41.2568° N, 81.8815° W
CLEVELAND
Most Famous People Born in Cleveland, United States
- Notable people
- 2,168
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1942
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 6.3×
A Great Lakes industrial city whose distinctive professions are baseball at six times the global rate, novelists, screenwriters, music, and basketball — the shape of a postwar industrial city that built a deep entertainment-and-letters bench out of its working-class neighbourhoods. Halle Berry, Henry Mancini, Jerry Siegel (who invented Superman here with Joe Shuster), and Tracy Chapman all belong to this bench. The 19th-century tail is thin; the city was essentially built by the oil and steel booms of the 1890s.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Cleveland during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Cleveland Is Known For
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Football is Cleveland's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (226).
Cleveland over-indexes on baseball — 6.3× the global rate.
Cleveland under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Cleveland's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1890s Clear ×
Mark Tobey
1890 - 1976
Frank Lausche
1895 - 1990
Helen Gibson
1892 - 1977
George Ault
1891 - 1948
Ralph Steiner
1899 - 1986
George H. Bender
1896 - 1961
Robert Dean Frisbie
1896 - 1948
David Sinton Ingalls
1899 - 1985
Thomas A. Burke
1898 - 1971
Ross Gunn
1897 - 1966
Thomas J. Herbert
1894 - 1974
Urban Shocker
1890 - 1928
David Oliver Cauldwell
1897 - 1959
Bill Wambsganss
1894 - 1985
William Jordan (rower)
1898 - 1968
Joseph Patrick Hurley
1894 - 1967
Bessie Brown
1895 - 1955
George Uhle
1898 - 1985
Harrison Kerr
1897 - 1978
Nell Dorr
1893 - 1988
Louise Lincoln Kerr
1892 - 1977
Austin Wylie
1893 - 1947
Norman Hilberry
1899 - 1986
Madelyn Clare
1894 - 1975
Grace Goulder Izant
1893 - 1984
Martin Quigley (publisher)
1890 - 1964
Bessie Breuer
1893 - 1975
Jack "Kid" Wolfe
1895 - 1975
Carl Gaertner
1898 - 1952
Beatrice Burton
1894 - 1983
Sally Carrighar
1898 - 1985
Ralph Sharman
1895 - 1918
Ethel Swanbeck
1893 - 1989
Leon Duray
1894 - 1956
Fred W. Hooper
1897 - 2000
Guy Lacy
1897 - 1953
Stan Cofall
1894 - 1962
Milton Waldman
1895 - 1976
Walter Silz
1894 - 1980
Eugene Maynor
1893 - 1983
Vernon Carroll Porter
1896 - 1982
Hank Schreiber
1891 - 1968
Ernst Bernhard Schulz
1896 - 1985
Art Decatur
1894 - 1966
Frederick Ernest Luff
1896 - 1931
Josephine Herrick
1897 - 1972
Bill Lange (coach)
1897 - 1953
Albert William Recht
1898 - 1962
William Otto Frohring
1893 - 1959
Jesse Baker (baseball shortstop)
1895 - 1976
Gordon Cobbledick
1898 - 1969
Ed Hovlik
1891 - 1955
Norman Glaser
1894 - 1979
Moxie Divis
1894 - 1955
Pickles Dillhoefer
1893 - 1922
Charles L. Kimball
1897 - 1976
Earl Sprackling
1890 - 1980
Pat McNulty
1899 - 1963
Osborne Orr
1895 - 1918
Frank Robinson (jockey)
1898 - 1919
William H. Brett
1893 - 1989
James C. Connell
1897 - 1973
Red Bluhm
1894 - 1952
Charles Joseph McNamee
1890 - 1964
Robert Livingston Ireland Jr.
1895 - 1981
Herbert C. Rodd
1894 - 1932
Cleota Collins
1893 - 1976
Erwin Gehrke
1898 - 1966
Albert J. Weatherhead Jr.
Born 1892