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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Jon Normile
Born 1967
Herb Wesson
Born 1951
Ed Seward
1867 - 1947
Eleanor Sokoloff
1914 - 2020
Thomas Nyfenger
1936 - 1990
Bruce Fields
Born 1960
Lucie Salhany
Born 1946
SJ (singer)
Born 1977
Joe Nossek
Born 1940
Guy Manos
Born 1959
Käthe Papke
1872 - 1951
Robert Kolesar
1921 - 2004
Kevin Raleigh
Born 1952
William Fauver
Born 1954
John Henton
Born 1960
Linda Darling-Hammond
Born 1951
Tom Murphy (pitcher)
Born 1945
Eleanore Whitney
1917 - 1983
Barrie Youngfellow
Born 1950
Ed Brigadier
1949 - 2012
Ronald A. Katz
Born 1936
Marie Walther
Born 1944
Ernie Kellerman
Born 1943
Edith Anisfield Wolf
1889 - 1963
Charles Ralph Simpson III
Born 1945
William M. Moore
1926 - 2013
Paul Gapp
1928 - 1992
Royce Adams
Born 1988
Paul Blanchard
1923 - 2011
John R. Towle
1924 - 1944
Stan Savran
Born 1947
Ethel Gilmour
1940 - 2008
Ernest Angell
1889 - 1973
Charles Boone (composer)
Born 1939
Clarence Edward Elwell
1904 - 1973
Lisa Miller (journalist)
Born 1963
Sally Carrighar
1898 - 1985
Richard Cartwright Austin
Born 1934
Sean Ensign
Born 1972
Bob Jones III
Born 1939
Sarah Spain
Born 1980
Baruch A. Levine
Born 1930
Janet Bewley (Wisconsin politician)
Born 1951
Jerametrius Butler
Born 1978
Jerome Baker (American football)
Born 1996
Ken Walter
Born 1972
Christian Bryant
Born 1992
Eleanor Munro
Born 1928
David Bivin
Born 1939
Jerry Hirshberg
1939 - 2019
Jimmy Johnston
1889 - 1967
Seymour Heller
1914 - 2001
Kenny Yuko
Born 1950
Bill Lenkaitis
1946 - 2016
Mark Setlock
Born 1968
Terry Timmons
1927 - 1970
Flora Stone Mather
1852 - 1909
Donna Pope
Born 1931
Jay Gonzalez
Born 1971
Carl Cohen (businessman)
1913 - 1986
Barbara Mandel
Died 2019
Mark Crislip
Born 1957
Garry Roggenburk
Born 1940
Don McIlhenny
Born 1934
Mary O. Boyle
Born 1941
William Silverman
1917 - 2004
Rose Mary Prosen
1931 - 2008
Albert Leo Stevens
1877 - 1944
John Roberts (electronic musician)
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Dave Hill (comedian)
Born 1988
Roberta A. Kaplan
Born 1966
Constance DeJong (visual artist)
Born 1950
Pharaoh Brown
Born 1994
Les Shy
Born 1944
Dana King
Born 1960
Mark Greenwold
Born 1942
Delbert Cowsette
Born 1977
Frank Delahanty
1882 - 1966
Antonio Nieves
Born 1987
Buddy Schultz
Born 1950
Edgar D. Holladay
1925 - 2003
William A. Reuben
1915 - 2004
Sandra Masin
Born 1942
Jim Rohr
Born 1948
Sid Couchey
1919 - 2012
Earl Averill Jr.
