List of people from Mansfield, Ohio

The following is a list of people from Mansfield, Ohio. These people were born, lived, or worked in and around the city.

Architecture

• Paul Gilger, architect, set designer and playwright

Astronaut

• Michael L. Gernhardt, astronaut

Athletics

• Ernie Beam, former baseball player
• Hugh Douglas, Philadelphia Eagles defensive end
• Pete Henry, professional football player
• Dick Logan, professional football player
• Ricky Minard, professional basketball player
• Don Nehlen, former head football coach
• Bill Peterson, former head football coach at Florida State, Rice University and with the Houston Oilers. Peterson was the head coach at Mansfield Senior High in the early 1950's.
• Ryan Pore, Professional Soccer player Major League Soccer Kansas City Wizards
• Jacob Soliday, professional football player, wide receiver Arizona Cardinals
• Marc Wilkins, former Major League Baseball player

Authors and writers

Louis Bromfield

• Jacob Brinkerhoff, jurist, congressman, and author
• Roeliff Brinkerhoff, lawyer, editor and owner of the Mansfield Herald, and later a bank president
• Louis Bromfield, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• Stacy Dittrich, true crime author and mystery novelist
• Terry Hertzler, poet and writer
• Christopher Moore, author
• Vera E. Scott, poet

Entertainment

Luke Perry

• Lee Adams, stage lyricist
• Jenni Barber, actress The Electric Company
• John Bishop, playwright and film writer
• Lester Cowan, (b. April 1, 1906) Producer: (film) My Little Chickadee (with Mae West and W. C. Fields), You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, Main Street to Broadway; Past Executive Director of the Motion Picture Academy
• Amy Douglas, (b. December 21, 1902) Actress: (film) The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Please Don't Eat the Daisies; (television) Marcus Welby, M.D., Ben Casey, 77 Sunset Strip, Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• James Lapine, playwright and director
• Martha Mansfield, stage actress
• Michael McConnohie, voice actor
• Sylvia McNair, operatic soprano
• Jessie Miller, television writer "Community (TV series)"
• Luke Perry, actor (television) Beverly Hills, 90210
• Daniel Roemer, film director, screenwriter
• Robert F. Simon, actor

Entrepreneurs

• Homer Lee, engraver, artist, entrepreneur, founder Homer Lee Bank Note Company.

Military

• Matthias W. Day, US Army Medal of Honor recipient
• Frank Purdy Lahm, first Army aviator
• Mark Matthews, American veteran

Musicians and bands

• Ohio Express, Rock Group-Doug Grassel (rhythm guitar), Dale Powers (lead guitar), Dean Kastran (bass), Jim Pfahler (keyboards), and Tim Corwin (drums)
• Music Explosion, Rock Group-James "Jamie" Lyons (singer, percussion), Donald Atkins (guitar), Richard Nesta (guitar), Burton Stahl (bass), Robert Avery (drums). Top Ten hit in 1967, "Little Bit O'Soul."
• Switch, Motown R&B/soul group
• Ronnie Hughes, Lead Guitarist for "The Godz"
• Betty Nickell, singer inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame

Politicians

Sherrod Brown

• Sherrod Brown, United States Senator, D-Ohio
• Jay Goyal, Ohio State Representative, D-Mansfield
• William Johnston, was a U.S. Representative, D-Ohio from 1863 to 1865
• Lovana Jones, served as an Illinois State Representative
• Winfield S. Kerr, was a U.S. Representative, R-Ohio from 1895 to 1901
• B. F. Langworthy, served as a Minnesota State Representative
• Robert Byington Mitchell, was Governor of the New Mexico Territory from 1866 to 1869
• William Patterson, was a U.S. Representative from Ohio

Zooarchaeology

• Paul Parmalee, zooarchaeology

Other

• Rebecca Gernhardt Cox (b. circa 1955), Assistant Secretary of Transportation, Public Liaison Director for President Reagan, Senior Vice President Continental Airlines.
• Rose Knox, née Markward (November 18, 1857 – 1950), American businesswoman (Knox Gelatin Factory).

See also

• Mansfield, Ohio