List of people from Steubenville, Ohio

This is a list of notable past and present residents of the U.S. city of Steubenville, Ohio, and its surrounding metropolitan area. People born in Steubenville are printed in bold.

Arts

• Eliphalet Frazer Andrews (1835 - 1915) – painter
• Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) – artist, oil painter, founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painting
• Alexander Doyle (1857 - 1922) – sculptor
• Eugene Louis Faccuito (born 1925) – jazz dancer and teacher, choreographer
• Albert Newsam (1809-1864)   - artist

Athletics

• Danny Abramowicz (born 1945) – former NFL wide receiver
• Chinedu Achebe (born 1977) – Arena Football League linebacker
• Johnny Bates (1882 - 1949) – former MLB outfielder
• Zinn Beck (1885 - 1981) – former MLB infielder
• Ray Bracken (1891 - 1974) – Olympic gold medal-winning sport shooter
• Zach Collaros (born 1988) – CFL quarterback
• Chip Coulter (born 1945) – former MLB infielder
• Sylvia Crawley (born 1972) – former ABL forward, women's basketball head coach
• Audrey Deemer (1930–2012) – All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
• Rich Donnelly (born 1946) – former MLB coach
• Rollie Fingers (born 1946) – former MLB pitcher, National Baseball Hall of Famer
• Tom "Knute" Franckhauser (1937 - 1997) – former NFL cornerback
• Joe Gilliam, Sr. (c. 1923 - 2012) – Tennessee Sports Hall of Famer, former college football quarterback and coach
• Mike Gulan (born 1970) – former MLB infielder
• Jim Hudson (1943 - 2013) – former NFL and AFL safety
• Tony Jeter (born 1944) – former NFL tight end
• Cal Jones (1933 - 1956) – All-American football player at Iowa in College Football Hall of Fame
• Don Joyce (1929 - 2012) – former NFL and AFL defensive end, wrestler
• George Kaiserling (1893 - 1918) – FL and MLB pitcher
• Eddie Kazak (1920 - 1999) – former MLB infielder
• Tom Needham (1879 - 1926) - former MLB catcher
• Tom Perko (born 1954) – former NFL linebacker
• Wally Pesuit (born 1954) – former NFL and USFL offensive and defensive lineman
• Eric Piatkowski (born 1970) – former NBA forward
• Adam Riggs (born 1972) – former MLB and Japanese Central League infielder
• Will Robinson (1911 - 2008) – first African-American head coach at a Division I school
• Gene Trosch (born 1945) – former AFL defensive lineman
• Moses Fleetwood Walker (1856 - 1924) – first African-American MLB player
• Weldy Walker (1860 - 1937) – second African-American MLB player
• Johnny Wilson (1915 - 2002) – former NFL tight end
• Quincy Wilson (born 1981) – former NFL running back
• Bobby Joe Young (born 1959) – former welterweight boxer

Business

• Dard Hunter (1883 - 1966) – papermaker, authority on printing

Literature

• Richard C. Banks (born 1931) – ornithologist, writer
• Bob Borden (born 1969) – writer
• Richard Hague (born 1947) – poet and novelist
• Jeffrey Hatcher – playwright, screenwriter
• Tad Mosel (1922 - 2008) – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• Mary Tappan Wright (1851 - 1916) – novelist

Military

• John S. Mason (1824 - 1897) – Union Army general during the Civil War, Indian fighter
• Anson G. McCook (1835 - 1917) - Union Army general during the Civil War, U.S. Congressman
• Daniel McCook, Jr. (1834 - 1864) - Union Army general during the Civil War
• Edward M. McCook (1833 - 1909) – Union Army general, U.S. Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii (1866-1868)
• George Wythe McCook (1821 - 1877) - Union Army general, Ohio attorney general
• Henry Christopher McCook (1837 - 1911) - Union Army chaplain and officer, minister
• John James McCook (1806 - 1865) – patriarch of the "Fighting McCooks" U.S. Army family, physician
• Robert Latimer McCook (1827 - 1862) - Union Army general
• Cas Myslinski (1920 - 1993) – USAF officer, athletic director of The University of Pittsburgh (1968-1982)
• Mele "Mel" Vojvodich (1929 - 2003) – USAF major general

