List of people from Cincinnati
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Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Use mdy dates This is a list of notable residents of Cincinnati, Ohio.[1]
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Politics
- Stan Aronoff – member of Ohio Senate 1967–1996, its president 1989–96
- William Evans Arthur (1825–1897) – born in Cincinnati, United States congressman from Kentucky[2]
- Steve Austria – Republican congressman, 2009–2013
- Jess L. Baily – United States Ambassador to North Macedonia, 2015–2019
- Walt Bachrach – long-serving mayor of Cincinnati
- Ken Blackwell – former mayor of Cincinnati 1999–2007, Republican, Ohio Secretary of State and unsuccessful 2006 candidate for governor of Ohio
- James G. Birney – abolitionist and Liberty Party presidential candidate
- John Boehner – congressman and former Speaker of the House
- William K. Bond – Whig congressman, 1849–1853
- Stanley E. Bowdle – Democratic congressman, 1913–1915
- John Bridgeland – lawyer and activist
- Tom Brinkman – Republican Ohio House of Representatives member
- Ethan Allen Brown – 7th governor of Ohio
- Frank Brogan – 15th lieutenant governor of Florida
- Henry Francis Bryan – United States Navy rear admiral and the 17th governor of American Samoa
- Jacob Burnet – U.S. senator, 1828–1831[3]
- Phillip Burton – Democratic congressman from California
- Benjamin Butterworth – Republican congressman, 1879–1883, 1885–1891
- Mary Edith Campbell – suffragette, board of education member
- Samuel Fenton Cary – congressman and temperance movement leader
- John Cranley – former mayor of Cincinnati, 2013–2022
- Steve Chabot – Republican congressman, 1995–2009; 2011–2023
- Thomas R. Chandler – perennial candidate
- Donald D. Clancy – former Republican congressman
- Levi Coffin – abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad
- Aaron H. Conrow – Confederate congressman and general
- Moses Dickson – Abolitionist leader
- David T. Disney – Democratic congressman, 1849–1855
- Ozro J. Dodds – Democratic congressman, 1872–1873
- Steve Driehaus – Democratic congressman, 2009–2011
- Alexander Duncan – physician, Democratic congressman, 1837–1841, 1843–1845
- Thomas O. Edwards – Whig congressman, 1847–1849
- Edwin Einstein – Republican congressman from New York, 1879–1881
- Richard Kenneth Fox – United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, 1977–1979
- George Fries – physician, Democratic congressman, 1845–1849
- James W. Gazlay – Republican congressman, 1823–1825
- Thomas Geoghegan – labor lawyer
- John J. Gilligan – former governor of Ohio
- Herman P. Goebel – Republican congressman, 1903–1911
- Bill Gradison – Republican congressman, former mayor of Cincinnati
- Buddy Gray – activist and social worker
- William S. Groesbeck – lawyer, Democratic congressman, 1857–1859
- John A. Gurley – Republican congressman, 1859–1863
- George W. Hayes – slave, Republican Ohio House of Representatives member
- William E. Hess – Republican congressman, 1929–1937, 1939–1949, 1951–1961
- Dave Hobson – former Republican congressman
- Cynthia Hogan – counsel to Joe Biden
- Henry Thomas Hunt – former mayor of Cincinnati, 1912–1913
- Andy Ireland – Democrat/Republican congressman from Florida, 1977–1993
- B. Todd Jones lawyer, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 2011–2015
- Joel Hills Johnson – Utah Territorial legislator, 1849–1850
- William J. Keating – former Republican congressman, brother of Charles Keating
- Simon L. Leis, Jr. – Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutor and sheriff
- Mark Lippert – former ambassador to South Korea
- Jesse D. Locker – former Cincinnati city councilman and United States Ambassador to Liberia, 1953–55
- Nicholas Longworth – former Speaker of the House and Majority Leader
- Charlie Luken – former congressman and mayor of Cincinnati
- Tom Luken – former congressman
- Greg Landsman – Democratic congressman, 2023–
- Robert Todd Lytle – congressman, 1833–1835
- Mark L. Mallory – former mayor of Cincinnati, 2005–2013
- William L. Mallory, Sr. – first African-American Ohio House of Representatives majority leader
- Sam Malone – former Cincinnati city councilman
- Lawrence Maxwell, Jr. – United States Solicitor General, 1893–1895
- Neil H. McElroy – Secretary of Defense, 1957–1959
- John McLean – congressman, 1813–16, U.S. Postmaster General, 1823–1829, U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1829–1861
- Alexander C. Mitchell – Republican congressman from Kansas, 1911
- Tom Mooney – teacher, labor union activist
- Harold G. Mosier – Democratic congressman, 1937–1939
- Edward Follansbee Noyes – governor of Ohio, Ambassador to France
- Kabaka Oba – civil rights activist
- Lucy Evelyn Peabody – conservation activist
- Aaron F. Perry – congressman, 1871–1872
- Rob Portman – congressman, United States Trade Representative; director of Office of Management and Budget; U.S. senator 2011–2023
- Todd Portune – former Cincinnati city councilman
- Ayanna Pressley – U.S. representative for Massachusetts[4]
- Aftab Pureval - Mayor of Cincinnati
- Trey Radel – former Republican congressman from Florida
- James B. Ray – governor of Indiana, 1825–1831
- Lindsay Reynolds – chief of staff to First Lady of the United States Melania Trump
- Carl West Rich – Republican congressman, three-time mayor of Cincinnati
- Eugene P. Ruehlmann – mayor of Cincinnati, 1967–1971
- Jerry Rubin – political activist, Chicago Seven
- Charles W. Sawyer – United States Secretary of Commerce, 1948–1953 under President Harry Truman
- Milton Sayler – Cincinnati city councilman, congressman, 1873–1879
- Bob Schaffer – former Republican congressman from Colorado
- Jean Schmidt – Republican congresswoman, 2005–2013; Ohio state senator 2001–2004, 2021–
- Bob Schuler – Ohio state senator, 2002–2009
- P.G. Sittenfeld – former Cincinnati city councilman, convicted of felony bribery
- Kathleen Sebelius – governor of Kansas 2003–2009, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services 2009–14
- William B. Shattuc – congressman, 1897–1903
- Christopher Smitherman – former Cincinnati city councilman
- Potter Stewart – lawyer, U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1958–1981
- Bellamy Storer (1796–1875) – lawyer, congressman, 1835–1837
- Bellamy Storer (1847–1922) – congressman, 1891–1895, diplomat
- Bob Taft – governor of Ohio, 1999–2007
- Charles Phelps Taft II – mayor of Cincinnati, 1955–1957
- Robert A. Taft – Senate leader; son of William Howard Taft
- Robert Taft Jr. – congressman 1963–1965, 1967–1971; U.S. senator 1971–1976
- William Howard Taft – 27th president of the United States, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Business
- Marcellus Bailey – patent attorney for Alexander Graham Bell
- Emma Beckwith – bookkeeper, optician, inventor, suffragette
- Powel Crosley Jr. – inventor and entrepreneur
- Francis L. Dale – lawyer, Cincinnati Reds owner, Republican Party operative
- Maxwell Dane – advertising executive
- James Gamble – co-founder of Procter & Gamble
- Alfred T. Goshorn – businessman, civic booster, founder of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team
- Michael Green – inventor, co-founder and CEO of Athena Security
- Lou Groen – entrepreneur, inventor of the Filet-O-Fish sandwich
- Kevin Harrington – infomercial entrepreneur
- Bob Herbold – former executive vice president and chief operating officer of Microsoft Corporation
