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 1870s Clear ×
Joseph Strauss (engineer)
1870 - 1938
Miller Huggins
1878 - 1929
Edward LeSaint
1870 - 1940
Edgar Selwyn
1875 - 1944
Burton L. King
1877 - 1944
Clarence Wilson (actor)
1876 - 1941
Laura Clifford Barney
1879 - 1974
Jack Pfiester
1878 - 1953
Nick Altrock
1876 - 1965
William Clifford (actor)
1877 - 1941
Mabel Dwight
1875 - 1955
Edith Rosenbaum
1877 - 1975
Mabel Taylor
1879 - 1967
Edward Charles Volkert
1871 - 1935
Thomas Henry Kearney
1874 - 1956
Rudolph Schevill
1874 - 1946
John Adam Fleming
1877 - 1956
Francis Beckman
1875 - 1948
Richard Ely Bird
1878 - 1955
Joseph A. Dixon
1879 - 1942
Delilah L. Beasley
1871 - 1934
Julius Fleischmann
1871 - 1925
Steadman Vincent Sanford
1871 - 1945
Leonie Taylor
1870 - 1966
Mary Augusta Mullikin
1874 - 1964
Hugo Diemer
1870 - 1937
Edmund L. Gruber
1879 - 1941
Maxwell Karger
1879 - 1922
Sarah Truax
1872 - 1958
Addams Stratton McAllister
1875 - 1946
Red Dooin
1879 - 1952
Fanny Midgley
1879 - 1932
Virginia Earle
1873 - 1937
Brice Disque
1879 - 1960
Isaac Herbert Kempner
1873 - 1967
Murray Seasongood
1878 - 1983
Lucia McCulloch
1873 - 1955
Bob Roberts (singer)
1879 - 1930
Ralph Miller (right-handed pitcher)
1873 - 1973
William H. Twenhofel
1875 - 1957
Louis K. Anspacher
1878 - 1947
George Rohe
1874 - 1957
Henry Thomas Hunt
1878 - 1956
Charlie Emig
1875 - 1975
George Yeager
1874 - 1940
Charlie Grant
1874 - 1932
Caroline Miskel Hoyt
1873 - 1898
Una Hunt
Born 1876
George J. Fisher
1871 - 1960
Arthur Johnson (Karikaturist)
1874 - 1954
Kathryn Sheldon
1879 - 1975
Ernest Minor Patterson
1879 - 1969
William Westley Guth
1871 - 1929
Jack Sutthoff
1873 - 1942
Emma Mendenhall
1873 - 1964
Harry Weil
1878 - 1943
Emil Haberer
1878 - 1951
Winona Closterman
1877 - 1944
Laura Spencer Portor Pope
1872 - 1957
Danny Friend
1873 - 1942
Henry Thew Stephenson
1870 - 1957
Ed Glenn (shortstop)
1875 - 1911
Ernie Diehl
1877 - 1958
John Farrell (second baseman)
1876 - 1921
Ella Scoble Opperman
1873 - 1969
Bill Whitrock
1870 - 1935
Len Swormstedt
1878 - 1964
Nat Emerson
1874 - 1958
Carney Flynn
1875 - 1947
Joseph William Woodrough
1873 - 1977
Charles Fleming (American football)
1877 - 1944
Chink Heileman
1872 - 1940
George Paynter
1871 - 1950
Admiral Schlei
1878 - 1958
Russell Hastings Millward
1877 - 1958
Eddie Boyle
1874 - 1941
Harry Berte
1872 - 1952
John Corcoran (baseball)
1873 - 1901
Bessie Bennett
1870 - 1939
Fred Burlew
1871 - 1927