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Arts and entertainment

Architecture and design

• Norman Bel Geddes - industrial designer, Hollywood set designer, noted modernist architect
• Harold Van Doren - co-founder and former president of Society of Industrial Designers

Art

• Richard DeVore - ceramic artist
• Joseph Kosuth - conceptual artist
• Paul Timman - Hollywood tattoo artist
• Leslie Adams - Portrait Artist

Journalism

• Amy Braunschweiger - freelance journalist for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
• Christine Brennan, USA Today sports columnist, ESPN, ABC, and NPR sports analyst, author of seven books
• Janet Cooke - journalist with The Blade and The Washington Post
• David Ross Locke - journalist and early political commentator during the American Civil War under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby
• P. J. O'Rourke - political satirist, journalist, writer
• Gloria Steinem - founder of Ms., feminist icon, journalist, women's rights advocate

Literature and poetry

• Mildred Benson - author of the original books in the Nancy Drew series
• Michael Brooks, historian and journalist
• Paul Lawrence Dunbar - African-American poet, originally from Dayton, Ohio
• Edward Eager - author of children's books
• Mari Evans - author, dramatist
• Christopher Moore - novelist
• Scott Nearing - conservationist, peace activist, educator, writer
• Allen Saunders - cartoonist, creator of "Mary Worth" and "Steve Roper" comic strips
• Scott Smith - novelist, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins
• Mildred D. Taylor, author of various novels concerning race relations, particularly Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and its sequels.
• Elizabeth Witherell - editor-in-chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Modeling

• Cynthia Myers - Playboy Playmate, model, actress
• Jan Roberts - Playboy Playmate, model
• Runa Lucienne -Playboy Playmate, model
• Jessica Flowers - model

Music

•  The Fossil Creek Band - Folk, Americana, Bluegrass acoustic band

• Anita Baker - R&B singer
• Teresa Brewer - singer
• Stanley Cowell - pianist, composer
• Johnny and the Hurricanes
• Tom Scholz - founder of the 1970s rock group Boston
• Jon Hendricks - member of the jazz group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
• Chester "Lyfe" Jennings, singer
• Koufax - alternative rock band
• Lollipop Lust Kill - heavy metal/alternative band
• Gary Louris - singer and guitarist for The Jayhawks
• Shirley Murdock - R&B singer
• Chris Byrd - gospel singer
• Mary Zilba - singer
• Scott Shriner - bassist of the rock band Weezer
• Sanctus Real - Christian rock band
• This Beautiful Republic - Christian rock band
• Stylex - electroclash/new wave band
• Art Tatum - jazz pianist
• Static Rituals - alternative rock band
• We are the Fury - alternative rock band
• Crystal Bowersox - folk&blues singer-songwriter and guitarist
• Ruby Starr - rock singer

Theater and film

• Chadwick Cohn - casting director
• Cliff Arquette - actor, comedian
• Jonathan Bennett - film actor
• Casey Biggs - actor
• Joe E. Brown - actor, comedian
• Daws Butler - voice actor
• Jason Cameron - actor, television presenter, model
• John Cromwell - actor, film producer and director
• Jason Dohring - actor
• Jamie Farr - actor
  • Maxwell Klinger - fictional character in the television series M*A*S*H
• Teresa Ganzel, actress
• Philip Baker Hall - film actor
• Katie Holmes - actress, ex-wife of Tom Cruise
• Sandy Helberg - film and television actor
• Eric Kripke - television writer, director, and producer
• Shirley Mitchell - radio and television actress
• Adrianne Palicki - film and television actress
• Kate Shindle - Broadway actress
• Alyson Stoner - actress and dancer
• Brandy Talore - pornographic film actress
• Lloyd Thaxton - producer, director, writer, hosted self-titled TV show in 1960s
• Danny Thomas - actor and father of Marlo.
• Marlo Thomas - actress, daughter of Danny, wife of Phil Donahue
• Bonnie Turner - Creator of That '70s Show and 3rd Rock from the Sun.
• Derek Westerman - film director, screenwriter, and producer.
• Pat Brady - Roy Rogers fans instantly think of Brady and Nellybelle his

jeep. Pat Brady was born on December 31, 1914 in Toledo, Ohio as Robert Ellsworth Patrick Aloysious

Government

• Walter Folger Brown - former Postmaster General of the United States
• Samuel M. "Golden Rule" Jones - Mayor
• Brand Whitlock - Mayor and U.S. Ambassador to Belgium during WWI

Business

• Doug Dohring - former CEO and co-founder of Neopets
• Doug Ducey - CEO of Cold Stone Creamery
• Edward Drummond Libbey - glassmaker, philanthropist
• John F. Savage - founder of Savage and Associates, author, philanthropist

Science and technology

• Eugene F. "Gene" Kranz - retired NASA flight director who served during the Gemini & Apollo space programs, known for his role in the rescue of Apollo 13
• Blair P. Grubb - world expert on POTS and dysautonomia
• Lyman Spitzer Jr. - theoretical physicist, astronomer, driving force behind the Hubble Space Telescope
• Michael S. Witherell - particle physicist, former president of Fermilab
• Michael Owens developed the world's first automated bottle-blowing machine, revolutionizing the bottle industry