- Louise McCarren Herring – leader of the credit union movement
- Charles R. Hook Sr. – steel industrialist
- Ronald Howes – inventor of the Easy-Bake Oven
- Jeffrey R. Immelt – CEO of General Electric
- Charles Keating – banker involved in savings and loan crisis of the 1980s
- Jim Koch – founder of Boston Beer Company
- Bernard Kroger – founder of the Kroger supermarket chain
- Chris Kempczinski – president & CEO of McDonald's Corporation (born in Boston, raised in Cincinnati)
- Isaac Herbert Kempner – founder of Imperial Sugar
- James Michael Lafferty – CEO of Fine Hygienic Holding, former regional CEO for Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and British American Tobacco; Olympic track and field coach
- Harry Ward Leonard – electrical engineer and inventor
- Carl Lindner, Jr. – businessman and co-founder of United Dairy Farmers; founder of American Financial Group
- Otto Marmet – Coal proprietor and businessman
- William F. Nast – diplomat, railroad businessman
- Henry Nicholas – communications technology entrepreneur
- Vivek Ramaswamy – biopharmaceutical entrepreneur, Republican Party presidential candidate
- Stephen Sanger – former chairman of General Mills
- Marge Schott – women's business pioneer; former owner of the Cincinnati Reds
- David Sinton – pig iron industrialist
- Ted Turner – founder of Turner Broadcasting System
- David Uible – businessman and county commissioner
- Douglas A. Warner III – banker
- Joseph Ray Watkins – born in city, entrepreneur and founder of Watkins Incorporated
- Luman Watson – 19th-century clockmaker
- Granville Woods – inventor
Science
- Cleveland Abbe – meteorologist
- C. David Allis – geneticist
- Richard Allison – Surgeon General of the Army
- Ellen Harding Baker – astronomer and teacher
- Charles J. Bates – food scientist
- Amanda Bauer – astronomer
- George Robert Carruthers – physicist
- Robin T. Cotton – pediatrician
- Naomi Deutsch – nurse and educator
- Michael Dine – theoretical physicist
- William Doherty – entomologist
- Joseph Leo Doob – mathematician
- Ronald G. Douglas – mathematician and university provost
- Daniel Drake – physician and writer
- Richard S. Hamilton – mathematician
- Olive Hazlett – mathematician
- Henry Heimlich – co-developer of the Heimlich maneuver
- Karl Gordon Henize – NASA astronaut
- Robert Kistner – gynecologist, textbook author
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn – science historian
- John Mauchly – physicist, co-designer of ENIAC
- Ann Moore – pediatric nurse, inventor of the Snugli baby carrier
- Sharlotte Neely – anthropologist
- Louis Harry Newburgh – Professor of Clinical Investigation
- Joseph Ransohoff – neurosurgeon
- Samuel Mitja Rapoport – biochemist, Communist activist in Cincinnati in the 1930s
- Tom Rapoport – cell biologist at the Harvard Medical School
- Marion Rawson – archaeologist
- George Rieveschl – inventor of Benadryl
- Rae Robertson-Anderson – biophysicist
- Albert Sabin – discoverer of oral polio vaccine
Journalism and media
- Jon Arthur – syndicated radio personality
- Gamaliel Bailey – journalist and abolitionist
- Delilah L. Beasley – first African American woman to be published regularly in a major metropolitan newspaper
- Marty Brennaman – Cincinnati Reds radio play-by-play announcer 1974–2019
- Thom Brennaman – sports broadcaster
- Ric Bucher – sports journalist and television host[5]
- Gary Burbank – radio personality
- Nick Clooney – journalist, anchorman, and television host, father of George Clooney
- Gail Collins – columnist for The New York Times
- The Cool Ghoul, real name Dick VonHoene – news anchor, talk show and horror-movie show host
- Bill Cunningham – attorney, radio and television talk show host
- Paul Dixon – Cincinnati-area daytime television host
- Elizabeth Drew – political journalist and author
- Sara Eisen – CNBC news anchor
- Courtis Fuller – local news anchor
- 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
- Mary Coffin Johnson – newspaper publisher, activist
- Joe Kernen – CNBC news anchor
- Dan La Botz – journalist, author and socialist activist
- Alan Light – former editor of VIBE and Spin
- Ruth Lyons – radio and television personality
- Edward Deering Mansfield – 19th-century newspaper editor
- William Maxwell – engraver, printer, publisher of the first newspaper in Cincinnati
- Mike McConnell – syndicated radio talk show host
- John Roll McLean – owner and publisher of The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Washington Post
- Washington McLean – owner and publisher of The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Washington Post
- Erin McPike – White House Correspondent for Independent Journal Review, formerly with CNN and NBC News
- David Mendell – journalist and Barack Obama biographer
- Dan Patrick – sportscaster and radio personality (from Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati)
- Virginia Payne – radio actress
- Wally Phillips – radio personality
- James S. Robbins – opinion journalist, author and scholar
- Glenn Ryle – television personality
- Al Schottelkotte – television news anchor and reporter
- Bob Shreve – early television personality
- Larry Smith – puppeteer and children's television host
- Tony Snow – news commentator, White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush administration
- Dale Sommers – radio personality also known as "the Truckin' Bozo"
- Estelle Sternberger – radio commentator and women's activist
- Anne Marie Tiernon – local news anchor
- Linda Vester – Fox News Channel anchor
- Carolyn Washburn – former vice president and editor of The Cincinnati Enquirer
- Liz Wheeler – conservative political commentator, formerly with One America News Network
- Todd Wright – Sports radio personality
- Frederick Ziv – television producer and syndication pioneer
Artists and entertainment
Acting, motion pictures, and television
- Kevin Allison – actor, sketch comedian (The State)
- Patti Astor – underground film actress
- Theda Bara – silent film actress
- Powhatan Beaty – American Civil War soldier and stage actor
- Louise Beavers – actress
- Andy Blankenbuehler – dancer and choreographer
- Ron Bohmer – singer and actor
- Zach Bolton – voice actor and ADR director affiliated with Funimation
- Mark Boone Junior – actor
- Lee Bowman – film and television actor
- Bob Braun – local television and radio personality
- Don Brodie – actor and director
- Nana Bryant – actress
- Mabel Brownell – stage actress
- Rebecca Budig – soap opera and television actress
- Marty Callner – music video director
- Rocky Carroll – actor (NCIS)
- Marguerite Clark – stage and silent film actress
- Majel Coleman – actress and model
- Ray Combs – host of Family Feud, 1988–1994
- Walter Connolly – film actor
- Shamika Cotton – actress
- Chase Crawford – actor and producer
- Joel Crothers – actor
- Raymond Garfield Dandridge – poet[6]
- Doris Day – popular singer and actress
- Tim de Zarn – actor
- Gabrielle Dennis – actress (The Game)
- John Diehl – actor
- John Dierkes – actor
- Pamella D'Pella – actress
- Carmen Electra (born Tara Leigh Patrick) – actress, singer
- Vera-Ellen – actress and dancer (White Christmas)
- Susan Floyd – actress
- Trixie Friganza – vaudeville and film actress
- Stephen Geoffreys – film, stage, and gay pornography actor
- Nikki Glaser – stand-up comedian and actress
- Sidney M. Goldin – silent film director
- Charles Guggenheim – movie director
- Julie Hagerty – model and actress (Airplane!)
