List of people from Cincinnati
This is a list of notable residents of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Politics
- Stan Aronoff – member of Ohio Senate 1967–96, its president from 1989–96
- William E. Arthur (1825–1897), born in Cincinnati, United States Congressman from Kentucky[1]
- Walt Bachrach – long-serving Mayor of Cincinnati
- Ken Blackwell – Republican Ohio Secretary of State and unsuccessful 2006 candidate for Governor of Ohio
- James G. Birney – abolitionist and Liberty Party presidential candidate
- John Boehner – Congressman and former Speaker of the House
- William K. Bond – Whig Congressman, 1849–1853
- Stanley E. Bowdle – Democratic Congressman, 1913–1915
- John Bridgeland – lawyer and activist
- Tom Brinkman – Republican Ohio House of Representatives member
- Ethan Allen Brown – 7th Governor of Ohio
- Henry Francis Bryan – United States Navy Rear Admiral and the 17th governor of American Samoa
- Jacob Burnet – U.S. Senator, 1828–1831[2]
- Phillip Burton – Democratic Congressman from California
- Benjamin Butterworth – Republican Congressman, 1879–1883, 1885–1891
- Mary Edith Campbell – Suffragette, Board of Education member
- Samuel Fenton Cary – Congressman and temperance movement leader
- Steve Chabot – Republican Congressman, 1995–2009; 2011–
- Thomas R. Chandler – perennial candidate
- Donald D. Clancy – former Republican Congressman
- Aaron H. Conrow – Confederate congressman and general
- David T. Disney – Democratic Congressman, 1849–55
- Ozro J. Dodds – Democratic Congressman, 1872–73
- Steve Driehaus – Democratic Congressman, 2009–present
- Alexander Duncan – Physician, Democratic Congressman, 1837–1841, 1843–1845
- Thomas O. Edwards – Whig Congressman, 1847–1849
- Edwin Einstein – Republican Congressman from New York, 1879–1881
- Richard Kenneth Fox – United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, 1977–79
- George Fries – physician, Democratic Congressman, 1845–1849
- James W. Gazlay – Republican Congressman, 1823–1825
- Thomas Geoghegan – labor lawyer
- John J. Gilligan – former Governor of Ohio
- Herman P. Goebel – Republican Congressman, 1903–1911
- Bill Gradison – Republican Congressman, former mayor of Cincinnati
- William S. Groesbeck – lawyer, Democratic Congressman, 1857–1859
- John A. Gurley – Republican Congressman, 1859–1863
- George W. Hayes – slave, Republican Ohio House of Representatives member
- Rutherford B. Hayes – 19th President of the United States; city solicitor of Cincinnati, 1858–1861
- William E. Hess – Republican Congressman, 1929–1937, 1939–1949, 1951–1961
- Dave Hobson – former Republican congressman
- Cynthia Hogan – counsel to Joe Biden
- Henry Thomas Hunt – former mayor of Cincinnati, 1912–1913
- William J. Keating – former Republican Congressman, brother of Charles Keating
- Simon L. Leis, Jr. – Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutor and sheriff
- Mark Lippert – ambassador to South Korea
- Nicholas Longworth – former Speaker of the House and Majority Leader
- Charlie Luken – former Congressman and Mayor of Cincinnati
- Tom Luken – former Congressman
- Robert Todd Lytle – Congressman, 1833–35
- Mark L. Mallory – former mayor of Cincinnati, 2005–2013
- William L. Mallory, Sr. – first African-American Ohio House of Representatives majority leader
- Sam Malone – former Cincinnati city councilman
- Lawrence Maxwell, Jr. – United States Solicitor General, 1893–1895
- Neil H. McElroy – Secretary of Defense, 1957–59
- John McLean – Congressman, 1813–16, U.S. Postmaster General, 1823–29, U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1829–61
- Alexander C. Mitchell – Republican congressman from Kansas, 1911
- Tom Mooney – teacher, labor union activist
- Harold G. Mosier – Democratic congressman, 1937–39
- Edward Follansbee Noyes – Governor of Ohio, Ambassador to France
- Kabaka Oba – civil rights activist
- Aaron F. Perry – Congressman, 1871–72
- Rob Portman – Congressman, United States Trade Representative; Director of Office of Management and Budget; current Ohio Senator
- James B. Ray – Governor of Indiana, 1825–1831
- Jerry Rubin – political activist, Chicago Seven
- Charles W. Sawyer – United States Secretary of Commerce, 1948–1953 under President Harry Truman
- Milton Sayler – Cincinnati city councilman, Congressman, 1873–79
- Bob Schaffer – former Republican Congressman from Colorado
- Bob Schuler – Ohio State Senator, 2002–09
- Kathleen Sebelius – Governor of Kansas 2003–09, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services 2009–14
- William B. Shattuc – Congressman, 1897–1903
- Potter Stewart – Supreme Court Justice
- Bellamy Storer (1796–1875) – lawyer, Congressman, 1835–37
- Bellamy Storer (1847–1922) – Congressman, 1891–95, diplomat
- Bob Taft – Governor of Ohio, 1999–2007
- Charles Phelps Taft II – Mayor of Cincinnati, 1955–1957
- Robert A. Taft – Senate leader; son of William Howard Taft
- William Howard Taft – 27th President of the United States, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Business
- Marcellus Bailey – patent attorney for Alexander Graham Bell
- Emma Beckwith – bookkeeper, optician, inventor, suffragette
- Powel Crosley Jr. – inventor and entrepreneur
- Francis L. Dale – lawyer, Cincinnati Reds owner, Republican Party operative
- Maxwell Dane – advertising executive
- William Edenborn – industrialist and inventor, lived in Cincinnati in the latter 1860s
- James Gamble – co-founder of Procter & Gamble
- Alfred T. Goshorn – businessman, civic booster, founder of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team
- Kevin Harrington – Infomercial entrepreneur
- Louise McCarren Herring – leader of the credit union movement
- Ronald Howes – inventor of the Easy-Bake Oven
- Jeffrey R. Immelt – CEO of General Electric
- Charles Keating – banker involved in savings and loan crisis of the 1980s
- Jim Koch – founder, Boston Beer Company
- Bernard Kroger – founder of the Kroger supermarket chain