Sports

Baseball

• Roger Bresnahan - Baseball Hall of Fame member
• Gene Cook - longtime executive of the Toledo Mud Hens, International League Hall of Fame member
• Addie Joss - Baseball Hall of Fame member
• Jim Leyland - manager of Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball (MLB) baseball team
• Zach McClellan - MLB player
• Doug Mientkiewicz - MLB player, one of five American players to win both an Olympic gold medal and a World Series championship
• Bob Meyer - MLB player for the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Athletics, and the Seattle Pilots/Milwaukee Brewers
• George Mullin - MLB player
• Lee Richmond - baseball player (pitched the first perfect game in MLB history)
• Ron Rightnowar - MLB player for the Milwaukee Brewers
• Terry Harmon-MLB player for the Philadelphia Phillies
• Stan Clarke-MLB player for the Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, St Louis Cardinals

Basketball

• Don Donoher - former University of Dayton head basketball coach
• Dennis Hopson - American former National Basketball Association (NBA) player
• Jim Jackson, NBA player
• Todd Mitchell - former NBA player
• Steve Mix - former NBA player
• Tony Peyton - last of the original Harlem Globetrotters
• Kelvin Ransey - NBA player
• Howard "Butch" Komives - former NBA player

Football

• Rob Chudzinski - National Football League (NFL) player & coach, Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator
• Jim Harbaugh - former NFL quarterback, former head coach of Stanford University and current head coach of San Francisco 49'ers
• John Harbaugh - head coach of Baltimore Ravens
• Curtis Johnson - former NFL player (#45 of 1972 undefeated Miami Dolphins "no-name defense")
• Rick Upchurch - Professional football player Known for one of the fastest NFL players of all time
• Chester Taylor - NFL player (running back for the Minnesota Vikings), former University of Toledo player
• Nate Washington - NFL player (#85 Pittsburgh Steelers)
• Urban Meyer - former head coach of Bowling Green State University, University of Utah, and University of Florida, current head coach of The Ohio State University, was born in Toledo.
• Joe Tiller - Purdue University head coach
• Dane Sanzenbacher - NFL player (Chicago Bears), former Ohio State player
• Ryne Robinson - NFL player (Carolina Panthers), former Miami University player
• Fred Davis - NFL player (tight end for the Washington Redskins), former USC player
• Myron Bell - former NFL player
• Brandon Fields - NFL player (punter for the Miami Dolphins)
• Dick Kazmaier - 1951 Heisman Trophy winner
• Stan Heath - NFL player (quarterback for the Green Bay Packers)
• Khary Campbell - NFL Player
• Chuck Webb - NFL player (fullback for the Green Bay Packers)

Ice hockey

• Pat Jablonski^[1] - retired National Hockey League (NHL) goaltender
• Bryan Smolinski^[2] - retired NHL player.
• Cecil Dillon - retired NHL player.
• Rick Hayward - retired NHL player.

Golf

• Arthur Hills - golf course designer
• Byron Nelson - World Golf Hall of Fame member, Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) Tour golfer, former Inverness Club pro
• Frank Stranahan - PGA golfer, weightlifter
• A.W. Tillinghast - golf course designer
• John Cook - PGA golfer

Wrestling and boxing

• Mark Kerr - Syracuse University Division I champion, US Senior Champion, professional mixed martial arts fighter
• Wilbert McClure - gold medal in boxing in 1960 Olympics
• Devin Vargas - professional boxer, former olympian
• Greg Wojciechowski - 1980 Olympic wrestler who was unable to compete due to the United States boycott, alternate on the 1984 and 1988 US Olympic wrestling teams

Other sports

• Gretchen Bleiler - 2006 Olympic silver medalist in snowboarding, Three-time X Games champion (2003, 2005, 2008)
• Paul Chamberlin - professional tennis player
• Edmund Coffin - saddle-maker, equestrian Olympic gold medalist
• Terry Cook - driver in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
• Frances Schroth - winner of one gold medal and two bronze medals in swimming in 1920 Olympic games

Other notables

• Stephen Bolles - U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
• Ernest E. Debs - Los Angeles City Council member and county supervisor, born in Toledo
• Martin Frankel - former financier convicted in 2002 of insurance fraud, racketeering and money laundering.
• Thomas Francis Ford, member of the U.S. Congress, an editor, a specialist in international trade and the only person ever sent to the Los Angeles City Council by a write-in vote
• Kristina Keneally - Premier of New South Wales, Australia
• Ernest M. McSorley - captain of the ill-fated lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald
• Thomas Noe - former Ohio Republican Party fundraiser and activist, played part in "Coingate" scandal
• Gerald Robinson - Roman Catholic priest convicted of the murder of a nun in 1980
• Selma Rubin - Environmental activist based in Santa Barbara, California