- Pauline Hall – stage actress and dancer
- Porter Hall – actor (Miracle on 34th Street)
- Emily Harper – actress
- Maurice Hegeman – Broadway musical actor, lyricist, and playwright[7]
- Tiffany Hines – actress
- Libby Holman – torch singer and actress
- Tonya Ingram – poet, disability activist, mental health advocate
- IShowSpeed, real name Darren Watkins Jr. – YouTube personality, streamer, rapper, and songwriter
- Arthur V. Johnson – silent film actor and director
- Lanny Joon – actor
- Noah Keen – actor
- Dagney Kerr – actress
- Mike Kleinhenz – voice actor
- Ida Koverman – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film executive
- Eric Lange – actor (Lost and Victorious)
- Dorothy Layton – actress
- KiKi Layne – actress
- Hal Le Roy – dancer, singer, stage actor
- Hudson Leick – actress
- Edward LeSaint – silent film actor and director
- Marcia Lewis – actress
- Vicki Lewis – actress (NewsRadio)
- Floriana Lima – actress
- Todd Louiso – actor
- Gina Malo – actress
- Irene Manning – actress and singer
- Jack Manning – actor
- Markiplier, real name Mark Edward Fischbach – YouTube personality, originally from Honolulu, later moved to Los Angeles
- Ann May – silent film actress
- Eve McVeagh – actress
- Benjamin S. Mears – actor and playwright
- Blanche Mehaffey – showgirl and actress
- Gertrude Michael – film and television actress
- Fanny Midgley – silent film actress
- Harry F. Millarde – silent film actor and director
- Marjorie Monaghan – actress
- J. Madison Wright Morris – actress and model
- Kathryn Morris – actress (Cold Case)
- Sydney Morton – actor
- Heidi Mueller – actress
- Pamela Myers – Broadway and television actress
- Stephen Nichols – actor
- Luke Null – comedian, cast member on Saturday Night Live
- Gary Owen – stand-up comedian and actor
- Jay Patterson – actor
- Jo Ellen Pellman – actress
- Richard M. Powell – television and film screenwriter
- Tyrone Power – actor (The Mark of Zorro, Witness for the Prosecution)
- Lee Roy Reams – Broadway actor and director, born in Covington, Kentucky
- Theresa Rebeck – television (NYPD Blue) and film screenwriter
- Theodore Reed – movie director
- Hari Rhodes – actor
- Sy Richardson – actor
- Diana-Maria Riva – actress
- Dennis Roady – actor and YouTube personality
- Wendy Robie – actress
- Roy Rogers – actor and singer, iconic western film star
- Bonnie Rotten – porn star
- Brenda Scott – actress
- Tom Segura – comedian
- Iva Shepard – silent film actress
- Gertrude Short – silent film actress
- Hal Sparks – actor and comedian
- Shane Sparks – choreographer
- Steven Spielberg – Oscar-winning film director
- Jerry Springer – mayor of Cincinnati, talk show host (born in London, of Austrian parents)
- Pat Stanley – actress, dancer, and singer
- Galadriel Stineman – actress
- Brette Taylor – actress and singer-songwriter
- Amanda Tepe – actress
- Jordan Trovillion – actress and singer
- Evelyn Venable – actress
- Daniel von Bargen – actor
- Patricia Wettig – actress and playwright
- Robert J. Wilke – actor
- Katt Williams – stand-up comedian and actor
- Jennie Worrell – 19th-century burlesque actress
- Rudy Wurlitzer – screenwriter
- Amy Yasbeck – actress
- Wolfgang Zilzer – actor
Music
- Marty Balin – founder and original lead singer of Jefferson Airplane[8]
- Matt Berninger – lead singer of The National
- LaKiesha Berri – R&B singer
- Boom Bip – electronic musician
- Andy Biersack – rock singer (Black Veil Brides)
- Bobby Borchers – country music singer-songwriter
- Earl Bostic – jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist
- Mia Carruthers – singer-songwriter
- Mel Carter – R&B singer
- Bootsy Collins – Parliament Funkadelic funk bass player[9]
- Danny Cox – folk singer/songwriter
- Gustav Dannreuther – violinist and conductor
- Hal Davis – songwriter and record producer for Motown Records
- Carl Dobkins, Jr. – rockabilly singer
- George Duning – trumpet and piano player
- Fat Jon – hip hop producer
- Frank Foster – jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger
- Stephen Foster – songwriter and arranger
- Homer and Jethro – Grammy-winning country comedy duo
- H-Bomb Ferguson – jump blues singer
- Henry Fillmore – march music composer
- Peter Frampton – musician, previously lived in Cincinnati
- Jane French – singer-songwriter
- Reed Ghazala – electronic musician and instrument builder
- Larry Hall – singer ("Sandy")
- Fred Hersch – jazz pianist
- Hi-Tek – rapper and producer
- Joel Hills Johnson – gospel songwriter called "Zion's Songster"
- Gloria Jones – singer-songwriter
- Grandpa Jones – entertainer, banjo player and "old time" country and gospel singer
- Kenna – electronic musician
- 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
- Arlo McKinley – singer-songwriter
- Len Mink – Christian evangelist and musician
- Sonny Moorman – blues guitarist
- Nicole C. Mullen – songwriter and choreographer
- Naked Cowboy – busker
- Curtis Peagler – jazz saxophonist
- Ralph Penland – jazz drummer
- Awadagin Pratt – concert pianist
- Tyler Ramsey – guitarist for Band of Horses
- Antonio "L.A." Reid – record executive
- Katie Reider – singer-songwriter
- Sheldon Reynolds – R&B guitarist
- George Russell – jazz pianist and composer
- Mamie Smith – blues singer
- Sudan Archives – violinist and R&B singer[10]
- Merle Travis – country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist
- Constance Cochnower Virtue – composer
- Speed Walton – hip hop musician
- Dave Widow – singer-songwriter
- Andy Williams – pop singer
- David Wolfenberger – singer-songwriter
- Philippe Wynne – lead singer for The Spinners
Groups
- 98 Degrees – boy band of the 1990s
- Afghan Whigs – rock band
- Ass Ponys – rock band
- The Bears – rock band
- Beneath the Sky – metalcore band
- Black Veil Brides – rock band
- Blessid Union of Souls – rock band
- Buffalo Killers – rock band
- The Casinos – doo-wop group
- The Deele – R&B/Soul group
- Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods – 1970s pop band
- Ellery – alt-folk band
