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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Dennis Kucinich
Born 1946
Darrell Issa
Born 1953
George Voinovich
1936 - 2016
Donna Shalala
Born 1941
Tim Murphy (American politician)
Born 1952
Marcia Fudge
Born 1952
David Joyce (politician)
Born 1957
Louis Stokes
1925 - 2015
Howard Metzenbaum
1917 - 2008
C. E. Ruthenberg
1882 - 1927
Mary Bono
Born 1961
Dick Celeste
Born 1937
Frank Lausche
1895 - 1990
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
1949 - 2008
Steve LaTourette
1954 - 2016
Milton Shapp
1912 - 1994
Mickey Edwards
Born 1937
Nina Turner
Born 1967
Charles Vanik
1913 - 2007
George H. Bender
1896 - 1961
Ron Klein
Born 1957
Thomas P. Salmon
Born 1932
Frances P. Bolton
1885 - 1977
Tony Perkins (politician)
Born 1963
Ruth Hanna McCormick
1880 - 1944
Dennis E. Eckart
Born 1950
Thomas A. Burke
1898 - 1971
Mary Rose Oakar
Born 1940
Harry L. Davis
1878 - 1950
Mary Jo Kilroy
Born 1949
Robert J. Bulkley
1880 - 1965
Joseph H. Outhwaite
1841 - 1907
Chester C. Bolton
1882 - 1939
Harriett Woods
1927 - 2007
Lucien Baker
1846 - 1907
Edward W. Townsend
1855 - 1942
Robert E. Sweeney
1924 - 2007
Ronald M. Mottl
Born 1934
Martin L. Sweeney
1885 - 1960
Joseph L. Hooper
1877 - 1934
John J. Babka
1884 - 1937
Oliver P. Bolton
1917 - 1972
Michael R. White
Born 1951
James V. Stanton
Born 1932
Josh Mandel
Born 1977
Peter Witt (Politiker)
1869 - 1948
Albert B. White
1856 - 1941
Charles A. Barlow
1858 - 1927
James H. Cassidy
1869 - 1926
Frank G. Jackson
Born 1946
Eric Brakey
Born 1988
Jabez W. Fitch
1823 - 1884
Raj Goyle
Born 1975
Tom Ganley
1942 - 2016
Ben Hanford
1861 - 1910
Susanne Mittag
Born 1958
Armond Budish
Born 1953
Nathan P. Payne
1837 - 1885
Peter L. Cashman
Born 1936
Rickey R. Hendon
Born 1953
Sandra Williams
Born 1968
George Stephan
1862 - 1944
William Case
1818 - 1862
David Chiu (politician)
Born 1970
Kevin Foy
Born 1956
Norm Sanders
Born 1932
Peggy Lehner
Born 1950
Frederick Kohler
1864 - 1934
Herb Wesson
Born 1951
Janet Bewley (Wisconsin politician)
Born 1951
Kenny Yuko
Born 1950
Donna Pope
Born 1931
Jay Gonzalez
Born 1971
Mary O. Boyle
Born 1941
Sandra Masin
Born 1942
Ralph Perk
1914 - 1999
Tom Patton
Born 1953
Tim Grendell
Born 1953
Jeff Johnson (Ohio politician)
Born 1958
Mike Dovilla
Born 1975
Bill Patmon
Born 1946
Ethel Swanbeck
1893 - 1989
William D. Burns
Born 1973
Lorraine Fende
Born 1956
David E. Miller
Born 1962
Jan Perry
Born 1955
Marlene Anielski
Born 1961
Graig R. Meyer
Born 1974
W. Scott Heywood
1872 - 1950
Eric Watson (politician)
Born 1973
James P. Gleason
1921 - 2008
Nick Licata (politician)
Born 1947
Nino Vitale
Born 1970
Jim Carns
Born 1940
Shirley Smith (politician)
Born 1950
John Patrick Carney
Born 1976
Odilia Dank
1938 - 2013
Frank Pokorny
1923 - 1999
Wayne Schmidt
Born 1966
John C. Buechner
1934 - 2018
Thomas Lothian
1928 - 2015
Alfred C. Carr Jr.
Born 1965
John E. Barnes Jr.
Born 1958
William R. Van Aken
1912 - 1993
Frank Curran (politician)
1912 - 1992
Isabel Burgess
1912 - 1999
Kelly Skidmore
Born 1962
John Rogers (Ohio politician)
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Nan Baker
Born 1954
David Standridge
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Matt Patten
Born 1977
Dale Miller
Born 1949
James M. Kelly (Maryland politician)
Born 1960
Mike Bell (politician)
Born 1963
Joe Cimperman
Born 1970
Marvin E. Holmes Jr.
Born 1948
Karen Gillmor
Born 1948
William H. McKeighan
1886 - 1957
Travis Fitzwater
Born 1981
Michael Dively
Born 1938
Patrick Sweeney (politician)
1939 - 2020
Madeline Cain
Born 1949
Mike Hope
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John Businger
Born 1945
Irene Smart
1921 - 2017
William L. Ormrod
1863 - 1921
Otto A. Vogel
1886 - 1951
Michael DeBose
1953 - 2012
Robb Austin
Born 1952
Michael Elconin
Born 1953
Linda Bolon
Born 1948
Dan Howell (politician)
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Bobby Olszewski
Born 1977
John H. Farley
1846 - 1922
Diane Grendell
Born 1945
Tom Woods (Montana politician)
Born 1961
William W. Taft
Born 1932
Harry C. Mason
1867 - 1901
Perry Bullard
1942 - 1998
Rocco Colonna
1933 - 2011
John S. Baker
1861 - 1955
George Mastics
1931 - 2018
Francis E. Young
1876 - 1958
Margaret Dennison
1920 - 2010
Francine Panehal
1925 - 2002
Claudette Woodard
1945 - 2010
Thomas M. Bell (Ohio politician)
Born 1950
Jerome Stano
1932 - 2011
Sally Conway Kilbane
Born 1942
J. W. Cloes
1850 - 1919
Robert J. Corts
1920 - 2013
Clyde Middleton
1928 - 2019
Barbara Boyd (Ohio politician)
Born 1942
Ben Skall
1919 - 1993
John Szoka
Born 1954
Marguerite Bowman
1918 - 1997
Chuck Burley
Born 1956
Donald Nowack
1924 - 2008
Richard Perchlik
1928 - 1988
Ray Rottas
1927 - 2011
Jan Evans
1937 - 2000
Kim Abbott
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Bert Delotto
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