Notable people




  • Charles Armstrong, virologist
  • Ken Blackwell, Mayor of Cincinnati
  • Herman Carr, physicist and pioneer of magnetic resonance imaging
  • Len Dawson, 1987 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
  • Hilan Ebert, US Naval Academy graduate lost at sea in World War II
  • William Miller Jenkins, 5th Governor of Oklahoma Territory
  • Perry King, actor, star of Riptide
  • Levi L. Lamborn, doctor, horticulturalist, and politician who lived in the city. Grew carnations and urged the state of Ohio to make the scarlet carnation the state flower
  • Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor
  • Don Panoz, pharmaceutical and motorsport entrepreneur
  • Dymonte Thomas, NFL player
  • Gertrude Tressel Rider, library for the blind
  • Ivan Sag, linguist and cognitive scientist
  • Lorin B. Sebrell, rubber chemist
  • Hugh Wilson, botanist and professor at Texas A&M University

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