- Isaac Herbert Kempner – founder of Imperial Sugar
- Carl Lindner, Jr. – businessman and co-founder of United Dairy Farmers; founder of American Financial Group
- Michael Malatin, pioneer in hospital valet parking
- William F. Nast – diplomat, railroad businessman
- Henry Nicholas – communications technology entrepreneur
- Stephen Sanger – former chairman of General Mills
- Marge Schott – women's business pioneer; former owner of the Cincinnati Reds
- David Sinton – pig iron industrialist
- Ted Turner – founder of Turner Broadcasting System
- David Uible – businessman and county commissioner
- Douglas A. Warner III – banker
- Joseph Ray Watkins – born in city, was an entrepreneur and founder of Watkins Incorporated
- Luman Watson – 19th century clockmaker
- Granville Woods – inventor
Science
- Cleveland Abbe – meteorologist
- C. David Allis – geneticist
- Richard Allison – Surgeon General of the Army
- Charles J. Bates – food scientist
- Amanda Bauer – astronomer
- Robin T. Cotton – pediatrician
- Michael Dine – theoretical physicist
- William Doherty – entomologist
- Joseph Leo Doob – mathematician
- Ronald G. Douglas – mathematician and university provost
- Daniel Drake – physician and writer
- Richard S. Hamilton – mathematician
- Henry Heimlich – co-developer of the Heimlich maneuver
- Karl Gordon Henize – NASA astronaut
- Robert Kistner – gynecologist, textbook author
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn – science historian
- John Mauchly – physicist, co-designer of ENIAC
- Ann Moore – pediatric nurse, inventor of the Snugli baby carrier
- Joseph Ransohoff – neurosurgeon
- Marion Rawson – archaeologist
- George Rieveschl – inventor of Benadryl
- Albert Sabin – discoverer of oral polio vaccine
Journalism and media
- Jon Arthur – syndicated radio personality
- Gamaliel Bailey – journalist and abolitionist
- Delilah L. Beasley – first African American woman to be published regularly in a major metropolitan newspaper
- Marty Brennaman – Cincinnati Reds radio play-by-play announcer since 1974
- Thom Brennaman – sports broadcaster
- Gary Burbank – radio personality
- Nick Clooney – journalist, anchorman, and television host, father of George Clooney
- Gail Collins – columnist for The New York Times
- Bill Cunningham – attorney, radio and television talk show host
- David Dick – CBS News correspondent, born in Cincinnati, resided in Bourbon County, Kentucky
- Paul Dixon – Cincinnati-area daytime television host
- Elizabeth Drew – political journalist and author
- Courtis Fuller – local news anchor
- Bill Hemmer – Fox News Channel anchor and correspondent; former CNN anchor and reporter
- Steven L. Herman – Voice of America bureau chief and correspondent
- Derrin Horton – sportscaster
- Joe Kernen – CNBC news anchor
- Dan La Botz – journalist, author and socialist activist
- Alan Light – former editor of 'VIBE and Spin
- Ruth Lyons – radio and television personality
- Edward Deering Mansfield – 19th-century newspaper editor
- William Maxwell – engraver, printer, publisher of the first newspaper in Cincinnati
- Mike McConnell – syndicated radio talk show host
- John Roll McLean – owner and publisher of The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Washington Post
- Washington McLean – owner and publisher of The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Washington Post
- Erin McPike – White House Correspondent for Independent Journal Review, formerly with CNN and NBC News
- David Mendell – journalist and Barack Obama biographer
- Dan Patrick – sportscaster and radio personality (from Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati)
- Wally Phillips – radio personality
- James S. Robbins – opinion journalist, author and scholar
- Glenn Ryle – television personality
- Al Schottelkotte – television news anchor and reporter
- Bob Shreve – early television personality
- Larry Smith – Puppeteer and children's television host
- Tony Snow – news commentator, White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush administration
- Dale Sommers – radio personality also known as "the Truckin' Bozo"
- Anne Marie Tiernon – local news anchor
- Linda Vester – Fox News Channel anchor
- Dick VonHoene – news anchor, talk show and horror-movie show host, aka "The Cool Ghoul"
- Eliza Yang – MTV K VJ
Artists and entertainment
Acting, motion pictures, and television
- Kevin Allison – actor, sketch comedian (The State)
- Patti Astor – Underground film actress
- Theda Bara – silent film actress
- Thom Barry – television actor (Cold Case)
- Powhatan Beaty – American Civil War soldier and stage actor
- Louise Beavers – actress
- Andy Blankenbuehler – dancer and choreographer
- Zach Bolton – voice actor and ADR director affiliated with Funimation
- Mark Boone Junior – actor
- Lee Bowman – film and television actor
- Bob Braun – local television and radio personality
- Don Brodie – actor and director
- Nana Bryant – actress
- Rebecca Budig – soap opera and television actress
- Marty Callner – music video director
- Rocky Carroll – actor (NCIS)
- Marguerite Clark – stage and silent film actress
- Rosemary Clooney – singer and actress (White Christmas)
- Majel Coleman – actress and model
- Ray Combs – host of Family Feud, 1988–1994
- Walter Connolly – film actor
- Shamika Cotton – actress
- Chase Crawford - actor, producer
- Joel Crothers – actor
- Doris Day – popular singer and actress
- Gabrielle Dennis – actress [3]
- John Diehl – actor
- John Dierkes – actor
- Missy Doty – actress
- Pamella D'Pella – actress
- Carmen Electra (born Tara Leigh Patrick) – actress, singer
- Vera-Ellen – actress and dancer (White Christmas)
- Cliff 'Fatty' Emmich – actor
- Susan Floyd – actress
- Trixie Friganza – vaudeville and film actress
- Stephen Geoffreys – film, stage, and gay pornography actor
- Sidney M. Goldin – silent film director
- Charles Guggenheim – movie director
- Julie Hagerty – model and actress (Airplane!)
