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Stan Aronoff Stanley J. Aronoff (born June 8, 1932) is an American politician of the Republican party who served for a time as president of the Ohio Senate. Aronoff was raised in a Jewish family in the North Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati and attended h ...
– member of Ohio Senate 1967–1996, its president from 1989–96 *
William E. Arthur William Evans Arthur (March 3, 1825 – May 18, 1897) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Early life and family William E. Arthur was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 3, 1825."Arthur, William Evans". ''Biographical Directory of the United ...
(1825–1897) – born in Cincinnati, United States Congressman from Kentucky *
Steve Austria Stephen Clement Austria (born October 12, 1958) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative for from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. In December 2011, Austria announced his intention to not run for re-el ...
– Republican Congressman, 2009–2013 * Jess L. Baily – United States Ambassador to North Macedonia, 2015–2019 *
Walt Bachrach Walton H. Bachrach (December 22, 1904—December 17, 1989) was a businessman, lawyer, and Republican politician who served as the mayor of Cincinnati from 1961—1967 and on the City Council from 1953—1967. Early life Bachrach was born in Cinc ...
– long-serving Mayor of Cincinnati * Ken Blackwell – former mayor of Cincinnati 1999–2007, Republican, Ohio Secretary of State and unsuccessful 2006 candidate for Governor of Ohio *
James G. Birney James Gillespie Birney (February 4, 1792November 18, 1857) was an American abolitionist, politician, and attorney born in Danville, Kentucky. He changed from being a planter and slave owner to abolitionism, publishing the abolitionist weekly '' ...
abolitionist and Liberty Party presidential candidate *
John Boehner John Andrew Boehner ( ; born , 1949) is an American retired politician who served as the 53rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served 13 terms as the U.S. represe ...
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and former
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William K. Bond William Key Bond (October 2, 1792 – February 17, 1864) was a three-term U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1835 to 1841. Early life and career Born in St. Mary's County, Maryland, Bond attended schools at Litchfield, Connecticut including L ...
Whig Congressman, 1849–1853 *
Stanley E. Bowdle Stanley Eyre Bowdle (September 4, 1868 – April 6, 1919) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Ohio for one term from 1913 to 1915. Early life and career Born in ...
– Democratic Congressman, 1913–1915 *
John Bridgeland John M. Bridgeland (born May 1, 1960) is a former director of the United States Domestic Policy Council and USA Freedom Corps. He is president and CEO of the public policy firm Civic Enterprises, the co-founder and CEO of the COVID Collaborative a ...
– lawyer and activist * Tom Brinkman – Republican Ohio House of Representatives member *
Ethan Allen Brown Ethan Allen Brown (July 4, 1776February 24, 1852) was a Democratic-Republican politician. He served as the seventh governor of Ohio. Biography Brown was born in Darien, Connecticut to Roger Brown, a prosperous farmer and a Revolutionary War ve ...
– 7th
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Frank Brogan Frank T. Brogan (born September 6, 1953) is the former Assistant Secretary of Education (Elementary and Secondary Education). He succeeded Deborah S. Delisle. He is the former Chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, fo ...
– 15th Lieutenant Governor of Florida *
Henry Francis Bryan Henry Francis Bryan (May 3, 1865 – March 19, 1944) was a United States Navy Rear Admiral and the governor of American Samoa. He served as governor from March 17, 1925, to September 9, 1927. Bryan was one of only three naval governors of the terri ...
– United States Navy
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and the 17th governor of American Samoa *
Jacob Burnet Jacob Burnet (sometimes spelled Burnett) (February 22, 1770May 10, 1853) was an American jurist and statesman from Ohio. He served as a U.S. Senator. Early life Burnet was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Dr. William Burnet. He graduated ...
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Phillip Burton Phillip Burton (June 1, 1926 – April 10, 1983) was an American politician and attorney who served as a United States representative from California from 1964 until his death in 1983. A Democrat, he was instrumental in creating the Golden Gate ...
– Democratic Congressman from California *
Benjamin Butterworth Benjamin Butterworth (October 22, 1837 – January 16, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio and Commissioner of Patents. Biography Butterworth was born near Maineville, Ohio, on October 22, ...
– Republican Congressman, 1879–1883, 1885–1891 * Mary Edith Campbell
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, Board of Education member * Samuel Fenton Cary – Congressman and temperance movement leader * John Cranley – former mayor of Cincinnati, 2013–2022 * Steve Chabot – Republican Congressman, 1995–2009; 2011–2023 *
Thomas R. Chandler Thomas R. Chandler (born circa 1954) is an Ohio medical technician who has been a perennial candidate for the Ohio House and the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat. Chandler served on the Ohio Democratic Party's State Central Comm ...
perennial candidate *
Donald D. Clancy Donald D. Clancy (July 24, 1921 – June 12, 2007) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented the 2nd District of Ohio from 1961 until 1977. Early life and education Clancy was born in Cincinnati, in ...
– former Republican Congressman * Levi Coffin – Abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad *
Aaron H. Conrow Aaron Hackett Conrow (June 19, 1824 – August 15, 1865) was a Congress of the Confederate States, Confederate Congressman and soldier during the American Civil War. He was murdered by bandits after moving to Mexico after the war's end. Early ...
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congressman and general *
Moses Dickson Moses Dickson (1824–1901) was an abolitionist, soldier, minister, and founder of the Knights of Liberty, an anti-slavery organization that planned a slave uprising in the United States and helped African-American enslaved people to freedom thro ...
– Abolitionist leader *
David T. Disney David Tiernan Disney (August 25, 1803 – March 14, 1857) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for three terms from 1849 to 1855. He also served as Speaker of both the Ohio State Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives. Early life and caree ...
– Democratic Congressman, 1849–1855 * Ozro J. Dodds – Democratic Congressman, 1872–1873 *
Steve Driehaus Steven Leo Driehaus (born June 24, 1966) is an American politician and former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the Minority Whip in the Ohio House of Representat ...
– Democratic Congressman, 2009–2011 * Alexander Duncan – physician, Democratic Congressman, 1837–1841, 1843–1845 *
Thomas O. Edwards Thomas Owen Edwards (March 29, 1810 – February 5, 1876) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for one term from 1847 to 1849. Biography Born in Williamsburg, Indiana, Edwards completed preparatory studies. He studied medicine at the Universi ...
Whig Congressman, 1847–1849 *
Edwin Einstein Edwin Einstein (November 18, 1842 – January 24, 1905) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York. Biography Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Einstein was son of Lamle 'Lewis' and Judith Einstein. He moved with his parents to N ...
– Republican Congressman from
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, 1879–1881 * Richard Kenneth Fox – United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, 1977–1979 *
George Fries George Fries (1799November 13, 1866) was a physician and a two-term U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1845 to 1849. Life and career Born in Pennsylvania in 1799, Fries attended the common schools. He studied medicine and commenced practice i ...
– physician, Democratic Congressman, 1845–1849 * James W. Gazlay – Republican Congressman, 1823–1825 * Thomas Geogheganlabor lawyer *
John J. Gilligan John Joyce “Jack” Gilligan (March 22, 1921 – August 26, 2013) was an American United States Democratic Party, Democratic politician from the state of Ohio who served as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative and as th ...
– former
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Herman P. Goebel Herman Philip Goebel (April 5, 1853 – May 4, 1930) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1903 to 1911. Early life and career Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Goebel attended public sch ...
– Republican Congressman, 1903–1911 * Bill Gradison – Republican Congressman, former mayor of Cincinnati *
Buddy Gray Stanley "Buddy" Gray (1950 – 15 November 1996) was a controversial political activist and social worker who lived in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Gray used 1960s-style confrontation and intimidation to persuade Cincinnati o ...
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William S. Groesbeck William Slocum Groesbeck (July 24, 1815 – July 7, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1857 to 1859. Early life Groesbeck was born in Kinderhook, New York, on July 24, 1815. He ...
– lawyer, Democratic Congressman, 1857–1859 *
John A. Gurley John Addison Gurley (December 9, 1813 – August 19, 1863) was a U.S. Congressman from Ohio during the early part of the American Civil War, serving two terms from 1859 to 1863. He was appointed as the first Governor of the Arizona Territory, ...
– Republican Congressman, 1859–1863 * George W. Hayes – slave, Republican Ohio House of Representatives member *
William E. Hess William Emil Hess (February 13, 1898 – July 14, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician who served three lengthy, non-consecutive stints as a Republican and a U.S. Representative from Ohio between 1929 and 1961. Biography Born in Cincinn ...
– Republican Congressman, 1929–1937, 1939–1949, 1951–1961 * Dave Hobson – former Republican
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Cynthia Hogan Cynthia C. Hogan (born 1958) is an American attorney and political advisor who served as counsel to the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, from 2009 to 2013. In 2020, Hogan joined the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign as a member ...
– counsel to Joe Biden * Henry Thomas Hunt – former mayor of Cincinnati, 1912–1913 *
Andy Ireland Andrew Poysell Ireland (born August 23, 1930) is an American politician and former U.S. Representative from Florida. Biography Born to a wealthy family in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended a private school within the city. He finished his high scho ...
– Democrat/Republican Congressman from Florida, 1977–1993 *
B. Todd Jones Byron Todd Jones (born May 23, 1957) is an American lawyer who was the seventh director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and is chief disciplinary officer of the National Football League (NFL).Ken Belson"N.F.L. to ...
lawyer, Director of the
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Joel Hills Johnson Joel Hills Johnson (March 23, 1802 – September 24, 1882) was a Latter-day Saint missionary and hymn writer, known for being the author of "High on the Mountain Top" (hymn no. 5 in the 1985 LDS hymnbook, English edition). Johnson was also the ...
- Utah Territorial legislator, 1849-1850 *
William J. Keating William John Keating (March 30, 1927 – May 20, 2020) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician of the Republican party. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1974. Background Keating was born in Cinci ...
– former Republican Congressman, brother of Charles Keating * Simon L. Leis, Jr.
Hamilton County, Ohio Hamilton County is located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 830,639, making it the third-most populous county in Ohio. The county seat and largest city is Cincinnati. The county i ...
prosecutor and sheriff * Mark Lippert – former ambassador to South Korea * Nicholas Longworth – former Speaker of the House and Majority Leader * Charlie Luken – former Congressman and Mayor of Cincinnati * Tom Luken – former Congressman * Greg Landsman – Democratic Congressman, 2023– * Robert Todd Lytle – Congressman, 1833–1835 *
Mark L. Mallory Mark Mallory (born April 2, 1962) is an American politician who served as the 68th Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first two-term Mayor under the City's new Stronger-Mayor system, the first directly electe ...
– former mayor of Cincinnati, 2005–2013 *
William L. Mallory, Sr. William Leslie Mallory Sr. (October 4, 1931 – December 10, 2013) was an American politician who was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1966 and served for 28 years in the Ohio legislature. In 1974 he won election as Majority Floor ...
– first African-American Ohio House of Representatives majority leader * Sam Malone – former Cincinnati city councilman * Lawrence Maxwell, Jr.United States Solicitor General, 1893–1895 * Neil H. McElroy
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, 1957–1959 * John McLean – Congressman, 1813–16,
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, 1823–1829, U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1829–1861 * Alexander C. Mitchell – Republican congressman from Kansas, 1911 *
Tom Mooney Thomas Joseph Mooney (December 8, 1882 – March 6, 1942) was an American political activist and labor leader, who was convicted with Warren K. Billings of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. It quickly became apparent that Mo ...
– teacher, labor union activist *
Harold G. Mosier Harold Gerard Mosier (July 24, 1889 – August 7, 1971) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio for one term from 1937 to 1939. He was also the 45th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1935 to 1937. Early ...
– Democratic congressman, 1937–1939 *
Edward Follansbee Noyes Edward Follansbee Noyes (October 3, 1832September 4, 1890) was a Republican politician from Ohio. Noyes served as the 30th governor of Ohio. Biography Noyes was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was orphaned at the age of three and was raised ...
– Governor of Ohio, Ambassador to France * Kabaka Obacivil rights
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* Lucy Evelyn Peabodyconservation activist * Aaron F. Perry – Congressman, 1871–1872 *
Rob Portman Robert Jones Portman (born December 19, 1955) is an American attorney and politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from Ohio since 2011. A member of the Republican Party ...
– Congressman,
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; Director of Office of Management and Budget; U.S. Senator 2011–2023 *
Todd Portune Todd Brian Portune (August 14, 1958 – January 25, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Cincinnati City Council and as a Hamilton County Commissioner. Portune was regarded as left of center on social iss ...
– former Cincinnati city councilman * Trey Radel – former Republican Congressman from Florida *
James B. Ray James Brown Ray (February 19, 1794 – August 4, 1848) was an Indiana politician and the only Indiana Senate president pro tempore to be elevated to governor of the state of Indiana. Ray served during a time when the state transitioned from per ...
Governor of Indiana, 1825–1831 *
Lindsay Reynolds Lindsay Reynolds is an American event planner and government employee who served as the chief of staff of First Lady of the United States Melania Trump. Prior to her appointment on February 1, 2017, she was associate director of the White House ...
– chief of staff to
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Melania Trump * Carl West Rich – Republican Congressman, three-time mayor of Cincinnati * Eugene P. Ruehlmann – Mayor of Cincinnati, 1967–1971 * Jerry Rubin – political activist, Chicago Seven *
Charles W. Sawyer Charles W. Sawyer (February 10, 1887April 7, 1979) was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from May 6, 1948 to January 20, 1953 in the administration of Harry Truman. Early life Sawyer was born in ...
United States Secretary of Commerce, 1948–1953 under President Harry Truman *
Milton Sayler Milton Sayler (November 4, 1831 – November 17, 1892) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a three-term U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1873 to 1879. He was a cousin of Henry B. Sayler, who served in the U.S. Congress, re ...
– Cincinnati city councilman, Congressman, 1873–1879 * Bob Schaffer – former Republican Congressman from Colorado * Jean Schmidt – Republican Congresswoman, 2005–2013; Ohio State Senator 2001–2004, 2021– *
Bob Schuler Robert Schuler (June 15, 1943 – June 19, 2009) was a Republican politician who formerly served in the Ohio General Assembly. Schuler first entered politics in the late 1970s as a member of the Deer Park City Council and also spent four years ...
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, 2002–2009 * P.G. Sittenfeld – former Cincinnati city councilman, convicted of felony bribery * Kathleen Sebelius
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2003–2009, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services 2009–14 *
William B. Shattuc William Bunn Shattuc (June 11, 1841 – July 13, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for three terms from 1897 to 1903. Biography William Shattuc was born in Hector, New York but Shattuc moved to Ohio in 1852 with his parents, who settled ...
– Congressman, 1897–1903 *
Christopher Smitherman Christopher E.C. Smitherman (born July 16, 1967) is an American politician and businessman who previously served as the Vice Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. An Independent, Smitherman has been a member of the Cincinnati City Council and the Cincinna ...
– former Cincinnati city councilman * Potter Stewart – lawyer, U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1958–1981 *
Bellamy Storer (1796–1875) Bellamy Storer (March 26, 1796June 1, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, father of Bellamy Storer (1847). Born in Portland in Massachusetts' District of Maine, Storer attended private schools in his native city. He entered Bowdoin Co ...
– lawyer, Congressman, 1835–1837 * Bellamy Storer (1847–1922) – Congressman, 1891–1895, diplomat * Bob Taft
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, 1999–2007 * Charles Phelps Taft II – Mayor of Cincinnati, 1955–1957 * Robert A. Taft – Senate leader; son of William Howard Taft * Robert Taft Jr. – Congressman 1963–1965, 1967–1971; U.S. Senator 1971–1976 * William Howard Taft27th President of the United States, Chief Justice of the
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Marcellus Bailey Marcellus Bailey (1840 – January 16, 1921) was an American patent attorney who, with Anthony Pollok, helped prepare Alexander Graham Bell's patents for the telephone and related inventions. Biography The son of abolitionist and ''National Er ...
patent attorney for
Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Te ...
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Emma Beckwith Emma Beckwith (December 4, 1849 – November 25, 1919) was an American suffragette, bookkeeper, optician, and inventor. Beckwith held various jobs. She was the first woman in business in the Maiden Lane, Manhattan neighborhood in the spring of ...
– bookkeeper, optician, inventor, suffragette *
Powel Crosley Jr. Powel Crosley Jr. (September 18, 1886 – March 28, 1961) was an American inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur. He was also a pioneer in radio broadcasting, and owner of the Cincinnati Reds major league baseball team. In addition, Crosl ...
– inventor and entrepreneur *
Francis L. Dale Francis Lykins Dale (July 13, 1921 – November 28, 1993) was an American business executive and Republican political operative. He was also owner and president of the Cincinnati Reds for six years, and served as commissioner of the Major Indo ...
– lawyer,
Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...
owner, Republican Party operative * Maxwell Daneadvertising executive * Sam Dunham – Executive Chef at Red Cedar Flats * James Gamble – co-founder of Procter & Gamble *
Alfred T. Goshorn Alfred Traber Goshorn (July 15, 1833 – 1902) was a Cincinnati, Ohio businessman and booster who served as Director-General of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. That was the first world's fair in the United States and so resou ...
– businessman, civic booster, founder of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team *
Lou Groen Lou may refer to: __NOTOC__ Personal name * Lou (given name), a list of people and fictional characters *Lou (German singer) *Lou (French singer) * Lou (surname 娄), the 229th most common surname in China * Lou (surname 楼), the 269th most common ...
– entrepreneur, inventor of the
Filet-O-Fish The Filet-O-Fish is a fish sandwich (or burger) sold by the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's. It was created in 1962 by Lou Groen, a McDonald's franchise owner in Cincinnati, Ohio, in response to falling hamburger sales on ...
sandwich * Kevin Harrington
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entrepreneur *
Bob Herbold Robert John Herbold Jr., retired executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO) of Microsoft Corporation, is the Managing Director of The Herbold Group, LLC, a consulting business focused on executive training and profitability. Biogra ...
– former executive vice president and chief operating officer of Microsoft Corporation *
Louise McCarren Herring Louise McCarren Herring (September 20, 1909 – November 2, 1987), was an Ohio native, recognized as one of the pioneer leaders of the not-for-profit cooperative credit union movement in the United States. Herring is universally regarded in the Un ...
– leader of the credit union movement *
Charles R. Hook Sr. Charles Ruffin Hook Sr. (July 12, 1880 - November 15, 1963) was an American industrialist, second president of AK Steel Holding, Armco Steel Corp., and recipient of the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in 1950. Life and work Hook was born and raised i ...
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industrialist *
Ronald Howes Ronald B. Howes (May 22, 1926 – February 16, 2010) was an American toy inventor, best known for his invention of the Easy-Bake Oven, which was introduced to consumers in 1963. Biography Early life Howes' mother died when he was born. He was r ...
– inventor of the
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Jeffrey R. Immelt Jeffrey Robert Immelt (born February 19, 1956) is an American business executive currently working as a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates. He previously served as the CEO of General Electric from 2001 to 2017, and the CEO of GE's Medi ...
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of General Electric * Charles Keatingbanker involved in savings and loan crisis of the 1980s *
Jim Koch Charles James Koch ( '; born May 27, 1949) is an American entrepreneur, billionaire, and the co-founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company, the producers of Samuel Adams beer. Koch is widely considered to be the founding father of the Amer ...
– founder of
Boston Beer Company The Boston Beer Company is an American brewery founded in 1984. Boston Beer Company's first brand of beer was named Samuel Adams after Founding Father Samuel Adams, an American revolutionary patriot. Since its founding, Boston Beer has started se ...
* Bernard Kroger – founder of the Kroger supermarket chain *
Chris Kempczinski Christopher John Kempczinski (born 1968) is an American business executive, and the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of McDonald's Corporation. Early life Christopher John Kempczinski was born in Boston, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio ...
– President & CEO of McDonald's Corporation (born in Boston, raised in Cincinnati) *
Isaac Herbert Kempner Isaac Herbert Kempner (January 14, 1873 – August 1, 1967) was the founder of the Imperial Sugar Corporation and mayor of Galveston, Texas. Early years Kempner was born in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was a Polish Jewish immigrant and h ...
– founder of Imperial Sugar *
James Michael Lafferty James Michael Lafferty (born 1963) is an American businessman, speaker, consultant, psychologist, and social media influencer. He is known for his story of starting as a fitness trainer in the Procter & Gamble Company in 1984 and progressing throu ...
– CEO of
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. Former Regional CEO for Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and British American Tobacco; Olympic Track and Field Coach *
Harry Ward Leonard Harry Ward Leonard (February 8, 1861 – February 18, 1915) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He is best known for his invention, the Ward Leonard motor control system. Equipment based on this invention remained in service in ...
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and inventor *
Carl Lindner, Jr. Carl Henry Lindner Jr. (April 22, 1919 – October 17, 2011) was an American businessman from Norwood, Ohio, a member of the Lindner family, and one of the world's richest people. According to the 2006 issue of ''Forbes''s 400 list, Lindner was r ...
– businessman and co-founder of
United Dairy Farmers United Dairy Farmers (UDF) is an American chain of shops offering dairy products as well as coffee and gasoline. UDF was started by Carl Lindner Sr. and his children in 1938. Almost as soon as they started operations, the Lindners began work on ...
; founder of
American Financial Group American Financial Group, Inc. is an American financial services holding company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its primary businesses are insurance and investments. Lines of business American Financial Group's major insurance division operates as ...
* Michael Malatin – pioneer in hospital valet parking *
William F. Nast William Frederick Nast (1840–1893) was an American diplomat and entrepreneur. He was the third president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Nast was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 14, 1840, the son of Methodist religious leader W ...
– diplomat, railroad businessman *
Henry Nicholas Henry Thompson Nicholas III (born 1959) is an American businessman who is a co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, and former co-chairman of its board, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company. , Nicholas was ranked number 520 on ...
– communications technology entrepreneur *
Stephen Sanger Stephen W. Sanger (born April 10, 1946) is a former chairman and chief executive officer of General Mills, former chairman of Wells Fargo, as well as a director of Target Corporation, and Pfizer. Early life A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sanger rece ...
– former chairman of General Mills * Marge Schott – women's business pioneer; former owner of the
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David Sinton David Sinton (26 June 1808 – 31 August 1900) was an Irish-born American pig-iron industrialist, born in County Armagh, Ireland, who became one of the wealthiest people in America. Early life Sinton was the son of linen manufacturer John Sinton ...
pig iron Pig iron, also known as crude iron, is an intermediate product of the iron industry in the production of steel which is obtained by smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. Pig iron has a high carbon content, typically 3.8–4.7%, along with silic ...
industrialist * Ted Turner – founder of Turner Broadcasting System * David Uible – businessman and county commissioner *
Douglas A. Warner III Douglas 'Sandy' Warner (born June 9, 1946, as Douglas Alexander Warner III but widely known as "Sandy") is an American banker who joined Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York out of college in 1968 as an officer's assistant and rose through t ...
banker *
Joseph Ray Watkins Joseph Ray Watkins (August 21, 1840 – December 21, 1911) was an American entrepreneur and founder of Watkins Incorporated with his homemade medical products – liniment, extracts, and salves. He offered the United States's first money back guar ...
– born in city, was an entrepreneur and founder of Watkins Incorporated * Luman Watson – 19th century clockmaker * Granville Woods – inventor * Vivek Ramaswamy – biopharmaceutical entrepreneur, Republican Party presidential candidate