Movies, television, and media

• John Buccigross (born 1966) – ESPN sportscaster
• Big Bully Busick (born 1954) – former WWF wrestler
• Traci Lords (born 1968) – adult film actress
• Al Mancini (1932 - 2007) – actor
• Dean Martin (1917 - 1995) – singer, actor, entertainer. His daughter, Deana Martin, and her husband John Griffith, established the Dean Martin Festival in Steubenville. It is held annually in mid-June. Gail Martin, also a singer and another of Dean Martin's daughters, was born in Steubenville.
• Will McMillan (1944 - 2015) - film and TV actor
• Tad Mosel (1922 - 2008) - playwright and screenwriter
• Jon Nese – meteorologist, TV weather channel personality
• Charles Stanton Ogle (1865 - 1940) – actor
• John Scarne (1903 - 1985) – magician, authority and writer on card manipulation
• Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder (1918 - 1996) – bookmaker, sports commentator

Music

• 4th Disciple, a.k.a. El-Divine Amir Bey – record producer
• Ed Crawford, a.k.a. ed fROMOHIO (born 1964) – musician, guitarist
• Paul Howard (1895-1980)  - musician, bandleader
• Kinetic 9, a.k.a. Beretta 9 – musician, rapper
• Robert Porco – choral conductor
• Rza (born 1969) – musician, rapper, music producer
• Dorothy Sloop (1913 - 1998) – jazz musician, pianist
• The Stereos (formed c. 1955 - disbanded c. 1968) – doo-wop/pop group
• Patricia Welch (born 1954) – singer
• Wild Cherry (formed 1970 - disbanded 1979) – funk rock band

Politics

• Douglas Applegate (born 1928) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1977-1995)
• Ted Brown (born 1960) – politician nicknamed "the perennial candidate"
• Jacob Pitzer Cowan (1823 - 1895) – member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1875-1877)
• Joseph S. Fowler (1820 - 1902) – United States Senator (1866-1871)
• John M. Goodenow (1782 - 1838) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1829-1830)
• Robert H. Hatton (1826 - 1862) – United States Congressman, confederate during the Civil War
• Joseph P. Hoge (1810 - 1891) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1843-1847)
• Daniel Parkhurst Leadbetter (1797 - 1870) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1837-1841)
• Humphrey H. Leavitt (1796 - 1873) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1830-1833, 1833-1834), United States district court judge
• William C. McCauslen (1796 - 1863) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1843-1845)
• Anson G. McCook (1835 - 1917) – Union Army general, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1877-1883)
• B. Frank Murphy (1867 - 1938) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1919-1933)
• Rees G. Richards (1842 - 1917) – politician
• Edwin M. Stanton (1814 - 1869) – lawyer, Secretary of War (1862-1868)
• Samuel Stokely (1796 - 1861) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1841-1843)
• Andrew Stuart (1823 - 1872) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1853-1855)
• Henry Swearingen (c. 1792 - 1849) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1838-1841)
• Benjamin Tappan (1773 - 1857) – founder of the city of Ravenna, Ohio, U.S. Senator (1839-1845)
• Edward Vincent (1934 - 2012) – politician
• Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822-1903) - theologian, father of President Woodrow Wilson
• Thomas Stokeley Wilson (1813 - 1894) – jurist and judge, legislator
• Jack Yost (born 1945) – politician

Religion

• Charles Clinton Beatty (1800 - 1882) – Presbyterian minister, founder of Steubenville Female Seminary
• Daniel DiNardo (born 1949) – Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston
• Roger Joseph Foys (born 1945) – 10th bishop of Covington
• John McDowell Leavitt (1824 - 1909) – lawyer, Episcopal priest
• Hlib Lonchyna (born 1954) – Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Holy Family of London
• Jeffrey Marc Monforton (born 1963) – fifth Bishop of Steubenville
• Stephen Return Riggs (1812 - 1883) – Christian missionary with the Dakota people, linguist
• David Stanton Tappan (1845 - 1922) – Presbyterian minister
• Edward F. Walker (1852 - 1918) – Minister, general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene (1911-1918)
• Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822–1903) – Presbyterian theologian; father of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson

Miscellaneous

• Dino Cellini (1914 - 1978) – mafioso, ran casinos for Meyer Lansky
• Charles Dillon Perrine (1867 - 1951) – astronomer
• Eli Todd Tappan (1824 - 1888) – educator
• Richard Timberlake (born 1922) – Professor of Economics