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.

Contents 1 Politics 2 Business 3 Science 4 Journalism and media 5 Artists and entertainment 5.1 Acting, motion pictures, and television 5.2 Music 5.2.1 Groups 5.3 Authors 5.4 Visual artists 6 Sports 6.1 Baseball 6.2 Basketball 6.3 Football 6.4 Other 7 Military 8 Other notable people 9 Fictional characters 10 References

[edit] Politics

• Michael K. Allen – former Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutor
• Stan Aronoff – former president of the Ohio Senate
• William E. Arthur, (1825-1897), born in Cincinnati, United States Congressman from Kentucky^[1]
• Walt Bachrach – long-serving Mayor of Cincinnati
• Ken Blackwell – Republican Ohio Secretary of State and unsuccessful 2006 candidate for Governor of Ohio
• James G. Birney – abolitionist and Liberty Party presidential candidate
• Kim Bobo – labor activist
• John Boehner – Congressman and current House Minority Leader
• John Bridgeland – lawyer and activist
• Tom Brinkman – maverick Republican Ohio House of Representatives member
• Ethan Allen Brown – 7th Governor of Ohio
• Phillip Burton – Democratic Congressman from California
• Samuel Fenton Cary – Congressman and temperance movement leader
• Steve Chabot – Republican Congressman
• Thomas R. Chandler – perennial candidate
• Donald D. Clancy – former Republican Congressman
• Ozro J. Dodds – Democratic Congressman,1872-1873
• John J. Gilligan – former Governor of Ohio
• Bill Gradison – Republican Congressman, former mayor of Cincinnati
• Benjamin Harrison – 23rd President
• Dave Hobson – Republican congressman
• William J. Keating – former Republican Congressman, brother of Charles Keating
• Simon L. Leis, Jr. – Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutor and sheriff
• Nicholas Longworth– former Speaker of the House and Majority Leader
• Charlie Luken – former Congressman and Mayor of Cincinnati
• Tom Luken – former Congressman
• Lawrence Maxwell, Jr. – United States Solicitor General, 1893-1895
• Neil H. McElroy – Secretary of Defense, 1957-59
• 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
• Charles W. Sawyer –United States Secretary of Commerce, 1948-1953 under President Harry Truman.
• Bob Schaffer – former Republican Congressman from Colorado
• Kathleen Sebelius – current (2006) Governor of Kansas
• Bob Taft – former 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
• Jeffrey R. 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 of Turner Broadcasting System
• Douglas A. Warner III – banker
• Granville Woods – African-American inventor

[edit] Science

• Cleveland Abbe – meteorologist
• C. David Allis – geneticist
• Richard Allison – Surgeon General of the Army
• Charles J. Bates – food scientist
• Robin T. Cotton – pediatrician
• Daniel Drake – physician and writer
• Henry Heimlich – co-developer of the Heimlich maneuver
• Karl Gordon Henize – NASA astronaut
• Thomas Samuel Kuhn – science historian
• John Mauchly – physicist, co-designer of ENIAC
• Joseph Ransohoff – neurosurgeon
• Albert Sabin – discoverer of oral polio vaccine

[edit] Journalism and media

• Gary Burbank – radio personality
• Bill Cunningham – attorney, radio talk show host
• Gail Collins – journalist, former editor of The New York Times editorial page
• Paul Dixon – Cincinnati-area daytime television host
• Elizabeth Drew – political journalist and author
• Bill Hemmer – Fox News Channel anchor and correspondent; former CNN anchor and reporter
• Steven L. Herman – Voice of America bureau chief and correspondent
• Derrin Horton – sportscaster
• Joe Kernen – CNBC News anchor
• Alan Light – former editor of VIBE and Spin
• Edward Deering Mansfield – 19th-century newspaper editor
• Mike McConnell – syndicated radio talk show host
• Wally Phillips – radio personality.
• Al Schottelkotte – television news anchor and reporter
• Tony Snow – news commentator, current White House Press Secretary for the George W. Bush administration
• Dale Sommers – radio personality also known as "the Truckin' Bozo"
• Linda Vester – FOX News Channel anchor
• Dick VonHoene – news anchor, talk show host and one-time horror movie show host, better known as "The Cool Ghoul"
• Eliza Yang – MTV K VJ
• Katherine Zoepf – freelance journalist