Science

* Cleveland Abbemeteorologist *
C. David Allis Charles David Allis (March 22, 1951 – January 8, 2023) was an American molecular biologist, and the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor at the Rockefeller University. He was also the Head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, an ...
geneticist * Richard AllisonSurgeon General of the Army *
Ellen Harding Baker Ellen Harding Baker, née Sarah Ellen Harding (June 8, 1847March 30, 1886) was an American astronomer and a teacher. She is known for her Solar System Quilt, used as a teaching aid in her lectures on astronomy. Personal life Sarah Ellen Harding ...
– astronomer and teacher *
Charles J. Bates Charles J. Bates (May 4, 1930 – September 28, 2006) was an American food science, food scientist who was involved in the development of baking formulas for Angel cake, angel food and devil's food cake, then later developed high fructose corn ...
food scientist *
Amanda Bauer Amanda Elaine Bauer (born 26 May 1979) is an American professional astronomer and science communicator. She is the Deputy Director and Head of Science and Education at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. She was previously based in Tu ...
– astronomer *
George Robert Carruthers George Robert Carruthers (October 1, 1939 – December 26, 2020) was an African American inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist. Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it ...
physicist *
Robin T. Cotton Robin Thomas Cotton (born May 13, 1941) is an English physician who is well known for his work in pediatric otolaryngology. He is retired from being the Director of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical C ...
pediatrician Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...
* Naomi Deutsch – nurse and educator *
Michael Dine Michael Dine (born 12 August 1953, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics, supersymmetry, string theory, and physics beyond the Standard Model. Education and career Dine received in 197 ...
theoretical physicist *
William Doherty William Doherty (May 15, 1857 in Cincinnati – May 25, 1901 in Nairobi) was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and later also collected birds for the Natural History Museum at Tring. He died of dysentery while in Nairobi. Tr ...
entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
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Joseph Leo Doob Joseph Leo Doob (February 27, 1910 – June 7, 2004) was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. The theory of martingales was developed by Doob. Early life and education Doob was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, ...
mathematician *
Ronald G. Douglas Ronald George Douglas (December 10, 1938 – February 27, 2018) was an American mathematician, best known for his work on operator theory and operator algebras. Education and career Douglas was born in Osgood, Indiana. He was an undergraduate a ...
– mathematician and university provost *
Daniel Drake Daniel Drake (October 20, 1785 – November 5, 1852) was a pioneering American physician and prolific writer. Early life Drake was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, to Isaac Drake and Elizabeth Shotwell. He was the elder brother of Benjamin ...
– physician and writer *
Richard S. Hamilton Richard Streit Hamilton (born 10 January 1943) is an American mathematician who serves as the Davies Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University. He is known for contributions to geometric analysis and partial differential equations. Hamilton ...
– mathematician *
Olive Hazlett Olive Clio Hazlett (October 27, 1890 – March 8, 1974) was an American mathematician who spent most of her career working for the University of Illinois. She mainly researched algebra, and wrote seventeen research papers on subjects such as nil ...
– mathematician *
Henry Heimlich Henry Judah Heimlich (February 3, 1920 – December 17, 2016) was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher. He is widely credited as the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, a technique of abdominal thrusts for stopping choking, first ...
– co-developer of the Heimlich maneuver * Karl Gordon HenizeNASA
astronaut An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally r ...
* Robert Kistner
gynecologist Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined area ...
, textbook author *
Thomas Samuel Kuhn Thomas Samuel Kuhn (; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American philosopher of science whose 1962 book ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term ''paradigm ...
science historian * John Mauchlyphysicist, co-designer of ENIAC * Ann Moore – pediatric nurse, inventor of the Snugli baby carrier *
Sharlotte Neely Sharlotte Kathleen Neely is an American anthropologist who is known for her research on Native North Americans, especially the Cherokee Indians. As of 2017, she was Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University. Early life ...
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anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...
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Louis Harry Newburgh Louis Harry Newburgh (June 17, 1883 July 17, 1956) was an American physician and medical educator. He spent most of his career teaching and researching at the University of Michigan. Newburgh was involved in many early experiments and discoverie ...
- Professor of Clinical Investigation * Joseph Ransohoffneurosurgeon *
Samuel Mitja Rapoport Samuel Mitja Rapoport (27 November 1912 – 7 July 2004) was a German Empire-born German university professor of biochemistry in East Germany. Of Jewish descent and a committed communist, he fled Austria after its annexation by Nazi Germany, and ...
biochemist Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study DNA, proteins and Cell (biology), cell parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of ...
, Communist activist in Cincinnati in the 1930s *
Tom Rapoport Tom Abraham Rapoport (born June 17, 1947) is a German-American cell biologist who studies protein transport in cells. Currently, he is a professor at Harvard Medical School and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Born in Cincinnati, OH ...
– cell biologist at the Harvard Medical School * Marion Rawson
archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
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George Rieveschl George Rieveschl (January 9, 1916 – September 27, 2007) was an American chemist and professor. He was the inventor of the popular antihistamine diphenhydramine (Benadryl), which he first made during a search for synthetic alternatives to scopol ...
– inventor of Benadryl * Rae Robertson-Andersonbiophysicist * Albert Sabin – discoverer of oral polio vaccine


