( Concord Township) *

Cuyahoga County Airport Cuyahoga County Airport , also known as Robert D. Shea Field, is a public use airport in northeastern Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. Owned and operated by Cuyahoga County since 1946, it also serves Lake County and Geauga County. The airpo ...

* Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U ...

) *

Lorain County Regional Airport Lorain County Regional Airport is a public airport in Lorain County, Ohio, owned by the Lorain County Board of Commissioners and located in New Russia Township. The airport is about 7 miles south of Lorain and 5 miles southwest of Elyria. The ...

( Russia Township) * Willoughby Lost Nation Municipal Airport ( Willoughby)

Highways

*

Interstate 71 * I-77

Interstate 77 Interstate 77 (I-77) is a north–south Interstate Highway in the eastern United States. It traverses diverse terrain, from the mountainous state of West Virginia to the rolling farmlands of North Carolina and Ohio. It largely supplants the ...

*

Interstate 80 Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses the United States from downtown San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one o ...

( Ohio Turnpike) * I-90

Interstate 90 Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental freeway and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at . It begins in Seattle, Washington, and travels through the Pacific Northwest, Mountain West, Great Plains, Midwest, and ...

*

Interstate 271 * I-277

Interstate 277 * I-480

Interstate 480 * I-490

Interstate 490 * US 6

U.S. Route 6 * US 20

U.S. Route 20 * US 42

U.S. Route 42 U.S. Route 42 (US 42) is an east–west United States highway that runs southwest–northeast for from Louisville, Kentucky to Cleveland, Ohio. The route has several names including Pearl Road from Cleveland to Medina in Northeast Ohio, Readin ...

*

U.S. Route 224 U.S. Route 224 (US 224) is a spur of US 24 that runs through the states of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. It currently runs for from US 24 in Huntington, Indiana, east to US 422 Business (US 422 Bus.) and Pennsylvani ...

*

U.S. Route 250 U.S. Route 250 (US 250) is a route of the United States Numbered Highway System, and is a spur of U.S. Route 50. It currently runs for from Richmond, Virginia to Sandusky, Ohio. It passes through the states of Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. ...

*

U.S. Route 322 * US 422

U.S. Route 422 U.S. Route 422 (US 422) is a long spur route of US 22 split into two segments in the U.S. states of Ohio and Pennsylvania. The western segment of US 422 runs from downtown Cleveland, Ohio, east to Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. ...

*

Ohio State Route 2 * OH-3

Ohio State Route 3 * OH-8

Ohio State Route 8 * OH-10

Ohio State Route 10 * OH-11

Ohio State Route 11 State Route 11 (SR 11) is a north–south freeway in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 30 (US 30) in East Liverpool at the West Virginia state line on the Jennings Randolph Bridge over ...

*

Ohio State Route 14 * OH-17

Ohio State Route 17 * OH-18

Ohio State Route 18 * OH-21

Ohio State Route 21 * OH-43

Ohio State Route 43 * OH-44

Ohio State Route 44 * OH-83

Ohio State Route 83 * OH-88

Ohio State Route 88 * OH-91

Ohio State Route 91 * OH-113

Ohio State Route 113 * OH-175

Ohio State Route 175 * OH-176

Ohio State Route 176 Ohio State Route 176 (SR 176) is a route linking Interstate 71 (I-71) in Cleveland to I-77 near Richfield. The freeway portion is known as the Jennings Freeway, while the at-grade portion is mostly Broadview Road. Route description From its ...

*

Ohio State Route 225 * OH-254

Ohio State Route 254 * OH-700

Ohio State Route 700 * OH-711

Ohio State Route 711 State Route 711 (SR 711), also known as the "Robert E. Hagan Memorial Highway" between its southern terminus and U.S. Route 422#Ohio, US 422, is a three-mile (5 km), four-lane, north–south, limited access freeway. It is located in M ...

Highway notes

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I-271 Interstate 271 (I-271) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in the suburbs of Cleveland and Akron in the US state of Ohio. The highway is officially designated the Outerbelt East Freeway but is rarely referred to by that name by locals, inste ...

and I-480 are the only two three-digit interstates in the nation to be concurrent, near

Bedford Heights Bedford Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Cleveland. The population was 11,020 at the 2020 census. History Bedford Heights was founded on February 20, 1951. It was originally part of Bedford Township a ...

in

Cuyahoga County Cuyahoga County ( or ) is a large urban county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. It is situated on the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S.-Canada maritime border. As of the 2020 census, its population was ...

.

