- Cincinnati
Cincinnati (ca. 1860 - 1878) was General Ulysses S. Grant's most famous horse during the American Civil War. He was the son of Lexington, the fastest four-mile thoroughbred in the United States (time 7:19.75 minutes) and of the greatest sires. Cincinnati was also the grandson of the great Boston, who sired Lexington. At an early age, Grant emotionally bonded to horses. A shy, quiet child, he found joy in working with and riding them. - Steve Chabot
Steven (Steve) Chabot (born January 22, 1953) is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, representing that state's first congressional district, in the Cincinnati area. - Cincinnati Strangler
The Cincinnati Strangler was the name given to a serial killer who raped, then strangled seven mostly elderly women in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1965 and 1966. The identity of the Cincinnati Strangler is commonly believed to be former cab driver, Posteal Laskey. During the killing spree there was considerable alarm on the part of many Cincinnatians, with locksmiths and hardware stores unable to keep up with the demand for locks Despite being charged with only one murder, … - Doris Day
Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff (born April 3, 1924) is an American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. A vivacious blonde with a wholesome image, Day was one of the most prolific actresses of the 1950s and 1960s. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she has been an all-round star whose personality has permeated many popular and diverse movies. - Powel Crosley Jr.
Powel Crosley, Jr. (September 18, 1886 - March 28, 1961) was an American inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur. He and his brother Lewis were responsible for many "firsts" in consumer products and broadcasting. He was the builder of the Crosley automobile and played a major role in support of the U.S. military effort in World War II. He was the owner of the Cincinnati Reds major league baseball team for many years. - Ken Griffey Jr.
George Kenneth Griffey, Jr. (born November 21 1969, in Donora, Pennsylvania) is a Major League Baseball player on the Cincinnati Reds. His nicknames have been "The Natural", "The Kid", and "Junior". - Charlie Luken
Charles J. Luken (born July 18, 1951, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American politician of the Democratic party who was mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. Luken's uncle, labor leader James T. Luken, also served as mayor of Cincinnati. Luken, who is divorced, has three children. - Ted Turner
Robert Edward Turner III (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is best known as the founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition to CNN, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is well known for his $1 billion pledge to the United Nations donated through his United Nations Foundation. - Tyrone Power
Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. (May 5, 1914 - November 15, 1958), usually credited simply as Tyrone Power and known sometimes as "Ty Power", was an American film and stage actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often as a swashbuckler or romantic lead, in such movies as "The Mark of Zorro", "The Black Swan", "Prince of Foxes", "The Black Rose", and "Captain from Castile". - Jason Maxiell
Jason Dior Maxiell (born February 18, 1983 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player. A 6'7", 260 lb forward, Maxiell was selected by the Detroit Pistons with the 26th pick in the first round of the 2005 NBA Draft. He attended Newman Smith High School in Carrollton, Texas. During his career at the University of Cincinnati, where he was coached by Bob Huggins, Jason earned All-Conference USA Second Team honors. - Roger McDowell
Roger Alan McDowell (born December 21 1960) is the pitching coach of the Atlanta Braves and was a right-handed relief pitcher for twelve seasons in Major League Baseball from 1985 to 1996. He played for the New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League and the Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles of the American League. - Matt Harpring
Matthew Joseph Harpring (born May 31 1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a professional American basketball player currently with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association. - Drew Lachey
Andrew "Drew" John Lachey (born August 8, 1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer and actor, best known as a member of 98 Degrees the winner of the second season of Dancing with the Stars and the younger brother of Nick Lachey. - David Justice
David Christopher Justice (born April 14 1966 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Atlanta Braves (1989-96), Cleveland Indians (1997-2000), New York Yankees (2000-01), and Oakland Athletics (2002). - Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an award-winning American writer, best known for his 1998 novel "The Hours", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. - John J. Gilligan
John Joyce ("Jack") Gilligan (born March 22, 1921) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Ohio who served as its 62nd governor. Gilligan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from St. Xavier High School, the University of Notre Dame in 1943 and the University of Cincinnati in 1947, serving in between in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean as a destroyer gunnery officer. - Hal Sparks
Hal Sparks (born Hal Harry Magee Sparks III, September 25, 1969 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an actor, comedian one-time game show host best known for his witty additions to VH1 and the role of Michael Novotny on the American television series "Queer as Folk". His previous claim to fame was hosting E!'s "Talk Soup". In addition to acting, Hal is also the lead singer and guitarist for a rock band, Zero 1 (previously called The Hal Sparks Band). - Roy Rogers
Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 - July 6, 1998), who became famous as Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his second wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German shepherd, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and "The Roy Rogers Show". The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured two sidekicks, Pat Brady, … - Charles Keating
Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. (born December 4, 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American felon convicted of fraud in the savings and loan scandal of 1989. Prior to his arrest, he was a lawyer, a banker, and he was noted as a vehement anti-pornography campaigner. A conservative Roman Catholic, Keating was active in the Republican Party. His brother, William J. Keating, was a Republican Congressman from Ohio. - Bob Schaffer
Robert W. "Bob" Schaffer (born July 24, 1962) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Colorado in the 105th Congress and the two succeeding Congresses (January 3 1997 to January 3 2003). In 2004, Schaffer was a failed candidate in the primary election to be the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat. - Tom Brinkman
Thomas E. Brinkman, Jr. (born December 6 1957 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a Republican (GOP) member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Cincinnati. He is known for his opposition to higher taxes and public spending and has been nicknamed "Dr. No." Before his election to the Ohio General Assembly, he was active in Cincinnati politics and has been popular among rank-and-file conservatives for his strong anti-abortion and anti-taxation stances. - John Cranley