[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
• Rebecca Budig – soap opera and television actress
• Rocky Carroll – actor
• Majel Coleman – actress and model
• George Clooney – film actor
• Rosemary Clooney – film actress and singer, 1928-2002
• Ray Combs – host of Family Feud, 1988-1994
• Joel Crothers – actor
• Doris Day – popular singer and actress
• John Diehl – actor
• Missy Doty – actress
• Carmen Electra – born Tara Leigh Patrick – actress, singer
• Vera-Ellen – actress and dancer
• Cliff 'Fatty' Emmich – actor
• Susan Floyd – actress
• Trixie Friganza – vaudeville and film actress
• Sidney M. Goldin – silent film director
• Charles Guggenheim – movie director
• Julie Hagerty – model and actress
• Emily Harper – actress
• Tiffany Hines – actress
• Arthur V. Johnson – silent film actor and director
• Marcia Lewis – actress
• Vicki Lewis – actress
• Hudson Leick – actress
• Edward LeSaint – silent film actor and director
• Todd Louiso – actor
• Blanche Mehaffey – showgirl and actress
• Harry F. Millarde – silent film actor and director
• J. Madison Wright Morris – actress and model
• Kathryn Morris – actress
• Heidi Mueller – actress
• Pamela Myers – Broadway and television actress
• Annie Oakley – actress, sharpshooter
• Sarah Jessica Parker – actress
• Richard M. Powell – television and film screenwriter
• Tyrone Power – actor
• Lee Roy Reams – Broadway actor and director
• Theresa Rebeck – television (NYPD Blue) and film screenwriter
• Theodore Reed – movie director
• Hari Rhodes – television actor
• Roy Rogers – actor
• Hal Sparks – actor and comedian
• Shane Sparks – choreographer
• Steven Spielberg – movie director
• Jerry Springer – former mayor of Cincinnati and current talk show host (born in London, of Austrian parents)
• Daniel von Bargen – actor
• Patricia Wettig – actress and playwright
• Robert J. Wilke – actor
• Amy Yasbeck – actress
• Katt Williams – also known as Money Mike – actor

[edit] Music

• Marty Balin – founder and original lead singer of Jefferson Airplane
• Adrian Belew – guitarist and vocalist (Frank Zappa, King Crimson)
• Tiny Bradshaw – bandleader, vocalist, arranger, and producer of Rhythm and Blues musicians.
• Boom Bip – electronic musician
• Mel Carter – R&B singer
• Bootsy Collins – Parliament Funkadelic funk bass player
• Gustav Dannreuther – violinist and conductor
• Carl Dobkins, Jr. – rockabilly singer
• George Duning – trumpet and piano player
• Henry Fillmore – march music composer
• Peter Frampton– musician, currently lives in Cincinnati
• Jane French – singer/songwriter
• Dan Eyze – Engineer/songwriter/producer
• Boogie Mann – Record producer
• Hi-Tek – Rapper and Producer
• Steve Kipner – songwriter ("Let's Get Physical")
• Drew Lachey – winner of Dancing With The Stars
• Nick Lachey – lead singer of 98 Degrees
• James Levine – conductor
• Scott Lindroth – composer
• Lonnie Mack – Blues artist
• Sonny Moorman – Blues guitarist
• Nicole C. Mullen – songwriter and choreographer
• Mamie Smith – Blues singer
• Leon Wesley Walls – Singer-songwriter
• David Wolfenberger – Singer-songwriter
• Andy Williams – pop singer
• Katt Williams – rapper, also known as Money Mike

[edit] Groups

• Beneath the Sky – metalcore band
• Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods – 1970s pop band
• The National – indie rock band
• 98 Degrees – Boy Band of the 1990s
• Afghan Whigs – rock band
• The Bears – rock band
• Blessid Union of Souls – rock band
• Ellery – alt-folk band
• The Greenhornes – rock band
• The Isley Brothers – R&B/Soul group
• Midnight Star – R&B/Soul group
• The Lemon Pipers – pop band from the 1960s
• Over the Rhine – rock band
• The Pinstripes – ska band
• Pure Prairie League – pop/country band

[edit] Authors

• Karen Ackerman – Children's author
• Thomas Berger – author
• Fredric Brown – author
• Alice Cary – poet
• Phoebe Cary – poet
• Michael Cunningham – novelist (The Hours)
• Nikki Giovanni – poet and author
• Shari Goldhagen – novelist
• Richard Hague – poet, author and educator
• Kenneth Koch – "New York School" poet
• Tim Lucas – film critic, author
• William Holmes McGuffey – educator, author of McGuffey Readers
• David Quammen – science and travel writer
• Mike Resnick – Hugo Award-winning Science Fiction writer
• Helen Hooven Santmyer – writer
• Curtis Sittenfeld – novelist
• Harriet Beecher Stowe – author and abolitionist
• Edmund White – author
• William Matthews – poet
• Jonathan Valin – novelist

[edit] Visual artists

• Robert Frederick Blum
• Jim Borgman – Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
• Jim Dine – pop artist
• Robert Scott Duncanson – African American painter and muralist
• Frank Duveneck – figure and portrait painter
• Suzanne Farrell – ballerina
• Samuel Hannaford – architect, designer of Cincinnati's Music Hall
• Charley Harper – wildlife artist
• Robert Henri – painter, leader of the Ashcan School movement
• Tim Folzenlogen – realist painter
• Winsor McCay – comic strip artist, animator
• Mary Louise McLaughlin
• Frank Harmon Myers – painter
• John Ruthven – painter of wildlife
• Maria Longworth Nichols Storer
• John Henry Twachtman – impressionist landscape painter
• Leon Van Loo – photographer
• 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
• Al Baschang – Major League Baseball outfielder
• David Bell – Major League Baseball third baseman
• Daryl Boston – Major League Baseball outfielder
• Jack Boyle, born in Cincinnati, Major League Baseball player^[2]
• Jimmy Boyle – Major League Baseball catcher
• 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)
• Joe Nuxhall – pitcher, later long-time color commentator for Cincinnati Reds games
• 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
• Pete Rose, Jr. – minor league baseball player
• Jeff Russell – Major League Baseball pitcher
• Scott Sauerbeck – Major League Baseball pitcher
• Jake Stenzel – Major League Basebal outfielder
• 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
• Joe Smith – Major League Baseball player

