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 1910s Clear ×
Jerry Siegel
1914 - 1996
Andre Norton
1912 - 2005
William Masters
1915 - 2001
William Lipscomb
1919 - 2011
Joe Seneca
1919 - 1996
Tadd Dameron
1917 - 1965
Mark Stevens (actor)
1916 - 1994
John Howard (American actor)
1913 - 1995
Janis Carter
1913 - 1994
John Krol
1910 - 1996
Howard Metzenbaum
1917 - 2008
David Ferrie
1918 - 1967
Robert L. Fish
1912 - 1981
Lew Wasserman
1913 - 2002
John Gofman
1918 - 2007
Ken Lynch
1910 - 1990
Frederick Fennell
1914 - 2004
Bull Moose Jackson
1919 - 1989
Milton Shapp
1912 - 1994
Eleanor Perry
1914 - 1981
Robert Ward (composer)
1917 - 2013
Julius Baker
1915 - 2003
Tony Strobl
1915 - 1991
Lee Rich
1918 - 2012
Charles Vanik
1913 - 2007
Elmer Gedeon
1917 - 1944
Harry George Drickamer
1918 - 2002
Ed Benedict
1912 - 2006
Thomas P. Cullinan
1919 - 1995
Freddie Webster
1916 - 1947
Ted Haworth
1917 - 1993
Bill Mitchell (automobile designer)
1912 - 1988
Carl Keenan Seyfert
1911 - 1960
Samuel W. Alderson
1914 - 2005
Jerome Lawrence
1915 - 2004
Carl Fallberg
1915 - 1996
Mary Kenneth Keller
1913 - 1985
Louis Laurie
1917 - 2002
Lew Jenkins
1916 - 1981
Clare Grundman
1913 - 1996
Paul Zamecnik
1912 - 2009
Oscar Rudolph
1911 - 1991
John Charles Cutler
1915 - 2003
S. John Launer
1919 - 2006
Theodore R. Sarbin
1911 - 2005
Carmen Barth
1912 - 1985
Charles McGee (pilot)
Born 1919
Leonard Gillman
1917 - 2009
Morey Feld
1915 - 1971
Harvey Brooks (physicist)
1915 - 2004
Oreste Pucciani
1916 - 1999
Mary Henle
1913 - 2007
Mel Riebe
1916 - 1977
Oliver P. Bolton
1917 - 1972
Franklyn Marks
1911 - 1976
Walker O. Cain
1915 - 1993
Joanne Siegel
1917 - 2011
Bela Zaboly
1910 - 1985
Blue Barron
1913 - 2005
Paul W. Brown
1915 - 2000
Billy Varga
1919 - 2013
Sanford Gold
1911 - 1984
George Houser
1916 - 2015
Elizabeth Monroe Boggs
1913 - 1996
Gomer Jones
1914 - 1971
William S. Newman
1912 - 2000
John D. Lavelle
1916 - 1979
James A. Krumhansl
1919 - 2004
Edith Iglauer
1917 - 2019
Jim Bagby Jr.
1916 - 1988
Richard Milton Martin
1916 - 1985
John T. Scalish
1912 - 1976
Doc Williams (singer)
1914 - 2011
Al Lerner (composer)
1919 - 2014
Michael Joseph Murphy
1915 - 2007
Chet Adams
1915 - 1990
Sanford Palay
1918 - 2002
Willie Gilbert
1916 - 1980
Gitel Steed
1914 - 1977
Frank E. Marble
1918 - 2014
Herbert Klynn
1917 - 1999
Raymond Joseph Gallagher
1912 - 1991
Lanier Meaders
1917 - 1988
Joe Vosmik
1910 - 1962
Eleanor Sokoloff
1914 - 2020
Eleanore Whitney
1917 - 1983
Seymour Heller
1914 - 2001
Carl Cohen (businessman)
1913 - 1986
William Silverman
1917 - 2004
William A. Reuben
1915 - 2004
Sid Couchey
1919 - 2012
Ralph Perk
1914 - 1999
Chet Morgan
1910 - 1991
Francelia Butler
1913 - 1998
Graham Armstrong
1918 - 1960
George Rung
1916 - 1996
Bernard Pfriem
1916 - 1996
William Francis Petrovic
1913 - 1991
Bob Matz
1912 - 2003
Leo Mintz
1911 - 1976
Isaac C. Kidd Jr.
1919 - 1999
Sylvia Straus
1913 - 2007
David Hilberman
1911 - 2007
Don Fisher
1916 - 1973
Ray Mack
1916 - 1969
Paul B. Huff
1918 - 1994
Butch Morse
1910 - 1995
G. Armour Craig
1914 - 2002
Lawson J. Deming
1913 - 2007
Thomas D. Davies
1914 - 1991
Bill Rieth
1916 - 1999
Mort Greene
1912 - 1992
John Nardi
1916 - 1977
Bill Riebe
1917 - 2000
Maurice M. Black
1918 - 1996
Harry Sahle
1912 - 1950
Frank Borth
1918 - 2009
Frank J. Petrarca
1918 - 1943
Theodore Kara
1916 - 1944
Jimmy Wasdell
1914 - 1983
William R. Van Aken
1912 - 1993
Sam Goldman
1916 - 1978
Joe Oros
1916 - 2012
Frank Curran (politician)
1912 - 1992
Isabel Burgess
1912 - 1999
Ollie Savatsky
1911 - 1989
Bill Brubaker
1910 - 1978
Del Young (infielder)
1912 - 1979
Susan Marshall McDonald
1918 - 1992
Al Milnar
1913 - 2005
William E. Huntsberry
1916 - 1999
Robert E. Cox
1917 - 1989
William Edward Davies
1917 - 1990
Henry Prusoff
1912 - 1943
Walter Poesse
1913 - 2001
Pep Rambert
1916 - 1974
Glenn Liebhardt (1930s pitcher)
1910 - 1992
Cook Cleland
1916 - 2007
Glen Moulder
1917 - 1994
Denver V. Truelove
1919 - 1943
Evelyn Freeman Roberts
1919 - 2017
LeGrant Scott
1910 - 1993
Edward L. Finnigan
1911 - 1968
George McKinnon
1918 - 2009
John Mihalic
1911 - 1987
Mike Dejan
1915 - 1953
Burton Benjamin
1917 - 1988
Ben Skall
1919 - 1993
Marguerite Bowman
1918 - 1997
Jay Miltner
1917 - 1991
Severin Louis Rombach
1914 - 1942
Samuel R. Shaw
1911 - 1989
Harlan W. Newell
1916 - 2012
Norm Greeney
1910 - 1985
Max M. Axelrod
1911 - 2004
Elmer Weingartner
1918 - 2009
John P. Scripps
1913 - 1989
Len Perme
1917 - 2009
Bill Lobe
1912 - 1969
Lloyd E. Gressle
1918 - 1999
Hal Cihlar
1914 - 1995
Ruth W. Helmuth
1918 - 1997
Bennie Schall
1917 - 1998