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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Henry Mancini
1924 - 1994
Hal Holbrook
Born 1925
Jim Lovell
Born 1928
Dorothy Dandridge
1923 - 1965
Ruby Dee
1922 - 2014
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
1929 - 2000
Donald A. Glaser
1926 - 2013
Jack Weston
1924 - 1996
Jimmy Scott
1925 - 2014
James G. March
1928 - 2018
Franklin Cover
1928 - 2006
Harrison Dillard
1923 - 2019
Gene Reynolds
1923 - 2020
Nancy Spero
1926 - 2009
William Glasser
1925 - 2013
Ernest Tidyman
1928 - 1984
Ross Andru
1927 - 1993
Ross Hunter
1920 - 1996
Dede Allen
1923 - 2010
Dorothy Hart
1922 - 2004
Richard Howard
Born 1929
LaWanda Page
1920 - 2002
Louis Stokes
1925 - 2015
Richard Garwin
Born 1928
Sam Sheppard
1923 - 1970
William Alexander Morgan
1928 - 1961
Benny Bailey
1925 - 2005
William Steinkraus
1925 - 2017
James Thomas Lynn
1927 - 2010
Glen Tetley
1926 - 2007
Charles Gordone
1925 - 1995
Henry Stapp
Born 1928
Melford Spiro
1920 - 2014
Joey Maxim
1922 - 2001
Kaye Ballard
1925 - 2019
Dick Latessa
1929 - 2016
Thomas D. Brock
Born 1926
Marge Redmond
1924 - 2020
Ray Solomonoff
1926 - 2009
Anthony Spinelli
1927 - 2000
Bernard Rimland
1928 - 2006
Lincoln Wolfenstein
1923 - 2015
Mel Stewart
1929 - 2002
Germain Grisez
1929 - 2018
D. M. Marshman Jr.
1922 - 2015
James Eells
1926 - 2007
Richard S. Varga
Born 1928
Robert Hugh Ferrell
1921 - 2018
Vivian Dandridge
1921 - 1991
Carl Stokes
1927 - 1996
Robert F. Mager
1923 - 2020
Stanley Rosen
1929 - 2014
Peter Tewksbury
1923 - 2003
Donald Buka
1920 - 2009
Jackie Presser
1926 - 1988
Larry Roberts (actor)
1926 - 1992
Mildred Miller
Born 1924
Hale Smith
1925 - 2009
Jean Harris
1923 - 2012
Lois Wyse
1926 - 2007
George M. White
1920 - 2011
Virginia Patton
Born 1926
Hatten Yoder
1921 - 2003
Vance Bourjaily
1922 - 2010
Jim Bush
1926 - 2017
Morton Mandel
1921 - 2019
Joseph Bova
1924 - 2006
Sidney Fine (historian)
1920 - 2009
Willard Gaylin
Born 1925
Herbert Gold
Born 1924
Don McCafferty
1921 - 1974
Theodore Bloomfield
1923 - 1998
Harriett Woods
1927 - 2007
Wynona Carr
1924 - 1976
James F. Calvert
1920 - 2009
David Freeman (screenwriter)
Born 1926
Bill DeArango
1921 - 2005
George Springer (mathematician)
1924 - 2019
Charles Manring
1929 - 1991
Dee Gibson
1923 - 2003
Robert E. Sweeney
1924 - 2007
Barkin' Bill Smith
1928 - 2000
Vincent La Selva
1929 - 2017
Peter Milano
1925 - 2012
Anthony Edward Pevec
1925 - 2014
Annette Warren
Born 1922
Ernie Freeman
1922 - 1981
Milton A. Wolf
1924 - 2005
Fats Heard
1923 - 1987
Brother Blue
1921 - 2009
Sonya Monosoff
Born 1927
Charles Dolan
Born 1926
Barbara Faith
1921 - 1995
Gerald D. Aurbach
1927 - 1991
Hank Lefkowitz
1923 - 2007
John Prchlik
1925 - 2003
Sander Vanocur
1928 - 2019
Jeanette Grasselli Brown
Born 1928
Gilbert Sheldon (Bishop of Steubenville)
Born 1926
Hal Roth
1927 - 2008
Arthur J. Jackson
1924 - 2017
Walt Yowarsky
1928 - 2014
George Fett
1920 - 1989
Joe Cabot
1921 - 2016
Jim Martin (American football)
1924 - 2002
Gerald Soffen
1926 - 2000
Al Aber
1927 - 1993
Arlene Mosel
1921 - 1996
Graham Gund
