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 A. Taft
1889 - 1953
Rob Portman
Born 1955
Kathleen Sebelius
Born 1948
Steve Chabot
Born 1953
George H. Pendleton
1825 - 1889
Brad Wenstrup
Born 1958
Nicholas Longworth
1869 - 1931
Augustus Hill Garland
1832 - 1899
Joshua W. Alexander
1852 - 1936
John J. Gilligan
1921 - 2013
Jean Schmidt
Born 1951
William Dennison Jr.
1815 - 1882
Ron Ziegler
1939 - 2003
Robert Taft Jr.
1917 - 1993
Gary Bauer
Born 1946
Phillip Burton
1926 - 1983
Charles Phelps Taft
1843 - 1929
Steve Austria
Born 1958
Ayanna Pressley
Born 1974
Bob Schaffer
Born 1962
Harry B. Hawes
1869 - 1947
Bill Gradison
Born 1928
George E. Pugh
1822 - 1876
Tom Luken
1925 - 2018
John Burton (American politician)
Born 1932
William H. Hudnut III
1932 - 2016
Mark Mallory
Born 1962
Andy Ireland
Born 1930
David Skaggs
Born 1943
Dave Hobson
Born 1936
Richard P. Ernst
1858 - 1934
Charlie Luken
Born 1951
John T. Myers (congressman)
1927 - 2015
William Haines Lytle
1826 - 1863
Chapman Revercomb
1895 - 1979
Steve Driehaus
Born 1966
Frank Brogan
Born 1953
Dawn Clark Netsch
1926 - 2013
David S. Mann
Born 1939
William J. Keating
1927 - 2020
John B. Hollister
1890 - 1979
Ken Blackwell
Born 1948
James J. Faran
1808 - 1892
Donald D. Clancy
1921 - 2007
Timothy C. Day
1819 - 1869
Cecil M. Harden
1894 - 1984
Gordon H. Scherer
1906 - 1988
E. John Ellis
1840 - 1889
Joseph B. Cheadle
1842 - 1904
Charles Elwood Brown
1834 - 1904
George Bell Swift
1845 - 1912
Carl West Rich
1898 - 1972
Edwin Einstein
1842 - 1905
William E. Hess
1898 - 1986
P.G. Sittenfeld
Born 1984
Charles Stewart Voorhees
1853 - 1909
James Edward Ruffin
1893 - 1977
William Yoast Morgan
1866 - 1932
Joseph A. Dixon
1879 - 1942
Ozro J. Dodds
1840 - 1882
Harold G. Mosier
1889 - 1971
Charles Wheelan
Born 1966
Charlene Mitchell
Born 1930
Leonidas F. Livingston
1832 - 1912
Julius Fleischmann
1871 - 1925
Alexander C. Mitchell
1860 - 1911
John Doyle (West Virginia politician)
Born 1942
William Hartshorn Bonsall
1846 - 1905
Tom Brinkman
Born 1957
Michael Joseph Gill
1864 - 1918
George John Kindel
1855 - 1930
George Chester Robinson Wagoner
1863 - 1946
Maureen Walsh
Born 1960
Joseph Brooks (politician)
1812 - 1877
Harry Geisinger
1933 - 2015
Blanche Long
1902 - 1998
David Pepper (politician)
Born 1971
Roger Berliner
Born 1951
Bill Seitz
Born 1954
Denise Driehaus
Born 1967
Fred Strahorn
Born 1965
Murray Seasongood
1878 - 1983
Alicia Reece
Born 1971
Jane Timken
Born 1966
Francis Channing, 1st Baron Channing of Wellingborough
1841 - 1926
Frank Hornstein
Born 1959
Eric Kearney
Born 1963
Keiko Orrall
Born 1967
Bill Kintner
Born 1960
Christian McDaniel
Born 1977
Tom Umberg
Born 1955
Michael G. Strain
Born 1959
Robert L. Floyd
1918 - 2007
Adam Koenig
Born 1971
Seth Taft
1922 - 2013
Henry Thomas Hunt
1878 - 1956
Joseph Fischer (Kentucky politician)
Born 1954
Thomas Kerr (Kentucky politician)
Born 1950
Shannon Jones
Born 1970
Courtney Combs
Born 1956
Dale Mallory
Born 1964
Bob Schuler
1943 - 2009
Bill Coley
Born 1960
David Frockt
-
Ron Maag
Born 1945
Stan Aronoff
Born 1932
Daniel G. Taylor
1819 - 1878
David Burke (politician)
Born 1967
Tyrone Yates
Born 1954
Louis Terhar
Born 1949
Lou Blessing
Born 1948
Joe Uecker
Born 1954
Donald E. Williams Jr.
Born 1957
Louis Blessing
-
Tim Derickson
Born 1960
Phyllis Henderson
Born 1959
Henry Zuber III
Born 1966
Robert Mecklenborg
Born 1952
Chuck Turner
1941 - 2019
Peter Stautberg
Born 1964
Richard Finan
Born 1934
Stan Jones (Indiana politician)
1949 - 2017
Janet Greenip
Born 1947
Walt Bachrach
1904 - 1989
Rose Vesper
-
Jim McGregor
Born 1948
William L. Mallory Sr.
1931 - 2013
Yvette Simpson
Born 1978
Linda Reidelbach
Born 1971
Chris Bortz
Born 1973
Nettie McKenzie Clapp
1868 - 1935
Bill Bowen
1929 - 1999
Christopher Smitherman
-
Shawn Webster
Born 1949
Andrew Ciarfardini
-
Bob Charles (politician)
1936 - 2016
Sam Bateman
1936 - 2001
John Bechtold
-
Ralph B. Kohnen
1935 - 2008
Norman Murdock
1931 - 2010
Sam Malone (politician)
Born 1970
Margo McNeil
Born 1948
Hugh DeMoss
1932 - 2003
Samuel T. Britton
1933 - 2011
Kenneth F. Harper
Born 1931
Emma Beckwith
1849 - 1919
William Fithian
1799 - 1890
Sylvia Santana
Born 1979
Morriss Henry
Born 1931
Don Ballard
1927 - 2019
D. E. Biggs
1860 - 1924
David S. Holmes Jr.
1914 - 1994