Public transit

The

Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (officially the GCRTA, but historically and locally referred to as the RTA) is the public transit agency for Cleveland, Ohio, United States and the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County. RTA is t ...

operates a bus system and heavy and light rail in Cuyahoga County. Other transit agencies serve the surrounding counties and provide connections with RTA, including

Laketran Laketran is the transit agency that serves Lake County, Ohio, the county northeast of Cleveland. It is the third-largest transit system in Northeast Ohio, serving Mentor, Painesville, Willoughby, Wickliffe. Eastlake, Fairport Harbor, Madison ...

in Lake County, and

Lorain County Transit Lorain County Transit (LCT) is the public transportation provider for Lorain County, Ohio. It is a division of the Lorain County Commissioners, and its offices are in downtown Elyria. Robert Wickens, Board Chairman in the 1970s, successfully led ...

in Lorain County. Cleveland's RTA Red Line which started in 1955, is the eighth oldest heavy rail rapid transit in the Country In 2007, RTA was named the best public transit system in North America by the American Public Transportation Association, for "demonstrating achievement in efficiency and effectiveness."

Culture

Theater

Cleveland Playhouse Square (13917560487)

Playhouse Square Center is the epicenter of the Cleveland Theater District and the second largest theater district in the United States.

Playhouse Square Theaters

* Allen Theatre * Hanna Theatre *

Ohio Theatre Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-l ...

* State Theatre *

Palace Theatre Palace Theatre, or Palace Theater, is the name of many theatres in different countries, including: Australia *Palace Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria *Palace Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales Canada *Palace Theatre, housed in the Robillard Block, Mo ...

* Kennedy's Cabaret *Second Stage * The Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre *Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre In addition, Greater Cleveland has additional theaters throughout the region.

Theaters

*

Beck Center Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood, Ohio, is a non-profit, performing arts and arts education organization. It is the largest theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually acto ...

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) *

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Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U ...

) *

Cassidy Theater Cassidy may refer to: Personal names * Cassidy (given name) * Cassidy (surname) People * Cassidy (musician) (born 1979), lead singer of Antigone Rising * Cassidy (rapper) (born 1982), American rapper * DJ Cassidy (born 1981), New York DJ * Ja ...

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Parma Heights Parma Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States and a western suburb of Cleveland. Parma Heights is surrounded on the north, east and south by the larger city of Parma, Ohio, Parma. The cities of Brook Park a ...

) * Cleveland Play House (

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U ...

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Cleveland Public Theater Cleveland Public Theatre is a theater and arts complex in Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 1981 by James Levin. It is located at 6415 Detroit Avenue on Cleveland's west side in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. Cleveland Public Theatre’s mission ...

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Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U ...

) *

Dobama Theater Dobama Theatre is located in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1959 by Donald and Marilyn Bianchi, Barry Silverman, and Mark Silverberg. The name Dobama was created from the first two letters of each man's name. The first ...

( Cleveland Heights) *

Euclid Avenue Opera House Euclid (; grc-gre, Εὐκλείδης; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the '' Elements'' treatise, which established the foundations of g ...

(destroyed) * Lorain Palace Theatre (

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) *

Geauga Lyric Theater Geauga County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 95,397. The county seat is Chardon. The county is named for an Onondaga or Seneca language word meaning ' raccoon', originally the name of the ...

( Chardon) * Huntington Playhouse (

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) * Karamu House (

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Near West Theatre Near West Theatre is an independent, nonprofit theatre troupe housed in a 275-seat venue in the Gordon Square Arts District of the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. Located along the major thoroughfare Detroit Avenue, two blocks fro ...

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Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U ...

) *

Olde Towne Hall Theatre Olde is the surname of: * Barney Olde (1882–1932), Australian politician * Erika Olde, Canadian film producer, financier and billionaire heiress * Hans Olde (1855–1917), German painter and art school administrator * Margareth Olde (born 2000), ...

( North Ridgeville)

Theatrical companies

* The Bang and Clatter Theatre Company *

Beck Center for the Arts Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood, Ohio, is a non-profit, performing arts and arts education organization. It is the largest theater and arts center An art centre or arts center is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre ...

* Bodwin Theater Company * Charenton Theatre Company * Cleveland Shakespeare Festival * Cleveland Signstage Theatre * Convergence-Continuum *

Fairmount Center for the Arts Fairmount may refer to: Places Canada * Fairmount, Frontenac County, Ontario * Fairmount, Grey County, Ontario * Fairmount, Nova Scotia United States of America * Fairmount, Delaware * Fairmount, Georgia * Fairmount, Illinois * Fairmount, Ind ...

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Mayfield Village Performing Arts Center Mayfield may refer to: People * Mayfield (surname) Places Australia * Mayfield, New South Wales * Mayfield, New South Wales (Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council) * Mayfield, Tasmania Canada * Mayfield, Edmonton, a neighborhood in Alberta * May ...

