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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Jack Thompson (activist)
Born 1951
Michael Ratner
1943 - 2016
Stephen M. Young
1889 - 1984
Andrew Puzder
Born 1950
Kingsley A. Taft
1903 - 1970
Frank H. Wu
Born 1967
Carl Stokes
1927 - 1996
Charles Ruff
1939 - 2000
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Born 1956
Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr.
1941 - 2003
William M. Brodhead
Born 1941
Edward Lane
1842 - 1912
Ron Kuby
Born 1956
Paul W. Brown
1915 - 2000
William O'Neill (Ohio judge)
Born 1947
John Griswold White
1845 - 1928
Eugene Scalia
Born 1963
Charles Germman Burton
1846 - 1926
James Robertson (judge)
1938 - 2019
Ralph Richard Banks
Born 1964
Paul Ramon Matia
Born 1937
Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
1929 - 2018
Linda Hirshman
Born 1944
Maura D. Corrigan
Born 1948
Creighton Miller
1922 - 2002
Christopher A. Boyko
Born 1954
Benita Y. Pearson
Born 1963
Mark McElroy
1906 - 1981
Charles Ralph Simpson III
Born 1945
Ernest Angell
1889 - 1973
Roberta A. Kaplan
Born 1966
Steve Dettelbach
Born 1965
Herbert Theodore Milburn
1931 - 2016
Robert B. Krupansky
1921 - 2004
Anne C. Conway
Born 1950
Eric Brown (judge)
Born 1953
Matt Dolan
Born 1965
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
1929 - 2016
Dan A. Polster
Born 1951
John Michael Manos
1922 - 2006
Paul Lewis Maloney
Born 1949
George E. Woods
1923 - 2007
Carmen Milano
1929 - 2006
Michael David Weiss
1967 - 1999
Bruce Margolin
Born 1941
Charles O. Jenkins
1872 - 1952
Blanche Krupansky
1925 - 2008
Dennis M. McCarthy
Born 1945
James Celebrezze
Born 1938
Richard A. Feiss
1878 - 1954
George S. Hawkins (lawyer)
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Mike Lebowitz
Born 1977
Peter Rheinstein
Born 1943
Kent Markus
Born 1959
Linda Singer
Born 1966
Henry Curtis Meanor
1929 - 2008
Ben Charles Green
1905 - 1983
Carole Rendon
Born 1962
James C. Connell
1897 - 1973
Charles Joseph McNamee
1890 - 1964
Thomas Alexander Murphree
1883 - 1945