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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William Howard Taft
1857 - 1930
John Henry Twachtman
1853 - 1902
Adolph Ochs
1858 - 1935
Alice Pike Barney
1857 - 1931
Joseph DeCamp
1858 - 1923
Joshua W. Alexander
1852 - 1936
Daniel Carter Beard
1850 - 1941
Edward Henry Potthast
1857 - 1927
Robert Frederick Blum
1857 - 1903
William Berryman Scott
1858 - 1947
Charles Schuchert
1858 - 1942
Carl Barus
1856 - 1935
Hermann, Freiherr von Soden
1852 - 1914
Charles Henry Niehaus
1855 - 1935
Frank Clark (actor)
1857 - 1945
Jules-Paul Tardivel
1851 - 1905
Richard P. Ernst
1858 - 1934
Webb Hayes
1856 - 1934
Edward Oscar Ulrich
1857 - 1944
Henry Waters Taft
1859 - 1945
William Lofland Dudley
1859 - 1914
Henry Fitch Taylor
1853 - 1925
Claude Raguet Hirst
1855 - 1942
John Reilly (baseball)
1858 - 1937
John Sterling Kingsley
1854 - 1929
Herman P. Goebel
1853 - 1930
Daniel J. Ryan
1855 - 1923
Byrd Spilman Dewey
1856 - 1942
Charles Stewart Voorhees
1853 - 1909
Charles S. Kaelin
1858 - 1929
Julie Rivé-King
1854 - 1937
William W. Rucker
1855 - 1936
Thomas Lathrop Stedman
1853 - 1938
Rutherford P. Hayes
1858 - 1927
John Hauser
1859 - 1913
George John Kindel
1855 - 1930
William Doherty
1857 - 1901
August Herrmann
1859 - 1931
George Faulkner Wetherbee
1851 - 1920
Gustav Dannreuther
1853 - 1923
Henry Muhrman
1854 - 1916
Benjamin Keys
1853 - 1911
Leander Richardson
1856 - 1918
Joe Sommer
1858 - 1938
Dory Dean
1852 - 1935
Joe Strauss
1858 - 1906
George Strief
1856 - 1946
Frank Dengler
1853 - 1879
Frederick Forchheimer
1853 - 1913
Mary McDowell
1854 - 1936
Icicle Reeder
1858 - 1913
William Insco Buchanan
1853 - 1909
Bobby Mitchell (pitcher)
1856 - 1933
John Shoupe
1851 - 1920
Joe Ellick
1854 - 1923
Edwin Harrison McHenry
1859 - 1931
Billy Riley (baseball)
1855 - 1887
Herbert Jermain Slocum
1855 - 1928
Theodore Eisen
1852 - 1924
Lou Meyers
1859 - 1920
Sallie Casey Thayer
1856 - 1925
Howard Clark Hollister
1856 - 1919
Ham Avery
1854 - 1927
Charles Edwin Bentley
1859 - 1929
Isabel Bateman
1854 - 1934