List of people from Toledo, Ohio
The city of Toledo, Ohio, the largest city and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, is the birthplace and home of several notable individuals. This is a list of people from Toledo, Ohio and includes people that were born or lived in Toledo, Ohio. Individuals included in this listing are people presumed to be notable because they have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.[A]
Arts and entertainment
Architecture and Design
- Norman Bel Geddes - industrial designer, Hollywood set designer, noted modernist architect
- Harold Van Doren - co-founder and former president of Society of Industrial Designers
Art
- Joseph Kosuth - conceptual artist
- Paul Timman - Hollywood tattoo artist
Journalism
- Amy Braunschweiger - freelance journalist for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
- Christine Brennan, USA Today sports columnist, ESPN, ABC, and NPR sports analyst, author of six books
- Janet Cooke - journalist with The Blade and The Washington Post
- David Ross Locke - journalist and early political commentator during the American Civil War under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby
- P. J. O'Rourke - political satirist, journalist, writer
- Gloria Steinem - founder of Ms., feminist icon, journalist, women's rights advocate
Literature and poetry
- Mildred Benson - author of the original books in the Nancy Drew series
- Michael Brooks, historian and journalist
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar - African-American poet, originally from Dayton, Ohio
- Edward Eager - author of children's books
- Mari Evans - author, dramatist
- Christopher Moore - novelist
- Scott Nearing - conservationist, peace activist, educator, writer
- Allen Saunders - cartoonist, creator of "Mary Worth" and "Steve Roper" comic strips
- Scott Smith - novelist, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins
- Elizabeth Witherell - editor-in-chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
Modeling
- Cynthia Myers - Playboy Playmate, model, actress
- Jan Roberts - Playboy Playmate, model
Music
- Anita Baker - R&B singer
- Teresa Brewer - singer
- Stanley Cowell - pianist, composer
- Damien - heavy metal/hard rock band
- Johnny and the Hurricanes
- Tom Scholz - member of the 1970s rock group Boston
- Jon Hendricks - member of the jazz group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
- Chester "Lyfe" Jennings, singer
- Kileak - DJ
- Koufax - alternative rock band
- Lollipop Lust Kill - heavy metal/alternative band
- Gary Louris - singer and guitarist for The Jayhawks
- Shirley Murdock - R&B singer
- Chris Byrd - gospel singer
- Scott Shriner - bassist of the rock band Weezer
- Sanctus Real - Christian rock band
- Stylex - electroclash/new wave band
- Art Tatum - jazz pianist
- Static Rituals - alternative rock band
- We are the Fury - alternative rock band
- Lexi - gospel singer
- Dreamend a Chicago-based shoegazer musical group was started by a native toledoian
Theater and film
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- Cliff Arquette - actor, comedian
- Jonathan Bennett - film actor
- Casey Biggs - actor
- Joe E. Brown - actor, comedian
- Daws Butler - voice actor
- John Cromwell - actor, film producer and director
- Jason Dohring - actor
- Jamie Farr - actor
- Maxwell Klinger - fictional character in the television series M*A*S*H
- Philip Baker Hall - film actor
- Katie Holmes - actress, wife of Tom Cruise
- Eric Kripke - television writer, director, and producer
- Shirley Mitchell - radio and television actress
- Adrianne Palicki - film and television actress
- Kate Shindle - Broadway actress
- Alyson Stoner - actress and dancer
- Brandy Talore - pornographic film actress
- Lloyd Thaxton - producer, director, writer, hosted self-titled TV show in 1960s
- Danny Thomas - actor and father of Marlo.
