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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Frank Duveneck
1848 - 1919
Charles Phelps Taft
1843 - 1929
Oberlin Smith
1840 - 1926
Bellamy Storer (1847–1922)
1847 - 1922
Mary Louise McLaughlin
1847 - 1939
Emily Woodruff
1846 - 1916
Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt
1845 - 1934
Charles Woodruff (archer)
1846 - 1927
Charles Hubbard (archer)
1849 - 1923
James Calhoun (soldier)
1845 - 1876
E. John Ellis
1840 - 1889
Joseph B. Cheadle
1842 - 1904
George Bell Swift
1845 - 1912
Edwin Einstein
1842 - 1905
Kate Chase
1840 - 1899
Caroline Shawk Brooks
1840 - 1913
Maria Longworth Storer
1849 - 1932
Leroy Buffington
1848 - 1931
Charles Elliott Perkins
1840 - 1907
Joseph Ray Watkins
1840 - 1911
Jacob H. Bromwell
1848 - 1924
Ozro J. Dodds
1840 - 1882
Charlie Gould
1847 - 1917
William Hartshorn Bonsall
1846 - 1905
Henry K. Moeller
1849 - 1925
Charles Richmond Henderson
1848 - 1915
Oswald Herbert Ernst
1842 - 1926
George E. Morrow
1840 - 1900
Samri Baldwin
1848 - 1924
Francis Channing, 1st Baron Channing of Wellingborough
1841 - 1926
Thomas Shaw (Medal of Honor)
1846 - 1895
George Geiger
1843 - 1904
John Brooks Leavitt
1849 - 1930
Sion Wenban
1848 - 1897
Thomas R. Hawkins
1840 - 1870
Henry G. Buhrman
1844 - 1906
Caroline Endres Diescher
1846 - 1930
Charles W. Rundle
1842 - 1924
Uriah Brown
1841 - 1927
Leopold Fettweis
1848 - 1912
John Cook (Medal of Honor, 1847)
1847 - 1915
William F. Nast
1840 - 1893
Thomas Sullivan (Medal of Honor, 1869)
Born 1846
Mary Towne Burt
1842 - 1898
Christian Albert (soldier)
1842 - 1922
Emma Beckwith
1849 - 1919
John Henry Dorman
1843 - 1921
Louis Kramer
1848 - 1922