This is a list of notable residents of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Politics

Stan Aronoff – member of Ohio Senate 1967–1996, its president 1989–96 William Evans Arthur (1825–1897) – born in Cincinnati, United States congressman from Kentucky Steve Austria – Republican congressman, 2009–2013Ohio Filipino American running for US Congress | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere Jess L. Baily – United States ambassador to North Macedonia, 2015–2019 Walt Bachrach – long-serving mayor of Cincinnati Ken Blackwell – former mayor of Cincinnati 1999–2007, 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 Tom Brinkman – Republican Ohio House of Representatives member Jacob Burnet – U.S. senator, 1828–1831 Phillip Burton – Democratic congressman from California Benjamin Butterworth – Republican congressman, 1879–1883, 1885–1891BUTTERWORTH, Benjamin – Biographical Information. Bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved on April 5, 2018. Mary Edith Campbell – suffragette, board of education member Samuel Fenton Cary – congressman and temperance movement leader John Cranley – former mayor of Cincinnati, 2013–2022John Cranley profile, fox19.com; accessed April 21, 2014. Steve Chabot – Republican congressman, 1995–2009; 2011–2023 Donald D. Clancy – former Republican congressman Levi Coffin – abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad Moses Dickson – Abolitionist leader Ozro J. Dodds – Democratic congressman, 1872–1873 Steve Driehaus – Democratic congressman, 2009–2011 Edwin Einstein – Republican congressman from New York, 1879–1881 Richard Kenneth Fox – United States ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, 1977–1979 John J. Gilligan – former governor of Ohio Bill Gradison – Republican congressman, former mayor of CincinnatiThe Remembrancer (yearbook) 1945 Buddy Gray – activist and social worker William S. Groesbeck – lawyer, Democratic congressman, 1857–1859 George W. Hayes – former slave, Republican Ohio House of Representatives member Dave Hobson – former Republican congressman Henry Thomas Hunt – former mayor of Cincinnati, 1912–1913The New York Times, November 8, 1911: "Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 7- With the election of Henry T. Hunt, Democrat, as Mayor of Cincinnati today - a city with a normal Republican majority of 6,000 - ..." Andy Ireland – Democrat/Republican congressman from Florida, 1977–1993 B. Todd Jones – lawyer, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 2011–2015 William J. Keating – former Republican congressman, brother of Charles Keating Greg Landsman – Democratic congressman, 2023–, former member of the Cincinnati city councilman, 2018–2022 Simon L. Leis, Jr. – Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutor and sheriff Jesse D. Locker – former Cincinnati city councilman and United States ambassador to Liberia, 1953–55 Nicholas Longworth – former speaker of the House and majority leader Charlie Luken – former congressman and mayor of Cincinnati Tom Luken – former congressmanCincinnati political legend Thomas Luken is dead 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 Neil H. McElroy – secretary of defense, 1957–1959Neil McElroy dies Tom Mooney – teacher, labor union activistKemme, Steve. "Teachers' advocate dies." Cincinnati Enquirer. (December 4, 2006) Edward Follansbee Noyes – governor of Ohio, ambassador to France Kabaka Oba – civil rights activist Lucy Evelyn Peabody – conservation activist Aaron F. Perry – congressman, 1871–1872 Rob Portman – congressman, United States Trade Representative; director of Office of Management and Budget; U.S. senator 2011–2023 Todd Portune – former Cincinnati city councilman Ayanna Pressley – U.S. representative for Massachusetts Aftab Pureval – mayor of Cincinnati Trey Radel – former Republican congressman from Florida Lindsay Reynolds – chief of staff to First Lady of the United States Melania Trump Eugene P. Ruehlmann – mayor of Cincinnati, 1967–1971'Ex-mayor Eugene Ruehlmann dies Helped develop stadium, Fountain Square plaza,' Cincinnati.com, Cliff Peale, June 9, 2013 Jerry Rubin – political activist, Chicago SevenJerry Rubin, 56, Flashy 60's Radical, Dies; 'Yippies' Founder and Chicago 7 Defendant by Eric Pace in International New York Times, November 30, 1994. Retrieved February 12, 2015. Charles W. Sawyer – United States secretary of commerce, 1948–1953 under President Harry Truman Bob Schaffer – former Republican congressman from Colorado Jean Schmidt – Republican congresswoman, 2005–2013; Ohio state senator 2001–2004, 2021– Bob Schuler – Ohio state senator, 2002–2009 P.G. Sittenfeld – former Cincinnati city councilman, convicted of felony bribery, later pardoned Kathleen Sebelius – governor of Kansas 2003–2009, U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services 2009–14 Christopher Smitherman – former Cincinnati city councilman Potter Stewart – lawyer, U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1958–1981 Charles Phelps Taft II – mayor of Cincinnati, 1955–1957 Patricia Taft – charter board member of the National First Ladies Day Commission, board member of the Society of Presidential Descendants, great-granddaughter of William Howard Taft Robert A. Taft – Senate leader; son of William Howard Taft Robert Taft Jr. – congressman 1963–1965, 1967–1971; U.S. senator 1971–1976 William Howard Taft – 27th president of the United States, chief justice of the Supreme Court JD Vance – 50th vice president of the United States, 2025–; U.S. senator, 2023–2025