[edit] Basketball

• Dennis Bell – NBA player
• Tom Boerwinkle – NBA player
• Ric Bucher – ESPN NBA analyst
• Rick Calloway – NBA player
• Dave Cowens – Hall of Fame center (from Newport, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati)
• Mick Cronin – University of Cincinnati basketball coach
• Erik Daniels – University of Kentucky and NBA player
• Matt Harpring – NBA player
• Tyrone Hill – NBA player
• Brandon Hunter – NBA player
• Kannard Johnson – NBA player
• Louis Orr – NBA player and college coach
• Oscar Robertson – Hall of Fame guard (attended the University of Cincinnati, played professionally for the Cincinnati Royals, and resides in the Cincinnati area)
• Kelly Schumacher – WNBA basketball player
• LaSalle Thompson – NBA player

[edit] Football

• Shaun Alexander – running back, (from Florence, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati)
• B.J. Askew – NFL fullback
• Alex Bannister – NFL wide receiver
• Darren Barnett – NFL cornerback
• Rocky Boiman – Notre Dame and NFL linebacker
• Vaughn Booker – former NFL defensive end
• Colin Branch – NFL Safety
• Al Brosky – College Football Hall of Famer
• Ricky Brown – NFL linebacker for Boston College and the Oakland Raiders
• Shane Curry – former NFL defensive end, murdered in 1992
• Marc Edwards – NFL fullback
• Dave Foley – Ohio State and NFL offensive tackle
• Don Hasselbeck – former NFL tight end
• Tom Jackson – NFL player and ESPN analyst (currently lives in Cincinnati)
• Steve Junker – former NFL tight end
• Brandon Miree – former NFL fullback
• Al Nelson – former NFL cornerback
• Tom O'Brien – North Carolina State Wolfpack football head coach
• Ahmed Plummer – former NFL cornerback (from Wyoming, suburb of Cincinnati)
• George Ratterman – football player
• Mike Sensibaugh – NFL safety
• Roger Staubach – Heisman Trophy-winning Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback
• Greg Stemrick – former NFL cornerback
• Dana Stubblefield – former defensive tackle
• Tom Waddle – NFL wide receiver and football analyst

[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 – former Ultimate Fighting Championship champion
• Curt Fraser – National Hockey League (NHL) player and coach
• 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

[edit] Military

• James Calhoun – cavalryman killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
• William Dwight – Union Civil War general
• John R. Fox – World War II-era Medal of Honor recipient
• James A. Greer – Civil War-era Admiral
• Andrew Hickenlooper – Civil War general
• Francis Lupo – World War I soldier whose remains were discovered in 2003
• Keith Matthew Maupin – American Soldier who was missing captured in Iraq for nearly 4 years
• 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
• Kitty Burke – nightclub entertainer who attempted to bat in a baseball game
• Peter H. Clark – African-American abolitionist and educator
• Levi Coffin – abolitionist
• William Henry Elder – long-serving Roman Catholic Bishop of Cincinnati
• Mary Emery – philanthropist
• T. Higbee Embry – aviation enthusiast and co-founder of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• John R. Hicks – murderer executed by the State of Ohio
• Alice Stone Ilchman – eighth president of Sarah Lawrence College
• Joseph Jonas – first Jew to settle in Cincinnati, founder of the Old Jewish Cemetery
• Posteal Laskey – serial killer
• William Mackey Lomasney – Irish revolutionary
• Longworth family – early leading Cincinnati family
• Lytle family – early leading Cincinnati family
• Charles Manson – musician, cult leader, murderer
• Sara Murphy – socialite, Pablo Picasso portrait subject
• John Baptist Purcell – long-serving Roman Catholic Bishop of Cincinnati
• George Remus – bootlegger
• Robert Ruwe – United States Tax Court judge
• 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 (Sesame Street)
• The staff of the radio station in TV series, WKRP in Cincinnati
• Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man
• Jody Silver – The Puzzle Place
• Harry Stoner – private detective from a series of novels of the same name.
• John Monad – main character of John From Cincinnati, who claims to be from Cincinnati after the city is mentioned to him
• All the main characters from the film Wild Hogs

[edit] References

• 1. ^ (1963) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 

• ^ [1969] (1979) in Reichler, Joseph L.: The Baseball Encyclopedia, 4th edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8.