- Five Deez – Hip Hop group
- Foxy Shazam – rock band
- The Greenhornes – rock band
- Heartless Bastards – indie rock band
- The Isley Brothers – R&B/soul group
- The Lemon Pipers – pop band from the 1960s
- Moth – alternative rock band
- The National – indie rock band
- Otis Williams and the Charms – doo-wop vocal group
- Over the Rhine – rock band
- Pomegranates – indie rock band
- Pure Prairie League – pop/country band
- RyanDan – dual operatic singer/gospel
- The Students – doo-wop group
- Walk the Moon – indie-rock band
- Wussy – indie rock band
Authors
- Karen Ackerman – children's author
- Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta (1834–1907) – poet
- David Bell – novelist
- Thomas Berger – author
- Eva Best – story writer, poet, music composer, dramatist
- Christopher Bollen – novelist
- Fredric Brown – author
- Alice Cary – poet
- Phoebe Cary – poet
- Stuart Archer Cohen – novelist
- Sharon Creech – novelist
- Michael Cunningham – novelist (The Hours)
- Kelcey Ervick – author and artist
- Nikki Giovanni – poet and author
- Shari Goldhagen – novelist
- Richard Hague – poet, author and educator
- Kenneth Koch – New York School poet
- Tim Lucas – film critic, novelist, author
- William Matthews – poet
- William Holmes McGuffey – educator, author of McGuffey Readers
- Karen Marie Moning – paranormal romance/thriller author
- David Quammen – science and travel writer
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips – author
- Mike Resnick – Hugo Award-winning science fiction writer
- Helen Hooven Santmyer – writer
- Stanley Schmidt – science fiction author and magazine editor
- Curtis Sittenfeld – novelist
- Henry Thew Stevenson – academic and writer
- Harriet Beecher Stowe – author and abolitionist
- Jonathan Valin – novelist
- Edmund White – author
Visual artists
- James Presley Ball – photographer and abolitionist
- Karl Bissinger – photographer
- Robert Frederick Blum – lithographer
- Jim Borgman – Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
- Jim Dine – pop artist
- Robert S. Duncanson – painter and muralist
- Frank Duveneck – figure and portrait painter
- Elliot Earls – graphic designer
- Alfred Oscar Elzner – architect
- Suzanne Farrell – ballerina
- Tim Folzenlogen – realist painter
- William H. Fry – Aesthetic movement wood carver and gilder
- Frank J. Girardin – painter
- Daniel Greene – painter
- Harry Hake – architect
- Samuel Hannaford – architect, designer of Cincinnati's Music Hall
- Charley Harper – wildlife artist
- Robert Henri – painter, leader of the Ashcan School movement
- Ida Holterhoff Holloway – painter[11]
- Charles S. Kaelin – American Impressionist painter
- Graham Ingels – comic book and magazine illustrator
- Thomas Rogers Kimball – architect
- Janis Crystal Lipzin – multi-media artist, filmmaker, photographer
- Gary Lord – faux painter and decorator
- Mary Louise McLaughlin – ceramic painter and studio potter
- Lewis Henry Meakin – American Impressionist painter
- Henry Mosler – painter
- Alfred B. Mullett – architect
- Frank Harmon Myers – painter
- Charles Henry Niehaus – sculptor
- Thomas Satterwhite Noble – painter
- Elizabeth Nourse – painter
- Diane Pfister – artist and painter
- Edward Henry Potthast – American Impressionist painter
- Hiram Powers – sculptor
- John Ruthven – painter of wildlife
- Sara Sax – ceramic painter
- Kataro Shirayamadani – ceramic painter
- Sheida Soleimani – Iranian-American multidisciplinary artist
- Lilly Martin Spencer – painter
- Francis Marion Stokes – architect
- Maria Longworth Nichols Storer – founder of the Rookwood Pottery Company
- Adolph Strauch – landscape architect
- John Robinson Tait – landscape painter
- Tony Tasset – contemporary artist
- Mary Lee Tate – African American painter, educator[12]
- Tom Tsuchiya – sculptor
- John Henry Twachtman – impressionist landscape painter
- Leon Van Loo – photographer
- Edward Charles Volkert – American Impressionist painter
- Tom Wesselmann – pop artist
Sports
Baseball
- Mike Adams – MLB outfielder
- Ethan Allen – MLB player, coach at Yale University[13]
- Nick Altrock – MLB pitcher[14]
- Charlie Armbruster – MLB catcher[15]
- Skeeter Barnes – MLB utility player[16]
- Al Bashang – MLB outfielder[17]
- Buddy Bell – MLB third baseman and manager
- Charlie Bell – MLB pitcher[18]
- David Bell – MLB third baseman and Cincinnati Reds manager
- Frank Bell – MLB player
- Mike Bell – MLB third baseman
- Andrew Benintendi – MLB outfielder
- Ralph Birkofer – MLB pitcher
- Red Bittmann – MLB second baseman
- Ethan Blackaby – MLB outfielder
- Jim Bolger – MLB outfielder
- Barry Bonnell – MLB player
- Daryl Boston – MLB outfielder
- Buzz Boyle – MLB outfielder
- Jack Boyle – MLB player[19]
- Jimmy Boyle – MLB catcher
- Andrew Brackman – MLB pitcher
- Ed Brinkman – MLB player
- Jim Brosnan – MLB pitcher, author of The Long Season and Pennant Race
- Nelson Burbrink – MLB catcher and scout
- Moe Burtschy – MLB pitcher
- Jack Bushelman – MLB pitcher
- Flea Clifton – MLB pitcher
- Joe Crotty – MLB catcher
- Bob Daughters – MLB player
- Zach Day – MLB pitcher
- Dory Dean – MLB pitcher
- Drew Denson – MLB first baseman
- Red Dooin – MLB player and manager
- Bill Doran – MLB second baseman
- Richard Dotson – MLB pitcher
- Dick Drott – MLB pitcher
- Louis Dula – Negro leagues pitcher
- Leon Durham – MLB player
- Joe Ellick – MLB player
- Buck Ewing – Hall of Fame catcher and manager
- Bill Faul – MLB pitcher
- Tom Flanigan – MLB pitcher
- Danny Friend – MLB pitcher
- Charlie Grant – Negro leagues second baseman
- Bob Gilks – MLB player
- Ed Glenn – MLB player
- Charlie Gould – National League baseball player
- Ken Griffey Jr. – MLB outfielder, Baseball Hall of Famer (born in Donora, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Cincinnati)
- Tommy Griffith – MLB outfielder
- Heinie Groh – MLB third baseman
- Josh Harrison – MLB third baseman
- Dan Hayden – Miami University (OH) baseball coach
- August Herrmann – Cincinnati Reds president, 1903–1920