- Pauline Hall – stage actress and dancer
- Porter Hall – actor (Miracle on 34th Street)
- Emily Harper – actress
- Tiffany Hines – actress
- Libby Holman – torch singer and actress
- Arthur V. Johnson – silent film actor and director
- Noah Keen – actor
- Dagney Kerr – actress
- Regina King – actress (The Boondocks and Jerry Maguire)
- Mike Kleinhenz – voice actor
- Eric Lange – actor (Lost and Victorious)
- Marcia Lewis – actress
- Vicki Lewis – actress (NewsRadio)
- Hudson Leick – actress
- Edward LeSaint – silent film actor and director
- Floriana Lima – actress
- Todd Louiso – actor
- Gina Malo – actress
- Irene Manning – actress and singer
- Jack Manning – actor
- Markiplier, real name Mark Fischbach – YouTube personality
- Ann May – silent film actress
- Blanche Mehaffey – showgirl and actress
- Gertrude Michael – film and television actress
- Fanny Midgley – silent film actress
- Harry F. Millarde – silent film actor and director
- J. Madison Wright Morris – actress and model
- Kathryn Morris – actress (Cold Case)
- Heidi Mueller – actress
- Pamela Myers – Broadway and television actress
- Stephen Nichols – actor
- Gary Owen – stand-up comedian and actor
- Richard M. Powell – television and film screenwriter
- Tyrone Power – actor (The Mark of Zorro, Witness for the Prosecution)
- Lee Roy Reams – Broadway actor and director, born in Covington, Kentucky,
- Theresa Rebeck – television (NYPD Blue) and film screenwriter
- Theodore Reed – movie director
- Hari Rhodes – actor
- Sy Richardson – actor
- Diana-Maria Riva – actress
- Dennis Roady – actor and YouTube personality
- Roy Rogers – actor and singer, iconic western film star
- Bonnie Rotten – porn star
- Tom Segura – comedian
- Iva Shepard – silent film actress
- Gertrude Short – silent film actress
- Hal Sparks – actor and comedian
- Shane Sparks – choreographer
- Steven Spielberg – Oscar-winning film director
- Jerry Springer – mayor of Cincinnati, talk show host (born in London, of Austrian parents)
- Pat Stanley – actress, dancer, and singer
- Brette Taylor – actress and singer-songwriter
- Amanda Tepe – actress
- Evelyn Venable – actress
- Daniel von Bargen – actor
- Patricia Wettig – actress and playwright
- Robert J. Wilke – actor
- Katt Williams – stand-up comedian and actor
- Rudy Wurlitzer – screenwriter
- Amy Yasbeck – actress
- Wolfgang Zilzer – actor
Music
- Marty Balin – founder and original lead singer of Jefferson Airplane
- Adrian Belew – guitarist and vocalist (Frank Zappa, King Crimson)
- Matt Berninger – lead singer of The National
- LaKiesha Berri – R&B singer
- Boom Bip – electronic musician
- Andy Biersack – rock singer (Black Veil Brides)
- Bobby Borchers – country music singer-songwriter
- Earl Bostic – jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist
- Mia Carruthers – singer-songwriter
- Mel Carter – R&B singer
- Bootsy Collins – Parliament Funkadelic funk bass player
- Danny Cox – folk singer/songwriter
- Gustav Dannreuther – violinist and conductor
- Carl Dobkins, Jr. – rockabilly singer
- George Duning – trumpet and piano player
- Fat Jon – hip hop producer
- Stephen Foster – songwriter and arranger
- Gloria Jones – singer/songwriter
- Grandpa Jones – entertainer, banjo player and "old time" country and gospel singer
- Homer and Jethro – Grammy-winning country comedy duo
- H-Bomb Ferguson – jump blues singer
- Henry Fillmore – march music composer
- Peter Frampton – musician, currently lives in Cincinnati
- Jane French – singer/songwriter
- Larry Hall – singer ("Sandy")
- Fred Hersch – jazz pianist
- Hi-Tek – rapper and producer
- Steve Kipner – songwriter ("Let's Get Physical")
- Drew Lachey – winner of Dancing With The Stars
- Nick Lachey – lead singer of 98 Degrees
- James Levine – conductor
- Scott Lindroth – composer
- Lonnie Mack – blues artist
- Len Mink – Christian evangelist and musician
- Sonny Moorman – blues guitarist
- Nicole C. Mullen – songwriter and choreographer
- Naked Cowboy – busker
- Tyler Ramsey – guitarist for Band of Horses
- Antonio "L.A." Reid – record executive
- Katie Reider – singer-songwriter
- Sheldon Reynolds – R&B guitarist
- George Russell – jazz pianist and composer
- Mamie Smith – blues singer
- Merle Travis – country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist
- Leon Wesley Walls – singer-songwriter
- David Wolfenberger – singer-songwriter
- Andy Williams – pop singer
- Philippe Wynne – lead singer for The Spinners
Groups
- 98 Degrees – boy band of the 1990s
- Afghan Whigs – rock band
- Ass Ponys – rock band
- The Bears – rock band
- Beneath the Sky – metalcore band
- Black Veil Brides – Rock band
- Blessid Union of Souls – rock band
- Buffalo Killers – rock band
- The Casinos – Doo-wop group
- Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods – 1970s pop band
- Ellery – alt-folk band