Journalism and media

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Jon Arthur Jonathan Arthur Goerss (June 14, 1918 – February 24, 1982), known as Jon Arthur, was an American entertainer. As Big Jon Arthur, he was the host of the Saturday morning children's radio series Big Jon and Sparkie. Sparkie, "the little elf from t ...
– syndicated radio personality *
Gamaliel Bailey Gamaliel Bailey (December 3, 1807June 5, 1859) was an American physician who left that career to become an abolitionist journalist, editor, and publisher, working primarily in Cincinnati, and Washington, D.C. Anti-abolitionist mobs attacked his o ...
– journalist and abolitionist * Delilah L. Beasley – first African American woman to be published regularly in a major metropolitan newspaper * Marty Brennaman
Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...
radio play-by-play announcer 1974–2019 *
Thom Brennaman Thomas Wade Brennaman (born September 12, 1963) is an American television sportscaster. He is the son of former Cincinnati Reds radio sportscaster Marty Brennaman. Broadcasting career After graduating in 1982 from Cincinnati's Anderson High Sch ...
– sports broadcaster *
Gary Burbank Gary Burbank (born Billy Purser, July 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American radio personality. He was heard daily on WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, from June 15, 1981 until December 21, 2007 and nationally as the voice of his fictional character, ...
radio personality A radio personality (American English) or radio presenter (British English) is a person who has an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality who hosts a radio show is also known as a radio host, and in India and Pakistan as a rad ...
* Nick Clooney – journalist, anchorman, and television host, father of
George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by George Clooney, numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Awards, British Academy Film A ...
* Gail Collins – columnist for '' The New York Times'' * The Cool Ghoul, real name Dick VonHoene – news anchor, talk show and horror-movie show host *
Bill Cunningham Bill Cunningham may refer to: People *Bill Cunningham (rugby union) (1874–1927), New Zealand rugby union player *Bill Cunningham (footballer), Irish international footballer active in the 1890s *Bill Cunningham (infielder) (1886–1946), profes ...
– attorney, radio and television talk show host * Paul Dixon – Cincinnati-area daytime television host *
Elizabeth Drew Elizabeth Drew (born November 16, 1935) is an American political journalist and author. Early life Elizabeth Brenner was born on November 16, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the daughter of William J. Brenner, a furniture manufacturer, and Es ...
– political journalist and author *
Sara Eisen Sara Aliza Eisen (born August 7, 1984) is a financial news anchor for CNBC. Education Eisen attended New York University as an undergraduate and completed her graduate studies at Northwestern University. Career Eisen worked for Bloomberg Televi ...
CNBC news anchor * Courtis Fuller – local news anchor * Bill Hemmer
Fox News Channel The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
anchor and correspondent; former CNN anchor and reporter *
Steven L. Herman Steven L. Herman is a journalist and author, and, , Voice of America's chief national correspondent. From 2017 through 2021, Herman was senior White House correspondent and subsequently VOA's White House bureau chief. Career Herman was one of ...
Voice of America bureau chief and correspondent *
Derrin Horton Derrin Horton is an American sportscaster based in Los Angeles, California. He is a sports anchors for KTLA. Horton has also been a play-by-play announcer and anchor for ESPN and Fox Sports Net. Early life and education Horton was born in Was ...
sportscaster * Joe KernenCNBC news anchor * Dan La Botz – journalist, author and socialist activist * Alan Light – former editor of '' VIBE'' and ''
Spin Spin or spinning most often refers to: * Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thread by twisting fibers together, traditionally by hand spinning * Spin, the rotation of an object around a central axis * Spin (propaganda), an intentionally b ...
'' * Ruth Lyons – radio and television personality * Edward Deering Mansfield – 19th-century newspaper
editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, orga ...
* William Maxwell – engraver, printer, publisher of the first newspaper in Cincinnati * Mike McConnell – syndicated radio talk show host *
John Roll McLean John Roll McLean (September 17, 1848 – June 9, 1916) was the owner and publisher of ''The Washington Post'' and ''The Cincinnati Enquirer''. McLean was also a one-time partner in the ownership of the Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA), Cincinna ...
– owner and publisher of '' The Cincinnati Enquirer'' and '' The Washington Post'' * Washington McLean – owner and publisher of ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'' and ''The Washington Post'' * Erin McPike – White House Correspondent for ''
Independent Journal Review The ''Independent Journal Review'' (IJR) is a conservative American news and opinion website based in Alexandria, Virginia. The publication was founded in 2012 by Alex Skatell. Skatell serves as its CEO, with Camden Stuebe as President and Shus ...
'', formerly with CNN and NBC News *
David Mendell David Mendell is an American journalist who wrote for the ''Chicago Tribune'' until the summer of 2008. Mendell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois. During his time with the ''Tribune'', Mendell covered the Columbine Hi ...
– journalist and Barack Obama biographer *
Dan Patrick Dan Patrick may refer to: * Dan Patrick (ice hockey) (born 1938), Canadian ice hockey player * Dan Patrick (politician) (born 1950), Lieutenant Governor of Texas and political and sports radio journalist * Dan Patrick (sportscaster) (born 1956), Ame ...
– sportscaster and radio personality (from Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati) * Virginia Payne – radio actress *
Wally Phillips Walter Phillips (July 7, 1925 – March 26, 2008) was an American radio personality best known for hosting WGN's morning radio show from Chicago for 21 years from January 1965 until July 1986, and was number one in the morning slot from 19 ...
– radio personality *
James S. Robbins James S. Robbins (born 1962) is an American commentary writer for ''USA Today'' and Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs on the American Foreign Policy Council. He is the former Senior Editorial Writer for Foreign Affairs at the ''Washing ...
– opinion journalist, author and scholar *
Glenn Ryle Glenn Ryle Schnitker (1927-1993) was a long-time television personality in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is best remembered by Cincinnatians for hosting the ''Skipper Ryle Show'' for seventeen years on WKRC Television. Early life Ryle attended Western H ...
– television personality * Al Schottelkotte – television news anchor and reporter *
Bob Shreve Robert Gerald Shreve (July 16, 1912 – February 20, 1990) was a first-generation television broadcasting personality based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Biography Described by Cincinnati television producer Len Goorian as "the closest thing I've ever s ...
– early television personality * Larry Smith
Puppeteer A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object, called a puppet, to create the illusion that the puppet is alive. The puppet is often shaped like a human, animal, or legendary creature. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from ...
and children's television host * Tony Snow – news commentator, White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush administration *
Dale Sommers Bruce Dale Sommers (November 26, 1943 – August 24, 2012), known by his nickname "The Truckin' Bozo", was an American radio personality, best known for his long-running country music show geared toward truck drivers. Sommers hosted the overnig ...
– radio personality also known as "the Truckin' Bozo" *
Estelle Sternberger Estelle Miller Sternberger (1886–1971) was an American activist, writer and broadcaster. As executive secretary of the National Council of Jewish Women, she encouraged women to take up careers outside the home. She later became a popular radio p ...
– radio commentator and women's activist * Anne Marie Tiernon – local news anchor *
Linda Vester Linda Vester (born June 11, 1965, in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American television news host. She was the anchor of ''NBC News at Sunrise'' on NBC and ''DaySide with Linda Vester'' on the Fox News. She left television in 2005 to raise h ...
Fox News Channel The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
anchor *
Carolyn Washburn Carolyn Washburn was the vice president and editor of ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'' until May 2015. Previously she was the vice president and editor of the ''Des Moines Register''. She was also the executive editor of ''The Idaho Statesman'' until 1 ...
– former vice president and editor of '' The Cincinnati Enquirer'' * Liz Wheeler – conservative political commentator, formerly with One America News Network *
Todd Wright Todd Wright (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American sports radio personality. He founded and hosted ESPN Radio's ''AllNight with Todd Wright'', and was a part of ESPN Radio from 1996 to 2005. Wright then took his popular national show to Sport ...
Sports radio personality * Frederick Ziv – television producer and syndication pioneer