- Johnny Hodapp – MLB infielder
- Ed Hug – MLB catcher
- Miller Huggins – MLB player; Hall of Fame manager for the New York Yankees
- Roy Hughes – MLB infielder
- Tom Hume – MLB pitcher and coach
- Adam Hyzdu – MLB and Japanese baseball outfielder
- Larry Jacobus – MLB pitcher
- Betsy Jochum – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Lance Johnson – MLB player
- David Justice – MLB player
- Al Kaiser – MLB outfielder
- Dorothy Kamenshek – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Scott Klingenbeck – MLB pitcher
- Eddie Kolb – MLB pitcher, businessman
- Al Lakeman – MLB player
- Margie Lang – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Barry Larkin – MLB shortstop, Baseball Hall of Famer
- Stephen Larkin – MLB first baseman
- Steve Larkin – MLB pitcher
- Charlie Leesman – MLB pitcher
- Dick LeMay – MLB pitcher
- Jensen Lewis – MLB pitcher
- Jim Leyritz – MLB catcher
- Bill Long – MLB pitcher[20]
- Garry Maddox – MLB outfielder
- Lee Magee – MLB player and manager
- Art Mahaffey – MLB pitcher
- Lefty Marr – MLB third baseman
- Len Matuszek – MLB first baseman
- Wally Mayer – MLB catcher
- Roger McDowell – MLB pitcher and coach
- Bobby Mitchell – MLB pitcher
- Ralph Miller – MLB pitcher
- Ron Moeller – MLB pitcher
- Bobby Moore – MLB player who is currently a coach for the Atlanta Braves organization
- Red Munson – MLB catcher
- Charles Murphy – sportswriter, owner of the Chicago Cubs
- Tim Naehring – MLB player
- Russ Nagelson – MLB player
- Chris Nichting – MLB pitcher
- Bob Nieman – MLB player
- Russ Nixon – MLB player and manager (born in Cleves, a suburb of Cincinnati)
- Joe Nuxhall – pitcher, later long-time color commentator for Cincinnati Reds games (from Hamilton, Ohio)
- Brian O'Connor MLB pitcher
- Ron Oester – MLB player
- Jayhawk Owens – MLB player
- Dave Parker – MLB outfielder, Baseball Hall of Famer (born in Grenada, Mississippi, grew up in Cincinnati)
- George Paynter – MLB outfielder
- George Pechiney – MLB pitcher
- Dave Pember – MLB pitcher
- Shannon Penn – MLB designated hitter
- Eduardo Pérez – MLB player; son of Tony Pérez
- Jack Pfiester – MLB pitcher
- Cy Pfirman – MLB umpire
- Icicle Reeder – MLB outfielder
- Tuffy Rhodes – MLB and Japanese player
- Billy Riley – MLB player outfielder
- Pete Rose – All-Star MLB player, holds record for most hits in a career
- Pete Rose Jr. – minor league baseball player
- Jeff Russell – MLB pitcher
- Scott Sauerbeck – MLB pitcher
- Admiral Schlei – MLB catcher
- Jimmy Shevlin – MLB first baseman
- John Shoupe – 19th-century shortstop
- Joe Smith – MLB player
- Rudy Sommers – MLB pitcher
- Ed Sperber – MLB outfielder
- Jake Stenzel – MLB outfielder
- Shannon Stewart – MLB player
- Eric Surkamp – MLB pitcher
- Brent Suter – MLB pitcher
- Pat Tabler – MLB player and baseball analyst
- Kent Tekulve – MLB pitcher
- Bill Wegman – MLB pitcher
- Marie Wegman – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Alex Wimmers – MLB pitcher
- Jimmy Wynn – MLB outfielder
- George Yeager – MLB catcher
- Kevin Youkilis – All-Star MLB first and third baseman
- Don Zimmer – MLB player and manager
Basketball
- Luke Babbitt – NBA player
- Dennis Bell – NBA player
- Tom Boerwinkle – NBA player
- Ric Bucher – ESPN NBA analyst
- Rick Calloway – NBA player
- Jeremy Chappell – Robert Morris and European league player
- Kwan Cheatham (born 1995) – basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
- Semaj Christon – Xavier University and NBA Development League player
- Mick Cronin – UCLA and University of Cincinnati basketball coach
- Ralph Crosthwaite – Western Kentucky University and NBA player
- Erik Daniels – University of Kentucky and NBA player
- Dee Davis – WNBA player
- Derrek Dickey – NBA player and analyst
- Justin Doellman – Xavier University and Spanish League player
- Josh Duncan – Xavier University and European league player
- Jacob Eisner – Israeli basketball player
- Robin Freeman – 1955 and 1956 All-American at Ohio State
- Yancy Gates – player for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Premier League
- Matt Harpring – NBA player
- Tyrone Hill – Xavier University and NBA player
- Robert Hite – NBA player
- Rick Hughes – NBA player
- Brandon Hunter – NBA player
- Kannard Johnson – NBA player
- Pat Kelsey – College of Charleston Cougars men's basketball head coach
- Shane Larkin – plays in the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi for Anadolu Efes S.K., son of Barry Larkin
- Brad Loesing – Wofford and European league player
- Mike Mathis – NBA referee
- Kelsey Mitchell – 2018 Big Ten Women's Basketball Player of the Year for Ohio State
- Louis Orr – NBA player and college coach
- Dave Robisch – NBA and ABA player
- Kelly Schumacher – WNBA basketball player
- Jordan Sibert – NBA player
- Mel Thomas – UConn player
- LaSalle Thompson – NBA player
- Bob Wiesenhahn – NBA player
- Devin Williams – West Virginia and NBA G League player
Boxing
- Tim Austin – 1992 Olympic bronze medalist and bantamweight boxing champion
- Adrien Broner – light welterweight boxer
- Ezzard Charles – heavyweight champion boxer
- Larry Donald – Olympic and professional heavyweight boxer
- George Foster – featherweight boxer
- Billy Joiner – heavyweight boxer and trainer
- Freddie Miller – featherweight boxer
- Aaron Pryor – world light welterweight champion boxer
- Brad Rone – journeyman boxer who died in the ring
- Ronald Siler – 2004 Olympic flyweight boxer
- Wallace Smith – lightweight boxer
- Reggie Strickland – has the most known losses of any boxer in history
- Tony Tubbs – heavyweight boxer
- Rau'shee Warren – bantamweight boxer
- Ricardo Williams – 2000 Olympic light welterweight silver medalist boxer
- Harry Woodson – 19th-century boxer
Football
- Alex Albright – NFL linebacker[21]
- Kevin Allen – NFL offensive tackle
- Darren Anderson – NFL cornerback[22]
- Mel Anthony – Michigan and CFL fullback; 1965 Rose Bowl MVP
- Steve Apke – replacement player during 1987 NFL players' strike
- B.J. Askew – NFL fullback