- Marlo Thomas - actress, daughter of Danny, wife of Phil Donahue
- Bonnie Turner - Creator of That '70s Show and 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Business
- Doug Dohring - former CEO and co-founder of Neopets
- Doug Ducey - CEO of Cold Stone Creamery
- Edward Drummond Libbey - glassmaker, philanthropist
- John F. Savage - founder of Savage and Associates, author, philantropist
Science and technology
- Eugene F. "Gene" Kranz - retired NASA flight director who served during the Gemini & Apollo space programs, known for his role in the rescue of Apollo 13
- Lyman Spitzer Jr. - theoretical physicist, astronomer, driving force behind the Hubble Space Telescope
- Michael S. Witherell - particle physicist, former president of Fermilab
Sports
Baseball
- Roger Bresnahan - Baseball Hall of Fame member
- Addie Joss - Baseball Hall of Fame member
- Jim Leyland - manager of Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball (MLB) baseball team
- Zach McClellan - MLB player
- Bob Meyer - MLB player for the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Athletics, and the Seattle Pilots/Milwaukee Brewers
- George Mullin - MLB player
- Lee Richmond - baseball player (pitched the first perfect game in MLB history)
- Ron Rightnowar - MLB player for the Milwaukee Brewers
Basketball
- Don Donoher - former University of Dayton head basketball coach
- Dennis Hopson - American former National Basketball Association (NBA) player
- Jim Jackson, NBA player
- Todd Mitchell - former NBA player
- Steve Mix - former NBA player
- Tony Peyton - last of the original Harlem Globetrotters
- Kelvin Ransey - NBA player
- Howard "Butch" Komives - former NBA player
Football
- Rob Chudzinski - National Football League (NFL) player & coach, Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator
- Jim Harbaugh - former NFL quarterback, head coach of Stanford University
- Curtis Johnson - former NFL player (#45 of 1972 undefeated Miami Dolphins "no-name defense")
- Rick Upchurch - Professional football player Known for one of the fastest NFL players of all time
- Chester Taylor - NFL player (running back for the Minnesota Vikings), former University of Toledo player
- Nate Washington - NFL player (#85 Pittsburgh Steelers)
- Joe Tiller - Purdue University head coach
- Ryne Robinson - NFL player (Carolina Panthers), former Miami University player
- Fred Davis - NFL player (tight end for the Washington Redskins), former USC player
- Myron Bell - former NFL player
- Brandon Fields - NFL player (punter for the Miami Dolphins)
- Dick Kazmaier - 1951 Heisman Trophy winner
- Stan Heath - NFL player (quarterback for the Green Bay Packers)
Ice hockey
- Pat Jablonski - National Hockey League (NHL) goaltender
- Bryan Smolinski - NHL player
Golf
- Arthur Hills - golf course designer
- Byron Nelson - World Golf Hall of Fame member, Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) Tour golfer, former Inverness Club pro
- Frank Stranahan - PGA golfer, weightlifter
- A.W. Tillinghast - golf course designer
- John Cook - PGA golfer
Wrestling and boxing
- Mark Kerr - Syracuse University Division I champion, US Senior Champion, professional mixed martial arts fighter
- Wilbert McClure - gold medal in boxing in 1960 Olympics
- Devin Vargas - professional boxer, former olympian
- Greg Wojciechowski - 1980 Olympic wrestler who was unable to compete due to the United States boycott, alternate on the 1984 and 1988 US Olympic wrestling teams
Other sports
- Paul Chamberlin - professional tennis player
- Edmund Coffin - saddle-maker, equestrian Olympic gold medalist
- Terry Cook - driver in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
- Frances Schroth - winner of one gold medal and two bronze medals in swimming in 1920 Olympic games
Other notoriety
- Stephen Bolles - U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
- Martin Frankel - former financier convicted in 2002 of insurance fraud, racketeering and money laundering.
- Ernest M. McSorley - captain of the ill-fated lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald
- Thomas Noe - former Ohio Republican Party fundraiser and activist, played part in "Coingate" scandal
- Gerald Robinson - Roman Catholic priest convicted of the murder of a nun in 1980
See also
External links
- Baseball Players from Toledo, listing of baseball players from Greater Toledo and Northwestern Ohio
- Basketball Players from Toledo, listing of basketball players from Greater Toledo
- Football Players from Toledo, listing of football players from Greater Toledo
- Other Athletes from Toledo, listing of athletes from Greater Toledo (for sports other than baseball, basketball, and football)