Artists and entertainment


Acting, motion pictures, and television

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Kevin Allison Kevin Allison (born February 16, 1970) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and storyteller. He is perhaps best known as a writing and performing member of the comedy troupe The State, and appeared in their 1993-1995 MTV sketch comedy series '' ...
– actor, sketch comedian (''
The State A state is a centralized political organization that imposes and enforces rules over a population within a territory. There is no undisputed definition of a state. One widely used definition comes from the German sociologist Max Weber: a "stat ...
'') *
Patti Astor Patti Astor (born ca. 1950) is an American performer who was a key actress in New York City underground films of the 1970s, and the East Village art scene of the 1980s, and involved in the early popularizing of hip hop. She co-founded the instr ...
Underground film actress * Theda Barasilent film actress *
Powhatan Beaty Powhatan Beaty (October 8, 1837 – December 6, 1916) was an African American soldier and actor. During the American Civil War, he served in the Union Army's 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment throughout the Richmond–Petersburg Campaig ...
American Civil War soldier and stage actor * Louise Beavers – actress * Andy Blankenbuehler – dancer and
choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...
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Ron Bohmer Ron Bohmer is an American actor and singer best known for his musical theatre roles on Broadway and as a recording artist and singer-songwriter. He has starred in numerous Broadway productions, including ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'',Ben Brantley"T ...
singer and actor *
Zach Bolton Zachary Charles Bolton (born August 9, 1981) is an American ADR director, line producer and voice actor, known for his work at Funimation. He is often credited as Z. Charles Bolton. In November 2020, he married voice actor Kara Edwards. Filmo ...
– voice actor and ADR director affiliated with Funimation *
Mark Boone Junior Mark Boone Junior (born Mark Heidrich; March 17, 1955) is an American character actor, best known for his TV roles as Bobby Munson in ''Sons of Anarchy'' (2008–14) and Patrick "Pat" Brown in '' Last Man On Earth'', and film roles in Christopher ...
– actor * Lee Bowman – film and television actor * Bob Braun – local television and radio personality *
Don Brodie Don L. Brodie (May 29, 1904 – January 8, 2001) was an American film and television actor. Early years The son of Mrs. Lottie Brodie, he attended Hughes High School in Cincinnati and the University of Cincinnati. Before becoming a profess ...
– actor and director *
Nana Bryant Nana Irene Bryant (November 23, 1888 – December 24, 1955) was an American film, stage, and television actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1935 and 1955. Biography Bryant was born 1888 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She appeared in ...
– actress *
Mabel Brownell Mabel Brownell (December 19, 1883 — January 23, 1972) was an American stage actress and director, active on Broadway in the 1920s. Early life Mabel Brownell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1883 (one source gives 1888). She graduated from Hughes ...
– stage actress *
Rebecca Budig Rebecca Jo Budig (; born June 26, 1973) is an American actress and television presenter. Her career began in 1993, and in 1995, she was cast in the role of Michelle Bauer on the CBS soap opera ''Guiding Light''. In 1999, she was cast as Greenlee ...
– soap opera and television actress *
Marty Callner Marty Callner (born 1950 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American television director, who has made music videos, comedy specials, concert specials, and television shows, in a career spanning from 1977 to present day. He is the creator of HBO's '' Ha ...
– music video director *
Rocky Carroll Roscoe "Rocky" Carroll (born July 8, 1963) is an American actor and director. He is known for his roles as Joey Emerson on the Fox comedy-drama '' Roc'' (1991–94), as Dr. Keith Wilkes on the CBS medical drama ''Chicago Hope'', and as NCIS Direc ...
– actor (''
NCIS NCIS or N.C.I.S. may refer to: Law enforcement * National Criminal Intelligence Service, the predecessor to the Serious Organised Crime Agency of the United Kingdom * Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a United States law enforcement and intelli ...
'') * Marguerite Clark – stage and silent film actress *
Majel Coleman Majel Coleman (February 22, 1903 – July 27, 1980) was an American film actress and model from Mason, Ohio. Most of her 11 film credits are silent movie features. Early life Coleman was born in Mason, Ohio (just north of Cincinnati, Ohio) to P ...
– actress and model *
Ray Combs Raymond Neil Combs Jr. (April 3, 1956 – June 2, 1996) was an American actor, comedian and game show host. Combs began his professional career in the late 1970s. His popularity on the stand-up circuit led to him being signed as the second host o ...
– host of '' Family Feud'', 1988–1994 * Walter Connolly – film actor * Shamika Cotton – actress *
Chase Crawford Chase Alexander Crawford is an American actor and film producer from Monroe, Ohio. He best known for his roles in independent films such as ''Goat'' and ''In the Radiant City''. Early life Crawford was born in New Bern, North Carolina to Susan ...
– actor and producer *
Joel Crothers Joel Anthony Crothers (January 28, 1941 – November 6, 1985) was an American actor. His credits primarily included stage and television work, including a number of soap opera roles, the best known being Miles Cavanaugh on ''The Edge of Night'', ...
– actor * Raymond Garfield Dandridge – poet *
Doris Day Doris Day (born Doris Mary Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, " Sent ...
popular singer and actress * Tim de Zarn – actor *
Gabrielle Dennis Gabrielle Dennis is an American actress and comedian, known mostly for her work in cable television series ('' The Game'', '' Blue Mountain State'', '' The Underground''). Dennis starred in the Fox medical drama ''Rosewood'' alongside Morris C ...
– actress ('' The Game'') * John Diehl – actor *
John Dierkes John Dierkes (February 10, 1905 – January 8, 1975) was an American actor who appeared in a number of classic Hollywood films. Before becoming an actor, he had been an economist. Life and career Dierkes was born on February 10, 1905 in C ...
– actor *
Pamella D'Pella Pamella D'Pella (born Pamela Denise Manley; August 22, 1957) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, photographer and dancer. Pamella is recognized for her extensive acting career, most notably for her years spent as "Julia" in the long runn ...
– actress * Carmen Electra (born Tara Leigh Patrick) – actress, singer * Vera-Ellen – actress and dancer (''
White Christmas White Christmas most commonly refers to: * White Christmas (weather), snowfall or snow-covered ground on Christmas Day * "White Christmas" (song), a 1942 song written by Irving Berlin White Christmas may also refer to: Film, television, and the ...
'') *
Susan Floyd Susan Floyd (born May 13, 1968) is an American actress who has appeared in many episodes of '' Law & Order'', as well as numerous other television series. She has also had featured roles in several motion pictures, including ''Domestic Disturbanc ...
– actress *
Trixie Friganza Trixie Friganza (born Delia O'Callaghan; November 29, 1870February 27, 1955) was an American actress. She began her career as an operetta soubrette, working her way from the chorus to starring in musical comedies to having her own feature act o ...
vaudeville and film actress *
Stephen Geoffreys Stephen Geoffrey Miller (born November 22, 1964), known professionally as Stephen Geoffreys, is an American actor. Rising to prominence in teen films in the 1980s, Geoffreys is perhaps best known for his role as high school misfit-turned vampire ...
– film, stage, and
gay porn Gay pornography is the representation of sexual activity between males. Its primary goal is sexual arousal in its audience. Softcore gay pornography also exists; it at one time constituted the genre, and may be produced as beefcake pornogra ...
ography actor *
Sidney M. Goldin Sidney M. Goldin, born Samuel Goldstein (March 25, 1878 – September 19, 1937) was an American silent film director as well as a prominent writer, actor and producer for Yiddish theater and Yiddish cinema during the early 20th century. During his ...
– silent film director * Charles Guggenheim – movie director *
Julie Hagerty Julie Beth Hagerty (born June 15, 1955) is an American actress. She starred as Elaine in the films ''Airplane!'' (1980) and '' Airplane II: The Sequel'' (1982). Her other film roles include ''A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy'' (1982), ''Lost in Am ...
– model and actress ('' Airplane!'') *
Pauline Hall Pauline Hall (born Pauline Fredrika Schmidgall;Browne, Walter and Frederick Arnold Austin. Who's who on the stage: the dramatic reference book and biographical dictionary of the theatre, Volume 1' (1906), p. 120. February 26, 1860 – December ...
– stage actress and dancer * Porter Hall – actor ('' Miracle on 34th Street'') *
Emily Harper Emily Harper (born February 16, 1978, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American actress. Career She starred in a ''Mike's Hard Lemonade'' commercial in 2004. Harper portrayed Fancy Crane on the soap opera ''Passions'' from 2005 to 2008. She was i ...
– actress * Maurice Hegeman – Broadway musical actor, lyricist, and playwright * Tiffany Hines – actress *
Libby Holman Elizabeth Lloyd Holman (née Holzman; May 23, 1904 – June 18, 1971) was an American socialite, actress, singer, and activist. Early life Elizabeth Lloyd Holzman was born May 23, 1904, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of a lawyer and stockbrok ...
torch singer and actress *
Tonya Ingram Tonya Ingram (September 1, 1991 – December 30, 2022) was an American poet, author, speaker, disability activist, and mental health Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, ...
– poet, disability activist, mental health advocate *
IShowSpeed Darren Watkins Jr. (born January 21, 2005), better known by his online alias IShowSpeed (or simply Speed), is an American YouTuber, streamer, rapper, and internet personality. He is known for his variety livestreams in which he primarily plays ...
, real name Darren Watkins Jr. – YouTube personality, streamer, rapper, and songwriter *
Arthur V. Johnson Arthur Vaughan Johnson (February 2, 1876 – January 17, 1916) was a pioneer actor and director of the early American silent film era. Career Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Rev. Myron A. Johnson, Arthur Vaughan Johnson left college at 19 t ...
– silent film actor and director *
Lanny Joon Lanny Joon is a Korean-American actor. He is best known for his roles in films ''Takers'' (2010), '' Black Gold'' (2011), ''West 32nd'' (2007)'','' and most recently '' Baby Driver'' (2017)''.'' He has appeared in single episodes of several TV s ...
– actor *
Noah Keen Noah Keen (October 10, 1920 – March 24, 2019) was an American film and television actor. Early life Keen was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,and was raised there with his brother Buddy and also had a sister, Helen Keen. He fought in World War ...
– actor *
Dagney Kerr Dagney Kerr is a television actress, singer, and dancer best known for her roles as Nurse Ruth Ann Heisel on ''Desperate Housewives'' and Buffy's roommate Kathy on ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. She is also known for appearances on '' George Lo ...
– actress * Mike Kleinhenz – voice actor *
Ida Koverman Ida Brockway "Kay" Koverman (May 15, 1876 – November 24, 1954) was an American film executive. She is best known as the woman who "ran MGM" as Louis B. Mayer's executive secretary and, later, director of public relations for the studio. Early l ...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film executive * Eric Lange – actor (''
Lost Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography *Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland * Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US History *Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee ...
'' and ''Victorious'') *
Dorothy Layton Dorothy Layton (August 13, 1912 – June 4, 2009) was an American film actress of the early 1930s. Life Born as Dorothy Ann Wannenwetsch in Cincinnati, Ohio, Layton was selected as one of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars" for 1932. Layton acted in eigh ...
– actress *
KiKi Layne Kiandra "KiKi" Layne (born December 10, 1991) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring roles in such films as the romantic drama ''If Beale Street Could Talk'' (2018), the drama ''Native Son'' (2019), the action superhero film ...
– actress * Hal Le Roy – dancer, singer, stage actor *
Hudson Leick Heidi Hudson Leick (born May 9, 1969) is an American actress, known for her role as villainess Callisto in the television series '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. She is also a certified Yoga instructor and intui ...
– actress *
Edward LeSaint Edward LeSaint (January 1, 1871 – September 10, 1940) was an American stage and film actor and director whose career began in the silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dia ...
silent film actor and director *
Marcia Lewis Marcia Lewis (August 18, 1938 – December 21, 2010) was an American character actress and singer. She was nominated twice for the Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical (''Chicago'' and '' Grease'') and twice for the Drama Desk Award ...
– actress * Vicki Lewis – actress ('' NewsRadio'') *
Floriana Lima Floriana Lima (born March 26, 1981) is an American actress and model. She played Maggie Sawyer on The CW's ''Supergirl''. She began playing recurring character Darcy Cooper in season 2 of the ABC drama ''A Million Little Things'', and was promo ...
– actress *
Todd Louiso Todd Louiso (born January 27, 1970) is an American film actor and film director best known for his role as timid record store clerk Dick in '' High Fidelity'', opposite Jack Black and John Cusack. Career Louiso directed his first film in 2002, ...
– actor * Gina Malo – actress * Irene Manning – actress and singer * Jack Manning – actor *
Markiplier Mark Edward Fischbach ( ; born June 28, 1989), also known as Markiplier, is an American YouTuber. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, he began his career in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. In addition to uplo ...
, real name Mark Edward Fischbach – YouTube personality, originally from Honolulu, later moved to Los Angeles *
Ann May Ann Beatrice Sullivan (born Anna Beatrice Max; November 25, 1898https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4117736_00342?usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&pId=40249610 – July 26, 1985), known professionally as Ann May, was a silent f ...
– silent film actress * Eve McVeagh – actress * Benjamin S. Mears – actor and playwright * Blanche Mehaffey – showgirl and actress *
Gertrude Michael Lillian Gertrude Michael (June 1, 1911 – December 31, 1964) was an American film, stage and television actress. Biography The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Michael, she was born in Talladega, Alabama. She graduated from Talladega High sc ...
– film and television actress *
Fanny Midgley Fanny Midgley (born Fanny B. Frier; November 26, 1879 – January 4, 1932) was an American film actress of Hollywood's early years, mostly in silent films. Biography Midgley was born Fanny B. Frier on November 26, 1879, in Cincinnati, Ohio. ...
– silent film actress *
Harry F. Millarde Harry F. Millarde (November 12, 1885 – November 2, 1931) was a pioneer United States, American silent film actor and film director, director. Biography Millarde was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and began his acting in film in 1913 with Kalem Stu ...
silent film actor and director *
Marjorie Monaghan Marjorie Susan Monaghan (born March 19, 1964) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Tessa Halloran (aka 'Number One') in the television series ''Babylon 5''. Early life Monaghan was born March 19, 1964 in Orange County, Califor ...
– actress *
J. Madison Wright Morris Jessica Madison Wright Morris (July 29, 1984 – July 21, 2006), known professionally as J. Madison Wright, was an American actress. Born in Cincinnati, she spent her early years being raised in Lexington, Kentucky. She was best known for her ro ...
– actress and model *
Kathryn Morris Kathryn Morris is an American actress, best known for her lead role as Detective Lilly Rush in the CBS series ''Cold Case''. Career Morris's first role was a minor one in the 1991 tele-movie ''Long Road Home''. Several other small parts follo ...
– actress ('' Cold Case'') *
Sydney Morton Sydney Morton (born 1985) is an American stage and television actress, singer and dancer. Early life and education According to Morton, her maternal grandfather appeared on Broadway in 1933 in ''Run, Little Chillun'', an all-Black revue, and ...
– actor *
Heidi Mueller Heidi Jo Mueller (born January 29, 1982) is an American actress. She portrayed the role of Kay Bennett in the NBC daytime soap opera ''Passions'' from 2003 until 2008. Career Prior to ''Passions'', Mueller appeared alongside her father Don Muelle ...
– actress *
Pamela Myers Pamela Myers (born July 15, 1947, Hamilton, Ohio) is an American actress who made her Broadway debut as Marta in Stephen Sondheim's musical ''Company'', in which she introduced the song "Another Hundred People". She was nominated for a 1971 Tony ...
– Broadway and television actress *
Stephen Nichols Stephen Earl Nichols (born February 19, 1951) is an American actor, recognized for his roles on American daytime soap operas. He has portrayed the beloved role of Steve Johnson (Days of Our Lives), Steve Johnson on NBC's ''Days of Our Lives'' on ...
– actor *
Luke Null Lucas Elliot Null (born July 7, 1990) is an American actor, comedian, singer, and musician. Null is best known for his brief tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live ''Saturday Night Live'' (often abbre ...
– comedian, cast member on Saturday Night Live * Gary Owen
stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...
and actor *
Jay Patterson Jay Patterson (born August 22, 1954 in Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking a ...
– actor *
Jo Ellen Pellman Jo Ellen Pellman (born 1994 or 1995) is an American actress best known for her leading role as Emma Nolan in the 2020 Netflix musical film '' The Prom''. Early life and education Jo Ellen Pellman was born in Ohio and grew up in Cincinnati. She ...
- actress * Richard M. Powell – television and film screenwriter * Tyrone Power – actor ('' The Mark of Zorro'', ''
Witness for the Prosecution In law, a witness is someone who has knowledge about a matter, whether they have sensed it or are testifying on another witnesses' behalf. In law a witness is someone who, either voluntarily or under compulsion, provides testimonial evidence, e ...
'') *
Lee Roy Reams Lee Roy Reams (born August 23, 1942) is an American musical theatre actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, and director. Early life and career Born in Covington, Kentucky, Reams earned a Master of Arts degree and was awarded an honorary doctorate ...
– Broadway actor and director, born in Covington, Kentucky * Theresa Rebeck – television (''
NYPD Blue ''NYPD Blue'' is an American police procedural television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble c ...
'') and film screenwriter *
Theodore Reed Theodore Reed (June 18, 1887 – February 22, 1959) was an American film director, producer and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Selected filmography * '' Say! Young Fellow'' (1918) * ''Arizona'' (1918) * '' ...
– movie director *
Hari Rhodes Hari Rhodes (April 10, 1932 – January 15, 1992) was an American author and actor whose career spanned three decades beginning around 1960. He was sometimes billed as Harry Rhodes, and appeared in 66 films and television programs, such as ABC ...
– actor * Sy Richardson – actor * Diana-Maria Riva – actress *
Dennis Roady Dennis Darrell Roady (born June 6, 1983) is an American YouTube personality best known for his Internet-posted pranks and his association with YouTubers Roman Atwood and Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, leading to starring in the feature film ''Natural Bor ...
– actor and YouTube personality *
Wendy Robie Wendy Robie is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Nadine Hurley in David Lynch's television series ''Twin Peaks'' (1990–1991) and the prequel film '' Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me'' (1992). She also starred in two of Wes Cra ...
– actress * Roy Rogers – actor and singer, iconic western film star *
Bonnie Rotten Alaina Antoinette Hicks, known by her stage name Bonnie Rotten (born May 9, 1993) is an American former pornographic actress, feature dancer, fetish model, and director. In 2014, she became the first alt-porn star to win the AVN Award for Fem ...
– porn star *
Brenda Scott Brenda Scott (born March 15, 1943) is an American film and television actress. Her stage name comes from an F. Scott Fitzgerald character. Early life On March 15, 1943, Scott was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Career Scott appeared in films suc ...
– actress *
Tom Segura Thomas Weston Segura (born April 16, 1979) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, author, actor, and podcaster. Segura co-hosts the ''Your Mom's House'' podcast with his wife and fellow comedian Christina Pazsitzky. Segura also co-hosts the p ...
– comedian * Iva Shepard – silent film actress * Gertrude Short – silent film actress *
Hal Sparks Hal Harry Magee Sparks III (born September 25, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, political commentator, television and radio host and television personality. He made contributions to VH1, hosting E!'s ''Talk Soup'', and ...
– actor and comedian *
Shane Sparks Melvin Shane Sparks (born June 25, 1969) is an American hip-hop choreographer best known for his work as a choreographer on ''So You Think You Can Dance'' and judge on '' America's Best Dance Crew''. Early life Sparks was born in Cincinnat ...
– choreographer *
Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, 1946) is an American director, writer, and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Spie ...
– Oscar-winning film director * Jerry Springer – mayor of Cincinnati, talk show host (born in London, of Austrian parents) * Pat Stanley – actress, dancer, and singer *
Galadriel Stineman Galadriel Lynn Putthoff Stineman is an American actress and model. She is best known for her roles as Gwen Tennyson in '' Ben 10: Alien Swarm'' and as List of The Middle characters#Friends, Crushes and Classmates, Cassidy Finch in ''The Middle ( ...
– actress * Brette Taylor – actress and singer-songwriter *
Amanda Tepe Amanda Tepe (born October 16, 1977) is an American actress. Tepe is a native of Norwood, Ohio. She has appeared in several short and feature films. Her television credits include '' General Hospital'', '' Dexter'', ''Studio 60 on the Sunset Str ...
– actress *
Jordan Trovillion Jordan Trovillion is an American actress and singer. She has appeared in '' Detroiters'' and '' Secrets in the Walls''. She grew up in Michigan and started acting on stage in school, later studying theater at the University of Michigan-Flint ...
– actress and singer * Evelyn Venable – actress * Daniel von Bargen – actor *
Patricia Wettig Patricia Anne Wettig (born December 4, 1951) is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her role as Nancy Weston in the television series ''Thirtysomething'' (1987–1991), for which she received a Golden Globe Award and three P ...
– actress and playwright *
Robert J. Wilke Robert Joseph Wilke (May 18, 1914 – March 28, 1989) was an American film and television actor noted primarily for his roles as villains, mostly in Westerns. Early years Wilke was a native of Cincinnati. Before going into acting, he h ...
– actor *
Katt Williams Micah "Katt" Williams (born September 2, 1971) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He played Money Mike in ''Friday After Next'', had a stint on ''Wild 'n Out'', portrayed Bobby Shaw in ''My Wife and Kids'', provided the voice of A Pimp N ...
stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...
and actor *
Jennie Worrell Jennie Worrell (1850 ''-'' August 11, 1899) was a burlesque actress of the 19th century from Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the youngest of three Worrell sisters who appeared in Broadway productions from 1867 to 1872. Sister act She was the daughter ...
– 19th century
burlesque A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
actress *
Rudy Wurlitzer Rudolph "Rudy" Wurlitzer (born January 3, 1937) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Wurlitzer's fiction includes '' Nog'', ''Flats'', ''Quake'', ''Slow Fade'', and ''Drop Edge of Yonder''. He is also the author of the travel memoir, ''Hard ...
– screenwriter * Amy Yasbeck – actress *
Wolfgang Zilzer Wolfgang Zilzer (January 20, 1901 – June 26, 1991) was a German-American stage and film actor, often under the stage name Paul Andor. Biography Zilzer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German-Jewish emigrant Max Zilzer, who was employed at the ...
– actor


