People of Ohio
| Sherwood Anderson |
Camden |
1876-1941 |
Author |
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| Neil Alden Armstrong |
Wapakoneta |
1930- |
Astronaut |
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| Arthur Holy Compton |
Wooster |
1892-1962 |
Physicist |
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| Cornstalk |
Ohio-West Virginia frontier |
1720?-1777 |
Indian leader |
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| George Armstrong Custer |
New Rumley |
1839-1876 |
Soldier |
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| Clarence Seward Darrow |
Near Kinsman |
1857-1938 |
Lawyer |
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| Paul Laurence Dunbar |
Dayton |
1872-1906 |
Poet |
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| Thomas Alva Edison |
Milan |
1847-1931 |
Inventor |
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| Daniel Decatur Emmett |
Mount Vernon |
1815-1904 |
Entertainer, song writer |
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| Frederick Funston |
New Carlisle |
1865-1917 |
Soldier |
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| Clark Gable |
Cadiz |
1901-1960 |
Actor |
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| James Abram Garfield |
Orange |
1831-1881 |
U.S. President |
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| John Herschel Glenn |
Cambridge |
1921- |
Astronaut, public official |
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| Ulysses Simpson Grant |
Point Pleasant |
1822-1885 |
Soldier, U.S. President |
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| Zane Grey |
Zanesville |
1875-1939 |
Author |
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| Warren Gamaliel Harding |
Blooming Grove |
1865-1923 |
U.S. President |
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| Benjamin Harrison |
North Bend |
1833-1901 |
U.S. President |
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| Rutherford Birchard Hayes |
Delaware |
1822-1893 |
U.S. President |
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| Dean Martin |
Steubenville |
1917-1995 |
Singer, actor |
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| William McKinley |
Niles |
1843-1901 |
U.S. President |
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| Paul Newman |
Cleveland |
1925-2008 |
Actor |
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| Jack William Nicklaus |
Columbus |
1940- |
Golfer |
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| Pontiac |
Northern Ohio |
1720?-1769 |
Indian leader |
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| Edward Vernon Rickenbacker |
Columbus |
1890-1973 |
Aviator, businessman |
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| Philip Henry Sheridan |
Somerset? |
1831-1888 |
Soldier |
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| William Tecumseh Sherman |
Lancaster |
1820-1891 |
Soldier |
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| Steven Spielberg |
Cincinnati |
1947- |
Film director |
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| Robert Alphonso Taft |
Cincinnati |
1889-1953 |
Public official |
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| William Howard Taft |
Cincinnati |
1857-1930 |
U.S. President |
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| James Grover Thurber |
Columbus |
1894-1961 |
Humorist, cartoonist |
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Source:
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, Copyright 1996.
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