- Foxy Shazam – rock band
- The Greenhornes – rock band
- Heartless Bastards – indie rock band
- The Isley Brothers – R&B/soul group
- The Lemon Pipers – pop band from the 1960s
- The National – indie rock band
- Otis Williams and the Charms – Doo-wop vocal group
- Over the Rhine – rock band
- Pure Prairie League – pop/country band
- Pomegranates – indie rock band
- Walk the Moon – indie-rock band
- Wussy – indie rock band
Authors
- Karen Ackerman – children's author
- Thomas Berger – author
- Christopher Bollen – novelist
- Fredric Brown – author
- Alice Cary – poet
- Phoebe Cary – poet
- Stuart Archer Cohen – novelist
- Sharon Creech – novelist
- Michael Cunningham – novelist (The Hours)
- Nikki Giovanni – poet and author
- Shari Goldhagen – novelist
- Richard Hague – poet, author and educator
- Kenneth Koch – New York School poet
- Tim Lucas – film critic, novelist, author
- William Matthews – poet
- William Holmes McGuffey – educator, author of McGuffey Readers
- Karen Marie Moning – paranomal romance/thriller author
- David Quammen – science and travel writer
- Mike Resnick – Hugo Award-winning science fiction writer
- Helen Hooven Santmyer – writer
- Stanley Schmidt – science fiction author and magazine editor
- Curtis Sittenfeld – novelist
- Henry Thew Stevenson – academic and writer
- Harriet Beecher Stowe – author and abolitionist
- Edmund White – author
- Jonathan Valin – novelist
Visual artists
- James Presley Ball – photographer and abolitionist
- Karl Bissinger – photographer
- Robert Frederick Blum – lithographer
- Jim Borgman – Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
- Jim Dine – pop artist
- Robert S. Duncanson – painter and muralist
- Frank Duveneck – figure and portrait painter
- Alfred Oscar Elzner – architect
- Suzanne Farrell – ballerina
- Tim Folzenlogen – realist painter
- William H. Fry – Aesthetic movement wood carver and gilder
- Frank J. Girardin – painter
- Daniel Greene – painter
- Harry Hake – architect
- Samuel Hannaford – architect, designer of Cincinnati's Music Hall
- Charley Harper – wildlife artist
- Robert Henri – painter, leader of the Ashcan School movement
- Ida Holterhoff Holloway – painter [4]
- Charles S. Kaelin – American Impressionist painter
- Thomas Rogers Kimball – architect
- Janis Crystal Lipzin – multi-media artist, filmmaker, photographer
- Gary Lord – faux painter and decorator
- Winsor McCay – comic strip artist, animator
- Mary Louise McLaughlin – ceramic painter and studio potter
- Lewis Henry Meakin – American Impressionist painter
- Henry Mosler – painter
- Alfred B. Mullett – architect
- Frank Harmon Myers – painter
- Charles Henry Niehaus – sculptor
- Thomas Satterwhite Noble – painter
- Diane Pfister – artist and painter
- Edward Henry Potthast – American Impressionist painter
- Hiram Powers – sculptor
- John Ruthven – painter of wildlife
- Kataro Shirayamadani – ceramic painter
- Lilly Martin Spencer – painter
- Francis Marion Stokes – architect
- Maria Longworth Nichols Storer – founder of the Rookwood Pottery Company
- Adolph Strauch – landscape architect
- John Robinson Tait – landscape painter
- Tony Tasset – contemporary artist
- Tom Tsuchiya – sculptor
- John Henry Twachtman – impressionist landscape painter
- Leon Van Loo – photographer
- Edward Charles Volkert – American Impressionist painter
- Tom Wesselmann – pop artist
Sports
Baseball
- Mike Adams – MLB outfielder
- Ethan Allen – MLB player, coach at Yale University[5]
- Nick Altrock – MLB pitcher[6]
- Charlie Armbruster – MLB catcher[7]
- Skeeter Barnes – MLB utility player[8]
- Al Bashang – MLB outfielder[9]
- Charlie Bell – MLB pitcher[10]
- David Bell – MLB third baseman
- Frank Bell – MLB player
- Mike Bell – MLB third baseman
- Andrew Benintendi – MLB outfielder
- Ralph Birkofer – MLB pitcher
- Red Bittmann – MLB second baseman
- Ethan Blackaby – MLB outfielder
- Jim Bolger – MLB outfielder
- Barry Bonnell – MLB player
- Daryl Boston – MLB outfielder
- Buzz Boyle – MLB outfielder
- Jack Boyle – MLB player[11]
- Jimmy Boyle – MLB catcher
- Andrew Brackman – Minor League Baseball pitcher in New York Yankees organization
- Ed Brinkman – MLB player
- Jim Bunning – Hall of Fame pitcher, Senator from Kentucky (from Southgate, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati)
- Nelson Burbrink – MLB catcher and scout
- Moe Burtschy – MLB pitcher
- Jack Bushelman – MLB pitcher
- Flea Clifton – MLB pitcher
- Joe Crotty – MLB catcher
- Bob Daughters – MLB player
- Zach Day – MLB pitcher
- Dory Dean – MLB pitcher
- Drew Denson – MLB first baseman
- Red Dooin – MLB player and manager
- Bill Doran – MLB second baseman
- Richard Dotson – MLB pitcher
- Dick Drott – MLB pitcher
- Leon Durham – MLB player
- Joe Ellick – MLB player
- Buck Ewing – Hall of Fame catcher and manager
- Bill Faul – MLB pitcher