Music

* Marty Balin – founder and original lead singer of
Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, that became one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock. Formed in 1965, the group defined the San Francisco Sound and was the first from the Bay Area to ac ...
* Matt Berninger – lead singer of The National * LaKiesha Berri – R&B singer * Boom Bip – electronic musician * Andy Biersack – rock singer (
Black Veil Brides Black Veil Brides is an American rock band based in Hollywood, California. The group formed in 2006 in Cincinnati, Ohio and is currently composed of lead vocalist Andy Biersack, rhythm guitarist and violinist Jinxx, lead guitarist Jake Pitts, ...
) * Bobby Borchers – country music singer-songwriter * Earl Bostic – jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist *
Mia Carruthers Mia Carruthers (born March 30, 1991) is a singer-songwriter, bassist, and music producer. In the late-2000s, she was one of the main cast members of MTV's ''Taking the Stage''. Carruthers and her family moved from West Chester Township to Cinci ...
– singer-songwriter *
Mel Carter Mel Carter (born April 22, 1939, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer and actor. He is best known for his 1965 million-selling recording, "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me". Biography At age 16 Carter studied singing with vocalist Little Jimmy Sc ...
– R&B singer *
Bootsy Collins William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951) is an American bass guitarist and singer. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s, and later with Parliament-Funkadelic, Collins established himself as one of the leading n ...
Parliament Funkadelic funk bass player * Danny Coxfolk singer/songwriter *
Gustav Dannreuther Gustav Dannreuther (July 21, 1853 – December 19, 1923) was an American List of classical violinists, violinist, instructor, chamber musician, and Conductor (music), conductor. Dannreuther may best be remembered by connoisseurs of chamber music, ...
violinist and conductor *
Hal Davis Harold Edward Davis (February 8, 1933 – November 18, 1998) was an American songwriter and record producer. Davis was a producer and writer for Motown Records for nearly thirty years, and was a key figure in the latter part of the Motown ...
– songwriter and record producer for
Motown Records Motown Records is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy, Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on June 7, 1958, and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmant ...
* Carl Dobkins, Jr.rockabilly singer *
George Duning George Duning (February 25, 1908 – February 27, 2000) was an American musician and film composer. He was born in Richmond, Indiana, and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where his mentor was Mario Castelnuo ...
– trumpet and piano player * Fat Jonhip hop producer * Frank Foster – jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger * Stephen Foster – songwriter and arranger *
Homer and Jethro Homer and Jethro were the stage names of American country music duo Henry D. "Homer" Haynes (1920–1971) and Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns (1920–1989), popular from the 1940s through the 1960s on radio and television for their satirical versio ...
Grammy The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pre ...
-winning country comedy duo * H-Bomb Ferguson
jump blues Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as ...
singer * Henry Fillmoremarch music composer *
Peter Frampton Peter Kenneth Frampton (born 22 April 1950) is an English musician and songwriter who was a member of the rock bands Humble Pie and the Herd. As a solo artist, he has released several albums, including his major breakthrough album, the live ...
– musician, previously lived in Cincinnati *
Jane French Jane French is an American singer/songwriter. French is well known for her song "Breathe", which was the theme song for the NBC soap opera ''Passions''. As a child, French grew up in Montgomery, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. French learned piano a ...
– singer-songwriter *
Reed Ghazala Qubais Reed Ghazala (born 1953), an American author, photographer, composer, musician and experimental instrument builder, is recognized as the "father of circuit bending," having discovered the technique in 1966, pioneered it, named it, and taug ...
– electronic musician and instrument builder *
Larry Hall Lawrence Kendall Hall (June 30, 1940 – September 24, 1997) was an American singer mostly known for his one-hit wonder song called " Sandy" in 1959. The disc reached number 15 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. Background Hall was born in ...
– singer ("Sandy") *
Fred Hersch Fred Hersch (born October 21, 1955) is an American jazz pianist, educator and HIV/AIDS activist. He was the first person to play weeklong engagements as a solo pianist at the Village Vanguard in New York City. He has recorded more than 70 of his ...
jazz pianist * Hi-Tekrapper and
producer Producer or producers may refer to: Occupations *Producer (agriculture), a farm operator *A stakeholder of economic production *Film producer, supervises the making of films **Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...
*
Joel Hills Johnson Joel Hills Johnson (March 23, 1802 – September 24, 1882) was a Latter-day Saint missionary and hymn writer, known for being the author of "High on the Mountain Top" (hymn no. 5 in the 1985 LDS hymnbook, English edition). Johnson was also the ...
- gospel songwriter called "Zion's Songster" * Gloria Jones – singer-songwriter * Grandpa Jones – entertainer, banjo player and "old time" country and gospel singer * Kenna – electronic musician * Steve Kipner – songwriter ("Let's Get Physical") * Drew Lachey – winner of ''Dancing With The Stars'' * Nick Lachey – lead singer of 98 Degrees * James Levine – conductor *
Scott Lindroth Scott Allen Lindroth (born 1958) is an American composer and teacher based near Durham, North Carolina. Lindroth joined the faculty of Duke University in 1990, where he is the Vice-Provost for the Arts and the Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professo ...
– composer *
Lonnie Mack Lonnie McIntosh (July 18, 1941 – April 21, 2016), known as Lonnie Mack, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was an influential trailblazer of blues rock music and rock guitar soloing. Mack emerged in 1963 with his breakthroug ...
– blues artist * Arlo McKinley – singer-songwriter * Len Mink
Christian Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...
evangelist and musician *
Sonny Moorman Cyril "Sonny" Moorman (born 1955) is an American power blues guitarist. His style is sometimes compared to that of the Duane Allman, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Lonnie Mack, Gov't Mule, and occasionally Warren Haynes. Moorman's parents owned ...
blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
guitarist *
Nicole C. Mullen Aileen Nicole Coleman-Mullen, known professionally as Nicole C. Mullen, (born January 3, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, and choreographer. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Music career While studying at Christ for the ...
– songwriter and
choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...
*
Naked Cowboy Robert John Burck (born December 23, 1970), better known as the Naked Cowboy, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, writer, and street performer, best known for singing regularly in New York City's Times Square. Burck is also a regular in t ...
busker *
Curtis Peagler Curtis Peagler (September 17, 1929 — December 19, 1992) was an American jazz saxophonist who specialized in straight-ahead jazz and hard bop. Early life Peagler was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He played in the blues genre during the first phas ...
– jazz saxophonist *
Ralph Penland Ralph Morris Penland (born February 15, 1953, Cincinnati, died March 13, 2014) was an American jazz drummer. Penland was a percussionist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as a high schooler. He attended the New England Conservatory of Music ...
– jazz drummer *
Awadagin Pratt Awadagin Pratt (; born March 6, 1966) is a concert pianist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Life Awadagin Pratt began piano lessons at six with Leslie Sompong and violin lessons at age nine, having moved to Normal, Illinois. With a violin s ...
- concert pianist * Tyler Ramsey – guitarist for Band of Horses * Antonio "L.A." Reid
record executive A music executive or record executive is a person within a record label who works in senior management and makes executive decisions over the label's artists. Their role varies greatly but in essence, they can oversee one, or many, aspects of a re ...
* Katie Reider – singer-songwriter * Sheldon Reynolds – R&B guitarist * George Russell – jazz pianist and composer * Mamie Smith – blues singer *
Sudan Archives Brittney Denise Parks (born January 29, 1994), better known by her stage name Sudan Archives, is an American violinist, singer, and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. Parks learned to play the violin by ear as a young child in Cincinna ...
— violinist and R&B singer *
Merle Travis Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky, United States. His songs' lyrics often discussed both the lives and the economic expl ...
– country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist *
Constance Cochnower Virtue Constance Cochnower Virtue (6 January 1905 – 21 February 1992) was an American composer and organist who developed a musical notation system called the ''Virtue Notagraph''. Life and career Virtue was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Robert and Edi ...
- composer * Speed Waltonhip hop musician *
David Wolfenberger David Wolfenberger (born April 19, 1969 in Tuscola, Illinois) is a singer-songwriter from Cincinnati, Ohio. Former frontman for The Marshwiggles and Thom Scarecrow, Wolfenberger has three solo CDs to date; ''Tales From Thom Scarecrow'', and ''Wo ...
– singer-songwriter *
Andy Williams Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hos ...
pop Pop or POP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Pop music, a musical genre Artists * POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade * Pop!, a UK pop group * Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band Albums * ''Pop'' (G ...
singer * Philippe Wynne – lead singer for The Spinners


Groups

* 98 Degrees – boy band of the 1990s *
Afghan Whigs The Afghan Whigs are an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio. They were active from 1986 to 2001 and have since reformed as a band. The group – with core members Greg Dulli (vocals, rhythm guitar), Rick McCollum (lead guitar), and John Cur ...
rock Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...
band * Ass Ponys – rock band * The Bears – rock band *
Beneath the Sky Beneath the Sky was an American metalcore band from Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio.Victory Records Arti ...
– metalcore band *
Black Veil Brides Black Veil Brides is an American rock band based in Hollywood, California. The group formed in 2006 in Cincinnati, Ohio and is currently composed of lead vocalist Andy Biersack, rhythm guitarist and violinist Jinxx, lead guitarist Jake Pitts, ...
– rock band *
Blessid Union of Souls Blessid Union of Souls (sometimes abbreviated to Blessid Union or BUOS) is an American alternative rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, that was formed in 1990 by friends Jeff Pence and Eliot Sloan. The band's first studio album, '' Home'', had som ...
– rock band *
Buffalo Killers Buffalo Killers are an American rock band comprising guitarist and vocalist Andrew Gabbard, bass guitarist and vocalist Zachary Gabbard and drummer Joseph Sebaali. The band was formed in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2006 following the dissolution of Th ...
– rock band * The Casinos
doo-wop Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a genre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chica ...
group *
The Deele The Deele (pronounced like "deal") is an American band from Cincinnati, Ohio who achieved success in the 1980s with such hit singles as " Body Talk" and " Two Occasions". When the group began recording in the early 1980s, the lineup consisted of ...
R&B/ Soul group *
Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods are an American pop music group, known mainly for their 1970s hit singles, "Billy Don't Be a Hero" and "Who Do You Think You Are". History The band was formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1965 by their leader, Robert Walt ...
– 1970s pop band * Ellery – alt-folk band * Five DeezHip Hop group * Foxy Shazam – rock band * The Greenhornes – rock band *
Heartless Bastards Heartless Bastards are an American rock band formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2003. The band has released six albums. History Heartless Bastards originally started as a recording project of Erika Wennerstrom. She played most of the instruments and ...
– indie rock band * The Isley BrothersR&B/ soul group * The Lemon Pipers
pop Pop or POP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Pop music, a musical genre Artists * POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade * Pop!, a UK pop group * Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band Albums * ''Pop'' (G ...
band from the 1960s * The National – indie rock band * Otis Williams and the Charms
doo-wop Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a genre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chica ...
vocal group *
Over the Rhine Over-the-Rhine (often abbreviated as OTR) is a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Historically, Over-the-Rhine has been a working-class neighborhood. It is among the largest, most intact urban historic districts in the United Sta ...
– rock band * RyanDan – dual operatic singer/gospel * Pure Prairie League – pop/country band *
Pomegranates The pomegranate (''Punica granatum'') is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between tall. The pomegranate was originally described throughout the Mediterranean region. It was introduc ...
– indie rock band *
The Students The Students were an American doo-wop vocal group, which formed in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, in 1957. Although they only released four sides, two of them – "I'm So Young" and "Every Day of the Week" – became doo-wop standards. "I'm So ...
– doo-wop group * Walk the Moon – indie-rock band * Wussy – indie rock band


