Famous Ohioans List

Sherwood Anderson (author)
Johnny Appleseed (pioneer nurseryman)
Neil Armstrong (astronaut)
Theda Bara (actress)
Kathleen Battle (opera singer)
George Bellows (painter)
Halle Berry (actress)
Ambrose Bierce (author)
Cindy Blackman (musician)
Elizabeth Blackwell (doctor)
Erma Bombeck (author)
William Boyd (actor, Hoppalong Cassidy)
Louis Bromfield (author)
John Brown (abolitionist)
Paul Brown (football player)
Drew Carey (actor)
Tracy Chapman (musician)
Salmon Chase (Lincoln Cabinet member)
Arthur Compton (Nobel Prize, Physics 1927)
Hart Crane (poet)
Wes Craven (filmmaker)
George Armstrong Custer (military)
Dorothy Dandridge (actress)
Clarence Darrow (attorney)
Doris Day (actress)
Ruby Dee (actress)
Stephen Donaldson (author)
Rita Dove (poet)
Hugh Downs (TV broadcaster)
Paul Lawrence Dunbar (poet)
Thomas Edison (inventor)
Carmen Electra (model, actress)
Angie Everhart (model, actress)
Jamie Farr (actor)
Suzanne Farrell (ballet dancer)
Harvey Firestone (industrialist)
Sarah Fisher (race car driver)
William Fowler (nobel prize physics)
Clark Gable (actor)
James Gamble (industrialist)
James Garfield (President)
Cass Gilbert (architect)
Dorothy Gish (actress)
Lilian Gish (actress)
John Glenn (astronaut)
Ulysses S. Grant (President)
Macy Gray (musician)
William Green (labor leader)
Zane Grey (author)
Archie Griffin (football player)
Warren G. Harding (President)
Benjamin Harrison (President)
William Henry Harrison (President)
John Havlicek (basketball player)
“Screamin” Jay Hawkins (musician)
Rutherford B. Hayes (President)
Wayne “Woody” Hayes (football coach)
Anne Heche (actress)
Bob Hope (actor, comedian)
Dard Hunter (painter)
Christine Hynde (musician)
Allison Janey (actress)
Jim Jarmusch (filmmaker)
Melinda Kanakaredes (actress)
Charles Kettering (inventor)
Bobby Knight (coach)
Hudson Liech (actor)
Dean Martin (actor, singer)
William McGuffey (educator)
William McKinley (President)
Garrett Morgan (inventor)
Toni Morrison (author-noble prize literature)
Paul Newman (actor)
Jack Nicklaus (golfer)
Annie Oakley (sharpshooter)
Jesse Owens (track-and-field olympian)
Sarah Jessica Parker (actress)
Norman Vincent Peale (clergyman)
Dave Pilkey (author)
Tyrone Power (actor)
William Proctor (industrialist)
The Prophet (Shawnee leader)
Judith Resnik (astronaut)
Eddie Rickenbacker (military pilot)
Branch Rickey (baseball manager)
John D. Rockefeller (industrialist)
Roy Rogers (actor)
Frank Seiberling (industrialist)
Martin Sheen (actor)
William Tecumseh Sherman (military general)
Mamie Smith (musician)
Lily Martin Spencer (artist)
Steven Spielberg (director)
Gloria Steinem (journalist)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (author)
Rachel Sweet (musician)
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (historian)
William Howard Taft (President)
Art Tatum (musician)
Tecumseh (Shawnee leader)
James Thurber (cartoonist, author)
Jim Tressel (football coach)
Ted Turner (broadcasting)
Clarence White (photographer)
Isaac Mayer Wise (educator)
Victoria Woodhull (activist)
Granville Woods (inventor)
Charles Woodson (football player)
Orville Wright (inventor)
Wilbur Wright (inventor)
Frank Yankovic (musician)
Denton Cy Young (baseball player)