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 1880s Clear ×
Theda Bara
1885 - 1955
Robert A. Taft
1889 - 1953
Mamie Smith
1883 - 1946
Walter Connolly
1887 - 1940
Porter Hall
1888 - 1953
Marion Leonard
1881 - 1956
Nana Bryant
1888 - 1955
Haven Gillespie
1888 - 1975
Stanley Rossiter Benedict
1884 - 1936
Charles W. Sawyer
1887 - 1979
Emma Lucy Braun
1889 - 1971
Theodore Reed
1887 - 1959
Henry Fillmore
1881 - 1956
Harry F. Millarde
1885 - 1931
Joe Jordan (musician)
1882 - 1971
Earl Fuller
1885 - 1947
Iva Shepard
1886 - 1973
Annette Frances Braun
1884 - 1978
Gilbert Bettman
1881 - 1942
Charles Tatgenhorst Jr.
1883 - 1961
Eugene Savage
1883 - 1978
Edna Sherry
1885 - 1967
Harold G. Mosier
1889 - 1971
Caleb Bragg
1885 - 1943
Sara Bard Field
1882 - 1974
Abe Olman
1887 - 1984
Ralph Edward Oesper
1886 - 1977
Harry Pace
1884 - 1943
Horace Bonser
1882 - 1934
Powel Crosley Jr.
1886 - 1961
Clarence Adler
1886 - 1969
Wintter Watts
1884 - 1962
Carl Vitz
1883 - 1983
Lee Magee
1889 - 1966
Valentine Theodore Schaaf
1883 - 1946
Howie Camnitz
1881 - 1960
Donald Corley
1886 - 1955
Ruth Cranston
1887 - 1956
Violet Barbour
1884 - 1968
Lillian Josephine Chester
1887 - 1961
George Carver (academic)
1888 - 1949
Harlan Holden
1888 - 1962
Frank E. Sagendorph, 2nd
1883 - 1972
Louis W. Sauer
1885 - 1980
Charlie Armbruster
1880 - 1964
J. Burton Rix
1882 - 1964
Smith Hickenlooper
1880 - 1933
Thomas Graydon
1881 - 1949
Al Kaiser
1886 - 1969
Walter Frederick Hunt
1882 - 1975
Harry Christlieb
1886 - 1967
Walter Rodgers
1886 - 1951
Coleman W. Avery
1880 - 1938
Crese Heismann
1880 - 1951
Eddie Hohnhorst
1885 - 1916
Francis Marion Stokes
1883 - 1975
Al Bashang
1888 - 1967
Retta Palmer
1883 - 1958
Ambrose Puttmann
1880 - 1936
Jack Bushelman
1885 - 1955
Frank Marty
1888 - 1950
Edward William Boers
1884 - 1929
Rudy Sommers
1886 - 1949
Bill Sweeney (infielder)
1886 - 1948
Bill Bartley
1885 - 1965
Gertrude Bondhill
1880 - 1960
Red Munson
1883 - 1957
Billy Kelsey
1881 - 1968
Cy Pfirman
1889 - 1937
William Goebel (American football)
1887 - 1960
Jack Schulte
1881 - 1975
Eddie Kolb
1880 - 1949
Arthur Thalasso
1883 - 1954
Clarence A. Winder
1887 - 1959
Rachel Barton Butler
1888 - 1920
Billy Crowell
1885 - 1935
Eddie Tiemeyer
1885 - 1946
James Bloomer
1880 - 1963
Walter Barrett
1885 - 1931
Ralph Inott
1884 - 1945
James Pine
1885 - 1953
Christine Norman
1887 - 1930
Ledyard Mitchell
1881 - 1964
Bertha Foster
1881 - 1968
Anna McAllister
Born 1888
John H. Druffel
1886 - 1967