Notable People from Ohio

Lucy Stanton

abolitionist (1831-1910)

Longworth Powers

American photographer and sculptor (1835–1904)

Moses K. Armstrong

American politician (1832-1906)

Ridgley C. Powers

Union United States Army officer (1836-1912)

Robert E. Doan

American politician (1831-1919)

Sophia Bledsoe Herrick

American writer and editor (1837–1919)

Thomas O. Osborn

Union Army general (1832–1904)

Thomas Weir

Union Army soldier (1838–1876)

John W. Stone

American politician (1838-1922)

Wally Post

right fielder in Major League Baseball

Walt McDonald

American football player (1920-2012)

Walt Yowarsky

American football player (1928-2014)

Amby Paliwoda

American animator (1909-1999)

William E. Metzger, Jr.

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1922–1944)

Craig Eaton

American baseball player

Turner M. Marquett

American politician (1831–1894)

Turpin Chambers Bannister

American architectural historian (1904-1982)

James Kent Hamilton

American mayor (1839–1918)

Milton Sutliff

Ohio Jurist and Legislator

Zalman Shapiro

American chemist (1920-2016)

William F. Cloud

Union Army officer

Nathan Kelley

American architect

Andrew W. Cordier

American political scientist (1901–1975)

Stevan Dohanos

American artist and illustrator (1907-1994)

Ruth Lyons

American broadcaster

Larry Darnell

American R&B singer (1928–1983)

Russell C. Newhouse

American aviator

Russ Young

American baseball player (1902-1984)

Ron Cowen

American screenwriter

John Smith

fifth Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1832-1911)

Robert J. Brown

American football player and coach (1904-1985)

Robert Boyer

Chemist employed by Henry Ford, he was extremely proficient at inventing ways to convert soybeans into paints and plastic parts used on Ford automobiles (1909-1989)

Wayne Jones

former member of the Ohio House of representatives

Red Blair

American football and basketball coach (1900-1947)

Wynona Carr

American musician (1924–1976)

Ray Lucas

American baseball player (1908-1969)

Ralston Westlake

American politician (1907–1978)

Ralph Judd

American baseball player (1901-1957)

Paul D. Stroop

United States Navy Vice Admiral

Thaddeus A. Minshall

Ohio Jurist (1834-1908)

Orville Prescott

Main book reviewer for The New York Times for 24 years (1906–1996)

William Knox Schroeder

American honor student and victim of the Kent State massacre (1950–1970)

Phillip Shriver

American historian (1922-2011)

Ralph Kohl

American football player, coach, and scout (1923-1997)

Wilbur Henry Siebert

American historian (1866–1961)

Allan Hornyak

American former basketball player

Ray Pelfrey

American football player (1928-2017)

Mark McElroy

American politician (1906-1981)

Richard Timberlake

Professor of economics (1922–2020)

William Frederick Garver

American politician (1864-1942)