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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.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Cincinnati during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 168 notable births.

What Cincinnati Is Known For

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Baseball is Cincinnati's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (251).

Cincinnati over-indexes on baseball12.5× the global rate.

Cincinnati under-produces writer — only 0.7× the global rate.

  1. Baseball251
  2. Football203
  3. Politician152
  4. Actor135
  5. Basket72
  6. Lawyer54
  7. Painter42
  8. Writer40
  1. Baseball25112.5×
  2. Novelist273.9×
  3. Basket723.2×
  4. Lawyer541.8×
  5. Music391.5×
  1. Writer400.7×

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.

18001850190019502000
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  • Film & TV
  • Writing
  • Science
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  • Other
All1,772
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Showing 48 of 1,772 notable people

0091 PAINTER

Frank Duveneck

1848 - 1919

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0171 POLITICIAN

Charles Phelps Taft

1843 - 1929

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0259 INVENTOR

Oberlin Smith

1840 - 1926

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0313 LAWYER

Bellamy Storer (1847–1922)

1847 - 1922

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0403 CERAMIST

Mary Louise McLaughlin

1847 - 1939

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0409 ARCHER

Emily Woodruff

1846 - 1916

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0422 SOCIALITE

Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt

1845 - 1934

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0460 ARCHER

Charles Woodruff (archer)

1846 - 1927

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0464 ARCHER

Charles Hubbard (archer)

1849 - 1923

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0466 MILITAR

James Calhoun (soldier)

1845 - 1876

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0526 POLITICIAN

E. John Ellis

1840 - 1889

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0539 POLITICIAN

Joseph B. Cheadle

1842 - 1904

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0563 POLITICIAN

George Bell Swift

1845 - 1912

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0568 POLITICIAN

Edwin Einstein

1842 - 1905

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0579 HOSTESS

Kate Chase

1840 - 1899

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0585 SCULPTOR

Caroline Shawk Brooks

1840 - 1913

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0605 CERAMIST

Maria Longworth Storer

1849 - 1932

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0618 ARCHITECT

Leroy Buffington

1848 - 1931

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0639 BUSINESS

Charles Elliott Perkins

1840 - 1907

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0640 ENTREPRENEUR

Joseph Ray Watkins

1840 - 1911

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0658 JUDGE

Jacob H. Bromwell

1848 - 1924

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0682 POLITICIAN

Ozro J. Dodds

1840 - 1882

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0684 BASEBALL

Charlie Gould

1847 - 1917

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0760 POLITICIAN

William Hartshorn Bonsall

1846 - 1905

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0854 PRIEST

Henry K. Moeller

1849 - 1925

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0878 MINISTER

Charles Richmond Henderson

1848 - 1915

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0884 ASTRONOMER

Oswald Herbert Ernst

1842 - 1926

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0951 EDITOR

George E. Morrow

1840 - 1900

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0961 MAGIC

Samri Baldwin

1848 - 1924

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0973 POLITICIAN

Francis Channing, 1st Baron Channing of Wellingborough

1841 - 1926

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1009 SOLDIER

Thomas Shaw (Medal of Honor)

1846 - 1895

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1024 MILITAR

George Geiger

1843 - 1904

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1025 LAWYER

John Brooks Leavitt

1849 - 1930

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1106 PAINTER

Sion Wenban

1848 - 1897

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1206 ARMY

Thomas R. Hawkins

1840 - 1870

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1318 ARMY

Henry G. Buhrman

1844 - 1906

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1328 ENGINEER

Caroline Endres Diescher

1846 - 1930

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1388 MILITAR

Charles W. Rundle

1842 - 1924

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1463 SOLDIER

Uriah Brown

1841 - 1927

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1480 SCULPTOR

Leopold Fettweis

1848 - 1912

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1511 MILITAR

John Cook (Medal of Honor, 1847)

1847 - 1915

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1552 EXECUTIVE

William F. Nast

1840 - 1893

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1558 ARMY

Thomas Sullivan (Medal of Honor, 1869)

Born 1846

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1630 REFORMER

Mary Towne Burt

1842 - 1898

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1655 MILITAR

Christian Albert (soldier)

1842 - 1922

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1673 POLITICIAN

Emma Beckwith

1849 - 1919

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1700 CAMPAIGN

John Henry Dorman

1843 - 1921

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1754 SPORT

Louis Kramer

1848 - 1922

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