) * Fourth Wall Productions *

Great Lakes Theater Festival Great Lakes Theater, originally known as the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, is a professional classic theater company in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1962, Great Lakes is the second-largest regional theater in Northeast Ohio. ...

* The Group * Portage Lakes Players * The Public Squares * Red Hen Productions

Music

Cleveland is home to the Cleveland Orchestra, widely considered one of the finest orchestras in the world, and often referred to as the finest in the United States. It is one of the " Big Five" major orchestras in the United States. The Orchestra plays at

Severance Hall Severance Hall is a concert hall located in the University Circle section of Cleveland, Ohio. Opened in 1931, Severance Hall was named after patrons John L. Severance and his wife, Elisabeth Huntingdon DeWitt Severance, and serves as the home ...

in University Circle during the winter and at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls during the summer. The city is also home to the

Cleveland Pops Orchestra The Cleveland Pops Orchestra is a non-profit professional American pops orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. As is typical of pops orchestras, the ensemble performs popular music (generally traditional pop), cinematic music, jazz, and show tunes as ...

.

Art

There are two main art museums in Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art is a major American art museum, with a collection that includes more than 40,000 works of art ranging over 6,000 years, from ancient masterpieces to contemporary pieces. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland showcases established and emerging artists, particularly from the Cleveland area, through hosting and producing temporary exhibitions.Who We Are
. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.

Sports and recreation

Cleveland's professional sports teams include the Cleveland Guardians ( Major League Baseball), Cleveland Browns ( National Football League), and

Cleveland Cavaliers The Cleveland Cavaliers (often referred to as the Cavs) are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland. The Cavaliers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference (NBA), Ea ...

( National Basketball Association). The Lake County Captains, a Single-A

minor league Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities/markets. This term is used in Nor ...

affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians, play in

Eastlake Eastlake may refer to: Places ;Australia * Kingston, Australian Capital Territory, formerly called Eastlake ** Eastlake Football Club, an amateur Australian Rules Football Club named after that location ;United States * Eastlake, Lake County, C ...

at Classic Park. Additionally, the Lake Erie Crushers of the Frontier League play at Sprenger Stadium in

Avon Avon may refer to: * River Avon (disambiguation), several rivers Organisations *Avon Buses, a bus operating company in Wirral, England *Avon Coachworks, a car body builder established in 1919 at Warwick, England, relaunched in 1922, following ...

. Minor league hockey is represented in the area by the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League. They began play in the 2007–08 AHL season at the Quicken Loans Arena. The team is the top minor league affiliate of the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League. The Cleveland Metroparks are a system of nature preserves that encircle the city, and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park encompasses the

Cuyahoga River The Cuyahoga River ( , or ) is a river located in Northeast Ohio that bisects the City of Cleveland and feeds into Lake Erie. As Cleveland emerged as a major manufacturing center, the river became heavily affected by industrial pollution, so mu ...

valley between

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U ...

and Akron. The region is home to Mentor Headlands Beach, the longest natural beach on the Great Lakes.

Notable natives

* Avant * Albert Ayler * Jim Backus * Kaye Ballard * LeCharles Bentley *

Halle Berry Halle Maria Berry (; born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Mis ...

* Chris Butler * Eric Carmen * Drew Carey * Mary Carey * Ray Cash * Drew Carter * Machine Gun Kelly * Gerald Casale * Chris Chambers * Tracy Chapman *

Cheetah Chrome Eugene Richard O'Connor (born February 18, 1955), better known by his stage name Cheetah Chrome, is an American musician who achieved fame as a guitarist for Rocket from the Tombs and the punk rock band Dead Boys. Career Rocket From the Tombs ...

* Tim Conway * Wes Craven *

Kid Cudi Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi (born January 30, 1984), also known by his stage name Kid Cudi ( ), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and fashion designer. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Cudi would move to New Yo ...

* Dorothy Dandridge * Cheri Dennis *

Ruby Dee Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of ''A Raisin in the Sun'' (19 ...

*

Donald DeFreeze Donald David DeFreeze (November 16, 1943 – May 17, 1974), also known as Cinque Mtume and using the nom de guerre "General Field Marshal Cinque", was known as the "spokesman" of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a small, American far-left gro ...

* Phil Donahue *

Stephen R. Donaldson Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'', his ten-novel fantasy series. His work is characterized by psychological complexity ...

*

Harlan Ellison Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. Robert Bloch, the author of '' Psycho'' ...

* Lee Evans * James A. Garfield *

Sonny Geraci Emmett Peter "Sonny" Geraci ("Jer-ah-see"); November 22, 1946 – February 5, 2017) was an American singer, best known as lead singer of musical groups The Outsiders and Climax. Biography Geraci first became known as the original lead vocali ...