John Cranley is an American politician of the Democratic Party, who currently serves as a member of the city council of Cincinnati, Ohio. Before joining city council, Cranley was an attorney with the Cincinnati law firm Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister. John Cranley was born in Green Township, Ohio, and grew up in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Price Hill. He attended St. Williams School, a pariochial elementary school of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and graduated from St. - Amy Yasbeck
Amy Yasbeck (born September 12, 1962) is an American film and television actress. - Shari Goldhagen
Shari Goldhagen is an American author of fiction. She is originally from Cincinnati,Ohio, the daughter of a grade-school teacher and a jewelry salesman. After briefly attending Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. she transfereed to Northwestern University, where she earned a journalism degree. Following this, she moved to Columbus, Ohio where she earned an MFA from Ohio State University. She has been a journalist for National Enquirer, Life & Style and Celebrity Living Weekly. - Pete Rose
Peter Edward "Pete" Rose, Sr. (born April 14, 1941, in Cincinnati, Ohio), nicknamed Charlie Hustle, is a former player and manager in Major League Baseball. Rose played from 1963 to 1986, best known for his many years with the Cincinnati Reds. Rose, a switch hitter, is the all-time major-league leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at bats (14,053), and outs (10,328). He won three World Series rings, three batting titles, … - Miller Huggins
Miller James Huggins, nicknamed "Mighty Mite", was a baseball player and manager. He managed the powerhouse New York Yankee teams of the 1920s and won six American League pennants and three World Series championships. As a player, Huggins joined the Cincinnati Reds in 1904 as a second baseman. Despite his short stature (5-foot-6-inches)—or perhaps because of it—Huggins proved very adept at getting on base. Over a 13-year career, which shifted to St. Louis in 1910, … - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was a white American abolitionist and novelist, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential, even in Britain. It made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the North. It angered and embittered the South. - Winsor McCay
Winsor McCay (September 26 1867(?) – July 26 1934) was a prolific artist and pioneer in the art of comic strips and animation. His comic strip work has influenced generations of artists, including creators such as Moebius, Chris Ware, William Joyce, and Maurice Sendak. His early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set the model to be followed by Walt Disney and others. - Emily Harper
Emily Harper (born February 16, 1978 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American actress. Harper has portrayed Fancy Crane on the NBC soap opera "Passions" since May 2005. She was introduced as the potential love interest of Noah Bennet (played by Dylan Fergus). This was Harper's first regular role as an actress on a TV series. Harper was also a Laker Girl (cheerleader) for the Los Angeles Lakers NBA team from 2000 until 2003. - Ron Oester
Ronald John Oester (born May 5, 1956, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman. Bill James described him as "a quiet, efficient player who was always overlooked". Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 9th round of the 1974 MLB amateur draft, Oester made his debut with the Reds on September 10, 1978, and appeared in his final game on October 3, 1990. Oester was one of the few major leaguers who did not wear batting gloves. - Daniel Carter Beard
Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (June 21, 1850- June 11, 1941) was an American illustrator, author, and social reformer who was one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. - Andy Williams
Howard Andrew Williams (born December 3, 1927 in Wall Lake, Iowa), known as Andy Williams, is an American pop singer. Andy Williams has recorded 18 Gold albums and performed with Ray Charles, Elton John, Ella Fitzgerald, Simon and Garfunkel, Mama Cass and Michael Jackson. When Ronald Reagan was President, he declared Andy's voice to be "a national treasure". He has had his own TV show as well as starring in a number of films. - Phoebe Cary
Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824 - July 31, 1871) with her older sister Alice Cary co-published poems in 1849. They lived on the Clovernook farm in North College Hill, Ohio. The sisters were raised in a Universalist household, their political and religious views were liberal and reformist. The sisters went to live in New York. Afterwards Phoebe published three volumes on her own without her sister. Her burial was in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. - B. J. Askew
Bobby DeAngelo Askew, Jr. (born August 19, 1980 in Cincinnati, Ohio), is an American football fullback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL. He played college football as the University of Michigan. Askew was selected in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the New York Jets. He signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on March 3, 2007. - Tiny Bradshaw
Myron ("Tiny") Bradshaw was an American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, composer, pianist, and drummer from Youngstown, Ohio. - Heinie Groh
Henry Knight "Heinie" Groh (September 18 1889 - August 22 1968) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball who spent nearly his entire career with the Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants. He was the National League's top third baseman in the late 1910s and early 1920s, and captained championship teams with the 1919 Reds and 1922 Giants. Renowned for his "bottle bat", he was an effective leadoff hitter, … - Albert Sabin
<b>Albert Bruce Sabin</b> (August 26, 1906 - March 3, 1993) was a renowned American medical researcher of Jewish and Polish ancestry who is best-known for having developed the hugely successful oral vaccine for polio. Born in 1906 in Białystok, Russia (now Poland), to Jewish parents, he emigrated in 1921 to America with his family. In 1930, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Sabin received a medical degree from New York University in 1931. - Tyrone Hill
Tyrone Hill (born March 19, 1968 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American former National Basketball Association player who usually played power forward. Hill spent four years at Xavier University, averaging on his last season 20.2 points and 12.6 rebounds per game, while shooting 58.1 % from the field. The Golden State Warriors, in desperate need of some size and athleticism, selected him with the eleventh pick of the 1990 NBA Draft. - Bootsy Collins
William "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter. - Ken Blackwell
John Kenneth Blackwell (born February 28, 1948), is a former secretary of state for the U.S. state of Ohio who made an unsuccessful bid as the Republican nominee for Governor of Ohio in the 2006 election. Blackwell gained national prominence for his dual roles as Chief Elections official of Ohio and honorary co-chair of the "Committee to re-elect George W. Bush" during the 2004 election.
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