- Alex Bannister – NFL wide receiver
- Darren Barnett – NFL cornerback
- Ron Beagle – College Football Hall of Fame end for Navy
- Bruce Beekley – NFL linebacker
- Ed Biles – NFL Houston Oilers head coach, 1981–1983
- Rocky Boiman – Notre Dame and NFL linebacker, radio host
- Vaughn Booker – NFL defensive end
- Jim Boyle – NFL offensive tackle
- Colin Branch – NFL safety
- Tyrone Brown – NFL and CFL wide receiver
- Al Brosky – College Football Hall of Fame cornerback
- Dante Brown – NFL running back
- Ricky Brown – NFL linebacker for Boston College and the Oakland Raiders
- Trevor Canfield – NFL offensive lineman
- Tank Carradine – Florida State and NFL defensive tackle
- Brent Celek – NFL tight end
- Garrett Celek – NFL tight end
- Frank Clair – Canadian Football League coach
- Vinnie Clark – NFL cornerback
- Robert Cobb – NFL defensive end
- John Conner – University of Kentucky and New York Jets fullback
- Bob Crable – NFL player, businessman
- Shane Curry – NFL defensive end; murdered in 1992
- Dane Dastillung – American football player
- Jerome Davis – NFL nose tackle
- Wayne Davis – NFL cornerback
- Jerry Doerger – NFL center
- Nate Ebner – Ohio State and NFL New England Patriots safety and 2016 rugby sevens Olympian
- Dixon Edwards – NFL linebacker
- Marc Edwards – NFL fullback
- Ray Edwards – NFL defensive end
- Mark Elder – Eastern Kentucky college football head coach
- Mark Fischer – Purdue and Washington Redskins offensive lineman
- Dave Foley – Ohio State and NFL offensive tackle
- Greg Frey – Ohio State quarterback
- Bob Fry – NFL offensive lineman
- Dave Frye – NFL linebacker
- Bob Goodridge – NFL wide receiver
- Dick Gordon – Pro Bowl wide receiver
- Carlton Gray – NFL cornerback
- Gino Guidugli – University of Cincinnati quarterback
- Darryl Hardy – NFL linebacker
- Maurice Harvey – NFL safety
- Clint Haslerig – Michigan and NFL wide receiver
- Don Hasselbeck – NFL tight end
- Joel Heath – NFL defensive tackle
- Rodney Heath – NFL cornerback
- Mark Herrmann – NFL quarterback
- Jordan Hicks – NFL linebacker
- Alex Higdon – Ohio State and NFL tight end
- Darius Hillary – Wisconsin and NFL cornerback
- Robert Hoernschemeyer – NFL running back
- Jack Hoffman – NFL player
- Sam Hubbard – defensive end for the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Cincinnati Bengals
- Kevin Huber – NFL punter
- Russ Huesman – college football coach
- Tony Hunter – Notre Dame and NFL tight end
- Tom Jackson – NFL player and ESPN analyst (lives in Cincinnati)
- Dan James – NFL and Ohio State offensive lineman
- Melvin Johnson – NFL safety
- Paris Johnson Jr. – Ohio State offensive lineman[23]
- Greg Jones – NFL linebacker
- Michael Jordan – NFL offensive lineman
- Steve Junker – NFL tight end
- Mark Kamphaus – Boston College quarterback
- Eric Kattus – NFL tight end
- Terry Killens – NFL linebacker
- Austin King – NFL center
- Eric Joel Kresser – NFL quarterback
- Luke Kuechly – NFL linebacker; 2013 NFL Defensive Player of the Year[24]
- David Long Jr. – NFL linebacker
- Dante Love – Ball State wide receiver
- Greg Mancz – NFL center
- Michael Matthews – NFL tight end
- Napoleon McCallum – College Football Hall of Fame running back for Navy
- Jake McQuaide – Los Angeles Rams Pro Bowl Long snapper
- Brandon Miree – NFL fullback
- Michael Muñoz – Tennessee offensive tackle
- Justin Murray – NFL offensive tackle
- Leon Murray – Tennessee State quarterback
- Rico Murray – NFL cornerback
- Al Nelson – former NFL cornerback
- Steve Niehaus – first draft choice of NFL Seattle Seahawks; defensive tackle
- Ray Nolting – NFL running back, University of Cincinnati football coach
- Andrew Norwell – NFL offensive lineman, 2017 All-Pro
- David Nugent – NFL defensive lineman
- Tom O'Brien – North Carolina State Wolfpack football head coach
- Antwan Peek – NFL linebacker
- Ahmed Plummer – NFL cornerback (from Wyoming, suburb of Cincinnati)
- P. J. Pope – NFL running back
- DeVier Posey – NFL wide receiver
- George Ratterman – football player
- Reggie Redding – NFL offensive lineman
- Ike Reese – NFL linebacker and radio host
- Jack Reynolds – NFL linebacker
- J. Burton Rix – SMU and Miami (FL) head football coach
- Kurt Rocco – Arena Football League quarterback
- Kyle Rudolph – Minnesota Vikings tight end
- Marcus Rush – NFL linebacker
- Abdul Salaam – NFL defensive tackle
- Greg Scruggs – NFL linebacker
- Mike Sensibaugh – NFL safety
- Tyler Sheehan – NFL and indoor football quarterback
- Ed Shuttlesworth – Michigan and CFL fullback
- Chris Smith – NFL running back
- Sean Smith – NFL defensive end
- Kirk Springs – NFL safety
- Ryan Stanchek – NFL offensive lineman
- Ralph Staub – Cincinnati Bearcats football player and coach
- Roger Staubach – Heisman Trophy-winning Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback
- Milt Stegall – NFL and CFL wide receiver, Canadian Football Hall of Famer
- Greg Stemrick – NFL cornerback
- Ken Stone – NFL safety
- Zach Strief – NFL offensive lineman
- Dana Stubblefield – NFL defensive tackle
- Steve Sylvester – NFL offensive lineman
- Matthew Teague – NFL and CFL linebacker
- Matt Tennant – NFL offensive lineman
- Steve Tensi – NFL quarterback
- Brian Townsend – NFL linebacker
- DeJuan Tribble – NFL cornerback
- Tom Waddle – NFL wide receiver and football analyst
- Eric Wood – NFL center
- Spencer Ware – NFL running back
- Adolphus Washington – Ohio State and NFL defensive tackle
- John Wiethe – All-Pro NFL guard/linebacker and Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball head coach, 1946–1952
- Russell Wilson – NFL quarterback and Super Bowl XLVIII Champion
- DeShawn Wynn – NFL running back
Golf
- Steve Flesch (1967–) – professional golfer
- Jim Herman (1977–) – professional golfer[25]
- Bob Lohr (1960–) – professional golfer
- Tom Nieporte (1928–2014) – professional golfer
- Marissa Steen (1989–) – professional golfer
- Brett Wetterich (1973–) – professional golfer
Soccer
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- Austin Berry – MLS defender[26]