1931 - 2015
Maria Tymoczko
Born 1943
John Ferguson (organist)
Born 1941
Vernon Stouffer
1901 - 1974
Ralph Sharman
1895 - 1918
Elizabeth Newell
Born 1982
Justin Hardee
Born 1994
Shirley Aley Campbell
1925 - 2018
Harry Womack
1945 - 1974
Ralph Perk
1914 - 1999
LT Moe
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Erica Rose
Born 1982
Gene London
1931 - 2020
Dick Brown (Canadian football)
1926 - 2000
Bill Orwig
1907 - 1994
Debra Byrd
Born 1951
Chet Morgan
1910 - 1991
Steven Hromjak
Born 1930
Rick Reinert
1925 - 2018
Dennis Harrison
Born 1956
Tom Patton
Born 1953
Diann Burns
Born 1956
Dale Fushek
Born 1952
Moe Savransky
Born 1929
Jamie Mueller
Born 1964
Francelia Butler
1913 - 1998
Tom Curtis (American football)
Born 1947
Graham Armstrong
1918 - 1960
Peter Lawson Jones
Born 1952
Tim Grendell
Born 1953
Kevin Rogers (baseball)
Born 1968
Steve Dettelbach
Born 1965
Malcolm McBride
1878 - 1941
Stephen Trevor
Born 1963
Darnell Sanders
Born 1979
Alta Rockefeller Prentice
1871 - 1962
Robert Banks (filmmaker)
Born 1966
Edward Diller
1925 - 1985
Herbert Theodore Milburn
1931 - 2016
Joseph G. Clemons
1928 - 2018
Ralston Hill
1927 - 1996
Tina George
Born 1978
George Rung
1916 - 1996
Robert B. Krupansky
1921 - 2004
Anne C. Conway
Born 1950
Jeffrey L. Sammons
Born 1936
Eric Brown (judge)
Born 1953
Joe Delahanty
1875 - 1936
Robert Kovacik
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Larry Kaminski
Born 1945
Paul McFadden
Born 1961
Jessica Holmes (television presenter)
Born 1976
Hal Becker
Born 1954
Irene D. Long
1951 - 2020
Judith Henry (artist)
Born 1942
Jacob Bell (American football)
Born 1981
Jeff Johnson (Ohio politician)
Born 1958
Kid Leo
Born 1950
Harold Zisla
1925 - 2016
Brian Dowling (American football)
Born 1947
Phil Baron
Born 1949
Linda Porter (actress)
1933 - 2019
Tom Delahanty
1872 - 1951
Matt Dolan
Born 1965
Jerry Dybzinski
Born 1955
Ken Lucas (American football)
Born 1979
Bernard Pfriem
1916 - 1996
Arlene Saunders
1935 - 2020
William Francis Petrovic
1913 - 1991
Dode Paskert
1881 - 1959
Pierre Woods
Born 1982
Dave Mlicki
Born 1968
Forrest Petz
Born 1975
Dale Mohorcic
Born 1956
Bob Matz
1912 - 2003
Tara Seibel
Born 1973
Calvin Blocker
Born 1955
Bob Ufer
1920 - 1981
John Morris Russell
Born 1961
Gregory J. W. Urwin
Born 1955
Anthony Morgan (American football)
Born 1967
Frank Bates
1876 - 1918
D. B. Gilles
Born 1947
James B. Anderson
Born 1935
Leo Mintz
1911 - 1976
Tony Gardner (designer)
Born 1965
Cameron Jefferson
Born 1992
Mark Jones (musician)
Born 1952
Bobby Livingston (cyclist)
Born 1965
Epiphany (wrestler)
Born 1981
Gerald Humel
1931 - 2005
Bill Sweeney (first baseman)
1904 - 1957
Isaac C. Kidd Jr.