* Donald A. Glaser *

Ted Ginn Jr. Theodore Ginn Jr. (born April 12, 1985) is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons with the Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals, Carolina Panthers, New Orleans S ...

* Bob Golic * Mike Golic * Anthony Gonzalez * Jim Graner * Joel Grey * Arsenio Hall * Roy Hall *

Margaret Hamilton Margaret Hamilton may refer to: * Margaret Hamilton (nurse) (1840–1922), American nurse in the Civil War * Maggie Hamilton (1867–1952), Scottish artist * Margaret Hamilton (educator) (1871–1969), American educator * Margaret Hamilton (actre ...

* Steve Harvey * Patricia Heaton *

Anne Heche Anne Celeste Heche ( ; May 25, 1969August 11, 2022) was an American actress, known for her roles in a variety of genres in film, television, and theater, receiving numerous accolades, including a National Board of Review Award and multiple Emmy ...

* Mike Hegan *

John W. Heisman John William Heisman (October 23, 1869 – October 3, 1936) was a player and coach of American football, baseball, and basketball, as well as a sportswriter and actor. He served as the head football coach at Oberlin College, Buchtel College ...

* Kim Herring * Hal Holbrook * Bob Hope *

Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hug ...

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Chrissie Hynde Christine Ellen Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician. She is a founding member and the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band the Pretenders, and one of the band's two remaining original members alon ...

* LeBron James * Philip Johnson *

Joe Jurevicius Joseph Michael Jurevicius (born December 23, 1974) is a retired American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He played college football at Penn State. Jurevicius played for t ...

* Sammy Kaye * Don King * Bobby Knight * Heather Kozar *

Dennis Kucinich Dennis John Kucinich (; born October 8, 1946) is an American politician. A U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1997 to 2013, he was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2004 and 2008. He ran for ...

* Dante Lavelli * Mike Lebowitz * Gerald Levert *

D. A. Levy D.A. Levy (October 29, 1942 – November 24, 1968), born Darryl Alfred Levey (later changed to Darryl Allen Levy), was an American poet, artist, and alternative publisher active during the 1960s, based in Cleveland, Ohio. Biography Levy wa ...

* Bob Lewis *

Peter B. Lewis Peter Benjamin Lewis (November 11, 1933 – November 23, 2013) was an Americans, American businessman who was the chairman of Progressive Corporation, Progressive Insurance Company. Early life and education Lewis was raised in a American Je ...

* Jim Lovell * Henry Mancini *

Scott Mescudi Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi (born January 30, 1984), also known by his stage name Kid Cudi ( ), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and fashion designer. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Cudi would move to New Yo ...

* Howard Metzenbaum *

O.J. McDuffie Otis James McDuffie (born December 2, 1969) is a former American college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons. He played college football for Penn State University, and ...

* Burgess Meredith * Toni Morrison * Bob Mothersbaugh * Mark Mothersbaugh *

Paul Newman Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three ...

* Urban Meyer * Chuck Noll * Andre Norton * Charles Oakley * Jesse Owens * Harvey Pekar *

Scott Raab Scott Raab (born March 21, 1952) is an American nonfiction author and former contributing journalist for ''Esquire''. Early years Scott Raab was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952. The Raab family relocated to Los Angeles in 1960, but after hi ...

* Dave Ragone * John D. Rockefeller * Michael Ruhlman *

Screamin' Jay Hawkins Jalacy J. "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins (July 18, 1929 – February 12, 2000) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, film producer, and boxer. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of s ...

* Molly Shannon * Sam Sheppard *

Don Shula Donald Francis Shula (January 4, 1930 – May 4, 2020) was an American football defensive back and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) from 1963 to 1995. The head coach of the Miami Dolphins for most of his ca ...

* Jerry Siegel *

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* Troy Smith *

Ruth Simpson Ruth Simpson may refer to: * Ruth Simpson (activist) (1926–2008), author and founder of the United States' first lesbian community center * Ruth Simpson (artist) (1889–1964), British artist * Ruth DeEtte Simpson Ruth DeEtte Simpson (May 6, 19 ...

* Steve Stone * George Steinbrenner *

Carl B. Stokes Carl Burton Stokes (June 21, 1927 – April 3, 1996) was an American politician and diplomat of the Democratic Party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, and taking office on January 1, 1968, he was ...

* Michael Symon * David Thomas *

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George Voinovich George Victor Voinovich (July 15, 1936June 12, 2016) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Ohio from 1999 to 2011, the 65th governor of Ohio from 1991 to 1998 and the 54th mayor of Cleveland from 1980 to 1989, th ...

* David Wain *

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* Lew Wasserman * Debra Winger * Archibald Willard * Fred Willard * Frank Yankovic * Roger Zelazny *

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