List of people from Cincinnati
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This is a list of famous residents who were either born in, or have lived in, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA and its metropolitan area.
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[edit] Politics
- Stan Aronoff – former president of the Ohio Senate
- William E. Arthur, (1825-1897), born in Cincinnati, United States Congressman from Kentucky[1]
- Ken Blackwell – Republican Ohio Secretary of State and unsuccessful 2006 candidate for Governor of Ohio
- James G. Birney – abolitionist and Liberty Party presidential candidate
- John Boehner – Congressman and current House Majority Leader
- Tom Brinkman – maverick Republican Ohio House of Representatives member
- Steve Chabot – Republican Congressman
- Thomas R. Chandler – perennial candidate
- Donald D. Clancy – former Republican Congressman
- John J. Gilligan – former Governor of Ohio
- Bill Gradison – Republican Congressman, former mayor of Cincinnati
- Benjamin Harrison – 23rd President
- William J. Keating – former Republican Congressman, brother of Charles Keating
- Simon L. Leis, Jr. – Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutor and sheriff
- Charlie Luken – former Congressman and Mayor of Cincinnati
- Tom Luken – former Congressman
- Neil H. McElroy – Secretary of Defense, 1957-9
- Potter Stewart – Supreme Court Justice
- Rob Portman – former Congressman, United States Trade Representative, current Director of the Office of Management and Budget
- James B. Ray – Governor of Indiana, 1825-1831
- Jerry Rubin – political activist, Chicago Seven
- Bob Schaffer – former Republican Congressman from Colorado
- Kathleen Sebelius – current (2006) Governor of Kansas
- Bob Taft – current Governor of Ohio
- Charles Phelps Taft II – Mayor of Cincinnati from 1955 to 1957
- Robert A. Taft – "Mr. Republican" and Senate leader.
- William Howard Taft – 27th President, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
[edit] Business
- Powel Crosley Jr. – inventor and entrepreneur
- James Gamble – co-founder of Procter & Gamble
- Alfred T. Goshorn – businessman, civic booster, founder of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team
- Louise McCarren Herring – leader of the credit union movement
- Jeff Immelt – CEO of General Electric
- Charles Keating – banker, involved in Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980's
- Isaac Herbert Kempner – founder of Imperial Sugar
- Marge Schott – women's business pioneer and former owner of the Cincinnati Reds
- Ted Turner – philanthropist founder and owner of CNN, the Atlanta Braves, and the Atlanta Hawks
- Douglas A. Warner III – banker
- Granville Woods – African-American inventor
[edit] Science
- Cleveland Abbe – meteorologist
- Richard Allison – Surgeon General of the Army
- Daniel Drake – physician and writer
- Henry Heimlich – co-developer of the Heimlich maneuver
- Karl Gordon Henize – NASA astronaut
- John Mauchly – physicist, co-designer of ENIAC
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn – science historian
- Albert Sabin – discoverer of oral polio vaccine
[edit] Journalism
- Bill Hemmer – Fox News Channel anchor and correspondent; former CNN anchor and reporter
- Edward Deering Mansfield – 19th-century newspaper editor
- Tony Snow – news commentator, current White House Press Secretary for the George W. Bush administration
- Linda Vester – FOX News Channel
[edit] Artists and entertainment
[edit] Acting, Motion Pictures, and Television
- Theda Bara – silent film actress
- Mark Boone Junior – actor
- Bob Braun – local television and radio personality
- George Clooney – film actor
- Rosemary Clooney – film actress and singer, 1928-2002
- Ray Combs – host of Family Feud, 1988-1994
- Doris Day – popular singer and actress
- Missy Doty – actress
- Carmen Electra – born Tara Leigh Patrick – Actress, Singer
- Cliff 'Fatty' Emmich – actor
- Trixie Friganza – vaudeville and film actress
- Charles Guggenheim – movie director
- Julie Hagerty – model and actress
- Emily Harper – actress
- Vicki Lewis – actress
- Hudson Leick – actress
- Edward LeSaint – Silent film actor and director
- Todd Louiso – actor
- Harry F. Millarde – Silent film actor and director
- J. Madison Wright Morris – actress and model
- Kathryn Morris – actress
- Heidi Mueller – actress
- Sarah Jessica Parker – actress
- Tyrone Power – actor
- Theresa Rebeck – television (NYPD Blue) and film screenwriter
- Theodore Reed – movie director
- Roy Rogers – actor
- Hal Sparks – actor and comedian
