List of Famous people born in Lima, United States of America

Benjamin Todd Roethlisberger Sr., nicknamed "Big Ben", is an American football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Miami University and was drafted by the Steelers in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft.

Alan Charles Jardine is an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best known as the band's rhythm guitarist and for occasionally singing lead vocals on singles such as "Help Me, Rhonda" (1965), "Then I Kissed Her" (1965), "Cotton Fields" (1970), and "Come Go with Me" (1978). His song "Lady Lynda" was also a UK top 10 hit for the group in 1978. Other Beach Boys songs that feature Jardine on lead include "I Know There's an Answer" (1966), "Vegetables" (1967), and "From There to Back Again" (2012).

Arthur Worth "Bud" Collins Jr. was an American journalist and television sportscaster, best known for his tennis commentary. Collins was married to photographer Anita Ruthling Klaussen.

Lucas Andrew Recker is an American former professional basketball player. A swingman who primarily played the shooting guard position but could also play small forward, he was one of the top high school prospects of the class of 1997. He played his first two years of college basketball at Indiana before deciding to transfer; after missing one year due to a car accident he went on to play two more years for Iowa. He went undrafted in the 2002 NBA Draft and after a season in the NBA Development League he played professional basketball in Italy and Spain.

Orville O. Dull was an American producer, director, production manager and assistant director. He was best known for his films produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dull was nominated during the 6th Academy Awards for the short lived Best Assistant Director category. He won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in the 1948 Oscars for the film The Secret Land. He worked on over 40 films from 1925 to 1951.

Phyllis Ada Diller was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician and artist, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.

Ryan Shawn Drummond is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, singer, clown, mime and performer, who is best known for his role as the original voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game franchise from 1998 to 2004.

Walter S. Baldwin Jr. was a prolific character actor whose career spanned five decades and 150 film and television roles, and numerous stage performances.

Helen O'Connell was an American singer, actress, and hostess, described as "the quintessential big band singer of the 1940s".

Charles Emmett Vogan was an American actor with almost 500 film appearances from 1934–54, making him, along with Bess Flowers, one of the most prolific film actors of all time.