1919 - 1999
Robert Obojski
Born 1929
Jonathan Cowan
Born 1965
Dan Panosian
Born 1969
Al Widmar
1925 - 2005
Sylvia Straus
1913 - 2007
Jim Pittman
1925 - 1971
Mike Dovilla
Born 1975
Ray Semproch
Born 1931
David Hilberman
1911 - 2007
Daniel Cantillon
Born 1945
James Alan Polster
1947 - 2012
Bill Patmon
Born 1946
Roger Davis (American football)
Born 1938
Kaza Kingsley
Born 1950
William M. Kramer
1920 - 2004
Ethel Swanbeck
1893 - 1989
Don Fisher
1916 - 1973
Gustave Ferbert
1873 - 1943
Tony Discenzo
1936 - 2007
Eagle Bill
1942 - 2005
Homer Davidson
1884 - 1948
Madelon Mason
1925 - 2011
Wendy Sandler
Born 1949
William Goffman
1924 - 2000
Henry Trewhitt
1927 - 2003
Ray Mack
1916 - 1969
William D. Burns
Born 1973
Lorraine Fende
Born 1956
Tom Fisher (1960s pitcher)
1942 - 2016
Ed Sustersic
1922 - 1967
Charlie Rymer
Born 1967
Joe Campanella
1930 - 1967
Leon Duray
1894 - 1956
Fred W. Hooper
1897 - 2000
James Meena
Born 1951
Ed McFarland
1874 - 1959
Geoffrey Golden
Born 1994
Mary DeGenaro
Born 1961
Mike Ozdowski
Born 1955
Bob Kelly (baseball)
Born 1927
Paul B. Huff
1918 - 1994
David E. Miller
Born 1962
Matthew Chojnacki
Born 1975
Butch Morse
1910 - 1995
Jack Rudnay
Born 1947
Rory Bourke
Born 1942
Avonley Nguyen
Born 2002
John Negele
Born 1944
George Hewitt Myers
1875 - 1957
Jan Perry
Born 1955
Marlene Anielski
Born 1961
Leslie Cikra
Born 1990
G. Armour Craig
1914 - 2002
Pamela A. Barker
Born 1957
Marcia Gygli King
1931 - 2011
William B. Leeds
1861 - 1908
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
1929 - 2016
Marsha Clark
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Bobby Kingsbury
Born 1980
Hank Riebe
1921 - 2001
Eddie Prokop
1922 - 1955
John Sekula
1961 - 2010
Graig R. Meyer
Born 1974
Roy Hertz
1909 - 2002
David Karlak
-
Rob Powers
-
Lawson J. Deming
1913 - 2007
W. Scott Heywood
1872 - 1950
Billy Consolo
1934 - 2008
Milton Metz
1921 - 2017
Henry Lee Moon
1901 - 1985
Tommy Sauer
Born 1970
Albert A. Chambers
1906 - 1993
Edward W. Crosby
Born 1932
Rich Stotter
1945 - 2015
Mary Beth McKenzie
Born 1946
Melanie Rieback
Born 1978
Elena Kucharik
-
Joe Kuhel
1906 - 1984
Dan A. Polster
Born 1951
Thomas D. Davies
1914 - 1991
John Choma (American football)
Born 1955
Mel Tucker
Born 1972
Victor Samuelson
Born 1937
Rudy Maxa
Born 1949
Doc Johnston
1887 - 1961
Donny Walker
Born 1980
Ernest Adolphus Sturge
1856 - 1934
Eric Watson (politician)
Born 1973
J. Frederick Grassle
1939 - 2018
Dan Goodspeed
Born 1977
Victor Boschini
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Paolo William Tamburella
1909 - 1951
Rick Ludwin
1948 - 2019
Paul Bartholomew
1883 - 1973
Ray Gricar
1945 - 2005
Richard L. Abrams
Born 1941
Floyd Womack
Born 1978
Bill Rieth
1916 - 1999
Guy Lacy
1897 - 1953
Chris Walsh (American football)
Born 1968
Patricia Grossman
Born 1951
JaJuan Smith
Born 1985
Terry Ryan (screenwriter)
1922 - 2001
Toby Radloff
Born 1957
Duff Brumley
Born 1970
Lee Saunders
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Warren Ostergard
Born 1974
Eric Ball (American football)
Born 1966
Homer Jacobson
Born 1922
David Habat
Born 1991
Doug Volmar
1945 - 2017
Constance Laux
Born 1952
LeBron James Jr.
Born 2004
Rich Badar
Born 1943
Don Shy
Born 1945
Delia Austrian
1874 - 1928
Alden Brooks
1882 - 1964
Rich Moore (American football)
Born 1947
Mort Greene
1912 - 1992
W. D. Flick
1900 - 1965
Forest Montgomery
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