- Danielle Borgman – WUSA defender[27]
- Marc Burch – MLS defender[28]
- Bayley Feist – NWSL midfielder
- Nick Hagglund – MLS defender
- Tori Huster – midfielder in NWSL and A-League
- Aubrey Kingsbury – NWSL goalkeeper, United States national team player
- Rose Lavelle – 2019 World Cup champion, 2024 Olympic gold medallist, NWSL defender
- Heather Mitts – defender in WUSA and WPS
- Kyle Smith – MLS defender
- M.A. Vignola – NWSL defender
Swimming
- Deena Deardurff – 1972 Olympic swimming gold medalist
- Carson Foster – 2024 Olympic swimming silver medalist
- Joseph Hudepohl – Olympic swimmer
- Rebecca Jasontek – 2004 bronze medal-winning synchronized swimmer
- Jenny Kemp – 1972 Olympic swimming gold medalist
- Dan Ketchum – Olympic swimmer
- Walter Laufer – 1928 gold medal-winning swimmer
- Betsy Mitchell – 1984 Olympic swimming gold medalist
- Erin Phenix – gold-medal winning swimmer at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Josh Schneider – former world record holder, swimming
- Nick Thoman – 2012 swimming gold medalist
Tennis
- Winona Closterman (1877–1944) – tennis player
- Ruth Sanders Cordes (1890–1968) – tennis player
- Steve DeVries (1964–) – tennis player
- Nat Emerson (1874–1958) – tennis player
- Nicole Gibbs (1993–) – tennis player
- Reuben A. Holden III (1890–1967) – tennis player
- Emmy Kaiser (1990–) – wheelchair tennis player
- Louis Kuhler (1902–1925) – tennis player
- Paul Kunkel (1903–1977) – amateur tennis player
- Barry MacKay (1935–2012) – tennis player and broadcaster
- Caty McNally (2001–) – tennis player
- Monica Nolan (1913–1995) – tennis player
- Eric Quigley (1989–) – tennis player
- Peyton Stearns (2001–) – tennis player
- Dudley Sutphin (1875–1926) – tennis player, lawyer
- Bill Talbert (1918–1999) – tennis player and administrator
- Tony Trabert (1930–2021) – tennis player and instructor
- Clara Louise Zinke (1909–1978) – tennis player
- J.J. Wolf (1998–) – tennis player
Other
- Rachael Adams – 2016 Olympic women's volleyball bronze medalist[29]
- Eddie Arcaro – Triple Crown-winning jockey
- Amanda Borden – 1996 gold-medal winning gymnast
- Jordan Brauninger – figure skater
- Aimee Bruder – bronze medal-winning Paralympics swimmer
- Caleb Bragg – racecar driver and automobile inventor
- Amber Campbell – 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games hammer thrower
- Nina Castagna – rowing coxswain
- Steve Cauthen – Triple Crown-winning jockey (from Covington, Kentucky)
- Rodney Combs – NASCAR driver
- Katherine Copely – Lithuanian ice dancer
- Angelo Dawkins – WWE tag team wrestler with Street Profits
- Rich Franklin – Ultimate Fighting Championship champion
- Curt Fraser – National Hockey League (NHL) player and coach
- Christina Gao – figure skater
- Mike Goldberg – Ultimate Fighting Championship play-by-play commentator
- Jonathan Good – AEW professional wrestler known as Jon Moxley; formerly known as Dean Ambrose in WWE
- Maxwell Holt – 2016 and 2024 Olympic men's volleyball bronze medalist
- Harlan Holden – track and field athlete at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Ted Horn – race car driver
- DeHart Hubbard – first African-American to win an individual Olympic gold medal
- Julie Isphording – long-distance runner
- Linda Miles – professional wrestler (WWE's "Shaniqua")
- Darrell Pace – 1976 and 1984 Olympic gold-medal winning archer
- David Payne – hurdler
- Brian Pillman – NFL nose tackle and professional wrestler
- Brian Pillman Jr. – professional wrestler, son of Brian Pillman
- Lexie Priessman – gymnast
- Kerry Schall – UFC fighter
- Vivian St. John – professional wrestler
- Robert Shmalo – ice dancer
- Bridget Sloan – Olympic gymnast and 2009 world all-around champion
- Brandon Sosna – sports administrator and executive
- Sam Stoller – sprinter and long jumper
- Les Thatcher – professional wrestler, announcer, and trainer
- Mary Lee Tracy – gymnastics coach
- Albertson Van Zo Post – 1904 double gold medal-winning fencer
- Bryan Volpenhein – 2004 gold medal-winning rower
- Olga Strashun Weil – amateur golfer and tennis player
- Mary Wineberg – 2008 Olympic gold medalist, track and field
- Russ Witherby – Olympic ice dancing competitor
- Brian Woermann – professional wrestler ("Matt Stryker")
- Jimmy Yang – professional wrestler
- Jeanne Zelasko – sports broadcaster
Military
- Christian Albert – Medal of Honor recipient at Siege of Vicksburg
- Nicholas Longworth Anderson – Civil War colonel
- George J. Austin (c. 1881–1930), Black military officer; worked for Black representation in the U.S. military during segregation[30]
- Edward William Boers – Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Henry Francis Bryan – United States Navy rear admiral and 17th governor of American Samoa
- James Calhoun – cavalryman killed at Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Henry M. Cist – Civil War general
- Charles Clark – Confederate Army general, plantation owner, Confederate governor of Mississippi
- Cordelia E Cook – first woman to receive both the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart
- John Cook – Medal of Honor recipient at Battle of Antietam
- Hubert Dilger – Civil War artillery officer
- William Dwight – Union Civil War general
- Wilson V. Eagleson II – U.S. Army Air Force officer and decorated combat fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen[31][32]
- James E. Earheart, Jr. – Marine killed in action during World War II
- William S. Fellers – Marine Corps major general, Director of Staff of Inter-American Defense Board
- Manning Force – Civil War general and Medal of Honor recipient
- John R. Fox – World War II-era Medal of Honor recipient
- Kenner Garrard – Civil War general
- James Augustin Greer – Civil War-era admiral
- Webb Hayes – Medal of Honor recipient, co-founder of Union Carbide
- Victor Heintz – decorated World War I veteran; Republican congressman, 1917–1919
- Andrew Hickenlooper – Civil War general
- James Hirshfield – United States Coast Guard vice admiral, Navy Cross recipient