- Tom Flanigan – MLB pitcher
- Charlie Grant – Negro League second baseman
- Bob Gilks – MLB player
- Ed Glenn – MLB player
- Charlie Gould – National League baseball player
- Ken Griffey, Jr. – MLB outfielder, Baseball Hall of Famer (born in Donora, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Cincinnati)
- Tommy Griffith – MLB outfielder
- Heinie Groh – MLB third baseman
- Josh Harrison – MLB third baseman
- Dan Hayden – Miami University (OH) baseball coach
- August Herrmann – Cincinnati Reds president, 1903–1920
- Johnny Hodapp – MLB infielder
- Ed Hug – MLB catcher
- Miller Huggins – MLB player; Hall of Fame manager for the New York Yankees
- Roy Hughes – MLB infielder
- Tom Hume – MLB pitcher and coach
- Adam Hyzdu – MLB and Japanese baseball outfielder
- Larry Jacobus – MLB pitcher
- Betsy Jochum – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Lance Johnson – MLB player
- David Justice – MLB player
- Al Kaiser – MLB outfielder
- Dorothy Kamenshek – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Scott Klingenbeck – MLB pitcher
- Eddie Kolb – MLB pitcher, businessman
- Al Lakeman – MLB player
- Margie Lang – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Barry Larkin – MLB shortstop, Baseball Hall of Famer
- Charlie Leesman – MLB pitcher
- Sam Leever – MLB player (born in suburb of Goshen)
- Jensen Lewis – MLB pitcher
- Jim Leyritz – MLB catcher
- Bill Long – MLB pitcher[12]
- Garry Maddox – MLB outfielder
- Art Mahaffey – MLB pitcher
- Lefty Marr – MLB third baseman
- Len Matuszek – MLB first baseman
- Wally Mayer – MLB catcher
- Roger McDowell – MLB pitcher and coach
- Bobby Mitchell – MLB pitcher
- Ralph Miller – MLB pitcher
- Ron Moeller – MLB pitcher
- Red Munson – MLB catcher
- Charles Murphy – sportswriter, owner of the Chicago Cubs
- Tim Naehring – MLB player
- Russ Nagelson – MLB player
- Chris Nichting – MLB pitcher
- Bob Nieman – MLB player
- Russ Nixon – MLB player and manager (born in Cleves, a suburb of Cincinnati)
- Joe Nuxhall – pitcher, later long-time color commentator for Cincinnati Reds games (from Hamilton, Ohio)
- Brian O'Connor MLB pitcher
- Ron Oester – MLB player
- Jayhawk Owens – MLB player
- Dave Parker – MLB player, born in Mississippi, grew up in Cincinnati
- George Paynter – MLB outfielder
- George Pechiney – MLB pitcher
- Dave Pember – MLB pitcher
- Shannon Penn – MLB designated hitter
- Eduardo Pérez – MLB player; son of Tony Pérez
- Jack Pfiester – MLB pitcher
- Cy Pfirman – MLB umpire
- Icicle Reeder – MLB outfielder
- Tuffy Rhodes – MLB and Japanese player
- Billy Riley – MLB player outfielder
- Pete Rose – All-Star MLB player, holds record for most hits in a career
- Pete Rose, Jr. – minor league baseball player
- Jeff Russell – MLB pitcher
- Scott Sauerbeck – MLB pitcher
- Admiral Schlei – MLB catcher
- Jimmy Shevlin – MLB first baseman
- John Shoupe – 19th-century shortstop
- Joe Smith – MLB player
- Rudy Sommers – MLB pitcher
- Ed Sperber – MLB outfielder
- Jake Stenzel – MLB outfielder
- Shannon Stewart – MLB player
- Eric Surkamp – MLB pitcher
- Pat Tabler – MLB player and baseball analyst
- Kent Tekulve – MLB pitcher
- Bill Wegman – MLB pitcher
- Marie Wegman – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Alex Wimmers – MLB pitcher
- George Yeager – MLB catcher
- Kevin Youkilis – All Star MLB first and third baseman
- Don Zimmer – MLB player and manager
Basketball
- Luke Babbitt – NBA player
- Dennis Bell – NBA player
- Tom Boerwinkle – NBA player
- Ric Bucher – ESPN NBA analyst
- Rick Calloway – NBA player
- Jeremy Chappell – Robert Morris and European league player
- Semaj Christon – Xavier University and NBA Development League player
- Mick Cronin – University of Cincinnati basketball coach
- Ralph Crosthwaite – Western Kentucky University and NBA player
- Erik Daniels – University of Kentucky and NBA player
- Dee Davis – WNBA player
- Derrek Dickey – NBA player and analyst
- Justin Doellman – Xavier University and Spanish League player
- Josh Duncan – Xavier University and European league player
- Robin Freeman – 1955 and 1956 All-American at Ohio State
- Yancy Gates – player for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Premier League
- Matt Harpring – NBA player
- Tyrone Hill – Xavier University and NBA player
- Robert Hite – NBA player
- Rick Hughes – NBA player
- Brandon Hunter – NBA player
- Kannard Johnson – NBA player
- Shane Larkin – NBA player, son of Barry Larkin
- Brad Loesing – Wofford and European league player
- Mike Mathis – NBA referee
- Kelsey Mitchell – 2018 Big Ten Women's Basketball Player of the Year for Ohio State
- Louis Orr – NBA player and college coach
- Dave Robisch – NBA and ABA player
- Kelly Schumacher – WNBA basketball player
- Mel Thomas – UConn player
- LaSalle Thompson – NBA player
- Bob Wiesenhahn – NBA player