Born 1922
David Shaber
1929 - 1999
Phillip Shriver
1922 - 2011
Ralph Lewis Knowles
Born 1928
Sidney Katz
1924 - 2012
James K. Randall
1929 - 2014
David Layzer
1925 - 2019
Donal Henahan
1921 - 2012
Frank Herbert Mason
1921 - 2009
Ladimir Kwiatkowski
1928 - 1994
Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
1929 - 2018
Sidney Harth
1925 - 2011
Patricia M. Byrne
1925 - 2007
Grace Hoffman
1925 - 2008
Tom Cornsweet
1929 - 2017
Chet Mutryn
1921 - 1995
Cliff Lewis (quarterback)
1923 - 2002
Creighton Miller
1922 - 2002
Paul W. Schroeder
Born 1927
Balfour Brickner
1926 - 2005
Howard Kahane
1928 - 2001
Robert Kolesar
1921 - 2004
William M. Moore
1926 - 2013
Paul Gapp
1928 - 1992
Paul Blanchard
1923 - 2011
John R. Towle
1924 - 1944
Eleanor Munro
Born 1928
Terry Timmons
1927 - 1970
Edgar D. Holladay
1925 - 2003
Shirley Aley Campbell
1925 - 2018
Dick Brown (Canadian football)
1926 - 2000
Rick Reinert
1925 - 2018
Moe Savransky
Born 1929
Edward Diller
1925 - 1985
Joseph G. Clemons
1928 - 2018
Ralston Hill
1927 - 1996
Robert B. Krupansky
1921 - 2004
Harold Zisla
1925 - 2016
Bob Ufer
1920 - 1981
Robert Obojski
Born 1929
Al Widmar
1925 - 2005
Jim Pittman
1925 - 1971
William M. Kramer
1920 - 2004
Madelon Mason
1925 - 2011
William Goffman
1924 - 2000
Henry Trewhitt
1927 - 2003
Ed Sustersic
1922 - 1967
Bob Kelly (baseball)
Born 1927
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
1929 - 2016
Hank Riebe
1921 - 2001
Eddie Prokop
1922 - 1955
Milton Metz
1921 - 2017
Terry Ryan (screenwriter)
1922 - 2001
Homer Jacobson
Born 1922
Herb Ellis (actor)
1921 - 2018
John Michael Manos
1922 - 2006
James P. Gleason
1921 - 2008
John deKoven Hill
1920 - 1996
Emil Cadkin
Born 1920
Raymond Wolansky
1926 - 1998
Reuben Sturman
1924 - 1997
Adel Heinrich
Born 1926
Daniel Burrill Ray
Born 1928
Raoul Abdul
1929 - 2010
Frank Pokorny
1923 - 1999
Robert L. Folk
1925 - 2018
George E. Woods
1923 - 2007
Carmen Milano
1929 - 2006
Russell Atkins
Born 1926
Thomas Lothian
1928 - 2015
Virginia Fraser
1928 - 2011
Joe Prokop (halfback)
1921 - 1995
Ed Ecker
1923 - 1990
Vincent Marotta
1924 - 2015
John F. Gregory
1927 - 2009
Blanche Krupansky
1925 - 2008
Paul O'Dea
1920 - 1978
Samuel Glazer
1923 - 2012
Amasa Stone Bishop
1921 - 1997
Ernest Bankey
1920 - 2009
James L. Greenfield
Born 1924
Joe Szekely
1925 - 1995
Sam Manners
1921 - 2012
Irene Smart
1921 - 2017
Steve Ruzich
1927 - 1991
Charles Moore (dancer)
1928 - 1986
Jimmy Florian
1923 - 1999
Herbert E. Warden
1920 - 2002
Edmund Abel
1921 - 2014
Allard Roen
1921 - 2008
Jim Monachino
Born 1929
Stanley Tolliver
1925 - 2011
Ralph Stephan
1928 - 2018
Fred Sharp
1922 - 2005
Henry Curtis Meanor
1929 - 2008
Margaret Dennison
1920 - 2010
Francine Panehal
1925 - 2002
Bill Bonness
1923 - 1977
Robert J. Corts
1920 - 2013
Clyde Middleton
1928 - 2019
Elliott C. Cutler Jr.
1920 - 2007
Donald Nowack
1924 - 2008
Ed Reed (Musiker)
Born 1929
Hank Ruszkowski
1925 - 2000
Richard Perchlik
1928 - 1988
Ray Rottas
1927 - 2011
Pat Collier Frank
Born 1929
Harold Paddock Jr.
1920 - 2000
Robert Ellis (mathematician)
1926 - 2013
Eugene Szmuc
1927 - 1976