- Heinrich Hoffman – Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Francis Lupo – World War I soldier whose remains were discovered in 2003
- William Haines Lytle – poet; Civil War general; killed at Battle of Chickamauga (1863)
- Keith Matthew Maupin – soldier, missing and captured in Iraq for nearly four years
- Nathaniel McLean – Union Civil War general
- John Moore – Surgeon General of the Army
- Abram S. Piatt – Union Civil War general
- James Pine – United States Coast Guard vice admiral
- John P. Slough – Union Civil War general
- George E. Stratemeyer – Air Force general
- Melancthon S. Wade – Union Civil War general
- Godfrey Weitzel – Union Civil War general
Other notable people
- Clara Adams – aviation pioneer[33]
- Pierre Adrian – chef at The Maisonette[34][35][36]
- Joseph H. Albers – first bishop of Lansing, Michigan[37]
- Anthony Allaire – New York City Police inspector
- Michael Anthony – chef
- Levi Addison Ault – businessman, naturalist, donor of Cincinnati's Ault Park
- John Bardo – 13th president of Wichita State University, 10th chancellor of Western Carolina University
- Samri Baldwin – stage magician
- Daniel Carter Beard – founder Sons of Daniel Boone
- Betty Blake – historic preservationist
- Kim Bobo – labor activist
- Thomas D. Boyatt – former United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso and Colombia
- Kitty Burke – nightclub entertainer who attempted to bat in a baseball game
- Mary Towne Burt – temperance reformer, newspaper publisher, and benefactor
- Oba Chandler – rapist and murderer executed by lethal injection in Florida in 2011
- Peter H. Clark – abolitionist and educator
- Levi Coffin – abolitionist
- Lorenzo Collins – mentally ill man shot by Cincinnati police in 1997
- Robert Daniel Conlon – Roman Catholic Bishop of Steubenville, Ohio
- Sara Jane Crafts (1845–1930), educator, author, social reformer
- Moses Dickson – African-American abolitionist, soldier and minister
- Jonathan Edwards – first president of Washington & Jefferson College
- William Henry Elder – long-serving Roman Catholic Bishop of Cincinnati
- Audrey Emery – heiress and socialite
- Mary Emery – philanthropist
- T. Higbee Embry – aviation enthusiast and co-founder of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Dana Fabe – Chief Justice Alaska Supreme Court
- Bernard T. Espelage – first Bishop of Gallup, New Mexico
- Mary Jane Farell – Contract bridge player
- Susan Fessenden (1840–1932) – activist, social reformer
- Thomas Milton Gatch – president of Willamette University, Oregon State University and University of Washington
- Clifford Gayles - serial killer executed in Ohio’s electric chair
- Nelson Glueck – rabbi and archaeologist
- Alfred Gottschalk – president of Hebrew Union College and leader in Reform Judaism[38]
- Henry Joseph Grimmelsmann – first Bishop of Evansville
- Alice Claypoole Gwynne – wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
- Don Helbig – Guinness World Record holder for roller coaster riding
- John R. Hicks – murderer executed by the State of Ohio
- Edith Irwin Hobart – 14th president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution and 1st national president of the American Legion Auxiliary
- Helena Keith-Falconer, Countess of Kintore – heiress and socialite
- Charles L. Kuhn – art historian
- Alice Stone Ilchman – eighth president of Sarah Lawrence College
- Joseph Jonas – first Jew to settle in Cincinnati, founder of the Old Jewish Cemetery
- Stewart Judah – card magician
- Posteal Laskey – serial killer nicknamed the "Cincinnati Strangler"
- William Mackey Lomasney – Irish revolutionary
- Longworth family – early leading Cincinnati family
- Lytle family – early leading Cincinnati family
- Mike Mangold – pilot
- Helen Taft Manning – daughter of William Howard Taft, historian
- Charles Manson – cult leader, convicted murderer
- Carl K. Moeddel – auxiliary bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1993–2007
- Julian Morgenstern – rabbi, professor, and president of Hebrew Union College
- Sara Murphy – socialite, Pablo Picasso portrait subject
- Anthony John King Mussio – first Roman Catholic bishop of Steubenville, Ohio
- David Leroy Nickens – freed slave, first African American licensed minister in Ohio
- Jack Norris – dietitian and vegan activist
- Olive Peterson – contract bridge player and teacher
- David Philipson – Reform rabbi
- Harriet Augusta Prunk – educator and school founder
- John Baptist Purcell – long-serving Roman Catholic Bishop of Cincinnati
- George Remus – bootlegger
- Robert Ruwe – United States Tax Court judge
- William Knox Schroeder – student killed in the Kent State shootings
- William Smith – murderer executed in 2005
- Hermann, Freiherr von Soden – biblical scholar
- Joseph Strauss – chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge
- Jule Sugarman – creator of Head Start
- Denise Trauth – 9th president of Texas State University
- Myra L. Uhlfelder – classicist
- Otto Warmbier – University of Virginia student arrested in North Korea; later died in custody in 2017
- Irvin F. Westheimer – founder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
References
- ↑ See Holli, Melvin G., and Jones, Peter d'A., eds. Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820-1980 (Greenwood Press, 1981) short scholarly biographies each of the city's mayors 1820 to 1980. online; see index at pp. 408 for list.
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- ↑ NCPedia. "Wilson Vash Eagleson II - A Tuskegee Airman 1920 - 2006." Doris McLean Bates. Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian, Fall 2003. Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, NC Museum of History. https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/eagleson-wilson
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- ↑ Martin, Douglas. "Alfred Gottschalk, 79, Scholar of Reform Judaism, Is Dead", The New York Times, September 15, 2009. Accessed September 16, 2009.