- Devin Williams – West Virginia and NBA G League player
Football
- Alex Albright – NFL linebacker
- Don Allard – NFL quarterback
- Kevin Allen – NFL offensive tackle
- Darren Anderson – NFL cornerback
- Mel Anthony – Michigan and CFL fullback; 1965 Rose Bowl MVP
- Steve Apke – replacement player during 1987 NFL players' strike
- B.J. Askew – NFL fullback
- Alex Bannister – NFL wide receiver
- Darren Barnett – NFL cornerback
- Ron Beagle – College Football Hall of Fame end for Navy
- Bruce Beekley – NFL linebacker
- Ed Biles – NFL Houston Oilers head coach, 1981–1983
- Rocky Boiman – Notre Dame and NFL linebacker, radio host
- Vaughn Booker – NFL defensive end
- Jim Boyle – NFL offensive tackle
- Colin Branch – NFL safety
- Tyrone Brown – NFL and CFL wide receiver
- Al Brosky – College Football Hall of Fame cornerback
- Dante Brown – NFL running back
- Ricky Brown – NFL linebacker for Boston College and the Oakland Raiders
- Brent Celek – NFL tight end
- Garrett Celek – NFL tight end
- Frank Clair – Canadian Football League coach
- Vinnie Clark – NFL cornerback
- Robert Cobb – NFL defensive end
- John Conner – University of Kentucky and New York Jets fullback
- Bob Crable – NFL player, businessman
- Shane Curry – NFL defensive end; murdered in 1992
- Dane Dastillung – American football player
- Jerome Davis – NFL nose tackle
- Wayne Davis – NFL cornerback
- Jerry Doerger – NFL center
- Nate Ebner (born 1988) – Ohio State and NFL New England Patriots safety and rugby Olympian
- Dixon Edwards – NFL linebacker
- Marc Edwards – NFL fullback
- Ray Edwards – NFL defensive end
- Khalil El-Amin – University of Cincinnati offensive lineman
- Mark Fischer – Purdue and Washington Redskins offensive lineman
- Dave Foley – Ohio State and NFL offensive tackle
- Greg Frey – Ohio State quarterback
- Bob Fry – NFL offensive lineman
- Dave Frye – NFL linebacker
- Bob Goodridge – NFL wide receiver
- Dick Gordon – Pro Bowl wide receiver
- Carlton Gray – NFL cornerback
- Gino Guidugli – University of Cincinnati quarterback
- Darryl Hardy – NFL linebacker
- Maurice Harvey – NFL safety
- Clint Haslerig – Michigan and NFL wide receiver
- Don Hasselbeck – NFL tight end
- Joel Heath – NFL defensive tackle
- Rodney Heath – NFL cornerback
- Mark Herrmann – NFL quarterback
- Alex Higdon – Ohio State and NFL tight end
- Jack Hoffman – NFL player
- Kevin Huber – NFL punter
- Russ Huesman – college football coach
- Tony Hunter – Notre Dame and NFL tight end
- Tom Jackson – NFL player and ESPN analyst (lives in Cincinnati)
- Dan James – NFL and Ohio State offensive lineman
- Melvin Johnson – NFL safety
- Greg Jones – NFL linebacker
- Steve Junker – NFL tight end
- Mark Kamphaus – Boston College quarterback
- Eric Kattus – NFL tight end
- Terry Killens – NFL linebacker
- Austin King – NFL center
- Eric Joel Kresser – NFL quarterback
- Luke Kuechly – NFL linebacker; 2013 NFL Defensive Player of the Year
- Dante Love – Ball State wide receiver
- Greg Mancz – NFL center
- Michael Matthews – NFL tight end
- Napoleon McCallum – College Football Hall of Fame running back for Navy
- Brandon Miree – NFL fullback
- Michael Muñoz – Tennessee offensive tackle
- Justin Murray – NFL offensive tackle
- Leon Murray – Tennessee State quarterback
- Rico Murray – NFL cornerback
- Al Nelson – former NFL cornerback
- Steve Niehaus – first draft choice of NFL Seattle Seahawks; defensive tackle
- Ray Nolting – NFL running back, University of Cincinnati football coach
- David Nugent – NFL defensive lineman
- Mike Nugent – NFL kicker
- Tom O'Brien – North Carolina State Wolfpack football head coach
- Ahmed Plummer – NFL cornerback (from Wyoming, suburb of Cincinnati)
- P. J. Pope – NFL running back
- DeVier Posey – NFL wide receiver
- George Ratterman – football player
- Ike Reese – NFL linebacker and radio host
- Jack Reynolds – NFL linebacker
- Kurt Rocco – Arena Football League quarterback
- Kyle Rudolph – Minnesota Vikings tight end
- Marcus Rush – NFL linebacker
- Abdul Salaam – NFL defensive tackle
- Greg Scruggs – NFL linebacker
- Mike Sensibaugh – NFL safety
- Tyler Sheehan – NFL quarterback
- Ed Shuttlesworth – Michigan and CFL fullback
- Chris Smith – NFL running back
- Sean Smith – NFL defensive end
- Kirk Springs – NFL safety
- Ryan Stanchek – NFL offensive lineman
- Ralph Staub – Cincinnati Bearcats football player and coach
- Roger Staubach – Heisman Trophy-winning Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback
- Milt Stegall – NFL and CFL wide receiver, Canadian Football Hall of Famer
- Greg Stemrick – NFL cornerback
- Ken Stone – NFL safety
- Zach Strief – NFL offensive lineman
- Dana Stubblefield – NFL defensive tackle
- Steve Sylvester – NFL offensive lineman
- Matthew Teague – NFL and CFL linebacker
- Matt Tennant – NFL offensive lineman
- Steve Tensi – NFL quarterback
