E—F
Edison, Thomas Alva (inventor)
Milan
Electra, Carmen (actress, model)
Emmett, Daniel (song writer)
Evans, Bob
Evans, John (physician, educator)
Waynesville
Everhart, Angie (actress, model)
Farr, Jamie (actor)
Toledo
Farrell, Suzanne (ballet dancer)
Feller, Bob
Firestone, Harvey Samuel (industrialist)
Fisher, Sarah (race car driver)
Foraker, Joseph B. (Ohio governor)
Foraker, Julia Bundy (First Lady of
Ohio)
Ford, Harriet Cook (First Lady of Ohio)
Ford, Seabury (20th Ohio governor)
Geauga County
Foster, Ann Olmsted (First Lady of Ohio)
Foster, Charles (Ohio governor)
Foster, Stephen (composer)
G
Gable, Clark (actor)
Cadiz
Gage, Frances Dana (activist, writer)
Gamble, James (industrialist)
Garfield, James Abram (20th U.S.
President) Lake County
Giddings, Joshua (US Congressman)
Ashtabula County
Gilbert, Cass (architect)
Zanesville
Gish, Dorothy (actress)
Dayton
Gish, Lillian (actress)
Springfield
Gladden, Rev. Washington (reformer)
Glenn, John Herschel (astronaut, US
Senator)
Cambridge
Goldsmith, Jonathan (architect)
Lake County
Goodrich, Benjamin Franklin
(industrialist, physician)
Gould, Frederick Jay (author “Remember
the Maine) Geauga County
Grant, Ulysses Simpson (U.S. President)
Point Pleasant
Gray, Elisha (inventor)
Gray, Macy (musician)
Green, William (labor leader)
Grey, Joel (director)
Grey, Zane (author)
Zanesville
Griffin, Archie (football player)
H
Hall, Arsenio (entertainer)
Hall, Charles Martin (inventor– process
for refining aluminum)
Thompson
Hamilton, Ann (artist)
Hamilton, Margaret (actress—Wicked Witch
of the West)
Hamilton, Scott ( Olympic ice skater)
Hamilton, Virginia (author)
Hanna, Marcus (industrialist)
Harding, Warren Gamaliel (U.S.
President) Morrow County
Harper, William Rainey (educator)
Harrison, Benjamin (U.S. President)
North Bend
Harrison, William Henry (U.S. President)
Harvey, Thomas (educator)
Lake County
Hawkins, Jay "Screamin' Jay Hawkins"
(musician)
Hayes, Lucy
Hayes, Rutherford B. (U.S. President)
Delaware
Hayes, Wayne Woodrow "Woody" (football
coach)
Heche, Anne (actress)
Heisman, John (sports)
Henri, Robert (painter)
Cincinnati
Herrick, Carolyn Parmely (First Lady of
Ohio)
Herrick, Myron T. (Ohio governor)
Hitchcock, Peter (politician—father of
Ohio Constitution)
Geauga County
Hoadly, George (Ohio governor)
Hoadly, Mary Perry (First Lady of Ohio)
Holbrook, Hal (actor)
Cleveland
Hollister, Nancy P. (Ohio governor)
Holmes, John (actor)
Holmes, Katie (actress)
Hoover, William Henry (industrialist)
Hope, Bob (actor, comedian)
Cleveland
Howells, William Dean (author, critic)
Martins Ferry
Humphrey, George M. (US Secretary of
the Treasury)
Lake County
Hunter, Dard (printer)
Huntington, Hannah Huntington (First
Lady of Ohio)
Huntington, Samuel (3rd Ohio governor)
Lake County
Hynde, Christine Ellen (musician "THe
Pretenders")
J
Janney, Allison (actress)
Jarmusch, Jim (film maker)
Johnson, Philip Cortelyou (architect)
Cleveland
Johnson, Tom L. (politician)
Jones, Sam “Golden Rule” (politician)
K
Kanakaredes, Melina (actress)
Kane, Carol
Kaukonen, Amy (first woman mayor in
Ohio) Lake County
Kettering, Charles F. (inventor)
Loudonville
King, Don (sports promoter)
Kirker, Sarah Smith (First Lady of
Ohio)
Kirker, Thomas (Ohio governor)
Knight, Bobby (basketball coach)
Kosar, Bernie (football player)
Krol, John Joseph Cardinal
L
Landis, Kenisaw Mountian (first baseball
commissioner)
Milville
Lashay, Dan (TV writer for “Cheers” &
“Fraser”) Painesville—Lake County
Leick, Hudson (actor)
Lin, Maya Ying (architect, sculptor)
Athens
Little Turtle
Looker, Othniel (Ohio governor)
Looker, Pamela Clark (First Lady of
Ohio)
Lords, Traci (actress)
Lucas, Robert (Ohio Governor)
Lucas, Friendly Sumner (First Lady of
Ohio)
Lynde, Paul (actor, comedian)
Mount
Vernon
M
Mancini, Henry (musician, composer)
Mann, Horace (writer)
Martin, Dean (actor, comedian,
singer) Steubenville
McArthur, Duncan (Ohio governor)
McArthur, Nancy McDonald (First Lady of
Ohio)
McClellan, George (general)
McCormick, Cyrus (inventor)
McGovern, Maureen (actress)
McGuffey, William (author, educator)
McKinley, Ida Saxton (First Lady, First
Lady of Ohio)
McKinley, William (U.S. President, Ohio
governor) Niles
Medill, William (Ohio govervor)
Meigs, Return Jonathan (Ohio governor)
Meigs, Sophia Wright (First Lady of
Ohio)
Meredith, Burgess (actor)
Metzenbaum, Howard (politician)
Mills Brothers (singing group)
Piqua
Morgan, Garrett (inventor)
Morrow, Jeremiah (Ohio governor)
Morrow, Mary Parkhill (First Lady of
Ohio)
Morrison, (Chloe) Toni (author)
Lorain
Munson, Thrumon
Mussey, Ellen (1st woman dean of a
law school)
Ashtabula County
N
Nash, George K. (Ohio governor)
Newman, Paul (actor)
Cleveland
Nicklaus, Jack (golfer)
Columbus
Norris, George W. (US Senator)
Sandusky
Novello, Don (actor—Father Sarducci
on “SNL”) Ashtabula County
O
Oakley, Annie (sharpshooter, folk
figure) Darke County
Oldfield, Bernera (Barney) (race car
driver)
Olds, Ransom Eli (industrialist,
inventor)
Opper, Frederick B. (cartoonist)
Madison—Lake County
Owens, Jesse (athlete)
P
Parker, Sarah Jessica (actress)
Pattison, John (Ohio governor)
Pattison, Altheia (First Lady of Ohio)
Peale, Norman Vincent (clergyman)
Bowersville
Pendleton, George H.