- Steven Spielberg – movie director
- Jerry Springer – former mayor of Cincinnati and current talk show host
- Daniel von Bargen – actor
- Patricia Wettig – actress and playwright
- Robert J. Wilke – actor
- Amy Yasbeck – actress
[edit] Music
- Marty Balin – founder and original lead singer of Jefferson Airplane
- Adrian Belew – guitarist and vocalist (King Crimson)
- Boom Bip – Electronic Musician
- Bootsy Collins – Parliament Funkadelic funk bass player
- Gustav Dannreuther – violinist and conductor
- Henry Fillmore – march music composer
- Hi-Tek – Rapper and Producer
- Steve Kipner – songwriter ("Let's Get Physical")
- Nick Lachey – lead singer of 98 Degrees
- James Levine – conductor
- Scott Lindroth – composer
- Sonny Moorman – Blues guitarist
- Mamie Smith – blues singer
- Mike Tetrault – Blues harmonica player
- Leon Wesley Walls – Singer-songwriter
- Andy Williams – pop singer
[edit] Groups
- 98 Degrees – Boy Band of the '90s
- Afghan Whigs – rock band
- Blessid Union of Souls – Rock Band
- Ellery – alt-folk band
- The Isley Brothers – R&B and Soul singers
- The Lemon Pipers – pop band from the 1960's
- Over the Rhine – rock band
- The Pinstripes – ska band
- Yankee Grey – country band
[edit] Authors
- Karen Ackerman – Children's author
- Thomas Berger – author
- Fredric Brown – author
- Alice Cary – poet
- Michael Cunningham – novelist (The Hours)
- William Holmes McGuffey – educator, author of McGuffey Readers
- David Quammen – science and travel writer
- Helen Hooven Santmyer – writer
- Curtis Sittenfeld – novelist
- Harriet Beecher Stowe – author and abolitionist
- Edmund White – author
- William Matthews – poet
- Jonathan Valin – novelist
[edit] Other artists
- Robert Frederick Blum
- Jim Borgman – Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
- Robert Scott Duncanson – African American painter and muralist
- Frank Duveneck – figure and portrait painter
- Suzanne Farrell – ballerina
- Robert Henri – painter, leader of the Ashcan School movement
- Tim Folzenlogen – realist painter
- John Ruthven – painter of wildlife
- John Henry Twachtman – impressionist landscape painter
- Tom Wesselmann – pop artist
[edit] Sports
[edit] Baseball
- Ethan Allen – Major League Baseball player, coach at Yale University
- Walter Alston – Hall of Fame manager (born in Venice, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati)
- Nick Altrock – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Charlie Armbruster – Major League Baseball catcher
- David Bell – Major League Baseball third baseman
- Daryl Boston – Major League Baseball outfielder
- Jack Boyle, born in Cincinnati, Major League Baseball player[2]
- Ed Brinkman – Major League Baseball player
- Jim Bunning – Hall of Fame pitcher, Senator from Kentucky (from Southgate, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati)
- Zach Day – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Red Dooin – Major League Baseball player and manager
- Bill Doran – Major League Baseball player
- Richard Dotson – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Leon Durham – Major League Baseball player
- Buck Ewing – Major League Baseball catcher and manager
- Charlie Gould – National League baseball player
- Ken Griffey, Jr. – Major League Baseball outfielder (born in Donora, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Cincinnati)
- Heinie Groh – Major League Baseball third baseman
- Miller Huggins – Major League Baseball player, Hall of Fame manager for the New York Yankees
- Tom Hume – Major League Baseball pitcher and coach
- Lance Johnson – Major League Baseball player
- David Justice – Major League Baseball player
- Scott Klingenbeck – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Al Lakeman – Major League Baseball player
- Barry Larkin – Major League Baseball, 1995 National League MVP
- Sam Leever – Major League Baseball player (born in Suburb of Goshen)
- Jim Leyritz – Major League Baseball player
- Bill Long – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Garry Maddox – Major League Baseball player
- Art Mahaffey – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Roger McDowell – Major League Baseball pitcher and coach
- Tim Naehring – Major League Baseball player
- Bob Nieman – Major League Baseball player
- Russ Nixon – Major League Baseball player and manager (born in Cleves, a suburb of Cincinnati)
- Ron Oester – Major League Baseball player
- Jayhawk Owens – Major League Baseball player
- Eduardo Perez – Major League Baseball player, son of Tony Perez
- Tuffy Rhodes – Major League and Japanese player