Authors

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Karen Ackerman Karen Ackerman (born October 10, 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American author of children's books. Background She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and she graduated from Woodward High School in 1969. Career Ackerman's first children's book was ...
– children's author *
Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta Melissa Elizabeth Banta (, Riddle; after first marriage, Perrin; after second marriage, Banta; pen name, M. E. Banta; March 27, 1834 – May 9, 1907) was an American poet. She also wrote letters of travel. Early life and education Melissa Elizab ...
(1834–1907) – poet * Thomas Berger – author *
Christopher Bollen Christopher Bollen (born November 26, 1975) is an American novelist and magazine writer/editor who lives in New York City. Describing his novels, ''The Daily Telegraph'' notes that "Bollen writes expansive, psychologically probing novels in the m ...
– novelist * Fredric Brown – author *
Alice Cary Alice Cary (April 26, 1820February 12, 1871) was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871). Biography Alice Cary was born on April 26, 1820, in Mount Healthy, Ohio, off the Miami River near Cincinnati. He ...
– poet *
Phoebe Cary Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824 – July 31, 1871) was an American poet, and the younger sister of poet Alice Cary (1820–1871).She was a great poet who composed a Legend of Northland which is a very beautiful poem. The sisters co-published poe ...
– poet * Stuart Archer Cohen – novelist * Sharon Creech – novelist * Michael Cunningham – novelist ('' The Hours'') * Nikki Giovanni – poet and author *
Shari Goldhagen Shari Goldhagen is an American author of fiction. Biography Goldhagen has been a journalist for National Enquirer, Life & Style, and Celebrity Living Weekly. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and Ohiana Library Association. G ...
– novelist *
Richard Hague Richard Hague (born 1947) is an American poet and writer. Born August 7, he was raised in Steubenville, Ohio, in Appalachian Ohio's Steel Valley, where he worked summers for Wheeling Steel and the Penn Central Railroad. He studied as a high sch ...
– poet, author and educator * Kenneth KochNew York School poet * Tim Lucasfilm critic, novelist, author * William Matthews – poet * William Holmes McGuffey – educator, author of McGuffey Readers * Karen Marie Moning – paranormal romance/thriller author * David Quammen – science and travel writer *
Susan Elizabeth Phillips Susan Elizabeth Phillips (born December 11, 1944 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a romance novelist from the United States. She is the creator of the sports romance and has been called the “Queen of Romantic Comedy.” Biography Phillips was born o ...
– author * Mike Resnick – Hugo Award-winning science fiction writer *
Helen Hooven Santmyer Helen Hooven Santmyer (November 25, 1895 – February 21, 1986) was an American writer, educator, and librarian. She is primarily known for her best-selling epic '' "...And Ladies of the Club"'', published when she was in her 80s. Life and ca ...
– writer *
Stanley Schmidt Stanley Albert Schmidt (born March 7, 1944) is an American science fiction author and editor. Between 1978 and 2012 he served as editor of ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' magazine. Biography Schmidt was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduate ...
science fiction author and magazine editor *
Curtis Sittenfeld Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer. She is the author of a collection of short stories, ''You Think it, I’ll Say It'' (2018), as well as six novels: ''Prep'' (2005), the story of students at a Massachusetts prep sch ...
– novelist * Henry Thew Stevenson – academic and writer *
Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and became best known for her novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1852), which depicts the harsh ...
– author and abolitionist * Edmund White – author * Jonathan Valin – novelist


Visual artists

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James Presley Ball James Presley Ball, Sr. (1825 – May 4, 1904) was a prominent African-American photographer, abolitionist, and businessman. Biography Ball was born in Frederick County, Virginia, to William and Susan Ball in 1825. He learned daguerreotype ...
– photographer and abolitionist *
Karl Bissinger Karl Bissinger (November 5, 1914 – November 19, 2008) was an American photographer best known for his portraits of notable figures in the world of art following World War II with regular travel and fashion features in popular magazines of the mid ...
– photographer * Robert Frederick Blumlithographer * Jim Borgman
Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
-winning editorial
cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
* Jim Dinepop artist *
Robert S. Duncanson Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821 – December 21, 1872) was a 19th-century American landscape painting, landscapist of European and African ancestry. Inspired by famous American landscape artists like Thomas Cole, Duncanson created renowned landsca ...
painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
and muralist *
Frank Duveneck Frank Duveneck (né Decker; October 9, 1848 – January 3, 1919) was an American figure and portrait painter. Early life Duveneck was born in Covington, Kentucky, the son of German immigrant Bernhard Decker. Decker died in a cholera epidemic whe ...
– figure and portrait painter * Elliot Earls – graphic designer * Alfred Oscar Elzner – architect * Suzanne Farrellballerina *
Tim Folzenlogen Tim Folzenlogen (born May 2, 1952) is a contemporary realist painter based in New York City. His work has been shown in more than 50 solo shows and he has sold more than 1000 paintings Most of his works depict architectural details in New York ...
realist painter *
William H. Fry William Henry Fry (5 February 1830 – 26 December 1929) was an English-American wood carver and gilding, gilder of the Aesthetic Movement. Born in Bath, Somerset, Fry moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1849''1910 United States Federal Census'' to ...
Aesthetic movement Aestheticism (also the Aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century which privileged the aesthetic value of literature, music and the arts over their socio-political functions. According to Aestheticism, art should be prod ...
wood carver Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation ...
and gilder *
Frank J. Girardin Francois Joseph Girardin (October 6, 1856 – August 7, 1945) was an American impressionist artist who worked in the areas of Cincinnati, Ohio; Richmond, Indiana; and Los Angeles, California. He was also an early player for the Cincinnati Reds base ...
– painter * Daniel Greene – painter *
Harry Hake Harry Hake Sr. (1871 – 1955) was a prominent American architect in Cincinnati, Ohio at the turn of the 20th century. His son Harry Hake Jr. and grandson Harry Hake III were also prominent architects and partners in his firm, which at various time ...
– architect * Samuel Hannaford – architect, designer of Cincinnati's
Music Hall Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850. It faded away after 1918 as the halls rebranded their entertainment as variety. Perceptions of a distinction in Bri ...
* Charley Harper – wildlife artist * Robert Henri – painter, leader of the Ashcan School movement * Ida Holterhoff Holloway – painter *
Charles S. Kaelin Charles Salis Kaelin (19 December 1858, in Cincinnati – 28 March 1929, in Rockport, Massachusetts) was an American impressionist painter. Biography He studied under John Henry Twachtman between 1876 and 1879, after which time he moved to Ne ...
American Impressionist American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose b ...
painter * Graham Ingels – comic book and magazine illustrator * Thomas Rogers Kimball – architect * Janis Crystal Lipzin – multi-media artist, filmmaker, photographer * Gary Lord (artist) – faux painter and decorator * Mary Louise McLaughlin – ceramic painter and
studio potter Studio pottery is pottery made by professional and amateur artists or artisans working alone or in small groups, making unique items or short runs. Typically, all stages of manufacture are carried out by the artists themselves.Emmanuel Cooper, ...
* Lewis Henry Meakin
American Impressionist American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose b ...
painter * Henry Mosler – painter *
Alfred B. Mullett Alfred Bult Mullett (April 7, 1834 – October 20, 1890) was a British-American architect who served from 1866 to 1874 as Office of the Supervising Architect, Supervising Architect, head of the government agency, agency of the United States Treas ...
– architect *
Frank Harmon Myers Frank Harmon Myers (1899 – 1956) was an Impressionist painter. His work includes a variety of topics but is best known for his seascapes. Personal life Frank H. Myers was born in Cleves, Ohio. His family moved to Cincinnati in 1907. Myers s ...
– painter *
Charles Henry Niehaus Charles Henry Niehaus (January 24, 1855 — June 19, 1935), was an American sculptor. Education Niehaus was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German parents. He began working as a marble and wood carver, and then gained entrance to the McMicken ...
– sculptor *
Thomas Satterwhite Noble Thomas Satterwhite Noble (May 29, 1835 – April 27, 1907) was an American painter as well as the first head of the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati, Ohio. Biography Noble was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and raised on a plantation wher ...
– painter *
Elizabeth Nourse Elizabeth Nourse (October 26, 1859 – October 8, 1938) was a realist-style genre, portrait, and landscape painter born in Mt. Healthy, Ohio, in the Cincinnati area. She also worked in decorative painting and sculpture. Described by her contempo ...
– painter *
Diane Pfister Diane Pfister is an American artist and art lecturer whose work was first recognized in London, England, and other territories of the United Kingdom. Her early work includes collage, impressionism and abstract expressionism but is now primarily a ...
– artist and painter * Edward Henry Potthast – American Impressionist painter * Hiram Powers – sculptor * John Ruthven – painter of wildlife * Kataro Shirayamadani – ceramic painter * Sheida Soleimani – Iranian-American multidisciplinary artist * Lilly Martin Spencer – painter *
Francis Marion Stokes Francis Marion Stokes (August 4, 1883 – June 2, 1975) was an American architect famous for his works in the Portland, Oregon, area. Francis and his father, William R. Stokes, formed two generations of a Portland design and architectural t ...
– architect * Maria Longworth Nichols Storer – founder of the Rookwood Pottery Company *
Adolph Strauch Adolph Strauch (b. August 30, 1822 – 1883) was a renowned landscape architect born in Silesia, Prussia, known particularly for his layout designs of cemeteries like Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio, Forest Lawn in Buffalo, NY and O ...
landscape architect A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture. The practice of landscape architecture includes: site analysis, site inventory, site planning, land planning, planting design, grading, storm water manageme ...
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John Robinson Tait John Robinson Tait (January 14, 1834 – July 29, 1909) was an American landscape painter, art critic, and travel writer. He spent many years in Germany, where he was associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule and the Munich School. Biogr ...
– landscape painter * Tony Tasset – contemporary artist *
Tom Tsuchiya Tom Tsuchiya also known as Norikazu (born August 3, 1972) is an American artist who creates public sculpture. He is best known for bronze sculptures for Major League Baseball and the National Football League. Pahigian, Josh, & O’Connell, Kevin ...
– sculptor * John Henry Twachtman
impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
landscape painter *
Leon Van Loo Leon Van Loo (1841–1907) was a Belgian-born photographer and art promoter. Born 12 August 1841, in Ghent, Belgium, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1858, when he opened a photography gallery. After doing well in the cotton trade after the Civ ...
– photographer * Edward Charles Volkert – American Impressionist painter *
Tom Wesselmann Thomas K. Wesselmann (February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture. Early years Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati. From 1949 ...
pop artist