Perry, Oliver Hazzard (military)
Pilkey, Dav (author)
Plunkett, Roy J. (chemist)
New
Carlisle
Pontiac (native American)
Poston, Tom (actor)
Columbus
Power, Tyrone (actor)
Cincinnati
Procter, William (industrialist)
The Prophet (Shawnee leader)
Putnam, Rufus (surveyor general)
R
Rankin, John (abolitionist)
Resnick, Judith (astronaut)
Akron
Richter, Charles
Rickenbacker, Eddie (military pilot)
Columbus
Rickey, Branch (baseball manager)
Rockefeller, John D. (industrialist)
Rogers, Roy (actor)
Rose, Pete (athlete)
Rourke, Constance Mayfield
(historian)
Cleveland
S
Sabin, Albert (scientist—discovered
polio vaccine)
Schlesinger Jr. , Arthur M.
(historian)
Columbus
Schumacher, Ferdinand (entrepreneur)
Seiberling, Frank (industrialist)
Serling, Rod (actor)
Shannon, Sarah Obsun (First Lady of
Ohio)
Shannon, Wilson (Ohio governor)
Sheen, Martin (actor, activist)
Sheridan, Philip (General)
Sherman, John
Sherman, William Tecumseh (Civil War
general) Lancaster
Shula, Don
Smith, Mamie (musician)
Smith, Katie (basketball player)
Spencer, Lily Martin (artist)
Spencer, Platt R. (Creator of
Spencerian penmanship method)
Ashtabula Co.
Spielberg, Steven (director,
screenwriter)
Cincinnati
Stanton, Edwin McMasters (lawyer)
Steinem, Gloria (activist, author,
journalist)
Toledo
Stokes, Carl (politician)
Stone, Lucy (women’s rights activist)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (author)
Sweet, Rachel (musician)
T
Tabern, Donalee L. (inventor)
Bowling
Green
Taft, Bob (Ohio governor)
Taft, Hope (First Lady of Ohio)
Taft, William Howard (U.S. President)
Cincinnati
Tatro, Joyce Kimberly (educator)
Toledo
Tatum, Arthur (musician– jazz
pianist)
Tecumseh (Shawnee leader)
Oldtown
Tenskwatawa (Shawnee leader)
Thomas, Lowell Jackson (newscaster,
author) Woodington
Thurber, James (author, cartoonist,
humorist) Columbus
Thurman, Allen G.
Tiffin, Edward (Ohio governor)
Tiffin, Mary Worthington (First Lady of
Ohio)
Tod, David (Ohio governor)
Treat, Howell B. (Civil War
Congressional Medal of Honor Winner)
Lake County
Tressel, Jim (football coach)
Trimble, Allen (Ohio governor)
Trimble, Allen (Ohio governor)
Trimble, Rachel Woodrow (First Lady of
Ohio)
Turner, Ted (broadcasting)
Cincinnati
U
Urich, Robert (actor)
V
Vallandigham, Clement L.
Vance, Joseph (Ohio Governor)
Vance, Mary Lemon (First Lady of Ohio)
Volwiler, Ernest H. (inventor)
Hamilton
W
Wade, Benjamin (anti-slavery leader)
Ashtabula County
Wald, Lillian (nurse , reformer)
Walker, William (politician)
Ward, John Q A (sculptor)
Watterson, Bill (cartoonist—”Calvin &
Hobbes”) Geauga County
Wayne, Anthony
Weber, Raymond Elwin (webmaster)
Toledo
White Clarence (photographer)
White, George (Ohio governor)
Williams, George Washington
(first African American in Ohio
Assembly, politician)
Winger, Debra (actress)
Winters, Johnathan (actor)
Dayton
Wise, Isaac Mayer (educator, religious
leader)
Wood, Mary Rice (First Lady of Ohio)
Wood, Reuben (Ohio governor)
Woodhull, Victoria (activist,
politician)
Woods, Granville T. (inventor)
Woodson, Charles (football player)
Worthington, Eleanor Swearingen (First
Lady of Ohio)
Worthington, Thomas (Ohio governor)
Wright, Orville (inventor)
Dayton
Wright, Wilbur (inventor)
Dayton
Y
