List of people from Akron, Ohio

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The following people were all born in or were residents of the city of Akron, Ohio. Note that some people from the greater Akron area may remain on the list from when it covered Summit and Portage counties. They still need to be removed.

Name	Description	Association	Reference
Henry Eugene Abbey	A theatre manager and producer.	Born in Akron	^[1]
John R. Adams	Federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio	Practiced in Akron
James E. Akins	The U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1973 to 1976.		^[2]
Lola Albright	A singer and actress	Born in Akron	^[3]
Andy Alleman	Football center for the Miami Dolphins	Born in Akron	^[4]
Harold Anderson	Basketball coach at Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo	Born in Akron	^[5]
R. W. Apple, Jr.	associate editor at The New York Times	Born in Akron
Joseph Arthur	Musician and artist	Born in Akron	^[6]
Dan Auerbach	Solo Musician and guitarist for the Black Keys. Also the owner of Akron Analog Recording Studios in Akron, Ohio.	Born in Akron	^[7]
William Hanes Ayres	Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives	Represented Akron in Congress
Josh Azzarella	American artist	Born in Akron
Melissa Baker	American model	Born in Akron
E.T. Barnette	Founder of Fairbanks, Alaska and its first mayor	Born in Akron
Alice M. Batchelder	Attorney and jurist, currently chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit	Practiced in Akron
Elsworth R. Bathrick
Tom Batiuk
Cliff Battles
Margaret Baxtresser
Art Becker
Samuel H. Bell	Former federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio	Practiced in Akron
Terry Bevington
George Bliss
Ray C. Bliss
Jim Boeke
Phil Boggs
Dante Booker
Rosario Borgio
William Boyett
Dave Brown
John Brown
Walter Hermann Bucher
Michael Buckley	NY TImes bestselling author of The Sisters Grimm and NERDS series
E. J. Burt
Dave Burrell	Philosopher and theologian
Jimmy Butler
Glen Buxton
Patrick Carney	Drummer for the Black Keys and Bassist for the band Drummer.	Born in Akron
Len Chandler
David Allan Coe
Russell Coffey
Arthur L. Conger
Deborah L. Cook	Federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit	Practiced in Akron
Jarrod Cooper
Cheryl Crawford
Mark Croghan
Stephen Curry	Professional basketball player of the Golden State Warriors
Ruby Nash Curtis
Hammer Damage
Keith Dambrot
Jimmy Darrow
John Dean
Charles W. F. Dick
Frank Dicopoulos
Michael Dokes
Lloyd C. Douglas
Rita Dove
Hugh Downs
Peter C. Economus	Retired federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio	Practiced in Akron
Sidney Edgerton
Eddie Elias
Harold G. Epperson
Eugene C. Eppley
Angie Everhart
Fritzi Fern
Harvey Samuel Firestone	Industrialist
Leonard Firestone	Industrialist
Steve Fitzhugh
Art Fleming
Trent Ford
Mike Fox	Football player
Elizabeth Franz
Shirley Fry
Clark Gable	Actor
William H. Gerstenmaier
Joe Glazer
Dick Goddard
Harvey Gold
Bob Golic
Mike Golic	Football player
Benjamin Goodrich
Jim Graner	Sports anchor at WKYC; color commentator for Cleveland Browns radio network	Born in Akron	^[8]
Charlie Greer
Brad Guigar
James S. Gwin	Federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio	Practiced in Akron
Kris Haines
Dave Hampton
Leon Harris
James Harrison
Dow W. Harter
Umar Bin Hassan
Anne Heche
Carol Heiss
Daniel Hesidence
Howard Hewett
Michael Holley
M. Herbert Hoover
Roger Hoover
Walter B. Huber
Rex Humbard
Craig Hummer
Chrissie Hynde	Musician, leader of The Pretenders
James Ingram
Sandi Jackson
LeBron James	Professional basketball player of the Miami Heat
Jim Jarmusch	film director
Bill Jelen
David Jenkins
Hayes Alan Jenkins
Helen Jepson
Gus Johnson
Steve Johnson
Grandpa Jones
Melina Kanakaredes	Actress
Dean Keener
Herman Keiser
Charlton Keith
Jack Kiser
Phil Kline
Chuck Klosterman
Bob Knepper
Charles Landon Knight
James L. Knight
John S. Knight
Parke Kolbe
Heather Kozar	Model; former Barker's Beauty on The Price is Right
Brock Kreitzburg
Art Kusnyer
Jani Lane	lead singer of the Glam metal band Warrant	Born in Akron
Jerome Lane
Bob Lape
Mortimer Dormer Leggett
Mike Lenz
Bob Lewis	Founder of Devo
Thomas Lewis
Brian Lisik
Robert Lucas
Liam Lynch
Doug Marsh
Thomas E. Martin
Mike Massie
Banjo Matthews
Frank W. Mayborn
Andy McCollum
Frances McGovern
Marian Mercer
Gene Mingo
Dan Moldea
Vaughn Monroe
Michael Morell
Bob Mothersbaugh	Musician, member of Devo
Jim Mothersbaugh	Musician, member of Devo
Mark Mothersbaugh	Musician, member of Devo
Scott Muni
Thurman Munson	Baseball player
Ron Negray
Donnie Nickey
Pete Nischt	musician
Gabe Norwood
Russell Oberlin
Les Olsson
Stanford R. Ovshinsky
Chris Owens
Tim "Ripper" Owens	Musician	Born in Akron
Paige Palmer
John Parry
Ara Parseghian
Jaroslav Pelikan
Simon Perkins
Chris "Drama" Pfaff	Music Producer
Antonio Pittman
Terry Pluto
Shawn Porter	Professional boxer
Christopher Pottenger
Ricky Powers
Erick Purkhiser
Richard Quick
Robert Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine
Ron Rector
James W. Reilly
Rick Renstrom
Nikola Resanovic
Judith Resnik
Butch Reynolds
Jennifer Niederst Robbins
Sydne Rome
Edmund Rowe
Fatina Salaheddine
Wilbur F. Sanders
Thomas C. Sawyer
Bo Schembechler
Francis Seiberling
Frank Seiberling
John F. Seiberling
Luke Sewell
Chuck Share
Denny Shute
Matt Simon
Harry Simpson
George Sisler
Richard Smalley
Bob Smith
Neal Smith
Donald Ray Snodgrass
Mark Stevens
Betty Sutton	Congresswoman for the 13th Congressional District of Ohio in the United States House of Representatives	Practiced in Akron
Tyrell Sutton
Rachel Sweet	Singer, actress and TV writer
Gene Thomas
Nate Thurmond
Todd Tobias
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Bill Upham
William H. Upson
Claude Virden
Mike Vrabel
Michael Wadleigh
Ramon Walker
Brad Warner
Chris Wells	Professional football player of the Arizona Cardinals
Michael Tarver	Professional Wrestler
George Dexter Whitcomb
Jesse White
Wendell Willkie
Melinda Windsor
Antoine Winfield
Ray Wise
Sam Wise
Gene Woodling
Kim Zurz