Sports


Baseball

* Mike AdamsMLB outfielder *
Ethan Allen Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789) was an American farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, American Revolutionary War patriot, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for ...
– MLB player, coach at Yale University *
Nick Altrock Nicholas Altrock (September 15, 1876 – January 20, 1965) was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in the major leagues as a left-handed pitcher between 1898 and 1919. After the 1919 season he continued to make periodic ...
– MLB pitcher *
Charlie Armbruster Charles A. Armbruster (August 30, 1880 – October 7, 1964) was a backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1905 through 1907 for the History of the Boston Red Sox#History, Boston Americans and the Chicago White Sox. Biography A nat ...
– MLB catcher * Skeeter Barnes – MLB
utility player In sports, a utility player is one who can play several positions competently. Sports in which the term is often used include association football, American football, baseball, rugby union, rugby league, softball, ice hockey, and water polo. The ...
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Al Bashang Albert C. "Ollie" Bashang, sometimes written as "Al Baschang" (August 22, 1888 – June 23, 1967) was an American baseball outfielder and manager. He played professional baseball for 18 years from 1910 to 1927, including two brief stints in Major ...
– MLB outfielder * Buddy Bell - MLB third baseman and manager * Charlie Bell – MLB pitcher * David Bell – MLB third baseman and
Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...
manager * Frank Bell – MLB player * Mike Bell – MLB third baseman *
Andrew Benintendi Andrew Sebastian Benintendi (born July 6, 1994) is an American professional baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Royals and New York Yank ...
– MLB outfielder * Ralph Birkofer – MLB pitcher * Red Bittmann – MLB second baseman * Ethan Blackaby – MLB outfielder * Jim Bolger – MLB outfielder * Barry Bonnell – MLB player * Daryl Boston – MLB outfielder *
Buzz Boyle Ralph Francis "Buzz" Boyle (February 9, 1908 – November 12, 1978) was a professional baseball player who played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1929 through 1935. He played for the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1934, his ...
– MLB outfielder * Jack Boyle – MLB player * Jimmy Boyle – MLB catcher *
Andrew Brackman Andrew Warren Brackman (born December 4, 1985) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for the New York Yankees in 2011. High school career Brackman attended Moeller High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. College career 1 ...
– former MLB pitcher * Ed Brinkman – MLB player * Jim Brosnan – MLB pitcher, author of ''The Long Season'' and ''Pennant Race'' *
Nelson Burbrink Nelson Edward Burbrink (December 28, 1921 – April 12, 2001) was an American professional baseball player and scout. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, he was signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent before the 1941 season and served in the ...
– MLB catcher and
scout Scout may refer to: Youth movement *Scout (Scouting), a child, usually 10–18 years of age, participating in the worldwide Scouting movement **Scouts (The Scout Association), section for 10-14 year olds in the United Kingdom **Scouts BSA, sectio ...
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Moe Burtschy Edward Frank "Moe" Burtschy (April 18, 1922 – May 2, 2004) was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for the Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics (1950, 1951, 1954–56). He was listed as tall and . ...
– MLB pitcher *
Jack Bushelman John Francis Bushelman (August 29, 1885 – October 26, 1955) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox. He batted and threw right-handed. Bushelman attended the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA ...
– MLB pitcher *
Flea Clifton Herman Earl "Flea" Clifton (December 12, 1908 – December 22, 1997), was a professional baseball player for 13 years from 1930 to 1943. He played parts of four season in Major League Baseball as an infielder for the Detroit Tigers from 1934 to ...
– MLB pitcher * Joe Crotty – MLB catcher *Bob Daughters – MLB player *Zach Day – MLB pitcher *Dory Dean – MLB pitcher *Drew Denson – MLB first baseman *Red Dooin – MLB player and manager *Bill Doran (second baseman), Bill Doran – MLB second baseman *Richard Dotson – MLB pitcher *Dick Drott – MLB pitcher *Louis Dula – Negro league baseball, Negro leagues pitcher *Leon Durham – MLB player *Joe Ellick – MLB player *Buck Ewing – Hall of Fame catcher and manager *Bill Faul (baseball), Bill Faul – MLB pitcher *Tom Flanigan (baseball), Tom Flanigan – MLB pitcher *Danny Friend – MLB pitcher *Charlie Grant – Negro leagues second baseman *Bob Gilks – MLB player *Ed Glenn (shortstop), Ed Glenn – MLB player *Charlie Gould – National League (baseball), National League baseball player *Ken Griffey Jr. – MLB outfielder, List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Baseball Hall of Famer (born in Donora, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Cincinnati) *Tommy Griffith – MLB outfielder *Heinie Groh – MLB third baseman *Josh Harrison – MLB third baseman *Dan Hayden (baseball), Dan Hayden – Miami RedHawks baseball, Miami University (OH) baseball coach *August Herrmann –
Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...
president, 1903–1920 *Johnny Hodapp – MLB infielder *Ed Hug – MLB catcher *Miller Huggins – MLB player; List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame manager for the New York Yankees *Roy Hughes (baseball), Roy Hughes – MLB infielder *Tom Hume – MLB pitcher and coach *Adam Hyzdu – MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball, Japanese baseball outfielder *Larry Jacobus – MLB pitcher *Betsy Jochum – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player *Lance Johnson – MLB player *David Justice – MLB player *Al Kaiser – MLB outfielder *Dorothy Kamenshek – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player *Scott Klingenbeck – MLB pitcher *Eddie Kolb – MLB pitcher, businessman *Al Lakeman – MLB player *Margie Lang – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player *Barry Larkin – MLB shortstop, List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Baseball Hall of Famer *Stephen Larkin – MLB first baseman *Steve Larkin – MLB pitcher *Charlie Leesman – MLB pitcher *Dick LeMay – MLB pitcher *Jensen Lewis – MLB pitcher *Jim Leyritz – MLB catcher *Bill Long (baseball), Bill Long – MLB pitcher *Garry Maddox – MLB outfielder *Lee Magee – MLB player and manager *Art Mahaffey – MLB pitcher *Lefty Marr – MLB third baseman *Len Matuszek – MLB first baseman *Wally Mayer – MLB catcher *Roger McDowell – MLB pitcher and coach *Bobby Mitchell (pitcher), Bobby Mitchell – MLB pitcher *Ralph Miller (right-handed pitcher), Ralph Miller – MLB pitcher *Ron Moeller – MLB pitcher *Bobby Moore (outfielder), Bobby Moore – MLB player who is currently a coach for the Atlanta Braves organization *Red Munson – MLB catcher *Charles Murphy (baseball owner), Charles Murphy – sportswriter, owner of the Chicago Cubs *Tim Naehring – MLB player *Russ Nagelson – MLB player *Chris Nichting – MLB pitcher *Bob Nieman – MLB player *Russ Nixon – MLB player and manager (born in Cleves, Ohio, Cleves, a suburb of Cincinnati) *Joe Nuxhall – pitcher, later long-time color commentator for Cincinnati Reds games (from Hamilton, Ohio) *Brian O'Connor (pitcher), Brian O'Connor MLB pitcher *Ron Oester – MLB player *Jayhawk Owens – MLB player *Dave Parker – MLB player, born in Mississippi, grew up in Cincinnati *George Paynter – MLB outfielder *George Pechiney – MLB pitcher *Dave Pember – MLB pitcher *Shannon Penn – MLB designated hitter *Eduardo Pérez – MLB player; son of Tony Pérez *Jack Pfiester – MLB pitcher *Cy Pfirman – MLB Umpire (baseball), umpire *Icicle Reeder – MLB outfielder *Tuffy Rhodes – MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball, Japanese player *Billy Riley (baseball), Billy Riley – MLB player outfielder *Pete Rose – All-Star MLB player, holds record for most hits in a career *Pete Rose Jr. – minor league baseball player *Jeff Russell – MLB pitcher *Scott Sauerbeck – MLB pitcher *Admiral Schlei – MLB catcher *Jimmy Shevlin – MLB first baseman *John Shoupe – 19th-century shortstop *Joe Smith (pitcher), Joe Smith – MLB player *Rudy Sommers – MLB pitcher *Ed Sperber – MLB outfielder *Jake Stenzel – MLB outfielder *Shannon Harold Stewart, Shannon Stewart – MLB player *Eric Surkamp – MLB pitcher *Brent Suter – MLB pitcher *Pat Tabler – MLB player and baseball analyst *Kent Tekulve – MLB pitcher *Bill Wegman – MLB pitcher *Marie Wegman – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player *Alex Wimmers – MLB pitcher *Jimmy Wynn – MLB outfielder *George Yeager – MLB catcher *Kevin Youkilis – Major League Baseball All-Star Game, All-Star MLB first and third baseman *Don Zimmer – MLB player and manager


Basketball

*Luke Babbitt – NBA player *Dennis Bell (basketball), Dennis Bell – NBA player *Tom Boerwinkle – National Basketball Association, NBA player *Ric Bucher – ESPN NBA analyst *Rick Calloway – NBA player *Jeremy Chappell – Robert Morris Colonials men's basketball, Robert Morris and European league player * Kwan Cheatham (born 1995) - basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League *Semaj Christon – Xavier Musketeers men's basketball, Xavier University and NBA Development League player *Mick Cronin (basketball coach), Mick Cronin – UCLA Bruins men's basketball, UCLA and Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball, University of Cincinnati basketball coach *Ralph Crosthwaite – Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball, Western Kentucky University and NBA player *Erik Daniels – Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball, University of Kentucky and NBA player *Dee Davis – Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA player *Derrek Dickey – NBA player and analyst *Justin Doellman – Xavier University and Liga ACB, Spanish League player *Josh Duncan – Xavier University and European league player * Jacob Eisner – Israeli basketball player *Robin Freeman (basketball), Robin Freeman – 1955 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, 1955 and 1956 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, 1956 All-American at Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball, Ohio State *Yancy Gates – player for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Basketball Premier League, Israeli Premier League *Matt Harpring – NBA player *Tyrone Hill – Xavier University and NBA player *Robert Hite – NBA player *Rick Hughes – NBA player *Brandon Hunter – NBA player *Kannard Johnson – NBA player *Pat Kelsey – College of Charleston Cougars men's basketball head coach *Shane Larkin – NBA player, son of Barry Larkin *Brad Loesing – Wofford Terriers men's basketball, Wofford and European league player *Mike Mathis – NBA Official (basketball), referee *Kelsey Mitchell (basketball), Kelsey Mitchell – Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year, 2018 Big Ten Women's Basketball Player of the Year for Ohio State Buckeyes women's basketball, Ohio State *Louis Orr – NBA player and college coach *Dave Robisch – NBA and ABA player *Kelly Schumacher – Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA basketball player *Jordan Sibert – NBA player *Mel Thomas – Connecticut Huskies women's basketball, UConn player *LaSalle Thompson – NBA player *Bob Wiesenhahn – NBA player *Devin Williams (basketball), Devin Williams – West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball, West Virginia and NBA G League player


Boxing

*Tim Austin – Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics#Flyweight (– 51 kg), 1992 Olympic bronze medalist and Bantamweight#Boxing, bantamweight boxing champion *Adrien Broner – Light welterweight#Boxing, light welterweight boxer *Ezzard Charles – Heavyweight#Boxing, heavyweight champion boxer *Larry Donald – Olympic and professional heavyweight boxer *George Foster (boxer), George Foster – Featherweight#Boxing, featherweight boxer *Billy Joiner – heavyweight boxer and trainer *Freddie Miller (boxer), Freddie Miller – Featherweight#Boxing, featherweight boxer *Aaron Pryor – world light welterweight champion boxer *Brad Rone – journeyman boxer who died in the ring *Ronald Siler – Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Olympic flyweight boxer *Wallace Smith (boxer), Wallace Smith – Lightweight#Boxing, lightweight boxer *Reggie Strickland – has the most known losses of any boxer in history *Tony Tubbs – heavyweight boxer *Rau'shee Warren – Bantamweight#Boxing, bantamweight boxer *Ricardo Williams (boxer), Ricardo Williams – Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Light welterweight, 2000 Olympic light welterweight silver medalist boxer *Harry Woodson – 19th century boxer


Football

*Alex Albright – NFL linebacker *Kevin Allen (tackle), Kevin Allen – NFL offensive tackle *Darren Anderson (American football), Darren Anderson – NFL cornerback *Mel Anthony – Michigan Wolverines football, Michigan and Canadian Football League, CFL fullback; 1965 Rose Bowl MVP *Steve Apke – replacement player during 1987 NFL players' strike *B.J. Askew – NFL fullback (American football), fullback *Alex Bannister – NFL wide receiver *Darren Barnett – NFL cornerback *Ron Beagle – List of College Football Hall of Fame inductees (players, A–K), College Football Hall of Fame End (gridiron football), end for Navy Midshipmen football, Navy *Bruce Beekley – NFL linebacker *Ed Biles – NFL Houston Oilers head coach, 1981–1983 *Rocky Boiman – Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Notre Dame and NFL linebacker, radio host *Vaughn Booker – NFL defensive end *Jim Boyle (American football), Jim Boyle – NFL offensive tackle *Colin Branch – NFL Safety (American football position), safety *Tyrone Brown (gridiron football), Tyrone Brown – NFL and Canadian Football League, CFL wide receiver *Al Brosky – College Football Hall of Fame cornerback *Dante Brown – NFL running back *Ricky Brown – NFL linebacker for Boston College Eagles football, Boston College and the Oakland Raiders *Trevor Canfield – NFL offensive lineman *Tank Carradine – Florida State Seminoles football, Florida State and NFL defensive tackle *Brent Celek – NFL tight end *Garrett Celek – NFL tight end *Frank Clair – Canadian Football League coach *Vinnie Clark – NFL cornerback *Robert Cobb (American football), Robert Cobb – NFL defensive end *John Conner (American football), John Conner – University of Kentucky and New York Jets fullback *Bob Crable – NFL player, businessman *Shane Curry – NFL defensive end; murdered in 1992 *Dane Dastillung – American football player *Jerome Davis (nose tackle), Jerome Davis – NFL nose tackle *Wayne Davis (cornerback), Wayne Davis – NFL cornerback *Jerry Doerger – NFL center *Nate Ebner – Ohio State University, Ohio State and NFL New England Patriots safety and Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads#United States, 2016 rugby sevens Olympian *Dixon Edwards – NFL linebacker *Marc Edwards (American football), Marc Edwards – NFL fullback *Ray Edwards (American football), Ray Edwards – NFL defensive end *Mark Elder (American football), Mark Elder – Eastern Kentucky Colonels football, Eastern Kentucky college football head coach *Mark Fischer (American football), Mark Fischer – Purdue University, Purdue and Washington Redskins offensive lineman *Dave Foley (American football), Dave Foley – Ohio State University, Ohio State and NFL offensive tackle *Greg Frey – Ohio State quarterback *Bob Fry – NFL offensive lineman *Dave Frye – NFL linebacker *Bob Goodridge – NFL wide receiver *Dick Gordon (American football), Dick Gordon – Pro Bowl wide receiver *Carlton Gray – NFL cornerback *Gino Guidugli – University of Cincinnati quarterback *Darryl Hardy – NFL linebacker *Maurice Harvey – NFL safety *Clint Haslerig – Michigan Wolverines football, Michigan and NFL wide receiver *Don Hasselbeck – NFL tight end *Joel Heath – NFL defensive tackle *Rodney Heath (American football), Rodney Heath – NFL cornerback *Mark Herrmann – NFL quarterback *Jordan Hicks – NFL linebacker *Alex Higdon – Ohio State Buckeyes football, Ohio State and NFL tight end *Darius Hillary – Wisconsin Badgers football, Wisconsin and NFL cornerback *Robert Hoernschemeyer – NFL running back *Jack Hoffman (American football), Jack Hoffman – NFL player * Sam Hubbard – defensive end for the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Cincinnati Bengals *Kevin Huber – NFL Punter (American football), punter *Russ Huesman – college football coach *Tony Hunter (American football), Tony Hunter – Notre Dame and NFL tight end *Tom Jackson (American football, born 1951), Tom Jackson – NFL player and ESPN analyst (lives in Cincinnati) *Dan James (American football), Dan James – NFL and Ohio State Buckeyes football, Ohio State offensive lineman *Melvin Johnson (American football), Melvin Johnson – NFL safety (American football position), safety *Paris Johnson Jr. – Ohio State offensive lineman *Greg Jones (linebacker, born 1988), Greg Jones – NFL linebacker *Michael Jordan (offensive lineman), Michael Jordan – NFL offensive lineman *Steve Junker – NFL tight end *Mark Kamphaus – Boston College quarterback *Eric Kattus – NFL tight end *Terry Killens – NFL linebacker *Austin King – NFL Center (gridiron football), center *Eric Joel Kresser – NFL quarterback *Luke Kuechly – NFL linebacker; 2013 NFL Defensive Player of the Year *David Long Jr. – NFL linebacker *Dante Love – Ball State Cardinals football, Ball State wide receiver *Greg Mancz – NFL center *Michael Matthews (American football), Michael Matthews – NFL tight end *Napoleon McCallum – List of College Football Hall of Fame inductees (players, L–Z), College Football Hall of Fame running back for Navy Midshipmen football, Navy *Jake McQuaide – Los Angeles Rams Pro Bowl Long snapper *Brandon Miree – NFL fullback *Michael Muñoz – Tennessee Volunteers football, Tennessee offensive tackle *Justin Murray – NFL offensive tackle *Leon Murray – Tennessee State University, Tennessee State quarterback *Rico Murray – NFL cornerback *Al Nelson – former NFL cornerback *Steve Niehaus – first draft choice of NFL Seattle Seahawks; defensive tackle *Ray Nolting – NFL running back, University of Cincinnati football coach *Andrew Norwell – NFL offensive lineman, 2017 All-Pro Team, 2017 All-Pro *David Nugent (American football), David Nugent – NFL defensive lineman *Tom O'Brien (football coach), Tom O'Brien – North Carolina State Wolfpack football head coach *Antwan Peek – NFL linebacker *Ahmed Plummer – NFL cornerback (from Wyoming, Ohio, Wyoming, suburb of Cincinnati) *P. J. Pope – NFL running back *DeVier Posey – NFL wide receiver *George Ratterman – American football, football player *Reggie Redding (American football), Reggie Redding – NFL offensive lineman *Ike Reese – NFL linebacker and radio host *Jack Reynolds (American football), Jack Reynolds – NFL linebacker *J. Burton Rix – SMU Mustangs football, SMU and Miami Hurricanes football, Miami (FL) head football coach *Kurt Rocco – Arena Football League quarterback *Kyle Rudolph – Minnesota Vikings tight end *Marcus Rush (American football), Marcus Rush – NFL linebacker *Abdul Salaam (American football), Abdul Salaam – NFL defensive tackle *Greg Scruggs – NFL linebacker *Mike Sensibaugh – NFL safety (American football position), safety *Tyler Sheehan – NFL and Indoor American football, indoor football quarterback *Ed Shuttlesworth – Michigan Wolverines football, Michigan and CFL fullback *Chris Smith (running back, born 1963), Chris Smith – NFL running back *Sean Smith (defensive end), Sean Smith – NFL defensive end *Kirk Springs – NFL safety *Ryan Stanchek – NFL offensive lineman *Ralph Staub (American football), Ralph Staub – Cincinnati Bearcats football player and coach *Roger Staubach – Heisman Trophy-winning Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback *Milt Stegall – NFL and Canadian Football League, CFL wide receiver, Canadian Football Hall of Famer *Greg Stemrick – NFL cornerback *Ken Stone (American football), Ken Stone – NFL safety *Zach Strief – NFL offensive lineman *Dana Stubblefield – NFL defensive tackle *Steve Sylvester (American football), Steve Sylvester – NFL offensive lineman *Matthew Teague – NFL and Canadian Football League, CFL linebacker *Matt Tennant – NFL offensive lineman *Steve Tensi – NFL quarterback *Brian Townsend (American football), Brian Townsend – NFL linebacker *DeJuan Tribble – NFL cornerback *Tom Waddle – NFL wide receiver and football analyst *Eric Wood – NFL center *Spencer Ware – NFL running back *Adolphus Washington – Ohio State and NFL defensive tackle *John Wiethe – All-Pro NFL guard/linebacker and Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball head coach, 1946–1952 *Russell Wilson – NFL quarterback and Super Bowl XLVIII Champion *DeShawn Wynn – NFL running back


