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.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Cincinnati during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 168 notable births.

What Cincinnati Is Known For

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Baseball is Cincinnati's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (251).

Cincinnati over-indexes on baseball12.5× the global rate.

Cincinnati under-produces writer — only 0.7× the global rate.

  1. Baseball251
  2. Football203
  3. Politician152
  4. Actor135
  5. Basket72
  6. Lawyer54
  7. Painter42
  8. Writer40
  1. Baseball25112.5×
  2. Novelist273.9×
  3. Basket723.2×
  4. Lawyer541.8×
  5. Music391.5×
  1. Writer400.7×

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.

18001850190019502000
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  • Politics & Law
  • Film & TV
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Music
  • Other
All1,772
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Showing 87 of 1,772 notable people

0007 ACTOR

Tyrone Power

1914 - 1958

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0010 ACTOR

Roy Rogers

1911 - 1998

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0053 ACTOR

Robert J. Wilke

1914 - 1989

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0069 ACTOR

Lee Bowman

1914 - 1979

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0070 ACTOR

Robert Middleton

1911 - 1977

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0072 ACTOR

Evelyn Venable

1913 - 1993

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0090 MATHEMATICIAN

Joseph L. Doob

1910 - 2004

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0103 FILM

John Newland

1917 - 2000

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0105 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Ray Birdwhistell

1918 - 1994

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0106 ACTOR

Irene Manning

1912 - 2004

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0111 ANIMATOR

John Lounsbery

1911 - 1976

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0136 JOCKEY

Eddie Arcaro

1916 - 1997

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0141 WRITER

John Franklin Bardin

1916 - 1981

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0152 ACTOR

Eve McVeagh

1919 - 1997

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0153 POLITICIAN

Robert Taft Jr.

1917 - 1993

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0172 PLAYER

Bill Talbert

1918 - 1999

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0177 ACTOR

Herb Vigran

1910 - 1986

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0180 ACTOR

Dan Tobin

1910 - 1982

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0320 PRESENTER

Durward Kirby

1911 - 2000

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0326 ATHLETIC

Sam Stoller

1915 - 1985

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0371 BOXER

Freddie Miller (boxer)

1911 - 1962

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0392 PENCILLER

Graham Ingels

1915 - 1991

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0425 SOLDIER

John R. Fox

1915 - 1944

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0435 PRIEST

Edward A. McCarthy

1918 - 2005

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0448 AUTHOR

Robert Lowry (writer)

1919 - 1994

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0573 COMPOSER

Ruth Shaw Wylie

1916 - 1989

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0584 ACTOR

Dorothy Layton

1912 - 2009

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0596 ARTIST

Del Connell

1918 - 2011

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0606 ACTOR

Jimmie Dodd

1910 - 1964

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0614 LAWYER

Joseph L. Rauh Jr.

1911 - 1992

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0664 WRITER

Helen Eustis

1916 - 2015

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0672 MUSIC

Cag Cagnolatti

1911 - 1983

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0681 BASKET

John Wiethe

1912 - 1989

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0716 PHYSICIAN

Francis M. Forster

1912 - 2006

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0722 LAWYER

George C. Young

1916 - 2015

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0759 BASKET

Jewell Young

1913 - 2003

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0779 ENGINEER

Arnold Spielberg

1917 - 2020

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0782 ACTOR

Hal Le Roy

1913 - 1985

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0791 MUSIC

Nadi Qamar

Born 1917

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0820 ARCHITECT

Landis Gores

1919 - 1991

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0824 LIBRARIAN

Virginia Lacy Jones

1912 - 1984

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0825 DRIVER

Ted Horn

1910 - 1948

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0840 PHOTOGRAPHER

Karl Bissinger

1914 - 2008

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0850 FOOTBALL

Ray Nolting

1913 - 1995

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0942 SCREENWRITER

Richard M. Powell

1916 - 1996

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0945 LAWYER

John Weld Peck II

1913 - 1993

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0979 NAVY

Roger W. Mehle

1915 - 1997

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1013 SOCIOLOGIST

Edwin M. Lemert

1912 - 1996

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1042 BUSINESS

Lou Groen

1917 - 2011

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1043 POLITICIAN

Robert L. Floyd

1918 - 2007

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1073 SCREENWRITER

Maurice Tombragel

1913 - 2000

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1096 BASEBALL

Al Lakeman

1918 - 1976

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1117 PAINTER

Louis Pohl

1915 - 1999

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1129 PIANIST

Al Morgan (pianist)

1915 - 1989

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1178 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Joseph B. Casagrande

1915 - 1982

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1183 FOOTBALL

Gene Rose

1913 - 1986

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1184 TELEVISION

Bill Nimmo

1917 - 2011

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1186 BASEBALL

Roy Hughes (baseball)

1911 - 1995

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1220 MANAGER

Harry Heltzer

1911 - 2005

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1237 ART HISTORIAN

James S. Plaut

1912 - 1996

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1271 RADIOLOGIST

Clarence Lushbaugh

1916 - 2000

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1288 PHYSICIAN

Edward Rubenstein

1918 - 2019

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1296 PLAYER

Monica Nolan

1913 - 1995

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1319 BASEBALL

Bob Daughters

1914 - 1988

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1334 PALAEONTOLOGIST

Roy Herbert Reinhart

1919 - 2005

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1389 FOOTBALL

Bob Breitenstein (American football coach)

1913 - 2002

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1431 PHYSICIST

Dudley Williams (physicist)

1912 - 2004

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1466 BUSINESS

Stanley Crane

1915 - 2003

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1481 PAINTER

Elden Rowland

1915 - 1982

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1521 GOLF

Johnny Fischer

1912 - 1984

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1546 DESIGNER

Albert Heschong

1919 - 2001

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1549 BASEBALL

Art Rebel

1914 - 2004

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1556 OFFICER

Philip Roettinger

1915 - 2002

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1586 BASEBALL

Steve Larkin

1910 - 1969

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1597 PLAYER

Joe C. Davis Jr.

1919 - 2007

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1629 BASEBALL

Jack Niemes

1919 - 1966

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1634 BASEBALL

Irv Stein

1911 - 1981

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1658 FOOTBALL

Fred Ratterman

1912 - 1988

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1680 FOOTBALL

Stan Galloway

1915 - 2000

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1686 BUSINESS

Thomas J. Davis Jr.

1912 - 1989

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1718 FACULTY

David Grier Martin

1910 - 1974

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1727 LAWYER

Leonard Niederlehner

1914 - 1991

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1728 FILM

Armando William Tamburella

1919 - 2006

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1748 BASEBALL

Dutch Dietz

1912 - 1972

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1756 BASEBALL

Louis Dula

1912 - 1979

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1757 POLITICIAN

David S. Holmes Jr.

1914 - 1994

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1759 MILITAR

James E. Earheart Jr.

1913 - 1942

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