Famous Ohioans
These are just a few of the famous people who were either born in Ohio or spent some important time in Ohio.
Edgar Allen, founder of the National
Society for Crippled Children (the forerunner of Easter Seals)
Walter Alston, baseball manager
Ashley Ambrose, football player
Joe Andruzzi, football player
Neil Armstrong, astronaut and first person to walk on the moon
Doug Atkins, football player
Richard Basehart, actor
Halle Berry, actress
Erma Bombeck, syndicated columnist
Aaron Boone, baseball player
Jennette Bradley, first African-American woman to be elected lieutenant governor of a state
Jim Brown, football player
Paul Brown, football coach
Earl Bruce, football coach
Charles Brush, demonstrated arc lights and made Cleveland the world's first city to be lit electrically.
Bud Carson, football coach
Sean Casey, baseball player
Joshua Cribbs, football player
Coco Crisp, baseball player
Willie Davis, football player
Len Dawson, football player
John Delamielleure, football player
Trent Dilfer, football player
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, poet
Adam Dunn, baseball player
Thomas Edison, inventor of many things
Web Ewbank, football player
Len Ford, football player
Alan Freed, disc jockey
David Fulcher, football player
James A. Garfield, U.S. president
Cass Gilbert, architect
Sid Gillman, football player
John Glenn, astronaut, first American to orbit the Earth, and U.S. senator
Charles Goodyear, inventor, process for vulcanizing rubber
Randy Gradishar, football player
Frank Gatski, football player
Otto Graham, football player
Ulysess S. Grant, U.S. president
William Green, football player
Zane Grey, novelist
Ken Griffey Jr., baseball player
Archie Griffin, football player
Robert Griffith, football player
Lou Groza, football player
Travis Hafner, baseball player
Aaron Harang, baseball player
Warren G. Harding, U.S. president
William Rainey Harper, founder of the University of Chicago
Benjamin Harrison, U.S. president
William Henry Harrison, U.S. president
Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. president
Woody Hayes, football coach
Steve Heiden, football player
Bob Hope, comedian and actor
T.J. Houshmandzadeh, football player
Tory James, football player
Chad Johnson, football player
Rudi Johnson, football player
Charlie Joiner, football player
Henry Jordan, football player
Leroy Kelly, football player
Simon Kenton, frontiersman
Charles Kettering, inventor, automobile electric starter
Otto Kruger, actor
Dennis Kucinich, U.S. representative and presidential candidate
Nick Lachey, singer
Jack Lambert, football player
John Lambert, inventor. Builds first American car in 1891.
Alf Landon, Kansas governor and presidential candidate
John Mercer Langston, first African-American elected to public office (clerk of Brownhelm, Ohio)
La Salle, explorer
Dante Lavelli, football player
Cliff Lee, baseball player
Marvin Lewis, football coach
Felipe Lopez, baseball player
Victor Martinez, baseball player
Mike McCormack, football player
Tommy McDonald, football player
William McKinley, U.S. president
Thomas Midgley, inventor, Freon
Kevin Millwood, baseball player
Eric Milton, baseball player
Bobby Mitchell, football player
Sophie Mitchell, first African-American woman to be elected mayor in Ohio
Agnes Morehead, actress
Garrett Morgan, inventor, traffic signal
Marion Motley, football player
Anthony Munoz, football player
Lorenzo Neal, football player
Ozzie Newsome, football player
Jack Nicholas, golfer
Dennis Northcutt, football player
Jim Nuxhall, youngest player in Major League baseball history
Jesse Owens, Olympic sprinter
Carson Palmer, football player
Eleanor Parker, actress
Jim Parker, football player
Jhonny Peralta, baseball player
Oliver Hazard Perry, naval war hero
Roy Plunkett, inventor, Teflon
John D. Rockefeller, industrialist and philanthropist
Pete Rose, baseball player
Mary Ellen Ruffalo, actress
C.C. Sabathia, baseball player
Scott Sauerbeck, baseball player
William Tucumseh Sherman, general
Akili Smith, football player
Dorothy Stang, missionary and Amazon rainforest defender
Roger Staubach, football player
Carl Stokes, Cleveland mayor and first African-American mayor of a major city
Harriet Beecher Stowe, author, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lee Suggs, football player
Bob Taft, Ohio governor
Robert Taft, U.S. senator
William H. Taft, U.S. president
Tarhe, Native American chief
Jack Tatum, football player
Tecumseh, Native American chief
Edward Tiffin, Ohio governor
Henry Timkin, inventor, roller bearing
George Voinovich, U.S. senator
William O. Walker, Ohio's first African-American to become a member of the U.S. Cabinet
Paul Warfield, football player
Peter Warwick, football player
Jake Westbrook, baseball player
Bob Wickman, baseball player
Robert Wilke, actor
Bill Willis, football player
Alexander Winton, inventor, 8-cylinder engine
Ray Wise, actor
Glenville Woods, inventor. Developed a system for overhead electric conducting lines for railroads.
Thomas Worthington, politician. Lobbied Congress for Ohio statehood.
Katharine Wright, finance manager
Orville Wright, inventor, airplane
Wilbur Wright, inventor, airplane
Sean Young, actress
