38.8725° N, 84.5861° W
CINCINNATI
Most Famous People Born in Cincinnati, United States
- Notable people
- 1,772
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1938
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 12.5×
Cincinnati's bench is German-American old money and mid-century entertainment — the Lawyer class is the same Queen City bar that built the Taft political dynasty, the Novelist thread runs through the Over-the-Rhine literary generation, and a smaller Music vein traces from King Records and James Brown through the city's early rock-and-roll scene. The Basket cohort is the University of Cincinnati pipeline that sent Oscar Robertson north and kept sending players ever since.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Cincinnati during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Cincinnati Is Known For
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Baseball is Cincinnati's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (251).
Cincinnati over-indexes on baseball — 12.5× the global rate.
Cincinnati under-produces writer — only 0.7× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Cincinnati's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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George H. Pendleton
1825 - 1889
Alice Cary
1820 - 1871
Phoebe Cary
1824 - 1871
Stanley Matthews (Supreme Court justice)
1824 - 1889
George E. Pugh
1822 - 1876
George T. Anderson
1824 - 1901
William Haines Lytle
1826 - 1863
Eliza Tibbets
1825 - 1898
W. W. Fosdick
1825 - 1862
William Evans Arthur
1825 - 1897
Anthony Allaire
1820 - 1903
Eliza Potter
1820 - 1893
Aaron H. Conrow
1824 - 1865
John P. Slough
1829 - 1867
Mary Birdsall
1828 - 1894
Addison Hiatt Sanders
1823 - 1912
Abram S. Piatt
1821 - 1908
Robert Johnson Henderson
1822 - 1891
Daniel Thew Wright Sr.
1825 - 1912