Notable People from Ohio

June Vincent

actress (1920-2008)

Charles Dolan

American billionaire businessman (1926–2024)

Ross Hunter

American film and television producer, actor (1920-1996)

Jon Hendricks

American jazz singer, lyricist, jazz critic and historian (1921–2017)

Benny Bailey

American jazz trumpeter (1925–2005)

Jimmy Scott

American jazz singer (1925-2014)

Dede Allen

American film editor (1923-2010)

Virginia Patton

actress

Don Shula

American football player and coach (1930-2020)

Johnny Green

American basketball player (1933–2023)

Wilbert McClure

American boxer (1938-2020)

Michael E. Krauss

American linguist (1934-2019)

Roger Browne

American actor (1930–2024)

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

American politician (1949–2008)

Chet Jastremski

American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist, former world record-holder

Diane McBain

American actress (1941–2022)

Vesta Williams

American R&B singer (1957-2011)

John Emerson

stage actor, playwright, producer, and director of silent films (1874–1956)

William Dennison Jr.

American politician (1815–1882)

Stephen Benton Elkins

Union United States Army officer (1841-1911)

Charles Hubbard

American archer (1849–1923)

James Rudolph Garfield

American lawyer and politician (1865–1950)

Eliakim Hastings Moore

American mathematician (1862–1932)

William Ernest Castle

American geneticist (1867–1962)

Walter Edmond Clyde Todd

American ornithologist (1874–1969)

Edith Rosenbaum

American fashion buyer, stylist, journalist and correspondent (1879-1975)

Clarence Childs

American hammer thrower and football coach (1883-1960)

Harry Woods

American actor (1889-1968)

Neely Edwards

actor (1883-1965)

Ralph Graves

American screenwriter and actor (1900–1977)

Paul Brown

American football coach (1908–1991)

Fraňo Kráľ

Czechoslovak member of Slovak National Council, poet, writer, children books writer and Slovak nation politician (1903-1955)

John Dierkes

American actor (1905-1975)

Milton Caniff

American cartoonist (1907-1988)

Isabel Bishop

American painter (1902-1988)

John Newland

American director, actor, television producer, and screenwriter (1917–2000)

Lew Wasserman

American studio executive and talent agent (1913-2002)

Norman Steenrod

American mathematician (1910-1971)

Irene Manning

actress, singer (1912-2004)

Howard Metzenbaum

American politician and businessman (1917–2008)

Dewey F. Bartlett

American politician (1919–1979)

John Lounsbery

American animator (1911–1976)

Elmer Gedeon

United States Army Air Force Captain, Major League Baseball player, one of two MLB players killed in World War II (1917-1944)

Neil Johnston

American Hall of Fame basketball player (1929–1978)

Hugh Downs

American broadcaster (1921–2020)

James Thomas Lynn

American politician (1927-2010)

Virginia Leith

American actress (1925-2019)

Joey Maxim

American boxer (1922–2001)

Gene Cole

American sprinter (1928–2018)

Phil Niekro

American baseball player (1939–2020)