Business

Powel Crosley Jr. – inventor and entrepreneur Francis L. Dale – lawyer, Cincinnati Reds owner, Republican Party operative Maxwell Dane – advertising executiveInterview with: Maxwell Dane at - DDB in the '60s retrieved June 2, 2017 James Gamble – co-founder of Procter & Gamble Alfred T. Goshorn – businessman, civic booster, founder of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team Lou Groen – entrepreneur, inventor of the Filet-O-Fish sandwich Louise McCarren Herring – leader of the credit union movement Charles R. Hook Sr. – steel industrialistWho's who in Finance and Industry. Marquis Who's Who, 1959. p. 554 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 of Boston Beer Company Bernard Kroger – founder of the Kroger supermarket chain Chris Kempczinski – president & CEO of McDonald's Corporation James Michael Lafferty – CEO of Fine Hygienic Holding, former regional CEO for Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola and British American Tobacco; Olympic track and field coach Carl Lindner, Jr. – businessman and co-founder of United Dairy Farmers; founder of American Financial Group Henry Nicholas – communications technology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy – biopharmaceutical entrepreneur, Republican Party presidential and gubernatorial candidate Stephen Sanger – former chairman of General Mills Marge Schott – women's business pioneer; former owner of the Cincinnati Reds Ted Turner – founder of Turner Broadcasting System David Uible – businessman and county commissioner"About David." Douglas A. Warner III – bankerMarquis Who's Who in America. 2000. Warner, Douglas Alexander, III.

Science

Cleveland Abbe – meteorologist C. David Allis – geneticist Richard Allison – surgeon general of the Army Amanda Bauer – astronomer George Robert Carruthers – physicist Robin T. Cotton – pediatricianRobin Cotton, MD, Pediatric Otolaryngology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Naomi Deutsch – nurse and educator 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 Joseph Ransohoff – neurosurgeonMedical News Bulletin: "(1915) Russian-Jewish neuroscientist Joseph Ransohoff is born. He is known pioneering the use of medical imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors" July 1, 2016 Tom Rapoport – cell biologist at the Harvard Medical School Marion Rawson – archaeologist George Rieveschl – inventor of Benadryl Rae Robertson-Anderson – biophysicist Albert Sabin – discoverer of oral polio vaccine David G. Schaeffer – mathematician David H. Waldeck – chemist Perry Yaney – physicist and professor at the University of Dayton

Journalism and media

Jon Arthur – syndicated radio personality Delilah L. Beasley – first African-American woman to be published regularly in a major metropolitan newspaperRodger Streitmatter, Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists who Changed History, University Press of Kentucky, p. 74, (1994) – Marty Brennaman – Cincinnati Reds radio play-by-play announcer 1974–2019ESPN/Associated Press Reds' Hall of Famer Brennaman calls final game Retrieved September 26, 2019 Thom Brennaman – sports broadcaster Ric Bucher – sports journalist and television host Gary Burbank – radio personality Gail Collins – columnist for The New York TimesFisher, Luchina (November 30, 2003). "Gail Collins: History Maker and Women's Historian" (Journalist of the Month). WeNews. Retrieved September 27, 2015 from womensenews.org Elizabeth Drew – political journalist and author Sara Eisen – CNBC news anchor Bill Hemmer – Fox News Channel anchor and correspondent; former CNN anchor and reporter Mary Coffin Johnson – newspaper publisher, activist Joe Kernen – CNBC news anchor Dan La Botz – journalist, author and socialist activist Ruth Lyons – radio and television personality 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 PostNew York Times - November 10, 1899 Erin McPike – White House correspondent for Independent Journal Review, formerly with CNN and NBC News David Mendell – journalist and Barack Obama biographerMendell, David. David Mendell (official site). Retrieved on 2009-02-18. Virginia Payne – radio actress Wally Phillips – radio personality Glenn Ryle – television personality Al Schottelkotte – television news anchor and reporterProfile , scripps.com; accessed July 31, 2014. Tony Snow – news commentator, White House press secretary for George W. Bush administration Dale Sommers – radio personality also known as "the Truckin' Bozo" Estelle Sternberger – radio commentator and women's activist Linda Vester – Fox News Channel anchor Frederick Ziv – television producer and syndication pioneer

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 Powhatan Beaty – American Civil War soldier and stage actor Louise Beavers – actress Andy Blankenbuehler – dancer and choreographer Ron Bohmer – singer and actor"Ron Bohmer," BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved December 28, 2014. Mark Boone Junior – actor Lee Bowman – film and television actorBiography at Ellery Queen fan site Bob Braun – local television and radio personality Don Brodie – actor and director Mabel Brownell – stage actressAnnual Report of the Public Schools of Cincinnati (1902): 152. Rebecca Budig – soap opera and television actress Marty Callner – music video director Rocky Carroll – actor (NCIS) Marguerite Clark – stage and silent film actress"Marguerite Clark, ex-actress, dies." The Milwaukee Journal, September 25, 1940, p. 10. Retrieved: May 19, 2013. Majel Coleman – actress and model Walter Connolly – film actor Shamika Cotton – actress Joel Crothers – actor