- Pete Rose – Major League Baseball player, holds record for most hits in a career
- Jeff Russell – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Scott Sauerbeck – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Shannon Stewart – Major League Baseball player
- Pat Tabler – Major League Baseball player and baseball analyst
- Kent Tekulve – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Bill Wegman – Major League Baseball pitcher
- Kevin Youkilis – Major League Baseball player
- Don Zimmer – Major League Baseball player and manager
[edit] Basketball
- Tom Boerwinkle – NBA player
- Ric Bucher – ESPN NBA analyst
- Dave Cowens – Hall of Fame center (from Newport, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati)
- Erik Daniels – University of Kentucky and NBA player
- Matt Harpring – NBA player
- Tyrone Hill – NBA player
- Brandon Hunter – NBA player
- Louis Orr – NBA player and college coach
- Kelly Schumacher – WNBA Basketball Player
- LaSalle Thompson – NBA player
[edit] Football
- Shaun Alexander – Running back, holder of NFL record for most touchdowns in a single season (from Florence, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati)
- B.J. Askew – Michigan and New York Jets fullback
- Alex Bannister – Chicago Bears wide receiver
- Rocky Boiman – Notre Dame and NFL linebacker
- Tom Jackson – NFL player and ESPN analyst (currently lives in Cincinnati)
- George Ratterman – football player
- Roger Staubach – Dallas Cowboys football Hall of Famer
- Dana Stubblefield – defensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers
- Tom Waddle – NFL wide receiver and football analyst
- Marc Edwards – NFL fullback
[edit] Other
- Eddie Arcaro – Triple Crown-winning jockey
- Tim Austin – Bronze medalist and Bantamweight boxing champion
- Amanda Borden – gold-medal winning gymnast
- Marc Burch – Major League Soccer striker
- Ezzard Charles – former heavyweight champion boxer
- Rodney Combs – NASCAR driver
- Steve Cauthen – Triple Crown-winning jockey (from Covington, Kentucky)
- Nat Emerson – tennis champion
- Rich Franklin – UFC champion
- Ted Horn – race car driver
- William DeHart Hubbard – first African-American to win an individual Olympic gold medal
- Joseph Hudepohl – Olympic swimmer
- Paul Kunkel – amateur tennis player
- Bob Lohr – professional golfer
- Linda Miles – professional wrestler (WWE's "Shaniqua")
- Heather Mitts – soccer player
- Darrell Pace – gold-medal winning archer
- Brian Pillman – professional wrestler (d. 1997)
- Aaron Pryor – former World Junior Welterweight champion boxer
- Brad Rone – journeyman boxer who died in the ring
- Robert Shmalo – international ice dancing competitor
- Tony Trabert – tennis player and instructor
- Brett Wetterich – professional golfer
- Russ Witherby – Olympic ice dancing competitor
- Brian Woermann – professional wrestler ("Matt Stryker")
- Jeanne Zelasko – FOX sports commentator
[edit] Military
- James Calhoun (soldier) – cavalryman killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- William Dwight – Union Civil War general
- James A. Greer – Civil War-era Admiral
- Andrew Hickenlooper – Civil War general
- John P. Slough – Union Civil War general
- Godfrey Weitzel – American Civil War-era general
[edit] Other notable people
- Levi Addison Ault – businessman, naturalist, donator of Cincinnati's Ault Park
- Daniel Carter Beard – founder Sons of Daniel Boone
- John R. Hicks – murderer executed by the State of Ohio
- Alice Stone Ilchman – eigth president of Sarah Lawrence College
- Longworth family – early leading Cincinnati family
- Lytle family – early leading Cincinnati family
- Charles Manson – musician, cult leater, murderer
- Sara Murphy – socialite, Pablo Picasso portrait subject
- George Remus – bootlegger
- Joseph Strauss – Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge
- Irvin F. Westheimer – founder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
[edit] Fictional characters
- Aloysius Snuffleupagus' – grandmother (fictional character on Sesame Street).
- The staff of the radio station in TV series, WKRP in Cincinnati.
- Rain Man – Dustin Hoffman's character was picked up from a suburban asylum by Tom Cruise.
- Jody Silver – from The Puzzle Place
- Harry Stoner – Private Detective from a series of novels of the same name.
[edit] References
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- ^ (1963) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who.
- ^ [1969] (1979) Reichler, Joseph L.: The Baseball Encyclopedia, 4th edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8.
