Notable People from Ohio

William Dean Howells

American author, critic, and playwright (1837–1920)

Dorothy Gish

American actress (1898–1968)

Donn F. Eisele

American astronaut (1930–1987)

John Sherman

American cabinet secretary and senator (1823–1900)

Arthur M. Schlesinger

American historian, social critic, and public intellectual (1917–2007)

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

American financier and philanthropist (1874–1960)

Richard Basehart

American actor (1914–1984)

Edwin M. Stanton

American lawyer and politician (1814–1869)

Marshall Rosenberg

American psychologist (1934-2015)

Charles F. Kettering

American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patents (1876–1958)

Mary Ainsworth

American-Canadian psychologist & scholar

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, film producer, and boxer (1929-2000)

Vera-Ellen

actress, singer, dancer (1921-1981)

Marty Balin

American singer, songwriter, and musician (1942–2018)

Roy J. Plunkett

American chemist (1910–1994)

Christine Chubbuck

American television news reporter (1944–1974)

Andre Norton

American writer of science fiction and fantasy (1912–2005)

P. J. O'Rourke

American political satirist and journalist (1947–2022)

Nancy Wilson

American singer (1937–2018)

Scott Walker

British-American singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (1943–2019)

Mother Angelica

religious sister (1923-2016)

David Graf

American actor (1950–2001)

Ryan Dunn

American television personality and stunt performer (1977–2011)

Jaroslav Pelikan

US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale (1923–2006)

Jean Peters

American actress (1926–2000)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

American poet, novelist, and short story writer (1872–1906)

Billy Strayhorn

American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger (1915–1967)

Erma Bombeck

American humorist and writer (1927–1996)

Albert Ayler

American jazz saxophonist (1936–1970)

Nate Thurmond

American basketball player (1941–2016)

Robert Urich

actor (1946-2002)

Eddie Rickenbacker

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1890–1973)

David Lewis

American philosopher (1941–2001)

Charles Martin Hall

American chemist (1863-1914)

James Ingram

American singer-songwriter and record producer (1952–2019)

Peggy Ann Garner

American actress (1932-1984)

Mitchell Ryan

American actor (1934–2022)

Louis Bromfield

American author and conservationist (1896-1956)

George Voinovich

American politician (1936–2016)

Charles Geschke

American computer scientist

Roger Ailes

American TV executive and consultant (1940–2017)

John Cromwell

American actor, director and producer (1886/7–1979)

Bobby Womack

American singer and songwriter (1944–2014)

Robert A. Taft

American politician, son of 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft (1889–1953)

Edmund White

American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940–2025)

Mary Kenneth Keller

first American woman to receive a PhD in computer science (1913-1985); simultaneously with Irving Tang first American to receive PhD in computer science, nun

Shirley Fry

American tennis and badminton player (1927–2021)

Robert Henri

American painter (1865-1929)

Earl Derr Biggers

American novelist and playwright (1884–1933)

William R. Day

US Supreme Court justice from 1903 to 1922