- Brian Townsend – NFL linebacker
- DeJuan Tribble – NFL cornerback
- Tom Waddle – NFL wide receiver and football analyst
- Eric Wood – NFL center
- Spencer Ware – NFL running back
- John Wiethe – All-Pro NFL guard/linebacker and Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball head coach, 1946-1952
- DeShawn Wynn – NFL running back
Other
- Eddie Arcaro – Triple Crown-winning jockey
- Tim Austin – 1992 Olympic bronze medalist and Bantamweight boxing champion
- Aubrey Bledsoe – professional soccer player
- Amanda Borden – 1996 gold-medal winning gymnast
- Danielle Borgman – professional soccer player
- Jordan Brauninger – figure skater
- Adrien Broner – boxer
- Aimee Bruder – bronze medal-winning Paralympics swimmer
- Caleb Bragg – racecar driver and automobile inventor
- Marc Burch – Major League Soccer defender
- Amber Campbell – 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games hammer thrower
- Steve Cauthen – Triple Crown-winning jockey (from Covington, Kentucky)
- Ezzard Charles – heavyweight champion boxer
- Winona Closterman – tennis player
- Rodney Combs – NASCAR driver
- Katherine Copely – Lithuanian ice dancer
- Ruth Sanders Cordes – tennis player
- G. C. Cox – racecar driver
- Deena Deardurff – 1972 Olympic swimming gold medalist
- Steve DeVries – tennis player
- Nat Emerson – tennis player
- Rich Franklin – Ultimate Fighting Championship champion
- Curt Fraser – National Hockey League (NHL) player and coach
- Christina Gao – figure skater
- Nicole Gibbs – tennis player
- Mike Goldberg – Ultimate Fighting Championship play-by-play commentator
- Jonathan Good – professional wrestler known as Dean Ambrose in WWE
- Zakeem Graham – boxer
- Nick Hagglund – Toronto FC soccer player
- Harlan Holden – track and field athlete at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Reuben A. Holden III – tennis player
- Ted Horn – race car driver
- DeHart Hubbard – first African-American to win an individual Olympic gold medal
- Joseph Hudepohl – Olympic swimmer
- Tori Huster – soccer player
- Rebecca Jasontek – 2004 bronze medal-winning synchronized swimmer
- Jenny Kemp – 1972 Olympic swimming gold medalist
- Dan Ketchum – Olympic swimmer
- Louis Kuhler – tennis player
- Paul Kunkel – amateur tennis player
- Walter Laufer – 1928 gold medal-winning swimmer
- Bob Lohr – professional golfer
- Barry MacKay – tennis player and broadcaster
- Linda Miles – professional wrestler (WWE's "Shaniqua")
- Freddie Miller – featherweight boxer
- Betsy Mitchell – 1984 Olympic swimming gold medalist
- Heather Mitts – soccer player
- Tom Nieporte – professional golfer
- Monica Nolan – tennis player
- Darrell Pace – 1976 and 1984 Olympic gold-medal winning archer
- David Payne – hurdler
- Erin Phenix – gold-medal winning swimmer at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Brian Pillman – NFL nose tackle and professional wrestler
- Lexie Priessman – gymnast
- Aaron Pryor – world junior welterweight champion boxer
- Eric Quigley – tennis player
- Brad Rone – journeyman boxer who died in the ring
- Kerry Schall – UFC fighter
- Vivian St. John – professional wrestler
- Josh Schneider – former World Record holder, swimming
- Robert Shmalo – ice dancer
- Ronald Siler – 2004 Olympic flyweight boxer
- Bridget Sloan – Olympic gymnast and 2009 world all-around champion
- Sam Stoller – sprinter and long jumper
- Reggie Strickland – has the most known losses of any boxer in history
- Dudley Sutphin – tennis player, lawyer
- Bill Talbert – tennis player and administrator
- Les Thatcher – professional wrestler, announcer, and trainer
- Nick Thoman – 2012 swimming gold medalist
- Tony Trabert – tennis player and instructor
- Bryan Volpenhein 2004 gold medal-winning rower
- Rau'shee Warren – professional boxer
- Olga Strashun Weil – amateur golfer and tennis player
- Brett Wetterich – professional golfer
- Mary Wineberg – 2008 Olympic gold medalist, track and field
- Russ Witherby – Olympic ice dancing competitor
- Brian Woermann – professional wrestler ("Matt Stryker")
- Jeanne Zelasko – sports broadcaster
Military
- Christian Albert – Medal of Honor winner at Siege of Vicksburg
- Nicholas Longworth Anderson – American Civil War Colonel
- Edward William Boers – Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Henry Francis Bryan – United States Navy Rear Admiral and 17th governor of American Samoa
- James Calhoun – cavalryman killed at Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Henry M. Cist – American Civil War general
- Charles Clark – Confederate Army general, plantation owner, Confederate Governor of Mississippi
- Cordelia E Cook – first woman to receive both the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart
- John Cook – Medal of Honor winner at Battle of Antietam
- Hubert Dilger – Civil War artillery officer