Golf

*Steve Flesch (1967-) – professional golfer *Jim Herman (1977-) - professional golfer *Bob Lohr (1960-) – professional golfer *Tom Nieporte (1928-2014) – professional golfer *Marissa Steen (1989-) – professional golfer *Brett Wetterich (1973-) – professional golfer


Tennis

*Winona Closterman (1877-1944) – tennis player *Ruth Sanders Cordes (1890-1968) – tennis player *Steve DeVries (1964-) – tennis player *Nat Emerson (1874-1958) – tennis player *Nicole Gibbs (1993-) – tennis player *Reuben A. Holden III (1890-1967) – tennis player *Emmy Kaiser (1990-) – Wheelchair tennis player *Louis Kuhler (1902-1925) – tennis player *Paul Kunkel (1903-1977) – amateur tennis player *Barry MacKay (1935-2012) – tennis player and broadcaster *Caty McNally (2001-) – tennis player *Monica Nolan (1913-1995) – tennis player *Eric Quigley (1989-) – tennis player *Dudley Sutphin (1875-1926) – tennis player, lawyer *Bill Talbert (1918-1999) – tennis player and administrator *Tony Trabert (1930-2021) – tennis player and instructor *Clara Louise Zinke (1909-1978) – tennis player *J. J. Wolf, J.J. Wolf (1998 - ) – tennis player *Peyton Stearns (2001 - ) – tennis player


Other

file:Dean Ambrose with belt.jpg, 185px, Jon Moxley, Jonathan "Jon Moxley" Good *Rachael Adams – Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2016 Olympic women's volleyball bronze medalist *Eddie Arcaro – Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, Triple Crown-winning jockey *Amanda Borden – Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 gold-medal winning gymnast *Danielle Borgman – professional soccer player *Jordan Brauninger – Figure skating, figure skater *Aimee Bruder – bronze medal-winning Paralympic Games, Paralympics swimmer *Caleb Bragg – Auto racing, racecar driver and automobile inventor *Marc Burch – Major League Soccer Defender (association football), defender *Amber Campbell – Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw, 2008 and Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw, 2012 Olympic Games hammer thrower *Steve Cauthen – Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, Triple Crown-winning jockey (from Covington, Kentucky) *Rodney Combs – NASCAR driver *Katherine Copely – Lithuanian Figure Skating Championships, Lithuanian ice dancer *Angelo Dawkins – WWE tag team wrestler with Street Profits *Deena Deardurff – Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay, 1972 Olympic swimming gold medalist *Rich Franklin – Ultimate Fighting Championship champion *Curt Fraser – National Hockey League (NHL) player and coach *Christina Gao – figure skater *Mike Goldberg – Ultimate Fighting Championship play-by-play commentator *Jon Moxley, Jonathan Good – All Elite Wrestling, AEW professional wrestler known as Jon Moxley; formerly known as Dean Ambrose in WWE *Nick Hagglund – FC Cincinnati soccer player *Maxwell Holt – Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 2016 Olympic men's volleyball bronze medalist *Harlan Holden – track and field athlete at the 1912 Summer Olympics *Ted Horn – race car driver *DeHart Hubbard – first African-American to win an individual Olympic gold medal *Joseph Hudepohl – Olympic swimmer *Tori Huster – Women's football (soccer), soccer player *Julie Isphording – Long-distance running, long-distance runner *Rebecca Jasontek – Synchronized swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's team, 2004 bronze medal-winning synchronized swimmer *Jenny Kemp – Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, 1972 Olympic swimming gold medalist *Dan Ketchum – Olympic swimmer *Aubrey Kingsbury – professional soccer player of Washington Spirit and the United States women's national soccer team, United States national team *Walter Laufer – Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay, 1928 gold medal-winning swimmer *Rose Lavelle – 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2019 World Cup champion and National Women's Soccer League, NWSL player for OL Reign *Linda Miles – Professional wrestling, professional wrestler (World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE's "Shaniqua") *Betsy Mitchell – Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay, 1984 Olympic swimming gold medalist *Heather Mitts – Women's football (soccer), soccer player *Darrell Pace – Archery at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's individual, 1976 and Archery at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's individual, 1984 Olympic gold-medal winning Archery, archer *David Payne (athlete), David Payne – 110 metres hurdles, hurdler *Erin Phenix – gold-medal winning Swimming (sport), swimmer at the 2000 Summer Olympics *Brian Pillman – NFL nose tackle and professional wrestler *Brian Pillman Jr. – professional wrestler, son of Brian Pillman *Lexie Priessman – gymnast *Kerry Schall – UFC fighter *Vivian St. John – professional wrestler *Josh Schneider – former World Record holder, swimming *Robert Shmalo – ice dancer *Bridget Sloan – Olympic gymnast and 2009 world all-around champion *Sam Stoller – sprinter and long jumper *Les Thatcher – professional wrestler, announcer, and trainer *Nick Thoman – Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay, 2012 swimming gold medalist *Mary Lee Tracy – gymnastics coach *Albertson Van Zo Post – Fencing at the 1904 Summer Olympics, 1904 double gold medal-winning fencer *Bryan Volpenhein – Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's eight, 2004 gold medal-winning rower *Olga Strashun Weil – amateur golfer and tennis player *Mary Wineberg – Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2008 Olympic gold medalist, track and field *Russ Witherby – Olympic ice dancing competitor *Brian Woermann – professional wrestler ("Matt Stryker") *Jimmy Yang – professional wrestler *Jeanne Zelasko – sports broadcaster


Military

*Christian Albert (Medal of Honor), Christian Albert – Medal of Honor recipient at Siege of Vicksburg *Nicholas Longworth Anderson – American Civil War Colonel (United States), Colonel *George J. Austin (c. 1881–1930), Black military officer; worked for Black representation in the U.S. military during segregation *Edward William Boers – Navy Medal of Honor recipient *
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– United States Navy
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and 17th governor of American Samoa *James Calhoun (soldier), James Calhoun – cavalryman killed at Battle of the Little Bighorn *Henry M. Cist – American Civil War general *Charles Clark (governor), Charles Clark – Confederate States Army, Confederate Army general, plantation owner, Confederate Governor of Mississippi *Cordelia E Cook – first woman to receive both the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart *John Cook (Medal of Honor, 1847), John Cook – Medal of Honor recipient at Battle of Antietam *Hubert Dilger – Civil War artillery officer *William Dwight – Union Army, Union Civil War general *Wilson V. Eagleson II – U.S. Army Air Force officer and decorated combat fighter pilot with the prodigious Tuskegee Airmen *James E. Earheart, Jr. – United States Marine, Marine killed in action during World War II *William S. Fellers – Marine Corps Major general, Inter-American Defense Board, Director of Staff of Inter-American Defense Board *Manning Force – American Civil War general and Medal of Honor recipient *John R. Fox – World War II-era Medal of Honor recipient *Kenner Garrard – American Civil War general *James Augustin Greer – Civil War-era Admiral *Webb Hayes – Medal of Honor recipient, co-founder of Union Carbide *Victor Heintz – decorated World War I veteran; Republican Congressman, 1917–1919 *Andrew Hickenlooper – American Civil War general *Heinrich Hoffman – American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient *Francis Lupo – World War I soldier whose remains were discovered in 2003 *William Haines Lytle – poet; Civil War general; killed at Battle of Chickamauga (1863) *2004 Iraq KBR convoy ambush, Keith Matthew Maupin – soldier, missing and captured in Iraq for nearly four years *Nathaniel McLean – Union Civil War general *John Moore (physician), John Moore – Surgeon General of the United States Army, Surgeon General of the Army *Abram S. Piatt – Union Civil War general *James Pine – United States Coast Guard Vice admiral (United States), Vice Admiral *John P. Slough – Union Civil War general *George E. Stratemeyer – Air Force general *Melancthon S. Wade – Union Civil War general *Godfrey Weitzel – Union Civil War general


Other notable people

*Clara Adams – aviation pioneer *Pierre Adrian – chef at The Maisonette *Joseph H. Albers – first bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing, Lansing, Michigan *Anthony Allaire – New York City Police Department, New York City Police inspector *Michael Anthony (chef), Michael Anthony – chef *Levi Addison Ault – businessman, naturalist, donor of Cincinnati's Ault Park *John Bardo – 13th President of Wichita State University, 10th Chancellor of Western Carolina University *Samri Baldwin – Magic (illusion), stage magician *Daniel Carter Beard – founder Sons of Daniel Boone *Betty Blake – historic preservationist *Kim Bobo – labor activist *Thomas D. Boyatt – former Ambassadors of the United States, United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso and Colombia *Kitty Burke – nightclub entertainer who attempted to bat in a baseball game *Mary Towne Burt – temperance reformer, newspaper publisher, and benefactor *Oba Chandler – rapist and murderer on death row in Capital punishment in Florida, Florida *Peter H. Clark – abolitionist and educator * Levi Coffinabolitionist *Lorenzo Collins – mentally ill man shot by Cincinnati police in 1997 *Robert Daniel Conlon – Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville, Roman Catholic Bishop of Steubenville, Ohio *Sara Jane Crafts (1845–1930), educator, author, social reformer *
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– African-American abolitionist, soldier and minister *Jonathan Edwards (Washington & Jefferson College), Jonathan Edwards – first president of Washington & Jefferson College *William Henry Elder – long-serving Roman Catholic Bishop of Cincinnati *Audrey Emery – heiress and socialite *Mary Emery – philanthropist *T. Higbee Embry – aviation enthusiast and co-founder of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University *Dana Fabe – Chief Justice Alaska Supreme Court *Bernard T. Espelage – first Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup, Bishop of Gallup, New Mexico *Mary Jane Farell – Contract bridge player *Susan Fessenden (1840–1932) – activist, social reformer *Thomas Milton Gatch – president of Willamette University, Oregon State University and University of Washington *Nelson Glueck – rabbi and
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*Alfred Gottschalk (Rabbi), Alfred Gottschalk – President of Hebrew Union College and leader in Reform Judaism.Martin, Douglas
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*Henry Joseph Grimmelsmann – first Roman Catholic Diocese of Evansville, Bishop of Evansville *Alice Claypoole Gwynne – wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II *Don Helbig – Guinness World Records, Guinness World Record holder for roller coaster riding *John R. Hicks – murderer executed by the State of Ohio *Helena Keith-Falconer, Countess of Kintore – heiress and socialite *Charles L. Kuhn – art historian *Alice Stone Ilchman – eighth president of Sarah Lawrence College *Joseph Jonas (Cincinnati), Joseph Jonas – first Jew to settle in Cincinnati, founder of the Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati, Old Jewish Cemetery *Stewart Judah – card magician *Cincinnati Strangler, Posteal Laskey – serial killer nicknamed the "Cincinnati Strangler" *William Mackey Lomasney – Irish revolutionary *Longworth family – early leading Cincinnati family *Lytle family – early leading Cincinnati family *Mike Mangold – pilot *Helen Taft Manning – daughter of William Howard Taft, historian *Charles Manson – cult leader, convicted murderer *Carl K. Moeddel – auxiliary bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1993–2007 *Julian Morgenstern – rabbi, professor, and president of Hebrew Union College *Sara Murphy – socialite, Pablo Picasso portrait subject *Anthony John King Mussio – first Roman Catholic bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio *David Leroy Nickens – freed slave, first African American licensed minister in Ohio *Jack Norris (activist), Jack Norris – dietitian and veganism, vegan activist *Olive Peterson – Contract bridge player and teacher *David Philipson – Reform Judaism, Reform rabbi *John Baptist Purcell – long-serving Roman Catholic Bishop of Cincinnati *George Remus – rum-running, bootlegger *Robert Ruwe – United States Tax Court judge *William Knox Schroeder – student killed in the Kent State shootings *William Smith (murderer), William Smith – murderer executed in 2005 *Hermann, Freiherr von Soden – biblical scholar *Joseph Strauss (engineer), Joseph Strauss – chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge *Jule Sugarman – creator of Head Start (program), Head Start *Denise Trauth – 9th President of Texas State University *Myra L. Uhlfelder – Classics, classicist *Otto Warmbier – University of Virginia student arrested in North Korea; later died in custody in 2017 *Irvin F. Westheimer – founder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America


References

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