[edit] Fictional people from Akron, Ohio

Jiminy Glick - a fictional talk-show host portrayed by Martin Short on Comedy Central Network.

[edit] See also

Category:People from Akron, Ohio

[edit] References

^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Marquis Who's Who. 1967.
^ "Features". Akron Update. University of Akron. 2004-02-02. http://www.uakron.edu/aupdate/Feb022004/Feature_92.php. Retrieved 2008-04-30.
^ "Peter Gunn Digs a Canary--That 'Way Out' Lola Albright". Chicago Daily Tribune. 1958-12-27. pp. 1.
^ "Andy Alleman - Stats, Bio". CNN. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/players/8342/index.html. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
^ "Hall of Fame Feature- W. Harold Anderson" (in English). Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-w-harold-anderson.html. Retrieved 2009-03-20. ^{[dead link]}
^ "allmusic ((( Joseph Arthur - Overview )))" (in English). Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p202311. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
^ Easton, Max (2009-01-12). "The Black Keys, Gomez & Ash Grunwald" (in English). Soulshine.com.au. pp. 1. http://www.soulshine.com.au/_article/2009/01/12/411-the-black-keys-gomez-ash-grunwald-luna-park-sydney-9th-jan-2008-.html. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
^ "Jim Graner dies". Associated Press (AP) via The Chronicle-Telegram (Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Co.): p. 1. January 16, 1976.

[0] Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Marquis Who's Who. 1967.

[1] "Features". Akron Update. University of Akron. 2004-02-02. http://www.uakron.edu/aupdate/Feb022004/Feature_92.php. Retrieved 2008-04-30.

[2] "Peter Gunn Digs a Canary--That 'Way Out' Lola Albright". Chicago Daily Tribune. 1958-12-27. pp. 1.

[3] "Andy Alleman - Stats, Bio". CNN. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/players/8342/index.html. Retrieved 2009-01-21.

[4] "Hall of Fame Feature- W. Harold Anderson" (in English). Basketball Hall of Fame. CBS Interactive. http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-w-harold-anderson.html. Retrieved 2009-03-20. ^{[dead link]}

[5] "allmusic ((( Joseph Arthur - Overview )))" (in English). Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p202311. Retrieved 2010-07-19.

[6] Easton, Max (2009-01-12). "The Black Keys, Gomez & Ash Grunwald" (in English). Soulshine.com.au. pp. 1. http://www.soulshine.com.au/_article/2009/01/12/411-the-black-keys-gomez-ash-grunwald-luna-park-sydney-9th-jan-2008-.html. Retrieved 2009-01-21.

[Jim_Graner_dies-7] "Jim Graner dies". Associated Press (AP) via The Chronicle-Telegram (Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Co.): p. 1. January 16, 1976.

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