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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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Robert Henri
1865 - 1929
Helen Herron Taft
1861 - 1943
Lillian Wald
1867 - 1940
Nicholas Longworth
1869 - 1931
Charles Urban
1867 - 1942
Charles Henry Turner (zoologist)
1867 - 1923
Harry B. Hawes
1869 - 1947
William Jacob Baer
1860 - 1941
William Strunk Jr.
1869 - 1946
Albertson Van Zo Post
1866 - 1938
Bernard Kroger
1860 - 1938
George Randolph Chester
1869 - 1924
Robert Dudley (actor)
1869 - 1955
Harry Ward Leonard
1861 - 1915
Caro Dawes
1866 - 1957
Ashley Miller (director)
1867 - 1949
Horace Dutton Taft
1861 - 1943
Dixie Selden
1868 - 1938
Henry Francis Bryan
1865 - 1944
John Andrew Martin
1868 - 1939
Florence Esté
1860 - 1926
Wade H. Ellis
1866 - 1948
William Yoast Morgan
1866 - 1932
Jack Boyle
1866 - 1913
Louis Agricola Bauer
1865 - 1932
Alexander C. Mitchell
1860 - 1911
Ferdinand Schevill
1868 - 1954
John N. Klohr
1869 - 1956
Michael Joseph Gill
1864 - 1918
L. M. Wells
1862 - 1923
George Chester Robinson Wagoner
1863 - 1946
Bertha Jaques
1863 - 1941
Albert Robert Valentien
1862 - 1925
William Valentine Schevill
1864 - 1951
Gerald Cassidy (artist)
1869 - 1934
Pauline Hall
1860 - 1919
Denny Lyons
1866 - 1929
Jake Stenzel
1867 - 1919
Eleanor Gamble
1868 - 1933
John Ewing (baseball)
1863 - 1895
Joseph Silverman
1860 - 1930
Hugo Richard Meyer
1866 - 1923
Frank Bell (baseball)
1863 - 1891
George Pechiney
1861 - 1943
Anna Marie Valentien
1862 - 1947
Charlie Bell (baseball)
1868 - 1937
Frank Graves (baseball)
1860 - 1916
Henry Wald Bettmann
1868 - 1935
Charlie Weber (baseball)
1868 - 1914
George Hogriever
1869 - 1961
Joe Crotty
1860 - 1926
Emil Fredericksen
1867 - 1960
Shorty Fuller
1867 - 1904
Billy Clingman
1869 - 1958
Lefty Marr
1862 - 1912
Harry Fuller
1862 - 1895
Bob Black (baseball)
1862 - 1933
Bob Clark (catcher)
1863 - 1919
George Proeser
1864 - 1941
John Godar
1864 - 1949
Mary Given Sheerer
1865 - 1954
William Burke (baseball)
1865 - 1939
Hank Gastright
1865 - 1937
Bob Gilks
1864 - 1944
Red Bittmann
1862 - 1929
Tony Hellman
1861 - 1898
Al Strueve
1860 - 1929
Podge Weihe
1862 - 1914
Wild Bill Widner
1867 - 1908
Nettie McKenzie Clapp
1868 - 1935
James W. Faulkner
1863 - 1923
Ida Holterhoff Holloway
1866 - 1950
Ed Clark (baseball)
1863 - 1927
William Irwin Grubb
1862 - 1935
Clarence Stephens (baseball)
1863 - 1947
Frank McGinn
1869 - 1897
Bill Delaney (baseball)
1863 - 1942
Sadie Chandler Cole
1865 - 1941
Louise Lawson
1860 - 1899
Joseph W. O'Hara
1863 - 1938
Bill Niles
1867 - 1936
Billy Klusman
1865 - 1907
D. E. Biggs
1860 - 1924
Wally Taylor (baseball)
1864 - 1922
Ernst Twitchell
1863 - 1929