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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Charles W. Sawyer
1887 - 1979
Charles D. Drake
1811 - 1892
Bellamy Storer (1847–1922)
1847 - 1922
Samuel Fenton Cary
1814 - 1900
Henry Waters Taft
1859 - 1945
John Andrew Martin
1868 - 1939
Joseph L. Rauh Jr.
1911 - 1992
William Evans Arthur
1825 - 1897
Gilbert Bettman
1881 - 1942
Charles Tatgenhorst Jr.
1883 - 1961
Richard Ely Bird
1878 - 1955
Wade H. Ellis
1866 - 1948
Thomas Geoghegan
Born 1949
Michael J. Davis
Born 1947
George C. Young
1916 - 2015
Earl T. Wagner
1908 - 1990
Charles Morgan Jr.
1930 - 2009
Henry M. Cist
1839 - 1902
Michael Ryan Barrett
Born 1951
Todd Portune
1958 - 2020
William Odis Bertelsman
Born 1936
John P. Slough
1829 - 1867
Paul Huck
Born 1940
Dana Fabe
Born 1951
John Weld Peck II
1913 - 1993
John Brooks Leavitt
1849 - 1930
Joseph McCormick (Ohio)
1814 - 1879
Charles Pinckney James
1818 - 1899
Carl Bernard Rubin
1920 - 1995
Isaac Jack Martin
1908 - 1966
Stephen M. McNamee
Born 1942
Jay Blossman
Born 1964
Thomas Farr
1954 - 1996
Smith Hickenlooper
1880 - 1933
Steven Levinson
Born 1946
Frank Burton Ellis
1907 - 1969
Coleman W. Avery
1880 - 1938
B. Todd Jones
Born 1957
Bruce E. MacDonald
Born 1955
Theodore Perry
1833 - 1921
Eugene P. Ruehlmann
1925 - 2013
Rufus King Garland Jr.
1830 - 1886
Joseph William Woodrough
1873 - 1977
Douglas Stoddart
Born 1952
Joseph Peter Kinneary
1905 - 2003
William Irwin Grubb
1862 - 1935
David Stewart Porter
1909 - 1989
Howard Clark Hollister
1856 - 1919
Marion Speed Boyd
1900 - 1988
Joseph W. O'Hara
1863 - 1938
Leonard Niederlehner
1914 - 1991
John H. Druffel
1886 - 1967
Robert O. Lukowsky
1927 - 1981
Roscoe B. Stephenson Jr.
1922 - 2011