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 1890s Clear ×
Louis Finkelstein
1895 - 1991
George E. Stratemeyer
1890 - 1969
Don Brodie
1899 - 2001
Frederick McKinley Jones
1893 - 1961
Cliff Friend
1893 - 1974
Chapman Revercomb
1895 - 1979
Harry Richman
1895 - 1972
Olive Hazlett
1890 - 1974
Charlie Alexander
1890 - 1970
John B. Hollister
1890 - 1979
Cecil M. Harden
1894 - 1984
Helen Hooven Santmyer
1895 - 1986
Carl West Rich
1898 - 1972
Charles Phelps Taft II
1897 - 1983
William E. Hess
1898 - 1986
Edmund J. Pendleton
1899 - 1987
Helen Taft Manning
1891 - 1987
James Edward Ruffin
1893 - 1977
Lucile Lloyd
1894 - 1941
Frank Lane
1896 - 1981
Henry Joseph Grimmelsmann
1890 - 1972
Urban John Vehr
1891 - 1973
George N. Kates
1895 - 1990
Charles R. Tanner
1896 - 1974
Wilbur G. Adam
1898 - 1973
Bernard T. Espelage
1892 - 1971
Lewis Rosenstiel
1891 - 1975
Robert Miles Todd
1897 - 1988
Marion Rawson
1899 - 1980
Neal Brady
1897 - 1947
Gustav Eckstein (psychologist)
1890 - 1981
Kathleen Myers
1899 - 1959
Sara Addington
1891 - 1940
Wally Mayer
1890 - 1951
Dane Dastillung
1897 - 1982
Marjorie Dodd
1894 - 1968
Joseph H. Albers
1891 - 1965
Kenneth Althaus
1895 - 1987
Johnnie Heving
1896 - 1968
Larry Jacobus
1894 - 1965
Goldie Rapp
1892 - 1966
Mary Welleck Garretson
1896 - 1971
Gertrude Orr
1891 - 1971
Al Niehaus
1899 - 1931
Joseph Charles Aub
1890 - 1973
Gus Felix
1895 - 1960
Ed Sperber
1895 - 1976
Bob Geary (baseball)
1891 - 1980
Fred Mollenkamp
1890 - 1948
Dick Niehaus
1892 - 1957
Ralph Shafer
1894 - 1950
Henry Neil Mallon
1895 - 1983
William S. Fellers
1895 - 1973
John Black (baseball)
1890 - 1962
Laura Bromwell
1897 - 1921
Fritz Henrich
1899 - 1959
Red Lutz
1898 - 1984
Larry Goetz
1895 - 1962
James Knowles (aviator)
1896 - 1971
Stewart Judah
1893 - 1966
Mel Doherty
1894 - 1942
Reuben A. Holden III
1890 - 1967
Matthew A. McGee
1890 - 1949