List of people from Cincinnati

This is a list of famous residents who were either born in, or have lived in, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA and its metropolitan area.

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 cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | location = Chicago | date = 1963]
*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

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 crisis of the 1980s
*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

cience

*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

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
*Daniel Johnson – internet weather forecaster personality

Artists and entertainment

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

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
*Katie Reider – Singer-songwriter
*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

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

Authors

*Karen Ackerman – Children's author
*Thomas Berger – author
*Fredric Brown – author
*Alice Cary – poet
*Phoebe Cary – poet
*Michael Cunningham – novelist ("The Hours")
*Joseph Enzweiler – poet and author
*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

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
*Charles Svendsen – religious and portrait painter
*John Henry Twachtman – impressionist landscape painter
*Leon Van Loo – photographer
*Tom Wesselmann – pop artist

ports

Baseball

*Mike Adams – Major League Baseball outfielder
*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
*Barry Bonnell – Major League Baseball player
*Daryl Boston – Major League Baseball outfielder
*Jack Boyle, born in Cincinnati, Major League Baseball playercite book |editor=Reichler, Joseph L.| title=The Baseball Encyclopedia |origyear=1969 |edition= 4th edition |year= 1979|publisher= Macmillan Publishing |location= New York|language= |id= ISBN 0-02-578970-8 ]
*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 – Hall of Fame 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

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

Football

*Shaun Alexander – running back, (from Florence, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati)
*Don Allard – NFL quarterback
*Kevin Allen – NFL offensive tackle
*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
*Dixon Edwards – former NFL linebacker
*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

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
*Sarah Fisher – IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500 race car driver
*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

Military

*Christian Albert – Medal of Honor winner at the Siege of Vicksburg
*Nicholas Longworth Anderson – American Civil War Colonel
*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 – American 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

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
*Alice Claypoole Gwynne – wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II

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

References