Famous Ohioans

Anderson, Sherwood - writer

Appleseed, Johnny - also know as John Chapman.

Arcaro, Eddie - jockey

Armstrong, Neil - astronaut and moon walker

Bailey, Ann - scout & spy for pioneers

Ball, Ernest - composer

Bara, Theda - movie star

Beatty, Clyde - circus performer

Beard, Daniel - founder of the Boy Scouts

Bicherdyke, Mary Ann Ball - Civil War nurse

Blackwell, Elizabeth - 1st woman doctor in U.S. & professor of medicine

Blue Jacket - Indian Chief

Hector Boiardi - businessman

Broomfield, Louis - writer

Brown, Paul - football coach

Brush, Charles F. - inventor

Caniff, Milton - cartoonist

Christy, Howard C. - artist

Clark, George R. - American Revolution military leader

Clem, Johnny - drummer boy of Shiloh

Cleaveland, Moses - founder of Cleveland

Cobb, Ty - baseball player

Compton, Arthur - physicists

Cox, James - former Governor & ran for President

Crile, George Washington - doctor & founder of Cleveland Clinic

Crogham, George - military leader

Custer, L. E. - inventor

Day, Doris - TV and film actress

Dillard, Harrison - Olympic athlete

Diller, Phyllis - comedienne

Downs, Hugh - performer

Dunbar, Paul Laurence - writer (poet)

Edison, Thomas A. - inventor

Emmett, Daniel - songwriter

Ewing, Thomas - 1st graduate of Ohio University, lawyer, Senator, & cabinet member of 2 presidents

Feller, Bob - baseball player

Finley, James (Rev.) - Methodist circuit rider during pioneer days

Fink, Mike - legendary man of the river

Firestone, Harvey S. - industrial leader

Foster, Stephen - composer

Gable,Clark - actor

Gamble, James - inventor & businessman

Garfield, James A. - President

Gish, Dorothy and Lillian - actresses

Glenn, John H. (Jr.) - astronaut and Senator

Giovanni, Nikki - author

Graham, Albert - started 4-H Clubs

Grant, Ulysses S. - President

Green, William - labor leader

Grey, Zane - writer

Grossman,Mary B. - first woman municipal judge

Goodrich, B. F. - rubber industrialist

Hall, Charles M. - inventor

Hanby, Benjamin -writer & composer

Hanna, Mark - merchant, political boss of Cleveland, & Senator

Harbaugh, Gregory J. - astronaut & graduate of Edison Elementary School

Harding, Warren G. - President

Harris, Mary - 1st white woman to live in Ohio country

Harrison, Benjamin - President

Harrison, William Henry - President

Harvey, Thomas W. - writer

Hayes, Lucy - Civil War nurse and First Lady

Hayes, Rutherford B. - President

Hayes, Woody - football coach

Heisman, John Wilhelm - athlete

Holbrook, Hal - actor

Hoover, Henry - businessman

Hope, Bob - performer

Howells, William Dean - author

Janis, Elsie - entertainer

Kettering, Charles F. - inventor

de LaSalle, Rene Robert - explorer

Lenhart, Carl H. - medical researcher

Lenski, Lois - writer

Lewis, Samuel - 1st superintendent of Ohio schools

Little Turtle - Miami Chief

Lovell, James A. - astronaut

Mann, Harace - educator

Martin, Dean - actor & comedian

McCluskey, Robert - writer

McGuffey, William Holmes - writer

McKinley, William - President

Mitchell, S. A. - writer

Meredith, Burgess Oliver - actor

Moon, Lottie - woman spy during Civil War

Morgan, Garret - inventor

Morse, Samuel - inventor

Newman, Paul - actor

Nicklaus, Jack - professional golfer

Nourse, Elizabeth - artist

O'Connell, Sister Anthony - Civil War nurse

Oakley, Annie - entertainer

Oldfield, Barney - race car driver

Owens, Jesse - Olympic athlete

Paar, Jack - performer

Perry, Oliver Hazard -navel commander

Pontiac - Ottawa Leader

Proctor, William - inventor & businessman

Putnam, Rufus - founder of Marietta

Ray, Joseph (Dr.) - writer

Rickenbacker, Eddie - WW II flyer

Ritty, James - inventor

Rockefeller, John D. - financier & philanthropist

Rogers, Roy - TV and film star

Rose, Pete - baseball player

Rouse, Bathsheba - 1st woman school teacher in Ohio

Sabin, Albert - doctor

Sheridan, Philip Henry - Civil War general

Sherman, William Techumseh - Civil War commander

Siple, Paul - explorer

Spencer, Platt R. - writer

Steinem, Gloria - famous feminist & magazine publisher

Stokes, Carl Burton - former mayor of Cleveland

Stowe, Harriet Beecher - writer

Taft, Robert Alphonso - powerful Senator

Taft, William Howard - President

Taylor, Tell - songwriter

Tecumseh - Shawnee Chief

Tenskwatawa - Shawnee Prophet

Thomas, Danny - performer

Thomas, Lowell

Thurber, James - author (for example of story written click here)

Tiffin, Edward - 1st Governor

Trabert, Tony - athlete

Ward, J. Quincy Adams - sculptor

Westropp, Lillian Mary - business woman

Willard, Archibald M. - artist

Wilson, Nancy - singer

Winters, Johnathan - comedian

Woods, Granville T. - inventor

Worthington, Thomas - Statesman

Wright, Orville and Wilbur - inventors

Young, Cy - 1st baseball player elected to "Baseball Hall of Fame"

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