- William Dwight – Union Civil War general
- James E. Earheart, Jr. – Marine killed in action during World War II
- William S. Fellers – Marine Corps Major general, Director of Staff of Inter-American Defense Board
- Manning Force – American Civil War general and Medal of Honor recipient
- John R. Fox – World War II-era Medal of Honor recipient
- Kenner Garrard – American Civil War general
- James A. Greer – Civil War-era Admiral
- Webb Hayes – Medal of Honor winner, co-founder of Union Carbide
- Victor Heintz – decorated World War I veteran; Republican Congressman, 1917–1919
- Andrew Hickenlooper – American Civil War general
- Heinrich Hoffman – American Civil War Medal of Honor winner
- Francis Lupo – World War I soldier whose remains were discovered in 2003
- William Haines Lytle – poet; Civil War general; killed at Battle of Chickamauga (1863)
- Keith Matthew Maupin – soldier, missing and captured in Iraq for nearly 4 years
- Nathaniel McLean – Union Civil War general
- John Moore – Surgeon General of the Army
- Abram S. Piatt – Union Army Civil War general
- James Pine – United States Coast Guard Vice Admiral
- John P. Slough – Union Civil War general
- Godfrey Weitzel – American Civil War-era general
Other notable people
- Joseph H. Albers – first bishop of Lansing, Michigan
- Anthony Allaire – New York City Police inspector
- Levi Addison Ault – businessman, naturalist, donor of Cincinnati's Ault Park
- Daniel Carter Beard – founder Sons of Daniel Boone
- Kim Bobo – labor activist
- Thomas D. Boyatt – former United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso and Colombia
- Kitty Burke – nightclub entertainer who attempted to bat in a baseball game
- Mary Towne Burt – temperance reformer, newspaper publisher, and benefactor
- Oba Chandler – rapist and murderer on death row in Florida
- Peter H. Clark – abolitionist and educator
- Lewis Strong Clarke – Louisiana sugar planter; Republican politician; produce dealer in Cincinnati prior to 1870[13]
- Levi Coffin – abolitionist
- Lorenzo Collins – mentally ill man shot by Cincinnati police in 1997
- Robert Daniel Conlon – Roman Catholic Bishop of Steubenville, Ohio
- Moses Dickson – African-American abolitionist, soldier and minister
- Jonathan Edwards – first president of Washington & Jefferson College
- William Henry Elder – long-serving Roman Catholic Bishop of Cincinnati
- Audrey Emery – heiress and socialite
- Mary Emery – philanthropist
- T. Higbee Embry – aviation enthusiast and co-founder of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Dana Fabe – Chief Justice Alaska Supreme Court
- Bernard T. Espelage – first Bishop of Gallup, New Mexico
- Thomas Milton Gatch – president of Willamette University, Oregon State University and University of Washington
- Nelson Glueck – rabbi and archaeologist
- Alfred Gottschalk – President of Hebrew Union College and leader in Reform Judaism.[14]
- Henry Joseph Grimmelsmann – first Bishop of Evansville
- Marie Guiraud – Colorado rancher, lived in Cincinnati after emigrating from France[15]
- Alice Claypoole Gwynne – wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
- Don Helbig – Guinness World Record holder for roller coaster riding
- John R. Hicks – murderer executed by the State of Ohio
- Alice Stone Ilchman – eighth president of Sarah Lawrence College
- Joseph Jonas – first Jew to settle in Cincinnati, founder of the Old Jewish Cemetery
- Posteal Laskey – serial killer nicknamed the "Cincinnati Strangler"
- William Mackey Lomasney – Irish revolutionary
- Longworth family – early leading Cincinnati family
- Lytle family – early leading Cincinnati family
- Mike Mangold – pilot
- Helen Taft Manning – daughter of William Howard Taft, historian
- Charles Manson – cult leader, convicted murderer
- Carl K. Moeddel – auxiliary bishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1993–2007
- Sara Murphy – socialite, Pablo Picasso portrait subject
- Anthony John King Mussio – first Roman Catholic bishop of Steubenville, Ohio
- David Leroy Nickens – freed slave, first African American licensed minister in Ohio
- Jack Norris – Dietitian and vegan activist
- David Philipson – Reform rabbi
- John Baptist Purcell – long-serving Roman Catholic Bishop of Cincinnati
- George Remus – bootlegger
- Robert Ruwe – United States Tax Court judge
- William Knox Schroeder – student killed in the Kent State shootings
- William Smith – murderer executed in 2005
- Hermann, Freiherr von Soden – biblical scholar
- Joseph Strauss – chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge
- Jule Sugarman – creator of Head Start
- Otto Warmbier – University of Virginia student arrested in North Korea and later died in custody in 2017
- Irvin F. Westheimer – founder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
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