Biographical Records
Notable People from Ohio
4,740 notable figures born in Ohio, showing page 22 of 95, ranked by historical prominence.
Leroy Lansing Janes
1838 – 1909
pedagoguemissionary
Alexander McDowell McCook
1831 – 1903
military officer
William H. James
1831 – 1920
governorpoliticianlawyer
Norton P. Chipman
1834 – 1924
military officerpoliticianlawyer
Theodore Newton Vail
1845 – 1920
businessperson
William H. Calkins
1842 – 1894
prosecutorjuristpolitician
Henry Wood Elliott
1846 – 1930
environmentalistwatercoloristpainter
Kate Brownlee Sherwood
1841 – 1914
journalisttranslatorpoet
Julia Tuttle
1849 – 1898
businessperson
James W. Dawes
1844 – 1918
governorpoliticianlawyer
Boston Custer
1848 – 1876
military personnel
Darius D. Hare
1843 – 1897
politicianlawyer
Melvin Clark George
1849 – 1933
university teacherpoliticianlawyer
Oberlin Smith
1840 – 1926
inventorengineer
Daniel Richard Crissinger
1860 – 1942
lawyer
Benjamin Finkel
1865 – 1947
mathematician
L. M. Wells
1862 – 1923
actor
William Merriam Burton
1865 – 1954
chemistengineerbusinessperson
Walter Folger Brown
1869 – 1961
politician
George Amos Dorsey
1868 – 1931
ethnographeranthropologist
Addison T. Smith
1862 – 1956
politician
Harry Augustus Garfield
1863 – 1942
political scientistjurist
Harry Ward Leonard
1861 – 1915
inventorengineer
Louis Agricola Bauer
1865 – 1932
geophysicistengineerastronomer
Charles W. Clark
1865 – 1925
opera singer
Alice Muriel Williamson
1869 – 1933
novelistwriter
J. C. Nugent
1868 – 1947
film actortheatre directorstage actor
William Burress
1867 – 1948
actor
Madlaine Traverse
1875 – 1964
film actoractor
Harry Lyman Davis
1878 – 1950
governorpoliticianmayor
John A. Key
1871 – 1954
lawyerpolitician
Bertha Muzzy Bower
1871 – 1940
novelistteacherwriter
Edgar Selwyn
1875 – 1944
manufacturerfilm producerdirector
Edward Harkness
1874 – 1940
businessperson
Fanny Midgley
1879 – 1932
stage actorfilm actoractor
George Bennard
1873 – 1958
composer
Thomas Henry Kearney
1874 – 1956
scientific collectorbotanical collectorbotanist
Wayne Eyer Manning
1899 – 2004
botanisthorticulturist
Henry Fillmore
1881 – 1956
bandleaderconductorcomposer
Roy W. Howard
1883 – 1964
journalistmedia proprietor
Ralph Austin Bard
1884 – 1975
financier
George Holland Sabine
1880 – 1961
philosopherpolitical scientistuniversity teacher
Walter Hermann Bucher
1888 – 1965
paleontologistresearchergeologist
Eddie Borden
1888 – 1955
actor
Boyd Marshall
1884 – 1950
actor
Edith Emerson
1888 – 1981
illustratorpainterartist
Edmund Minahan
1882 – 1958
baseball playerathletics competitor
C. C. Pyle
1882 – 1939
sports agent
Iva Shepard
1886 – 1973
film actoractor
Robert J. Bulkley
1880 – 1965
politicianlawyer