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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Robert Henri
1865 - 1929
Jim Dine
Born 1935
Tom Wesselmann
1931 - 2004
John Henry Twachtman
1853 - 1902
Frank Duveneck
1848 - 1919
Alice Pike Barney
1857 - 1931
Joseph DeCamp
1858 - 1923
Edward Henry Potthast
1857 - 1927
Isabel Bishop
1902 - 1988
William Jacob Baer
1860 - 1941
Eric Orr
1939 - 1998
Henry Fitch Taylor
1853 - 1925
Gerald Ferguson
1937 - 2009
Claude Raguet Hirst
1855 - 1942
Dixie Selden
1868 - 1938
Edward Charles Volkert
1871 - 1935
Florence Esté
1860 - 1926
Eugene Savage
1883 - 1978
Charles S. Kaelin
1858 - 1929
Lucile Lloyd
1894 - 1941
John Robinson Tait
1834 - 1909
John Hauser
1859 - 1913
Mary Augusta Mullikin
1874 - 1964
Daniel Greene (artist)
1934 - 2020
Albert Robert Valentien
1862 - 1925
William Valentine Schevill
1864 - 1951
Wilbur G. Adam
1898 - 1973
Gerald Cassidy (artist)
1869 - 1934
George Faulkner Wetherbee
1851 - 1920
Tom Marioni
Born 1937
Riva Lehrer
Born 1958
Henry Muhrman
1854 - 1916
Lizzie Wilkerson
1900 - 1984
Sion Wenban
1848 - 1897
Louis Pohl
1915 - 1999
John A. Ruthven
1924 - 2020
Emma Mendenhall
1873 - 1964
Harry Reeks
1920 - 1982
Elden Rowland
1915 - 1982
Thomas Corwin Lindsay
1839 - 1907
Ida Holterhoff Holloway
1866 - 1950
Jamour Chames
Born 1989