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 1910s Clear ×
Tyrone Power
1914 - 1958
Roy Rogers
1911 - 1998
Robert J. Wilke
1914 - 1989
Lee Bowman
1914 - 1979
Robert Middleton
1911 - 1977
Evelyn Venable
1913 - 1993
Joseph L. Doob
1910 - 2004
John Newland
1917 - 2000
Ray Birdwhistell
1918 - 1994
Irene Manning
1912 - 2004
John Lounsbery
1911 - 1976
Eddie Arcaro
1916 - 1997
John Franklin Bardin
1916 - 1981
Eve McVeagh
1919 - 1997
Robert Taft Jr.
1917 - 1993
Bill Talbert
1918 - 1999
Herb Vigran
1910 - 1986
Dan Tobin
1910 - 1982
Durward Kirby
1911 - 2000
Sam Stoller
1915 - 1985
Freddie Miller (boxer)
1911 - 1962
Graham Ingels
1915 - 1991
John R. Fox
1915 - 1944
Edward A. McCarthy
1918 - 2005
Robert Lowry (writer)
1919 - 1994
Ruth Shaw Wylie
1916 - 1989
Dorothy Layton
1912 - 2009
Del Connell
1918 - 2011
Jimmie Dodd
1910 - 1964
Joseph L. Rauh Jr.
1911 - 1992
Helen Eustis
1916 - 2015
Cag Cagnolatti
1911 - 1983
John Wiethe
1912 - 1989
Francis M. Forster
1912 - 2006
George C. Young
1916 - 2015
Jewell Young
1913 - 2003
Arnold Spielberg
1917 - 2020
Hal Le Roy
1913 - 1985
Nadi Qamar
Born 1917
Landis Gores
1919 - 1991
Virginia Lacy Jones
1912 - 1984
Ted Horn
1910 - 1948
Karl Bissinger
1914 - 2008
Ray Nolting
1913 - 1995
Richard M. Powell
1916 - 1996
John Weld Peck II
1913 - 1993
Roger W. Mehle
1915 - 1997
Edwin M. Lemert
1912 - 1996
Lou Groen
1917 - 2011
Robert L. Floyd
1918 - 2007
Maurice Tombragel
1913 - 2000
Al Lakeman
1918 - 1976
Louis Pohl
1915 - 1999
Al Morgan (pianist)
1915 - 1989
Joseph B. Casagrande
1915 - 1982
Gene Rose
1913 - 1986
Bill Nimmo
1917 - 2011
Roy Hughes (baseball)
1911 - 1995
Harry Heltzer
1911 - 2005
James S. Plaut
1912 - 1996
Clarence Lushbaugh
1916 - 2000
Edward Rubenstein
1918 - 2019
Monica Nolan
1913 - 1995
Bob Daughters
1914 - 1988
Roy Herbert Reinhart
1919 - 2005
Bob Breitenstein (American football coach)
1913 - 2002
Dudley Williams (physicist)
1912 - 2004
Stanley Crane
1915 - 2003
Elden Rowland
1915 - 1982
Johnny Fischer
1912 - 1984
Albert Heschong
1919 - 2001
Art Rebel
1914 - 2004
Philip Roettinger
1915 - 2002
Steve Larkin
1910 - 1969
Joe C. Davis Jr.
1919 - 2007
Jack Niemes
1919 - 1966
Irv Stein
1911 - 1981
Fred Ratterman
1912 - 1988
Stan Galloway
1915 - 2000
Thomas J. Davis Jr.
1912 - 1989
David Grier Martin
1910 - 1974
Leonard Niederlehner
1914 - 1991
Armando William Tamburella
1919 - 2006
Dutch Dietz
1912 - 1972
Louis Dula
1912 - 1979
David S. Holmes Jr.
1914 - 1994
James E. Earheart Jr.
1913 - 1942